A wild one.
Viktor Hovland won the FedEx Cup (and a ton of money). The AL West is a bloodbath with just over a month to go in the season. Max Verstappen won a wild race at Zandvoort. The US Open kicks off today. Simone Biles won a record eighth all-around national gymnastics title. Everton are officially a dumpster fire. And Liverpool won an absolutely wild one with two late goals after being a man and a goal down with more than an hour left in the match. What a crazy sports weekend. Now on to…the links!
Not what’s happening
The word “ban” is doing an awful lot of work here. In fact, as best as I can see, there are no requested bans at all. Just a limit on what can be placed in an elementary school library. Which, and you can correct me if I’m wrong, should probably be filled with age-appropriate titles due to limited space. But they can feel free to die on this “porn for children” hill if they want to.
This will get interesting. Not sure what exactly will happen. Which is why it’s interesting.
Democracy is important. Well, sometimes, I guess. Other times it’s apparently not.
“And now we’ll learn about self-promotion, kids.”
“PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!!!” And I thought school was supposed to be about the kids. Silly me.
Heh, maybe she should run for the Senate. Or I guess she can just settle for a sweet taxpayer-funded pension.
This is totally preventable. Step 1: remove the state from licensing and let parents decide what their kids need. Step 2: hire the most qualified applicants. I mean…why does there need to be a certified teacher in the room for kids under 2?
And of course there’s Raiders fans involved. If I said I was shocked, I’d be lying.
“Stop treading on our turf,” said group who kills more animals than pretty much anybody else. ::Yawn::
I liked their mellow stuff. Especially this one. It’s such a lovely song. Here’s another magical one. A bit more aggressive, but still fantastic. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely, hot Monday, dear friends.
*pats Sloopy on the head*
You’re adorable. School is about funneling tax dollars through teachers to unions.
… to union staff & officials. Members get diddly.
L’union, c’est moi.
I keep imagining a USA in which people are all held to high standards. We would have those flying cars and futuristic cities. We’ve been sliding backward for at least a decade.
Kind of a downer for a Monday morning, but you ain’t wrong.
I started watching a series with a dystopian USA and I found it so much that it could be a possibility, that it was disturbing and I noped right out.
Dystopian is one thing. Too on-the-nose is an entirely different thing.
Most of us have given up watching the news as well.
Funneling tax dollars through teachers to Democrat politicians via unions, you mean.
Not taking is giving; not giving is banning.
This is CNN.
Are To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men still banned in certain schools?
That’s not a ban, that’s just decolonizing the bookshelf.
CNN gives the top 13 most requested books for bans.
Makes me wonder what #14 is.
‘Everybody Poops’ ?
Everybody Poops
We’ve had that book, along with Everybody Farts. Both classics that have influenced our children’s love of literature.
I dont recall much of it but as children we developed an entire complex nomenclature for different kinds of farts. Whenever I inadvertently think of it I still laugh a bit. I guess men really never grow up.
Ha my buddy and I in 4th grade or whatever thought we could get assistance from the school librarian to mimeograph a page of fart jokes we found somewhere. She wasn’t having it.
Growing up is overrated. Just grow responsible and you can still enjoy fart jokes.
Poop jokes are the highest form of humor.
Wild race? It was okay.. The F2 race was wild… I think almost every points leader in their championship either was taken out / took themselves out / or got pushed out of points — except Maloney, I think he’s vaguely in contention and he just got a 5 second penalty pushing him off the podium.
Which was an improvement over their sprint where they never completed a lap before getting red flagged and all.
Morning, Sloopy… morning all you happy people.
Yeah, but it was still a relatively wild race. The rain on lap 1 and then the different strategies on going back to dry tires. Then the late rain and red flag made it pretty eventful. Especially for a reach that historically doesn’t have a lot of passing.
I really need to buy the tv package that gives me all the F2 and F3 stuff next year. That way I won’t get jealous every time you recap a race that was undoubtedly more interesting than the F1 one was.
I would say it is worth it, yeah (but then again, I would since I’m paying for it, wouldn’t I?). Certainly gives me actual entertainment since the great “Cripple Mercedes Regulation Changes” or whatever gave Red Bull such a boringly dominant car.
I say that… but all credit to Max — either they designed the car for him (which I’m sure they did somewhat) or he’s just really come into his own…as annoying as I find him. Perez is not a slouch — but he was competitive with Alonso… not walking away from him like Max would have been (and like Max was ahead of them near the end). So while Red Bull is pretty dominant… the “I’ll just lap the field if I feel like it factor” must be all Max.
the great “Cripple Mercedes Regulation Changes” or whatever gave Red Bull such a boringly dominant car.
Oh boy. Here we go.
Merc just missed the mark with the entire re-engineering of the new car. RB just happened to get everything right. You can’t say the regs crippled Mercedes and ignore the fact that several other teams, but not all, had the horrible porpoising issues in 2022 that caused them to spend a ton of time in corrective action rather than developing upgrades that have had an outsized effect on that and this season both. Sometimes one or two teams just do a better job at engineering than the test when a radical redesign is mandated. It happens. It’s just more pronounced in a race series than in other applications.
I think the budget cap, the increasing “net zero” crap and the rest did affect the Merc research method, honestly. And yeah — certainly in the start of ’22 I would freely have said “Boy did they f up… and so did a lot of others to a lesser extent”… but there’s something more than Adrian Newey at play here… the rest of the field looks like F3 cars next to Max, is all.
No, I’m not going to passionately argue the point (have better things to do).
I won’t get into it either beyond saying when you have a strict cap and you’re dumping a ton of money into fixing problems you engineered while someone else is dumping money into refining something they got right, you’re gonna have a hard time keeping up.
Exactly! I think in the past Merc would just throw more money at it when they had fuckups. And now they can’t. 😉
I also have the F1 Pro package for the last several years and dig it. It’s like 80-90 bucks a year and I think it’s well worth it if you watch a lot of races. I haven’t checked out F2 or F3 stuff cause I don’t have the time really, but it’s all there. I do like having a bunch of old classic races and I like Joylon Pampers analysis series on it. It’s also got live timing and you can switch to any driver view you want which is super cool.
Many a boy would have liked if the video collection of the school library wasn’t age restricted.
They just need to save their cereal box tops apparently.
Taylor Negron FTW. That guy was in everything.
Negron? Please!
The “art” section of the public library was useful to a young rat.
CNN doesn’t even realize that they just labeled all LGBTQ+ themed books as pornographic and obscene.
Also, the books are pornographic and obscene. So the people who labeled them as such should be applauded for accuracy.
I phrased tha tincorrectly.
CNN just equated LGBTQ+ with pornographic and obscene.
It might just be my impression based on reporting (not having sought out the books myself) — but it sure sounds like a lot of the problematic ones are written more like “How to” books. Which might be the point on some level (“Hey, let’s have something to try to walk gay kids through the tougher shit we went through!”… just done…. poorly), but I do think a “How To Guide to Sex and Dating” on the hetero side would be just as problematic, yeah.
Those exist, and were not in my school library.
Absolutely.
I don’t need the school teaching little kids how to fuck. Can’t believe this needs to be said.
And yet, here we are.
SDF, you give these people too much credit. Demoralization is their goal – to destroy our culture, to turn the population into mentally unbalanced idiots so that we can be easily subjugated. It is not more complicated than that. Undiluted evil.
True. They are evil.
I wonder – if they are evil enough to push those books, would they allow compilations of the Penthouse forum letters in there as well? Fight fire with fire and make them uncomfortable.
For good reason. Most of those books appear to me to be twisted obsessive sexual fantasies of mentally unbalanced people. Shielding one’s children from such has always been healthy and the norm.
Turns out LBXCDY2GIQ+ nonsense is the perfect medium for demoralizing our children. The people pushing this trash are evil, plain and simple.
They also link to Moms for Liberty, which has all of the evidence for why these books are inappropriate for schools. And then this happens:
When one identitarian tactic is failing, immediately switch to another.
Ya’ know those photos and videos documenting weddings featuring a dog that has wandered into the background of the shot and suddenly takes a big ol’ steaming shit? Or two dogs that appear and start fucking? I think I saw one once where a dog zips into the scene and hikes it’s leg on the brides dress while she is grinning like hell for the camera.
This is CNN.
LOL because of course.
Is anyone banning Ezra Jack Keats “Snowy Day”?
No? Then they aren’t banning books just because they were writen by black authors.
So, how many of those school libraries carry Shaved Snizz? Or The Turner Diaries?
Why are they banning books?
This is why I don’t really get why the guy gave up the coup and made the deal with Putin. (At least that’s how it looked, and granted… there’s an immense amount I don’t know that he presumably did… like if it was all falling apart, etc.) Anyone not expecting Putin to kill the guy as soon as it was expedient was fooling themselves. When you go for the king, you had better not just wound him and all that.
They’re all scumbags. As are the leaders of the people they’re fighting. Which is why cheering for anything that happens is distasteful to me.
And of course there’s Raiders fans involved.
Adam Carolla jokes you could pick up scores of wanted criminals by advertising an event: “Free Cock-Fights For Raiders Fans”
“Democracy is important. Well, sometimes, I guess. Other times it’s apparently not.”
Also, isn’t that treaty just the opinion of some cishetero men whoo died a long time ago?
Should just throw it all out, and let the displaced peoples/ refugees from England run the place.
Democracy is secondary to being Righteous!
Oh they will. This is red meat for them. They still fancy themselves as free-speech heroes, reliving the sixties over and over again. Despite the fact that they have all the power and are much more anti-free speech than the Megamagas in their head could ever dream of being.
Back in my day it was a mark of sophistication to get an “adult” novel from the town library and bring it to school to read during breaks, etc.
Nowadays all these punks have to do is waltz into the school library and say “where are the gay fuckbooks,” a la Freak Bros.
Hell, I remember You Can’t Do That on Television having an episode about banned books, with one of the jokes being a kid reading Tropic of Cancer in the hallway in front of the principal. The student was acting like it was getting him excited, so the principal confiscated the book. The student’s friend asked if he was upset and he responded with, “Not really. Now I’ve got an excuse as to why I didn’t get it read before English class.”
‘ I mean…why does there need to be a certified teacher in the room for kids under 2?’
Because teacher’s unions vote too?
Fuck if I know. This used to be done by the siblings who had reached 8 or so (not old enough to be helping in the fields, old enough to watch “the littles”), after all. At that age it is mostly “Let them play, keep them from hurting each other or choking on shit… clean their ass in a pinch” after all.
So, the educational requirement of a master’s in education is justified?
If you’re saying a Masters in Education is about equivalent to the life experience of an 8 year old…….
Well, I can’t argue with you much. 😉
“Let them play, keep them from hurting each other or choking on shit… clean their ass in a pinch”
Sounds like your typical school of education student.
Only certified teachers are properly trained to groom those kids.
Good morning, Sloop!
This will get interesting. Not sure what exactly will happen. Which is why it’s interesting.
What’s interesting to me is that anyone was dumb enough to get on a plane with the guy.
I liked their mellow stuff. Especially this one.
Me too. It is one of their best. I love how well it has held up.
Californication could have been likewise if Rick Rubin hadn’t been a fucking twat and brickwalled every track to the point that the entire album sounds like you’re listening to it through blown out speakers.
I’m always amazed that they had four albums released before anyone knew who they were.
Freaky Styly was the best of all. RHCP died with Hillel Slovak.
Now they are just an animated corpse.
My interest in them waned as their musicianship improved, weirdly. I dropped off after Blood Sugar Sex Magik
I wonder who’s had more close associates die in mysterious plane crashes, Putin or the Clintons.
Unless, of course, this was all staged so that a shadow Wagner group led by Prigozhin can conduct black ops in Ukraine unencumbered… dun dun DUN
Putin likes windows.
The Clintons prefer suicide by gunshot to the back of the head.
So you’re saying this was the CIA?
There’s lots of people who wanted him dead.
Putin certainly could have done it, but if the CIA could have pulled it off so that it looked like Putin did it, they would have jumped at the chance.
It’s well in the “who the fuck knows?” category.
Not too mention that all of this “info” comes from the same people who gave us WMD’s.
If I were Prigozhin I would have been planning a way to fake my death…
How do we know you aren’t? I’m on to you.
I’ve seen this kid a couple of times. I have no idea who he is but I enjoy watching him wreck shallow people.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1695991900095078607
Something tells me France is looking for an excuse.
https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1695898457121165410
Pretty ballsy calling a bluff with your own body. Hope it works out.
“In it, Fisher reportedly conceded Lemieux’s ‘gender expression’ was ‘recently the subject of public attention’, before stating his high school has a responsibility to ‘uphold individual rights and treat everyone with dignity and respect.”
This school board is nuts. My guess is that Mr. Fisher, the principal of the school, must be at the top of the boards shit list and was told he had to hire this clown to keep his job.
I like some their mellow stuff, too…. especially this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABpY_NeDPY
I’m still hoping Z-Cup is a performance artist playing these people for fools. I mean, it’s working.
Hmmmm….my morning links are wrapped in biscuit dough and baked in. I think it is time for more coffee and some of those links.
Honorary Florida Woman
TAMPA, Fla. – A South Dakota woman traveled all the way to the Tampa Bay area to cheat on her husband, but she ended up facing criminal charges.
Renee Skoglund filed a false police report that has now landed her in legal hot water.
It gets weirder from there.
Pass.
People think I am a boy scout so they rarely tell me lurid things. The truth is I know all of that stuff, maybe more than they do, I just prefer to not engage in any of it or for that matter, to hear more about it. Other people’s weirdness is none of my business and I like to keep it that way.
Hot/Crazy matrix violation
Believe all women.
That’s not how any of this works.
But now opponents across the political spectrum of the former president are arguing that under the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, Trump is barred from holding office ever again after the January 6 Capitol attack.
Lawrence Caplan, a Florida tax attorney, became the first to challenge Trump’s candidacy for president in federal court last week, pointing to the Amendment’s “disqualification clause” that says those who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the government cannot hold office.
He told The Hill that the former president’s grand jury indictments in the Washington, D.C., election interference federal case and the Georgia case stemming from alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election make his disqualification automatic, despite neither indictment accusing Trump of inciting the mob that attacked the Capitol.
I think people simply live in parallel worlds.
More like orthogonal worlds.
Skew worlds?
How does this random have standing?
The FUTY clause.
I’m sure his standing will be granted.
Every time I hear about or think about the law fare being waged against Donny Two Scoops I am reminded of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYNVH0U3cs
No, assholes, you don’t get to weasel your way out so easily of this hole you’ve dug.
Donald gets discovery and that means all your dirty laundry can’t be swept under the rug anymore.
Add it to the growing pile of dirty laundry being ignored…
Yeah, discovery won’t go Trump’s way. Either the servers were wiped with a cloth or the judge will pull something analogous to what the judge in the Alex Jones case. “We know those documents exist, you didn’t produce them, therefore you’re guilty!” from the Alex Jones case will turn into “Why are you wasting the court’s time asking for documents we know don’t exist? Why do we know they don’t exist? Well of course they don’t exist!”
He is putting out his “Letters from a Fulton County Jail.”
Trump is truly our first BLAQ president.
Tucker’s Speech in Budapest -8/25/23
He blasts U.S. foreign policy with both barrels.
Will the same people who went after the Dixie Chicks for criticizing the president on foreign soil now go after Tucker?
I don’t recall the details… Was the Bush Administration attacking countries for their culture and religion? (Other than most of the Middle East)
Yes. With bombs.
Matt Welch is apoplectic that Tucker would align with Hitler Junior’s little brother, so he was right on top of this one.
(seriously – he super-hates all of the populist dictators around the world, starting with Trump. They are all literally Hitler, but of course Trump is the most literally Hitler of them all…. and talking about anything remotely associated with any of them in anything other than apocalyptic rhetoric means you are a right wing extremist Nazi)
The retirement comes after 13 faculty members filed an August 2022 complaint claiming Smith had lied about her Cherokee identity and violated academic integrity./em>
Her fellow faculty members ratted her out? What’d she do to piss them off?
Stole their parking space? Used the wrong coffee pot? Diverted their funding to other projects?
Academians are petty. I’m assuming this is academia, since th word “Faculty” is being thrown around.
There’s really no one to like in the story.
Claim status that wasn’t her due.
THEY wanted the special treatment.
Step 0: End all plague handouts.
Step 0: End all
plaguehandouts.I’ll take it.
France to ban female students from wearing abayas in state schools
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66634890
Look France, you went to the porn shop all on your own and stuck your dick in the glory hole voluntarily.
No one wants to hear you bitching about chancres now.
We had some heat last week, but that was it for August. Not a hot month despite all the climate panic. But we are having a great year for tomatoes. We picked three full crates yesterday, and today we’re firing up the canners.
It rained for the first time since May yesterday, kept the temperature below 100 for a change. I’ve got cracks in my yard 3 inches wide and the only thing growing is sandburs. Level 2 water restrictions since March, no outdoor water use except for pets and livestock. I had hoped El Nino would bring wetter weather to Texas, seems to have brought the drought hammer instead.
Other years my mom’s garden gave us tomatoes till October. This year they are already scorched and dying despite extensive watering. Not a drop of rain in one and a half months.
It’s all been landing here. Last Wednesday night through Friday morning, it was pretty much non-stop storms. One city near Oberlin reported over 7 inches of rain the first day.
Treino na Praia Muscle Beach Miami | Com Bakhar Nabieva, @KarolFit , @JuSilvaFit e Liza Troian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emxwaVx6UcE
glibfit?
Treasonous Tucker wants to platform Vampire Vlad.
Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson has been seeking an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said on Sunday.
“[Carlson] is strongly requesting an interview with Vladimir Putin,” Simonyan said on a talk show aired by the Rossiya-1 TV channel. “It would be great, if someone listens and notifies the president about this.”
Carlson has not commented on the matter. Putin rarely gives one-on-one interviews to foreign media. His last lengthy conversation with a Western journalist was with CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble on the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow in October 2021.
LOL, I’m sure he knows. As does our CIA and Biden.
Tucker was going to interview Putin back before he was fired from Fox and it turned out the NSA knew all about it.
Surprised Oliver Stone hasn’t done another Putin interview lately.
“knew about it”
Nice understatement.
I remember when John Miller interviewed Osama Bin Laden and got heaped with praise
They can give Tucker Duranty’s Pulitzer.
You can buff out those scratches.
Ryan Preece flipped 10 times in this violent crash late at Daytona.
Damn. That’s amazing.
We counted 12 or 13 flips. He was fine, too (well, I’m sure a little sore and likely a mild concussion). The engineering in those cars is amazing.
Looks like he bought and payed for that with his own money.
Stare into the titties as the titties stare into you.
https://archive.is/uVKmt
Mammary Monday.
I want some of what Mike is smoking.
That bullshit just doesn’t fly anymore, Mike.
One wonders if Pence is really that stupid or if they have photos of him with a dead boy, or both.
Maybe on Wednesday night they called in the hit on Trump?
Must be both.
I think my favorite meme right now is of Johnny Quest’s Race Bannon and Hadji, and it says “Pence and Ramaswamy waiting for the next debate question.”
Based on debates, the current republican platform is save the kids from fentanyl so we can send them to Ukraine. Seems like a winning combination. Only question is, which of the sterling members of that pack is worthy of picking up the torch and running with it? If only we could somehow elect them all.
And El Segundo won the actual World Series
So ‘The Second’ came in first?
Nobody tell Bro. He’ll have a goddamn stroke.
Truth
There is absolutely nothing good about this for the child.
People need to come to terms with childlessness.
There are quite enough humans on this planet already.
https://twitter.com/YesWombat/status/1695904770840527021
Anti-natalism is a real thing. And they are usually self-loathing, miserable lunatics.
Which is good! Long term there will be a a decrease is miserable wretches. We are in the early stages now.
I dont know what ‘this’ is but thank god we finally have someone qualified to dictate how many people should be allowed to live.
You are in a vicious mood today.
It is kinda fun.
British policing of speech is completely out of control.
For context: the video he retweeted showed a man being wrongfully arrested, for which he was later awarded £2,500 compensation.
In other words, the police have arrested a man for retweeting a video of a man who was ALSO wrongfully arrested.
https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1696113717266518252
“Burning Man 2023: Nevada Rangers plow truck through Extinction Rebellion protest after the activists blocked road into festival causing ‘miles-long gridlock'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12453081/Nevada-Rangers-Extinction-Rebellion-protest-activists-blocked-road-Burning-Man.html
LOL
*points to avatar*
He drew his pistol on them.
That was a bit much.
What, like, with a pen?
I thought that was more of a brit thing…
I’m just saying, the more these guys get run over, the less they’ll block roads.
I don’t understand what road-blockers are trying to accomplish.
Assuming they feel strongly about whatever idea they are promote, why don’t they go after the decision makers?
Causing direct harm to the general population might get press time, but it’s just alienating the people you are trying to convince to support your cause.
Fuck’m. Run them over.
The issue with that is they are just a bunch of rich kids and retirees. There is no one directing stratagy.
Guardian journalist Michelle Hooq claimed on social media that the Rangers attended the protest after receiving a call that ‘someone in the crowd was going to shoot the activists’.
Yeah, not a surprise. Probably lots of people wanted to shoot them.
Isn’t Juris Imprudence there right now?
Why are those racist ER portestors committing genocide against indigenous peoples?
And has anyone seen JI lately?
He’d be on the road for Burning Man, wouldn’t he?
Hopefully not literally.
Hey! I was already on playa when those assholes pulled their stunt.
With any luck, the tribal police with stake them down to ant hills.
Gotta love the Daily Mail
If you’re buying clothes for your clothes, you might have a fashion problem.
I’m just amused that the Mail thinks hippie types in the Nevada desert aren’t going to be stripped down a good bit.
Of course, it isn’t a British tabloid article if they aren’t blathering on about clothing. You’d think they were the French Fashion mags.
French fashion mags would be smoking cigarettes and saying nothing matters in the face of death.
L’opéra applaudit.
I try not to cheer on abusive police behavior, but when it comes to the Extinction Rebellion twats, I can’t bring myself to complain too much…
You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh, etc etc
“Demonstrators sobbed as they were tackled by cops in Nevada on August 27”
and
“Officers from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police drove through the blockade”
Oh, no. Conflicts within the progressive stack.
Scrum is a cancer.
I’ve been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does.
Scrum is like communism.
It fails everywhere, every time, but they tell you “you aren’t doing it right.”
https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1695806027256475777
Hmmm never scummed myself I have to admit
the replies are off course full of buthurt commies more so than software talk
Absolutely correct. It is communism for projects. I include Agile in there as well. Agile is for IT shops to control work, not for companies to run big projects. Agile even has an “Agile manifesto” and talks about knowing what business wants and doing that, instead of taking the lead from business (the customer). It’s central planning for projects.
Sigh. It didn’t start that way, really. I was there. Yes, scrum is a cancer; anything the PMI touches is a cancer.
At its best, agile (XP specifically) was a way for teams to manage their workload. I took a team from a death spiral of ever later releases, each with les and less ‘committed content’ to 4 realeases, on time, in 12 months. (The previous year had sipeen one release limp out the door, and only because of the Y2K deadline.). The first of those releases was 100% of committed content; subsequent releases raised that number ultimately to 126%. Our customers were happy. Programmer morale went up. Quality went up.
But it only happens if it’s driven from the bottom up, and has a good translator from ‘team terms’ to ‘business project terms.’
It was glorious while it lasted, but we were making other managers look bad, and it was murdered. Sigh. My peak ‘programming’ experience was leading that team and that transition. I was, of course, released from my contract.
From my limited exposure, agile/scrum has the ability to overcome analysis paralysis. Just grab some work and get it done. We’ll talk again in two weeks.
Stuff happens. It looks like progress. People feel better.
But, I see no benefit when applied to major programs with many hundreds of people that need to work in concert. Bottom-up development doesn’t cut it.
Agile works in a release early-release often environment.
If you have to do major releases of the software, it can still work, but less so.
In an environment where you can push to prod every two weeks, it works great.
I’ve seen some groups do well with agile. Their productivity has definitely increased. Other groups, not so much.
Seems to work fine for a lot of situations when it’s kept simple (kind of like how it was portrayed in Silicon Valley). But of course, they can never just leave it at that.
From what I understand it’s a scam to employ more project managers and hold more meetings.
Since it results in more meetings, it is vile.
You can’t call them project managers in Agile. They are capability or product managers. Even the lingo is twisted, like commies do. The product managers do almost nothing to assist developers or business. The just exist. Another layer of management. There are attempts to make such people useful, I will admit those can work. But those people would be better served by a non-marxist work structure.
90% of business consulting is repackaging of old, broken concepts with new names.
It was out of control twenty years ago. I’m sure it’s unbearable now.
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who can’t teach, consult.
If you’re not a part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
lol
Hiring a consultant is hiring someone to tell you the time using your own watch.
Nope, sorry, not going to surrender the language to the wastes of flesh. They are less useful project managers.
I despise Agile and agree with many of the points posted there. It is a fancy wrapper around a boat load of meetings and inserting tracking / guesstimates all over so upper management can get pretty charts of “velocity” and lower management can micromanage (“Why aren’t you improving your sprint velocity [that is supposed to be team focused.. but never is]?”) Like 8 particularly… especially since the mantra is “The team owns what it works on” — but at the same time “The team can be redirected based on management needs”… so quickly turns into a game of Interchangeable Engineering Units (which never, ever works… because people don’t have the same talents or expertise and can’t always be thrown into a completely different workflow without rampup). Like 8 — though it hasn’t been a huge issue in our structure (mainly because the PO and SL see their job as keeping everyone else away from the engineers).
Of course — I also believe in the Law of Diminishing Returns and the whole Agile mantra of “Constant improvement” is bullshit…. Maybe just let people do their jobs and keep your eyes open for opportunities instead of making fucking constant meetings about it and mandating that everyone suggest improvements every time… grumble bitch moan complain….
Hear hear!
*Bangs scrum participant on table
From what I have seen it take 3-5 years for the approach to be abandoned. Maybe faster with accelerating recession.
Enh we only follow it half-assed and I find some of it useful to at least keep us on track.
It’s better than nothing.
Shades of Lean and TQM.
Things I don’t miss.
A friend of mine is a SCRUM manager (in Silicone Alley) and, according to him, the biggest issue is keeping programers focused on what the customer actually wants, as opposed to what the programer thinks is better/interesting/”logical”. Otherwise known as useless crap.
The AirBnBocalypse
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/airbnb-bubble-popping-will-pop-housing-bubble
To paraphrase Suthen above: thank god we finally have someone qualified to dictate how people can dispose of their money and use their own property.
Eh, he’s not wrong about central bank policies helping instigate property speculation.
The Problem Isn’t a Housing Shortage, It’s the Concentration of Ownership by the Wealthy – there are areas at least in Europe where there is definitely a housing shortage, and this fellow does not offer any real data to back his claims.
His reference to a global situation isn’t well supported, but the US housing stock chart is telling.
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/housing-per-capita8-23a_0.png?itok=BUk7yEkr
The issue here is that so much stock is off the market because it’s being used as income properties. What it doesn’t address though is that a lot of stock is not where primary residence demand is highest.
This would suggest that markets like Myrtle Beach are probably headed for a major downturn.
though is that a lot of stock is not where primary residence demand is highest. – which is an essential point.
also do the population numbers correctly account for immigration?
If it’s being used as an income property, there has to be someone living there, right? How is this a problem?
The question is whether it’s short-term or long-term rental. Those are vastly different markets. Short-term is probably in for a bruising and may lead to a lot of inventory getting dumped.
And keep in mind that income properties have vastly different loan structures. (Unless the owner lied on the application)
Eh, it looks dramatic because it’s only over a couple of percentage points. Here’s the same data, but over the full range. It looks pretty stable. Housing compared to population has been rising for decades (at least), so a slight increase over a 20 year period should be expected.
I need a longer time frame on both, to see which makes the most sense.
What was the # like in 1970?
You could compare this to population: https://www.statista.com/statistics/240267/number-of-housing-units-in-the-united-states/
It’s paywalled, though you can usually view charts once before they block them. Also, note that it’s every five years, but switches to annual for more recent years.
This is an easily solvable problem. If local governments would quit sticking their hands out in relation to building permits and zoning (whether to developers, existing homeowners, speculators, “equitable housing” lobbyists, whatever) things would be fine in short order.
The levels of corruption are innumerable. Of course, we all know about the mess that is New York City, with rent controls, mandatory “affordable housing” requirements, historic zoning, resistance to new construction in various forms….. but this same stuff is everywhere, great and small.
Down here in my area the local government is neck deep in some sort of scheme to remake the main road into some sort of pedestrian plaza with restaurants and high end shops. The state and federal DOT have both told them they are nuts, but they are doing it anyway. There are mid-rise condos and apartments popping up in the area that were started well before this project was even made public, so I can’t help but speculate that the developers were in on the whole thing. The last sizeable condo projects in the area flopped biggly, taking years to complete and years more to sell the majority of the units. A couple of big projects were cancelled before ground broke, resulting in large vacant lots in very expensive areas.
But now they are going ahead with the destruction of the traffic pattern for their plaza. There are huge sidewalks going in that go nowhere – and can’t go anywhere. On one side of the road they run from a big, industry heavy 6 lane road (Dixie Highway) to an interstate junction (I-95) with only a canal alongside. There is literally nowhere to walk to or from – just a giant, very pretty, very expensive looking sidewalk that runs along a canal with the main road on the other side – and businesses on that other side like a big Racetrac gas station, Taco Bell, a car wash – you know, pedestrian friendly stuff.
This project screams “there must be corruption behind this!!”, but nobody seems to know who is behind it. I know the former Mayor and the current Mayor. Both are good dudes. Current one turned out to be a stealth progressive, but isn’t really plugged in to developers or bankers, as far as I know.
Still, I don’t have to know *how* they are doing it to know that there is some shady stuff going on. Gossip is that the unelected bureaucracy is the true power behind everything and the elected crew just says “OK” or “No” to whatever they are doing. The “no” is usually met with a bit of patience and a bit of pressure until they get their way. (like the traffic reconfiguration that nobody wanted and yet somehow it ends up approved).
There are so many layers of this stuff….. simply letting developers build housing in various forms and pricing the old stuff down to the low end until it becomes a tear-down seems to be such an obvious fix, of course they can’t let that happen.
Alice Cooper said nothing “anti-trans”
Alice Cooper said 6-year-olds shouldn’t be confused and told they can be a different gender.
https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1695874158289158236
He must be destroyed.
Given his long career and one of his other passions being golf tournaments… my suspicion is that he’s decidedly in the “Fuck You Money” range of things. Bring it on.
Burn him!!!11
Home field advantage
A transfer of the case to federal court would not likely be catastrophic for Willis’ case, but it would, at a minimum, eliminate an intrinsic home-court advantage for the veteran Fulton County prosecutor, legal experts said.
“Fani Willis spends her professional life in Fulton County Superior Court. She knows the court. She knows the judges. It’s geographically convenient. She knows the juries. She knows everything about it,” said Norman Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “She’s prepared to do it [in federal court], but that’s not her home court.”
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If moved to federal court, the charges — all of which are under Georgia law — would remain the same, and Willis’ team could continue to handle the prosecution. But federal procedural rules, not state court rules, would apply. And some defendants might anticipate other, more substantive advantages in a federal forum.
A jury for a trial in federal court would likely be drawn from 10 counties that comprise Atlanta and its sprawling suburbs, while a state-court trial would likely include jurors only from Fulton County, which delivered a 73% to 26% victory for Joe Biden over Trump in 2020. The broader set of counties is home to a somewhat higher proportion of Trump supporters, though the political makeup is not dramatically different.
“It’s a slightly different jury pool,” Eisen said. “I don’t think it’ll be outcome-determinative. Only one of the counties went for Trump. It’s almost all Biden counties in this division.”
Merits of the case? Don’t be fatuous.
If you can only win your case with a certain set of jurors, you might be doing this wrong.
WSJ: “The Worker Bidding War is Over”
Just 6 weeks after warning that greedy workers are sending us to hyperinflation, it turns out the boom’s already over as salaries for new hires are “shriveling.”
Manufacturing and business are down 10%, while IT and engineering are down closer to 20%.
The few sectors that’re still going up are — you guessed it — government-dominated education and health-care.
And so it’s back to the 50 year trend of soaring government while regular workers “shrivel.”
https://twitter.com/profstonge/status/1696137652926386662
On Romanian programming / software reddit there is much bitching and moaning that the good times are over… there was a pandemic period of serious spike in programming income and now it is going back down, especially for freelance / outsourcing work. Now the large outsourcing companies are cutting back
“Greedy workers.” Love it. Gimme another 2% raise while inflation is three times that. That makes me greedy. I’ve been losing ground steadily for years.
Only reason I’ve made ground was taking a different job.
“Manufacturing and business are down 10%, while IT and engineering are down closer to 20%.”
Oh, that includes writing code. Because all the positions I’ve seen advertised are still offering good money.
Why did this auto play after that Chili Peppers link?
https://youtu.be/1WC9GyJOFmY?si=leTvNApf2zZ8vjcz
I had forgotten about this one-one of the worst songs ever recorded. Also, that’s Ace Frehley apparently. What was he thinking?
Misthread…
So, it was the KISS of death?
https://www.thedrive.com/news/mini-cooper-jeep-wrangler-mashup-makes-for-the-perfect-micro-monster-truck
LOL.
Completely silly. I love it.
I met a guy in South Carolina who, with the addition of upgraded tires and a surfboard-sized wing, put his Mini on the track. He was reasonably quick for a FWD car, too.
A nice little history lesson from that Politico piece:
One of the most high-profile transfers of a criminal prosecution from state to federal court came in 1997, when FBI sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi was indicted in connection with the Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho five years earlier. A local prosecutor charged Horiuchi with involuntary manslaughter for shooting and killing Vicki Weaver, the wife of anti-government militant Randy Weaver, during the siege.
Federal prosecutors had the case moved to federal court, where a judge later dismissed it, ruling that Horiuchi had immunity because he was acting within the scope of his duties. A federal appeals court reversed that ruling and reinstated the case, but it was eventually dropped after a change in leadership at the local prosecutor’s office.
Nobody really cares what happens to radical anti-government militants. Besides, she was pointing that baby right at him.
anti-government militant
I.e. anyone that disagrees with the regime.
What is the most insufferable award show?
But wait, there’s more
Whoops, I was attempting to indicate that Hasan won for “news.”
minnesota has the best culture in the united states, which might be called low church yankee
the wild puritan energy of her settlers remains but was tempered in turn by frontier sensibilities, German practicality, and Scandinavian conviviality
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1696000118791565497
sounds dubious to me…
Based on what I’ve seen coming out of Minnesota lately, the culture sucks.
Scandinavian flavor with a heaping helping of Somali, the great tastes that go together like toothpaste and orange juice.
Yeah — the Twin Cities seem determined to out-California California from where I sit.
Yet another Minnesotan claiming Upper-Midwest culture as some purely Minnesoda thing. So fucking tiring.
Yeah. I mean, we all know it is a ‘Sconie thing.
I can’t even
ded
I think we all know what happened in Hawaii.
Is there a way to fix these server errors?
Rambunctious
Sharpton, the rambunctious minister who has been a civil rights leader for decades, ended the four-hour event under a pale blue sky mixed with billowy clouds in typical Sharpton fashion: With the vigor of a pastor.
“Today was a day to show our strength — thousands of you, 60 years later, are here to say that we are the continuation of a movement,” he said.
“Sixty years ago, Martin Luther King talked about a dream. Sixty years later, we’re dreamers. The problem is we’re facing the schemers,” he said, invoking Donald Trump. “The dreamers are fighting for voting rights. The schemers are changing border regulations. The dreamers are standing up for a woman’s right to choose. The schemers are arguing whether they will make you stop at six weeks or 50 weeks.
“The dreamers are saying that if you’re LGBTQ or trans, you have a right to your life. The schemers are saying we’re going to make you look like you’re something that should not be tolerated in human society … The schemers are being booked in Atlanta, Georgia, in the Fulton County jail. The dreamers will win. The dreamers will march. The dreamers will stand up. Black, white, Jewish, LGBTQ. We are the dreamers. We are the children of the dream.”
Sure, Al. Whatever you say.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12451841/Ron-DeSantis-booed-Dollar-Store-racist-mass-shooting.html
It won’t let me quote the article.
You can still say that?
I can’t. The server won’t let me.
This spud is being censored by Big Server Squirrel!
Hilarious. This is the guy who signed anti-hate legislation in Israel. A lot of good that did him. No doubt the press didn’t even bring that up.
Yeah… really short on what policies supposedly “caused this” and how.
Frankly, I’m assuming “nutcase” in the short term — and longer term I can’t help but think “This is the sort of racial violence the dividers sure seem to want… just too small scale.”
You can still say that?
Void where prohibited by law.
“Doughnut come here with a gun, a popular San Francisco bakery is warning police officers.
Reem’s California, a local Arab street food restaurant and bakery chain, announced that it is enforcing a policy not to serve anyone with a weapon.
“NO COPS ALLOWED. That’s the confirmed policy of the bakery chain Reem’s,” the San Francisco Police Officers’ Association tweeted on August 24.”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/28/san-francisco-bakery-refuses-to-sell-to-cops-in-uniform/
“Nordstrom’s flagship store in crime-plagued San Francisco closed its doors for the last time Sunday as “drug-addled zombies” high on fentanyl and drug deals run rampant.
Dozens of shoppers were seen over the weekend perusing mostly barren aisles for mementos from the formerly posh department store — which once featured a five-star spa, champagne and caviar bar and live pianist — as cops patrolled outside.”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/28/nordstrom-shutters-flagship-store-in-crime-riddled-san-francisco/
Totally unrelated.
“This coulple tried to conceive for years — turns out, they were having sex all wrong
Thinking she had an underlying condition, Dr. Liu ran some tests, only for it to reveal something far more shocking: the woman was a “virgin.”
Liu’s “experience” prompted her to inspect the woman’s anus, whereupon she discovered that their inability to conceive was due to the fact that they’d mistakenly been engaging in anal sex for four years.”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/28/they-tried-to-conceive-for-years-turns-out-they-were-having-sex-all-wrong/
“mistakenly”
I blame pornhub.
lulz
Lost my coffee over that comment
Just another person who doesn’t know their ass from a hole in the ground among other things.
“Trust me baby, this is how you do it.”
And she did…for 4 years. Bravo good sir, bravo
She couldn’t just ask her which hole her husband had been using? Sounds like everyone involved here likes ass play.
Maybe Inspector Clouseau would have solved that mystery?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64yianfGvzc
Ev be present!
In case no one else is for now: I’m seeing the Pixies and Modest Mouse in Indianapolis tomorrow. Anyone else going? Kevin is in state at least. I kinda have an extra ticket. I downgraded from the Pit to a place farther back but with a seat cuz my broken leg. Theoretically my bro is gonna go to the show with me, mostly cuz I’m gonna be staying at his place that night in town. Also as a brotherly favor/obligation. It hasn’t been given out yet.
I can stand without crutches, but that’s a bad idea in any concert pit, though this should be an older crowd. Could be time for funsies. I do have a broken/fractured femur but my Wolverine status increases, as I do indeed heal remarkably quickly. (My body has experience and it’s good at it.) Just throwin’ thoughts out there.
I’m not going, but it sounds like a good show. My friends in NJ just saw them last week. Have fun!
I’m ashamed that I don’t know more Pixies. Modest Mouse is about my second favorite band, but from their early 90s stuff up to their 2007 album. Their stuff after that…I was busy/injured and haven’t listened to new music like I used to.
I’ll still have a great time.
“As part of this caseload, his practice has veered into the disturbing new territory of non-binary surgery, which includes castration, eunuch, and nullification procedures, which Crane describes as the process of “removing all external genitalia to create a smooth transition from the abdomen to the groin.” Crane has also designed and performed hundreds of non-binary surgeries in which he fashions together both male and female genitalia for a single individual. That is, he creates an artificial penis for a woman, while retaining her vagina; or creates an artificial vagina for a man, while retaining his penis…
“Our history has been riddled with inequalities,” he said, and the West, in particular, has propped up a false gender binary — that of man and woman — that denies the basic right to recognition of individuals self-identifying as transgender, non-binary, gender-nonconforming, genderqueer and gender fluid.
Crane proposed two solutions.
First, the social-utopian solution: to reeducate all of society to accept that biological sex is not binary — “XX is not always female and XY is not always male” — and “humanize this predicament,” with the end goal of “acceptance” of anti-normative sexual identity.
Second, the technical-constructivist solution: to remove, alter, fabricate and reorganize human genitalia so that transgender patients can “become the people they were always meant to be.””
https://www.city-journal.org/article/barbarism-in-the-name-of-equality
https://nypost.com/2023/08/27/stop-frankenstein-doctors-from-doing-barbaric-non-binary-surgeries/
Medicine has become way too political.
Somebody’s been watching too much hentai.
This is exactly what MLK fought for.
This morning NBC was playing up a big propaganda angle to the anniversary of the famous march. In it they played the clip from the “I have a Dream” speech that talked about his kids growing up in a country where they would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. It was jarring after the last 3 years of the progressive left disavowing that goal and promoting the opposite.
Intellectual heir to Mengele and Ishii, just wrapped in a “empathetic” facade.
On the housing crisis front – you also have the mass internal migration problem, something nobody expected. Both Florida and Texas have seen a couple of million new residents over the last half decade. That’s a lot of new housing, well beyond what could have been anticipated by developers.
Meanwhile, there are places like Detroit that have big houses on big lots for essentially free – if you don’t mind living in an area with no services because everyone left and they can’t afford to maintain the area like they would if people actually lived there. At some point the declines in California, New York, etc have to catch up with the housing market.