The skies are chilling out for a bit. All the real planets are moving directly, and they’re all minding their own business. Relax.
Oh, you want something to actually happen? Well, there are fluctuations in the Luck Plane on Tuesday, and for a very brief time between Wednesday and Thursday, the Moon will pass between the Earth and Mars. It would take more work than I’m willing to engage in to figure out exactly when, so if you’re looking to pick a fight, you’ll need to spring for the Premium Package to get the best time to try. There’s a new moon on Saturday, but you don’t need me to tell you about that since you have calendars.
Capricorn: The Tower – I really don’t have to translate this one do I?
Aquarius: 7 of Coins reversed – Cause for anxiety regarding money, especially if lending.
Pisces: 7 of Swords reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.
Aries: Queen of Cups reversed – Good woman or distinguished woman but one not to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonor, depravity.
Taurus: The High Priestess – Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed, silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science.
Gemini: Ace of Wands reversed – Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, clouded joy.
Cancer: Justice – Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law.
Leo: Page of Wands – Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman.
Virgo: 10 of Cups – Contentment, repose of the entire heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and friendship.
Libra: 8 of Cups – Joy, mildness, timidity, honor, modesty, the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence–either for good or evil.
Scorpio: Knight of Cups – Arrival, approach–sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, incitement.
Sagittarius: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels; and domestic disputes for persons who are married.
Well, that doesn’t tell me anything.
It’s very mysterious.
Secretive, even.
It’s not even real #Science and you don’t Fucking Love it.
Sagittarius: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels; and domestic disputes for persons who are married.
Sounds like a busy week for the voices in my head.
I, for one, could stand a boring week, but I don’t think I’m going to get one.
Well, that doesn’t tell me anything.
Science it out.
Driveway cleared. Hopefully I’ll be able to get Lily vids in the snow now.
I haven’t even looked outside today.
The second round of the storm is here. It’s supposed to go until after dark.
Looks like it’s ending here a bit earlier than expected.
I see that. Heck of a storm.
Saturday?
Damn it. I was certain there was a new moon on Monday.
KK’s gettin’ laid!
Bake that pie!
I’m trying to figure out what it means for me (a fellow Aries.).
I better not be getting laid!
Go on …
The “vice, dishonor, depravity” seems specifically targeted at me, if none of the rest of that.
BIG JIM SLADE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ96dy93mP0
I thought I would be finished with my big project tomorrow, but I have to wait for my client’s collaboration to finish the preliminaries. To be fair, the preliminaries are 75% of the job, but I can’t go further than 60% without him.
@NotAdahn, regarding Trey giving or not giving Marina a motorcycle — It doesn’t work that way. On long bike trips, I would have given my eyeteeth for an ice pack between my between and the seat. Hot, not hawt.
preliminaries are 75% of the job
Probably so for anything more important than ditch-digging, but few are wise enough to see it.
house of quality, functional deployment, whatever you want to call it
I learned my lesson with interior wall painting. PREP PREP PREP PREP PREP.
What? The joke about nuns biking down cobblestone streets isn’t real?
(I was referencing Marina’s ulterior motives for liking roller coasters.)
Yes, I know. I’m saying that what a rollercoaster does to one’s nethers is different from what a motorcycle does to one’s nethers.
A guy I used to work with was very big into motocross. His wife didn’t get it. He finally got her on the back of the bike for a ride. He stopped after about 15 minutes to see how she was doing. She slapped him in the back of the helmet and said “don’t you dare stop now!”.
I haven’t ridden bitch since I was 5 years old, so I wouldn’t know about that.
Also, Motocross? Better suspension, higher off the ground, bouncy bouncy bouncy …
There is a reason women are drawn to Harley-Davidson.
The choir can wear robes in all the colors of the rainbow, so long as they all sing the same tune
Gay herself is emblematic of what diversity has come to mean. Her father, Sony Gay, is vice-president of Haiti’s major construction company. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy, the most elite of America’s elite boarding schools, and a feeder for Harvard. “Gay may have changed the color of the mold,” academic Tyler Austin Harper wrote, “but she sure didn’t break it.”
Conservatives pushing against diversity policies care little about economic equality and many are animated by racist concerns. That does not mean those on the left for whom inequality does matter should, in response, circle the wagons in defence of DEI policies that entrench class privilege.
Superficial diversity as a means to privilege is their goal. The rest is just smoke and mirrors.
“Shorter us: We’re moving the goalposts. Again.”
CWABOA
“Conservatives pushing against diversity policies care little about economic equality and many are animated by racist concerns.”
The mind-reading powers of progressives are truly remarkable. We should put them in charge of everything.
Nice dog videos.
Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman.
I can’t tell if that is sufficiently shitty or not.
Depends on how hot our postal carrier is.
So, someone who delivers the male?
If at first you don’t secede, try, try again.
best of luck
my clans tried it: didn’t work out so swell
It’ll go nowhere.
Republic of Indian Stream II?
Skimming a couple of Autopian articles looking for something not completely useless, I tripped over this.
Sounds vaguely familiar, don’t it?
The package, under discussion by the industry ministry, would include financial incentives worth as much as €13,750 to allow citizens with an annual income lower than €30,000 to scrap their Euro 2 models, which are more than 20 years old, in favor of new electric cars.
The aim, according to the document, would be to “change Italy’s vehicle fleet, which is one the oldest in Europe, with at least 11 million EURO 3 cars or lower-grade vehicles.” The plan would also “support low-income families and the purchase of cars made in the country”.
That’s a lot of Lire. Also, people are smart. If you’ve got a 25-year-old Fiat Uno that needs all sorts of work and the government offers you essentially 65% off a Dacia Spring you’re probably going to try and get the Dacia Spring.
People really love electric cars, honest.A little cash for clunkers bribery just puts a cherry on top.
Won’t someone please think of the Chinese strip-miners?!
Or Stellantis.
The range was unplowed, which triggered cancelling the shoot. Grumble.
😕
I actually hung around the front gate until 1:00 in cane anyone came by that I hadn’t texted. Nobody did. Pussies.
I’d concluded that I was more in the mood to keep painting minis than leave the house.
anyone ever gum up from too much oil ?
Relevant:
https://twitter.com/SpillTheMemes/status/1743798639774892248
Also the psychology department at the local university — they’re all about suppression.
These euphemisms.
Watching NFL redzone.
Too much stimulus! Brain asplode!!
(Also I really miss Andrew Siciliano)
You’re just turned on by those ears, aren’t you? :-p
Ha, no. But he could definitely hear around corners, no doubt.
He was good at his job, good football insight, had a much more pleasant voice than the current idiot, had a sense of humor that could be dry and a little vicious at times, and he made little throwaway quote of obscure shows/movies that I enjoyed.
Good woman or distinguished woman but one not to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonor, depravity.
To borrow from Tres: I have the strangest erection right now.
Quick! We haven’t put enough political enemies in jail yet!
That is blatantly unconstitutional.
Yes, but who in that bunch has the ca$h to pay lawyers to defend them against federal prosecutors that will drag everything out.
Just think, there are another ten months to drag this shit out, Biden spitting and hissing all the way.
Probably has a guy in Moscow right now reviewing how Russia’s various security agencies have handled such matters over the years to “protect democracy.”
Yeah, they’ve been saying for awhile they’re only “halfway there”.
LOL sure Jan
The People’s House doesn’t belong to the People.
(I fucking hate that term)
Any title including “The People’s” immediately sets off my commie detector.
Like democratic republic.
We haven’t put enough political enemies in jail yet!
Rebel sympathizers! Collaborators! Saboteurs!
Wreckers!! Kulaks!!! [oh, wait, never mind]
Virgo: 10 of Cups – Contentment, repose of the entire heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and friendship.
Fuck that shit.
And your pickles.
the furnace decided to work this morning, so hayek & the RV guy were both 100% right – looks like the ignition area needs cleaning. If I can interpret the schematics (questionable), I’ll do it myself
Yay!
If you want to send me a link to the furnace model I can take a look and point out what probably needs cleaning.
@protonmail.com
My main issue right now seems to be not being able to get the cover off the furnace. I’m going to try to WD it tomorrow and see if it’ll unscrew. I don’t have a drill, and one screw is being stubborn. Then I can see whether I can match the schematic up with the real life thing.
ignition area
these euphemisms
Hot
If it ends up being a bad ignitor board, I had good luck with Dinosaur Boards. As a bonus, their website is straight outta the 90’s.
Just bought this interesting Old Fashioned drink mixer. It’s good. I only paid $12 for it. No way I would have paid $20.
https://www.withcococktails.com/products/ellis-old-fashioned
Also Sprouts had their pre-made fancy burger patties for .99 cents a pound! I wiped them out.
Many of us, and indeed of the population at large, have already decided “never again” with Covid masks, mandatory vaccines, school closures, and economic shutdowns.
But as I reread “Deception” bay Rand Paul, I’m reminded of one glaring problem behind all the Covid mess. Government employees are allowed to do government-funded research but then take out personally owned patents? Invest in pharmaceutical companies, and make millions in royalties when any of their “cures” or tests are used.
That shit needs to end now. The fox is guarding the henhouse.
Also, this money laundering whereby the US government gets around gain-of-function research bans by funneling money to Wuhan and the like also needs to be shut down.
Greed and a lust for power created the disease we call Covid. And we all know there won’t be prosecutions, but is it too much to ask for dismantling the incentives that led to Covid before the next disease leaks out into the populace?
NO SPOILERS!
I have the book queued up.
Yeah, any such patents arising out of employment belong to the employer.
Bills, Lions and Browns in the playoffs?
*checks sky for SMOD*
Bills and Lions and Browns, oh my.
Tucker Carlson interviews Jeffrey Epstein’s brother.
I saw it, and as deeply immersed in conspiracy as I am now, I kept asking myself “is that really his brother?” “What is Tucker is all in on this?”
Also, he really didnt indict anyone directly.
https://www.boredpanda.com/brutalism-buildings-pics/ 🤢
I like quite a few of those. I would love to see some of the built without concrete. Maybe like carbon fiber or something
Love/hate.
Hmph. Form Follows Function was a maxim long before brutalism. It started with this guy.
#6 looks like something directly from Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil”
The venison stew is most excellent. I just wish the meat were chunks instead of ground. Beggars can’t be choosers!
(deer was murked by my next door neighbor)
My BIL gave me a backstrap from one of the deer he got this year.
I’m going to try this:
https://recipes.anovaculinary.com/recipe/sous-vide-venison-backstrap
🤤
Folks are riding snowmobiles up and down my road.
Relevant
“Gassel, who allegedly had been drinking since 3:30 in the afternoon, reportedly blew a .186 when given a preliminary breathalyzer test.”
Thats it?
Despite all the dysfunction, Green Bay makes the playoffs. 🙂
Justin Fields’ last game for the Bears? Could be. I think they trade him before the draft.
Enough to keep LaFleur working for another season. And he only has a job in the NFL thanks to Shanahan.
The Patriots managed to lose to the Jets and their third-string QB in Foxboro, fail to score a touchdown in a game for the fifth time this season, and they still managed to lose positioning in next year’s draft.
I hope this will take the wind out of the sails of the Bailey Zappe fan club.
Is there another member of that fan club besides Bellicheck?
At the very least it includes all the fans who thought Zappe should keep playing over Mac Jones. The QB is not the problem with the Patriot offense. There isn’t a QB in the league who could reliably play well behind the offensive line the Patriots fielded, nor with the receiving talent they have. Get some blocking and some pass catchers and Jones would do fine — he went to the Pro Bowl in his rookie season before Josh McDaniels left and Belichek put a defensive coordinator in charge of the offense.
That Patricia / Judge move was egregious.
Agreed. Then the Patriots followed that debacle up by letting the one receiver Jones had any chemistry with sign with the Raiders while they bring in JuJu Smith-Schuster for basically the same money. Then they wait until the sixth round of the draft to pick anyone who might be able to catch the ball despite it being one of the deeper drafts for WRs and TEs. They pick a kicker in the fourth round who’s missed roughly half his attempts this year, and drafted a punter in the sixth round. New England has the third pick coming up next year, and if Belichick is in charge I expect them to either grab the top equipment manager in the draft before any other team scoops him up, or trade down two or three times to stockpile fifth round picks or some shit.
Ouch!
Belichick-as-head-coach might survive but Belichick-as-GM is out of a job, I suspect.
His drafting is an obvious stain on his legacy.
This “peacock only” access for the SNL game is bogus.
Football? It’s on NBC oooh maybe a time zone thing?
They’re saying one playoff game will be Peacock only.
Yah just saw that.
It better not be my team.
Might be yours, but it’s DEFINITELY mine.
Unless I misheard it sounds like I have to root for the Bills to lose tonight LOL.
If the Bills lose, we get a repeat of tonight’s game.
But at least I get to watch it.
But of course they score two touchdowns since I wrote that.
OK now I’m hearing that I have to root for a win.
🫡
You’re good either way – Bills win, they see the Steelers (Dolphins to KC for the streaming game), Bills lose we do this again.
Bills might end up in KC if this ends in a tie, so let’s not have that.
Jaysus, that was a ballsy call on their own 35.
Hey-O!
Want my login?
I wont be watching, and I only bought that stupid thing for the SouthPark BS.
The NBC station in the playing team’s area will broadcast the game, but it’s still a shitty move, especially for Browns fans* as they are legion and inhabit all corners of our great nation.
*If they chose the Browns game and why wouldn’t they? as mention Browns fans are probably the most wide spread fan base in ‘Murica.
Annoyingly, my market not Buffalo despite being in Bills territory fan-wise. So I miss a lot of games.
I would expect all games will be stream-only whenever the latest contracts run out. Over-the-air might get one or two games a week if they’re feeling generous.
Yes it is. I’m not paying for streaming while having to sit through a Bud Light ad.
Homemade pizza at my little brother’s house and watched a Packer game for only 2nd time this season. Jordon Love looks like a completely different player from the beginning of the season. Maybe he is the lead to an Invasion of Body Snatchers.
You should be linking to the original, remakes/reboots/sequels are frowned upon in these here parts.
*hitches britches and hawks a loogie*
I think Ted’S is asleep. CPRM will be okay.
Ackshually, Teds’ is one of the lone voices of reason when you people start whinging about how nobody can make original movies anymore. He likes to point out that the version of ‘The Maltese Falcon’ that everyone knows/loves is like the third or fourth attempt.
Yeah; this weekend I watched two formulaic movies about rich guy falling for working girl: The King and the Chorus Girl from 1937, and the Barbara Stanwyck movie The Woman in Red from I think 1935. Both formulaic, but they do succeed.
My problem with Hollywood is effects-driven stuff to play to the international market, and the lack of intelligent grown-up movies in particular since the critics and a lot of people in Hollywood itself seem to care more about ticking off demographic check boxes. A lot of the remakes/sequels seem to be predicated on “White men must not enjoy this character any longer.” And with foreign film I’ve long railed against critics foisting arthouse shit on us as if it’s the only foreign film worth watching.
But yeah, in many ways you can argue that movie making hasn’t really been original for decades.
https://youtu.be/49zs3szLDJc
Can a brotha get a link?
“Virgo: 10 of Cups – Contentment, repose of the entire heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and friendship.”
More of this, please.
Wakey, wakey Glibs!
🌄😒
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E
Something a bit more unusual today. 🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean (and somewhere upthread, Ted’S.!)
Morning.
Good morning, U! How are you today?
I made the mistake of staying up til 2am for no good reason.
I did log in to work on time and took out the garbage last night, so no catastrophic errors yet.
Oh, my. I hope you have plenty of Dew.
I have a few bottles.
I don’t get it.
Really? That was better acting than most of anything in theaters last year.*
*I haven’t gone to a movie theater in years.
Woo hoo! I have covid!
*does bonus PTO dance*
Congratulations? 😕
How are you feeling?
Honestly, not too bad today. The combination of pseudoephedrine and fluticasone is making it so I can sleep at night. The first night I had it (Friday) sucked. Just tested yesterday.
In retrospect, the shoot being cancelled was a good thing.
Of course, not being able to take Lily to the park is a bad thing. She gets sad.
Glad you’re feeling better. You can sleep on pseudoephedrine?? That always keeps me awake.
Companies still do that?
I’m a bit surprised.
It depends on how quickly they update their policies.
“Saturday Night Drive-By: Citing Anonymous Sources, WSJ Smears Musk As Drug Abuser”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/saturday-night-drive-citing-anonymous-sources-wsj-paints-musk-drug-abuser
Thank you unnamed sources…The WSJ along with all the other major papers and most of the minor ones is a piece of shit.
What’s the Musk equivalent of Orange Man Bad?
Musk stinks?
What gets me is most of the people rending their garments over his maybe/maybe not drug use are the same ones who say “So what?” over homeless people shooting up in the streets-it’s all so transparently political.
Woo-hoo!
Another opportunity to pick up Tesla stock cheap as people panic-sell their stock.
I can’t believe my Bills secured AFC East. What a killer end to the year.
🤘🤘
Good morning, everyone.
I should still be sleeping but my sleep schedule has been turned upside down lately. I’m going to attempt a brief 2 hour nap before I have to get up for work.
Happy Monday Today probably the entire workforce at my office will leave at 4 pm pacific to go watch the NCAA football championship. Bunch of Huskies fans here.
Morning.
Morning HE. There’s going to be a lot of maize and blue around the office over here today.
What a corny way to celebrate