I had one hell of a holiday weekend. Between watching and entertaining a relative with special needs, and watching and entertaining my brother’s friends on account of him getting hitched to a slender blonde girl from Wisconsin.
I was beat, and now I am broke. I went to bed before 9 yesterday. Today? Much better.
¡Enlaces!
Axolotl fever hits Mexico, with the campaign to adopt what appears to be an overgrown tadpole.
White women must be stopped. White women are destroying Mexico.
Panama! Panama! Pana ma uh uh uh uh a!
I can’t imagine anything that will accelerate climate nonsense, than climate change being responsible for Taylor Swift’s death.
Fun times with Milei. First he meets with team Brandon, presumably for it to be made clear he needs to play nice or wind up like Noriega, but not before he paid homage to a Rabbi in Queens. Which means he might be one of (((them)))? Finally the Orange man is not going to the inauguration, presumably because he is under indictment.
Here’s a tune. I need to get to work. Enjoy your Tuesday.
“getting hitched to a slender blonde girl from Wisconsin”
Not thicc enough?
It’s an obvious attempt of Canada trying to infiltrate the US.
There are no slender girls from Wisconsin.
I married a Wisconsin blond. I still remember the measurements from the wedding dress fitting…. 32(D)-22-36
Does that count as slender?
Does it help or hurt that she was 31 and not 19?
Also, I make no reps or warranties as to what 3 kids and 20 years has done.
Oh come on, avocados aren’t a white women thing.
Also paywalled.
That is the most ridiculous thing anyone has ever claimed here.
You are so wrong you must be trolling.
“Authorities there warned of the danger to life as it recorded a heat index, which combines temperature with humidity, of 59.3C (138.7F) on Friday followed by 59.7C (139.5F) on Saturday.”
So it’s humid near a massive jungle?
Rio, unsurprisingly, gets hot as fuck in the summer. Much more than coastal cities much closer to the equator. And yes, I’m sure the Atlantic rainforest that is all around is a big part of it, definitely for the humidity. There are parts of Rio where you can be on a highly busy city street with tons of traffic and then hike 20 minutes (not carrying any much cash or valuables) and be in rain forest with monkeys and waterfalls. I’m sure if you looked at temperature and humidity levels that it would not be much outside a typically hot summer stretch. But yes, if if causes Taylor distress it’s as good an excuse as any to write some breathless stories to fill the blank space.
Hey listen. If Taylor Swift goes down, the U.S. economy collapses.
But if Kelce (or whatever his name is) goes down, we’ll have
an early Springan economic upturn?If Kelce goes down, he’ll probably get face herpes.
I laughed out loud. Is that a sign of your brilliance or of my shame?
Porque no los dos?
Sadly, I am not brilliant, and you have nothing to be ashamed about.
I blame Biden.
Not in my wildest dreams could I imagine that happening. She’s delicate, but if that happened it would cause a lot of bad blood.
Booooooooo!
Your pun is wasted on me because I have no knowledge of her musical catalog.
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KSuell self-doxes as closet Swifty.
Is it cool that I said all that?
That alleged “temperature” is such an obviously disproven lie. The high actual temperature in Rio the past two weeks? 93 Fahrenheit. No way that feels 45 degrees hotter.
The most charitable interpretation is whoever wrote that article is bad at math or fact checking.
Yeah, it’s bullshit. Gun grabbers and watermelons are in a constant competition to be the most baldfaced liars.
You’re leaving out the heat of the spotlights she is performing under.
Economic development isn’t an unalloyed good, but it ain’t all bad, either. I think it was Tone Loc who said “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
You’re thinking of Flava Flav.
Yes, followed by, “yeaaaaaaah boyyyyyyy”.
I’m now looking forward to a wine named ‘Funky Old Medina’ that comes in a plastic bottle and looks like purple soda pop. Maybe it’ll become the new Juggalo juice, or something.
A news story just hit my feed in the past couple of weeks about a local group starting to produce and sell “Jungle Juice” as a commercial item.
I hope they have a snappy jingle.
Many decades ago I visited a winery in Baja with my girlfriend. The wine was terrible. It turns out the winery was founded by a guy who also made terrible wine in Napa. The tour guide got bored and left the room and told us we could pour whatever we wanted.
made terrible wine in Napa
That’s got to be a rare talent.
“Which means he might be one of (((them)))?”
He actually is one of those Nazi-loving Jews. He is in the process of conversion. I read it today.
According to the American media, everyone to the right of Stalin is a Nazi and anyone who speaks ill of socialists is literally Hitler
Libertarian fascist wasn’t enough, he has to be a (((libertarian fascist)))? I mean, what group was he not already hated by?
“Finally the Orange man is not going to the inauguration, presumably because he is under indictment.”
Maybe he’ll meet with Trump when he comes to the U.S. to meet Biden.
At the same time, the region’s gastronomy blossomed and renowned Mexican chefs built restaurants that have helped popularize Baja-Med cuisine, a local fusion of Mediterranean, Asian and Mexican influences showcasing the fresh seafood of Baja California.
Sounds delicious.
Setec Gastronomy…. too many culinary secrets.
[golf clap]
Bizarre shocking legal gambit
Former President Trump’s legal team made a sweeping request for evidence late Monday, seeking to relitigate the 2020 election as part of the legal battle over whether Trump sought to block the transfer of power after losing the presidential contest.
The requests from Trump point to the documented efforts by foreign powers to interfere with the 2016 election, asking for a suite of materials prepared by U.S. intelligence agencies regarding the 2020 election while repeating baseless claims there could be widespread fraud that would have shifted the outcome of the race.
Trump’s lawyers say he is entitled to all information about “foreign influence efforts targeting the 2020 election” and accuses the House committee that investigated the deadly rampage at the Capitol of “ignoring contrary evidence regarding the role of foreign influence in the 2020 election.”
Every indicator right up to election day pointed to a Trump win, but there was a sudden unexpected reversal, but the media neglect to mention that part. How did that happen? Where did it come from? It must have been that Silent Majority people talk about.
You can bet your ass if the situation had been reversed Team Biden would have been screaming bloody murder.
“Every indicator right up to election day pointed to a Trump win”
Gonna disagree with you there.
Biden was leading the polling average by almost 5% up to the election and frankly it didn’t look all that hopeful.
This is almost exactly the margin that Biden won the popular vote with.
Trump supporters were hoping that the electoral math would squeak by and that the polls were off a bit (but they were not this time).
Absolutely right. 2016 polls were mostly off, but not the ones in 2020. They were pretty damn accurate to the final tally. Which is why Trumps relatively large lead in the polls is saying something right now. It’s a long 11 months away, but if that holds Trump is going to easily win, despite whatever fortifications or media bullshit goes on.
Yeah. Or they mean nothing. I have no idea.
But regardless of whether you thought corruption or mail-in voting influenced the last one, his poll numbers were not good.
Election night was a wave of emotion because it actually seemed at first like he was gonna overcome those polls and that was fascinating… at first.
“Trump would have lost anyway in a clean election” and “there actually was significant fraud” are not mutually exclusive.
The problem is getting more ballots into the system isn’t purely illegal. It could be a matter of how you improve turnout (for your side only of course).
I think there were definitely some shenanigans going on, but I have never been sold that they definitively swung it to Joe. The media manipulation of the narratives around both of them certainly had a big factor and the Vid hysteria certainly wore a lot of voters off Trump. We shall see what the next 11 months bring. Trump could easily be knocked down by the trials, and I still think the Dems are going to pull a switcheroo with Greasy Gav at some point. He would beat Trump handily I’d say.
The one known shenanigan was the media burying the Hunter laptop story in October, social media swinging into action on the laptop disinformation front, 50 former national security big-wigs signing a letter that it was Russian collusion, etc.
Another part of that lone single shenanigans was the 3 a.m. dumps of ballots running 100% Biden, plus or minus several percent, exclusively in swing states.
So, yeah, Trump’s lawyers ought to go full tilt on discovery requests about that, and any confidential memos about the election by 3 letter agencies. Make ’em disclose memos where everything but “and” or “the” gets blacked out for “security” reasons.
Hey, are you saying there is something wrong with the Intelligence apparatus running operations into and through private [media] enterprises? Don’t you know that every revelation from Twitter files, et al, are just a big nothing-burger? And pf-shaw, Schrodinger’s laptop still isn’t conclusively Hunter’s, except when he wants to claim privacy rights over something he says isn’t his.
I would add the multiple instances of illegally rejiggering various state election laws in favor of every practice that renders them illegitimate when the US judges the elections of other countries.
In a sense this is brilliant – after all the bullshit slung at him about RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE, now they have to put up or go into court and say “we got nothin'”.
The aide, who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity, said Clinton wished Milei well
It’s tough to tell from this if Milei has information that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
Argentines and others have squeezed all the graft out of the country before those late-comers had a chance.
Outside developers looking to profit from the tourism boom have moved into the valley and erected new wineries, resorts, short-term rentals, restaurants and now, even nightclubs.
Gentrifiers. Why did it have to be gentrifiers?
Because who else would it be?
Panamanians can just look to the east, where Venezuela became an economic powerhouse after kicking all the goddamn foreigners with their tricknology and expertise out of the extraction industries that made up a huge percentage of its GDP.
What is being mined in Panama, other than a lot of bad feelings?
Locally the open pit mining here has run it’s course and the pits have returned as clear water lakes and tourist attractions, on a limited scale.
One of our local suburbs had a history as a large quarry. Now, there are at least three lakes that are there that were the abandoned quarries that were allowed to fill with water.
“Debunking the myth of the male hunter: Prehistoric women were BETTER at hunting than men, study claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12799713/Debunking-myth-male-hunter-Prehistoric-women-BETTER-hunting-men-study-claims.html
doubt
This one made the rounds a few weeks ago and everyone had a good laugh.
Does seem a bit at odds with the obvious sexual dimorphism between human males and females.
On the other hand, lionesses are very good at hunting in groups.
I specified “human” for a reason.
Lionesses clearly are evolved for hunting.Male lions have the big manes to protect against other male lions getting a grip on their necks, and for general flaunting of good health.
They take a lot of pride in that.
Fun fact: lionesses can’t hunt during a full moon. As anyone who has tried to take a flash photo of a cat is aware, their retinas reflect light very efficiently. So while in normal conditions a lioness can sneak up on a wildebeest or zebra just fine, during a full moon the prey animals see these giant blobs of light moving through the tall grass towards them and run away.
Poor girls. They just can’t seem to hide their lion eyes.
You need to collect these and write a joke book.
Don’t encourage him. Dad jokes are everywhere.
If he’s the one writing these elaborate gags, then I think it’s worth a shot.
Mean girl cliques are pretty good at taking down their targets, too.
/ducking
It doesn’t jive with lots of evidence that says the opposite. Including fossil records and pretty much all hunter gatherer societies studied by anthropologists back when anthropology actually studied things other than woke bullshit. It’s not that women couldn’t or didn’t hunt, but especially for larger game it has mostly been the men.
Exactly.
You could point out the lion thing, but evidence has been pretty overwhelming to this point that it was mainly men that hunted. Maybe not always or in all cultures…. but mainly.
In fact, there still exist hunter/gatherer cultures now and… guess what? … the men tend to hunt and fish.
‘This revelation is especially important in the current political moment of our society where sex and gender are in a spotlight,’ Professor Ocobock added.
‘And I want people to be able to change these ideas of female physical inferiority that have been around for so long.
‘We have to change the biases we bring to the table, or at least to give pause before we assign those biases.
‘And in a broader sense, you cannot outrightly assume somebody’s abilities based on whatever sex or gender you have assigned by looking at them.’
Aaaaaaaand there it is. Using a horseshit “study” (can’t wait to see the replicability on that one) to “prove” that girlbosses have always been with us, so as to combat the biases of, well… reality.
Professor Ocobock? Sounds made up.
It is a revelation. I also see that the patriarchal theory of primitive cultures is DEBUNKED. It is a fact. There can be no contradicting it.
Ocobock…RBS is right.
The findings show that the female body is better suited for endurance activity, which would have been critical in early hunting.
TIL women are better distance runners than men.
It’s only because of the patriarchy that all of the world’s distance running records are held by men.
Seems legit.
In almost all primitive societies women are forbidden not only to hunt but to fight or to touch any kind of tool or weapon used for doing so.
When some plain widely k known fact contradicts the wokety wokesters narrative they simply make up some lie out. of thin air to attempt to debunk said fact.
I was expecting another obscure English museum to be the source. Then I read this…
So which is it sugar-tits, prehistoric or historic?
You know, all that talk about hormonal difference between men and women, isn’t that problematic given our current delusion that there are no inherent differences?
So, you’ve slung your children along as you do research, teach classes and attend conferences?
You don’t think women were effective hunters of woolly mammoth while waddling around at seven months pregnant?
MISOGYNIST CONFIRMED!
Is this even a case of “We found one ambiguous piece of evidence, so it clearly means that all the existing evidence that says otherwise must be ignored for the Narrative”? Or is this a case of “We pulled a Narrative out of our ass”?
According to a headline, Charlie Munger died.
Yes. Would have been 100 Jan 1.
Hmmm. Bitcoin is up today.
Biden was leading the polling average by almost 5% up to the election and frankly it didn’t look all that hopeful.
I defer to you on that. I don’t pay attention to (or believe) polls. I guess I was thinking of the anecdotal evidence and public appearances.
Nevertheless, “relitigating” election results which are at the core of the current legal case is not an outlandish notion.
I do recall driving around on election night as vote totals rolled in, and Nate Silver said on the radio some version of “It looks right now like Trump has a 70% chance of being reelected.”
all true. That part was very much leaning Trump.
agreed
Does seem a bit at odds with the obvious sexual dimorphism between human males and females.
Women are sneaky.
White House tarted up like Macy’s…
https://www.denver7.com/news/national/deck-the-white-house-halls-jill-biden-wants-holiday-visitors-to-feel-like-kids-again-see-the-photos
“Jill Biden wants everyone who visits the White House during the holidays to feel like a kid again.”
Sure makes it easier to communicate with her husband. Insert hair sniffing joke here.
“The décor also features likenesses of family cat Willow and dog Commander, who was recently sent away after multiple incidents of biting Secret Service personnel.”
Does the stripper baby finally get a stocking on the fireplace…
…might not be the same fireplace, but looks like no one gets a stocking.
No. In fact this is amusing.
They didn’t put up any stockings so they wouldn’t have to recognize the kid.
Well if they had put up a stocking for her it would’ve been really obvious, what with the seam up the back.
You beat me to the hair sniffing joke 🙂
No Jill, Joe said he wants to feel some kids again.
Who gives a shit?
I do recall the media savaging Melanie for her selection of “cold” white and blue trees and such. Another year she had crimson topiary trees down the colonnade. I thought they were all beautiful and somewhat artistic. She also always had a few traditional mix&match trees (like most normies have) in the more cozy casual areas.
Pretty sure it would have been praised if Dr Jill or Chewbacca had done it. But that cold European woman with oval eyes and high cheekbones is clearly evil.
Eddie: You know, like those ladies in the comic books who are no good. They always got skinny eyes.
Tom Corbett: Skinny eyes. Anything else?
Eddie: Well, there’s one other thing, but… it’s about sex.
Tom Corbett: Go ahead. I can stand it.
Eddie: Well, the bad ladies, they always got big busts. Now, don’t get mad, Dad, but it’s true. Very big. Skinny eyes, and big busts is how you tell a bad lady from a good one.
Tom Corbett: Aren’t there any good ladies in all that stuff you read?
Eddie: Oh sure… but they always got medium-size busts… and round eyes, of course.
Tom Corbett: I’ll keep that in mind.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056956/quotes/?item=qt4264675
33 degrees and it’s not even sunset! Got the spigot insulated. I hate wasting materials for just a couple days’ use, so I didn’t do the insulation yesterday. Woke up this morning to no water, though my pipes were fine because my tanks and hose are heated. I think the freeze was at the other end, so I wrapped it up in a nice blankie.
These euphemisms! Hi, KK.
You may scoff, but that little critter has inspired poetry: http://holyjoe.org/poetry/anonU.htm
Until I clicked through, I thought the “little critter” was Joe’s unloved granddaughter.
WTF?
https://nypost.com/2023/11/28/lifestyle/nycs-most-inexplicable-dessert-shop-rice-to-riches-expands/
Poor people shit is constantly being discovered by rich people, which is FINE if they didn’t drive the price of poor people shit straight out of poor people grasp.
Sewing? Luxury hobby.
Quilting? Luxury hobby.
Rice pudding? Rich people food.
+1 lobster
But apparently the tale you often hear in Massachusetts that there was a law limiting how often lobster could be fed to prisoners is not true.
In The Fatal Shore, that is one of the ironies, how the children of the poor dined on all the fresh local seafood while the PoME children ate salted cod shipped 14,000 miles.
Restaurants looking for cheap shit they can dress up and make a decent margin on.
Champorado would be good right now.
/remembers times of cheap hanger and flank steaks.
Brisket used to be a trash cut…
https://youtu.be/gATUhq-K4wU
Hanksgiving and millennial malaise
Interesting thread. My Gen Zs are doing okay for now, but I wish XX would find a better job (FedEx is stringing her along) and XY would go for a trade instead of college where he’s not going into STEM.
Babylon Bee has so many good ones today, I’m linking their main page.
https://babylonbee.com/
Example: “Disney Awarded Defense Contract After Producing More Bombs Than Lockheed Martin”
Nothing is funnier than Christians mocking dead civilians.
Why don’t you take the stick out of your ass and move along.
Is “glib” being in the site’s name not enough of a clue for you?
Hamas Awarded Nobel Peace Prize For Releasing A Few Of The Children They Kidnapped
Don’t let Hamas Apologist see you post that.
Idea floated. Again.
https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/federal-agency-renews-call-for-speed-limit-software-in-new-cars/
“The recommended technology, known as Intelligent Speed Assistance, or ISA, utilizes GPS and sign recognition to restrict a vehicle’s speed within specified zones.”
So limit cars to 2mph and that will make people want to walk or take a train. For the climate. The bastards.
What are crashes “related to speeding”? sounds like bs to me
I can’t wait for those to be hacked to force cars to do 80MPH in school zones.
I was thinking:
1) wait for the cops to stop looking for speeders
2) install hack
3) speed as much as i want
You really think all those states want to give up their traffic enforcement grants and revenues?
“The recommended technology, known as Intelligent Speed Assistance, or ISA, utilizes GPS and sign recognition to restrict a vehicle’s speed within specified zones.”
It’s for your own good.
“Intelligent Speed Assistance”
Assistance. See, they are helping , not compelling.
I wonder how difficult it will be to disable that fucktardedness.
That’s an existing technology that new cars have though. I can set my own car to not allow me to drive over a certain speed if I can’t afford another ticket for instance.
This seems like it raises other problems though. Are you gonna encrypt the OS on people’s cars so they can’t modify their own cars? That would just cause a whole slew of issues .
Yup, my SUV can read speed limit signs.
And sometimes even correctly.
Yeah my newer car thinks it knows the speed limit but sometimes it randomly gets it very wrong.
They should have seen the Delorean
The Cybertruck’s stainless-steel body has been difficult to work with, especially when it comes to the vehicle’s fit and finish, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The stainless steel is difficult to shape into panels without gaps or alignment issues, the publication said, citing individuals who worked on the Cybertruck.
The Journal reported the stainless steel was made in “coils that resemble giant rolls of toilet paper,” and as a result, the metal was prone to curving and attempting to resume its previous shape, even when it had been flattened.
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The futuristic stainless-steel design is part of Musk’s plans to create a “tough” truck that would be ideal for an apocalypse. The billionaire has said the vehicle’s stainless-steel body will be bulletproof and even comes with an option for fixed bulletproof windows.
Meanwhile, Musk has said that it will be difficult to scale production due to the vehicle’s unusual design and that the company aims to produce about a quarter million Cybertrucks a year by 2025.
That part about the steel trying to coil itself back up is creative, anyway.
That part about the steel trying to coil itself back up is creative, anyway.
There seems to be a shortage of journalists who understand metal-working and automotive.
The main thing I can think of that is problematic with working stainless is the low conductivity, a huge challenge in welding but a nothingburger for shearing or braking or stamping.
My time in automotive points to impertinent guesses at root cause from the back benches before analysis can be completed; this seems to be the way of the world, a sort of gossip really. RCA is routine business for these people, and some team is figuring it out, but they’re probably not spending all day blabbing to journos about it. If you’ve ever been a quality manager in automotive (doG knows I backed into it for a year, sure as shit didn’t want it), it’s a thankless job, and, like Poirot, one in that situation is surrounded by legends who want to jump ahead before the facts are in.
legends
legions….they probably think they are legends
A legion of legends or a legendary legion?
LoL’s playerbase was too toxic for me to get into it.
Here. Read the original and not BI trying to add value.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/behind-teslas-challenges-in-making-the-cybertruck-ultrahard-stainless-steel-8cb4c1b9?st=2272gjpr3r1i7xi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Not that the wsj is perfect by any means.
Looks like they insisted on very thick sheet. Everyone knows what comes with that territory; I guess I’m still of the opinion that it being stainless isn’t in and of itself the issue: other choices had consequences.
I had the exact conversation with a sales guy when our firm changed bearing materials to comply with REACH, RoHS, and 2000/53/EC goals (twas so long ago, don’t really remember all the rules involved). Is the new material as good? **shrug** it’s just different with tradeoffs, so the new geometries must accommodate differences in strength, lubricity, etc. Lead worked great; with thinking, something new will work.
The sheet thickness does seem to be the primary issue.
sure
they could have made the same decision with hot rolled
The main thing I can think of that is problematic with working stainless is the low conductivity, a huge challenge in welding but a nothingburger for shearing or braking or stamping.
The car not being a Faraday cage (I think Saturns also had that issue) creates a different set of problems too.
As a gearhead, the electrification of all things has been a bummer, and the digital revolution has been a bummer in spades. A switch here or there is one thing, but then EMI became a consideration and all the hardening (ziners?) and validation took over validation budgets. Coding for the buss for confirmations and such: miles of programming.
I was largely a truck guy, so what got wild was all the things that were getting plugged into 120VAC sleeper circuits. If you think dealing with CB power is scary, try to cope with a microwave or a television.
I don’t miss it. A couple of times a day in my pickup I’ll notice some actuator or something fire and the dash bluetooth will stop receiving from my phone…a tiny bump in the podcast I’m listening to. Good luck, Delco*
* Dayton ELectric COmpany
OMG the prototype isn’t perfect yet!
Thanks,
Nancy DrewBusiness Insider!Yup. It’s Tesla.
Fanboys and Musk haters. Either way guaranteed clicks. Win!
I’m shocked at how well things have gone for Tesla. It’s a lot of work to clean sheet a traditional car much less take the rapid departure to EV. That and you’ve got to build the team, the standards, infrastructure: it’s just a mountain of work. Only one of my friends went over there: the rest of us smelled nightmare.