Morning Links

by | Jun 22, 2023 | Daily Links, WebDom’s Browser History | 290 comments

While the folks on the submarine are likely in their final hours, I am glued to the coverage. One of my biggest fears is being lost at sea. Much of the content I stumble across reminds me of why I hate social media. The disregard for human life displayed among those on social media is disgusting, but there are some interesting bits and also some gems.

Arthur Loibl did the journey 2 years ago and said it was a suicide mission.

A writer for The Simpsons did it .

When folks at work talk about it, I’m having a really hard time biting my tongue. I want to say, “Let’s talk about the Olympic…” But I don’t.


In more cheerful news, here’s (potentially) the world’s most beloved asparagus.

This Reddit thread is interesting.

And a tune I find uplifting.

Ok, that’s it. No more news or social media for me today. Have a good one, Glibbies!

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290 Comments

  1. Donny Three-Fingers

    I cede my time to Bro

    • SDF-7

      That is an adorable pup in your avatar pic. Catahoula? (It resembles a partial Catahoula that was my last dog until she passed a few years back).

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        Blue heeler, granddaughter of course named her Bluey… almost 8 months old, 49 lbs

  2. SDF-7

    Olympic? Are you just fishing for limericks that start with “There once was a lightship from Nantucket…” maybe?

    Morning, WebDom!

    Early OT — I see our smarter than the average bear Animal got another RedState article up. Congrats! Too bad you’re likely preaching to the choir there as much as here, really…

    • hayeksplosives

      BIDEN: “Made it harder for people buy stabilized brief— braces. Put a pistol on a brace, it turns into a gun, makes it more, you can have a higher-caliber weapon, higher-caliber bullet coming out of that gun.” 🤔

      I…

      • WTF

        Sheesh, next he’ll be trying to ban “the black thing that goes up”.

      • Rat on a train

        and high-capacity ammunition

    • rhywun

      Readers fact-checking Biden on Twitter now is just wonderful.

    • robc

      Fuck RedState.

      I am still pissed at them over 2008.

      • rhywun

        Quoi?

      • robc

        In late 2007/early 2008 they banned discussion of Ron Paul in their comments by anyone other than long term members. I was exempt, but left the site over it. They were that worried over him doing well in the primaries.

      • rhywun

        Huh. Yeah, kinda dumb.

      • robc

        It told me everything I needed to know (but really already knew) about the GOP.

    • EvilSheldon

      I have a perfect solution for getting rid of stabilizing braces. All you have to do is remove short-barreled rifles and shotguns from Title II of the GCA…

      • Sean

        Keep wishing…

      • UnCivilServant

        Repeal the NFA and all of its successors.

        Problem solved.

      • WTF

        That should already be gone under Bruen, since there is no history and tradition of such restrictions in the 18th or even 19th centuries.

    • The Other Kevin

      Great job Animal! It has all the fancy formatting and everything. I love that there are a few notable Glibs out there spreading the word to a wider audience.

  3. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    Morning.

    I’m starting a submersible company using 55 gallon oil drums and I’m looking for investors. Please send Bitcoin.

    • SDF-7

      If I send any, I’ll be stuck sending you more and more.

      Sunk cost fallacy.

      • UnCivilServant

        You can’t expect a submersable to be flush with cash, it’s supposed to be underwater.

      • Fourscore

        Wait ’til it hits the bottom

      • WTF

        This conversation is sucking all the air out of the room.

      • juris imprudent

        But the hubris is unfathomable.

      • Sean

        I refuse to dive into this thread with a pun.

      • R.J.

        You guys are crushing it on this thread.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Couldn’t find a Captain Nemo squint?

    • PieInTheSky

      you forgot to include the address

    • Sensei

      The press is all in the video game controller.

      What Was Running the Titanic Submersible? It Could Be a $49.99 Videogame Controller
      https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-was-running-the-titanic-submersible-it-could-be-a-49-99-videogame-controller-a6dd7f0a?st=06wx6fvb3mnxl44&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

      It’s like the 4th article I’ve seen screaming about it. There is is nothing inherently wrong with using a developed and well tested part off the shelf. Everybody seems to think that some low volume custom part is less prone to failure.

      OEM console makers beat the crap out of their controllers because they know that gamers do the same to them.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Yeah, the controller would be the least of my worries.

      • UnCivilServant

        OEM console makers beat the crap out of their controllers because they know that gamers do the same to them.

        +1 Ragequit *chucks controller*

        /Disclaimer – I don’t normally use controllers, I’m a PC gamer.

      • Rat on a train

        I use an Xbox USB controller with some PC games. Some games are better with a controller.

      • UnCivilServant

        Some, yes. I have a controller for those edge cases, but I’m most comfortable on a kyeboard and mouse.

      • SDF-7

        Yup, F1, Cat Quest.. the Tomb Raider reboot franchise, the Spider-Man thing I suck at… if you have MK or another chop-sockey game I would think… There’s a time and a place for any given peripheral (wheel, yoke+pedals, controller, keyboard+mouse, etc.)

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I don’t play a lot of keyboard/mouse games myself.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They are reliable, have various inputs, can be modified, etc. It’s easy bullshit fodder they know will get clicks

      • WTF

        And they can also divert attention from the refusal to use experienced white men in their 50s because that wouldn’t be inspiring.

      • rhywun

        That meme is never going to get old. That guy needs to be mocked mercilessly about it even if RIP (he’s on it, right?)

      • Nephilium

        The part that gets me is that it was reported to be a wireless controller. I would think having something hard wired would be preferable to needing to worry about the batteries dying, or a sync issue causing the controller to stop working.

        Of course, I’d also thing that they would have had some fail safes built into a sub that’s going to dangerous depths, but what do I know?

      • UnCivilServant

        wait, what?

        I was thinking about making a joke about it being wireless because I didn’t think they were that stupid.

        Was it also set up to use motion controls?

      • Ownbestenemy

        They had the Kinect originally but it could only find genitals.

      • Nephilium

        They had to scuttle the ship after the Kinect deadgendered someone. It was the only way to be sure.

      • rhywun

        My Xbox controller can work wirelessly and even I now use it only with a cable.

        That’s insane if true.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        If true, that’s beyond retarded.

      • DrOtto

        In one of the links, he said they had several spares on board.

      • rhywun

        OFFS

      • Ownbestenemy

        Now that part is just dumb if wireless. No need for wireless in there. Wired with a robust onboard system for backup should have been designed but that wouldn’t have been inspirational cause some old white dude in his 50s with 30 years of submarine service would have suggested it.

      • The Other Kevin

        That is my thought. That controller design has millions of hours of use. If it wasn’t good, the manufacture sure as hell would hear about it from gamers.

      • tripacer

        Recently I saw a video that had a partial tour of a US attack sub. They pointed out that the periscope is controlled by an Xbox controller.

      • Lackadaisical

        Exactly.

        The video game controller is actually smart. Not hiring experienced professionals is dumb.

    • Pope Jimbo

      55 gallon oil drums

      You could start small and go with “Niagara Falls – Up Close and Personal” tours.

    • The Last American Hero

      Just upcycle your used lube drums.

  4. PieInTheSky

    In more cheerful news, here’s (potentially) the world’s most beloved asparagus.

    Nonsense never heard of it

    • UnCivilServant

      Well, it’s asparagus, so most beloved is a low bar.

    • SDF-7

      Sounds like a symptom of Aspargur’s syndrome.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Yeah, something about this asparagus story smells funny. You aren’t pissing on my leg and telling me it’s raining are you?

  5. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    Loibl explained that they ended up launching five hours late due to electrical issues — which he suspects is to blame for the Titan crews’ current predicament.

    Not only that but right before the voyage, the bracket of the stabilization tube — which balances the sub — tore and had to be “reattached with zip ties,” he said.

    There’s adventurous and then there’s stupid.

    • Gender Traitor

      That’s nuts! Every competent engineer knows you use duct tape and bungee cords!

      • Nephilium

        Duct tape for when it moves but isn’t supposed to, and WD-40 for when it doesn’t move, but is supposed to.

      • DrOtto

        Duct tape, AKA Arkansas chrome

      • Rat on a train

        duct tape, parachord, and bailing wire

    • rhywun

      LOL

      • Fourscore

        I hired them 20 years later, they still hadn’t changed

  6. Ownbestenemy

    When my kids were young the cutest asparagus was Junior from VeggieTales

  7. Rebel Scum

    Cannot fathom why anyone would trust this

    And they are fathoms under the sea.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I think this is a deep subject that we should dive into.

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

      Are you saying they couldn’t fathom this?

      That is deep.

  8. Rufus the Monocled

    So the cancellation of RFK Jr. had begun.

    Can’t be talking shit about your daddy and uncle being killed by the CIA and its mob associates and talking smack about the greatest vaccines in the history of the world.

    Can’t do it.

    • WTF

      I wonder if RFK Jr. will be suicided or just flat out assassinated?

      • R C Dean

        I’d bet they’ll go with the classics, and assassinate him. It will be blamed on the deplorables, of course. Just like Lee Harvey Oswald is routinely identified as a Marine, but not a Communist.

      • WTF

        Yeah, they’ll spin up some unstable loon and point him in RFK Jr.’s direction.
        They still haven’t released the tranny shooter’s manifesto, have they?

      • Ownbestenemy

        The school and the parents are fighting the release. I don’t see any conspiracy in that as they are a Christian school, so I would suspect they are walking the walk with that. However, it should be released since there will be no case where that evidence would be made public like normal.

      • Rebel Scum

        I see no valid argument for hiding it.

      • Lackadaisical

        They’re just going to keep ignoring him, no?

    • Rebel Scum

      Can’t be talking shit about your daddy and uncle being killed by the CIA

      They may do it to him as well.

  9. Rebel Scum

    This means nothing.

    The House voted on party lines Wednesday to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) as a formal condemnation for Schiff’s outspoken promotion of allegations that former President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 election.

    The vote passed 213 to 209. Six voted present, including five Republicans on the House Ethics Committee, who are now required to probe Schiff as part of the resolution, and Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO).

    This cunte needs to take a long walk off a short pier. Along with most people in Congress, especially that lying bastard Raskins.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Look at the bright side, he won’t be in the House after the next election. Mostly because he’ll be a Senator.

      • rhywun

        That’s just unbelievable.

      • juris imprudent

        Fuck secession, we should kick California out.

      • Rebel Scum

        ^

    • WTF

      Schiff didn’t just “promote allegations”, he constantly flat out lied about having definitive proof of those allegations.

      • Lackadaisical

        ^this, which is a big difference.

        Can Trump bring a defamation lawsuit for a 10 million dollars (since we know being VP is worth at least that much, I’m sure president is worth more)? I think he said a lot of that stuff outside of session.

      • WTF

        He should, since what Schiff did would meet the Times v Sullivan standard of “actual malice”.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        He would hear testimony in closed session and then immediately lie about that testimony to the media.

        It was actual defamation, unlike with the whack-job in Manhattan.

    • The Other Kevin

      in the story I read all the Dems cheered and hugged him. Because of course they did. Principals over principles.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Oh the narrative is “He is an American hero!” with it being parroted in Borg fashion on the socials.

  10. Pope Jimbo

    I’ve eaten a ton of these, but have never heard them called Minnesoda Sushi”. I think this is another example of journalos making shit up.

    *I’ve always called them ham rollups.

    • UnCivilServant

      Just reading the description sounds disgusting.

      Cream cheese? Wrong choice!

    • pistoffnick

      I’ve heard them called that, but I grew up in southern Minnesoda. We’re a bit more cultured than you degens from up country

      • Pope Jimbo

        Go ahead and sneer. Where did those erudite Southrons send you? To Duluth! Way up north.

        One of us! One of us!

      • Fourscore

        You guys are a little on the wild side, eating that fancy stuff.

    • Tundra

      I love those. My neighbor always made them for our parties and I always ate half the plate.

      Never heard them called that, though.

  11. DrOtto

    In regards to that reddit thread, I don’t know if it was completely successful, but the biggest lie I’ve ever heard was “Two weeks to flatten the curve.”

  12. Pope Jimbo

    Nice journalo story about abortion. Notice that there is not one single real number in this story. It is all about “percent increases”. Without a number, those are meaningless.

    I also think that half the anecdotes used are just as truthful as the profound quotes that the 3 year-old kids of progressives are always making.

    “We had a patient from Texas who just sort of inadvertently, partway through her visit, let it slip that she was from Texas. And we said, ‘that’s OK and, in fact, here’s some additional travel money from the local abortion fund,” Kromenaker recalled. “She just was so relieved. She said, ‘Oh, my gosh, I thought you guys were gonna have to report me or something.’”

    Why would anyone drive all the way from TX to Fargo/Moorhead for an abortion?

    • rhywun

      She couldn’t stay.

      Taps out. Maybe learn to do something other than abort babies?

      • Pope Jimbo

        She had to move her clinic a mile to be across the Red River. Those stupid NoDaks wouldn’t let her run her business, but she’s welcomed with open arms here in Minnesoda.

    • Rebel Scum

      Why would anyone drive all the way from TX to Fargo/Moorhead for an abortion?

      Stupid is as stupid does.

  13. Rebel Scum

    The more I hear/read about this the more it seems like they got what was coming to them.

    The rescue mission will likely not become a recovery effort until at least 24 hours after the estimated oxygen reserve inside the Titan expires — meaning authorities will work under the assumption that the victims are still alive Thursday, a longtime diver said.

    Butch Hendrick, an experienced diver who teaches water rescue procedures, told The Post that officials will likely wait at least a day before changing their efforts from rescue to recovery.

    “At that point,” he said, “they’ll start to make decisions that, ‘Yes … we have done the best we can and it’s time to go to another level of search.’”

    This is unfortunate, but go woke get dead.

  14. Drake

    The stranded sub… (If it wasn’t crushed by pressure)

    Is there actually a vehicle capable of rescuing them if somehow their location was accurately calculated to the foot? I haven’t heard a clear answer on that. The Navy is always secretive about their submarine capabilities.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      The Navy already knows if the sub imploded. They would have heard it on their hydrophones.

    • Rebel Scum

      The Navy is always secretive about their submarine capabilities.

      I have heard from people in the know that the US military has technological capabilities the are unknown to the public simply because they have not yet needed to be deployed. This seems like an opportunity to deploy something while keeping it secret, if the gov’t actually cared about the citizens. But we need to send the whole of our reserve weapons and money to Ukraine for some reason.

      • Ownbestenemy

        F-117 was used in Panama in ’89 but was technically operational since the early 80s and not known to the general public until Gulf War Part I.

      • Rebel Scum

        I wonder if those are still being used or kept in a reserve role to be used if necessary. Seems like a good bit of tech to waste.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Still used and fly out in Creech and NTR all the time. It is a terrible airframe only made possible with modern avionics.

      • Rebel Scum

        modern avionics

        The 80s are back, baby! //jk

      • Sensei

        I saw some TV show that showed a few are still kept in flying condition.

  15. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    We do not deserve Elon.

    As Daily Caller reports, the spat appears to have grown from business-related jabs.

    Musk mocked an article which claimed Zuckerberg is creating a “rival” app to take on Twitter. The article claimed that the purported rival app would be for “sanely run” and “integrate Instagram and Twitter rival Mastodon.”

    Zuckerberg also implied that Twitter is underperforming its potential in a recent podcast interview with Lex Fridman.

    “I have this great move that I call “The Walrus”, where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing,” Musk added later, apparently mocking his physical appearance...

    https://zerohedge.com/technology/unleashing-walrus-musk-zuckerberg-agree-cage-match-vegas-octagon

    • EvilSheldon

      I hate to say it, but Zuck would kick Elon’s ass.

      • Drake

        Fighting a robot isn’t fair.

      • EvilSheldon

        There are a lot of things about this match that wouldn’t be fair. Elon is 53 years old and probably 60 pounds (of mostly flab) heavier than Zuck, and more importantly has no combat sports experience whatsoever.

        Any fight promotion that sanctions this bout should have their license pulled.

      • Lackadaisical

        Plus he’s probably on T, dunno about Elon.

      • rhywun

        Elon fights dirty. Pull hair, poke eyes, groin stuff.

      • EvilSheldon

        If Elon gave Zuck an oil check, I will take back every negative thing I’ve said about this fight.

    • SDF-7

      RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!

  16. The Late P Brooks

    It just occurred to me: if Congress tries to impeach Biden he can use the ADA defense.

    “You can’t fire me, I’m mentally disabled.”

    • UnCivilServant

      Paying off the lawsuit settlement would cost less than leaving him in place to do more damage.

      • Drake

        Just divert some more Ukraine cash to his Cypress account.

    • Rat on a train

      What about the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act? He’s the CIC!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Oh pull USERRA too!

    • WTF

      The Dem Senate would never convict, they like having their doddering old puppet in the Oval Office.

      • dbleagle

        Yup

  17. The Late P Brooks

    This comment started out s “Where is Howard Hughes when you need him?” but quickly veered off into ‘I’m mildly surprised Elon hasn’t got something in his bag of tricks capable of going after the missing sub.”

    • Sensei

      Or maybe “pedo-guy” can rescue them.

      • Swiss Servator

        Yeah, that was a really weird episode, that certainly did not reflect well on Musk.

  18. Tundra

    Good morning, WebDom!

    Thanks for the lynx. I didn’t expect that the sub would be ok, but I still held out a little hope.

    Crazy way to go.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    All these stories about reckless incompetence on the part of the aquatic graveyard voyeurs just illustrate my basic problem with horror movies.

    “Don’t go in there.”

    *goes in, promptly gets head ripped off*

    “Toldja.”

    • Nephilium

      If you don’t follow the tropes of the horror movies, you awaken the elder gods. Do you want to awaken the elder gods?

      Do you?

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

        Is SMOD an elder god?

        ‘Cause, you know…

      • MojeauXX

        So all our trials and tribulations come down to the fact that nobody else has ridden a subpar sub to the vast depths of the ocean with an Xbox controller?

    • Sean

      Yowza. I’m sure that won’t apply to the “elite’s” municipalities…

    • Rebel Scum

      It is a primary target of the WEF/NWO.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Women and children of color hardest hit

    TW: Jill Filipovic

    It’s interesting to watch the national fascination with this story, especially compared to, say, the attention paid to the sinking of another boat, this one full of desperate migrants in the Mediterranean last week; dozens were killed, and hundreds of men, women and children are still missing. Many migrants, mostly from Syria, Egypt and Pakistan, may be dead.

    And the Greek Coast Guard, despite indications that the boat was in distress, did not intervene, blaming the smuggled migrants who they say didn’t want help. Widespread outrage and anguish for the hundreds of souls taking an extraordinary risk in search of a better life, and those who failed them along the way, seems much more justifiable than the frenzy over a small, lost group of hyper-niche tourists, tragic as both circumstances may turn out to be. And yet, while the migrant story is far from being ignored, it’s not receiving the same breathless moment-by-moment updates accorded the lost Titanic hunters.

    But human interest, we know, does not at all run proportional to human suffering, and often has little to do with who or what is deserving of significant attention. And the story of a vessel occupied by wealthy curiosity-seekers, lost in the depths of the ocean in its search to find a vessel occupied by wealthy curiosity-seekers lost in the depths of the ocean, has all the component parts of an addictive story: irony, suspense, potential tragedy, potential glory, lifestyles of the rich, aspiration and hubris.

    If we had a global socialist dictatorship with confiscatory taxation, none of this would ever have happened.

    • R C Dean

      Ooh, now do mass shootings in the inner cities!

      • The Last American Hero

        Women and minorities hardest hit?

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

        Close, little girls and minorites.

    • EvilSheldon

      Most of those ‘migrant’ vessels have an SOP to scuttle as soon as a European police boat is sighted. Both these cases contain large elements of ‘You asked for it, now you’re getting it.’

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Perhaps if the NGOs weren’t facilitating the risky behavior, there wouldn’t be three hundred dead migrants.

    • rhywun

      Dear CNN,

      Go fuck yourself.

      Yours etc.

  21. Rebel Scum

    He was always about that man ass.

    Barack Obama Taps Michelle’s Butt at the Acropolis in Greece

    Who’s running the country while Barry and hubby are on vaca?

    • Lackadaisical

      ugh, why did I click?

    • SDF-7

      Boffs the raven — nevermore.

    • Rebel Scum

      That subverted my expectations.

    • PieInTheSky

      nonsense Europe is only going up

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

        In smoke.

    • rhywun

      I’ll give you handsome but he seems Belgian or Dutch to me – since he is speaking Dutch.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Dutch, French, I see how one could confuse those languages.

      • Tundra

        LOL. I guess I should have had the sound up.

        Whatever, some Euro anyhow.

    • Lackadaisical

      Kind of over-the-top with predicting the end of disease and whatever else.

      Otherwise he’s right on, but nothing will change there- or here.

  22. Rebel Scum

    Only if they don’t know how to play tennis.

    Devastating rebuttal from Riley Gaines.

    An LGBTQ activist asserted that men struggle to beat Serena and Venus Williams. But Gaines had the receipts.

    Gaines: “Both Serena and Venus lost the 203-ranked men’s tennis player and they are phenoms.”

    • Drake

      The Williams sisters have said before that they couldn’t start to compete against ranked men. It’s the idiots in the media making these crazy assertions.

    • WTF

      Lost to the 203 ranked man, who drank a couple of beers and smoked a cigarette right before the match and then crushed both of them.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Which to us normies is what it is, you try your hand. It should not take away from their incredible game versus you know…peers of the same sex.

  23. Rebel Scum

    This was touched on yesterday but I have something to add.

    “So what’s the deal with the idea that it’s an absolute — you know, I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is — you know, the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots. Well, if want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than just an AR-15.”

    If this is your position, why the fuck do you care about any small arm the average American citizen may possess?

    • R C Dean

      I love that he forgot to mention that the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots . . . And tyrants.

      • Rebel Scum

        He’s referred to that quote multiple times, always “forgetting” that part. I take him at his word as implied. He, or whoever is pulling his strings, means to rule you and kill you if necessary.

  24. Tundra

    Thrown To The Wolves

    Short but really good interview with a doc at a children’s hospital. The medical establishment is more monstrous every day.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      But in reality, when you “affirm” these individuals’ gender identity, what you are doing is affirming their hatred for themselves. You have these children who are going through confusing times, difficult times; when you affirm this belief system, what you’re really doing is telling them: “You hate yourself at this moment, and I will affirm that.”

      This. Over and over and over.

      • rhywun

        what you are doing is affirming their hatred for themselves.

        Yeah that is insightful. I hadn’t heard it put that way before.

      • R C Dean

        “You have these children who are going through confusing times, difficult times”

        Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think constantly telling adolescents how hard it is, how confusing it is, how difficult is, to go through puberty* helps at all. Quite the opposite, in fact.

        *Just like every single person who has lived a dozen years or so

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      From a linked article on that page:

      The conversation gets going, and the provider refers to her as him. She says, “John, what is going on? What can I do for you today?” And then the mom replies and accidentally refers to the daughter as a “her.” She says “Well, she is having these kind of issues and this kind of pain.” And then the girl turns around, looks at the mom, and she goes, “I’m a ‘he,’ mom. I’m a ‘he.’”

      And I’m watching this exchange. And the girl is this beautiful girl, but she’s dressed like a boy, very masculine, baggy pants, oversized shirt. Then the doctor asks this girl, “How are your periods coming along? Would you like for your periods to go away? Do you feel uncomfortable?” And the girl looks at the doctor and says, “Yeah, can we do that? Yes, I would love that.” And then the provider tells the girl, “It’s totally fine. You don’t have to have a period at all if you don’t want to.” And of course, this is all because she’s trying to transition to be a boy, and she doesn’t want a period.

      And the mom had this puzzled look. The mom had some real concerns, and this provider totally shut her down.

      The contempt I have for these doctors is hard to understate.

  25. juris imprudent

    Stumbled onto another really good read.

    At this point, the importance of the distinction that British social analyst David Goodhart has identified between Somewheres (folk who are born, live, work, marry, raise children and die within a particular locality) and Anywheres (highly educated and mobile folk whose networks are not locality-based) becomes salient.

    Also, the link to the Helen Dale substack mentioned at the top is worth a click and read.

    • Tundra

      Both were excellent. Thanks for the link.

      Lots of inconvenient truths in there.

      • juris imprudent

        Love to see TOS respond, since they are the epitome of Anywheres.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘ one is left with a whole set of economists who apparently are unable to consider that using mass migration to increase the relative scarcity of capital compared to labour might have some effect on the returns to capital and labour.’

      Exactly- supply and demand work everywhere except in relation to… labor? huh?

  26. The Late P Brooks

    One right wing hardliner, bought and paid for

    The U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has found himself in hot water after being pictured on a luxury fishing vacation courtesy of a hedge fund billionaire—who later appeared before the court to ask the justices to rule in his favor.

    Like many other fishing aficionados, Alito proudly posed for a photo with the huge king salmon he caught during the trip in the summer of 2008.

    He probably didn’t think twice about the snap, until yesterday, when ProPublica revealed that the fellow angler pictured was none other than billionaire hedge fund titan Paul Singer.

    The exposé alleges that Singer flew Alito to an Alaska resort on his private jet, a trip that reportedly would have cost Alito more than $100,000 one way if he had chartered the jet on his own.

    According to ProPublica, in the years that followed the undisclosed trip, Singer’s hedge fund came before the court “10 times” in various high-profile business disputes.

    Still, Alito—a key player in the court’s landmark decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year, which altered federal abortion rights—failed to both disclose the trip or recuse himself when Singer brought his business before the court.

    Good old pro publica, engaged in a never ending battle for truth, justice and the American Way.

    • Rebel Scum

      The left has a hardon for billionaires, unless they are funding leftist causes.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Yeah, now do Soros.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Ladies and gentlemen, the best and brightest.

    • juris imprudent

      Singer’s hedge fund came before the court “10 times” in various high-profile business disputes.

      Which is a lie. One case, the one with Argentina, generated 9 disputes – 8 of which were denied cert. The other case, the hedge fund was not the appellant. Lying scum.

    • rhywun

      Love the insertion of abortion into this story that has nothing to do with abortion.

  27. KK, Non-Man

    Y’all. I deposited my check for the condo!! I bought a new laptop, and will maybe set aside a coupla hunnert for dinner here.

    The rest is off to TD Ameritrade once it clears the bank.

    I can feel the anxiety melting away.

    • Ownbestenemy

      No manhookers and blow? *shakes head*

      Great news KK!

      • KK, Non-Man

        Maybe I should text RV repair guy and tell him I’m rich now…

    • Tundra

      Congrats, KK!

      I’m really happy for you!

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

      Winning!

    • Sean

      Yay!

    • DEG

      🙂

    • Grosspatzer

      Congrats!

    • KK, Non-Man

      Ok he’s not on anymore. I couldn’t listen to his upspeak for another minute anyway

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      The ban is not a counter-narcotics victory and will have negative economic and humanitarian consequences, potentially leading to a refugee crisis.

      But of course…

      The economic shock from the opium ban is enormous: Not including adverse effects on downstream processing, trade, transport and exports, Afghanistan’s farm-level rural economy has lost more than $1 billion per year worth of economic activity as calculated by Mansfield, including as much as hundreds of millions of dollars that had accrued to poorer wage laborers and sharecroppers. These people and their families, already at the margin of subsistence and lacking other job opportunities in Afghanistan’s very weak economy, will be at even greater risk of hunger, malnutrition and associated health problems.

      Dr. Byrd had long experience at the World Bank, where most of his work was country-focused, including China, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He lived for significant lengths of time in all of these countries and speaks Dari and Chinese, with some knowledge of other languages. During 2002-2006, he was stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he served as the World Bank’s country manager for Afghanistan and then as economic adviser.

      There’s your tell. A writer for the Institute for Peace serving as a country manager during a military occupation and as a representative of a notoriously corrupt global financial institution.

      • Drake

        So if they grow food crops instead of opium, they could starve?

      • UnCivilServant

        depends on the yield/acre and how many people you’ve got to feed.

        Cash crops to fund food imports can be a viable business model when your acreage won’t support your population.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        There’s certainly not as much opportunity for HSBC and their ilk to launder drug money when the Taliban shuts it all down. You don’t want British bankers and their children to starve, do you?

    • Pope Jimbo

      We should have pulled out our troops right away and simply started buying opium.

      Could have saved a lot of lives, it would have been cheaper and would have incentivized local farmers. Taliban insurgents would have gotten their asses shot off if they had started fucking with the locals cash crop.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Horrific outcome

    One year ago Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness.

    Twenty-five million women of childbearing age now live in states where the law makes abortions harder to get than they were before the ruling.

    Decisions about the law are largely in the hands of state lawmakers and courts. Most Republican-led states have restricted abortion. Fourteen ban abortion in most cases at any point in pregnancy. Twenty Democratic-leaning states have protected access to abortion.

    Every single one of those twenty five million women desperately needs and wants to have an abortion, but now they can’t. It’s a holocaust.

    • Drake

      A reverse holocaust, but worse?

      • Rebel Scum

        Keeping humans alive is murder. Or something.

    • WTF

      Wouldn’t the aborted babies be the actual holocaust?

    • Rebel Scum

      the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion

      They did no such thing.

      Twenty-five million women of childbearing age now live in states where the law makes abortions harder to get than they were before the ruling. …

      Twenty Democratic-leaning states have protected access to abortion.

      Travel to one of those states then.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve been told from a female friend of mine that abortions are now banned through the US. Totally. No where at all one could go.

    • rhywun

      Even worse, they now suffer the burden of having to think about the possible consequences of random hook-ups.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    what you’re really doing is telling them: “You hate yourself at this moment, and I will affirm that.”

    “You hate yourself, and I hate you too. In fact, you disgust me and you should be extinguished.”

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      You should cut your balls off so you can never reproduce.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nothing says representative government where a governor can do an EO that is riddled with “I hereby suspend…”

    • WTF

      Additionally, his office notes that the city’s office occupancy rate is approximately 48% of the pre-pandemic rate, and the city’s subway ridership is at 70% of pre-pandemic levels — revealing that multiple sectors are still reeling from the affects of COVID.

      No you moron, they’re still reeling from the effects of the government’s idiotic COVID policies.

    • Rebel Scum

      With all the illegal aliens coming to NYC the common cold should be the least of your worries.

    • Ownbestenemy

      LOL the add is ‘aimed’ at exactly the people they told to fuck off. That should go over well.

      • Rebel Scum

        Those people are stupid and intolerant. Clearly they can be manipulated by this nonsense.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I was laughing at the commercial I see now where it is some yokels dancing to country music in the rain.

        These new ads seem determined to prove “we really have no idea who you rubes are or what you like, so we are going to go with stereotypes of what we think happens out there on the prairie”

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Complete with disco music. Madison Avenue has completely lost the plot.

      • Gustave Lytton

        They’ve resurfaced with a reworking of “Don’t Call Me Budweiser”?

      • Nephilium

        But will it get those yokels off their tractors?

      • Fourscore

        Squares can’t dance

      • Ownbestenemy

        ‘hurr de durr’ about sums it up.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Or the dude with the steam powered rocket that went *thawp* in the desert.

      • Fourscore

        Need to be able to hook up a mask to be able to breathe.

    • WTF

      At least bear suit guy only put himself in harm’s way.

    • Rebel Scum

      The Man Who Built A Suit To Fight Bears

      Should have used a .45-70.

  30. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    I would love to get a transcript of these meetings.

    https://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-dispatches-sullivan-nuland-convince-war-skeptics-brics-turn-against-russia

    “Joe Biden’s top national security aide will fly to Denmark this weekend at the behest of Kyiv’s government for an unannounced meeting with representatives of several developing countries that have not condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” Financial Times has reported.

    • Drake

      Who wants a color revolution next month?

      • juris imprudent

        Not so fast, those NGOs need time to get their hooks in.

    • Rebel Scum

      developing countries that have not condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

      Condemnation of such things is a new development. And these places still need grain.

  31. UnCivilServant

    Sheesh, some people are humorless.

    Crack a joke about how VIP and VIP stand for two very different things and can get confused, and they get in a twist because the work discussion beforehand was about some political appointee I couldn’t give two shits about, and wasn’t even talking about.

    What say you, Virtual Internet People?

    • Gender Traitor

      Many humorless people can only derive enjoyment from life by getting their knickers in a twist.

      • MojeauXX

        Some people are not happy unless they are not happy.

  32. kinnath

    Daily Quordle 514
    8️⃣4️⃣
    7️⃣5️⃣

    bullshit in the lower left today

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 514
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      5️⃣6️⃣
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      Blossom Puzzle, June 22
      Letters: I L Q E R S U
      My score: 260 points
      My longest word: 9 letters
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      Play Blossom:
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game

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

        Do we have to wear a stupid hat?

    • rhywun

      bullshit in the lower left today

      Indeed.

      Daily Quordle 514
      7️⃣8️⃣
      6️⃣3️⃣

    • Grosspatzer

      Daily Quordle 514
      6️⃣4️⃣
      8️⃣9️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle/

      Blossom Puzzle, June 22
      Letters: I L Q E R S U
      My score: 320 points
      My longest word: 9 letters
      🏵 🌸 💐 🌼 💮 🌹 🌻 🌷 🌺

      Play Blossom:
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game

  33. The Late P Brooks

    If they aren’t going to raise and sell opium, the Afghans should promote adventure tourism. I’m sure they could get a chunk of the suicidally stupid rich people market.

    • Rebel Scum

      There is a lot of nice geography in Afghanistan. They could use a few Trump towers/resorts.

    • kinnath

      Fat Farm — go in obese, come out emaciated.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Why do people let their dogs bark incessantly?

    If I walked over there and shot the dog which has been barking nonstop for a couple of hours or just duct taped its fucking mouth shut, I’d probably be portrayed as the bad guy.

    • Tundra

      Probably at work and just leave the dog in the yard. Poor critter is bored or distressed.

      • Gustave Lytton

        *P Brook rescues pooch and companionship montage begins*

    • Seguin

      “shot the dog which has been barking”

      I knew someone here worked for the ATF…

  35. The Other Kevin

    It’s interesting how people are so sure about how much air is left in that sub. The whole thing was shoddy, yet we’re taking their word for it about the life support system?

    This whole thing seems like today’s version of a baby in a well.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘It’s interesting how people are so sure about how much air is left in that sub.’

      Agreed.

      What is interesting is that they don’t have a locator beacon or something to be recovered?

      • Ownbestenemy

        It was the home button in the middle of the controller but they ran out of batteries.

      • rhywun

        They hit the “vibrate” button by mistake and then passed out.

      • Seguin

        Do you think the rumble pack went off?

  36. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    They hate you and want you dead.

    https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/06/21/secretary-mayorkas-appoints-new-members-academic-council-advise-dhs

    Today, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced new members to the Homeland Security Academic Partnership Council (HSAPC), which he reconstituted in 2022. The Council will provide strategic and actionable recommendations to the Secretary on campus safety and security, improved coordination, research priorities, hiring, and more. The newly appointed members are a diverse group representing higher education associations, campus law enforcement, two- and four-year colleges and universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges, and Asian American and Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions.

    Secretary Mayorkas appointed the following 20 members to the 30-person Council:

    Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers

    • Ownbestenemy

      Why again is DHS a thing and especially what is their authority over campus safety?

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        This is purely about enforcing narrative control on campus and completely silencing domestic opposition to the regime.

        campus safety and security, improved coordination, research priorities, hiring, and more

      • rhywun

        Oh, so grift.

        It’s too bad I’m an uninspiring white man in my fifties.

    • Rebel Scum

      campus safety and security

      They don’t even secure the border of the country.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      The Bad Cat sums it up well:

      this is the opening move to a nasty middlegame of getting the folks who can unaccountably hunt “terrorists” (itself a deeply stupid, dishonest, and largely unconstitutional process) into the school system in support of who know what impending imposition as we the people tire of the content of public schools and seek change. it is not the sign of a government looking out for you. these are people looking out for and after their own power.

      Labeling parents who speak out at school board meetings as terrorists was just the warm-up.

    • R C Dean

      The teacher’s union, now with SWAT teams.

      This is absolutely about attacking, in the most literal sense, parents who want to have a say in how their kids are educated.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Actually, one of my dad’s cousins and his wife were in Afghanistan in the ’60s (Peace Corps, I think). They used o talk abut what an incredible place it was.

    • R C Dean

      True story:

      Afghanistan hosted one of the earliest recorded genocides, when the invading Muslims killed every single native Afghani they could get their hands on.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    I was laughing at the commercial I see now where it is some yokels dancing to country music in the rain.

    These new ads seem determined to prove “we really have no idea who you rubes are or what you like, so we are going to go with stereotypes of what we think happens out there on the prairie”

    They learned everything they know about Flyoverstan by watching ’90s country music videos.

  39. kinnath

    How does Hollywood manage to make a fight scene with Jennifer Lawrence doing full frontal nudity look so fucking boring?

    /Nah, it’ll be fine.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Its boring cause you can just get her stolen home porn?

      • kinnath

        Not me!

        Uh, where would I find that?

        Asking for a friend.

  40. Lackadaisical

    Marking something ‘fragile’ or ‘this side up’ is a joke.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “Delicate Instruments” also tend to be the most beaten up boxes we receive.

    • R C Dean

      Try putting biohazard or corrosive contents warning stickers on the box next time.

    • Nephilium

      Maybe you should have labelled it in English instead of Eyetalian.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    It’s interesting how people are so sure about how much air is left in that sub. The whole thing was shoddy, yet we’re taking their word for it about the life support system?

    I think the real issue is that it has more likely than not been compressed to the size of a twenty dollar fire extinguisher by now.

    • EvilSheldon

      Pity.

      I seem to recall that Durant got the VCDL endorsement, too. Might have been a case of going with what you know.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Did Hunter Biden get preferential treatment? We ask the experts.

    “I would always think, if the president’s your dad, your life’s a little bit easier,” he added.

    Trump himself has claimed on social media that the plea deal is “a massive COVERUP & FULL SCALE ELECTION INTERFERENCE ‘SCAM’ THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN IN OUR COUNTRY BEFORE.”

    But Elkan Abramowitz, a long-time Manhattan criminal defense attorney, said Trump himself could have gotten a similar deal if he had fully cooperated with investigators scrutinizing his retention of classified documents.

    “I think that if Trump wanted to work out a deal for the documents case, he would have gotten a misdemeanor as well under similar arrangements,” he said. “So I don’t think there’s anything extraordinary.”

    Right. If Trump had just thrown himself on the mercy of the court, confessed his sins and begged forgiveness, the high priests of democracy would have absolved him after he performed his public penance and professed his love and devotion for the One True Faith.

    • Rebel Scum

      Trump himself could have gotten a similar deal if he had fully cooperated with investigators scrutinizing his retention of classified documents

      This premise is false.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Right, The Biden legal team that was not only publicly contesting the charges but was going to challenge the underlying law was totally rolling over at the same time and fully accepting of the government’s case.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Quick someone swap William Wallace on the rack with Trump!