Have you tried turning your computer off and back on again? You did, and there’s still no links? Go try it again until they show up.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s give you something to ignore as you get your snark on.
When did blue check marks become the benchmark of security?
Especially as people can’t understand the meaning of a padlock icon.
One step closer to burbclaves?
With that, I’ll leave you with some music, and be about my day.
Wait, Neph is a Glibarch now?
Ilium has done some backup linkages before.
I have no idea what you’re referring to.
Mmm hmmm.
Don’t worry, I have zero interest in searching you for the tattoo commonly known as “the mark of the Glib.”
Why do you have to search?
It always end up being on the taint.
jeabus, i did.
All i get are pics of mark suckerberg…..
Well it’s nice to know I’m not the only one with a Glib taintoo.
You better salute while asking.
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS HAVE POLE READY TO RUN UP FLAG AND SALUTE!
Yeah, they sucked another one into their vortex. Soon Neph will only comment on his own posts and nobody else’s, and eventually he won’t comment at all.
/looks at posting history.
I could never quit you lot.
I donno, If offered ultraviolet clearance, you’d leave us plebs in a heartbeat.
Great. yet another email certification process to set up for my domains.
Google will sell it to spammers and fraudsters anyways or yet another thing to break and go wrong.
You know, they could just enforce DMARC instead.
But that wouldn’t require everyone who wants to send email to gmail users to register with Google.
People should abandon gmail.
Speaking which, since it’s domain level “verification”, every gmail.com email will have a blue check, right?
I abandoned gmail 10+ years ago because I couldn’t stand the UX.
I guess you can hook it up to real email clients now but why bother. Especially when I own my own domain.
A few years back there was a “Proof of Concept” where they moved ITS emails to gmail.
It was godawful. There was much rejoicing when it was abandoned.
Outlook sucks, but it was significantly less bad than what google offered.
I moved my domains off of Google a few years back in order to escape their spying.
But there are so many people on gmail that they have become a de facto standards organization. If you want to send email and stay out of spam then you’ll have to register it seems.
I expect Microsoft will release their own system shortly.
Poor MS, they aren’t the market-maker they used to be. It must grind them up inside.
JI:
MS is still pretty well entrenched in the enterprise server and desktop market, and they do have their own cloud offerings as well.
#blocktheblue
I can’t trust anything with a blue checkmark. It’s something to be avoided or blocked.
/taps out
What it signals is the collapse of government at all levels in some areas of the country.
Same stuff occurred as the Roman Empire collapsed. Private security paid for by rich patricians or supplied by the newly arrived Gothic warlords evolved into feudalism.
There’s reasons the mafia did so well during the Depression.
Except this time the State is deliberately withholding law enforcement for political purposes – and against the wishes of the people most impacted, despite all the George Floyd propaganda.
It’s nauseating.
That and/or they are incapable of providing it.
Well, they were never capable of providing round-the-clock on-site protection, of course, but they and other cities like them who have gone down the path of “defunding the police” and refusing to prosecute “low-level” crime are most certainly capable of restoring the kind of law’n’order that was in place in the before times.
Yes. It signals that people no longer have faith in institutions for something as basic as keeping crime down. That’s not a good sign.
We see this in Central/South America. Large business and wealthy neighborhoods have private security. Small shops and favelas pay protection to the gangs, for the same service. What’s scary is how well it works.
You made it that far? I got to this, and bailed:
“it’s hard to be relaxed in the presence of a loaded gun.”
Yeah, I knew that line would get some of you.
As with being gotten by the balls — it all depends on who’s doing the holding.
Ah, so she’s uneasy when a black guy has a gun. Got it.
I have some sympathy with her. The fat guy with the crap Turkish bullpup shotgun isn’t exactly a sterling example of competent professionalism.
Myself, I’m always a little anxious around guns held by cops.
I did not know that. Why?
They’re regulators, I assume it’s either to someone’s economic benefit, or because they’re ignorant.
That I assumed. I was wondering if they thought top fermenting yeast was unsanitary or what.
Without doing a deep dive, I would bet that is one of the later additions to the regulations as the original Reinheitsgebot didn’t include yeast as a permissible ingredient in beer, as they didn’t know yeast was a thing. With that, I would bet it was to keep a monopoly on quick turn over ales (such as the restrictions on using wheat).
Germans. Always about the bottom.
Lol
The bottom is where all the power comes from?
Private security signals an unequal economy
One where you can trust people and one where you can’t.
That article is full of bullshit assumptions and imagined scenarios based on irrational fears by the author.
AR-15 / Bullpup Shotgun, what’s the difference?
overall length?
They all look the same to me.
Why the guard is short-stocking a bullpup, I have no clue.
Because they are taking his picture and he wants to look tacti-cool.
Looks like his sling is too tight to make it around all his tacti-cool stuff
He’s resting the heavy part of the gun on top of his shoulder. Trying to, anyway.
Does he have two flashlights mounted there?
Ahh, Philly. I don’t miss my time there.
Andre Boyer, an agent for the Strategic Intervention Tactical Enforcement (S.I.T.E.), is seen patrolling the sidewalk outside of a Karco gas station in North Philadelphia, Pa., armed with a Bullpup shotgun, on April 24, 2023
I spent some time there this past weekend. The North and West still have some shitty places, but they have been that way for the last 30 + years. The homeless issue by my estimates is about the same as it was 20 years ago, but there seemed to be a shift in where the new “bad places” are located in the rest of the city.
I’m confused, that’s not some shitty Ska and/or Irish punk song. Is Neph okay?
Wait… did I find a musician you like?
I like Ska Punk, it’s just that every other song sounds exactly the same. Hey Ska punk bands, here’s an idea – play your shitty version of ‘Timebomb’ and then move on to something else maybe.
You are right, that is a great song (and not just for the eye candy).
Please remain calm. Everything is under control.
I’m skeptical.
But I like pilsner urquell
I like brown ale, lagers, wheat beers…
Is it the weekend yet?
Me too.
The lock doesn’t mean they’re closed?
NPR pulled the plug on posting on its main @NPR account and 51 other feeds in April after the Musk-owned platform falsely labeled it as “state-affiliated media,” a description usually applied to state-owned media in authoritarian countries.
“Falsely.”
Ah then they won’t be begging for their annual federal tribute.
“And nothing of value was lost.”
in authoritarian countries.
Like Canada?
Wealthy cities can also attract more police officers because they have the tax base to offer high wages and benefits. Seattle, for instance, is offering an $80,000 salary and $30,000 signing bonus.
Pretty sweet gig to watch Antifa dullards mostly peacefully burn shit down. But then you have to live somewhere in or near Seattle, so it sort of evens out I guess.
Yeah, Seattle has to turn away the horde of applicants for the police.
Google’s aiming to improve your browser awareness.
While they spy on an try to control me.
But more seriously: will #Betelgeuse explode any time soon?
Most likely not, see for example this paper:
https://twitter.com/JokesAstro/status/1653471356087042048
It could have exploded during Colombus’ voyages and we still wouldn’t know for another century or so.
Red giants don’t explode, they eventually become brown dwarfs as they cool and contract. Blue and white stars are the ones that go boom. Yellow stars eventually go red giant. Then we’ll have undeniable global warming as that thing grows to inhabit our orbit. That’s when Mars will start looking real good.
Maybe not on their own, but stellar detonation weapons are designed to make those things go pop.
Red Giants usually go nova and become neutron stars or white dwarfs after they contract, once the fusion pressure stops. Brown dwarfs are starts that never had fusion due to not reaching a critical mass.
Beteguese is a super giant, so it was likely a much hotter star than ours initially.
Damn it, Neph! You tricked me into clicking a HuffinPost link.
It was the most entertaining panicky take I could find that wasn’t paywalled.
Inventing lager was a huge mistake
America’s oldest brewery begs to differ.
commercial breweries were a huge mistake.
Why?
because it should be done in the home.
I’m alternating takes between “Then little Johnny could hone his shine running skills between the living room and the kitchen” and “You’ve seen the ‘Meth heads burning down their house / neighborhood’ mania… don’t you think they’d spin up the hysteria if everyone was doing their own brewing / distilling?”
Of course — that the government feels like it can step in for something humanity has been doing for millennia does piss me off — but since we live in a post-Wickard world, they’ll do whatever they want anyway. Bleah.
Brewers, bakers, butchers . . . . Yeah all those things could be done at home. If you’re living off the grid, each household would pretty much have to do that.
But, no one can really afford the time to do everything themselves. And comparative advantage has advantages.
Yes, I am oppose to industrialized brewing, but small-scale commercial brewing is a valuable community resource.
Mmmm…. Lager.
First off “Time” is still a thing? Second off, that poor jorn-o-list, sounds easily frightened by the site of guns. Must make it hard to write a balanced story. Having recently been witness to an unhinged lunatic who had just shot up in a liquor store restroom and was subsequently “experiencing a mental health emergency”, I can’t imagine why people think these armed guards are necessary. The 110lb female manager did just fine getting the junkie out of the store several thousand dollars of damage later.
So you are saying that there was US involvement in the Kremlin drone attack.
We’re riding the escalation escalator.
Maybe picking someone other than a lousy Groucho Marx impersonator would be a step up in believability.
Retard round-table.
For the first time in my life the youtube comments gave me a little hope.
Scientific American guy speaks:
“better research”
Sets it up that there are male and female then complains people frame it as binary. Trying to ride the fence just pisses off both neighbors
“sex binary” is misleading
No, it isn’t.
There is biology and there is psychology, and this guy’s trying to conflate the two.
He’s an anthropologist. That’s what they do.
whaddup doh’
Need a link? Ant screeches about elephant.
They really want to bury Tucker don’t they? I hadn’t listened too much to what he had to say till they booted him, which made me curious why they got rid of their biggest draw. He almost makes up for the bow tie in his state affiliated media days.
So that’s where Cathy landed.
The entire article feels like projection from the author of their own insecurities and fears.
With a big heaping dose of foot-stomping and “Not fair!”
We call those civilians “criminals”
“some civilians”
Why not “some people”? And I seriously doubt they would not feel uneasy if the guards were regulated.
Which, by the way, they often are. It’s not easy at all to get the license to be armed security in the states I am familiar with. Unarmed, sure, but not armed.
Some people felt some things.
unregulated – so end the police but no other security, crime will magically go away
Finally Tesla has made it into the mainstream!
https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1653849177791795205?s=20
Given the time it takes to charge, you’re going to see more conflict over charger space than a gas pump.
It’s about saving the earth. First by reducing carbon emissions then by reducing the surplus population.
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And a little bit of red meat for the crowd.
Well yeah, so CLEARLY they just need to ESG even harder!
Do better, America. Woke harder!
Well, as soon as the government regulates all the non-ESG firms out of business, the ones that are left will make a killing.
This is all so dishonest, stupid and socially destructive.
The California Reparations Task Force released estimates, as well as breakdowns of the methodology used to determine the amounts, on Monday ahead of a critical vote that will take place later this week.
The possible payments reflect the work of economists who advised the task force and who were asked to estimate the total financial losses suffered by Black Californians impacted by slavery and institutional racism.
As outlined by the San Francisco Chronicle, an eligible resident who lived in California their whole life and was 71 or older could, in theory, receive as much as $1.2 million.
Sure. Use money you do not have to pay people who were never slaves because of a dishonest construction of what, historically, was the norm, not the exception. Divide and conquer.
Which group will be next for payoffs? Latinos or Asians?
California should do this…then the US return California as reparations to ‘Latinos’ thus negating it all and make the whole area a beautiful wasteland
Asians obviously, because railroadz!
Increase crime enough so most people either are murdered or elave and then you will have less to pay in reparation/.
This will also solve water shortages.
Yeah I mean, my sympathy quickly evaporated when this guy’s background story began to leak out.
“Nothing to see here”
Just a lovable Michael Jackson impersonator.
So the other day I said just wait til the rage machine ramps up…seems it has. I predict a DA statement and arrest today.
Yup.
The hues at play made this inevitable. Shitstorm incoming.
Death of man who was placed in chokehold on New York City subway ruled a homicide
I watched that video yesterday. In all honesty, that one needs to be at least a manslaughter charge. The guy who died was clearly nuts, but I didn’t see anything in the video that made me think some random guy on the subway should be able to jump him from behind and keep him in a choke hold for 15 minutes. Just because you think you’re being heroic doesn’t mean you don’t need to answer for your actions. Not that the state agents that are going to throw the book at this guy would hold themselves to that same standard.
NEW YORKERS: you should probably move.
How is that victim stack gonna look. Dude first intervenes cause guy is off his rocker…second person intervenes on first guy…then another intervenes on that event…wait…I fully support this chain reaction event.
We need vigilantes to stop the vigilantes! Please refer to the skin color guide in this pamphlet to determine who is the vigilante and who is the victim before attempting intervention. Failure to properly discriminate based immutable characteristics may result in imprisonment.
I guess the voters in her district pay no attention to her at all. Either that or they just are the stupidest collection of people in the country.
Embrace the horrifying reality of “and”.
Is this about the crazy guy that tried to push people in front of trains? I can’t keep up.
Yeah same guy.
I must have missed some background. I thought he was just ranting and raving on the train.
So yes, on the day he was killed he was only screaming and throwing garbage. He had been arrested 44 times prior and had an active warrant for felony assault outstanding. He was known for regularly threatening to kill other riders, getting in their faces, and had previously pushed people toward the tracks. Nice guy otherwise.
Ah, salt of the earth.
I can see the murals being painted already.
He was probably trans, but was forced into a life of being cis-hetero. If only he’d been mutilated as a kid, he’d be mentally stable and living a happy productive life.
TBH, if AOC were pushed in front of a train I probably wouldn’t intervene. Too dangerous.
But enough about David Dorn.
This one is gonna be very interesting to watch.
The critical question seems to be, ‘Is a rear naked choke deadly force?’ I would personally argue, from a position of mild authority, that it’s not. While it’s possible to kill someone with an RNC, I don’t think that it’s likely.
“New Jersey GOP demand a 60 day BAN on offshore wind farm construction after 31 dead whales washed up along East Coast”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12044625/Lawmakers-demand-answers-shore-wind-turbines-blame-whale-deaths.html
They should be happy for the whale oil.
I ate whale once. Did not like it.
An early contender for Glib comment of the day.
I fucked a whale once. -John McAfee
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1010682321106821125?lang=en
The world is a worse place without that whale fucker.
Tres eats whale all the time.
🤢🤢🤢🤮
Exactly how are the windmills killing the whales? I just started hearing about this recently, but haven’t heard about the exact way that the whales are being killed.
ENACT MY LABOR!
“We are losing the battle against environmentalist so just like them…we will make shit up cause it seems to work” is what I gather.
They don’t
I’ve noticed that the conservatives are just as bad as anyone for reflexively claiming any bad things are related to windmills. Locally here the conservatives are all heated up because the windmills are allegedly causing nearby people to suffer health problems because of the noise or shadows or something.
If the “victims” claimed the same health effects from power lines, the conservatives would laugh at them and say they are crazy. But since the culprits are windmills, they are 100% #BelieveAllVictims. (Proggies, are 180 degrees the opposite).
Go ahead and make the case that windmills don’t make any sense economically. But stop with the nebulous bullshit claims.
Feels trump reason!
I was ranting about the same phenomenon in a Mises Caucus-tweeted infographic yesterday.
There is no economic argument that would stop these fucking things from being built.
I like the whale angle – it’s a much more effective and persuasive argument. Same with Congolese slave labor as an argument against EVs.
Logic and reason sounds great, but it doesn’t work.
Yeah, they do.
And also Evidence says offshore wind development is killing lots of whales
Lotta “Its possible”s, “could”s, “maybe”s and “Might”s in there, also its the construction not the windmills themselves so the same could be said for off shore any construction.
Also fuck them whales.
Cogent argument, well thought out.
Thanks, I was worried it might have been too subtle a point.
You’ve seen the whale jump from Free Willy right? Imagine that into a windmill.
Something about using sonar to locate places to put the windmills, I’ve read.
I think it’s more of a question of ships involved in the construction of the windmills hitting whales, not the windmills themselves.
Whales are used to ships, I don’t think that would produce 30+ kills in short order.
As ever, one wonders what the baseline is.
I guess there are big concrete bases under each windmill, and the wind farms are in the whale migration paths. Beyond that, the whales are running into the concrete? Or they’re diverting their migration paths too close to shore? I haven’t seen the exact reason.
Infrasonic vibrations rupturing echolocatory chambers.
Also, 5G.
Don’t forget that they also resonate with HAARP and change the salinity of the ocean immediately surrounding each pylon.
Hmm, renewable energy.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“Nothing to see here.”
Wow! Cats and dogs living together. Next it’ll be Demos/Repubs but never, ever Glibs
Thanks, Jimbo
Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good?
A growing chorus of concerned former “addicts” are trying to wake people up to caffeine’s negative effects
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/a43622878/caffeine-addiction/
“Petty Officer Second Class Marcus Bivens stood before a panel of U.S. Navy officers, hands cuffed behind his back, facing charges of an unauthorized absence.
…
He went to the hospital, where he was subjected to a battery of tests. Doctors examined his eyes, his ear canal, his blood pressure. He was administered an EKG and had blood drawn. All the test results were normal, flummoxing a team of ophthalmologists and neurologists. “Every doctor took out their phone and Googled my symptoms, trying to figure out what was going on with me,” Bivens says. He was eventually diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a rare neuromuscular disorder that typically affects women between the ages of twenty and thirty.
…
In front of the disciplinary review board, Bivens admitted he was having suicidal ideations and was placed on psychiatric hold for a week. A year later, he was medically retired from the Navy. The condition would plague him past that.
…
Bivens now believes the source of his medical issues was neither a disease nor a mental illness. Rather, he attributes his health decline to caffeine, the most commonly used, socially acceptable psychoactive substance in the world. For years, Bivens had been consuming close to 1,000 milligrams of caffeine per day, two and a half times the daily recommended limit and the equivalent of more than ten cups of coffee. The habit had wreaked havoc on his central nervous system and in turn caused myriad physical and psychological problems.
“People don’t understand that caffeine is an actual drug,” says Bivens. “It’s not Kool-Aid.”
yeah no fuck y’all I aint giving up shit
“
“People don’t understand that caffeine is an actual drug,”
Who are these mysterious people?
Morons and DARE officers. But I repeat myself.
Bivens admitted he was having suicidal ideations and was placed on psychiatric hold for a week. A year later, he was medically retired from the Navy.
And there you have it. A malingering POS worked the system to get a nice little in the mail monthly for the rest of his life. Whats that about incentives and rational actors again?
“Anything that can’t safely be consumed to wretched excess should be banned!”
I drank more for a lot longer. It had no negative affects. Don’t ask anyone else
/Sample of 1
that typically affects women
Oh so he’s transgender on top of it all?
Every doctor took out their phones? This is how we medicine now?
Deborah Avant, a professor at the University of Denver who studies the security industry globally, says that inequality leads us to “think of security in narrower and narrower ways—protecting our stuff rather than generating communities where we are all safe.”
We just need to Great Society harder.
When you have nothing, then no one will trouble for your things.
I don’t care about my things, I care about my family.
If I am a business owner, I don’t care about my things, I care about my livelihood.
Cover up to protect the agenda.
The release of transgender mass killer Audrey Hale’s manifesto has been put on hold.
The Nashville Police Department had previously told Fox News Digital last week the manifesto was being revealed and would be released. People are interested to see what drove Hale to murder six innocent people, including three children, at the Covenant School in late March.
Now, it appears that the process has hit a roadblock.
The update is in response to a lawsuit filed by former Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond and the Tennessee Firearms Association against the Nashville city government and the police to release the manifesto, according to TimeFreePress.com.
Because of a lawsuit demanding we release the manifesto, we have decided to put on indefinite hold the releasing of the manifesto.
Yeah, most transparent excuse ever.
In fact, the judge should entertain a summary judgment motion based on this statement. Since the claim the reason they cannot release it is the lawsuit, that renders the whole question moot and you are hereby ordered to immediately release it.
Judge enters Solomonic trance, orders complete destruction of the manifesto so there will be no more questions about it.
*falls out of chair in surprise*
https://babylonbee.com/news/nashville-shooter-manifesto-placed-in-secure-crate-alongside-motive-for-vegas-shooting-epstein-client-list-ark-of-the-covenant
Financial instability in 2022-2023: Causes, risks, and responses
Timo Löyttyniemi /
28 Apr 2023
Financial markets have faced several disruptions to financial stability during 2022 and 2023. These events have highlighted the vulnerability of banking and derivatives markets. This column argues that while each disturbance was separate, they were connected by several factors, including rising inflation, higher interest rates, as well as individual errors. In times of weakened financial stability, panic can create a self-fulfilling crisis. Authorities acted promptly and decisively, and each crisis required a unique solution, especially the larger crises.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/financial-instability-2022-2023-causes-risks-and-responses
Udda. My tax dollars will be used for cultural appropriation.
I think that this is a terrible idea. Everyone knows that a college education is not part of the Native’s culture.
Dots or feathers? Either way they are Americans or they are not. And this is discriminatory af.
Feathers. We aren’t as blessed with convenience stores as Joe Biden’s home state of Deleware so the Dots are still pretty sparse.
Did no one ask why the tribes with very, very profitable casino’s (some tribe members are getting $20K/month) aren’t funding this themselves?
“Why pay for something you can get someone else to pay for instead?”
Must be a mission from God, because there ain’t no part of the Constitution that says we have any business doing regime change in other countries.
At least this one isn’t an Administration spokesflunky.
Yeah… sticking our nose into the internal politics of a nuclear power, that’s really frakking smart. How about we practice a little of that “right to self-determination of peoples / nations” we keep preaching, jerks? Who would have thought one of the worst consequences of the ’90s would be the mindset getting stuck that we’re a sole hyperpower and can dictate to the world? It wasn’t really true then, and it sure as hell isn’t now, so sorry about your warboners — but let the rest of the world deal with their own shit again, dumbasses.
Hey Wilson promised to redeem the world, we couldn’t deliver on that until we could fuck over anyone in the world with impunity.
We need regime change in Russia
We need regime change in the USA even more.
inorite?
regime change in Russia
The nuclear apocalypse should be fun. Or maybe we should just send Bolton to the Kremlin. Let them deal with him as they see fit.
I gave up on that Time handwringing exercise.
Oh, woe. What is to be done?
Reparations, I imagine.
So glad we have a “Catholic” President Poopy Pants. I’m not a fan of the church hierarchy, but it sure looks like some of the activists in the administration have a serious grudge against the Church:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/05/03/fbi-reportedly-surveillance-catholic-churches-after-memo-warning-of-extremist-behavior-in-churches-n2622806
https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/05/03/xavier-becerra-and-hhs-threaten-to-strip-catholic-hospital-of-accreditation-over-chapel-candle-n740823
Too many of these events piling up to be coinky-dink.
So much for the fear of the Pope dictating to the President.
Washington is floating a bill to jail priests that hear confessions and don’t report the crimes. Inslee is allegedly Catholic as well, and just passed a bill to take away kids from parents who object to having their ducks cut off. Our worthless bishop won’t excommunicate him.
Sounds like quacks
‘Orning ‘ordles — Remain calm. All is well. (Meh)
Daily Duotrigordle #428
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:28.74
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Yikes. That one went off the rails.
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Blossom Puzzle, May 4
Letters: B E I R L N O
My score: 189 points
My longest word: 9 letters
🌸 💮 🌻 🌷 🌹 🌼 💐 🏵 🌺
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
[Florida] Renters may pay monthly fees, and state will override local tenant rights in bills headed to DeSantis
These both seem like pretty big positives for the state. The first bill, which has passed, allows landlords to charge a monthly fee in lieu of a security deposit, which could help cash strapped people with income (ie., most people) change apartments more easily.
The second bill overrides any local “renter’s bill of rights”, so landlords only have one set of rules from the state that they have to follow. These local regulations are usually found in big cities, where they also tend to have the biggest negative effect on housing availability.
Libertarian disclaimer: The government shouldn’t be involved at all in these transactions to begin with.
Yeah… that was my first instinct / question / naive “why has lawfare gotten so bad” — “There was seriously a law against landlords structuring security for their property in their rental contracts however they saw fit?!? What?”
I assume the progressives are complaining about the monthly fee as it will increase the cost of housing for “underpaid communities”? Especially if the fee continues forward instead of stopping after a set period of time.
Didn’t RTA, but I’m imagining that some of their complaint is that the fee stays with the landlord, whereas a security deposit theoretically gets refunded back to the tenant under some circumstances.
Still, obviously the fee option is better for some people – just that the maternalistic complainers won’t see that.
I can see that complaint as well. I was thinking it was coming from the same area as the attack on payday loans and the like.
Good guess, I’ve seen it compared to payday loans in some articles.
“A two-month refundable security deposit paid up front gets you 5% off your monthly rent for the first year.”
With money market rates as they are, the bigger complaint from renters about security deposits is they aren’t returned with interest. When Bernanke/Yellen pushed interest rates to zero, no renter complained about not getting security deposit interest.
The journalo is strong in this one
Someone should tell this guy that Rona Panic is over and he should move on. The whole article reads like it was written in September of 2020. Lots of shade throwing at people who are too dumb to trust the SCIENCE.
I’d love to have someone tally up deaths from ivermectin (are there any?) and compare that number to the tally of vaxxed youngsters who mysteriously died from a cardiac event.
Yeah, lotsa ivermectin junkies around.
SEE! That just proves how awful it is. There are no addicts because it’s killed them all!
Far right doctors?
So if docs can’t be forced to prescribe ivermectin, I’m sure that pharmacists can’t be forced to sell abortion pills?
And cakes. What about bakers and cakes? Fall under this umbrella?
Don’t forget florist but only if said florist is a right wing florist
I read somewhere that RCTs show that both ivermectin and masking don’t work, i.e., the 95% C.L. Included no positive effect, but that the 95% C.L. for ivermectin had a larger overlap with positive effect than masking did.
Off-label use FTW!
I used it when I had Covid and it seemed to immediately put me on the road to recovery (obviously not a blind study). I have heard that it has had tremendous success preventing cancer from metastasizing in some cases.
None of this will be studied because it’s a cheap generic drug now and the pharmas run the hospitals, FDA, and CDC now.
the antiparasitic drug
Shockingly, it does more than just this.
Links can’t be delivered on time? How the hell is a Firster supposed to operate under these conditions?
It may be high time I started my own linking website. With blackjack and no seconders. In fact, forget the website.
[Some years later a computer is discovered full of strange rantings that forensic scientists are unable to piece together as a rationale for why the crazy man did what he did.]
They were on time. Everything is under control.
Time-ishly. My article deserved a little time in the sun.
“Billionaire Stephen Deckoff snaps up dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s two private islands for $60million – including one where he sexually abused children – to develop state of the art luxury resorts”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12045817/Billionaire-Stephen-Deckoff-snaps-dead-pedophile-Jeffrey-Epsteins-two-private-islands-60m.html
What the heck is more state of the art than a mansion filled with video surveillance and 14 year old party girls?
Surprised that our national security apparatus didn’t seize all of that.
Well, someone took all the DVDs….
Gotta have a bench stock of DVDs on hand for their next sting operation. Only makes sense.
I guess nobody should be able to own land that was a plantation once upon a time.
I had the featured image as my avatar for a while for work Slack.
Sussing out the Kremlin drone attack in the age of propaganda is really difficult. I mean, the minute the flacks for the US security state start telling you something, the immediate assumption is that they are spinning or flat out lying.
But the Kremlin story is even more sus.
They said it was a drone attack on the Putin residence that was stopped by electronic warfare devices.
Ok, so far, so good….
Then you see the video. A tiny drone flies over a domed building and then explodes at a safe distance above the dome. The bang was like a large firecracker. Maybe a grenade? Definitely not a terribly serious assassination attempt.
But more… I don’t think electronic measures would have hD that result. It detonated near the intended target. I would expect electronic countermeasures to cause it to lose communication, or fall from the sky dead, or fly away without control. Exploding seems rather unlikely.
And then we have the press. The way I learned about it was via Twitter, sharing news articles with still frames described as “smoke pouring from the residence of Putin”. So the propaganda machine was coordinated early to say it was a serious attack that nearly killed Putin. The video puts the lie to that.
Then Ukraine puts out a stamp celebrating this? Great way to deny it.
So it seems like everybody is lying, and the Kremlin is using it as a pretext to claim the right to assassinate Zelenskyy.
So one can reasonably conclude that everyone is lying pretty hard on this one.
In present day, that is a safe assumption.
So it seems like everybody is lying
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!
My new theory is that Trans is cool because it is a victim group that anyone can join. You don’t need to be lucky enough to be born into it. Or have to have icky sex with someone you aren’t attracted to.
All you have to do is change your haircut and clothing. All of which can be easily changed when you get tired of cosplaying.
Sure the really dumb people go too far and mutilate themselves, but they would have just ended up with face tattoos anyhow.
There definitely seems to be a large overlap with the emo kids of the 90s.
A good 15 years ago I began associating “non-binary” with morbid obesity, piercings and unnatural hair colors. It clearly seemed to be a coping mechanism to allow people with no place to fit in a space to come together. It seemed fine. Maybe a little dumb, but fine.
Now they seem to be hovering up anyone in their teens or early 20s with mental illnesses.
^This. For most of my friends with teenage kids it seems that emotional distress and metal problems are all the rage these days.
emotional distress and metal problems
Goths hit hardest.
Teenagers have had trouble growing up forever. It’s a tough time in life, trying to play grown up but still have to depend on Mom/Dad for financial support, etc.
The stress transfers over to the parents trying to understand teenagers.
They have a real social contagion to not be the only teen that is not: gay, trans, on copious amounts of antidepressants, etc. It is beyond the awkwardness of yesteryear.
All three of mine were really pressured to have some type of QUILTBAG moniker.
Guess no different than to not be the only teen who isn’t a jock or cheerleader, just amplified via social media nowadays.
I wonder about the old 80’s-90’s tropes of the mean preppy jock/cheerleaders. At least it was an icon type that promoted physical fitness and accomplishment. The reaction against it seems to promote much worse. I say that as a kid who hung on the periphery in high school and didn’t really like the in crowd.
My two granddaughters did not make it through high school unscathed.
I must have been immune to that, because I never felt any “pressure” to be anything. Well, except to not be a dork.
But I’ve pretty much been a loner all my life so there’s that.
Me too, sort of. In retrospect, I can see quite a bit of social pressure even in out groups that I hung around.
It’s a tough time in life, trying to play grown up but still have to depend on Mom/Dad for financial support, etc.
I went a professional symposium years ago and attended a workshop about mentoring youth. The speaker started out using Alexander the Great and Merriweather Lewis as examples of what teenagers are capable of and postulated that todays extended childhood is unnatural for youth and causes the problems listed above. It left an impression. Sticking kids in stasis with no real responsibility and giving them goals that simply ape real-world accomplishments is not doing them any favors.
One cannot diminish Meriweather Lewis’ exploits, but he was in his twenties (born 1774) when Jefferson tapped him to lead the expedition. He was only 35 when he killed himself (or was murdered).
But he was managing the family estate at 13
There’s a Blair White video out there talking about the social contagion effects from TikTok. There is this thing called TikTok Tics, in which there is an epidemic of kids with Tourettes showing up to doctors. The strange thing is there are people talking about Tourettes on TikTok and they all mysteriously have exactly the same tics (which isn’t how Tourettes works). Same thing with multiple personality disorder. It’s all over TikTok and now kids are reporting they have it. But you’re not supposed to notice the same thing is driving the transgender trend.
Yeah, the multiple personality thing was all the rage in the 70s.
I think I read that the entire thing is suspected to be bunkum by the profession these days.
TikTok is brain cancer. Well, TikTok in the U.S. TikTok in China is all wholesome and good.
That’s in the video too. In China their version promotes math and science. Our version promotes mental health problems.
I’ve seen the ads! TikTok is all about cooking and dancing! It’s wholesome fun.
/this comment sponsored by TikTok
Really all social media is brain cancer.
Sure, like jaywalking and murder are both crimes. But there is a huge degree of difference here.
I had metal problems, but then I went to see Dr. Feelgood.
Everything is alright.
You summoned would have just ended up with face tattoos anyhow.
From Juris’ link:
Ukraine reportedly tried a surgical assassination strike against Putin last week, but the bomb-carrying drone fell short of the target and Putin’s tight security arrangements make such an operation’s chances of succeeding remote. Even if Putin were to meet with some deliberate or accidental fatal event, would his “evil state” expire with him? Or, does it comprise an entire governmental establishment that shares his brutal methods and aggressive lust to expand Russia’s territorial and ideological ambitions? If the German plotters had succeeded in killing Hitler, would the Nazi system have collapsed?
If Ukraine assassinates Putin, there will be dancing in the streets all over Russia, and peace will be assured. The Russians will beg Zelenskyyy to come lead them.
Good morning, Neph!
That private security article is pathetic.
Or – you know – what they can’t.
Great song and video!
We’re busy spending our domestic security budget on Ukraine instead…because reasons.
10% for all the big guys…..
*cue monologue interlude from Queensrÿche’s Empire*
Okay, I have a problem (I think it’s just gmail) that I THINK I know the problem, but I don’ know how to solve.
My business name is B10 Mediaworx. My domain is b10mediaworx.com.
The majority of people who write to me for a quote, usually gmail, do not get my emails and I’ve taken to replying with my personal email address.
I don’t seem to appear on blacklists for gmail (so far as my searching has shown), but clearly I’m being blocked. I THINK it’s because of the X in my domain. I don’t know how to solve this problem. I don’t have any way to know how much business I’ve lost before I clued in, but it’s probably a lot.
How do I find the problem and fix it?
If you want to test, feel free to send to my account. I do know that Google has blocked e-mails from some domains (and e-mail hosts) due to misconfigurations, “potential” spam, laziness, and just plain mistakes. If you don’t mind, who’s running the e-mail on the domain?
Uh, “running”? Like, my webhost? Linksky. Otherwise, I run it?
I don’t have your email addy on my phone. Can you send to me? I will reply. esb10@b10mediaworx.com
Sent.
And replied.
/signs up Mojeaux for Janet Jackson fanclub
I am a squeeing fangirl.
also @robodruid
I got both your emails and replied.
It must be my webhost bc I sent robodruid 2 emails from my moriahjovan.com addy that he never got.
I’ll open a ticket with my webhost.
It shouldn’t have that effect. I have friend who has a company with 2 x’s in the title and he isn’t having issues.
Sure, just 2 XXs. 😉
Xerox is a real company. They aren’t out of business… yet
This lady just pushed a fucking bear off her fence to protect her dogs.
https://twitter.com/_B___S/status/1653852343601967105
looks to me like the dogs were instigating
Is that even a bear? It looks kinda small.
I’m getting nothing but “Nothing to see here” when I try to follow a Twitter link. Anyone else having this problem, or does Elon just have a personal grudge against me?
It’s just you.
It is kinda cool that Elon Musk has a personal grudge against me, though.
This video is at least 3-4 years old.
It’s unclear if Musk plans to change the policy. He has pushed through a raft of controversial reforms following his acquisition of the platform, such as the removal of blue check marks for verification.
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey last week suggested Musk “should have walked away” from the $44 billion purchase while he could.
Jack Dorsey is an unbiased observer, and we should value his opinion.
Also, I did not realize the Huffingandpuffington Post was still around.
it’s owned by Buzzfeed.
Dorsey is a moron or Buzzfeed is full of shit (likely both). Musk wanted to walk away (paying a $2B penalty) but the Twitter board sued him and the judge forced him to purchase.
Dorsey has a new Twitter competitor. Hence, the switch from Elon’s buddy to gadfly critic.
Those reforms were only controversial to the media, hardcore leftists, and deep state. Most people had no problem with them.
” raft of controversial reforms”
controversial to some.
Something weird going on? I keep getting an internal service error when I try to post one particular comment (no links or anything) but am not having a problem replying otherwise.
/Hey NSA guy, give a guy a break?
Any use of quote marks? Some have observed they cause issues at times
Nope. Just mostly coherence and almost complete sentences.
That probably got you flagged as an AI/bot.
Testing for keyword: Nordstream, Zelenskyy, martyr, CIA, unserious people.
Great…. now we are on ALL the lists…
Pretty sure that’s been true since sometime around 2017. Dark Brandon is watching.
Speaking of that “security” article-
Did they happen to mention the current ongoing drama in Jackson, Miss, where the state is attempting to provide additional police protection for the city, and the so-called advocate community is screaming RACISM and pretending the place is being turned into the Warsaw Ghetto?
The Warsaw ghetto probably had more reliable utility services.
Well, Germans, so . . . .
Maybe they will do a software update on the VP-bot while they’re in town
Vice President Kamala Harris will meet on Thursday with the CEOs of four major companies developing artificial intelligence as the Biden administration rolls out a set of initiatives meant to ensure the rapidly evolving technology improves lives without putting people’s rights and safety at risk.
The Democratic administration plans to announce an investment of $140 million to establish seven new AI research institutes, administration officials told reporters in previewing the effort.
In addition, the White House Office of Management and Budget is expected to issue guidance in the next few months on how federal agencies can use AI tools. There will also be an independent commitment by top AI developers to participate in a public evaluation of their systems in August at the Las Vegas hacker convention DEF CON.
Harris and administration officials on Thursday plan to discuss the risks they see in current AI development with the CEOs of Alphabet, Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI. The government leaders’ message to the companies is that they have a role to play in reducing the risks and that they can work together with the government.
Let’s get the Handicapper General in on the ground floor.
Chat VPT?
If there’s anyone who could benefit from some artificial intelligence, it’s our vice president.
“In addition, the White House Office of Management and Budget is expected to issue guidance in the next few months on how federal agencies can use AI tools.” I’m absolutely certain 100% of that guidance will involve censorship and spying on citizens.
the antiparasitic drug
Can we fog Washington, DC with it? Or maybe add it to the water supply?
President Joe Biden noted last month that AI can help to address disease and climate change but also could harm national security and disrupt the economy in destabilizing ways.
Sure, Gramps.
What, you don’t think he’s having closed door meeting with tech executives and AI experts so he can have a firm grasp of the issue?
From cyto up above: “everybody is lying”
last night, Andrea Mitchell was talking about the WSJ reporter being held for espionage in Russia. Like everyone else, she called it a lie that he was spying. How the f*** do we know that? Because he denies it? WSJ denies it? CIA denies it? Why should we trust any of them? We weren’t privy to what he was actually doing.
Valid point. For instance, that dirtbag Paul Whelan (sorry, “former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan”) was definitely spying for financial gain, but the media does its best to paint him as an innocent victim. That said, I think it’s a lot less likely that this WSJ reporter was actually spying. Digging into a sensitive area that the Russians didn’t like, quite possibly, but probably not spying per se.
As if the navy didn’t already have an image problem.
The U.S. Navy hired this non-binary drag queen as a “digital ambassador” to try to recruit people
Hopefully one day the American military will transition to being an effective fighting force.
Depends who the “enemy” is.
Who could possibly have foreseen that defunding the police would lead wealthy people to pay for private security?
This popped up on Twitter last night. No idea of the context or time. But in this environment of “rising hate” stories, I didn’t see this on CNN
https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1653159031383502852?t=L24QUH23ZuipirhboyVxvw&s=19
You would think that it would get some attention from the “rising attacks on Asians”, “rising attacks on jews”, “rising attacks on trans people”…. crowd.
But surprisingly, they seem to lack interest.
We are screwed.
The first 2 replies are an example of why:
I hate people.
Peak journalisming
Witnesses told police Neely and another man were riding a northbound train Monday when the other man put Neely in a chokehold, causing him to lose consciousness, a law enforcement source said.
Pulitzer-worthy.
Really captures the moment.
“Somebody did something.”
He oppressed and marginalized the mentally ill!
“The state’s leniency in transferring the males in is likely the result of a 2021 lawsuit settlement between the American Civil Liberties Union and the New Jersey Department of Corrections which stipulated that transgender inmates must be housed on the basis of their self-declared “gender identity.”
https://reduxx.info/father-who-sexually-abused-7-year-old-daughter-for-trans-porn-company-now-recorded-as-a-female-offender-by-njdoc/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12043349/Trans-woman-abused-daughter-7-videos-moved-New-Jersey-womens-prison.html
That’s the problem. Self-ID is nonsense.
“California student slams school district for ‘putting women in jeopardy’ after video emerges of trans female student assaulting two girls following locker room encounter”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12045063/California-student-calls-school-board-putting-women-jeopardy.html
Same here. Also, that there shouldn’t any trans kids in High School in the first place because none of them are old enough to be trans.
Note the trans “female” language. Not trans woman or girl. They are going after the last bit of terminology that might have some biological validity.
Part of the problem is when the word “transsexual” was retired in favor of “transgender”, MTF wasn’t changed from “Male To Female” to “Male To Feminine”. Which also leads to things such as idiotic articles in Unscientific Unamerican that sex isn’t binary.
“nonsense” is a nice way of saying “lunacy”
The New Jersey Department of Corrections should have told those grifters to pound sand.
How the fuck do you “settle” on this? It’s madness.
You give them pretty much everything the ask for; that’s always a good settlement, for one side.
“This investigation is being handled by senior, experienced prosecutors and we will provide an update when there is additional public information to share,” Cohen, the district attorney’s office spokesperson, said. “The Manhattan D.A.’s Office encourages anyone who witnessed or has information about this incident to call 212-335-9040.”
A decision will be forthcoming as soon as the focus group results are in.
Plumber came, unclogged a drain, finished in an hour Now to wait for the financial damage.
$275, seems a little high but I couldn’t clean it out myself. Victimized. He has over an hour travel time so that has to be figured in but still…
These days, you’re lucky he showed up at all.
Yeah, still waiting for the chimney guy after 3 days. It’s about a 10 minute drive. My job is small compared to what they want to do but it’s close, convenient. At least show up and say no.
When asked about Neely’s case and the issue of vigilantism during an interview on CNN Primetime Wednesday, Adams said, “Each situation is different. … We have so many cases where passengers assist other riders. We don’t know exactly what happened here until the investigation is thorough.”
Acting in defense of oneself or others is vigilantism, a crime most foul and heinous.
They want to criminalize self defense so you can’t oppose their mobs.
That is depriving the police of the chance to lay a good beating on someone.
After the discussion a few days ago regarding theories of pyramid construction, I binge-watched the rest of the history for granite videos. Aside from being amused at his thinly veiled contempt for Zahi Hawass (an attention-seeking credit stealer I am also not fond of), I am wondering how I managed to not hear about the ScanPyramids project or their discoveries of new voids in the structure. Particularly the footage of the North Face Corridor.
That said, it sounds like the technology they were using is unable to detect voids less than a meter wide. The average pyramid corridor is less than one meter wide, and the only reason they found the north face corridor is because it was two wide. That means, there could be regular width passages left undetected.
Also, why has no one investigated the sand-filled cavity the frenchmen drilled into in the 80s? Sand is not a typical fill material. (Not to mention claims that said sane is not the same as the giza plateau sand)
Hokum
“New buildings that are going up — they can go electric, they can do heat pumps. This is how you transition. Nobody’s touching your gas stove,” Hochul said.
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New York’s new rules were part of the $229 billion budget deal Hochul struck with leadership in the Democratic-controlled legislature last week.
New gas stoves or propane furnaces would be a thing of the past under the proposal, which would require homes and businesses to be fully electric starting in 2026. Existing buildings would be unaffected.
Quit yer bitchin. Nanny knows best.
There was a successful suit against a municipal ban in california. I hope someone with the funds to sue gets this struck down too.
We hope the family of Jordan Neely will come forward so NAN can ensure
he is funeralized properly and decentlywe use them as props to extort more money. — Sharpton