Well, the crawler is standing up and threatening to walk. So expect stories next week of how the two littles got put down and took off in different directions. My recollection is that once it happens, unsteady steps turn into full-bore sprints nearly immediately. And the two year old is taking off his diaper and standing in front of the toilet. Usually immediately after he soaks the diaper. So we have an order of operations issue, but at least he isn’t going the messiest order first.
I am unshocked by this report that says an unmonitored channel of false reality given to your child is not good for them. Obviously, monitoring is the key to any media your child consumes in any medium. This seems to be the middle way.
I love this guy, he’s crazy as a sprayed roach.
Florida Man, I’m unsure what to do with this. Pretty sure I’d rather be facing a possession of a firearm by convicted felon charge than a dude with a machete bare-handed.
Remember folks, cows and pigs are on the same team.
Kind of a bummer of a song, but pretty.
The goggles do nothing!
Ye was wearing those the other day with Q-worthy gf.
Well, you could use your own machete. You do have one, right?
I do actually. It’s quite dull.
True story:
I bought a machete after the wife and I took one of those cheap 3 day cruises to the Bahamas. The free day on the island we went to the beach. There was a guy with 2 big containers of mixed drinks selling coconut cup drinks for $20… free refills all day! Boom, done deal.
So he grabs a green coconut and a machete and deftly chops it into a cup in less than a minute.
We have coconut trees, so I rushed home to try it. Brand new machete in hand, I picked up a fallen coconut and gave it a chop, as I had seen him do.
Yeah, no. It just bounced off. Didn’t even make a slight cut.
15 years later, I still have not figured out how to chop one of those things, and opening coconuts is still crazy difficult.
You need a sharper machete.
Coconuts pre-scored.
Trick coconuts.
He puts them back together for the next day’s customers.
Don’t forget the trashcan lid shield and phone-book armor.
35-year-old Bruce Brooks, who was sleeping in the home’s carport.
Do not disturb Florida Man in his natural habitat.
“When they plot the age of first smartphone on the X axis against their extensive set of questions about mental health on the Y axis, they find a consistent pattern: the younger the age of getting the first smartphone, the worse the mental health that the young adult reports today.”
Correlation is not causation. It could be parents who let their kids gets get a phone at a younger age are also worse parents in general.
I assume it is a symptom and not the cause, yes. Allowing your child a firehose to a highly curated and airbrushed adult world with little supervision is probably not worse for them than, say, growing up in a shitty neighborhood with parents/guardians who aren’t around or are too out of it to function.
“What changed in the early 2010s that could have rapidly reduced the mental health of teens around the world, with a bigger impact on girls?”
tumblr?
Thots became a thing
Also, using self-diagnosed mental illness to seem special.
“We must also always consider that there could be “third variables” that cause both of the first two variables to rise. In this case, one plausible confounding third variable is permissive parenting. Perhaps permissive parents (in each country) simultaneously do two things: they give their kids smartphones at very young ages, and they also give them few boundaries and little structure, which then interferes with development and produces struggling young adults. While this hypothesis is plausible and should be investigated, it is not clear how it would explain the fact that, in all the regions studied, it is the girls who show a tighter connection between early phone acquisition and later mental health problems, just as it is the girls who show a tighter connection between heavy social media use and concurrent mental health problems. Nor would it explain why mental health dropped so rapidly in the early 2010s (especially for girls) if permissive parenting (or some other variable about family life) was the real culprit.”
It was mostly girls who used tumblr, and photo-based social media such as IG is going to affect girls more than boys because girls care more about how they look.
That, plus women in general are over-represented across the board when it comes to mental health diagnoses, with the most common explanation being that they are more likely to seek help than men.
30 years ago I came across a couple studies under the heading “intelligence and blondes”.
The researchers noticed that blonde women were more likely to be diagnosed with depression than other hair colors. Since this defied logic, they set up a study.
After testing, they found that mental health clinicians were likely to overestimate the intelligence of attractive people. So they said this was likely the origin of the “dumb blond” stereotype. We subconsciously associate intelligence with attractiveness… so when you expect them to be smarter than average and they turn out to be average, you perceive this as being dumb.
In the clinical setting, it meant that blond women who underachieve at work are diagnosed with depression when the reality is that they are just dumb.
Some of the parents I know give their kid a phone or tablet so they don’t have to deal with them. So the lesson is, be an annoying little asshole, and as a reward you get to feed your dopamine addiction. You make a good point.
Looks like we’ve seen the same thing.
“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.”
Yeah, had the same thought. Because a lot of less than stellar parents get their kids smart phones as babysitting devices, so the kids will leave them alone.
Assuming the quality of parents hasn’t declined, that still leaves smartphones as the variable correlated with mental illness. Maybe smartphones let bad parents be worse parents, but it’s still smartphones that have changed, not parents. Assuming the quality of parents, etc.
Assuming that the quality of parents hasn’t declined…is not an assumption I’d make.
synchronized, gendered, and global decline in teen mental health.
That seems relevant – “bad parents adopt new tech” doesn’t explain why girls are doing so much worse than boys.
I’m a cat person
I thought it was cows and chickens that teamed up to nuke Japan.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Kanye is looking a bit Chubye.
How dareye!
Thiccye.
He has been charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
I’ll say it: I wouldn’t convict. Once your sentence is done, all rights are restored.
I wanna agree…but face tats…
You want to explain that to Mike Tyson? 🙂
I like my ears.
Dude is a chatty Kathy though. He lives up sorta near me and every once in a while run into him at a Vons…
The idea of Tyson shopping a Vons, now that is pretty funny.
He seems like a Grocery Outlet kinda guy.
https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/666855/s03-e19-real-bitches-of-newport-beach?autoplay=true
Yep…but slapping that Scarlet Letter on folks is what we do best
I’m of two minds. In principle I agree, but as a practical matter I’m OK with the restriction or the graduated restoration of certain rights as a condition of release for certain types of crimes. If you’re coming off an armed robbery conviction, maybe we want to see how you adjust to life on the outside before we hand you your guns back. If you’re coming off a vehicular homicide conviction, maybe we want you to stick with public transportation for a while.
I don’t have a problem with conditions on parole that don’t extend beyond the original length of sentence. “You are released early on these conditions.” The probationary restrictions should be relevant.
I don’t have a problem with conditions on parole that don’t extend beyond the original length of sentence.
That’s OK.
If you’re coming off an armed robbery conviction, maybe we want to see how you adjust to life on the outside before we hand you your guns back.
I’m more black and white about it. Either a person is fit to live peacefully in society or they are not. No need to give it a trial period (that’s what the time period before the crime was for).
I get it’s not popular here, but I also think armed robbery should be a capital crime, leaving the question of reintegration moot. There should be very few cases of prolonged jail time needed beyond a holding cell for trial. I’m thinking victimless crimes are stricken from the books, non-violet crimes and minor violent crimes (bar fights, battery, etc) are served with restitution to the victims and corporal punishment, and serious violent crimes with intent receive a capital sentence. I get the libertarian arguments against capital punishment, but it’s unclear to me how that makes locking someone in a cell for 50 years and robbing me to pay for it somehow libertarian instead.
Such a system would require a complete restructure of the justice system, including very liberal self defense protections, Defense gets the same budget as prosecutor, withholding of evidence or altering evidence by prosecution is automatic penalty of same sentence the accused is facing, and no judge may have prior experience as a prosecutor. Much more needed of course, but that’s a start.
Public defenders should be drawn from the same pool as district attorneys. Either they all do a stretch as a defender, or literally defenders are drawn at random from the DA office.
I like the random drawing, but I’m thinking it might lead to conflicts of interest problems.
I agree. In theory, you only need one attorney, who could present all the evidence to the jury in an unbiased manner, question all the witnesses, etc.
But yeah, that is even less likely to work.
Why pull punches? Just go to the French model and have a single judge investigate the alleged crime from the start.
I like this, assuming the district defenders are graded by the same ‘percentage of wins’ metric as the district attorneys.
I don’t have a problem with that, in fact I think it is the most libertarian I have heard in a while. The issue comes down, in my eyes, to convincing people what is and is not a violent crime. And we are seeing this play out in real time in cities right now.
You voted for Trump, you violent motherf**ker!
I generally come down on the side of harsher sentences for real crimes as well. I’m also not against the death penalty, although I do think it should be employed cautiously owing to its finality and inability to be remedied in the case of wrongful conviction. On the other hand, not all crimes of violence are quite equal. In cases where there’s a chance for rehabilitation, that’s where I’d be more OK with conditional release. Although I do agree with Rat on a train that those conditions should be understood up front rather than blanket provisions for all convictions.
“inability to be remedied in the case of wrongful conviction”
Yeah, that 20 years you were locked up before the DNA evidence cleared you? You’re not getting that back.
Shawshank is still a more hopeful story than The Green Mile though.
Special counsel John Durham concludes FBI never should have launched full Trump-Russia probe
The special counsel, however, did not recommend any new charges against individuals or “wholesale changes” about how the FBI handles politically charged investigations, despite strongly criticizing the agency’s behavior.
“Romney didn’t win, did he?”
He did his job of delaying, obfuscating, and keeping people’s hopes up while achieving pretty much not a damn thing.
Winner!
Trust the plan.
I love this guy, he’s crazy as a sprayed roach
And you know who else this guy loves…
I didn’t even notice Ye’s leggings. I was too busy staring at the futuristic trash bag shirt he had on.
Ye was in that photo?
^^
Geez, even I was starting at the thot.
Now you can’t unsee the shirt?
Her shirt was amazing.
It really pops out at you, doesn’t it?
It’s on point with her cell phone carrier.
So, what you’re saying is, it’s time for Barbecue?
That was my first thought *she says as she bites into sausage with BBQ sauce*
Excelsior Pass costs ballooned to $64 million and keep rising
Grifters gonna grift.
EXCELSIOR!
Exactly the correct clip
I had no idea that was still a thing. In fact, I had forgotten completely about it since about a week after it was announced.
I hope UCS got some of that money.
Nope.
Whenever that gabage came up in an all-hand meeting, I had to walk out in disgust, which had less impact since it was a webex meeting.
Looks like Deloitte found a way to cash in by doing…well, “consulting.”
Goggles on!
https://youtu.be/rt4UjzECo_I
Thank you!
If you hadn’t, I would have…
Supreme Court says Alabama inmate can be killed by untested nitrogen hypoxia
I guess we’ll find out if Exit International and The Peaceful Pill Handbook were full of shit all these years or not.
If it were me I’d push for execution by helium.
Pump them full of heroin. They should have plenty of that in stock.
In all seriousness I don’t see why they don’t do that or an enormous dose of fentanyl.
Helium, nitrogen and argon are all pretty much interchangeable for this purpose and have all been used and/or recommended by pro-suicide groups.
Helium is much more expensive than nitrogen.
True, but it would lighten the mood.
As you squeak right on out of this world
And the executioner would be called Squeaker for the Dead
You should put up a trial balloon.
An ME I know said helium is the way.
He just wanted a good laugh when the convict had his last words in a funny squeaky voice.
My (ex-) psychologist suggested nitrous oxide, and also hooked me up with the recipe for making my own from easily available drugstore chemicals.
I oughta look Jack up, we lost touch when I moved out of Maryland.
huh, didn’t realize he passed over a decade ago
I assume you were talking about this guy, but I don’t get the Maryland connection.
If you weren’t…
Dude, is there anything you wanna talk about?
Nope, completely different Jack. He was a behavioral psychologist who worked with…I guess ‘the criminally insane’ is as good a term as any, for the Maryland Department of Public Safety. Also a member of my gun club when I lived in MD. Good dude.
It’s kinda strange, I don’t have a whole lot of respect for the profession of psychiatry, but the shrinks I do get along with are the ones who work with the Hannibal Leckter types. I don’t know how much I want to dig into this…
I would like for executions to be performed by a 10 ton weight, like in Monty Python.
I thought Python was being chased off a cliff by topless women.
And the state is supposed to be good at killing people.
Only when it’s stated objective is otherwise.
Death by Covid Vaccine.
Seems like that would sidestep a lot of the issues they have sourcing the drugs right now.
That’s been one of the main selling points ever since nitrogen asphyxiation was first proposed as an alternative execution method clear back in the ’90s.
Bummer but pretty, sort of
“When the public sector shirks its duty to innovate and modernize, citizens are the ones who lose out,” she said.
Ow, my brain.
“Chucky star Ed Gale ‘harassed’ people he thought were under-age teens with sexual text messages, they have claimed, after the Hollywood star was caught sexting with what he thought was a 14-year-old boy in a predator sting by YouTubers.
Screenshots posted online allegedly show Gale texting minors as young as 12 with messages including ‘I want to play with YOUR ‘toy’… your penis baby boy’, ‘I miss your kisses my otter’, ‘If I could I would stare at you 24 / 7’, and ‘You are gay for Me’.
Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to DailyMail.com that it is investigating the 59-year-old star of movies such as Howard the Duck, Child’s Play and Spaceballs, after he was caught in a filmed sting on April 14.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12077961/Disturbing-texts-actor-Ed-Gale-allegedly-sent-underage-boys-revealed.html
So he is still at large?
He’ll be available shortly.
Somehow, he’s been able to keep this behavior on the down-low.
He’s shrinking away from those allegations.
“‘Ha, ha, ha, ha’: Laughing Biden claims post-Title 42 is ‘much better than you all expected’ – as asylum seekers are released into U.S. and given return court dates TEN YEARS from now”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12085281/Laughing-Biden-tells-press-post-Title-42-better-expected.html
CWAA
Can we put him on a bus and drop him off in El Paso?
Apparently cities like Chicago didn’t get the memo.
TOS has taken the position that the immigration system is still too restrictive.
And the state is supposed to be good at killing people.
They could stand him up in front of a cannon.
“Kim Petras looks incredible in gold bikini top as she models for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover – and announces release date of hotly-anticipated third studio album”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12086705/Kim-Petras-looks-incredible-gold-bikini-models-Sports-Illustrated-Swimsuit-cover.html
“Martha Stewart, 81, becomes OLDEST woman to ever land Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover, wowing in a very low-cut white bathing suit – while Megan Fox, 36, dares to bare in a raunchy design made entirely of CHAINS”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12085237/Sports-Illustrated-Swimsuit-2023-Martha-Stewart-81-Megan-Fox-36-pose-cover.html
Ironically, Petras might be the one who has had the least work done.
I hadn’t heard of Kim Petras before and was wondering why a pop singer posing in Sport’s Illustrated was big news.
Mystery solved.
It’s all so tiresome.
This guy?
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-all-so-tiresome
Should have been, yes.
Duo? Like, split personality or something?
Does Petras duet with herself?
I thought Python was being chased off a cliff by topless women.
That’s more Benny Hill’s milieu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLctf4o6feQ
Definitely not safe for work
How did I forget that part but remember Mr. Creosote?
Covid retrospective, volume one.
I just found out I’m a great uncle again! My niece had her baby early this morning. Ruby!
I just wish she could have waited until tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs1S7pwWZ0U
🙂
Congratulations!
Congrats 🙂
excellent news!
“Duck Tales” inflation lesson
Would executing prisoners with CO2 (or CO) qualify as carbon sequestration?
Not after they expire.
The cremation kind of fucks it up.
CO2 hurts though.
Does it? I was told, much like NO2, than CO2 doesn’t trip the breathing reflex while it’s supplanting all the oxygen in your blood?
“Mastectomy scars on a beaver character from Blue’s Clues. This is disgusting propaganda for cosmetic surgery, being marketed to children. I’ll never be able to breastfeed or have a normal womanly body because I was sold this lie as a teenager.”
https://twitter.com/funkgodartist/status/1657911920047915009
WTF??
It’s a clue! It’s a clue!
What’s missing? Let’s look for clues!
Where’s Waldo’s breasts?
That stuff makes me sick to my stomach. What the hell.
We’re going to need some kind of Nuremberg type thing before this is all over aren’t we?
Anyone have any history with Nissan Altima? There is a 2017 I might be able to get a good deal on, but I’ve never owned a Nissan and don’t have any close friends or family who ever have.
They have reputation for their drivers – essentially they treat them as transportation and show them little love in how they are cared for.
Their achilles heel is their CVT transmission. If serviced properly it’s a marginal device. If the service is ignored expect them to grenade.
Agreed. It is comfortable transportation. CVT can be an issue. Ask for service records. I would also service that part immediately after purchase. Nissan was sued into a recall for the model year up through 2016, and customers are also demanding one for 2017-2021 due to recurring issues with that transmission.
Are there any other cars available in your area?
Pickins is slim for cars, especially in my price range. Mostly trucks and crossovers. Test drove a Chevy Cruz and Ford Fusion today.
He had just gotten it in and it hasn’t been completely checked out yet. I’m set to test drive in Saturday. It’s the same guy I bought my current car from. He’s right here in town and is good about taking care of things that come up after the purchase. i’ll talk to him about the transmission. It’s at 100,000 miles and the price he gave me was below blue book. I do trust him more just because I’ve known him along time, but is still a car salesman.
98 200SX
99 Altima
02 Xterra
06 Sentra
06 350Z
14 Xterra
17 Titan
19 Rogue
I am a fan of Nissan. We have had excellent results (reliability-wise) across all models across a couple of decades.
I’m pretty sure that almost all customer reviews will put Nissan behind Toyota and Honda, but I find them to be excellent products.
I have not driven any of the new Altimas with with CVT (which I hate in the Rogue).
Go look at the regular guy review on Altimas and why Altimta drivers are hated.
I loved my 94 Sentra. That car treated me well including a cross country trip.
67 Datsun pickup
68 Datsun Roadster
82 Datsun pickup
85 Datsun pickup
10 Nissan Frontier
18 Nissan Frintier
Best Japanese car maker.
I always thought that the Datsun pickup and the Datsun B-210 were the finest modern examples of simple, basic, transportation since the Model T. Cheap (under $3k), reliable, and easy to work on.
No, youtube, I’m not going to sign in to confirm my age.
Freetube or Invidious
Their achilles heel is their CVT transmission. If serviced properly it’s a marginal device. If the service is ignored expect them to grenade.
Never ever buy a car with a CVT.
2022 Nissan Altima AWD: Regular Car Reviews
Never gets old.
I knew I would not need to go find that one.
Someone take whoever made that video back behind the woodshed and put them out of our misery.
So is the guy shot while carrying a machete the latest installment of the “people shot doing everyday things” genre? Or at least the Florida version of it?
I didn’t make it through the ad on that car review.
Whatever.
EPL relegation battle after Leicester’s loss today, with 2 games to go for everyone.
15. West Ham United 37 pts -14 goal differential
16. Nottingham Forest 34 -31
17. Everton 32 -24
————————————————————————
18. Leeds United 31 -25
19. Leicester City 30 -18
West Ham is safe, even if technically they could still finish 18th. Leeds isnt making up 11 goals. However, they are a key player, as their last two games are versus Leeds and Leicester. David Moyes can do Everton a solid. He was the most successful Everton manager of this millennium (which isn’t saying much) and can help out once more.
West Ham: Leeds, @Leicester
Forest: Arsenal, @Crystal Palace
Everton: @Wolves, Bournemouth
Leeds: @West Ham, Tottenham
Leicester: @Newcastle, West Ham
With perfect results, everything could be settled this weekend.
68 Datsun Roadster
Would. Also 510.
Indeed. A Dime goon is high up on the list. Although, right now a 312 pickup (’64-’66) or a 412SSS goon is on top.
Er, 411. (X)12 is a pickup.
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1658140379181645824
Nope.
But why?
Aww, they’re hugging her. It’s so cute…now get the Raid.
I’ve told this story before but I feel so bad about it I mention it when I want to flog myself.
In high school, we had tarantulas in a terrarium. They were so cute and nice and fuzzy. If it’s fuzzy, I’mma love it. Anyway, I was watering the terrarium one day and realized … that wasn’t water. I accidentally killed my friends with ammonia. (No, the bottle wasn’t labeled, but I do have a nose. I just didn’t check.)
🙁
*gives Moj a hug*
Hans, get ze flammenwerfer
Being afraid of a harmless animal that you outsize and outweigh by 500-to-1…kinda lame.
Then again, I won’t swim in the ocean during jellyfish blooms, so…that’s different. Y’all still a bunch of wussies.
https://twitter.com/ultrarightbeer/status/1651250162012962817
Drugs, ass? First I’ve heard of it.
Hickalobe Ultra?
I saw another one of those “Cars are getting older” stories earlier. Average age is going up because people are holding on to theirs cars longer because new cars are so expensive, et c . I would be very interested to know how many people out there are finally just refusing to buy the crap being built now.
“I Do Cars” teardown this was another BMW hot vee V8 (N65?) catastrophic failure. Truly impressive damage, including cleaning all the teeth off the drive sprocket for the passenger side cylinder bank cam chain. At one point, after a long sequence of battling with the engine electrical harness, he holds up the giant rat’s nest of wire and says, “People ask me why I drive old cars. This is why.”
I’m in both camps. They’re expensive and they suck.
Me too. No clue what I’m gonna do next. No way this F150 is gonna go a quarter million miles on the original guts like my old Tahoe did.
If you got the turbo motor that’s definitely the case.
It is too bad you can’t get the old 300 straight six in that anymore. Talk about an engine that lasts.
I’m looking for a new vehicle in the next month or so. The old Mini has over 120,000 miles on it, and I’ll probably hold onto it for little rides around town and errand running. I doubt I’ll be able to find something I want without a giant touchscreen in the middle of the dash.
My 2006 Zippicar Hyundai Sonata is going on 170,000 miles and I drive it regularly to appts and on road trips. I absolutely love that thing, but I do get attached to my possessions, so I may be a bit obsessive about my love.
Even if I could afford it, I wouldn’t want a new car until they starting putting the knobs and buttons back.
“Alexa, turn on the right turn signal.”
*shudder*
My muscle memory is a lot more efficient than trying to remember what to do next, how to do the operation, form the words correctly for the computer, all in that split second you need to do that all in.
My 2023 Kia Telluride has a giant-ass touchscreen (integrated into the dash so it looks nice) and knobs and buttons!
N68.
It’s only going to get worse as the new emissions regs create disposable motors and cars.
Just evaporative emissions are fucking nuts.
I don’t really see that much of a difference between my 2017 Honda Accord and what I remember from my 1998 Toyota Camry. The Accord is a bit bigger and has some newer bells and whistles. But it may be a world of difference to a mechanic. Though, that 98 Camry was a money pit that eventually caught fire and burnt to a shell while my wife was driving on the interstate (she got out first). I’ve spent a total of 100 dollars in the past 12 years repairing a 2011 Honda Pilot and zero in repairs on the 6 year old Accord. They may be built like crap, but I haven’t experienced it yet.
Now my 84 Chevy Impala was a different animal. They don’t make those like that anymore. A front row bench seat wide enough to lay flat and a trunk big enough to put bodies in. I miss that car.
I’ll be attempting to “de-fog” the headlights of our 2009 Honda later this week. Only ~ 112k on it, so it’ll keep going for a bit, I suspect.
Newer used cars are stupid-expensive.
Use the 3M abrasive kit.
It’sa bit more labor intensive and messy but it holds up better. And if you can, remove the headlights from the car first. It makes it a lot easier.
My understanding is they will cloud again quickly unless the kit comes with some kind of UV protectant or you clear them over.
If you clear them you will likely only get a couple years before you repeat the process.
The kits you need to avoid are basically rebranded aluminum polish. Looks ok for a few weeks then they cloud right up.
The oxidized plastic just needs to be removed. Once it’s resurfaced the UV protectorant helps.
That’s the one I’ve got:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08745K56G
It looks like it does _not_ come with a UV protectant, so I should pick some up.
To be far, cars have actually gotten a bit more reliable.
Compared to what?
I’m driving a 2002 Tundra that’s rock solid. Meanwhile my fleet trucks that are newer have all kinds of issues from the transmission to the thermostat.
The fact that GM can’t make a completely reliable thermostat after a century is obscene.
I’m fast approaching 5 years on the GTI. Longest I’ve ever kept a vehicle.
TOS has taken the position that the immigration system is still too restrictive.
Are they doing what that idiot I linked to the other was doing; talking about a completely imaginary world in which the vast majority of immigrants are highly skilled innovators?
I am in favor of immigration, but stop making completely bogus claims.
The current system is both too restrictive and too permissive at the same time.
It takes a government to fuck up that bad.
This. Rhetorically, we need a higher fence with a wider gate.
Make it easier to legally immigrate while making illegal immigration and hiring of illegals both more difficult and onerous.
^This^
After dealing with ICE (INS when I was being afflicted with them) trying to get my wife her green card after we got married, I have absolutely no love for them at all. Talk about a fucked up agency.
I had to get my parents to sign some document where they said they would vouch for us not going on the dole for some period of time. WTF? I watch all the illegals get all sorts of bennies and I had to promise to not get any? I also have seen a lot of really smart foreigners who were making big money as developers have all sorts of troubles getting their green cards. My favorite was a Mexican coworker who had his application tossed for a minor clerical error and had to start all over, while his cousin who came over illegally got fasttracked by some NGO.
Been the same for all my non-American friends. Want to do it by the book? USA will fuck you over and take forever. Might as well just walk across the border.
I have two friends who are Brits. The hoop-jumping they’ve been made to do is ridiculous. And expensive.
Very. The Spaniard (where is that guy?) is married to am American and still has to jump hoops.
PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AGREES TO PAY $4.2 MILLION IN BACK WAGES FOR VIOLATIONS OF H-1B TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKER PROGRAM
I remember when this happened. In a typical government bureaucratic clusterfuck, the victims were given 90 days to find a new sponsor or deport. My wife was thankful she didn’t go there.
It takes a government to fuck up that bad.
QFT
I now have a Glock 43 and its accoutrements + $250, and no longer have a Taurus Judge
Congrats. How do you like shooting it?
Final sale is contingent on my shooting it. That will be sometime this week.
Good trade.
Very.
It’s only going to get worse as the new emissions regs create disposable motors and cars.
Just evaporative emissions are fucking nuts.
Based on what I have learned from watching his teardowns, direct injection is one of the absolute worst ideas to have come out of the “clean’ era. It works great for thirty or forty thousand miles, and then goes completely to shit as the intake gets more and more caked with carbon.
My 2008 Cobalt SS has almost 130K (mechanical direct injection) with little issue.
But I do put seafoam/valvetrain cleaner in the intake at about every 30-40K.
Toyota does both direct and port to avoid that.
VW does direct and port in Europe but fucks the USA with direct injection only.
2015 Passat here. 75K. Waiting for the inevitable.
It’s been an amazing car otherwise. Big, comfortable and ridiculously good gas mileage.
I remember when direct injection, two-stroke Diesels were going to be the next thing.
That was a flash in the pan.
Ford ECOboost motors have transitioned to direct along with a TBI to prevent carbon buildup on the back of the valves.
I also have a catch can on my PCV valve to prevent excessive oil intrusion.
My muscle memory is a lot more efficient than trying to remember what to do next, how to do the operation, form the words correctly for the computer, all in that split second you need to do that all in.
Yes. I don’t want a whizbang digital dash. I don’t want to have to read a number for oil pressure or temp. I want to take a quick glance and see if that needle is in its proper place.
Woman bit by rattlesnake. Climate change to blame: https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/california-woman-bitten-by-rattlesnake-on-hike-18100699.php
Whew, off the hook. This time.
/white supremacy
Don’t so sure. Capitalism is white supremacy. Capitalism is heating the planet. The warmer planet means more rattlesnakes. Ergo, more rattlesnakes are a product of white supremacy.
You just earned an A+ in Environmental Science.
What a bunch of horseshit. I’ve hiked the California deserts, they’ve always been full of snakes. Anywhere there’s a stream, you can be assured to find at least a few. There were times I saw dozens.
Lol.
“Are you threatening me?”
I AM CORNHOLIO!
What the fucking fuck?
Look, you fucking dimwit. It’s time for you to sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up, clean the bullshit out of your ears, and listen to someone who actually knows what the fuck they’re talking about.
Any member of the Crotalus genus has a brain about the size of a pencil eraser; hence, you should get along very well. That said, the snake does not know or care if you’re making eye contact with it. The snake’s reality divides into thinks that can eat it, and things it can eat – you are very much in the former category, although I question whether you should be.
If you don’t want to get bitten by a rattlesnake, the rules are simple and bulletproof. Don’t fuck with it. Don’t fucking try to handle the rattlesnake, don’t fucking step on the rattlesnake, if you see the rattlesnake on the trail, give it a wide berth. Ditto if you hear the rattlesnake, although assholes like you have fucked this up for the rest of us. Rattlesnakes in some parts of the western US have learned to not rattle, because if they rattle some dipshit hits them with a stick. Thanks for that. Maybe consider staying inside?
ETA – this rant is not directed at any member of Glibs (that I know of.) Rather, the idiot writer of that excuse for an article.
Don’t make eye contact with a fucking snake, Jesus wept…
Oh.
Special counsel John Durham concludes FBI never should have launched full Trump-Russia probe
But the election wasn’t stolen, paranoid people!
And the laptop was real…
And the Ukraine impeachment was bullshit…
And they’re totally telling the truth about everything else.
It wasn’t institutional, it was just personal. No Trump and this will never, ever happen again, at all, no way, pinkie-swear.
The normies are starting to notice:
‘LEGAL THEFT’: Texas police seized man’s life savings. Now the state is putting his cash on trial
As an aside, is there a bigger fraud than Texas?
“I was starting to believe that Woods was involved in criminal activity, particularly money laundering,” the deputy wrote at one point, later adding that Woods could be “involved in the transport of money connected to drug trafficking.”
Yeah! That’s the ticket!
On a more serious note, at some point people organize their own gangs and start fighting the cops. If the mafia oversteps, they need to be put in their place.
Yeah, good to see the comments on a lameass milquetoast site like Fox News mostly slamming the cops.
He could have avoided the whole thing if he formed an LLC with Hunter Biden.
Nah, the Republicans are going to sic some hard nosed prosecutor like Durham on Hunter and in five years he’ll…present a write up with no consequences for anyone. Actually nevermind, you’re right.
I defy you to read past the first few paragraphs.
The title alone was bad enough but I almost punched out on the very first sentence – “Why do so many Americans live in poverty?”.
The real answer is, “they don’t”. I didn’t read the whole, stupid thing but I don’t see them define “poverty” anywhere. Once it went from “less than $XXX a year” to “less than X% of the median a year”, the game was up. With the latter definition, we will _always_ have poverty, even when everyone is driving flying cars and are too far to move.
*fat
No. Not past the second sentence.
“Government programs obviously work. I’ve been with people when they receive a housing voucher. They praise Jesus. They fall on their knees. They pray and weep and cry.”
Okay, all of that performative bullshit is very nice, yes. How many of these people are no longer in poverty thirty days later?
Hmmm. I think that we have a very different definition of the term ‘Works.’
Look, they made her feel good. Isn’t that what really matters here?