So, one personality trait that Lily has that’s a bit unusual is she’s a hoarder. I’ve known many dogs that guard what’s theirs, but she’s the first one that seeks out items to add to her collection, which she piles up and then ignores.
Callie teases Lily with the ball.
This is a good week for ending most things since the Moon and Saturn line up to make that happen, but relationships should be stable since Venus is in opposition to those two (the moon being in Leo also helps with the interpersonal connections). The rest of the week is pretty stable until Friday when the moon does a do-si-do briefly hooking up with Jupiter retrograde (watch out for stealth cops!) and Venus over the weekend (try being more social). Wednesday is a rather portentous day, relationship-wise as Venus crosses into Scorpio on that day. Since Scorpio is the sign of the fun bits, this could be a great day for that sort of thing or since it’s also the sign of betrayal, you might find out something really awful. Here’s hoping. The week also remains good for hunters, soldiers, and those involved in precision sports since Mars is chilling out in Sagittarius for the time being.
:Lily takes advantage of the distraction to steal the ball. She’s quite clever when it comes to ambushes, distractions, effective use of terrain and the like.
Sagittarius: 7 of Wands reversed – Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety.
Capricorn: 9 of Cups – Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; victory, success, advantage, satisfaction.
Aquarius: 8 of Cups – Joy, mildness, timidity, honor, modesty, shews the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence.
Pisces: Queen of Swords – Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation.
Aries: 3 of Cups – The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing.
Taurus: Queen of Coins – Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
Gemini: 7 of Swords reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.
Cancer: 5 of Swords reversed – Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss.
Leo: 4 of Coins – The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance.
Virgo: Death reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism, hope destroyed.
Libra: 10 of Swords – Betrayal, pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation.
Scorpio: 4 of Cups reversed – Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.
Once something is hers, she never gives it up.
So, doom?
Virgo: Death reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism, hope destroyed.
and another thing about Israel: ….. – Susan Sarandon
Cancer: 5 of Swords reversed – Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss.
look, I’m doing all I can while curing cancer, solving the Gaza situation, AND tearing it up in Rio- George Santos
Gemini: 7 of Swords reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.
kick a fellow when he’s down, why dontcha? – Henry Kissinger
Yeah, haven’t I had enough of that already? Apparently not 🙁
Sounds like going back to work after taking a week off will be fun, thanks.
Nice dog videos.
The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance.
Sounds like it isn’t sufficiently shitty, but I think it could swing sufficiently shitty depending on the stuff one has.
Well, inheritance means somebody dies.
Shitty enough for you yet?
“Cancer: 5 of Swords reversed – Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss.”
*sigh*
Another normal week.
Sagittarius: 7 of Wands reversed – Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety.
I’m not scheduled for any public speaking engagements.
From prior thread, “Biden campaign says all they have to do is harness anti-MAGA sentiment.”
This is very true. TDS might be incurable.
The wife has come to the realization that the media is hopelessly corrupt and dishonest and the president is incompetent at best.
She is open to listening to the likes of DiSantis or Vivek….. But…..
She has a visceral hatred for trump. The propaganda worked, 100%. She used to watch The Apprentice and I said he was a moron (based on his Apprentice character). She actually would get mad at me for that.
Now she denies ever saying any such thing. She has always been at war with Eurasia.
She is the suburban mom they targeted. I don’t think you can move many of them back to Trump. She won’t even entertain any of his policies, if she suspects they are endorsed by Trump. It is an emotional choice, not a rational one.
Which makes me suspect that they are right.
Unless…..
That monolithic black vote finally breaks.
The persecution of the Trump seems to be making inroads in the Black community. At least, among the men.
TDS might be incurable.
It is utterly incurable. Until Trump is dead, and then within a few years he’ll be another of those good kind of Republicans, at least to partisan Democrats. They’ll have some new Hitler at that point.
It isn’t just Dems. My wife (who is otherwise pretty aligned with me politically) despises Trump with a passion, I think mainly stemming from the “grab ’em by….” coverage. Her emotional core has decided he is crass and crude and anti-woman from what I can tell — and while she won’t vote Progressive, she damned well won’t vote for him — she’ll leave it blank instead.
I don’t get it (locker room talk is what it is, and he was clearly talking about the extent of gold digging certain women would get to, not what he’d personally just wander around doing) — but I can’t deny it is how she feels.
Sounds like my ex (and she isn’t one of the partisan Dem types – she hates Trump through and through).
Yup, that was the exact turning point. The MSM pushed it mercilessly when they saw the effect it had.
I couldn’t believe no one in his circle used the term “groupies” after that recording was released.
Yep. For a lot of women – my wife included – Trump is an avatar for every creepy dude who was ever creepy and inappropriate with them.
Lol, remember when the media talking heads pretended they had never heard the term “locker room talk” and had no idea what it could possibly mean, so they shoved mics in the faces of a bunch of pro athletes and asked if their teammates sat around the locker room bragging about all the sexual assaults they had committed?
What has worked for me is to point out how Trump is basically a pre-2000s democrat. That can break the TDS for some.
I think you may be wrong JI. TDS is something different from the hate for Reagan and Bush, something different altogether.
I suspect he will be operating from the grave for at least a decade, spoiling and wrecking everything, foiling their every noble attempt at paradise.
You may well be right; evil neither sleeps nor dies, and since that is what Trump is to these folks…
There is also, “Abortion abortion abortion abortion. Abortion.”
Don’t forget “war war war war war war war”.
Let’s not forget election rigging. Lots of election rigging every step of the way.
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-democratic-party-joe-biden-only-candidate-ballot-1848772
From the linked article, a quote from a Democratic politician about only Biden on the primary ballot in Florida: “Our mission as Democrats is to defeat authoritarians, not become them.”
Hate to break it to ya: y’all became them some time ago.
I’d believe abortion was really that toxic if the MSM wasn’t pushing that narrative so hard.
Abortion is to its partisans what the 2nd amendment is to others. Not saying they equate, but in how they inspire passion.
Single issue voters.
Yes.
And the abortion folks, at least in the last election, were much better at their Get Out The Vote efforts.
What is the Upton Sinclair quote? It’s hard to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it? Something like that. TDS is the realization that you have been seen to be part of the problem, and that Trump is the one who pointed this out.
The Emperor Wears No Clothes, indeed.
Dustin from Smarter Every Day uploaded a fantastic talk he gave to a bunch of NASA engineers about the Artemis program.
https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU?si=8Gukypevlf8bM_Wt
Worth the watch if you are a space nerd.
The beginning is about growing up in Huntsville. Very much like my roots – Dad worked at Redstone during the Apollo era.
Like Apollo, but VULVAS!!!
I was going to say with better music… but I see NASA already tried their damnedest to market themselves that way. Keep dreaming, CGI artists.
Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; victory, success, advantage, satisfaction. and The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing.
Sounds like a good week. Maybe too good. Then again, the nasty week from last month wasn’t anywhere near as bad as forecast.
I hope this means the lunatic I fired on Friday will quit texting me.
Today he started in at 2 AM and went on until 7AM. Worked himself into a pretty good lather.
He’s threatening to ruin the company’s reputation, is speaking ill of the same people that on Friday he said had always been kind to him.
It’s not going to be pretty if he snaps and tries to come to the office. Disgruntled worker…
Hilariously, after ranting and threatening, he then says we should hire him back.
At least being up in Seattle (hopefully) he won’t participate in “Bring a gun to Former Work Day”. Hope it works out for you and your company, Hayek. Sorry on behalf of the rest of humanity that there’s nutjobs out there like this.
“Please be advised that everything you’ve texted me has been forwarded to HR, and I will continue to do so.”
This. You need to let the former worker know that all of this is being recorded, is admissible, and is being sent to both HR and legal.
DoD/DoE facility? Let him know he’ll lose his clearance real quick.
Democracy!
In 2020, voters in the state passed Proposition 114, requiring wolves to be reintroduced within three years. Since then, state wildlife officials have been holding public forums. They also convened a large stakeholder group compromised of people with polar opposite views on wolves, including rural county leaders and environmentalists. There were also outfitters and ranchers who overwhelmingly didn’t support reintroducing them.
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“We know that wolves will do well here,” says Reid DeWalt, an assistant director with Colorado Parks and Wildlife. “We wanted to make sure this was, from the get go, done with the citizens of Colorado and not done to the citizens of Colorado.”
This is also seen as historic because the reintroduction is mandated by voters.
It’s a feelgood story. Voters in Boulder and Denver decide there should be wolves in Westernsloper’s back yard.
A valid criticism….
but also….
The LAW now mandates the reintroduction of wolves…. and they convened stakeholder meetings.
I wonder if it was always thus. It seems to me that ignoring the law has become more and more common during my lifetime. Here in Florida we passed a constitutional amendment mandating year-round daylight savings time years ago. Still not implemented. It is the freaking law. But for some reason… we wait.
Well, there are more and more laws to ignore. Like the on mandating wolves, for example.
They’re more like guidelines.
also, also…..
My in-laws live in wolf country in northern Wisconsin. They are part of the landscape now. They attack cattle from time to time. They are so much bigger than you think. The first pack I saw walking a tree line at dusk, I thought they were a group of whitetail does. The legs are much longer than a dog. Magnificent. And scary. But not unlivable. They all spend 90% of their time outside.
My FIL had an encounter a few years ago….. shot a big buck at dusk and lost him in the undergrowth. Went back at dawn to collect it…. followed the blood trail into a little hollow surrounded by undergrowth… and was confronted by a horror show. Blood up to shoulder height all around, and a partially eaten deer. Pucker factor, 1000. The pack stayed hidden and he retreated with all due haste.
Oh, and his hunting ground was 50 acres behind his house. So that was basically in his back yard…
“They are so much bigger than you think.”
Having seen wolves up close, this is true. They are frickin’ huge.
Hilariously, after ranting and threatening, he then says we should hire him back.
Just wait ’til the NLRB concurs.
ADA covers the mentally disturbed doesn’t it?
“Hire the Morally Handicapped”
Disgruntled worker…
There are millions of disgruntled workers who do not show up at the old job to wreak vengeance. That’s not much consolation when you’re dealing with the one who does.
Hopefully the gruntled workers keep him in check.
And now you put that Monty Python skit in my head. 😉
Would hate to see the law firm of Walther, Glock & Beretta get involved.
We’re doing okay. I’m not stressing right now, so that’s a win.
College foorball team X was robbed. Dunno what that means but i saw it on the twitters
I think the people that run the B1G conference must’ve been behind the playoff, as there are 5 “power” conferences which are presumed eligible, and thus 5 champions from those conferences and four play-off spots. Then again the main purpose of college football is to whine, so this might be fulfilling that requirement.
Until it is a playoff of all the conference champions, it’s still just a beauty contest.
Yes – college football fans love the chance to whine about it without every tuning out. So it will never get ‘fixed’ because it is operating perfectly.
I knew there was something different about libertarians.
I have been arguing that “conference champions only” playoffs are the only way to go for over a decade. Most don’t even get the concept.
I was arguing for an 8 team, conference champs only playoff. No bye. All P5 champs plus 3 other champs. No independents, sorry Notre Dame. It would have fixed everything about college football. Regular season conference games are the only thing that counts in P5 country…. which means that you can play Alabama vs Michigan, Tennessee vs USC, etc. every year. No more crappy OOC schedules to get free wins and jack up offensive stats. No more Boise State or USF getting left out.
And what I didnt know then…. it would have prevented the destruction of the conference system that we are experiencing now. The B1G and the SEC wouldn’t have had the incentive to scoop up the crown jewels from all the other conferences. Quite the opposite.
But now it is too late. They have their fake 12 team playoff where they can put 4 SEC teams and 3 B1G teams, give Bama and OSU double byes or whatever, ensuring they get an SEC team in the final. Gotta serve the TV master.
Only on a libertarian site can you find someone who gets it.
The current system is like (going full nerd here) the Snitch in Quiddich. it wrecks the whole game.
would have prevented the destruction of the conference system that we are experiencing now
No it wouldn’t. The system is imploding because money is being dumped into it and the schools are chasing it. It started the minute the BCS debacle was instituted. Should have left the traditional conference bowls in place, the AP’s anointed “champion”, and whining about it’s all wrong.
The bowls were the stupidest part – pure anachronism. March Madness is what drove the changes to football – that the bowl people have fought to the bitterest end.
I assume next year, with multiple rounds, the bowl tie-ins are done.
Once they’re forced to start paying college players, the college football system will collapse. At most, you’ll have NFL minor league teams that license college names and logos.
college football fans love the chance to whine about it without every tuning out.
I’m one of the weirdos who is actually losing interest. Too many changes over the past 10 years that have cut against my enjoyment of the game.
Team X? Is Elon just renaming everything now?
I would love that. The logo should be Elon’s smiling face.
Doge will Hunt!
They went undefeated but weren’t selected for the four-team playoffs.
Texas is the weakest team that got in, and they should take Florida St by five
it’s the best decision that could have been with the mess they had
Texas is the weakest team that got in, and they should take Florida St by five
oops, that’s not right: Texas and FSU are a push
Michigan by 3 over Alabama
Texas by 6 over Washington
Michigan over Texas by 5
THE ohio state could have made a very similar run
Here in reality the argument is that the SEC is the dominant conference, so Bama gets in.
Except.
They lost to Texas.
And
The SEC has a losing record in their out of conference schedule.
And
The SEC went 4-6 against the ACC.
Objectively, the 3 undefeated P5 teams should be in, and the 1 loss conference champs go to the head to head tiebreak. so Texas is in.
However…
Having the playoff with only 1 SEC team is a big concession by Disney/ABC/ESPN. And Texas has the biggest TV audience. So screw FSU
Plus it should piss off DeSantis, so that must be good.
DiSantis actually did tweet on the topic. Or at least an intern did on his behalf.
Surprise, he is in favor of the Florida school.
The irony is, this validates what FSU said about the ACC and why they wanted to leave.
So coach prime did not make it.
‘try being more social’
Glibs hardest hit.
Mallrats is on.
Claire Forlani was so hot. 🔥🔥
always needed a sammich
lol Watched (most of) it. I had not seen much of it before – did not realize it was almost the exact same cast as Chasing Amy which I have watched many times.
Hmm. Youtube just tossed the Fallout trailer at me before Drach’s Drydock episode. Haven’t avoided it, but didn’t seek it either.
Primary thought: Looks really fake. The makeup, the CGI, pretty much all of it. Also looks pretty stupid.
And since I would think I’m in their assumed market (not target market since I’m too old for marketing to like) — don’t think that bodes well.
Attention, New England Patriots: If your offensive line can’t block a narrow hallway, it doesn’t matter who you play at QB.
Morons.
Pathetic. Fortunately the Patriots should have a high draft pick, which Belichick will trade for a handful of mid-round picks that he’ll use on a bevy of long snappers from Division 2 schools.
Any chance Belichik is done?
I pooh-pooh’d that idea earlier in this terrible season, especially after news of his large, off-season extension came out.
Now, I wouldn’t be surprised if they “mutually parted ways” after this season is over.
*tap tap tap*
Ouch.
I thought the Bills were underperforming.
Probably, and at this point I hope he’s done. The Patriots haven’t been this bad since before Robert Kraft bought the franchise. They’ll have the highest pick in the draft since they took Drew Bledsoe, and Belichick has proven that he can’t pick players. He may not even be the mastermind coach he’s been thought of; Brady covered for so many poor drafts since Belichick was elevated to GM of the team, and now that Brady’s long gone those poor drafts have led to predictable results.
https://twitter.com/MichaelBerrySho/status/1731019895473631587
Ricky Vaughn is in prison for this.
Good intentions, poc, and not member of the “put y’all in chains” party.
Everyone in the country should be outraged by this.
the fact that almost nobody even knows it exists at all is…. terrifying.
What “this”? That the law is selectively enforced to weaponize the government against deplorables?
Tens of millions would cheer that on – until the other Team got in power, and used that precedent against the current cheerleaders.
Specifically this one case. Dude posted a joke, and everyone knew it was a joke, and few even saw it, and they could not produce a single “victim” in court…. and he is in jail.
In a nation founded on freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
That this same joke has been made many times by lefty “comedians” is only fuel to the fire.
We used to know that free speech was important. So important that it included naked pics.
Now? It doesn’t include “I disagree with the federal government”, which was the only point in the first place.
Started wrapping Xmas gifts today.
Aren’t they scraping the bottom of the barrel when they blame everyone?
Stupid, greedy hicks, continuing to just throw their money away at stupid things like food and energy.
And ammo…I picked up some of that .40 I posted last week.
When after all it was you and me who killed the Kennedys, why not blame us for inflation too?
In other words, they have no fucking idea about what causes inflation, aka devaluing the currency by creating trillions of dollars out of thin air.
In fairness, monetary theory has been shot to shit post Quantitative Easing.
QE only worked when interest rates could remain at or near zero.
As soon as the bill come due (and we are starting to see that), the charade that was QE is on full display.
I’ve never understood how everyone is miserable equals things going great. I’ve seen multiple headlines in variants of “the economy is awesome but people are suffering”. What is the advantage of a good economy if everybody is suffering? Shouldn’t the objective be widespread prosperity? Can we have a lousy economy and people do well instead?
You misread that – what they are really saying is I’m doing okay, so what are you bitching about? FFS, you think they have clue one about real people?
I think it’s they know things are in the dumpster but can’t imagine (or more accurately can’t admit to themselves) it could be because of all the policies they’ve supported. You can’t really blame Trump anymore as it’s been three years since he’s been around, so they have to figure out a way not to blame the wise people they believe should be in power even though deep down they have to realize those people are screwing the average person.
1) They’re not that self-aware
OR
2) The system is working exactly as intended.
Some of each?
Some may not be self-aware, but others are for sure cackling about the icky people being hamstrung. No chance of us getting uppity.
It is just more of the ‘dont believe your lying eyes’ bullshit they have been slinging lately. They got nuthin’ else.
As long as we have pinkos having nervous breakdowns over gas prices blaming the religious right….which is somehow not explained….we are fucked.
The economy is great for them and everyone they know. 🤷♂️
If that’s true, I’d wager that won’t last much longer for many of them.
It seems to be ingrained in the statist mindset. What ever you think of Reagan, the criticism of him in US history books always leads with “inequality increased under Reagan.” It’s very hard to find any definitive statement about economic growth.
What, admit that growth meant the poor didn’t get poorer – in real terms, only in relative? People might catch on.
And she blamed the supply chain destruction on the pandemic, not the lockdowns.
Awwww fuck. The Atlantic. Of course.
I wouldn’t line a bird cage with that for fear the bird might look down and accidentally read something.
Does anyone else have the superpower of forcing a new article to post by merely composing a reply? Because I am a wizard at bloviating a sizeable post and hitting submit into a newly dead thread.
I also have a knack for picking the wrong line at the store.
“Virgo: Death reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism, hope destroyed.”
That’s not astrology, it’s the table of contents from my autobiography.
And in some ways, Americans have nobody to blame but themselves.
Yes, yes, of course. We need a consumers’ boycott. We should all stop buying food and clothing and gasoline. That’ll teach those kkkorporations. When Scoldin’ Joe says you’re too greedy, that means lower your prices.
Also, put on a sweater if it’s cold at home.
Carpool! Victory gardens! Make do and mend! Buy war bonds!
Oh, goody- it’s an Annie Lowrey think piece.
I know I’ll get smarter.
Only if you don’t read it.
It should be good news that Americans are better off than they were pre-pandemic.
SRSLY?
Wasn’t it so uplifting to hear Liz Cheney on “Sunday Morning” discussing fascism? Ironically, she was against it. Who was it who said fascism was always threatening from the right until it landed on you from the left?
People want to blame Joe Biden for their bills. They want to accuse stores of gouging them (though the evidence for “greedflation” is scant). The strange truth is that most people really are in a more comfortable position, even if they’re not happy about it. It’s not like a weak economy, stagnant wages, crummy consumer spending, and cheaper stuff would be better, after all.
Learn to love Joe Biden, America. We have always been richer and happier when the Democrats are in charge.
I love how the author just casually asserts “most people are in a more comfortable position”. Don’t believe your lying eyes, you’re better off when food, housing, energy, and transportation are all substantially more expensive while your wages haven’t grown at anywhere near the same pace.
The reason people are blaming Joe Biden is because he ran on a platform of getting things back to normal and “building back better”. If he didn’t have the power to do that (and he didn’t), he shouldn’t have promised if he didn’t want people to blame him when he didn’t deliver.
Cute avatar!
I make decent money and am struggling to make ends meet. I don’t personally know anyone who’s better off financially now than they were 4 -5 years ago
But no mean tweets! And I can get a hypothetical abortion as easily as an oil change!
There is one and only one reason why I feel better off financially than a few years ago – I finished paying off my debts. This freed up enough income to soak the rest of the damage.
So far….they aint finished with us yet.
Better off means just not worse off. If you aren’t eating as well or driving as much, you’re still better off than some others
It will take an increase in unemployment to shake many from complacency about how good the economy is. Of course, we will be told that’s because of hard-right Republicans and heartless libertarianism.
Remember when the economy cratered under Obama? Half the country had no idea that things got REALLY bad in ’09 and not under Bush the Lessor. But, if you were in one of the sectors hit by this, as I was, it was fuckin’ devastating; we lost our house, took a tremendous loss in retirement savings, and so on. But a lot of other people had no issues with the whole thing, they knew gas prices were up ($5+ a gallon) and it was hard to find a home in SF, but great if you were selling. And the gas prices were not too bad if you took public trans a lot, as people in cities tend to do.
Same thing right now, but as it is a class issue, those in the ruling class will not admit that their shibboleths are the problem.
Well for the Kaiju fans out there, I am happy to report that the new Toho “Godzilla minus one” is really solid…and also unironically one of the most libertarian flicks I’ve seen in a hot minute – and definitely the most libertarian out of Japan. Basically for cold War reasons the US won’t intervene (even after 1st attack on Tokyo) – and Japanese govt has essentially no assets (and also cold war – need to check but it may even predate creation of JSDF – set in ’45-’47). Soooo a group of ex-military set up their own private anti-godzilla coalition – all volunteers – with a couple de-milled destroyers that the govt did kinda scrounge up – and come up with a plan (reminiscent of the oxygen destroyer in OG) to take down the big guy.
They literally say that they can’t rely on the govt and have to do it on their own – various companies chipping in equipment and tech, etc. Really solid.
Not sure fx are quite as good as Shin Godzilla but there is a different look and he’s got a literal nuclear blast attack this time – and for a period piece it looks amazing. Best to catch it on the big screen if you can!
For anime fans there is a retro fighter prototype they use too that is straight out of “Sky Crawlers” – looks great.
Yep – predates 1947 constitution and 1954 JSDF creation. Very well done.
In between, it was the 1952 Treaty of SF that restored Japanese sovereignty.
Whoops, 1951.
A bunch of The Drinker Cadre have been posting positive things too.
Tangentially, there’s a science fiction novel, The Kailua Preservation Society by John Scalzi, that’s pretty good. Not great, but pretty good. I enjoyed it, although it’s unlikely I’ll re-read it.
Damn auto correct! Kaiju Preservation Society.
Kailua or Kaiju?
Kahlúa?
Sounds fantastic. I’ll see the movie and have a Kahlúa and coffee.
And apparently the entire feature flick cost…..$15 million. That has to be an embarrassment to Hollywood (I hope!).
We saw Shin Godzilla in Tokyo. No subtitles but it was awesome. Didn’t stay at the Hotel Gracery.
Per the discussion above about living in a world where reality is routinely denied….
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1730993738493931672?t=edtM7QTuZInjxPdIjkjc3w&s=19
Anti Trump activist testifying with Taibbi and Shellenberger alters reality, denying what she just said *within the same testimony*
I have trouble deciding if these people are brainwashed useful idiots themselves or if they just believe the people listening to them are. I guess it can be both.
When you just say whatever suits you at the moment you will inevitably tie your arguments into knots.
One is reading what her lawyers I presumed gave her and the other if her actually answering a question. She is a puppet that cannot think for herself and once again these committe hearings are as useful as tits on a bull.
If you read the comments on Taibbi’s and Schellenberger’s posts about this, you can spot the sock puppets attempting to veer the conversations back into the lefts desired areas. It is surreal in a real-time car crash way.
Gun Jesus gets political: https://twitter.com/1864Memes/status/1731325726748729597?t=_bFQ3D227E3nYiRWc3VW5w&s=19
Oopsie
The family of Yuval Doron Castleman, 37, who died after being shot at the scene of a terror attack in Jerusalem by a soldier who apparently mistook him for a terrorist on Friday branded his killing an “execution.”
Castleman was taken to Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem in critical condition and was declared dead shortly before midnight, what would have been his 38th birthday.
“Yuval noticed a terrorist attack from the other side of the road while driving to his job at the government complex, and stopped his car to stop the terrorists,” Channel 13 quoted his family as saying on Friday. “He had previously served in the security forces and was always a hero and the first to jump in and save lives, which he did this time as well.”
Castleman rushed at the terrorists with his firearm and fired at them before being shot at himself by soldiers who were also at the scene.
Graphic video from the scene showed Castleman throw away his gun, fall on his knees and raise his hands in the air while shouting “Don’t shoot” as the soldiers approached him. He was then shot again by one of them.
I watched the video of the shooting. He had his hands up unlike the Ferguson, MO “HANDS UP DON’T SHOOT” BS.
That sucks.
A long day of Disc golf, a hot salt bath with imperial Russian stout, followed by tomato soup and grilled cheese, life is good and a good woman is better
/paradise
https://dnyuz.com/2023/12/02/drunk-and-asleep-on-the-job-air-traffic-controllers-pushed-to-the-brink/
These stories are now weekly. What isn’t said is the technician workforce is even worse.
Am hearing the same about many fields.
Docs, cops, nurses, etc. etc.
That person above and xer many clones who keep telling us how fucking great the economy is might want to ask themselves why it’s so hard to find a fucking doctor now or why the cops are two hours late instead of one hour.
In Vegas I was pulling probably 10hrs OT per 2 weeks. It’s one of the reasons I moved. Here I go home at 3pm and haven’t done a minute of OT.
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Some people are into that. I am not. And not just because I don’t get paid for it.
That’s why we need to let in so many illegal aliens.
The blob does argue, for example, that immigrants can solve our lack of docs problem.
However… it turns out that they don’t wanna deal with the bullshit of being a doctor in America any more than Americans do.
I remember talking to a guy on a place a couple decades ago whose job was to travel to the Philippines and Indonesia to hire nurses – folks who’d already completed training, etc. These were even for states like NC with big nursing school hospitals, etc. Don’t imagine that practice has ended yet – plenty of demand – always good work opportunities…although I never meet anyone with that background when I go through UVA or other hospitals. I guess something like that or the military hospitals (not necessarily VA) are by definition distinct.
Rhywun, is this possibly just a manifestation of a decrease in working age population, combined with fewer in that cohort working (for whatever reason)? Especially compared to the amount of work to do.
Too many old people?
“Ever since the Reagan administration replaced thousands of striking controllers, the agency has struggled to keep pace with waves of retirements.”
Hmm, from your experience, is that an accurate claim?
That sounds like BS to me. I bet the “struggling to keep pace with waves of retirements” started around 2020 just like the fields I mentioned above and many more.
It’s a weird little quip that really has no bearing in the current environment. It’s a slam for political purposes. That was what… nearly 40 years ago?
Way back in the Dark Ages ( 70’s or 80’s), Robert Heinlein said that given the technology available, we could have a fully automated, safe air traffic control system. He was right then.
Wherever the Old Man is, he must be shaking his head at today’s stupidity.
Not in my lifetime.
Back in the 90s, a very senior cert guy said that the aircraft of the future would be piloted by a man and a dog. The man’s job was to feed the dog. The dog’s job was to bite the man if it tried to touch the controls.
I don’t think so. Humans do human things so unless all is automated it won’t work.
90% is really automated already. Watching a normal day of a controller or pilot is actually boring. It’s all routine. It’s when something goes wrong is where that human interaction and intuition comes in and then it looks exciting
I was supposed to be in Cali this week but that project postponed. Now Im going to Pennsylvania tomorrow.
/kicks rocks
Back to Norfolk for a few more days this week, then I’m done with reserve stuff till 2024. (sure hope they get the DoD budget finalized soon…not going to try applying for any extended orders if they don’t have guaranteed funding for the entire period).
Be forewarned: Eagles and Steelers fans are in a nasty mood.
Enjoy this bit of the left eating itself.
Jimmy Fallon landed in hot water for calling this guest “bud” (You can guess why). Check out the mostly-peaceful reactions.
And those idiotic reply’s say it all. No, we don’t see you LARPers as women. End of story.
Unfortunately those idiots have the complete support of every major institution in the West. Orwell is like “I fucking told you so, morons.”
It was bad enough that he tugged Trump’s hair. Now this? Literally shaking.
Last month was really bad for my wife’s business… The month before was stellar. To some extent these are related facts, but also strange that usually November is a good month for us, and December is slow since everyone is vacationing. Wonder where the year will end up.
I’ve been thinking about why this doesn’t result in the younger cohort being richer than their parents. Why are boomers seemingly uniquely positions for success?
One would think that a labor shortage would greatly advantage those proving the labor. I think it can only be explained by government policy and some unique combination of factors.
1. Money just represents stuff, so, it’s a measure of how much stuff you can get.
2. The less stuff available, the more money it will take to get the stuff, all else equal. Or, if you drastically increase the amount of money, you have the same effect.
3. Government has created a lot of money, but it also gives it preferentially to the old, many of these older people also have some serious savings from inheritance from the silent generation (who were really good savers, by and large) and living through the greatest economic performance of this country during their prime working years.
4. This just means that olds who are done providing value are now at an age where they only have a few years left, may as well spend it. Thinking is that all their retirement money plus government funny money is all chasing a smaller pot. Ironically this means that inflation out paces wage gains for the people providing the services required.
5. ???
6. Profit
No really, I haven’t figured out how to profit off of this. Someone must be, but I don’t know who. Speaking with a PT friend who works in a hospital, she (and everyone working with her) just got a10% raise, the second raise of the year. So, maybe you just want to be in the business of providing services to the old. There’s only going to be higher demand for it and no political will at all to reduce that expense. At least not yet.
I guess two things to point out. This is an effect that always occurs but the effect size is going to be larger today than it was in the past (due to government policy and demographics). Changes in for example productivity can offset this, however there isn’t much evidence for increased productivity ( https://www.axios.com/2023/11/03/productivity-growth-us-economy). And anyway, it is still a drag on what washes would have been with the higher productivity.
https://www.zippia.com/advice/working-age-population/#:~:text=The%20working%2Dage%20population%20in,population%20of%20approximately%20207.4%20million.
Working age population is the lowest it has been since 1970.
Additionally, labor Force participation is at the lowest in a long time.
Again, the lowest since the 1970’s.
https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2023/august/how-far-is-labor-force-participation-from-its-trend/#:~:text=However%2C%20the%20labor%20force%20participation,pandemic%20level%20in%20February%202020.
People are also generally less healthy than ever, which may be contributing to the labor Force participation rates. I don’t know what did it in the 70’s. All I know is that the 70’s weren’t great… But they had demographics on their side to some extent, and eventually, better policy.
I don’t think we’re likely to get either. I do think unemployment will stay low long-term, but that it won’t really in higher real wages, but strangely, lower real wages.
And now for my spiciest take: the browning of America means lower economic output per person.
Generally the highest earners are:
1. Asians (including Indians)
2. Whites
3. Hispanic
4. Blacks
(https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/11/income-and-wealth-in-the-united-states-an-overview-of-recent-data)
1 and 3 are growing while 2 and 4 are stagnant or declining. The two largest groups are 2 and 3, and 4 is close third, but stagnant. Without changes to this pay distribution (and it seems pretty durable throughout time, Hispanics have gotten richer as low-skill immigrants now make up a smaller percentage of them) will mean continued economic under performance.
Why doesn’t Asians growing offset this?
They’re just too small of a group and you can’t import significantly more without compromising the quality of the entrants and serving down the average wage anyway./spice
I should have made this a real post.
Their offspring just get culturally corrupted by our lazy leftist dumbfuckery.
So, maybe you just want to be in the business of providing services to the old
Not just the old, any old service. Learn a trade and get to work. I’m not getting rich because I’m lasy, but I gave myself a 25% raise last year and since I lost exactly one job because the cost was too high, I’ll be giving myself another 12-15% raise next year. If I had the drive to work 40-50 hours a week I’d be loaded, (by my standards anyway)
What do you mean by service?
I don’t think Walmart cashiers are getting rich. I think I’m in a similar position to you, in that I could make significantly more if I was willing to do 50+hours a week or travel for work, but I simply value my family time too highly to do that.
Provide a service for, mowing yards, cleaning gutters, painting , building decks and remodeling bathrooms. Right now, in North Central Ohio at least there is a dearth of laborers and tradesmen. If you are a competent drywaller/tile setter, carpenter, etc you can damn near name your price. My one friend runs a property management business and he can’t find enough workers to keep three trucks running consistently.
6 is my baseline. I’m really having difficulty putting out another, due to staffing.
Good morning Lack.
I see your premise #1 in a different way. To me money presents one with options. That means power over your own life. It isn’t about stuff.
#4 – “….may as well spend it…”, yikes. Having seen this up-close and first hand I would replace ‘spend’ with ‘squander’.
I have been fortunate to be in line for a substantial inheritance but I do not see it as mine. I see myself as one in a long line of caretakers. I have a moral responsibility to pass my good fortune on to the generations that follow me. I take this value, keep it safe and try to expand it.
Not long ago I saw a photo of a bunch of boomers sitting at slot machines with the caption “Boomers and their inheritance”.
The photo made me very angry.
Wanna know why the earth’s magnetic poles have lately started moving so rapidly? I heard all of the scientific theories, they are wrong. I figured it out. It is the silent generation spinning in their graves so hard it is changing the goddamned poles.
While I agree with your sentiments, it certainly *feels* like we are at odds with the general trends of society.
I cant do anything about societal trends. I can only look after mine and my own.
I have never been much of a trend follower, thus my presente here.
Mornin y’all!
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Let’s kick the week off right.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nco_kh8xJDs
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Good morning all!
Today, Fine Young Cannibals
She Drives Me Crazy.
I’m Not the Man I Used To Be.
Share and enjoy!
Good morning, Beau, Sean, Lack, Suthen, and Teh Hype!
Morning GT.
Got to the office and almost entered the home password to log in.
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Good morning, U! I hope your lingering cough is gone or at least greatly diminished.
It is greatly diminished, now representing a habit more than a necessity.
That is, At the moment, I’m accustomed to coughing at sensations that might more readily be ignored. However, it’s not dislodging anything like phlegm, so there’s less cause for it.
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Mornin’, U.
work123456 is very similar to home123456, I can see how you might confuse the two
Why must you start the week with such negative vibes, man?
It’s all cool, man. Peace out.
Different sort of cannibal, appropriate for an astrological post.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGtq7ytJ1sE
From wikipedia:
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie! What’s the latest on your impending medical procedure?
Mornin ‘, GT. Still waiting for GP to send paperwork to surgeon. Meanwhile I am dodging rusty tin can lids, I am exhausted from playing caretaker and may have lost my temper once or twice. My application for sainthood is on hold.
You application isn’t on hold, it was rejected. You failed the first criteria – you’re not a century dead.
A Century Dead is my new band name.
To give you some idea what a low threshold of excitement I have at the moment: I’d been sorely disappointed in a book I’d requested from the local library and picked up Thursday evening, a history of the Holy Roman Empire. It turned out the book was organized not chronologically as a narrative but “thematically,” with the author bouncing around centuries willy nilly. I finally read some online reviews and confirmed that it wasn’t just me having trouble following it.
Now, I’m excited because another book I’d requested from the library (this time an e-book,) just became available. This one sets out to reexamine the disappearance of “the princes in the Tower” using the meticulous methods of a modern criminal investigation. Woo hoo!
Do I need to get out more?
Do I need to get out more?
Heavens, no! It’s a jungle out there. Germs! Guns! Presbyterians!
Look, it was the tail end of a period of successional wars, disappearing a few inconvenient Nephews was less bloody than risking another war when they got older.
Of course, that inconsiterate Welshman did not show proper appreciation for being spared having to kill the pair himself after Richard ended up under the future car park.