Monday Afternoon Stupid Human Links

by | Jun 26, 2023 | Daily Links | 227 comments

Happy Monday everybody. As I feared last week, the tiny one has started running. He’s hilarious because he keeps his arms and hands still, but now down at his sides instead of out like a zombie. So he’s basically Naruto running. Its cute. Less cute is when he does so down the driveway at full tilt as soon as he can clear the garage door. Eh. With the fourth, you just kinda say, “he’ll learn better or hopefully survive the car hitting him”.

Norway discovers that rich people can just leave. California is also discovering this.

Its kind of weird how the current era is like a 1980s comedy played for horror.

I know he was 20 and she was 16, but since she was driving, I’m just gonna go with the Adam defense: “It was the woman, Lord”.

MTG is getting the MK ULTRA experience.

 

Havin’ a Tom Waits type of day.

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227 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    How about like the Terminator? Or Jackie Chan?

    • Common Tater

      The two unmasked seem a bit young and geeky to be feds.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Probably Antifa, same difference.

      • Sean

        It’s commies all the way down.

      • Common Tater

        There definitely is a difference.

      • R.J.

        I’m with Nerfherder. A famous rapper once said, “police are just another gang to him.”
        It’s starting to really fell that way. Does it matter who detains you and beats you on the kidneys?

      • Common Tater

        Yes, I think it does.

      • R C Dean

        Different enforcement arms of the regime. So, different, yes. Regime enforcers, also yes.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Pretty clean cut for antifa. No weirdo piercing, dyed or uncut hair. Tucked in tshirts underneath the outer shirt.

      • The Last American Hero

        Have to be feds. Antifa is just an idea, man.

    • Rebel Scum

      – Pro-America Patriot rally ongoing
      – Feds show up dressed as “Nazis”
      – Patriots force Feds out of rally
      – Unmask the Feds, who PANIC
      – The “Nazis” cry, tremble in fear
      – Cops rush to save Feds

      Looks like soy cuntes from Antifa. Could be fed directed though.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      “Be gone bitch” has to be a meme now.

    • R C Dean

      What’s with the black safety gloves, anyway?

      They look a little low-T to be feds. Whatever they are, though, it ain’t Nazis.

  2. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    Røkke, who Forbes estimates has a fortune of $5.1 billion, will cost the Norwegian government an estimated 175,000,000 kroner annually (roughly $16 million) with his departure. That might not sound like a lot of money, but Røkke is not the only wealthy entrepreneur leaving Norway, The Guardian notes

    He just cut bait and left.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Let’s try that again.

      “My capital will continue working in Norway,” wrote the fishing magnate turned industrialist who launched his empire four decades ago with a 69-foot trawler he bought while saving money working on ships off the coast of Alaska.

      Røkke, who Forbes estimates has a fortune of $5.1 billion, will cost the Norwegian government an estimated 175,000,000 kroner annually (roughly $16 million) with his departure. That might not sound like a lot of money, but Røkke is not the only wealthy entrepreneur leaving Norway, The Guardian notes.

      He just cut bait and left.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Fished. To cut bait would be to just talk about it.

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought neither action was just talking and telling someone to either fish or cut bait was to stop talking and act.

  3. Rebel Scum

    Norway discovers that rich people can just leave.

    For now.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Excise Tax.

      • Grosspatzer

        Or exit tax?

      • Bobarian LMD

        That or we’re actually taxing anything spent on moving expenses.

  4. Common Tater

    “In a tweet on Sunday, the Republican from Georgia said: “Last night in my DC residence, the television turned on by itself and the screen showed someone’s laptop trying to connect to the TV.”

    Maybe it was just rebooting? The Android TV in the living room goes through this song and dance every Saturday.

    • Common Tater

      “Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner whom Greene supports, has claimed without evidence that Obama authorised spying on him when Trump won the presidency in 2016.”

      without evidence

    • The Other Kevin

      There is no doubt she’s being spied on. But the TV thing makes her sound kooky.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        We all tape the camera on our laptops for just this reason.

        It would not surprise me in the least that a TV would be capable.

    • Fatty Bolger

      It’s possible somebody in the house or nearby was trying to cast to the TV, probably by accident.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        It’s coming from inside the house!

      • Common Tater

        One time it said someone was trying to connect Bluetooth, which I guess was one of my neighbors.

    • rhywun

      Mine turns off for no reason all the time. Annoying AF.

  5. Rebel Scum

    A University of Wyoming sorority has slammed its female members for complaining after it allowed a 6ft2, 260lb trans woman to live in the house – insisting the term ‘woman’ is ‘unquestionably open to many interpretations’.

    Women can be linebackers too.

    • Tonio

      The lede/headline is even better: 6ft2, 260lb trans member to join

      • Ted S.

        My member is 6’2″.

    • Common Tater

      “A lawsuit filed by seven sorority sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) claims that transgender Artemis Langford, 21, seen top right comes to the house to stare at them”

      Seen top right? Never would have guessed.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Yeah, bottom left seems more on point.

        IYKWIMAITYD

    • Common Tater

      “One sister, who remained anonymous, told the National Review that Langford has not made ‘any effort’ to ‘physically look like a girl’, adding: ‘He’s just calling himself a girl. All you have to do is identify as a she/her.'”

      Well that’s the problem. Self-ID is nonsense.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Come on, he grew his hair out.

      • R.J.

        I identify as a Bad Mother F..
        Shut Yo’ Mouth!

        I require a full band and backup singers to accompany me everywhere, including into the locker room.

      • Common Tater

        What’s Thursday’s movie? Sorry, I missed last week. Couldn’t login.

      • R.J.

        Last Thursday was a double feature of Terrifier 1 and 2.
        This Thursday, by democratic vote, is Breaking Barbi.

      • Common Tater

        My meth lab is fantastic, it’s so plastic?

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Math is hard.

      • R C Dean

        I’m not sure identifying as a chick and making some sort of effort makes all that much difference, to tell you the truth. Maybe it moves the needle from “creepy” to “crazy”.

      • Common Tater

        It’s a huge difference. Which sounds like you don’t know any good efforts. It definitely moves the needle from “creepy” as feminine presentation is perceived as much less of a threat.

      • R C Dean

        Oh, I know the difference. That’s what takes it away from “creepy”.

        They’re still crazy, though.

  6. Fatty Bolger

    “Microeconomics assumed people were rational,” economist David R. Henderson pointed out in a recent Wall Street Journal article following Lucas’s death. “Why shouldn’t macroeconomics make the same assumption?”

    This insight helped Lucas win the Nobel Prize

    On the one hand, it’s nice they finally figured this out, but on the other hand… how is this some great insight?

    • Bobarian LMD

      It was the Nobel Prize in Journalism?

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Nobel Prize in education.

    • robc

      I think Lucas followed thru, he didnt just state it and stop.

    • R C Dean

      Maybe because that assumption appears to have been falsified by, you know, millennia of experience?

  7. Shpip

    Following its 2021 electoral victory, the Nordic nation’s Labor Party made good on its promise to soak the rich. Norway is one of just a handful of OECD countries that still taxes net wealth, and the Labor Party increased the country’s wealth tax to 1.1 percent despite warnings that such a move would “trigger capital flight and threaten job creation.”

    Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.

    Which begs raises the question: why does the Labor Party want to drive away capital (in this case, both financial and intellectual)?

    • rhywun

      I usually go with evil over stupid but in this case I really think that stupid wins out.

  8. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    Hey, we’ve completely fucked up the Russia gambit, so now we’re going to double down on China.

    https://zerohedge.com/political/blinken-backs-biden-calling-xi-dictator-beijing-trip-was-bust

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday backed President Biden’s remarks calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator, saying the president “speaks for all of us.”

    “It’s very clear that when it comes to China, we are going to do and say things that they don’t like. They are going to do and say things that we don’t like,” Blinken said on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked whether the president was wrong to refer to Xi as a dictator in comments about the Chinese spy balloon that crossed the U.S. before being shot down in February.

    • Drake

      So now the Chinese go back to not talking to our “diplomats” and maybe start selling the Russians ammo.

      In terms of legitimately elected leaders, I’d guess that Biden is slightly above Xi and way under Modi and Putin.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Xi isn’t trying to destroy his own country.

      • R C Dean

        Well, not intentionally. Vast damage seems to getting inflicted, though.

    • Sensei

      The interesting thing about this is all the Chinese outrage is external and non Chinese language.

      They don’t like the optics internally if even mentioning that a spade is a spade.

      Unlike other “face” issues you don’t see a riled public display.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Don’t want to risk repeating Xi is a dictator. Domestic audience might start agreeing with it.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Chicago/Aspen billionaire dies in race track crash. Aspen Motorsports Park. I just want to know what he was driving. Not a C8 Corvette, I’ll wager. Guys like that don’t usually go in for shifter karts. Maybe a vintage open wheel car.

    • Sensei

      You need NY plates on the C8.

    • Bobarian LMD

      NBC News once called Crown a member of former President Barack Obama’s “inner circle.”

      Clearly, it was death by Hillary…

      A commenter said he was driving a classic Ferrari, but who knows. The Track had karts, road racing track, off-road/ralley track, and motocross tracks.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        The lose of a classic Ferrari should be felt in heaven.
        The lose of an 0bama circle member would be felt in hell.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    I tried to link that Aspen crash this morning and Server Error blocked it. Same again on first attempt. Hence, no link.

  11. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Penis having person in the sorority: That exact scenario is played out in the strip poker scene from The Party Animal.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Party_Animal

    It’s the best worst raunchy college comedy of all time.

  12. Timeloose

    “Røkke, who Forbes estimates has a fortune of $5.1 billion, will cost the Norwegian government an estimated 175,000,000 kroner annually (roughly $16 million) with his departure. That might not sound like a lot of money, but Røkke is not the only wealthy entrepreneur leaving Norway, The Guardian notes”

    Sound like bad luck to me. What can you do?

    I hope you are having a good Tom Waits day, because a bad Tom Waits day is a really bad day.

    This song makes me laugh every time I hear it. “Frank drove a little sedan…They were so Happy”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbFFs4HwD0s

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Frank hung his wild years on nail that he drove through his wife’s forehead.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    So he’s basically Naruto running.

    Didn’t Fred Flintstone run that way (arms straight down)? Hanna Barbera animation sucked giant blue donkey balls.

  14. Rebel Scum

    Accountable for product defects?

    Gun manufacturers have spent two decades aggressively marketing assault weapons that make them some of the biggest profits.

    It’s time we ended gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability – we’ve got to hold them accountable.

    I must have missed this aggressive-super-ultra-MAGA marketing.

    • EvilSheldon

      Accountable for what exactly? Selling me products that I want to buy?

      • juris imprudent

        You would never buy that stuff if they didn’t MAKE you want it. /this is what the fucking morons really believe

      • R C Dean

        “I’m so weak-minded I buy all kinds of stuff just because I saw an ad for it, so that must be true for everyone, right? Right?”

      • R C Dean

        Selling products that work as intended, with very high reliability, I believe.

    • Bobarian LMD

      I must have missed this aggressive-super-ultra-MAGA marketing.

      You have to be on the mailing list.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    “More than 30 Norwegian billionaires and multimillionaires left Norway in 2022, according to research by the newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv,” reports wealth correspondent Rupert Neate. “This was more than the total number of super-rich people who left the country during the previous 13 years, [the paper] added.”

    Did you catch that? More “super rich” Norwegians left Norway in 2022 than during the previous 13 years combined. The reason wealthy Norwegians are fleeing the country is not a secret.

    Following its 2021 electoral victory, the Nordic nation’s Labor Party made good on its promise to soak the rich. Norway is one of just a handful of OECD countries that still taxes net wealth, and the Labor Party increased the country’s wealth tax to 1.1 percent despite warnings that such a move would “trigger capital flight and threaten job creation.”

    Capital flight is exactly what happened, and it has left the Norwegian government with less revenue.

    They forgot to put an exit tax a ransom demand in place.

    • R C Dean

      Once again, the only thing that matters when economics get reported is how it affects the fucking government’s cut. Hey, if businesses close, sales are lost, and people lose their jobs, who cares? They’re just tax cattle.

      /pet peeve OFF

  16. The Late P Brooks

    “If it’s an annual wealth tax, it’s taking a fraction of your wealth every year,” Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez, who helped design Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax proposal, told the Post. “Almost by definition, you’re going to have less wealth after you pay the tax.”

    Our best. Our brightest.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Almost” by definition. Subtraction, how does it work?

      • Sensei

        To be fair the assumption is that the wealth generates income too and aggregate wealth would still be higher year over year.

        OTH if you have capital losses and no offsetting gains with wealth tax you are basically doubly screwed.

      • Bobarian LMD

        The real evil is that it forces wealth holders to liquidate assets based on some paper valuation. The act of liquidating some percentage of that magic number devalues the remaining assets, destroying jobs and future growth.

        It is fucking ignorant.

      • Sensei

        Are you suggesting the wealthy don’t have piles of Scrooge McDuck cash that play around in and they can’t just simply send a portion to the benevolent state?

      • slumbrew

        A depressing number of people think that is so.

  17. R.J.

    “Norway discovers rich people can just leave”
    The WEF is working on a solution to that.

    • Drake

      Seems like a self-correcting problem.

      • Tundra

        Last winter, the city allowed the homeless to shelter in Sullivan Arena, which may well have prevented some deaths from exposure.

        Nope.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Bears gotta eat, same as worms?

      • DEG

        There are homeless folks hanging out in NH year-round.

    • mikey

      Love his hat.

    • R.J.

      “Gualtieri said Polek agreed he probably should have warned the couple he was going to clean the pool after dark.”

      That’s fucked up. At least ring the doorbell. On the other hand, verifying your target just a little bit more might have been good.

      • Lackadaisical

        I dunno man, ‘When Polek returned to the pool deck, he used the flashlight to fill out paperwork, then turned toward the house to place the paperwork by the door. When Bradley Hocevar saw the flashlight moving toward the house, he opened fire.’

        Seems super suspicious. Maybe not a good shoot, but it’s much more reasonable than the headline.

    • EvilSheldon

      Stand Your Ground still requires a reasonable fear that one’s life is in danger, and there is no possible way that this is the case given the scenario as described.

      Bradley Hocevar should be in jail right now.

      • kinnath

        yes

      • Gustave Lytton

        There is if the goal is to torpedo Stand Your Ground.

      • Lackadaisical

        Probably the goal.

    • R C Dean

      30 rounds and no hits? Sounds like after the first couple of shots, there wasn’t even a target in view.

      What a fucking moron.

    • R.J.

      He’s still doing it though. Just using an different term for it. Not the Bee was touting this as a victory. It changed nothing.

      • Tundra

        They are completely wrong. It will be called “Puppies and Kittens” score and it will be business as usual.

      • Sensei

        He’s all in on it. Just like many would like to make America great again.

        Doesn’t make the phrase any less toxic to 50% of the population.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      ESG Macht Frei

      • R C Dean

        Well played.

    • Drake

      Oh no! I hope we didn’t make him sad!

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Old stock pic shows he at least owns/drives an open cockpit race car.

    Those look like spec racer Fords. They’re pretty stout, but you never know.

  19. Rebel Scum

    I know where Putin keeps his armies….
    …In his sleevies.

    • The Gunslinger

      So I guess his leggies are probably in his panties?

      • R.J.

        Where does he keep his Beenie-Weenies?

  20. The Late P Brooks

    I saw that Larry Fink story earlier.

    “How dare you put my words in my mouth?” Those big anti-ESG meanies twisted his noble intentions all out of context. They politicize everything.

    • Bobarian LMD

      The Rahn curve is for spending, the Laffer curve is for taxing. We are definitely on the wrong side of both those peaks.

      • robc

        The thing is that federal government revenue seems to stagnate at about 17-18% of GDP, no matter what the tax policy is. It is next to impossible to get it above that. Which is convenient, as the Rahn curve peak appears to be about that range.

        Of course, both the Rahn and Laffer curve are based on total spending and total taxation, not just federal.

        One of my pet peeves about the Laffer curve is that a tax gets cut and revenue OF THAT TAX drops, and someone says “see we are still on the left side of the curve”. But you have to look at total tax revenue. A cut in the Federal Income Tax, for example, could cause a small drop in Fed income tax collected AND an even larger increase in state taxes collected.

  21. Common Tater

    “Planned Parenthood is BANNED across Saskatchewan after supplying 9th graders with sexually explicit card game for ‘queer youths’ that teaches them about being attracted to TVs, kink and extreme pornography

    A Planned Parenthood organization has been banned from schools in a Canadian province after children were offered an ‘A to Z’ guide that included descriptions of extreme sex acts.

    As well as explicit descriptions, the A to Z also include references to bizarre terms like ‘Cathodillia’, which it said was ‘being attracted to one’s television set'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12235371/Planned-Parenthood-BANNED-Saskatchewan-supplying-9th-graders-explicit-card-game.html

    tumblr was a mistake

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Saskatchewan is MCGA country.

  22. Shpip

    Won’t someone think of the low-level bureaucrats?

    TL:DR – High school English teacher (both of her children identify as “they,” because of course they do) takes the stunning and brave step of resigning her position, since she can’t groom teenagers anymore.

    So she’ll get a job where her compensation is in direct correlation to her value added, right?

    She plans to become an advocate, to fight harder for LGBTQ+ rights — for her kids and Florida’s future.

    Nope. Straight to the grift.

    • Sensei

      Liberals really don’t get projection do they?

      Still, she worried about elementary teachers who couldn’t put up pictures of their same-sex spouses. Kids who had two moms.

      She knew that censoring starts small — then explodes.

      • Shpip

        When classes started in August, Ms. Felton told her LGBTQ+ club that they could no longer confide in her. She could be forced to share their secrets.

        In October, the Rainbow Alliance dissolved.

        Everyone was afraid to come to the meetings.

        That’s the problem with high schools that are 75% black & Hispanic — all those hyper-ultra-MAGA red hat types ready to bust into the classroom of the after school QUILTBAG Club and scream, “I’m going to gay bash you!”

      • The Last American Hero

        They only do that at 3 am during a blizzard

  23. The Late P Brooks

    ESG, a catch-all term that encompasses a range of ethically responsible business practices, from curbing carbon emissions to cracking down on discrimination in the workplace, has become politically polarizing in parts of the Western world, especially in the United States.

    As any rational knowledgeable investor knows, those business practices re indisputably ethical, correct and effective. To say otherwise is sheer political fiction.

    • B.P.

      Reuters: Just straight-up news reporting.

      • Sensei

        Like “sensible” laws!

  24. Lackadaisical

    At this point, you’re a conspiracy theorist if you think your TV isn’t spying on you.

    • MojeauXX

      My iPad … or something … is listening to me. I know it is because I can talk to my husband or a client about an item, and there it appears in YouTube and FB ads, and Amazon is serving me up suggestions.

      No, I do not believe it’s based on previous purchases or ads I’ve looked at before.

      • Common Tater

        Get rid of Siri?

      • MojeauXX

        Siri is disabled. I have never used it or Google voice.

      • Common Tater

        Can you turn off the microphone?

      • MojeauXX

        Only Zoom has mic enabled.

      • Common Tater

        If the software controls don’t work (which is impossible to test if they are hiding it from you), and it has a headset jack, then maybe try a dummy plug or a headset with the mic switched off? Again, it won’t be immediately obvious that you stopped it from spying.

      • MojeauXX

        I’ll try a dummy plug, thanks.

      • R.J.

        Try this experiment. Play some music in a phone, then open the Amazon app. For me I notice an immediate difference in sound quality, because Amazon is listening to it and it is running through some kind of filter. This should get your attention. Keep all apps like that “off.” Remove them from every device except one. No facebook or anything either. It all listens even when running on a device.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Greene, 49, is a rabble rouser and conspiracy theorist who has risen to power in a House Republican caucus at the mercy of the far right.

    Shit happens.

    • R.J.

      As it gets closer, we will all see the outline of… ZARDOZ!

    • Bobarian LMD

      SMOD for President!

  26. Q Continuum

    GAH!

    AI Porn Generator I posted in the morning lynx was broken. This should work for all you disgusting leches (like me).

    https://pornpen.ai

  27. The Late P Brooks

    But he said dropping references to ESG would not change BlackRock’s stance. The firm would continue to talk to companies it has stakes in about decarbonization, corporate governance and social issues to be addressed, he added.

    They’ll just have to get the officers and directors to keep it on the low down from now on.

  28. Raven Nation

    If that Norwegian guy’s capital is going to keep working in Norway, what’s he avoiding – personal tax?

  29. The Late P Brooks

    In her Sunday tweet, Greene also seemed to suggest someone might try to harm her, writing: “Just for the record: I’m very happy.

    “I’m also very healthy and eat well and exercise a lot. I don’t smoke and never have. I don’t take any medications. I am not vaccinated. So I’m not concerned about blood clots, heart conditions, strokes, or anything else.

    She should have hired a professional to clean that attic window.

    • Raven Nation

      I’m going to go out on a limb and say her TV’s not spying on her.

      But, once again, those who refuse to play by the team rules are going to be fact-checked. Any prog who makes any claim is believed without question. And, if questions arise, we’ll just move them out of sight.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    If that Norwegian guy’s capital is going to keep working in Norway, what’s he avoiding – personal tax?

    I wondered about that, too. Especially if his wealth is primarily his Norwegian company. Although, not a Norwegian resident, not subject to the wealth tax.

    I’m sure there are plenty of other taxes to be paid.

    • R.J.

      It makes sense to somebody over there in Norway. Or maybe he is just B.S.ing until he can change his residence and then yank all his money out. Doesn’t want to tip off the Feds.

    • Shpip

      My guess is that by being a resident of Switzerland, he’s saving himself ~$50M annually by not being subject to the wealth tax. Everything else stays the same.

      Besides, it’s not like he can pick up his fishing fleet and move them to Monaco.

      I do wonder though, if the Norwegian EPA is going to come after a fishing magnate for his depredations on the country’s steelhead population.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      If I had to guess, the tax is on individuals residing in Norway. So his company will still pay their usual tax, his dividends will be taxed at the usual rate, but because he and his money are in a different country, he won’t be subject to the wealth tax.

      The US is one of the few countries that taxes money earned outside the US.

    • Raven Nation

      Thanks, that makes sense.

    • R.J.

      I agree with everything he said. The one thing I have noticed: I have not seen hardly any advertising for this film, so I doubt if they spent 150 million on advertising.

      • The Last American Hero

        I’ve seen quite a few commercials on the motor trend/hgtv/animal planet part of cable

      • R.J.

        The Tubi / over the air TV channel selection: I have seen two promotions. One ad and one in-depth on the news my wife watches. That’s it.

      • kinnath

        Cutting their losses perhaps.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Have we covered this one yet?

    The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office on Monday released information regarding the death of a ground crew member at San Antonio International Airport.

    A 27-year-old man died when he was “ingested” into one of the engines, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

    The Medical Examiner’s Office said the manner of death was suicide.

    Ouch. There has got to be a better way to check oneself out.

    • MojeauXX

      OceanGate sub?

      • Shpip

        The deceased was described as an aviation geek who was obsessed with jet engine technology.

        Sounds like he was a big fan.

      • Sensei

        That sucks.

      • MojeauXX

        He’s now in another plane of existence.

      • Rebel Scum

        He was going to come up with a better suicide plan but he decided to wing it.

      • B.P.

        I woosh him the best.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        But maybe not the sharpest blade in the jet engine.

      • creech

        You guys are shredding it with your puns.

      • Sean

        Oof.

  32. Evan from Evansville

    Assessment was an interesting 90 minutes. She’s going to speak with her team. We both agreed that it’s difficult to figure out in what facility I ‘belong/’ They don’t do inpatient. I may need that many eyes on me. I was thinking like 3 days a week of inpatient. Or 4 or some mix. Intensive outpatient? I need to figure out in my brain what that means.

    Is anyone here? I’ll save my full thoughts on it tomorrow.

    Teaser: (She had to cover all the questions and put my notes in for several legit reasons.) Two of them were (No. Fucking. Joke.) were “Can you read?” and “Can you write?”

    This was after she knew I graduated university and was a teacher for 13 years and ran a newspaper on my own for ten months. I know those boxes had to be checked, but it got a legit laugh out of me and her.

    “Yes. I am literate.”

    • R.J.

      I wish you well.
      My favorite question from a phone interview:
      “Can you speak English?”

      This was asked after we had been talking for ten minutes.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Tonnac I, on.

        Simplistic and not-terribly important, and we benefit from it in some ways, but computerization and the AI push is stripping hospitals of Bedside Manner, in a non-casting couch, sliding next to Jessica Alba in Sin City sort of way.

        It turns people into data, and the psych and personal relationship with docs and nurses is a legit part of being human and healing. I’ve seen scanners at some hospitals that just “read” your vitals. They were in the open, visible to other bystanders. The scan was sent off through however many avenues to whomever.

        It strips the humanity from the hospital. I don’t want ALL of it stripped. (Some of my Korean/Thai nurses…Um. That woulda helped by recovery time.)

    • Gender Traitor

      Is anyone here?

      Yes. All week.

      • R.J.

        Try the veal.

        And I am listening. I may not be the best for advice. But I see your comments.

      • Evan from Evansville

        I’ll try the waitress first.

      • R.J.

        That’s the spirit!

      • Evan from Evansville

        Time now for some food. Thank you all. I gotta figure out what my next steps are.

        No joke, and I’m not self-depreciating right now, but I should be studied by a Team in Vienna or something. Musk and his Team could/would have a field day with me. I’m quite a bit out there.

        I’d be a fun guinea pig. Just let me get stoned and have x-amount of Me Time. And pay me for the privilege. I’m actually a distinctly polite and helpful patient. (PS: It helps you get better/more food and happy chatter with cute nurses always is a psychological boost.)

    • Sensei

      Don’t states have an ANG or is this just like the “undocumented”?

    • creech

      Tell them it appears to be controlled by Trump and is carrying boxes of classified documents out of the country.

  33. DEG

    According to Gulfport police, the golf cart owner parked his “white, lifted” golf cart with a “firefighter/American flags and black rims” in front of his neighbor’s house near 27th Avenue South and Beach Boulevard just after 1:15 p.m.

    Yep, this is going to be a good story.

  34. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    It seems the EU is starting to hang Biden (and the Brits) out to dry.

    https://zerohedge.com/political/john-kerry-skewered-french-tv-host-after-condemning-putin-invasion-why-isnt-bush-judged

    “ But a French TV anchor wasn’t having it, and confronted Kerry over US hypocrisy, given Washington has mounted multiple invasions of sovereign countries in recent decades, especially since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Well-known French journalist Darius Rochebin during the Sunday night interview on news channel LCI posed the following: “We have to judge Putin for crimes of aggression, of course. But you, the Americans, you committed the crime of aggression in Iraq.” Rochebin then asked Kerry: “These countries of the Global South say, should we judge George Bush? Why isn’t Bush judged in the same way?””

    You’ll also note that the other central banks have stopped protecting the Bank of England’s yield curves. The financial situation there is unraveling very quickly.

    • R.J.

      Of course! Europe is with China now. Now everyone will gang up on what’s left of the USA and rip it to pieces. All according to WEF’s plans.

      *Tinfoil hat swells, crinkles

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        I would be very surprised if the EU backs us up on our China stupidity.

        I also think they’ll actively encourage us to be stupid.

    • rhywun

      I remember when “Pride” was just another mandatory stop on the Dem tour of vote pandering.

      • Common Tater

        How it became this huge thing is just ridiculous.

      • Raven Nation

        It’s kind of a fascinating sociological study (along with Ukraine). We have friends who couldn’t have told you what transgender meant two years ago, now they’re crusaders for transgender rights. Now, that’s fine, most people’s views change over time. But what gets me is the complete lack of humility or understanding of people with whom they disagree: “now that I’m a convert, everyone who disagrees with me must be destroyed.”

      • juris imprudent

        $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

      • Drake

        I remember when it was just another deadly sin.

      • Tundra

        Pretty sure it still is.

        And judging from all the footage from yesterday, the other six are pulling their weight as well.

      • Tundra

        Yep. And that sure worked out well.

      • rhywun

        Yeah but the Bauhaus building is still awesome. Too bad it inspired so much shit later.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Brick… gun… brick… gun…

      Dunno man, I’m having a hard time choosing.

  35. Tundra

    More on Crashy.

    Crown also served as the lead director of General Dynamics Corp., director of JPMorgan Chase, trustee of The Aspen Institute, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Civic Committee, and the University of Chicago, as reported by the Aspen Times.

    He was a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served in President Barack Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

    Well…bye.

    • Sensei

      More relatable way to go than an experimental submarine.

      He was either going to play for Team Red or Blue. Billionaires like Musk are like hen’s teeth.

      • rhywun

        “We will save the planet by putting 9 or 10 fantastic #NYC pizzerias out of business! Gunna really change things you guys!,” said City Council Republican Minority Leader Joe Borelli.

        That’s not the point. The points is everyone must suffer for the cause – it doesn’t matter that nothing is actually accomplished or that the cause is not what they claim it to be.

      • Sensei

        Precisely. Virtue must be signaled.

        If you look at current environmentalism like a religion it makes sense of many of its tenants.

      • Common Tater

        *tenets*

      • Sensei

        Thanks. I’m going with the damn iPad on that one.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Similar to Toyota’s TRD.

    • rhywun

      I find it more interesting that Gutfeld is moving to 10pm.

      • R.J.

        All rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. The US Government owns Fox now. They cover the margins. Gutfeld is all they have left.

      • rhywun

        Kinda surprised they gave it to Watters instead of Ingraham. She’s probably brushing up her résumé tonight.

  36. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    • slumbrew

      I trust you’re out pillaging San Francisco.

    • Gender Traitor

      Still in the Bay area? If so, taking your antibiotics as a precaution?

      • Tres Cool

        Im on the NW side, safely away from San Fran. Across the San Pedro Bay (I think it is).

  37. DEG

    NH Journal, GOP Establishment news outlet, covers RFK, Jr. at PorcFest

    It was a hot Thursday morning and the air in the PorcFest Pavilion in Lancaster and, as hundreds waited in the sun to see Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the air was thick with excitement.

    And pot. And the scents that come with the presence of a large number of dogs.

    It also didn’t help that the central bathroom with showers, located near the Norse pagan spiritual village, was out of order. The adjacent port-a-potties were also shut. It was hoped that would all be fixed before Thursday night’s scheduled free couples shower event.

    • R.J.

      “ located near the Norse pagan spiritual village…”

      Da fuck?

      • R.J.

        Oh! You need bathrooms. Turn left at the Norse pagan spiritual village, head all the way down until you see a drunken Sterno bum. Turn right, and the bathrooms are under the altar to Beelzebub and the entrance to the arcade.

      • DEG

        It’s PorcFest.

      • R.J.

        That’s still hilarious.

  38. DEG

    More on former state rep arrested for kiddie porn

    Last June, New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley gave a shoutout to state Rep. Stacie-Marie Laughton as one of the “LGBTQIA+ Democrats who are the backbone of the Granite State.”

    Today, former Rep. Laughton is under arrest on charges of trafficking child sex abuse images taken by a former lover at a Massachusetts daycare.

    When Buckley gave his endorsement last year, Laughton had already been in and out of jail on multiple charges, including credit card fraud and calling in a false bomb threat. But the shocking new charges — Laughton’s partner allegedly took photos of young children at Creative Minds daycare in Tyngsboro — are more serious than the crime of stalking for which Laughton was most recently jailed.