Tick tock
Things are falling apart on the red side of Manchester. Things are turning into a circus in Ann Arbor. And the Craig Counsell move has fans in Milwaukee saying WTF. And that’s it for sports, so on to…the links!
Oh, the humanity! But seriously, I hope the movie they’re referring to is Armageddon. That was awesome.
What the world needs
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Please be fake. Please be fake.
Of course no names were named. That’s simply not how things are done here. What a joke.
It’s about freaking time. Now start officially connecting the dots, you lazy bastards.
The venue is just ::chef’s kiss:: perfect. We need mutually agreed combat to be legalized everywhere.
More! More! More!
This is absolutely fantastic. The world needs more of this. (No snark.)
I’m shocked! SHOCKED! Shocked that it was ever that high to begin with. That place is a mismanaged train wreck.
They probably figured it wasn’t worth their time. The elections there are so sketchy the winners were likely predetermined anyway.
Disco ain’t dead, baby. Not as long as that masterpiece is around. But rock and roll is still king. What a pair of great songs. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
Hottest year: I read an old Cato article a few weeks back. The author pointed out something that I should have recognized long ago. He noted that, although temperatures were rising, that were not rising anywhere close to what models predicted (I forget who it was, but he would be classified as a lukewarmist). His point was that, yes, AGW was something we need to address but not as an imminent catastrophe.
Of course nobody has yet shown that the rising temperatures are caused by human activity and are not just another warming cycle like the Roman and Medieval warming events.
Anybody belching up that “Hottest in 125,000” years crap tags themselves as a dupe (at best), just like anyone waving around hockey stick graphs.
A sucker or a liar, take your pick.
I’m old enough to have learned about the “Medieval (Climate) Optimum” in school. When the Europeans had a two century break from little ice ages and were able to do some civilization building.
It’s worth noting that we’ve had relatively accurate thermometers for just shy of 210 years. They’ve been widely distributed for a small fraction of that time. Any earlier temperatures are guesstimates pulled from models. The notion that a model could accurately report year over year variations in temperature a thousand or more years ago is beyond laughable.
Why do you hate ice core measurements?
They’re indirect. They’re effectively point sources. Their correlation with global temperatures are unverified over long time periods. “Global temperature” is about as meaningful a phrase as “global respiration rate.” Etc.
See also Pine_Tree’s remarks below.
Oh I have many reasons to doubt their accuracy as well (I could have gone with tree ring measurements as well). Just trying to get an easy joke in.
We’ve already got the news stories “warning” us about a mild winter this year. Which suits me just fine (as long as we get a good stretch in the 30’s and some snow). As I don’t live in the snow belt anymore, I’m perfectly fine with the lake staying unfrozen all winter (although I would still like to do the bike ride to Put-In-Bay one year).
Can we measure it in bananas?
Probably, but you’d need a reference banana for area to see how much of the Great Lakes are covered in ice (which I think would be a pretty good proxy for average temperature as well). If you look at their graphs, you can see the “warmest” (least ice coverage recorded) in 2002 for the lakes as a whole, 1998 for Lake Erie in particular. So not even the warmest winters in recent memory.
Good thing global CO2 went down so much since 1998! Oh, wait…
Last American Hero:
Exactly, and I’d be willing to bet that the ice coverage amounts are more accurate than the “global average temperature” measurements.
“The strong, long-term trend of global warming is primarily driven by the burning of planet-heating fossil fuels.”
I have to admit I could use a little more of the global warming. As the temps increase I can cut back on my fossil burning and thus mitigate the
affects of the global warming. Sounds like a wash but a win for me.
The strong, long-term trend of global warming is primarily driven by the burning of planet-heating fossil fuels.
That’s some impressive base-stealing.
I spend more on ac than heat, so I’ll pass on the warming.
I’m still waiting for an explanation of why zOMG HOT! is so bad. The claims of STORMDOOM! are lies – the claimed increase does not exist. Lower Manhattan is not underwater yet. What exactly am I supposed to be trembling in fear over?
What exactly am I supposed to be trembling in fear over?
Well, the most prominent effect is milder winters, so I guess that’s supposed to be bad somehow?
Can’t anyone think about the ski resorts?
And within the milder winters, the most prominent effect is warmer nighttime low temperatures bringing the average up, not higher daytime temperatures. So, the coldest times of the year are ever so slightly warmer. Scary stuff!
Less snow! And somehow, all the water is going to disappear.
And somehow, all the water is going to disappear.
Global warming will cause it to achieve escape velocity and it will leave the earth forever!!111!!!
FireWater can’t move throughdoorsair, it’s notghostshelium stupid!Conserve water or else you will drown.
The same way that POPULATION BOMB was the big fear back in the ’70s. It’s basic Malthusianism, that there are too many people.
There is no AGW. There are normal cycles and we are exactly where we should expect to be.
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1496
We didn’t cause it and there isn’t anything we can do about it. Roll with the punches…that’s about it.
His point was that, yes, AGW was something we need to address but not as an imminent catastrophe.
And as always, if it was a pending catastrophe we would be building nuclear plants and not banning plastic bags.
But Three Mile Island, and Nuclear will crack the world in half!
/REEEEEE!!!
‘AGW was something we need to address but not as an imminent catastrophe.’
Yup, the solution to a 5% decrease in GDP in 100 years is not a good a reason to waste 1% gdp every year for 100 years.
Humanity just lived through the hottest 12 months in at least 125,000 years
As we continue to come out of the last ice age…
125,000 – soo, back near the peak of the last interglacial, which got hotter than it is now?
And, you’d have to be reeeaallly bad at math, statistics, and science to believe we’ve got accurate, planetwide temperature levels for every one of the past 125,000 years.
Or indoctrinated by the Church of Prog.
House Republicans subpoena Hunter, James Biden in impeachment inquiry
*yawn*
And nothing will happen.
Somebody should open a pool and people can bet on the “I don’t recall”, “I don’t remember”, “I am taking the Vth biiioootch”, and ” Fuck you! Ima biden.” numbers and percentages.
And the losers can all say “I WAS IN THE POOL!!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldUZvxjKMGs
An Occam’s-razorish comment on the AGW “hottest year” thing:
– First, I’m positive there are shenanigans going on in the data selection and reporting. Just like gun-grabbers always lie, so do the warmists. So for me to even seriously consider the claim is a stretch, and requires that they offset that history of lies by proving really really good experimental rigor and quality.
– Second, even when somebody isn’t trying to skew the results, that experimental rigor and quality thing is VERY HARD. Part of my job is (and has been) reviewing trial plans and results, and even the most well-intentioned Engineers and scientists can blow it based on where, when, and how they collect data.
Which is the simplest explanation? Dunno. But between the lies and the difficulties, believing anything about AGW requires clearing a very high bar.
Climate scientists don’t get juicy grants by producing models that say everything is going to be ok.
The whole thing is a scam from top to bottom and there is no “rigor” whatsoever.
There are good reasons this guy calls it all “the greatest hoax in history” or some words to that effect.
I have been screaming the exact thing for over 30 years. No one wants to hear it. They find it more fun to work themselves into a fake hysteria like kids around a campfire telling spooky stories and squealing.
There are huge problems we could solve with a relatively small amount of money. Desalinization, mosquito nets to stop malaria, even mental health and drug problems in our own country. But those aren’t as sexy and the opportunity for grift is too small.
“Just like gun-grabbers always lie, so do the warmists.”
For a plant you have amazing insight.
I also have a hard heart and a very prickly exterior.
I knew there was a good reason I plant so many of you.
The Chicago Amputee Soccer isn’t looking for your sympathy. They are out to prove what it means to play for the love of the game.
Some people can’t get a leg up in life.
What do you call a woman with one arm and one leg?
Eileen?
Aye, that was an easy one.
If she was japanese she would be Irene ?
lol yep
Instead of soccer, why not call it hopper?
So they have lots of volunteers? They didn’t have to twist any arms to get enough players?
The real question is: who is gonna foot the bill?
You do have to hand it to them for trying.
That was a good heads up.
Happy Birthday Teufelshunde
Why do you always do that? Always trying make me feel good in the morning?
Didn’t you get the notice? The birthday is off this year. They need to prepare for war.
Excellent, excellent music today, SloopyInca!
And I am surprised that this DO”J” is investigating anything to do with the leaders of gov’t. Unless they were on record as being for Trump…
Meh, it is all kabuki theater.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
It’s like a bonus this morning, Jimbo
You Glibs earned it.
whaddup doh’
whats goody
Hey from somewhere near Portland, OR
TALL ANTIFA CANS!
Well, Tuesday’s elections went right about as I though. I think we can safely call the ‘margin of fraud’ myth for an upper limit on fortification to be quite exploded now.
Loudoun County in VA reported over 100% on their vote count. The conservative WSJ editorial board, instead of pointing out this banana republic level fraud, did their duty as the controlled opposition of the uniparty and praised the eGOP VA governor in an op-ed for doing the best he could while blaming the Dem wins on Trump and MAGA.
There’s no outrage. There’s no pushback. There’s no upper limit on the margin of fraud. The uniparty feels so secure in their power that they can just make up absurd numbers now for vote counts and don’t even feel the need to pretend the elections are real. And they’d be correct.
Not a black pill, just reality.
You’re leaving out abortion? That was claimed to be a big factor.
Abortion, and a revision to the mean in Virginia. Someone around here described what happened in KY, and it made sense, that it was a basic “keep ’em separated” move.
Loudoun County in VA reported over 100% on their vote count.
Link?
This. We are seriously fucked.
Think what you will of him (used car salesman), apparently Vivek had quite the debate where he insulted all his fellow candidates and the mainstream press:
https://youtu.be/-Qmzgt98W5Q?si=RaF3Wb6cDt1jlL5u
The Haley rip was especially good.
The only guy in the debates who’ll even mention what most people are concerned about. The rest of them are just examples of how bought, controlled, and worthless the Republican Party really is. They think I could be bothered to leave my house to vote for a Nikki Haley?
She’s Hillary Clinton with curry sauce only not nearly as intelligent and somehow just as shrill.
She’s not that bad. Clinton? C’mon.
Clinton-level bad is Satan declining to hire someone to carry people to hell.
She took the Dick Cheney comparison from Vivek and joked about her heel size instead. She is a great candidate for 15-20 years ago.
I like some of Vivek’s ideas, especially the one where he called for eliminating 75% of Fed Govt employees. I think he stepped on his dick with his attack on Haley’s daughter, he should have phrased that one better.
Seems tame to me.
The context was in the last debate she attacked him for using TikTok for his campaign because China and Tik Tok is so dangerous. That made the fact that her daughter uses it fair game in my opinion although it did seem a bit petty.
I didn’t watch the debate, but from that detached perspective all the Vivek criticism sounds remarkably like Trump criticism. Surely some of it is just his natural not-charm, but I wonder how much is deliberate mimicry of the Trump style.
Yesterday I discussed the idea of the deus ex machina. Most people have an innate desire for a savior. I think that is how the most awful people on earth get power.
We keep sorting through a bowl of turds looking for a cherry. Guess what? Don’t fool yourself, it aint in there.
I like most of what Vivek says. For me, just getting the truth in front of people is a win, no matter if he’s the nominee or not. Same thing with Kennedy. He’s a lib and would probably be a bad president, but for now he’s pushing conversations in the right direction.
I am with TOK on this. Vivek isn’t gonna get the nomination, but he is gonna get the word out. And this is how it starts.
Look, 10 years ago R’s are where the D’s were 50 years ago; past the sell by date and needing to dump product. Trump shook that up, much to the horror of all the pols who had been sitting pretty with the direction of the party: the country club Repubs, think tank R’s, etc. But, the base had changed, it was no longer Regans party, and they were sitting on his laurels for too long, Which is inevitable, but it does require a refresh. And it is gonna take a long time to get out of that hole, just as it took the D’s a long time to get converted from the party of the working class to the party of the university class. And that change took the death of the old guard, along with a shit ton of legal work.
The time to start both of those was that 10 decade ago, and they all have to know that it is gonna take a long time to make this whole thing work.
Tim Scott seems to think we need to “degrade” the Russian military. I can’t imagine why this should be a goal. Seems to be a warmongering cunte.
We should have welcomed Russia into the West 30 years ago. Instead we have pundits from both Teams calling for WWIII against them.
30 years ago, we were doing joint development with Russian companies.
My vague memory is that Russia withdrew from engagement after early less-than-successful attempts.
Got to have the bogeyman to scare the dummies.
What would that entail? Sinking the tug that follows their only Carrier around to tow it twice a week when it breaks down? I dont think there is much to degrade.
….and the Chinese. Their military is a paper tiger. They have shitloads of tin cans floating around that are referred to as ‘warships’. I think of them as future artificial reefs.
I hope so, because they sure seem determined to use it.
It isn’t a paper tiger by any means, and right now it is taking a massive chunk of the western economy to prop up a losing battle against it.
A. No, we did not. Even if we did it would not be all that surprising as we are at the tail end of an ice age. When will stupidity end?
B. So? The strike was like Coolidge’s death. Statement: Coolidge is dead. Inquiry: “How can you tell?”
C. This is news to whom? It has been SOP for the powerful since the first time the sun rose.
D. Dance clown boys, dance. We all know how this is going to end.
E. I blame every bit of this on the Biden Admin and the puppet masters behind it.
F. It is fantastic. It isn’t just the love of the game. It is a testament to man’s tenacity and love of life. I wish we had more news like this than the evil and insanity we are constantly fed.
G. Speaking of insanity….I blame the voters. In a sane world no one would have a clue who Newsome is.
H. What Sloopy said.
Newsome looks like the spawn of a crooked televangelist , a lying used car salesman, and a sleazy lawyer and two sentences from his mouth on any subject shows him to be a liar and an empty suit. He’s terrible.
I am going to be totally honest, but when Newsome got his start in politics, I tacitly endorsed him. Mostly as the person he was running against, Matt Gonzalez, was so bad, so out there in lala land that Newsome was the better choice.
I am curios to see what KSuell remembers about that.
Adam Carolla completely wrecked him in an interview 10 years or so ago so badly that he shouldn’t be able to get elected dog catcher in Nome Alaska:
https://youtu.be/ZbAsD0lEpuA?si=946wECoLSfQ9-LyF
That he still has a political career after that is an indictment of our system.
He is a walking empty suit who has been groomed for this job since childhood.
I remember he was elected to city council when I lived in SF 25 years ago. He was just as glib and empty then. His family and friends are all the elites of SF society and you can just imagine what a pit of vipers that lot are.
Yeah, he was a “restauranteur”, in other words a funnel for others money and work.
I remember listening to that back when it originally aired. The guy is just an empty vessel.
Agreed. Compared to other SF politicians, he wasn’t that bad, but that doesn’t mean I want him for the rest of the state (too late) or the rest of the country.
Speaking of Oh, The Humanity! … Minnesoda’s supreme court did not bar Trump from the ballot. But it just applies to the GOP primary. The litigants were welcomed back to try again if he wins the GOP nomination.
How can we have a functional democracy if we cant tell people who they are allowed to vote for?
That’s Our Democracy.
Ah, so let him participate in the primary and initiate the enfuckening when it’s too late. I see what those douchebags are up to.
I was up all night doing chemistry. It came to me that the existence of polymers is proof that an organic molecule can contain an arbitrary number of carbon atoms. Some of those compounds may not exist in nature or are too difficult to synthesize. I’ve been making a table anyway.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/11/updated-dictionary-of-organic-compounds.html
The gap between vitamin K and ivermectin is intriguing. Both only contain the elements C, H, and O. There’s also an interesting bunch from morphine to atropine, all of which have 17 carbon atoms and the rest are H, N, and O.
Please say you wrote out your tables on large panes of glass and that you began scrawling them down in a frantic montage while inspirational music swelled in the background, because that’s how I’m picturing it.
I did it while in bed while listening to music like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBXGUYRne1I
Also I was wearing Army PT shorts and a wife beater with a tear in one of the shoulders.
Sometimes I think in pictures. I’ve never hallucinated flying equations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAD13c3UkS0
fun fact: Nash had schizophrenia and hallucinated all the code breaking stuff.
In the periodic table, the arrangement comes from the number of protons and valence (unpaired) electrons. In my analog for organic molecules, the arrangement comes from the number of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
The number of carbon atoms gives a rough idea of a compound’s chemistry, and the number of hydrogen atoms is a proxy for the number of double and triple bonds.
In both, the closer any two objects are on the table, the more alike they are in terms of chemistry.
I’d love to extend this principal to proteins, but that would require some kind of automation.
*principle
typos – I make them
No Daily Mail, not at all shocking.
“The world needs more of this.”
Doing my best, sloop.
And a fine job you are doing Sir. All snark aside you really are an inspiration.
Don’t we catbutt people anymore for being nice to each other?
How do you expect Kev to get his helmet on if you swell his head with this kind of talk?
Here’s one for you, Tundra!
Tundra?
I guess all us Minnesodans look the same to him.
Well, since Prince and Kirby Puckett died.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/federal-district-court-judge-issues-nationwide-injunction-blocking-pistol-brace-ban/
Good.
The Ministry of Love is getting a new home
The FBI will relocate from its Washington headquarters to a proposed site in suburban Maryland, the General Services Administration confirmed on Wednesday, capping an acrimonious process in which officials from two states competed for the lucrative project.
In a statement, GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan said that the agency “looks forward to building the FBI a state-of-the-art headquarters campus in Greenbelt to advance their critical mission for years to come.”
A GSA spokesperson further explained that the agency determined that Greenbelt would be a lower-cost location to build a new FBI headquarters, provide greater transportation access and better advance the agency’s sustainability and equity goals. The spokesperson was granted anonymity to better explain the factors that went into the agency’s decision.
The Washington Post was the first to report on the decision.
The decision is the culmination of a decade-long effort to find the nation’s top law enforcement agency a new home that would adequately meet its modern-day security demands. It is also the end of an equally long feud between Maryland and Virginia officials over the location of the headquarters, which would bring new federal investment to underserved communities in their respective states.
The move is a win for Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who championed two proposed sites in Maryland for years and has long pushed to bring federal buildings to Prince George’s County, a majority-Black suburb of D.C. that state officials have long contended has been neglected by the federal government. It is also a major coup for Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, who aggressively lobbied for the move to his state, with the backing of national civil rights organizations.
The Marylanders maintained that a move to Greenbelt would deliver more impact to a historically underfunded community.
Communities underserved by the FBI? Good grief, what a bunch of gibberish.
I was hoping for Largo. I recall one of the selling points was putting the FBI there may reduce crime in the area. Greenbelt was my second choice.
Is the FBI interested in reducing crime?
Who works to put themselves out of business?
I just wanted them to see real crime first hand.
OK, if they move, can we at least do the salt-the-earth thing for the site of the Hoover building?
Maryland? I would have suggested the North Pole.
How ’bout Minot, ND?
Look, I hate the fargin’ NoDaks as much as anyone, but that seems a bit excessive.
Alaska?
suburb of D.C. that state officials have long contended has been neglected by the federal government
The federal government is not supposed to have anything to do with suburbs.
Nothing says “sustainability” like building a gigantic campus nobody needs in the middle of nowhere.
I heard the thing is going to be larger than the Pentagon.
Another reason to put it in Maryland.
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Where’s Rufus to ask if anybody works around here?
Maybe they could stick them in some of the unused office space that already exists?
What a joke.
Weird misthread, meant to be a response to you above regarding the FBI hexagon or whatever they’re building.
And IIRC they don’t even need a new building. This is just pure graft.
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“Queer School of Rock child star Rivkah Reyes reveals how they felt forced into ‘compulsory heterosexuality’ after being sexualized at AGE 10 – admitting they turned to drugs and alcohol just so they could ‘enjoy sex with men’
The 31-year-old, who uses the gender-neutral pronouns they/them, appeared on a recent episode of Vulnerable to discuss their early fame with host Christy Carlson Romano…
Rivkah, who now posts content to OnlyFans, has since proposed to their partner who has also recently gone sober.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12725815/Queer-School-Rock-Rivkah-Reyes-sexualized-actor.html
She sounds insufferable.
Being gay is so mainstream and boring. They had to invent transgenderism to stay edgy.
Eh, not even trans in this case. Just a lesbian with complicated pronouns.
100% agreed. All the squares who decided to accept gays as regular people fucked everything up.
I think that they were expecting gay marriage to be an issue for at least 20 more years.
The supreme court giveth and the court taketh away.
The genderbending pronoun game is insufferable.
“ ultimately led me to where I am now which is a secret society of Alcoholics who are Anonymous”
So Alcoholics Anonymous or…what the fuck is she going on about?
To be fair Hollywood has messed up a lot of kids.
“Influencer Vanessa Mancini, 41, dies from a ‘massive heart attack’ at her home in Brazil”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12729617/Influencer-Vanessa-Mancini-41-dies-massive-heart-attack-putting-Christmas-decorations-home-Brazil.html
Not a good week for Brazilian influencers.
Getting a whole bunch of cosmetic surgeries (and who knows what kind of drugs) might be a bad idea.
Since Eileen came up upthread….
The longest legs I have ever seen on a woman belonged to a waitress. She was about six feet tall but to make things worse her legs began unusually high on her body. They really were freakishly long legs.
See if you can guess where she was waitressing…I dare you. Go ahead.
IHOP.
Wife and I did not say anything to each other but we both started suppressing snickers the instant she appeared. I nearly blew milk out of my nose when the poor girl came to give the check to us.
IHOP – Like a fuckin’ kangaroo!
Buying silence
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green on Wednesday unveiled details of a new recovery fund that is expected to exceed $150 million intended for those who lost family members or suffered serious injuries in the August fires that swept through West Maui.
Beneficiaries who take part in the program will have to waive their right to “bring legal action related to associated claims,” Green said in a statement. That includes several parties which are being sued — and are contributing to the fund: the state of Hawaiʻi, Maui County, Hawaiian Electric, and landowner Kamehameha Schools.
Green, who has been negotiating the specifics of the program for months, said people who sign up for the voluntary fund could receive payments of more than $1 million by late next spring.
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“I appreciate the courageous leadership of Governor Green to forge a path that allows us to work together toward solutions that can help Maui’s people and communities in a way that reflects Hawaiʻi’s values,” said Shelee Kimura, president and CEO of Hawaiian Electric.
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Hawaiian Electric denies culpability, noting that it had de-energized power lines in the area hours earlier after one had sparked a small fire early that same morning. The company instead has laid the blame at the feet of Maui County, which it says mistakenly declared that fire “extinguished” when it shouldn’t have.
Maui County is suing Hawaiian Electric alleging that its negligence led to the disaster. It is seeking “punitive and exemplary damages” and to recoup costs and loss of revenue from the fires.
Everybody makes mistakes.
Like Katrina the Maui fire is the perfect illustration of how incompetent and corrupt government is. They bully and rob us blind on the pretense that they will protect us when TSHTF. When it does happen they are absent at best or actively making things worse.
‘Green, who has been negotiating the specifics of the program for months, said people who sign up for the voluntary fund could receive payments of more than $1 million by late next spring.’
Smart move, and most will probably see far less money than that, unless only 150 people sign up.
Hawaii right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
“‘Being born with internal testicles doesn’t make me less of a woman’: Olympic champion Caster Semenya says ‘I won’t be ashamed because I am different’ as her battle with athletic authorities continues”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12729835/Being-born-internal-testicles-doesnt-make-woman-Olympic-champion-Caster-Semenya-says-wont-ashamed-different-battle-athletic-authorities-continues.html
Not even a little?
She is basically fighting for the right of other humans born with anomalous genetic conditions to retain unfair advantages over mainstream females. Stunning and brave.
Around one out of 6,000 people are intersex. So it’s not that rare.
Anyway, I don’t think there is an easy answer here.
I have more sympathy for her than I do for the dudes who were born dudes, raised dudes and only switched when it became apparent that they weren’t good enough to beat other dudes.
Humanity just survived the hottest year in 125,000 years.
How can anybody read that and not laugh out loud? Thank a teacher.
A lie becomes the truth if repeated often enough. Sometimes I read things like that, and say to myself that’s the next big lie that people will accept as truth for the next decade.
Something I recall being taught in grade school was that a statement of fact was something that could be proven either false or true. Why do I doubt children are being taught that anymore?
Math is racist.
Truth is a cultural bias.
How much hotter was the Summer 124,999 years ago.?
NOAA should hold a big seance in Joshua Tree National Park and commune with he spirits of all those old trees and talk about the weather. get some hard data. Science it out.
‘No customer of the brothel was named in the federal charging documents.’
How fucking convenient. I’m guessing we’re never getting this list, or epstein’s list, or anything on the vegas shooter.
Anything else I should add to the list of coverups?
“Payments would allegedly come in cash and would be taken by the woman whom the men made the appointment with, the more intimate the service, the more expensive, according to texts in the charging docs.”
It is going to be an expensive discussion on philosophy, geeze.
You mean a single bullet can’t hit two people four times?
“The venue is just ::chef’s kiss:: perfect. We need mutually agreed combat to be legalized everywhere.”
Bring back dueling.
Also, some aspiring actors will never get a role now. 😀
ABORT ABORT ABORT
“Abortion is the No. 1 issue in the 2024 campaign,” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a top Biden surrogate, told the New York Times. “If you’re not talking about protecting women’s reproductive rights as a Democrat, you’re not doing it right.”
House Democrats’ primary super PAC declared that abortion is “still top of mind for Americans EVERYWHERE,” and predicted that their messaging contrast with Republicans will allow them to take back the House next year.
To be honest, I wish everybody would just shut the fuck up about it.
Can’t do that, it drove Rep fundraising and messaging for years. Now the shoe is on the other foot.
So much for “It’s the economy, stupid”.
You’d think that would be more effective messaging for the GOP than killing fetuses would be for the Donks …
It isn’t. Our culture is lost. Abortions and weed matter more than jobs and housing.
That’s what happens when you ignore the culture war.
Oh and the current culture thinks freedom of speech, laissez-faire and individualism is racist so you are not going to get a socially liberal fiscal conservative.
Dem reelection strategy: Make people so broke, miserable, and at each others’ throats that people will want an iron-clad guarantee that they won’t have children.
You win one internets for that LOL.
*hat tip*
I’ll use it wisely, I’m sure.
The Dems will campaign about it at every election until the next Roe v Wade is decided in their favor or they somehow shove through a constitutional amendment. They simply cannot abide that some woman somewhere has to do more than lift a finger to get one.
Or until the polls and election results show that this strategy has quit working. It seems to have saved their asses in 2022 from bearing the consequences of wrecking the economy.
If anyone wants to Fed-Holiday-Eve Zoom, I’ll post the link in the p.m. links
Is there a holiday? Do you mean the Tuesday voting?
*squints*glib or not, hard to tell around here.
Veterans Day?
Veteran’s Day …. Observed. Needless to say, my Swiss Masters don’t give us a day off for that. But, since it is Saturday, no worries!
My German Masters are giving me the day off!
Vets get the day off? Don’t tell Mrs F, she’ll put me to work.
I love how during the “hottest year in 125000!” California received its most recorded snow in over 100 years.
This country started going downhill when dueling was made illegal. Bring back the duel dammit! (Mutual not to the death combat would be great to have as well).
We have the mutual combat in Seattle. Local (now disgraced) superhero Phoenix Jones made use of it 10 years ago.
I see we are pulling out all the stops to *checks notes* hunt down a guy who was at Jan 6 that probably has a simple trespass or minor assault charge (we don’t know, they won’t tell us what they are going charge him or arrest him for).
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/11/08/fbi-new-jersey-search-capitol-riot-suspect/71504984007/
Fuck off
Apparently like emergency powers, they can do whatever the fuck they want.
How dare they.
won’t tell us what they are going charge him or arrest him for
Being present at the InSuRrEcTiOn.
in the backyard of homes
So they think they can just cross properties without a warrant/invitiation.
Who’s going to stop them?
No one.
This country started going downhill when dueling was made illegal. Bring back the duel dammit! (Mutual not to the death combat would be great to have as well).
W’re well on our way to making mean tweets illegal.
*What are we supposed to call them now? Xeets?
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words may crush my spirit.
@cyto, yes, actually, 1 lb of bacon IS a snack. @cytodaughter, right on!
Bacon is always in season. I am grateful that 1/2 the world’s population abstains.
This driving4answers video popped up for me yesterday. Please Stop Commenting How EVs Are Around The Corner And How ICE is Dead
It’s a year old, and twenty minutes long, but he does an excellent job of laying out the practicalities of why the big push for EVs is not going to work as claimed.
I love this guy’s videos.
“the big push for EVs is not going to work”
And water is wet. Perhaps a lot of people should re-take HS physics, only this time they should pay attention instead of daydreaming and eating their own boogers.
Random question based on thinking about claimed EV “advantages”: do you really “need” a car which will accelerate from 0 to 60 in three seconds? Are we all Don Fucking Garlits now?
What’s need got to do with it? It’s fun.
The only advantage of electric motors is that have high torque at low RPM and the bulk of an ICE is eliminated.
Great for certain kinds of tools where the benefit outweighs the cost. For vehicles of any kind, save heavy work machinery, it is just plain stupid.
When the EV scam goes tits up what will they try to put over on us next? Perpetual motion machines?
Louisville, KY precinct votes itself dry…
https://news.yahoo.com/clifton-residents-able-hold-liquor-230051954.html
I’m okay with that. However, let’s review crime in 1-3 years as that was their motivation to go dry.
I can’t find the story anymore, but I remember reading a story back in the ’90s about a town that put a proposal to go dry on the ballot.
A local busybody woman was behind it and berated everyone for months about how important it was. The proposal lost 60-1 (it wasn’t a big town).
The kicker? She was married and when everyone saw only one vote against the proposal they all started wondering how the busybody’s husband was doing that day.
https://fee.org/articles/china-reverses-course-on-population-planning/
So the Chicoms are realizing that the one-child policy worked too well and destroyed China’s demographics and destroyed the norms supporting large families.
I wonder what sort of authoritarian shit the Chicoms will do to make sure Chinese women have at least 3 children. Are they going to go from one child to mandatory three child policy in about a decade?
You can’t be wrong all the time, either
The Biden campaign panned the Republican Party as a “party of losers” following the third GOP presidential debate Wednesday night.
The real losers are the citizens who just want to live their lives and be left the fuck alone.
Them and a bunch of very very very young boys and girls who will never see the light of day.
“But in Donald Trump’s MAGA Republican Party, apparently you double down on the same extreme agenda that was soundly rejected last night in elections across the country,”
That’s not what happened. And there is nothing “extreme” about America First.
“That’s what we witnessed tonight: the entire Republican field once again embracing Donald Trump’s losing and extreme MAGA agenda of banning abortion, cutting Social Security and Medicare, and rigging the economy for the ultra-wealthy at the expense of working Americans.”
1. No one talks about cutting social security and medicare.
2. I don’t see how they think they can get away with this assertion considering the average American’s experience in the Trump economy.
If it’s a losing agenda I guess there’s no reason for Democratic advisors and “sources close to the situation” to be freaking out about recent polling.
Who could have seen this coming?
Primarily intended to clean streets and remove garbage, one of these Mack trucks had been fitted with a snow plow as part of an experiment. Essanews reports the move has been a failure. The reason was given as a simple lack of power:
The plow, dragging across the road and the snow buildup in front of it, created substantial resistance. Moreover, the plow required almost constant movement, eliminating the option for loading pauses.
Consequently, the electric vehicle’s power supply was insufficient for the demands of a New York winter, known for its heavy snowfall.
Good news is that in 500 years it will never snow again, so we might as well get prepared now.
I love how they’re talking about New York City, which does NOT have very heavy snowfall, and show a picture from the suburbs of Buffalo like 500 miles away.
And the twit is about a Buffalo woman.
People are dumb and don’t realize the whole state isn’t NYC.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2061:_Odyssey_Three
2061 aged quite well:
“matter of weeks”. Easy peasy. Obviously written by an economic genius.
Because mineral wealth translates into a vibrant economy. * eyeroll *
You just don’t realize the extent to which tricknology keeps our people down.
Diamonds have very little practical use outside of being an excellent abrasive. Diamond is great for polishing and sharpening. Al2O3 is a very close second.
Other than that diamond rocks are just gravel. The only reason DeBeers ever made money was the wedding diamond scam they managed to pull off and it was done using slave labor.
Economy rebounded, my ass. In a matter of weeks no less. Who is this so wise in the ways of economy?
I don’t see how they think they can get away with this assertion considering the average American’s experience in the Trump economy.
You can’t expect the average American to remember what life was like in 2018.
Mrs Prole has been unemployed a while, it is driving her crazy, and yet she is incapable of overcoming her indoctrination and realizing that the Dems she keeps voting for are directly responsible for it being hard to find a job.
“Stop trying to make “fetch” happen! It’s not going to happen!”
“CNN ‘fires’ freelance Gaza photojournalist Hassan Eslaiah after claims he and five others were embedded with Hamas terrorists when they invaded Israel on Oct 7 and had prior knowledge of the attack”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12729601/CNN-fires-freelance-Gaza-photojournalist-Hassan-Eslaiah-claims-three-embedded-Hamas-terrorists-invaded-Israel-Oct-7-prior-knowledge-attack.html
But Israel didn’t know?
CNN’s not going to tell them.
“Cop’s girlfriend Laura Gallagher goes on wild rant after being kicked out of a bar for smacking 17-year-old boy with her breasts”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12728029/Cops-girlfriend-Laura-Gallagher-arrest-smacking-teen-boy-breasts.html
I can’t believe she’s from Florida.
‘As the cop continued to tell her she cannot drive she called him a ‘c*ck sucker’ and a ‘piece of sh*t’ which prompted him to arrest her.’
That isn’t a fair description of the interaction. The video sucks and the cop seems to cover his camera or else they edited out how she got that shiner.
‘I can’t believe she’s from Florida.’
She’s from Bawston… but we’ll claim her, its fair.
But Bidenomics is making the economy boom
WeWork’s collapse is just the beginning: there’s likely a wave of zombie bankruptcies that are about to hit the market, according to Wall Street veteran and investment research firm manager David Trainer.
The New Constructs CEO pointed to the demise of WeWork spanning the past few years, with shares crashing over 99% in value since making their debut on the stock market in 2021.
That led the company to file for bankruptcy this week — a fate will likely be realized for other “zombie companies,” Trainer said, referring to firms that are unprofitable, often heavily indebted, and “burn through ridiculous amounts of cash.”
“WeWork’s bankruptcy is just the beginning and we expect many more zombie companies to claim bankruptcy,” Trainer said in a note on Wednesday.
It’s almost as if free money encourages dumb business ideas.
Where is peloton these days?
Getting drunk
“Disgraced WeWork founder Adam Neumann still worth $1.7B after company’s bankruptcy”
https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/business/wework-founder-adam-neumann-still-worth-1-7b-after-bankruptcy/