Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
Personally, I’d have gone with shit eating grin. But death stare also works.
Fulton County DA Asks for October 2023 Trial in Trump Case
DOJ pressures Mar-a-Lago IT director to change testimony, flip on Trump
Fresh Data Signals US Economy Facing ‘Stagnation’
Justice Department sues SpaceX over discrimination against refugees, asylum seekers
Debate Rating: Only 12.8M Watched, 13M Less than Donald Trump’s 2015 Debut
Trump’s GOP debate night interview at 230 million views and counting
More Than Half of Imprisoned Men Who Identify as Transgender Are Guilty of Sexual Assault
How can you not love this guy?
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Pre-8:00 lynx are best lynx.
Morning.
Fantastic!
Remember: If you bite it and you die, its poisonous. If you bit it, and it dies, you are venomous.
What if it died because of the crush force of the bite? Or because the bite severed an artery? Am I still venomous?
STFU [insert smiley face if you think appropriate]
A bite from a human is not much less dangerous than one from a rattlesnake…
Hmmm… Stagnation and inflation… sounds oddly familiar….
(Who would have thought Biden would truly be trying to be worse than Carter? Wilson is still the Worst Ever in my books, though).
Biden has time. Just wait.
So he’ll wrap up with Regime change in Iran?
And maybe a carrier op where he ditches the whole carrier for them…. that’d be about his speed.
So assuming he pays the same per-person ransom that he did last time, how much would a carrier crew cost?
Then top that by attacking North Korea, and jailing 100s of prominent politicians that oppose him. He’ll win the race to the bottom.
We already did Afghanistan, so…
Well, what I want is to elect someone to save us from the Federal Government in many ways (starting with the IC)… so I disagree slightly that some of our problems can’t be solved there. But certainly appreciate the sentiment.
Justice Department sues SpaceX over discrimination against refugees, asylum seekers
Um, isn’t it illegal to hire people who are not in the country with a valid work visa?
Especially for an aerospace company launching government payloads.
Yeah — I’m assuming (so making a donkey at least out of myself, I know) the DOJ is coming from an angle where “we gave all these ‘refugees’ and ‘asylum seekers’ temporary status while they await their ‘hearings’… so they’re employable (albeit with probably crap for documentation)..” but the security / clearance issues when dealing with a company that has to be launching a lot of sensitive stuff for other companies, the government, themselves seems dominant.
I don’t want Joe Random Unvetted “Refugee” hired at Plant Vogtle either… Go through the proper naturalization channels, Executive branch. Stop making up crap and pretending you write the laws (assholes).
I think the angle they are actually coming from is “Elon bad – must punish Elon” which coincidentally happens to align with the radicals that form the Dem base now.
Yeah, Elon is an enemy of the state since he stopped the state’s censorship of Twitter/X.
Oh yeah — that’s the real issue.. they had the man, they just had to construct the crime. I was just trying to guess what their argument was to not be laughed out of any sane non-kangaroo court.
That said, I’m sure they’ll get Judge Joey by “random assignment”.
^It’s this and if a few satellite payloads have to be destroyed to make a point then so be it.
Yup, if he had hired them, they’d probably go after him for a myriad of other reasons.
I’m cool with deporting every single one of them.
Good luck finding them, though.
Both the company I currently work for, and my previous one had quite a few government contracts. One of the requirements to work on those accounts (accessing data/servers) was that you were a US citizen. Not just working in the US, but you needed full citizen status.
Just because one department says it’s illegal doesn’t mean that a different department can’t prosecute you for not doing it.
^This guy gets it.
Biden has declared them eligible to work. What more do you need?
Ah, yes, I forgot that the dictates of a Dem president carry the weight of law, superseding any legislation or even the constitution.
The Bidens mad that Musk didn’t hire enough spies.
And just what, exactly, are these “refugees and asylum seekers” qualified to do?
And how many of them have actually applied at SpaceX? I’d love to find out how this even got on DOJ’s radar. Did the people complain after applying at SpaceX, or were they sent to SpaceX to get rejected to create the basis of the lawsuit? My money is on the latter.
My assumption is that even basic maintenance and cleaning in secure areas must be done by US citizens or lawful aliens.
^This. This really is the weirdest lawsuit in a while.
You are evil for even asking about qualifications. They “need” to work in the space delivery industry just like they did in Guatemala.
Rocket Surgery.
Maui officials were attending FEMA disaster training on Oahu while families burned to death in Lahaina
What, you expect them to interrupt their government-funded Hawaiian
vacations, er, “training”?They already live in Hawaii though… so their exotic government training vacations should be Newark or something.
My thought was “Gee… maybe they could have roped in the FEMA instructors (who presumably know something if they’re teach… BWA HAHAHAHAHA!!!! sorry… couldn’t make it through that sentence…)”
Listen bub, the ICS is very important! Knowing which officials are directors and which are secretaries is VITAL to an appropriate response!
That’s why there’s vests on titles on them.
Color coded outfits like in Paranoia!
Good morning, Banjos!
Great song to accompany the insanity in the lynx.
The DOJ is out of control. The officials in Maui should be strung up.
Dangerously incompetent mobsters.
We’re living in a Fredocratic state, yeah.
They can handle things! They’re smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… they’re smart and they want respect!
THEY KNOW THINGS!
Mornin’
I have a perhaps overly sensitive bullshit detector and a bias against all politicians and the NRA. So I am pretty much incapable of believing any of this is sincere.
However,
Vivek definitely has the CEO skillset of faking sincerity, agreement and understanding very well, and at the very least shows a genuine ability to think at the speed of conversation. And he does say what I want to hear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwBC-s7Quis
And he does say what I want to hear.
Same. I just don’t know how much he could/would act on if he were to actually gain the presidency. Especially with the deep state determined to shut down and destroy him.
Yep. He could at least eliminate many cabinet positions and staff, as those are at the whim of the president. He could also replace a lot of key personnel. That’s a start.
Eliminate many cabinet positions? You must be new to the United States.
“Yep. He could at least eliminate many cabinet positions and staff, as those are at the whim of the president.”
The courts and slow-walking apparatchiks in the Trump years ought to have shown us that the “whim of the president” means diddly squat when the president tries to control the federal bureaucracy.
This is an excuse. The fact of the matter is that Trump was and is a lousy executive. He does not have the skillset or the personality needed to destroy non-functional groups and replace them wholesale.
He definitely portrays belief and understanding. My priors are that it’s more likely that he’s learned to fake this performance than it being genuine.
I went from neutral to liking him less and less the more of a political chameleon he is.
If you want to like someone, avoid them.
This is another reason I don’t zoom.
I don’t need to like someone if they’re going to implement what I want done.
I just have no confidence he has any intention of doing anything I want done.
I just have no confidence he has any intention of doing anything I want done.
You’re right, an Indian guy is not going to be banning foods with flavor.
I get a kick out of how he always wears a red tie. Remind you of anybody?
Not ringing a bell. But Biden’s ties (typically blue/gold diagonal) piss me off to no end, mostly because that’s a pattern that has some meaning to me, and it makes me disinclined to wear it.
No? Not anybody at all?
He’s clearly the guy running for VP in that group. If Trump has to pick from that group, he’s the best choice.
I don’t know about that, he’s at least said (I know) that he has no desire to be #2. His pitch is “I am young, Trump-lite.”
Of course he said that. Then he refrained from criticizing Trump while shredding the idiots on the stage.
Brought over from dedthred:
Me:
Chafed:
There’s an old joke in politics about sincerity – once you learn to fake sincerity, you’ve got it made. While I think that may be the case here, I will say, he’s been consistent on everything I’ve seen him talk about. Contrast that to say Pence, or Chrispy who change stances depending on the crowd and who can’t answer a question without repeating the question as if to pretend to answer it but go into the non-answer that veers into why we need to support Ukraine or stop fentanyl from coming over the border.
He will do nothing he said. If any of those shitbirds from the debate end up in the Oval Office it will be business as usual.
I think Vivek Ramaswamy and Barack Obama went to the same school of public speaking. Far too many similarities.
Silly but entertaining:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eyFLnoWJRY
Message is clear. Cooperate with our goals and we’ll appoint a friendly leftist to defend you because you’ll be fine and it will cost you mothing.
Do not cooperate with our goals and we will rain hell on you, no amount of lawyering up will save you.
The transparent corruption screams, “What are youse gonna do about it?”
How is your key witness not completely impeached when they give different testimony to the trial court than what they gave to the grand jury?
“The Grand Jury record is inadmissable as unduly prejudicial to the jury” – Judge
This Trump Fulton thing is mind boggling.
They’ve uncorked an endless bottle of low-level apparatchiks being used to conduct lawfare against federal political candidates.
All the while I can’t get standing to file suit against federal laws which directly impact me, but a bunch of snot-nosed kids can sue because “climate.” They’re not suing because social security is broke though.
The wheels are coming off the system.
The wheels are off and barely visible in the rear view.
How did you go bankrupt? Two ways, gradually then suddenly.
“Do you want kids to grow up without learning to ski, because this is how you get kids growing up without learning how to ski.” – probably some judge granting standing in Montana climate suit.
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Footage of India’s moon landing.
They totally did, you guys!
Heh. Fantastic.
That rocks. I am showing that to Team India this morning.
Too early for such hilarity. Stop making me laugh while I’m curmudgeoning .
Was hoping for a big Bollywood production number. Am disappoint.😞
A large dance number at the end would have definitely been more awesome
Does anyone really believe the view counts on the Trump/Carlson interview?
I have to assume the internet is lying to me.
Are you even Ted’S?
I don’t know, let me navigate there and refresh a few times to judge the accuracy for myself.
They were discussing this on a radio program yesterday and made the comment that even autoplays as you’re scrolling count in the “views” tally. They said figure 5-10% of the displayed “views” are people who watched a significant portion. Not sure how true that is and first time I’ve heard that.
A better metric would be watch hours and watch hours per view.
Playa haters gonna hate
This was from David Van Camp, for what it’s worth.
Can’t verify that either but I first heard that when some advertisers were complaining during the previous ownership. Saying Twitter was manipulating the viewer numbers to charge the companies more for the ad space. Again, can’t verify and couldn’t tell you if the algorithm has been altered since Musk took over.
I was typing at the end of my 15-minute break, but i wanted to add that it made me think of the sales numbers for Dianetics.
Like others have said, an “impression” could be someone clicked on the link and watched for 1 minute, then retweets it to his 10 friends, who also watch the 1 minute clip – boom 11 views.
It does give some useful information though about just how dead in the water the other candidates are at this point.
So Prigozhin is he really dead or not?
Have they found the body?
I really expected it to be a defenestration.
Ca you trust what they find after a plane crash?
He fell out of a plane window.
I’m waiting for his surprise WWE return at the next Wrestlemania.
One of my neighbors has a WWF bumper sticker – One Panda about to hit another with a metal folding chair.
This is the irreverence we need,
I’d PPV to watch that.
Whomever made that sticker is just pandaing to the lower classes.
Oh no, I can’t bear the puns!
You’re in luck, since pandas aren’t bears.
They’re twinks?
Dr. Girlfriend has that on a T-shirt
So has anyone else noticed that Putin’s enemies are often the victim of Gravity?
What’s Russian for Peerless Paladin?
He, Bin Laden, Tupac and Biggie are all sipping cocktails on an island right now.
Is Ken Lay the server?
Andy Kaufman busses the tables.
Greece wildfires: 79 people arrested for arson
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66612781
were they emitting CO2?
Good – I’m suspicious of all the climate change fires these days.
Stumbled across a very good Norm MacDonald documentary this morning:
https://youtu.be/MG6AdO3A7x8?si=gn418HrUAW6tTbB6
Informative, funny, and bittersweet : Two thumbs up
My wife has my son-in-law’s Netflix and I have watched 2 things with it: Extraction 2 and Norm’s last special.
It was funny but would have been so much better with a crowd, some of the jokes were definitely designed to piss off people and I loved the way he would do that.
After it was over some of his friends (David Spade, Adam Sandler, and some other comedians) were telling stories and that was funny and bittersweet.
What I want is to be able use somebody’s Japanese Netflix account (via VPN) so that I can watch some shows not available in the US…
At first I thought that’s where you were going.
His is from Japan and my wife can watch all kinds of Japanese shows, but I don’t know if they are location specific.
Some of them are geo-blocked and other aren’t.
It’s nice your wife gets to watch some Japan domestic content. One of the down sides of leaving home is missing domestic shows. The internet has changed that, but thanks to copyright geo-blocking is very much a PITA.
I can sometimes find them through “other” sources, but I’d prefer to just stream them from the providers.
NHK also geo-blocks which is really annoying.
I never understood why that was a thing. Wouldn’t you want people to see your work? I remember encountering that first with DVDs.
As far as I know there is no singular way to get global streaming rights so they have to go region by region.
Music can also be especially problematic in older works.
Already with the awesome avatar. Two thumbs up for that!
One of the best mugshots I’ve ever seen and I’m not a big Trump fan.
The weather forecast is getting worse every time I look it up 🙁 . Fucking hell.
When did a public defender NOT advise his client to make a plea deal?
You have f-u money, a large discography, are 76 and you felt the need to apologize? Well you’re an idiot Santana.
Santana’s been a retard for decades.
And it reads like someone is holding a gun to his head.
“a woman is a woman and a man is a man”
String the hateful bastard up.
Turns out Santana has less testicular fortitude than a thirty year old rapper named Ne-Yo.
That was obviously written by a publicist.
Of course. Ne-Yo is The One, after all.
Regardless of if I agree with the message, why paint the target on your back in the first place? And if you are going to paint the target on there, stand by it. The way he played it, he lost respect from everybody. He must have hired that Bud Light broad as his publicist.
A reminder that Londoners are statistically the most homophobic people in Britain.
https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1694827775058698739
the damn Anglicans are to blame
Pish tosh, everyone knows wypipo are not real Londers.
Or it could just be that Brixton is a crime-infested shithole.
Well it’s hard for the people out in the Cotwolds to be judgmental, with most everyone having had a go with a sheep at some point.
Paper drinking straws may be harmful and may not be better for the environment than plastic versions, researchers warn
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-paper-straws-environment-plastic-versions.html
*does pelvic thrust dance*
Ypu mean paper product treated with chemicals probably isn’t a good idea to put in your mouth?
*looks up from breakfast of Amazon packaging*
Que?
Wait, so all that acid I ate as a youth may have been a bad thing?
No! Don’t let them trip-shame you!
But they do have the benefit if making everything taste cardboardy so there’s that.
And turning to mush before you finish your drink.
BAN ALL THE THINGS!!!
I don’t know that I trust any of this research into straws, “forever chemicals”, any of it. It’s all politicized so who knows what to believe.
So Netflix made an anime set in (I presume) the Cyberpunk 2077 universe. It is a very stereotypical cyberpunk RPG troped anime, but if you like that, it’s pretty good.
Edgerunners?
Netflix didn’t make it, they only streamed it
Ah, they slapped their logo on it so I assumed they made it. Or at least paid someone to make it.
Probably saved the game too.
Am I the only person who had no bugs afflict me from day 1?
I’m mostly annoyed that the stock still hasn’t recovered. I bought just before the game release, and it’s still worth half of what I paid.
I only had the bodies falling randomly into the street but then again, I figure in a world such as that…it isn’t a bug.
I generally don’t like anime, but I thought it was pretty good. I’d say it doesn’t have many of the anime stereotypes that cause me to dislike it.
Maybe not the “magical girl” or “giant fighting robots” genre, but I’m struggling to think of a single cyberpunk anime trope it doesn’t have.
Cybernetic implants? Check.
Said cybernetic implants leading to loss of self? Check.
Corporations completely subsuming the role of the state? Check.
Guns. Lots of guns? Check.
Directly interfacing the internet with a cable plugged into your head? Check.
“Cyberspace” being the UI for the internet? Check.
Software in cyberspace killing your body in meatspace? Check.
Fixers showing up with jobs to drive the plot? Check.
“Man behind the man” plot escalation? Check.
Nihilism? Check?
Downer ending? Checkedy check.
Those are the barebones basic elements of the genre.
Those are cyberpunk tropes in general, not anime ones. They’re all in Gibson, The Matrix, etc.
I would say cyberpsychosis is more of a RPG thing than a general cyberpunk thing. It’s a check on character power inflation and not present in Gibson.
Also in literature, character being handed “do this next” quests and “man behind the man” isn’t as much of a thing.
You’ve never seen the escalating conspiracy plot played in prose?
I admit the sequential questline and villain escalation tropes are more staples in Anime series than books, but there’s more room when you have more encounters to fill.
I will confess, the first examples that come to mind on the escalating conspiracy plot were actually Shadowrun novels, so that doesn’t mean much.
I’m not saying it never happens, just that it’s not the dominant technique in literature.
If it’s in any of the Gibson books, I don’t remember it.
And Shadowrun is a RPG, where the DM handing out quests to the players and anti-munchkin rules are a thing.
I know, that’s why I’m saying that it doesn’t mean much.
Cyberpsychos were from the game, it would be kind of weird if the concept wasn’t in the anime based on it. The idea of being harmed by interface tech is definitely in Gibson and other cyberpunk novels/films. Heck, in the peripheral show recently, which is based on a Gibson book, they had the same idea with implants inadvertently causing brain trauma and physical issues.
Also in literature, character being handed “do this next” quests and “man behind the man” isn’t as much of a thing.
Um, isn’t that basically the entire plot of Neuromancer? Though it turns out to not be a man at all.
And of course, Gibson and the Matrix don’t have downer endings.
The Matrix series had the same ending.
I honestly have no recollection of the other two movies except that there were albinos involved and every character turned out to be a
cylonpiece of sentient code.Heck, I don’t remember the first one all that well. Something about buggy software and kung fu
I saw a few reviews on it from the usual anime reviewers. They all liked it.
Not my favorite genre so I gave it a pass.
The Bee is feeling a little black-pilled apparently… (not that they’re wrong).
The Bee named as co-conspirator in Trump Georgia RICO case.
This is good:
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-great-game-of-lets-pretend/
‘There was not one word said about tech censorship, the millions displaced and harmed by vaccine mandates, the dictatorial reach of the administrative state, the vast flurry of litigation against everything and everybody, the mass loss of trust in government and media, the foundational attack on the Bill of Rights, or the very real threat that it could happen again.
On the same day as the debate, we already saw mask mandates being reimposed. But no one spoke about it.
You surely see what’s going on here. The biggest issues in American life, which everyone experienced with vast tragedy and death all around, and about which everyone knows, are suddenly too sensitive to bring up. It’s something of which multitudes are aware but because all official institutions were involved, all official institutions are quiet about it. As a result, the great reckoning we need for renewal is farther off than ever.
Meanwhile, we’ve got Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., out there on countless public interviews, as a presidential candidate, saying remarkable things like 1) the CIA in 1963 killed his uncle who was president, 2) the intelligence community works with Big Pharma on gain-of-function research to create and cure new killer viruses, 3) they germ-gamed the lockdowns since 2001, 4) the lockdowns of March 2020 was a coup d’etat against representative democracy, 5) right now we have industry-captured Deep-State agencies that are ruling America who have no regard whatsoever for the US Constitution or the idea of freedom.
He says all of this without any shyness and with a great deal with knowledge and detail. He provides the receipts. Indeed, he has written several books on these themes. People listen and think “Oh that’s very interesting” and go hear him speak, without any presumption that he stands any chance to be President despite his wild popularity because, essentially, the fix is in.’
This in a nutshell. When I find myself admiring a gun grabbing, environmental lawyer nutjob whose hostile to capitalism more than the Republican field I can’t bring myself to feel much of anything about any of this bullshit theater. Just a spectator of the collapse at this point.
Yes. RFK is the only one who seems willing to talk honestly about the whole covid fraud and ensuing debacle.
Ow, my groin.
Yup, no one wants to talk about the idiocy and evil of the Vid Panic. I thought Trump did a halfway decent job the first three years (grading on a curve of course) and an absolutely shit job starting in March of 2020. He gave political cover to the lockdowns and should have gotten rid of or sidelined Fauchi and Birx early on. I’ll vote for him now that he has a mugshot, but I’m still not very excited about it.
What about all those super awesome high paying clean energy jobs I keep hearing about?
I’m sure the solar and wind lobbyists are doing very well.
They’re all in China and the Congo. But they’re already filled by slaves. And they don’t pay anything.
And they’re horrifically dirty. But not visible to Americans and therefore “clean”.
Scary Poppins should have moved to Europe — they’re turning their “disinfomation supression” dial to 11 today apparently. Yay… sorry if you get blocked from here, Pie.
Yeah. Look for services to stop in Europe soon. I wouldn’t waste a dime on them. Just block all euro addresses from accessing. And leave big note about what pussies the euroweenie politicians are.
“A machete-wielding teenager threatened to cut off singer Aled Jones’s arm while robbing him of his £17,000 watch on a west London street, a court heard.”
https://twitter.com/TonyDowson5/status/1694728850469744848
I remember a few years back when football players from South America came to play for Romanian teams they were shocked Romanian players has 10k watches on their wist on the street and they literally said back home they would cut your hand off with a machete to take it
London is a Third World City now.
I do take heart at how many of Khan’s cameras have been disabled, destroyed, stolen, or vandalized.
NYC is quickly working on its “hold my beer” moment.
Good thing they banned potato peelers in public, that could have been a really painful way to dismember the guy.
Telling the story of life in communist Germany
A recent book gives voice to the people who lived through the DDR
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/beyond-the-lives-of-others
Slice of paradise
While Biden and his family are vacationing at the three-acre $15-million home of environmentalist and former Democratic presidential primary foe Tom Steyer, the Lake Tahoe community is swept up in a conversation about how to make the mountain community straddling the California-Nevada border an inviting — but also sustainable — place to live and visit.
“We need to be more proactive. We need to be prepared for that increase in visitation. So rather than stand there and go, ‘Oh, my gosh, where did all these people come from?’ We’re trying to make a plan,” said Amy Berry, chief executive of the Tahoe Fund.
Biden has been staying on the Nevada side of the lake with his family and, except for a quick trip to Our Lady of Tahoe Catholic Church in Zephyr Cove, the Biden clan has stayed aroundSteyer’s shoreside home. The gated community includes a “private, 9-hole mountain golf course with a pro shop, clubhouse and seasonal restaurant” along with unfettered access to the water.
Not even Tom Steyer is dumb enough to have a place on the California side.
In the “you’ve got to be friggin’ kidding me” department, LSU women’s basketballer Angel Reese says she’s forced to take classes online now due to everybody on campus recognizing her.
So let me get this straight: Billy Cannon, Pete Maravich, Joe Burrow, Shaquille O’Neal, Tyrann Mathieu, Ben McDonald, Odell Beckham Jr., Leonard Fournette, Alex Bregman, Ben Simmons, Paul Skenes, Chris Jackson, Dylan Crews, and Justin Jefferson all managed to show up for class at LSU. But the chick who’s best known for wearing stripperesque fake eyelashes on the basketball court? Naw… too famous.
Poor baby….
Does anybody actually follow women’s basketball?
Parents of the players
There are dozens of people who do. DOZENS!
Depends on the school I suspect.
I remember reading an article on ESPN.com maybe in like 06 about a guy who had season tickets to the Connecticut Sun. Basically, he had fetish for tall chicks. Apparently (from the way the guy made it sound) a large portion of the crowds at the time were guys like that. So, there are probably some guys that are into tall chicks “following.”
“The Physical Decay of War Pig Victoria Nuland Is Truly Shocking”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-08-22/physical-decay-war-pig-victoria-nuland-truly-shocking
From somewhat cute to looks like she was beaten with an ugly stick. Normally I don’t like to draw conclusions from someone’s looks but I’ll make an exception for her.
It matches her soul quite well.
The demon is assuming full control.
From 1268 to 1797 this is how the doges of Venice were chosen.
https://twitter.com/northumbriana/status/1694812175573909635
“Rich Men North Of Virginia”
Solid work, Daily Mail.
Is there really anything important about Virginia outside of Richmond?
Most of the state.
When a book gives voice to the people who lived through the FBI, it will say much the same thing. The Proud Boys and every other group that was infiltrated, subverted, and tossed into a gulag for associating with like-minded people will be mentioned. The Civil Right movement ended freedom of association in the U.S.
Reply to Pie’s DDR link. Always with the 3-letter agencies.
The wing and landing gear of Prigozhin’s business jet have been found, Russian media report.
They fell 3 kilometers from the crash site into the river Lodyzhenka, near the railway station Kuzhenkino. A few hundred meters from the place where the tail of the plane was found – Russian media
This might confirm the version that the plane broke up while in the air.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1695000207736414671
After being struck by a SAM?
Definitely gremlins loosening bolts.
Of course not.
Pentagon: No info to support missile strike theory for Prigozhin crash
/now believes it was the US who shot down the plane.
So it wasn’t a bomb, sabotage, or an interceptor firing its cannon. Definately a missile.
There was the post of the flight attendant that said last minute repairs were being done…dun dun duuuuuun
She was a hottie. Killing her did the world a disservice.
With state level resources all you need is a small well placed explosive.
You can detonate it when, where and with whatever altitude you’d like. The thing could have been on the airplane for several weeks until moscow decided the flip the switch.
OnlyFans reported $5.55 billion in total spending by users for the fiscal year ended Nov. 30, 2022, up 16% from the year prior, with creators taking home nearly $4.5 billion of that
https://twitter.com/mymixtapez/status/1694848805374738823
And not one of you bought my feet pick on onlyfans
It was the claws that kept people from buying.
*insert “doesn’t show up on camera” joke here.
I’m confused by anyone who pays for any online porn.
I would wager there is overlap between those who pay for porn and those who believe the waitress who smiled at then wants to go home with them.
the only person I know who pays for porn is married with children and has a successful business, and never payed attention to smiling waitress
Strip club regulars?
At the age of 30, Ann suffered a stroke that left her severely paralyzed, unable to speak and even breathe.
18 years later, an AI-engineered brain implant gave her voice back
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1694964992674591148
I’ve got a friend and several acquaintances who are working on stroke recovery projects and the like over at the Cleveland Clinic. They’ve had some really cool breakthroughs.
“I still have evidence that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton!”
*Cue a stream of invective that would make WesternSloper blush
That is amazing.
They could use that on Biden, and save all those journalists the trouble of writing “well what he MEANT to say” pieces.
HE WASN’T SLEEPING! IT WAS JUST HIS IMPLANT REBOOTING!
So there’s hope for Fetterman yet.
FETTERLUMP FIGHT BACK!!!
“Did Trump’s Interview With Tucker Carlson Really Get Huge Numbers?
Let’s put this into perspective. One hundred sixty million is roughly half of the population of the United States, and let me assure you that half of the country did not watch Trump’s interview with Tucker Carlson.
As I’ve previously noted, Twitter, which is now called X, doesn’t have nearly the same reach as television. Roughly 97% of households have at least one television, while only 23% of American adults use X. Heck, X, despite being a popular platform, doesn’t have the same reach as YouTube, Facebook, or even Instagram, which are used by 81%, 69%, and 40% of adults respectively.
If half the country isn’t even on X, how is it possible for Trump’s interview to have so many views? Easy. That’s because the number of views attributed to a video includes those who watch the entire video, just a portion of it, or even scroll past it on their feed without even looking at it. Multiple views by the same user are also counted as unique views. You don’t have to take my word for it, either. That’s information coming straight from X.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/08/24/did-trumps-interview-with-tucker-carlson-really-get-huge-numbers-n1721636
Of course the number of views is exaggerated for the reason he states, but some of this looks incorrect. First of all, the debate was on cable, and not everybody has cable. In fact, cable access is dropping precipitously. I don’t know if it’s at 50% yet, but it’s heading that way. Second, you don’t have to have an X account to watch the Tucker interview, so the reach is everybody who has internet.
Tons of people have cellphones. And you don’t need an X account to watch the video. Also that video got linked everywhere.
What does “on X” mean? If I click the link to watch it, but am NOT registered, is that “on X” or “not on X”?
let me assure you that half of the country did not watch Trump’s interview with Tucker Carlson.
Could be foreigners that took an interest in US affairs.
” One hundred sixty million is roughly half of the population of the United States, and let me assure you that half of the country did not watch Trump’s interview with Tucker Carlson.”
When you start with such an assumption you have already failed. Prove the rationale with out assuming
Great black-backed gulls are opportunistic feeders and apex predators: they will readily eat almost anything that they can swallow. Even an entire rabbit
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1694994361111486975
Fulton County produced the ultimate campaign advertisement for Trump.
I’ve not voted for Trump twice now and had planned on not voting for him a third time if the opportunity arose. But every time they indict the douchebag, I get a little closer to wanting to vote for him.
Pretty much where I’m at.
#metoo
Indeed. My newfound resolution to not vote is being sorely tested already.
You too?
If he’s convicted, I will vote for him. I want to go full dystopia on this bitch.
Yup, I didn’t know I wanted a President who had a mugshot until I saw it. I now do.
The Streisand Effect in full force.
Makeup artist Mimi Choi created a unique style contaminated by patterns and textures from surreal paintings and illusionary masters such as Salvador Dalí and M.C. Escher, in a perpetually impressive confusing perspective
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1695001059205206123
“Liberals saw conservatives as more harmful than conservatives saw liberals.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1694921316489375770
“Liberals saw conservatives as more harmful than conservatives saw liberals.”
The day of the “harmless” kook is over.
You can’t make this shit up.
Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife sold $400K in gold bars months before his office admitted he was facing federal probe
I remain calm in the knowledge that Menendez will not be convicted of anything and that he will be free to bang underage kids in third world shitholes for the foreseeable future.
How slimey do you have to be if you are a Democrat and the current DOJ still feels they have no choice but to investigate you?
Cross the right person on something they really wanted you to vote/speak out about?
The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction
Unusual and often breathtaking, the genre is relatively unknown in the West.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/08/the-strange-secretive-world-of-north-korean-science-fiction/
A lot of Vivek criticism popping up in this group, but he is pissing off/annoying the right people:
Matt Welch has thoughts
What Vivek said about 9/11 was completely twisted by CNN, what the fuck Welch?
That’s going to be a brazilian of them in jail.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1694957883732201862
Gilmore’d
Did you watch Dave Smith’s special yet? Faggot/Retard hill is here!
It’s not a strategy, it’s the way the world works right now. They’re doing the same thing with RFK Jr. He says “None of the childhood vaccines were double blind tested, we should make them do that”, and it becomes “KENNEDY SAYS VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM!”
It’s an implicit admission of what they’re denying.
Animus against the press has been the ideological glue holding the Republican coalition together since long before Trump
Animus against the press is the Ideological glue? More like the inevitable result of the press devolving into being little more than the propaganda arm of a rival party.
“just asking questions about conspiracies”
Let me know when he posts the responses to youtube.
Welch is a bit of a sloppy sack of shit when it comes to looking into things.
“Why is a 38-year-old speed-talking tech entrepreneur who raps awkwardly on the stump and says outrageous things rising in the polls?, but instead, How come there aren’t more randos in the race?”
Fuck, it isn’t that he is a Rando, it that he is seeing what is going on out there, and not tryiing to turn the clock back. County Club Rublicans are done, it isn’t the party anymore.
I read about half before I tapped out.
Could have been written by a “moderate” democrat.
🤢
🤮
Send them home, connect the unemployed New Yorkers with the jobs.
Today in weird corners of youtube
Is the Welsh Dragon from Dacian Romania?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkeJlYA2KOY
ehm what?
Without following the link, let me speculate as to the line of reasoning
Romans enter Dacia, encounter Draco standards, carry draco standards after war, legions go to Britain, romano-british continue to use a dragon cognate after the romans leave. Anglo-saxons push briton culture into wales. dragon gets slapped on flag.
Am I close?
more like recruited Dacians for the roman army and in general did not leave recruits close to their homeland where they could join local rebelions but moved them to the other side of the empire, but close
You know what would be an even bigger close? A period at the end of your sentence.
Full stop.
One might think that open racism would be a disqualifier for serving at the highest levels of the DOJ.
https://twitter.com/mualphaxi/status/1694878181864489243
The right kind of racism is a requirement.
SCIENCE!!!!!!
He could be a rich man south of Richmond if merchandising sales take off
It’s all in merchandising.
On a serious note, when I see merchandise like that for upstart political stuff, I start wondering “Astroturf?”
Naturally this will all be paid, right?
75 Pittsburgh officers on leave after hourslong shootout and standoff during eviction attempt
Of course it will.
Seventy five. Good Lord. There were 16 officers there, I get that. Those guys stand down while the incident is investigated. How in the blazes do they get 75 on leave?
They heard a gunshot and need proper mental healthcare.
@UCS
I saw your comment on the unintuitive camera function in Fusion 360. I didn’t know it had a camera function. For 3D scanning, I presume?
Also, I don’t find any part or Fusion to be intuitive.
correction: …any part of Fusion…
Addendum: …and I have 20+ years of CAD experience. Both 2D and 3D.
I have… 8 hours of CAD experience within the past 20 years.
I took a CAD class in high school, but forgot pretty much all of it.
Look at you!
I had mechanical drafting. My tools were a T-square, protractor and the like.
It still cracks me up. Also unlike kids in public school in high school, no keyboarding for me, I had a typing class on manual typewriter.
Mmm… Velum and rapidograph pens. Three years of drafting in HS here. And I too had an IBM selectric to learn on.
The good thing about Fusion 360 is the number of users. Tons of help out there on Youtube.
Good for you giving it a go. Maybe you’ll become an expert and find yourself in a new career!
Just figuring out the combination of mouse buttons used to change the viewpoint in most CAD programs took me a while.
It’s funny because video games also do similar as UCS mentions, but in different, but similar unofficial standard.
I still refuse to learn Fusion 360 because I feel like the bastards at Autodesk will start charging for home use any second.
Yes. Bastards they are. I fully expect them to start charging home users as well. They’ve been incrementally tightening the screws as far as paying for it. But, it’s feature packed and relatively cheap for my business…under $500/year. So, I begrudgingly use and pay for it.
I only downloaded it because A: I knew it existed and B: Knew that there was a free version for the time being.
The object I wanted to make an .stl file for was very simple, but I still needed something to work in.
I am open to recommendations for a better product. (note that it does not make sense for me to drop large sums on CAD software)
For the time being, I think that product is Fusion 360. Over the ears I’ve searched for free 3D software, but never found one I liked. I’ll admit that maybe I didn’t try hard enough. FreeCAD is one you could check out.
I’d give it a go, but I also need software to program my mill and lathe. So, I stick with Fusion.
https://www.freecad.org
For functional, basic parts I use:
https://openscad.org/
It’s parametric. I liken it as CAD for programers instead of artists. It’s not what you want to use for decorative or complex parts unless you are truly a programming genius.
“Camera” as in the view and controls for looking at your work.
Taken from video game terminology where changing your view was the camera controls. It’s just so ingrained in my lexicon that I forget it’s not universally ued that way.
I fought it trying to change the angle I was viewing the work to what I wanted at any given time.
Dang. I thought you discovered some sort of 3D scanner interface.
Views are one of the things I think they got right. Hold down middle button and drag around for 3D rotate. Or click on the pre-set views on the “view cube” (whatever it’s called) in the upper right of the drawing area. If you right click on it, you can save your custom view angle as a “home” view. Might come in handy…maybe not.
I’ll add, “got right” does not necessarily equal “intuitive”. All CAD has a learning curve, Fusion’s seems to be worse than others. Or, maybe I’m just biased to SolidWorks and MasterCAM, which we use at work. Wish like hell I could use them at home, but I’ll need to win the lottery first.
The direction of mouse movement and rotation effect never seemed to track properly. More than once I did end up hitting the ‘home’ view just to get back to a frame of reference where I knew which way was +Z and could start over.
It’s tough to get used to, no doubt. Keep an eye on the tri-arrow thing…the XYZ arrows. That might help?
I could tell which axis was which if I looked at the colors, but the + and – directions eluded me.
They should always point to positive…unless you’re getting some view of them I’ve not seen.
After a disorienting moment of having the scene spin wildly in a manner I had not intended, I tended towards the frazzled and went “Lets start over”
I’m sure more practice would help.
Democracy under siege
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday vetoed an election overhaul bill passed by the Republican-controlled legislature last week.
The Democratic governor called the legislation dangerous.
“Right now, legislative Republicans in North Carolina are pushing an all-out assault on the right to vote, using the advice of Trump’s hand-picked election denier, Cleta Mitchell, who was on the call trying to help him overturn the election in Georgia,” Cooper said at the start of a video posted on his official social media accounts announcing his veto. “This attack has nothing to do with election security, and everything to do with keeping and gaining power.”
Senate Bill 747 would overhaul the existing election laws of the Tar Heel State, adding new restrictions and deadlines and further empowering partisan poll watchers, among other changes. The measure would also change current same-day registration rules during the early voting period. Under the new legislation, same-day registrants would have to use a “retrievable ballot” that can be discarded if the county board of elections cannot verify their address.
An insufferable affront.
Republicans have a veto-proof majority in the NC Legislature. They’ve overturned other vetoes from Cooper. Let’s see what they do here.
That’s a pretty bad ass mugshot. I was also thinking he should go with the shit eating grin, but this works better for his cause. There is a resoluteness there that you have to admire. I’ll be voting for him now after this, despite my ambivalence about him, especially his allowing the Vid Panic full reign by leaving Fauchi and Birx in charge. I now think there is a fair chance this will backfire on the Dems.
Republicans have a supermajority in both the state House and Senate and have successfully overridden more than a dozen vetoes by Cooper this session. In addition to holding a veto-proof majority in the legislature, Republicans now also hold a majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court, raising the prospect that they could prevail in any court fights over the election overhaul measure.
That’s not how democracy is supposed to work.
Discipline
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday called for more vigilance in the fight against inflation, warning that additional interest rate increases could be yet to come.
While acknowledging that progress has been made, the central bank leader said inflation is still above where policymakers feel comfortable. He noted that the Fed will remain flexible as it contemplates further moves, but gave little indication that it’s ready to start easing up anytime soon.
“Although inflation has moved down from its peak — a welcome development — it remains too high,” Powell said in prepared remarks for his keynote address at the Kansas City Fed’s annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “We are prepared to raise rates further if appropriate, and intend to hold policy at a restrictive level until we are confident that inflation is moving sustainably down toward our objective.”
Meanwhile, the administration will continue to conjure spending obligations out of thin air.
If President Yellen would drop dead, we’d all be better off.
No justice, no shitty cars
United Auto Workers members overwhelmingly granted union leaders authorization to strike during ongoing contract negotiations with General Motor , Ford Motor and Stellantis if warranted.
The union on Friday said an average of 97% of combined members at the automakers approved the action, however final votes are still being tallied. That’s in line with support during negotiations four years ago, when 96% of workers who voted supported authorization for a strike.
The “strike authorization vote” is part of the union’s constitution and viewed as a procedural step in the negotiations. The voting results are historically high in support of the authorization. The vote does not mean there will or will not be a strike.
However, UAW President Shawn Fain has been far more vocal than past union leaders about its ability to use striking as a weapon in its arsenal against the companies during the negotiations.
“The Big Three is our strike target. And whether or not there’s a strike — it’s up to Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, because they know what our priorities are. We’ve been clear,” Fain has said.
Those priorities are far richer than during prior contract negotiations between the two sides. The union’s demands include a 46% wage increase, restoration of traditional pensions, cost-of-living increases, reducing the workweek to 32 hours from 40 and increasing retiree benefits.
Nobody move, or the nigger gets it.
Sounds reasonable. 🙄
Counteroffer – We shut down the factories, produce no cars, and still manage to lose less money than what you’re demanding.
More joy on the automobile front.
Shocking Candor on Fuel Standards
“I’m not seeing a downside” – Watermelon
“A PhD chemistry student has been caught on camera appearing to inject opioids at the doorstep of a family home after complaining about them making noise.
Neighbor from hell Xuming Li, 36, allegedly contaminated the Florida family’s condo with so much ‘chemical agent’ their baby daughter got sick.
He was caught after the family father, Umar Abdullah, hid a camera in a potted houseplant outside their Tampa home.
Shocking footage shows Li loading up a syringe, before crouching down and appearing to inject a clear substance beneath the door.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12445203/Xuming-Li-arrested-neighbor-Umar-Abdullah-caught-Florida-chemistry-student-injecting-OPIOIDS-familys-home-complaining-noise.html
WTF??
Given the competence and crappy testing the state does I’m not willing to believe this is the actual substance(s). The dude is a chemist I’m betting he was just trying to inject something noxious smelling.
But he is obviously nuts so who know?
I don’t know how they got it airborne, but the rooskies killed a lot of people with fentanyl grenades.
However, +1 on your issue with testing. Even with legitimate gear (and not cross-reactive test strips) if your library is set up to match to opiods, you’re going to find them. My GC-MS keeps trying to tell me there’s meth in the cleanroom.
Got keep production high!
“Forget speed bumps! The French village where SQUIGGLY LINES have been painted on roads to stop drivers from speeding (and it’s working… but also making them feel sick)”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-12444985/Forget-speed-bumps-French-village-SQUIGGLY-LINES-painted-roads-stop-drivers-speeding-working-making-feel-sick.html
No idea how that is supposed to work.
It will work for a small time and then people will adjust and go back to speeding through the zone.
The pattern is disorienting, and when you’re trying to maintain your lane by following the white line, a bunch of other white lines in varied random squiggles makes it harder to stay in lane.
So really, they’re asking for people to blindly blast through the area paying no attention to road markings because they’ve gone and camouflaged the road markings.
UCS-
As I recall the “Robot Cantina” youtube guy mentions the program he uses for 3D printing parts in a few of his videos. I have no recollection of the name, however.
It may or may not be of use in what you are doing.
“Net benefits for passenger cars remain negative across alternatives.”
Paywalled.
Pretending those regulations are in any way based on the expectation of “net benefit” is their first mistake.
Fusion 360.
The one above is used by Robot Catina.
I have a subscription so that link should work for those without.
Dude speaking real.
https://youtu.be/cv9uMXiY29s?si=OrTNrwW2aFFv1mrn
Glad he addressed the republican debate using his music and calling them out
I hope he survives his fame.
The one above is used by Robot Catina.
So… the program UCS and MikeS were already talking about. Oh, well.
Does anyone have a legit web address selling the Trump mugshot t-shirts/coffee mugs?
I must have them.