He’s back!
Djokovic and Sinner are into the semifinals. As are unseeded Svitolina and Vondrousova, although Svitolina is a top player and is unranked because she stopped playing for a while to have a baby. We will find out the remaining semifinalists today. The National League finally won an All-Star Game. And Daniel Ricciardo is back in an F1 seat, which is freaking awesome. Now on to the links.
Let’s hope the “wait” is indefinite. At least for the time being. I’d like my son to get home from Korea before these idiots trigger WW3.
Grifters
Fuck all of them. Here’s an idea: do your job. And by the way, this has nothing to do with your job.
Do these people not understand economics? If they did, I suppose they’d be burning down city hall instead of striking to blame their employers for the financial situation they’re in.
Yeah…no shit. This is absolutely ridiculous to anybody with half a brain.
LOLOLOLOL. Whatever you say, dude.
I’d be looking for vengeance. They took half her life away from her. And the union has protected them.
I’m sure the timing of the suit is a coincidence. She was probably ready to make these claims before she got laid off and there’s nothing to it though, right? Yeah, sure.
Nice waste of money, Houston. Although I’m sure a few politically-connected people got rich over it. So all is well.
Here’s some 80s rock you might like. I know I do. Here’s a bit more. And it’s magic. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
I wonder why there is so much cash sloshing around Saudi Arabia to be able to throw it at ventures like this.
This. If the idea of rich Saudis is so offensive to those assholes, then try growing domestic oil, gas, and nuclear power instead of doing the opposite.
It’s just a golf tour. The PGA deserved to get their asses kicked. They were a monopoly and treated most players like crap.
Weird how none of these people are against selling the same Saudis $billions worth of high-tech weapons.
Hell, I fought in a war to prevent Saudi Arabia from being overrun by the Iraqi Army – but heaven forbid we watch a golf tournament in Jeddah.
Yea, trotting out 9/11 victims for this stunt is just shameful.
Where are the hearings on the ties between the NBA and China?
At the end of June, Niantic laid off a quarter of its employees, in addition to closing down its Los Angeles office and ceasing production on its Marvel-themed game and stopping support for its NBA game. Now, as the company struggles to regain its financial footing, it stands accused of multiple charges, including violating the state’s Equal Pay Act, retaliation, sex and gender discrimination and a hostile work environment.
Shoulda moved to Texas when you had the chance.
They’re a subsidiary of Google (hence Alphabet).
*glances at Mulvaney article*
That dude is so incredibly phony. The forced smiles are over the top.
You expect a man who makes a living pretending to be a woman to be authentic in any way shape or form?
Also an actor.
“Look at MEEEEE!!!”
At this point, I’m hoping he hooks up with a 90+ year old witch and gets turned into a llama. Deal with that transition, asshole.
😬🍺
Houston is trying to mimic Cleveland?
Simba nothing. Danny Ric is the freakin’ Honey Badger. Glad to see him back — he’s always been one of my favorite drivers. Hope he does okay. The F1 video game boards were chattering that he might take Perez’s seat back since he is with Red Bull again… but frankly I don’t see it. Perez is doing fine for a secondary driver, as I recall it – Ricciardo and Max clashed when they were teammates, and Max won’t be having any of that — and to be honest, unless he magically turns up the wick again – his last few seasons were less than impressive. Especially the last. Maybe it was all the car balance — but he is getting up there (from a F1 driver perspective).
So glad to see him, hope he does well… but not crazy enough to think he’ll pull an Alonso and suddenly be getting podiums again.
And morning all.
I can see him battling for points positions in the AT. If he can squeeze a handful of 8-10 finishes out of that car, he will have succeeded.
As for Checo, he’s got one year left in his contract and Max is scoring enough points to win the constructors championship by himself. If he can get over his abysmal performance, as well as his bad luck, in qualifying he’ll be on the podium every week. He’s not going anywhere until the end of 2024. He’s been a loyal teammate and did the job he was supposed to do.
Danny Ric will be in a good car eventually. But I just don’t think it will be a RB car. When Checo retires, that seat will go to somebody without such a roller coaster run of the last five years. Horner likes Ricciardo, but business is business.
In the sports world, there is only one Honey Badger: Tyrann Mathieu.
The worker then met with the company’s director of diversity and inclusion and the principal people partner — both unnamed in the suit — to discuss the situation, according to the complaint. (Public LinkedIn documentation says Niantic’s principal people partner is the company’s head of people Michelle King.) The suit says they told her that voicing “concerns about workplace issues among her colleagues had impacted Niantic’s evaluation of her job performance in the past and would continue to do so in the future” and discouraged her from “discussing pay equity issues or sexual bias issues with her colleagues.”
Try doing some of the work we’re paying you for, instead of being a shit-stirrer.
Principal People Partner sounds like something right out of an Ayn Rand novel. Or the Soviet Union.
I’ve been in the big corporate machine right now that the title of Principal People Partner doesn’t sound out of place. They’d be the idiot making terrible suggestions “for the people” (such as mandatory team building exercises) that have no benefit, and that they will somehow enjoy/profit from.
Aren’t there HR functionaries that would have those tasks assigned to them as a normal part of their responsibilities?
Or couldn’t they at least have a job title that doesn’t sound like some commie bullshit?
Things ran a lot better when there was a payroll department instead of human resources.
Human Resources doesn’t already sound like commie bullshit?
It sounds like a company that makes Soylent Green.
As if HR should ever be a partner rather than a support functionary. Idiots think they’re running the business.
Once you get a wedge in on having a say with regards to hiring (even if it’s just applicant screening), you do run the business.
Reminds me of when someone, most assuredly a desk critter, held an event for National Walk Day or whatever. Basically, walk around the store (during your break of course) and get a 5 dollar coupon. That this was a suggested activity for grocery store employees who are already on their feet all day just reeked of being out of touch.
I thought of the one-eyed, one-horned flying Principle People Partner.
Sure looks strange to me.
Better than the One-Eyed Purple Partnerer With People.
STEVE SMITH APPLY FOR STAFF POSITION.. AND BY STAFF…..
She’s either added herself to the competition’s Do Not Hire list… or they will be tripping over themselves to hire her.
It’s hard to guess in current year.
Pure fucking hubris *cough* I mean, insanity.
No need to reiterate why — y’all have all heard it before. Choir. Preaching. Can’t see where WWIII would help anyone, don’t know why these morons seem so determined to provoke it.
Our “best and brightest” everyone… if there were instructions on the bottom of a boot, they’d never pour the piss out of it.
I’m concerned about who keeps pissing in all these boots. It seems an inappropriate behavior and should be addressed.
I am so sorry for putting this into your head.
https://twitter.com/iluminatibot/status/1678841650938773505
Bah, not meant as a reply. Whatever.
You’re welcome.
Gah… one half second of seeing that as it pulled up was enough to have me close the window fast!
You win. Dipping my face in bleach now.
Mmmm…wrinkled, saggy moobs.
SF inured me to this years ago. And it’s Wednesday. My immune response is in high gear.
*shrugs* They will probably get what they want – and then room rates will double, or more. No skin off their back.
Or pulling a Sam Kinison variant — MOVE TO WHERE THE JOBS ARE AND YOU CAN AFFORD RENT! AHH! AHH!!
Or Yogi Berra. Nobody lives there anymore, it’s too expensive.
I miss Sam.
We seem to have run out of fat coked up comics.
When your life expectancy is shorter than a door gunner in Viet Nam…
I see the Daily Mail is all too eager to feed his insanity.
Good grief. Seek help.
Modern day freak show. Punters pay for tickets to see the bearded lady, why not this douche?
“I’ll take things I never expected to have to ask for $500, Alex”
I’m starting to take a serious dislike like to this Zelenskyyy character. It’d a terrible shame if something wuz ta happen to ‘im on ‘is morning jog.
We are going to continue helping him out just like we did the South Vietnamese and the Afghans.
If you like Mexican telenovelas, you’re going to love the Filipino version.
https://twitter.com/sagiterrorist8/status/1678888016272605186
What if we don’t?
Look man, if you’re not into hot Mexican women with even hotter evil identical twins, then I don’t know what to say.
My preference is for pale gingers, preferrably irish.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_immigration_to_Mexico
Like Canelo Alvarez
Anthony Quinn.
Someone doesn’t understand how the word identical works.
It’s the danger factor.
While born identical, differences in diet, activity, and hygene can result in dramatically different levels of attractiveness.
You can’t fool me — that’s John Wick 4.
I would have gone with a John Woo film
I haven’t watched 4 yet — but in 3 it sure seemed like every single person was an armed assassin… hence, that scene.
First, I applaud the set dresser for finding all of those on such short notice.
Second — I think some of those are real (and expensive).
Third, I can’t believe the NRA is preventing the Philipines form implementing common sense, overwhelmingly popular scientifically factual gun safety measures!
Also, from now on I will use the term “Filipino standoff.”
That’s exactly what Florida is like now with permitless carry.
On-set armorer’s most paranoid day ever.
“Ima superglue every single fucking firing pin in place.”
All you assholes get your booger hooks off the go switches!
4H Club meeting?
What? No girl made of holy water, wooden skin, mermaid, …. (all actual Filipino telenovelas)
That reminds me of a line in Cryptonomicon that goes something like “Filipinos are the friendliest people in the world, but they are all armed.”
It would be more accurate if it was “because they are all armed”
I’m sure the Peruvians are thrilled to have that gargoyle prancing around in their sacred places.
Re: shotspotter,
WHYCOME U DENY SCIENCE?!
Re: Senate Subcommittee on Golf,
Nadler was on the NPRs yesterday, openly admitting he’s trying to stop the merger from going through. Isn’t it great how as long as you do it from inside the capitol, you’re immune from a tortuous interference lawsuit?
Is he going to shit his pants until they stop the merger?
Just how many incontinent incompetents do we have in DC these days?
Palms need to be greased.
Speaking of drama queens
From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on the Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists says a new geologic epoch began then.
Called the Anthropocene — and derived from the Greek terms for “human” and “new” — this epoch started sometime between 1950 and 1954, according to the scientists. While there is evidence worldwide that captures the impact of burning fossil fuels, detonating nuclear weapons and dumping fertilizers and plastics on land and in waterways, the scientists are proposing a small but deep lake outside of Toronto, Canada — Crawford Lake — to place a historic marker.
“It’s quite clear that the scale of change has intensified unbelievably and that has to be human impact,” said University of Leicester geologist Colin Waters, who chaired the Anthropocene Working Group.
This puts the power of humans in a somewhat similar class with the meteorite that crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, killing off dinosaurs and starting the Cenozoic Era, or what is conversationally known as the age of mammals. But not quite. While that meteorite started a whole new era, the working group is proposing that humans only started a new epoch, which is a much smaller geologic time period.
Be sure to wear sackcloth and ashes o your Davos presentation, Mr “Scientist”.
This is not a new idea.
However,
is obvious goldbricking.
We KNOW the start date of Nuke detonations. (7/16/1945). Hell, we know the exact time. Hmm. 80th anniversary celebration in a couple years?
Looking at extant documentation doesn’t get field work grants for a lakeside getaway.
Good.
The alternative would be being eaten up because Mother Nature is a cruel bitch.
Five thousand dollar Saville Row tailored sackcloth and ashes. Wouldn’t want to look like a homeless bum at Davos.
I wonder what happens with de Vries now. Is his racing career finished? It’s got to be tough to reach the pinnacle of your sport and end up in a bad situation that effectively ends your career. But that’s likely what will happen. There’s no reason for him to go back down to F2 or Formula E. And there’s no team that wants to hire somebody coming back down a level when they can hire someone on the ascent. Maybe he can try his hand at Indy Car, but I don’t know if he would be willing to do that even though the move isn’t without precedent.
Feel bad for the guy. He’s obviously skilled. But he may have chosen poorly when he took the AT seat, and that decision may cost him a career.
Yeah — Indy looked to be half former F1 last time I watched a race, so he could definitely do that. There’s always Le Mans or rally or whatnot from what I hear the commentators chattering about with drivers doing outside of F1… it does seem a shame – I didn’t get the feeling that he was underperforming — but I guess Alpha Tauri felt differently. No chance he goes back to F2, yeah…
I suppose he could move into commentary — Karun Chandhok did and he was less memorable than De Vries… Probably harder in Current Year ™ since my perception (right or wrong) is that they’re desperately trying to bring in more female commentators for “balance”.
As to your last statement, I have to give credit to Sky Sports. The women they’ve brought in for commentary know exactly what their role is and do it incredibly well.*
*-aside from the North American races when they trot out Danica Patrick so she can drone on pointlessly for hours at a time.
I’ll say this for Danica — she’s better at commentary than she was driving NASCAR.
Low bar, I know.
Principal People Partner sounds like something right out of an Ayn Rand novel. Or the Soviet Union.
The door to the Principle People Partner’s office should lead to a pit filled with crocodiles.
I don’t pay that much attention. Is de Vries out? I remember him from GP2 as being better than average at passing for position on track.
Yeah, he died in Dune 1.
Thank you. That was the joke that kept popping into my head.
That’s a piety.
Yep. Got fired yesterday while Danny was doing a tire session at Silverstone.
Unfortunately he couldn’t take Yuki with him. That dude is not a F1-level driver.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/66169108
Speaking of F1, this is awesome.
https://www.theautopian.com/belarusian-tractor-company-shows-off-a-formula-1-car-made-out-of-tractor-parts-and-its-fantastic/
What’s its tow capacity?
Good news.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has resigned after the dramatic collapse of his coalition government.
https://news.sky.com/story/dutch-pm-mark-rutte-resigns-after-collapse-of-coalition-government-12917179
He’s the guy who was trying to seize 3,000 Dutch farms in order to make housing for immigrants.
Are the cows safe now?
Their fare depends on the next government.
There is probably no shortage of patsies willing to do the WEF’s dirty work.
They’ve been mooved to an undisclosed location.
I ate part of one there
Quitter.
“The hubris is in imagining that we are in control,” said former U.S. White House science adviser John Holdren, who was not part of the working group of scientists and disagrees with its proposed start date, wanting one much earlier. “The reality is that our power to transform the environment has far exceeded our understanding of the consequences and our capacity to change course.”
Seriously. How about the invention of the steam engine? That’s when mankind really attained force multiplication. It was all downhill from there.
If we’re discussing downhill, shouldn’t they be blaming the wheel?
“Oook fucked us, if it weren’t for him and his damn wheel, we’d all still be living peaceful idyllic lives in our caves.”
Here is a much more detailed account of Madeline Mendoza’s case: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6519
The DOJ is totally apolitical.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-reverses-previous-support-trump-immunity-e-jean-carroll-defamation-lawsuit
Nevermind that the Carroll lawsuit is the biggest bullshit defamation case I think I’ve ever heard of.
The reason geologists didn’t declare the Anthropocene the start of a bigger and more important time measurement, such as a period, is because the current Quaternary Period, which began nearly 2.6 million years ago, is based on permanent ice on Earth’s poles, which still exist. But in a few hundred years, if climate change continues and those disappear, it may be time to change that, Waters said.
“If you know your Greek tragedies you know power, hubris, and tragedy go hand in hand,” said Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes, a working group member. “If we don’t address the harmful aspects of human activities, most obviously disruptive climate change, we are headed for tragedy.”
Bless her heart.
The real reason is because it’s not even an eyeblink in geologic time.
Power: Yes, crazy Marxists have it
Hubris: Yes, crazy Marxists have it
Tragedy: What happens to us because of crazy Marxists
Oedipus was less blind.
I suppose trillions of dollars and trillions of man-hours wasted on this hoax could be called a “tragedy”.
in a few hundred years – wowowo I though we would be ice free in 2050
“Harvard science historian”
What a pleasant string of syllables. If only they meant something.
Ukraine has been a dominant item on the summit’s agenda as the US president looks to keep the group united behind President Volodymyr Zelensky in the face of Russia’s invasion. While the final communique from the summit does remove one barrier to entry, the Ukrainian president will likely be left looking for more signs of assurances from the allied nations.
I know the cuntes “leading” the west have all their dirty laundry in Ukraine but they cannot be stupid enough to go through with NATO membership for Ukraine.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Why did they neuter and microchip the dog rescue lady?
Thanks Jimbo.
Every time my dog ran away some clown would bring him back. Had to take him farther away, I guess.
Apocalypse porn
There’s a slow-motion disaster happening this week as houses collapse into a canyon in Rolling Hills Estates, a city in L.A. County. But to scientists who study the geology and climate changes behind this landslide, things seem to be happening all too quickly.
The environment is changing faster now than it has in decades. We are seeing it before our eyes, and especially in the news with reports like Earth’s hottest day ever recorded (July 3, 2023), unprecedented precipitation and severe flooding in California this year, and now a major landslide on ground that was once thought to have stabilized.
What this means is that our understanding of the past — benchmarks that we have long used to guide our preparedness and decision-making about environmental risks — aren’t enough to prepare for the future. In an era of such rapid change, old thinking like the term “100-year flood” becomes almost meaningless.
Instead, we need to rely on scientific model predictions and forecasts, now more than ever, and even then there will be limitations. Regardless of whether warning signs were missed in the years and days leading up to the Rolling Hills landslide, one thing is certain: There are other alarms flashing all around us, warning of other disasters in the making.
We should bulldoze all the houses built on an incline of more than two degrees, as a sacrifice to Gaia.
WE HAVE NEVER HAD SINKHOLES BEFORE EVER!!
Except when we greedily built houses where they shouldn’t be.
This solidifies my view that Climate Change Inc and their parrots in the media are in a full court propaganda push to “prove” Greta et al we have reached the point of no return.
Who would have expected building on the edge of a ravine was risky?
“The environment is changing faster now than it has in decades.”
Decades. DECADES!
However did we survive these even more catastrophic changes to the environment decades ago?
I was doing some of my ancestry work last evening. My great grandfather used to run a weather station up in the North West. I was reading a newspaper clipping where the paper was just as sensational about a wet summer. He is quoted as saying “people have short memories” and then proceeded to show his records of wetter summers that were worse. Thought that was quite neat I found that and fitting for today.
They should go to the Sunken City in San Pedro.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sunken-city
(Clicks on second music link). Dude, I’m Cheesing my F-ing brains out right now!
Sigh
Inflation and the high cost of housing have made living in Los Angeles and Orange counties unsustainable, said the union members, many of whom are Latino.
I wonder if that has something to do with who runs these locales and the state.
Of course it does. Those damned Republican hold outs keep stopping the progress that LA and the OC need to prosper!
On the other hand, Garland, who is Weiss’ boss, has insisted — preposterously — that Weiss has always been the ultimate decision-maker and that all he needed to do was ask Garland for any extra authority he needed to file charges wherever he thought appropriate.
Garland claims he was never asked.
I’m sure we can take this slimy swamp creature at his word.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/dirty-fbi-asks-americans-report-crime-them-recent/
FBI opens a new tip line – gets lots of reports of major crimes.
Same with supposed hate crime increases in this state.
I have reason to believe the President is on the take from China.
‘Sad’ Dylan Mulvaney flees to PERU and complains she no longer ‘feels safe’ in US after Bud Light fiasco: Trans influencer frolics with llama and hires a SHAMAN
The safest place for him is the US. But it is nice to be able to run off with a bunch of money and hire your own shaman I suppose.
Dissatisfied customer?
Police say a patient fatally shot Dr. Mauck in an exam room.
Officers found the suspect on Poplar Avenue near the entrance of the clinic with a gun on his person. Police say he was taken into custody without incident.
“So, this appears to be a one-on-one interaction that occurred within an exam room,” said Chief Lane. “This was not a mass shooting situation that we experienced at Kroger several years ago, nothing like that.”
In a Tuesday press conference, Chief Lane referenced the September 2021 grocery store shooting that left one Kroger customer dead and 13 others injured.
Collierville police offered active shooter training after that tragedy, and Lane said that training helped the Campbell Clinic staff deal with this horrific event.
“They were practicing what they had been trained,” said Lane, “and folks, that made a difference. It absolutely makes a difference.”
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Investigators have not released a motive for the shooting.
“I would say don’t live your life in fear, ok?” said Chief Lane. “We just have to be observant. Pay attention to our surroundings. Do as the people at Campbell Clinic did today when it began, they reacted the way that they were trained.”
Formulaic nonsense aside, I can’t help wondering if this had to do with a botched surgery. Doctors need incentives.
Thats how to shoe horn that back into memory. That writer needs to get to whatever the latest incarnation of our Ministry of Truth is.
Houston gunshot detection system delays police response time, report finds
I guess peoples ears were not considered sufficient.
A friend of mine has an inguinal hernia and si afraid he will no longer be able to go to the gym anymore. Anyone has any experience with something like that?
Malicious legislation is malicious.
The Democratic Party in Massachusetts has introduced one of the strictest gun control bills ever seen in the United States and would take away “civil liberties.”
An Act Modernizing Firearm Laws (HD 4420), often dubbed as the ‘Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act’ by gun-rights advocates, was introduced by Democrat Rep. Michael Day of Stoneham to “stem the flow of illegal firearms into the Commonwealth and increase protections from gun violence for our communities.”
“We’re not trying to go after or criminalize proper license [holders], people who can responsibly carry a firearm,” Day told Boston25 News. “This is really intending to get at those that are evading our code of laws through the advancement of technology and criminal behavior.”
Get the ones evading current laws by making new laws and therefore more potential criminals. Seems legit.
Redefining ‘Assault-style firearm’: The bill proposes a broader definition of ‘assault-style firearm,’ potentially banning most semi-automatic firearms for civilian use.
Redefining ‘firearm’: The proposed definition extends to include stun guns.
Mandatory ‘safe storage’: The bill prescribes storage procedures, mandating guns to be locked away.
Mandatory registration: The bill necessitates the registration of all guns and their feeding devices.
Reporting of parts modifications: Gun owners would need to report any modifications to their firearms.
Serialization of guns and magazines: Guns and feeding devices would need to be serialized.
Ban on under-21 ownership: The bill proposes a ban on individuals under 21 from acquiring or carrying semi-automatic rifles or shotguns.
New requirements for retailers: The bill imposes new conditions for firearms retailers.
Training mandates: New training requirements for gun owners are proposed.
Additional prohibited areas: The bill introduces more areas where licensed individuals cannot carry firearms.
And many more restrictions. Penalties and imprisonment will be imposed on those who violate on some of the new mandates or restrictions.
Here’s to several years of litigation to counter this unconstitutional horseshit, much of which has already been litigated. And I can’t help but note the irony of this occurring in Massachusetts.
Also Massachusetts. The Minutemen should all be tapped for the cores of generators right about now. Perpetual spinning.
You’re gonna need a bigger
boatdatabase.Mandatory cellular modem IPv6 for all guns and feeding devices it is (they say)!
“It’s so overwhelming, no lawful citizen would be able to comply if this passes. Nobody,” said Jim Wallace, Executive Director of GOAL.
Feature, not bug.
Look, until you do something about the Super Mutants, we need bigger guns, and more of them.
It does help explain why so many safes locked since the Great War seem to have stupid crappy pipe weapons in them at least.
Oh, no, that’s my fault, I go around putting my rejects in other peoples’ safes and relocking them with console commands.
So we are saying what, that at the end of the day Paul Revere’s ride was useless and all it did was tire out his horse and wake up some farmers from their sleep?
I guess we know who the deep state R candidate is.
NIKKI HALEY: “It changes nothing for us, to have Ukraine be able to become a part of NATO…”
Except, you know, it would obligate actively joining their war.
I don’t want any of that. In fact, Ukraine brings nothing to the NATO table.
Most countries bring nothing to the NATO table. But Ukraine brings WW3.
it doesn’t feel like an obligation if you want to do it.
I don’t.
In fact, I’d sooner nuke Ukraine until it glows out of spite for the troubles.
All of them except Trump, the Indian guy, and maybe DeSantis.
Hipster level: London
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1678764243167092738
Speaking of preposterous hogwash…
The other day, I saw a story (which I did not read) about how temperatures are now rising faster than man can adapt to them.
Okay, sure. That’s totally believeable.
You mean those temperatures which have been stagnant for decades and certainly aren’t changing any faster than during the span from 1700-2000?
When I was growing up, men were best at most things. Little did we know that one day, they would be better than women at beauty contests | Writes Allison Pearson
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1679124377906954240
Passable at distance, but up close? Ewwww…
There are a thousand better looking trans on IG.
10
FootMetre Paint Job.We can start with the myriad of crimes committed by the FBI historically and as of late.
Justice is better than revenge. You may not be Superman, but you can help the #FBI protect the country. If you have information about a federal crime, speak now. Call 1-800-225-5324 or visit http://tips.fbi.gov to submit a tip.
There’s this guy named Epps from January 6. He’s there on the video participating in the revolution. You need to charge him.
“Uh… I’d like to report the Biden Family for racketeering charges.”
“Thank you Sir. The FBI’s anti-Terrorism Strike Force will drop by your house at 3:00 AM this morning to “take your statement”.”
“Why does it sound like you’re doing the “air quote” thing when you say that?”
“Because shut up.”
Has anyone been foolish enough to report that they have evidence that will put Hillary Clinton behind bars?
climate change or not, horrible summer. Hot hot hot and no relief started in June and keeps fucking going.
Surprisingly nice in SC last night and this morning. A nice preview of September before the humidity kicks in again.
Thunder all around us, and yet we only have 8 hundredths of an inch of rain so far. The drought continues because the east coast is stealing our rain.
Good morning, Sloop!
The squirrels ate my first attempt. I wonder what verboten words I used!
Thanks for the lynx and especially Major Boobage! I liked Sammy a lot better when he was on his own and not helping to pussify VH.
I hope y’all have a great day!
https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Major_Boobage
I just about fell out of the chair when SP put out that episode.
One of their best. And that’s saying something.
The 80s Buck Roger’s homage also holds a high place.
Grants, not loans
A lot has already been said about the Supreme Court’s decision on federal student loan forgiveness but what’s missing from the conversation is how we constructively address the larger issue — a broken federal higher education system in need of significant and lasting reform.
First, the federal system does too much for too many and not enough for those who truly need support. Too many resources are being used to fund loans to students and families with little need for taxpayer assistance. This practice diverts money that could be used to make grants to students with demonstrated need, and for whom assistance will make a critical difference in their ability to afford higher education.
Further, by offering some federal student loans in virtually unlimited amounts, without consideration of a borrower’s ability to repay them, the federal program allows, predictably, unsustainable levels of debt. This unlimited lending jeopardizes the financial health of families seeking higher education while denying them the incentive to seek more affordable education options that still meet their needs. The New America Foundation described the unlimited lending of certain federal student loan programs as “predatory.” At a minimum, the system as it currently operates allows too many families to borrow more than they can reasonably afford to repay.
Why didn’t we think of this sooner?
Going to pee in a cup because I’ve got that poking feeling in my left flank.
*grumble*
gonorrhea is not that accurately detected via urine
I’m getting a pregnancy test, dummy
Hope you’re not in a Red State, if it’s positive they will imprison you and force you to bear the child.
Depends on just how much gonorrhea you have.
If we fail to make significant structural reforms to the federal higher education system, another generation of students and families will inevitably face the same hurdles so many face today. The Supreme Court’s decision is a call for us to come together and work toward meaningful reform.
Jon Witter is the CEO of Sallie Mae.
What a fucking retard. There is no such thing as a “federal higher education system”. There is only a counterproductive attempt to delude millions of gullible kids into borrowing money for “education” they don’t need, so they can chase jobs which shouldn’t exist.
I’d say it is the federal higher education system now for all intents and purposes.
Bought and paid for.
Ahh WP. If any natural disaster occurs, what is the reason?
See my comment above. Its all in to confirm point of no return. Unless of course you give us money.
I have two of these.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/intel-is-apparently-winding-down-its-nuc-mini-pcs-after-more-than-a-decade/
One is me wife’s main system the other is like 10 years old running Ubuntu. If you get them for the right price and spec they are really neat machines. Essentially a laptop with no screen running max power and clock. Since they have no battery, but are very efficient they make a great everyday PC.
I would have bought some if I knew they existed.
In the comments folks said things like
https://www.bee-link.com/
were more cost effective. Never heard of them.
I have a Bee Link attached to the back of a 22″ touch screen on my plasma table. Works great.
Needs more USB ports and a display port out. HDMI is too limited.
Unless I’m missing something unique about the Intel versions, many other companies make them.
CPU architecture most likely. I would guess the Intel ones are running on x86/64 (or whatever the newest standard is), versus RISC or ARM low power CPU’s.
No disagreement from me.
Sheila Jackson Lee wants the world to know:
“I rise today as a clear recipient of affirmative action.”
You have just made our case.
https://twitter.com/VP/status/1678894437706125318
Tackling the important issues.
You spelled impossible wrong.
Oh shut up
Another step to end this notion you can travel beyond your feet.
we need huge blimps with way more room than airplanes
https://youtu.be/vzYLTnI7TUI?t=68
What?
Elon lets me see twits now, but sadly no replies.
Don’t sacrifice the hot ones.
The Russian military is targeting women in its latest drive to recruit soldiers for its war in Ukraine.
According to an advertisement in the western Siberian region of Omsk, potential female recruits would fill the roles of doctors, nurses, and cooks.
They could be sent to the occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya.
An independent news outlet called the hotline on the advertisement and was told that women under 50 are being encouraged to sign one-year contracts.
Hello Natalia. You doctor now.
It’s great seeing Ricciardo back in a driver’s seat, although I feel sorry for DeVries. AT has had an ultra shitty car this year and not been at all competitive. It will be interesting to see if Ric can move up a few places from the back markers in some races. I do indeed think that this puts more pressure on Perez to perform and get out of Q3. His seat is safe this year, but if he keeps doing what he has done the last handful of races I think Red Bull might very well eat his last year of contract next year. It will be a bit of a long shot for Ric, but I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility to see him in the second Red Bull seat next year.
They really have turned up the climate change panic to 11 in the past couple months. They have seen their narrative start to get some cracks and want to make sure that nothing happens to fuck up their giant grift.
If this describes the competence of the @wef
with regard to energy, I would be concerned for very different reasons…
This is the stuff that makes engineers cry:
https://twitter.com/EnzoDiependaal/status/1678400520086585347
Yes it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zi-G9ZsSJY
Superficial’: Climate minister escorted by limos while cycling to conference
After riding in one of the limos until she was 100 yards (pardon me, metres) from the conference.
That’s just sad.
Anchor Brewing to Cease Operations, Liquidate Business
Anchor Brewing, the nation’s oldest craft brewery, will cease operations and the business will be liquidated, the company’s public relations firm announced today.
That’s sad, but not unexpected.
Yuengling pre-dates that and is considered “craft” by the brewers association.
This, on the other hand, is their legit claim as being the oldest craft brewery.
I wonder if this will open up Steam to be used by other brewers of California Common.
I am guessing someone will end up owning the trademark via the bankruptcy court.
I should make an offer!
Might be the most valuable part of the business.
The death of the beer festival is jolting the craft brewing industry
Once ubiquitous and popular, major festivals in Colorado and nationwide are vanishing from the calendar this year amid tightening economic conditions and fatigue among fans, more than a half dozen breweries and industry pros tell Axios Denver. Others that remain are not selling out in minutes and drawing dozens of breweries and thousands of fans, as they did in the industry’s pre-pandemic heydays.
I saw that.
Covid got people out of the habit of going.
Next year’s Homebrew Con has been moved to October to coincide with GABF.
This is not a good sign.
Are changing tastes partly to blame? One of my teammates works for A-B and said their premix cocktails are going crazy.
From the link above:
What’s new: This year, GABF is allowing breweries on the floor to pour one beverage that is not beer, such as seltzer, kombucha, cider or mead. The change lifts a long-standing moratorium. “We realize that there are changing palates, and breweries are adapting in their brewhouse so we want to have that experience at the festival,” Obenchain tells us.
I last went to Great Taste of the Midwest in 2013.
I wonder how it is doing, I bet it is doing just fine. One thing they prided themselves on, IIRC, is buying all the beer. The brewers werent out any cost of beer, though they still had to provide staffing. The article mentions donating beer and staffing costs as part of the issue.
Oversaturation is a thing — I think Saratoga was up to six of them a year.
‘Production under Sapporo’s leadership declined in every other year with the exception of 2021, when volume increased +45%, to 72,500 barrels, its highest point since the 89,612 barrels produced in 2018, according to the Brewers Association’s New Brewer Magazine.
In 2022, Anchor’s volume declined -10% in 2022, to 65,000 barrels..’
Those are some wild swings in production. One more pandemic death?
There is no reason a 65k bbl brewery couldnt be profitable. I mean, I guess there could be reasons, like being stuck in SF. But in general, I mean.
It would be hilarious if Fritz Maytag bought it back cheap.
That would be awesome, but I think he is getting pretty up there in age. Fritz was key in bringing forth the craft beer revolution in America. I met him at the Anchor brewery tasting room when I was 17 and finishing up a tour. He passed by and I recognized him from a homebrewing magazine and walked over and shook his hand. He came over to the bar and we had a bunch of samples while he told a few stories of the history of Anchor. It has always been one of my favorite beers and an iconic SF institution. I was really pissed when Sapporo took over a few years ago and immediately ditched the classic labels and light blue bottlecaps for Steam. I felt that they also slightly changed the beer itself. Hope someone can revive it and bring back the classic look and taste of it. I’m also really partial to their porter and Liberty Ale, which is the first modern IPA in America (and not at all a hop bomb, but more like a pale ale with a bit extra). That’s a devastating loss for SF, but par for the course on how things are going here.
“the tour backed by a Saudi government both Democrats and Republicans argued has committed egregious human rights abuses.”
You mean killing that one doofus?
Because no one seemed to gaf about all that before, and they don’t exactly elaborate in the article what the big deal is. Yemen? Aren’t we complicit in that anyway?
Maybe we need to put the interests of the country ahead of the internal problems of Saudi Arabia.
Directly. Pay no attention to 9/11.
I mean, clearly that wasn’t enough to change our foreign policy 20 years ago, so I don’t see it as relevant today. But one foreign ‘journalist’, that’s going too far!
Agreed. Just pointing the usual foreign policy hypocrisy from our “friends”.
“There comes a time in all of our lives when we must confront the question: how much cheese is too much cheese? If Burger King in Thailand is to be believed, the limit (allegedly) does not exist.
The fast food giant has caused a stir this week with its latest offering, “The Real Cheeseburger”, a burger with no meat or condiments, and a cardiac arrest-inducing amount of American cheese (20 slices, to be exact) sandwiched inside a sesame seed bun.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/burger-king-thailand-shocks-fans-with-new-cheeseburger-revolting/
No.
I like melted American cheese, but no. Just no.
I actually don’t believe that.
Waitrose-grad vs the ‘NIMBocrites’
Could Cambridge come to rival London?
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/waitrose-grad-vs-the-nimbocrites
Despite this, there is something appealing to what Aaron Bastani called Waitrose-grad, and he is right to suggests that ‘Making the Cambridge cluster a full blown city-region with tonnes more housing, office and research space, and low carbon transport infrastructure, is probably the single best thing you could do to improve productivity in the U.K.’
What is especially amusing about the Cambridge plan is how much it has brought out the ‘NIMBocrites’, the coinage of Charlotte Gill at the Critic.
Gill writes that:
‘These are liberal types who advocate population growth – wanting more immigration, often mourning the end of free movement and a “compassionate” approach to asylum – whilst doing everything they can to stifle the infrastructure needed to support this.
LOL
“Nimbocrites” is a good one, I’ll have to remember that.
The most compassionate response to “asylum” would be to ship them back to their home countries. There’s no way the UK is the first safe stop, unless they’re french fleeing the invasion of their country.
Oversight and accountability, however limited, is so passe.
The White House on Monday told lawmakers it opposes a provision in the House’s annual defense policy bill that would create a special inspector general for Ukraine aid, modelled after the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
The Ukraine inspector general was one of several provisions in the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act that the White House, in an Office of Management and Budget statement on the bill, told Congress it wants removed.
The statement also objected to several provisions in the bill related to the U.S. nuclear arsenal and addresses the Pentagon cost assessment office drawn into a debate over Navy ship procurement. The House is expected to begin voting on the FY24 NDAA as early as Wednesday.
‘Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.’
Did that actually work? How many billions of our military tech are we planning to give to Russia when this ends?
Is there anything worse than HGTV? These remodeling shows are intolerable.
I’m in the waiting room and stuck with it.
Lifetime.
At least they’ve got hot chicks
Just be glad it isn’t CNN.
True
MDF furniture and two hour bathroom remodels not your thing?
I’m a butterfly herder and my wife grooms peacock feathers, and our house budget is $500,000. No, we can’t come up with an extra $50,000 to rip out the plumbing and electrical and put a new roof on. Oh wait! Here it is!
Only $500,000? Butterfly futures must have tanked. Last year it would have been $2.4 Million.
You forgot the obligatory gay interior designer with a lisp who comes in and saves the project.
They dropped that requirement.
“And here is my particularly sibilant designer Peter.”
There was a time when those shows were useful. I probably watched dozens of shows in the year or so before we broke ground on our house in 2004. I learned a lot of cool things, and it influenced how we built and furnished the house.
Now, they’re just crap.
This Old House wasn’t bad.
And then a few years later those fix-and-flip shows wrecked the entire world economy.
Holmes on Homes.
MDF has its uses, but not in furnature.
Not Manhattan! I’m already dodging three hotels worth of scooters and congregating people walking to work. Thank God.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/adams-opens-two-new-emergency-relief-centers-as-migrants-surpass-54k/
My first visit to Manhattan in years a few weeks ago… I could not believe how much more chaotic everything around the Port Authority is than ever before.
Just a really unpleasant area.
Show your work.
Unless they wanted back some of inordinately high tax dollars that get sent to NYC.
Emergency response protocols require looking for in-state resources first, before involving out of state sources.
Any calls made to downstate was because we were required to, not because we thought you had anything to offer, mayor.
According to an advertisement in the western Siberian region of Omsk, potential female recruits would fill the roles of doctors, nurses, and cooks.
OMG so heteronormative patriarchism!
Why not generals, or tank commanders?
Whole article is very sinister but the most troubling part is Hague believing he’s qualified to say anything about what “right-wingers” think. These people are psychological black holes.
https://twitter.com/lmrwanda/status/1678716941765156867
Now libertarians should generally be pro immigration, but I digitally connected seems to do a lot of heavy lifting here
Glad I’m not a libertarian. I’m very much a small gates, tall walls, minefields, and machine guns kinda guy on immigration policy.
The White House on Monday told lawmakers it opposes a provision in the House’s annual defense policy bill that would create a special inspector general for Ukraine aid, modelled after the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
“Don’t worry. We’ll be sure to tell you everything we think you need to know.”
That doesn’t look at all suspicious. 🙄
Maxine Swimwear Fashion Show – Miami Swim Week 2023 – DCSW – Full Show 4K60fps
Yaers Fashion TV
1.52M subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kduhRGEM07E
“Tucker Carlson Breaks the Internet and Interviews Andrew Tate for Over 2 Hours – Tate Tells His Romanian Arrest Story and How the US Embassy Was Not Interested in Getting Him Out (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/tucker-carlson-breaks-internet-interviews-andrew-tate-2/
I don’t see why Tucker or anyone would care what he has to say.
I still don’t know who he is.
Some douchebag “alpha” influencer.
exhibit c why fitness is fashy.
according to the Romanian police a pimp
Sounds like he just didn’t bribe the right cops.
or the competition bribed more
clicks my dude clicks
There are way clickworthy people that Tucker could get.
Opinion
How the myth of a ‘model minority’ works to divide Americans
https://archive.is/JRXSO#selection-361.0-367.60
Interesting headline, when the ruling literally stops the dividing of Americans by race.
“ROGD was first described in the literature in 2018 by the physician and researcher Lisa Littman. It is an explanation of the new phenomenon of adolescents, largely girls, with no history of gender dysphoria, suddenly declaring they want to transition to the opposite sex. It has been a highly contentious diagnosis, with some—and I am one—thinking it’s an important avenue for scientific inquiry, and others declaring it’s a false idea advocated by parents unable to accept they have a transgender child.
I believed that ROGD was a promising explanation of the explosion of gender dysphoria among adolescent girls because these young people do not have gender dysphoria as usually understood. Until recently, females treated for gender dysphoria were masculine-presenting girls who had hated being female since early childhood. By contrast, girls with ROGD are often conventionally feminine, but tend to have other social and emotional issues. The theory behind ROGD is that through social contagion from friends, social media, and even school, vulnerable girls are exposed to the idea that their normal adolescent angst is the result of an underlying transgender identity. These girls then suddenly declare that they are transgender. That is the rapid onset. After the declaration, the girls may desire—and receive—drastic medical interventions including mastectomies and testosterone injections.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/trans-activists-killed-my-scientific-paper
Drugs, ass? Still worth reading.
https://twitter.com/HumansNoContext/status/1678958809228668929
to be fair those Turkish ice cream guys are annoying
So, yesterday was Tuesday, and as Tuesdays will, it sucked. That job that seemed a wee bit too good to be true, was. Another job I applied for summarily rejected me. Ants got into my gizzards. My latest coding test came back and even though I’m 88% of the way through the course, it’s a fucking nightmare of mistakes (I’m really not grokking the intricacies, tbh), and all the reports I’m getting from other new grads is that they’re sending out hundreds of resumes for no return; it’s like nobody will hire new coders. (To be fair, that was always a risk.) I’m just now figuring out I won’t really be able to have a decent job anyway because now that my kids don’t need attention during business hours, my mom and her sisters are starting to, and regardless what it costs me, I have to put my family first. I could start advertising my book formatting services better, but I’ve no idea where or how.
Today’s only bright spots are that a) it’s a new day and not late at night in the dark alone, and b) I’m expecting a delivery of crafting supplies. I may have to hie myself to Michael’s and Hobby Lobby for a bit of retail therapy.
All that sounds stupid typed out, but it’s just the pattern of loss that has me in a funk.
That’s awful enough, but it reads even worse.
What’s the code for “Ants in gizzards”?
Seeing as humans don’t have gizzards, I’m guessing there isn’t one, but I’ve guessed wrong before.
Do vets use billing codes?
I don’t know, because billing codes are for insurance/Medicare, and gathering statistics for the CDC.
B82, B88, or B89 would probably work?
Colloquially, at least where I’m from, ‘gizzards’ (always plural) was used to refer to internal organs, usually digestive, but not always. Even for creatures without an actual gizzard. Distinction would be made when talking about an actual gizzard.
Oh, I see. Here, colloquially, it’s “innards.” I’ve never heard of someone referring to their viscera as “gizzards.”
But are you clever as a gizzard?
Mojo is a chicken?!?!?!?
“Ants got into my gizzards.”
Yikes!
As I recall, your brother isn’t local, but are there any cousins with whom to tag team Mom-and-aunties duty?
Also, if you need no-brainer crafty stuff, get a bunch of loop yarn and make fuzzy throws for your cats. 😻
One brother is in Orlando. One is in Seattle.
Alpha aunt’s kids are in Colorado and California (whence she moved). Beta aunt’s estranged from her children (she’s got a life story to tell, lemme just say), except one granddaughter, who ALSO is in California, whence she moved. So it’s just me for all 3. My mom’s 79. Alpha aunt is 76. Beta aunt is 82.
Now, on my dad’s side, my first cousin once removed (which I feel obliged to say because she hates it when I call her my “aunt”) is 82, and while she is in Salt Lake, I will be tending to some of her estate business because she too is estranged from her nieces and nephews. We chat once in a while and I can’t do the task she set me to because she hasn’t gotten me the right paperwork.
Really, I’m just glad all four of them have their faculties.
You clearly need to get better at estranging yourself from relatives. Seriously, though…
…Amen to that!😕
Medical coding can be hard to break into. We had a neighbor who did it, and it took years for her to build up a full client list. But once she did, she constantly had to refuse new clients and turn work down. She basically started by convincing one doctor to give her a try, and then went from there.
I’d suggest getting a clerical job in a medical setting to build your resume and make some contacts, but that doesn’t sound like it would work for you. Maybe there are some WFH jobs like that. You could use your coding certification to help get a job where that would be useful, even if it isn’t coding.
Clerical work is how some people have gotten into it, yes. It may or may not be an option because if I can do clerical work from home,I might as well just be a virtual admin.
What’s the code for “Ants in gizzards”?
More importantly, who treats you when you have ants in your gizzard? Terminix?
NYP buries the lede.
Restaurants will be forced to show the fee as income, even though the money is lifted out of their bank accounts by Toast.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/restaurateurs-fuming-over-ominous-new-fee-billed-to-their-customers-by-big-tech-vendor/
Local rep, not mine, but he was a local TV morning talking head who quit because of the editorial spin their writers came up with that he had to read but didn’t agree with.
This sounds sort of like people protesting ATM fees for “getting our own money.” Someone somewhere has to pay for all the technology and servicing those wishing to place orders.
It’ll be counted as income by the IRS, and they may or may not allow you to deduct the fee.
I don’t see how that could possibly be true.