Sup brahs. Are you pumped? Are you jacked? Are you getting jacked? Have you slonked your eggs yet today? Good, good. Wait, what’s that? You don’t slonk any eggs? None at all? NGMI, bro.
RIP to my friend Brian. He probably ate too many eggs. Cholesterol will kill you. Do not be suspicious and do not speculate about why an athletic, apparently healthy man had a massive heart attack and died two weeks before his 40th birthday. Do not speculate about his vaccination status. That would be a crazy thing to do, and you don’t want to be a crazy person, do you?
The obituary has a GoFundMe link if you feel like throwing a few bucks towards his widow’s short term expenses.
Heroic Mulatto, PBUH*, sends us this link, in which a demon elf creature has things to say. Let’s give him a respectful hearing and nonviolently give careful consideration to what he has to say.
(*The P is for PAAG.)
“I put aside the confrontational behavior and the attacks on me and listen to what they were saying,” Fauci explained in the interview. “And what they were saying was making perfect sense. It made me feel if I were in their shoes, I’d be doing exactly what they were doing.”
That’s not the case when protesters in recent years began attacking Fauci for mask mandates, school closures, quarantines and bizarre claims about the COVID-19 vaccines.
“There’s one sign that says, ‘Fauci, You’re Killing Us’ and the other sign that says ‘Fauci, You’re Killing Us’ but the rationale for those from the 1980s to 2023 is enormously different,” Fauci said. “They couldn’t be more different.”
You think??? LOL at normies just now noticing some things.
It adds up to an impossible choice the Federal Reserve has to make when officials meet on Wednesday: Slow down the pace of interest rate hikes or plow ahead to bring down resurgent inflation and risk amplifying damage to the economy. But as far as the Fed is concerned, hopes of engineering a soft landing for the economy and avoiding a recession may already be in the rearview mirror.
Moldbug has opinions about Bitcoin. The sack of Krugerrands I buried in my backyard are enough for me, thank you very much, just as soon as I remember where I dug that hole.
The question then was when the immune system of the state would become activated. While in 2011, due to being an idiot, I wildly mis-assessed the timeline, I foresaw that the first stage of this conflict would be a conflict between criminal anarchy, not goofy libertarian anarchy, and the bureaucracy.
And in this conflict there was no chance that the criminals would win. Finem respice. There is nothing criminal about Coinbase; it would just be collateral damage. The lump doctor always likes to leave “clean margins.” Coinbase is now said to be looking around for overseas banks “in high-bar regulatory jurisdictions.” Needless to say, all serious First World bankers would come to work naked if Washington so ordered. So…
And don’t miss his observations on how our money is an evil fraud.
Informal securities for everyone! Well, at least, every stockholder. Informal securities for the rich! And the middle class too. No wonder our “free-market economy” is tech plus ag/energy/minerals, plus hospitals, universities and government, plus a hollow shell of FIRE. It has been bloated on soy and cheap loans for a century and change. Drive across America and you’ll see the rotting, burned-out result.
How to be the world’s strongest man. I should probably get a CPAP machine.
For most spectators, seeing a huge dude like former World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall waddle onstage, bend down and deadlift 1,102 pounds is enough. The size of this competitor, shaped like a beer barrel during his competitive days, probably occupies whatever thoughts you aren’t giving to the enormity of the feat he’s about to perform. The last things you’re likely thinking about are the strongman’s knuckle-sized hemorrhoids, his chronic irritable bowel syndrome or the fact that he might be wearing an adult diaper along with anal tampons to prevent the leakage of blood and feces.
Duh. Though, to be honest, BMI really is only worthless if you’re jacked and huge. Which you are. Right???
The traditional BMI measure is sub-optimal because it fails to accurately classify about 30% of individuals, so some individuals may appear to have a normal weight but have disrupted metabolic health. Part of the reason for this is that traditional BMI does not account for factors like muscle mass, bone density or fat distribution, which are all relevant to health. Despite these issues, the traditional BMI measure has been continuously used because it is a simple and cost-effective measure of obesity, and it correlates with a number of chronic diseases and all-cause mortality.
A subhuman communist piece of filth has opinions. Sorry, I’m having trouble hearing her over all this helicopter noise.
The books could be seen as underlying both an American pressure to make it on one’s gumption alone and the accordant shame when a person could not do so. What Little House on the Prairie indicates and suggests more broadly is that even we denizens of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—who are not able-bodied white men willing to take land from indigenous populations—should follow Wilder’s mythologized parents’ example and make our own reality with our own hands or be deemed weak and failed.
Ew, gross. Imagine sticking that in one of those.
Men who reported only having oral or anal sex did not harbor vaginal bacteria, and it was noted that these external microbial contributions remained in the urethra up to two months after the men’s last reported vaginal sex, suggesting that regular vaginal sex can reshape the male urethral microbiome.
Finally, this is indisputably correct and something I’ve been saying for years. Though the way I phrase it is that Alex Jones is a prophet and he’s using mythological language because it’s the only category of language with the gravitas necessary to adequately characterize the evil of the enemies of humanity.
Jones combines this mastery of poetic rhetoric with an able command of Biblical allusion: Jones is the only person who can yell “get ye behind me Satan” with all the force it deserves and none of the snickering. Furthermore Jones is a gifted wordsmith with able command of the english lexicon, creating truly rich visuals and evocative ideas, in a linguistic dance both compelling, unique, and daring. When Jones resolves “We’re not drinking out of your fetid filthy pus-filled cup, your goblet of death” you visualize the Chalice before you; when Jones gives voice to the inhuman demons and aliens who embody his work, “ our protomatrix, the radio, the television, the cellphone, the smartphone, the VR, Facebook, and then we’re impregnated and implanted with that spirit and sucked in forever into their world. Now slaves. servile.
After that, there is only one possible choice for today’s music.
BONUS LINK: our correspondent President Joe Biden has a video report teaching us an important life lesson.
I can eat 50 eggs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMaYCguBHAA
No, no one can eat 50 eggs
Mr. Boa Constrictor says… “OH! A CHALLENGE!”
Your Boa Constrictor can’t eat 50 eggs because it is riddled with bad biome shit from the ladies.
Yeah, but in how long?
Quail, chicken, ostrich?
Oh, you mean sturgeon.
A government infectious disease scientist who advised seven presidents. Fauci hopes it can inspire more public servants like him.
Calvin Coolidge’s assessment of Herbert Hoover comes to mind. “That man,” he said, “has offered me unsolicited advice every day for six years, all of it bad.”
A noble long serving public servant. Like J Edgar.
[Note to self: buy hard copies of last few books in Little House series before it’s banned/cancelled/memory-holed once and for all.]
They can just rewrite them as a family of genderqueer otherkin. It’ll be better.
Laura does say in one of the books she wishes she was a cowboy.
I thought I’d get some ass eating with the HM link and Fauci’s what came up? I’m so disappointed.
You got the ass part. Stop complaining.
I watched part of that Foochy thing last night. I was well into “I’ve had all I can stands, and I can’t stands no more!” territory when I tapped out.
Honest to god, how can anybody watch those clips; look closely at that weaselly little fucker and listen carefully to what he says, and not come away convinced the guy is as crazy as a shithouse rat? He should be in a fucking staitjacket, forcibly institutionalized as a danger to himself and others.
You’re being generous to him.
I feel the same way watching nearly any MSM figure.
Are you pumped? Are you jacked?
I’m remarkably average.
So that really is how Gaston got to be roughly the size of a barge.
I thought I’d get some ass eating with the HM link and Fauci’s what came up? I’m so disappointed.
He’s definitely a shit gobbling weasel.
you don’t want to be a crazy person, do you?
Like a fox.
I feel like I’m huge (relative to the stick I was until about 34 or so)… do I get half credit?
And you know how to clickbait… I’m going to have to watch that Biden / Goth video just to find out what insanity he uttered this time…
Ok… either that’s AI deepfake or one hell of an impersonator… but way too coherent for PPP himself. Still funny.
And for a plus, the nurse on the right is rather fetching.
BMI really is only worthless if you’re jacked and huge.
Thank you.
Are you pumped? Are you jacked? Are you getting jacked?
No, no, not right now. Still a little too sick to get to the gym. I plan to get back to training on Friday.
To correctly incorporate the 36 eggs a day diet, one needs to follow the correct protocol.
And a shitton of money in this day and age.
RIP to my friend Brian.
Sorry Warty.
“I hope that people on the other side, even if they never end up agreeing with him, will at least see somebody who is a real person, who’s a thinking person, who’s somebody maybe they can even relate to.”
No.
I started lifting weights a year and a half ago and now I’m OBESE!
BMI is stupid.
It has some value for population-wide aggregates because its assumption that everyone is either skinny and weak or fat and weak is pretty much dead on. For jacked and handsome gentlemen such as ourselves, it’s garbage.
Jacked dudes: “BMI doesn’t apply to me”
vs.
Land whales: “BMI is stupid”
***Hangs head and all 5 chins in shame***
What is you are built like a retired NFL center?
Obese was for the drama. I’m 5′ 9″ and 183-ish. Going to the gym multiple times week but not losing any weight numbers-wise.
I should do more cardio for the heart, but doing cardio at the gym sucks.
I wear (mostly) medium shirts.
STFU, toothpick boy.
250, 5’11”. Weight loss is damn difficult. The sight of me makes people run away.
In high school, I wrestled at 182 lbs. I was 5′-9″. Plugging that in to the BMI calculator says I was overweight (BMI of 26.9). I wasn’t, there was very little fat on me – it’s just that I wasn’t built like the effeminate Belgian statistician who dreamt up BMI.
Just checked mine, it’s 26.1. Does not apply.
At 5′ 10″, anything over 173 puts me at Overweight. I am currently overweight at just under 200, but the low end of the scale says I’m still at a healthy weight at 129. I can’t even imagine what I would look like at 130 anymore. When I was in high school I was around 120, and looked like skin and bones.
Pretty much the same for me. The idea that I would be healthier at 130 pounds than I am at 185ish strikes me as lunatic.
I’m going to have to watch that Biden / Goth video just to find out what insanity he uttered this time…
I just assumed it was bad lip reading, or some such tomfoolery.
It was funny but AI Biden speaks way too coherently to pass for the real dementia afflicted thing.
These are funny, and perfect for Wartyday.
Elite Powerlifter Pretended to be a FAKE TRAINER
I saw one the other day, I think it was that guy, pretending to be a janitor. Guys were doing deadlifts, he picked up and moved the bar, mopped the floor, and put it back. It’s all pretty impressive.
He’s done that too, it was probably him. Dude lifts a crazy amount of weight for his size.
Ok.
If only he’d taken a harder line, maybe lined a few malcontents up against the wall, things might have been different. But he was just too good for our own sake. Oh well, 20/20 hindsight and all.
I still remember my eye doctor office asking me if I’d be quarantining myself since I had traveled to another state. 🙄
For a while, when I was driving to hockey practice in Chicago they had signs saying if you came from out of state, quarantine for 2 weeks. Thankfully my team thought it was ridiculous. Though I did feel like a minor outlaw.
Sorry about your pal, Warty.
I’m not gonna eat 36 eggs a day, even though I probably should.
Some positive news:
https://twitter.com/DanielEstrin/status/1638566684494635008
Heh.
Before eggflation, I was eating 5 or 6 raw eggs a day. I don’t know if I could do 36, but a dozen? Sure.
How does a $30M shortfall translate into only 100 people laid off? Were each of those people making $300k?
Someone down page comments that it’s amazing that NPR runs off only 1000 people. First, I’m sure that’s only the central national office. If you add up affiliate station employees I’m sure it’s magnitudes larger. Second, how many people does it take to receive copy from the FBI, CIA and other alphabet agencies and copy and paste them onto NPR letterhead then had it off to a pretentious ass-clown with a mispronounced first name and four hyphenated last names to read on the air?
Two thoughts:
(1) I remember when NPR begged for money because they didn’t run ads.
(2) $30MM out of how much total ad revenue? A billion? $31MM? Meaning comes from context, and there is none here.
CEO John Lansing cited the erosion of advertising dollars, particularly for NPR podcasts, and the tough financial outlook for the media industry more generally.
“When we say we are eliminating filled positions, we are talking about our colleagues – people whose skills, spirit and talents help make NPR what it is today,” Lansing wrote in a memo to staff today. “This will be a major loss.”
On an annual budget of roughly $300 million, Lansing says, revenues are likely to fall short by close to $30 million, although that gap could reach $32 million.
“(1) I remember when NPR begged for money because they didn’t run ads.”
They wouldn’t run ads because they didn’t want to support evil corporations and capitalism or corrupt their deeply held beliefs in journalistic ethics. Then all the corporations started loudly shouting their rightthink from the rooftops, putting rainbow flags on everything and openly taking money from the government and just like that, corporations weren’t evil anymore.
Loved this retcon hot take:
“Donald put up a trial balloon announcing he’d be arrested today to see how many of his cult members would turn out.”
Yep. It was the Donald’s stupid followers that were duped. Definitely not the people putting up guard rails all over DC or the people posting variations of “walls closing in” on Twitter for the last three days. Stupid MAGAts.
Needs more guillotine. Spice to taste.
Moldbug has opinions about Bitcoin.
*skims link*
I have no idea how Curtis Yarvin feels about Bitcoin.
He could use an editor.
I enjoyed his interview with Tim Dillon.
His “debate” with Dave Smith on Malice’s podcast was bad.
Really bad. He latches on to a concept and rides it into the ground. That pencil analogy was terrible.
Yeah, I found Yarvin really interesting at first, but I think it was just mostly because he was making arguments I’d never heard before. After I had heard him on several different podcasts and especially in debates, I started figuring out he’s a bit of a blowhard. Still better than almost anyone in the corporate media though.
Since coffee is now a racism I have decided to start a company:
Klan Koffee Kompany
Try our new Bigot Brew, available in whole coffee, grounds and, my personal favorite, KKK-Cups.
♫♪♪ The best part of waking up is hatred in your cup ♫♪♪
I prefer your White Supremo unblended.
The campground chain KOA also has cabins available on most of their campgrounds. First time I saw one of them, there was a little sign to guide you to them. It said:
KOA
Kamping
Cabins
I want to know who was the person who pointed out that the cuteness of replacing the C’s with K’s would look really bad on a sign laid out like that.
Where none of the coffee is strong and black.
But what about the African-Americano?
The Mulatte is my favorite.
I love this idea. You could make a really cute outdoor lawn area for it. Get some tiki torches. You could put some lowercase Ts in there and light them on fire to show your disdain for tea and coffee’s superiority over it.
36 eggs a day? Damn, that’s a lot of omelettes.
Fauci should be dangling from a lamp post.
“I should probably get a CPAP machine.”
I swear by mine. They take some getting used to, and expect to try multiple masks, but it has really helped with the quality of my sleep.
I agree.
Wish my husband could tolerate the masks, but he can’t, not even the nose ones.
It’s been awhile, but it took me probably a month, and then awhile longer to find a mask that worked (full nose and mouth for me, although it does unnatural things to my beard while I sleep).
I would blow my brains out before using one of those Rube Goldberg contraptions.
Melatonin. Makes me sleep, sleep good.
Count your blessings.
My experience with the CPAP is that it did a great job of preventing me from breathing at all.
I’d think about surgical intervention, but for now I manage by sleeping on my side.
Hobgoblins
The report also warned that water “scarcity is becoming endemic” due to overconsumption and pollution, while global warming will increase seasonal water shortages in both areas with abundant water as well as those already strained.
Governments and actors in the public and private sectors will present proposals at the conference to reverse that trend and help meet the development goal, set in 2015, of ensuring “access to water and sanitation for all by 2030.”
The last conference at this high level on the issue, which lacks a global treaty or a dedicated United Nations agency, was held in 1977 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
“The water crisis is bad enough without climate change,” said Stuart Orr of the World Wildlife Fund.
“We can build resilient societies and economies if governments and businesses urgently pursue policies, practices and investments that recognize — and restore — the full value of healthy rivers, lakes and wetlands,” he said.
The planet is out of water. It has all been used up.
And here I am, just pissing it away.
I’m admonished that it took about 800 pounds of water to raise every pound of that porterhouse you are so fond of. Your love of beef is killing Mother Earth!
That’s a price I’m willing to bear.
Even pig out on.
I refuse to eat bugs. That would be cultural appropriation.
So about 100 gallons or 2 fifty gallon drums. Not too bad but I’m sort of not believing it. I think they are talking about the water used in raising the feed, not what the animal is consuming.
If that were the case the buffalo herds (30-60 million) would have been much smaller, not a lot of water available on the Plains
/looks up at the Great Lakes
We’re good. We’ll send Cuyahoga bottled water out to California, they can use it to power their cars.
Just so long as you keep sending out the Burning River pale ale to drink…
That’s a solid one, but I generally go with Trail Head Pale from Fat Head’s if that option is there. Money from that beer being sold goes to support the Metroparks that I like to ride in. So I get beer, and help support my bike trails.
Great Lakes does do a Burning River fest, but that’s to support clean water.
Only the left would worry about running short on something that literally falls from the sky.
Some places it does. Some places it doesn’t.
Clean water is a big deal.
The left: Don’t build any dams or reservoirs that can be used for drinking water.
Also the left: Spend tens of millions on water treatment chasing barely detectable levels of “pollutants”.
Also, also the left: OMG! We’re running out of water! How did that happen?
You forgot “lets import another 30million people, using the same water supplies!”
After the last couple weeks, Shasta Lake is at full capacity, and the Sierra snow pack is at 200%.
These fuckers are the reason there is “no” water.
Sorry to hear about Brian. I guy who was born when I graduated high school has no business dying before me.
The Alex Jones Prison Planet……………
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This must be what it’s like to be on all the drugs.
Bidenomics
As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates again, credit card debt is already at a record high, and more people are carrying debt month to month.
The Fed’s interest rate increases are meant to fight inflation, but they’ve also led to higher annual percentage rates (APRs) for people with credit card debt, which means they pay more in interest. The Fed announced Wednesday that it would increase rates another quarter of a point.
With inflation still high, people are leaning on their credit cards more for everyday purchases.
“It’s the economy, inflation, gas prices, and food costs,” said Lance DeJesus, 46, kitchen manager at the Golden Corral in York, Pennsylvania. “A year ago, you could go to the grocery store with a hundred bucks and come out with a bunch of bags. Now, I come out with just one bag.”
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Bankrate says the average credit card interest rate, or annual percentage rate, has reached 20.4% — the highest since their tracking began in the mid-1980s.
A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 35% of U.S. adults report that their household debt is higher than it was a year ago. Just 17% say it has decreased.
Roughly 4 in 10 adults in households making under $100,000 a year say their debt is up, compared with about a quarter in households making more than that. About half of Black and Hispanic adults say their household debt has increased, compared with about 3 in 10 white adults.
Everything is going great.
Maybe people will have to drop their Netflix account, have one less Starbucks every week, and just maybe hold off getting the latest iPhone. I’m a monster, I know.
To say otherwise would be engaging in disinformation.
I’ll believe there’s an issue with consumer credit when I stop seeing offers to finance things over $25 on every gods damned site (in 4 easy payments!).
Would you like to split your purchase of pencils up into for easy payments?
My wife watches Home Shopping and buys a few things, I see those easy payments on some low priced items and can’t believe some people do that. She doesn’t ’cause I do the ordering for her.
Buying consumables by credit card and financing them is not the way to save money. My daughter would do that. I do it but pay the card off every month, use the bank’s money first.
Yeah, I use the credit cards to get reward money/points/etc, but I pay them off weekly.
Put your monthly bills on a credit card, and pay it off monthly. Presto, great credit!
Just don’t mess with the algorerythym.
I am currently reading the Little House series to my kids as their bedtime story. When the Wilders are in Kansas, it is cringy in 2023 to read how a little girl and her family from the 1870s describe the Native/Indian population.
Of course, several times this same population just walks into their house and takes whatever the fuck they want. There was also a two week period where they did war cries and dancing all night long before ultimately deciding not to kill the Wilder family.
so noble
I just finished a book on the the Comanches/Plains Indians. Their interactions were not always peaceful, with each other or with the new arrivals. The competition for resources and just plain hatred was strong. Easy to see how the rivalry of life styles was not always amenable.
As I stress to Tres Ver 2.0 when topics of racism or bigotry come up: “Look, as a group, us humans are assholes.”
Maybe people will have to drop their Netflix account, have one less Starbucks every week, and just maybe hold off getting the latest iPhone. I’m a monster, I know.
Are you implying some sort of prioritized decision making process is required? Because that’s some white supremacy talk, that is.
Next thing you know, people will expect you to show up in time.
Bunch of bullshit if you ask me.
Raysist!!!!
“Philadelphia will PAY women to get pregnant: Expectant mothers will be entitled to $1,000 a month ‘with no strings attached’ amid falling fertility rates and rising baby deaths”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11890655/Philadelphia-PAY-pregnant-women-1-000-month-curb-falling-fertility-rates.html
They should save the money and use it to leave Philly.
They can be pregnant and still afford drugs. How considerate of the city.
Only paying women! Wait a damned minute! How about the boys? Sexist
I thought that was what the Great Society was all about. Teenagers, babies, no male responsibility. LBJ was wrong?
Do they get to keep the money if they have an abortion?
I mean, there couldn’t possibly be any perverse incentives here, right?
“A Tennessee library director was fired after he and woke staffers disrupted a conservative event held by author Kirk Cameron, where a female swimming champ blasted trans athlete Lia Thomas.
Allan Morales was ousted following a 4-3 board vote to fire him earlier this week after the chaotic February 25 event at Sumner County Library.
That saw staff allegedly play loud music, shout and slam books while Cameron and NCAA swim competitor Riley Gaines recorded clips promoting their work.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11890277/Tennessee-library-director-FIRED-verbally-abusing-actor-Kirk-Cameron.html
Adults in the room.
I’m not seeing that they fired the staff, though.
“Uganda introduces the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’ as it passes bill to jail all gay people: Rights group condemns ‘appalling’ laws”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11889457/Uganda-passes-bill-jail-gay-people-Rights-group-condemn-appalling-law.html
Respect other cultures?
Well, we certainly have some activists who I would say are committing aggravating homosexuality, but the death penalty seems a bit much even for them.
I skim-read parts of the piece on Wilder. Ideologues always play with the language. Rose Wilder Lane as a “rabid libertarian.” Quart, of course, does not describe herself as a “Rabid poet.”
Quart writes: “For writers and artists who, unlike Wilder, were desperately poor, FDR created the Federal Writers’ Project, which ran for eight years starting in the middle of the Depression and was part of the Works Progress Administration.” This could be re-written as: “FDR decided that writers and artists who were not good enough to make a living should be supported by the blood, sweat, and tears of others.”
Quart writes, “The Depression ultimately catalyzed radical social solutions and changes, among them the cooperative-minded New Deal.” Ah yes, good old state-enforced cooperatism. Ask Jacob Maged how that cooperative spirit worked. Or all the people who went hungry because federal agencies destroyed food and slaughtered livestock. Of course, I suspect good old Alissa knows nothing about this. But her twisting of views, etc. is close to evil.
Cooperate, or else.
It is evil, which is functionally indistinguishable from stupid.
Rose was a socialist for a long time until she went to Bulgaria to correspond on the war or something there. THEN she got a clue.
Anyway, if we are defining one’s libertarianism by one’s ability to get along with other libertarians, then she was a rabid one. She, Paterson, and Rand were friends and intellectual/philosophical colleagues until they had a falling out. Rand got pissy with both of them for believing in a deity (not to mention Paterson was a devout Christian) and I don’t remember why she got mad at Rose. I’m not sure/don’t remember that Rose and Paterson actually fell out.
Rose was hard to get along with regardless. Laura and Almanzo couldn’t control her. Eliza Jane tried to use her infamous softer touch. At least Rose finished high school with her. I don’t remember what happened with her husband that they ended up divorcing (child died? she miscarried? can’t remember). She was headstrong and bulled through life leaving people in her wake. Her relationship with Laura was … fraught. The only real relationship she had was with her protegé/mentee Roger MacBride, whom she saw as a son.
I should write an article.
Yes, you should.
”
Anyway, if we are defining one’s libertarianism by one’s ability to get along with other libertarians, then she was a rabid one.”
Fair. But one would never know how the author of the piece determined rabid-ness because it’s just a statement without any evidence.
As I recall, MacBride got all the royalties coming in from her books and what have you. That gave him financial where with all to be the LP’s candidate for president in 1976. He wrote “A New Dawn for America” (or ghostwritten but I forget whether it was Boaz, Crane, or Childs). In it, he concluded at that time, “It is critical that the Libertarian Party succeed, for it alone lies between us and the dismal choice- down the road a bit, but not far – between total collectivism and violent upheaval.” Fifty years on, it is pretty evident the LP hasn’t succeeded and one wonders if there is any barrier to that “dismal choice.”
Also, as a child, through the books, I never realized how incredibly poor they were. Also, until it was pointed out to me, I never really saw Pa as being irresponsible. It was a harsh realization. She was such a foundation of my and my brother’s lives (his less than mine). But we both named our kids with it in mine. His daughter’s name is Laura. Mine’s middle name is Grace.
Based on the bios I’ve read, Bronson Alcott makes Charles Ingalls look like a saint.
Contrasted with Almanzo’s father…yeah, Pa was reckless.
Once he messed up the Kansas move he was probably out to prove moving away from Wisconsin was the right move, but ultimately kept failing.
He was also running from debt collectors.
Why do I suspect that if Quart had to live the same lifestyle as Wilder did in the ‘30s, she would consider herself desperately poor.
The twelve year old daughter absolutely loves Monty Python.
She’s currently listening to the Spanish Inquisition while writing an essay for school.
It helps restore my faith in the future to see that a child is being raised right.
Don’t forget the Piranha Brothers.
There’s one I haven’t seen in a while.
The argument clinic is probably her favorite.
There were always two sheds.
Good on ya, all the younguns should be versed in the classics. Are the Marx Brothers part of the curriculum?
The older two have seen Duck Soup.
Duck Soup? Not Animal Crackers? Monkey Business?? A Day at the Races??? DUCK SOUP???? This means war!
Hurray for Captain Spaulding!!
Horse Feathers is the lost one. It was about corruption at colleges. No wonder it is hard to find!
*pops up like a prairie dog*
Wait, WHAT?! Did I hear my quasi-deity Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name being taken in vain?!
They start this shit with Louisa May Alcott and I’mma have to cut a bitch. 😒
Right?!
Reading Turtles All The Way Down right now.
I knew that vaccine trials were corrupted, but holy hell…
There’s not a single childhood vaccine that was trialed against an actual placebo. Not a damned one.
They’re all trialed against each other or their predecessor in order to obscure the adverse reaction rate. It goes back decades, far enough that the original vaccines didn’t follow rigorous rules for approval, thus creating the original skewed standard that they all measure against. It’s insanely corrupt.
I’m struggling reading it because it so offends my engineering sensibilities that I get angry while doing so.
Childhood vaccines for covid don’t make sense even if that had proper trials. You’re an EE? OK, I’ll give you an EE example. Let’s say you have a proper SPICE, then a breadboard, all showing that a speedup cap makes your comparator faster. However, your application is that a light goes on when something goes over ten volts. Human reaction times are incredibly slow in comparison. So nanoseconds faster is completely irrelevant. That’s covid vaccinations for children.
Ah, so statistically significant but clinically meaningless.
I’m not sure they ever got to statistically significant, given the pathetically small test cohorts and short timeframes. My general impression is they basically said “Well, not everybody died. We’re good to go!”
Let’s say you have a proper SPICE
Posh or Ginger?
Sporty
Anyone up early? or late?
I’m at work. I was up early, but now I’m into my regular workday
Well good morning! I suppose east coasters are well into their day by now.
How goes it with you?
I left my fulltime cushy gig last year. Hence my absence. Now I’m fulltime business owner x 2. I’ve been working as a Realtor on top of the Alaskan fishing stuff. Had another kiddo… got a dog… launched a Real Estate Team… It’s been a whirlwind year! I’m glad to see so many familiar faces around here.
Congrats on the kid. And the dog. Hope the businesses hold up and don’t cause you too much trouble.