I’ll probably play this one too much, too.
“Just in time for spooky season.”
“Ascendant CEO Bret Robbins announced the layoffs in a meeting on Thursday.”
Friday Afternoon Links
About The Author
Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
The bumblebee’s days in Europe might be numbered. In new research out this week, scientists predict that as many as three-quarters of bumblebee species in the region will experience substantial population decline and territory loss over the next several decades due to manmade problems like climate change.
Aaaand the stolen base in the very first sentence.
In this new study, published Wednesday in Nature, scientists in Belgium have tried to figure out the future of bumblebees in Europe. To come up with their projections, they analyzed relevant data as far back as 1900 collected across most of Europe. They then created models that tried to account for various scenarios of how the climate and the use of habitable land for bumblebees will change over time.
And of course, according to their model, their model is correct. But they’ll need more funding, just to be sure.
“…population decline and territory loss over the next several decades due to manmade problems like climate change.”
Aaaaaaand I am out.
I see it gets worse.
I’ve been hearing about hive collapse is going to force all of humanity into starvation every couple of years since I was about 16.
We didn’t do well this year, drought, no flowers to speak of. However there was no shortage of bees.
That’s what next years are for.
Same here. I have my swarm traps but I dont expect much from them.
the question of whether the DOJ is acting in good faith with its lawsuit.
Is it really a question?
I glanced over the links and mumbled my planned comments.
So far someone else, this time you, beat me to it nearly word for word.
It used to be a respected institution.
All such institutions are eventually skin-suited. That is true in the private and public sectors.
🙄
Is there any meaningful difference between most of them?
Such an accusation might be hard for many people to believe. There’s a tendency to view the government as benevolent and upstanding, an institution filled with people seeking the common good and protecting the weak and the poor.
*guffaws, slaps knee*
I can’t even.
I’m literally shaking.
Wow. That writer should be struck by lightning / eaten by lions for even thinking such a thought.
Most people go through life pretending the world is what they wish it was instead of facing reality. They are cowards.
Two things people hate more than anything else: Truth, responsibility.
And government stomps on both.
In new research out this week, scientists predict
“According to my model…”
*sigh.
Pull my finger, I’ll make you a better model.
“Do you know who else advertises that only US citizens can apply for a job?” Tabarrok asked. “The DOJ.”
You know who else used stormtroopers against his enemies?
Whiny emo idiot loser Kylo Ren?
Darth Emo!
Jim Cantore?
Happy days are here again
Oil prices climbed to their highest level of the year this week, extending a rally that has put a return to $100 a barrel sharply into focus.
Indeed, some analysts believe crude prices could hit this milestone before year-end.
International benchmark Brent crude futures traded 0.3% lower at $93.46 a barrel on Friday afternoon in London, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures stood little changed at $90.09.
Both Brent and WTI settled at their highest respective levels of the year on Thursday. The oil contracts are sharply higher month to date and remain firmly on track to notch their third consecutive positive week.
The price rally comes amid growing expectations of tighter supply after Saudi Arabia and Russia moved to draw down global inventories and extend their oil output cuts through to the end of the year.
Let the good times roll.
Yes. Let’s make gas more expensive than electricity, so electric cars look promising.
Since the price of electricity is tied to the price of the hydrocarbons needed to generate it, that will never happen.
I saw a train load of soft coal yesterday, headed towards the north (Duluth or the east bound ships). Gonna make electricity somewhere.
The local bumblebees don’t care.
BTUs tend to track each other in price.
Who needs oil? We’ve got plenty of green electricity to power our EV’s and heat/cool our homes. For
241812 hours a day. Except on alternate Tuesdays.And that’s why the rate of inflation is down(*)!
* – If you use the metric that discounts food, fuel, housing and car prices! All the unimportant stuff!
I hate that they keep touting inflation being down. Most people take that as prices coming down, which is 100% not the case.
That is because ‘inflation’ does not mean rising prices. It refers to the money supply. Rising prices are just a symptom.
Unless you are going to gather up a substantial portion of the fiat currency and burn it…prices stay high. Wages, not so much.
I thought something like 80-90% of the money supply was digital, not in physical currency. Which is an issue in and of itself.
The idea is still the same.
The inflation level is not down. The rate of increase in inflation is down from the recent surge caused by reckless spending once the Ds seized control.
The housing prices doubling over the past few years gives you a rough idea of how much the value of our fiat currency has dropped.
The fact that prices are still climbing despite mortgage rates nearly doubling and applications for new mortgages falling to 10 year lows adds to that sense. It’s a good thing housing costs are too volatile to be included in inflation measures…
We’re back down to stealing the same amount as before. Why are you complaining?
The Mouse is no doubt updating the Carousel of Progress as we speak.
the attraction’s premise is an exploration of the joys of living through the advent of electricity and other technological advances during the 20th century via a “typical” American family.
The updated attraction will feature the joys of subsistence living in the 21st century. It will be great!
Just update the last scene to be about 1999, then rotate back to the fist scene and call that the future.
If you go straight long enough, you end up where you were
worst euphemism ever!
I keep hearing the strategic oil reserve is plumb out. Joe is going to have to roll up his sleeves and start pumping some crude for the good of
his poll numbersAmerica.He’ll just berate the Saudis again for not temporarily increasing production to help his poll numbers. Don’t those people know who he is?
You sir, are a future-seeing wizard.
Also Big-Oil and Trump!
It’s down to about half or where we were in the 80s. They’ve been using it to try to drive oil prices and punish Russia.
Now they’re almost out of ammo and winter is coming.
@iowahawkblog
Inflation is at historic lows, as measured by my Beanie Babies and Fidget Spinner Price Index
Europe’s Bumblebees Are in Big Trouble
Doing fine here in northern NJ. Stands of sage, lavender, and wild raspberry probably help. They are fun to watch.
As long as they keep producing the delicious canned stuff, I’m good.
You can tune a piano…
Or a file system.
To change an active file system, it must be downgraded to read-only or unmounted.
When I mount a filesystem, it stays mounted. I never understood why anyone would want to fsck an unmounted system.
There is one true version.
They must be in big trouble if they are leaving Europe for New Jersey.
Hey, we are the Garden State! /rolls up window as we approach exit 13 on the Turnpike. Hmm, if we get rid of oil, that air might be breathable!
In other words, SpaceX appears to have been trying to comply with Department of Defense regulations by not using noncitizens in military-related work, and in doing so, it may have run afoul of the DOJ.
When will the DoJ go after defense contractors ? Oh. Right.
The bumblebee’s days in Europe might be numbered. In new research out this week, scientists predict that as many as three-quarters of bumblebee species in the region will experience substantial population decline and territory loss over the next several decades due to manmade problems like climate change.
I’m tapping out. Doom mongers are often wrong.
Inside the Hall of the Mountain King at 4:20
I hit play right at 4:20 PM. I am amused to see the video is 4min 20 seconds long.
Yep, I have lived through the end of the world so many times now I have lost count.
A sad song for Suthen
Riven!
It’s autumn-y here right now. 60s!
I’m sure it will be back in the 90s soon.
More research is needed to better understand the specific ways that climate change and habitat loss will affect bumblebee populations, but the overall takeaway is clear, the authors say: The fate of the world’s bumblebees is quite literally in our hands.
Want more bees? Quit monocropping and use more regenerative ag. It’s not that difficult.
I’m surprised they didn’t blame white flight of the bumblebees from Africanized bees.
The little guy is in town to ask the big guy to print him up another $24 billion.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/15/hes-back-zelensky-inbound-for-another-washington-visit-as-congress-debates-24-billion-in-aid/
More photo ops and fancy dinners.
If I were president, I’d have mre’s served to him for dinner.
I miss the Ham and Lima Beans from the ‘C’s
….but not very much…
The weekend is here again, the unmoderated open Zoom will continue to run.
Where is everyone?
ooo… Edvard Grieg.
Nice.
Choose Any Memory
Yore welcome.
New to me. I dig it.
Financial tricknology
The dramatic fall of Lehman was due in large part to scores of risky mortgages propping up an unstable financial system. Homebuyers with mortgage payments they couldn’t afford defaulted on their loans, sending shockwaves through Wall Street and leaving those borrowers vulnerable to foreclosure.
Now, a decade and a half later, housing experts say it’s a lot safer for homebuyers to secure a mortgage they’ll be able to pay off in the long run.
“Borrowers often assumed [before the financial crisis] that if the lender was making the loan available, it would be safe, but [that was] not true,” said Susan Wachter, a professor of real estate and finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
“In today’s market, lenders have embraced safe loans, and you can be pretty sure that you will be offered a safe loan,” Wachter added.
Still, there’s worry that some of the financial guardrails put in place after the 2008 financial crisis to secure the mortgage market won’t be around forever.
*staggers away from rhetorical tilt-a-whirl, vomits*
We in the US call it the 2008 Financial Crisis.
Earlier this week when talking with one of my friends in Japan I realized they don’t mince words and call it the “Lehman Shock”. I work in financial service and effectively laid off because of it, but never heard that term!
https://www.nippon.com/en/currents/d00426/
I work in financial service and effectively laid off because of it
I joined Lehman on August 27, 2008. Not my best career move, I was out of work for the better part of a year.
that tilt-a-whirl was brought to you by The Jacket’s alma mater, the SUNJ @ New Brunswick and is so dumb that I sincerely feel sorry for its author, who, BTW, is endorsed by 12 on linkedin dot com for audio editing
On a more somber note, today is the sixtieth anniversary of this black mark on American history.
Let’s try that again.
And for those of you who don’t grok the image, it’s referring to this act of no-shit domestic terrorism.
Pikers. Real domestic terrorists would have entered the church, walked around, took some selfies and left.
I lol’d! ^^^
1963 was not a good year. And that bombing was perpetrated by actual, no-shit racists.
Kids were so lucky back then. There was a real enemy who was – no shit – evil.
What is a kid supposed to do today? Everyone has agreed that racism sucks and only a tiny, tiny amount of people are fighting that. Kids have to make up their own racist events nowdays because real racism is so rare.
Real racism isn’t rare, it’s just the primary victims have changed.
Matt Berry reads a letter Robert Crumb wrote to a saxophonist.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gRrG-7ItqdY
I joined Lehman on August 27, 2008.
Ouch.
Toxic individulism
Then in 2022, Musk bought Twitter, and the other part of Musk, the one referred to by his former partner Grimes as “demon mode,” took center stage. Whatever his previous reputation, he now emerged as a force of destruction, stripping the social media site of its value, its reputation and then, ultimately, its name. In recent weeks, he has been using the rebranded “X” platform to attack the Anti-Defamation League, an organization that fights antisemitism and extremism. Musk has repeatedly been criticized for enabling and boosting antisemitic content on the platform.
——-
As Isaacson writes in the closing sentences of his 600-page tome, “Sometimes great innovators are risk-seeking man-children who resist potty training. They can be reckless, cringeworthy, sometimes even toxic. They can also be crazy. Crazy enough to think they can change the world.” Crazy, cruel, immature: these aren’t failings; they’re features of creative genius.
That is Isaacson’s thesis, anyway. But it relies on a narrow understanding of genius. Genius for Isaacson can be measured in patents and profits. Musk runs several companies and is the richest man in the world. His genius is a given. All the rest, no matter how harmful, must be understood as an essential ingredient of that genius.
That’s quite an impoverished view of genius, one that perpetuates the “great man” theory of history, in which the course of the world is shaped by a few brilliant men who thrive under the systems of their time. It overshadows genius generated through collaboration, which, though present throughout Musk’s career, takes a backseat to the force of his singular personality throughout Isaacson’s book. And it leaves little room for the transformative power of people such as racial justice and LGBTQ movement leaders who divined a new way of being in the world, which requires a sort of emotional and moral understanding absent from Musk’s career.
You people have it all wrong. Embrace the communitarian hive mind. Submit. Conform.
All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.
Where are those racial justice and LGBTQRST++2 leaders who have built a car company and a space company?
Even though the sentiment towards Musk on the right and left has flipped recently, I still stand by my long-held belief that Tesla and SpaceX are rent-seeking parasitical companies that wouldn’t exist without fedgov subsidies, handouts and contracts. In a way it would almost be funny to see him hoist on his own petard if what the feds were doing wasn’t a thousand times worse, and likely to set incredibly dangerous precedent.
Agreed. The companies he’s built are impressive, but my admiration is tempered by his reliance on my tax money.
It’s always rich when the people who support suicide bombers blowing Jews to smithereens in the Jewish state try to smear anyone who has the temerity to question their policies as antisemitic. Kinda like how Soros is only a Jew when he needs for it to be antisemitic to criticize his Open Society Foundations.
“…the Anti-Defamation League, an organization that fights antisemitism and extremism.”
Uh….no. That is not who they are at all.
“…the course of the world is shaped by a few brilliant men who thrive under the systems of their time. It overshadows genius generated through collaboration,”
Wow. Genius by committee. I will take a hard pass on that.
True Intersectionality Not since Reeses put peanut butter and chocolate together has there been such a perfect blend of two different things: Heath Care and Legal Services!
Anyone else think that it might be slightly inappropriate for the son of a lawyer to become CEO of a health care practice for poor dumb people and immediately start referring them to Pop’s law firm? As a taxpayer, I wonder if that might be a biiiiiiiit of a conflict of interest.
I’m sure the lawyers will work just as hard to make sure that domestic abuser of an illegal will get asylum as they do for that poor woman.
Is the abuse really still “domestic” at the point where you’ve entered a different country than the one where the abuse took place?
Heath care??
Nice try, but I saw that.
“Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC) “
Cuck? Seriously?
Nice…
Last 3 defendants in Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot found not guilty
They’re closing their FBI field offices?
As that incident suggests, having the skill to develop technologies is not the same as having the judgment to use them. This became clear in Musk’s deployment of the Starlink satellites. Musk owned the satellite communications network that Ukrainians relied on in their efforts to battle back a Russian invasion. Musk, believing he knew best how to prevent escalation, denied Ukrainians access to the network after discussions with senior Russian officials. Though he seems stunned by his involvement in the conflict — “How am I in this war?” he asks Isaacson — he involved himself, relying on his own judgment about how the war should be conducted (judgment that does not, to put it mildly, seem up to the task).
The war would be over if Musk hadn’t pulled the plug on that mission. Glorious victory could have been ours.
Narrative uber alles.
That narrative is fucking absurd. Which is why they are repeating it over and over again.
Carlton pulls off another escape job. I suspect they will come undone next weekend.
Saw the 2nd half – another nailbiter!
I love that these are the same people who spent the last 7 years screaming PrIVaTe CoMpAniEs!11!eleventy!! to deflect criticism from the very same Twitter that’s now the very incarnation of evil.
It’s the same as the Trump hatred. They wanted a king and bitch when the king doesn’t do what they want.
The whole BS narrative they are spinning about the attack in Crimea is really something. If Starlink was turned on in Crimea, Ukraine would have had no need to talk to Musk beforehand. They would have just launched the attack and he wouldn’t have had an opportunity to turn it off in time. Yet they persist in saying he shut it off. And the way they frame it in that paragraph above, “denied Ukrainians access to the network after discussions with senior Russian officials” makes it sound like he called up the Russians after the Ukrainians made their request. “Hey Vlad, Elon here. Hey, the Ukrainians want me to turn on Starlink over Crimea so they can attack your navy. What do you think about that? No? No good? OK. Thanks for your input.”
ThE 80’s WaNtS ItS ForEIgN PoLiCY BaCk
If he had turned it on for them, Starlink becomes a legitimate military target. Might have seen if Russian anti-satellite missiles are any good.
Also, in Rachel Maddow’s rant about Musk she said something like “Ukraine is our ally in this war.” That makes it sound like we are the ones at war with Russia and Ukraine is just helping out, which may well be the way she sees it, but it’s surprising to hear her say it out loud.
There were clearly better ways to approach a Musk biography than Isaacson’s fog-machine of demon mode and distant genius and man-child superhero. Musk is a product not only of apartheid South Africa but also of Silicon Valley, which has produced more than its share of innovators like Musk, who feel unconstrained by laws and regulations, who sell utopian visions that devolve into corporate money-machines with miserable employees and questionable contributions to society. Even Musk’s recent turn — minimizing the pandemic, ranting about the “woke mind virus,” promoting far-right conspiracies — keeps him in line with techno-compatriots like Peter Thiel.
A richer analysis of Musk would help make sense not only of his chaotic career but the culture and politics that made it possible. But that would require shattering myths, not perpetuating them. And that is a task neither Elon Musk the person nor “Elon Musk” the biography is interested in.
Whatever.
“Such an accusation might be hard for many people to believe. There’s a tendency to view the government as benevolent and upstanding, an institution filled with people seeking the common good and protecting the weak and the poor.”
From my personal experience with all the liberals I know, this is their default assumption – unless you’re talking about Republicans. This is a worldview arrived at by emotions, so reasoning won’t shake it.
It’s what I used to believe, at least the first part. And in many cases it’s still true. Certainly there has always been some level of corruption and abuse. Such is human nature. However, it seems to be getting worse, or at least more open.
Resting in the hotel after a long drive. I don’t remember the hotel wifi this bad last year. Using up data instead.
Nothing left to cut. Also SCIENCE!
I would love to know how rural kids driving much longer distances in murder buses have less lung problems than the city kids.
What is the spread on. that being 100% horse shit?
When we have societal problems everything int he world is blamed except the culprit : culture. Of course if they did that they would have to give up on their raging racism….leftists and black communities alike, and that aint gonna happen any time soon.
Wait ten years when the damage from high doses of electromagnetic radiation start.
(This ended up being quite long! I’ve got a fun article I’m working on)
Big Things: Semi-jokingly, I’m going to bring up an idea to my best friend, my only in the US, that gal in Minnesota I met in Korea and have known for ~a decade. She has openly called us “soulmates,” and I agree. (She’s great in all-the-right ways.)
She’s equally lonely and lost back in the States. We chat for hours at a time when we connect. Always a pleasure, even/especially just listening. I’m gonna float the idea of us getting married.
The idea is pretty much to combine our agreed-upon Take On America challenge together. We’ve agreed that we’d be great roommates, perfect for the task. She does really want kids and her time is running out. That’s a no-go for me. Part of my idea goes to my friend, who told me the hottest pick-up he ever had. He was hitting on the cutest gal in the room, especially as she’d been left alone the whole night. He saw she DID have a wedding ring on but ignored it. She fell for his charms, a magical process that somehow he is able to pull off with amazingly predictable success, and he brought up the ring. She smiled and took it off. He chuckled and I’m sure said something. She showed him the inscription on the inside, which simply read “Single.” (He took it down. I’d suggest adding a shortened version of “Ring for tax purposes.”)
Anj and I are both open to seek out whatever romantic partnerships we choose, just follow roommate protocol. I would love to get with her for real, but she’s got her desires and me, mine.
Pretty much we would just sign a court document and be married for tax purposes. There would be a pre-nup/divorce proceedings agreement etc to make sure both of us are as safe as can be regarding that.
This pushes us into the roommate territory and would give two besties their own space together, which we’ve both openly longed for. She’s already made a pact with me that we’d get married at age 45 if we didn’t have partners by then. Just pushin’ the envelope.
I did have one-on-one time with my 3-year-old nephew. He is quite like me. I’d say that about his older brothers, but I was away for their childhoods. Pictures were taken and she has complimented me and gushed about how good a father I’d be.
I think I heard some drenched panties sploosh around her ankles as she twinkled her thoughts about it.
It would certainly be another interesting chapter. My life is rather full of those, along with the lovingly ripped pages and broken spines.
We get easier financial shit for taxes and rent, best friends taking on the world together, and she hates/loves all the things I do. We openly mock the society we see swamping around us. I’ve invited her here a few times, but she is a busy bird.
Just an easy get-out clause and the not-so-secret (really on either of our ends) possibility of the two of us settling together. Cuddly thoughts to ease the shockingly difficult reentry phase for both of us. Both of our problems and strengths here are TOTALLY opposite of each other.
I’ll stop typing now.
Jesus, I can’t help myself. I didn’t mean that to be that long. Thoughts turn to thoughts turn to another.
I kinda meant to say HI! to all y’all. I’ve had a weird sleep cycle and always seem to show up just as things are past-dead. So it goes.
I’m certainly not qualified to be offering anybody relationship advice, but I feel compelled to say: there’s a reason those sorts of arrangements are rare and unorthodox. Consider carefully whether you’re willing to risk heartbreak and a ruined friendship, on the one hand, or willing to accept settling into a conventional long term relationship, on the other, because the numbers indicate those are the likeliest outcomes. Of course, we’re all libertarian weirdos here, so follow your bliss.
As a woman, and one who knows your struggles and that you are a little self-destructive on your own, I would advise against this course of action, unless she’s cool with becoming your primary caretaker as you age. Also, since she wants children, assume she will make that happen with or without you and you will be living with crotch goblins.
So, maybe you’re thinking/wishing out loud, maybe you’re not. Take this advice for what you paid for it.
relationship advice from The Onion:
***
Fuck-Buddy Becomes Fuck-Fiancé
PublishedMarch 31, 2004
MIAMI, FL—In spite of the explicitly casual nature of their relationship, fuck-buddies Nora Ingersoll and Keith Hetzel are engaged, friend Tom Stipps reported Tuesday. “Keith and Nora have been fooling around for years, but Keith said they were just friends,” Stipps said. “I was shocked when Nora showed up wearing a ring.” Later that day, the couple reportedly opened a fuck-joint-checking account.
***
I have a picture I have kept in a drawer for a while. A big group of crazy punks, around their twenties. All in front of an old house off of Greenville Ave. in Dallas. I can now scratch off 2/3s of that group. They stayed completely and died, mostnof them before 40.
I would rather you not get scratched off of anybody’s photo. Find your happiness before taking on anybody else.
Screw spell correct on this phone. I need a Linux phone, stat.
I haven’t checked in on the PinePhone in months, I wonder if there’s any progress being made there. Worth your consideration, although probably not as a daily driver.
I had to go buy a $35 Android handset from Walmart last night just so I can use it for an authenticator app for some shitty part time job I’m trying out for after spending ~11 hours trying to get Google SafetyNet spoofing to work on Lineage OS with microG (short version: hardware attestation won’t work on any unlocked bootloader, and none of the workarounds for spoofing your device signature to a software attestation model work anymore). Now why an authenticator designed to check geolocation for network access needs full hardware attestation (which doesn’t work on bootloader-unlocked devices) rather than simple device security attestation (which does work), is anybody’s guess. It absolutely disgusts me that this kind of technology is so ubiquitous that it’s expected for something this routine, and it disgusts me even more that not only am I the only person in this recruiting team that would even question it, but the only one who didn’t already have it.
Interesting. Right now people are selling old Nexus 5s with your choice of OS (Ubuntu, Graphene, etc…) for $50.
I see a used PinePhone for $330. And some others I do not recognize, like a “Purism Librem.”
Good Christ, they were selling the original PinePhone for $150 at launch, and I think the Pro version started at $250 a couple years later. They must be out of stock again. SBCs are the same way. $100 RPi 4s selling for $300 just because nobody has them available.
The Librem 5 was crowdfunded and spent like 3 years in development hell before they finally released it. Ended up being like 800 bucks at launch (the crowdfunders got it for around $400, IIRC), and the hardware was ancient even back then. The whole idea there is that the development is all under one roof, so it’s supposed to have a more cohesive software experience. Think of Purism as Apple to Pine’s Google. I don’t know if it’s improved much lately, but the software on the Librem 5 was just as wonky as the PinePhone when it first released. Which is acceptable on a $150 device that’s marketed to enthusiasts as a tinker toy, not so much with an $800 device that’s supposed to be premium and ready for prime time.
Tax incentive is insufficient. What if you incur the marriage penalty?
Tax is minor, really. I was thinking more of rent and establishing roommate status. That discount alone is sizable.
I am not sure how the penalty would apply to us. I am currently semi-unemployed. I can start again as soon as I get my work release. My plenty-sufficient and well-documented history puts me in Slam Dunk disability status. That should probably be exploited.
One thing we love about each other: We both hate the State and I cracked a joke in the type preface about it. “A legit side-effect of the Above Idea would be a hilarious Fuck You to The Powers That Be.” She laughed along and is eager to hear about it. Hilariously enough, she’s actually on a date tonight with a guy she already told me she doesn’t want to be with at all. (It was a polite “Yes” but he’s got a kid(s?) w another woman and Minny (her nickname for me is Pet, and she is my Minion) is openly all against that shit.
She’s an (cute) adopted Indian orphan and I check all the straight/white/male disability boxes available, other than “LOOK obviously disabled.” We will be laughing at the incompetence of the State to deal with all of the confusion we wrap together in one sexy wrap of a couple.
Don’t marry her unless you are very serious about a lifetime commitment. Making an oath you don’t intend to keep is very bad mojo, in my book.
I couldn’t agree with this more.
Where are those racial justice and LGBTQRST++2 leaders who have built a car company and a space company?
Credit where due- they’re definitely boring.
Changing your own game hurts other people or something…
Is there any such thing anymore?
It’s barely yours on loan, what you think you own
I am so glad I could care less.
Nice try, satan, you’re not baiting me into being a grammar Nazi today!
Good type you for yes
I’m going to pimp my blog again because I have a new daily quota for writing fiction. Also, the rejection letters I’ve been getting have gotten nicer. It’s lots of stuff like “don’t give up” and “all successful writers get rejected many times”.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/
“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” ― Ray Bradbury
For Tundra and Swiss’s wife
https://ibb.co/7yC4PfV
Wow!
Ooohh
Also for Tundra & Swiss’s wife
https://ibb.co/ZMqRbWn
Love it!
Glad you had fun, KK!
Dang.
Good set. I assume it was solid?
Awesome show!
World live premiere of “Danse Macabre” – awesome, fun song!
Excellent!
How were the voices?
Oh my, she’s adorable.
I Spent a Day With Japan’s Tiniest Truck Driver
I’m trying to figure out if he asked the questions twice first in Japanese and again in English and after that she replied. You just cut out the initial Japanese.
My comprehension is better than my ability to reply, but this is way to one sided in her case. That’s not a knock just observation.
I want to put a phone book on the seat and let her drive me around in my car.
My coworker in the next desk is 4 ft 11in.
We both joke how tall we felt in Japan. I’m 5ft 7in.
Obligatory
Better Obligatory
So weird.
My daughter was bragging about how her band is blowing up in Boulder so I referenced this.
It really is a simulation.
I mentioned a month ago or so when sleepy Joe was there.
Perfect song of the times.
It really is.
One of the best trolls on Twitter.
But seriously, is the dude groping her in a crowded theater?
“teens”
This is getting sick.