Exactly.
The US lost to Panama in the gold cup semifinals. Sad and disorganized soccer doesn’t win trophies. The Wimbledon semifinals are set. Both the men’s and women’s matchups are pretty compelling. And baseball isn’t back until tomorrow, so that’s pretty much it for sports.
First the writers and now the actors? Oh, please don’t throw me in that briar patch, Hollyweird.
It’s a good racket.
Will they hold it at her Malibu mansion? Or one of the other properties she bought with this incredible grift?
This is incredibly bizarre. What are the Secret Service doing enforcing petty traffic violations, first of all?
AI would be an upgrade. I swear, this woman is clinically retarded.
Breaking: Seattle is a shithole. And the government simply does not care.
I’m shocked! And in Chicago, of all places. I guess he should have become a cop though. If he had, his union would do a better job of keeping him on the payroll.
Well, there’s a solution for these angry people: buy the company during bankruptcy and start it back up.
Whoops!
Act like you’ve been there before. In his defense, it probably would have broken down somewhere on the trip home anyway. It is Italian after all.
Here’s a great song. Just jumps right in and starts rocking. This one starts a bit slower. But in such a beautiful way. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this scorching hot Thursday, dear friends.
When y’all talk about sports — all I can think is that the USTMNT would do radically better.
Morning, all — morning, Sloopy.
I watched much of the game. The USMNT has no flow. Everything is complete chaos and the attack is a mess with guys too close together and nobody creating space. It’s mid-tier international soccer and they deserved to lose.
“Sad and disorganized” indeed.
I wonder if Berhalter can clean it up when he gets back.
I wonder what could have been had we played lord of our euro-based players instead of the guys who ply their trade in MLS.
I dont follow USMNT or MLS, so did we decide to give the Euros a summer break and only play guys whose league is going on now?
Yes. The World Cup team had this tournament off for the most part; after the past year it was sensible to give them a break. They’ll be playing in next year’s Copa America, then the Gold Cup the following year and then the World Cup – all hosted in the US.
You need either a good player or a good plan. With Vazquez in they should have had more crosses in from the wings, with Ferriera poaching.
Widening the search for who brought in the cocaine? I seriously have no idea… it sounds weird — but most things in The Imperial Capital probably are.
My only thought: maybe they got tired of Matt Yglesias sending them tips of license plate violators in the city so they decided to go after one.
USSS has a uniformed patrol division that handles all the routine law enforcement stuff in DC, along with DC Metro Police, Capitol Police, FBI uniformed patrol, and many others I’m not remembering.
So to answer your question directly, it’s because they can.
Given my estimation of the capabilities of “AI”, I’d be willing to grant that Kamala is run by one. And one of the better ones possible right now. She’s just hitting the inevitable “patched too often / spaghetti code” stage of things.
I’m gonna need to see her hands more often in public so we can tell for sure if she’s even a real human being.
So we should take her down the garden path?
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana; so does Kamala.
Gasp! That sounds like ca…ca…capitalism! *swoons*
Seriously, I’m surprised skimming the article SFGate didn’t suggest that the city seize the business or something because it was “historic” and have a workers council *cough* collective run it or something.
Twentieth Century
MotorBeer Company, FTW!1 Victory Beer, please.
I recommend the Golden Monkey or Prima Pils.
Anchor was sold to Sapporo several years back. Sapporo announced just a month or two back that they were killing the majority of Anchor beers, and consolidating distribution. The writing was on the wall that the expensive location in an expensive city in an expensive state was going to be closed. The beer will still be brewed, just not there.
As to employees buying the company… well, that’s been done, and the brewery was still sold. Interestingly enough to another Japanese owned brewery (Lion, owned by Kirin).
Hmmm…does Stone have the capacity to brew Anchor too?
Didn’t Sapporo buy Stone also?
Quick search shows an agreement to purchase was signed, but I don’t know if it was completed or not. Considering Stone also has been pulling back distribution and having sales losses (based on the closing of their German brewery – bought by BrewDog), I would hazard that they probably have the capacity to brew Anchor at the Stone facilities. I was mildly surprised to find out that the Stone Virginia location still appears to be operational. There’s also always contract brewing as well.
To continue one of my themes from my long delayed beer history series, Pabst should buy Anchor.
Morning Sloop.
Looking at the big cities and seeing the problems I wonder what are the solutions to the homeless/drug infestation? I certainly have no ideas and obviously what is being done is not working.
I’m only glad that Podunkville has escaped, no one wants to be here, even the tourists only visit on weekends and look at us like we’re part of the amusement park entourage.
I can think of quite a few solutions, ranging from hands off to truly brutal. The issue is that the cities having the issue have already gotten rid of rule of law, and are nearly operating as collective feudal enclaves. Hell, NPR doesn’t even touch on the main reasons.
For those who don’t want to read NPR, here are their four reasons:
1) More people than ever are being housed — but an even higher number are falling into homelessness
2) Rents are out of reach for many, and millions of affordable places have disappeared
3) Zoning laws and local opposition make it hard to build housing for low-income renters
4) Pandemic aid programs that helped keep many people housed are winding down
To my uneducated mind, there seems to be several reasons left off the list, and the four they listed are all heavily influenced by regulations.
Yeah, none of that is relevant to the homeless you see on the street.
I would say the lack of mental hospital beds and, more fundamentally, the lack of blue-collar jobs are more relevant than any of that stuff.
The lack of existence of flop houses is a big problem too. That directly relates to 2 and 3.
#3 is red herring. It’s not about removing regulation but destroying SFHs and jamming apartment housing where central planner determine it should go.
The StrongCommies dipshits and their useful idiots can go pound sand.
It’s also the SFH owners don’t want multi unit dwellings in their tony neighborhood.
All I can think of (that isn’t morally reprehensible, anyway… my inner Ook the Caveman has several suggestions at a gut level, bloodthirsty weasel that he is) would be enforcing vagrancy laws, with a stipulation of involuntary incarceration in a secure facility after N (probably 3?) arrests for vagrancy combined with addiction and no interest in actually getting clean.
Said facility would be more secure than a classic mental institution, but more open — no need to wall them into brutalist concrete and all. I’m thinking a walled off, monitored set of small houses away from everyone with a big field or two. Then provide them a reasonable supply of drugs (monitored) and let them rot.
Sub-optimal in that taxpayers are paying for their high — but honestly, I think it would be cheaper than the crime, it lets communities actually run again and not chase away commerce… and if they sincerely just want to be high all the time and not follow programs with rules to get clean, so be it. A waste, a shame.. but what the hell else can you do at this point?
And the involuntary is because all the similar things like “homeless shelter but you must follow these rules” don’t get used / don’t work because they won’t. So enough strikes on the system and you put them where you force them to. But not in full on prison.
Probably wouldn’t work — because I’m a programmer, not a social engineer — but at this point, that’s my best proposal. Certainly don’t let them continue to take over every public space *and* ravage the normies *and* drug themselves to death… have to accept the last one and mitigate the first two, I think.
“Said facility would be more secure than a classic mental institution, but more open”
I’m not sure that’s possible. Having toured a mental hospital (as part of my job, OK), I can tell you that the facility security required to keep nutters in place are extraordinary. Between the anti-escape and anti-suicide measures, they are heavily engineered.
The “memory care” unit with my in-laws is also not a fun place.
let them rot
Offends the redemption narrative of Christianity that permeates our culture, even for those who abandon the faith.
Ouch… what a waste of machinery.
I know my driving skills aren’t capable of a car like that (I prefer an automatic transmission for heaven’s sake… because I’m lazy and don’t need that level of control). So even if I won the mythical Powerball or something — most you’d ever see out of me is a Vette, I expect. And even then, I’d probably look at scheduling some track time and an instructor if I ever wanted to push it to the higher end / got the more powerful flavors. Much more likely I’d just get a refit on my Monte Carlo… who needs the headache of “where can I park this no one will ding it?”
You don’t park it, the valet does. If you go someplace without valet parking, you ain’t really rich.
I’m a weirdo — even if I were suddenly rich, I don’t think my lifestyle would change all that much… I am who I am. So I’d probably still shop at Walmart for stuff and whatnot.
Most I’d splurge on is probably going to see an F1 race in person and pay for decent seats. And a large chunk of land somewhere away from people with a custom house. But day to day stuff? Nah… I like my life as it is.
I would be getting a big ass piece of East Texas land and I would put a road course and karting circuit on it and I’d watch my kids drive on the latter while I enjoyed the former with friends. And there would be wagyu cattle somewhere on the ranch and enough solar and windmill energy to take me completely off the grid.
I could most certainly be persuaded to your way of thinking since getting a chunk of Northeast Alabama / southern Tennessee sufficient for some hilly or mountain racing is unlikely. I assume that’s pretty much all taken these days.
imagine: there was a road course in Bedford
I’d like to find out how I’d actually react to winning the lottery, and if I’d actually stick to my financial discipline.
Give me a chance to test it.
It’s a skillset, one that I don’t have.
I’ll take a new Genesis G90 with the full maintenance contract. It’s like riding on air while getting your butt caressed.
Oh, and add a chauffeur to it
Leased please!
Depreciation on Hyundai / Kia products makes the German luxo barges seem like an appreciating asset.
Heh, I just bought a used G80. It was a bargain for what I received compared to the rest of the market. The savings more than paid for a five year maintenance contract and a new set of tires.
I considered the same when I bought my Tesla.
Couldn’t find anything local.
We looked at Genesis last year. Not my flava – nice cars, but underpowered (it was the weakest “280” HP I’ve ever experience) and just jammed to the gills with electronics we didn’t want.
Comfy, though.
If I won the lottery, well, the first thing we’d have to do is get some storage, because Mrs. Dean ain’t settling for a piddly 2 or 3 cars. I’d probably get an AMG for highway driving, and something “gray man” anonymous for around town. No reason it can’t be “enhanced” under the hood, though.
No reason it can’t be “enhanced” under the hood, though.
Which brings us back to the Omni GLH from yesterday.
Can you put a WRX engine/drivetrain in a stock Subaru Impreza?
Maybe.
My understanding is even the factory hot versions really struggle with enough cooling for the engines and intercooler in any kind of heavy use.
Eh, high HP cars are easy to control so long as you don’t panic and floor it. There’s guys driving all over the place with factory-souped up Dodges and they’re not wrecking them constantly.
This guy was just showing his ass and paid for it.
I wonder what I’d buy if I won the Powerball. Probably a 918 Spyder or maybe a Carerra GT if I’m going with a more modern car. Hell, I might even buy one of these F8 Tributos since they’re relatively cheap for a supercar. But probably not. Ferrari owners have a different kind of pretentiousness than Porsche people. And I’ve spent too long developing in the latter group to switch directions now.
I’d probably just get an Exige and a new truck and call it good.
Since we’re talking about cars, my track machine is now ready to go. I’m most likely taking it to MSR Houston on Monday. I went ahead and bought a membership so I can get in more track time than I would just going to HPDE weekends.
Wonderful!
It turned out great. Good luck at MSR!
Nice. I like the gray paint scheme.
Just noticed the 918 in the background!
Oh that is something. Wow.
Pedal modulation, of both brakes and gas, goes a long ways towards keeping it out of the weeds, but you’re a track rat and know that already. I have several friends that buy fancy cars, then they want me to wring it out while they ride shotgun, because they know they aren’t capable. It’s flattering frankly. I got the skill set cutting my driving teeth in MN winters. I’ve also put in some track time. These videos of guys doing this always seem to have one thing in common, they treat the gas and brakes like a light switch. It’s on or off.
Rear wheel drive, manual transmissions, bad tires and MN winters gave me a huge skills advantage. Also working for a high end European car dealer at 16, driving fast expensive cars all over the country.
MN winters
gravel roads, oh and: 400HP in an ancient pickup isn’t terribly smart, but you learn how to recover the back in
on or off
kids drive like it’s a video game
another problem is going from a Civic to a monster
Are you suggesting flooring it with the steering wheel fully locked is a bad idea?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVyBaX6sCd4&ab_channel=POWERNATION
There is a Reddit subreddit devoted to mustang fails.
Or the throttle linkage gets stuck WOT on a 429 CJ in an early 70’s fastback something or other. Happened to my buddy on his car he and his family has had since high school. Now rebuilding it. Body and engine are still in good shape.
In the top three choices.
If you keep on the computer nannies on they are very docile.
Problem is you can’t do a showy burn out. That is one of the things they are specifically designed to prevent.
Idiots with my Tesla model 3 found out that by putting it into “dyno” mode it disabled all computer traction aids. They were putting them into barricades left and right until Tesla nerfed it to make sure the car wasn’t moving.
I don’t think Ferrari makes a car with a manual transmission any longer. One of the reasons I no longer find them desirable.
Current supercars all seem to be big, heavy, computer controlled monstrosities. I’d much prefer this:
https://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/2080828,18010,1/1962-ferrari-250-gt-california_photo.aspx
Having an electric vehicle makes me have little desire for acceleration any more.
Balance and handling and/or fun is much more important. So I’d be ok with a new manual Cayman or a classic Barracuda. The stock Barracuda is likely no faster than a new Civic.
You mean the Challenger?
(My first car was a Plymouth, unfortunately not a Barracuda)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Barracuda#/media/File:PLYMOUTH_BARRACUDA_AE-95-62_pic6.JPG
No I mean a new Honda Civic.
Old stock suspension muscle cars aren’t really fast.
They can’t put the power down.
66 Corvette vs Toyota Camry | Classic American Sports Car Against a Modern Midsize
https://youtu.be/w6RIb9EyDtE
Yeah, the last Ferrari with a manual option was ten years ago.
But don’t despair…Porsche will take care of you. You can still get a manual 982 or 992 up to the S trim package.
Thanks for the music — deepest I go with ELO is due to this, I’m afraid… otherwise it is just the commonly known stuff.
Heh that is now where my mind goes every time I hear ELO.
Sooo good.
How about some ELO channeling Skynyrd?
It’s worth noting that in Seattle you can’t take an alcoholic beverage from store to store, but you can shoot up in public.
I think the term of art for this bullshit is anarchotyranny.
https://mynorthwest.com/3878336/gee-scott-i-dont-want-bourbon-street-here-regarding-sip-n-stroll-plan/
“First the writers and now the actors?”
I just get a laugh out of this every time one of you lot posts a link to CNN:
Even black people don’t want this.
This is a lie.
This is largely a lie nowadays, except for that crack bill that Biden pushed.
Define this please.
That’s when they lock all the Catholics inside the church.
The War on Drugs was founded on protecting our white women, so yeah, that’s not a bad example of systemic racism.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“Gooder on three!”
Love it! Thanks, Holiness. Uptight parents will never understand that those kids love their coach and will always remember him.
“Gooder” says the English teacher.
“Winners and losers”
/Looks in the mirror
Ugh — what an idiot. If we’re ever to get off this rock (including the probably many months Mars mission since I doubt anyone is going to use nuclear propulsion these days), long term space habitation is going to require that level of recycling.
And as they were told in the article (but brushed it off), Earth itself is effectively a very large filtration system when it comes to water anyway, moron.
We have large scale water treatment facilities all over the country. This is nothing new.
Good morning, Sloop!
There are so many videos out there of dumbshits crashing leaving car shows. Just goes to show that money can only buy the machine – not the skill or judgement.
Breaking: Seattle is a shithole. And the government simply does not care.
Is there a big city in this country that isn’t? And governments won’t care until they are made to care. I need to get out to LA and I’m just dreading it. Too bad my customers aren’t in Carmel or Savannah!
Great songs this morning! And Voodoo Death Bunnies would be a great band name.
I hope everyone has a groovy day. Be careful out there.
If I hit the Powerball, I’d be picking up my new Carerra 4 GETS Cabriolet at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, for a few days of track classes…
Why not take a factory delivery then head down for a few laps at the Nurburgring, then over to Spa for a little more? And Spielberg also lets you run their track for a reasonable price.
That’s my plan for a couple years from now. Probably for a C2GTS though. That four wheel steering makes me uneasy.
Oh goddammit… if I ever do win the Powerball, I damned well better never talk to Sloopy again.
Racing Spa in real life? That’s one of my favorite tracks… that would be so, so sweet… even if there’s absolutely no way I’d ever do it justice.
I’d never save any money listening to your great ideas!
That’s a very reasonable question, and it comes down to that I have zero track time on four wheels. I’m just not ready for the european tracks. They’d be next.
Someone will buy the Anchor name and intellectual property assets and it will reemerge. But outside SF, I bet.
Don’t be silly. Why would they leave such a business-friendly place like SF??
They prefer a more hostile environment.
One would think so. But if you take away the local SF loyalty because you moved elsewhere, do you really think the brand has enough of a following to be viable? I’m not sure they do.
If they make steam and libery with the same recipes, yes. It probably needs to be someone small, creative, and innovative.
And you don’t have to make 65k bbls to make a profit, it could be a much smaller brewery at first and grow back. When Maytag was in charge, he kept the size constrained, he helped out other CA brewers get started in order to take growth pressure off of Anchor.
Maytag realized something I learned when I lived in Madison – a food (or beer) scene needs to be a scene, with multiple players, and a good food/beer scene will generate more business for each of a dozen players than any of them could get on their own. Madison had an exceptional restaurant (can’t recall the name), and the chef/owner was very supportive of her people going on their own and starting their own restaurants. It seemed like 2/3 of the good restaurants in town were run by people who used to work for her.
That’s part of the story of Great Lakes Brewing here in Cleveland. When the owners took their wives to view the location, they managed to see a knife fight pour out of a bar in the middle of the afternoon. That entire area is now a brewery and restaurant district with nearly a dozen breweries in walking distance (6 on the same street or one block off of it). For an anniversary dinner during CLE Beer Week a couple years back, they brought back head brewers from local breweries that used to work at Great Lakes to pour their beers and tell their stories from when they worked at Great Lakes.
That is the story of craft beer everywhere. Goose Island has a similar story.
Cycle goes like this:
New craft brewery finds cheap location in crappy neighborhood.
Brewery grows, neighborhood gentrifies around brewery.
Property owner jacks up rent on craft brewery and they seek new location.
At least here, most of the breweries bought the properties to prevent the issue of raising rents (although they would need to worry about property tax hikes and the like). This has come to bite several of them in the ass when the renovations were much more involved than they thought (one issue that plagued Platform was their production facility).
Cycle
DEG is here and I got to buy him a beer Monday. Same as when Neph was here: lots of places are closed on Monday or by 9pm.
Anyway, we went to High Cotton. HC, WiseAcre, and Grind City all seem to be pumping them out without any obvious takeover interests from the big boys yet.
going to Widmer 30 years ago when this stuff was almost unknown was a special treat
Its why all the hat shops are in the hat district.
Just on a larger scale.
I was a poor grad student (1992-94) when I was in Madison, so don’t really remember much of the food scene. Unless Taco Tuesday at Taco Johns counts. But when I went back for Great Taste (2008-13), always seemed to find some good restaurants.
I don’t think Sapporo is selling that, just the physical brewery. The articles haven’t been clear on that, and Sapporo just announced recently that they were going to continue brewing only two Anchor beers. I’m thinking it’s similar to AB-InBev killing the Platform brewery line down to three beers and closing all of the Platform brewery locations.
Makes the most sense, although article yesterday mentioned bankruptcy court, so I figured Anchor was a separate entity wholly owned by Sapporo. But, yeah, I would imagine Sapporo would “buy” the valuable assets and get rid of the building.
It may be the only way to get rid of the union contract that Anchor had.
Throwback to a “far right” fitness program at a California high school in 1962.
Just in time for VN. Still, I’d prefer to see a return to fitness.
There was a lot wrong with Phys Ed class as I suffered through it back in the day (not THAT far back,) but I wouldn’t describe it as “far right.” Sadistic, reminiscent of Lord of the Flies, yes, but not “far right.”
Phy ed was lame.
Come to think of it, school overall was lame.
We were fit because we were outside running around, playing sports and eating decent food. It’s not a difficult equation.
Was discussing my daughters school plans with my wife the other day. Paraphrase of actual conversation (I didnt write it down).
Me: We could keep her in her current school thru 6th grade. Then travel the world and homeschool for 7 and 8. Come back for HS.
Wife: Sounds good to me.
We both abhored middle school and finding a way to avoid it works for us both.
Our big scandal in HS was when it somehow became cool to wear bowling shoes to school. So the phy ed classes that were bowling were stealing tons of them. (show up with crappy pair of shoes that don’t fit, leave with bowling shoes).
After about two classes the bowling manager figured out what was happening and freaked out. School officials went around classes taking back shoes, calling parents, etc. Of course the shoes were pretty shot after walking around the street for a while so parents had to buy new ones.
Talk of the town for a couple weeks.
Lol.
You know you grew up in a cool place where that’s the scandal!
It was daycare back then, too.
Seems like a tongue-in-cheek reference to a recent story where people thought fitness was “right-wing”.
Yes, exactly.
People who lift and focus on their health are Nazis, don’t ya know.
*flexes in Austrian*
Sorry, Joe. Being competent at anything is now officially far right.
I loved gym class. Running around.doing stuff instead of sitting in a class – hell yes. After gym or some wild pick up football games.at recess, I was able to sit still in class for another hour or two.
Telling boys they have to sit still and listen all day with almost zero physical activity just isn’t fair. That’s reason so many end up diagnosed with ADD.
Phys Ed was always so boring. I can’t remember how they organized it, but it was dull to the point where I wanted to do anything but move. And the teachers didn’t care. Can’t figure out how to climb the rope because they never taught the technique? Just get off and let the next rugrat have a go. Have questions? Shut up. Just got hit in the groin with a soccer ball? Better not show any pain or the other kids will laugh at you. Tore open your knee? Why are you being such a hassle?
All of those actually did happen to me over the years in phys ed.
Agreed. I was just talking to some old buddies from my home town and we all agreed that in elementary school we had at least 2 recesses. One for lunch and another short one in the afternoon. Like you said, I’m sure it was to burn off energy from all of us spazzes.
My kids just got lunch. And now they cancel outside time for that if it is too cold or rainy.
Totes agree that ADD is 90% due to the teachers expecting young boys to sit quietly for hours.
Many school teachers are raging feminists who hate boys.
Such bullying as I suffered in high school (I got it for other reasons in grade school) was at the hands (and feet) of Phys Ed classmates who didn’t appreciate my contributions to the team.
https://media.giphy.com/media/sYvwFWPUBhDws/giphy.gif
😄 I can think of two gals I would have LOVED to see suffer that fate!
Heh, reminds me of Parris Island
#MeToo except it was guys and not WM’s (only thing that comes from PI).
The parallel bars made me have a boot camp flashback. Fuck I hated those things. Walls, climbing ropes, fine. Doing dips or walking yourself across those bars killed me.
Yeah, and the bars went higher as you went along, didn’t they?
You Hollywood guys always have a chip on your shoulder because the rest of the world thinks all Marines come from PI. Go on, admit it.
We used to have that Presidential Physical Fitness program that had Arnold pushing it. Is that still a thing?
Appears so.
I still have my patch!
Maybe time to go back to filing on paper?
Lemmings are rushing to sign up for the Meta version of Twitter because they love being the product.
But it’s a safe place with no hate speech.
I noticed TurboTax wasn’t on the list. Not that I trust they weren’t doing the same for someone other than Meta.
Wow. Why is this drug that has been safely used for decades suddenly OTC?
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-nonprescription-daily-oral-contraceptive
Has something in its usefulness by keeping prescription suddenly changed in say the past few years suddenly changed? Perhaps something political?
Come see the efficiencies inherent in government!
Long story full of examples of how the legislature created a bunch of new laws around pot that make no sense. You might not get nabbed for pot, but smoke it in the wrong place? Look out!
What is especially galling is that 2 years ago they made it legal for edibles with no taxes, no bureaucracy or any other crap and it worked fine. Hardly any dead bodies in the streets. You would think they could just do the same for all pot.
Well, thar’s yer problem. No grift either.
Is that saying that the landlord can’t prohibit smoking dope?!
Cuz I’m pretty sure landlords can prohibit smoking tobacco.
I’m happy about not breathing tobacco smoke.
However, only liberal cognitive dissonance explains the difference in acceptance between the tolerance for MJ and tobacco.
Exactly. Pure politics.
Same effect is behind the insurance companies treating vaping nicotine just like smoking tobacco.
Some insurers do make a distinction on the type of use.
All of the ones that I’ve had through work generally required a nicotine test to get the non-smoker rate. The only allowable reasons for testing positive (and still keeping the non-smoker rate) was if you were on a cessation program ran by their partner. So gum, patches, vape, etc. would all get you flagged as a “smoker”.
I think the public area restrictions are more to make things simpler for enforcement. See a cloud of smoke/steam rise from a group, you can bitch at/fine/kick out/etc the individual or the group.
It’s not common.
They also distinguish on use. So for example, when I used to smoke cigars I just refrained for a month had the blood test and was fine.
The questionnaire specified cigarettes. It was intentionally silent on other tobacco. But if you need nicotine in your blood you are basically SOL.
“As passed, the law seemed to restrict smoking and vaping to single-family homes, yards and private property not accessible to the public. Combined with restrictions on smoking in apartment buildings, the law appeared to give permission to people who owned houses or property but not to renters.”
You can’t smoke in your own apartment?
I’d rather have a 1967 MG Midget than a brand new Ferrari.
I had a MG Midget when I was in the Marines. It was a total money sponge, but it also was a great car for meeting young ladies of questionable morals (and judgement).
Two words:
Resto.
Mod.
Keep the sheet metal (which is all anyone likes on Midgets anyway) and wrap it around a good car.
Just get a Miata or whatever they call them now.
I plan to someday. I need a truck first.
Buy a nice used 350Z.
33 years ago on this day, investigator Gary Caradori died in a plane crash immediately halting his investigation into child trafficking rings linked to a sitting US President.
This is wild. Apparently pedos among the elite is nothing new.
There is a lesson there about keeping everything in one place.
Its not like he could have had an internet dead-man switch in place in 1990 (well, I guess he could have, with email), but a physical version needed to exist.
I still think there was a massive coverup with Jerry Sandusky. Putting on my tinfoil hat, he was allowed to continue hanging around PSU and had unfettered access to facilities long after PSU officials knew he had been repeated accused of molesting boys. Why? Why did these people put a lot of effort, which resulted in criminal charges for some of them, to protect Jerry Sandusky? The rumor was that it was because Sandusky used his charity for underprivileged boys, The Second Mile, to pimp boys for big money PSU donors.
Ray Gricar remains missing to this very day.
Can I sign up for the Commissioner job? I can do nothing and get well paid.
/Checks resume
anyone have links to any Wimbledon streams?
No but thanks for the reminder. The match that just started is one of the few interesting ones left for me.
Antisocial behavior
An aggressive sea otter in California is hassling locals by riding boards she stole from surfers in the lineup.
Steamer Lane is a legendary point break nestled along the rocky shores of Santa Cruz, home to swaths of experienced surfers, as well as a 5-year-old female sea otter with a growing reputation for repeatedly confronting surfers and kayakers.
Videos across social media show the otter hoisting itself out of the ocean and onto boards while surfers sit back in awe. At times she’s chewed on the boards or forced surfers to surrender their boards altogether.
Onlookers in the videos can be heard laughing in jest at surfers’ misfortune, but officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say the otter poses a public safety risk.
“While there have been no confirmed reports of injury, due to the highly unusual behavior of this otter, kayakers, surfers, and others recreating in the area should not approach the otter or encourage the otter’s interactions,” the USFWS said in a statement.
Whycome you no share?
The otter is the real local
Sixty-year-old Santa Cruz native and photographer Mark Woodward said he has photographed hundreds of otters over the years, but has never seen something like this. He’s witnessed the otter bully surfers three times in less than a week.
“I saw the first incident on June 18 and I didn’t know what was happening,” Woodward told NPR. “… It was quite astounding.”
It’s all fun and games, until it isn’t.
Can somebody decode this for me?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66178363
I have more than a passing knowledge of Japanese pop culture and entertainment and have no idea what the hell is going on or why I should care. Excluding the child who had no say on parents …
I can’t get past the pronoun play so I’m afraid I can’t help.
Yeah, I got lost within the first paragraph about which individual the article was trying to discuss.
Minor effeminate celebrity dude marries minor celebrity girl, girl gets pregnant and they have a kid, dude decides he’s not a dude any more, neglects family, and eventually commits suicide.
That should be “Effeminate minor celebrity dude”.
To Gender Traitor from the Dead Thread: yeah, complete silence. No texts, no emails, no calls. He’s going back to Australia for three weeks for the first time in 16 years. Visiting his elderly parents, his brothers, and very importantly, bringing his teen kids to Australia for the first time in their lives. They’re dual citizens and he wants to expand their horizons a bit.
So I’m leaning him alone for a few weeks so he can just do what he should/ wants.
He is already talking about coming up to WA state for three (!!) weeks in August. He seems to think he’ll miss me.
Keep the sheet metal (which is all anyone likes on Midgets anyway) and wrap it around a good car.
Nah. Build it as a basically period correct F(?) Production car. Far more fun than a “modern” snoozer.
I wouldn’t have thought a Midget with 300+ horsepower, and a drive train and suspension to match (manual transmission, of course) would be snoozer, but OK.
A 300+ horsepower engine might not even fit, an if it does it’s going to be ridiculously front heavy.
Oh, I suspect you could make it work. I’m not opposed to super or turbo charging the thing, which means a 4 banger would do the trick. There have just been a lot of engineering advances in the last 50 years that would make it a better car, no matter what your definition of better.
The rumor was that it was because Sandusky used his charity for underprivileged boys, The Second Mile, to pimp boys for big money PSU donors.
The idea of men having sex with teenage boys makes my skin crawl.
So you are a member of Team OMWC? The idea of teenage kids disgusts you. Why mess with kids past their sell by date?
How do I sign up?
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/telly-shipping-free-4ktvs-charge-violate-terms-of-service-1235669213/
No.
While I havent yet, one of my summer projects (more likely fall) is to install a pi-hole so my whole house is ad free. So thats a nope for me.
It’s more than worth the effort.
I’m going to hold out for the newer version where they just install a chip in your head. Only a damn fool would want one of these telescreens on his wall.
Interesting development
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ray-epps-be-criminally-charged-over-role-january-6th-blames-tucker
It is kind of interesting. Whatever game the feds are playing sucks though.
Seems like something is unravelling.
My guess is this will end in some sort of plea deal like they did for Hunter. He’ll get community service or something, then they can say “See he served his time, no need to look further, case closed. Anyone who says otherwise is a conspiracy theorist.”
“The relentless attacks by Fox and Mr. Carlson and the resulting political pressure likely resulted in the criminal charges.”
That’s a stretch. So if I’m charged with a crime, I can blame who called the cops? The law is an ass.
Is that how it works? How about pointing some relentless political pressure at the crime in big cities?
THAT’S RACIST!!!!!!!
LOL.
Teacher! I need the Austrian boy’s seat!
Have a heaping helping of establishmentarian butthurt
There’s no credible evidence for any of these assertions or for Kennedy’s longest-running false claims: that vaccines cause autism and are more harmful than the diseases they’re designed to protect against.
Yet Kennedy is building a campaign for the highest office around these conspiracy theories and the idea that fact-checking or criticizing them amounts to censorship. His throughline is the bedrock conspiratorial premise that “they” (the government, pharmaceutical companies, the media) are lying to you — but that he is telling the truth.
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Today, Kennedy says the social media bans and the media’s rejection of his views over the years are what galvanized him to run for president.
He accuses the White House of orchestrating his deplatforming. He is suing the Biden administration and media outlets including The Associated Press, The Washington Post, the BBC and Reuters for alleged censorship.
For Kennedy, his conviction that he’s being censored is another example of the collusion between government agencies and corporations that he believes is the root of the United States’ problems.
“My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism on our country,” he said in his April campaign announcement.
Claims of censorship have also become a core grievance of many conservatives and disaffected liberals, who see the rise of social media policies to combat harmful misinformation, conspiracy theories and election interference as infringing on their free speech rights.
The nerve of some people.
Why how dare he accuse this country of being functionally fascist:
Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
Who could ever believe such nonsense?
“Claims of censorship have also become a core grievance of many conservatives and disaffected liberals, who see the rise of social media policies to combat harmful misinformation, conspiracy theories and election interference as infringing on their free speech rights.”
What could possibly give them that idea?
Restrictions on what you can talk about in public are an infringement of free speech? Nonsense!
Oh, you can talk about it – you just can’t express certain [very wrong] views.
Despite study after study finding no connection between vaccines and autism, Kennedy has only dug in deeper to his discredited beliefs. For years, they put him on the fringe of American public discourse — until COVID-19.
The pandemic gave anti-vaccination activists new prominence and traction by offering easy answers to a public struggling to understand a fast-moving disease about which little was known.
“There was nothing else that happened in the world that could have globally made anti-vaccine ideology and content so mainstream,” said Kolina Koltai, a researcher who studies the anti-vaccine movement. “The global pandemic made vaccines and disease the conversation.”
The crisis also provided Kennedy, by then one of the most prominent figures in anti-vaccination circles, a broader set of targets in the form of changing public health guidelines, school and business shutdowns, and vaccine and mask mandates.
He wrote a book accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and formerly a White House adviser during the pandemic, of “help[ing] orchestrate and execute 2020’s historic coup d’etat against Western democracy.”
I suppose you want me to think he was wrong about that, eh, NPR?
Kennedy does lay out the exact chemicals that exist in vaccines and studies that show those how those types of mercury and aluminum are absorbed directly into brain cells.
His most powerful argument in my mind. He asks people my age how many autistic kids were in my school (back when the vax schedule was miniscule compared to now). The answer is zero. I literally never heard the word until I was an adult. So many autistic kids, and kids with serious allergies now – something happened and NPR isn’t the least bit curious.
Being curious would mean questioning the priesthood.
Which studies – not that English chap’s, right?
I think the allergy thing has to do with us not evolving to our more sanitary modern environment. Even our age cohort was exposed to more stuff at a young age. Anything auto-immune is because the body’s immune system isn’t interacting the way it evolved to (over millenia).
I suspect that relentlessly shocking the body’s immune system with dozens of vaccines could conceivably lead to auto-immune problems, as well.
Yes. And to counter the argument that we’re using different criteria to diagnose, he asks how many severe, non-verbal kids there were compared to today. You can’t just explain that away.
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Apparently I was tested in 1975-6 (First grade). The result came back as “borderline” and they weren’t going to put me in special ed, so I was tossed into the gifted program and they hoped for the best.
My daughter is diagnosed as on the spectrum, and is me, only more so.
Autism has always existed. I am pretty sure Newton was autistic, for example.
Fauchi did more for the anti vax movement than anyone else in the last 50 years.
He and his enormous ego destroyed science and public health, and contributed to less trust in government. But it’s your fault and you need to be censored.
I am The Science.
I recently heard the quote from Richard Feynman, “science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” I love it and plan to use it on a few lefty friends the next time they bring up anything about the virus panic or climate change.
Fauci’s hubris just help expose the system for what it is. Had he not been a raging psychopath, fewer people would be coming to the realization that the medical regulatory apparatus is completely corrupt.
He decided to become the Inquisition rather than Galileo. Scientific Method is now a forgotten idea – which is at the heart of the NPR hit piece on Kennedy. Don’t question the faith!
“What are the Secret Service doing enforcing petty traffic violations, first of all?”
Why is an NBC News anchor wearing a T shirt?
“…in May 2023, the Department of Justice notified Epps that it would seek to charge him criminally for events on January 6, 2021—two-and-a-half years later,” reads the filing. “The relentless attacks by Fox and Mr. Carlson and the resulting political pressure likely resulted in the criminal charges.”
Doesn’t that just make Carlson a member in good standing of the noble citizen army rooting out the seditionists and bringing them to justice?
And would stand as a refutation of the assertion that Epps was politically protected?
It stands as a sign that he’s no longer politically protected.
Oh, we’ll see what they charge him with and what kind of deal they give him. The history to date only makes any sense at all if he has been politically protected. I seriously doubt he’s going to be treated the same as the other J6 arrestees, for example, even if he is arrested. Years in jail, solitary even, before coming to trial or being offered a deal? No way. Modified limited hangout/sweetheart deal is the way to bet.
I assume he’ll get a sweetheart deal like Hunter Biden did. No jail time or felonies.
Yes, it’s a total mystery why Anchor brewery is closing shop. I wasn’t very happy when the owners that Fritz sold it to offloaded it within a couple of years to Sapporo. They almost immediately changed its bottle and label to generic “beer” design that really sucks compared to the iconic label they had. I also believe they very subtly changed the recipe, but I’ve never seen them admit that. Then the socialists came in and fixed their labor situation.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191014154126/https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/anchor-steamed-how-dsa-worked-to-unionize-an-iconic-craft-brewery/
LOL I didn’t know any of that.
Dummies.
“Secret Service CLOSES White House cocaine investigation: Biden administration is accused of COVER-UP over failure to catch suspect who left drugs in West Wing locker – despite security cameras recording 24/7”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12295945/Secret-Service-CLOSING-White-House-cocaine-investigation-WITHOUT-finding-suspects.html
This is my shocked face.
They were hinting about this last week. And here we are. I don’t suppose there’s any talk of the Secret Service changing anything to prevent this in the future?
No way…
Of course. 🙄
Not to mention she’s likely nuts. I’d argue the medical board was actually too lenient in trying to rehabilitate her.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/12/dr-roxy-medical-license-ohio-tiktok-surgeries-livestream/70408070007/
Florida should go after that Irish gender surgeon on TikTok — Shibbh Gallagher or whatever her name is.
“Transgender billionaire Anne Jakrajutatip, 43, took over the Miss Universe organization in October last year.
The billionaire Thai media mogul bought the rights to Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA for $20million. The pageant system was previously owned by former US president Donald Trump”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12295211/Transgender-owned-Miss-Universe-organizers-says-trans-women-women-stop.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11643645/Who-trans-owner-Miss-Universe-Anne-Jakrajutatip.html
Just get a Miata or whatever they call them now.
aka “modern snoozer”
I’d rather have the raw, low tech, low grip, fun factor. Who needs a radio when you have 1275 ccs of BMC A-series song?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/missing-russian-general-taking-rest-175622294.html
On Wednesday, mystery deepened over the fate of Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the country’s former top commander in Ukraine, who has been dubbed “General Armageddon” for his ruthless tactics, and who has not been seen since the Wagner rebellion.
One of the country’s top lawmakers said, when pressed by a reporter, that the general was “taking a rest.”
Probably more like a dirt nap.
“According to Telly, more than 250,000 people have signed up to receive a free TV set, which displays an always-on, rotating ad unit on a 9-inch-high second screen situated below the main 55-inch one.”
George Orwell, BSEE?
Just add another one to each side, and you have Idiocracy.
Get rid of the off switch, and you can go into Max Headroom.
One of the country’s top lawmakers said, when pressed by a reporter, that the general was “taking a rest.”
On a farm?
Where do we start?
HAve we gotten to the part yet where she claims to have been on official business, and pleads sovereign immunity?
Seat belts are a tool of white supremacy.
Bud Light gets Star of Death at Costco
When Costco is discontinuing an item, it puts what’s widely known as the “star of death,” a small asterisk, at the top corner of the item’s price tag. That’s widely known to be a signal to store associates that the item will not be restocked once it sells out.
Various Costco members have taken to social media to say that they have seen the so-called star of death on various Bud Light SKUs at the warehouse club. Others have also reported very low prices on the beer brand.
But they had the obligatory hard hats…
https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/distressing-footage-captures-final-moments-of-white-island-victims/
I’m trying to imagine if there is some mild activity that would have them make sense.