It just snowballs, and not just because there’s a pile on the ground. I moved here with the intention of giving up science and changing careers. Things which we’re all painfully aware of happened and I ended up getting sucked into the local university as a non-faculty researcher in engineering. Then a professor in the chemistry department suddenly quit.
“What are we going to do, the guy was supposed to teach three classes?”
“Say, isn’t there a chemist in the glass department?”
And now I’m a professor. This was not my goal, but I’m rolling with it. Tomb Raider bought me a sweater with leather elbow patches.
Speaking of rolling, birthdays today include a guy with a gold back; a guy whose name became a cliché; a guy who built bridges; the best actor in Airplane! and Beavis and Butthead Do America; a guy who proved that if you’re in opposition to Feynman, you’re likely wrong; a woman whose memory I cherish, since she told my first wife that she was not smart enough to be an academic; one of my favorite guitarists and a genuinely nice guy; a guy whom I always confuse with Paul Lynde; star of two of my favorite comedy TV series; and competition with Marianne Williamson for “Weirdest Team Blue Presidential Candidate of the 2020s.”
And now, class, let us consider Links.
War bones stroked harder, you should buy stock in defense contractors, who are dancing with joy.
Sorry to intrude on Swiss’s territory, but this is one more reason that Facebook is pure evil.
The latest in interactive games.
I assume this is the one getting money funneled through her accounts?
Despite rumors, this wasn’t Spud.
When I go to NYC with Tomb Raider, we get hit up by panhandlers every ten or fifteen seconds. But TBH, they all seem to be US natives.
When your movies are this shitty, desperate action is called for.
How can anyone not love Suitcase Junket? It’s a one-man band (Matt Lorenz) with great songs.
Professor Candy?
Do you think the kiddos know the other persona?
Small town and all
No, they don’t. The vast majority of the kids are from the NYC area so aren’t tuned in to the locals. And we VERY much keep this on the downlow to avoid professional complications.
Ha I suffered through a day at the ER this week with literally the nastiest woman I have ever encountered. Basically, “me, me, me.”
The other day I saw the same woman on a bus coming home from Target, on the other side of town. This time, instead of carrying a cane, she was lifting a bicycle off the rack when she got off at her stop.
“I suffered through a day at the ER this week”
Everything good? What happened?
Undetermined pain. We’ll see.
Hope that’s all it is.
Last time I went for undetermined pain, I found out you can get the equivalent of varicose veins in your testicles, although that has another name.
Blue Balls?
Yep, I forget the name, but it’s a thing.
So blindness isn’t the only side effect?
That’s lovely for casual, but a tweed sportcoat likewise elbow-patched is still de rigueur, is it not?
As for the new gig…mazel tov?
Only with a pipe, I thought. Have to go Full Tolkein for the proper look.
This.
Sweet! I have to confess I’ve contemplated hunting one of those down when I get bombarded with ads for them while playing Solitaire (at least it is more topical than most of MS’s stupid ads).
Problem of course is that my cool weather clothes (the weather being cool… not me, obviously) sit in the closet 10.5 months out of the year. So it is hard to justify buying something just because I rather like it instead of more comfortable short sleeve shirts that can handle the unfortunately expanding American Frontier these days.
Morning, OMWC.
A little off-topic — but wanted to give a shout out to Sloopy when I saw this article this morning. Animal’s not the only one published (kinda 😉 ) by the Townhall group of sites apparently!
Yemen: We’ll be sending in ground troops, likely in a limited capacity at first and we’ll build from there, by summer, right after the geniuses at the Pentagon realize that we can’t bomb every little pissant location they launch $10,000 drones from. If you have teenagers maybe tell them to steer clear of the military, the army and marines in particular.
Fallback plan for November if the Lawfare and Fortification look unlikely — Biden is going to be a War President, no matter how much instability they need to bring to the world to get there. “And you don’t change horses in midstream!” (I would like to think it shouldn’t apply when the asshole in question is who obviously got us into the war — but it probably would work… Sigh.)
That will be Repub nominee Neocon Nikki’s cue to handle him with kid gloves so as not to undermine the Nation at War(tm). Like Romney declined to take a swing at Obama to Promote Racial Healing(tm).
Well, now you’ve made this obligatory! Sorry — I don’t make the rules…..
Finnister later told FBI officials he had consumed “multiple alcoholic shots to calm his nerves prior to the flight, which he stated was his first,” according to the criminal complaint.
Well, it was Spirit Airlines.
Obviously I wasn’t there — but this seriously seems like the sort of thing that would have been handled quietly by the flight crew shutting the guy down (and / or fellow passengers telling the drunk to knock it off) before 9/11 — now everything gets escalated to law enforcement and the poor sap gets plastered on the news. Yay progress. Don’t be an ass — but at the same time, this doesn’t need to involve cops, assholes.
He didn’t realize Spirit charges everything “la carte”. Even groping the flight attendants.
I look forward to the memes mixing this incident with the passive aggressive AT&T ad where the airlines charge for everything.
“When your movies are this shitty”
She’s still wearing a mask I see and outside no less-I’ve noticed that picking up in my area again for some reason.
Yeah, the Academy should all over that like a… something that is naturally all over something else.
I wonder what they’re not telling us.
The movie is shit?
When it bombs she will claim it’s cuz she black
“Those bigots won’t buy tickets!”
“Origin tells a compelling story of racism…”
Now, how did I know that upon reading the headline? I really am sick of hearing that horseshit. I guess they got nuthin’ else.
It’s a grift and that’ll be all they’ve got until it doesn’t pay off anymore.
Frederick Douglass complained about that quite a bit, and rightfully so. Dubois is the first race grifter I know of but I am sure he is just one in a long line of them. Anyway, I am sick of hearing about that shit.
“You don’t know what it’s like to be…”
/Said every kid sometime in their life
*Places gold star on Fourscore’s scorecard*
Brochettaward doesn’t know what it’s like to be First.
If the star of a movie is panhandling for customers on the street, the grift ain’t paying off any more.
Hopefully her dad missed out on the “creepily shower with his daughter” heredity even under the influence of Cracky.
Well he was banging his ex SIL so who the hell knows? Not quite on the same level of weirdness but there seemed to be some unusual stuff with his niece too, allegedly of course, and none of that would surprise me.
Not allegedly. Somebody here once posted the leaked laptop photos of him choking out his underage niece while fucking her on a dirty bed.
‘In an interview that aired Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” first lady Jill Biden was asked how she is coping with Republicans’ accusations against her family, notably Hunter.
“I think what they are doing to Hunter is cruel, and I’m really proud of how Hunter has rebuilt his life after addiction,” the first lady said. “I love my son, and it’s hurt my grandchildren.”’
Which makes this quote all the more funny.
God, I had blocked that out. Thanks for bringing it back
“…it’s hurt my grandchildren.”
Like the one you won’t acknowledge?
Dang. Tonio from the top rope.
“Spirit Airlines passenger arrested for asking flight attendants to join ‘mile high club’”
Well if it wasn’t Spud, which one of us was it?
I dont know what you are talking about. *casts eyes away*
The High Mile Club? That doesn’t seem to narrow down the list either
/Smoking Section Citizen
Crockett said later in the hearing. “It was a spit in the face, at least of mine as a Black woman, for you to talk about what white privilege looks like, especially from that side of the aisle.”
Crockett, if you want to be spit in the face you should take it up with your Dom.
Oh, thanks for that! Now I have a slightly modified version of this running through my head….
🙂
After reading the quotes from our Congress Critters in that Hill article I can’t help but think that what passes as political discourse in this country often resembles smack talk at a junior high lunch table…or a YouTube comments section.
We elected these fucking people?!… Jesus Christ.
When I think our politics (ians) are the worst I have to remind myself that it’s the same in every country. It’s politicians all the way down.
We have to do something with the crazy people. Personally I think it’s a mistake to give them any real power. Just go look at them pontificating in congress, show them to the kids and tell them “that’s where we keep the loonys.”
Democracy strongly selects for attention whores, so this should be no surprise.
Well, sure. I’m just saying the prose was far more elegant in the old days.
Coolidge’s Declaration of Independence speech is something so marvelously beautiful that I can’t imagine ANY current politician saying something like that.
Agreed. One of many reasons he is my favorite presidents…low bar, I know….by far.
Huxley: So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
We can be outcasts and still suffer under the delusions of the masses.
it’s infesting many corners: basic discourse is infused with playground taunts and confrontation; I’m getting this from middle-class professional neighbors…30 year old women, even
we lost the taste leaders, but, of course, those old leaders thought VietNam was totes okay; they failed us
over the last 40 years we got to a place where the masses wanted Jerry Springer and Oprah and WWE and elected a chimp movie actor and a reality television star as president
I spent my life getting away from my toothless hillbilly cousins, but now their notions and decorum are de rigueur…..fuck me
“I spent my life getting away from my toothless hillbilly cousins…”
Then I realized they were better than the alternative so I rejoined them.
This.
Here I am living in Peckerwood, USA, happier than a pig in shit.
birthdays today include a guy with a gold back;
Happy birthday Gert Fröbe!
I can’t even.
Distracted by the fabulous?
The Match Game drunks are the funny drunks; the Hollywood Squares drunks are the mean drunks.
A friend on a game show board was at a convention of some sort and happened to run into Paul Williams and told him something to the effect of “I just saw one of your Match Game appearances on TV last night!” Paul’s immediate response: “Was I lit?”
Wait… Paul Williams is still kicking around??
Yeah; amusing interviewee.
a guy who built bridges;
Happy birthday Charles Goren!
You mean Omar Sharif.
Wouldn’t Alec Guinness be the cinematic bridge builder?
What about Sergio Leone?
No; that would be Dorothy Simpson.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel?
The Roeblings?
In today’s candidate for Nut Punch of the Morning — and extra nut punchy because we were just talking about the stupid overuse of SWAT yesterday morning, I think — there’s this batch of shit.
I don’t fucking understand what goes through these asshole police chief / officers / whoever made this call’s heads. You’re looking for a 14 year old fucking kid. You keep looking at a house where a different family moved in and says the prior one has been gone for two fucking years (which means they started when the kid was 12?). This is the kind of shit that Barney Fucking Fife could handle if you MUST keep checking to see if the kid magically lives there again.
But no… you storm in like you’re getting off being SEAL Team 6 and this is the Bin Laden compound. Screw property damage. Screw that you could just knock on the fucking door and ask. Screw that you don’t need a fucking infantry platoon and whatnot. Screw that you could hurt people — and if the story is to be believed, you did fuck up yet another fucking infant.
And most especially — SCREW THAT APPARENTLY NONE OF THIS SHAMES YOU OR YOU DON’T SEE ANYTHING WRONG!
Goddamn, at least have some fucking shame you militaristic fucks.
All I can figure is they’re of the “We’re at war with criminals!” mindset, and they’ve decided this family (probably because of where they live) are criminals regardless of what they’ve really done.
A fucking disgrace to the entire concept of law enforcement. So fucking infuriating.
[leaps up from computer wildly applauding]
The real disgrace to law enforcement is the rest of the profession that shrugs when this shit happens.
Yep. Any profession will have bad apples – it is how they are handled by the “good guys” that tells you what you need to know.
yes, I’ll meet you halfway:
it matters less what fellow cops think, it matters more that the community rubber stamps it
dumbshit law-and-order copsuckers like my dad are to blame: that’s how they vote and what they paid for
and they’re too dumb to see that this is their fault, that they begged for it, that they did it to their own neighbors
they’re reading this and shrugging that’s too bad these things happen
no one understands anything until it happens to them….dumbshit
And a press who only covers the problem from a “shut up you racist deplorables” point of view.
So everyone knows “hands up don’t shoot” and George Floyd, even though they know a version that is a lie…. and nobody knows who Kelly Thomas is, even though that was a thousand times worse than even the fake version of Floyd and the gentle giant.
So of course our neighbors don’t do anything. They don’t know anything. They think cops kill thousands of black people for no reason and have no clue that way more cops are killed by criminals than black folks are killed by cops.
“All I can figure is they’re of the “We’re at war with criminals!” mindset”
Oh, it’s much broader than criminals. These are the armed enforcers for the Ruling Class, after all.
And, yeah, cop culture tolerates and encourages this. The old “90% of police give the rest a bad name” thing.
Out of curiosity what are the tones of the comments?
JFC. I have a three year old and a 8 month old at home, so these kinds of stories are especially enraging now. I can’t imagine ignoring a screaming child in distress for that long. I’m reminded of stories of the Japanese “experiments” on the Chinese during WW2, they would leave a baby out in the cold to see how long it would take to die.
And the end of the Waco siege where massive amounts of gas were sprayed into the house and the children not having masks that could fit their faces (which the FBI was counting on by the way), and they were so affected by the gas that they broke their own backs from spasms. Fuck I’m so mad. Fuck all cops.
Didn’t see where Feyerabend crossed paths with Feynman, though clearly they were of vastly different minds.
“Origin tells a compelling story of racism, family, and loss.”
Needz moar stunning and brave.
“Video recorded outside the theater showed Ellis-Taylor removing her mask and engaging in a conversation about the film.”
I always marveled at people who took off their masks when they went into maximum droplet production mode (coughing, sneezing, talking).
The basketball coaches were great for that. When they needed to yell something to the team, the mask would get pulled down and the cooties would fly. And then the mask would go back up for protection. Utterly ridiculous, but they were just following the science.
Obviously. That dirt-cheap and compliant workforce isn’t going to materialize all on its own.
Activate Project Genius!
…Genesis
Fuck you, auto-correct.
GENESIS ALLOWED IS NOT! IS PLANET FORBIDDEN!
Who *doesn’t* have the ability to work?
People in persistent vegetative states. And by that I don’t mean Idaho.
Illegally present “asylum seekers” before the government throws work papers at them.
My ex husband
25 percent of Philadelphians.
On the “less infuriating” front…
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SDF-7’s nutpunch link is excellent. What a perfect example. We have idiotic deployment of SWAT when they had been to the residence several times, we have claims that everyone acted properly and that they were at the right house because the search warrant listed that address.
But even better, we have claims that flash bangs were only deployed outside, so there is no way that they hurt the baby. That one us a whopper. Who ever heard of using flash bangs outside the building? What a stupid lie! Where is the press? How dumb are you if you don’t challenge that statement on its face?? Why wait for the ring camera footage that your stupid mainstream station us never going to report on?
Double bonus…. we have an incompetent hospital going along with the police narrative: the baby was like that when we found it! Holy crap! I hope they hit them with malpractice for that one.
And who ignores a baby in distress???? Are these cartoon villains? Usually the cops in these wrong house raids are simply doing their job…. the wrong job… but at least trying to be professional, and it is the government as a whole who is the Mal actor. But leaving a baby in life-threatening distress, long after you have secured the risks? That is comic book villain shit.
I’ll remind you of the Jose Guerena shooting in Tucson. When that video was released one of the cops – a runt at that – was firing blindly through the door with his handgun over the shoulders of the cops in front of him.
Wow… psychic much? I was just talking about that last night with a couple of cop buddies. They agreed, they would have beat his ass the minute they got back to the station.
And now I’m a professor. This was not my goal, but I’m rolling with it.
And for years people have been braying about how hard it is to get jobs in academia.
As with everything else, it’s “getting a job at a salary I’m willing to accept.” I came cheap.
Silicone Saturday for academic study.
https://archive.is/kLsO0
Translation: her 15 minutes are nearly over so she’s trying to get some overtime.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/teacher-who-quit-over-orgy-31771266
There is something seriously wrong with those lips. A bit of a rictus grin there? Who would have sex with that? Creepy.
Neo-con war boners versus Houthis war dances. Would be fun to watch if I wasn’t paying for it.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/156/838/154/playable/a856be7e05aede15.mp4
Dress up night at a 4H Club party. Miss the old days…
Saving the planet
Oil and natural gas companies for the first time would have to pay a fee for methane emissions that exceed certain levels under a rule proposed Friday by the Biden administration.
The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule follows through on a directive from Congress included in the 2022 climate law. The new fee is intended to encourage industry to adopt best practices that reduce emissions of methane and thereby avoid paying.
Methane is a climate “super pollutant” that is more potent in the short term than carbon dioxide and is responsible for about one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. The oil and natural gas sector is the largest industrial source of methane emissions in the United States, and advocates say reduction of methane emissions is an important way to slow climate change.
Ban natural gas. Burn cow dung.
So basically the legal end around they tried with co2.
note: they are also sure to call it a pollutant — like co2 — even though it isn’t to give themselves legal jurisdiction.
“The oil and natural gas sector is the largest industrial source of methane emissions in the United States”
I thought it was egg salad.
On the “holy crap” front… Reason was slobbering Chris Chrstie’s knob this week, praising him for being the only republican brave enough to take on Trump.
Anyway, he is gone now….
Soooo…. “libertarians” for Haley is now a thing….
Man Haley is so libertarian.
“Free minds, free funerals”
They can propagandize until their jaws fall off. I would love if Vivek were telling the truth, I would vote for him, but I dont think he is. He is a little bit of a fast talker for my taste, if y’all know what that means. So, I am left with….OMB.
Fuck Peacock. How many cable channels and streaming services does one have to buy just to watch football? I remember when everything was on broadcast TV. Now I have to install an app, and sign up to a paid service, just to watch one game?
Just say no. Don’t encourage them.
Yeah, I know I could sign up for one month of Peacock for $6 and then cancel, but that would just help prove to them that football is important enough to make people jump through hoops. Then the next year they will require a full year subscription or some such crap.
I’d rather go watch at the local pub but I don’t know if they’ll have the game either!
They have their rea$on$.
So what game am I missing?
Dolphins vs. Chiefs
After the ‘take a knee’ thing I wouldn’t watch if they paid me.
Good NRO material this week:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/01/a-message-from-menem-to-milei-dollarize-argentina-now/
I know we have disagreement on this issue here but posting anyhoo.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/obviously-hit-the-houthis/
American geopolitical hegemony
That reads to me as “there is no hornet’s nest in the world that we will not go stick our dick in it”. We’re just going to ping-pong between the ass end of the Saudi peninsula and the Horn of Africa.
“Bizarre dithering”
It’s just bizarre. Bizarre why Obama/Biden aid and abet America’s enemies. Bizarre. A mystery to be sure. Who can figure it out?
Ya know, when you post a link, you don’t have to cut and paste the article.
“EPA is delivering on a comprehensive strategy to reduce wasteful methane emissions that endanger communities and fuel the climate crisis,” Regan said in a statement. When finalized later this year, the proposed methane fee will set technology standards that will “incentivize industry innovation” and spur action to reduce pollution, he said.
Leading oil and gas companies already meet or exceed performance levels set by Congress under the climate law, meaning they will not have to pay the proposed fee, Regan and other officials said.
Nothing incentives innovation like government regulations designed to hobble small competitors.
Well, not pay the fee now. When the thresholds get lowered, now that the principle is established, then they’ll pay. And “their” lobbyists will continue to do a half assed job in self interest.
“endanger communities”
Oh, fuck off.
New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said oil and gas companies have long calculated that it’s cheaper to waste methane through flaring and other techniques than to make necessary upgrades to prevent leaks.
“Wasted methane never makes its way to consumers, but they are nevertheless stuck with the bill,” Pallone said. The proposed methane fee “will ensure consumers no longer pay for wasted energy or the harm its emissions can cause.”
Que?
“We’re gonna charge a tax to burn off waste oil refining products that are literally worthless — worth less than zero — thus raising energy costs for consumers, and without a trace of shame declare that consumers will save money from this theft. And characterize CO2, which fuels plant growth and is thus necessary for life, as a harmful emissions.”
FTFY
“I was ‘gang raped’ in the metaverse -the trauma was similar to a real-world assault
Speaking to DailyMail.com, psychotherapist and start-up co-founder Nina Patel said that her attackers may have felt ‘disinhibited’ due to being in a virtual world…
Patel is co-founder of Kabuni, and is an expert in metaverse and VR – hence she was one of the earlier users of Horizon Worlds…
A Meta spokesperson highlighted that the researcher did not have the Personal Boundary feature on – a safety tool that’s turned on by default and prevents non-friends from coming within four feet of your avatar.
But Patel said in the case of her attack, she simply ‘froze’ and couldn’t activate her ‘Personal Boundary’ in time.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12948027/I-gang-raped-metaverse-trauma-similar-real-world-assault.html
Rape is like racism. Supply doesn’t meet demand.
So she is the founder of competing VR company.
“Leverage the synergy of intuitive design tools and generative AI to manifest your creative vision. Regardless of your experience, design compelling lessons in the physical, digital, or immersive realm, fostering transformative learning experiences.
Morph your concepts into unique digital assets. Through Kabuni’s seamless minting process, your creative endeavours evolve into valuable NFTs, enabling exchange and recognition. Mint your way to innovation with blockchain technology, no coding required.”
“Commitment to Children’s Digital Rights: A Manifesto for the Future
Nina Jane Patel”
https://medium.com/kabuni/commitment-to-childrens-digital-rights-a-manifesto-for-the-future-38a7082e6518
It also looks like avatars are only from the waist up. So how was she “gang raped”?
Lunatics run the asylum. News at 11.
an expert in metaverse and VR
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Came across this nut punch last night
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department_Combat_Cross
“Votes For Women”
I’m only willing to pay 82% of the asking price, and that’s if I’m guaranteed of a rejection of the 19th Amendment.
From the article it sounds like the game designer is a progressive ass clown who probably supported Facebook censoring “disinformation”.
The climate law, formally known as the Inflation Reduction Act, established a waste-emissions charge for methane from oil and gas facilities that report emissions of more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year to the EPA. The proposal announced Friday sets out details of how the fee will be implemented, including how exemptions will be applied.
Jacking up energy prices is a sure fire way to reduce inflation. That’s Econ 101.
Inflation Reduction – is there anything it can’t do?
Meanwhile, in Turkey
Turkey said on Saturday its forces had “neutralised” 45 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq following a clash on Friday with members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in which nine Turkish soldiers were killed in northern Iraq.
“Operations following the treacherous attack neutralised a total of 45 terrorists, 36 in northern Iraq and 9 in northern Syria,” Turkey’s Communications Directorate said in a statement after President Tayyip Erdogan chaired a security meeting.
Ankara typically uses the term “neutralised” to mean killed.
“Turkey will never allow the establishment of a ‘terrorland’ on its southern borders under any pretext and for any reason,” the statement in Turkish added.
Earlier on Saturday, the Defence Ministry said the military had carried out airstrikes in the Hakurk, Metina, Gara and Qandil regions of northern Iraq, destroying 29 PKK targets included caves, bunkers, shelters and oil facilities.
Just a little family squabble. Nothing to worry about.
Inflation Reduction – is there anything it can’t do?
It’s the Swiss Army Knife of legislation.
Reduce inflation?
Brawndo for the win