STEVE SMITH GRAMPA WAS VETERAN!
STEVE SMITH HERE DO SUBSTITUTE LINKS. HIM HAPPY HALP, HIM ALSO HAVE RACCOON IN POCKET. HA HA! HIM KNOW HOOMANS HAVE VETERAN DAY TOMORROW. GRAMPA SMITH SERVE…HIM RAPE MOST OF EASTERN FRONT IN GREAT BIG WAR. GRAMPA STILL LIVE EUROPE.
NOW STEVE SMITH GIVE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS SOME GOODEST LINKS!
- COUSIN SEA SMITH MAY VISIT SOON!
- STEVE SMITH THINK SKOOL STRIKE IN PORTLAAND AM SILLY.
- STEVE SMITH TIRED BEING STALKED IN CASCADIA.
- MUSIC.
FREE CASCADIA!
No Steve Smiths around here. Just a bunch of drunken Paddys.
I resemble that remark!
Hey! I’m not… I mean I’m not a…
Shit.
But that can’t be possible, or else all the propaganda I was fed throughout my entire childhood about bent-fin orcas going extinct because of Sea World profiteers would have been wrong.
Orcas are mad as hell and they aren’t going to take it anymore.
Orcas are the Hamas of the animal world. Mark my words.
But they seem nice
That’s an interesting phenomenon. Especially what appears to be older orcas teaching the younger ones to attack boats, and usually just disabling the boat rather than trying to get to the soft, gooey humans.
We’ll need a ruling from OMWC since he loves the inspiring flick so much….
Reminds me a little bit of that not so good movie from 1977? Orca.
Orca was no Jaws.
Orcas kill Great Whites. Easily.
Yes, in fact, as their population grows, they’re driving sharks out of their normal habitats.
Maybe I’ll just stay home and read a book this weekend…
…maybe.
We’re seeing more and more self checkout lines at stores, and there is talk of automation for fast food. Can we do something equivalent for teachers?
Khan Academy?
I wouldn’t turn down a job candidate who’d been k-12 educated through Khan as long as they could pass some well-written tests. I’d want to see evidence of some travel and ability to socialize,
But most jobs I interview candidates for need degrees. Would an engineering school accept a candidate based on standardized tests alone? They should, and if the student can cut it, great!!
Georgia Tech was accepting home schoolers back in the 80s, so I don’t see why not. Put up a good enough SAT score and you are in. It worked for me and my shitty HS grades.
I did homeschooling in high school, but it was an accredited program through an actual school, so I got the same diploma every other schmo that graduated in the state got. Since something like a third of incoming college freshman need remedial math and English courses, I’m not sure how much difference it could possibly make if you walked in without one anyway. The standardized testing is turning into a joke, too. The SAT “adversity score” absolutely *will* make a comeback, and that’s after they’ve already made the test successively less rigorous for 30 years. It would probably be better if there were something like the GRE for undergraduate admissions, or if colleges just administered their own admission exams, but you’re eventually going to keep running into the same problem when lack of rigor is the feature, not the bug.
The whole idea of testing for competence is basically over and done with, because racial equity. Until the culture shakes off that madness.
So my son got a scholarship to Colorado Tech through Pizza Hut and all he’s doing is testing out of shit and piling up credits. He finds it frighteningly easy.
Anyway, he had to take a couple of 100-level tests to assess his competency with the credits not being transferrable. I laughed and said, “Those used to be numbered in the 90s.”
I don’t know what it means they’ve bumped them up to freshman numbers.
“I’d want to see evidence of some travel and ability to socialize,“
Moreso than a government school grad? If so, why?
To ensure that the person hasn’t been isolated from others for 18 years.
The proper socialization thing is tough to pin down in a single interview.
Fair enough. I just wouldn’t assume government school socialization suffices, so the “hard to pin down in a single interview” isn’t just for homeschoolers.
Unfortunately with the failure of remote teaching during the pandemic. Localities will learn the wrong lessons. And rather than figure out how to make automation work for teaching they’ll double down on in person learning.
See I was thinking robot teachers. But you’re right.
At least the lessons of “Kill all humans” won’t have to change.
You’re hot for robot teacher?
Wait until robot teacher tries to have sex with the students.
I’m telling you guys, Real Doll plus AI is going to change the world.
As long as they program the male Real Dolls with enough grip strength to open pickle jars and sufficient targeting to take out spiders with a shoe.
Then we’re in real trouble.
FBI busts prostitution ring that includes unnamed politicians.
…
Republicans ok new FBI headquarters.
New Republican majority leader says there’s not enough evidence to impeach Biden.
I’m sure none of this is connected in any way.
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1723055001382109549
Well the FBI certainly hasn’t been exerting political influence through strategic blackmail since the 1950s, so that can’t be it.
I love me some Calvin Coolidge but he made a huge mistake when he appointed J. Edgar Hoover as director of the Bureau of Investigation in 1924. The BOI essentially became the FBI. He served until 1972.
So their non exertion of political influence started long before the 50’s.
Fair enough, but the level of surveillance in the post-war period, and then during the civil rights era, got ramped up to 11 and set the stage for our post-9/11 panopticon. Which is weird, since FISA totally reined in those civil rights era abuses…
Yeah…I am thinking also of the Vegas shooting.
The only way to drain the swamp is to start by dismantling the FBI. The job would be 75% done with that one move.
The Las Vegas what?
/half the population
They cant release the names…if they did they would not be able to blackmail the people on the list.
This is how the deep state comes to own the people at the helm.
It really seems like they’re doing it right out in the open these days. What are you little people gonna do about it? Vote for different people who are also on the list?
Yeah, well — not that I’m encouraging it… but I’m rereading the Honor Harrington series (because light brain fluff is relaxing)… and the People’s Republic of Haven is about to have its little coup from their Rob S. Pierre (get it? Weber is sooooo subtle 😉 ). And several comments about how the mob keeps voting itself more and more largess from the treasury, the elites aren’t held accountable anymore as long as they throw money in the trough, nothing gets maintained or done well… and this all lasts until enough people get fed up and take down the government feels a little more apt than it did several years back when I first read it.
One of those “this will continue — until it can’t” type thoughts. Getting rid of the pressure valves of the elites having any accountability and the people having any vestige of participating in government is a perilous path for those currently in charge.
Oh, and I’m sure this has nothing to do with him criticizing the PPP administration immigration policies lately either…. Their motives are as pure as the East Palestine snow…..
See my comment above. He was literally on the way to talk to Biden about the border, and he went back because this broke open. The timing is way too convenient.
Dem Mayor of our largest city with a national megaphone breaks ranks and starts loudly criticizing Biden on crucial issue in upcoming election. In short order the FBI is crawling up his ass with a microscope.
Nah….just a coincidence.
Shit, they dont bother trying anymore.
Make a deposit in the spank bank with Friday Funbags.
https://archive.is/m2DnA
Given orcas are big dolphins more than whales, and dolphins are now acknowledged as the rapists of the seas… Yeah… a whole pod of SEA SMITHS comin’ atcha…. don’t go in the water, indeed….
Looking over the Vox article Fatty posted in the last thread….holy crap. It is one steaming pile of fiction. either the writer has no clue what inflation is (likely) or is spinning a narrative that contains no information or coherent logic (also likely).
Stunning.
We may have lost Jezebel but by God, we still have Vox.
Just want them to leave you alone? Or are you going to plant misleading clues, get them to branch out to other cryptids? Drive them nuts when you root them out.
STEVE SMITH DO STALKING AROUND HERE.
BY STALKING, MEAN . . . .
I like Ramaswamy if for no other reason that he seems to have a pulse.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/9/party-of-losers-spices-up-latest-gop-debate/
However, who is watching these? I don’t normally watch them anyway but you’d have to be a lunatic to watch a bunch of people fighting for second place. Trump will be the nominee, Biden will win and we’ll get Obama’s fourth term.
https://babylonbee.com/news/vivek-emerges-as-frontrunner-of-people-who-are-never-going-to-be-president
The main topic of the Bee piece is hilarious, but it’s the little touches that make it special.
“ said conservative commentator Fidge McNithers to his podcast audience of 12.”
Fidge McNithers, lol
“… said former CNN anchor Brian Stelter to his audience of a single votive candle featuring a saintly image of Dr. Fauci.”
Maybe you should have done it before you got divorced.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/i-spend-thousands-celeb-approved-31407430
Something fun: The world record longest putt.
They ate a lot of Taco Bell first?
Sick! I’ve blown 2 foot putts.
I am calling bullshit. 401ft putt? Bullshit.
*I once made a dead center shot with a 38spl 3″ barrel on a beer can at 600+ yards.
Offhand.
With very little aiming.
Unluckiest beer can in the history of the world.*
Elmer Keith claimed killing a deer at a 1/2 mile with his trusty .44 Mag. Some math guy figured he’d have to hold 46 feet over the deer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3XwizTqDw
Posted before but always worth another look.
Yep…I half assed lined it up then raised the pistol oooohhhhh about like that…pow.
It took a couple of seconds to arrive on target then my friend and I stood frozen there with our jaws dropped for a minute before we could say anything.
Ummmmm….
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/24639739/secretly-dress-adult-baby/
I think that’s part of the “+” right?
While I don’t think it’s hurting anybody, I would run far away from a dude with that fetish. I jus can’t see how that bit of lunacy could be the only thing “off” about a person.
Smart girl.
You would also probably need to be turned on by diapers and changing them so it must usually be a case of weirdo hooks up with weirdo.
“you’re someone’s kink”
h/t to Neph
Weird Al was out front on this.
I was thinking of this.
And you can watch Dracula do comedy!
Back to the drawing board
On Wednesday, NuScale and its backers pulled the plug on the multibillion-dollar Idaho Falls plant. They said they no longer believed the first-of-its-kind plant, known as the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) would be able to recruit enough additional customers to buy its power.
Many of the small utilities underwriting the pioneering project, members of a group called the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) saw the pint-sized nuclear plant as a potential solution to pressure to reduce their carbon emissions. The Department of Energy, which was due to host the plant at Idaho National Lab, awarded $1.4 billion to the project over 10 years.
But as WIRED reported in February, the utilities backing the plant were spooked late last year by a 50 percent increase in the projected costs for the project—even after factoring in substantial funds from the Inflation Reduction Act. The Idaho Falls reactors’ chances of survival began to look slimmer.
At the time, commitments in place to buy the reactor’s future power covered less than 25 percent of its output. UAMPS set itself a year-end deadline to bump that figure to 80 percent by recruiting new customers. Reaching that number was seen as key to ensuring the project’s long-term viability. As the project moved into site-specific planning and construction, its costs were poised to become more difficult to recoup if the plant ultimately failed, heightening the risks for the members.
Lots of unanswered questions.
‘One day longer, one day stronger’: Portland Public Schools teachers strike negotiations continue
Something I’ve never understood: compared to other low-level bureaucrats whose job requires a college credential (social workers, probation officers, etc.) teachers make pretty good bank — especially when you consider that they only work 200 days a year. Why are they always crying poor?
Because they can.
It’s called reverse ransom .
“We’ll keep your kids if you pay us enough. Otherwise we’re sending them home”
Depends on location too.
Wealthy districts pay more, but not substantially so. Sometimes becomes difficult to live where you teach.
Ideal combination is cash trade (plumbing, electrical) and spouse who is a teacher paying your healthcare and decent pension.
A few of those couples in my town. Higher standard of living than I have.
Not enough
As voting on the sellout contracts negotiated by the United Auto Workers at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis continues, significant opposition has emerged, with workers voting to reject the contract at four General Motors plants.
According to results posted by United Auto Workers Local 598 Thursday, production and skilled trades workers at Flint Assembly voted by a combined 51.8 percent margin against the contract. The exact totals have not been released. There are over 4,500 workers employed at the plant, which builds the profitable Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra light trucks.
Workers at three smaller facilities, Pontiac Stamping (212-169), Marion, Indiana Stamping (257-218) and Romulus, Michigan Powertrain (351-332) have also voted against the contract.
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Reacting to the vote at Flint Engine, one worker posted on Facebook about the UAW’s supposedly “historic” contract. “Drop in a bucket if you ask me since the higher-ups are raking in millions a year in pay! I don’t think it’s balanced at all! Whenever did they take concessions like the hourly people did over the years and the retirees? It’s their turn to be cut for eight years plus.”
*Kamikaze misses battleship, crashes in ocean*
Behold my tiny violin, playing the world’s saddest fucking song for the poor executives at GM being bullied by the progressive politics they generously support…
LOL what a bunch of fart-sniffers.
Multiply that by 10,000 or so and we come close to understanding how very much we’ve lost the plot here.
“Maybe now the company will know they are going up against more than just the bargaining committee. They are going up against the thousands of rank-and-file workers that have been abused and exploited by the company for decades. They are going up against workers who are not afraid to tell them who really runs things around here.”
Yup.
OFFS. Delusional.
That must be why the Union Workers Auto Company is the most successful, right? I mean, if they “really run things around here,” they ought to set up their own auto company and really demonstrate the true value of their labor.
Bigg’s are “The Other Killer Whale” — not the salmon-eating endangered southern resident killer whales, but the orcas thriving in our local waters by feasting on marine mammals.
This has my seal of approval.
I recall reading something about the reasons why orcas and sharks are proliferating is that there’s been a couple decades of “not killing a million baby seals each year.” Seals are more plentiful, therefore their predators are too.
larf at the alt-text.
Re orcas
Dolphins are asshoe.
He is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge. He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with a relentless, terrible vengeance – across seas, across time, across all obstacles.
They should make a movie about that that includes a whale fetus.
Throw in Richard Harris, Bo Derek, Charlotte Rampling, and that Injun from “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” and I think you’ll have a blockbuster.
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They’re getting a taste for humans. Revenge doesn’t have to figure in it. We are fun to hunt and apparently delicious.
Never mind their smaller rapetastic cousins. Sea Smith got nothin’ on bottle-nose dolphins.
Orcas or dolphins? I was talking about Orcas, fuck them dolphins.
Orcas are dolphins.
Bullshit.
Family: Delphinidae
I dunno, man, that’s a tough position to defend.
I expected that half an hour ago. Slow much?
Well, I could’ve told you that!
Uh, I mean, that’s awful.
Were you on the Uruguyan soccer team plane? Would explain so much!
Who told you!!??!!
Years ago, I used to fish for barrelfish and other big boys waaaaay out (150 miles, 900 feet of water) in the Gulf of Mexico.
Various pods of dolphins learned to associate the sound of boat engines with the dinner bell ringing and would show up within an hour of us finding one of our spots. If you were fighting a fish, they’d swoop in and leave you half a fish — and not the good half.
Dolphins are the lawyers of the sea.
Is barrelfish good?
Absolutely delicious, but frighteningly rare. However, if you ever see it or tilefish on a menu, get it. You’ll be glad you did.
A country I’ve never been to, but long for,* is getting pissy about socialism.
*Yeah, so this all came on when I was 20 and first heard “Concierto de Aranjuez.” That’s all. My dad thought that was utterly stupid.
That was a good summation. I asked Spaniard to come comment. My chances are slim.
Spain’s Prime Minister Toys With Separatism
Whatever it takes to stay in power.
Half the big nation states in Europe are patchwork cultures barely held together – Spain is certainly not unique in that regard. Though it was easier to keep them together before people got to vote for stuff.
I’m doing physical training and research to walk the Camino de Santiago (“Camino Frances,” the “French Way”) next September time frame. 778 kilometres (approx. 483 miles) in around 33 days, plus several rest days. It’s still almost ten months away and I’m getting nervous already. I’m also studying Spanish, which, so far, makes more sense to me than the French of my ancestors…
I keep my DuoLingo tab pinned, but haven’t touched it in months. *hangs head in shame*
Y’know what would motivate you?
Commit to walking the Camino. If you need a wingman, I’ll volunteer.
Nah, bruh. I can walk without flying somewhere to do it.
But! I do hope to get to Spain one day.
You’ll see a lot of Spain in 33 days, and get immersed in the culture.
Plus, you can always go to Barcelona, Seville, Madrid, Valencia etc. afterwards. ;-) Having been to all of them, I can heartily recommend ’em.
YouTube and Google street view saved my authorial life.
Spain is gorgeous and a lot friendlier than France, TBH.
As someone with French ancestry, it pains me to say that you, sir, are correct.
Been to France. Parisians were not rude to us. I tried to speak my high school French, got amused smiles, a metaphorical pat on the head, and conversed in English.
My people are from southern Belgium. They get laughed at in Paris for their redneck accent.
As a very bad French speaker, it’s the only time I have interactions with native speakers who make fuck all attempt to communicate.
My pidgin Spanish and Italian went much further.
My people are from southern Belgium. They get laughed at in Paris for their redneck accent.
You should see how my Normandy and Brittany rellies talk about the Québécois. {snigger}
My brother served his LDS mission in Quebec. He says Parisians think his accent is adorable.
I got the same in China. Yeah, I was reading out of a phrase book (some of the time) but I had had a couple semesters of lessons and even the phrases I was comfortable with just got blank stares.
Mon crayon est large, et mon crayon est jaune.
Relevant
776 day streak, going strong.
Not a humble-brag. Just bragging.
Is it finally happening?
Link is taking forever to open. But I can tell what it is!
Friday night news…
Eric Adams had cellphones, iPad seized by FBI as part of corruption investigation
🤪
My work has attracted the attention of a chemistry institute in Slovakia. Yay me.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/11/hello-institute-of-chemistry-of-slovak.html
victory music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IowZqZHJ-cA
Nothing we haven’t hashed over before, but still sobering nonetheless.
There’s a Dilbert cartoon where he decides to interview a teenager and his shocked at his ignorance of history and geography. The questions he asked were “how many people died in WW2?” and “what is the deepest lake in North America?”. He then laments the teen’s ignorance. The teen then asks him “who is MC Hammer?” Dilbert says that’s not important. The teen responds “oh I get it now; everything *you* know is important and everything *I* know doesn’t matter.”
There’s a website that has all the Dilbert cartoons, but I was unable to find it. Perhaps that too got memory-holed when Scott Adams was cancelled.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12720837/nih-covid-lab-colorado-leak-theory.html
JFC.
Stop this insanity already.
We just go from “it’s not happening” to “it’s happening, and that’s a good thing” with no intermediary steps anymore.
They’re just fucking with us at this point.
The EPA spends $13.5k on BS probably before 8am, but JFC they really are desperate.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-roasted-offering-pay-americans-send-videos-electric-vehicles-parody
I’m reminded of a scene in Dave where he says so we’re spending money to make people feel better about their cars. These ad campaigns are not really anything new.
My BIL, sister, and one niece had to drive from the Austin area to DFW for an event this weekend. He has a brand new Tesla Model 3, she has a mid-10’s Camaro. They took some overnight luggage and other items too. They’re borrowing my 2013 F-150 for the weekend.