And we’re off!
The baseball opening weekend is in the books. And it’s ok to panic if you’re a Phillies fan. But I’m sure it’ll fine. A six-game losing streak isn’t the end of the world. The NCAA basketball tournament ends tonight. And the finalists are a bit of a surprise, although one of them has played like they belong much of the season. They just played like shit at times. I expect a UCONN win, but you never know who’s gonna show up for that team. The Australian Grand Prix had something for everyone…especially sadists. But the podium was what it should have been anyway. Everything below that was a shitshow. Too bad I wasn’t in charge, as I could have corrected it all. And across the pond, the EPL is an absolute logjam at the bottom of the table. And meanwhile, the middle of the table has two unfamiliar faces joining it in Liverpool and Chelsea. The run in should be a blast. And that’s it for sports.
Finland takes a right turn. Whether or not it turns out to be a good one is still up for debate, but they stopped, or slowed, the turn toward outright socialism anyway. And that can’t be a bad thing.
Hypocrites
Oh, the humanity! This is a travesty. An outright abuse of power. No wait…it’s no big deal at all.
I’m shocked. Shocked! Actually I’m not shocked at all. I’d have been shocked had we not been lied to about it.
April…Fools. Know your audience, you dumb fucks.
This is the opposite of “I’m Lovin’ it.” But this is what happens when a company loses its focus over time and I applaud them for making the correction. Hopefully the guy in charge of the ice cream machines goes first. That’s been a mess for too long.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I’m surprised this isn’t more common, to be honest.
Nice work, guys.
Nothing is less efficient than government efficiency. I’d sure like to know what the per unit rate was for those units. I bet taxpayers would as well.
“Our misguided approach did nothing. Let’s do more of it.” These clowns refuse to address the real issue: mental health. And until that’s done, all the bullshit (and unconstitutional) laws in the world aren’t gonna accomplish a damn thing.
Here’s a lovely little song. Such a catchy tune. And here’s a masterclass. One of the best songs in their catalog. And that’s saying something. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday as we kick off Easter week.
“Finland takes a right turn. Whether or not it turns out to be a good one is still up for debate, but they stopped, or slowed, the turn toward outright socialism anyway. And that can’t be a bad thing.”
By right turn you mean they will only be 75% socialist instead of 95%?
I think you nailed it.
Depends on what the “nationalist” Finns Party is all about. Sounds like they and the NCP are more aligned than Marin’s party.
“This is a travesty. An outright abuse of power. No wait…it’s no big deal at all.”
Not how it’s a huge story.
“Oh, the humanity! This is a travesty. An outright abuse of power. No wait…it’s no big deal at all.”
The NYT is not news: it is programming for idiots on the left.
I never understood why people that constantly wrote lies to favor the evil of socialism could be considered serious. Walter Durante alone should have made the Times be considered as no better than a tabloid rag into perpetuity.
They’ll be fine. They’ve got all their subscribers for revenue. Funny how that works.
I hear they are now asking the government to finance them so they can worry less about saying things the idiots that pay for that rag might get pissed off about if the government tells them to say that sort of shit…
Like with the banking system when they are constantly instructed to do things that everyone can see will have severely deleterious consequences to the banking system and the economy in the name of social justice grandstanding.
Let me make you throw up in your mouth a little
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politics-in-america/misinformation/government-funding-for-local-newspapers/
BROUGHT TO YOU BY PFIZER…
But we totes don’t get marching orders from them on what we can say about stuff that hurts their profit making..
Now do government..
From the byline: former advertising operations manager
Funny how they never seem to question their business model but think that subsidies are the answer.
The solution is always to make others pay so they can keep doing the same failed shit they really want to keep doing despite it not being viable, but espcially profitable…
The reason socialists really hate any system where people have the ability to do free exchanges is that they can’t pass judgement over which exchanges should happen and which should not, regardless of what the people doing the exchange want.
Picking winners & losers.
That’s what socialism is all about.
“one of CEO Elon Musk’s most despised news organizations.”
While the NYT is certainly despised by many, I was not aware that it belonged to Elon Musk.
Walter Durante
“Goodnight, Mrs. Trotsky, wherever you are!”
Am I the only one that got that? A long time ago on the AM radio.
“I’m shocked. Shocked! Actually I’m not shocked at all. I’d have been shocked had we not been lied to about it.”
China has repeatedly, and for more than a decade (since Xi took over), had people in the CCP congress stress their dedication to war with the west on the way to becoming the planet’s true ruling class.
When the jackal tells you it intends to eat your children, believe it.
And even if the rest of the world fell over, they still couldn’t rule it. Big fucking deal that fucking lunatics have fucking delusions of grandeur.
Never has stopped them from trying though. Ask the people forced to live under the marxst or fascist yoke how much pain they endured. Especially the ones that landed on that 120-150 million dead bodies pile the marxist managed to rack up trying to usher in utopia or the 50 million the fascists killed trying to give us the Third Reich. I am going to guess that the CCP will have no problem telling us to hold its beer, erm plum wine, before going for a new record that would make Mao blush. Even if it means they have to wreck the world to rule what’s eft in the rubble.
The Vietnamese taught them a lesson about how limited their ability to dominate is. Wait, they did that to us too and we didn’t learn either, did we?
My suspicion is that the CCP harbors a particular level of animosity towards Vietnam, and as a point of pride, nuking them would be considered the right sorta payback…
China has repeatedly, and for more than a decade (since Xi took over), had people in the CCP congress stress their dedication to war with the west on the way to becoming the planet’s true ruling class.
When the jackal tells you it intends to eat your children, believe it.
You could say much worse about the United States and our dedication to war with… well everyone. I’ve heard the count stands at 86 different countries that the US is currently conducting “kinetic” military operations in. A lot of children are being eaten in those countries.
China isn’t sending transports across the Pacific to invade California. The idea is beyond absurd. There are far more dangerous problems happening here at home than China invading Taiwan or Vietnam. The latter would have exactly zero effect on your average American unless if DC decides to start a hot war with a nuclear power over it.
“Is the Bud Light thing an April Fool’s joke? I mean it is trash beer, but given the constituent demo of Bud Light drinkers, it seems like a terrible marketing thing.”
That’s what I thought. No idea how it’s going to sell more beer.
These days doing things to sell your product is out of vogue. What you do is cater to the insanity of the wokesters so government bailouts finance your idiocy.
Bud Light, the choice of the mentally ill.
I didn’t come up with it, but read it on an article summarizing twit responses: “Fake cans cans.”
That’s PBR.
You’re thinking about most IPAs.
IPAs are so overrated-once a certain hoppiness is reached it tastes like diesel fuel.
No, it’s real. But AB InBev owns much of the Bud Light competition, so they’ll maybe lose a few customers overall but they’ll likely keep the majority of people who stop buying it because they’ll just go to another one of their brands.
If they used DM to promote Bud Light seltzers, then I guess maybe it works.
But for Bud Light it is really missing the mark.
I don’t think they’ll lose or gain customers.
InBev won’t, on aggregate. But brand loyalties might shift ever so slightly.
I’ll have to dig it up, and I have no idea of its quality, but someone did one of those connection diagrams re: twitter and the group of people the furthest to the woke were advertising employees — even more so than academics.
Some of us are anarchists.
The Bee responded perfectly of course.
Savage!
It will sell more beer in the same way that making every hockey player wear the rainbow sells more hockey tickets.
Exactly. Klaus Schwab’s lieutenants are the target for this advertising.
https://stonetoss.com/comic/burger-kang/
TW: extreme right wing comic creator
Re: Australian Grand Prix — I seriously don’t know why they bothered with the parade lap after the last red flag. Just end the race (and since I don’t think they made the first sector before the carnage, end it with the positions before all that mess).
And while it looks like Mercedes and Ferrari and getting back towards competitive (albeit with reliability for Merc and always lurking for Ferrari), Red Bull still seems to be in a whole other class…. which is annoying. If it wasn’t for safety cars Max could have just watched a movie for a couple of hours and saved his tires.
Morning, all.
Under the rules, they had to do another lap. Except…
The correct solution would have been to simply let the three hour clock run out rather than go through with the parade lap. That would have taken it back to the prior lap classification and not penalized the Alpine cars and everybody else who got caught up in the carnage. They could have enforced the Sainz penalty through grid placement at the next race, since he started it all.
Cleaning the track was pointless since there wasn’t going to be any actual racing. And they did the lap 2 hours and 50 minutes after the race started. So a bunch of teams got screwed for nothing when sitting for ten more minutes would have complied with the rules and been a lot more fair to all involved.
Even with the safety cars, he had time to cut the lawn.
I’m going to need some explanation on how a balloon with no obvious means of propulsion can fly figure eights.
Again…
That espionage package the balloon was hauling had a simple fan motor powered by a solar array? From what they said, the damned thing carried nearly a full metric ton of shit under it.
Regardless, it’s an assertion that needs explanation.
I believe nothing that the government puts out, particularly when it involves hot-button topics and things they want me to be upset about.
You shouldn’t believe anything the government puts out. Considering their track record, you would have to have a mental disorder to buy into their shit.. Something horribly mind breaking like liberalism.
Beyond having a motor of some kind, you can steer a balloon by changing elevation,
In relatively small figure eights over a designated target? You’re still subject to prevailing winds, whatever they are at the moment. And the balloon was at 65,000 feet, not at a couple thousand like the Goodyear.
I can believe that they would be able to elevate into the jet stream in order to carry the balloon away faster.
McD’s — add the coffee machine / ice grinding machines (for frappes). Seems like those are down at least 80% of the time.
My suggestions for them — use patties that actually resemble meat, get the automation worked out because minimum wage laws are just getting dumber, continue with the kiosk / online ordering because that’s better than cashiers anyway. Stop partnering with celebs for custom Happy Meals to try to look hip — parents who buy them aren’t likely to care anyway.
Hasn’t McD’s told senior management to work from home for the next 3 days cause they were going to use virtual meetings to considerably downsize that gaggle of hens?
McDonald’s used to be one of my favorite companies, even the times when I didn’t care so much for their food. It has a great history, and was once a pathway to the regular Joe owning his own business. Despite the food being less than healthy, the changes McDonald’s made to the way we produce, process, and distribute food, has improved our diet.
Also, tied in with McDonald’s is the rags-to-riches story of J.R. Simplot, who supplied the fries to McD’s.
Now, their cokes, which used to be the best ever, taste like they added industrial pollutants.
I read “McDonald’s: Behind the Arches” some years back. It was published originally in 1986–that’s the version I read—but was updated in 1995. Dr. Thomas Sowell referenced this book in one of his economic books.
I‘d like to watch “The Founder”, someday.
McD’s used to be the BEST hangover food; get two regular, greasy hamburgers, salty fries, and a large fountain coke. Put you right back on the barstool.
I remember vaguely how the burgers tasted thirty years ago. They don’t taste the same now. They changed something.
They should go back to using led to cook the fries.
Also, while I think I like the baked apple pies better, I still want the option to purchase a fried apple pie—the kind that scorched the inside of your mouth.
Their kitchen setup has changed. It used to be make the burgers, put them in styrofoam, then in the racks to be grabbed for orders. Then it was throw them together and toss them in the microwave, excuse me Q wave. Now it’s pretty much made to order with patties in warming trays.
The beef tallow isn’t coming back and a lot of things that used to be made on site are now centrally baked/cooked and reheated in the restaurants. The burger patties are probably a slightly higher quality now after the meat slime reveal. Probably.
Worker and societal quality has dropped too.
They got fucked by COVID. The Playland was a big attraction for them, and the ones around here have been closed for 3 years. That’s a lot of money pissed away due to Pfauchi.
” Stop partnering with celebs for custom Happy Meals to try to look hip ”
Said the old person who doesn’t buy the celeb meals.
They are pretty popular among the yutes.
“Nothing is less efficient than government efficiency. I’d sure like to know what the per unit rate was for those units. I bet taxpayers would as well.”
It rankles me how few people understand that systems that incentivize competition always succeed because they enforce/force consequences (losers lose), while those whit no consequences because they claim those hurt people’s feelings, always lead to and ever increasing level of sever mediocrity. When there is no cost to bad behavior, or even a reward for doing stupid & bad shit, you shouldn’t be surprised to have more of that. And nowhere is that logic more apparent than in government work.
I’m very sure the appropriate grifting contractors got their cut and gave a kickback to the politicians that steered the program.
And that’s what’s Important, after all.
It is absolutely obvious – at least to me – that the main reason we have the people in charge always favoring dysfunctional systems is the potential for them to get graft from said systems.
Almost like we cooked food for a reason for all these millennia… Blah Blah… “kill the past” “This generation is so damned smart” blah blah…
Like people didn’t eat cookie dough or batter 30 years ago?
People are just sissies and can’t take on a little salmonella.
The free shit brigade indeed…
It’s worse than that: a large group of entities peddling leftist garbage were all proud of colluding with previous Twatter leadership to boost their reach by getting a bullshit check from said Twatter leadership to label them special (despite the fact they were morons). And they are now really fucking angry that they not only lost their special status, but that unwashed masses can also get it. THE TRAVISY!
What do you mean nobless obligé doesn’t mean the peasants aren’t obliged to bow down before us?
Word…
Time to make that NYT parody Twitter.
Warning: bad faith characterization of my ideological opponents ahead.
I would submit that while gun-banners are very interested in banning gun, they really care very little about school violence, or at least their concern about school violence is further down the list of their priorities than they claim.
Example 1: School violence v. DEI. While even the hardiest gun banners will not claim that all school shootings would be eliminated by an AWB, they will claim that having one will reduce the severity of those that happen. But you know what would completely eliminate school violence? Eliminating the perpetrator. However, if the perpetrator is of a currently popular to protect demographic, “they” will go out of their way to make sure the offender is present in the classroom. We see documentary evidence of this with Nik Cruz, who was explicitly kept out of the “school-to-prison pipeline.” Of course if I were particularly uncharitable I would point out that to those who are really interested in breaking said pipeline, the Parkland shooting was a win-win-win. They got some awesome anti-gun propaganda out of it, they got some new leaders up-and-coming, they got a new morally-immune-from-criticism attack dog in Davey Hogg, who not coincidentally got a Harvard degree (just like Elie Mystal!)
Example 1A: Whoever that shooter at the Denver HS was. This kid was known to be so dangerous that he was required to be patted down every day. And yet their commitment to DEI was so strong that the y decided to let this known dangerous person into school rather than protecting the other kids form him. I read since then that there are other students there who have pending charges for violent felonies who are on similar “plans” but not excluded from the school. Dee Absolut Fuq? If there is ANY other explanation for this policy other than “We must mainstream ALL the students, normies be damned,” I’d love to hear it.
Considering they’re going out of their way to aggravate divisions among the kids, fostering hate towards them because of race, religion and political opinions / culture and also incubating and abetting flat out mental illness (“Reality is whatever you feel and everyone else must adjust!”), I have to put this in the “Consequences that are not unforeseen and therefore are intentional camp”. If kids shooting up kids gives them: compliant little foot soldier radicals / more votes for communism, a club to beat their political opponents with and a chance at a disarmed populace so they can really go to town… who are they to say no?
What you don’t understand about progressives, is that because they are progressives they are smarter, and more moral, than you. They know they are, but apparently you don’t. You need to understand that, so you can be happy doing as they tell you.
“I would submit that while gun-banners are very interested in banning gun, they really care very little about school violence, or at least their concern about school violence is further down the list of their priorities than they claim.”
I would submit that they want more school shootings.
“It was never the finish line,” he said.
Doing good ain’t got no end.
Especially when you are doing it to get to the double plus good utopia!
At least they openly admitted that there is no such thing as compromise with them.
Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s rainin’.
Steele Dossier has a sad.
Marin called the Finns Party “openly racist” during a debate in January – an accusation the nationalist group rejected.
A weird insult in a nearly homogeneous country. Or, they import people from the Third World not because they’ll add any value to society – but merely to allow the liberal elite to issue those kinds of lectures.
I think liberal Europeans secretly seethe that upstart America laps them on racial diversity, and they import wogs to catch up.
The man is right, even if for the wrong reasons (to say nothing of his conclusions. Really saying nothing is the nicest thing you can say.).
Now Joe, apply that to climate which is clearly no less complex than the economy.
“We have limited resources, and we have to use them wisely. So there are trade-offs. ”
That first couple of sentences in that article there sounds exactly like what the people that take the shit seriously will tell us all is the first law of economics. A basic concept that is thought to all that want to even understand the concept and should drive all economic decisions.
Unfortunately, the first law of politics and government bureaucracy is to dismiss that first law of economics…
He actually sets a trap for himself there – by insisting that resources are under-utilized. That implies a more-growth position, which is not in favor with his hairshirt followers.
Yay for bi-partisanship!
‘Orning ‘ordles — I would call this a pretty good day. Y’all who do better can point and laugh anyway if you want… I’ll just take my personal victories where I can.
Daily Duotrigordle #397
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 03:25.84
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 434
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Blossom Puzzle, April 3
Letters: A E I G N T V
My score: 254 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌹 💐 🌷 🌻 🌸 🏵 💮 🌼 🌺 🌹
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
*hangs head in shame*
Daily Quordle 434
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Yowch… no shame, though — most of us have been there. (Kind of miss when we tracked this stuff — kind of curious, how many of us have never chumped at all? I have to assume there’s at least one or two…)
I always start with “touse” and “hairy”, to get all the vowels in, plus the “h”, “s”, and “t” (in case there are any “th” or “sh” combos in there).
If I had used a particular letter earlier, I’d likely have solved it. There are several words that end with the same four letters, and I guessed every one before I got the answer.
Walkin’ the line.
Daily Quordle 434
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Blossom Puzzle, April 3
Letters: A E I G N T V
My score: 360 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌼 🌺 🌷 💐 💮 🌻 🏵 🌹 🌸 🌼
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Finally found a house we really liked last weekend. Made a cash offer $10k over the list price… and didn’t get it. Needless to say, I’m pretty crabby this morning. If something else doesn’t come along in the nest few months, we may not be around here much longer.
Sorry dude.
So much for the slowing housing market. Bummer.
Not in upstate SC.
Yeah, that’s another of those national level statistics that makes no sense – all the relevant variation is local.
I’m enjoying all the recantations of COVIDiocy, but I really crave arrests & prosecutions. (also, he’s still not cured of his mental illness – he says downthread that he believes his new position, whatever that is, is “superior”)
https://mobile.twitter.com/kevinnbass/status/1642683819680759808
Why don’t you just accept our boot on your neck, huh, you fucking serf!
That’s…a bit platitudinous. The thread is more complicated than just slogans about authoritarians.
I see a man taken in by a cult despite his believing in his own logic and reasoning abilities. I also see a man who is still in the cult mindset and therefore still vulnerable to manipulation. A weak man.
Unfortunately KK, my experience is that most people that stress to you how logical they are don’t have anything of the sort going on. These clowns way too often confound fishing for some facts or bullshit that lead you to the conclusion you want with being logical.
What you see is a man disappointed that he believed in the wrong people, but determined to still believe that someone will lead him.
One of the best reasons to pause and rethink is that everyone in the ruling class is pushing for you to do some thing.
Team Good Guys? What an asshole, just for thinking that.
Unless he’s being sarcastically self-deprecating here, and it’s not obvious that he is, he’s still a raging asshole with a superiority complex.
Read downthread. He replies to quite a few people.
I still think he’s suffering from a cult mindset and needs to do way more self-examination
C S Lewis warned about tyranny of busybodies.
The part he didn’t warn us about was how many people want to live under that.
But he lived under a monarchy. Wasn’t that sort of implied?
I think he did, in other places.
Ah, thank you.
Now I feel I have to look it up.
Unfortunately, I don’t own the physical books anymore.
Okay, not going to look it up, just going with a vague, “its in Screwtape somewhere.”
Not exactly on topic, but not exactly not on topic:
Freedom means personal responsibility.
Personal responsibility means not being able to blame everyone else for your failures.
Scientific Method may still be taught very briefly in school, but is completely lost on most people. Always has been.
Most people don’t want to deal with provisionality, uncertainty, etc. that are the hallmarks of real science.
They want answers that can’t be questioned, and someone else to be responsible when it does turn out wrong.
Scientism and Credentialism is the order of the day.
Including most “scientists”
“I have a theory about the natural world. Now, I need to do everything I can to prove my theory wrong.”
*using the scientific method
“So we didn’t question. And by not questioning, we didn’t allow ourselves to develop views that were contrary to the ones we already held. We held ourselves rigidly in this morally dictated box, where our scientific opinions were mainly dictated by our morality rather than by our critical faculties that we had all developed but which we held in reserve on this one subject (and perhaps others).”
No shit. Now kindly do your penance by wearing a bag over your head for the rest of your life because you’ve shown yourself to be a moral and intellectual lightweight
^^^THIS^^^
They do not want accountability for being wrong. they expect everyone to just say “OK, you got it wrong and really fucked things up, but lets just move on without holding you accountable.” which to the rest of us obviously means that they will, given the chance again, repeat the same shit in a heartbeat. Consequences exist to make sure they reign in their “Totalitarian Jonesing”, but they want none of that shit.
These sorts have shown that when it becomes socially difficult to take a certain position they will take the easy way every time.
I laughed, but you’re absolutely correct.
You thought you were moral and could control everyone’s life, you were wrong, you deserve worse but at a minimum you should never show your face in public again.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks Jimbo,
That’s what the Glibs do for me, every day.
Time to exercise…
How much snow did you get? We got 8 inches Friday night. Really did a number on some trees we have.
I think we might have to get rid of one completely. We’ll see.
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Only $90
Perfect for anyone living in Lowell, Massachusetts.
All I can think of is milling and textile manufacture. But I guess I’m a few centuries out of date.
Think of douchebags in tracksuits, et al.
I wish there were a way to get to NH/ME without going through NY. Garbage state.
https://mobile.twitter.com/scotthortonshow/status/1642720808777785344
Um… not to be snarky… but a boat comes to mind. 😉
Garbage state?
Trying to lock the victim of the crime up for fighting the criminal machine sounds like evil shit to me. Not surprised criminals running government would see the world that way however since it is about making sure they can get away with being criminals. And stop insulting garbage by comparing them to this evil shit.
Wycome u no have pilot’s license?
In other fast food news
“Five Guys finally reveals why its menu is so expensive (and the 3 reasons might surprise you!)”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-11932677/Five-Guys-finally-reveals-menu-expensive-3-reasons-surprise-you.html
“Major McDonald’s shake up could affect menus around the world: Fast food giant hints key items could be under threat as CEO warns he ‘doesn’t need 70 permutations of a chicken sandwich’ and prepares to layoff staff
If there’s one thing McDonald’s does not have enough of, it’s pasta. The Chicken McDo with McSpaghetti found in the Philippines is one the restaurant’s most popular items…..
Breakfast platters in Hawaii are loaded with spam and Portuguese sausage and a dessert menu with hot haupia (coconut pudding), taro pies, fried apple pies. Hawaii is the only state in America where you can get the pies fried.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11932949/Will-McDonalds-shake-affect-menus-world.html
McSpaghetti?
I went to a Five Guys recently and the bill for a burger and fries was $19. No drink.
Not going back.
We have something called “Flying Burger” ‘round here, and it’s just as expensive. “Mooyah’s” is even more expensive, but it’s the only place I can craft the burger I like—two pattys with onion straws, lettuce, pickles bleu cheese crumbles, and A1 steak sauce.
Unfortunately, Mooyah’s dropped the bleu cheese from the menu, so I have to bring my own.
You know who serves up a delicious burger?
Chili’s.
Their “Old Timer” is good, but they have a double barbecue bacon burger that is outstanding.
Twisted Root burger is good. Not sure if they are outside of the South.
https://twistedrootburgerco.com/
That does look interesting.
Are they still around? All the locations I was aware of are gone.
Oh, I guess the one on 75 in Plano is still around. Haven’t been there in almost a decade.
Their website is still up, and I saw something about them reopening.
I hate the Covidians, and their push for fake health measures and lockdowns. They should be persistently shamed. They should begin every conversation with, “I was an idiot about Covid-19, and I’m sorry for what I did and said during those years. I was wrong. Please, forgive me.”
Yeah, but anyone who is a prisoner of fear never admits that.
Same. There’s a local sit down restaurant that sells a grass-fed beef burger for $15 vs. $11-12 at Five Guys. Also the local Five Guys used to sell bottled beer – but that’s gone now, so they’ve seen the last of me.
I miss Culver’s from when we lived up north. Braum’s was also okay.
My favorite fast-food burger is Hardee’s.
Sonic is also pretty good, but I don’t usually order there because I usually don’t have a dollar or two to hand to the server.
In Memphis, they have a place called Dyer’s burgers. They supposedly used the same grease since the 1920’s. (That isn’t exactly right, though).
Also in Memphis is a fast food chain called “Backyard Burgers”, and it’s pretty good, though I usually ordered their Hawaiian chicken sandwich. They also had chili dogs.
Cheeburger Cheeburger used to have a one-pound burger, which, if you finished it, gained you the right to have your Polaroid picture pinned to the wall. They also had toothpicks stuck in the ceiling, from people blowing said toothpicks through straws.
If you ever go through Texarkana, try a place called “George’s TLC”. It’s downtown, on Broad, on the Arkansas side. Nothing special about the food, but something of a local institution. Old fashioned burgers.
Oddly enough one of the best burgers I ever had was in downtown Modesto more than a decade back when I had jury duty (and so tried various places on the lunch break over the month and a half or so trial iirc). No idea if the place is even still there… one of those “upscale diner / small scale restaurant” feeling places, just a little down a block from the courthouse.
The guy running Dyers is also a marketing genius. They opened a second location in a suburb and he got “police protection” for when they transferred 5 gallons or so of the Original Oil from the first restaurant.
The burgers were decent, but the gimmick is what gets a steady stream of tourists dropping in.
I know it can’t be true simply because of chemistry, but even the thought that they refuse to change the oil is disgusting.
I worked for a company that delivered cooking oil (and removed the old used cooking oil). We signed a new customer on the south side of Chicago that was known for its chicken. The guy who sold them on our system told us that their old oil was so dirty that even the chicken breasts were dark and discolored after being fried.
Our solution cleaned up their oil and the chicken came out looking nice and they lost a ton of their customers. The old customers complained that the chicken no longer tasted “right”.
By the way, our company would sell the used cooking oil to either biodiesel companies (if gas prices were high enough to make sense) or to poultry farmers who would mix the oil into the feed to boost it.
Funny you should mention Texarkana. Stopped there once at a BBQ place, right off the freeway – don’t remember the name, it was nothing special looking, and the food was amazing.
Either Naaman’s BBQ or Big Jake’s.
Backyard Burgers was great. Sadly they bailed out of central Ohio years ago.
In North Mississippi, the “squish burger” (my term) is popular. In Tupelo, it’s the “Dudie burger” (only available during the annual Dudie Burger Festival), or the “Johnny Burger”, at Johnny’s drive in—where Elvis Presley used to eat as a kid. In Corinth, it’s the “slug burger”. They mix bread and onions into the burgers before fraying them. At Johnny’s, you can order and “all-meat” burger, though.
Where you at? My in-laws lived in McNairy County for a decade. There was a good BBQ place called Pappy’s, I think it was in a burned out gas station.
I once lived in Tupelo, MS.
There is a good steak restaurant there; it’s called “Bonanza”.
No! I mean, it’s called “Woody’s” (if it’s still around).
(I ate at Bonanza far more often thanI ate at Woody’s)
Woody’s:
http://www.woodyssteak.com/
Bonanza is gone from Tupelo.
In the before-times it topped out at around 12 bucks.
That story is ridiculous. “Fresh food is more expensive.” GTFO!
Prices of everything is nuts.
Yeah, it’s popular…in the Philippines.
The McDonald’s that used to be inside Walmarts served pizza. I never ordered it.
If I want fast-food pasta, then I’m headed to Fazolli’s or Tellini’s.
Jason’s deli has a chicken Alfredo that my family said is really good.
Pizza places offer some sort of pasta dish, now.
The Philippines has Jollibee. Get rice with your burger. I had corned beef, egg and rice for breakfast at a McDonalds on a road trip. Their juice options were mango and pineapple.
Jollibee is in the US now.
I didn’t realize they expanded to Virginia. I don’t see breakfast for US locations.
“The McDonald’s that used to be inside Walmarts served pizza. I never ordered it.”
You chose….wisely.
“This is the pizza of a carpenter…”
I don’t know how they haven’t figured out that bringing back fried apple pies, even as a “limited edition”, would make them some major scratch
I assume they figure the scratch would have to go to the Scions of Old Scratch (i.e. legal fees) when someone ignores the “filling will be hot” and burns their mouth. Tis the fate of our sue-happy society (and yes, I know the coffee case was warranted… but there are still lots of frivolous and stupid cases brought, and you know there’d be some here…)
It wouldn’t be the same. The oil is different and the allowable ingredients in the dough and filling are different.
When we visited Hawaii they had taro pies instead of apple pies.
On a subsequent trip, I couldn’t remember the name of taro pie, so I asked for “purple pie” (the filling was purple). The drive thru guy knew what I was asking for, but my family thought it was hilarious and still like to shout “Purple Pie! Purple Pie!” when I’m having a tough time.
Ha!
Why do Clickbaiters think people might be surprised by the most unsurprising things? Seeing that in the headline is a distinct red flag to avoid the article.
And yet I still almost clicked on it.
Best burger I have ever had was at Caroline’s in Key West, Florida. Weird. $17.
My weekly relegation update will be in afternoon links, after the last of the weekend games today.
And then another mid-week after the midweek games, which will have almost everyone involved catch up on games played.
Sloopy mentioned the logjam, but actually less so than last two weeks, a tiny little bit of spread occurring.
Yeah, I think Palace are probably OK now given the teams they play and the way other relegation teams play each other. Big game for Everton tonight.
New manager boost too, possibly.
There was a LOT of debate about that on the CP supporter’s FB page. Many of them thought that, if they were going to dump Vieria they should have done so weeks ago. They’ve just finished a run against top teams and now play a lot of relegation-zone teams so PV might have done OK too. Hard to know, of course.
I apologize for it being a Piers Morgan link, but we might need to pump the brakes on celebrating Finland.
“I wasn’t expecting this question…”
That right there is a POLITICIAN.
Oh I didn’t celebrate it. Her replacement is a WEF flunky. AlexinCT nailed that now the country will only be 75% socialism.
Alex was talking about Finland, not New Zealand.
Whoops.
Speaking of shooting irons….
Good news everybody!
It’s interesting that the court system seems to be consistently protecting the 2nd Amendment.
The 9th Circuit chortles.
The 9th smears feces all over it’s self, too.
It should be consistent with “the right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”.
But at least it’s an improvement.
“Second Amendment jurisprudence now focuses a lens entirely on the choices made in a very different time, by a very different American people,” Menendez wrote.”
True of every law that has been on the books long enough. Roe v Wade was nearly 50 years old when it was overturned. The vast majority of adults today weren’t adults when it became the law of the land.
And if the current American people want to make a different choice on gun rights, just amend the Constitution.
But, But, people don’t know what they want or need, at least until WE tell them!
/top. men.
I hope this McD’s CEO doesn’t go Old Skool and take the honorable way out.
Fun Fact: I remember that because we had a HUGE rollout of a new IoT solution for McD’s at that convention. After the CEO dies hours before opening the convention, no one really cared all that much about a new web app that helped you manage fryer oil and walk in cooler temps.
I wonder how that jibes with Joe’s cool new law:
Are they saying that all 119 of those “kids” would have shot up a school? I guess the underage wannabee shooter needs to sign up for the Army and get sent overseas where he can be trusted with a weapon.
Wrong place to reply. Uffda. This was in regards to my link about the Fed judge shooting down the gun law restricting gun sales to 18-20 year olds.
So, recruiting offices should be next to schools, to offer those fence sitting 18 year olds an option?
“Yeah, I was thinking of shooting up the school today but the sergeant said I could do that in the army and someone else would be paying for the ammo”
Well, Cantalupo could have gone the way of Watermelonupo. Thank god he didn’t.
“A Belgian father reportedly tragically committed suicide following conversations about climate change with an artificial intelligence chatbot that was said to have encouraged him to sacrifice himself to save the planet.”
https://nypost.com/2023/03/30/married-father-commits-suicide-after-encouragement-by-ai-chatbot-widow/
WTF??
I saw that too. It was posted suspiciously close to April Fools, so I did not take the bait. Can’t tell if it is real. If it is, can we expand that AI?
that does not sound like an april fools thing.
Pardon my joke then. However I still question if this man would have committed suicide anyway without prodding- he had to be on the edge already.
EOM
Eliza? Now that’s a name from the past.
Anyone who snuffs it due to the influence of an Eliza program was a hopeless case to begun with.
Pretty sure this is a new one.
Biden and others had hailed last year’s bipartisan gun bill — approved in the weeks after the shooting of 19 children and two adults at a school in Uvalde, Texas — as a new way forward.
Several months in, the law has had some success: Stepped-up FBI background checks have blocked gun sales for 119 buyers under the age of 21,
Wait a second. You need the feds to look at an ID and read the date on it?
But the persistence of mass shootings in the United States highlights the limits of congressional action.
Because, even among the psycho criminal set, there are fads. Used to be that serial killing and playing cat-and-mouse with the cops was the way to gain fame and notoriety. But now, rampage killings are all the rage. Eventually, some other form of multi-homicide will be the trend.
It’s not just denied for age. 18-20, otherwise lawful sales, get an automatic delay in background checks now. No more instant check. Additional records are supposed to be checked beyond the NICS check.
https://mobile.twitter.com/smcroasters/status/1642656560517111809?cxt=HHwWgoCzmYnc8cstAAAA
LOL. Anyone tried their coffee?
Isn’t that the company that basically told the people they’d been marketing to to FOAD? What a surprise…
No, this company is mocking BRCC…
Oh, never heard of this company. The tiny text of them being antisocial didn’t even register as something to bother looking at. I guess it’s the poor design of the site.
They seem fun.
Their level of social media involvement is too high.
Yes.
Traeger Brothers Coffee (Afton, VA – try some!) is better anyway.
It was okay.
Then I realized the sheer amount of caffiene in coffee did awful things to me, and I’m not big enough a fan of coffee flavor to do decaf.
I have to amend that statement because of Sean’s ambiguous question and the poor design of twitter overall. I’ve never heard of the company whose account he linked to.
I’m not big enough a fan of coffee flavor to do decaf.
Never do decaf.
Not me.
Everyone is selling their own branded coffee. I’m just getting my drug fix, so I am perfectly fine with Maxwell House and Folgers.
I switched to Community Coffee. That way I can have gas station coffee at home.
I am judging you right now very harshly, just so you know
That youtube coffee Brit reviewed Starbuck’s olive oil drinks in Italy.
sounds dismal
I don’t even own a french press.
why would you?
To extract frog oil
I use mine when I’m in too much of a hurry for a pourover.
Is a french press faster? A pour over the most time is heating the water… Then again It may be more labor intensive if you do multiple pours.
True. The French press is only a little faster, but it requires a lot less attention. I can brew a French press while I’m brushing my teeth or something. The Hario is a little too involved for that level of multitasking.
And I do indeed do multiple pours. Wetting at 3:00, then equal volumes at 2:30, 1:50, and 1:00. No scale, I’m not that much of a nerd.
Philip Marlowe used Huggins Young coffee, and brewed it using a siphon (apparently).
I like Eight O’Clock coffee, for the name alone, because I’m a sucker for branding.
I hear “Eight o’clock” and I alternate between thinking about someone getting ready for work, or a farmer sitting in his kitchen sipping from a cup after milking cows and gathering eggs, and someone at an evening party, mingling with friends.
We will do anything EXCEPT legalize drugs.
I guess no one wants to be the nerd at the party testing drugs for fentanyl.
Seems like an easier way to deal with the problem of tainted drugs would be to legalize them so people get what they think they are. But nope. We are going to throw millions at groups trying to get people to use testing strips. I’m sure more millions will be wasted on marketing campaigns to make those testing strips cool.
People looking to party or satiate an addiction aren’t well known for adhering to testing procedures and having fifteen minutes worth of patience. Short of legalizing them which we should do just give everyone Narcon.
A white pill. ill (but not a white pill)
“Legalization would be enabling drug users.” Sure, government enables all sorts of other bad behaviors and “marginalized groups”, but God forbid they allow drug users to possibly avoid death by getting untainted supplies.
Fucking stupid weather two frosts in late march and there may be one this week.
Invest in Greenhouses?
Do you want the county busting you for growing marijuana without approval?
It snowed here yesterday morning. More snow coming this week.
I AM SICK OF SNOW!
When the snowblower ran out of gas on Saturday, I just put it away and said I’m no longer playing the game anymore. Go ahead Weather God! Do your worst.
*summons fire tornados*
As long as they melted the snow, I’m fine with it.
Nope, just destroyed your house.
Who made you Dungeonmaster?
Remind me, what comes after snow – mud and then mosquitoes, right?
The best 3 weeks of summer a person will ever experience.
Why does a late frost affect you? Gardening?
apricot trees have bloomed
How large are the trees? I assume too big to protect. I have started doing a thing with some pear trees we planted at my mom’s house. We have been doing heading back cuts on any growth more than about 10″, encouraging multiple leaders, and attaching small weights to bend the new growth back down. The goal is to create a sort of bonsaied tree where the fruit is mostly within arm’s reach.
Large but not very large… But protect how? cover in a tarp?
I think you want an insulating layer in between the tarp and the foliage/flowers, so a blanket and then tarp would be better. Even better if the tarp touches the ground. You can place weights on it to keep it from blowing away. Basically it traps the heat the Earth releases at night. Just a few degrees can help. Or you can add Christmas lights to the tree under the insulating layer of more heat is needed. This sort of thing is not uncommon here in the Southeastern US. Some people even grow citrus out of zone with a large PVC hoop to hold the protection off the tree.
No smudge pots?
72 on Saturday, 32 Sunday morning, first tick of the season removed from Lily’s coat.
Frost? You are complaining about frost?
Welcome to Sunny Minnesoda (this all fell Friday night). If you hurry we have more on the way.
The Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto — who wrote the haunting score to “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” and won an Oscar for 1987’s “The Last Emperor” — has died aged 71.
His management team announced that he died on March 28. He had been treated for cancer in recent years.
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ryuichi-sakamoto-dies-intl/index.html
Cant say I heard of the guy
Because you don’t read my posts. I’ve posted both his solo and YMO work.
There’s also the songwriting and producing he’s done for scores of others, from electronic to aidoru.
RIP
Haven’t heard of the composer. I have heard of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which I highly recommend. When you put David Bowie and Takeshi Kitano in a WWII POW movie with more homoerotic undertones than Top Gun, you know you’re gonna get something very special…
To be clear, the HomoErotic part was not between David Bowie and Takeshi “Beat” Kitano. It was between Bowie and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
That was him? Well damn, I’ve seen that movie probably five or six times and I never realized that Sakamoto played Yonoi. Now I am bummed.
Good heavens Mr. Sakamoto, you’re beautiful!
PLUS SIZED SUPERHEROS & VILLAINS
A THREAD 😂
https://twitter.com/miide_adam/status/1642784140306128896
There can only ever be one Blob.
Harley Quinn needs to be renamed Hawg Quinn
They only order super-sized meals.
What is the superpower al these reimagined heroes have? They all can clog a toilet in one bowel movement?
They can still walk without suffering an exertion triggered heart attack, I assume.
LOL I know a gal who may have similarly rocked that Cat Woman outfit back in our clubbing days.
Looks like they got Kristie Alley to play Ms. America.
No skinny Kingpin?
whaddup doh’
After a long night, its nice to know that Im off tonight.
TALL CANS!
Have fun!
Good morning all you Gliberatti!
I’m back from my week on the Texas coast. The weather wasn’t great, mostly 70’s and either windy or rainy. But we made the most of it. We hit the beach a few times, went night kayaking, and parasailing. We drove through a lot of Texas and on the way there we spent a day in Memphis. We really like Texas, and would go there again.
Mrs. TOK made a similar comment on shootings the other day. She said sane people don’t go into buildings and shoot at people. Only insane people do that, and it doesn’t matter what political party or ideology they subscribe to. She is a smart one.
Did you go to Beale Street or Graceland?
Graceland is the correct answer.
Beale street is great, but only on a summer Fri/Sat night. Walk up and down the street listening to live music and drinking cheap beer.
Graceland, though, is awesome. You will start out thinking it is cheesy as hell. But after the tour you realize what a talented bad ass Elvis was. It isn’t his fault he died during a particularly bad time in home decor. If he had lived another 10 years, the shag carpet on the ceiling would have been replaced with black leather and chrome of the ’80s.
Graceland contributed to my grokking of religion more than any other experience I’ve had.
What I love about Graceland is actually how modest the house really is.
We went to the zoo, and to Beale Street. We really wanted to go to Graceland, but there were 4 of us, and the price was out of our budget. We’ve seen a lot of blues shows in Chicago, so we really liked Beale Street. It’s like Nashville but with blues instead of country.
Next time you go, another place that is fun for an afternoon visit is Mud Island. It is downtown on the river and is the result of millions of tax payer dollars being wasted, but that is too bad for the locals, not a tourist like yourself.
Our kids liked it because there is a stretch of the park that has a recreation of the lower half of the Mississippi. They liked running along it and playing.
A few years ago, I was visiting family, and we went to Mud Island, and I was, like, “Wow! Memphis looks nice, from this angle!” It was a nice day, breezy, and the trees were waving and it looked almost like a scene out of a 90’s rom-com.
The zoo is fun. They “Disneyfied” it a bit. It actually has siamangs, which are pretty much my favorite animals to see at the zoo.
Another option you could have tried is “The Pink Palace Museum”, which was established in the house built by the guy who started Piggly Wiggly grocery stores. One exhibit is a full-scale model of an early Piggly Wiggly store. They also have a miniature circus that has wooden figures that one fellow spent decades carving. The little characters move, along with the circus train that goes around it.
The best house museum in Memphis is now a bed and breakfast, The Hunt-Phelan home. The owners, back before the Civil War, were friends with Jeff Davis. General Grant made it his headquarters when he captured Memphis. The same family owned it into the late 1990’s, and so the house had all the original furniture.
I’m seeing an uptick in articles about deinstitutionalization again. It’s hard to argue that there are more mentally ill people roaming the streets but what do you do about it.
One of the most cited scientists in the world, the Spanish chemist Rafael Luque, has been suspended without pay for the next 13 years, according to Luque himself and the institution where he worked until recently, the University of Córdoba in Spain. The university has sanctioned Luque for working as a researcher at other centers, such as the King Saud University in Riyadh and the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow, despite holding a full-time publicly funded contract with the Spanish institution.
Luque, 44, is one of the most prolific scientists in Spain. He has published some 700 studies, mainly in the field of so-called green chemistry, which aims to synthesize products such as drugs and fuels while generating less waste. So far this year, Luque has published 58 studies at a rate of one every 37 hours. He has featured on the list of the world’s most cited researchers, compiled by the specialist company Clarivate, for five years. Institutions all over the world compete to hire scientists like Luque, who can move a center up hundreds of positions in international academic rankings such as the influential Shanghai ranking, thusly attracting more students and more funding.
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-04-02/one-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-rafael-luque-suspended-without-pay-for-13-years.html
I am sure OMWC is slacking in the publishing department, not raising the university hundreds of places in the rankings
Yeah, that OMWC is a frickin loser.
(Signed, low level blue collar serial masturbator)
Whose wife did he bang to get this sentence that is sure to get him to go elsewhere to make money?
No shit. Tomorrow the guy will get picked up by the Saudis or Russia for twice the price at least. Public contracts are low paying. Congrats to him! He’ll retire rich.
In other news, the University of Cordoba is run by morons.
No one thinks his rate of publishing papers is a bit suspicious?
Good morning, Sloop!
It was nice of Sunset to let the balloon make it across the entire country. I hope China finds the info useful.
The McD’s story is funny. I liked this:
So 2023. And pretty chickenshit.
Minneapolis has one of those tiny homeless shelters, too. Apparently its sole purpose is to concentrate ODs in one area. Probably helps with body collection.
Both great songs today. Entwistle makes a terrific thug and the drumming in HJ is amazing.
That’s McChickenShit buddy..
When I first started working, a manager told me about how he was consulting at a place and they decided to do mass layoffs.
The managers spent all day firing people under them. At the end of the day they went to a meeting that they thought was supposed to be a debriefing on how their firings went. Instead it was a meeting to tell them that they were also fired.
My boss said he stayed in the office until midnight because the parking lot was full of pissed off people who had been fired and probably wouldn’t have taken kindly to a fancy ass consultant.
Was it these guys?
They guy in the left was the mentor doctor on Scrubs.
Also the weasel in Platoon
John C. McGinley.
I’ll take the contrarian POV on the at-home firings. No embarrassing walk-out with your shit, and no need for security. Sounds likea good idea.
Finnish fence on Russian border to cost hundreds of millions of euros
https://www.euronews.com/2023/04/02/finnish-fence-on-russian-border-to-cost-hundreds-of-millions-of-euros
Yeah, but they’re going to get Russia to pay for it.
Some Russians, I assume, are nice.
They love their children, too.
*golf clap*
Profit over politics
Perhaps “60 Minutes” views Greene — who has repeatedly downplayed and even defended the January 6, 2021, attack plus called for the GOP to become the party of “Christian nationalism” — in the vein of its long list of controversial guests. (CBS had not responded to a request from CNN for comment at time of publishing.)
However, the choice of Greene as a guest instantly recalls the comments of then-CBS CEO Les Moonves during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign when he admitted that Trump’s candidacy “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Moonves added, “The money’s rolling in and this is fun. … (T)his is going to be a very good year for us,” concluding, “Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But bring it on, Donald. Keep going.”
Moonves may be gone from CBS, but it appears his mindset continues at “60 Minutes.” And that may be good for “60 Minutes,” but it’s definitely not good for America.
Journalism is a sacred calling. Its goal and purpose is to spread the holy truth to the ignorant unredeemed masses, not to make money. Anyone who provides a platform to the other side is a traitor and an apostate.
I’ve seen the clip where Stahl asks MTG why she calls democrats pedophiles and after MTG responds, Stahl just says “wow, okay.”
I was disappointed MTG didn’t mention the president’s sniffing habit.
How are they platform an extremist!?
*dare*
If you paid any money to attend a college that made you sit through this for your degree you should hire a lawyer and sew them for selling you snake oil as a cure all.
WTF is a “biologically femme penises”???
Fictional.
You ain’t down with quare people? What are you, some kind of bigot?
like normal penises but not gay
It’s a penis attached to a certain type of mentally unwell dude.
When you tie a bow around it and twirl it around?
LOL
Looks like a confab that these folx willingly attended.
This is the money shot.
Constantly pushing and changing the language to keep the critics on their heels is part and parcel of the entire effort. It helps to justify their own existence as they pretend to do research and it bamboozles the normies at the same time.
They took the lesson of Derrida, be incomprehensible and people will think you are smart, and dumbed it down for the woke crowd:
Possibly even more narcissistic than Jacques was though. Certainly more obsessed with their genitalia.
I wonder how much of it has to do with being envious that the focus is now on the trans weirdos. The stupid squares fucked them over by deciding that the gays were right and accepting them.
Now they are reduced to pretending that they are in mortal danger.
Yea, books are being totes banned. And everyone knows that all gay characters on tv have been deleted.
* If anyone were to punch J.P. Der Boghossian it wouldn’t be because of homophobia, it would simply be because he really, really looks like he needs one.
Says guy who lives in Minnesota, not Florida.
It’s all of that, and a way to remain “cool” as well. Using the latest lingo signals in-group allegiance.
Creating that lingo signals in-group leadership – equally important.
Quare, or Kwer.
‘Cause they all sound Kwer to me.
and sew them
You know I can resist needling you about that.
I just knew someone was going to pull that thread.
Someone didn’t get the memo on what the zoom call was about.
2022 Black Tape Project SLOMO PT1 FULL RUNWAY SHOW ART HEARTS FASHION MIAMI SWIM WEEK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEYvFBPbvdU
https://twitter.com/lavieestbelIe/status/1641485752704937995
Lily of the valley flower glasses
My friend is worried chatGPT will took our jobs because it writes good python code. I tried it with some Cadence skill and was no impressed.
Woke Ai will write code that will make you go out of business…
DEMOCRACY!
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo pledged to ban rented e-scooters from the French capital after a huge majority of residents backed the move.
Scooter operators said they were disappointed with the decision but expressed hope they could negotiate a new regulatory framework to avoid an outright ban.
In a non-binding referendum held on Sunday, 89.03% of 103,084 votes cast said they were opposed to the freestanding scooters, which are booked on a short-term basis through apps, from the city. There were only two options, “for” or “against.”
“Their very clear message now becomes our roadmap,” Hidalgo said in a statement following the vote, later saying in a news conference that the scooters would be gone from Sept. 1, when current agreements with operators expire.
Just toss them all into the protest trash fires.
Huge majority of less than 10% of eligible voters who cared to show up at a silly referendum…
Tom Holland
@holland_tom
Please make it stop
https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1642458853194301440
poor guy
I thought he’d be more muscular and wear more leather.
The army that Henry VIII led into northern France in 1544 was entitled to eight pints of beer per man a day, a ration that has led historians to assume that the drink must have been weak.
That idea has been challenged by researchers who recreated a typical Tudor brew and found that it was five per cent alcohol, making it as potent as today’s premium lagers.
“I think the basic insight is that many people during this period probably were inebriated a lot of the time,” said Dr Susan Flavin, who led the study, of Trinity College Dublin.
Ale (which has no hops) and beer (which does, though the terms were used interchangeably by the Tudors) were pillars of 16th-century life, regarded as fuel for work at least as much as they were seen as social lubricants.
Previous studies have suggested that men in rural households drank around four pints of beer a day, and there are records of skilled stonemasons employed by the Church getting as many as 15 pints a day as part of their pay.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tudor-beer-strong-today-lagers-henry-viii-health-study-0jjqch8bd?shareToken=82cc397e497d7fe4bed8915b4ec1be82
DRUNK FIGHTS!
is beer drunk better than wine drunk in a fight?
Yes.
The difference between alcohol and pot:
5 drunk guys will start a fight
5 stoned guys will start a band
How big a supply train did Henry VIII need to haul 8 pints of beer per day for every soldier in his army? Seems like a logistical nightmare, compared, say, to Civil War soldiers getting their daily water out of creeks and wells.
You haul grain and brew continuously.
Brewing was part of the kitchen duties in that time frame.
Wow, that’s a daily ration of 300,000 lbs of beer per day to supply his 36,000 troops!
I’m seeing an uptick in articles about deinstitutionalization again. It’s hard to argue that there are more mentally ill people roaming the streets but what do you do about it.
Round up the MAGA-ites.
I think we just determined that the deinstitutionalized have been granted PhDs and are teaching, and studying being “quare”.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
As per the NY Post’s own story on the matter, the suspect pulled a weapon on the owner of the vehicle, who then shot and killed the suspect. The headline of the story was missing this important context.
These community notes have been amazing.
I saw that story yesterday, the headline makes it look like the truck owner tracked the thief down and gunned him down like a dog. Dishonest out of context shit headline…
Did you see Apple’s response?
AirTag was designed to help people locate their personal belongings, not to track people or another person’s property, and we condemn in the strongest possible terms any malicious use of our products.
Sounds like they were fooled by the headline too and they need to put a letter in whatever PR person’s who wrote that file.
I’m hoping this is some sort of Streisand Effect marketing ploy. “Oh no! Our air tags are so good that some people have been able to get their stuff back and get revenge too. That is soooooo terrible that our product is works that good”
lives are more important than property. Truck do not matter., You can just buy a new one / am I doing this right?
Yes, value your life and do not steal trucks.
If you are one of the progressive idiots that thinks other people should let criminals fuck them over, but will demand blood if it is done to them, then yes.
When you talk to conservatives you can mostly jus say what you mean. When you talk to progressives you have to bracket everything with a million “to be clear” and “of course that’s not anybody fault” and “I wish this weren’t true, but…” and “look, nobody likes this, but…”
Whenever I talk to progressives I am in the mindset of managing their emotions. I know there are things I will say that will upset them, so like I’m talking to a toddler, I change my approach to manage their feelings. What’s wild, though, is this actually does work.
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Progressives are constantly trying to figure out if you’re one of the good guys and if you’re not, then they know they have permission to ignore you. But if you can demonstrate that you are sufficiently compassionate, then you can make the same claim you were going to make anyway
https://twitter.com/wanyeburkett/status/1642559059214622721
seems like a lot of work
so like I’m talking to a toddler
So that’s why Kamala talks like she does – she knows her audience.
I don’t manage emotions anymore. It’s Cockney urine for all the whiney ones now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNIT_CWUXcg
I actually had this conversation with an ex that wants to get back together just this past weekend. I pointed out to her that our problem was that whenever we had a discussion about something, if it was things the leftist cult lived by as dogma, I would basically be of the mindset that she was entitled to her opinion even if I felt it was wrong, so we were just talking, but she would immediately make it personal (claim I was inferring she was dumb because she lacked the science/engineering back ground I have is her favorite0, get furious, then tell me she was done talking and hang up.
She got pissed then hung up.
I tend to do this automatically with people. Though to be honest, it’s not just people on the left – you run into the same issues if you’re talking to a dedicated Christian, for instance. To me it’s just common sense, you can rampage through their fragile emotions like a bull through a china shop and get nowhere, or you can tread carefully and maybe find some common ground.
Anybody have experience carrying/shooting the Sig P365 9mm with the factory holo sight? I’m looking to replace my P239 and Beretta Tomcat 32. Never fired a striker gun before as the pull seemed somewhere in between the Sig’s SA and DA. But the P365 trigger, when dry fired, felt as easy to pull as my P239 in SA. Amazing. I couldn’t believe how quickly and easily the striker released.
I love my P320. That sight is awesome in the dark. Easy to clean, easy to use, and well worth the wait I had to get it. I would assume it would be the same for a P365.
Cool, thanks. Yeah I looked at the 320 since my beloved Corps selected it. Figured it was time to give strikers a try. And I wanna go full holo and one caliber.
Never used the holo sights. Baseline P365 is my EDC, and I’ve also shot BUG matches with it. I have to be more cognizant/deliberate with my trigger press than my for-realsies competition guns, but when I do it hits where I want it to.
Nice, thank you. Ordered!
The rare case where the precise dash used is extremely important.
https://twitter.com/AlexGodofsky/status/1642685287242539009
I am sure Bagel liberalism is a thing, and not a good thing. Packed carbs and fluff.
It’s obviously an anti-Semitic dog whistle. You know, like criticizing George Soros.
Unforeseeable
Almost three months after Virginia teacher Abigail Zwerner was shot by a 6-year-old student, she filed a $40 million lawsuit Monday alleging school administrators shrugged off multiple warnings from staff and students who believed the boy had a gun and posed an imminent threat on the day of the shooting, and did so knowing the child “had a history of random violence.”
The Jan. 6 shooting of Zwerner at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News stunned the country as police announced the child’s actions were intentional. The student shot her with a 9 mm handgun while she sat at a reading table in their first-grade classroom, according to officials.
The injured educator’s complaint, filed in the Newport News Circuit Court, says Richneck Assistant Principal Ebony Parker chose to “breach her assumed duty” to protect Zwerner, “despite multiple reports that a firearm was on school property and likely in possession of a violent individual.”
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The lawsuit mentions new details about the boy, who is identified as John Doe, and an alleged pattern of troubling behavior.
While in kindergarten at Richneck in the 2021-22 school year, the boy strangled and choked a teacher and was removed from the school, according to the complaint.
That same school year, the boy also pulled up the dress of a female student who had fallen on the playground, the complaint says, and “began to touch the child inappropriately until reprimanded by a teacher.”
The boy was transferred out of Richneck and placed in a different institution within the district, but was allowed to return for the 2022-23 school year when he was enrolled in Zwerner’s class.
He was placed on a modified schedule last fall after “chasing students around the playground with a belt in an effort to whip them with it, as well as cursing at staff and teachers,” according to the complaint. At least one parent was also required to attend school with him daily “because of his violent tendencies.”
What about the other children in the school deprived of the opporunity to learn in a safe environment? Much as I hate lawfare, a few well directed class action suits might be in order. And the “disability advocates” who have created these situations (not to mrntion blowing up school district budgets) need a good educational experience in court.
On the other hand, it’s Newport News. There isn’t a safe government school anywhere in the city.
My friend’s parents actually put (((him))) in a Catholic school rather than the public schools in that festering shithole called Bad News. True story.
Nope. The administrators need to be subjected to what the child did to students and staff – except it should be done by large, motivated adults.
A few well directed suits are well past being in order. Like that bullshit in OR, the people need to be hit with a “conspiracy to violate civil rights” suit, a class action suit for lost revenue, and anything else you can think of. The point being, these a-holes need to feel pain from doing it, as even a flatworm turns away from pain.
“Biden: “There’s going to be a second pandemic.”
https://twitter.com/21WIRE/status/1642673544055123970
No.
Do you not trust the hard working lab scientists?
I am sure they want to make AGW the new never ending pandemic…
You’re not supposed to tell us you’re planning another one, Joe.
Stock up on toilet paper.
“Boston Children’s Hospital director calls for drastic increase in capacity for gender surgeries for minors
The director at Boston Children’s Hospital said medical school students should learn transgender surgeries in residency programs”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/boston-childrens-hospital-director-calls-drastic-increase-capacity-gender-surgeries-minors
The entire medical industry is morally bankrupt.
I did a physical last week, or “annual wellness check.” A nurse did my weight , blood pressure, and heart rate. The nurse practitioner then sat across the room the entire time and just asked questions, then ordered the routine blood work. I asked if we could do a more comprehensive blood panel (something like this) and the response was essentially “lol, why would we do that? we don’t even test vitamin D or B12 anymore).
They billed my insurance $130 plus whatever the lab cost.
It’s pretty much pointless to do bloodwork through most GPs. Try getting a hormone panel sometime.
They appear to give no fucks about keeping people healthy. You’re on your own,
I did the test they ordered last week and scheduled my own T-test this morning.
What testing do you recommend?
Weird. Here, a vit D and B12 are SOP bc nobody has any.
Yeah, it’s not like the importance of vitamin D has been thoroughly discussed in recent years.
I think this means I need a new doctor’s office, but vetting new doctors is not something I look forward to doing.
First do no harm has been abandoned.
This reminds me irresistibly of the old joke about two social workers who happen upon a beaten and bloody man lying groaning on the pavement. One turns to the other and says, “My God, whoever did this urgently needs our help.”
goddamnit
https://twitter.com/DavidBennun/status/1642819773950992384
“Police in Connecticut have charged two people with cutting over 2,000 fiber optic lines, resulting in over 40,000 homes and businesses without internet service in the southwestern part of the state.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/two-charged-with-cutting-wires-40000-lose-internet-service
No motive given.
In early fiber days in Romania it was people assuming there was copper inside and stealing it
Assholes but really probably on cut 2-5 cables
It was one street. And yes probably just a few cables, out in the open where morons can tamper with them. Or maybe they hit a junction box with a car.
“This is utterly disgusting.
Camps indoctrinating kids as young as 7 with gender ideology and sexual confusion are now being promoted and subsidized by all government levels.”
https://twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1641808083675410434
WTF, Canada?
But can I send my daughter to the Victor, Victoria camp?
Flight out today to OKC. Good gusty winds in Vegas, should be a fun ride out.
Find a Del Rancho, get the steak sandwich.
Coleman-Tobias, during his portion of the presentation, said, “I’m bluntly quare, emerging from the folk-loric, up-south, Afrikana traditions that have purpled feminism’s lavender and blackened queernesses disruptions.”
“I’m a little teapot, here is my spout…”
I fed my kids “brownie stuff” and kept it in a tub in the fridge.
It happened that I was eating brownie batter out of the sauce pan and one of them wanted a bite. Then s/he thought it was fab, so the other one wanted some. I haven’t actually BAKED the brownies in years. “Mama, will you make brownie stuff?”
Hm. This might explain a few things.
“Yes I shoot guns.
Yes my family owns guns.
Yes I believe we need stronger gun laws.
Contrary to what the NRA wants you to believe, it is possible for all three to be true.”
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1642672156843601920
CWAA
We need stronger gun laws with harsher punishments for legislators, cops, and prosecutors who violate citizens’ rights.
How about we fucking enforce the laws that already exist. Like on that asshole Biden crackhead kid.
Psst, Dave? No one cares.
OH SHIZZ!
Pierre Delecto has competition!!!!
It could easily be fake.
Fake but accurate?
All of them have burner accounts. As long as there are public records, there will be people trying to get out of them.
So what’s the over & under that the OPEC oil production cut (over 1 million barrels per day), absolutely made to drive price up, will be blamed on Putin or his orange pal?
Let’s go Brandon
Several OPEC+ members are set to tighten global production by an additional 1.16 million barrels per day until the end of the year, further burdening central bank efforts to curtail global inflation — but critically protecting the alliance’s broader output strategy from political pressures.
Washington has stepped in to criticize Sunday’s announcement where eight OPEC+ producers — including group leader Saudi Arabia and key allies Kuwait and the UAE — said they would remove more than a combined 1 million barrels per day from global oil markets, as part of an independent initiative unlinked to the broader OPEC+ policy.
This adds to Russia’s existinghttps://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/03/oil-opec-just-made-the-feds-job-more-complicated-heres-what-they-did.html intentions to trim 500,000 barrels per day of its own production from February output levels, now until the end of the year — bringing the combined voluntary cuts of OPEC+ members in excess of 1.6 million barrels per day.
“We don’t think cuts are advisable at this moment, given market uncertainty — and we’ve made that clear,” a spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council said, according to Reuters.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has repeatedly lambasted the OPEC+ group for its production cuts, citing the inflationary toll on households and flinging accusations of camaraderie with sanctions-struck Russia. Curbs in production lead to smaller supply, causing higher prices at the pump in importing countries which then provides a boost for headline inflation figures.
They can’t do that. We’re the good guys.