Good for them
I got nothing in sports today on this side of the pond, but I will mention that Messi is coming to Miami to play soccer in MLS which is a bit of a shock. And West Ham won the Europa Conference League, which puts a positive finish on a bit of a disappointing season. Big, big, big match at Roland Garros tomorrow. And that’s pretty much it for sports.
Yesterday it was aliens, and today it’s this. The same people reporting this breathlessly are the same people who dismiss everything Graham Hancock has been saying for years. So forgive me if I question their motives.
Stay away
Great. More gun-running is on the way, I guess. I suppose we didn’t give both sides enough the last go around.
Good. Shut it all down.
Thanks a lot, Canada. No wait, I’m supposed to blame greedy corporations or global warming or something. I just don’t know which it is yet, because the greens’ talking points are all over the place.
Lying POS
As if we’re gonna get the truth. My confidence they’ll be honest is minimal.
The bill shouldn’t have even been necessary. I find it ironic that a bill blocking an executive action that far exceeds his authority was even necessary, but I guess the SC will have to put him in check once more.
And another one’s gone. And another one’s gone. Another one bites the dust.
Paxton bringing in the big guns. This will be an absolute political circus.
Here’s one I know I’ve never played. I love hearing the classics. And this one is a masterpiece. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this nice, hot Thursday dear friends.
What a great actor.
You’re gonna have to be more specific. A lot of people who pretend for a living are mentioned in the links.
Let me guess… redacted to “protect sources” to the point it is useless..
Oh, hey! From the article:
As predictable as ever, he’s as flighty as a feather….
I ranted about this a bit ago, so I won’t repeat it here. The Executive should never be able to veto the Legislature telling them that they’re executing the law incorrectly by definition. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
(Beavis voice) Buzzcocks Heh. Heh. Heh heh heh….
That’s all I’ve got for today — I know most of y’all were mourning the Sheik yesterday… but I got the surprise news that a coworker who was just fine the day before passed. Don’t know details, but this was a great guy both personally and professionally. I’m both sad and kind of pissed at the universe (I know he had a couple of school age kids, so really sucks for the family… too f’ing early, dammit). So just not in a very glib mood.
Sorry to hear about your coworker. That sucks.
Graham Hancock? does anyone believe that?
He’s just as believable as “aliens have been here but the government are the only people who have hard evidence.”
I don’t believe either
Here’s the thing: Hancock says he has theories that civilizations predated known history and that they had burial rituals.
That’s what the people who discovered this latest thing are saying and it’s being reported on as factual without question. There’s a bit of irony there that I think you’re missing.
I see nothing of civilization, just another hominid species who did some burials.
The article is bullshit, as it didnt mention the Pak a single time.
They didn’t find any because the breeders were the only ones left.
The breeders are still Pak.
The Pak are all Homo Habilis, so they did find their progeney after the protectors irradiated them to enhance mutation.
Wow, I almost went to work at that Genentech spot, and have a few friends that did. Sucks.
In 1950, a great forest fire burning in Canada set large amounts of smoke down south forcing a game at Fenway Park to turn their lights on for an afternoon game. The 1950 Great Smoke Pall was one of biggest forest fires in North American history burning 3,500,000 acres
https://twitter.com/OTBaseballPhoto/status/1666577623856697344
Unpossible. Global WarmingClimateFreezingWhatever hadn’t arrived yet, as the SUV wasn’t around.
Please don’t use disinformation, Pie.
+1 Monroe Doctrine
Cuba to Host Secret Chinese Spy Base Focusing on U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuba-to-host-secret-chinese-spy-base-focusing-on-u-s-b2fed0e0?st=54g7l8sb6un487o&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
And we’re arming anti-government groups in the Mid-East!
Tried a color revolution in Myanmar that failed. We have managed to turn Thailand anti-China.
The USA missed a golden opportunity in the early 20th century to focus on the Western Hemisphere and work with Central and South American nations to build the hemisphere into a bastion of liberty. But it got distracted and sucked back into the Old World via its destructive wars and then the fight against Communism.
If the Western Hemisphere had been a liberty focused stronghold, the Eurasian continent could have been left to rot.
Never should have allowed us to get sucked back in to Europe’s bullshit.
We have always had a soft spot for inbred tards. Worrying about Europe is in our nature.
Europe is the failing, senescent Joe Biden to the US’s crazy Hunter.
If the rest of the Western Hemisphere wasn’t a mass of corrupt former colonies whose people seem to want more government at every turn, and if the Soviets hadn’t been gobbling up countries in Eastern Europe Post WWII with an eye on global domination, it could have worked.
Happy Clean Air Day in Canada for those who celebrate.
https://twitter.com/Climatologist49/status/1666499696121233409
“for those who celebrate”
Totally not a religion…
I believe the traditional clean air day celebration is bonfires of plastic waste piled atop a trussed up warmist heretic.
Note quite the poke in Gavin’s eye we hoped for.
“Genentech” sounds like something out of one of the Terminator movies. I would not have guessed it is a real name.
That was Cyberdyne systems, totally different.
In other news, I do smile a bit every time I walk through downtown Cleveland and see signs for Stark Enterprises.
US Robotics always amused me.
Rossum’s main compeditor?
Sort of. I think there are in different tech areas, but neither appear to do robots.
I’d take actual layoffs today a lot more seriously than I would a press release from February before the banks that finance that kind of shit started going tits up.
I wonder how far into the process of that $450m investment they are. My guess is “the planning and financing stage.”
Yeah, but it’s not like they’re pulling out of the state and going to NV, TX or FL.
Besides.
I’m not sure they’re doing anything besides failing.
*ponders shorting Genentech*
I wonder if they didn’t have a plant in Puerto Rico when pharma there got hammered by a hurricane several years ago, and are just nostalgic for that second world atmosphere and corruption.
Six stabbed, including four children, after playground attack by ‘Syrian’ knifeman at park in Annecy, France
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/annecy-park-children-stabbed/
well on the one hand this is shit on the other Europe should say the fuck out of Syria and then do some serious vetting on who comes in
An “asylum seeker” no less.
Just some late term abortions.
It’s OK, no guns were involved.
Let me guess, that was one of those damned British knives that made it across the channel?
Diversity is our strength.
Unity is our compassion
Here is a feel bad and feel good doggie story. I hope to do the same with my aging dog.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-takes-dying-dog-final-140738368.html
Stupid Canadian smoke making my eyes water.
Maybe hugging my dog will help.
Dusty in here.
same.
“Is Nike preparing to unveil ‘gender-inclusive’ kids’ clothing for Pride? Internal memo reveals ‘pioneering’ Kids One Fit line is due to be unveiled”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12173059/Nike-preparing-unveil-gender-inclusive-kids-clothing-Pride-Memo-hints-new-One-Fit-line.html
This shit is insane.
Leave. 👏🏻 The. 👏🏻 Kids. 👏🏻 Alone. 👏🏻
So, sweatpants?
Stick a rainbow on it.
Profit!
“areas in Syria and Iraq that were liberated from the Islamic State extremist group…”
The one Obama and the CIA created and funded. When it looked like Assad was about to when the war against ISIS, a chemical attack was staged so we could occupy the oil producing region of Syria.
Now they are going to pour more money into the area to try to sow more chaos as an excuse to stay? Or just a different place to launder money as Ukraine might wind down?
I noticed no mention of Congress. $150 million of new spending isn’t worth their attention.
Pocket change.
They had to have someone fight the one the DOD and Pentagon funded.
Pat Robertson dead. Hell experiences heat wave.
Here are 12 bullet points about the recently discovered removal of a brief, first-act passage in William Friedkin‘s The French Connection (’71), or more precisely in the Criterion Channel’s streaming of same.
1. The absence of this sequence can be confirmed by anyone who streams the Criterion Channel’s version of the Oscar-winning feature. The messed-with sequence begins at the 9:42 mark, during the film’s first act. Gene Hackman‘s Popeye Doyle enters the brightly-lighted main lobby of the police station. He drops off paperwork, puts on his overcoat, walks over to the main door and flexes his hand. Roy Scheider‘s Cloudy follows but at exactly 10:05 a passage that used to be part of the film is no longer there.
2. It’s a bit between Doyle and Cloudy, who’s nursing a wounded arm after being stabbed by a drug dealer. Doyle: “You dumb guinea.” Cloudy: “How the hell did I know he had a knife?” Doyle: “Never trust a [ethnic slur].” Cloudy: “He coulda been white.” Doyle: “Never trust anyone.”
3a. The nine-second sequence (:52 to :59 in the below video) was obviously censored over Doyle’s racially offensive dialogue, specifically the N-word.
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/french-connection-refresher/
on the one hand who cares. on the other leave old movies be. It was part of the character.
I can’t wait till they start doing this to music. Every Ice Cube song will become an instrumental.
And then there’s his work with *WA.
There is no excuse for that.
Rip Pat Robertson. The age defying pancakes worked for a while.
There are important matches at RG today, with a good possibility #1 and #2 will meet in the final on Saturday with #1 on the line.
So had a brief note about Gord last night – updated link – this is his most recent podcast (ep 20+) I’m listening to at the moment.
https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/p/on-the-coutts-4-political-prisoners?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NTc4NzM1OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTI2MDI4MTgzLCJpYXQiOjE2ODU5MjI1MDgsImV4cCI6MTY4ODUxNDUwOCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEwNzM4NDEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.ieIHPr41d0zThlmxSXQ7Tl9nkgPiHWFuvtHRPsI3gHk
This Day In Sports Clips
@TDISportsClips
June 7, 1982: Miami pulls off the “grand illusion” play in the College World Series against Wichita State.
https://twitter.com/TDISportsClips/status/1666439470625746944
I realize how little I know of baseball because I don’t understand anything in that clip
That is awesome!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/illinois-law-judicial-review-kwame-raoul-j-b-pritzker-progressives-state-court-64ddcb41?st=83tdkhzhk861m1q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Make sure the judges in those counties play ball. *checks article* Yup, Chicago and Springfield.
Of course, unions are carved out. It must be a macro for drafting new laws in IL.
That’s important to save Our Democracy.
And that’s pretty much it for sports.
Tonight we see if the Panthers can pull their shit together at home, or if they will continue to shamble towards a sweep.
My guess…it will be another misconduct fest for clean hits and love taps to sticks. Officiating this year has been atrocious.
Is Baby Gronk the new Drip King, or is he just getting rizzed up by Livvy?
https://twitter.com/SBNation/status/1666439708199604225
…
I have no idea what you just said.
you old and past it
I was born old, but that doesn’t give the perpetual juveniles any excuse to be nonsensical.
Oh My God the End is Near
Re: The Pak, that I mentioned above.
While it is objectively not Niven’s best novel (Mote, Ringworld, Footfall, Heroet, etc), Protector is probably my favorite of his. While it is really two novellas smushed together, and the second one is weak and a bit confusing at points, the first half is an amazing story and world building.
I greatly enjoyed that novel and some of his subsequent use of the tree-of-life and protectors in other stories.
Took me a LoNG time to finally find which story actually introduced the “slaver” technology they use in Ringworld. A lot less obvious than the Kzinti stuff (I guess because it was a dead civilization).
For real fun, realize that thanks to Star Trek: The Animated Series, slaver boxes, kzinti, and the like are part of Star Trek canon.
Sulu fires the total matter conversion beam : “We can’t Give them That!!!!!”
The Soft Weapon is a great short story.
Short stories are Niven’s best format.
“World of Ptaavs” for those who don’t know and are wondering.
Brennen monster waives hi.
But only if you are his descendent.
I enjoyed several but none are favorites… they are good not great mostly
Heinlein called Mote “Possibly the best science fiction novel ever written.”
It was late career Heinlein who had gone a bit nuts, but it is still reasonably accurate. I mean, its not Dune, so it isnt the best. But its a finalist.
it was certainly one of the better if not best first contact novels. It cheated a bit by making one of the alien sub species essentially a universal translator.
Aliens who are adept at language is a pretty common trope. Like FTL travel.
It solves a story telling problem.
The alternative is to have to deal with mystery boxes with no exposition beyond what the humans can divine through observation. That does work for some stories, but precludes a lot of others.
I still don’t understand how the universal translator worked on every species in the delta quadrant (VOY) and gamma quadrant (DS9) right out of the gate except for the woman-ran society that looked like they all had eczema.
So, how many Niven (or Niven/Pournelle) novels would make a great long-form streaming series (6-10 episodes)?
Footfall
Lucifer’s Hammer (it could be a multiple season show, a la The Walking Dead)
Legacy of Heorot (3 seasons, IMO)
Ringworld (multiple seasons with sequels)
The Mote in Gods Eye
probably some others I am missing, but all of those would be amazing if done right (Narrator: “They wouldn’t be.”)
There could be a decent series around Gil as well.
Absolutely. Forgot about him when making the list.
A good one would be A World Out of Time. Short series
Madness Has it’s place could be extended to a Short Series
The legacy of Heorot series
Destiny’s road is a good one for a Lost type short series
Destiny’s Road is a good one I left out.
Man-Kzin Wars as an anthology series.
Oath of Fealty is another good one.
Oath of Fealty I think would need to be a miniseries, I don’t think it could really carry even a full season.
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🚩☭ Lefty Polls Ⓐ 🏴
@LeftyPolls
Requested by: @Eris_Watson
From a Marxist perspective, are Youtubers/Streamers a part of the bourgeoisie or the proletariat?
https://twitter.com/LeftyPolls/status/1666420983475961857
Stupid question, such classification is ephemeral, stop denying economic mobility.
so send everyone to the gulag lest some may become rich?
No, give the commies free helicopter rides.
From the open post:
I don’t recall anyone saying that but I could have missed it. We have regular content for one slot (Animal’s Monday 11:00 AM slot) through Monday, July 31. We’re lucky to have a week’s worth of irregular content on tap.
But we are grateful to you, and all our other writers, for your posts.
Did you edit fairy your own post?
Uncovering Secrets of Mesopotamian Medicine | Dr. Irving Finkel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgbR_UJMwYo
The secret is that they actually had medicine?
they had not one but two types of medicine: one was plants and surgery and stuff, and the other was spells and incantation
Christ, New Yorkers dealing with what TX deals with seemingly every other year from Mexican field clearing. Also, same with the illegals. And never forget “Super Duper Storm Sally”. Because they are a media center, when it happens up there the world has to deal with their pissing and moaning.
Hey! One of the great things about living here is the pristine mountain air, and I’ll be damned if I let some flappy-headed pouteenies spoil my good time!
Do not mistake the screeching of the ‘journalist’ class for the opinion of all new yorkers.
Quite frankly, this is the tenth most underwhelming apocalypse I’ve lived through.
Yup. The Midwest was getting Canada’s smoke for weeks and I don’t recall it getting any press at all. But now that NYC got it we need a national fainting couch.
I’ve lived in both places, and what the east coast is seeing is much worse than I ever encountered in TX. Even the Mexican wild fires in 1998-99.
Also keep in mind, if you’ve never experienced a earth quake and your entire building starts shaking it might make a bigger impression compared to a Californian.
NY has always been a favored child, and has been spoiled into believing that its concerns are somehow more important than everything else.
Try having a 30,000+ acre fire 10 miles from town.
That was Tucson a couple of years ago.
But but but…the AQI!!!!!! I am surprised they are only saying climate change and haven’t found a way to claim it was Trump or republicans.
I remember reading this before, but I don’t think it was here.
The cops can’t hire a PI to get around 4A. But a non-human animal can’t be an agent of the state, can it?
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2023/06/02/723698.htm
/looks at K-9 dogs
Are you sure they don’t say that non-human animals can’t be agents of the state?
Dogs aren’t agents at all. There is zero separation between the state and its dogs (unlike the “arms-length” contractor arrangement with a PI).
Legally, dogs are pretty much on par with radar guns.
Radar guns and dogs.
I’ll believe that when someone gets an assaulting an officer charge for kicking a radar gun. Or when a retired radar gun gets a full police burial and service.
“Legally”, not socially.
And in relation to agency.
LOL
my friend in dutchland’s daughter needs to pass a mandatory test in school by getting thrown fully clothed in water to simulate the fact that everyone eventually ends up in a canal
my friend’s daughter in dutchland sounds better I believe
If water, waterways, oceans, lakes, rivers are in and around where you live, I see no problem with such training.
100%
I couldn’t believe it when I would meet someone in Minne who couldn’t swim. So stupid.
I was taught to swim by public schools – which is why I am incapable of it.
I have mentioned it before, but Georgia Tech used to have a required Drownproofing course.
My freshman year catalog was the first year it wasn’t required.
Older alum have “fond” memories of the course.
My swimming lessons as a kid included survival stuff like going in fully clothed and making a flotation device out of your pants.
I guess just different times. Was taught to swim probably right after I learned to walk, same with brothers and sisters. I think it was just so when we went to the beach, parents could relax while we frolicked in So Cal’s oceans without worrying. Though, I have had some close calls with some undertow and rip currents.
We belonged to a local beach club, so swimming lessons at a young age were a standard part of summer.
I’m still always surprised to meet an adult who can’t swim.
Makes sense.
My first skiing lesson in Austria was basically “go to the top of the mountain, push you down”.
Your instructor was my dad? I got on the fly instructions on the way to the lift and “See you at the bottom”.
Tons of lakes and rivers where I grew up. High school required you to pass a basic swimming class to graduate, but it was easy because we all grew up swimming.
My kids all took to the water with no problems. They can swim like rats.
Wow. Truck that should have been escorted and driver not paying any attention.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/143mubm/stupid_driving_meets_tiny_orange_flag/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Yikes!
Yikes…that is Final Destination material right there.
Mrs. Dean informs me she had seen that, and no, the driver didn’t make it.
Oof. I’m going to hell for laughing at that.
Amazing to think that we live alongside former chimney sweeps, I honestly thought the last chimney sweeps died in the 1890s or something
https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1666504454424653824
there are probably still practicing chimney sweeps
I need to get my chimney cleaned before the winter.
Highbrow attempt at humor but I also can believe that anyone under 30 believes things just magically get fixed/cleaned/etc.
There are even schools for chimney sweeps.
Maintenence is vital to not burning your house down.
There are. We used to live next door to one. His dad owned the business, and back when his dad used to work, he’d wear a big top hat.
Besides cleaning chimneys, they also repaired chimneys and cleaned dryer vents.
Dryer vents being the second area of a house you want to make sure is free and clear and have regular maintenance done.
One of my gun club buddies is a chimney sweep. These days it involves a bunch of masonry and brickwork as well. He seems to make a pretty good living at it.
I’m working the “Demo Bay.” I can only assume this isn’t a rubber room job considering that if I was that bad they wouldn’t have taken me on the crew in the first place. However, one of the ROs working a stage is an absolute tard so… maybe they were desperate?
The demo bay can be problematic. You get a lot of ‘it’s not a stage, so the rules don’t really apply,’ carelessness. So you need someone sharp to keep an eye on it.
That said, I’d personally much rather have you on a stage.
Just heard back from Troy. Apparently it will also involve running the side matches. So, I guess… yay?
Yeah, I was really not looking forward to yelling at people for three days.
People here are so amazingly primitive that they still heat their homes with wood!
Good morning, Sloop!
Good. Shut it all down.
TMITE once again called them “bomb throwers.” I wish.
The bill shouldn’t have even been necessary.
I hope you are correct and the SC slaps him down. I have my doubts, though.
Great musical selections. I love that band. RIP Pete.
Somethings I like about Germany
Beer, Bakeries, and Gardens
https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/somethings-i-like-about-germany
Germany’s long history of beer brewing, where almost every city has its own style, means each bar’s a living museum to a particular variety. Dortmund bars are little temples to Dortmunder, Dusseldorf to Altbier, and Cologne to Kölsch, and so on, turning long walks through Germany into the best possible kind of pub crawl2
: A sampler of not only different bars, but of entirely different beer cultures.
Germans’ knowledge of beer isn’t limited to upscale joints. Even the smallest, dingiest dive bar has an owner, customers, and bartenders who care about what is being served, to the point of excessive pride.
Story from the 1990s-2000s. A bunch of German brewers are touring the US to learn why the craft beer market was doing so well, while smaller German breweries were closing/consolidating. At some place they try a beer and are amazed. It was unlike any beer they had had before. They ask about where it came from and the answer was, “Belgium.”
The different beer cultures is also one of the main reasons that’s been put up as to why Stone Berlin failed (on top of the craft beer pullback at the same time).
People talk about Oktoberfest and whatnot, but my two beer related Germany trips I would like to do are Dusseldorf for Alt and the Upper Palatinate for Zoigl.
Zoigl breweries are generally owned by the town, and different households within the town rotate brewing and serving from their home. Finding where the zoigl is being served that day can be the trickiest part.
I was recently in Düssedorf and had a number of Altbiers. I’m now a fan.
And unsurprisingly, the Kölsch in Köln tastes far better than any I’ve had in the States. Granted, I’ve only had a few here, but it was a style I thought I didn’t care for until I had it in Germany.
I would murder people wholesale for a good Kolsch here is the states. There are some good micros, but I want the real thing.
Are you sticking to the “must be brewed in Koln” definition for a good Kolsch? If not, here in a heavily German influenced area, we’ve got quite a few good ones. Largest distribution one though is only Ohio and parts of PA/MI (to my knowledge).
I been to Regensburg but did not know zoigl was a thing at the time
https://zoiglbier.de/die-brauer/
The five active true Zoigl breweries.
Looks like they were all about an hour north of Regensburg.
Teen #2 has been a wreck the past couple of days. The car he bought took a turn for the worse. Of course, I just had to get in a “I told you to take it to a mechanic before buying it from a private seller”. First mechanic has claimed it isn’t worth it to fix, metal shards in the engine, etc. I hold a great deal of skepticism because we sent him out to take care of this and I can see a mechanic thinking they can snatch this car from this kid for cheap and turn it around for a nice profit. So he is taking it to a second mechanic to see what they say.
He was resistant and despondent about even trying a second mechanic. We shall see what the second one says. I told him, get under the vehicle, pull your oil drain plug for a bit into a pan and run a magnet through the oil to see if you pick up any metal. He just couldn’t get out of his funk.
Today he is a bit better, but man, first car you bought with your own money lasting only a month is tough.
That sucks. Engines making metal is never good.
Can he pull the oil filter and cut it for inspection?
Maybe get a magnetic drain plug and see what it collects.
Yeah all suggestions I gave him and probably what I will do when it gets back home.
Painful lessons are the best lessons. I think a second opinion is a good plan.
What kind of car?
Ford Focus 2013.
I mean, what with a name like Ownbestenemy Jr., something like this was inevitable.
Can Pie weigh in on this?
https://twitter.com/dumicf/status/1666779330272174080
weigh in on what?
That’s weird, someone in the middle of a self harm episode decided to get more extreme.
Nah, she is just saying shit to get in the news cycle for book sales.
Ah, disembodied voices…so that explains it and the doc should have given her Risperdal, not breast removal.
Exactly. Any doctor that performs surgery because the patient has voices in her head telling her to do it should lose his license.
We’re less than 5 years away from using leeches to get rid of bad humors.
It must have been one of those rubber-stamp doctors.
Which we are learning, in that particular industry, is all of them.
It’s only a matter of time before body altering surgery as treatment for other mental illnesses is mainstreamed.
Remember all those weird “this guy identified as a cat and had dental work to add fangs” stories from 15 years ago?
When all you got is a tool that removes hammers, everything is a Hammer?
Can you get a prescription for testosterone if you identify as a really yoked dude?
What about those people who identify as handicapped and want to have a leg or arm removed? She heard voices in her head telling her to cut off healthy body parts and a doctor immediately said yes? Even those of us who are crazy libertarians and believe in self ownership are generally not down with allowing people currently experiencing serious mental breakdown from killings themselves or self harming.
Thanks a lot, Canada. No wait, I’m supposed to blame greedy corporations or global warming or something. I just don’t know which it is yet, because the greens’ talking points are all over the place.
Have we discussed this?
Burning Down Barriers: Female Firefighter Conference Causes ‘Out of Control’ Forest Fire
FTA..while not really wrong, I am not seeing how this provides context.
Lol, I guess I could have picked a different article.
Here’s a more left source: https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/unexpected-winds-in-banff-cause-prescribed-burn-to-go-out-of-control
I was just reading that 70% of wildfires are manmade – arson, accident, etc. I am still wondering about the Eastern ones as well.
To be fair, prescribed burns are both (a) a good idea (context dependent, of course) and (b) famously hard to control. They stopped used the term “controlled burn” for a reason.
As one of Pater Dean’s cowboy buddies said before a “controlled burn” on a ranch, “Its a controlled burn until somebody lights a match.”
Sure, but no need to make it a literal DIE initiative.
The car he bought took a turn for the worse.
What are the symptoms?
Transmission for sure, that one we know. I pulled the code. There is a known issue with the 2013 Ford Focus and the TCM. $800 bucks or so, but first mechanic went straight to there is metal in the engine. So…color me skeptical on this one.
Definitely time to supervise a complete oil change, inspect the oil for forbidden glitter, cut open the filter, etc.
Even if there’s nothing there, your kid will feel better. Random guy on the internet guarantees it.
The 2013 had a dual clutch “automatic” that felt very odd to drive. This lead to tons of TSB related attempts to smooth it out.
My wife’s was one of the few three pedal models.
For Brooks – It runs, but I haven’t driven it yet. It limps along I believe in first gear. Loud pang when he shifts into gear, no smoke.
Does it make horrible noises? Does it run at all? Does it smoke?
Well this is nice.
Once you see the game it’s so fucking obvious. How do we rid ourselves of this shit?
Hmm, in my mostly conservative neighborhood there are at least two houses that are comfortable putting out trans/pride flags. No one has egged their houses yet.
ALOL
I can’t even tell what is satire in the comments.
He makes a good point I think. Time to forcibly relocate everyone to the cities looks like.
It always comes down to pods and bugs.
/remembers the Ramadan Mubarak inflatable mosque a neighbor had in their yard
Yep. Really a hotbed of fascism and hatred here in the ‘burbs. Bathtub Mary sitting next to inflatable mosques, Stillers fans living next to Browns fans. Chief Wahoos flying next to whatever the fuck the Guardians new symbol is. “In this house” signs next to “Hillary lied!” signs.
No need to go completely into fantasy land…
I didn’t say *spit* Ravens fans.
*gives Evil Eye*
Honestly, my current favorite rivalry. There seems to be some real no-kidding ill will there, and it makes for very entertaining football.
Yes. Yes there is. They took our
jobsteam.I assume TCM has something to do with not shifting properly, or not shifting at all.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I like how they use the word “caves” when talking about Wray.
That is like saying the kid working the drive thru lane caved to the assistant manager at McD’s when he told him to really push the McMuffins. Congress is the FBI’s boss you fuckwits. They are supposed to do what they are told.
Bullied would have been better. Maybe forced or “akin to rape, Wray gave in” type language.
Isn’t the FBI part of the Executive branch? So, not “boss” exactly. But the FBI is definitely subordinate to Congress.
I think of it as, the President is the CEO, and Congress is the board of directors.
No VP would tell the board to piss up a rope if they wanted to keep their job, and no CEO would tolerate it if xe wanted to keep xir job.
Isn’t that pretty much what Brandon is doing with his illegal college loan deal?
The board just told you that they do not approve of your new plan to hire Dylan McVaney to be the spokesman. And you told them to shove it.
The FBI is part of the executive branch, right? I mean, is Congress the boss of SCOTUS, or vice versa?
ugh, scroll more, dummy.
Outside of a pretty narrow Constitutional jurisdiction, Congress can define SCOTUS’s jurisdiction. It can also remove Justices. So, yeah, there’s definitely some boss action there.
My approach would be- every branch must agree that something is Constitutional. If any branch declares (a resolution in Congress, an Executive order, or a court decision), that something isn’t Constitutional, then it’s not. Period. No other branch needs to agree.
Sports. World Test Championship Day 1 was yesterday, Australia doing well but match still in the balance: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-world-test-championship-2021-2023-1268315/australia-vs-india-final-1358412/live-cricket-score
Narcissistic sociopath has a solution
Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would restrict gun ownership — a daunting and likely quixotic response to the deadliest wave of mass shootings in U.S. history that would nonetheless position California as the most aggressive state in the union on gun control.
Newsom outlined his plan Thursday to pursue the amendment, seeded with cash left over from his landslide 2022 reelection, fueled by frustration over the country’s failure to adopt restrictions that polls show most Americans broadly support and a conservative Supreme Court that has rolled back gun laws.
“This is a mechanism to address that despair,” Newsom said in an interview with POLITICO ahead of his announcement, which came from his Campaign for Democracy PAC. “We’re sick of being on the defense and throwing up our hands. We want to go on the offense and be for something and build a movement that’s bottom up, not top down.”
The Democratic governor’s proposal would raise the federal minimum age to buy a firearm to 21 from 18; mandate universal background checks; institute a “reasonable” waiting period for all gun purchases and ban assault rifles nationally.
Newsom acknowledged the seemingly unimaginable hurdles to creating a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But his plan is distinctly Newsom: designed to draw maximum public attention on an issue where he sees Americans’ views as being far ahead of their governments’. In the interview, Newsom said his motivation to act on guns was inspired by a rollback of gun control measures in courts amid the unending series of mass killings. Specifically, he said, it’s meant to address “the echo chamber of despair out there today.”
“I bring you false hope and empty promises. Give me money.”
If people like you would shut the fuck up it would help.
Got a source for that, skippy?
the deadliest wave of mass shootings in US history was the civil war and it’s not even close.
But his plan is distinctly Newsom: designed to draw maximum public attention on an issue where he sees Americans’ views as being far ahead of their governments’.
Sure, sure, that’s Gavin for you. Man of the people.
Well, they are certainly out of sync. The government does want far more gun control than the general public. Based on gun sales and the long-term trend in state legislation nationwide.
He’s such a slimy sack of shit.
Funny that they’re beginning to realize that a Constitutional amendment is the only way to properly alter Constitutionally guaranteed liberties.
It’s why, back in 1934, they realized they couldn’t outright ban machineguns and had to pass an end run around the 2nd Amendment via the tax code.
Sure Jan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state
Never mind that I believe every bit of that proposal is current law in California. So, how’s that working for you Gav? Got all gun crime completely stopped?
https://twitter.com/sunnyright/status/1666805805906296834
Who could have guessed there are gays in Key West?
That must be new – when I was there it was just a bunch of motorcycle and body-building enthusiasts.
There is an ancient commie that ran the local NPR station. He was so old that he talked about going to Fire Island to pick up girls.
“girls”
Outside of Cherry Grove, it wasn’t (and isn’t) _all_ gay.
Also, there aren’t any alligators.
https://twitter.com/MarvinDunn4/status/1666165025952747521
Got a source for that, skippy?
It’s common knowledge, dude. Open your eyes.
By the way, Mike S, did you see my link the other day about the NDSU prototyping and business development facility? If Burghum is doing stuff like that, he should be head and shoulders above the rest of the yahoos in the Republican field.
Stop laughing.
No, I did not. Do you still have it handy?
Burgum should be head and shoulders above the rest. He’s a very genuine, smart, successful guy with some decent ideas. He certainly isn’t perfect from a libertarian point of view, but I think he could have a good chance with the repubs…if he can get people to listen to him. We’ll see.
Open your eyes? Just open your heart, and feel that truth.
At least it’s the right (and doomed) approach.
Newsom proposes constitutional amendment to restrict gun rights
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-proposes-constitutional-amendment-restrict-gun-rights
“… hErp DErp cOmON SEnZe guN ZafeTy laWs…”
Learn to take your L with some dignity, Newsom.
Hey, at least he’s pushing for an amendment.
Which leads me to believe he believes the scales might tip in that direction. Maybe not attempt #1, but 3 or 4 might stick.
If enough of the country supports such an amendment, we’re already lost.
Keep pushing it in the news, keep harping on any shootings, yes we are lost and it will happen and I will say, within 10-15 years.
I think we’ll get a stacked Court and a “revisiting” of the pro-2A cases before we get a Constitutional amendment.
There’s more than one way to override Constitutionally guaranteed rights, and that’s the tried-and-true way.
That actually doesn’t seem too far-fetched.
Congress is the FBI’s boss you fuckwits.
J Edgar would like to set the record straight.
Comrade Biden will fix this:
NPR – “Book bans are on the rise. Biden is naming a point person to address that”
Being opposed to sex books for elementary schoolers equates to book bans? Seems like an unjudicious use of the term.
Does it count as a book ban if I refuse to buy a book for my home library? Will they be sending agents door to door to verify we each possess a copy of “Promise Me, Dad?”
The supposed bans are more about unwillingness to suck female cock than anything else.
They’re gonna ride that lie until Nov. 6, 2024, aren’t they?
And beyond. It is a culture war that politicians absolutely love.
‘Member when Trump called Charlottesville nazis “very fine people?” CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/BBC/NPR/CBC/NuFOX ‘members.
And people complain about AI hallucinating!
I need proof that there were any Nazis there.
Yes.
Now do government censorship of the internet.
Decent thread here:
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1666496308150951954
Yeah, that came to mind re: the boob-lob mentioned above.
If that is accurate, it sounds like everything they’ve said about “careful diagnosis” and such is BS. Imagine that.
It also explains why Europe seems to be backing off this stuff while we’re just ramping it up still.
They are taking the medical marijuana card handout to the extreme.
That’s insurance fraud.
Do you still have it handy?
Unfortunately, no. It had to do with Chris Runge, who hand builds cars. He hooked up with this NDSU program to do a CAD-based model and cut out the pieices for a complete body buck for a new car. Very interesting.
Climate change is harming my mental health
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-65633082
Until two years ago Jennifer Newall was working at the forefront of climate change research.
Her PhD on melting ice sheets and changing sea levels had taken her to Antarctica, Scandinavia and the USA but it was while leading a workshop for primary school children in Glasgow that she began to question what she was doing.
“It dawned on me,” she says. “The physics behind this haven’t changed in my lifetime. They’re not going to change going forward.”
Jennifer says she realised action was needed urgently and she no longer had the passion or motivation to continue studying the effects.
She put her career on hold in order to take more direct action but she found the scale of the challenge overwhelming.
What’s Britspeak for “Karen”?
“Book bans are on the rise. Biden is naming a point person to address that”
He’ll probably pick somebody who can read, so that lets Kamala off the hook.
Instead of rain, we are getting hosers’ smoke in eastern PA. It has rained for about 15 minutes in the last 25 days (yes, literally). Best of all, those fifteen minutes of rain started precisely at 10am on May 20th as I was starting a speech at an outdoor event I had scheduled eight months before.
those fifteen minutes of rain started precisely at 10am on May 20th as I was starting a speech at an outdoor event I had scheduled eight months before.
Gaia hates you, apparently.
You can have ours. We got more rain in a couple days than a normal June.
High desert, my ass.
Did you move your harangue indoors?
No venue for indoors – it was a dedication of a Rev War Militia monument.
For Brooks – It runs, but I haven’t driven it yet. It limps along I believe in first gear. Loud pang when he shifts into gear, no smoke.
Going straight from “Can you take a look at this, it doesn’t shift right” to “Time for a new motor” is just a bit fishy.
Mike S-
I can’t find a link to that Runge video, but try this.
Yowza.
https://www.ndsuinnovationstudio.com/equipment
Nice wood shop.
Huh. I didn’t know they had that. Very cool.
This Chris Runge?
“Holy fuck this is dirty as shit
DeSantis War Room is running AI Images of Trump embracing Fauci
This crosses the line”
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1666820172441882625
But it isn’t accurate in spirit. Trump failed like Yoda failed taking down the emperor.
Heheh, that’s a good ad. Fuck Timmy.
As long as it’s labeled as such, I think it’s within the norms for politics.
If it’s not labelled, then I think it’s slimy. AI opens up vast new fields for lying. I dunno that we need to give a free pass to someone who takes advantage of that.
More Newson:
The U.S. is on pace to hit a record number of mass killings in 2023, reaching an average of one a week, according to a recent analysis by The Associated Press and USA Today.
The effort positions California at the forefront of the fight for increased gun restrictions.
Jump out in front of that parade, Gavin.
And, of course, “mass shooting” means whatever political expediency and situational logic requires at any given time.
reaching an average of one a week
But enough about Chicago…
Ugh, I’m too slow
Maybe Newsom should run for Mayor of Chicago and see what he can do about that record number.
One wonders if Newsom isn’t a secret white supremacist, neo-nazi mole? Why seek to disarm Californians when it is “well-known” that there is an explosion of hate groups, extreme far right militias, trans and gayphobes, and all manner of fascists just waiting to invade soyboy/girl California? If Newsom isn’t a mole, and is just a progressive fool, how does he expect to defend against those 30 million assault rifles aimed at Californians?
Yes. That Chris *hand built aluminum dream cars* Runge.
One of the things I like about him is he does not feel obligated to stuff some ridiculous monster truck motor in his cars.
Nice article here.
Didn’t know he was a Minnesota boy.
Nobody’s perfect. At least he had the goods sense to work with NoDaks.
He probably felt bad for them.
“Norway’s nuclear test-ban monitor NORSAR says seismic signals indicate that there was an explosion at the Nova Kakhovka Dam at 02:54 AM on June 6, meaning kinetic action was highly likely used to bring the dam down.”
https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1666827525350105088
Rules out the high-water, earlier artillery damage, bad maintenance theories for the collapse.
“Flagstaff, Arizona! Protect your communities children from BudLight’s upcoming ALL AGES DRAG SHOW! The kids need to be protected from drag and beer companies, and here, Twin Arrows Casino wants to play host to this debauchery! Twin Arrows will be hearing from us.”
https://twitter.com/GAG_Arizona/status/1666570892556795904
Bud Light’s upcoming all ages drag show?
$142 a ticket for general admission…
At least is 16 and up and below that need an adult. Still creepy and stupid.
The casino, being on tribal land, isn’t subject to local or state law enforcement in some (many?) ways. Very interesting choice for this event.
Its at the Orpheum Theater, not the casino.
Nice wood shop.
They converted the 3D model to lay out individual flat sections for the body buck and whizzed them out of 3/4″ plywood on the giant router table. After they assembled it, it took four guys to lug it out to the trailer.
You go to hell, Honeywell gas controller. You go to hell and you die, you hear me?
For the 2nd time in a week I had to fuck with the gas valve on my water heater.
These hunks of shit are designed to fail just so you have to buy another. (tho I do admire their themopile design)
Once they throw a fault, it shuts down and cant be restarted. Forcing the average schmoe to call a plumber and likely get it replaced with the same garbage.
Luckily, the Tubes of You has shown me that One Weird Trick to resetting them. Which isnt terribly tricky, but means my age 50+ ass has to get up and down off the floor too many times. Id just as soon replace the thing with a 1950s mechanical valve.
Gas? Why are you destroying Gaia? Put a wind turbine on your roof like any right-thinking, planet-loving citizen would do.
Nobody needs hot water.
$142 a ticket for general admission…
Let the sheep be sheared.
Enormous difference, a difference in kind, not degree: We have evidence of Homo naledi.