Ohio State finally fired Holtmann. The UCL round of 16 is mostly going how I thought it would. And I got nothing else, so I’m moving on to…the links!
::fart noise::
I wonder if this circus will be televised. I would much rather see it live than wait to hear how its spun by the people covering it.
They’re giving a platform to a terror regime!!! Oh wait, those accusations can only be made against Tucker Carlson. Seriously though, I’d be scared shitless too. These people are psychopaths and I don’t know how safe I’d feel in a room with them either. But it is newsworthy, just like it was with Putin.
Yee-haw! Bring the rest of the incorporations here, buddy. I bet you get treated better.
Cancel culture is alive and well. What a bunch of assholes.
The scrutiny is making Beau sad. Beau, Beau, Beau.
Of course his memory is different than reality. The man lies about everything and his brain is mush. That’s not exactly a good combination for remembering how something actually happened. Release the deposition tapes so we can all judge for ourselves..
“I have had it with these motherfucking maggots on this motherfucking plane!” Eh, doesn’t have quite the same impact. There will be no sequel based on this flight.
Good news, everyone! Hopefully it keeps going until the cashflows are zero.
“Turn around (and go home), bright eyes!” Every now and then I…find a group of politicians dumber than even I thought they could be.
What a great song. Too bad the place they’re describing no longer exists. And this song is just magic. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
I wonder what kind of a bet the guy who was traveling with raw fish wrapped in newspaper in his carry on lost.
It wasn’t a bet — he was just doing it for the halibut.
I’m not gonna start carping about your pun, but I could.
This thread is going to be swimming with the fishes as soon as Swissy gets here.
Well then we probably shouldn’t let it flounder, and we should really earn that side eye.
I’m gonna skate before this gets out of hand.
Don’t go, it’s just a fluke.
Clearly security is doing a fin-tastic job if they can’t see a fish skeleton in their fancy bag scanners.
We need to see some heads on pikes.
The smell would have been kind of muskie, too.
What a bunch of crappie.
Jimbo should jump in with a daily ray of sunshine.
I’m breaming with positivity. The Ray is down below.
And I will saw to Swiss, to look at Matthew 7:3
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the breem that is in thine own eye?
I’m just going to find a perch from which to watch Swissy’s reaction from a safe distance.
A 90-year-old California woman was fired from her volunteering position at the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society because she ‘did
notunderstand pronouns,’ despite previously winning multiple awards from the nonprofit group.corrected
Shouldn’t they need to stop calling Multiple Sclerosis MS as it could be othering to trans people?
Either we’ll all be Mx soon, or honorifics will be eliminated entirely.
Comrade!
Is this apt? Sorry, sleep-starved.
https://3seaseurope.com/worker-parasite-simpsons-surogat-substitute-1962-zagreb-cartoon-school/
I thought multiple sclerosis was a horrible disease, but I didn’t know being misgendered was worse.
“Bunch of assholes” pretty much nails it. Mrs. Patzer’s best friend came down with MS at age 27, he’s still going strong at 65. One of our first dates was the 20K NYC MS walk (back in those glorious days when we could actually walk), Mrs. P. organized a group from work, we raised a fair amount of money. Did this for a few years. Not sure how I feel about this now, I’ll need to see where the money is going. Pretty hard to believe, did the idiot who did this not consider the optics?
The optics are fucking comply or be forced out, what is unclear?
I have MS, Fuck them.
Way past the asshole level.
The optics they care about are the Dominant Culture optics, where refusal to pronoun correctly is a cardinal sin and must be dealt with accordingly.
Your Remnant optics are of no concern.
Yeah, I’m betting she understood just fine, and didn’t feel inclined to go along. When the wokists came, she played the Confused Old Grandma card, underestimating the vicious fanaticism of the wokists.
Hey it works for Biden!
Any ideology that requires a person to lie is going to fail.
The only question is how much damage it will do on the way out. The soviets proved it can be a great deal of damage indeed.
Indeed.
It’s not enough to have MS, you must also be non-white and non-binary.
Imaginary pronouns are definitely more important than helping people with an actual debilitating disease. Nice to hear that the MS Society has their priorities straight.
Good. More of this please.
The trans insanity won’t stop until more sympathetic victims are thrown under the bus.
This Town is underrated.
If the Go-Go’s were horny drug-addled sybarites, then how was Belinda so chubby?
80’s Belinda really takes the wrinkles out of my love-sausage.
Underrated? By what heathens? (I thought it, Vacation and Lust to Love were acknowledged great songs…)
This one is underrated. Especially the the acoustic version.
Underplayed, then.
This Town needs an enema.
Uncommon, but cokeheads can be fat (eg. John Belushi, Lenny Clarke),
“You can’t out train the fork.”
I have observed that. See also Chris Farley.
Who was that fat ugly guy on Howard Stern that did so much blow it wrecked his nose?
Artie Lange.
Oh, thanks, I couldn’t think of his name.
John Candy.
As a man in his mid-70’s, I will admit to loving (in the non-biblical sense) the Go-go’s in the 80’s, and I still love the music.
But I would have loved them in the biblical sense had I gotten the chance.
In the Biblical Sense you say? (Link SFW, song).
Good ol’ Dottie Danger. Drummer for The Germs.
Yet another reason not to fly.
Speaking of cancel culture I came across this news through Mark Steyn’s website. I’m not familiar with Vdare.com or Peter Brimelow but apparently he is being cutoff from his credit card processor.
https://vdare.com/articles/only-four-days-left-to-give-to-vdare-com-by-credit-card
“At VDARE.com, we are battle-scarred veterans of Cancel Culture. It is extremely difficult to run a nonprofit media operation when you can’t use PayPal, Discover Card, Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, Constant Contact, MailChimp, YouTube, Facebook etc. etc. We have been canceled by Certified Public Accountants, Merchant Services Accounts, Accounts Payable Services and even AirBnB. There are more, but to list them all would be excessive.”
https://vdare.com/articles/what-vdare-com-needs-now-is-a-miracle-peter-and-lydia-brimelow-on-nyag-letitia-james-lawfare
As far as I can find vdare’s only crime is wrongthink.
We really have gone full fascist, haven’t we.
Yeah. They’re “race realists”, I believe. When we get to the “filling ditches” part of the program, they’ll be first in line.
Does “race realists” mean “racists”?
Even so, a commitment to free speech would not result in them being cancelled. I’d say the “hate speech realists” are the bigger danger in spreading horrendous ideas at this point, since wide swaths of popular culture don’t view them as malign.
AKA “Human Biodiversity.”
Given the rather malleable definitions of “race”, and the history of cloaking racism in pseudo-scientific bullshit, I’m mighty skeptical of claims that there are in aggregate ginormous variations in median intelligence between people in these made up categories. It’s like the “hockey stick” of races.
Not directly, but generally read as adjacent if not dancing over the line (IMO).
“Not directly, but generally read as adjacent if not dancing over the line (IMO).”
That’s not a reason to be kicked out of the financial system, is it?
No. No it is not. I hope I didn’t give that impression.
We used to not be a country of pussies.
Nearly all of the school districts up here have already cancelled school for an event that takes place after 1500 (initial impact is supposed to start at ~1400). It also happens to coincide with the
IndiansGuardians home opener, there was initially discussion of them playing during it, just so they could turn on the in field lights during the game. They have since stated that they won’t start the game until at least 1710.At the risk of throwing some people under the bus, we are a nation of lawyers. And that is why a lot of this bullshit is happening.
That is absolutely at the root of a whole lotta problems we are dealing with over the past couple decades. California is at the forefront of this as we have been completely run by lawyers for a long while now.
Potential eclipse tourists could create gridlock in northern Ohio
I recall hearing about the exit traffic mess out west for the last one. Enjoy, Ohio.
Apparently it causes issues in Air Traffic as a larger than normal amount of general aviation descended upon areas that normally don’t see that type of volume. ATC systems are not as scalable as one would think they should be.
I am about 40 miles away from the dead center line for the April 8th eclipse. I will probably drove closer to dead center that day for viewing.
I’m pretty much right on the center line.
And besides, everyone knows there’s a stop at Willoughby, OH.
One sister lives just west of Austin; the other just east of Dallas. Both get totality.
This is true. Back in 2017-18 we bought a wrecked Beechcraft that four goofballs failed to takeoff in after flying in to a high altitude Idaho airport to watch the eclipse.
I travelled from LA area of Cali to N. Platte Neb to view the total eclipse. The morning of, traffic getting to a good viewing area was not too bad as people were getting set early and arriving at various times. The exit traffic was a mess, but worth it. I am going to Waco this year.
I found the same thing in Kansas City area, traffic before was almost non-existent, and after was bumper to bumper, but being high on seeing the eclipse it didn’t matter.
I am planning on Valley Mills just outside of Waco and right on the center line. If you want meet up I’ll be at Burger-n-Wok enjoying some Chinese food waiting on traffic to clear.
—“If you want meet up I’ll be at Burger-n-Wok enjoying some Chinese food waiting on traffic to clear.”—
Never been to Waco and don’t know Burger-n-Wok, but that sounds good. My brother from Dallas will be with me. When it gets a little closer, I will contact you to confirm.
Burger-n-Wok is an old Dairy Queen that a Chinese couple turned into an American and Chinese restaurant located in Valley Mills. I’ve only been there once but found it delicious and very charming. Little old lady who knows all the locals in town, asks “how’s your momma doing?” in a heavy Chinese accent, it’s wonderful. Valley Mills about 20 minutes northwest of Waco and my #1 spot, weather permitting. If cloudy I have alternates from Fredericksburg to Broken Bow. Here’s to clear skies.
I will have my wife, son, daughter, grandkids, brother-in-law and his wife.
My email is jeffageer at the Google type mailbox. Just put eclipse in the subject line and I’ll try not to delete it, it is mostly unmonitored but I’ll keep an eye out and give you my main email.
my e-mail: qfm_cunctator at verizon (then dot) net
Heheh, we’re probably going to be in Cranfill’s Gap, just outside of Clifton, not too far from you.
I live dead center for the one in ’17, and, yep, the number of eclipse tourists was kinda crazy. Hotels were full, AirB&Bs full, hell, fields were full up. And they all went from staring at their phones to staring at the sun.
I’m on the +90% line for this one, just like the one in ’17. Just on the other side this time. Probably not gonna drive the 90 miles to see it get even darker.
—“I’m on the +90% line for this one, just like the one in ’17”—
There is a small section of southern Illinois that was on the100% line in ’17 and also for this one.
The Salukis of SIU in Carbondale.
—“hell, fields were full up”—
Yep. We parked in some farmers field. The county fairgrounds was charging $20/per person in the car to park in the parking lot. The farmer 2 miles away was charging $10/ car. He had a great setup. He had rented large trash bins and port-a-potties, was driving around selling “cold drinks”, had some E-Z-Up canopies set up and was grilling burgers and Brats for sale. Must have been 500 vehicles. There were astronomy clubs with telescopes set up. I thing half of the vehicles had “Dark Side of the Moon playing during totality.
Not sure why you would sell cold drinks, as the temp dropped 10-15 degrees when it happened. I wanted another cup of coffee.
Putin picks Biden as the better president for America. Fantastic trolling.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/putins-man-washington-putin-says-he-prefers-predictable-biden-over-trump
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23200000/They-bought-it-matthew-broderick-23236042-500-205.gif
Well he is winning the war, or losing. He’s either telling the truth about Biden or he is lying. I know this with absolute certainty.
To be fair, Putin isn’t the least bit concerned about Biden’s “age and acuity”. 😉
They’re giving a platform to a terror regime!!! Oh wait, those accusations can only be made against Tucker Carlson.
One interview serves the agenda of the Cathedral, the other does not.
That pic with her sitting down in front of the masked terror-thugs… JFC.
Hard pass.
I think Trump is missing an opportunity by not going to the Fani hearing. It would force a lot more coverage of it than it will get without him there. Instead he’s going to NYC for some hearing on that hooker who breached her NDA.
Yeah, tactical mistake. The Fani hearing would be wall to wall if Trump attended.
So CBS fires one of the only MSM journalists left, and then proceeds to hypocritically and unironically tout their interview with a terrorist.
Hashtag winning
Who did they fire? Don’t tell me it was Herridge.
Yes
This is enraging.
I hope somebody snatches her up and her sources keep feeding her info.
got it in one
It wasn’t too difficult to extrapolate, since she’s pretty much the only guess across every major TV news organization
The bourbon that reaches Europe is limited, that reaches Romania even more and is pricey so I don’t buy the higher end stuff. But for the first time I have purchased on of your more expensive US bourbons and hope it is at least interesting (110 of your US dollars for a bottle, which is a chunk of change)
Which bourbon?
Elijah Craig Barrel Proof C921. I saw on the american bourbon interwebz that among the A, B and C, the C batches are usually considered better so I am hopeful.
Elijah Craig is a decent enough bourbon.
this at 60.2% is lower than usual it seems
For barrel strength? That’s in line. 120 proof is nothing to sneeze at.
Or have near an open flame.
for this brand it seems bellow average
https://www.bourbonex.com/forums/topic/24/elijah-craig-barrel-proof-ecbp-batches
Did no one explain “proof”? 60.2% is 120.4 proof. Typical bourbons are in the 80-90 proof range (40-45%). So yeah, that’s not low at all.
I was not talking about bourbons in general but about ECBP batches
That’s the joy of barrel proof stuff – there’s no guarantee of exactly how weak/strong it will be. Variations happen all the time, as is practically guaranteed in a process that has so many variables. If you want reproducibility, you’re not using wooden barrels stacked in a warehouse.
I know as i drink plenty cask strength scotch it was just a random mention in my comment
Before pricing went insane, Elijah Craig 18 year was my go to high end bourbon.
the one I got is 12 but I understand more recent batches are even younger
The UCL round of 16 is mostly going how I thought it would – I bet 1 dollar PSG would win 5-1 at 100-1 odds and am sad my bet missed.
Cancel culture is alive and well. What a bunch of assholes. – the olds must go !
… this wire looks a little thin.
Wait… it’s 36 gauge. I wanted 26 gauge.
Crap.
I can’t believe they haven’t scrapped this headline yet:
https://abcnews.go.com/International/video/intergalactic-russian-nuclear-weapons-pose-huge-threat-us-107239506
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g
They shilling for a Beastie Boys reunion?
It’s Musk trying to take down Richard Branson.
Thats sabotage.
If only Adam Yauch wasn’t taken from us too soon.
::pours one out::
They let the cat out of the bag that the conspiracy theories are true! We have already colonized the system and pushing outwards to other systems and are hiding it from the public!
We’re bombing the fucking universe now. Hurray humanity!
Sounds like my beef with the “In Death” murder solving novels, where the author keeps using “intergalactic travel”, “interstellar travel”, and “somewhere off planet” interchangeably. That takes a profound ignorance of physics to pull off.
Of course Joe brought up his son’s death, it’s one of his favorite subjects.
👏
A fig leaf that came too late in life.
Pre-global all-hands meeting music is “Magic Carpet Ride.”
I wonder how that plays in Singapore, India, et. al.
you have music?
Let alone Persia.
Better than the modern pop they use at my place.
Holy shit. Employee from Burlington just went on (and is still ongoing) a rant demanding that the corporation go full GND, including requiring employess to buy electric cars.
“Your input is noted. Please have your desk cleared out by close of business. Your services are no longer required.”
CEO’s actual response: “50% of our GHG emissions come from our 200mm fabs, like Burlington.”
o.O
Last year, this guy wanted to know how we were going to ensure our chips weren’t going to be used in missiles in the Ukraine/Russia war.
So what bugaboo is he going to have an unhinged rant about next year?
You should start a pool on this, NA.
At least it’s a decent song. Around here, we get … blander fare.
Is 3 pages in word times new roman 12 too long for a post?
Is it about fonts ?
Nope.
Also today drops another one of my silly posts which is basically I took a recurrent comment of mine and turned it into a post. But content is content 🙂
Words to live by.
NYC in a nutshell.
When gentrifiers and asylum seekers and urban campers duke it out – Section 8 recipients hardest hit.
I say make the homeless fight the migrants and televise it.
I’d watch that for a dollar!
Is the problem with fires in NYC shitty batteries, or not enough dogs?
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1757848936600252455
Damn. That is a smart dog.
Right?? Good doggie!
That was probably going to be a three-alarm otherwise.
Until he gets the shit shocked out of him.
A bank filed a lawsuit to foreclose on the WA Condominiums in 2010 after the developers allegedly defaulted on $13.2 million in loans, and the project was abandoned.
How luxurious could it be after 14 years sitting?
Yeah, probably not very. I bet the amenities were never built even.
But it’s NYC so the standards for “luxury” are probably less than you would think.
“Clean” for example. “Free of mold”, “free of chunks of paint falling off”, that sort of thing.
“Bums ate only organic food before shitting in the living room.”
Those are bare minimum standards for habitability. How can you city-folk stand for less?
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“Man, 73, is left with horrifying penile ‘necrosis’ after getting three 1cm-wide batteries stuck in his urethra”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13083697/Man-penile-necrosis-batteries-stuck-urethra.html
Typical Redditor.
Yikes. My urologist uses a numbing agent before inserting tab a into slot b. Maybe next time I’ll do without to see what all the fuss is about. Or not. Some people…
My doc sent me to a prostate guy for a 2nd look. This doc was quite overweight.
He was a…..meaty urologist.
This doc was quite overweight.
Right up your alley? Oh, wait…
He was a…..meaty urologist.
Never mind.
My proctologist was great.
He put his left hand on my shoulder and then took his right hand and …. No wait. He put his right hand on my shoulder and took his left hand and …. No, no, wait.
Now that I think of it he had both hands on my shoulders.
Some of us paralyzed people do stuff like that every day. Just not with batteries.
Ouch.
It’s not that bad. But being disabled is not for the weak.
I had to get scoped once due to scar tissue (dirt bike accident). It was not enjoyable AT ALL. Anyone who inserts things into his wang for fun is shithouse rat crazy.
Current laws of physics safe for now: Barry-1 satellite fails before activation of reactionless Quantum Drives
“We used to not be a country of pussies.”
I recently ordered a copy of Langstaff’s publication of ‘Froggie Went A-Courtin’
I specifically wanted that edition because soon after it the wording and the story changed dramatically.
Instead of ‘…sword and pistol by his side…’ the new version reads ‘….chocolate and flowers by his side…’
What a bunch of pussy bullshit. So, I specifically ordered a used, old copy in good shape.
Guess what I received. Yep, the pussy version.
I am sending it back and never doing business with Alibris books again. Fuckers. Ten bucks says they did that on purpose.
They’re editing used books?
Possibly misrepresenting them? I’d want to know how it was advertised compared to what they delivered.
Advertised (I see now no longer listed): https://i.pinimg.com/originals/aa/46/e4/aa46e4bad97e95909e277d067d7a312f.jpg
Delivered: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/57/98/a2/5798a234adc756e940517db31bd910d0.jpg
I am going to be generous and admit the possibility that they ran out of the one I ordered and thought it would be ok to substitute the one they had in stock.
It’s not ok.
So you are not hopping to any conclusion?
I’m hoping the old version also had a line in it where his potential love mate was asked: “What’s the matter, you have a frog in your throat?”
“Columbine-obsessed California boy, 18, is arrested ‘for plotting school shooting with six intended targets on 25th anniversary of Colorado school bloodbath, after researching how long it would take cops to arrive’
Investigators said they discovered a stockpile of firearms at his home including seven rifles and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and appeared to have identified at least five ‘targets’ in his plot, and was ‘contemplating’ a sixth.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13087353/student-arrested-planning-shooting-southern-california-high-school.html
How does an 18-year-old afford seven rifles?
The “at his home” part might also be “at his parent’s home.”
Credit cards, I expect. It’s not like he was expecting to pay them off, I’m sure.
Over 1000 rounds! ZOMGZ!
Over 1000 rounds! ZOMGZ!
Happy Valentine’s Day?
Depending on the cartridge, that could be a small fortune.
You know how this goes, he had half a box of .223 and a box of 30-06 he took from his dad. The rest was a bucket of .22lr ammo, maybe even pellets for his pellet gun.
When my friend PK died, the cops came out to file a report (he died alone at home.) They said they found multiple weapons and knives, which alarmed PK’s brother.
The dude had a bucket of old Swiss Army knives he was restoring. And he had two broken pellet guns.
eh. It’s a decent start.
Yeah I thought about making the gun-guy snark about “shouldn’t that be ‘only’?”
I’m assuming they are not even “his”.
Well, the plan was to distribute them to his classmates, free of charge.
Well, they always say to bring enough cupcakes for everyone!
I’m just glad everyone seems to be working.
🙂
Me too. Somebody needs to fund my retirement.
Keyword…seems.
If the FSP had been successful would this have happened?
https://www.boundingintosports.com/2024/02/male-high-jumper-tops-high-school-girls-state-record/
a) Yes, because the local school’s policies are their own business.
b) No, because public schools are a violation of the NAP.
FSP?
Free State Project
Free State Project?
c) neither, because without government there would be no roadz or skoolz.
That’s still no, it would not have happened.
The roadz part makes it different enough that I’ll allow it.
c) No, because the local school’s policies are their own business.
Almost nobody wants this shit. It only happens because people are too chickenshit afraid of being cancelled, and hopefully if FSP means anything, it includes Free Speech.
I’m guessing the issue mostly goes away too when the government is not subsidizing “health care,” but I am just an asshat.
Top. Men.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/the-federal-government-runs-a-college-it-has-had-eight-presidents-in-six-years-1646cf46?st=thop2ed9el2fs38&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I get that some people find legs erotic but that’s like thinking the tires are the sexy part of a plane.
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1758104613343863105
As opposed to the food service.
Watch an old Cyd Charisse movie.
You’re exactly right about Cyd Charisse.
Err, if you get a chub thinking about airplane parts, any airplane parts, well, you do you, I guess.
KK is not here this morning?
“Russell Brand claims that accuser has ‘faulty memory of the events’ and ‘can’t distinguish acting from reality’ in legal papers – as he denies sexually assaulting woman on film set”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13086529/Russell-Brand-accuser-faulty-memory-events-denies-sex-assault-arthur-film.html
How long before they accuse Elon?
—“as he denies sexually assaulting woman on film set”—
I have not seen where he was charged in court, just a bunch of “allegations” in the press. Did I miss something?
Just a matter of time, NYC judge summary judgement for 50 billion incoming.
Oh, bullshit.
They always over-reach. It can’t be Chad at the frat party with a drunken attempt at 2nd or 3rd base – it has to be the whole frathouse after being thrown through a glass table.
Hey, it’s their fantasy. Don’t judge.
He was a young guy who women apparently find attractive so he probably was used to getting his way. He also was a druggie, so his decision making was probably not real great. I can believe it’s possible that he took some liberties. But it’s awfully suspicious when these accusations come out many years later when he started saying uncomfortable things.
But taxpayer financed funding for projects that benefit other select politically favored is A-OK
The Stanford Professor Taking on Racism in the $4 Trillion Muni-Bond Market
Historian Destin Jenkins studies how municipal bonds have contributed to inequality in American cities
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-stanford-professor-taking-on-racism-in-the-4-trillion-muni-bond-market-2e95a31c?st=p1yblcpltzn5elg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Hmm, mostly correct but as always, horrible conclusion and solution.
Bingo!
https://twitter.com/__justplaying/status/1758105288157151361
I feel that this is a troll
Not completely – The Outerbridge Crossing (connectng Staten Island to NJ) is actually named after Eugenius Henry Outerbridge. Not sure about the others.
+ 1 Pulaski Skyway
Skyway was new one for me.
Looks legit to me.
Who names their child “Margarine?”
Or “My”?
It’s a perfectly Cromulent Chinese name.
I was in an orchestra with a pair of siblings: Y and Ky Ly. It was unfair how much extra time Y got in filling out her standardized test bubble sheets.
Nobody, I would hope. That’s the name of a company that merged with Lever Brothers, which *was* named after real people.
Today in stupid shit government closed some gyms for code violations like the machines did not have instructions in Romanian and in one case the hair driers in the locker rooms did not have instructions in Romanian on how to use. it is a fucking hairdrier. I have never been in a gym were people did not know how to use a machine and did not ask around. Now many still do stupid shit on the machines but instructions would not change that.
Don’t use the hairdryer in the shower. Romanians would know this if they translated the warning labels.
Sticky notes would solve that problem without government intervention.
Penn Jillette could have used some warning about the use of a hair dryer
Its streamed for sure..
Thanks. Wish I could recall some of the attorneys(?) who have livestreamed other newsworthy hearings/trials and provided running commentary.
Viva Frei is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4nAMW0DOWo
You can watch both at the same time like Elvis or John Madden:
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/watch-live-judge-hears-case-whether-wills-stays-da-trump-election
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/watch-live-trump-attends-ny-pretrial-hearing-stormy-daniels-hush-money-case
A man shrieking like a girl in a slasher flick
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1757776302239539707
They shouldnt park it that close to the wall.
White men will go to any length to disempower a strong black woman.
I got zero snow from the last winterpocalypse bizzardageddon, it all was too far south. Now I’m going to miss out on the “quite pleasant actually” snowstorm because it’ll be too far north.
i do not need to be dealing with ticks in February.
My daughter is disappointed with the lack of snow this year. So are all the government employees.
I’d trade my scorpions for your ticks.
Although this year we have had very few. I think it’s because we got a new set of anti-termite baits all around the house (Tucson, weirdly, has a serious termite problem – both the flying and the burrowing kind – we’ve had both chewing on our house at different times). I think the baits may be getting both scorpions and termites.
Weirdly, we had only one scorpion at our Nevada house. Though I didn’t go hunting for them with a blacklight.
I would absolutely make that trade.
I have lived in paces with scorpions and tarantualas — neither of them have ever fucked with me.
Plus scorpion-infused grain neutral spirits is remarkably tasty.
Tarantulas (we got them, too) don’t bother me. Although finding one in the house is kind of alarming. Which is odd, because I use to have a spider phobia. Until I moved into scorpion country, anyway.
I’ve been stung twice by scorpions (once on the face while I was sleeping). It is a different experience, because they dish out a neurotoxin. Would not recommend. One variety (which we, of course, have) can also kill small animals. I think our dogs are too big, but I don’t want to find out they aren’t.
We got 10″ here in North Jersey. You know who else… Never mind.
Obligatory..maybe NSFW
Waste fraud and abuse
Chicago will stop using ShotSpotter in September. The city has spent about $49 million on it since 2018.
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In a social media post last week, SoundThinking CEO Ralph Clark defended the technology. “If 80-90% of gunfire goes unreported, why wouldn’t you want to close that gap? Especially, if it had the potential to save 100+ lives in addition to other ancillary benefits. Still have not heard any reasonable argument against that proposition.”
In a statement on Wednesday, Clark emphasized the importance of ShotSpotter for the residents of Chicago.
“The most important measure of ShotSpotter’s value is in lives saved. In the time that it has been deployed in Chicago, ShotSpotter has led police to locate hundreds of gunshot wound victims where there was no corresponding call to 911,” Clark said. “Those are victims who most likely would not have received aid — if not for ShotSpotter.”
The Chicago Police Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
I doubt it.
“The most important measure of ShotSpotter’s value is in lives saved.”
Scrolling down to the chart, it’s hard to say its saved lives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago
Pretty sure we’re still using ShotSpotter here in Cleveland
I can’t imagine trying to keep a supply chain in multinational corporation. OTH, in financial services I have more than enough trouble complying with just FedGov.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/volkswagen-eyes-march-delivery-for-cars-delayed-at-u-s-ports-over-part-tied-to-customs-issues-eebd1f3b?st=5wqlpovepicmryv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“DOLTON, IL. — The eccentric self-described “super mayor” of a Chicago suburb was compared to a South American dictator by disgruntled constituents, who complained about massive billboards bearing her face across town and the “militarization” of local police against her political enemies…
She has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for a laundry list of antics, including accusations of blowing thousands in public funds on luxury travel and dining, turning local police into both her personal bodyguards and backup dancers for music videos, and hiring DJs for town meetings — all while the city falls $5 million into debt.”
https://nypost.com/2024/02/15/us-news/illinois-super-mayor-tiffany-henyard-uses-cops-to-harass-enemies-puts-face-on-posters-across-town/
CWAC
Daddy issues
Donald Trump’s estranged niece wasn’t amused by Jon Stewart’s monologue on his first day back behind the desk at “The Daily Show.”
Mary Trump criticized Stewart’s Monday episode, in which he slammed both President Joe Biden and the former president. Stewart said Trump, 77, and Biden, 81, were “both stretching the limits of being able to handle the toughest job in the world.”
“Not only is Stewart’s ‘both sides are the same’ rhetoric not funny, it’s a potential disaster for democracy,” the 58-year-old psychologist wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday.
“I know Donald, and the media has to stop with the both sides bullshit,” she said in a follow-up post.
Stewart is back? Something else for me to not care about.
We get it, but why are we trying to defeat Hitler(!) with old retard man? Even Jon Stewart has noticed.
“There is much more to do after the disastrous four years of the Trump administration and decades of Republican governance, but unlike his elderly, fascist, and cognitively impaired counterpart in the Republican Party, President Biden is an elder statesman with experience to get things done that can give American democracy a fighting chance,” Mary Trump wrote in her newsletter on Tuesday.
WHEEEEEE!
How do people write these things without bursting into flames?
“decades of Republican governance”
Weirdly, over the last few decades I count two years where the Repubs had the Presidency and both house of Congress.
Oh, and Congress spent those two years undermining the President.
All issues in California are due to that one Republican in the state that is elected. If they could just get rid of him…
AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!!
“New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced that the city is suing five top social media companies for “fueling the nationwide youth mental health crisis.”
The lawsuit, filed in California on Wednesday, names Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, Snap’s Snapchat, ByteDance’s TikTok, and Google’s YouTube.
“New York City, like other parts of this nation, is battling an unprecedented mental health crisis among its youth and serious disruption to the public health, fueled by Defendants’ creation and promotion of addictive and dangerous social media platforms,” the 305-page lawsuit’s introduction begins. “Youth are now addicted to Defendants’ platforms in droves, resulting in substantial interference with school district operations and imposing a large burden on cities, school districts and public hospital systems that provide mental health services to youth.”
The lawsuit alleges that the companies drive youth usage through “behavioral and neurobiological techniques used in slot machines and exploited by the cigarette industry.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/nyc-files-lawsuit-against-social-media-companies-fueling/
Makes sense. NYC has no bigger issues to deal with.
Nice, can’t have private entities doing this sort of thing. Now can we get a ruling on the incessant vaccine propaganda and cringeworthy anti-smoking ads funded by tax revenues? NB, I believe tobacco companies are still funding the anti-smoking spots as part of the 1970’s settlements.
Not just anit-smoking, the law here was changed to apply to banning vaping indoors as well.
Then there’s the signs that have been put up at quite a few stores locally about R J Reynolds making cigarettes more addictive by adding more nicotine (and flavorings). Those monsters.
Don’t forget the climate change scare lobby. That has fucked up millions of kids.
Think how much worse it would be if the kids hadn’t been locked down for a year. They would have mingled and the addiction would have spread!
Being locked into their bedrooms by the gubment saved them!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Ewwwww
The Arizona-based educator formerly known as Rachel Dolezal has been ousted from her position in a local school district due to content posted on her OnlyFans account.
Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, had been teaching at an elementary school in Arizona since August 2023, according to a report from News4 Tucson.
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Diallo is best known for controversy surrounding her racial identity, identifying as a Black woman for years and even heading the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) before her parents publicly revealed she is white in 2015.
After the controversy, Diallo lost her role teaching African studies at Eastern Washington University and launched an account on OnlyFans in 2021 after struggling to find work. She has made 600 posts in the years since and shared hundreds of paywalled adult videos and photos. Diallo could not be immediately reached for comment.
No thanks, I’m eating.
No, not again. Her giant Easter Island head and over permed hair haunt my waking moments. I may need therapy.
London Overground: New names for its six lines revealed
The only way out here is selling off naming rights to raise money. The Lioness Line could be the Mohammad Bin Salman Presents THE LINE Line.
https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1758060143709724837
Heh
Paging Q!
Teacher formerly known as Rachel Dolezal loses job over OnlyFans account
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/rachel-dolezal-nkechi-diallo-onlyfans-arizona-school-fired
Nkechi? My phone won’t even let me type it without fighting autocorrect.
The Foothills is the fawncy neighborhood here (think Tucson’s version of Highland Park in Dallas). I larfed when I saw this. I’d be having a very serious talk with HR about this – if they get tricked by a simple name change, then what exactly are they good for?
Clash of Assholes
I have no proof or knowledge, but I would bet a bit of money that Rep. Huot is a complete “Respect My Authority” type of ref. Even if I’m wrong, what an asshole to make being an asshole to him a legal matter.
The absolute horror!
Meh.
Wake me up when they graduate to snowballs, batteries, or bottles.
That stupid shit has been going on forever.
Law not needed. We have ’em already. Disturbing the peace and assault are already crimes. If they aren’t enforcing them now a new law won’t make any difference.
Advocacy
The National Archives in Washington, DC, closed early on Wednesday after two people dumped red powder on the display that protects the US Constitution, Archives officials said in a news release.
“The Constitution was unaffected in its encasement. No damage was done to the document itself,” the Archives said in a statement.
The individuals were immediately detained by security at the time of the incident, around 2:30 p.m., and officials are investigating, the Archives said.
In a video posted to X, two men stood in front of the powder-covered encasement and spoke out about the right to clean water and a livable climate before being approached and detained by uniformed guards.
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The incident is part of a trend of high-profile vandalism with the intent to draw attention to the climate crisis and other human-caused environmental harm.
Judging from photos, I would have pegged them as “immigration” activists.
Note the stolen base, where the news story does exactly what the activists wanted: “draw attention to the climate crisis and other human-caused environmental harm”, presented as an unassailable fact.
Obviously should be held for 2 years without trial, and then given 20 years in prison, as they attempted to “shred the Constitution,” “destroy our democracy,” and deny the public access to “our sacred governing document.”
I’m guessing management will roll over quickly given recent events.
“The workers’ contract at the manufacturer runs out on Feb. 29. On March 1, Teamsters employees at all 12 breweries across the U.S. plan to walk out.”
https://newjersey.news12.com/anheuser-busch-employees-plan-to-picket-newark-brewery-as-strike-deadline-looms
There’s also potential strikes at MolsonCoors of the Teamsters as well.
Since Brandon is running for re-election, don’t worry, things are fine!
Those numbers make no sense to me. I must be running with a bunch of poor bastards. Or maybe a lot of my friends have a stay at home parent? $150K median income seems super high to me.
For things like this Wiki can usually be actually useful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Minnesota_locations_by_per_capita_income
No way is that right.
WTF?
Hur’s 345-page report absolved Biden of criminal wrongdoing while pointing to evidence that he took home and kept highly classified material. Even though Biden was found to have disclosed classified information to the ghost writer on three occasions, prosecutors concluded that they could not prove that the president knew it was classified information at the time.
Isn’t that an egregious misrepresentation of what the report said?
What difference does it make? At this point the rule of law is dead. The CJ system has been turned into a banana republic style political weapon.
Any investigation or case that comes up we already know how it is going to end.
Mostly true.
-PolitiFact