We all know how this will end, right?
It’s been a while, friends. What a long, strange road trip this has been. But I’ll be home this afternoon. Which is where Dallas was last night as they thumped Minnesota to be on the brink of closing the series out. Also, I’m still shocked that Toronto are one win away from taking their series with Tampa. And there are a few other great matchups going out there. We’re not even through the first round and this year has been fantastic. I also hear basketball is doing their playoffs too, but I don’t care. The Astros are getting their shit together finally. Today is the day that will (probably) decide the EPL as Arsenal take on Man City. And that’s it for sports.
God for him. The demand was an unprecedented attempt at a political hit job and he was right to tell them to fuck off.
Municipal government
Speaking of the Supreme Court, this case better end up 9-0. There’s a place in hell for city government employees that do shit like this. At least I hope there is.
Wait a minute….lesbians can be invisible? That can’t be true.I’ve never once seen what I thought was a self-driving Subaru..
What the absolute fuck is this city thinking? They’re not even protecting government workers anymore? That’s usually where they draw the line.
Dude, shut the fuck up. You’re not entitled to have everybody like or respect you. Expecting, or even demanding, they do so is the hight of entitlement. Also, shave your balls in the pool. It’ll make you faster.
Evil piece of shit
Dude, shut the fuck up 2: Covid Boogaloo. In a logical world, this guy would be changing his face like Ernst Stavro Blofeld and hiding in a volcano lair. Instead he’s out there calling himself a victim.
What a bunch of fucking crooks. And the people who claim to care for the little guy are the worst stonewallers of all. Curious, that.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I think companies might need to start reviewing the concept of “fiduciary duty” to execs. Because there’s a lot of them out there that have no idea what that means.
What a dick. No wait, that should read: What? A dick! Fucking Germans, man.
Let’s rock this Wednesday morning. Oh yeah. And this is how I feel after 8 days on the road. Can’t wait to see Banjos and the girls this afternoon. Side note: Louisiana enforces speed limits a lot more aggressively than they should.
That’s it, friends. Go have a great day.
“You’re not entitled to have everybody like or respect you.” What a twat. He can expect zero teammates tomorrow. Nobody will put up with that kind of bad mouthing.
They’ll support him once the school tells them to smile or lose their scholarships.
Yeah, this…embrace the female penis or suffer the consequences.
Is that technically a “shenis”?
Also Louisiana enforcement is balls, agreed.
Chief Justice John Roberts will not testify before Congress about Supreme Court ethics
Which is why we have to expand the court with leftist justices to save Democracy.
The family will likewise be happy to see you, Sloop
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=good+to+be+back+home+again+john+denver&atb=v198-1&ia=web
Narcissistic psychopath
Sadly he will face no consequences.
Well. instead of being lionized like Jonas Salk people are saying mean things about him!
Boo hoo, woe is me.
He’s a piece of work for the history books.
Rather he will continue to collect the largest U.S. government pension ever.
Not here, anyway.
Fauci owes me and every American 2 years. Worst of all he used the government to enforce his made up rules and now a lot of people have become believers.
“a grant that was put before peer review of independent scientists ”
The grant means they are no longer independent. Keep pretending otherwise, Doc.
So how many “next pandemics” has that work prepared us for?
Seriously. Precedent set.
At least I hope there is.
There is a place on a lamp post for when Americans wise up to this type of crap.
whaddup doh’
Considering those taxes and fees ALSO went to the government, I’d say they got $40k, not $25k.
I’m sure they stole even more than that.
I paid my property tax via check in the mail a month ago. To date my check has not cleared, I’m not sure if the problem is the post office or the county.
I’m still waiting for South Carolina to take my income tax out of my account. Already bugged our Accountant once.
PA got my $2.
The last time I paid PA income tax, the rule was if you owed less than a dollar you had to mail in the form but you didn’t have to pay.
I owed $1.02. I was tempted to mail in pennies as payment.
I recall in California it was less than $5.
NH was very quick to cash my income tax check.
Yes. NH has an income tax, though it is being phased out.
You must live in a rich county. A county living check to check can’t afford to delay.
That’s why I eat the credit card fee to pay our property taxes. It gives me the record of the county receiving my payment by the required date. Which I need undisputed to remain in the land-use program and get the state car tax rebate. 12 bucks is a cheap price to pay for the peace of mind.
My taxes are minimal though (<$500), so I'd have to rethink that with New Jersey sized tax bills.
The county here uses a drop box service. Checks are cashed within a day or two of mailing.
Here too. They’re always quick to deposit checks.
I got my property tax bill in the mail two weeks AFTER the due date. Goddamned Chicago post office.
Even if SCOTUS rules for the plaintiff, localities will just sell the property for the owed amount and fuck the property
ownerleasor if the locality can’t keep it.Clearly the proper response is to make property taxes illegal.
“localities will just sell the property for the owed amount” to an insider or someone connected.
Zactly.
Jean-Pierre — the first openly gay White House press secretary — said she sees “everyday how important visibility and representation are.”
I don’t advertise that I am super-straight.
“As a young queer woman of color, I felt alone and sometimes invisible,” Jean-Pierre said as she introduced the group. “For so many people in our community, The L Word’s impact cannot be understated.”
You are the press-secretary to a fake regime. You are not invisible and you are not that young…
And she’s terrible at her job.
By “invisible,” does she mean that not everyone in the room understands her sexual proclivities? That shit is private, and I hate this decade for pushing bedroom preferences out in the open, constantly.
Not only pushing out in the open, but insisting on enthusiastic approval and support.
Endorse my kink, bigot.
Well… are the lesbians hot?
You’ll never know since they’re apparently invisible. -10 to your perception check.
Only the unattractive ones are invisible.
There’s no way she was able to find like-minded people living in that bastion of rednecks known as New York City while getting her Masters at Columbia, or when she went straight from there to work for a progressive politician.
She’s struggled mightily while Uncle Toms like Clarence Thomas had it easy.
Are you saying she’s past her prime?
Google it!
– Don Lemon
I actually watched that show and I am thoroughly disgusted – if not surprised – at some of its actors appearing on stage for this fraudulent, evil administration.
At least she properly deployed “queer” in its real meaning of “insufferable radical leftist”.
Just because you’re not the Queen Bee of the social set doesn’t mean you’re invisible, you incompetent narcissist.
I forgot about the Clarence Thomas “outrage.” But the story yesterday about Gorsuch now makes more sense. Can’t pack the court? Force the people you don’t like to resign.
The obvious desperation is somewhat unnerving.
Actually I think it’s rather enjoyable. Squirm you shit-eating weasels.
It’s unnerving because they look like they are willing to go to any lengths to get what they want. At this point I wouldn’t put assassination past them.
I do, because they’re cowards, only brave when backed up by a mob. They sure as hell don’t stand on conviction about principles.
Seth Rich and Epstein would have disagreed. The ruling class has zero reluctance to assassinate perceived threats.
Hold on, the Clintons are a clear exception – and they were never terribly ‘progressive’.
All they need to do is wind up a mentally ill transgender and send him at the Justices with an AR. Bravery not required.
Open Pod Q-376 and release the subject.
Two years ago I would have dismissed such a possibility as a wacky conspiracy theory. Currently, I’m not so sure.
Even cowards can fuck you up, if they freak out enough.
And I don’t for one second think that progressives are cowards. They’re bullies – avoidant in anythjng approaching a fair fight, but completely ruthless when they have the upper hand.
Bullies are cowards, by definition.
I keep getting the definitions of coward and craven confused.
Whoever came up with that definition must have never run into a real bully…
Some are, some aren’t. Bullies are people who use threats, intimidation, and force to get their way. Some will back off if resisted. Others will escalate. The “bullies are cowards” is an attempt to shame bullies, not an empirical observation of fact.
At this point the pressure of serving could drive one to arkancide.
I hate it when I give someone perfectly functional documentation, the slightest thing happens that’s not perfectly identical to the document, and they can’t deal, just spinning around “But it’s not the same”.
What we all need is more trap doors. Just watch that person disappear downwards on a WebEx. Magic trap doors.
I experience the same feeling every few weeks when I give a test which includes a problem copied directly from the homework, except changing 2 to 3, and students go “we weren’t taught how to do this!!!”
Here is the manual, all 27 volumes.
I wrote the documentation so I wouldn’t have to remember the details of a process we do once every few years.
Other people used the same documentation to do the task with no issue.
How the DC revolving door works.
BlackRock external affairs chief Dalia Blass leaves to join Sullivan & Cromwell
First you make a name for yourself at the SEC coming down like a hammer on the companies it oversees. Next you move to BlackRock so that you can explain what goes on behind the curtain at the SEC and help them avoid the hammer. You follow that up with a partnership at a white shoe law firm.
Do white shoe law firms only work between Memorial and Labor Day? Because doing so in winter would be gauche.
I’ve always wondered how that came to be, but never had an interest in even the simplest online search.
Maybe one of the guild members here can comment.
I don’t know, but will note the Navy switches seasonally between white and navy.
FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-shoe_firm
No one took me seriously when I opened the first clown shoe law firm.
Blackberry is a Qanon supporter!?!?
What in the everloving fuck? Are people actually unaware of lesbians?
A week of nothing but glamor aerial photography of the Isle of Lesbos.
Attention-seeking is a never-ending struggle.
10% off all U-Hauls. Book yours now!
I wonder if Subaru has some kind of promotion this week.
I think the porn sites celebrate that year round.
Trans swimmer Lia Thomas hits back at teammates who ‘half support’ her and women who ‘use the guise of feminism to push transphobic beliefs’ in fiery podcast calling out their implicit bias
Interesting considering that you live under the guise of trans, which is not real. It is a mental illness.
Since Lia is a woman, KJP should be trying to bed her.
Isn’t he uncut, and doesn’t he date women?
I don’t know his circumcision status, but he engages in cishet PIV according to his girlfriend.
Wait a minute….lesbians can be invisible? That can’t be true. I’ve never once seen what I thought was a self-driving Subaru..
My daughter bought a Subaru just yesterday. And yes, yes she is.
Your daughter is invisible, lesbian, or both?
Both, but she only can turn invisible when no one is looking at her – kind of a fucked up superpower if you ask me. I asked her if she knew the Subaru stereotype, she has and she didn’t care. It is a pretty good car, I’m driving a 16 year old Chrysler 300 and I’m a little jealous.
Wut? Lotsa ‘bama gays not getting their ‘bortions?
Someone left out one or two letters and a plus sign. For shame. Do better, queers.
Supposedly, the Dobbs decision allowing states to regulate abortion overturned the precedents not allowing the states to outlaw gaiety. Or something.
Daily Quordle 457
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, April 26
Letters: C D E I R S T
My score: 374 points
My longest word: 11 letters
🌷 💮 🏵 🌼 🌸 🌻 💐 🌺 🌹 🌷 💮
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Garbage.
Daily Quordle 457
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Eh — actually pretty decent today. Got lucky in that one of my seed words was 3 starting greens on UL… to the point that I was pretty sure what the word was but didn’t want to guess it for fear I was biting at too obvious of bait so tried to work the others first…
DuoTri I sucked at, though. Ah well.
Daily Duotrigordle #420
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 03:44.28
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 457
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Yup
Ciderist
Receded
Deride
Strider
Derided
Destrier
So is a D&D character who specializes in riding half-spider / half-humanoids using seven league boots a Driderriderstrider and can you use that?
5E always seemed a little odd to me.
Ugh.
Daily Quordle 457
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“Communication in pandemics is difficult under the best of circumstances,” Fauci told the outlet. “What has been so troubling to me as a health official is when you are dealing with a moving target, the evidence is evolving and new data becomes available, but you get so many different people with their own sets of data that are not real data, but even in a perfect world, it would not be easy.”
You tried to shut down the country and force “vaccinate” people for a fucking cold virus. Go fuck yourself and take a long walk off a short pier.
Communication is no more difficult during a pandemic than during normal times. I think it’s “mass obedience” that he was reaching for there.
Yup. Heard him loud and clear. And he heard the “Go fuck yourself” loud and clear, too.
It’s actually easier, since people aren’t working and aren’t allowed to go out and about as much and everyone is glued to the news sources finding out what will be allowed or mandated and when.
“fiduciary duty”
Transitioning the standard to be aligned with ESG.
Generalized that for you.
Just to be clear: in SF, SYG and Castle doctrine are racist, but chasing someone down the street so you can finish them off is totes legit self defense? No wonder we need lawyers, the law is so confusing for simpletons such as myself.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/man-turns-tables-on-would-be-robber-in-west-oak-lane-shooting/
Compare & contrast…
That’s usually Philly code for good shoot.
People who live nearby told CBS News Philadelphia that the area is normally safe.
These lines always amuse me.
Mostly peaceful.
This one is deranged even by progressive standards. Even allowing that the news lies constantly about everything, there’s not a single element of self-defense visible anywhere in those video clips.
The prosecutor is defending himself – from becoming another target!
If the actions of the participants were reversed, would the former fire chief get away with not being charged? Not a chance.
OK, we made a mistake…
Tobacco Company BAT Pleads Guilty to Violating U.S. Sanctions on North Korea
The Norks can afford ciggies? Their economy must be improving.
Cigs are money in prisons.
Pooh Bear upped their allowance last year.
What evil plans do the Norks have for the cigarettes? Balloon drops over the US? Currency supply shortage for political prisoners?
Former FBI Agent Who Refused to Raid Jan. 6 Suspect Warns of Agency’s Weaponization
Everyone knows, hardly anyone cares.
Who happily participated in a paramilitary organization for years and still uses those photos to promote his book.
With apologies to our resident Iowans, fuck Iowa.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/there-appears-be-deal-mccarthy-makes-late-night-concessions-48-trillion-debt-limit
Corn, corn, corn…
Gotta bring home the bacon.
Apology accepted. I’m not happy either.
These weapons of war of assault weapons have no reason other than mass murder. Their only purpose is to kill humans as rapidly as possible in large numbers.”
“No one needs an AR-15 to protect your family,” Inslee said while surrounded by family members of shooting victims. “You only need it to kill other families.”
I can’t say what I think of Herr Inslee without drawing additional negative attention to this wee website.
I see a class action lawsuit. All those AR-15s that haven’t killed other families must be defective.
I blame the gun manufacturers. Since we obviously have the technology for guns that can’t be used to defend, but only can kill innocents, it should be easy enough to reverse the polarity on the barrel shroud and make them so they can only kill the guilty.
It’s because the rifling is twisted to the right which is evil. If they twisted left they would only kill fascists and other people who deserve killing.
I just want to know, did LE agree to give up their ARs? Or are they licensed to mass murder?
They’re cops. Of course they’re licensed to mass murder.
I want that Dem gov to say that.
Nah. Inslee is just gonna keep hitting ‘Play’ on the WeaponsOfWar_19920601.mp3 file…
Link fail
The long-awaited Cultural Revolution our elites desperately want to launch can’t start in earnest until the peasants are disarmed.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/25/washington-becomes-10th-state-to-ban-assault-weapons-no-one-needs-an-ar-15/
Listen Fat, only a Radical MAGA Republican would say something like that.
Something I love pointing out to the gun-control advocates – they’re too late. There are somewhere around half a billion guns in circulation in the United States. Trying to hoover them all up at this late date is physically impossible.
The gun controllers have lost. It may be their only defeat in the progressive cultural clean sweep.
And it may be the only one that really matters in the end.
That’s a half billion felony charges hanging out there. Why would they want to get rid of those?
Pass a sweeping ban and gun ownership is dead within two generations, regardless of how widely possessed they are now.
Two generations might see the end of the gun culture. Maybe. I suspect that it would go underground.
Gun ownership wouldn’t be affected at all. There’s nothing – nothing – that could destroy half a billion guns that wouldn’t destroy the civilization along with them.
How, exactly would it survive?
Gunshots are easily detected. Banning ammo sales and reloading supplies would cripple the ability for those without neighbors within earshot to maintain competence. Banning gun stores and gun smiths leaves the maintenance skills a dwindling and dying knowledge. They literally just conviceted two people over autokeycards.
Remove any path to legal use or possession and the kids will turn in granddad’s curiosities when he kicks the bucket. Criminals won’t care and will continue to be criminals. Maybe switch somewhat to baseball bats or edged weapons if the penalties pressure in that direction.
Once ownership became a felony, it would be hard to keep gun culture alive in a significant proportion of gun owners. Can’t take it the range. Can’t buy bullets. Unless if you live on land with a private range or put one mob-style in the basement, the gun becomes a paper weight hidden deep away in Dad’s or Grandpa’s closet.
The government doesn’t have to confiscate shit. The heirs will simply turn the guns in once the owners pass. They’ll have no use for them and no reason to risk federal prison time to keep it.
The new Washington gun law counts on this. It even specifically only allows for just one generational family transfer by inheritance. Subsequent transfers are felonies.
This is the point to remember: “Criminals won’t care and will continue to be criminals.”
My thoughts on this topic were informed by what I’ve seen in South and Central America, and to a lesser extent Southeast Asia. All these places have an active underground gun culture, even in the face of totalitarian restrictions on legal gun ownership. There’s usually not much of a selection, and practice is difficult and intermittent, but the locals all say that guns are readily available.
Most of these places didn’t start the game with half a billion guns in circulation, either.
Exactly how do you think such a ban would pass the current Congress, and be upheld by SCotUS?
In the current Congress and SCotUS? Not in Congress, and Roberts Penaltax would sign off on a not a ban, it’s a restriction wording of such a law.
In the Congress of 2024 and beyond? We are now firmly in the fortification era. What should have been a Team Red tsunami was a trickle in 2022. Congress goes permanently Blue by 2028, and the White House is already there.
So, the SC just waits until Thomas gets too old and one of Kavenaugh’s assailants gets a lucky shot and we’re there.
In other words, just about a decade.
Congress goes permanently Blue by 2028
You know, they’ve had that fantasy themselves, only for reality to slap them in the face.
They successfully managed to ban gold coins, which are a LOT more subtle to keep and use than guns.
They haven’t ginned up a sufficient emergency to carry the necessary enabling act.
Good example – they banned gold coins, but they didn’t eliminate them from private possession.
Drugs would be another good example.
The war on guns will have the same result as the war on drugs.
Only more bodies.
Here’s something I point out to optimists like you, Johnny Sunshine – they ban the AR’s now.
How many usable one will be available in a decade, or a generation? Sure, a bunch will have been lost in boating accidents, and a bunch will be in safes or collections, but they will be in the hands of a comparative handful of people. Once a few peaceful suburbanites get hard time for illegal possession, a bunch of the guns will be turned in to law enforcement or sold on the dl/given away to collectors willing to take the risk.
When shit gets real, the 15 people that own dozens of well maintained firearms aren’t going to do shit.
And the ban gets knocked down by SCotUS, rinse, repeat.
So there will only be twenty million ARs after a decade, out of a hundred million now?
No one needs
Go fuck yourself.
Thanks for affirming everything Tucker has said about you.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/pentagon-officials-cheer-tucker-carlson-ouster-00093819
Do these people know he hasn’t died? He’ll go somewhere else.
Once the 1A is clarified to explain that it only applies to Government Certified Journalisming Media, it won’t matter.
Bring back the Sedition Act!
Clicked through the Fauci link to the NYT interview…
If we won’t imprison him, can we please fuse an N95 mask permanently to his face?
Even accepting his premise, what percentage of the general public who wears an N95 in public wears it correctly meaning fitted, no stubble, not removing it to eat/drink/smoke/for comfort, and replaces it when soiled or worn out? Less than one percent, considerably less, would likely be a good guess.
You can’t even get doctors and nurses to do so correctly.
Or wash their hands.
Yeah the word religiously is doing a lot of work there.
Of course, N95s also suck to wear.
RCT’s show otherwise, and I’m sure he knows that.
The conservative group, which often litigates property rights issues, calls the practice “home equity theft,” and is asking the Supreme Court to end it. The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, is often sympathetic to property rights claims.
Right wing crackpots.
Damn right-wingers – protecting an old black lady from the depredation of her local govt. Abominable.
“Professor of Rock” on The song home sweet home.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vvz2VaZuTCo
In effect, Tyler is arguing that the Constitution “required the state to serve as her real estate agent, sell the property on her behalf, and write a check for the difference between the tax debt and the fair market value,” the state’s lawyers said in court papers.
Wow.
I wonder how the state would react if a private bank foreclosed on a house and then tried to keep more than debt owed + fees.
There is a reason why at a foreclosure auction the first bid is by the bank selling the house, they bid exactly what they are allowed to keep. If anyone bids more, they are cool, they arent getting the excess money anyway.
Why would a tax seizure be any different?
Because FYTW.
https://summit.news/2023/04/26/report-tucker-carlson-was-ousted-for-talking-about-prayer-christianity/
I don’t believe this at all. I’m sure Tucker has been paid off and signed off on the deal. If this was an at-will employee talking about prayer while not at work, it would be a giant lawsuit against Fox and Murdock personally.
Also not a good look for a Jewish exec running a network a lot of Christians watched until this week.
NR said that Rupert hisself signed off on it, as he didn’t like Tucker’s take on Jan 6th. I tend to believe this since Carlson never played another minute of those hours of video.
And the rest of Fox never really covered or discussed the Jan 6 videos either.
Nope. If Jordan really wants that scrutinized he’s going to have to release it to Taibbi, Greenwald, et al.
Just put it all on the effing internet already. It’s footage of public spaces; there’s no plausible privacy or national security interest in keeping it secret.
I’m wondering why McCarthy only released it to Carlson/Fox in the first place. It’s almost like he wanted to be able to say he released it, but didn’t really want it out in public.
Contracts are expiring and they are low-balling. And they don’t want their annoyed star on the air as a lame duck with nothing more to lose. Seen it happen in show biz dozens of times.
By and large, ad-supported corporations are chicken shits. Even the few exceptions are still subject to the current landscape of falling ad rates. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was actually offered a pay cut and countered with complete editorial freedom and the ability to earn with audio, video, and printed work outside of Fox.
Fox realized a few years ago they have maxed out earnings from TV, hence the offloading of FX, FXX, their RSN’s, and their film studio. Falling ad rates means all these operators are going on the cheap and/or trying to go to a subscription model. They can’t squeeze any more money out of cable carriage rates, sports and news are one-shot deals that cost a lot (no recurring revenue from repeats – that goes for the “talent” too so they need to max their pay in the present), and the $80M-and-falling) annual revenue they would no longer earn from their popular show is only a silver of the $800M they agreed to pay in a settlement.
Doubtful, but they certainly picked something-doesn’t matter what really-to use as a pretext for firing a guy whose opinions had become inconvenient to the neolibcon (they’re the same thing) types of which old Rupert is one.
This is most believable.
Fox News Ousts Tucker Carlson
He figured he was untouchable and successfully managed to wound the egos of the Murdochs.
I’m sure there’s something to that, but have to take a News Corp publication with a grain of salt while discussing other News Corp entities.
WSJ is from experience pretty good at keeping news just news.
But valid point.
That’s certainly plausible and it’d explain why Murdock Sr. Handled it personally…because it was personal. My money’s on wanting to turn away from a populist message at the beginning of a presidential election cycle but it could have something that petty.
This – Biden announces he’s running the day after the firing.
👆👆👆
This is Blackrock exerting its influence.
On Murdoch? BWAHAHAHAHAHA
They own 15% of News Corp.
What are they going to do – stage a takeover?
Probably have reps on the board. And I assume Murdoch own less than 50%.
The flipside is anything they do to damage News Corp damages themselves.
Bold strategy Cotton.
Blackrock has interests far beyond News Corp. Corporate media is no longer a profit center, it’s a narrative laundering operation.
Narrative laundering costs money. Wonder if that’s what ALL of Blackrock’s investors are in for?
The vast majority of Blackrock’s investors are passive; pension management, etc…
Blackrock is fucking them all over right now and wants the Fed to reverse course. They’re at the heart of the currency battle between the ECB and the Fed.
I doubt there’s much they wouldn’t do and they’ve got trillions of assets under management.
RFK2 was more likely the reason. Apparently, Sunset wasn’t going to announce until fall.
Yet Tucker was the only one to demand proof from Sydney Powell for what she was saying – then publicly call her out when she didn’t produce.
Fuck shitty ass webpages and their dynamic text loading. Hey assholes, that’s not how pages are supposed to work you inbred monkey fucking pox filled sacks of turd.
How the hell did this rant end up here? Fuck the fucking squirrels too.
Before the Dominion suit was
settledfiled, Superior Court Judge Eric Davis had already concludedFixed that for the WSJ.
“When it comes to masking, I don’t know,” Fauci said. “But I do know that the culture wars have been really, really tough from a public health standpoint. Ultimately, an epidemiologist sees it as an epidemiological phenomenon. An economist sees it from an economic standpoint. And I see it from somebody in bed dying.”
Why does anybody listen to this mentally deranged quack?
He just cares so darn much, you know?
progress is inevitable
It chaps my hide when Fauci says he looked at it from only a public health perspective; part of the public health calculation of the effect of lockdowns is the how the lockdowns decrease health outcomes other than COVID. He is a horrible public health “expert.”
WCC Update: Ding Liren wins match 12!
The World Championship is tied with 2 matches to go.
This match was an epic collapse by Ian Nepomniachtchi*. He had a winnable lead that would have effectively wrapped up the title. But the position was complicated and he gave it away. He was still only marginally behind and could have held the position for a draw, possibly. Then he flat out gave it a way with a horrible blunder. The computer analysis went from +0.4 for Ding (less than 1/2 a pawn advantage) to +9.1 (really, really lost). Three moves later he resigned.
*I said in very first update that I wasn’t going to spell his name again, but I copy/pasted.
So what happens if the championship ends in a draw since neither is the current champ?
Even current champ doesnt get draw odds. There is a tiebreaker procedure. IIRC, Magnus Carlson won two tiebreakers during his run of 5 Championships.
I will have to look up the tiebreaker, I think it is a series of rapid chess games.
1. 4 rapid matches of 25+10 (25 minutes plus 10 seconds added after each move).
2. 2 blitz matches of 5+3.
3. Repeat step 2.
4. A single game of 3+2. Lots drawn to determine color. If game is a draw, repeat step 4 reversing colors until someone wins a game.
Most tournament tiebreakers of this form end with an Armageddon match. White gets 3+2, black gets X+2 (where X < 3), but black wins in case of draw. In some tournaments, considered the best option, the players bid on X, with lowest bid winning and playing black. In others, X is defined in advance. But its not clear what X should be, hence the bidding version.
Classical rating, Nepo is 7 pts higher than Ding, so effectively even.
At Blitz, Ding is 6 pts higher. So still even.
However, at Rapid, Ding is 68 pts higher. Ding is #2 in world at Rapid, Nepo is #7. So an edge to Ding if it goes to tiebreaks.
But players at that level don’t take their rapid/blitz ratings too seriously*, so it probably means nothing.
*Except for Hikaru Nakamura, who is #5 classical, #10 rapid, and #1 blitz**. He cares about that blitz rating.
**After typing that, I noticed Alireza Firouzja***# is actually #1 in blitz and broke 2900.
***Two z’s, you can’t spell his full name with standard scrabble set, unless you use a blank.
#Firouzja has been playing a lot less chess to focus on a career in fashion.
The criticism of Bud Light arose as Republican state lawmakers are proposing legislation that seeks to regulate the lives of young transgender people, restrict drag shows in a way that could broadly encompass performances by transgender people, and require schools to out transgender students to their parents.
So that’s what has been happening.
“No lopping off body parts until you’re 18” is not a controversial platform, neither is disallowing the waving of one’s junk as part of a strange burlesque show in kids’ faces.
Exactly. Do whatever the hell you want as consenting adults, leave the kids alone though.
You apparently don’t live on the coast.
That’s why they have to call it “gender affirming care” for minors. That sounds fine to most people. When they find out it really means lopping off body parts, it’s not so popular.
Drag has nothing to with “transgender” you morans
Eddie Izzard isn’t transgender, AFAIK.
eh I think it depends on how the wind blows
Leave the Irish out of this.
Transgender, transvestite, trannies all the way down
seeks to regulate the lives of young transgender people
Trans is not real. Gender-bending the children is a crime against humanity. I have zero tolerance for this shit.
restrict drag shows
Don’t involve children in hypersexualized minstrel shows. The end.
out transgender students to their parents.
Curious framing considering parents should be aware of what is going on with their children’s mental health.
Fuck shitty ass webpages and their dynamic text loading. Hey assholes, that’s not how pages are supposed to work you inbred monkey fucking pox filled sacks of turd.
*subscribes to Gustave Lytton’s newsletter*
Mulvaney has been documenting her transition on TikTok, where she has more than 10.8 million followers. In March, she celebrated one year of her “Days of Girlhood” series.
“My Life as an Attention-Whoring Female Impersonator”
I wouldn’t call it female impersonator so much as performing a grotesque caricature of women.
Girlface.
/stolen from somewhere
Why is not “Days of Womanhood?”
Xe enjoys being a girl!
I was almost expecting this.
Sorry. That’s a link to the entire album.
Exactly what is Mulvaney doing to transition, anyway? No surgery, as far as I know. Hormone treatments, maybe?
Because an Audrey Hepburn impersonation doesn’t really count as transitioning, in my book.
Good morning, Sloop!
MN might be fucked. Dallas is a better team and that goalie – aye caramba!
Minnesota was eliminated from the playoff last night and Dallas did not even make the playoffs. There are no goalies in basketball though there is goaltending
Get some help.
@robodruid I sent you an email about that idea you had that I can’t quit thinking about. Don’t know if you got it.
I did not
robodruid100@gmail.com
or just call me 405-473-5073
Wait- “Lesbian Visibility Week”?
Is there a Pornhub marathon I should be watching?
You should pay content creators for porn not watch for free
If you’re into flannel shirts and grease stains, I’m sure there’s something out there for you.
I sent you an email about that idea you had that I can’t quit thinking about.
One Cease-and-Desist Order, coming up.
Ireland’s Eurovision act Wild Youth have cut ties with their creative director over comments made on social media relating to transgender people.
Screen grabs circulated on Twitter of Ian Banham’s account referring to transgender women as men in posts.
The Irish band say they stand for “unity and kindness” and will no longer let Mr Banham “near our team”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65389105
such wild of them
Much brave, so tolerance.
Wild Youth, The Acceptable Opinions Tour
I look forward to never listening to their music or seeing them play.
https://twitter.com/footsteps_pod/status/1650432769602756608
Is this happy story or sad or both?
Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s family stormed out of court as the getaway driver who helped the nine-year-old’s killer was given a new identity.
Paul Russell, 41, was sentenced to 22 months in prison after pleaded guilty to driving Cashman around following the killing and disposing of a bag believed to contain clothes.
Cashman shot dead the nine-year-old during a botched gangland assassination in Dovecot, Liverpool on August 22 last year, and earlier this months he was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 42 years.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/getaway-driver-who-helped-olivia-pratt-korbels-killer-jailed-for-22-months/
On the one hand he was just the driver, on the other was complicit in murder you could say…
Microsoft’s $68.7bn Activision Blizzard deal has been dramatically blocked by UK regulators, following a months-long investigation.
The decision by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority prevents Microsoft from buying the publisher behind Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush, follows earlier concerns it would lead to an unfair impact on archrival PlayStation.
Instead, today’s decision stems from the CMA’s concerns over the deal’s proposed impact on the cloud gaming sector. In today’s final report, the CMA said Microsoft’s ownership of Activision Blizzard risked “stifling competition in this growing market”. In response, Microsoft has said it will now appeal.
https://www.eurogamer.net/uk-blocks-microsoft-activision-blizzard-deal
Cloud gaming isn’t a growing market. Some decade in the future it might be viable, but it’s not ready for primetime.
Or maybe you lost touch with the kids these days
What does gaming have to do with kids? Kids have no money.
they have mommy’s credit card
Stifle competition? Does anyone still play AAA games? I guess they mean the console market…but who cares? I’m not sure the dedicated console is long for this world.
you get so many different people with their own sets of data that are not real data,
Fauci projecting.
New expansion pack for Virtue Signal coming.
Bitchin’! I’ve been meaning to buy a Virtue Signal pack for family get-togethers…
Both. Sounds like they had a good life together with a hell of a man.
Reply fail.
Today in is this racist?
https://twitter.com/yaqobhyndes/status/1650443174157119490
More like today in this is funny.
Yes, the Qing should not have pre-appropriated 1980s US Culture.
Attempt to Override Governor’s Veto of Food Freedom Bill Narrowly Fails; Public Interest Law Firm Vows to Keep Fighting for Food Freedom
It was initially passed with “veto proof” majorities (26-4 and 45-11), but that was only because they knew a veto would let them be for it but kill it.
Legislators that do that deserve to be tarred and feathered.
You can’t have people selling food willy nilly can you?
There was some bitching on the local news about this. Mostly from the kind of community activists who are lockstep proggy Dem voters. All I could think was “Well, what did you expect? Freedom and opportunity for poor people?”
Lamb found alongside ‘£10,000s of drugs’ in abandoned car on motorway
https://www.gbnews.com/news/uk/scotland-news-lamb-drugs-abandoned-car
Someone was going to have a party.
Where’s Robodruid?
OK, not UK.
Yea I am definitely not making money with sheep.
I could break bad, but I am not that good of a organic chemist. My product would never be that pure.
Naw, I figured the deal was trading sheep for drugs.
Ok, ok. This is too perfect to be true.
Police haven’t yet confirmed what make the vehicle was.
Lancia Lambda?
The three occupants of the vehicle were arrested and a search of the car was carried out with assistance from the dog unit.
Two men, a woman, and a lamb….so it was a Scottish double date.
Honk honk.
Maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s Maybelline 💄
The new face of Maybelline, ladies!
Seeing some “why do these labs exist in the middle of a war zone?” takes and the answer is actually fairly interesting. The Sudan National Public Health Laboratories can trace their origins back to 1903, when Henry Wellcome built a topical disease research lab in Kharthoum.
In the next decades several new medical research facilities were built in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, including the Stack Laboratories (another direct ancestor of the current one), built for the Sudan Medical Service, and Entomological Laboratories initially under the Agriculture Dept.
https://twitter.com/yuanyi_z/status/1650881625331228674
So? Bad reporting? That would be a shock, wouldn’t it?
It’s the Englishman’s fault
So when it stopped being a Euro colony and shit got real with civil wars, we said “fuck it, can’t relocate the lab”?
It’s less a question of relocating, and more a question of what was going on that we had our fingers in. If we didn’t have something going on there, what exactly are we worried about?
Sure seems like we happen to have a few bio-labs (or nuke labs) laying around in the path of every conflict these days.
Lesson learned: next “biolab” gets built next to a school.
Terrifying spectre
Almost immediately after President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he was running for re-election, the Republican National Committee launched an attack ad warning about the perils of a second Biden term. The speed of the response was not surprising. But there was something unusual and unsettling about the ad itself — specifically, the artificial intelligence behind it.
The RNC called the spot an “AI-generated look into the country’s possible future if Joe Biden is re-elected in 2024” and touted it as the first ad completely based on AI imagery. That likely explains, in part, why the spot is so shoddy as a piece of messaging. But the clumsy execution masks something darker. This technology will become more sophisticated over time — and with that, the capacity to manipulate, confuse and misinform the public will grow too.
The ad features a set of “what if” scenarios based on Republican fears of Biden’s second term. Sirens blare as speculative images show China invading Taiwan: bombings, warships, angry nationalists marching in the streets. Then the ad asks, “What if financial systems crumble?” and cuts to images of boarded-up businesses and long lines of people. It goes on to show hypothetical images of “80,000 illegals” flooding the U.S. and San Francisco overrun by criminals and gangs — with troops deployed in the streets in response. The final image shows an AI-generated Biden slumped over his Oval Office desk and a voice that sounds computer-generated saying, “It feels like the train is coming off the tracks.”
Emotional manipulation and fearmongering, now with chatbots.
Bank of England economist says people need to accept they are poorer
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65308769
The Bank of England’s top economist has said people in the UK need to accept that they are poorer otherwise prices will continue to rise.
Huw Pill told a podcast in the US that there was a “reluctance to accept that, yes, we’re all worse off”.
He said in response to higher bills and other costs rising, workers had responded by asking for wage increases and businesses were charging more.
UK inflation, the rate at which prices rise, was 10.1% in the year to March.
Accepting reality is important and that’s the reality, doesn’t mean you have to be happy about it though.
That’s really managing the economy by jawboning – with the jawbone of an ass.
What color is huw?
Orange?
Depends on brightness and intensity.
Children with high mathematical skills are better at Lego building, mainly due to better spatial abilities
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1651182025007570949
“
ChildrenPeople with high mathematical skills are better atLego buildingeverything, mainly due tobetter spatial abilitiesbeing smarter…”Being smart didn’t help my jump shot or my golf swing.
Sorry, I forgot to take into account the high levels of free-floating autism with my off-the-cuff post. I was distracted by getting all the HTML tags closed…
The tagging was wonderful.
Awww, thanks. *blushes*
I donno, a systematic approach to adjusting my bowling technique one variable at a time has made me more consistant (albeit not yet better) Perhaps applying more analytics and isolating more potential causes of deviation might help
My wife is a scientist, and pretty smart, but I am a creative person and WAAAY better than her with spatial ability.
Spacial ability is one of those sex-correlated skills we’re not allowed to talk about anymore. It goes all the way back to the division of labor in early hominids (and why men tend to see fewer colors, as color was more important to gathering)
And don’t mention inherent differences in sexes to explain the lack of high level women chess players.
And especially dont mention the higher level in autism in men as an explanation.
On one hand, this ad is classic GOP fearmongering about Democratic handling of the economy, immigration and foreign policy. But as my colleague Steve Benen has pointed out, the commercial inadvertently and implicitly admits Biden’s strength in that it features no attacks on Biden’s actual and, at this point, substantial policy record. Instead, the RNC speculates about what might happen, even though none of it has come close to happening in three years of his presidency.
Yes, yes, of course. Biden’s stewardship has been nothing but a resounding and and uninterrupted success.
It’s only been interrupted by super-MAGA obstruction!
Ultra-MAGA and the Great MAGA King.
Biden’s actual and, at this point, substantial policy record.
I thought misinformation were bad?
Substantial doesn’t necessarily mean good.
classic GOP fearmongering about Democratic handling of the economy, immigration and foreign policy
Observable reality be dammed!
You’ve got to admire her tenacity.
23-Year-Old Long Island Woman Who Had Driver’s License Suspended 65 Times Is Arrested
How do you get it unsuspended 64 times in at most seven years? “I’m off to my monthly visit with the traffic court judge!”
Forget it Jake, it’s Long Island.
they found that she had 65 suspensions on 12 dates.
It sounds like they kept suspending her license everytime she didn’t show up for a court date. They also didn’t escalate the issue. So she would get a summons, not appear, and get her already suspended license, suspended.
Try this link.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/long-island-woman-arrested-for-driving-with-65-license-suspensions-scpd/4274090/#:~:text=The%20young%20driver%20was%20said,%22Officers%20pulled%20her%20over.
Given huge variations in internet literacy, it’s plausible that significant swathes of the public are vulnerable to being manipulated in ways they’re not even aware of. Even more worrying is that all these images can be produced at astonishing speed with minimal costs. AI experts like Gary Marcus, an emeritus professor of psychology and neural science at New York University, have warned that one of their main concerns is that the pace and volume of disinformation production could easily dwarf anything like what we saw during, say, Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election with social media trolls. Disinformation operatives can now put out more misleading information with a fraction of the labor and time it took just a year ago.
Wheeeeee!
The Founding Fathers couldn’t have foreseen the level of technology we now have in which reckless and hostile individuals can disseminate misinformation. Clearly this means the First Amendment is obsolete.
People that uncritically believe shit on the internet deserve exactly what they get. I do have to admit, that could be a majority of people in this country.
“it’s plausible that significant swathes of the public are vulnerable to being manipulated in ways they’re not even aware of”
Ultimate Concern Troll.
“Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election with social media trolls.”
They are never going to let that go.
That reads like a Babylon Bee article. “Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the gold standard of disinformation is a handful of social media posts in 2016, not the sustained multi-year whole-of-government-and-media narrative that Russia stole the election for Trump.”
A new door has been opened to disguising fiction as reality and portraying terrifying futures — a potent weapon in the hands of a reactionary political movement.
This dangerous weapon should br carefully regulated, in order to keep it out of the hands of reactionaries and enemies of the Woke State.
What if those crazy Republicans created a clip of Joe Biden delivering a crypto-fascist and socially divisive message in a stage setting worthy of Leni Riefenstahl?
“Democrats would NEVER use such emotionally manipulative imagery!” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k
When I drove down to pick up my truck, I rented a Chevy Equinox (not by choice, that’s what they gave me). It was a piece of shit. The steering was sloppy, and it wobbled and wandered all over the road.
On my business trip, the rental company gave me a Chevy Trax. I was shocked as soon as I started driving. The steering was tight and the suspension was rock solid. I immediately guessed that is was a Japanese car rebadged as a Chevy.
So, I looked it up last night while I was in the hotel. Designed and produced in GM Korea for the international market. I was introduced into the US a couple of years later.
So, I was wrong, but not totally wrong.
It’s a small cracker box of a vehicle. But after driving it for 9 hours yesterday, I would totally recommend it if someone is looking for a compact SUV type vehicle.
Excuse me as I now need to go vomit into the trash bin after recommending a GM product to anyone.
Nope.
GM – hell no.
Headline from a Washington gun control story:
“No One Needs an AR-15”
I assume every police department in the state will turn in their ARs for destruction.
“And when I say no one, I mean there are some that do.”
Dear Abby: My wife cheated on me with 10 different men, now she’s homeless
What do you say, give her one more chance?
Maybe he can pimp her out.
Why? Sounds like she’ll do it herself.
Carvana Was Built for Low Interest Rates. Can It Survive Its $8 Billion Debt?
Now trading at $7. Bondholders just declined a 25% haircut.
I thought it was already dead. I have seen at least 2 of the glass towers that are now something else, as carvana is gone.
It was a retarded gimmick. Maybe they can repurpose those towers into low income housing or some other retarded gimmick.
An expensive gimmick too.
Yeah I mean, the idea was to be able to drastically reduce the overhead that a traditional dealer suffers from. They did not do that.
Isn’t it just CarMax with a gimmick?
But CarMax is also a gimmick.
What about CarMa – Get the vehicle you deserve!
in this life or the next?
How is CarMax a gimmick? It’s just a nationally branded no haggle dealership, with a car lot and showroom similar to any other dealer.
no haggle dealership
That’s not a gimmick, it’s a different way of selling cars, and also not limited to just used cars or national dealerships like Carmax.
No link to back this up at the moment, but I believe Carvana has had some chronic issues delivering titles for the cars they’ve sold. Details, details! Some people are so picky!
Yes. I believe it was IL. They lost their dealer license in the state.
A quick DDG search suggests it’s not just IL: https://kneuppercovey.com/how-to-fix-carvana-title-issues/
Thank goodness she managed to land on her feet
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been chosen for multiple fellowships at Harvard University, the school announced Tuesday.
Ardern resigned as prime minister and left Parliament earlier this year and said she “no longer had enough in the tank” to continue in politics.
She has been selected as a 2023 Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow and a Hauser Leader at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. Additionally, she has been named as a Knight Tech Governance Leadership Fellow at Harvard Law School.
“I am incredibly humbled to be joining Harvard University as a fellow — not only will it give me the opportunity to share my experience with others, it will give me a chance to learn,” Ardern said. “As leaders, there’s often very little time for reflection, but reflection is critical if we are to properly support the next generation of leaders.”
Prepping the next generation of authoritarian psychopaths.
I didn’t know Harvard had any programs in Animal Husbandry.
I wish I still had my Twitter shitposting account for bon mots like these.
Or the Orwell/Huxley chair at the Kennedy School of Government.
Shares that opened at $15 in 2017 soared to $370 by August 2021.
Now trading at $7.
Know when to say when.
Exactly what I do over drinks. Perfectly reasonable and understandable.
Socialite Jasmine Hartin pleads guilty in shooting death of Belize top cop
“Washington’s Olympia School District to ax music classes for pushing ‘white supremacy’
“We’re a school district that lives in and is entrenched in and is surrounded by white supremacy culture. And that’s a real thing.”
The board director told concerned parents that there was nothing “intrinsically white supremacist” about string or instrumental music, but warned that there are ways in which it could contribute to the racist culture.
“The ways in which it is and the ways in which all of our institutions — not just schools, but local government, state government, our churches, our neighborhoods — inculcate and allow white supremacy culture to continue to be propagated and caused significant institutional violence are things that we have to think about carefully as a community,” he said.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/25/olympia-school-district-to-ax-music-classes-for-pushing-white-supremacy/
Can any of these clowns even define “white supremacy”??
Save money! Fight racism!
Can any of these clowns even define “white supremacy”??
“Anything I don’t like.”
They’re not playing by Marquis rules. More like Saul Alinksy rules.
And its effective.
Hell even Sadbeard thinks Okun (the source of most of this) is nuts.
Does he? I thought he was too busy snitching to the police to have other opinions.
The Cultural Revolution continues apace.
Hello from the sea, Glibs! I am on vacay on a boat off the coaxt of Norway. It’s so beautiful – weather is perfect, snow on the mountains, and not crowded. And ridiculously I get better cell service on a boat north of the artic circle than i do my house in Los Angeles.
Have fun! And tomorrow night Norway gets overrun with zombies.
Isn’t it just CarMax with a gimmick?
I don’t know, but my dad was a fan. I think he bought his last two cars from them. Of course, he paid cash, so that might make a difference.
I sold them a car. Got less than from a private sale but more than from a dealership. That’s their model in reverse for sales. It’s for people who want a better deal buying and selling used cars than from a dealership but don’t want to spend the time to wringing out the best possible deal.
It’s a niche, not a gimmick.
I wasn’t calling the no-haggle model itself a gimmick, just Carvana’s twist on it with the expensive “vending machine” setup. That’s the gimmick.
This. The towers were retarded.
You know what a cool gimmick is?
If you buy a new corvette, you can pick it up at the corvette museum.
It is on display in the lobby behind velvet ropes and only the owner can go inside the ropes. Then they drive it out of the museum for you to drive off with.
I have sold a couple of cars at Carmax. No hassle sales approach.
137 hp @ 5000 rpm
Nope.
That’s not so bad, as long as it’s a 1600 pound car.
To clarify-
When I say, ” my dad was a fan. I think he bought his last two cars from them. ”
I mean CarMax, not Carvana.
I think I grabbed the wrong quote, above.