Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another brilliant day and the links!
More than $200 billion in COVID-19 pandemic relief wasted, watchdog says
NYC Is Housing More Illegal Migrants Than Homeless People
Jail guard misconduct led to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, scathing DOJ report finds
Top Anheuser-Busch Marketing Executives Responsible For Boycott Are No Longer Employed
Anheuser denies claims it fired marketing executives, maintains pair are on ‘leave of absence’
Oregon lawmakers vote to end ban on self-serve gas
7 killed by riptides in Florida panhandle in two weeks
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Hunter told Chinese business associate ‘The Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the Chairman wants’ ”
Xi won the 2020 fortified election.
I misread that at first as the Bidens are best at doing what the Chinaman wants.
To-may-to… to-mah-to….
More than $200 billion in COVID-19 pandemic relief wasted, watchdog says – news like this keeps popping up. Just say it was all wasted and call it a day
It’s 10% of the money that was created and dumped, it only sounds like a lot because of how fucking much was pumped into the economy. Gosh, that couldn’t have any other unexpected consequences could it?
we are lucky that does not cause inflation. With the existing inflation caused by climate change, if printing money had caused additional inflation it would have been much worse.
I’m pretty sure this is a direct quote from Janet Yellin.
That’s how much they’re finding so far. I’m with Pie — if it wasn’t close to 90% graft and corruption I’ll be surprised at this point.
Agreed, 10% seems way too low
And let’s all remember who signed off on that pump and dump scheme — thanks Donald!
That and his germophobic cowtowing to Fauci and crew have not been forgotten by me, no. That he still claims it was all a great idea (the best! the best ideas, by the best people ever!) are a big part of why I can’t vote for the guy. (The other being I have zero faith he’ll do any better in hiring folks to actually get what needs to be done done versus just digging up petty grievances on his part and wasting time on pointless crap… while the Executive Branch happily keeps going behind his back and doing the opposite of his stated goals whenever they disagree).
Same.
I told you guys, all you have to do is look at his destruction of the USFL…it tells you everything you need to know about him.
This is one area Desantis is clearly better.
The state government here is clearly in his control and with competent people at that. I don’t love everything Desantis has done with that power, but he is clearly an effective executive unlike Trump who ended up with troops still in Syria and a hundred other things going against his direct orders or being slow walked.
His love for “stimulus” money is one of the areas where he’s as bad as any politician, though I think his motivations are a little different. He actually thinks it works.
Somehow the check that some people got (including me) got swallowed up by inflation. The money is gone but the inflation stayed, almost like it didn’t help, like the vaccines. At least covid stopped the flu.
My thought was, *only* $200B?
Well, the rest was spent on hookers and blow.
Invested on hookers and blow.
Infrastructure, according to Hunter.
“More” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
“More than $200 billion in COVID-19 pandemic relief wasted, watchdog says”
So, more effective government money handling than usual?
Government is just a legalized crime syndicate.
Is this counting situations where it was stolen also, or is this just the aid to local governments? Didn’t we give like 400 billion to thieves in Nigeria and Pakistan?
NYC Is Housing More Illegal Migrants Than Homeless People – well obviously, if they were housed they would not be homeless. On a serious note, do the homeless want to be housed?
There is plenty of housing available, but it comes with rules and the homeless aren’t big on rules for one reason or another.
How long does it take before migrants are no longer migrants?
As long as it takes Joe to mark ‘X’ on a dotted line.
Depends on how enlightened the voter laws are in the jurisdiction where they live.
Some do, some don’t. The ones you see on the street are there by choice and/or because shelters don’t accept junkies.
Jail guard misconduct led to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, scathing DOJ report finds – riiiiiight
Well, it is misconduct to take bribes to let political assassinations happen and all.
[Golf clap]
“Top Anheuser-Busch Marketing Executives Responsible For Boycott Are No Longer Employed
Anheuser denies claims it fired marketing executives, maintains pair are on ‘leave of absence’”
They really want to fool the people boycotting them while kissing the ass of the ESG/DEI class.
Just had a headline pop in my feed that AB-InBev is now offering rebates of up to $25 for packs of Bud Light to try to salvage some 4th of July sales.
Isn’t that about double the retail price of a case?
No idea, and I’m not sure what form factor or hoops there are to jump through for it I didn’t click through the story.
Where are you getting 30-cases for $15?
Haven’t seen pricing like that in 5+ years.
Arbitrage opportunity? Hypothetically speaking, someone could buy up cases and resell them to underage college students and claim the rebates.
Not that I know anybody who would do that.
Arbitrage indeed! This is better than wooden toy guns turned in at a buy back!
July 4th sales will be absolutely savage for them. I expect even more drops. The floor has not been reached.
I agree. At this point, the rubes are having fun fucking with them.
In a world where the “elites” seem to get away with everything, this is a great way to get some revenge. (I’m assuming that the Feds won’t come in with a bailout at some point).
I would pay money to see board meetings where the DEI priesthood tells them they have to stick with this disastrous policy, while the other board members start worrying if when the people fucked over by the board’s choices leading to investment losses come for the company, they might not themselves, personally, be also taken to court to hold them accountable.
Personnel is policy.
They’ve spent a decade or more building up a staff that buys into the bullshit. Good luck trying to unwind that,
Yup. There is no “other board members” riding to the rescue either.
Then I will just have to settle for watching them cry when the company finally is sued and they start playing the victim.
This. I think there is a lot of pent-up disgust at the direction this country has taken in recent years and the not-Left hive mind has settled on this as an easy way to express it.
It doesn’t hurt that the product is swill that’s drunk out of habit and is easily replaceable either.
Very true. Only hardcore beer alkies will keep drinking it eventually.
This ^^^
And it’s also really ‘tarded for AB not to have realized this.
Why would we bailout a Brazilo-Belgian company?
Okay, yeah, stupid question.
Good point.. it Is a very social event, whereas you could have hidden the buds and drunk then on your own time before, you’re not gonna risk social ostracism by sharing with everybody that you like tranny fluid
Think of the lists you would be put on if you sent in that rebate form.
Send the rebate checks to Christopher Rufo, c/o New College.
It’s voter registration
Replacing it with a ban on gas?
Don’t give those fools ideas, brah.
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/12/20/oregon-washington-ban-gas-powered-vehicles-2035-joining-california/#:~:text=Oregon%20and%20Washington%20will%20ban,powered%20vehicles%20starting%20in%202035.&text=Banning%20the%20sale%20of%20new,motors%20or%20fuel%20cell%20systems.
except to make molotov cocktails to throw at police stations.
Top Anheuser-Busch Marketing Executives Responsible For Boycott Are No Longer Employed – “boy” – cott ? toxic masculinity confirmed. The question is are the ones taking their place more of the same?
“Jail guard misconduct led to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, scathing DOJ report finds”
Oh, bullshit. This guy was killed by the deep state to keep him from talking. I am sure the Clintons or Obamas were behind it. I am giving the Bidens a pas, cause they are too inept to not get caught.
Hunter doesn’t go for the ingenue, he wants ’em straight up slutty.
“7 killed by riptides in Florida panhandle in two weeks”
Respect the ocean or become fish food.
It would leave only bones and teeth?
(Was actually surprised this wasn’t the music link…)
This may fit Florida Man more.
STFU, commie.
JFC what an asshole he is.
Welcome to the party, Oregon
So is NJ the last state without self-service?
I believe so.
It will remain so if my wife has anything to do about it. She doesn’t care how much more it costs.
She needs to learn to pump her own gas. It’s practically automatic anyway.
The perfect link.
I thought for a minute before checking the link and, yes, you are correct.
Half the state has been self serve for years, diesel and cardlock always have been, and former Gov Shitstain suspended the ban over and over. Half the places don’t even care anymore if you pump it yourself.
Is this the newest tik tok challenge?
Hunter told Chinese business associate ‘The Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the Chairman wants’
Nothing to see here. Move along and move one. This is old news. Etc.
Don’t forget “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
“It is really all about a Dad’s love for his wayward child!”
If we could hook this spin up to a generator…
A Biden’s love is very different from that of a square.
Heh, I’m glad I refreshed before posting…
Of course Biden love is different…
It involves a lot of child hair sniffing and racist talk about Corn Pop needing to be whooped with a chain.
I’ll go home to my parents, confess what I’ve done
And I’ll ask them to pardon their prodigal son.
Oh I believe, yes I believe that I will go back home…
Similar vein but original by the group… Finally Going Home
A prideful father and his son…
No love for grandchildren in Arkansas though.
(probably a good thing)
That’s the problem with Chinese bribes. In no time, you have spent it all and want more.
I had that problem with sex with a Chinese lady…
Did Alex just doxx himself as Swalwell?
The Chinese lady I was banging was not called Fang Fang, but she might have been working for the Chicomm secret police considering how often she asked me stuff I told her nothing about.
More than $200 billion in COVID-19 pandemic relief wasted, watchdog says
I, for one, am shocked that the government would squander money.
Chairman – chairperson please. So backwards these chicoms. they need to feminist more.
I think you mean chairpersyn, bigot.
Bidens are such dumbasses. They should have learned from their predecessors and set up a Foundation to accept “donations”.
China is going to keep taking flack for this. Putin would have dealt with it years ago by sending Agent Svetlana over to give Hunter a blowjob and fill his crack pipe with polonium.
NYC Is Housing More Illegal
MigrantsAliens Than Homeless PeopleFuck US citizens, amirite?
STEVE SMITH FIND YOUR PROPOSAL…. ACCEPTABLE.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Good for the kid and the dog, both are happy. Thanks Jimbo
The Russians hit a hotel restaurant and hotel in the Ukraine that appears to have been used as a barracks. Videos of wounded soldiers include some speaking English and sporting American Ranger and Airborne tats. Hopefully there as mercenaries…
https://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1673803675062657025
WWII ranger tatt, not a scroll.
He looks good for his age!
If one is wearing an Airborn t-shirt, they have lost all ablity to do covert shit. Plausible denyability, that is the name of the game, and shit unit logo’s don’t fly.
Likely the place got hit because the mercenaries cannot put down their cell phones and stay off social media. Posting pics with geo-location information embedded is not a good ops security plan.
The Russians hit a hotel restaurant and hotel in the Ukraine
that appears to have been used as a barracks.I nixed the relevant context so we can call the Ruskies crazed murderers.
They’re just instructors. Nothing to see here.
Jail guard misconduct led to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, scathing DOJ report finds
“Misconduct”, such as allowing Epstein to be suicided.
“Was that wrong? Should I not have allowed that?”
I am sure they did a lot more than “allowing” him to be suicided…
Top Anheuser-Busch Marketing Executives Responsible For Boycott Are No Longer Employed
And yet, their products, particularly Bud Lite, are still all over groomer events.
They have to sell it somewhere. Too bad that group is so fickle. Bud will be discarded for the next shiny thing and they will lose another 10% of market.
Meh. I can believe that those ad buys and sponsorship deals were inked months ago.
But it was a GOOD lie!
He’s a made man so they can’t touch him.
As much as I dislike The Turtle I must give him full credit for keeping Garland off the SC.
I knew Climate Change could do just about everything, but even I am in awe of this new power.
I call bullshit.
*reads on*
It’s another case of “Our model says our model is right”
These people are ridiculous. Technology solved the water problem decades ago. There are so many fresh water recovery technologies that anyone saying we have a problem should be criminally charged. The problem we have is with politics that – as always is the case – prevent the technological solutions that actually work from being implemented.
Do you want Gaia to get warm and go away? Because that’s what happens, planets get warm and disappear, that’s climate science.
Sounds more like one of those death cults like the Jim Jones Guyana or Hail Bob Comet shit to me.
All hail the comet Hale-Bopp!
So, from the North Pole, which way is East?
To move east from the north pole, rotate counterclockwise.
Does that give you a spin of +1/2 or -1/2?
That depends on if you are entangled or not.
you mean widdershins?
I learned that word from Terry Pratchett.
!!!! No. We learned it from a good author, Tim Powers.
Holy crap.
In good news, we can just blame California and tell them to build the damn desalinization plants already.
I imagine this shit will be all over the news as “people bad” any day now.
But what will they do with the extra salt? Send it to MN to destroy my truck?
No, they will just move the rust belt down.
There is a solution for too many people and livestock.
Finally!
*cough*bullshit*cough*
global sea level rise
How many millimeters are we up now?
tipping it over to the east
That’s the direction of Guam!!!
*hank johnson intensifies*
Assuming, for the moment, that the axis would shift if the earth’s mass changed, pumping groundwater doesn’t change the earth’s mass. At most, you are moving a microscopic fraction of it a few hundred feet, and I would expect it is dwarfed by the annual movement of water known as “snowmelt” every spring. Of course, the sea level variations they are referring to are the alleged, but so far unobserved, increases in sea level.
Regardless, moving water around doesn’t change the total mass of the earth. So what exactly is the mechanism for this change in orbital dynamics, anyway?
I would assume it would have to do with shifting the center of mass. But, yeah, shifting some water a few hundred feet isnt going to move the CoM.
If you change the distribution of mass in an object, you change how it rotates. The typical physics class example is an ice skater with arms in versus arms out. Conservation of angular momentum has the arms in figure spinning faster. The problem with this model is their deliberate ignoring of other variables that swamp the one they want to blame. It’s as if the figure skater from the physics example took a silk scrap from the belt of their outfit and held it out with one hand and blaming the silk for the sudden wobble.
The movement of any objects, animals for example, would also change that. So open borders are a cause of climate change.
That would be pretty much true with more people coming here and consuming energy at our rates.
Building more reservoirs and storing the water will flatten the curve.
This must be why Guam might tip over.
Wagner’s Prigozhin Planned to Capture Russian Military Leaders
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wagners-prigozhin-planned-to-capture-russian-military-leaders-805345cf?st=xsu2dch317vkopx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Not buying anything Western officials have to say about this.
Eastern officials, either.
The speculation about what led to it is nothing more than that and it’s largely irrelevant. The real story is the Kremlin shut it down immediately and solved its Wagner Group problem at the same time.
I mostly ignore the whole thing for that reason.
I got behind on podcasts, and the hot takes are real funny knowing hot it played out in the end.
At this point, I am betting he was driving to Moscow to his sign his 30 day notice. He had already talked to the boss, so it was no surprise.
It all sounds stupid.
Daily Quordle 520
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, June 28
Letters: E G L I N S W
My score: 420 points
My longest word: 14 letters
💮 🌼 🌻 🌺 💐 🏵 🌷 🌸 🌹 💮 🌼 🌻 🌺 💐
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
A new high for me. I’m sure GP will beat me.
Ridiculous words today, sheesh.
Daily Quordle 520
4️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
Daily Quordle 520
4️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
fucked up collection of words
#waffle523 5/5
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 streak: 156
Not a chance, That is outstanding, Sean.
Daily Quordle 520
3️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, June 28
Letters: E G L I N S W
My score: 361 points
My longest word: 11 letters
🌸 🌻 🏵 💮 🌺 🌹 🌼 💐 🌷 🌸 🌻
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a painting which depicts what might be the precursor to the Italian pizza.
The flatbread depicted in the 2,000-year-old fresco “may be a distant ancestor of the modern dish”, Italy’s culture ministry said.
But it lacks the classic ingredients to technically be considered a pizza.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66031341
I cannot really tell if there is pineapple
Going by the picture, that ‘flatbread’ could also be a bowl.
They probably had to settle for jackfruit back then.
Was shopping for beer last weekend. Almost bought a Longboard variety pack (owned by Anheuser). The date on the pack of cans was 2 months ago. Brewed date? Looked at the same brand’s bottles – date is 2 months in the future.
Gave up and paid a bit more for local beer.
At least they put on date codes. Pet peeve of mine is breweries that don’t put a brewed on/packaged on/best by/best after date on their cans. I’ve seen shelf turds that have been out of production for years or more still sitting there, dusty, stale, full priced.
I expect this to happen to a lot of the Platform beer that was produced before they were closed. I’m still seeing large quantities of their beers (with various SKUs) on shelves, and AB-InBev said they were pulling them back to three core SKUs (none of which I’ve noticed on the shelf).
December 6, 2038 on my remaining bottle of Cantillon.
That is 20 years from the bottling date. It probably wont make it to the 5 year date.
Printing on my label has faded, but it entered my possession back in 2007.
It would be nice, but I am incapable of cellaring for that long.
They put on dates without labeling it “brewed on” versus “best by”. Making the dates useless.
There used to be (I am sure it still exists) a website that helps with that. It especially helps with the breweries that put a bottling code instead of a date. I used to be able to (probably still can?) interpret Spaten codes without the site.
This was especially important because too many stores would have year old Oktoberfest on the shelves.
The sheriff of a Florida Panhandle county declared he is ‘beyond frustrated’ at beachgoers ignoring warnings about deadly riptides after seven people drowned at Panama City beach in less than two weeks.
Tommy Ford, the sheriff of Bay County, whose district includes the popular Florida resort town of Panama City, said the deaths were ‘tragic and unnecessary’.
People’s ignorance breathtaking.
People’s ignorance is* breathtaking.
So is my lack of proofreading.
Riptides are no joke.
We had conditions like that down here a couple of years ago. It was beautiful,but windy. I took the kids to the beach and I asked the lifeguard where it was safe to be… He told me that they had made a dozen saves already, he personally was involved with 3… Don’t take the kids past knee deep.
They closed the beaches about an hour later.
The problem is… The best beach days are often dangerous, but don’t look dangerous. Nice waves… But nothing crazy. And the warnings are “beware of riptides”. Which you might not even see, especially if you are not local or a frequent beach goer who knows to check these things.
Like many dangerous things… The real danger is how close you can come do a deadly situation without realizing how dangerous it is.
I got caught in one off of Catalina when I was a kid. Man, that sucked, and pretty much kept me, via fear, from learning to surg like all of my friends.
Fuck. Surf, with an f.
Tell the truth… All of your friends were pouring additional troops into regional proxy wars as a kid….
Two summers of lifeguarding on Myrtle Beach made my son pretty jaded. So many dumb people. So many times they had to send people to find the parents of kids he rescued. The hotel bar was usually the best place to start.
That doesn’t make it better.
The “coming for your children” chant has been used for years at Pride events, according to longtime march attendees and gay rights activists, who said it’s one of many provocative expressions used to regain control of slurs against LGBTQ people.
They weren’t expecting all the attention and probably for good reason because this stuff didn’t get much before this year.
To be fair, they probably mean “cumming for your children”.
“one of many provocative expressions”
Well, mission accomplished, then. The normies have been provoked. Happy now?
And why anyone would think “Oh, we’ve been saying we’re coming for your children for years” makes it better, I have no clue.
Tradition!
If I were a groomer
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long I’d biddy biddy bum
Community note: “”Coming for your children” is not a historical part of Pride. The chant appears to originate from the San Francisco Gay Men’s choir singing a song with this title 2 years ago, in 2021. This article is thus a misrepresentation of Pride’s history.”
So they said the pervs were coming for the kids but the perps would prefer you not actually realize they meant it?
whaddup doh’
Off to work!
The gravy train is good.
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/27/gravy-train-independent-audit-ukraine/
A map showing the net fiscal contribution of immigrants from different countries of origin in the Netherlands
https://twitter.com/NoahCarl90/status/1673626628251955200
They need to break down the contributions of the people working in the sex industry..
the map is kind of bad because it is hard to get a value for a country
I’ll give you a hundred bucks for Moldova right now.
to many hot chicks there to sell that cheap
So they were gaslighting the fuck out of us again with the whole “Bad orange man showed secret Iran war plans” shit?
I can’t get why these people think the real story behind that revelation was not that the US military was gunning to start a war with another Middle Eastern country and had to be stopped by the bad guy.
Trump is such a dope. The entirety of the federal government is out to get his ass and he runs his mouth with no regard for anything.
It’s absolutely amazing he’s lasted as long as he has.
The deep state has all the competence we’ve come to expect from years of government training.
His strategy works, somehow. It’s a rare strategy shared with crazy homeless people who somehow survive on the street. I am glad he fucked up those plans.
Yeah, for whatever reason his strategy has served him well for years and years. It’s not his fault that politics is more vindictive and corrupt than the high level New York City real estate and construction market.
It tells me they have nothing substantial on him.
This is the surprising conclusion.
The dude is a New York City real estate developer. I have been lead to believe that this is one of the most corrupt things there is.
Yet. After years of dedication to getting Trump on literally anything they can dream up, spending literally tens of millions on the effort, perhaps over a hundred million by now… And even using CIA operatives to frame people around him to pressure them to give up something… They still have pretty much nothing. Paperwork disputes and statements in tapped phone calls that have to be spun to sound even untoward.
He must be the cleanest dude in history. He owned casinos, and they can’t find anything. How is that possible?
They are not as capable as the soviet prosecutors.
The guy is a carnival barker at heart, real estate is just what ring his circus is in. That said, I would be willing to bet he has had a microscope up his ass for the entire time he has been in business, and if you are even remotely smart, you keep clean. You fire people who are dirty, you have accountants and lawyers keep you at at remove from anything that could be remotely be misconstrued, and what you are involved in is just legal, even if barely.
I would be willing to bet that half of the reason the left hates him SOOOOO much is that he keeps himself unblackmailable.
This is a great analysis.
Also the reason the republican establishment feels the same way.
Bingo. It is no different then the Wagner group coup.
However, I agree with you that the story should be about a a DOD which is ready to invade Iran.
Remember, the media went apoplectic over Trump *refusing* to attack Iran after rocket attacks on an Iraqui base. They wanted him impeached for that one too, and claimed he was risking world war three. (The same folks would later say he risked world war three by taking out an Iraqui terrorist and an Iranian general who was working with him as they met in Iraq.)
Leaving a rock-hard warboner unfulfilled is one of the reasons they hate him so passionately.
Meh, for what we spend, I fully expect binders full of plans for dealing with adversarial powers. I hope they are never needed. But imagine getting attacked by Iranian backed terrorists and the Pentagon saying “gosh, we never thought we might have to fight Iran.”
War Plan Orange Man Bad?
These days of course, we must be back to Rainbow Plans. They just aren’t quite the same as they used to be…
“Oh this one is just fabulous…”
Yeah, wasn’t this all about the DoD swearing that Trump wanted to attack Iran? Then Trump pulled out docs that proved it was the DoD who wanted to start the war with Iran.
The response wasn’t about the DoD lying (or wanting to start a new war), but “OMG, he is releasing secrets to people!”
The DOD leaks the President’s war plans – no biggie.
The President leaks the DOD’s war plans – OMG OMB!
Capitalism is so fucking childish…
“I wanna make a profit!”
Yea Bob, you can do that over there. But this is housing, energy, transport, healthcare – these are things we need to share. They’re critical.
“I SAID I WANNA MAKE A PROFIT!!”
Bob, people are dying
“PROFIT!!!”
https://twitter.com/TheMendozaWoman/status/1673950666249601028
deep thoughts on economics
These people vote. 🙁
In the UK. Specially Wales where they have communal ownership of vowels with resulting shortages.
Th Trgdy f th Cmmns.
Oh, take the third road on the left, and go five miles past Phddlgln.
Ackshually, in Wales many consonants identify as vowels (i.e. “trans-vowels.”)
Without profits, housing, energy, transportation, and healthcare becomes unaffordable and rationed. But this part doesn’t bother the evil fucking people peddling this shit, because they either feel they will be the people at the top and unaffected by the rationing or they hate other people having more so much they would accept privation for themselves as long as they get to see others suffering from it too. Mental fucking disorder this envy shit is.
This was in the sidebar on today’s music. Not a particularly inspired cover, but WTF is going on in the background.
Needs more lightning bolts.
BBC Newsnight
@BBCNewsnight
‘Happy birthday NHS, happy birthday to you’
Cambridge Children’s Hospital Choir sing happy birthday to the NHS ahead of its 75th birthday
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1673769575698268161
brainwashing children with religion. sad.
“Killing off patients in the name of cost-cutting for three quarters of a century.”
You feel a lump in your abdomen and you’re losing weight? Alright, we can get you in in three months.
And the statistics show that 3 month window makes sure less than 1% of those such impacted survive to get the care, right?
Wasn’t there some musical number about the NHS when the Olympics were in England?
there certainly was even more cultish than this
Aldara Guisasola SLOW MOTION! | Miami Swim Week 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jxg-U6mTNk
Malicious legislation is malicious.
There is a lot of tyrannical and patently unconstitutional horseshit in that thing.
Massholes.
Two correction officers — Nova Noel and Michael Thomas — who were supposed to be guarding Epstein at the time of his suicide, were charged for falsifying logs but received no-jail plea deals.
The duo — who were both working overtime — had been sleeping and online shopping, when they were supposed to be checking on the financier every 30 minutes.
Online shopping with that new bribe money they had just received.
Uffda. Local media is really cranking up the air quality scare mongering due to the Canuck fires.
Little disappointed there wasn’t a question about pollution affecting women and minorities the most.
I was out grilling for about 30 minutes last night and I felt like I was having a mild asthma attack. It was definitely something.
This morning was the first time I was able to smell it… or someone has decided to take advantage of the Canuckistan fires to do some illegal burns of their own.
The river caught light in solidarity
Yeah, the map shows it has moved east. The angry-looking colors start between Rochester and Syracuse now.
The wind has been blowing from the N all week, surprised it hasn’t reached me in NYC yet.
Of course, the MPCA tips don’t do anything to affect bad air quality due to wildfires. But keep banging that drum! We must do something, this is something, etc.
OFFS. None of that boilerplate lefty stuff has any impact on a smoke day.
How about – stay inside, consider closing your windows.
I was talking to my kid, who lives in Brooklyn but grew up in California’s central valley and lived through a couple decades of fire seasons, was saying it is much worse. Mostly due to not being in cars a lot of the time when outside, but having to walk everywhere, outside dining left over from Covid, things like that.
Jeremy Corbyn
@jeremycorbyn
Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many—they are few!
Pre-order your copy of ‘Poetry For The Many’ here:
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1673741461362294793
and if you call this guy a grifter all his fans will have a fit
What?
Kamala Harris: “Let’s always take a moment to also see what we have achieved thus far, while we clearly see the moment that we are presently in. So we have achieved a lot.”
*chef’s kiss*
Has to be on purpose. Not one political
consultantofficer has the balls to say “You sound like a r-tard ma’am”I think she’s on Xanax. She’s definitely high as a kite.
I would laugh my ass off if it turned out these were all done by a speach writer who secretly hated her.
I swear, her staff must really hate her if they are feeding her lines like that.
Even if they are, how stupid is she for saying it then?
Stop pussyfooting. Take the gloves off!
The Prigozhin adventure shows that the prospect of collapse of Russian resistance held out by Ukraine’s more optimistic supporters could be closer than thought. But this has to be set against the fear that Ukraine’s efforts might have been fatally compromised by delays to supplies of war-winning military equipment, primarily by the US and Germany.
Those delays represent a stunning success for Russian information campaigns, primarily nuclear intimidation. But they also point to a circular argument by Western politicians who, whatever their reasons, are not fully convinced of the need for Ukrainian victory.
Planning instead for defeat risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy – the thinking goes that Ukraine hasn’t been given enough military aid to defeat Russia, therefore it cannot achieve victory, therefore we should plan for a stalemate and negotiations, therefore there is no point in increasing military aid to Ukraine.
What the Wagner showdown demonstrates is that, instead, now is the time to redouble support to Ukraine. Now is the moment to make up for lost time and take advantage of the evident faltering within Moscow to achieve the convincing defeat of Russian aggression that is essential to – at least temporarily – remove the threat to Europe.
This doesn’t just mean meeting Ukraine’s immediate and crucial needs, such as the means to continue to deny Russian air supremacy. It also means lifting all of the artificial constraints of what Ukraine can do with the weapons they are provided. The nonsense of prohibitions on using them to strike into Russia, for fear of offending Putin, has to end.
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Arms supplies to Ukraine, and full backing for Kyiv to defeat and evict Russia’s invading army, are an investment in peace.
The best time to make that investment is already long gone. But the next best time is now.
Total annihilation by any means. Bomb Moscow. Drive the Russians all the way back to Siberia.
But Tucker is a Russian propagandist when he questions the wisdom of going to war for “democracy” in Ukraine.
“Stranger stabs family’s 11-year-old dog to death — ‘basically eviscerating it’ — in unprovoked attack while owner played pickleball”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/27/man-stabs-familys-11-year-old-dog-to-death-in-unprovoked-attack/
WTF??
That fucking dog looked at me funny!
there was something yesterday about the dangers of pickleball
That guy looks like he stepped out of Hell.
Poor doggie.
“Asheville is no longer safe,” he said. “The way our dog was savagely murdered, it could have been my wife. It could have been a kid. The crime in Asheville is spreading out like a cancer.”
Gosh, why could that be?
I don’t know, but I doubt the tiny town of Ashville North Carolina has fallen to the woke “don’t prosecute criminals” strategy. More likely, this is a crazy dude doing crazy dude things and not a part of any trend.
I have relatives in that area – they say crime has been a problem. I don’t think it’s because of wokeism, but it is a real issue.
Its Bohemian and attracts a certain type of people. When we rolled through there I can see how they just scream “be homeless here”.
Asheville and Buncombe County are Democrat strongholds in western North Carolina. Asheville has had Progressives in power for quite a while.
I apologize for all of the proggy Cleveland ex-pats who have moved down to Asheville, but at least they’re out of our hair.
Bunch of hippies.
I hate hippies.
Yeesh. Asheville??
Western NC has changed since I was a kid.
We played Sevierville in the playoffs one year, and it was the ass end of nowhere. Redneck as you could possibly imagine. Not sure if they even had more than one Food Lion or Piggly Wiggly. Now it is part of a giant suburb tourist mecca surrounding Dollywood. Pretty impressive transformation.
The county is aptly named.
Asheville is extremely prog-lefty and not a tiny town
Approaching 100k. Not terribly big. But way bigger than I remember from my youth.
Why so proggie? UNC-Asheville?
Hippies and rich liberals.
Correct. It may once have been a NC mountain town, but the leftist tilt started way back with Vanderbilt’s construction of Biltmore. My wife visited there a couple years back and it is a full-on prog stronghold.
How dare you have a contrary opinion, you filthy prole.
Sen. Joshua Miller, 69, was shown in surveillance footage keying a car at the Garden City Center in Cranston, Rhode Island, last Thursday, according to police.
The unidentified son of the man who owns the car told police he heard a scratching noise when walking back to his SUV and saw Miller with keys in hand. After asking Miller if he keyed the vehicle, he said Miller denied it and walked away.
When police encountered Miller about two hours later, he denied vandalizing the vehicle and let the police look at his keys to check for paint transfer, according to body camera video obtained by Fox News.
Miller told police that he thought the victim recognized him and was one of the “gun nuts” who he claims are stalking him for sponsoring anti-gun legislation. He also accused the victim of making threats toward him.
“He was blocking my way, saying that I scratched his car, I didn’t scratch his car,” Miller said. “I’m a state senator, I think he recognized me. I think he’s one of the gun nuts.”
As usual, the “gun nuts” are not the crazy ones.
Mentally deranged evil fucks.
That person is armed and dangerous so I’ll provoke him with petty vandalism?
Cunte
Are we seeing the end of Biden? CBS News interviewed one of the IRS whistleblowers, and put the story on their home page. At least one wagon is no longer circled, and to me that is significant. But it remains to be seen if anyone else abandons the narrative.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-investigation-irs-whistleblower-gary-shapley-says-he-was-stopped-from-pursuing-leads/
Related.
No. China owns him and all our entrenched bureaucracy. Biden is in no danger. It will get more and more outrageous, but nothing will happen to him.
I think the DOD is cutting its losses on the administration. And the DOD is the 80,000 lb gorilla in DC.
Fraudsters scooped up more than $200 billion in COVID-19 relief funds meant to help struggling small businesses during the pandemic, a government watchdog says.
That’s not even real money.
New Tucker.
Dozens of psych students signed this letter demanding UCLA not hire Dr. Yoel Inbar. After that, he didn’t get the job offer he was almost certainly going to receive.
His main offense: expressing skepticism about DEI statements. In his words, “It is not clear what good they do.”
https://twitter.com/JohnDSailer/status/1673883461134831624
blasphemy
Psych has been polluted with leftist dogma for decades, especially the social psych area. He absolutely knew that would be a job killer before he said it.
Sue them.
The only way this stops is when adults tell the fucking whiners to shut the fuck up and act like adults instead of broken spoiled little cuntes.
Inmates >> Asylum
Who the hell is letting students make hiring decisions?
I love when the wealthy engage in mutually insured destruction.
Authorities say a property owner in Kinnelon, New Jersey illegally cut down 32 large trees on his neighbor’s property — clearing the views on a property that real estate listings boast of as an ideal location to “watch sunrise light up [the] New York City skyline like gold.”
https://gothamist.com/news/authorities-say-nj-homeowner-cut-down-32-of-neighbors-trees-the-cost-could-be-huge
Guy is potentially looking at $1.5m or more in damages.
You cut my trees, you better run. It won’t be settled in court.
Isn’t that one of the reasons for Rand Paul’s spat with his neighbor?
I believe it was the disposal of limbs and the like on or near the property line.
That’s not an uncommon point of contention among neighbors.
not enough. I love old trees I would lose it if someone came on my property and cut them down.
I’d probably burn his fucking house down if he cut down 32 mature trees on my property. I grew up in a part of Texas (the Panhandle) with no trees to speak of. I love trees. A neighbor who did that to me would have a serious, lifetime problem.
It would probably cost at least that much to transplant 40 mature hardwood trees and maintain them until established.
OT: “Yes. I am literate.” Update: Evan no know. Friends of mine and I have jokes, with sincerity, that I need a Team examining me and taking care of me. Back in the day, I certainly would have been put in a convent or something. “Just write this shit for us and stay out of trouble. Ya can stay here and [blah.]”
Well, Sidney’s Team is consulting, cuz I’m a bit of a “Who the hell knows where this cat belongs?”
Next session is Mon. I honestly think some inpatient is needed, but that hasn’t been on anyone’s table, yet. My med dosages are out of whack. Oxcarbazepine went way up. Like, damn. They quadrupled me from 300–>1200mg/day. Um. It definitely killed my tremors, which is great. It has also emotionally deadened me, which is not great. I’d kinda rather have the tremors. I’m used to them. I’ve lost about 15 pounds in three weeks. (Kinda good? I don’t feel weak. Just mostly empty.)
I haven’t even thought of looking for work. My best skills are writing and editing. Was an English teacher for over a decade and ran a print newspaper for almost a year by myself. Yep. I am literate and I love words. I just want a schedule. Y’all want me to stop ranting, so I shall now.
What in the everloving name of the Lord is this crap??!?
(Yeah, yeah… I know… Progressivism has displaced traditional religion for many, even skinsuiting the churches. But that’s just nuts. I suppose I should be glad it isn’t swearing fealty to Moloch and the Holy Sacrament of Infanticide these days….
I am confused a bit….
Christ wore “a fabulous tunic”?
What are they referencing here? Are they confusing Joseph’s coat of many colors? Or did a story slip my mind?
My personal bet — they’re just stupid and/or crazy.
The article quotes the Radical Faeries, founded by Harry Hay, literally a card-carrying pederast (he also founded NAMBLA)
He didn’t advocate for pedophilia “ironically” or to “reclaim slurs” – he just wanted to have sex with little boys & thought he should be allowed to do that
https://twitter.com/extradeadjcb/status/1673931333062791169
I am not sure what this whole antagonizing the other side in more extreme ways will lead to but it cant be good
A lot of people are fucked up and want to legalize perverse sex with minors.
“Live photos from the rally in Montgomery county with parents demanding an opt-out on LGBT curriculum. The @MCPS BOE refused to let them in the building, saying there were “safety concerns.”
Democrat Councilwoman Kristin Mink said “This issue has put some Muslim families on the same side of an issue as white supremacists and outright bigots.”
Who are the bigots here?”
https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1673737785558155289
Not letting brown people in the building to oppose white supremacy.
Multiculturalism has limits., I see…
hat I should have answered was that COVID exposed that our county leadership do not understand the word no. They do not respect residents requests to simply be left alone. They didn’t with COVID and they aren’t here with kids and this curriculum. Parents just want an opt out!
Do you want an opt out of math and #TheScience as well? ///TheLeft
Speaking of replacing beer make & model – I have not been able to find Bell’s Amber per Neph’s suggestion.
I tried Shiner Bock, but it’s not quite hoppy enough for me.
Any other suggestions for an amber ale like Fat Tire used to be? Must have wide national distribution.
Fond of Revolver beers. Blood and Honey ale.
How about Great Lakes Elliot Ness, Brooklyn Lager, or Abita lager? Those are more Vienna lager style, but generally close enough to amber that they’ll be similar. Troeg’s HopBack Amber or Laguniatas Censored may also fit your preferences, but they tend a bit more on the bitter side.
Viennas were my first thought, those are Ofest are only ambers I drink.
Has Fat Tire changed?
I really doubt it, but who knows. Often when people think a beer has changed, it is their taste bugs* that have changed.
I generally avoid Ambers, so can’t help here.
*intentional, its hard to tell with my poor typing skills
New Belgium announced they changed the recipe several months back in a bid to lure in new drinkers. Why you ask?
Stupid is as stupid does.
I couldn’t figure out what actually changed. I little more hops and a lightening of the color maybe?
An article on a change should actually tell me what changed.
How about New Castle Brown Ale. Should be available everywhere.
New Castle is no longer the same here in the US. It’s a Heineken product brewed by Lagunitas, and is a completely different recipe.
Yeah…what a sad change. Loved a couple New Castle’s on the porch after work but now tastes like nutty beer flavored soda water to me.
That wet feeling on your back is a gentle rain.
Boeing’s Starliner saga is actually a NASA policy success
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4069050-boeings-starliner-saga-is-actually-a-nasa-policy-success/
Oof.
We paid them double what we paid SpaceX, and then we gave them an extra $300 million to “expedite” starlner so it would be ready faster since the Russian situation was getting tense and we risked having no access to the ISS.
We justified paying double because they are more reliable and a safer bet than SpaceX.
We declined to find the risky Dream Chaser lifting body craft because it could never be ready in time.
So they self-funded for a while, eventually won some funding and a contract for cargo to the ISS. They may reach the ISS before Starliner.
Success!!
Yup. Well put.
I hated the Starliner deal from the start. Boeing also did everything they could to make it difficult for SpaceX to comply with the requirements.
At least Senator Ballast took the prudent step as NASA administrator and locked us into a multi-decade contract to launch the SLS every other year.
Lord knows, spending $4.5 billion (and climbing) per launch and still only having bi-annual access is way better than paying tens of millions of dollars for anytime access via starship….
(At least those 25,000 jobs are safe)
Any other suggestions for an amber ale like Fat Tire used to be? Must have wide national distribution.
At the risk of being roundly denounced and ridiculed… Sam Adams?
I like Sam Adams too. Living in the South it is an exotic instead of local choice.
Not a bad choice. Its a mediocre Vienna, which is fine. Neph had some better Vienna suggestion, but Sam Adams falls in the dead center of ok.
My biggest problem with Sam Adams is that their Oktoberfest tastes almost exactly like their Lager. Which makes sense, as Ofest and Vienna lagers are pretty much the exact same thing. If you want to differentiate, you can, but there is a hell of a lot of overlap.
My biggest problem with Sam Adams is that their Oktoberfest tastes almost exactly like their Lager.
You’re telling me this for the first time.
“their Oktoberfest tastes almost exactly like their Lager. ”
They don’t taste similar at all.
Oktoberfest is my pumpkin spice latte for fall. I don’t care if it makes me a basic bro-bitch, I love it.
I like Boston lager too. They do not taste the same.
My biggest problem with Sam Adams is that the only time I have it is when someone buys me one of their seasonal assortments… Which usually have maybe one decent beer, two meh offerings and one absolute undrinkable mess. So then I have a fridge full of the undrinkable mess until I can con a guest into drinking it.
Cherry Wheat and Bonfire blonde are truly terrible.
There is nothing wrong with Sam Adams and quite a bit right.
SA is aight. I’ll do a seasonal if out to eat. But Blue Moon is better and Blue Moon Lite Sky is good for Spring and Summer.
I haven’t see Bass Ale in a long time. That sucks.
The production amounts have gone down, but it’s still common at the Irish pubs here, and at some grocery stores.
Tucker had a pretty vicious screed about the Ukraine situation… He played a nice sample of US politicians explaining that we must defend Ukraine to defend Democracy (both in Ukraine, and somewhat surprisingly, here in the US). This is juxtaposed with Zelenskyy suspending elections.
I get that there is more to it than that, but it is pretty odd to claim that “global democracy is at stake” in what is a territorial dispute over a chunk of Ukraine that includes a bunch of ethnic Russians and has been disputed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. And there surely is a bunch of irony in claiming you are defending democracy in a country that just suspended democracy.
And there is a lot more evidence behind this barb than there is behind “Russia is feudalism”, which was the latest take from Reason. No, really…
https://reason.com/2023/06/28/russia-looks-increasingly-medieval-after-the-coup-that-wasnt/?comments=true#comment-10129606
MUH DEMAHKRASEE is getting really tired. You’d have to be a complete moron to think that’s what all of this is about.
It’s DEMOCRACY and WHITE SUPREMACY
Yeah, that’s pretty stupid…better to skip to the comments and just ignore the article entirely.
Compared to what? A European and DC elite that wants you to own nothing and be happy?
Reason’s head is fully inserted into its ass. I don’t give a fuck what government Russia settles on so long as it’s not inclined to start launching nukes.
However I care quite a bit about the completely corrupt system we have in DC and what it has been willing to do to us in the name of “democracy” and “safety.”
Luckily, Reason is doing a good job of covering DiSantis, Trump and now Kennedyz so we will know just how terrible they are.
I don’t know much about our current president though… He doesn’t get much coverage.
Tucker had a pretty vicious screed about the Ukraine situation… He played a nice sample of US politicians explaining that we must defend Ukraine to defend Democracy (both in Ukraine, and somewhat surprisingly, here in the US). This is juxtaposed with Zelenskyy suspending elections.
We had to temporarily suspend democracy in order to save it. Don’t worry, trust us. We’ll bring it back just as soon as it’s safe to do so. Just think of it as “temporarily closed for renovations.”
So what new Trump “major revelation” will we get from the deep state propagandists (legacy media) to distract us form this?
Hard to tell
Indeed. The link. It no work.
Very meta — the attempt to determine what the link is is the distraction…
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/06/27/house-oversight-just-went-nuclear-on-the-bidens-n1706685
“The walls are closing in!”
Alert the EPA
Awildfire in western Colorado exploded overnight and was burning more than 3,000 acres south of Parachute as of Tuesday morning.
More than 300 firefighters worked to extinguish the Spring Creek fire by ground and air ahead of increasing winds and dry conditions, a spokesman for the White River National Forest said.
The fire sparked over the weekend and quickly spread across private land in Garfield County before entering the White River National Forest, according to a map posted by the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit.
How close is that to Western sloper?
Here’s your list of celebrity asshats who think surgical mutilation of children should be protected by law.
https://glaad.org/lgbtq-celebrities-allies-letter-facebook-instagram-youtube-tiktok-twitter-anti-trans-hate-disinformation
Patrick Stewart, I am disappointed in you. Make it not so.
Bob the drag queen and Peppermint.
Yeah, politics is pretty powerful.
Over at science based medicine where their entire reason for existing is to promote using scientific evidence (particularly in medical scenarios) they seem to be all-in on transitioning kids. They cite questioning “affirming care” for teens as the equivalent of flat earth theories. Apparently the science on this one is settled without doing any actual science at all.
“As documented by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in 2022,10 this is particularly the case when it comes to the online extremists leading proactive coordinated campaigns of hate and lies about gender affirming healthcare for trans youth.”
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
We want it both ways. Good luck with that.
Speaking to CBS Mornings, Whitworth was asked if he would send Mulvaney, 26, another can, knowing the backlash.
But instead of giving a definitive answer, the CEO instead launched into a pre-rehearsed speech about the ‘social conversation’ that the disaster campaign caused
Whitworth added that they ‘need to deeply understand the consumer’ and ‘appreciate’ what they want’ from the brand, as he was blasted on social media for doing a ‘dismal job’.
So you’re saying they’re can-sexual?
Selling millions of gallons for decades yet still doesn’t “deeply understand the consumer.”
Sounds ridiculous, but then again there was the Edsel.
They did understand their customer. The “new generation” of marketeers hated that customer base and wanted to change it.
They are doing a pretty good job getting rid of those customers.
Speaking to CBS Mornings, Whitworth was asked if he would send Mulvaney, 26, another can, knowing the backlash.
By all means bring that gargoyle back. Make him a full time national brand ambassador. Maybe he can be Grand Marshall at the Daytona 500 next year.
Beau Swim Swimwear Fashion Show – Miami Swim Week 2023 – Planet Fashion TV – Full Show 4K60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3rjtBEsjJM
Well, Fat Tire has always promoted climate advocacy — in 2020, it became the nation’s first carbon-neutral beer — and the new Fat Tire is more dedicated to this mission than ever before. Take a look at the beer’s Instagram page and you’ll see that all posts prior to the rebranding have been scrubbed, and most new posts focus on sustainability and climate action. Fat Tire is on a mission to save the planet, and to get the word out, the beer has grabbed headlines by changing its iconic recipe.
“You’ll love this beer. It’s brewed by religious fanatics.”
Hey now… don’t start trash talking Trappist beers, or the other beers made by monks.
“religious fanatics”
Just steer clear of the Heaven’s Gate product line and you’ll be fine.
My awesome coworkers dropped off NyQuil and protein shakes at my hotel room.
Sweet dreams!
NyQuil and Protein Shakes…
Worst euphemism ever….
*snort*
On the beer front, I will recommend two formerly regional beers that are now commoditized: Leinenkugel’s Creamy Dark and Negro Modelo.
Warning: I am not a beer person and yet I hold strong opinions that the IPA craze is an abomination. So take it for what it is worth.
Also, leinie’s creamy dark definitely does not taste as good as a fresh keg used to, and the keg and the bottle are definitely not equivalent.
Also, also… I am the same guy who was not impressed with Guinness here, but found it to be quite tasty in Ireland.
So either I have a subtle palate or I am an idiot who thinks that (at least some) beers taste better when frosty cold and fresh from the brewery.
Negro Modelo’s solid
271 years, give or take.
IPA is older than freakin’ America.
And was not popular in america until it became a fad.
Just because the recipe is old crap doesn’t mean there isn’t a recent craze.
And I will distinguish original IPA beers from the fad beer.
The fad seems to be defined by “we managed to make this more than 100% hops using our proprietary formula”.
Also included is “in addition to way more hops than is reasonable, we included something that absolutely doesn’t belong in a beer”.
All of which pairs nicely with someone pretending that it doesn’t taste like a tea made from the stuff in an ashtray outside of the Applebee’s north of Trenton.
Woohoo!
Congestion pricing is coming to Manhattan at long last.
The Federal Highway Administration gave its final approval to the plan on Monday, allowing implementation to move forward after years of hearings and reviews. The Central Business District Tolling Program, as it’s officially known, will require drivers to pay a toll when traveling south of 60th Street in Manhattan. The proposed toll zone includes exceptions on FDR Drive and the West Side Highway.
Governor Kathy Hochul confirmed the news during a press conference on Tuesday, noting that the city will be the first in the U.S. to establish a congestion-pricing program.
According to the governor, 700,000 vehicles enter that portion of Manhattan every day of the week — a fact Hochul said was “almost impossible to comprehend.” She said the city loses $20 billion every year as a result of congestion. The toll, the pricing of which is still to be determined, is expected to generate $1 billion for the MTA yearly, which will go toward transit upgrades.
“We have to keep public transportation strong and vibrant and clean and on time. Otherwise, we’re not offering people a better alternative,” Hochul said.
Now you can be more like London.
And- “the city loses $20 billion every year as a result of congestion”
I’d like to see how they came up with that.
I’d like to see how they came up with that.
First, reach deep into your ass…
Except even London’s pubsec transit isn’t quite the bottomless maw of waste and fraud that is the norm in the US.
I don’t have the numbers but I would not be so optimistic on London
I don’t either, but I do know that it costs literally five times as much to build a mile of subway in NYC as in London. I’m assuming the waste and fraud translate across all elements of the business.
FTFY.
Robert Poole applauds.
It’s indisputable that an armed civilian stopped an active shooter last week.
You almost certainly haven’t heard about it.
Why?
Because Las Vegas Police have gone out of their way to downplay it, while the media have shown basically zero interest.
THREAD.
https://twitter.com/AmySwearer/status/1673696464936026113
IPA is older than freakin’ America.
If I understand correctly, IPAs were created by necessity having to to with transport. Like salted cod. Not necessarily an ideal choice, but better than nothing.
Perhaps initially, but they were drank fresh in England not long after that. And no one ever complains about Russian Imperial Stouts being made to survive shipping to Russia.
I complained. Too much alcohol for beer.
Not that simple.
Recipes from The English Housewife (Gervase Markham) have an Ordinary Beer at about 15 IBUs and a big beer that could be cellared for years at 30 to 40 IBUs. This is from the late 1500s.
So, the English made and drank big beers with high IBUs long before they were shipping it to India.
Over at science based medicine where their entire reason for existing is to promote using scientific evidence (particularly in medical scenarios) they seem to be all-in on transitioning kids. They cite questioning “affirming care” for teens as the equivalent of flat earth theories. Apparently the science on this one is settled without doing any actual science at all.
Wouldn’t a “science based” approach involve devising a more effective and successful end result than what is currently available prior to widespread promotion of sex change operations? Particularly for young people who face decades of ongoing complicated and expensive maintenance?
What makes you think decades of expensive treatments aren’t the goal?
“Content that spreads malicious lies and disinformation about medically necessary healthcare for transgender youth. As described above, such harmful content from high-follower hate-based accounts has resulted in extraordinary real-world harms.13 Specific mitigations on such disinformation must be developed (for instance akin to election and COVID-19 mitigations and rules).”
CWABOA
“Elites claimed the murder of trans people was rising. In fact, nobody knows if trans people are being killed disproportionately; trans homicides are rising; or trans people are being killed for being trans, or for some other reason. But now, trans activists assault their enemies.
Elites demand censorship of disfavored views because, they say, those views “cause real-world harm” to “vulnerable” people. But the result of the elites’ racist disinfo was a psychopathic assault on a vulnerable woman who refused to raise her fists in a fascist salute.”
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1673818737986916354
i’m a barbie jet
a barbie wartime threat
get a dose of
bombs, explosive
u can try to hide
but soon u’ll find u’ve died
annihilation
brought by aviation
(c’mon barbie hit their arty)
make me turn
afterburn
strike whatever u please
air-to-ground
air-to-air
even boats on the seas
https://twitter.com/BellaRudd1/status/1674050781706878977
I wasn’t aware that Russia invaded Iraq.
BIDEN ON PUTIN: “He is clearly losing the war in Iraq”
“It was clearly a joke” /MSM NPCs
You people are so dumb we have to explain everything Biden says.
Fellas, is it gay to boil stagnant water before you drink it
https://twitter.com/telmudic/status/1673812147145687042
Had a discussion yesterday with some fool that was advocating for free college. I pointed out that while STEM, econ, and medicine free college would add value, the rest of the stuff is crap and I would much rather have free trades training cause at least people in the trades add value we can clearly measure while the massive amount of college baristas tells me otherwise about college. Man did the dude go off on me for pointing out people in the trades do real work and laptop jockeys doing spreadsheets and reports or other such useless work, don’t. Obviously he was one of the laptop useless people and he resents being reminded of that.
It baffles me how many people make 6 figure salaries doing nothing of value while trades people that actually do work we absolutely need often struggle to break that barrier.
Wonder who he calls when his precious kiddo (or sleep-over) flushes a hairbrush down the toilet?
It baffles me how many people make 6 figure salaries doing nothing of value while trades people that actually do work we absolutely need often struggle to break that barrier.
It’s why I’m distrustful of GDP numbers. An economy primarily based on manufacturing, industry, and trades is fundamentally different than one inflated by the laptop class.
Not that simple.
It never is.
actually there was that one time when it was that simple
So anyway… I keep looking to see what that Crown guy was driving and still nothing. Jalopnik story didn’t even say.
I have a friend who is from Chicago who probably knew him, but I’m not going to call him up to ask.
Inquiring minds, man. Let’s have some pertinent details. Who gives a shit what he thought about inner city gun violence? I want to know what was in his car collection. Fucking journalism in America has gone right down the toilet.
Link?
Good morning!
Riptides scare the shit out of me. You know what else scares the shit out of me?
This shit.
It would definitely suit those who think the earth is overpopulated.
Think of the possibilities when computers are no longer around.
morning was hour ago
hours goddamnit
Riptides are no fun. I got caught in one on a remote beach on the Northeast Brazilian coast and very nearly died. One second I was playing around in the surf next to the beach, and the next I was a half mile off shore and thinking about making a swim for a nearby rocky point. If I had done that I wouldn’t have survived. The waves were hitting them hard. I swam out another half mile and made a loop back to the beach, using up every last ounce of energy I had. My buddy sat there on the beach watching the whole thing. Can’t blame him for not jumping in as I was way too far off the beach to make a rescue attempt.
They are terrifying. I am at Panama City Beach every summer. Those notices must be taken seriously.
Yikes!
There is an accompanying article from a lifeguard who advises floating on your back out to where it weakens, saving your strength for the loop and swim back in.
Trying to control the panic is difficult, but his advice makes sense.
That is exactly what I did. Somewhere in my mind amid the panic as I realized I was super far off the beach and struggling to swim I remembered that advice. The waves out there were pretty high and I had a couple dump on me and swallowed a bit of water but I kept up floating on back until I was far enough out and then alternated between backstroke and freestyle while trying to remain as calm as possible. I’ve been in several close to death situations in my life, but that one still gives me the most shivers. It was twenty years back, but every detail of it is etched on my mind. I love swimming in the ocean and still do it, but it has made me very very careful about it. Drowning is a shitty way to die.
Drowning is a shitty way to die.
Yep. I’m a strong swimmer (and former lifeguard) but it’s among my greatest fears.
Word T. Remembering that advice and learning to spot riptides from the beach is an essential skill for those that love being in the ocean. One of my other several close brushes with death was also in Brazil and also involved water. I was on a multi day sailing trip with a buddy and we threw anchor in the Rio Paraguaçu at the end of a day of sailing. I went to the front of the boat and if I had dived in instead of jumping in I would have died. I jumped and by the time I surfaced I was already 10 yards behind the back of the boat. My buddy quickly threw in the life ring as far as he could and with absolutely 100% of my effort I was able to swim a yard or two towards it. If I had failed I would have been swept down the river to the mouth of the Bay of All Saints and that would have been the end. I still can’t believe I survived my 20’s.
I’ve had more scary adventures in rivers than any other body of water.
Be careful out there, people.
Never caught in a really bad one, but many small ones off San Diego beaches. Always just swam/paddled perpendicular to the current (parallel to the shore) and you were out of it in 10-20 yards and could just paddle back in/catch the next wave.
Hopefully if you’re out in the ocean deep enough to lose contact with the bottom, you’re a strong enough swimmer to swim a few tens of yards to get out of the rip current.
Crash
James Crown, an American billionaire businessman, was killed in a racing accident on Sunday in Colorado. According to CNN, Crown, who also had his 70th birthday on Sunday, died in a single-vehicle crash after hitting an impact barrier at Aspen Motorsports Park in Woody Creek, Colorado.
Not too much is known about the crash right now, but local officials are reportedly investigating. According to The Colorado Sun, a spokesperson for the Colorado State Patrol said the agency was called to the scene around 2:45 p.m. on Sunday.
If he had stayed in town to listen to Larry Fink sermonize about conscientious capitalism instead of playing hooky at the track he’d still be alive.
Ah. I see. Autopian may do a write up on his car collection. That’s where the good ones went when Jalopnik imploded.
It’s why I’m distrustful of GDP numbers. An economy primarily based on manufacturing, industry, and trades is fundamentally different than one inflated by the laptop class.
The old chestnut about California potentially being an economic powerhouse on its own being an excellent illustration thereof. Especially considering how much they have hollowed out the industrial sector over the years.