A crime against humanity!
The AL West is in a 3-way tie. The US Open is bringing a lot of action, but they really need to cut down on the ceremonies in the evening sessions or they need to start it a couple hours earlier. It’s getting ridiculous how late they’re forcing players to play. “Bravery?” Give me a fucking break. And that’s about it for sports.
This is going to be interesting. I wonder if the NLRB will step in, unionize everybody, and then impose a gazillion dollar fine without a hearing.
This is also going to be interesting. I don’t really feel bad for the guy. He knew what he did was wrong.
Witch hunt victim
Yeah, this is bullshit. First of all, you can bet the “bomb threats” are bullshit and being called in by people who oppose this guy. And either way, the guy did nothing wrong. And what they’re calling “lies” was him reposting a video. These people cannot be given an inch.
I find the first sentence of this piece perplexing. Are stabbings a normal occurrence at the carnival or something? Anyway, this is what gun and knife control gets you, you stupid Limeys.
Insurrection! Sedition! These people hate democracy!!! At least those would be the words used if it was the other side freaking out when they didn’t get their way.
Eat a dick, Chicago.
This is retarded. It’s Chicago, so it’s not surprising. But it is still retarded.
“Cracks down,” lol?!?!?! I’m sorry that some of the companies in that sector are treating their employees like literally every other profession. I also got a kick out of “the tug-of-war between worker flexibility and corporate demands.” As if that’s something new or evenhanded in the way it’s being presented.
This isn’t creepy at all. Not to mention they can tell what language setting you have active on your phone. Civil liberties groups should be up in arms. But I suspect nobody will say shit as Big Brother further encroaches on our daily lives.
Man, the lyrics to this song are wild. Methinks he’d be cancelled today.And here’s another one with less pedo vibes. The 50s was a weird time. Anyway, enjoy them.
And enjoy this Wednesday. If you’re in Florida’s Big Bend, stay safe.
Nice haircut?
“London’s famous Notting Hill Carnival reached its highest level of stabbings in seven years as men with knives, 275 arrests and several hospitalizations marred the two-day spectacle.”
Maybe it’s famous for stabbings?
Next year, they just embrace the inevitable: Ripperfest.
You mean it’s not the knifing festival?
That was too cutting edge for the Brits.
this particular carnival is usually a stab fest. And one or two more I believe.
You know. I think I’ll pass on going to a carnival where stabbing is a common risk.
So, Acupunctureland is off the table?
Well, I have been a regular at Viva Las Vegas, which has a tattoo room. But I’d say when you’re volunteering to get poked, it’s not a stabbing.
Does not compute.
Error E – Reseat Midplane and reinitialize.
End of Line.
“This isn’t creepy at all.”
It’s sounds like they just added cell phones, were already doing TV and radio.
That one doesn’t other me too much. There are already state level warnings via text. I think the potential for abuse will be higher than Hawaii levels under Biden, so that is a concern. I don’t want that asshole blasting my phone with a text supporting Biden’s latest “Triumph.”
Now we can get Amber alerts from clear across the country.
Ok, apparently it is just the two of us…. but I find this annoying on many levels.
I get alerts from hundreds of miles away. Not all that often… but when they happen, it really creates a problem. Because if every alert I see is from a 4.5 hour drive away, I’m not going to pay any attention to the alerts.
Maybe it isn’t that way everywhere. Florida is a big state. And they did happen more frequently in the past than they do now. So they improved something. But I can’t remember the last relevant Amber alert i saw.
Maybe it will finally break people of their ludicris cell phone habits.
I can assure you, I never listen to Ludacris on my cell phone or any other device.
Same was happening here in NoDak. They seem to have fixed it some, but I did get a Silver Alert a few weeks ago that was from a couple hundred miles away. And this person walked out of a facility.
My dad, during one of the last stages of his dementia, was able to deactivate the alarm system at the facility and walk out the door with a sock full of quarters. He was looking to “go back home to Texas.” He was found at a bar about 50 miles away. Looking for someone to take him home. Epic story. Dementia took a lot of his memories, but never took his skills.
Fair enough. But at the time, there was no reason to think this guy was gonna steal a car or hop on a bus or anything. Just like tsunami alarms, they shouldn’t get over used.
Whaaat? Are you implying that our federal government would break laws and conventions to game processes for unions? Why, I never! Good day, sir!
(Sarcasm off)
Morning, Sloopy… morning to the rest of ya.
Regarding the emergency alerts, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the alerting agencies have access to your language settings. It more likely means that the way the alert is sent has a way to send multiple messages, and determine which one to display based on the phone settings.
Yeah there is nothing unusual about providing messages in your language. All developers have access to your selected language.
Seems like a security risk, we’ll have to fix that.
Dafuq is this emergency text alert about eels? I don’t even own a hovercraft!
Eels… Eels… Eels…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AckvdGbk4w
Eels
🙂
At least they weren’t shrieking.
I guess I should read comments before commenting…..
Funny how that works when those with the “correct” politics are shielded from any consequences (for lying about their opponents, for doxing, threats, etc… for civil disruption.
Almost like you get more of what you reward and all… So odd… never seen anything like that before in human history….
(Ack. Pbbbt.)
I know it sounds cold — but I can’t help but think this is what happens when you shift from a “You’re responsible for yourself / your family… do thinks at your own risk” culture to a “We must take care of everyone” culture that we’re increasingly stuck with. The default should be “Swim at your own risk, duh… we may have lifeguards sometimes, we may not. Use your brain.”
All this crap just feeds the Big Mother style of Permission Society.
I blame lawyers.
/casts side eyes at the Glibs legal team.
Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal.
https://euobserver.com/green-economy/157364
But are planning to freeze rent for three years.
And they’re supposed to be an intelligent country.
And their economy is shrinking.
They are just the first country to wake up to it. We are still sleepwalking. I can;t believe Texas still has the damn windmill things.
Could have been worse if T. Boone Pickens had been able to implement his plan.
Parts of Texas are ideal for wind farms.
Sure they are. Just nowhere to dispose of the blades. Which break constantly.
Construct a temple from them.
Bladehenge!
Build homes for windfarm workers!
If they don’t biodegrade and obviously they’re strong, they’d seem to make excellent frame materials. Add some local clay and voila!
Adoblades?
Hundreds of billions? I’m gonna need a cite for that one.
The green marxians did nazi that coming.
That makes me happy.
Just wait til we get to the Daily Download. (And people wonder why I’m not keen on the whole cyberpunk / enhanced human stuff… I don’t trust those making the hardware to be near my wetware (I’ll take ‘Things never said by Winston’s Mom’ for $400, Alex!)
Back from my Rt. 66 Chicago to San Diego junket.
It was quite the ride.
Sorry, i missed Kia. We cam THIS close to meeting but time was impossibly tight.
Did you have to work off a speeding ticket in a small town just off the highway, finding an appreciation for small town life away from the bustle of the city while bringing vibrancy back to the stagnant downtown?
That’s what we keep being told happens on these Route 66 trips……
I thought you broke down on an empty desert highway and got attacked by skinwalkers.
Not the first part but I did see the second. I used my megaphone to shout, ‘DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!?’
I mean, how many Rt. 66 stickers can you sell?
It isn’t like it hasn’t been done more than once since. And he’d be fine if he just said “transgender boy”, I suppose… then it could be about a PreK.
As a long time Texas Rangers fan, I have developed the ability to ignore baseball after the all-star break.
That’s nothing… I ignore baseball all the time! 😉
As a long time Royals fan, I have developed the ability to forget baseball even exists…often decades at a time.
As an aside, I can’t wait to vote NO when the city tries to milk the taxpayers for a billion dollars for a new stadium. The Royals are a shit product that stumbled on to brief success nearly a decade ago then immediately went right back to being garbage. Even if I didn’t object to public/private/fascist partnerships on a philosophical level I’d still vote NO just because a professional sports team shouldn’t be rewarded for anything after not even trying to compete with the rest of the league for the better part of three decades. Fuck ’em. Move for all I care and good luck in Albuquerque.
After Spotsyltuckians rejected a stadium scam, Frednecks fell for it. Now I can go to a local game without double paying.
Now replace Royals with Rangers.
As an Indians fan, it was pretty easy to stop following baseball once my team was D-E-D.
How is the Cleveland Baseball Team doing this year?
*shrug*
From what little I’ve picked up on in local news and chatter, no offense, mediocre pitching, and Francona looks to be in his last season. I did go to a game this year (friend of mine goes in on season tickets), in an irony that was not lost on me, it was against the Braves.
At least you’ve been to the dance before.
/Sad Mariners Fan
Gabon coup: Army cancels elections and seizes power
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66654965
Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon to say they have taken power.
They said they were annulling the results of Saturday’s election, in which President Ali Bongo was declared the winner.
Military officials later said that Mr Bongo had been placed under house arrest and one of his sons arrested for treason.
His overthrow would end his family’s 53-year hold on power in Gabon.
Gabon is one of Africa’s major oil producers, while nearly 90% of the country is covered by forests.
It joined the Commonwealth in June 2022, becoming one of its few members not to have been a British colony.
This sounds like a story written by an AI.
Ali Bongo can’t be real.
And Bongbong Marcos is?
Mama was queen of the mambo
Papa was king of the Congo
Deep down in the jungle
I start bangin’ my first bongo
Every monkey’d like to be
In my place instead of me
‘Cause I’m the king of bongo, baby
I’m the king of bongo bong
Not knowing anything about Gabon, the obvious question becomes why it would join the Commonwealth when it has sufficient natural resources to underwrite development.
Methinks Bongo might have sold out the country for a reward.
I thought their major export was soccer players. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Both of Mr Bongo’s previous wins were disputed as fraudulent by opponents. This time, controversial changes were made to voting papers just weeks before election day.”
Mr. Bongo didn’tt put those election deniers in jail, and look what happened.
Everyone Gabon to your Bongos, we are going to the beach!
Now welcome the rightful new ruler, Lei Pong from China.
Whaaa? Finders v. Keepers isn’t controlling precedent?
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
. And that’s about it for sports.
Well The US did beat Jordan in the FIBA World Cup
Well, 5 against one Michael Jordan hardly seems fair.
Beat who in the what now?
How do we know the morning links aren’t written by AI?
/narrows gaze. Licks ice-cream.
How do any of us know the rest of us aren’t AI? Or shadows on that damned cave wall?
You could all be a bit of undigested beef! A blob of mustard! There’s more of gravy than of grave about all of you!
SDF-7 is too blatantly remixing existing material, clearly an AI.
Me? An AI?
Does not compute…
01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 00101110
But what if the AI identifies as nonbinary??
Then it’s just being a Trit.
Trinary or Quantum?
Another video of cops blocking off all the evacuation routes in Maui.
It looks like some kind of organized giant ritual summoning or sacrifice out of a Charles Stross novel.
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/146/637/210/playable/fbcb7ecf2792a6d9.mp4
It’s stunning how quickly Lahaina disappeared from the news once info on this stuff started coming out.
Yep. I was just telling my wife about this stuff a couple of days ago, she had no idea.
Yeah, in normal times a thousand people dying in an inferno would probably have lasted a few more news cycles.
And by Normal Times, you mean a Republican in the White House…
Oh shit, then we’d be hearing about how Trump went door-to-door with a lit tiki torch setting houses on fire.
There were good people on fire on both sides…
Any chance this was just incompetence ordered by retards and enforced by retards?
Although the fact the police chief was the same guy in Las Vegas during the shooting is very curious.
the police chief was the same guy in Las Vegas during the shooting
*Reinforces tinfoil hat*
Uvalde removed any lingering doubt for me that these kind of mass murders are intentionally caused and not a byproduct of government incompetence.
Or run of the mill gross incompetence.
Maybe, although Stross is an idiot if he doesn’t write into his next book. Maybe that one will be entertaining.
I saw another video of a guy getting out of Lahaina, and his radio was playing in the background. Not a single word of warning on the radio. It also showed how bad the smoke was well before it started ripping through town, so the sirens definitely would have been useful.
I don’t mind the late play but the ceremonies are revolting. “Equal pay for equal work” my ass.
At least last night they generously gave us a second feed so I could bypass the usual shittiness on the mother channel.
Jacques and Jane completed the same task. Jacques’s work – being French – was shoddy. Jane’s – being a woman – was superior.
Who should get paid more?
Obviously the owner who is exploiting both Jacque and Jane’s labor.
Good morning, Sloop!
I hope Brett and all our other Florida People are well. Looks like a pretty good storm.
You are unusually early.
Yes. Not by choice.
I would think everyone on glibertarians is here by choice
No one else would put up with me.
well it would not kill you to increase your orphans’ gruel rations
New Air-Conditioning Technology Could Be the Future of Cool
Standard AC units cool buildings but contribute to global warming. New technology aims to change that
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-air-conditioning-technology-could-be-the-future-of-cool/
“This past July was the hottest recorded month in human history.” – so since the 1970 really
“Severe heat is the deadliest of all weather events; in the U.S. alone, it kills more people each year than floods, tornadoes and hurricanes combined.” – what about extreme cold? Cause that kills a lot more than extreme hot. Why is that omitted?
“It’s becoming increasingly clear that humans cannot outrun climate change with the same air-conditioning technology we’ve been using for nearly a century.” – sure we can with plenty of nuclear
Al that being said, better AC tech is a good thing. But present it without all the bullshit
Standard AC units cool buildings but contribute to global warming.
Assertion without evidence.
Severe heat is the deadliest of all weather events
Flat out lie, cold causes far more deaths.
“contribute to global warming” – well, that’s the standard AGW cult line, so I’ll ignore it
It does contribute to localized warming, of course. You’re (normally) moving the heat from the inside of a building to the outside of a building using a thermodynamic system, which’ll have losses in the form of emitted heat.
It cannot be proven or disproven with current technology so yes, completely ignore it. Anyone who claims to know this is true is flat-out lying.
I don’t think it’s actually ‘better’.
It’s going to be difficult to have “better” AC tech when they keep outlawing all of the refrigerants.
It’ll be a dry heat inside your home.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they started gaming the heat death numbers in recent years.
Well, he died of a heart attack but the corpse was sweaty but it was 3 degrees above normal that day, so heat related death.
If it looks like a heat death, we’re calling it a heat death.
So, finding a bag of cash. Not stealing, and the dude did nothing wrong. If you cannot hold onto a fungible object, then you lose. Be better money handlers.
Dude did have a hella groundscore, though.
Don’t steal from the state.
Always take back from the state.
Fixed it for you.
LOL 🙄
Megan Rapinoe to the puff-piece author: I’m gonna cut you.
So they’re saying Megan Rapinoe is more important to football than Colin Kaepernick?
They aren’t saying anything about her – I am.
But yes, I’m sure she would believe that as well.
Well, to be fair, she actually plays for a team, unlike Kneel Armstrong.
Shocking details of corruption and suppression in the world of peer-reviewed climate science have come to light with a recent leak of emails. They show how a determined group of activist scientists and journalists combined to secure the retraction of a paper that said a climate emergency was not supported by the available data. Science writer and economist Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. has published the startling emails and concludes: “Shenanigans continue in climate science, with influential scientists teaming up with journalists to corrupt peer review.”
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/26/shock-retraction-of-climate-science-paper-showing-no-climate-emergency-draws-comparisons-with-climategate-scandal/
Shocking… shocking details!
beat
beat
beat
“Your winnings, sir…”
I wish for once they’d drop the juvenile add-ons like “shocking” or “startling” when neither is true unless you’re an idiot.
“Unsurprisingly, details of corruption and suppression in the world of peer-reviewd climate science (sic) have come to light…”
Why am I not surprised Michael Mann is in the middle of it?
From the climate scientists I have seen, their grasp of statistical inference is barely any better than in public health, which is a very low bar. The ones I know who are still objective just roll their eyes and say nothing. If I have to judge who is the more competent scientist, I will go with the nuclear physics dudes from Italy every time.
One more thing: it is well past time for “activist scientist” to join the oxymoron lexicon.
When you’re making claims on trends that exist well within the error bars on your measurements…
Not to mention the… quality… of “academic code” is complete shit. Unless you have a pro coder or at least a CS professor on the team, it is going to be the biggest disaster.
I know where I’m putting my money.
Tell me, Mister Hockey stick, are you still advocating the concensus that the Sun orbits the Earth?
What he did was wrong. But I am not sure it should be criminal.
Seems like a civil action. The money belongs to the city, he gives it to them. Possibly with interest.
Since Taxation is Theft, and the city funds are the product of taxation, he is guilty of recieving stolen property.
No. The city had posession of the money, and through gross negligence lost it. They forfeit all claims to it.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with claiming found money. The mere idea that it is wrong needs to end, now.
It’s one thing to keep the $100 bill you find blowing around a parking lot. It’s another thing to keep a duffle bag full of money marked “Property of Duffle and Dollars Inc” in the parking lot of Duffle and Dollars Inc, where inside the locked duffle there is paperwork which states the money belongs to Duffle and Dollars Inc.
Some many years ago I was working in Berkeley, when I left work one evening, in the empty parking lot next to my van, was a brief case. The parking lot was adjacent to an apartment building, I envisioned that someone in the apartment building had lowered a brief case full of drugs/money out of the window during a bust. Anyway, without stopping I picked up the brief case and drove back to the motel, excited that if it was money I was on my way out of town.
I opened up the brief case at the motel, a newspaper and several pairs of eye glasses. Shit! I took the brief case back and gave it to the parking lot guy that I was friendly with. An hour or two later a well dressed man came to where I was working and gave me a bottle of wine, thanking me for the return of his brief case. He was the local optometrist and had parked next to me the day before and had unlocked his car and driven away, forgetting his briefcase.
We were both happy.
My wife had an uncle who in the 90’s was a manager at a fairly nice hotel. One night they had to call the police to break up a party. When the maids cleaned the room they found a briefcase full of coke. Her uncle took it to my father in law (were the owners going to come looking for it or file a police report?) They had a lot of good times from that briefcase.
Greenwald seems to be enjoying taking apart Haley’s overt grifting.
https://twitter.com/SystemUpdate_/status/1696543500806864994
been a never-Nikki for years
Nikki is the worst, this is known.
Jim Gleeson
@geographyjim
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New research from Sweden shows that while most new homes are occupied by households with above-average incomes, the homes freed up by this initial move are mostly moved into by households with below-average incomes https://urbanlab.ibf.uu.se/urban-facts/
Mike Bird
@Birdyword
When people ask how much of a given housing development will be affordable, the answer is basically always “more than before” in anything except the most parochial hyperlocal sense.
https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1696769444243202432
People are tweeting obvious things?
Well, I guess its better than tweeting obviously wrong things.
“New research” 🙄
Those grant dollars aren’t going to spend themselves.
NYC’s “ethnic” festivals also tend to have a body count. So I would guess “Yes”.
I get the impression that the festival stabbings are not random crime, but the expression of existing conflicts between those involved, and they happen at the festivals because it is a venue where both parties are in attendance.
Yup… drugs and gang shit, mostly. Plus lots of male youths getting handsy with females. Same shit that happens on the street every day just given extra attention due to the circumstances.
So if a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder commits suicide by gun is it a mass shooting?
Depends. Did they have Covid at the time?
I am pleased to report that I’m unaware of any deaths at the Romanian, Slovakian, Hungarian, Serbian, Irish, and German festivals that happen around here. I cam close to adding Italian, but I think there was a shooting close enough to be reported as part of it at one of them this year.
Now you’re just making crap up.
Either that or you’ve got a bunch of plastic paddies who wouldn’t know their backside from a gallowglass
Both the Irish Cultural Fest and the Scottish Games took place at the fairground this year. I’ll be heading over there myself this weekend for the (early) Oktoberfest
Mr. Ilium, you would know this – what sort of cocktail (or other beverage) would be served in a gallowglass?
I don’t think you’d want to serve a beverage out of a gallowglass, unless there’s another definition I’m unaware of.
Maybe out of his skull if he were my enemy?
a 70 ton drinking vessel is hard to lift.
Wouldn’t you be serving the drinks in the cockpit rather than drinking from the ‘Mech itself?
OT, thank you GT for correctly interpreting the botch autocorrect made of my than-you post pre-links!
Yeah, the Norwegian Parade that goes by me every year tends to be not shooty either.
No monastaries to plunder?
My mom and dad still live in the town where I grew up. It was and still is a fairly upscale community. Lots of doctors and lawyers. But their church has a yearly festival, and there’s been a lot of fights in previous years, so they canceled it this time. Festivals seem to draw rival gangs, and the alcohol consumption doesn’t help.
https://twitter.com/Cadmarch/status/1696820354969108890
this is a surprising use of this meme
And justice for all.
This is fucked up.
There is no level of hell deep enough for these people.
The judge is a member of the Federalist Society. That’s fucked up.
The US government is illegitimate.
The power of judges and prosecutors has to be reigned in. They’re human and power and partisanship goes to their heads just like everyone else.
“The pandemic was especially lucrative for the tech world, as much of the working U.S., including Silicon Valley, adopted digital technology in order to work from home.”
I’ve always been amazed at the number of laptoppers who are oblivious to the fact that most jobs cannot, in fact, be done from home. “Much of the working US”, my ass.
Well, it’s not like we make anything anymore. And robots are taking over the retail sector.
He says, as I sit down from setting up another intake on the lathe….
So why is it I can’t find anything I’m trying to acquire that was made here? I am willing to shell out anywhere up to the order of 10x the rate that the cheap chinese crap retails for to get American made, and it just isn’t showing up on the market.
Yes, I am salty.
What is being made, and why is it nothing I’m trying to buy?
My scope and knowledge is limited. I mostly do car parts and antique aircraft parts. Many boats are made here as well, but honestly, unless you’re buying parts for Rootes Group or other obscure British cars, WWI aircraft, or Porsche 944 performance parts, I’m outta my depth.
Not gonna lie, consumer goods are tough to find. For cookware, I believe Lodge and All-clad are still made here. Speed Queens (washing machines) are still made in Wisconsin.
What exactly are you looking for? I might be able to help with some, or better yet, I might find something I can do to make a bit of cash.
At the moment, I’ve already bought the less desirable imports for what I’d needed. I’m not sure what might pop up next, and my quick mental survey didn’t turn up anything I’m looking for at this moment.
I’m sure something will come up by the end of the year.
There are companies that still make gloves in the USA.
Nope. After supporting way too many call center agents who should not have been WFH, I agree that not all jobs can (or should) be WFH. Of course, the closest office to me for my company is about 2 hours away.
I work in a lab so not really feasible for me. If it requires hands on work then WFH won’t cut it.
I would venture to guess that 90% of the reason mask mandates became so long and arduous stems form WFH. Think about it. when the managers and executives don’t have to wear them the whole time they are working, and only do it for signalling, the time in use can go on much longer, as the deciders don’t have to bare the burden.
That’s true of most exec mandates.
Civil liberties groups should be up in arms.
I seem to recall the left being upset about this when it was tested during the OMB admin.
Fenix Ammo is an amazing company.
That’s awesome.
+1
The sad part of that is S,C.O.P.E. is one of the orgs that’s trying. Stil agree with Fenix tho.
I thought that name sounded familiar. Yeah, met the guy. Decent guy. Still needs to be treated like the rest of us.
So why redact the surname in bold but not when it’s at the bottom of the message?
Fenix guy probably didn’t notice/read carefully.
FH is also the prexy of my boss’s gun club.
One of the reasons that CA was able to pass an AWB after the 90’s one expired was that they gave an exemption to LEO’s, who then turned around and backed the law, giving law enforcement cover to a shitty law, as they were exempt from it.
Fuck them.
This should never even have been in question.
Colorado school board votes to allow Jaiden to wear “Don’t Tread on Me” patch on school grounds
Victory for the 1st Amendment!
“Victory” would entail some sort of repercussions.
At least we learned the slaves were the first to say don’t tread on me.
Saw a pic yesterday, with patches and slogans all over his backpack. That kid would have got his ass kicked in my time and place. Unless it was Judas Priest or Iron Maiden.
This is a 1916 propaganda map created by the Allies during World War 1, showing what would happen to the United States if the Central Powers won.
During World War 1, the Central Powers consisted primarily of the German Empire and Austria Hungary. Their army was referred to as the Prussian Army and the soldiers were referred to as “Prussians,” a reference to the Kingdom of Prussia. If you recall, prior to 1870, Germany was not one unified nation, but made up of several different kingdoms. It was the Kingdom of Prussia, under the leadership of Kaiser Wilhelm I and his prime minister Otto von Bismarck, that pushed for the unification of the German states.
A few interesting details to point out on the map:
The Great Lakes are renamed after German beers and several American cities have their names changed. For example, Boston becomes “Kulturplatz” and Austin becomes “Nietzsche.” Above the Province of Mexico, you can see an American Reservation whose capital is “Goose-Step.” I also found it amusing that whoever made the map added Bismarck, North Dakota as unchanged.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect about this map is that California and the Pacific Northwest are labeled as “Japonica.” This is confusing because Japan was actually on the side of Allies which was made up of France, Britain, Russia and Italy.
https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1696521967980138982
got Canada right
Well now we know where the map for The Man In the High Castle came from.
As per usual, it’s a bunch of British horseshit.
You can’t trust the Japanese.
Now I’m imagining a musclebound Canadian warrior driving his enemies before him. “By Crom, eh?”
Would be be using a +2 sword of Maple Syrupe?
No, The Lumberjack’s axe of Ent-slaying.
You can see they started getting tired of renaming places somewhere between Denverburg and Bismark.
Hyphenburg?
I wonder how the Central Powers could pull off a successful invasion and occupation across 3,000 miles of ocean.
They would simply activate the infiltration army that was already in-country to seize the strategic locations and announce the new order.
All those kraut immigrant fifth columnists.
Same way we’re going to defend Taiwan from China.
Duh….
But How does one apply liberal doses of nuclear hellfire before the invention of the atomic bomb?
Zimmermann knew. Tyler flew?
I have to assume a scenario where the Allies all capitulated en toto in 1916. So you add the Grand Fleet to the High Seas Fleet (which you really need to do because you don’t have the range by design for the High Seas Fleet… they expected to fight in the North Sea and they knew it), and the coaling stations in Bermuda and whatnot.
Spend a year building transports while you consolidate your economies in the proto-EU, then go to the Caribbean followed by the Eastern Seaboard, daring the US Navy to do shit (because you outnumber them like 40:12 in dreadnoughts/superdreadnoughts alone). Then magically, the US falls apart (or is invaded by Zimmerman Note emboldened Mexico or something).
Pretty much fantasy — because any German victory in ’16 wasn’t going to be that complete, wasn’t going to have full capitulation/enthusiastic joining by the former Allies, was going to be hampered by the falling apart corpse of Austria-Hungary… not to mention that the Russian Revolution would likely have kicked off anyway by a surrender… not to mention Germany really wouldn’t have been that interested right then (having its hands full digesting Europe even in the best case), etc.
More plausible than it would have been in the 1930s, I suppose (because the US industrial capacity was large, but not the juggernaut it was ready to become)… but I still wouldn’t like Germany’s chances once they tried to move inland even in their best scenarios. Lots of guerilla fighting, lots of sniping of troop movements. More blood than they’d want to suffer.
And if it did happen, once Germany got knocked back… Mexico would be razed in vengeance, most likely.
They sent some people into the Capitol building, held it for a week, and that was the end of America.
By the power of the Gavel, I have the power!
You could produce one today showing what would happen if Russia defeats Ukraine, and people would believe it.
In celebration of Hump Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWUWPx2VeQ
And the remake…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Lb7GH6ksw
Okay that was hilarious. Thanks for sharing.
Was that wrong? Possibly illegal? Did I let the little head think for the big head?
A Private Phone. Secret Recordings. Inside One CEO’s Relationship With a TV Anchor.
I’m just amused by the quoting:
red down pointing triangle founder Kevin Plank
I thought about inventing red down triangles way back in 92, but I chose another career path because I needed money at the time.
He must protect this house!
Just in time for Wednesday, FUPA news you can use. Thanks to SF we all have the vocabulary to discuss this matter.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/29/gun-fired-at-white-sox-game-was-snuck-in-via-womans-belly-fat/
Where was Tres when that happened?
Also in WTF from the sidebar…
Dad stressed about move, so what else to do but murder your fiancee and two children because that makes sense.
I think there’s more to the story.
Dude – who wants to move from the Upper West Side to Westchester County? JK – I don’t want to live either place.
Although I agree you don’t kill your family over it.
Also from the sidebar:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/26/nyc-mens-salon-didnt-discourage-sex-with-clients-lawsuit/
I’ve never heard of an all-male variant of this establishment, but anything’s possible.
Good lord…
Three died in this horrific gas explosion.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania last week.
Holy shit!
This is why we need common sense gas stove control.
The climate change has gotten so bad that things are literally exploding.
I think that news is older than a week. I think that explosion happened in the middle of August.
My wife walked past me me yesterday and asked me “…what are you doing?” When she saw my computer. I guess she thought it was weird I was using midjourney to make pictures of mark zuckerberg in a dress?
https://twitter.com/cauchyfriend/status/1696333387659968972
Now this one I might enjoy watching.
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1696684811065114664
Stephanie Ruhle, engaged in a stock price manipulation scheme? No way.
The real question is whether she was manipulating his stock directly.
Because this makes sense.
In response to a New York Times report Monday about Donald Trump’s legal strategy, Rachel Maddow laid out for MSNBC viewers the stakes of the 2024 election, as she sees them.
Concerned by the news that Trump’s plan is to win the 2024 presidential election and then use the levers of power to make his myriad legal problems go away, Maddow warned that if he wins, it means he’s “probably president for life.”
Could you imagine if he prosecuted his political opponents in banana republic, kangaroo court fashion? Wouldn’t that be awful?
If he somehow won, he’d have to go full Sulla / Pinochet or else they’ll kill him.
The guy has massive stones because right now he’s risking spending the rest of his life in prison. If he actually makes it onto the ballot on any kind of a legitimate election, it’ll be life or death. They killed JFK for far less.
We need a purge to get somewhere close to reasonable. Such a purge will by necessity turn bloody.
What we really need is that Unicorn who can accurately say “We’ve killed enough.” and not go full Robespierre.
Sulla killed / proscribed hundreds and he bought the Republic a couple of decades. After a purge, there has to be a breakup and dramatic downsizing. Continuing as an empire is not sustainable and will end badly.
She needs to seek help for those voices in her head.
They’ve been saying this for decades. Obama, Bush, Trump, all of them were going to declare an emergency and suspend elections.
You forgot Biden
So did he.
More pedo music vibes from earlier eras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMeSrynug0
Now, don’t go casting aspersions on the pride of Piqua, Ohio!
This was a time when you could legally marry at 13 in some states (see Jerry Lee Lewis).
This one is the anthem of teachers these days it seems.
I didn’t write this. But I certainly agree with it.
Honk!: DC area ranks high for confrontational drivers
The must have only polled NoVA.
The WV drivers are mostly stoned on oxycontin.
But DC? It’s some of the worst traffic in the country, full of some of the worst people.
Ohio came in 10th on the list. Probably when they were driving at the speed limit in the left lane in every surrounding state.
Muh mud puddles!
The Environmental Protection Agency removed federal protections for a majority of the country’s wetlands on Tuesday to comply with a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
The EPA and Department of the Army announced a final rule amending the definition of protected “waters of the United States” in light of the decision in Sackett v. EPA in May, which narrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act and the agency’s power to regulate waterways and wetlands.
Developers and environmental groups have for decades argued about the scope of the 1972 Clean Water Act in protecting waterways and wetlands.
“While I am disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision in the Sackett case, EPA and Army have an obligation to apply this decision alongside our state co-regulators, Tribes, and partners,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement.
A 2006 Supreme Court decision determined that wetlands would be protected if they had a “significant nexus” to major waterways. This year’s court decision undid that standard. The EPA’s new rule “removes the significant nexus test from consideration when identifying tributaries and other waters as federally protected,” the agency said.
Say goodbye to clean water, America. Big Pollute wins again.
About time. That was a major FedGov overreach.
Nothing wrong with significant nexus. The problem is that they defined it down to cover every body of water in the country.
Also, nothing prevents the states from enacting further restrictions if they choose.
If I can’t move cargo along the waterway to another location, it’s not a navigable waterway and thus out of the scope of Federal constitutional authority.
Swamps, bogs, mudflats, these are not navigable waters that fall within federal purview.
The main problem was how the ever-power hungry EPA defined “waterways”. They only had to actually have water in them for a short amount of time. So sloughs that would connect via normally dry ditches because of spring flooding were suddenly under the purview of the EPA.
Yeah, they took “significant nexus” and ran all the way to “anywhere in the watershed”….. which means the entire continent.
I’m sticking to my definition, though I will extend it down to canoes loaded with furs, as that was part of the interstate trade at the time. Though any body of water that can’t consistantly carry a canoe loaded with furs from one jurisdiction to another is not “Navigable” and thus beyond the scope of the Federal constitutional remit. I don’t care if that three-inch deep swamp drains into a navigable waterway, we’re not getting cargo through there, so it’s none of your business until the water makes it to the creek.
Otter unmasked as Chester hotel’s £100k koi carp thief
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-66618968
Crazy footage from FL.
The storm surge is awful.
Don’t get me wrong – I’ve been with downed power lines and trees for three days within a 3 block radius of my home.
But the drownings and the property damage don’t get the respect they should.
Yeah, those buildings are on stilts and still getting pummeled through the living area. Those guys definitely should not be riding the storm out in place. They were in an evacuation zone and chose to ignore it – that’s not a good life plan. Sure, it probably worked out fine this time…. but that entire building could also have been swept out to sea. Those barrier islands do not always remain in place during a storm. Before we put roads and neighborhoods on them, they would move about during big storms. Your stilts are great, but they don’t really help if the entire island leaves the area.
Today in Selena Gomez twitter
“Selena was evil enough to date Justin when he was 17 and she was already 18 – textbook grooming yet no one cares for some reason.
Selena spent years obsessing, abusing, and defaming Justin Bieber and she still won’t let up!
Remember when Selena lied and accused Justin of cheating on her song “perfect” when we all know he would never disrespect a woman! Plain evil.
Selena Gomez will get the same fate as Amber Heard and I can’t wait.
Y’all really trying to defend Selena’s predatory tendencies and it’s WEIRD.
I already said 18 and 17 is not a bad age gap it’s the fact that Selena looks so much OLDER than Justin. She looks like his MOTHER – that makes it PREDATORY.”
https://twitter.com/BIEBERthegoat1/status/1696274574713729106
Okay, that woman is insanely crazy.
Like, Kathy Bates in Misery crazy.
Yeah….. slowly back away….
Wierd.
“Selena looks so much OLDER than Justin.”
Not really. Girls put on makeup that makes them look older. But in this case, they look the same age to me.
*looks at feed*
Gomez needs a restraining order on that nutjob.
Bieber too. See my Misery comment. She would totally hobble Bieber to keep him from escaping.
Selena was in possibly the best film to come out in the post 2000 era. Just a fantastic movie all around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_WUnSYa2E
Presumably because some states aim to protect children from the groomers and transers.
BREAKING: Canada issues LGBTQ travel advisory for United States
“Some states have enacted laws and policies that may affect 2SLGBTQI+ persons. Check relevant state and local laws,” advisory says.
Do your research before your medical tourism trip.
I love how insanely post-factual our world has become. People pretending that Florida is a racist hell-hole because they have a republican presidential candidate as governor. We have an immensely diverse state. There are a ton of LGBTQIA+ hot spots in Florida. Nobody is in danger in florida – unless you want to transition someone else’s kid without their consent, and unless you insist on using your teaching job to try to recruit kids to the non-binary, genderqueer army. (and yes, there is a fine line between being supportive of vulnerable kids who are discovering that they are different and trying to proselytize and make it seem “cool” so that kids who are just awkward or depressed start identifying as some variant of nonbinary in order to feel special.. Both are clearly happening. )
Look for additional “incidents” in florida if DiSantis becomes an actual contender for the nomination. I would not put it past the FBI to find some mentally challenged kid to provoke into some racial or sexuality based attack.
Huh.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/08/29/prigozhin-buried-secretly-surrounded-by-police-in-special-funeral-operation-n574641
So he’s not dead.
Interesting. It does make one wonder if the “confirmed by DNA” thing isn’t a cover. But if it is, who has him? Is it his own people? Russia? Us?
Just look at the manpower devoted to the operation as documented in the lead photo on this article
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/world/europe/prigozhin-burial-rumors-russia.html
If Pelosi had allowed this kind of security, jan 6 never could have happened. I counted about 60 officers before I gave up.
He’s gonna share an apartment with Snowden. Which would make a great TV series.
“Oh, Priggy…” Starring that wacky former head of Wagner and everyone’s favorite whistle blower! Tune in tomorrow when Prigozhin burns brownies in the oven, and has to deny who he is to the fire department!
Surprise Wrestlemania return incoming
should have fed him to the eagles
How Promethean.
Plot twist: Osama bin Laden was the one on the plane.
I dropped in at the county LP meeting last night, just to see what’s doing. They are very active but there was one disturbing comment. The chair said he hasn’t had any communication from the State LP in two months.
The LP is now 50 years old. If successful, you’d expect they would have a minimum of, say, 10,000 members in their smallest state, and be well-organized. It seems to me the Party is run by posers: they know it isn’t going anywhere in terms of winning elections, so they go through the motions, have some social good times with each other, pick and fight internal battles, and pretend they are a force for “getting the word out.” I guess we all need some hobby or group where we can be a big frog in a small pond, but let’s not pretend we are changing the world by participating.
Did anyone get naked, or do anything anarchic? I mean, we gotta keep up appearances….
To be fair there were a couple of women there whom I wouldn’t have minded them getting naked.
Really? That is kinda shocking.
That women showed up at the convention. That’s shocking.
Not that you’d want to get naked with a libertarian woman. Who wouldn’t?
The NBC article about the Oklahoma school superintendent kerfuffle is borderline propaganda. They do report many of the facts, and they do get opinions from both sides, albeit with a slant.
But….
They characterize the Libs Of TikTok post as being misrepresented – she just wants to teach kids to be kind! The end of the video shows the librarian’s bio from the school website which says she has a “passion for teaching with an emphasis on social justice”. So…. no, not really misrepresented at all.
She may be a great person…. but I think parents might have legitimate concerns about a librarian who thinks emphasizing “social justice” is her passion, particularly if she is posting back to school videos where she prances weirdly with pink and platinum hair. Doesn’t mean she’s the worst of the worst – but she is choosing to identify with stereotypes that tell people that she is going to push things onto kids that they don’t want pushed – things beyond “be kind”.
Ok, after a second read, I retract that. The article is straight-up propaganda. They clearly are taking the view that he is making stuff up by claiming the librarian is part of a “woke” agenda, and they clearly position the article on the side of “She clearly said that her radical agenda was teaching kids to be kind and to love books — that’s what she said on her original post and that’s something that we would ask of all of our teachers.” This is somewhat true – but intentionally incomplete. being kind and loving books is great. Being passionate about emphasizing “social justice”? Maybe much less so. Depends on what you mean by that, I suppose. But most of us realize that if you put that in your public facing biography, you mean something that we would associate with “woke” in a negative connotation.
So boo to NBC News for editorializing in their construction of a news report and mischaracterizing both sides of a disagreement by the way they present them. I will give them props to providing a link to the “offending” tweet, but it doesn’t look like they posted the original video – just a description of it – which makes me suspect that it doesn’t really help the situation as much as they pretend that it does.
(my summary of the video – “she looks like a woke weirdo and then she says she has a passion for teaching Social Justice”. That’s about it. Maybe there are other clues in the books she is highlighting, but it is on my phone, so I can’t make out the titles)
I think we all know what kinds of books she’ll push. The guy is just getting ahead of the curve, before the anal sex lessons for kindergarteners start.
I am astonished at how many times, and how consistently people claim that there is nothing wrong with these wonderful books that are being “banned” (read, not put in elementary schools) . They are repeatedly documented online – and one of my favorite exercises is when some yahoo takes a copy to a school board meeting and reads it aloud. Watching the same person who just said they are important resources for children and vouch for how wonderful they are immediately start banging the gavel and calling for the police to remove the offensive person is absolutely performance art perfection.
Anytime a news article does not link directly to the offending source material that is readily available on the internet, you can bet they are twisting facts. That is an iron rule.
Her post is from Gaining Grounds, a foundation that states:
Reading through their mission statement and what they are about it is almost just a literacy program but they emphasize heavily on the politics.
Their Vice President looks like she will eat you with her eyes
https://gaininggroundliteracy.org/meetourteam
Everyone should take a look.
This is astroturf-adjacent, if not outright astroturf. Clearly created to push a political agenda at least as much as to “get books to poor kids”, which is what they imply.
I don’t know much about their particular part of the country, but i sincerely doubt their claim of “book deserts”. Maybe my experiences living in poor areas of Birmingham, Atlanta and now in Broward County Florida is that there are tons of books available, at the local library (usually positioned adjacent to the bad neighborhood), at the schools, and in book-mobiles. I have never lived anywhere that didn’t have book-mobiles. Not once in my 58 years.
So I suspect that all of that part is dishonest puffery, and they entirely exist as a progressive political group created solely to attack republicans who push back against the progressive agenda. Reading their mission statement, it is hard to miss the subtext that they were created specifically to push the notion that students should read books that “reflect their identity”.
I actually personally work in projects that address their initial stated goal – to prevent disadvantaged kids from falling behind over the summer. That is a laudable goal. I have no idea how a book about gay sex is vital to that goal. Nor can I fathom how teaching kids about systemic oppression and white guilt serves the purpose. In fact, as a white dude who has spent literally thousands of hours reading to other people’s black children so they can have a chance at a decent life, I kinda find the entire notion personally offensive, on top of the overall threat to society posed by such ideas.
Yep. If you strip out their social justice portion, its a noble group of ladies wanting kids to read.
You want to know where book deserts exist? It’s where kids have iPads. Give a kid an iPad, the kid will stop reading and start watching videos. Happens every time. I could go on, but I’ll blow an O – ring talking about it.
Yep. All that extraneous “woke” stuff forces poor decisions, and only gets in the way of their stated goal of increasing literacy in poor neighborhoods. Neighborhoods that I assure you do not share the same affection for a lot of these books they want to push so much.
“in Kampala, Uganda … obesity is perceived as a reliable signal of wealth but not of beauty or health. Thus, leveraging a real-stakes experiment involving professional loan officers, I show that being obese facilitates access to credit”
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1696532325310615919
So that’s why America is drowning in debt.
The end?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said she has pondered leaving X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, following her criticism of owner Elon Musk’s changes to the social media platform.
When asked in an interview with The New York Times what would make her leave the platform, Ocasio-Cortez said, “If one monitors my use of that platform, it has falled precipitously.”
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Ocasio-Cortez has publicly criticized X on multiple occasions since Musk’s takeover in October 2022, from blasting the billionaire over suspending several journalists from the social media platform to accusing Musk of boosting a fake Twitter account impersonating her.
Last month, she pushed back against Twitter Safety’s claim that over 99 percent of the content users and advertisers see on the social media platform is “healthy.” She claimed she “has never experienced more harassment on the platform,” and said she wished the platform was “usable again.”
The New York lawmaker has used social media throughout her political career to engage with constituents, showcasing her policies on platforms like TikTok and previously on Twitch.
Asked if her participation on X could be supporting Musk’s platform, Ocasio-Cortez said, “It’s something that I have absolutely struggled with.”
How will they survive without her?
*Also- “falled”? Presumably a typo, but considering the source…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VScSEXRwUqQ
Appropriate music.
press X to doubt.
“Biden Looks To Prevent Future President From Ending Ukraine War”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-looks-prevent-future-president-ending-ukraine-war
Our system is just broken if they can pull shit like this. Defund everything.
I know we have bastardized our treaty process but this is even worse. If we are going to go full on with this level of support for any county, run it through the treaty process.
more pen and phone bullshit
“Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio’s sentencing of up to 33 years behind bars is CANCELED 45 minutes before he was due to appear in court because judge is off sick”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12461547/Former-Proud-Boys-leader-Enrique-Tarrios-sentencing-CANCELED-just-45-minutes-appear-court-face-33-year-stretch-longest-Jan-6-rioter.html
Is he one of the guys who didn’t actually do anything at all? Like, wasn’t even directly involved?
“Tarrio wasn’t actually in Washington on January 6 because he had been arrested in a separate case two days earlier – but authorities say the far-right propagandist masterminded the violence and encouraged people to take part. ”
“masterminded the violence”
Uh… why do I expect that the guy who actually masterminded the violence works over at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue?
I read he wasn’t even there.
He’s being seriously railroaded.
Soviet show trials were more even handed.
In the Soviet you at least had a strong understanding of the game. In the States, we still think there is a justice system.
Epic.
https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1696908577930142084?s=20
As I recall, he was .399 and change that would have officially rounded up to .400. Instead of taking that, he played and pushed to a legitimate .400.
“A California mother who said her daughter was ‘socially transitioned’ into a trans boy by her middle school has won a landmark legal victory against the district – who settled the suit for $100,000.
Jessica Konen’s daughter Alicia, 11, was allegedly told by Buena Vista Middle School in Spreckels that she was upset because she didn’t know who she ‘truly was inside.’
The school allowed the child to use the boys’ bathroom and male pronouns in class without her mom’s consent.
Single mom Konen accused teachers of encouraging her daughter to think she was a trans boy when she was at the school in 2019 – only for the child to return to her female persona while learning remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12459205/Jessica-Konen-landmark-victory-school-lawsuit.html
eleven
And only taxpayers are punished.
I’m pretty sure that this didn’t happen. I mean, this is what i am repeatedly told.
I am also told that this is vitally important, and they probably killed this poor kid by not being able to transition… uh… they.
Tuesday’s tense standoff marked the latest turn in a session Republican Gov. Bill Lee initially organized in response to a shooter opening fire at The Covenant School in Nashville, killing three young children and three adults.
Lee had hoped to convince fellow Republicans to pass legislation to limit dangerous people from accessing guns
Prediction: The NRA will endorse Lee if runs for office (he’s term limited so not governor, but other office).
Another prediction: TN gets more gun control out of this.
Not to mention they can tell what language setting you have active on your phone.
Not necessarily. Send a push notification with different message indexed by language type. The phone picks the message based on your phone settings.
Someone should have offered an amendment that defined “dangerous people” solely and specifically as “trans-identifying people” and named it after the kids who were killed.
So I suspect that all of that part is dishonest puffery, and they entirely exist as a progressive political group created solely to attack republicans who push back against the progressive agenda. Reading their mission statement, it is hard to miss the subtext that they were created specifically to push the notion that students should read books that “reflect their identity”.
Just as any version of the history of black people in America which does not conform 100% to the accepted narrative is an eradication of black people, being opposed to providing first graders with graphic depictions of adult sexual behavior is an absolute imposition of enforced illiteracy.
“Biden Looks To Prevent Future President From Ending Ukraine War”
Seems like the sort of thing which could result in impeachment.
Haha, I crack myself up.
He’s a regular laugh riot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHXSmrTqD_c
“Otter unmasked as Chester hotel’s £100k koi carp thief”
I had a small pond in my back yard in Atlanta. I had some really huge fancy goldfish – like 3 to 5 pound Black Moor, Oranda and Bubble-eye. Really nice, been around for several years to get that big. Would have cost a fortune to replace as-is.
One morning a beautiful great blue heron was standing in my back yard. “How lovely” i thought. Then it snatched my largest black moor and gobbled it down. Suddenly, much less lovely. The thing cleaned me out.