THE LATEST FASHIONABLE HOBGOBLIN: Forever chemicals (PFAS)? Feh, so last Tuesday. Want to be hip and trendy at your next proggie cocktail party? Breathlessly, yet confidently, warn your fellow cosmo-drinkers about the dangers of quaternary ammonium compounds, aka QACs (pronounced “quats”).
PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE CULTURE OF MEDIOCRITY: A nice read from Connor Boyack and Corey DeAngelis. Boyack is one of our favorite authors, and is well known for the wonderful Tuttle Twins books for children.
THOSE LITTLE HELLIONS: You know how for the past (at least) forty years practical fusion has always been twenty years away? Well, Microsoft just moved the window with an ambitious five-year plan to buy fusion-generated electricity from startup Helion by 2028. We know the linked gee-whiz article says “2023” in the body text, but the headline, and original source (WSJ, paywalled) say 2028.
WE’RE NOT GOING TO EVEN MENTION ALIENS: “For whatever reason, [human DNA] were suddenly ‘spiced up’ in a short period of evolution. Because we are the only species in which these regions have been rewritten so quickly, they are called ‘human accelerated regions’ (or HARs). Furthermore, scientists believe that at least some of the HAR may be the source of many qualities that distinguish humans from their close relatives, such as chimpanzees and bonobos.” Fluffy, breathless, ‘splainer here, their original source article here.
CHINA SEEKS PARTNERS FOR INTERNATIONAL MOON BASE: CCP founds International Lunar Research Station Cooperation Organization (ILRSCO). That name, “ill risk co,” for the lulz. The CCP has long needed a major “first” in space exploration. A moon base is more attainable than a Mars landing, and offers more options for partnering with other nations and having those nations defer the cost.
Due to the paucity of news links, the comments are all yours, dear friends.
“quaternary ammonium compounds”
I use those in the kitchen all the time.
Same here.
This is my favourite, and I’ve used it around the house for almost 30 years now:
https://diversey.com/en/product-catalogue/virex-ii-256-one-step-disinfectant-cleaner-and-deodorant-54334-nam
When diluted per instructions, it’s also cheap as chips for a cleaner.
Ive used contrad 90 in the lab. great cleaner.
And i am involved with cleanup of PFAS
Doomed.
“Boyack is one of our favorite authors, and is well known for the wonderful Tuttle Twins books for children.”
Tapeworm? I think a enby bear is impossible.
???
“our”
Ah. It’s an old-school journo affectation to use the “royal we” when editorializing. And I am both old and affected.
We did the same when I wrote research for Wall St.
Space Commies!
Worse than moon Nazi’s?
Fusion in the hands of the people who make Windows? What could possibly go wrong?
Have you tried rebooting your reactor?
blue screen of death
The black screen of death is the new blue screen of death.
[thunderous applause]
You know that the end-users will claim they did, even though they didn’t.
We’re sorry — MS Fusion 1.0 is no longer a supported API. We’re moving you (whether you want to or not) to our new Azure Fusion 365 Workplace Portal subscription. Containment will depend on your credit card availability.
“It looks like you’re trying to construct a nuclear weapon. Would you like help with that?”
Check the thermostat.
Will they have Triti the helpful Hydrogen atom to give you suggestion on how to use your new reactor?
I’ll pass on a space at the Chinese engineered moon base, thank you very much. They can’t even adequately reverse engineer ten year old Russian fighter jets, no way I’d trust them on this.
The Chinese had been storing its nuclear waste in vast disposal sites on the far side of the Moon, but when an unknown form of “magnetic radiation” is detected, the accumulated waste reaches critical mass and causes a massive thermonuclear explosion. The force of the blast propels the Moon like an enormous booster rocket, hurling it out of Earth orbit and into deep space at colossal speed,
Call me when they pick up the shapeshifter daughter of BRIAN BLESSED!
I don’t remember any Chinese actors on Space: 1999.
I believe this was as close as they got
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuko_Nagazumi
😮 That is awesome. I did not know that.
Heck yeah! Lush is awesome. Miki is awesome!
Yeah, Lush was a big fave back in the day.
Human evolution? HAR HAR HAR
Well done. I was hoping someone would make that joke.
Given my nym’s genesis (heh), how could I not?
Were you just sitting around in your hotel room waiting for it there, Star Child?
You just unlocked the secret hidden musical link.
Keep it funky, ppl.
Put a glide in your stride
And a dip in your lip
Come on!
Somebody first has to make it funky.
The Sequence – “Funk You Up”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flG4hOD3wZk
James Gang – Funk #49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eC-4r4d0mU
👍👍👍
Relevant link about The Funk.
Fuck yes.
What is Hip?
Awesome
I haz disappoint, Tundra. The ultimate expression of Tower of Power’s song is in this opening sequence to the long-gone Drew Carey Show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN71DbKaCb4
It’s not gone yet!
If You Want Me to Stay
Dat bass…
Thank you.
I miss the music from back then.
For you!
So Chinese girls in silver mini-dresses and fuchsia wigs?
Yes?
No, party apparatchiks in Mao coveralls.
Listen, we don’t need put Hillary Clinton on the Moon, just launch her into space.
better
You’re thinking of UFO.
Same story universe I believe. In the pilot and/or opening there was scene from the space station.
Close but not quite right. It’s the same production company.
I, too, went to the UFO minidress and wig combo. Great(?) minds, Count.
Fusion went from perpetually 20 years off to 5 years off. As elapsed time approaches infinity remaining time approaches but does not reach zero.
Fuck off, Zeno.
I’d say he’s hit your limit — but it doesn’t seem to be an integral bit of the conversation.
They should call it project infinity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RbDQ8ymztM
Asymptotically, old chap.
We already established Moonbase Alpha in 1999.
And then the moon blew up and away.
But at least we got hot alien chicks with sideburns.
Now available in women’s lockers across the country. Some states excluded.
In politicians getting rich news, I have seen several Tweets claiming AOC is now worth $30 million, after coming to Congress as a paycheck to paycheck barkeep. Somehow she parlayed netting a couple hundred grand per year into what is described as “earning $1.5 million per year from various investments”.
JHTFC. Her supposedly rabidly “democratic socialist” constituents should be rigging the lampposts now.
A woman of the people, just like Scranton Joe.
If you can’t trust random Tweets, what can you trust?
I’d check Open Secrets but either they can’t get updated information or they just gave up in 2018
https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances
Seems she has been filing extensions
Here is 2021 asset and financial disclosure (PDF)
https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2021/10046833.pdf
Extension requested for 2022 and nothing for 2023….she aint the only one who does this and apparently “its the law!” doesn’t matter.
And she is co sponsoring a bill to prohibit congresspeople from trading stocks.
I guess we know how real that is.
I hope it passes against the wishes of the sponsors.
*shakes fist*
It’s possible her derpy boyfriend is the one benefiting from the insider information.
Apropos.
So if she hasn’t filed financial disclosures since 2021, how are people knowing she’s worth $30M and income of $1.5M?
All sides are not immune to rage politics?
https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2021/10046833.pdf
She’s not even worth $1M.
Well a lot can change between filling in beginning of 2021 and now in filing period of 2023 and just not filing at all
She’s probably achieved millionaire status which is why she is delaying the recent filings, but I still highly doubt she is at $30M.
Unless Pelosi took her under her batwing.
It’s from her OnlyFans.
That work would be too honest for AOC.
Bro is right.
I’d read your Trump screed on reason but their website has aids and doesn’t display comments.
I’m getting that too. You click the link for comments and nothing happens.
Tells me I have to log in. Nope.
Just like all the libertarian sites.
https://reason.com/2023/05/11/cnn-gave-trump-a-megaphone-and-he-used-it-exactly-as-youd-expect/?comments=true#comment-10058451
Excellent rant
Concur.
And I never thought Trump could possibly be as stupid as he is routinely portrayed, for one reason:
He succeeded in one of the most toughest businesses in the country – commercial real estate – in one of the mot brutal, cutthroat markets. It didn’t give him the tools to do much in the Swamp, and certainly didn’t beat the narcissism out of him, but you don’t make a ton of money in NY real estate if you’re a fool.
Has he made a ton of money?
He’s made money. But you could legitimately question if he’s made as much money as he should have given the massive head start he had in life. I haven’t studied the matter, but I’ve seen arguments that most of his wealth is still owed to his father’s holdings rather than any of his own decisions.
Trump became a character of a character a while ago. His brain is fried by the narcissism. You listen to him in the early 80’s and you only have a hint of the persona he has fully adopted today. I’d say he is shrewd and has base cunning at best.
And yet, most effective Republican of my lifetime.
I watched an interview with him in the eighties recently, done by Phil Donohue. He was just as on top of the questions in the real estate field then as Cyto thinks he was (I have no interest in watching it) on CNN. He knew the score, and he worked it. Phil looked an ass by the end.
This is pretty great:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?187762-1/united-nations-headquarters-renovation
Trump in 2005, testifying to congress about the cost of renovating the UN building in NYC.
Him talking about New York City real estate is pretty great – he clearly knows WTF he’s talking about.
Trump starts ~ 1:35:30
Far too many people wanted Trump to be all things to all people, and in the end on one could do that. Not the Gipper, not O-shithead, no one. Trump was not one of us, and wasn’t looking at DC from the same vantage point we have been staring at it for the last 15-20 years. Did he think that people would do their jobs? Maybe, maybe not. But I don’t think he felt that the people who swore and oath to protect the country would try to sabotage it in the way they did with him. That was too far over the line for someone of his generation. And, further, I am sure he didn’t think that the party he represented, that the members of who sent him quickly to the top of for being plain speaking, would sabotage him in the way that they did. He is cutthroat, but I don’t think he is disloyal.
Now? If, and it is a big if, he gets back in, there is going to be hell to pay. And a lot of people know it.
Jesus… Buttplug is still there?!
And I can’t imagine slogging through all those hundreds of comments; life is too short.
Could be worse, it could have been Michael Hihn *snickers in BOLD ALLCAPS*
Bully!
Fucking excellent cyto.
Seconded.
That was fantastic.
Thanks for the love guys.
And yes, it is a slog over there.
I think there are at least 3 separate paid dnc shills on the board, plus the usual mentally ill trolls
CHINA SEEKS PARTNERS FOR INTERNATIONAL MOON BASE
But there is already one there.
A not bad movie.
It was great. Sadly, it spawned sequels. The one good thing we got out of that was the Fuhrer riding a dinosaur.
https://youtu.be/-hpPwB5X4yc
Thats exactly what I was hoping, and I still need to watch the entire movie.
Possibly more than one
My cat produces large amounts of ammonium compounds. Just don’t drink them.
Where are the enviro-nazis on this?
Stunning footage from our drone team shows an enormous amount of clothing & trash dumped by migrants at the edge of the river after they cross illegally into Brownsville in this spot. Mixed in, you will find IDs/paperwork from around the world, & Mexican humanitarian visas.
All that stuff is good for Gaia because… Hey look over there! *drops smoke bomb and runs away*
Yup. One of the first things they figured out is if they don’t have ID showing where they’re from, they can’t be deported. This info, of course, was spread far and wide by NGOs who are guilty of millions of crimes (aiding and abetting, etc.) but who are totally unmolested by law enforcement.
Here’s a nutpunch for you.
https://breaking911.com/breaking-marine-vet-to-be-charged-in-death-of-jordan-neely/
The guy works as a manatee doctor?
Florida man status confirmed.
I mean, it was painfully obvious that shitbag DA would charge.
Yeah. But not the black guy who also held him down. Of course.
Excellent observation.
“For whatever reason, [human DNA] were suddenly ‘spiced up’ in a short period of evolution. Because we are the only species in which these regions have been rewritten so quickly, they are called ‘human accelerated regions’ (or HARs)
Sounds like a particularly active transposon. You can even now buy commercially tailored transposons to do exactly this for your DNA splicing needs.
Make sure you use those transposons’ preferred pronouns.
“School District Claims Alleged Sexual Assault Of 6-Year-Old Was ‘Mutual’”
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/11/plainview-isd-sexual-assault-mutual-6-year-old/
WTF??
Wanna open a wood chipper rental business with me? The future bodes well for success.
South Elementary School have determined that sexual assault did not occur.
But a jury can determine it did 30 years after the fact.
Believe all women doesn’t apply here because she was only six.
It’s believe all women, not believe all girls.
It makes for a good headline, but do we really want to start prosecuting other 6 year olds for rape?
How about caning the parents and teacher?
I mean, that’s the big question. Why were the left unmonitored, where did they get the idea for it etc.?
Maybe one could even ask why 6 year olds have recording devices.
I thought I saw the teacher was in the room, but had her earbuds in or somesuch. Probably a bunch of kids yelling and carrying on is typical in her classroom, so she didn’t even look up.
Correct. In the room but not paying attention. Using the fucking school-issued iPads for babaysitters.
Caning at a minimum.
I don’t have a fancy degree in childhood education, but I’m pretty sure I know it’s a bad idea to leave a horde of six year olds to their own devices even if I’m not expecting them to rape one another.
It’s a tough one, but . . . Maybe?
What if, as the headline suggests, the 6 year old girl was not forced to do what she did in anyway? Is a 6 year old boy who was exposed to sexualized content at a way too early age who convinces other stupid kids in class a criminal in any way, shape, or form?
That goes back to the headline. It generates outrage, but this is hardly a clear cut situation. A 6 year old doesn’t even know what rape is let alone the consequences. Shouldn’t even know what presumably oral sex is. And why is he more responsible for his behavior than the 6 year old girl if he didn’t use physical force?
Look into the parents. Look into the homelife. I’m not going to attack the school here for anything other than for hiring a teacher who failed to prevent this from happening in their classroom.
Well, I was mostly being facetious.
But if the six year old boy would only know about oral sex because he is an abuse victim, wouldn’t the same be true of a six year old girl? What are the odds two six year old abuse victims find each other and decide to get it on the middle of a classroom full of yelling kids?
But I’m not buying the school’s story, so there’s that.
I don’t know if the boy was an abuse victim. It’s possible. It’s also just possible he saw his parents doing something and just had the idea in his head. And he brought that idea into class and convinced a 6 year old girl who was clueless to do it. It didn’t mean he forced himself on her or to go under the desk.
When I was a kid, not that much older than 6 if not right around that age, I had girls who would want to kiss and do…things. It’s a reverse of that. My next door neighbor had a large box and took me in there and kissed me. Little Bro was not raped. If the roles were reversed, would I have been guilty of some form of sexual assault?
There could be some extreme scenario where I’d take a harder stance on the kid here, but I do buy the school’s story. It’s a fucked up situation. I may take a harder stance against the kid if this was a scenario where he forced himself on the girl somehow, but no evidence of that.
I would say it is more like that he watched porn on the school provided iPad.
But, I do remember playing “doctor” with Nora, at probably six or so. It was in no way rape, and it was not initiated by just one of us.
Someone’s asking to be killed.
I’m having a case of Trump overload.
You’re not alone.
Definitely. He had his moments, but this sequel sucks so far.
It’s a great, big, beautiful overload. You be so overloaded, you be tired of overloading. And CNN is going to pay for it.
This cunte rivals the best of the best brazen liars.
JEFFRIES: Republicans are creating “a fictional argument around what’s happening at the border”
How much more out of touch can he get?
If all those people were really at the border, then the country would have flipped over.
I am thankful they are there, I haven’t eaten in weeks and according to our betters, they feed us.
So you heard Hank Johnson’s comments, too?
Okay, the topmost paragraph has been updated with a link to the QACs. Thanks to Neph for both the original link and the proofread.
Eric Adams rips Ed Day as ‘racist’ and ‘anti-Semitic’ after blocking asylum seekers from Rockland
I didn’t realize these people were Jewish.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/11/mayor-adams-accuses-ed-day-of-racist-anti-semitic-comments/
Really, the whole country is a fucking sanctuary city.
Adams makes no sense. He just says whatever pops in his head.
I can’t believe how awful he is turning out to be. I mean, I can, but hoo boy is he in over his head.
It does appear to be full on panic.
He stuck his dick into national politics, and is surprised that it stuck it’s dick back.
What an idiot.
It’s not like NYC had better options in the last election. NY seems determined to make the same mistakes as SF and Chicago. I wonder how long before there is talk of a doom loop.
Another nutpunch
https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/former-soldier-daniel-perry-sentenced-to-25-years-for-killing-blm-protester/
25 for killing the guy who point an AK at his face.
Daniel Penny meet Daniel Perry.
Really, the only thing you can do is never, ever set foot in a blue shithole. If anything happens and you have to defend yourself, you’re fucked, period, full stop.
I thought he got pardoned.
Texas doesn’t allow governors to issue pardons, only recommend that some review board looks at it. So, he may yet walk, but Abbott can’t do that on his own.
I saw a breathless headline that he “stands ready” to do it, so here’s to hoping.
In politicians getting rich news, I have seen several Tweets claiming AOC is now worth $30 million, after coming to Congress as a paycheck to paycheck barkeep.
Who whined about not being able to afford a decent place to live in D C, as I recall.
Pot meet Kettle!
Icahn, Under Federal Investigation, Blasts Short Seller
https://www.wsj.com/articles/icahn-enterprises-under-investigation-by-federal-prosecutors-18f231fd?st=ubpknb2e5oopbrb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Lol, I was gonna say, is that the same Icahn I’m thinking of? Sure is…
Holy crap – looks like she has been dead for a while. She’s there to make important decisions on the future of our country.
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-dianne-feinstein-returns-to-senate-shingles-2023-5
Not even NBC could find a good photo.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/feinstein-returns-senate-judiciary-committee-helping-advance-biden-jud-rcna83949
She’s fit as a fiddle, just like our robust and healthy president Biden.
Or didn’t want to.
I’m surprised that they weren’t able to juice up a photo of her with Photoshop.
Reportedly the AI touchup program responded with “I am not God….yet”
The news here has a bunch of rules on what photo manipulation is and isn’t allowed.
But some “correction” of color and lighting is generally ok. No instagram filters though.
Here you go.
Ah, that’s better.
Power is a hard thing to let go of.
I have nothing nice to say.
I don’t know what SugarFree will do with it, but I’m sure I will vomit.
Yikes.
Strike her down, and she will only return more powerful than you can imagine!
Ain’t that the truth. https://babylonbee.com/news/feinstein-says-a-recent-jedi-attempt-on-her-life-has-left-her-scarred-and-deformed
🤣😂
“‘Don’t f*****g shoot her’: Shocking moment woman is shot dead after she pulled a KNIFE on cops – as her boyfriend begs them not to pull the trigger”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12073335/Knife-wielding-New-York-woman-shot-dead-police.html
hot/crazy?
That was not handled well at all.
hot/crazy/cold“New Hyde Town Supervisor Al Torreggiani told the Poughkeepsie Journal that officers began wearing body cameras in March 2022, a month before the shooting.”
Bet they regret that.
You begin to wonder if the clotshots have caused brain damage to a lot of people.
Nah, they were fucked up well beforehand.
The video wasn’t really clear, but if she pulled a knife, I call a Darwin.
Yeah, pull a knife, get a bullet.
I’m always inclined to take the non-cop side, but yeah.
“Republican contender Vivek Ramaswamy plans to raise voting age from 18 to 25 for Americans who have not served in the military or taken a civics test”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12074265/Republican-Vivek-Ramaswamy-plans-raise-U-S-voting-age-18-25.html
What a stupid idea.
You’ll never own the libs with that sort of attitude.
Yep that is fodder for the ‘denying people to vote’ crowd.
Not allowing 15 year-olds to vote is also fodder for the “denying people the vote” crowd. Once upon a time you had to be 21 to vote. You still have to be 21 to buy alcohol. How did people get smart enough vote at 18 but stayed too stupid to buy booze? What’s the rationale for picking any minimum age for voting?
Same way they got smart enough to drive a car on the interstate at 80 MPH at 16 with 2 months of public school driving instruction, but stayed too stupid to bet on fantasy football.
From memory wasn’t it so we could draft “voters” during Vietnam?
Someone has been reading too many Schlichter books. Mandatory military service for full citizenship is a requirement in the Red.
Maybe he’s going to finally staff Space Force with troopers.
I don’t want to know more.
Unless Denise Richards is involved.
I don’t hate it, if we’re going to insist on this democracy thing.
Give the vote to adults.
If you’re old enough to vote, the government gets no say in what legal actions you can take part in. Smoking, drinking, fucking, prize-fighting, car rentals, etc.
Pick one number.
Driving?
Credit apps, financial aid, and parents healthcare.
I agree. At age 18 you’re legally able to enter into contracts, marry, vote, and get drafted (under selective cervix)
But 21 to buy nicotine products (unless you’re military or a congressional page) or alcohol cause those things are bad?
Make up your mind.
I got to buy booze at 18 while still in high school. So, I could legally come to school hung over or stay home and write my own excuse the next day.
The “issue” was 18yos buying booze and serving to underage friends. The government response, stupid as always, was to retreat booze sales to the old age of majority.
Remember, the government didn’t just make it legal for 18yos to buy booze. They dropped the age of majority from 21 to 18 with all the benefits that come with it. Buying booze was just a small part of it.
And now there’s no more underage drinking, and no increase in fatalities caused by binge drinking on college campuses…
Apologies to our ex-military here, but fuck the idea that you should get extra rights for serving the state (or that it’s necessary to serve the state to get basic rights; they’re pretty much the same thing).
I do like the vehement reaction against it while if we floated the notion of only allowing people who pay a net plus in taxes, a number of people would be on board with that around here.
I don’t know if I view voting as a basic right. It in fact was not one of the basic rights in our constitution at the start.
Having some skin in the game doesn’t sound so absurd, but the politics of how much and why type of skin and what type of game is where it gets murky.
Thou shall not offend the gender-nazis.
“During the hearing, I gave a heartfelt speech, hoping to bring attention to the struggles that the modern marginalized communities are currently suffering. I shared my story, hoping that it would help others understand the difficulties that our children face in today’s society. To my surprise, my speech was received so well by the overall community that another parent made a TikTok video of my segment of the hearing. It went viral with over 120k views and 1k shares in less than 12 hours,” he said.
Mr. Brunt said that the attention he received turned into a living nightmare after radical progressive activists started harassing him and threatening his family, including homosexual acts toward his children. They even called his workplace with false accusations, which resulted in his immediate termination.
“However, the attention soon turned into a nightmare. Radical progressive activists began attacking me personally, sending me hate mail and threats. The situation only escalated when I began receiving phone calls at my job, making false allegations and defaming me to an obscene level. To my utter dismay, my employer decided to fire me effective immediately, citing the video as a reason for making people feel unsafe at work. It was devastating to lose a job I had worked so hard to obtain and succeed in,” Mr. Brunt said.
“As an HR professional, I am understanding and supportive of all people to express themselves as they see fit. However, it seems that today, if you disagree with the progressive ideology, you will be canceled and criminalized. It is not right that merely asking for equality and safe spaces for children like mine, I faced an all-out assault on my personal life,” he added.
Well, there’s your problem. HR is a make work program for childless, miserable, gender studies credentialed spinsters.
Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!
My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1656748197308674048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1656747082571722753%7Ctwgr%5E1fbd5e15fd786471a0db3f44159566203cc6d28d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2023%2F05%2F11%2Felon-musk-says-hes-stepping-down-as-twitter-ceo-will-oversee-product.html
She? Elona Musk?
A nice read from Connor Boyack and Corey DeAngelis. Boyack is one of our favorite authors, and is well known for the wonderful Tuttle Twins books for children.
Both were at FreedomFest 2023.
From the article:
This is why so many states are creating Education Savings Account programs that let parents direct the taxpayer dollars intended to educate their child. A competitive marketplace of education providers—instead of a one-size fits all system—is our best hope at reversing decades of decline.
I like that ESAs and the like, in states where state funding is based on enrollment, hurt public schools. The thing I worry about is states attaching conditions to using ESAs.
Both were at FreedomFest 2023.
Uhhh…. FreedomFest 2023 hasn’t happened yet.
They were at FreedomFest 2022.
That’s exactly what a time traveler would say…
Anybody who thinks military service should be a mandatory condition of full citizenship can fuck right off.
But…. RAH.
That’s not what he suggested.
But you can see how it will be reported. Too stupid to pass the test? Fight for your government and gain your full adult rights earlier….
You still have rights, just not a vote.
Oh okay
Just say no to slave armies.
Putin hardest hit.
Fun times for people with MSI hardware.
Leak of MSI UEFI signing keys stokes fears of “doomsday” supply chain attack
TW – Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/leak-of-msi-uefi-signing-keys-stokes-concerns-of-doomsday-supply-chain-attack/?comments=1&comments-page=1
I switched over to MSI several years ago. Light years ahead of Dell and HP. I thought at least until this.
Any third party MB manufacturer is light years ahead of Dell and HP.
Gigabyte, Asus, ASRock, and the like.
How the fuck were those keys not in HSMs?
But… but… UEFI was supposed to protect us against all of this.
Fucking idiots.
Rad. I was planning on selling my MSI video card and mobo next week. I’m sure I’ll be getting top value.
Video card is locked down by Nvidia. Any bios they make is validated by Nvidia, I believe.
I’m not really that concerned about it from a security standpoint, tbh. I rarely flash BIOS updates unless there’s critical microcode patches that haven’t been mainlined in the Linux kernel. I just hope the news doesn’t screw me on prices too badly.
More saying I doubt that an educated buyer would care about the card. The MB on the other hand…
True. Perhaps in my favor, it’s gamer-oriented stuff, and the COVID explosion in PC gaming has resulted in a lot of DIY system builders who are lucky if they get the thermal paste on the right side of the CPU.
That’s not what he suggested.
Ramaswami(?) says some interesting things. He’s higher on my list than Trump. But that “your obligations under the Social Contract” crap needs to be shut down hard.
And fast.
And furious.
My dad (who was a big Trump guy) is all on board with Vivek. When I saw him Sunday he was saying how I needed to read Vivek’s book.
Agreed. Don’t go there, V.
They’re not at war with you. No, not at all.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dhs-producing-videos-teaching-citizens-how-identify-radicalized-conservatives
OK DHS, now do Antifa.
That would be really awkward because most of those examples would be people who are all in on bigger government.
Watching our government interaction, it’s 1984 meets Veep with progressives perpetually convinced they are supporting the good guys from West Wing.
What will they do when conservatives start dyeing their hair pink to blend in? A couple press – on tattoos, you look like every other liberal.
I’m just waiting for them to roll out the
Social
Teams
Acquiring
Security
Information
moniker for the program to to get people to rat out their neighbors.
Hans…?
Sometimes the government has to look into the lives of others
OK, bad way to reference a great movie.
Oh, I got it…
Ask them for their badge number?
More debt ceiling articles. I love how people argue we have to raise the limit because open ended unlimited IOUs somehow or other constitute “past” spending.
The government said it would spend money in the future which makes it a debt that must be honored.
Don’t believe your lying eyes, your lying brain, your lying everything…I SAW IT DIFFERENTLY!
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1656721206307946501
Good lord. Mayorkas stating something truthful means the universe is about to implode, right?
How do I love the Bee?
Let me count the ways
For whatever reason, [human DNA] were suddenly ‘spiced up’ in a short period of evolution
What you’re saying is, we were Uplifted.
(I’m racking my brain trying to remember the commentator who used a handle from those books).
Ah – Episiarch.
I hope this doesn’t dox Q
Uh…hello!
Herrrrro handsome man.
She’s a breast of fresh air.
I did a little digging.
Those are AI generated images.
Then AI has defeated me.
Elane Musk
Uh… would.
This you?
Not quite that old. Yet.
*boing*
I might actually be convinced to get a Twitter account.
Nonsense. We all know Q is really the Booba Pepe
A quick break from the DOOM!
LOL. The irony – it burns!
Let’s try again.
Awww, so smol.
Anyone else want a gyro?
Im going to bed. Some of us work all night.
You people never stop.
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/05/11/fl-rep-jared-moskowitz-pushes-minimum-semiautomatic-firearm-purchase-age-of-25/
His political ideas are almost as bad as his fashion sense.
Thursday at 4pm rival’s Friday at 8pm for “wooooot!”
WTF with the apostrophe
Now I have to look at that fucking apostrophe for the rest of time
I have to get this printer working. I guess I’ll go buy ink and hope that is the problem. I hate printers.
Anyone know why my onion & garlic that I’m sautéing in olive oil turned green? WTF
Er, whatever befell Bridget Jones? /not kidding
Nope- I didn’t use string in this dish
(a blue soup or something)
Japan has lots of manufactured housing, but this appears to be scratch built.
Good lord the labor here compared to to the US.
https://youtu.be/zwEDNPUZSxE
THICC Thursday reminds us that yoga pants were created by frat boys masquerading as women’s fashion designers.
https://archive.is/eoFDu
I was never more sure of some secret, hetro male invasion of the fashion industry than that brief, shining moment that it was decided that thigh-highs, plaid skirts and choker necklaces were the height of fashion.
Wherever you are, you sweet genius, I salute you.
Jesus.
Asian car makers now held liable for not considering the urban crime rates in America
We are governed by imbeciles.
https://www.dailynews.com/2023/05/03/progressive-los-angeles-council-member-blames-toyota-for-your-catalytic-converter-being-stolen/
She was wearing tight clothes…
Staaaahp it.
In all seriousness, I can’t wait for the first big wave of battery thefts.
Well, a Model 3 battery weighs 1,100 lbs. I’d love to see some moron crushed by one.
You read the occasional crushed catalytic converter thief story every now and again when some cheap ass jack fails or slips.
They were asking for it, with those
short skirtsun-armored ignition systems** I have no idea what why they’re more steal-able.
Or what Sensei said.
It’s an equivalent argument.
“They were asking for it.”
Oh sure and if you put an electric shock system or a self destruct on a car I’m sure they won’t like that either.
Oh, don’t be silly.
You just have to enclose any vulnerable or valuable parts in titanium cages without accessible bolts. No big deal.
I think a simple licensing plan for reciprocating saws will fix the issue.
My preferred solution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmpBYcM06Sk
Tight spring wound coils of razor wire tied to the underside of the catalytic converter should deter.
Nobody is coming for your gas stove, part 10.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/michelin-chef-reconsiders-palo-alto-restaurant-18094215.php
Truck in liquid propane by the ton, for mother Gaia.