No golf balls or mustard?
Ole Miss won the Egg Bowl. The Cowboys thumped the Redskins. The Niners rolled over Seattle to put a stranglehold on the NFC West. And the Packers stunned the Lions. Bunch of football on tap today as we get ourselves ready for the biggest edition of The Game in some time one day and four hours from the time this hits the site. Now on to…the links!
Well of course that’s who they blame. They always do. Well I doubt the protesters care.
That’s an interesting list of charges. And they all sound like they’re a violation of his first amendment rights. Sure, he’s an asshole. But those people have rights too, you know.
OK, I don’t care.
How could I forget them? No wait…how could I remember them? Wait again…how the hell am I supposed to know or care if the person I’m buying something from is black, white, yellow, green, or orange when I don’t give a shit beyond whether or not they provide me what I’m looking for at the best price?
I could have told you that. And you’d have fewer junkies laying on your city streets too.
Proost!
OK, now what? Sorry, but you can only push a people so far before they not only reject you, but run into the arms of the people who most ardently oppose you. I’d wager that stealing all that farmland was the last straw.
What a weird situation. I don’t really care. I just couldn’t find another story from the site worth posting.
What a sad state of affairs. One would almost think they’d put measures in place to stop it. And they would stop it, if they gave a shit.
$4m a mile for some guardrails and a handful of signs. Sounds about right.
Such a lovely song. I miss that time. And here’s a freaking fantastic (and underrated) one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Black Friday and weekend, dear friends.
Withhold the name/identity of the attacker, years of telling the people to sit down and accept your demographic demise, and call em “far-right” seems like the play of the day.
I really, really have never understood why Ireland of all places caved to the globalist EU contingent — they were getting a bunch of investment with their corporate tax shelters, they couldn’t be blamed for “whiteness” since they were effectively enslaved by the English, they had a tight knit society with international support… yet they bought into the globalist crap left right and center.
I keep expecting a serious backlash and for Europe to attempt to hold onto itself (and us for that matter) which granted probably means the race war they seem dedicated to starting… it keeps not happening. And I’m sure the backlash here will somehow be tamped down. Don’t understand it… keeps happening anyway.
Good times create weak men.
And weak men create hard times.
Yeah, I’m a wuss. Sorry, America.
That wasn’t directed at you.
Dude. Catholic guilt, don’t forget. I know I just coast through life from a political standpoint. I vote for useless assholes who do nothing (and the few times I’ve donated money — it was to similarly useless assholes). I’m as much at fault as anyone else, I don’t even own a gun if it came down to shit hitting the fan (waiting until I get out of the West Coast) and I couldn’t hold my own in a fight when I was young. If I’m not one of the Soft Men ™ I don’t know who is.
And I don’t think there’s much I can really do about it at this point, other than try to keep my son’s head on straight against the deluge of YouTube idiocy he likes to watch.
The catholic guilt thing does seem a little odd for Ireland. Ireland vice N Ireland always seemed significantly less “religious” in what I’d been reading most of the last few decades re their decisions re abortion, euthanasia, etc.
The attacker was Algerian born from what I read elsewhere…seem to recall some comments re Ireland and Palestine but I think that may have been misconstrued by someone else.
I was referring to my own Catholic guilt. 😉
there’s much I can really do
There is only so much our noble logic can do against 8B idiots. I count you as a full partner and am glad to hear you’re losing interest in useless assholes; I think it’s well past time to disassociate from intellectually dishonest garbage people and just succumb with grace to the hoards. There’s no hope, and there’s not enough ammo, so don’t beat yourself up. Our grandchildren will envy us dead.
Our grandchildren will envy us dead.
Jesus, that’s a fine fucking coda to yester’ mornings sentiments. Got any more of them black pills?
yester’
which sentiment from yesterday should I be remembering?
I think I was more buoyant than others when glibs dot com fired up, but I’ve been shouted down here much since then: that ship has sailed, or you must support the crazy candidate who stinks 4% less than the evil candidate. Other than a gun law here or there, the slide of the Land of the Free into Fahrenheit 1984 has proceeded apace.
I come from a long line of losers: I can handle it.
I was alluding to Pat‘s take on Thanksgiving in particular.
Maybe it is the birth of a grandchild, but I’m willing to have some hope for the future, even if I’m not around to enjoy (or suffer) it.
Pat
twas lovely; said so at the time
Maybe it is the birth of a grandchild, but I’m willing to have some hope
I may not live to see it, but I hope FirstWife does: I know my son will raise his kids on pistols, calculus, chemistry, and dozens of other things that will continue to baffle her
Because there’s a major divide between the Governing Class (in the US I’d use the term “Beltway Class”, but generalizing that to other countries is a bit difficult) and the People.
Same as many of our “leaders” bought into the globo mindset. It plays into very progressive politics going back 100 years or more, and Ireland has the same type of people who go all out for NGO’s and other bullshit like that as we, Europe, The UK, etc. They all work for groups like the Red Cross and then go home and get involved with local politics. Alsotoo, the EU has been pushing HARD on a lot of this stuff, like firearms laws, immigration, and abortions (sound familiar?) to make the laws the same across the continent, and if local people vote it down, they start having votes on it right after another, until people get tired of having to keep voting against it, and voila, all of a sudden it is the law of the land.
All those years the IRA fought for an independent, Irish-Catholic Ireland – then they gave it all away as fast as they could.
They decided to substitute the revolutionary struggle for redemption through the Church. They got to the same end-point.
IRA is more cultural and political than religious.
Northern Ireland is now more Catholic than Protestant demographically.
An observation from when I was in Ireland in 2017 or 2018 (can’t remember the year now): Lots of Irish were unhappy about the way things were going in the country. Foreign aid draining coffers to go to much bigger countries (like India). Housing of migrants.
This has been a long time coming.
Ireland was neutral during WWII. I’d say their moral problems go farther back.
Lots of countries were neutral during the Second World War.
They weren’t going ally with the UK.
Unofficially, they did help the UK.
They’re culturally left, embraced socialism, abandoned religion except as culture, etc.
Ireland is still below their population peak pre famine. Death and out migration did a number on them.
Yeah, and you have to read pretty far doe. The article before you can spot the sleight of hand in which the authorities shift the blame onto the people who object to being stabbed.
First clue: The nationality of the stabber is “being withheld”
Second clue: The cops warn the “protesters” (who are objecting to being stabbed, and are saying things like “Go home” and “Irish Lives Matter”)
I have been assured that “thug” is code for Black or Brown. Does that not hold for the rest of the Anglosphere?
Apparently more of the football hooligan crowd in this context.
Natalie Solent is right as always.
The identity of the attacker does not excuse the riots. The Irish having lost control of their own government and having every peaceful avenue of dissent and reform eliminated does in fact justify violence in my opinion.
having every peaceful avenue of dissent and reform eliminated does in fact justify violence in my opinion
+1 John Hancock
I heard it was quite a scramble – but at least they weren’t beaten.
No yolk.
Morning, all! Enjoy your “avoid any retail establishment Day”…
Shell game?
Ah, the real reason.
The advocacy group LINK Houston, which pushes for “a robust and equitable transportation network so that all people can reach opportunity,”
Look, if you want fedgov money right now you better be poor and black, it is right there in the law, sorry to say.
Road Diets. Fuck, Houston is done, starved of transportation.
Like guns, these people hate cars.
Anything that impedes their ability to control.
Families of low income? That’s a new one.
“Not if we can help it!” (progressive justices and lawmakers these days…)
“A 24 year-old male victim stated to police that an individual approached him at his work place multiple times and made anti-Islamic statements multiple times on different dates causing the victim to feel afraid and annoyed,”
Harassment and stalking and maybe a civil defamation suit sounds about right. Hate-crime? Fuck off. Would love to see the data on people calling Christians/Jews/Anyone but Islam names and the charges they get.
Harassment and stalking and maybe a civil defamation suit sounds about right.
But his workplace is a city sidewalk. It’s a public space.
I am getting tired of these cases where the victim “feels” threatened or is “made uncomfortable.”
Did the accused commit a crime? Then charge him/her.
Otherwise, if you are a simpering feeb who can’t cope with the world because you’re literally shaking, bugger off. Grow a spine.
afraid and annoyed
Those are two rather different reactions, so which is it sonny?
Afroyed?
Afro’d?
I also care about not feeding Chinese (or other) slave labor and some other factors — but they obfuscate that as much as they can or just all do it (the electronics industry) so you can’t avoid it.
I forgot that yesterday was Thursday, so I didn’t do the Friday Stoic. Luckily I am teleworking today, so it’ll be done in an hour or so.
Appreciate it!
Your readers should certainly take any delay stoically.
Post is submitted.
Stoically I hope.
One would hope…. but again, I kept expecting pushback for years now. Nexit would be fine by me – the EU is hopelessly anti-democratic and globalist… I’m 100% for any middle finger stripping them of constituents and power.
Get Winnie the Pooh to visit more often appears to be the only viable plan, unfortunately.
Being stuck in California for so long — I’m biased towards assuming most of that will go to “Environmental Impact Studies”, permitting and other lawfare siphoning as much as possible from the taxpayer with as little results as possible.
(But remember — our betters firmly believe the problem is we don’t have ENOUGH bureaucrats and aren’t raising their salaries fast enough! What a load of horseshit that was yesterday…)
Definitely. Very fond of OMD — though the first one keeps me thinking Andie was a f’ing moron for giving refrigerator boy another chance. But at least Duckie got Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the end.
OMD was one of the highlights the Darker Waves festival last Sat. I didn’t realize how many songs of theirs I knew and liked.
Their catalog is much larger than one would think. And they didn’t have many songs that weren’t a joy to listen to.
This is still one of my absolute favorites of theirs.
Great song.
‘Secret’ is the first tune I knew was them. Was living in Germany where it was a minor hit, ran out an bought the cassette and played the hell out of it.
Quick, find another George Floyed hoax.
Today’s wasn’t bad… did try the Turkey Day special yesterday, got about halfway through it… may revisit it until I get it done, but since the last 10 percent is always the hardest, no promises.
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“Well of course that’s who they blame. They always do. Well I doubt the protesters care.”
Sounds like the protestors are mostly peaceful. Can’t approve of their response.
The article is weird extremely poorly. The people in serious condition must be from the knife attack?
‘Since the #BuyBlack movement of 2020, support has dwindled, leaving Black-owned entrepreneurs struggling to keep the momentum going.’
Novel theory: provide the best service and products and people will shop with you regardless.
I will say, I avoid any store proclaiming to be ‘black owned’, just like I would avoid a store proclaiming they are ‘white owned’. It isn’t relevant and just means you’re against me or my ideals.
I always figured that they said they were Black Owned to escape damage during the riots, and if they weren’t black owned they put up a BLM poster to do the same thing.
There is a place in Philly I used to drop in at every now and then that put up big “Please support black owned businesses!” during the Summer of Love and Mostly Peaceful Protests.
I figured it was really “PLEASE DON’T BURN MY BUSINESS DOWN!”.
The signs disappeared pretty quickly after the Summer of Love and Mostly Peaceful Protests wound down.
Except they burned down a lot of businesses of color anyway.
That’s how you blacken a business.
I know.
I remember giving money to help out a business in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Barbershop owned by a black guy., He a gofundme to help him fight the Lil Rona Panic restrictions. He stayed open, so most of the money was for legal defense. I remember receiving an update during the Summer of Love and Mostly Peaceful Protests. Rioters burned down his business and others in the neighborhood during one of the BLM/Antifa led Mostly Peaceful Protests.
Was that the dude who used to have a war surplus MG42 hanging over the mirror?
I don’t remember anything about a MG-42 in his shop.
News article on the guy
My memory is incorrect about his business getting burned down, according to this update his building survived. I might have been thinking of a black-owned sports bar in the area that I remember made the news here. The guy used his life savings to open a sports bar, survived the Lil Rona Panic, and BLM/Antifa looters hit his bar and stole the safe full of money.
Just put up a sign telling me you don’t want my business.
Hate crimes are bullshit, but threats I’m not a fan of. Credibility is key.
That may justify the harassment charge.
‘$4m a mile for some guardrails and a handful of signs. Sounds about right.’
They will probably do all sorts of fun ‘traffic calming’ measures, repaving, bikes lanes, etc. which will make things go slower through the area. Also, that amount is just the fed gov cost.
The project will help reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries along the corridor, which travels directly through the underserved communities of Alief-Westwood, Gulfton, and Braeburn, significantly impacting people of color and families of low income.
Paying millions of dollars to large politically connected road contractors and “community advocacy” parasites will be an incalculable benefit to those poor underserved minority residents.
Ole Miss won the Egg Bowl
I’ll be buried 26 due west of the State campus. This was the first time in years we didn’t watch; I knew that Oxford was very strong this year and had even written in these pages that the Rebels were underappreciated. Our guests headed back to the east MS ridge-line as the game began, tacitly signaling their agreement with maroon’s prospects. The Rebs are about 12 points better, and they won by 10…so it goes.
biggest edition of The Game
A strong Big10 is good for the game, but, as much as I love it, I’m thinking this might be my last year: it’s one of the layers of a very large and very stupid onion. I believe government schools are necessarily bad for our country, so that’s the main thing: if the Vols were a private entity, I could stay interested, maybe. But I’ve always been conflicted the finagling around student-athletes, so unless my dream of private schools includes guys who were accepted based on an academic standard that was true of all the students in the associated schools they play against, it’s just going to be physical freaks who can’t even provide a coherent reply in complete sentences to the reporter at the end of the game. I’m also concerned about character (doG knows Tennessee has played more than one murderer), but I expect a scholastic standard to largely address that,
not that it matters: none of that is coming true for me.
So what is my point in investing so much time and half my culture being built around this unbalanced machine? Maybe I should take this fall to shout my head off one last time for whichever SEC carries the flag into the field in January against the evil people of the west and north and then quietly strike camp, furl colors, and repent of the whole endeavor.
Or stop acting like a Texan and that some game is as important as life itself?
Somebody didn’t want to work.
https://www.nj.com/news/2023/11/american-dream-mall-evacuated-on-black-friday-because-of-a-bomb-threat.html
This albatross and former site of a football stadium is the taxpayer gift that keeps on giving.
I’m thrilled by the optimism of any tribe that can conceive of the American dream manifest in East Rutherford.
At point it was called Xanadu.
I always asked did the people that chose that read and understand the poem.
It was a place where nobody dared to go.
There was a six month stretch in college that bomb threats were a weekly or monthly occurrence. Yep, someone didn’t want to take any tests they later figured out.
*flashes back in anger to the horror of false fire alarms every other night for weeks at a time in the dorms*
There was a six month stretch in college that bomb threats were a weekly or monthly occurrence. Yep, someone didn’t want to take any tests they later figured out.
The Sam Altman story update: He nay have created an AI that could solve math problems without a massive database:
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/was-sam-altman-sacking-openais-board-over-q-star-breakthrough-seen-threat-humanity
Random wanton thuggery
Police blamed far-right agitators for starting the violence after a small group of anti-immigrant protesters arrived at the scene of the stabbing attack beside the main thoroughfare of O’Connell Street and clashed with police.
It took officers several hours to regain control after the crowd grew to around 200 to 300 people. A bus, tram and police car were burned out, public transport shut down and people urged to stay away from large parts of the city.
“It was gratuitous thuggery,” Chief Superintendent Patrick McMenamin said in a video statement on the social media platform X, declaring that calm had been restored.
“Some of my colleagues were also attacked and assaulted. Thankfully there were no serious reports of injury.”
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Such rioting is almost unprecedented in Dublin.
There are no far-right parties or politicians elected to parliament, but small anti-immigrant protests have grown in the last year. The government is reviewing security around parliament after a recent protest trapped lawmakers inside.
We thought we had the boot firmly in.
So an AI capable of learning arithmetic was going to destroy civilization. Since it runs on electricity which soon be in even shorter supply I’m not particularly worried.
TW (((ZH)))
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/was-sam-altman-sacking-openais-board-over-q-star-breakthrough-seen-threat-humanity
Its superpower seems to be getting folks to post repetitive links about it. 🫤
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/24/dublin-rioters-could-face-jail-helen-mcentee-justice-minister-says
They are going to put Irish protestors in prison longer than the foreign stabber. At some point, Americans and Euros will realize they’ve completely lost control of their governments. Then things will get real spicy.
The Irish took the EU candy and now they’re finding out what goes on in the van.
Hi-yo!
Just a thought, but if Ireland is having Far-Right hooligans rioting, does this mean that there is a peaceful libertarian moment going on?
In my best Sith Lord voice: “Good, good, let your hate flow …”
https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1704,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/153/411/841/original/f03d50c45274b248.jpeg
The Journalism School Class shits on everyone they don’t like and then get all huffy that anyone might not like them.
attached?
Pulling in the welcome mat
Finland has temporarily closed all but one of its eight passenger crossings to Russia in response to an unusually high inflow of migrants for which the Nordic country accuses Moscow.
More than 700 migrants from nations such as Yemen, Afghanistan, Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria, have in the past couple of weeks entered Finland via Russia. Helsinki says Russia is funneling migrants to the border, a charge the Kremlin has denied.
Having last week closed four border stations, Finland overnight closed all remaining passenger crossings except its northernmost one, Raja-Jooseppi located high north in the Arctic region, for a month.
Those north Africans are coming for the climate.
funneling migrants to the border
how does that even work? you can lead a migrant to Finland, but you can’t make them take ’em in
Those sneaky Russkies tell ’em about Finnish saunas – you can get warmed up over there.
I am sure that the Finns don’t want to replicate what THOSE gosh darn Swedes are experiencing after their failed experiment in 2015.
it’s prolly the birchings the kinky bastards crave
but you can have all that fun in Russia
Same way all those Middle Eastern migrants got to the Belarus-Poland border and tried to invade Poland?
Exactly
Indeed. You can fry a Finn in butter, but he is still a Finn.
700? That’s a slow hour on our border.
GO WOLVERINES !!!
What the hell is wrong with you ?
look Dave Portnoy supports them and Dave is never wrong
he’s still pissed about a coven of vampires in Cleaveland they had to forfeit
Love me some OMD. Just like high school.
Happy People of Color Friday everyone!
The group consists of founding duo and principal songwriters Andy McCluskey (vocals, bass guitar) and Paul Humphreys (keyboards, vocals), along with Martin Cooper (keyboards, saxophone) and Stuart Kershaw (drums).
don’t know these guys from Adam’s housecat but love those clan names; does’t hot pink on a sunny day count us as POC?
Isnt it just ‘Friday of Color’ ?
Thanks that will save me some embarrassment later.
Eco-doomsters are never not fearmongering
Skousen wants a second opinion on any government environmental assessments, preferably from an expert with a stake in the community. But the raw data isn’t easy to find, and experts say the long-term health effects from fires like the one that incinerated Lahaina are mostly unknown. There are no national standards that detail how clean is clean enough for a residential home damaged by a nearby fire.
At least 100 people died in the Aug. 8 wildfire, and thousands were displaced. Nearly 7,000 were still in short-term lodging two months later.
The rubble left behind includes electrical cables, plastic pipes and vehicle tires that emit dangerous dioxins when burned; lead from melted vehicles or old house paint; and arsenic-laden ash from termite-resistant building materials.
Abandon it. Turn it into a giant “Abundance of Caution” memorial.
an expert with a stake in the community
FFS, talk about a contradiction in terms. Expertise is all about abstract knowledge (and credentials, can’t leave out the credentials) and distance from any local, parochial concerns. If the yokels had any input, they wouldn’t do what the expert tells them!
Declare it a Hazardous Waste Site and then clean it up. Seems to work if there is lots of taxpayer dollars involved.
100 died? I seem to remember hysterical news coverage with many multiples of that speculated: Thousands missing including hundreds of women and children.
Initially, there were a lot missing because to of the destruction to communications. As things settled down, it turns out that a lot of people that were missing had escaped the fire and survived. They still lost their homes and most of their possessions, but they got out of danger.
Maui residents wonder if their burned town can be made safe. The answer? No one knows
You live on a small volcanic island. The answer is ‘no’.
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Coffeyville is relatively close (75 miles) to where my people are from (Pittsburg).
It’s amazing how the media makes a sausage.
Rainbow Bridge explosion: Possible cause of Niagara Falls crash revealed
They are simply Investigating mechanical failure as a possibility. No shit. No new info. Take that quote wrap prior info about the crash and presto fresh article.
My speculation is the usual panic of thinking you are standing on the brake pedal, but it’s really the throttle. I’m not sure how you determine that from an exploded and burned wreck.
Been reading the reddits on it. The general consensus is it was a Bentley Flying Spur, which had an unintended acceleration recall on it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthiscar/comments/181jhcd/rainbow_bridge_incident_vehicle/
https://www.drive.com.au/news/2018-2021-bentley-continental-gt-and-flying-spur-recalled/
Right model name!
Brakes will still work even on the Audi 5000. And many modern cars won’t let you power brake and cut throttle if the brake is depressed.
Descriptions read like he matted it and never let up. Very odd and also sad if it was indeed just an accident.
I do not understand the inner workings of advanced luxury cars. I can safely assume if the car full throttled it would be able to overrun it’s own brakes with that horsepower. Too many electric bits could fail. I could see it happening. And if the driver is in a semi-drunken stupor and had no time to react to a sudden acceleration crises in a big fast car…
overrun it’s own brakes with that horsepower
not possible on any car I’m aware of
I’m not familiar with this case and wonder whether the brakes worked at all
Working brakes are more powerful than motors.
I know at least in the 300 hp range I saw a video of 60 to zero stop full throttle and no throttle the difference was only two car lengths.
No idea in the 500 hp range, but I doubt it’s different. And as I mentioned many modern cars won’t let you power brake.
Not if you’re drunkish and don’t realize what is happening. That thing could zap to top speed before he got out of panic.
CNN called it an “Excelsior X”. I went digging. Bentley never made a car with that name.
Fake news!
A Flying Spur makes sense based on the video I saw.
I poked around Bentley’s website. I tried to build a Flying Spur to see how much it would cost. V12 engine. Well…. no price. Ah. Right. “If you have to ask you can’t afford it.”
That was my experience. There is no such model. The reddits where Autopians hang out had the best explanations. No surprise. My knowledge of luxury cars from Britain is very limited.
They keep it that way on purpose. Don’t want just anyone to think they could buy one…
“Massachusetts is as dangerous for gay people as Gaza”
this person has a million followers
https://twitter.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/1727908231542960212
Sure. I’m visiting family right near Medford and Marlboro MA right now. Might do some gay-bashing or attend a lynching later on just because everyone else is doing it.
“can’t pass”
I’m sure you could if you really wanted/needed to – just sayin’.
Supervillain
Much has been made, including in these pages, about Milei’s personal style. With his shaggy haircut and leather jacket, he looks a little like a goon from John Mackenzie’s classic English gangster film, The Long Good Friday. He has five bull mastiffs that he cloned from his dead dog Conan, and reportedly seeks their counsel. He has compared posting a viral tweet to sleeping with a “señorita,” on air, to the bafflement and horror of television hosts. At different points, he has likened himself to a “gladiator,” a “lion,” and a “king.” In addition, he has been seen on the campaign trail brandishing a chainsaw, which he says he plans to take to the Argentine state. Just how literal the metaphor will become is anyone’s guess.
These details made for a funny segment on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, but they obscure the very real dangers of his presidency. Milei has pledged to enact an austerity plan even more draconian than the one the International Monetary Fund has prescribed as part of Argentina’s repayment on a $44 billion line of credit—an amount that President Alberto Fernández renegotiated after the Trump administration approved a $57 billion loan to his right-wing predecessor, Mauricio Macri. This includes cuts he claims will equal 15 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, privatizing “as many public companies as he can,” in Milei’s words, ending free public healthcare, and replacing public education with a voucher system, the details of which remain murky at best. For a country with over 40 percent poverty through the first half of 2023, these proposals are nothing short of devastating.
Milei also plans to abandon the peso for the US dollar, and to abolish the country’s central bank. Earlier this month, more than 100 economists, including Thomas Piketty and Jayati Ghosh, warned in an open letter that this would decimate the Argentine economy and radically increase levels of inequality. As the Greek politician Yanis Varoufakis wrote on X (formerly Twitter), dollarizing to eliminate inflation is like “nuking a country to get rid of Covid-19.”
Why didn’t those dopey Argentinians elect a proven candidate hand picked by the establishmentarian left? It’s madness, I tell you. Always go with the loser you know.
* like “nuking a country to get rid of Covid-19.” Isn’t that pretty much what everybody did?
Oh fuck off.
40% of the populace was living in poverty, so they were well on their way to wealth equality already! Now that far right nutjob might ruin it all!
We in Preston are the first Council in the UK to hold an Extraordinary Council Meeting to pass a Notice of Motion calling for a immediate ceasefire in Gaza
https://twitter.com/FreddieBailey96/status/1727460560428548576
\if that dont stop the war nothing will
THere’s one now and I’m sure Hamas is regrouping for round 2 as we speak.
That and getting whatever leadership they can out of the area.
Don’t stop at half measures!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion
WTF?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crocodile-egg-hunter-chris-wilson-death-chopper-ran-out-of-fuel-australia-investigation/
Is there no fuel gauge?
It was in liters instead of gallons.
No wonder they died then.
All of these measures are likely to be met with protest and increase the threat of state-sponsored violence, especially considering that Milei has signaled his willingness to use security forces to mediate social conflict.
Miliei will bring back the death squads. That was his plan all along.
SDF-7 wrote: “ I really, really have never understood why Ireland of all places caved to the globalist EU contingent — they were getting a bunch of investment with their corporate tax shelters, they couldn’t be blamed for “whiteness” since they were effectively enslaved by the English, they had a tight knit society with international support… yet they bought into the globalist crap left right and center.”
A lot of that was because that was part of the deal to get all that sweet EU money. Ireland in the early 80’s was so completely and utterly different from the Ireland that came to be just a decade and a half later. My cousins on my mom’s side still had an outhouse and bathed with an iron washbasin and a pot of warmed water from the peat stove in the early and mid 80’s. We visited my dad’s old neighbor to bring her a pike he caught in the river and she had dirt floors and a stove for heat. In the early 90’s it was getting noticeably better and by the time I was there in 2000 it was a country utterly transformed into a prosperous European location. So I know a lot of the Irish took the immigration as part of the deal. They also very much knew how many of them immigrated to the US, England and Australia, many times more than the modern population of Ireland. But the post Vid era has finally gotten many to the point where they are sick of living in a place that’s becoming less Irish by the day. A friend from small town Donegal told me they now have almost as many Ukrainians living there than natives, and with all the resultant stress on infrastructure and services. Another relative told me that Ukraine had sent over its prison population to Ireland much like Castro did to Miami in the 80’s. What we are now seeing in Europe, especially with the Dutch elections is the tip of the iceberg.
One of my friends who immigrated here told me he wore fingerless gloves in HS in the 80s so he could hold onto pencil while keeping his hands warm.
He also had great story about the multiyear process of getting a telephone line for the house.
I know the term “second world” was not used a lot and when it was it was for Soviet republics, but Ireland at that time was not first world. My dad grew up on a farm there in the 1950’s and 60’s that did not have electricity nor indoor plumbing. He didn’t really see a television set until the mid 1960’s when he came here. We thought the outhouse and not taking a bath were awesome when we were kids, but I remember my dad saying it was not so fun when you had to take a crap in the freezing sleet of December in the dark.
Another few factors in why Ireland has accepted the EU bureaucratic state is that many of its most industrious citizens no longer lived there, and that it tends to import whatever Americanisms it can. This most certainly included fashionable woke bullshit, and their government schooling of course pushed it as well. It’s also a welfare state country so many there have a notion of mommy and daddy government providing for their well being.
I sat next to a guy from Ireland on a flight from Amsterdam to Minneapolis back in the 90s. He talked about half of the population being on the dole.
half of the population being on the dole
77% of Irish live beyond the Pale
I have two cousins on my mom’s side that are now in their 60’s. One is an engineer at a factory there and the other plays music at pubs for some under the table money and has been on the dole his entire life. They live in the same village they were born, and essentially have the same life. The engineer has a slightly nicer house and car. That for me perfectly encapsulates why so many have left there (and of course the conditions that used to be much worse).
Similar stories from my friend.
Supervillain pt 2
CONICET, which provides funding to about 12,000 researchers across 300 Argentinian institutions, with its roughly 80-billion-peso (US$400-million) annual budget, is one of the most prominent science institutions in Latin America. Ahead of the election, the directors of CONICET’s 16 research centres said in a joint statement that “it is not by cancelling the State that a better country will be achieved”. Many scientists in the country supported Massa, or called for others not to vote for Milei. They also organized demonstrations against Milei.
“Based on the promises and declarations made during the presidential campaign, the situation now appears extremely worrying,” says Sandra Díaz, an environmental researcher at the National University of Córdoba’s Multidisciplinary Institute of Plant Biology, which receives funding from CONICET. “The scientific community will likely have to show, once again, all its resilience and determination.”
Outside Argentina, researchers also expressed opposition to Milei’s ideas ahead of the election. For instance, the InterAmerican Network of Academies of Sciences, which has members from countries ranging from Canada and the United States to Argentina and Chile, issued a document that said that “science is not an expenditure but rather an investment”, and added that CONICET’s research “gives direct solutions to the problems of the country”.
Milei’s triumph “is not good news for science, public education, universities, culture, the environment and human rights in Argentina”, says Alberto Kornblihtt, a molecular biologist at the University of Buenos Aires’s Institute for Physiology, Molecular Biology and Neurosciences, which receives funding from CONICET.
He hates science! He’s going to kill all the scientists and the educated elite!
So he is Pol Pot too?
Scientists acknowledge that the country is in a deep economic turmoil, but they say that investing in science and research is one of the best possible solutions.
“It is important that elected authorities become aware that science and technology must be a state policy,” says Gabriel Rabinovich, a biochemist at the Experimental Medicine and Biology Institute in Buenos Aires, which receives funding from CONICET. Argentina does not need to rely on importing or advancing technologies from wealthier countries, Rabinovich says. “We have the human talent and power to develop innovative science [ourselves] that impacts universal knowledge.”
Muh gravy train!
Elections have consequences, bitch.
but I remember my dad saying it was not so fun when you had to take a crap in the freezing sleet of December in the dark.
And there are an astounding number of people who desperately want to pursue policies which will take us back to that.
They are especially hard to eradicate where the government has largely outlawed firearms
Residents of the northern US may soon have to worry more about what was a once-ridiculed concept: warding off feral hogs.
According to the AP, an expanding population of Canadian “super pigs” — a species of wild boar that is exceptionally hard to eradicate, the outlet says — are threatening to spread into states like Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota.
The pigs are currently roaming around Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, the Canadian provinces directly north of the US. According to the outlet, the boars are typically crossbred, resulting in a hog with the survival skills of a wild Eurasian hog and the size and fertility of domestic pigs — thus becoming a sort of “super pig”.
Free-roaming super swine may seem trivial — hence the 2019 “feral hogs” Twitter spectacle — but the species poses a serious problem, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
Canada should import some Texans to show them what to do.
Texas is enjoying the fight
but they are losing it
The general consensus is it was a Bentley Flying Spur, which had an unintended acceleration recall on it.
Fly-by-wire throttle, by any chance?
Likely, but from the actual recall a piece of trim can physically wedge the throttle at full throttle.
Buddy had his Cobra Jet stick WOT. Not much time to think when it’s accelerating unexpectedly. Tried to pump the pedal to release and hold down the brake rather than killing the engine or shifting to neutral right away.
Why Americans Can’t Buy Cheap Chinese Electric Vehicles
WSJ predicts the CCP may absorb the 25% EV “chicken tax”.
Now do the illegal conspiracy of dmv officials to deny registration to lawfully imported kei trucks.
That was especially nasty. Loved them doing it retroactively.
Yeah. Particularly galling here where the DMV administrator was one of the chief proponents citing not meeting safety regs while going whole hog on dipshittery like this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcimoto
Or continuing to allow any number of registrations of older vehicles which also don’t meet current safet regs (well duh).
So much is done one way or another due to the bureaucrat feeling something is important.
And they wonder why everyone hates the gov’t.
Cool link, bro!
Right wing playbook
On Wednesday, a well-to-do middle-aged couple died when their speeding Bentley crashed and exploded in a speculator fireball at a United States-Canada border crossing. But as is so often the case, this tragedy quickly dovetailed in real-time with right-wing misinformation about terror attacks and anti-immigrant bigotry.
It’s a playbook that’s unfortunately become extremely commonplace in the window that’s experienced following a major event.
Those right wing crackpots at the FBI and Border Patrol, and the governor of New York.
“We would never go there,” I sniffed haughtily.
Bullshit!!
Interesting thing about the media, to me at least, is that its kind of come full-circle to what it was when newspapers first became mass circulation in the eighteenth century: you write stories that affirm what your readers want to hear. That’s why most colonial cities had at least two papers.
Where has Sam Brinton been lately?
Self-proclaimed ‘gay furry hackers’ breach nuclear lab
Fox News, of course, wasn’t the only one to get in on the action. As journalists and researchers waited for more information to become available, fringe-right users jumped at the chance to use the event to push agendas. X, Elon Musk’s platform formerly known as Twitter, used to have several guardrails including verification and strict moderation and was actually seen as useful in times of breaking news. Today it’s become practically unusable for verification and is a key vector for pushing misinformation.
Speaking of working from an established set of presumptions to push a narrative…
Like after every media publicized shooting?
When the fuck does this ever happen?
“As journalists and researchers waited for more information to become available”
British anchor says swapping 150 prisoners for 50 hostages means Palestinian lives worth less
Watch the question – and the response: Israel’s willingness to enter a 3 for 1 exchange means it does not value Palestinian lives, anchor posits;
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1ws1ahep
lol
Yeah, I read that. And she moved right on after he schooled her like nothing happened.
Stoic Friday is up now. 👉🏻