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 incredible day and the links!
Texas AG Just Threw A Glorious Legal Wrench In Biden’s Unconstitutional $1.7 Trillion Spending Spree
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Challenge Joe Biden in 2024
FEC: Trump-Stormy case ‘not a campaign finance violation’
Another Biden Administration COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Struck Down by Court
Twitter labels NPR as state-affiliated media
Liberal Wisconsin Judge Wins Supreme Court Race, Flips Balance Of Court
Republicans point to North Carolina Democrat’s exit from party as 2024 foreshadowing
Oversupply of cars to trigger price war, says UBS
Feds Bust Into Wrong Hotel Room For Training Exercise, Detain Bewildered Guest
Texas man says glitch in ‘Find My iPhone’ app has seen twelve irate people show up at his home
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Oh deer… trying to bring HM to the morning links?
(Morning, Banjos!)
You got something against eating as, brah?
Perfect…absolutely perfect
Thank you. I will be here all week..
Try the veal.
Shouldn’t that be “Try the venison” in this context?
Touché!
Yeah — sorry to disappoint the Federalist author there… but I don’t think the “quorum requires physical presence” argument is as unassailable as they think it is in this post-penaltax world. The courts are going to give (un)due deference to the House making its own rules for attendance, not want to derail a $1.7 trillion pork bonanza, etc… they’ll be fine.
Reminds me of the legal arguments sovereign citizens make, and the same probable outcome of someone getting bludgeoned by a cop for being annoying.
Or the xkcd comic (I think it was xkcd anyway) about your cryptographic password versus the old wood shampoo decryption method.
A classic:
https://xkcd.com/538/
You are undoubtedly correct.
Showing up for work and actually voting is probably white supremacy anyway.
Systems of success and merit are honkey oppression… It’s something that only honkeys and white-adjacent yellows believe in…
/prog evil fucks
Duh. When the Congress does it, it’s procedural.
I s what they did unconstitutional? Yes
Will it matter? No
And in a just world someone would actually be held accountable for violating their oath of office, doing unconstitutional acts, etc. Unfortunately, that’s not this timeline and all. Accountability seems to be scarcer than lithium mining in this country.
Oh just shut up “red wave” prognosticators. Wisconsin begs to differ — and while red states getting redder at least gives someplace to go at the local/state level… if all the swing states are flipped by the madness, the Feds are going to tromp all over you and you know it.
Yeah, if 2022 had been a red wave then there might have been a lot of people switching parties. But, if you’re a D and you think Trump is still the front-runner it would really make no sense to switch now.
Marxism in one state doesn’t work. They need a unitary government so there is no competition.
The objective of international marxism was and remains to force that shit on EVERYONE and do so EVERYWHERE. The evil of marxism can’t survive or compete with any other system (why do you think all the marxists say capitalism, a system that doesn’t exist since there is no free trade and government controls the private sector congruent with the tenets of fascism, is evil and must go, huh?)
Andrew Heaton talks Marxism with Freddy DeBoer
There is no path to electoral college victory for a Republican. Enough swing state elections are now controlled by Dems, and not just Dems, Soros stooge Dems, that it simply will not be allowed to happen. They got away with it once, with blatant shenanigans, and even reinforced their control of elections since. This also means it is highly unlikely the Repubs will get control of the Senate, as well, so the approval of judges, etc. is also now firmly under the control of the Dems and will be until the inevitable collapse (whenever that happens).
The “Red Wave” babble is just the Red fundraising wing of the UniParty putting out bait for the rubes to separate them from their money.
I can not disagree with you on that — and this is why I’m increasingly black-pilled.
Their only hope is to stoop to the same dirty tricks and somehow out-Democrat them at it.
How the Repubs will manage that when they don’t control the election machinery, I don’t know. The game isn’t “Get your people to mail in their ballots”. The game is “Control the counting process so the result is what you want”.
Pretty much this. Arizona proved that it doesn’t matter how many people they get out. They shoved at least 30 thousand mystery mail-in ballots through in Maricopa without any chain of custody and stopped day of in-person voters by fucking with the printers and are about to get away with it as no judges want to rock the boat. The only hope left is for Rs to move to red areas, fortify it, make sure the sheriffs won’t abide by unconstitutional edicts, and learn to practice peaceful civil disobedience.
But the price per case of “peaceful civil disobedience” keeps going up, if you can even find it in stock.
Yeah — let me know when car loans are below 7 years again, jerks. With all the mandatory sensors and AI, I think the floor is like $35k now… and that’s not a price war anyone can afford at the lower end of the market. (“You shall own nothink!” proceeds apace…)
All right, I think it’s time for your cricket pudding now.
If I don’t eat the cricket meat — how can I have any cricket pudding!
It’s the bubble pop in the used car market I’m waiting for.
This is all bullshit.
There is not a supply for new cars. You are getting wait times for those and the sticker shock is fucking insane (which is why I opted to not bother). And buying a used car is back to costing a fortune (the freaking dealer keeps sending me weekly emails offering me 55% of the value for the car I bought in 2017 sight unseen, which means they are selling that car for what I paid for it new and people are biting)..
^This. If anything, prices for new and used cars have continued to increase based on what I’m seeing. I need to get a new(er) car for my wife, and I keep waiting for prices to ease, but just the opposite is happening.
-$30k dealer price adjustment markup on top of msrp
Buy a Tesla 3 before 4/18. You will still get the full tax credit, plus additional credits in some states. The energy savings over several years will offset the high sticker price.
Don’t get in a fender bender though. The insurance companies will total that car if the batteries are even jostled.
Yeah, I’m constantly getting similar emails from the dealership I bought my truck from, wanting to buy it back.
I noticed that story is measuring currency in British pounds, so it may not apply on this side of the pond. In Britain, cars and driving are all but regulated out of existence and so nobody wants to buy one. The British just persevere and sit at home with their safety scissors. Not so here.
Whoa! Whoa! Do you have a permit to posses those shears?? Those are dangerous instruments of death.
Well, that isn’t what the article is claiming. The oversupply will occur in the second half of the year.
I’ll let you know when a Ford Maverick is close to the promised $20k starting price.
My friend’s came in at $25k, which isn’t horrible, compared to a full-size truck that’s not even a hybrid.
I bought new last December because the used prices were so close to the new, and with used the rates are higher.
(I did not get a Maverick if that was not clear. Kia Telluride.)
Was that a preorder?
Feds Bust Into Wrong Hotel Room For Training Exercise, Detain Bewildered Guest
The professionalism we have grown to expect.
Buttle not Tuttle!
Good enough for government work…
Reminds me of how the government handled the tribal request from the big chief that their rep drink a case of firewater in one sitting, then wrestle a bear, following it by plowing the oldest and ugliest woman on the reservation.
From what I hear the damned fed showed up and asked the people where the old fugly he had to wrestle with was after he drank the whiskey and plowed the bear.
I’m just surprised they didn’t shoot the pilot on general principles.
Stop resisting!
You fight like you train. Patton.
The busting into the wrong room is really bad, but mistakes happen. The fact that the guy was detained for 45 minutes in the shower and they didn’t immediately realize that he wasn’t part of the exercise is the scary part.
They just thought he was a really good actor playing the role of an uncooperative suspect.
They had no way to know that they falsely detained somebody and deprived him of his rights.
Sorry, dude…
I love how the incident in Chicago is being treated as NBD. Not a peep of it in any of my normie-aligned newsfeeds.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-isolated-incident-trump-tower-20230405-fnwknfi6pjhj7faaa5r3aprbae-story.html
No mention of it being an evil assault rifle, or even fully semi automatic…
It identified as a mostly peaceful projectile accelerator.
“bullet thrower” – literal translation of the Russian word for machine gun
It’s about how accurate Russian machine guns are.
Hush up like the dude looking to kill a Justice. Never happened
Power showers and dual-flush toilets could be banned under Government plans to save water
Comes under plans to cut personal water consumption by 20 per cent in 15 years
New efficiency plans include fresh standards for showers, taps and toilets
Scheme part of push to reduce pollution and make water supply more resilient
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11941027/Power-showers-banned-Government-plans-save-water-dual-flush-toilets-go.html
Seinfeld covered this like 30 years ago
King of the Hill covered the low flow toilets over 20 years ago.
Ferguson, a man’s toilet.
It’s like they don’t even know 70% of the entire planet is covered by water.
You’re assuming the real goal isn’t to make the non-elites miserable. They’re not even hiding it any more.
*cough*Bullshit*cough*
Well, they’ll run out after we turn off the taps.
Free Market Water.
Problem solved.
I am hoping the heavy snow in the mountains fills our reservoirs this spring, they are looking awful.
Nah, gotta let all that water flow to save the brown spotted sea nymph.
….but enough about the Little Mermaid remake trailer…
I don’t know why people are so mad about that casting. She looks very much like a fish with those wide set eyes.
You mean, California? That is their problem. Not mine.
They appear to be referring to the UK.
Damn those foreigners! Although you could substitute “California” for “UK” and the story would still be true. Wheee!
Cali’s problems have a way of becoming everyone’s problems.
Let’s just ignore that uses of water like this are like 5% of water use and completely dwarfed by leaky pipes installed by governments.
Just driving home the point that this isn’t a plan to save water (a100% renewable resource, btw) but to impoverish the populace.
Texas AG Just Threw A Glorious Legal Wrench In Biden’s Unconstitutional $1.7 Trillion Spending Spree
Literally trying to gut funding and kill women and children. Literally.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Challenge Joe Biden in 2024
Cripple fight!
jk. Might actually be a good/sane choice for the Dems, which means he won’t win.
RFK Jr wants to dissolve the CIA and he’s quite serious about it.
Which means he’ll be suicided if he even gets anywhere close to winning.
I’m sure the CIA has job openings posted in Palestine just in case.
Suicided? Nah, they’ll just rile up and activate one of the psychotic loons they have “under watch” and set him/her up to go after RFK Jr.
In this day and age, I’m sure the assassin will be named Xerhan Xerhan, amirite?
golf clap
I’d rate that as a full on opera clap. Very nice, Your Holiness.
Holy moly!
JFK wanted disband the CIA after the Bay of Pigs. Just saying.
Not even needed anymore. These days they can walk up to the right person and shoot him in the back of the head and nothing else will happen.
“It was a robbery where nothing was stolen.”
Hm…sounds familiar…
I doubt they’d let him on a debate stage with Biden. He’d slaughter Joe – before being shot on the way out by some retard recruited by the CIA.
I don’t agree with RFK on everything, however I’d take him in a hot minute over just about anyone else.
And yes, he would eat the rest of the Democrat field alive on the debate stage, even with his stutter.
The only problem is how does he get votes? Today’s Dems aren’t buying what he’s selling.
I bet there would be a sizable population of disaffected Democrats who would vote for him.
The professional Democrats however…
A lot of the older brainwashed ones would start having flashbacks to when his message was mainstream liberal. A few might even look around and wonder wtf happened.
It’s the lot of them who are just waiting to get a word in edgewise against the woke morons. That’s his base.
They said the exact same thing about Ben Bradley running against Clinton in ’96.
Dems will get in line, like every other time.
Third times the charm.
I am going to guess that a likely scenario is that a condition of this Soviet show trial is that they will keep making Trump fly to NYC, usually to conflict with his campaigning. But I will not be at all surprised that somehow his plane will go down and kill him suddenly as this thing unravels on this cabal of inbred progressive asshats. And there will be some take that missiles were tracked by the radar after which the entire radar system and all air traffic controllers in the area met some unexplainable, but horrible end that will be labeled a conservative conspiracy theory and purely coincidental.
The guy will be 70 on election day. Do the Dems have anyone under the age of 65 capable of running or holding office, except for Newsome and Whitmer?
FEC: Trump-Stormy case ‘not a campaign finance violation’
*pushes up glasses*
Actually, he used his money to hide information from the voters so it is, like, literally election interference.
I heard someone on a CATO podcast make exactly that argument a few years ago. He declared he would certainly have wanted to know that kind of information before he voted. Which, I guess, meant he was on the fence about Trump and that info would have pushed him to not vote for Trump?
There’s a certain level of caveat emptor when it comes to voting for politicians.
Now do Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Or every other politician that buried or attempted to bury derogatory information. Hillary gets perp walked next week, right?
Except that’s not the case – if it was, it would be a misdemeanor well past the statute of limitation. Trump’s being prosecuted for concealing information to break other, yet unnamed, laws. Could be Sharia Law for all we know.
They will write up some convoluted legalese that everyone will see as absolute bullshit, make it retroactive, and that gives connected libs committing the same crime outs, but that make Trump – and anyone supporting him – enemies of the state and thus subject to death or labor camps.
Dude, take a breather. Have a drink. Put down the bottle of blackpills.
My alcohol bill is already close to $1k a month.. Don’t encourage me to do more drinking…
I recommend attending movie night this evening, watching “Another WolfCop” (WolfCop 2) and celebrating the fun part of the country of Festus. The camps haven’t happened yet.
If only Trump had written “Hush Money So Voters and My Wife Don’t Find Out I Fucked a Porn Star” on the check stub and invoices instead.
Maybe their secret weapon to finally get bad orange man is that they have a copy of the check, and they had Bragg scribble that on it…. Using crayons.
They tried, but he kept eating the crayons.
I like eating, but that dude looks like he never had a bad meal in his life…
Including them crayons..
I think at this point the corruptocracy is so fucking angry and in vengeance mode that they don’t care they are basically burning down their own house in order to hurt the guy that exposed their racket and put their grift in danger
Personally, I think they’re fine with WEF and the CCP running the show as hegemons anyway — so tearing down US credibility and influence serves them. They’ll happily run their block of Thunberg 15 minute cities.
So long as they get theirs, they couldn’t care less who is ultimately running things. And it isn’t as if Democrats haven’t been signaling their preference for the Chinese system for at least a decade anyway.
I still say that one should not confound the fact that the people running our corruptocracy – in both parties – would love to implement the CCP government style of rule with the fact they would be fine being second banana under a world run by the CCP. The nature of the CCP government style is that you will “Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women”, and EVERYBODY is the enemy. If they are second fiddle they will be the biggest threat to the CCP and the first ones lined up against the wall.
No, they still want to remain on top AND implement the CCP style of governing.
Thank you, Nayib. Well said. Whatever you think of DJT, this is banana republic bullshit, and everyone knows it.
My operating thesis is that the O’biden administration is working for the Davos/WEF crowd.
Not a lot of daylight between that crew and the ChiComs, anyway.
It’s actually hilarious. Obama made a rollback of colonialism part and parcel of his political identity, but Davos is almost explicitly neo-colonial in its financial policies, using the IMF and the international banking system to keep the third world in line.
Which is why I think Obama was just a stooge, an actor for the part.
One of the ways it becomes obvious that contemporary Western leftism is a con: the fundamental incompatibility of the “anticolonialism” mania in elite circle with the essentially colonialist project of imposing Current Thing culture/morality (particularly when it comes to homosexuality/transgender). Hence the bizarre pseudohistorical academic rambling about how askhully all these primitive cultures had male/female gender roles imposed on them by whitey, because they traditionally had oodles of alternative gender identities.
It isn’t colonialism if you don’t think you’re evil.
Or something like that.
El Presidente Dudebro is articulating what the rest of the world is thinking.
Preaching the good news of LGBT and democracy to foreigners while the CIA plans color revolutions in their countries is going to be tougher for our diplomatic corps. I’m sure they’ll soldier on.
‘Orning ‘ordles of “Yes, I completely botched that.” Bleah.
Daily Duotrigordle #400
Guesses: X/37
Time: 02:53.82
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 437
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Daily Quordle 437
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7️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, April 6
Letters: E F I R T U X
My score: 166 points
My longest word: 7 letters
💐 🌹 🌻 🌼 💮 🌷 🌺
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
retiree
Meh.
Daily Quordle 437
4️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
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Blossom Puzzle, April 6
Letters: E F I R T U X
My score: 236 points
My longest word: 9 letters
🌺 💐 🌹 🏵 🌸 🌼 🌻 💮 🌷
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
9? What was it?
fritterer
Daily Quordle 437
3️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
Which is worse … Firsters or Quordlers?
Stumped on TL.
Now they’re just making shit up.
Daily Quordle 437
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They’ve used it before, but I’ve never seen it used in a sentence. I got lucky: got the other three in five guesses and could burn a few on that one.
Daily Quordle 437
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quordle.com
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Daily Quordle 437
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Fuckers
Yeah, I got through that one by thinking “what word would I put it here if I was total dick?”
Kind of a real fuckstick today. I got “lucky”
Daily Quordle 437
8️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
not gonna complain, with that mess I was lucky to pull it off at all. I could easily see myself chumpin’ on that particular sandwich.
Thx for the letters, Sean, now I know to not even try Blossom for the day.
The platform defined “state-affiliated media” as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures,
This includes Facebook and Google in my book. Twitter at one point as well. Not sure if there is any government pressure on CNN or MSNBC or if they’re just true believers.
It helps that a significant proportion of their talking heads are ex-intelligence community folks. Keeps them on brand without needing overt micro-management.
America’s Top Hostage Envoy Pursues Freedom for Detained U.S. Citizens in Increasingly Hostile World
Please…
Should have been an intro to a TV series “The Envoy”
I love that song.
So now we know that the most ethical administration in history, protected by their media cadre, was none of that. These crooks abused power to go after their political and business enemies and basically acted like a crime syndicate. But now we also get to confirm that it was not just Biden selling us out to the Chicoms, but Obama and his people too. In fairness, it will be a rare fucking thing to find someone in D.C., especially in the WH, that was not being bought by the CCP since Clinton started that whole thing rolling with his $2 million “campaign contribution” thing in return for giving the PLA both ICBM and miniaturized nuclear warhead tech.
since Clinton started that whole thing rolling with his $2 million “campaign contribution” thing in return for giving the PLA both ICBM and miniaturized nuclear warhead tech.
But can you prove he did it in a court of law?
They did. The transfer of technology was proven. So was the donation. Others went to jail. The Clintons walked away. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the argument for why they were not guilty was that they read the Clinton’s minds and they had no ill intent. It’s why Hillary was so brazen about breaking the law as Obama’s Sec State. She felt they were above it.
When is someone going to write a “Dare Call It Treason” book about all this shit?
Hey, it’s not they paraded around the Capitol or anything.
“Ownbestenemy on April 6, 2023 at 6:40 am
At the FAA Academy they have gone full disposable single use packets, utensils etc in name of COVID but still put hot sauce in bottles on the tables. I love inconsistencies”
Hot sauce kills germs, it’s science.
In cases of dire need it can also be used as a contraceptive if liberally applied to the private parts of fornicators before, during, or after the act?
I don’t need Rule 34 to be sure that’s someone’s kink.
‘John mallancamp’s ‘make it hurt so good’ was actually about this.
twitter is state media. their extreme reaction proves it.
I meant to say npr. today is hard, need coffee.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Coming soon to the US of A!
In South Africa, Insurers Fix Potholes, Sponsor Fire Brigades and Direct Traffic
The free market delivers.
uNeQuAl!
In Minneapolis the rich neighborhoods are hiring off duty cops to provide extra security. The regular residents are miffed for some reason. They won’t listen to the Defund The Police crowd when they tell them that they are better off without cops in their shitty neighborhoods.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfires-homes-trfn/cadillac-insurance-hunt-for-private-firefighters-as-california-burns-idUSKBN25O2J6
Knowing Minneapolis, I am sure the people hiring the extra security are the same ones that vote for defunding the police so they can virtue signal to each other?
That’s been going on for a long time. It was a thing in Dallas when I lived there 15+ years ago.
If it works, don’t touch it
https://twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0R/status/1643780587709235202
Indeed! Clean it and it will break!
I’ve thought about trying to crawl up in the non-functional attic space of this house (there’s spray insulation, nothing covering the joists so you can happily put a foot through the ceiling drywall and guy (xe?) wires everywhere so you can’t even walk anyway) to run cat7 to the other side. Part of what stops me is I know that’s precisely what the switch will look like within months… If I ever do it, I’ll try to figure out a way to vertical mount such that at least there’s a chance some of the dust will drift down off of it.
But yeah — nothing in that picture surprises me.
One project I want to get done this summer is to hire someone to run CAT6 (or CAT7, it’ll depend on costs) through the house so I can get a switch setup in the basement.
And by get done, I mean get a quote and pay someone to do the work. While I’m pretty sure I still have a punch down tool and wire crimper in the house, I’m quite certain that any holes I cut in the walls and any boxes I put in for wall plates would be… sub-standard.
One of the most important things every man should know is his limitations. The other is how valuable his time is and how willing he is to pay others to avoid work.
It is definitely a time function with the first derivative strongly increasing, let me tell ya.
In my younger years I sometimes made the mistake of doing things I should have known better. Paying a pro to fix the damage thought me about understanding my limitations. As an old geezer these days I pay for things I know I can do simply because I don’t want to be bothered. I would rather spend the time doing something else that I would enjoy.
That was one good thing about the house in Georgia (that some day I’ll move back to). The previous owners had run coax to all the rooms and I had no need of it, so I just taped the cat5 cables to the coax and pulled the coax out, then replaced the wall plate over to an ethernet plug instead. Easy peasy.
This place is slab foundation, half attic (and that unusable) so I just live with wifi on the other side of the house.
Half finished basement, and the finished side is right below where the internet run comes in. There’s some built against the wall shelving there (and drop ceilings through the finished section), which I believe should work quite well for a switch. The second floor is mostly finished, with two attic access areas on either side, so I don’t believe the cable runs will be to onerous.
Suburban home, and with all the neighbors also doing wireless, the interference is getting worse. There’s also some areas where we’d like to put in a new switch and ceiling light fixture put in and the like, so get it all quoted and see what we have the budget for.
I just put a conduit in the ground to run CAT6 from my house to the new garage under construction. I will need to run it to the cable modem from the basement, but I already have holes to pull through.
Meal Team Six
Something contemporary with that was that (at least in my son’s experience) the regular Army hugely cranked up the punishments for saying (or even noticing) anything related to either weight gain or underperformance on physical tests.
It was very heavily mixed with the push for non-sex-specific standards. Can’t notice certain things.
Basically “fat” is the new n-word in the Army.
Obligatory
Right, it’s the pandemic not the normal progression of fit to chubby over a period of 4+ years.
Sgt. Rock: “Drop and give me fifty, then grab your gear for a 10 mile hike.”
How bad is our new woke white woman county DA here in Minneapolis? Even Brother Keith thinks she is crazy for reducing charges for a couple black murderers!
Of course the last race Brother Keith was in was very close (and it was against a nobody), so maybe he realizes that his next race might not be so easy.
More info on the home invasion/murder case that is causing such a stink
The rest of the story is full of black residents calling her an idiot.
So therefore teens should be able to vote.
It’s not their reasoning ability that worries me. It’s their tendency to use violence to get what they want.
Takes even longer when the kids are coddled and never expected to act as adults.
*reviews profiles in masculinity of 14-16 year olds putting away their childish things*
Exactly. How much of that is because of a lack of need to grow the duck up.
And we can totally trust them when they say they’re trans.
What about the outcomes for the rest of us? Do we count?
No, you do not.
What’s her position on puberty blockers?
Our Bill Is the Best Way to Counter the TikTok Threat
Sure, let’s just ignore the language of the Bill itself and go with that.
And the income tax will only target the top 1% of earners says President Wilson….
The original form exempted all income below $3,000 a year if you were single, $4,000 if married.
So we’re all rich and deserved to be taxed.
For my own entertainment, I pulled up the inflation calculator to see what $3000 in 1/1913 would be worth in modern moneys. Per the completely transparent, non-gamed, US Bureau of Labor statistics, the CPI Inflation would make that $3000 worth $92,093.88 as of February 2023.
Trust us…
hese criminal penalties are targeted at corporations and executives who conspire to evade a mitigation order or ban
You mean like the previously mentioned VPN companies? Fucking liars can’t even tell a decent lie.
FLUX Raider so far: seems to be very well thought out with lots of cool features packed in
Sig P320: Worse Glock with extra steps and a nightmare of a trigger assembly.
https://twitter.com/moeguns_/status/1643855109095583744
I have to say I do not understand what any of this means.
“Sig P320: Worse Glock”
Say wut? Sig Saur & Glock are the same entity now?
It’s trolling
The FLUX Raider is the personal defense weapon (PDW) chassis. It’s a shoulder stock and foregrip for the pistol, that’s trying to convert it into an ultra-compact carbine.
The SIG P320 is the pistol.
I have some thoughts on the whole PDW/pistol-with-stock concept, but they’re even more boring and autistic than my usual gun rambling, so I’ll save them.
I will say that anyone who thinks a P320 is a ‘worse Glock’ needs careful handling…
“I have some thoughts on the whole PDW/pistol-with-stock concept, but they’re even more boring and autistic than my usual gun rambling, so I’ll save them”
…For an article?
I don’t own either a P320 or a FLUX Raider at present. I’d need to spend some time with that setup before I’d be comfortable writing an article on it.
Short version – I think that there’s a legitimate use case for a private citizen owning and carrying a PDW in some situations. I’m not sure if a PDW is really a marked improvement over carrying a pistol and knowing how to run it.
RFK Jr, painful to listen to through no fault of his own but not a bad guy. I’d take a principled populist leftist, which he is, over any shitdick neoliberal or neocon any day of the week.
Yeah to Drake’s comment above about not letting him on the debate stage with Biden…I mean maybe. RFKJR is an easier read than a listen.
Don’t be so sure you really want that. Good intentions pave the way to hell.
Banana republic crime syndicate members running the legal system decide others shouldn’t be able to see they are radical fucking evil nutbags
Thot Thursday 2024!
https://archive.ph/RGSir
I think you’ve jumped a temporal track again there, Q… just because you’re trying to get Picard to save humanity’s evolution again, I’m sure.
Tall stories: the weird world of Hong Kong’s rooftops – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/may/24/tall-stories-the-weird-world-of-hong-kong-kowloon-rooftops-in-pictures-romain-jacquet-lagrez-concrete-stories
Too Bladerunneresque, those kinds of conditions would be hell on earth.
Better than most of China given how many moved there
Sounds like RFK Jr. wants to be assassinated just like his dad and uncle.
They prefer to suicide people now.
Tomato, tomahto
Exchange rate volatility and monetary policy
Ethan Ilzetzki Carmen Reinhart Kenneth Rogoff /
4 Apr 2023
The global economy has witnessed great economic volatility in the first two decades of the 21st century. Yet over this period, and in particular during Covid-19, exchange rates remained unusually stable. This column presents evidence suggesting that monetary policy is a main driver of exchange rate volatility. Only when interest rate policy started to become much more uncertain over the past 15-18 months has more normal exchange rate volatility returned, albeit not at the level of the 1970s and 1980s.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/exchange-rate-volatility-and-monetary-policy
We are talking about alcohol companies here.
RuPaul is just entertainment. Not all things drag are grooming.
If you say so.
I expect that quorum suit to degenerate into a schoolyard shouting match about whether or not the runner actually touched second base, and anyway there wasn’t anybody there to tag him out.
Tag him out? I know it has been a long time since I dated, but that’s not how I remember touching second base working…
Having never even gotten to first base in high school, I know nothing about how touching the other bases worked.
It is all tag team wrasslin’ now.
Ukraine reconstruction: Preventing pitfalls in infrastructure investments
Sander Winckel /
5 Apr 2023
The bulk of the more than $750 billion Ukraine Recovery Plan is earmarked for infrastructure. Based upon the findings of an extensive research project into the requirements for infrastructure investments in Romania, this column envisages raising the awareness of preparation for such projects. Extensive preparation supported by donor-financed technical assistance is required. This should prevent many of the pitfalls that can hinder implementation of infrastructure investments in Ukraine.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/ukraine-reconstruction-preventing-pitfalls-infrastructure-investments
“After its entry into the EU, Romania was absorbing its allocated EU funds (€ 20 billion for 2007–2013), in particular those earmarked for public infrastructure investments, much slower than other new EU members and requested World Bank assistance to review its public investment framework in 2012.”
Yes it is called politicians are stupid and very corrupt. No mystery there
What a wasteful thought experiment-maybe they should wait to see how things turn out first.
If I was Putin, I’d be tempted to pretend to come to a peace settlement, and attack again in 5 years. He could break the entire world economy after they piss away a trillion and he blows it up.
“Pretty sneaky, sis.”
Ukraine’s tax system functions primarily on the basis of unofficial rules of tax collection. This divergence between law and practice predates Russia’s 2022 invasion. This column argues that Ukraine needs a new tax system that provides incentives to come out of the shadow economy. The main goal is for businesses to pay predictable and uniform taxes as prescribed in the law. In times of tremendous crisis the state has to react forcefully to protect its citizens. The Ukrainian government has done so on the military front, it has to do so on the tax front too.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/towards-new-tax-system-ukraine
What happens to that shadow economy when the US goes digital? Since every dollar will be traced, Ukraine will have to turn to Russia and China for currency.
There will be exceptions for the connected, the powerful, and the crime syndicates that are approved.
EXOPULSE Mollii Suit is a medical assistive device for neuromodulation with 58 electrodes positioned to stimulate 40 key body muscles for chronic pain, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis or stroke treatment
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1643676435519873025
That’s pretty awesome. I could also see that being used for masturbation in a Sugar Free episode coming soon…
I have a friend who’s currently working at the Cleveland Clinic on a project for stroke rehabilitation that has had some promising results.
*queue’s a particular Billy Squire song*
Meta-Analysis: Trigger warnings don’t help people to emotionally prepare for distressing material or to avoid it – the two things they’re intended to do. Their main effect seems to be to increase people’s anxiety about encountering the material.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1643058861841219584
Now I’m triggered!
“Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler denies sexual assault allegations over relationship in the 1970s … as accuser’s attorney says rock star is ‘gaslighting’ in his defense”
The timing of the lawsuit came days ahead of a December 31 deadline to fall under the umbrella of California’s Child Victims Act, which paused the statute of limitations for people to report sexual abuse crimes committed against them when they were children.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11944619/Aerosmiths-Steven-Tyler-denies-sexual-assault-allegations-relationship-teen-1970s.html
Feminist archeology
“I fucked a rockstar in the 70s” sounds more like a brag than a lawsuit.
Did any woman not fuck Steven Tyler in the 70’s?
My mom… I hope.
Or man
Good morning, Banjos!
No way!
Heh heh. And the monetary losses begin! Mopar still has a chance to reverse course and just sell current models. Ford and GM are screwed. Shareholders won’t take it in the shorts for more than a year.
They can’t. They are essentially going to forced into selling electrics because of mandates.
We need more tax subsidies, duh. Won’t somebody please think of the underworked child miners?
It’s only fair. Remember all the subsidies that Rockefeller got to build a national network of gas stations to support the new auto industry? And how all those consumers got a huge subsidy to buy a Model T?
Stop flogging us!
Good morning Tundra! We have our big tournament (Disabled Hockey Festival) in St. Louis in a week and a half. The organizers have created a shit show for both our teams. But I’ll be back in Minnesota on June 2 and that tournament looks perfect.
Hey Kevin!
The one in Minne is still run by the Hendrickson Foundation – they are a solid outfit.
What is going on in St. Louis?
A Team is in the top tier of course. They started with only 4 teams in their tier, but one dropped out so there’s only 3. They are now playing both teams twice, and have two games Friday and two Saturday only about 3 hours apart, and the games are at 3 different rinks. No chance they make it to the championship game, they have lost badly to these two teams all year. So travel and hotel for 4 days, but they are only playing 2 days.
B team dominated our tier in October, so we wanted to move up a tier for more of a challenge. But they didn’t do that, so we’re playing those same teams again. Our schedule is ok, though we have a game at 7 or 8pm on Saturday, and the championship game is at 7am Sunday.
My coach is livid. They’re spending thousands of dollars to get us to this tournament. Seems like everything USA Hockey has done this year is poorly organized crap.
That sucks. I wonder if there are new people at the helm.
Well, good luck regardless! Might as well pad your stats!
Ve must haf ORDER
“It is, unfortunately, an American phenomenon,” says Jonathan Adkins, CEO of the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA). Other western countries did not see the same sustained increase in traffic deaths, and he thinks one important difference is a pullback in policing, following the George Floyd protests of 2020.
“Why do many of us drive dangerously on the roads? Because we think we can get away with it. And guess what — we probably can right now in many places in the country,” says Adkins. “There’s not enforcement out there, they’re hesitant to write tickets. And we’re seeing the results of that.”
Carol Cummings is convinced that’s what’s happening. She’s a retired police officer who lives in Seattle, where she’s noticed an increase in dangerous driving.
“I can’t think of the last time that I have seen a police car with a motorist pulled over on the side of the road that was not involved in something like an accident,” Cummings says.
“But you should take the time to find out if there’s facts to back it up,” she says, so she requested traffic stops data from the city. The result: Traffic citations by police are down about 86%, compared to 2019.
And just think of the lost revenue.
I think it’s all the rollover etc. safety standards that cars are much heavier and no one can see where they are going.
And often by orders from above, because equity.
With Lyft and Uber, DUI fines have plummeted as well. We should just tax them to recover the revenue, it’s the only fair way.
Ms. Cummings should come on out to the suburbs, where they are just fine ticketing speeders. Or maybe drive I-5 from Seatac to Olympia in the morning, where the WSP sets multi-car speed traps daily.
I saw this last Monday here in TX.
Ha ha ha: BBC Sports runs a live text/feed thing most mornings on football developments to which they post some texts received from viewers. They, of course, posted the news that Lampard had been named interim Chelsea manager. One member of the public texted, “surely all Chelsea managers are interim.”
Some animals are more interim than others.
“Chicago ‘gang member’ with Down syndrome is charged with TWO murders: ‘Shot man dead in front of pregnant wife during road rage attack, with second victim killed in mistaken identity shooting'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11944375/Chicago-gang-member-syndrome-charged-TWO-murders.html
That’s retarded.
Like, literally?
I used to be opposed to “three strikes and you’re out” laws, but this shit is changing my mind as it’s all too typical.
I think the Soros lobby should be allowed to meet and greet some of the criminals they helped stay out of prison. I am sure the criminals will show their thanks.
He probably has never been prosecuted, so he wouldn’t have any strikes.
Once again South Park’s Nathan imitates life.
I’m not down with insults like that
Philadelphia, Minneapolis and even the state of Virginia have adopted formal policies limiting strops for minor violations, sometimes called “pretextual stops,” because they give police a justification to stop a car they find suspicious for other, less articulable reasons.
That’s crazy. That car with a burned out license plate light might be the key to solving a billion dollar identity theft ring.
It’s drugs.
Don’t forget how human traffickers like to dangle air fresheners from their rear view mirrors to signal to each other.
*Slowly removes dangling air freshener, tells kidnapped lady in the trunk to stop crying.*
Carryover from last night’s thread…
Fuck you Zwak. The USFL was a beautiful, horrible thing.
Fuck cancer for taking away John Bassett.
He would have been a much better president than Trump. Although he was Canadian, so, nevermind.
Just in case you were unaware… the USFL is back.
Go Birmingham!
Lets go Generals!!!
I am, but without the Bandits or Breakers, is it really back?
I can’t even with this…
Which part?
Seriously though, if you read anything about USFL history, everything Trump does makes total sense. He literally couldn’t stand owning a lesser league team. The idea of building something from the ground up doesnt fit with him. His only purpose in owning a USFL team was to force his way into the NFL. He cared about the league none at all.
That might be a good idea. Anybody here surprised the bank stonewalled and denied until publicly shamed?
EXCLUSIVE: Chase Bank ATM victim goes undercover to prove he was scammed by glue and ‘tap’ thief
Mind you I never leave an ATM until the screen has gone back to the original “insert card” menu.
That is SOP for any kiosk.
Recently at the local post office I could’ve bought stamps for days on someone else’s dime at their kiosk!
I didn’t.
I dont even like using tap to pay. Seems sketchy.
Also, why with the chip readers does it take forever to read the chip if you insert, but tap to pay is immediate?
What could go wrong with a phone running an OS and apps most people have no idea about having a vulnerability? Heck, what if their app tracked all your content?
Fook that shizz.
PA LCB rolled out new card machines. They suck. Tap lags and insert works faster. 🙄
It’s a simple case of mistaken identity
Twitter added a “state-affiliated media” tag to NPR’s main account on Tuesday, applying the same label to the nonprofit media company that Twitter uses to designate official state mouthpieces and propaganda outlets in countries such as Russia and China.
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Noting the millions of listeners who support and rely upon NPR for “independent, fact-based journalism,” NPR CEO John Lansing stated, “NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable. It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy.”
NPR officials have asked Twitter to remove the label. They initially assumed it was applied by mistake, NPR spokesperson Isabel Lara said. “We were not warned. It happened quite suddenly last night,” Lara said.
In response to an NPR email for this story seeking comment and requesting details about what in particular might have led to the new designation, the company’s press account auto-replied with a poop emoji — a message it has been sending to journalists for weeks.
With all due respect…
I don’t think you could explain to these fucks why they got the label. They simply won’t accept you pointing out they are shills for the corruptocracy. They believe what they are doing is noble shit despite the fact that we all know better.
A very limited portion of NPR’s budget comes from direct federal sources. “On average, less than 1% of NPR’s annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments,” according to NPR’s website.
Great. So stop taking the money, since it’s such a small amount, and become truly independent from the government.
How did the anarchist die?
From pro-state cancer.
Boooo!
*throws rotten virtual tomato*
“Planned Parenthood out here trying to normalize herpes or some shit.”
https://twitter.com/SomeB1tchIKnow/status/1643878980401938432
I for one look forward to our new herpetic overlords.
I want to know both how any firm can be this stupid with its controls and what the real story is.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tech-firm-posts-white-only-job-ad-then-deletes-website-amid-ensuing-outrage/
TW – Ars Technica
So yeah, “new junior recruiter” was blamed. Maybe, but, what seems much, much more likely is a disgruntled employee doing it on purpose on their way out the door to blow up the company.
Narrator: We’re not going to get the real story.
Meanwhile I continue to see posters advertising minority-only jobs. How many decades of “affirmative action” are enough?
Chase did not say what the changes may be, but it indicated it may change the way the tap feature closes out the transaction window.
“Just tap your phone. It’s so convenient.”
No
fucking
way.
Those criticizing the new label include Yoel Roth, who was Twitter’s head of trust and safety for nearly eight years. He resigned from Twitter last November.
“Twitter’s decision to label NPR as a state media outlet flies in the face of years of research, all evidence about NPR’s funding and governance, and Twitter’s own policies and principles,” Roth said in a message to NPR.
Roth has previously said he left Twitter because he saw the platform being undermined by “capricious decision-making.” In this instance, he sees something more pernicious.
“Establishing a false equivalency between public broadcasters and editorial control of media by government is misleading,” he said, “and undermines the essential work of providing transparency about state-backed propaganda efforts around the world.”
“And besides, they say stuff I agree with.”
“The Left has taken away all of the neutral cultural ground. This is why brands like Bud Light and Nike are giving endorsement deals to a dude in a dress. In the past, a beer company could basically be culturally neutral. But the Left has declared that you are either with them or against them. The “silence is violence” principle. So the brands have a choice. They can be baptized into wokeism and openly worship at the LGBT altar, or they can by default align themselves with conservatives. What do they do? Well, the Left will do everything in their power (and they have a lot of power) to make them pay dearly for disloyalty. Piss off the Right, on the other hand, and you’ll have to deal with some angry tweets and then nothing else will happen. It’s an easy choice…..”
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1643716618818580483
He’s mostly correct here…the right’s mostly hands off nature is its undoing when it comes to boycotts and whatnot and the companies are well aware. That being said, there’s plenty of organizational capture by well-placed leftist nuts too.
There’s some backlash, I had an article in my newsfeed the other day talking about the Bud Lite boycott. The big item in there was the people were actually researching what brands were owned by Bud Lite’s parent company (which is quite a lot).
It’s San Francisco. I’m surprised they didn’t take his wallet.
Bob Lee: Shocking video appears to show onlookers ignore dying Cash App founder as he begs for help
Since most major cities now find ways to criminalize Good Samaritans I’m not at all surprised.
If some bloody dude staggers up to my car at 0230 at Folsom and Main, I’m probably getting my happy ass out of there too.
Ms Jenkins tweeted her “sincerest condolences” to Mr Lee’s grief-stricken family and friends.
“We do not tolerate these horrific acts of violence in San Francisco,” she added.
Bull fucking Shit. The problem is you have been tolerating this.
The Whimper of Whipped Dogs.
SF is a bit strange when it comes to crime. Over the last several decades it has a relatively low violent crime rate for an American city, but an extremely high property crime rate. There is an absolute fuckload of theft that happens here, I deal with the after effects every day. This case is getting some serious national news attention, and it should. Violent crime is now nowhere near 70’s and 80’s levels (Dirty Harry was a thing for a reason) , but they are increasing (in many places rapidly) due to very similar reasons that they rose in the late 60’s and stayed that way for almost three decades.
I can’t really blame the car for taking off at 230am when a bloody dude approached them. Although they really should’ve called 911 as they were booking ass out of there.
New ad campaign for Bud Light:
“We Don’t Care, We’ll Sell our Beer to ANYBODY.”
All this sputtering is wearing me out. Let me know when they refuse to allow their beer to be sold at NAPCAR races or NFL games.
If they want to run their brand into the dirt to appeal to about ten percent of the population, most of whom would turn up their noses at that swill, they can be my guest.
NAPCAR races
I would think woke Bud would love to sell their brew to race car driving adults who were all wearing diapers.
I found a fixer-upper, but the address has be a tad concerned.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/714-N-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Ave-Salisbury-NC-28144/75005076_zpid/
Uhm…perhaps an understatement.
Really?
Hey, just because it has no floors or walls doesn’t mean it doesn’t have rooms.
+ Les Nessman
Hah! When we were house-hunting, one place we looked at was 2.5 baths. The half bath was a toilet under the stairs going to the basement in a three-sided room with no light and nothing wired in.
“Use your imagination.”
“Open-concept interior.”
MLK Ave? Buy a flak jacket before you move in then.
Run bitch run!
If you ever find yourself at the intersection of MLK and Malcom X …
Wow. I understand why it is so cheap. Even then, the brick pillars holding it up look iffy. The front porch has some decaying brick. Would not recommend. Also it could be a “historic house” or something which requires an exacting, super expensive rebuild. Offer 50K if the house is not under building restrictions and see if you get it.
I don’t want it.
RJ’s right. Check the local historic codes, and if you don’t have too many issues, low ball an offer.
But, on the plus side, you get to see EVERYTHING and can make some nice choices on interior finishes.
Look at the bright side, adding insulation will be a breeze.
“Hugely significant case that’s not getting nearly enough coverage.
This man was stopped in the streets by rioters. Had an AK-47 put in his face. He defended himself.
Police cleared him, then a Soros DA in Austin Texas personally intervened.”
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1643816631477633025
“Murder trial: Expert says Daniel Perry slowed down as he made turn into crowd of protesters
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Testimony from a photogrammetry expert in the Daniel Perry murder trial disputed eyewitness accounts that Daniel Perry sped into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters before he shot and killed Garrett Foster in downtown Austin.
Perry is accused of murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the July 2020 death of Foster. Perry entered a not-guilty plea in court last week….”
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/murder-trial-expert-says-daniel-perry-slowed-down-as-he-made-turn-into-crowd-of-protesters/
Dude was surrounded by a braying mob and one of them was brandishing an AK? Shouldn’t be charged at all. FFS Texas.
Forget about it, Stinky. It’s Austin.
The state says it was a deliberate murder. So was his plan to drive slowly into the crowd, stop and wait for the one guy with an automatic rifle to come up to his car and point it at him, then shoot him? It’s ridiculous.
I found a fixer-upper, but the address has be a tad concerned.
It doesn’t look too bad. Situations like this are where the “satellite view” feature comes in handy.
We really are reliving the 1970s
‘The hatred festered in our family’: Northern Ireland marks 25 years since the Good Friday peace accord
The Taliban rose across Afghanistan after two decades of supposedly being stamped out. It wouldn’t be surprising for the IRA to do the same when the UK’s economy crashes. Empires are unsustainable in the long run.
I guess I should have waited for the rest of the pics to load…
As a friend used to say, “It just lacks a little finishing up.”
InBev owns Becks??!!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB_InBev_brands
Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
Among the beer geeks, there are those who have built out giant web maps of who owns who when it comes to breweries. It’s not always a single level ownership thing either. As an example, there’s a brewery in Michigan called Short’s (tag line: “Michigan only, Michigan always” which they kept even after they started distributing to Ohio). That brewery sold to Lagunitas (based out of California). However, Lagunitas had previously been fully acquired by Heineken (Lagunitas owner statement: It’s different when I sell out).
It gets even more confusing when you start factoring in the non-beer brands that have bought in as well. Monster beverages (the lawsuit happy energy drink guys) bought the Canarachy collective (Oskar Blues, Cigar City, and a couple of others) several years back. Sweetwater sold a large interest to a marijuana company (which is honestly a good fit for both brands). Then you’ve got the breweries that are spinning out into other industries (one local brewery has a coffee brand as well as a recreational marijuana brand in Michigan).
Out of the insider’s loop anymore, but has the Brewers Association had to keep bending their “craft” definition in order to continue to grow their number?
As an aside, my definition of craft helps none at all for the BA figuring out who is in or out, but I will state it for the record:
Craft – The synthesis of art and engineering.
Budweiser is not craft as they are almost entirely engineering. Fantome is the best example of possibly being too far the other way.
I don’t think they’ve had to adjust it recently (due to the downturn and Boston Beer’s acquisition of Dogfish Head), but there’s a good chance that Boston Beer is going to malternative themselves out of the “craft” definition regardless.
Ja, und Beck’s…
“I told you we should have brought Deutschmarks.”
They have owned Becks for approximately forever, right?
Yaaaa!
St. Pauli girl too? Where will I go for my nonshitty other than IPAs?
Any good German-American craft brewery?
There are a ton of breweries who focus on stuff other than IPA. They may, or may not, also make one or three, but that isn’t their focus.
For example: https://www.zweibrewing.com/beers.aspx
Notice that 1 of the 6 (and its listed last) of their Flagship beers is an IPA. The other 5 are German.
On their rotating list, 2 of the 11 are IPAs. And 6 are Germanicy. (Germany borders the Baltic, right? And they keep invading Belgium)
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/494286.aspx
Russian warships makes first port call in Saudi Arabia in a decade.
We’ve pissed away all of our goodwill in that part of the world I’m afraid.
OPEC+ members are basically asking why the fuck they should trade using the currency of one country or care about the economic future of a block of nations that are letting AGW cultist destroy their energy future.
Pretty much plus the Saudi rapprochement with Iran who is largely a Russian client state. They’re going to pursue their own rational self-interest and right now that doesn’t include aligning with us.
Something new to fret about
There are different kinds of turbulence, and it’s hard to pinpoint what caused the extreme conditions that rocked Weisse’s flight. In an email, Alaska Airlines acknowledged “unexpected turbulence” on the flight. But researchers say there’s evidence that a particularly unpredictable type known as “clear-air turbulence” is becoming more frequent, says Paul Williams, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Reading in England.
As its name implies, clear-air turbulence occurs in the absence of clouds or bad weather. It’s caused by wind shear — sudden changes in wind speed and direction — at altitudes above 15,000 feet.
The reason for this increase in clear-air turbulence is climate change, Williams says. As global temperatures increase due to rising levels of greenhouse emissions such as carbon dioxide, the jet stream is experiencing more wind shear.
Climate change; is there anything it can’t destroy?
This new type of turbulence isn’t called “Pissed off the Clintons” or “Angered the Deep State”, is it?
OFFS.
“Vape addicts aren’t getting past 1”
https://twitter.com/aq1poi/status/1641721595474345984
Bullshit. I got a 10, bitch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yXdbXl-lno
Holding your breath for 80 seconds is supposed to be a huge accomplishment now?
Science!
As I recall, AB Inbev owns red Hook. Good stuff (or it was, anyway- I haven’t seen it lately).
In a follow-up study using climate model simulations, Williams and colleagues predicted that clear-air turbulence in the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere could triple in the next three to six decades, depending on future greenhouse emissions.
OH
MY
GOD!
New slogan:
“NPR: totally not propaganda!”