Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another beautiful day and the links!
Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, 21, arrested in US intel leaks
Ex-Obama staffer blows whistle on Biden ‘kickback scheme’ after Hunter joined Burisma
Biden’s Comments to the Little Kids in Ireland Were Even Weirder Than We Thought
Trump raises fist before daylong deposition, calls NY AG Letitia James’ lawsuit ‘ridiculous’
Could the US dollar lose its reserve currency status to China?
Florida Governor DeSantis signs bill banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy
International research suggests masks better at causing ‘long COVID’ than stopping virus
Anheuser-Busch Lost Over $6 Billion in Market Value After Transgender Controversy
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with some songs and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
I’m assuming her and Sloopy’s weekend is going to be a real bacchanal now.
Watched the movie “Bros” recently. Laughed so hard I was crying for some scenes.
A funny rom-com that has gay leads.
Well, if we’re sharing — we watched Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles yesterday afternoon. It was surprisingly good — treated both franchises with respect (well, I think they downplayed Damian Waynes abilities a bit for comic relief, in all honesty) but still had a lot of fun with the premise.
I never liked Damian anyway.
I can’t disagree strongly there — the character as a concept has never thrilled me, he really disrupts the “Bruce struggling to find family / let people in” relationship with Dick and to a lesser extent Time (another gripe there — I think the writers should have left Tim’s dad alive.. Have a Robin who isn’t an adoptive / actual son of Wayne, there was no need for Tim to be just Dick 2.0 after all) by being Bruce’s actual son.
That’s mitigated by good writers doing something with him being a reflection of every dark mood of Bruce’s (all the obsession, all the tendency to go too far amped up by the League of Assassins training) — so I’m willing to see where writers go with it at least sometimes. Still probably a bad idea overall, I’ll grant you. Oh, and he was fun in the Supersons movie (and from what I hear the comic originally — I stopped buying years back) before they of course had to age folks up and bring the angst.
Excellent! Grabbing a copy from my local library. Thanks for the pointer!
No the dollar won’t lose out to the yuan. The world is stupid, but not that stupid.
The world is stupid, but not that stupid.
Every time I think that, the world steps up to prove me wrong.
Yeah — my first thought reading JI’s comment was: “The world says — hold my Bud Light!”
^^^THIS^^^
You couple the fact that they see how corrupt, weak, unreliable, and ineffective the US is becoming, and many of them will think it is a necessary thing to do to avoid the coming apocalypse. And these are other people that never have a problem with corruption per se, but expect proficiency in those doing that and engaging in criminality. They see the morons now running the US and wonder how they can’t even be the bad guy the right way..
YES
inorite?
Yeah, I know the risk I took saying that. I would’ve believed the euro had the chance to be a real competitor years ago – but look how that turned out. Chinese currency isn’t even that good.
Given how utterly unreliable any economic number coming out of China is, I can’t see the yuan making big inroads as a reserve currency
The current approach, even amongst the BRIC types, is to come up with a new composite currency. These countries would have no problem cooking up a new digital currency to allow them to do this shit, because they already run command economies and view their citizens as serfs.
^This, the Chinese aren’t dumb and learned from our mistakes. They’re pushing for some sort of Bancor or SDR Special Drawing Rights to be the world currency. They want to control it but it won’t be the Yuan.
Uh huh, and as another sovereign country, you’re going to go in with the Chinese because…?
You would if you are all in on command economies and totalitarianism already, especially since the people that used to pretend democracy and freedoms were important have made it clear that was all bullshit (see US today and most of western Europe), and conclude the people in charge of the current common currency are abject idiots that will collapse the system and leave you dealing with that mess..
you’re going to go in with the Chinese because…?
That’s where I am – even if you think the US sucks, nobody’s thinking “if only the Chinese had more power over us”.
That was the theoretical appeal of the Euro – not-the-US but also not some country with ambitions for world domination.
It’s composite made out of shit.
And for all the complaining we do about the US and Western Europe, those problems are orders of magnitude worse in China, Russia, and Brazil.
So go ahead, make your shit sandwich guys. Would the US be really scared 60 years ago about a universal Soviet currency overtaking the dollar?
Wait? You mean these Roubles aren’t worth a fortune?
As I recall those years, hell yes.
So what is the deal with six weeks? If the fucking nutters insist that all abortion is murder, why is it permissible up to six weeks? Nothing like taking a losing stand on an issue you could’ve been winning on by only being not as fucking nuts as the Democrats.
Neither side has a really great definition of where personhood begins.
One side has the existential problem that it sees abortion as killing a human. The other has an existential problem that it’s anti-humanism requires the killing be allowed.
I am for a compromise because life is not perfect, but I understand why either side wants all or nothing.
Neither extreme will ever get what they want, and they shouldn’t. Going to far cost Democrats and now it will cost Republicans.
The democrats will get what they want. They are masters at lying and manipulating people (especially emotional women that want to show how independent and strong they are by having daddy government be their sugar daddy), and most of those people are fucking dumber than idiots these days.
This move may have just cost him the Presidency. The panic ads will be that he will seek a national 6 week ban. That sound you just heard was the sound of 5 million minivans driven by suburban moms to go vote for Harris.
It will hurt him with the suburban woman vote. It’s a bafflement to me that the numbers who actually favor the Dem position of “taxpayer funded abortions until the cord is cut” are vastly smaller than the number of votes for the Dems running on that position. And even more so that apparently millions, if not tens of millions, of women are single issue abortion voters. They are apparently willing to have their actual kids permanently damaged by hormone treatments and surgery, if that’s the price of taxpayer funded abortions through the third trimester.
The Dems collect votes not just from those who support their extreme position, but from those who fear the extreme position of the Repubs.
I think that’s it. I just don’t get why the extreme position(s) of the Dems don’t cost them as many or more votes than those of the Repubs. I mean, seriously, “We think your kid should be permanently damaged for life over your objections, based on what a school guidance counselor says” outweighs “No abortions after X weeks except to save the life of the mother”?
“The Dems collect votes not just from those who support their extreme position, but from those who fear the extreme position of the Repubs.”
Dead or alive. Legal or illegally voting. And also multiple times when they can..
The Dems do a better job of hiding their extreme positions? Or at least did. When they get exposed, it’s like turning on the light in a room full of cockroaches. Oh, and the media does it’s best to keep the lights dimmed.
Because every outright ban gets knocked down in court? Six to eight weeks is about where most people would draw the line before the whole thing becomes too distasteful.
A good compromise leaves both sides disappointed?
A compromise is half way between two bad ideas.
A good idea should never be compromised.
The people telling us we should be like Europe never point out that there are several European countries where abortion is not allowed, and in the ones where it is all have limits, with the one with the greatest window only allowing abortions up to 15 week after the conception. Our baby killer class should admit that what they want was how China’s CCP treated abortion during their one child policy times and babies were even killed after being born (if they were female).
Is China a country full of biologists or something?
They don’t have a problem with the definition of woman for sure…
Seems more of a compromise position to me.
Because Florida is still a swing state. Even with six weeks I can easily see a swing back to the left.
Exactly. If you’re going to compromise – do it where it doesn’t destroy your advantage. Not the Republicans.
Because the left not only wants to kill fetuses at any stage, they want to make it so women don’t have to care about knowing whether or no they’re pregnant. Fuck around all you want, girls, pay it no mind if you’re missing your periods, make no effort whatsoever to find out if you’re pregnant until the labor pains start. It’s not as if pregnancy tests can be purchased over the counter at zillions of stores or anything.
This is the ‘swing back to the left’ the “pro choice” people want.
I was dubious at first that ending RvW would have any major impact but hoo boy was I wrong. The GOP is about to lose every purple state and maybe a few sort-of red ones too.
I’m not convinced the pro-baby murder crowd is as large as it pretends to be.
It most definitely is. The number of college-indoctrinated women that are single-issue voters on abortion is astoundingly high. And they definitely vote.
I love these ladies that tell you the way they signal their freedom is to murder their own offspring. And I love telling them that’s how I see their take on this. Mental disorder.
The giveaway to me is that every Dem is running on abortion now. It is absolutely their top issue.
What else do you run on? Economics? Crime? Foreign policy?
Free shit.
If chopping off teenagers’ dicks and boobs isn’t a winning platform, I don’t know what would be.
Also, there are many more child mutilators than I would have expected. If a kid manages to pass alive through the magic portal of the birth canal, he still risks having his dick chopped off and a fake pussy gouged out in its place.
There is some evidence that we really don’t like kids very much.
Love em or hate em Alex, but they vote, and this issue gets their dander up – big time.
I love these ladies that tell you the way they signal their freedom is to murder their own offspring. And I love telling them that’s how I see their take on this. Mental disorder.
And when they retort “It’s not a human being!” you can calmly state that that’s what Democrats said about black people to justify slavery.
It isn’t how many of them, it is where they stand. Scruffy nails it just below.
It is fucking up what should be easy wins for R’s, and giving the left room for crazyness.
That’s what the left says about gun owners.
Well, there’s only three of us owning those 600 million guns, so they might be right.
It’s hard for me to sort the shift of suburban women voters to the Dems on abortion from the electoral shenanigans, at least in AZ. I believe in AZ the loss of statewide races was due to the latter, but I haven’t seen/tracked down any data on actual changes in voting patterns (to the extent such data from Maricopa County isn’t garbage because it is based on ballots rather than votes).
If that happens, then it’s clear which side the extremists are on. Hint: It’s not an extremist position to expect women who are sexually active and don’t want to have kids to avail themselves of easily obtainable pregnancy tests in order to meet a six week deadline to get an abortion with no questions asked.
Why not the old first trimester (as under Roe)? Why six weeks?
Obviously because extremists like me want to control women like in the Handmaids Tale.
Or, it’s because shortly thereafter cardiac activity is detectable, and that’s also been a point of demarcation for abortion laws.
Look, there’s a principled case that says never. I can understand that. Once you get past never, then it’s just some compromise. We had one and we’re chucking it. That’s going to cost the Republicans – and what do they gain for that?
We had a ‘compromise’ at a national level that declared abortion a right under the Constitution which many conservatives felt was no compromise at all. Now it’s a state issue again.
I’m totally okay with it being a state issue again.
That’s not a rationale for chucking what had broad support for something that has narrow support. But I’m not a Republican.
Pregnancy strips are dirt cheap on Amazon, you can get a 15 pack of early detection strips for $13, and a 55 pack of normal ones for the same amount.
I’d say the Florida legislature agrees with you. Almost everyone is pro-life, if by that you mean there is some point prior to birth that they would be horrified to view, in person, such a fetus/person being aborted.
Except for Nikki of course… but she’s the worst.
Well the joke used to be that we weren’t as conservative as most of Europe on the issue (when Europe is the left’s favorite measuring stick). Now we’ve blown right past that because of the fucking fringe. It’s like allowing the Progressive wing of the Dems to really run the whole party (which they don’t despite their delusions of gradeur).
What part of it don’t they run?
I think that is supposed to be Alex’s line.
Why are you putting words in my mouth..
Oh wait..
Never mind, it was my line.
It cracks me up – how folks bang on the Republican establishment (against those true AUTHENTIC Republicans that can’t make the party behave) and then turn around and fail to see the same dynamic in the other party.
It’s basically the heartbeat cutoff, but without having to use the ultrasound.
So the day before the heartbeat can be detected, no problem. Killing that human-to-be is okay, but no later!
Any point between conception and birth is going to be labelled by someone as arbitrary. But ultimately the progress of life from conception to death is continuous and seamless. Why put the cutoff for abortion at birth? It’s just another stage of existence, and it’s not like a baby is a fully developed human anyway. Maybe I decided parenting is just too inconvenient, so I can take my infant to the chop shop and grind it into slurry, okay? By kid’s terrible twos are just too burdensome. Let’s take a ride to the butcher shop, kiddo!
Yes, and a cut-off that was broadly accepted would come without electoral consequences. Versus another arbitrary cut-off that only has limited support. It’s a fucking political calculation, not a moral position.
broadly accepted
Citation needed. If it was so broadly accepted, why was the overturning of RvW so popular among conservatives? Why haven’t most states just crafted state laws mirroring the RvW conditions? Hell, which states (if any) have done just that? Most have either shifted to more permissive conditions or less.
Because the Republican Party is catering to it’s extremist wing, just as the Democrats had before with their own.
And FWIW.
I’m sorry your baby slaughtering is being hindered by extremists.
JI: Wut about duhmocracy!1! most peeple want to kill moar babys
I wouldn’t have even jumped in because I really don’t have time for an abortion talk, but when you go with “fucking nutters” right from the jump, you can go fuck yourself.
The true pro-life (no excuses ever for abortion) is an extremist position. Morally consistent and politically irrelevant (or worse, damning for a more generally conservative approach).
JI: “No abortion ever” is morally consistent, but if you actually try to legislate that way you are a fucking nutter because not everyone agrees with you.
So, you advise that people ignore their morals and follow opinion polls?
Because the Republican Party is catering to it’s extremist wing
The extremist wing of “You have six weeks to get an abortion with no questions asked”?
Regarding the poll numbers, it’s not hard to see why the majority of people call themselves pro choice, because that is where many who favor something like the six week laws to be. Women have a choice up to some point between conception and birth. The pro life side is more logically going to be associated with the ‘no abortions, ever’ crowd.
The idea that RvW had broad support is, I think, obviously in error, as the decision was contentious from the moment it was first handed down by SCOTUS.
RvW was bad precedent. It was never a federal issue.
There’s no denying that there is a strong emotional element to a fetus having a heartbeat. It’s a big deal, and am exciting, sobering moment for parents when the mother is getting an ultrasound, and they locate the heartbeat and let the parents listen to it. So I wouldn’t call it completely arbitrary.
To people that want that baby, it’s a very happy day.
In a sane world, Anheuser Busch’s marketing chief would have been summarily fired and escorted out of the building.
I told my wife she ought apply to the VP of Marketing job at Bud Light by vowing she won’t piss off their core customer base by catering to urban Austin hipsters and their ilk.
But demographic destiny! Those backward hicks buying Bud Light will die off and be replaced by the young progressive future.
There are always a bunch of new underage drinkers coming up. Isn’t that Bud Light’s core demo? (Full disclosure, I like BL).
If I was in charge of the “brand” I’d concentrate on those youngsters who don’t know how to drink yet and want a pretend beer like BL.
Baby’s first beer.
Nope. The new underage drinkers are trending towards hard seltzers and premixed cocktails in a can.
That is when they aren’t butt chugging vodka with tampons, going to rainbow parties, getting high on jenkem, or accidentally ingesting THC edibles.
What are the yutes of today thinking about peppermint schnapps? That was the other go to underage drink when I was roaming the edge of the prairie as a kid.
Boone’s Farm or Mad Dog.
The connesewer bum wines.
A big market for inexpensive, lightly hopped beer. An ad campaign poking fun at overpriced, over-hopped, or sour beers being drunk by pretentious hipsters seems like it would bring in a lot of noob beer drinkers without alienating their existing customer base.
I mean, sour beer? It really does taste like someone fucked up a batch of beer and found they could still sell it if they priced it high enough.
“I mean, sour beer? It really does taste like someone fucked up a batch of beer and found they could still sell it if they priced it high enough.”
To me this is beer in general..
One of the current trends is going back to the basics of a clean lager. The downside for the breweries is that it takes skill and ties up tanks longer (fermentation and lagering time for a lager is much longer than the fermentation time for an ale). Any flaws stand out immediately. Around me, especially in summer, most of the breweries will have at least one on tap, some get up to four or five different ones.
Sour beers (at least kettle soured beers) are generally quick and easy to make, but the real challenge comes in making sours with lacto or brett fermentation. Those are easy to get started, but difficult to control, and will sometimes require blending to make them palatable. With the fermented sours, you also have a moderate risk of getting a brewhouse infection, which can spread to beers you did not want to be sour. I know of at least two breweries that had run away infection issues… it did not go well for either of them.
/continues waiting for the time of the English Mild to return
We just killed the one on tap at my local… https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/55985/628606/
I hope this trend gets some legs. A nice clean bottom-fermented lager or pilsner with quality ingredients is about all I want in my beer. Maybe an occasional Kolsch.
Actually, I hope this trend doesn’t get legs. I drink too much beer already…
“The downside for the breweries is that it takes skill and ties up tanks longer (fermentation and lagering time for a lager is much longer than the fermentation time for an ale).”
I’ve always thought that this explained the prevalence of ales, especially in the early days of craft brew popularity. They are quick and easy to make and the customers would pay for anything that wasn’t Budweiser.
Brewers near me are making a few lagers now, and some of them even remember to add malt to the hops in their recipes.
Swiss:
One of my locals doesn’t quite grasp the concept of a Mild. The ABV there is incorrect based on the most recent batch I saw… it’s too low. I am still enjoying the hell out of the Immigrant Son Common Ale (they canned it and DISTRIBUTED IT!).
EvilSheldon:
There’s a large German and Eastern European community here, which influences the brewery scene. One time heading over to watch a football game at a friend’s house, I accidentally put together a schwarzbier sampler stopping at three different breweries.
Homple:
Yes, that’s why ales are the predominant style for most breweries. Turn around time can be as low as a couple of days instead of weeks for a lager.
They should have hired Del Griffith. He knows how to sell Bud Light.
As discussed yesterday, she is a member of the Professional Managerial Class; it is a class norm that they are immune from accountability.
They promote stupidity up. She will be running that company in a couple of years.
Nah. She’s a dead woman walking at Bood Lite. The C suite there is in full on CYA damage control. Someone will have to get fired for this.
I read this morning (here?) that the losses were up to 6 billion.
That is something you cannot handwave away.
That’s in market value of the stock, not operating income – they gain or lose that routinely. Obviously a PR debacle is bad for business.
Actually, the job tenure for CMOs is shockingly brief. They get hired by promising to make changes to turn things around, make random changes, then get fired when the numbers don’t improve, then hop to a new company and repeat.
then hop to a new company and repeat
Not exactly like getting kicked out of the club.
The issue is she lives in a different bubble than her core customer base.
I have made some assumptions here, but my guess is we are experiencing the collision of two worlds.
She went to an Ivy League school.
She lives in a wealthy liberal enclave.
She is urban/suburban based.
She probably has many gay and perhaps trans friends in her bubble.
To her, the Bud Light Marketing gig is just as good as working for Honda or IKEA.
She has no special affinity for the product. She’s not an AB lifer.
She went to an Ivy League school.
Correct: https://www.cf.org/news/meet-alissa-heinerscheid-bud-lights-vp-of-marketing/
Harvard, then Wharton.
She has no special affinity for the product. She’s not an AB lifer.
She’s been at AB since 2015, but in the Bud Light job for just 10 months. An impressive amount of damage in a short time.
I believe I read yesterday she wasn’t just Ivy League – but went to the hoity prep school before that. So she was born and raised PMC. Ivy League was just a checkbox.
The Bud Light thing was literally the classic case of a VP of Marketing getting the job by promising change, then giving them change good and hard, instead of adhering to “Don’t Fuck With Fritos”.
Ouch… the corn chip edge cuts and then salt in them? Yeah… that doesn’t seem like a great idea, prolefeed.
She had a mandate!
*ahem* “persondate”
transdate or GTFO
How dare you deperson the trans!
We don’t have to, over 40% do that of their own accord.
“Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, 21, arrested in US intel leaks”
This kid is gonna spend a lot of time at Leavenworth making big rocks little ones…
The criminal thing is that he should Have Bill & Hilary Clinton, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden at a minimum working next to him for their shit…
I still don’t know why a 21 year old Air National Guardsman has access to top secret materials.
Maybe they felt he didn’t have any ill intentions, so he was no risk?
Also, I am betting money these leaks are not as big a deal as people are saying they are for whatever reason.
Because the military doesn’t recruit people in their 40s?
But why should a young recruit be in such a position, rather than just senior officers with a need to know?
Because the new hires do the actual work and the senior officers just look at reports and file paperwork.
The military has a hierarchy. Senior people don’t do any work if there are junior people around to do it.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
I will bet the leaked reports were created by enlisted personnel. It is how the military operates. Junior enlisted = workers, NCOs = managers, COs = executives, WOs = gods.
Old school gods, like Zeus; fickle, feckless and generally pains in the ass to those around them?
“Chief Smiff turned into swan and fucked PVT Johnson.”
The help desk guy needs to have root access so he can fix your email login problem, duh.
He worked in IT. It’s kinda hard to do a lot of IT jobs without access to the systems, including the data they hold/transmit. From the memory hole, the initial reports were that it was Russian disinformation, then it was somebody at Ft. Bragg, and they finally landed on this 23 year old E3. And it’s still not clear he had access to a lot of the stuff “he” “leaked”.
Bow before me, for I am Root.
+ privileged user training
I am a benevolent god.
Compartmentalization and access control are just too hard for our new IC…
His real crime is embarrassing the elites. Miley and Austin just sat in front of Congress talking about how great things are going in the Ukraine. This kid exposed their nonsense.
How an Air National Guardsman had this kind of access should be the focus of an investigation that ends a lot of careers.
This is supposedly CIA and State material – NO FUCKING WAY he had access. If he did, and I don’t see how he could, then the controls that supposedly exist aren’t even adequate for a commercial bank.
All the 3 letter agencies and the military are too busy looking for the domestic terrorists in schools, churches, and even the military, and so this kid must have passed the woke test and fell off their radar.
It stinks of a disinfo operation.
Which will be used to try to pass the RESTRICT Act.
^^^THIS
Reality Winner at least fell into a trap. This stinks worse than that.
*Tinfoil hat crinkles and breathes, like a living thing
As I said somewhere else, this gives the IC two things: an out from a losing war, and big dirt on the Biden admin.
The kid is a patsy.
There are junior enlisted E4’s that have TS/SCI clearances. Some work for or with State and other agencies. Fresh out of DLI/AIT.
Sure – but those guys are full-timers working in a secure area of a base – not weekend warriors pulling that stuff down via the internet.
The ones I know ARE weekend warriors. It’s their 9-5 day job.
Oh – full-time spooks.
I believe I read that he (E3) had TS/SCI clearance. Still shouldn’t have been able to get anything out of the SCIF.
I wonder if the whole thing about the docs being in a SCIF is bullshit…
That or SCIFs have the same security now as the Biden garage where he stored his vette.
Yeah, he supposedly took pictures in his house of these docs? Which means he printed them and exfiltrated them from the SCIF?
Or, printouts were lying around his work, convenient to him.
Which implicates more people in mishandling of material. Even in a SCIF, you don’t just leave shit sitting around.
Our military leadership since Obama’s admin times, like everyone else in every top job in the corruptocracy’s bureaucracy, were chosen for their allegiance to the left and Obama and actually being good at the job they were given was never a problem (see the numerous
third term Obama adminBiden admin congressional hearings where you find out they nominated an inept and dumb moron who just had the right CRT/DEI characteristics). The people at the top are idiots, but they are reliable idiots, and as is obvious eager to go along with making the military an ineffective entity as long as they can force everyone to conform to wokeism.The military’s leadership is great at DEI/CRT/AGW bullshit. They have no idea how to actually run and be an effective and proficient fighting force anymore.
The rot isn’t partisan – that’s just the veneer. The military has been fucked since WWII. Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton had no graduate degrees; now you don’t make O-6 without at least one Masters. And of course Congressional sponsorship.
The rot USED to be partisan, yes, and too often the problem was stupid people that felt that because they had gone to college they knew better than people with decades of hands on experience. But the people with the experience managed to still keep things working, and that was why the thing could perform basic functions without falling apart. These days it is absolutely partisan, and it has been for over a decade with the degeneration becoming more pronounced as the rot became partisan.
Fucking NAVY personnel know all about DEI/CRT and other woke idiocy, but they can’t fight a fucking ship that is practically completely computerized when doing a drill where the ship has lost that computerized navigation. They fucking run into other naval traffic like idiots. In clear daylight.
And then after years of investigations, they pretend the problem was something else. It is a fucking shitshow.
We could have 40 years of uninterrupted Republican rule, and the only thing that would change would be the surface level stupidity.
Competence is not a requirement for the PMC, not in govt and not at AB InBev.
I hope you didn’t assume that I was telling you republicans in charge would fix this. My point was that we went from a slow to stable broke system to one that strapped a warp engine on their 1960’s wagon, and are racing into oblivion. At this point even a near peer war and the problems that brings won’t fix anything anymore. We are heading for a dark ages.
During hard times, hard men stand up to fix the problems. Then we get good times. During those good times weak men (the ones that allowed our society to become feminized to the max) fuck it all up and then bring in dark times. We are at this point in the cycle. Hopefully the dark times will create hard men that can get us back to good times.
Hopefully the dark times will create hard men that can get us back to good times.
Usually it produces hard men that give us darker times first.
“Usually it produces hard men that give us darker times first.”
Oh, we are there already.. That is why everything is falling apart..
No we aren’t. We still have soft men. The hard men will not be an improvement. Maybe eventually, but not for a while.
Oh, we are there already.. That is why everything is falling apart..
bwahahahahahahaha
Oh no, the barbarians haven’t even gotten to the gate yet.
“Oh no, the barbarians haven’t even gotten to the gate yet.”
I disagree. They got to the gates and found them open and with a crowd cheering them on to begin wrecking shit.
That last part, the real wrecking, is just beginning.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Now even little babies are making me look bad.
Thanks a lot, Jimbo, thanks a lot.
She’s a little Chantilly Lace, a big eyed girl that makes her Big Bopper daddy act so funny
For all you UI/UX types:
https://twitter.com/0xDesigner/status/1642554822418210817
👎
That looks like what you’d get if you asked me to do UI work.. 😉
That’s done by someone that loves the radio button plugin?
LOL those are great.
I love a good exhibition of UX horrors. There was one I used to follow ages and ages ago. Honestly I wasn’t sure if these were real or not until I scrolled up – there is some really bad design out there, though maybe less than there used to be.
At least the first one has a mute button. I could grudgingly live with that. Pretty sure I have at some point. Looks familiar.
A lot of the horrible UX I have encountered was not by accident but by policy. I remember having a huge blowup with the business side and the BA because they all liked specific control types (that is how the old tool worked) which completely defeated the purpose of reimagining and modernizing the capability. The people that will grind development to a halt because your control is not precisely 3 pixels away from some arbitrary margin and ignore if the thing actually does the business rules or math correctly are the ones that drive this idiocy in 99.9% of these cases.
I have a lot of work coming up on “Phase 2” of a project that I recently released (it’s actually “Phase 1” stuff that should have been released at the beginning but nobody thought to tell me) and I told the BA I’m not going through the UI team anymore – it’s just a huge time suck. I’ll do it myself and I can do just as good a job. I’m not a UI person but I can mimic what was already done.
That kind of thinking was rife in the early 90s, especially on proprietary music software. That’s why that first one looked familiar.
That’s spectacular.
Worthy of the UI/UX in my Tesla that is designed by Millennials who don’t actually drive.
My favorite:
https://twitter.com/0xDesigner/status/1642554820736188421
Mine:
https://twitter.com/0xDesigner/status/1642554825672990720
He brought Hunter with him? Dafuq?
And holy shit, the Irish literally have a leprechaun for a president.
I saw that flick!
Looking closer, he might be a hobbit, not a leprechaun. I’ll defer to our Irish Glibs on that ID.
https://extra.ie/2021/03/07/news/all-of-michael-d-higgins-dogs
Just as long as he isn’t a clúrachán.
The rulers delight in shoving our faces in it.
Hunter’s role:
https://genius.com/Emerson-lake-and-palmer-show-me-the-way-to-go-home-lyrics
Actually the mere presence of NATO forces in Ukraine should be the issue, not the headcount. We’re getting intel from the Russians? Or about them? And that “other intelligence” is right fucking out of Team America.
I point people to the fact that during the US engagement in Korea and Vietnam both the USSR and the CCP China did far worse and had tons of boots on the ground. We did that to them when they had their adventurism in Afghanistan as payback, and I am sure they reciprocated in our recent WOT nonsense. The fact that we are clearly helping a proxy state in an idiotic war we have no business being part with troops on the ground is not the problem: it’s that we are wasting time on this cause we want to keep the Lithium in the Ukraine and the network to launder US and EU tax payer money for the elite, for ourselves.
Friday Funbags finds FORTRAN very readable.
https://archive.ph/x1A1C
Damn Q… today ya BASIC.
It was what he could COBOL together.
I C what you did there.
Why you little pascals, I bet Swiss will narrow his gaze at you.
There was a lot of stack overflow.
I expected naked ladies with glasses and pocket protectors and got a real letdown, yo…
He was a little busy finding a ruby ring as a token of his love so he could persuade Perl to take his python. She’s shy, so it takes some work to get her out of her shell.
(-_-)
Seems like a scripted comment.
You people don’t seem to be object oriented…
Next you will tell me that if I try to develop a thang with these ladies by using tests, I am uppity.
Bet you only code for big-endians, not little-endians.
Almost Q’s perfect gal….
Forget about 3 titted women, we’ve got the technology for 4 titted women! (NSFW) maybe
I thought that would be more in the “Tres signal” department.
Ive said it before, but one of the best things about ‘larger ladies’ is that in the dark, no matter which part you grab it feels like it could be titty.
LOL
That observation that this phenom exists only amongst women that demand you worship them no matter how much gravity they generate is accurate, though.
And every time these screeching hags point out some fat guy that has made it big, the answer is that they got there because of talent, despite a system that would never peddle them as the alpha form of success.
MY EYES
I am keeping that link for when I am feeling frisky but can’t get a cold shower….
*mass narrowed gaze*
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody
Hey, KK, if you read this, have you considered Payson, AZ?
Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, 21, arrested in US intel leaks
Dude is a whistleblower. So naturally the regime considers him a terrorist.
One man’s whistleblower is another man’s filthy traitor.
It has ever been thus.
Except… has he leaked any US secrets? Everything I’ve heard referenced on the radio concerns estimates about Ukraine and Russia.
Nothing new to anyone who has looked outside of the mainstream for information. Scott Ritter and others have been saying that stuff for months.
If the US govt decides something is a secret it doesn’t matter if there is a real national security implication. The whole thing really is the ultimate FYTW.
There does seem to be a lot more focus on hating this guy than in the information that he exposed doesn’t it?
Like was said above, the fact that NATO troops are actually in Ukraine should be a huge headline, but instead we are all mocking this kid because he was a lameass.
What is wild is that before he was positively identified as a libertarian gun nut, NPR wasn’t making a big deal out of these leaks It was really obvious they didn’t know what spin to apply.
That might as well have named him Goldstein.
You think journalos have the education to get that reference, much less make it?
“More’s the pity youngster, more’s the pity.” — Manny (in Runaway Train)
Love that movie. One of the best of the eighties.
Last night Tucker went off on journalists who think their job is to help the government cover things up.
https://www.youtube.com/live/RM88IpVYSnQ?feature=share
Ex-Obama staffer blows whistle on Biden ‘kickback scheme’ after Hunter joined Burisma
“No one is above the law.”
The interesting part is that he implicated Jake Sullivan as well.
‘Orning ‘ordles — the battle of the chumping line.
Daily Duotrigordle #408
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 05:12.98
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Meh
My TL is a rhyming dictionary. 4th time’s the charm!
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Blossom Puzzle, April 14
Letters: E G I D L O Y
My score: 257 points
My longest word: 8 letters
🌹 🌸 🏵 🌺 🌼 💮 🌷 🌻
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
I got a meager 206 on Blossom.
>.>
doggedly
ledge
eloi
glide
“Trump raises fist…”
IT’S GO TIME, ANONS!!
Wait, why am I the only one here?
Oops! I’m being imprisoned indefinitely, now. But, I still love Trump!
How are those sanctions working out, dumbasses?
https://www.rt.com/business/574726-iea-russian-oil-exports-three-year-high/
I am ready to admit that the racists won. When you see the people that used to be segregated by the racists demanding to self segregate, you know they fell for the 3-D chess.
It’s not so much 3D chess as it’s 3D stupidity. Fuck it, parallel societies on a whole host of things it is.
Wow. This is not going to end well.
Silver Linings:
1) I thought that the demand would be that all students could pick the race of their roommates. That was going to be a disaster for the black students because there wouldn’t be enough of them to meet the demand of all those white progressive kids. Black women in particular would be in high demand as every progressive white girl demanded a sassy black roommate.
2) Since it seems that once again white progressives are demanding things “specifically on behalf of black students”, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that most of the black kids probably aren’t down with the struggle. They are just being saved by the rich white kids who know better. I’m sure there are some black kids at those rallies, but I bet they are the students who are pulling D’s and C-‘s for grades and need a good excuse like racism to explain to their parents why they are blowing $40K/yr and not succeeding.
“the black dorm” was a thing even when I went to school decades ago. This isn’t all that new.
My cousin bought an Iraqi tank back around 93. Turns out they’re rather expensive to maintain.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russian-t-90-tank-from-ukraine-mysteriously-appears-at-u-s-truck-stop
Hmmm. There are multiple “drive tanks” places plausibly approachable form a port via I-10.
They’re all so darn expensive, and I don’t know if I even fit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbrUEBNdwGY
It’s fascinating how difficult it actually is to reduce a human to a red mist. Even the older tanks can’t do it.
If you guys want to drive a tank, I can help you out.
I’ll even get you paid for it. $40K Bonus
The Coax is what you shoot that guy with. If your coax is empty, you shoot a HE round at the target’s base (boom) and if you only have AP/Sabot, you shoot short, so that the round picks up shrapnel from the ground to increase the damage.
That Iraqi tank seems to a pretty bad shimmy.
Reserve currency: It’s not the issue of the dollar being unsound relative to the yuan or the rupee or the ruble, it’s the weaponization of the US monetary system and the willingness to engage in just that. Other nations are sick to death of being pontificated to by a failing empire and then strong armed when they don’t fall in line and there’ll be more than one reserve, the dollar’s not disappearing. We did it to ourselves and although it’s bad for us in the short run it’s good for the world as a whole and I welcome it.
They’re gonna be even more sick to death of China gutting their currency.
“I’m not concerned about the leak because — I’m concerned that it happened, but there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that is of great consequence.”
Irish Brandon would not channel Kamala.
“Heck, I had more important matters in the stuff I had in my garage”. / Joe if he wasn’t cut off
there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that is of great consequence
Then why was it classified so high?
Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, 21, arrested in US intel leaks
More is coming out about the leaks and its looking a lot less like disinformation. I haven’t read the paper directly, but per Judge Nap:
-The US has apparently infiltrated Russia’s military communications and has been providing Ukraine advance notice of Russia’s planned targets weeks before many of those Russian drone and missile attacks were launched. Warning Russia that their communications have been compromised doesn’t make much sense from a disinformation point.
-The papers reveal American intelligence analysts have no idea what the true causality counts are, but the classified estimate is 7:1 in favor of Russia.
– Kiev has enough air defense supplies for two more months and then will be completely exhausted. They estimate that will handle two large Russian missile strikes and then defense will be largely non-existent until Patriot systems and other Western supplies are set up later in the year.
I haven’t read the reports, just passing on Judge Nap’s summary. Take with a grain of salt.
threading fail
Does anyone else have questions regarding Judge Nap?
My problem is – compartmented information isn’t just sitting there on SIPR or JWICS for anyone to browse. How would he have had access?
At one point the indication was it was assembled in EUCOM and may have been briefing material for JCS. Did that get blasted around where some E3 shlup in Air Natl Guard in MA has access? That would be incredibly sloppy and as equally embarrassing as anything in the disclosed material.
Some compartmented information is sitting out there. HCS and SI product are posted for broad consumption. It’s not much use if it isn’t shared outside their communities. HCS and SI subcompartments are heavily restricted as are SAPs.
He had no need to know any of it. So if he had access, it is because there was some incredibly sloppy handling near him.
“the classified estimate is 7:1 in favor of Russia”
I just find that hard to believe. Massive confirmed vehicle losses, the failure of their initial assault on Kiev, major reversal and loss of ground last year, a stalemate since, mass mobilization and draft of Russian troops, and the invader is way ahead on the body count? It just doesn’t add up.
The intelligence estimates are official lies, just below the official lies of the govt in question.
It will be a long, long time before the truth is known.
“I don’t know about the vehicle losses.”
They are well documented with geo-tagged photos. Of all the “intel” about the war, I think it’s by far the most solid.
The initial assault on Kiev was pretty big, and not minor at all – remember the miles and miles of trucks, etc. stuck on the roads to Kiev? It failed mostly because of a logistics breakdown.
I guess at some point a retreat is a voluntary withdrawal, but I don’t think the Russians took that ground with the intention of giving it up unless they had to.
Bottom line: there is no way this war has gone the way Russia wanted it to. I’ve said from day one they will win if they are willing to spend the men and money, but this has cost them a lot more of both than they would have wanted, and has exposed very significant weaknesses in their military.
Russia was definitely caught off guard, and I think they unexpectedly lost a lot of their better trained forces because of that.
I don’t know about the vehicle losses.
The initial assault on Kiev was minor. I think Russia expected Kiev to surrender quickly. Instead NATO told Kiev not to, the minor assault met resistance, and Russia pulled it back. Doesn’t reflect highly on the Russians, but also not a big meat grinder for either side.
The major reversal of ground last year was mostly voluntary withdrawal of Russia across wide open spaces that were difficult to defend. Minimal loss of life taken in that on either side. Russia was pushed back farther than they wanted. They lost control of a key city in the northeast and a river crossing that will make retaking difficult. So not trying to paint as rosy for Russia, but it wasn’t like the tail between their legs retreat that America took in Afghanistan either.
The perceived stalemate is a slower pace from how Russia fights. America blitzed across a bunch of 3rd world goat fuckers clutching AKs using advanced aircraft and tanks. It’s a whole different battlefield here. Russia uses artillery instead to slowly advance. And it sounds like their artillery outnumbers Ukrainian artillery by 10:1.
The estimates of Ukraine casualties in the leaked documents is quite a bit less than current estimates of Russian casualties:
No way to know how accurate any of these are, of course.
That’s interesting. The numbers I’ve heard (not part of the leaks) have been estimating Russian deaths around 30k-40k. That’s just about the same as this.
The Ukrainian deaths are supposedly around 250k-300k. Ukraine considers the number a state secret, and I doubt they would do so if the number was truly 15k. That would be trumpeted non-stop instead.
I am awake. 😡 Stupid sleeping mask slipped off and the stupid birds are all chirping like I’m Snow White.
I fully understand the irritation. The most annoying part of the commute these days is stepping out the front door and hear the chirpy passerines filling the air with noise.
It sure pisses me off when it is 3AM before I fall asleep and they are making a racket outside at about 5:30AM….
The call it the dawn chorus, but it happens well before dawn.
*recalls the many months sleeping in tents*
I did not know that.
Good one. Looks like they are in NY in June.
Saw that but yeaaahh… I’m not really into live bands that are decades past their sell-by date.
Huge fan of them back in the day, though.
And we will worship you?
Awaken, awaken!
https://youtu.be/-rh8gMvzPw0
Try an apple?
No way, dude.
You could order something from the Smithsonian, they someday your prints will come.
I can haz a prints?
Good writeup on Bill Mauldin.
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2023/04/10/the-fighting-cartoonist-how-bill-mauldins-comics-brought-smiles-to-soldiers-faces-in-ww2-2/
making sure people with disabilities don’t have access to curb cuts
If they can do geometry they can do curb cuts…oh, wait. I have no idea wtf Brandon is talking about.
Neither does he.
Look fat, it’s not Joe’s problem that you don’t appreciate his way with words.
I like that VDOT is putting in curbs with curb cuts for all new work even when the curb cut doesn’t connect to a sidewalk. Locals must have offroad wheelchairs.
ODOT is spending millions to put those in at every intersection, no matter how senseless thanks to a settlement agreement with purported disability activists (really shakedown terrorists). Not just curb cuts but this damnfool ramps with created trip hazards for the vast majority of the people using them.
still my favorite local example
Looks like a vital cross walk.
Somone might urgently need to go and look at the weeds there.
That is glorious.
Nice. They put such a crosswalk across the offramp from one freeway continuous onramp to another freeway.
For all the pedestrians that walk on the freeway?
Also, lollypop corners. Makes it damn hard to turn a corner when there is opposing traffic. And people will STILL hang off of the curb, making it even more narrow.
They seem to want them everywhere there could conceivably be a sidewalk in the future, which would come with commercial or residential development.
I wonder how much it will cost to operate and maintain from construction of the crosswalk until needed by development.
Have they determined the “leaker” to be a radical incel?
Libertarian gun nut. So yeah, probably.
Good morning, Banjos!
Holy shit, Sundown is slipping fast. The dog hating on him was the best part, though.
I wonder when someone will address the fact that we have troops in Ukraine. Before Europe is a smoking crater I mean.
Could the US dollar lose its reserve currency status to China?
Sure. Will it? Maybe. Regardless, this is a terrific read:
What if the Dollar Falls?
Europe is already a shit show. Smoking crater might be an improvement.
“To see why, imagine foreigners didn’t want dollars. The Fed and banks could only print a little bit since printing a lot would create inflation and voters would toss them out.”
Lol. Lmao even.
I don’t think being the reserve currency has worked out well for the average American. The few conveniences don’t outweigh the rest of the world taking us for suckers.
By contrast, the market for U.S. Treasury securities has been referred to as “the deepest and most liquid government securities market in the world” because U.S. bonds can be quickly and easily converted to cash, which makes the dollar attractive for central banks allocating their reserves.
That doesn’t work so well when your bonds are losing value.
You’ve got to diversify your bonds, nigga.
Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nuthing ta fuck wit!
I have never heard one of their songs, but that bit was funny.
The machine is hell bent on making sure they control the narrative so they can lie to the serfs with impunity…
Other nations are sick to death of being pontificated to by a failing empire and then strong armed when they don’t fall in line and there’ll be more than one reserve, the dollar’s not disappearing. We did it to ourselves and although it’s bad for us in the short run it’s good for the world as a whole and I welcome it.
The Swiss should have declared (economic) war on us years ago.
I wonder when someone will address the fact that we have troops in Ukraine. Before Europe is a smoking crater I mean.
They’re not “troops” silly. They’re “military advisors”.
Going to be a lot of special ops guys dying in “training accidents” in the near term I’m afraid.
No boots on the ground – we made sure they’re wearing sneakers!
We made sure our legs were in the air.
“Military advisors”….I’ve heard this one before…
Double Nickels on the Dime.
So HB has gone from whore fucking, paternity denying, crackhead, illegal gun possessor to Official White House Aide.
Roger Clinton weeps somewhere.
Billy Carter laughs his ass off in the afterlife.
DC’s long Snyder nightmare is over, it seems
I was going to make some mean, sarcastic comment about him, but I see others have already made even snyder comments that mine.
/goes and checks on Zack Snyder
Oh… You meant D.C.
Wait, I’m confused now.
The owner of the Washington D.C.
RedskinsFootball TeamCommies had the last name of Snyder and sold the team.That’s Wilde.
Trump raises fist before daylong deposition, calls NY AG Letitia James’ lawsuit ‘ridiculous’
“Solid!”
I wish black folks would bring back the afro.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Magazine-justin-pearson-thumb.jpg
I don’t like that particular guy but it’s a solid hairstyle.
My favorite afro:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/557883472562135166/
Heh knew it
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N1ksvI9EsBw/hqdefault.jpg
YES!
Uhm, it’s not an AFRO, its a Natural!
Do the reading!
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky dismissed the study’s validity because of its reliance on RCTs.
Randomized Control Trials, the gold standard of scientific evidence. My head is going to fucking explode.
If there is one thing any study should prove today is that these fuckers have abandoned the scientific principle and that political & private interest money drive the findings.
Wait, what?
They’re almost always dismissing any results that don’t use RCTs. It’s the pharma industry’s way of locking out competition from generics because nobody wants to pony up the money for a full-fledged RCT on a low-margin drug.
I can’t keep up with the bullshit anymore.
I can’t keep up with the bullshit anymore.
The Elite: VICTORY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIQ-1SUZnw
FT is on the case
But this week, a Pentagon probe into a trove of highly classified leaked materials was traced back to Discord, an emerging chat platform popular among gamers and cryptocurrency investors and known for its light-touch approach to moderating content.
On Thursday, the FBI arrested 21-year-old Air Guardsman Jack Teixeira as part of its investigation into the leak, which constituted more than 100 documents containing sensitive details of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and potential UK government policies on the South China Sea and purported communications between leaders of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.
According to research by open-source intelligence agency Bellingcat, the documents were first posted early this year on a since-deleted private Discord channel called Thug Shaker Central, a reference to a racist meme common in white supremacist circles. Bellingcat said the channel was made up of around 20 users, who discussed gaming and music, had “staunchly conservative stance on several issues”, and shared racial slurs and memes.
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Discord’s popularity among young American men with an interest in warfare, especially military-themed video games, has made it a platform of choice for young soldiers on military bases, said a retired US military official.
Russian, Iranian and Israeli operatives are believed to have tried to use gaming chat rooms, on Discord and elsewhere, to befriend — and eventually recruit — disaffected young soldiers, especially those expressing rightwing, or anti-establishment views in what they considered private chats, the official said.
Even without successfully recruiting someone to actively leak classified information, “these are (chat) rooms with long-running conversations over many months; and even small pieces of information — like working hours for drone operators, or complaints about staffing during holidays — can become actionable in the hands of the enemy”, the retired official said.
Discord is a hive of scum and treacherous villainy. I think we all know what to do.
Create an account?
If the Ruskies ever find out there’s only three types of coffees at the snack station, we are so fucked.
It’s insurrection then.
Dozens of protesters were seen shouting and throwing handfuls of stickers and small pieces of paper down on lawmakers as they entered the House chamber.
The stickers provided information on how to receive abortion pills through mail, according to local reports.
Have we talked about this very real, not at all staged or fake video?
https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1646495474680057857
That’s hilarious.
Probably not what they were going for, though.
I expect better for the hundreds of millions in tax dollars they’re skimming off.
I like the cut that runs half of his face but somehow missed his ocular socket. Or his glasses.
If you ask him, I bet he got the eye scar in a knife-fight with a Spetsnaz operator he killed.
Or he ran into a sharp door jamb.
Trump raises fist before daylong deposition, calls NY AG Letitia James’ lawsuit ‘ridiculous’
Like this?
Seems legit.
A flower shop near Nashville refused to provide decorations for a GOP event featuring former President Donald Trump, and urged other businesses to deny future services to the Republican Party in a call for stricter gun laws.
Owners of the FLWR Shop in Belle Meade, Tennessee, said they “immediately declined” service for the upcoming Republican National Committee (RNC) fundraiser and encouraged “others in the Nashville event industry to say no to taking money or jobs from the Republican Party until they begin to make the changes to gun laws that most Americans are calling for.”
In a lengthy response to the RNC, owners Alex Vaughan and Quinn Kiesow claimed that while they “respect” the views of their conservative customers, the speakers featured at the RNC event go “beyond our comfort level.” The lineup of GOP speakers includes Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia.
“At this moment, I cannot ignore the work the RNC has done to create this tragedy and so many others like it,” the FLWR Shop said referring to the March shooting at the Christian Covenant School.
#maketheboquet
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!
You really can’t fix stupid, can you.
So damn insulting.
Owners of the FLWR Shop in Belle Meade, Tennessee, said they “immediately declined” service for the upcoming Republican National Committee (RNC) fundraiser and encouraged “others in the Nashville event industry to say no to taking money or jobs from the Republican Party until they begin to make the changes to gun laws that most Americans are calling for.”
Something something free speech, private business, flowers are a privilege not a right.
Good to see the cuck ass Rep gov’s EO bought them such goodwill.
And then when they find out the shop that is happy to have the business they will stage a BLM protest outside of it
The left is winning because they can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are
deadsilenced. OK, dead works too.Apparently are unemployed and have time to demonstrate
There is a lucrative market in being a proggie protester. Lots of big millionaire slush funds to pay for this.
Oh yes, that too.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky dismissed the study’s validity because of its reliance on RCTs.
The war on objective reality has no end.
That’s just, like, your opinion man.
All educated people know there’s no such thing as objective reality. It’s all a socially imposed narrative to contextualize sensory input within a hierarchical power dynamic paradigm.
I think the unlikelihood of the yuan replacing the dollar misrepresents the potential challenge. The yuan doesn’t need to fully (or even near-fully) replace the dollar as a reserve currency to do its damage. Right now, the dollar enjoys near-monopoly status as the baseline for international trade and finance. There’s a lot of ruin (as in “there’s a lot of ruin in a country) in that status. If global players have the option doing trade and finance outside of the dollar, that creates a potentially challenging constraint.
It’ll also make us curb our excesses, not because we want to but because we have to. It’s not altogether a bad thing.
That was funny,,,
You really think the fuckers that believe they have the right to play god will suddenly just accept restrictions on their shenanigans?
Such as…
They’ll learn, even if they insist on learning the hard way (such as when the mob assembles and tears their bodies apart).
Why wouldn’t they do this shit? They have rigged the game so other people pay the cost for their evil shit. They make money either way. The US wins? They cash in. The US loses? They cash in…
The rest of us lose both ways, though.
Right now, the dollar enjoys near-monopoly status as the baseline for international trade and finance. There’s a lot of ruin (as in “there’s a lot of ruin in a country) in that status. If global players have the option doing trade and finance outside of the dollar, that creates a potentially challenging constraint.
Yes. What will be the long term effect on the dollar when Brazil sells agricultural products to China for Yuan and then uses the proceeds to buy oil from Russia?
All of the inflation we exported comes home.
DC’s long Snyder nightmare is over, it seems
You comic book nerds…
What’s Dee’s middle name? Christopher?
“A mother who says her eleven-year-old daughter’s school encouraged her to transition has claimed officials kept her new gender a secret from her family.
Aurora Regino is suing the Chico Unified School District in California and last week appeared at a school board meeting to reveal how the child had told a school counselor she felt like a boy – who immediately ‘affirmed her new identity’.
‘The elementary school transitioned her from female to male behind my back,’ she said. ‘During one of those one-on-one meetings my daughter told the counselor she wanted to tell me about her new identity – the counselor ignored her request.’
But also at the board meeting was trans activist Squeaky Saint Francis who demanded that the school district maintain its ‘parental secrecy’ because children will commit suicide.
The Chico school district sided with the trans activist and voted to keep the secrecy policy in place with a 3-2 vote on April 5.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11971741/District-votes-parental-secrecy-policy-regarding-gender.html
Who decided that schools should have that much power?
“Who decided that schools should have that much power?”
The people that keep affirming that you as a parent shouldn’t have any say?
The Department of Homeland Security.
Pfshaw – Department of JUST US.
I always listen to demands from people named “Squeaky.”
You should, Squeaky McGee has been appointed High Commissar under the new Rat Czar.
Never ending story
Swimming pools, flower gardens, indoor fountains — and the urbanites who can afford them — are big factors behind the increasingly dire water crises plaguing cities, an international research team says.
Published in the journal Nature Sustainability, a new study found socioeconomic disparity to be just as influential as climate change and population growth when it comes to explaining why the water supply in so many cities is shrinking.
“There are certain individuals with the power to decide how to manage water who also use more water,” said lead researcher Elisa Savelli of Uppsala University in Sweden. “Even with something as simple as water, it’s unjust. Some social groups have access to too much, and some social groups have too little.”
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For the purposes of the study, researchers zeroed in on just one location, Cape Town, South Africa.
Even 25 years after South Africa’s apartheid ended, Cape Town is still segregated in distinct geographic lines, making it easier to track water usage among income groups, Savelli said. The city also experienced a major drought from 2015 to 2017, a crisis so severe that the city narrowly averted “Day Zero,” when it believed water sources would dry up entirely.
In the same time period, Cape Town’s elite households consumed roughly 571 gallons of water daily, compared with 47 gallons for households in lower income brackets, the researchers found.
Despite only representing about 14% of the population, the wealthiest residents used more than half of the water (51%) consumed by the entire city.
Must kill rich white people.
Fuck off, commie.
No indoor plumbing for you!
In no way are the wealthier people using water to run businesses which provide value to society. Can’t talk about that.
Birthday girl!
So good.
“Even though we used Cape Town as a case study, the analysis can be applied to every other city in the world that’s facing water shortages, or that might face them in the future,” Savelli told NPR.
“I won’t say that the results will be exactly the same, but I believe that any city — in the U.S., Canada, or Australia — would have inequality. It might manifest in different ways, but it’s still there and it’s just as critical as population growth or climate change,” she said.
No kidding. Everywhere she looks, she finds exactly what she was looking for.
It’s Time for America To Reassert Political Dominance Overseas
Oh what fun we’ll have!
I… have just witnessed… an atrocity.
Weenie Carbonara Pizza.
How can a loving God permit this?
The eternal conundrum of free will.
Quota ready
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s weeks-long absence from Washington as she recuperates from shingles not only led to calls for her retirement, it refocused attention on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s promise to appoint a Black woman if either of California’s U.S. Senate seats opened up.
While Feinstein on Wednesday vowed to return to the Capitol before retiring at the end of her term in early 2025, Black leaders in California wonder if the governor’s sincerity remains. Stirring those doubts: Newsom has been silent about whom he supports in the state’s 2024 Senate race to succeed Feinstein, even though the field includes just one formidable Black woman candidate: Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland.
“Making good on a commitment is a serious thing to the most critical base of Democratic Party voters,” said Aimee Allison, founder and president of She the People, an advocacy group pushing for more women of color to hold elected office. “The governor could complicate his legacy and push Black women, who in this state are a significant and critical voting bloc, to view him skeptically as someone who’s unwilling to support us when it counts.”
Despite pressure on Newsom to appoint a Black woman to take Harris’ seat, the Democratic governor instead tapped then-Secretary of State Alex Padilla, a longtime political ally who made history as California’s first Latino senator. To stave off criticism, Newsom pledged to appoint a Black woman if another Senate seat became vacant, not a far-fetched possibility given reports that Feinstein, now 89, suffered from declining cognitive abilities.
Is Angela Davis still around?
“Let the racism flow through you.”
“Formidable” means “fat,” yes?
It’s big boned, motherlicka!
#RESPECT THE SHAPE
So Feinstein is vowing to show up to work sometime in the next couple of years? Strong showing, there, DiFi.
With Feinstein’s retirement plans already cemented, some Black elected leaders and political activists are questioning why Newsom hasn’t already endorsed Lee. The House progressive is running against two Democratic colleagues, Reps. Katie Porter of Irvine and Adam B. Schiff of Burbank, who have raised more money than Lee and are performing better in the polls.
DEMOCRACY!
I say we give each of them a knife and let them decide the old way.
Because she’s a loon, who would never get the seat on her own?
Woohoo! The food trucks are back, including my preferred Greek place.
This is good. Have a nice lunch. It is beautiful here, so I may work outside after my meetings cease.
I had a grilled pork chop with mashed taters, beans and corn for lunch. Leftovers from last night.
I had a chicken on a salad – that is the chicken pieces they use for their souvlaki (including seasonings) on a greek salad.
Speaking of food (and drink), last night’s impromptu discussion was about gin, in case you have interest. Always a good discussion on Thursday nights.
*drool*
Chicken souvlaki was my favorite meal at our usual 4am drunk food spot in college.
Of the greek places around Albany, the food truck by the Capital is the best. Though I’m not sure that’ll be of much help given the limited hours and times of year they operate
I have a meeting scheduled from 16:00 to 18:00.
W
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You have left coast teammates?
No, they chose that time to test something that would disrupt anyone else testing on those servers.
I should have pointed out that half the company took today off but oh well.
Life comes at you fast
That’s from one of those movies about the kids that avoid dying in some accident because one of them has a premonition then end up dying one by one as death corrects that problem?
Final Destination?
Yeah, that looks like Final Destination 2.
Was this some sort of rain or war dance?
Ewwww