Cricket!
Houston dropped 2 of 3 to the Rays, but the Rangers were even worse. The Astros are still 1 game back, but the Rangers are doing everything they can to turn over half their roster at the trade deadline. Max Verstappen did what he does in Spa. He destroyed the field again. And Australia are in their second innings in the last day of the last Ashes tie. They’re chasing a reasonable number but with three men out, anything can happen. Hope that makes somebody happy. Now on to…the links!
What a load of bullshit. This should be public.
“They thought we’d help? lol. LMFAO, even!”
The Clintons to the rescue? At least that’s what they claimed they were gonna do. But of course they didn’t do anything.
::makes jacking motion:: You know that’s not what the movie was about, dumbasses. What’s next, will Germans complain that Band Of Brothers didn’t have enough representation of the Nazi culture?
Sadly, this will go nowhere. He’s giving the referral to what might be the most corrupt institution in government.
Oh the humanity!
Good. It’s a border. Most of them around the world have things like this on them. Especially the ones that are being ignored.
But…they already have a path: they can go home and get in line like everybody else has to do. It’s in the law and everything.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. This is fucking dumb.
This should have been commonplace for the last 30 years. But the same people bemoaning the use of gas are the ones who held shit like this up. Because it’s never really been about clean, cheap energy. It’s about control.
I’m a bit torn on this song. It has its moments but I’m not sure whether I like it or not. This one, on the other hand. I love this one. And the car in the video has always been dn always will be one of my favorites. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
That’s one nuke plant down. We need dozens more.
What’s wrong with you. Clearly the way forward are windmills, solar, and suffering!
We have a solar farm going up in the next town. People aren’t happy about it. I don’t consider myself a NIMBY on this subject. Solar farms are a monstrosity that shouldn’t be in anyone’s neighborhood. It would be way better for the environment to just re-forest the land, instead of covering it with something that will end up filling up landfills in the future.
They built a solar farm in Spotsy. It ended up going next to one of the richer neighborhoods so they get to enjoy the view.
But mostly suffering.
“What a load of bullshit. This should be public.”
Banana republic’s corruptocracy desperately trying to control the narrative cause their priority is power and to keep it at all costs so they can keep selling us out to the globalist agenda.
I’m sure they’re deferring to the DOJ and IC’s claims of “ongoing investigation!” and “means and methods! “protect the informants!” or some such BS that they always use to justify their overclassification.
These assholes would classify Sherman’s letters to Grant on campaign if they thought they could get away with it.
Re: Spa — at least the F3 races were fun to watch. With the frequent weather changes, you never knew what was going to happen. The F2 sprint was good… the feature should have been, but I just kept falling asleep (I may just need more sleep, honestly). F1… well, once Max passed Perez again… I woke up intermittently and then at the end.
Morning, Sloopy.
I’m irritated with the length of the summer break. I don’t want to wait four weeks.
I’ll just put in some races in the video game to tide me over, so that’s fine.
“The Clintons to the rescue? At least that’s what they claimed they were gonna do. But of course they didn’t do anything.”
Didn’t the Haitians tell the Clinton foundation they were cool with natural disasters killing oodles of people and didn’t need any more help from them, cause at least the natural disasters were not brutally evil about the body count?
My favorite go to line:
Experts say that the issue of representation is more nuanced.
Unnamed experts have an opinion.
Mine was:
So much in one stupid sentence.
As if no film has talked about the victims of the nuclear bombings before. As if no one outside of film has talked about it. As if the Manhattan Project is “glorified” by debating the morals of the weaponry. As if “white men” weren’t the ones working on it anyway and somehow that’s inherently bad (would they be happier if Wakanda existed and nuked the world?). And most especially — as if “portrayals of Japanese victims” are anything but sympathetic for the last several decades.
Ugh. The whole article was a sucky whine fest.
How about Godzilla? He was a victim of the atomic bomb. He was in lost of films.
I’m not sure who is actually responsible on which side of the Pacific… but I’d be fine with reparations one way or another for the horror inflicted upon us that was Godzooky.
Agreed.
“would they be happier if Wakanda existed and nuked the world?”
Yes, they would.
WAKANDA FOREVER!
Bridge to the Sun, about Gwen Tarasaki.
Terasaki, but it’s an uncommon enough name that Googling it should be easy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050904065925/http://www.etsu.edu/alumni/award/98Award_Miller.asp
Interesting.
I’ve read there was some controversy about Hirohito’s surrender speech to the people, but never cared to follow up. The
Hit the return key.
…”the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage” is really a bit of minstranslation.
Up until then, the Japanese people were fine with the “war situation.” I have little
sympathy for the victims of the A-bombs, unless, they were registered classical liberals and working to undue the emperor worship and militaristic culture.
I do to the extent that all civilian populations are harmed in war. I also don’t believe there was universal support for the war, but like any totalitarian society there was no way to effectively protest it.
I am not an apologist for dropping the bomb in any way, however. The firebombing of Tokyo is in many ways worse as its effects were more able to be completely calculated. I also make no apologies for that, but I think that’s actually a harder position to defend.
Probably you have a better understanding of Japanese culture than I do. But, from listening to Dan Carlin’s Supernova in the East, I was struck by how really foreign (to Western minds) the culture and mindset of Japan was at the time. It seems almost impossible for us, at this remove, to really put ourselves in their shoes and say “the people supported the war.” It seems like large chunks of the people didn’t have a sense of choice, that they could support or oppose. They were told “this is what we’re doing” so they did.
As far as “civilian casualties”, (again, this is from Carlin) Japanese manufacturing was very decentralized and the line between residential and cottage industry war infrastructure was very blurred. And even if it wasn’t, the unfortunate truth is that everything is a military target when the entire national economy is supporting the war effort. That has been true since at least WWI.
The idea that there is such a thing as a non-target in war is a farce instituted by eighteenth century gentlemen playing at war.
Grummun – their divine emperor – i.e. a divine being has told them they must go to war.
The population was fully mobilized for the war effort – so even if they weren’t in a cottage industry the residents of those residential areas were working in factories or growing food or doing something else to promote the war effort.
Looks sadly at the pictures of Ukraine devastation…
Now I know that his holiness Pope Jimbo doesn’t work for for Black Rock, cause I hear that when they see the devastation there, they wring their hands and bat their eyes in joy of all the tax payer dollars they will be banking…
“::makes jacking motion:: You know that’s not what the movie was about, dumbasses. What’s next, will Germans complain that Band Of Brothers didn’t have enough representation of the Nazi culture?”
As already was mentioned by others, the Japanese were in the prequel to this movie: Pearl Harbor.
I wonder why those experts don’t make their own movie and rake in billions in box office revenue. If it’s the right thing to do, it’s bound to be a bigger success, right? Right?!?!
You luddite. Their point is that what they need is more control so they can make sure nobody makes movies the public wants to see because it is not replete of giant piles of liberal propaganda and lecturing as their usual work nobody with real brain function wants to watch.
Art is all about self expression and communicating the thoughts of the artist.
You just had better be sure they’re the expression and the thoughts that they want you to have, bigot!
(The rapid public acceptance of censorship for the “public good” however they wish to address it [“hate speech”, “misinformation”, “insufficiently balanced representation!”] continues to astound me as someone who grew up when the consensus was immutably ‘Sunshine is the best disinfectant’ (Point and laugh at the idiot Nazis marching in rural Illinois… because everyone knows they’re idiots) and ‘Problematic speech is the most important’ and all). Bloody depressing. And I know… I know… a good chunk of them were just using it for cover until they could try to shut up their enemies. Still surprising how much popular support it seems to have these days.
I remember when the internet’s motto was “information wants to be free”.
Sigh. That shit sure has changed.
But that was back when they were worried the government would oppress them. The oppressed often become the oppressors.
They say that stuff because guys like my FIL are gone. In 1945 he was a Marine Corps Private on his way to hit the beach on the Japanese mainland. People who called the bombs immoral got an earful from him – a guy notorious for the ability to yell loudly when peeved.
Most of the people calling the bomb immoral are asshats that were fine with other people dying to end the war, They also tend to be marxist cuntes that are pissed the wrong side won the Cold War as well.
The marxists lost the cold war? I thought they lost one of the bigger battles, but in the long term, they may be winning the war.
*sigh*
They lost the war about economics. They’re fighting for displacing the elite/system as it exists.
I assume it’s their hatred of whites and asians that make them prefer positions that result in more dead bodies of those type.
My dad was 17 when we dropped the bomb. He was very relieved.
All the various special interests have done their level best to kill this. I remember when they were going to just abandon it before startup.
I would love to see a breakdown of how much of that cost is actually construction related vs. what is all regulatory compliance bullshit to jack up the cost and make the tech unviable. Cause like the massively increased cost of all things involving government regulations is unnecessary costs to fuel the legal profession and the government bureaucracies that exist to do nothing of value.
If it isn’t 85 to 90% of the cost at this point, I’ll be surprised frankly.
It would be tough to separate it out exactly, since most the construction requirements will be related to the regulatory requirements.
Teasing out all of the little add-ons that bring up the cost in every aspect would be a Herculean task. Like, what are the regulatory aspects of cement production? What are the regulatory aspects of wire manufacture? And so on, all down the line.
Speaking of “environmentalists.” I just got back from a family farm house (going back to the 1860’s) in West Virginia. About 10ish years ago, maybe even a few more, an oil pipeline was going in. The “environmentalists” have fought the pipeline since the beginning. Work has started and stopped many, many times. I pass it on the way up the highway every time I go. For at least 5 years, the pipe in the section I see, is literally sitting on top of the ground waiting to be buried. My Uncle told me they’ve abandoned the project altogether as it got too expensive to keep fighting it. But I also heard Manchin has recently been fighting to get it back going.
Either way, it could have been done YEARS ago and pumping oil to refineries safely, cheaply, and efficiently. But the pipe just sits there doormant, probably going bad from UV.
Should have googled before typing. It’s a natural gas pipeline for the evil Marcellus shale fracking. And the court just gave it the go ahead a few days ago
“Sadly, this will go nowhere. He’s giving the referral to what might be the most corrupt institution in government.”
You want accountability for the abuses of power and criminality of these people? HOW DARE YOU!
The crooks that screwed us over during the Kung Flu bullshitdemic have no intentions of either admitting they were wrong and evil, but more importantly, of being held accountable. That is because they are intending to repeat this shit again and again, with either a new flu or with the climate bullshit, cause it is necessary for them to move along their evil globalist agendas.
“Oh, for fuck’s sake. This is fucking dumb.”
if their goal was really education they would be calling for the abolishment of the public education system. Especially any and all of the branches of this shit show in large urban areas which produce nothing but useful idiots.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks, Your Holiness — the Internet has now fulfilled its primary purpose this day.
Yup.
Them cats be crazy, Man
A little happiness left in the world. Thanks, Jimbo
I’m annoyed by the application of stupid filters, now my day is worse thanks to the small-faced cats.
😿
whaddup doh’
I think Rand’s smart enough to know what the DOJ will (not) do with it. Which will at least give him one more thing to cudgel them with. How much difference will that make? Probably none, but gotta play offense anyway.
This was my thought, also. Until you get civil war, you have to play by the rules. These are the rules.
I’m chalking this down in the same category as the stories about “Everyone is done with remote work and moving back downtown!”. As in, I don’t believe a bit of it. I think it is gaslighting pure and simple.
Maybe the reason that it is hard to get businesses to move here are taxes and not civil unrest? You have to read a lot of that story before the journalo finally admits more people are leaving than coming to Minnesoda.
Well, crap.
I hereby award the longest link of 2023 to Pope Jimbo, who narrowly beat my for my posting of an Amazon listing.
I wish they’d stop promoting MN. Way too many people here already. If NoDak had lakes and trees I’d be tempted, in spite of MikeS
It’s true. Fargo’s abortion clinic moved across the river to Moorhead due to a better business climate there.
Absolutely, why see the average temperature is a lot lower there than most other US cities.
Do you like snow? Duloot got nearly 12 feet of it last winter.
I think a giant lake named “Superior” by white men is going to be very triggering.
“Floyd Lake” has a nice ring to it.
My hometown has a Big and Little Floyd lake nearby.
Cesspools?
Little Floyd has a decent roadhouse on it. Also some decent fishing.
Do these people visit in February? Because, they should.
Counterargument.
Every time I start thinking about what a ridiculous, derpy Blue enclave Massachusetts is, you post something from MN, reminding me it could be worse.
I appreciate that.
Once again, stupid parents are getting way too much say in what happens to their kids. How can they be educated if the law now says they can opt their kid out of active shooter drills?
Surprisingly, this law was championed by one of the dumbest members of the Minnesoda House. The AOC of the prairie if you will.
What are the odds that a real school shooter will be trauma-informed, culturally aware and inclusive of student accommodations?
“oh my, did your hijab get caught in the spokes of your wheel chair? Why don’t I help you untangle and give you a bit of a headstart to the main exit (because that has a ramp) before I get back to shooting?”
The active shooter drills are idiotic anyway.
I tell my kids to bust the windows out and run as far away from the school as they can. Sitting on your hands in the classroom is just waiting for your executioner.
That depends on whether or not the teachers can lock the classroom doors.
And the classroom has windows
What classroom has windows?
“schools will be required to provide time for classes to debrief and offer mental health support”
Oh, FFS.
“You were traumatized by seeing a gun, weren’t you? And hearing gunshots, right? Now, don’t deny it – that’s sure sign you were deeply traumatized. Any normal person is scarred for life if they see a gun like that.”
17 year-old me would have claimed trauma for sure to get out of class. I would insisted that I get a quiet dark place to gather myself. Also, I will probably need my girlfriend for emotional support.
I could see the active shooter drills being traumatizing for kids, particularly younger kids, if they thought it was real. Especially if coupled with sound of gunshots, screams, and fake blood. Not that mental health services are needed (that’s part of the grift), but these might be damaging to kids’ psyches.
I think that’s actually the point of these. Psychological manipulation to instill a deep fear of guns and to associate guns with bad people from a young age. Also instant obedience to authority, fear in general, and cowardice.
I’ve discussed mass killers with my 8 year old. Same with other evil in human form. She understands that our family protects our own and that we’re responsible for our welfare. And most importantly not to fear evil but to make evil fear you. A powerfully different mindset than what’s being indoctrinated in government schools.
‘I think that’s actually the point of these. Psychological manipulation to instill a deep fear of guns and to associate guns with bad people from a young age.’
Yup, worked on all my nieces. Data, history, etc. Has no meaning to them. Guns are scary therefore most be banned.
You are correct, that is the point. Good old fashioned soviet style demoralization. Im not sure who is more evil, the shooters or the people pushing this crap.
“We have to brainwash people against guns.”
– Eric Holder
Doesn’t seem to be working.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/new-profile-analysis-shows-as-many-as-60-of-americans-now-own-firearms/
Seems low.
Also, do you think we’ve passed One Billion Guns in citizens’ hands in this country?
Yeah, I’d be pulling my kids out of that shit. It’s just fear porn.
‘students won’t be required to participate, under a law that takes effect Tuesday.’
Hey, something they actually did correct!
Just theater trying to scare the shit out of kids. It’s evil.
“Can I be an observer”
School shooter trainee (on probation for misunderstanding the bathroom policy)
Chess World Cup started yesterday. Its one of the biggest events, the top 3 finishers qualify for the 8-player candidates tournment next year. The World Cup is a knock-out event with 206 players in the open division. Top 50 get byes to 2nd round. Each round takes 3 days, day 1 and 2 are two classical games, day 3 is tiebreakers if necessary. Tiebreakers are pairs of games that get shorter and shorter on time until the tie is finally broken. Eventually it goes to single games at 3+2 format, I think (3 minutes total with 2 second increment added per move).
There are 8 total rounds, so the tournament takes nearly a month. So the top players will be spending forever in Baku.
Women’s division is half of open division. 103 players, top 25 get byes. Not sure if any women are playing in Open.
Why on earth is there a women’s division?
How else are second rate male players going to win anything if they can’t claim to be trans and dominate the women’s division?
Maybe we should just admit that men and women are different.
Fortunately. Square dancing with little Doris Pierson in second grade made a believer out of me.
Because for any woman not named Judit Polgar, they can’t compete consistently against the very top men. For reasons.
Judit broke Bobby Fischer’s record for youngest Grandmaster (broken many times since) and was top 10 in the world at her peak. She was never Womens World Champ because she refused to play in the women’s division.
Her sisters were pretty good as well. Zsuzsa was Women’s world champion but also achieved grandmaster status.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar
Impressive.
The highest rated woman in the world today is ranked #127.
There are 31 active woman grandmasters.
And looking at that, a name caught my eye…Nona Gaprindashvili. She was, IIRC, the first woman grandmaster. She is 82 and still actively playing.
Just for comparison there are 1306 active grandmasters total.
And to be clear, 31 women with the GM title. There is also a WGM title, but it has much lower standards. Nona was awarded the GM title in 1978.
How is someone designated a “Grandmaster” and why has the title proliferated so much?
In days of yore, it was awarded to special players.
Then an actual standard was created. The standard today (which is what it has been for a while):
You must have a peak Elo rating of 2500+.
You must win three grandmaster norms. A GM norm requires a performance of at least 2600 level in a tournament against players above a certain average level (and at least 3 of them must be GMs, and som many must represent a national federation other than your own, yadda yadda yadda). Also, you can skip the norms if you win one of a certain list of tournaments, that you aren’t going to win unless you are a super-GM anyway.
If you enjoy bureaucratic minutia, here are the details for all the FIDE titles, as of Jan 1, 2023 (small changes were made):
https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/B012023
I have an outline for an article discussing this very issue.
How fucked is France?
This fucked.
That IS rather interesting.
Ah, now this makes even more sense.
Things are gonna get spicy.
Yep. France can’t afford to lose Niger.
They’re going to call in all their chits on this one and I expect Russia to get involved on the side of the junta.
Who had West Africa on their bingo card for WW3?
If they had stuck with their breeder reactor program, this would be less of an issue.
Good morning, Sloop!
That article on Haiti is pretty good for a corporate media piece.
Great news on the reactor in GA. Every state should be building a few.
That border floaty thing looks like a pool lane marker. Can’t people just swim under it?
Not a huge Foreigner fan, but Midnight Blue brings back a lot of memories. Thanks!
Or walk 500′ to get around it?
Good. It’s a border. Most of them around the world have things like this on them. Especially the ones that are being ignored.
When I was younger and more naive, I called myself a supporter of open borders. I thought most people who said that were like me. Open borders in my mind weren’t “open” to anyone and anything. In my mind they were still secured, we knew who was coming in. We just let in anyone that didn’t have a criminal record and wanted to make a better life for themself. I still believe that. If you want to come here to work for a better life for you and your family, I welcome you. All I ask, is that we know who you are, you are never allowed to take a cent of US welfare programs, and you don’t hurt others.
I still think that’s a fairly “open border” position. I suppose, “open immigration” might be a better term for it. My ancestors came here to make a better life, I’d love to let everyone have that. As long as they know they are going to have to work for it and I’m not paying for it.
Your ancestors (like mine) had requirements and rules they had to abide by to get in. This is an invasion.
Oh my.
Careful with the clippers, kids.
Not able to tell the difference between the forest and the tree?
Pro tip. The accelerator pedal is not a binary device.
Idiot at the Car Wash
Wow. Through the fence was bad enough. Then had to go back for seconds?
L O L
Question raised in training: “What is TLS?”
These are supposed to be technical people.
I thought it was TLA.
Oh, dear.
Pro tip. The accelerator pedal is not a binary device.
Are we sure the dog wasn’t driving?
Nothing to see here.
DOJ tries to jail key Hunter Biden witness Devon Archer on eve of congressional testimony
Just our tireless public servants working over the weekend.
The Justice Department submitted a new request over the weekend asking a judge to schedule a date for Archer to surrender to prison and begin serving out his one-year sentence resulting from a conviction in an unrelated fraud case, according to court filings. The move prompted immediate speculation among some Republicans that the Biden administration was attempting to prevent Archer from answering questions about Hunter Biden before the GOP-led House Oversight Committee, though in a court filing, the government explicitly requested that Archer’s sentence begin after he completes his congressional testimony.
In a statement, Archer’s attorney said his client does not believe the DOJ request is connected in any way to the upcoming closed-door interview, despite continuing to fight demands related to scheduling a surrender date. “We are aware of speculation that the Department of Justice’s weekend request to have Mr. Archer report to prison is an attempt by the Biden administration to intimidate him in advance of his meeting with the House Oversight Committee on Monday,” Matthew Schwartz, an attorney for Archer, said in a statement Sunday.
“To be clear, Mr. Archer does not agree with that speculation. In any case, Mr. Archer will do what he has planned to do all along, which is to show up on Monday and to honestly answer the questions that are put to him by the Congressional investigators,” Schwartz added.
The world is full of coincidences.
“‘World’s oldest man’ who ‘liked to have a little drink’ dies ‘aged 127’ in Brazil, local reports claim”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12356441/Worlds-oldest-man-liked-little-drink-dies-aged-127-Brazil-local-reports-claim.html
“Now scientists say you shouldn’t drink alcohol at all! Even one small glass of wine a night can raise blood pressure, study claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12356035/Now-scientists-say-shouldnt-drink-alcohol-one-small-glass-wine-night-raise-blood-pressure-study-claims.html
The duality of man.
How many bottles of claret were consumed at the party where these researchers celebrated the publication of their report?
I still stand by the longitudinal studies that show that moderate drinking leads to longest life span.
The standard retort is that the problem with these studies is that non-drinkers may be non-drinkers due to abuse earlier and thus shortened their life span.
But, THATS THE FUCKING POINT OF A LONGITUDINAL STUDY, you can separate out the lifetime non-drinkers from those who were heavy drinkers who because non-drinkers, because you have the data at many points in their life!
Meh. Dad was a lifelong teetotaler, died at 51 from a heart attack, which is heavy in the family history. Sorting out probability of “early” death would be an opening for critics to claim bias. I can’t see you’d get a qualifiable control group.
https://imgur.com/qBZZc8k
From a study published last month, 1997-2016 with up to 2019 death data.
1.0 is the mortality rate for lifetime non-drinkers. They separted them properly from quitters.
What scientists?
Public Health Professor of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health
That’s not a scientist.
Science denier!!!!!
“That brings total spending to almost $35 billion.”
Even with the overruns, this is about half of what we’ve sent to Ukraine. So far.
“Florida is experiencing an increase in LEPROSY cases with nearly 20% of cases across the country coming from the center of the state
There were 159 new cases reported in the US in 2020, the CDC said in a recently published research letter regarding emerging infectious diseases, citing data from the National Hansen’s Disease Program.
Nearly 70 per cent of these new cases were reported in Florida, California, Louisiana, Hawaii, New York and Texas.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12356273/Florida-experiencing-increase-LEPROSY-cases-nearly-20-cases-country-coming-center-state.html
No.
That has to be drug related.
Does needle use increase your chances of contracting leprosy?
And sucking on somebody else’s crack pipe.
Euphemism?
It increases your risk of bacterial infections, and for transmitting these between sharers of needles. One leper junkie makes more. Like trash vampires.
159 people? That’s a rounding error.
That too.
Where is Ben Hur when you need him?
No joke, I originally read that as ‘letter regarding engineering infectious diseases’, that sounded too truthy so I re-read.
Boom year for armadillos?
New evidence? The leper colony in Carville La was using armadillos for research around the turn of the 20th century.
Boom year haha.
Jonesville la has an armadillo prize given out once per year.
The person with the most tails wins.
For ten years running one old guy won with several thousand tails.
I dont know what would constitute a boom
Anecdotally in West Central Florida, tons of armadillos on the roadside.
And migrant sugarcane workers.
Leprosy is a bacterial infection that primarily comes fron soil or critters that root ipn soil – armadillos are notorious for it.
It enters your system through mucous tisses, ex. Picking your nose.
It is common to see lepers in central and south america.
I am guessing the resurgence here has something to do with the foreign invasion the dems are facilitating. Leprosy will be the tip of the iceberg.
Remember when obumbles took most sexually transmitted diseases of of the list of diseases preventing people fron immigrating to the us? Pepperidge farm remembers.
What’s a little leprosy between friends?
“The report by Parents Defending Education states that the close coordination between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and U.S. schools to establish Confucius Classrooms has historically included 143 school districts in 34 states and Washington, D.C.
In addition, at least seven contracts are still active in Texas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon and Washington.
The report called ‘Little Red Classrooms’ reveals that $17 million has been funneled from CCP-connected financial institutions into U.S. K-12 schools, through Confucius Institutes and other cultural and language programs.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12344745/Chinas-indoctrination-American-schools-make-Little-Red-Classrooms-Communist-Party-funneled-17-MILLION-143-K-12-schools-sparking-Republican-probe.html
No idea, but $17M isn’t that much money.
Still, that’s almost $120,000 per school district, enough grift for a couple “educators” in each.
Nah, I’m with tater. 17 million isn’t even noticeable for school districts these days.
Still shouldn’t be allowed.
I’ve heard of a sleepy little college town in upstate New York that has one of those.
IIRC all those centers in Indiana were shut down by the state government.
Hell, PA alone has 500 school districts, so 143 across the whole damn country? I’m sure they’re pretty selective about where that money goes.
Nasty.
Flesh-rotting tranq infects cocaine supply, takes aim at new, unsuspecting victims
Why do these assholes keep mixing drugs into other drugs?
Unsuspecting victims? The are talking about sharks, arent they?
Taste the insanity.
https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1685690294191128576
You know, if that succeeds in destroying race as an identifier, that wouldn’t be all bad.
The collectivist crowd will never allow that to happen.
It is the ‘divide and conquer’ strategy’s greatest weopon.
Let them Die in harness
For some, being a senator or representative in Congress is a full-time career. That can be a good or bad thing, according to Northeastern University’s Paul.
Some argue that term limits are the best way to address gerontocracy. With more turnover comes new ideas and a chance to challenge the status quo in Washington.
But critics say multiple terms help elected officials gain institutional knowledge and build relationships needed to become more effective in passing legislation. Paul said that seniority also plays a major role on Capitol Hill and that longtime lawmakers in Congress tend to be more influential in their party, as well as lead important committees.
“There’s really no substitute for experience,” Paul said.
Not mentioned: primarying their asses in order to compel them to release their hold on the reins. But that would upend the “power for its own sake” political model.
Experience = Grift. Term limit them, limit the number of years you can have in government in general. There are no “experts” who need to stay in the government. Only military should remain untouched by this idea. And maybe not even that.
My person in Congress is great – your’s is the problem. /Every fucking voter
My congresscritters suck. They need to be buried alive under mountains of junk mail and left there.
My representative and senators all suck.
Do you both realize how abnormal this group is?
Yes. Otherwise the rate of reelection wouldn’t be an inverse of the approval rating of Congress.
60 and out! If a politician isn’t smart enough to steal a retirement by 60 they are too damned dumb to be making rules for other people.
Taste the stupidity
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1686008005538746368
I think I’ll not click that and enjoy the not stupid. I don’t need any more of that in my day.
Aw c’mon, it’s Neil DeJackAss Tyson
What is funny is his argument “Today I might feel 80% female, but tomorrow I might feel 80% male” is actually a great reason to not chop bits off on those days you feel extra feminine.
Hey Neil, anyone ever tell you that facts dont care about your feelings? For that matter neither do i.
Well, gender is a spectrum, but people don’t flip-flop from day to day. That’s TikTok nonsense.
TIKTOK IS MY LIVED TRUTH YOU HIDEOUS BIGOT /some nonsense TikTokker
That fart blossom is still around?
Ugh.
Which one of you is Walter Neff?
Troubles for Wall Street office tower worsen as foreclosure looms
What is that, a comment? I have those hidden.
Watching the commercial real estate industry swirl down the drain is fun but I’m more amused at the item below about the “affordable” housing being built ON (?!) the WTC site:
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Well, yeah, that IS absurd. You know what else is absurd? Calling brand-new construction “affordable” when what they mean is “subsidized”.
Yes, the most popular comment.
As I think everyone here understands, the way to make affordable housing is to build as much unaffordable housing as possible, because the moving up effect is real.
New luxury homes causes old luxury homes to get cheaper, which causes old moderate homes to get cheaper, which causes old meh homes to get affordable.
OT me: At parents’ place. Gonna go up to Kokomo for the last go-over of my soon-to-be former place. Just have to pick up my art/decorations, really. Then kinda a day off tomorrow. Wednesday I have an appointment that will address in/outpatient or the more outpatient, maybe weekly type of therapy/whatever.
Aug. 11 I have a GP appointment, and I’m going to AT LEAST get an x-ray of my skull, which may lead to more legit med shit I want looked at. Not withdrawal related, cuz I had no symptoms (and I’ve had them before) but a legit new pain. I call it a ‘skullache.’ Part of where my shattered skull fragments were titanium-wired together, then bones did their thing.
A part where about 5 fragments come together just started hurting. Perhaps/most likely I slept wrong. Started throbbing with every beat and the stress (?) of that evolved into a total headache, though not a particularly bad one. Definitely got my attention. Already had the GP appt, so just gotta check that one out. Hasn’t happened again since=good sign.
The week in Detox Medical Jail was…interesting. I handled it with aplomb, if I may say so myself and shall. Definitely a chapter in my book. Interesting characters and place.
Sports: The Cubs’ 8-game winning streak came to an end. Hendricks, the last remaining player from the 2016 championship team, gave up three runs in the first two innings…but settled down. Got the loss though pitched 7 innings and only gave up those 3 and the Cubs lost 3-0, but took 3/4 from the Cardinals in St. Louis. The Cubs are doing shockingly well in a bad division. This team might reach the playoffs, but I doubt much more.
The core is there IMO, they’ve had a great second half and rumors say they’re not moving Bellinger. Extend him. Shitty division, yes. Still, surprisingly young, good Cubs team about to bust out of rebuild and into full-on contention? They’re playing like it. I would not be surprised, but excited for the team if they tie for one of the wild cards. Even if they lose and get flushed out of the playoffs, I win.
Gives those young kids a TASTE of what the post-season feels like. Dip their toe in. Make ’em hungry for more. Perfect incentive and yep, they matter. I foresee good things.
“Always look on the bright side of life!” — Ya always find more of what you’re looking for. Even if you’re scraping the barrel for anything left, even a glitter can make it all worthwhile. I could say many things about moving back in w my parents. I’ll end with the reality:
I am George Costanza. A healthy mix of Kramer along, but it’s been a long joke w my friends that I am George. I rarely do this! Kramer asks George if ever “yearns.” Just a brilliantly written and acted scene. Perfectly describes my life. I just look on the bright side. It’s WAY cleaner here…(and much more).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnqBAuehmhM&ab_channel=AdamSaupe
Vogtle is important because government officials and some utilities are again looking to nuclear power to alleviate climate change by generating electricity without burning natural gas, coal and oil.
“This project shows just how new nuclear can and will play a critical role in achieving a clean energy future for the United States,” Southern Co. CEO Chris Womack said in a statement. “Bringing this unit safely into service is a credit to the hard work and dedication of our teams at Southern Company and the thousands of additional workers who have helped build that future at this site.”
And let’s not forget to offer our sincere thanks to the nuclear regulatory commission for handcuffing us to ’50s designs and technology by ruthlessly regulating innovation out of existence in the name of “safety”.
it’s insanely frustrating.
I once was lost but now am found
For many years, I voted Republican. I was an Ultra-MAGA, four-time Donald Trump voter (twice in the primaries, and twice in the general elections). I voted for Ron DeSantis in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial primary and general elections. I was a right-wing pundit whose writings were read by millions. I wrote text for Trump’s voter outreach call scripts pro bono. I made volunteer calls to voters on behalf of the Trump and DeSantis campaigns.
And I am here to tell you that I was wrong about all of it. Through a slow and painful process, I went from Ultra-MAGA to Never Trump and Never DeSantis. How? My personal and political epiphany occurred gradually and then all at once, to paraphrase Ernest Hemingway.
For a long time, I sincerely believed in “Make America Great Again.” I convinced myself that a Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden victory represented the end of the United States as we knew it. The intensity of my MAGA feelings strained my marriage and my relationships with my children. I severed ties with some of the most important mentors and influences in my life, all because I believed Democrats were malignant and nefarious.
What changed? It started in Summer 2021. Children and young adults began falling ill more frequently to COVID-19’s Delta surge. Governor DeSantis handled the pandemic as well as he could in its first 18 months. But he abruptly pivoted from advocating the life-saving, hospitalization-reducing COVID vaccine to virulently opposing it for young Floridians and those under 65. I had fully expected DeSantis to lead by forcefully encouraging vaccination for our youth; instead, his persona seemingly changed overnight, and it was then that I began to question my support for him.
DeSantis’s reversal on protecting vulnerable people from COVID opened my mind, and suddenly I started questioning other things. For example, I had always chalked up the January 6 riot to fringe actors from QAnon, the Oath Keepers, and the Proud Boys, whose influence I considered minimal at best. But deluged with Trump’s ceaseless rhetoric about the 2020 election being “stolen,” I started to look more closely at the myths and conspiracy theories promulgated by these groups. I was horrified to find that much of what they believe is standard propaganda in MAGA world, very much a part of the MAGA ethos.
I could no longer deny what my eyes were seeing, and I had to acknowledge my error in supporting Trump.
Forgive me, oh great and glorious priesthood of democracy. Take me to your bosom. Wash away my sins.
It’s an oldie but a goody.
This is more of a commentary on him than DeSantis.
“I had fully expected DeSantis to lead by forcefully encouraging vaccination for our youth”
What the hell for?
These types of articles always reek of being heavily subsidized.
They lost their original meal ticket and went around looking for a new one. Psychopaths gonna psychopath for the highest bidder.
In related news an acquaintance recently suddenly died, she was 30 and in NY, which means she probably got the clot shots (not confirmed). She was an active healthy person prior to her sudden death.
“What changed? It started when the government put me on its payroll…”
Over the next several months, I went through the process of politically de-MAGAizing myself. I challenged all of my beliefs in a process that was personally and existentially tumultuous; mind, spirit and emotions warred with each other. There were many quiet nights of just myself and my thoughts.
Alone in the dead of night, just me and my sins.
Rich Logis, a former member of the Republican Party and right-wing pundit, is the founder of Perfect Our Union, an organization dedicated to healing political traumatization; building diverse, pro-democracy alliances; and perfecting our Union.
Please. Give generously, won’t you? Nobody returns his calls.
The Lincoln Project won’t look kindly on the competition.
A British Airways passenger was stuck in his seat for 3 hours after landing and had to be taken out of first class with a hoist
Maitre D: And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint.
Mr Creosote: No.
Maitre D: Oh sir! It’s only a tiny little thin one.
Mr Creosote: No.
Given that British Air Business class was wide enough for me, I wonder how enormously fat you have to be to get hoist-wedged in First Class.
Nice Euphemism.
If by ‘Nice’ you mean completely pointless, meaningless, and conveying of no information. “volumetric” means relating to measurement by volume, it contains no information about the size of the object measured, either in absolute or relative terms. At least a euphemism like ‘plus sized’ or ‘pleasingly plump’ contains information. “volumetric passenger” does not and is, in fact, a nonsense structure, akin to saying “an orthogonal duck”.
-1 Duck
How big was he?
Volumetric. I’m going to have to remember this one.
He barely fit when he boarded, then he proceeded to clean out all inventory in the service cabinets adding another 3 or 4 inches of girth. That’s why they needed a crane to pull tat hippo out of the seat.
This is in the “They are trying to kill you” department
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fda-approves-gileads-remdesivir-covid-172357095.html
Give the drug that causes renal failure to people with renal disease. The FDA has now crossed over into openly malevolent.
Lol.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-07-31/how-a-car-free-community-in-phoenix-defeated-parking-minimums
Havent yet read the article, but both parking minimums and maximums are violation of libertarian principles.
That should be a “duh”, but I figured there is someone here who supports minimums.
Maybe they can pull 1,000 people out of a population of more that 1,000,000 who really want to live that way. More power them.
The problem is when 0.1% of the population demands that 99.9% of the population changes they way they want to live.
“The problem is when 0.1% of the population demands that 99.9% of the population changes they way they want to live.,/em>”
Urban life driven progressivism in a nutshell…
But we are [self-]righteous! /that 0.1%
They know what is best for you and will force it on you.
If they can do without, then by golly, you should too…
It is sort of like the smoking bans.
“I swear that once you pass this ban, more people will flock to the clean air of bars and restaurants”.
Followed soon after by:
“Sure the local bars and restaurants are losing tons of business because everyone is going to those bars and restaurants nearby with no smoking ban. What we need to do is make the smoking ban statewide!”
It’s only fair.
If you really believed in Climate Change, why would you be building in the Arizona desert? That is as silly as the Obamas buying a mansion on the beach.
Also, who gives up their car? I hate driving, I hate paying for a car, but I wouldn’t be able to do any hunting or fishing without wheels.
I remember picking up a young coworker in Chicago and driving up to Fond du Lac Wisconsin to meet clients. The kid lived in downtown Chicago and didn’t have a car. When we were having lunch, I started teasing the clients about Wisconsin’s love affair with roundabouts. That led to everyone talking about what they drove. When it came time for the kid to chime in, it was like that Pace commercial where everyone yells about New York, except it was “YOU DON’T HAVE A CAR?!”
All the way back the kid was fuming about being teased for not having a car. Lots of “don’t they know how dumb it is to own a car in downtown Chicago?”. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that I 100% agreed with the rubes from Fond du Lac. Every red blooded American needs a car.
Who wants to Walk in Arizona.
Drive from Garage to Garage.
When I lived in Memphis, I always felt bad for the poor people who had to walk in that humid heat.
I agree with the kid. If you live in downtown Chicago or downtown NYC, you dont need a car.
Wouldn’t be bad to have one that you kept in a garage somewhere affordable just outside the city for road trips or something.
But…I also wouldn’t live in downtown Chicago or NYC, so nevermind.
I agree economically, it makes no sense to have a car downtown Chicago. Like you, I wouldn’t want to live there anyhow, but the prospect of being trapped in the city would be horrible.
It will make things easier for us when we start walling in the cities. Harder for them to escape.
Suffering succotash
The universities we proudly attend recently received historic donations to step up the fight against climate change—a $1.1 billion gift from John Doerr for a climate school at Stanford University, and a $200 million gift from the Salata family for a climate institute at Harvard University.
As students, we appreciate the new opportunities these gifts will provide. However, as young people deeply concerned about climate change, we fear they’re a mistake.
The chief problem is this: however noble and well-intentioned, these donations are unlikely to drive progress on anywhere near the time scale the climate crisis demands. New schools and institutes take months to plan, years to build and develop, and often decades to yield transformative societal impacts. Meanwhile, as the recent wave of extreme heat makes clear, we are rapidly running out of time to avert climate catastrophe.
These donations are a “20th-century solution to a 21st-century problem,” one news report remarked. “Endowing university chairs and naming a building are nice gestures, but it’s not clear how those efforts will help rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which are dangerously warming the planet.”
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While these donations are useful, this money would be much more effectively spent to directly accelerate government action—the only force powerful enough to turn the tide on climate change.
Consider the Inflation Reduction Act, which authorizes at least $369 billion in clean energy tax credits and other incentives. It is, by far, the largest and most consequential step the U.S. has ever taken to address climate change. No other initiative—no community recycling effort, no corporate climate pledge, nor any state or local policy—holds a candle to the sheer power and effectiveness of action by the federal government.
We need much more of it. Overall emissions continue to rise, while they ought to be falling precipitously. While universities produce valuable climate-related research, today the greatest limiting factor is not our understanding of climate solutions, but rather our ability to implement them.
The only thing which can save us is a global socialist dictatorship which will stamp out every trace of independent thought or action.
Fuck those guys for underwriting our continued oppression.
“as the recent wave of extreme heat makes clear, we are rapidly running out of time to avert climate catastrophe”
It’s called Summer, you stupid asshole.
The grift is strong with the people claiming a warm summer requires the serfs to give up modernity and freedoms so the feudal lords can feel more special…
I am more ready than ever to fight for my right to use A/C. It’s unliveable out there.
Notice how none of these climate emergency articles ever mention that we’re in an El Nino cycle?
Don’t worry climate change will be to blame for terrible winter weather too.
That money would be much better spent on mechanized divisions, artillery, and special forces units to thin the carbon-spewing herd and root out climate heretics.
“I’m a college sophomore. I know everything there is to know about the world. When I was a little girl, the snowbanks in winter towered above me. Now, they only come to my waist. That proves global warming is real.”
There is some truth to that. I wonder how much of the global warming bs was shaped by the horrible winters of the early ’70s. There were 4-5 years of really bad blizzards that I remember as a kid. I also remember everyone saying humankind was causing global cooling and it was going to be colder and colder.
Every winter since then has seemed sort of sissy-ish since those early ones. Also not to be considered is that I moved from the edge of the prairie to an urban heat island 200 miles south. I’m sure that didn’t do anything to make winters seem nicer.
I HAVE PICTURES!!!!
1977-1980
Yes – the Blizzard of ’78 in New England was a monster. Snow really was piled up to the sky. That wasn’t normal.
Wasn’t just 3 or 4 years ago that Boston couldn’t find a place to dump the snow plowed out of the city?
I remember Time Magazine have the cover story “The Coming Ice Age”. The magazine was disappeared from the Internet about a decade and a half ago.
The 70s was when the first ice core data was coming in from the poles and the glaciers. We had good records of all the ice ages and interglacial periods for the last 500,000 years.
We are overdue for the glacial period.
Maybe Earth Created Humans to End the current Ice Age.
Have these Climate Cultists thought of that?
“I remember Time Magazine have the cover story “The Coming Ice Age”. The magazine was disappeared from the Internet about a decade and a half ago.”
There are a bunch of articles saying it was fake.
https://time.com/5670942/time-magazine-ice-age-cover-hoax/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-coming-ice-age/
Who knows?
That cover is fake. That is not the one that I remember.
OK, do you remember which one you remember?
Not cover but Time https://web.archive.org/web/20061108113528/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
Also on Time’s site https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,944914,00.html
1974. That was the article. I will need to read this to see how accurate my memory really is.
The earth’s current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet. Temperatures have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time. But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries — the U.S., Canada and Australia — global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: “I don’t believe that the world’s present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row.”
Yeah, it’s no coincidence that the alarmists love using that period as a starting point for their temperature graphs.
12,000 years ago, a substantial fraction of North America was under a mile of ice. We are in an inter-glacial period. The notion that the earth’s ‘climate’ is a static thing and conditions that dominated the last few thousand years were the stable equilibrium/ideal is just silly. Humans better keep their shit together and be able to access enough energy to keep the *local* climate optimal for the conditions we evolved in and that are conducive to survival and thriving, because the earth, the sun, orbital dynamics, don’t give a rats ass about your climate religion.
conditions that dominated the last
few thousandcouple of hundred yearsFrom memory (it’s been about two decades or so since Gore started spreading his lies) . . .
For the vast majority of the earth’s history, the planet has been “hot”. The remainder of that time are the ice ages. And the ice ages breakdown into the glacial periods (ice ball earth) and interglacial periods (like now). During the ice ages, the glacial periods are the vast majority of the time. The interglacial periods are very short.
The climate that we have now is the rarest of occurrences on the planet. And the climate will inevitably drop back into a glacial period or return to the
“normal” condition with no ice caps at the poles.
The current climate will not last.
https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Glacial_and_interglacial_periods
Four of the last five interglacial periods were hotter than the current period.
Shocking that the data is still available on the net.
Presently, we are experiencing an abnormally long interglacial called the Holocene that has lasted nearly 11,000 years. A new glaciation has been expected to begin; however, due to human induced climate change or anthropogenic climate change, the next glaciation is being delayed anywhere from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of years. Therefore, it is expected that the Holocene interglacial may last at least another 150,000 years.[6]
There it is. Humans can alter the earth’s cycle. This period will last forever.
So, filthy humans and their SUVs are delaying the encroachment of mile-thick ice. I’m okay with that.
That sounds awfully like statements on economics in the dotcom bubble days. “History is irrelevant! We’ve made a new model!”
Such a bold assertion! And based only on a single, simple, a priori assumption that adding a little CO2 to the atmosphere will somehow stop this cycle that has been happening for millions of years. A cycle caused by something we don’t even fully understand.
That was the basic plotline of Niven’s “Fallen Angels”. In it the greens win, and the new ice age almost immediately starts.
Remember the statement that “this was the hottest day in the last 125000 years!!!!” just a bit ago? Never mind the question of how you are identifying temperatures down to a day, across the globe. The last inter-glacial was…. 125000 ago. Truthful but dishonest; the ‘scientist’ at least, if not the journalists, have to understand exactly what’s going on.
“Presently…. abnormally long intergalcial” – really? Doesn’t look to be so in absolute terms, maybe not a sharp peak, but the plateaus seem roughly the same length. And a sample of 5 doesn’t really give you good statistics to claim that, even if it is longer than the rest, that it’s statistically significant.
Also, from paleo-climate perspective, man has evolved during the most stable era. There have been vastly greater swings than anything we’ve experienced or what the models predict.
There were huge blizzards in the Northeast in the 90’s.
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Blossom Puzzle, July 31
Letters: N O P A R S T
My score: 338 points
My longest word: 10 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
“This directly contradicts everything he said in committee hearing to me, denying absolutely that they funded any gain of function, and it’s absolutely a lie. That’s why I sent an official criminal referral to the DOJ,” Paul wrote on “X,” formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday.
Unless the Deep State has decided Fauci will be their sacrificial lamb this will go nowhere. I’m doubtful the Deep State even has a sacrificial lamb in mind. What are the rubes going to do about it?
I’m still not persuaded that lying to Congress should be a crime.
For Joe Citizen? Absolutely not. For a government employee, testifying to a Congressional oversight committee? OK – maybe not a *crime*, but grounds for immediate termination and loss of pension benefits (if eligible).
Notice how none of these climate emergency articles ever mention that we’re in an El Nino cycle?
El Nino is caused by global warming.
We are overdue for the glacial period.
This is pure speculation on my part, but somehow I think the climate (completely independent of human interference) has a self-corrective mechanism. It can only swing so far in either direction.
As for the winters in the ’70s, I remember the news footage of people in places like Buffalo and Cleveland on their roofs clearing multiple feet of snow with snowblowers after massive snowstorms. We have been seeing again that in the past few years.
“Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer.”
And by God, Kimmy Yam, Asian America writer for NBC, looked high and low for those on one side, found them, and secured some terrible quotes from them. Here’s Kimmy’s writings:
https://www.nbcnews.com/author/kimmy-yam-ncpn1063966
Learn all about how some Asian Americans feel they were used as pawns in the affirmative action debate, the white male gaze, etc. It’s nice that major outlets have space in their news rooms to hire correspondents to cover specific oppression beats.
Also, to repeat: If a movie doesn’t address your particular viewing desires, make your own fucking movie
Plenty of material to go around. Make a version of “Hiroshima.”
In Dave Barry Does Japan, there is one serious chapter, where he visits the Hiroshima museum. My main takeaway was that it treats the bomb as like a natural disaster, an event that happened, glossing over the causes. So it neither blames the US nor accepts blame for Japan’s actions.
It was Dolphin and Whale’s fault, anyway.
cow and chicken
If I recall correctly from some dim and distant science class, the entire solar system is in motion and wobbling around. The orbits of the planet are elliptical, not circular. Sometimes we are closer to the sun (relatively speaking). Sometimes we are farther away.
I’m sure none of that is of any consequence when contemplating the weather.