Wednesday Morning Links

by | Feb 21, 2024 | Daily Links | 265 comments

The CFP is not going to take the 12 best teams, it seems. Man City are keeping the pressure on at the top after faltering this past weekend. Let’s see if Liverpool can match them today.  And Bayern’s manager will step down at the end of the season. That’s it. Can’t wait for baseball season to get here.  Now on to…the links!

Is there a way everybody involved can lose? Because that would be ideal.

And I thought ignoring a coequal branch of government amounted to treason. But when it’s designed to buy votes, people applaud.

What the fuck, Indiana? Get your shit together.

This is nuts. Really. A pair of nuts.

Worse than seed oils. Avoid this shit like the plague.

Yeah, no shit. Everybody knows this. The people getting rich from it just don’t want to admit it.

I don’t even have a pithy lede for this one. Sick bastards.

Whoever printed this is about to be accused of racism. And sexism, I’d assume. Because that’s how it works.

I haven’t seen this scam in a while. Good to see somebody going back to the classics.

I wonder whose value she will use if it comes to this. I suppose she’ll use whichever one she wants. Since that’s what the state is doing anyway.

Here’s a lovely track. Brings back so many fond memories. As does this one. They’re both just great. Enjoy them.

And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.

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265 Comments

  1. Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

    Can’t be too strong, no pics.

    • sloopyinca

      They’re not loading for some reason. Ans there may be a commenting problem.

      Looking into it…

      • sloopyinca

        Featured image has now appeared out of nowhere.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Sweet!

  2. cavalier973

    Is that a picture of the family dog beside her?

  3. cavalier973

    A criminal case, huh? Are they suing each other *for* writing the lyrics?

  4. PieInTheSky

    This is nuts. Really. A pair of nuts.

    meh I already have 4, I don’t need more.

    also test as strangely a comment in the previous thread is awaiting moderation. And it was such a fantastic joke.

    • sloopyinca

      I had to manually approve this comment. Not sure what’s up. See if you can reply to this.

      • PieInTheSky

        reply

      • sloopyinca

        Manually approved that one too.

  5. Not Adahn

    Considering how long we’ve been eating breakfast cereals, I’m taking this threat less seriously than I do the threat of PFOAs in our frying pans.

    • WTF

      Correlation is not causation. I have my doubts that they could sufficiently control all potential confounding factors to determine that thiamine outside a fairly narrow high and low range causes dementia.

    • Fourscore

      I now have an excuse/explanation for my behavior. I’m blaming the Depression of the ’30s, my parents, Quakers Oats. Too many bowls of oatmeal along the way.
      Looking for Algonquin J Calhoun to represent me.

      The Prez must have had more oats than I had.

      • R.J.

        Oatgate!

    • DEG

      I read the article and my first thought was, “I smell bullshit.”

  6. PieInTheSky

    Worse than seed oils. Avoid this shit like the plague.

    The seed oil thing will soon be declared a right wing conspiracy theory.

    • sloopyinca

      Which will validate what everybody has been saying, right?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I think it already is considered one.

  7. PieInTheSky

    Comments awaiting moderation. This is anti Romanian discrimination. I will email the UN.

    • Nephilium

      Good thing the US has veto power there.

      • WTF

        I just wish an administration would have the good sense to exit the UN and throw them out of NYC.

      • sloopyinca

        When they cut out a cancer, some flesh inevitably goes with it. So best to just get rid of NYC along with the UN to stop the potential spread.

      • WTF

        Time to wall off NYC per Escape From New York.

      • Rat on a train

        Also turn San Francisco into a prison like in Sliders.

      • sloopyinca

        Only in two episodes.

      • WTF

        It’s time to wall it off as per Escape from New York

      • Rat on a train

        Can we also turn San Francisco into a prison like on Sliders?

      • Sensei

        They can’t find tenants for One WTC.

        Put them on the top floor there. It will make it the safest place in Manhattan.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Exiting the UN would be a mistake. There’s a reason why Korea is and was a UN military response.

        The correct answer is to skinsuit the UN and wear it as a totem.

    • Rat on a train

      Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!

  8. Rat on a train

    Sick bastards.
    This is not how pet play is done.

    • Fourscore

      So Fido tosses his owner a bone?

      • WTF

        OOOHHHHH!!!!!

      • Tres Cool

        Boooo!

        That was….ruff.

  9. cavalier973

    The indictment says his brother’s “only education on hedge funds was from watching YouTube videos.”

    “Watch my YouTube channel, and you, too, can make millions!”

    • Nephilium

      “Look, would I be a hedge fund manager if I didn’t know all of this?”

  10. Sensei

    The chart in this article looking at food spending and disposable income is both amazing and unsurprising. I expect this to continue to be ignored by most of the MSM.

    It’s Been 30 Years Since Food Ate Up This Much of Your Income
    Ongoing high costs lead food manufacturers and restaurants to keep prices elevated

    https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/its-been-30-years-since-food-ate-up-this-much-of-your-income-2e3dd3ed?st=pld6peowk7cnufi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • WTF

      Those damn greedy corporations are gouging consumers!!
      – Democrats

      • Sensei

        As I said with Biden’s X post on shrinkflation during the super bowl – you know who else has a few less potato chips in the bag?

    • The Other Kevin

      Everybody sees this when they go to the grocery store, or they get a $100 bill every time they go out for dinner for two. But you have Krugnuts and Biden and the rest of the regime saying inflation is down and the economy is surprisingly great. People are not buying their bullshit.

  11. R C Dean

    Tried to reply to sloopy’s comment on the UN above and got a rejection – “Replies to unapproved comments not allowed”.

    • Rat on a train

      I replied to a comment that is now missing. Is the government testing censoring capabilities?

      • R.J.

        It’s the new guy at the FBI. He hasn’t got a handle on the rules yet.

    • sloopyinca

      I think it’s because I deleted one of my comments since it was duplicated.

  12. cavalier973

    A coworker once asked the UPS guy why delivery drivers weren’t supposed to go down a certain driveway. Apparently, he had actually gone down there, once.

    “What’s down there?”

    He told her it was a naked man wearing a dog collar and tied to a stake in the ground. A woman was whipping him with a cord.

    • Ted S.

      Is there something wrong with that?

      • cavalier973

        They wouldn’t sign for the package.

      • cavalier973

        The woman: “I’m busy.”

        The man: “I’m a dog, and can’t sign my name, or even understand English. Bark! Bark!”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        His mark: 🐾

      • Not Adahn

        Dogs understand English. Maybe not all of it, but definitely some.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        v-e-t, w-a-l-k…

      • dbleagle

        And a very flexible understanding of the word “no.”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Not loading for me. Was it “Bla bla GINGER”?

      • Gustave Lytton

        “I’m going to the vet to get tutored!”

      • The Other Kevin

        They were doing a photo shoot for a children’s book.

    • DrOtto

      Winston’s mom?

  13. PieInTheSky

    logged out and in again let’s see

    • Rat on a train

      You are still Pie.

      • R.J.

        Indeed. What comments are awaiting moderation? Are they yours? Could be a link problem. >3 links, or other link anomalies.

      • Nephilium

        It appears that there was an issue with the spam filter plugin. As it wasn’t able to scan the comments, it put them in moderation for safe keeping and manual checking (and to autocheck again in the future). I’ve been keeping an eye on the Pending comments to let them through, and haven’t seen any new ones in a bit.

      • PieInTheSky

        All my comments were awaiting moderation until i logged out/ back in. zero links.

    • cavalier973

      I see your comment, and raise you one diatribe.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        I see your diatribe and raise you a screed.

    • PieInTheSky

      seems OK

      • cavalier973

        It’s hard to find a picture of Sherman Fairchild, but Arthur Rock’s picture is on his Wikipedia article.

    • Ownbestenemy

      It just spits out generic info that it cannot create that type of image. Same response as any other type of male requested. Not sure the point here. Its the framing of the question they have blocked out. One asked ‘an image of a pope’ not a specific person and it spits out what a pope might look like.

      However…I asked for a typical mid-west farmer and it gave me some line that it could be so many things! To include that they could be hispanic or other such things!

      Then asked for a hockey player: Native-American female given, black female goaltender and I am assuming a brown skinned player.

      I finally got one! Iowa couple on a farm…produced one white male.
      Texas Rancher gives me…females.

      lol it really is actively trying not to produce what would probably be a white person.

      • WTF

        Oh, for fuck’s sake. That’s just pathetic.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Okay, how about a portrait of famous astronomers from the 17th century

        Here is a portrait featuring some of the most renowned astronomers from the 17th century, representing diverse genders and ethnicities:

        HAHAHA I think it has picked up on what people are doing.

      • Not Adahn

        It’s not ready yet. As much as I appreciate Dr. Black Widow, it’s not woke enough until it gingercides.

    • WTF

      A fine illustration of GIGO.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Pretty crappy when you are expecting Gigi!

  14. Sensei

    The Biden administration on Wednesday said it is automatically forgiving $1.2 billion in student debt for 153,000 borrowers. Loan holders whose debt will be discharged will receive an email from President Joe Biden today informing them of the forgiveness, the Department of Education said.

    Let’s not even pretend anymore that we are trying to directly buy votes.

    • WTF

      In direct defiance of a SCOTUS ruling that he has no authority to unilaterally “cancel” loans.
      Strangely, there is no outcry from the media.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Get ready for the same tactic with the illegal immigrants. EO to grant citizenship, Courts shoot it down, admin goes forward anyway; swelling their ranks on the voter rolls

      • WTF

        By the time the courts shoot it down it will be a done deal and basically impossible to get the toothpaste back in the tube.

      • UnCivilServant

        I guess then it’s time for the death squads hunting down both the illegals and the people inviting them.

      • WTF

        Well, aren’t you the optimist.

      • Tres Cool

        I wonder how many illegals processed by the bsystem are already registered (d) voters and dont even know it.

  15. Not Adahn

    Problem solved?

    • Not Adahn

      Looks like it.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Testing if this were a real post it would be funny and erudite.

  16. Fourscore

    I’m really getting tired of the trans stuff. It’s one thing for little kids to play house but the boys were always the daddies, the girls the mommies. At least the play was based on reality. The nonsense today is being spoon fed from outside reality. Somehow some kids are not living in a real world, those are the ones that need rescuing.

    • WTF

      I think most of it is basically Munchausen by proxy moms foisting it on their kids.

      • PieInTheSky

        I see a lot of it being from schools not parents. The lefties realize the righties have more kids so they try to fuck those kids up so maybe they grow up lefties.

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s both. And not just moms when it’s coming from the parents.

  17. Not Adahn

    Obviously, since OMB was exaggerating the values of his properties, and bullying banks to go along with those values, the TRUE values must be much less. Which means, goshdarn it, Tish’ll just need to seize MORE of them to get to that righteous dollar figure. Heck, she’ll have to seize so many that she’ll need to seize even more to compensate herself for the work she did in seizing the initial tranche.

    • WTF

      That this shit is seen as good and just by half the country shows just how fucked this country is.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        If we can believe Kevin O’Leary, there is possibly a chance investment dries up in the city from those worried about the precedent.

    • cavalier973

      She may have to start seizing Trump-adjacent properties, as well.

      • R.J.

        Don;t give them ideas.

        Her latest call to seize properties is going to spark a panic in the business world. A bigger than usual chunk of companies are going to jump out of NY. There is no going back on this mess.

      • WTF

        They have already made a statement to the effect that this was a special case and nobody else has to worry about it. Which is just mind-boggling from a legal point of view.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I’ll take precedent for $1000, Alex.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        In some ways it’s worse if it is just a one off. They’re admitting they’re going after only Trump for political reasons in violation of democratic norms.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s the penaltax equivalent for prosecution.

      • Nephilium

        Just because we went after one rich guy doesn’t mean that we’ll come after YOU!

      • The Other Kevin

        That’s comforting.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Look, the mob never went away, it just realized it needed to pivot to politics.

      • ron73440

        At least with the mob, if you paid your protection money, they would hold up their end of the bargain.

    • Gustave Lytton

      All of those properties are taxable so what has the local accessor been saying the value is and what has Trump been paying taxes on?

  18. PieInTheSky

    Reddit selling user content to third party AI is such an insane rights violation. They’re willfully choosing to profit from people’s stories, writing, ideas, confessions, art, photos, and even nudes by selling them for use in an infinite remix machine with ZERO consent.

    https://twitter.com/Rahll/status/1760002457923440672

    To Be Fair: I do not think I ever properly read the glibertarians dot com terms and conditions

    • Not Adahn

      Pretty sure being a foreigner gives you immunity under the ADA.

    • Nephilium

      It’s not a rights violation at all, I’m willing to bet Reddit made a change at some point to the ToS that allowed them to do this. Goes to check if /. still has the disclaimer… and they do, even if the site is now choked with ads (The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.). Even that disclaimer doesn’t mean that they couldn’t let someone scan them for an LLM.

      I’m kind of sick of the creators claiming anyone doing anything to their work is somehow a human rights violation. Pretty sure no one feels guilty about another story about star crossed lovers, even if it was based on a play that was a stolen story to begin with.

      • PieInTheSky

        Reddit made a change at some point to the ToS that allowed them to do this – hence my mentioning of glibs ToS

      • PieInTheSky

        although you would not want the insanity of training an AI off SugarFree

      • Nephilium

        An LLM trained on SugarFree would be more rational than the LLM trained on Reddit commenters.

      • R C Dean

        Gotta admit, I’d be interested to see how Gliberbot turned out.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Excellent first post devolving rather quickly into arguing on what a true libertarian is.

      • Tres Cool

        It would quickly meltdown arguing with itself over intellectual property and deep dish pizza.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And probably work its way around that the NAP should be waived and kill us all

      • slumbrew

        It’ll end up incorporating Q’s links, too.

        “Hey, sexy mama – wanna kill all humans?!”

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        “First thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.”

  19. cavalier973

    I saw something from Gateway Pundit about Judge Engoron having an affair with a secretary in a previous case, but it looks like the “Arthur Engoron” who had the affair is a different guy than the judge who just fined Trump a half billion dollars.

    • R.J.

      The guy who fined Trump looks like he couldn’t have an affair with a bowl of oatmeal.

  20. PieInTheSky

    A killer given the same hospital order as schizophrenic Nottingham attacker Valdo Calocane spent just two years in a secure ward before being freed.

    Humphrey Burke was given an indefinite hospital order for the manslaughter of a prison van attendant and grandmother who he kicked to death while on his way to court. But the 30-year-old having now been released has raised fears Calocane – who murdered three people during a knife rampage last summer – could also be aided by legal loopholes and soon be free.

    Lorraine Barwell, 54, was killed by Burke in the summer of 2015 as she escorted him to be sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court for arson and attempted robbery. Like the loved ones of Calocane’s victims, her family were led to believe he would never be set free despite having avoided a full jury trial on murder charges.

    But their worst fears have been realised with pictures showing him roaming in public unsupervised after just 24 months, including going grocery shopping and working out at a packed boxing gym in Oxford. He avoided prison with a psychiatric hospital sentence in January 2022 when prosecutors accepted his plea of guilty to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/killer-who-kicked-gran-death-32015988

    England is becoming rather fascinating for me, though not in a good way

    • sloopyinca

      I’ve seen this film. If somebody threatens to punch him, he will get sick and throw up, right?

    • WTF

      A fine example of someone who just needs killing.

    • PieInTheSky

      How many times have you encountered this headline?

      It’s often repeated by those who wish to downplay the the Islamic overrepresentation in group CSE

      In this thread, I will show how contemptibly misleading this headline is and reveal the truth behind the grooming gang scandal

      It’s important to note that the Home Office report didn’t directly investigate grooming gangs. Instead, it relied on earlier reports using data predating the cover-up revelation.

      The majority of convictions occurred after 2015

      10/ This equates to 1 in 2200 Muslims (aged 16+) being arrested for these crimes, giving them a 92.7 times higher likelihood of arrest compared to non-Muslims.

      Further stratification by nationality shows that 1 in 1700 Pakistanis have faced arrest for group-CSE.

      https://twitter.com/CompositeGuy_/status/1747687516751167981

      • PieInTheSky

        CSE being child sexual exploitation

  21. PieInTheSky

    PROPAGANDA For High School Kids In 1948! Would They Show This Today?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AGpILvdwDM

    no, as it is black and white and does not cover social media

    • cavalier973

      Whoa! It’s Mark Zuckerberg talking to Lee Harvey Oswald!

  22. PieInTheSky

    Europe’s Oldest Human-Made ‘Megastructure’ Discovered under Baltic Sea

    Archaeologists have discovered what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure, submerged below the Baltic Sea and dubbed the Blinkerwall

    Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure, submerged 21 meters below the Baltic Sea in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany. This structure – which has been named the Blinkerwall – is a continuous low wall made from over 1,500 granite stones that runs for almost a kilometer. The evidence suggests it was constructed by Palaeolithic people between 11,700 and 9,900 years ago, probably as an aid for hunting reindeer.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/europe-rsquo-s-oldest-human-made-lsquo-megastructure-rsquo-discovered-under-baltic-sea/

    I wonder if there were NIMBY and vegan activist protesting the wall… Also why hunt deer in the rain you can wait for the rain to stop. Though maybe the rain covers the hunters scent so it is easier to sneak up.

    • UnCivilServant

      Is a wall that short really a ‘mega’ structure?

      • Not Adahn

        Surely anything getting to the quarter-mile length gets to Decastructure level.

      • DrOtto

        I thought walls were MAGA structures?

      • Not Adahn

        Well done.

      • cavalier973

        *slow clap*

    • PieInTheSky

      hmmm lets me see if I can work this right “so the size of X’s mom but the opposite in brightness”. Hmm needs work.

    • cavalier973

      I had been interested in the idea that black holes aren’t real, but they’ve apparently gotten a photo of one recently, slipping out the back of a movie theatre, grabbing handfuls of suns from a paper bag and stuffing them into its mouth.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Are you saying that all the talking during that movie was from a Black hole (you have to capitalize the Black you know)?

        RACIST!

  23. PieInTheSky

    Very little in history has been more difficult than land reform – who owns agricultural land, or what can be done with modern residential land – zoning or planning reform.

    But Pyotr Stolypin squared the circle in Imperial Russia. 🧵

    https://twitter.com/bswud/status/1760254580435132888

    good thread

    • Not Adahn

      Does that guy know that “squaring the circle” is literally impossible?

      • UnCivilServant

        Isn’t the square of a circle a cylinder?

      • UnCivilServant

        Or would it be a sphere?

      • Not Adahn

        No. It’d be a hypersphere.

  24. Sean

    I played https://squaredle.com/xp 02/21:
    *23/23 words (+4 bonus words)
    📖 In the top 15% by bonus words

    I played https://squaredle.com 02/21:
    *39/39 words (+8 bonus words)
    📖 In the top 7% by bonus words
    🔥 Solve streak: 150

    Meh.

  25. cavalier973

    A Trident nuclear missile misfired and crashed into the ocean near the submarine that launched it during a test last month, it has been reported.

    It is the second misfire in a row, with a test launch of a Trident missile by the Royal Navy off the coast of the US in June 2016 also reported to have been a failure.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/british-nuclear-missile-misfires-and-crashes-into-ocean/ar-BB1iBTeI?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=ASTS&cvid=c1924b61607544078de8eb3d68be20d7&ei=27

    The looming war with Russia is going to go so well.

    • WTF

      No time and money for operations, systems training, and maintenance what with all the woke indoctrination taking precedence.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Trump was fined $354.8 million plus approximately $100 million in pre-judgment interest on Friday after Judge Arthur Engoron determined that he inflated his net worth in order get more favorable loan terms.

    $100 million interest? How on earth did they come up with that?

    • Rat on a train

      Out of his ass like the rest of the ruling.

    • prolefeed

      That’s approacvigorously. loan sharking levels of vig.

      • prolefeed

        Wow. “Approaching”, not that word salad autoincorrect served up.

    • Not Adahn

      Compared to what? Staring at her tits?

    • Fatty Bolger

      “This study did not receive any funding.”

      Good.

  27. Pope Jimbo

    Why won’t Slooopy comment on the REAL sportz controversy? Scared he will get canceled? Well, I’m happy to report that Shane Rose has been cleared to participate in the Olympics!

    A three-time Olympic medallist who was stood down from competition after wearing a mankini during a showjumping event has been cleared to resume his bid for the Paris 2024 Games.

    Shane Rose, 50, wore the Borat-inspired G-string at an unofficial fancy dress showjumping event at Wallaby Hill near Sydney last weekend.

    Riders were encouraged to wear fancy dress for the event and Rose sported three outfits – a gorilla suit, a Duffman outfit from the Simpsons and the mankini, a skimpy swimwear item popularised by Sacha Baron Cohen’s comedy character Borat.

    Equestrian Australia (EA) reviewed the incident but concluded the 50-year-old team eventer had not breached their code of conduct.

    “Shane has reflected on the incident, has apologised and understands the high standards expected of everyone involved in our high performance programme,” EA chief executive Darren Gocher said in a statement.

    • pistoffnick

      Lighten up, Francis!

    • Fourscore

      Asking for a friend?

    • Sensei

      Brilliant. And anybody who has got a face full of gasoline knows that it stings the eyes.

      • WTF

        Too bad he didn’t have a chance to toss a lit match at the fleeing van.

      • Sensei

        Yup. That said I’m sure he got gasoline on himself as well.

        Risk of catching himself and his car on fire too.

    • ron73440

      Those thieves were very fuelish to attempt that.

      • Gustave Lytton

        You’re just throwing gas on the pun fire.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Swiss has to get up oily and spend all day to give us all the narrowed gazes we deserve.

        Oh, those thieves looked petrolfied when the guy attacked them.

    • R C Dean

      I especially liked the way he kind of leaned over to get a good angle to douse the inside of the van.

      Lightning quick response, too.

      • Tres Cool

        Ive never tested it, but I had no idea a fuel nozzle had that kind of distance.

      • Not Adahn

        I’m wondering how much gas there needs to be in there before the fumes become dangerous.

    • R C Dean

      “Paul said his goal was to exceed the 88 mph threshold required for time travel in the Back to the Future films.”

      I can respect that.

  28. The Other Kevin

    “What the fuck, Indiana? Get your shit together.”

    * Hangs head in shame *
    I didn’t see there was a county listed, but I can guess.

    • The Other Kevin

      And having adopted two children from foster care in Indiana, I can tell you the preference is to keep kids with their birth parents, even in arguably horrible situations. They know they don’t have the resources to do stupid shit like this.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Now do Indian kids. There is almost no chance that Indian kids can be adopted by anyone other than another member of their tribe. Often they are sent from one horrible family to another.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Shysters

    “Polluting industries always challenge pollution regulations because it costs them money to protect our health,” said Sam Sankar, senior vice president of Earthjustice, one of the groups defending the plan. “We’re hoping that a few members of the court’s right-wing supermajority will remember that they shouldn’t be second-guessing sound judgments about what’s best for our kids’ lungs.”

    Those rules were handed down to our most holy bureaucrats on laser etched stone tablets. You can’t question them.

    • WTF

      That pollution regulations actually “protect our health” is quite the stolen base.

    • Tres Cool

      Environmental laws and rules are a good compliance tool, but public perception goes a long way in how industry behaves.
      Its not 1900, and (most) people wont tolerate living near a filthy coal boiler dumping black into the air.

    • R C Dean

      As one would expect with limited processing bandwidth.

    • UnCivilServant

      So, what they’re saying is that they are dyed in the wool racists who will continue being racist and discriminatory. Got it.

    • Gender Traitor

      I smell a new job for Fani Willis.

      • R C Dean

        I don’t think that’s her new job you smell.

      • Tres Cool

        Teen Spirit ?

    • R C Dean

      I’m just fascinated by the way people just reflexively set up a GoFundMe and start begging after a life event.

      Kid dies? GoFundMe

      Arrested for murder? GoFundMe

      Get fired? GoFundMe

      • kinnath

        I prefer seeing people begging for donations instead of pleading for government intervention. It’s still gimme, gimme, gimme. But at least one of those channels doesn’t involve me.

      • UnCivilServant

        From time to time, I think about seeing if anyone would donate to a GoFundMe that said “I don’t have any major issues, just panhandling.”

      • Nephilium

        It’s been done, both successfully and not.

        One of the more entertaining examples was the Potato Salad Kickstarter.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        UCS the instagram influencer.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Consciences were shocked


    Harvard University and its interim president have condemned an image circulated on social media by pro-Palestinian campus groups, prompting the groups to remove and apologize for the posting.

    The cartoon, shared on Instagram accounts belonging to the Harvard Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine group, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African American Resistance Organization, shows a hand etched with the star of David and a dollar sign holding nooses around the necks of what appears to be boxer Muhammad Ali and Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was a longtime president of Egypt.

    “As members of an academic community, we can and we will disagree, sometimes vehemently, on matters of public concern and controversy, including hotly contested issues relating to the war in Israel and Gaza, and the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” said Alan Garber, Harvard’s interim president, in a statement sent Tuesday evening. “But it is grossly irresponsible and profoundly offensive when that disagreement devolves into forms of expression that demonize individuals because of their religion, race, nationality, or other aspects of their identity.”

    The images were initially shared by a 1960s civil rights group. The three groups that circulated the image issued their own statements criticizing it.

    What 1960s civil rights group, I wonder. I’m surprised CNN would even publish that half assed description of such a powerful voodoo totem. Think of the potential for psychic wounding.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The three groups that circulated the image issued their own statements criticizing it.

      The cartoon is too mild?

    • R C Dean

      Nasser, famously killed by Jews.

      Ali, the puppet of noted Jewish impresario Don King.

      Seriously, what point are they trying to make?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Its not 1900, and (most) people wont tolerate living near a filthy coal boiler dumping black into the air.

    The pictures used to illustrate stories about industries belching pollution all over the place are almost invariably of steam exhaust.

    • Tres Cool

      Yes and no, and I often correct people on that specially since its about to be asphalt plant season here.
      You see the “portable” units parked near a road and their exhaust gas is typically around 30% water vapor. Lost of people mistake that for particulate.

      If you look at photos from the 30s or 40s of steel mills or foundries, that black shit going into the air isnt steam.

  32. Pope Jimbo

    If the thiamin doesn’t get you, the chlormequat in those Cheerios will.

    A little-heard-of pesticide linked to infertility in animals is showing up in the overwhelming majority of oat-based foods sold in the United States, including popular cereal brands Quaker Oats and Cheerios.

    The chemical, chlormequat, was detected in 77 of 96 urine samples taken from 2017 and 2023, with levels increasing in the most recent years, a new study by the Environmental Working Group finds.

    Further, chlormequat was found in 92% of oat-based foods sold in May 2023, including Quaker Oats and Cheerios, according to the research published Thursday in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.

    Some studies have shown chlormequat can damage the reproductive system and disrupt fetal growth in animals, a cause for concern as to “whether it could also harm humans,” EWG stated.

    To be fair, this story seems like bullshit cooked up by progressives who want us proles back out in the fields growing crops by hand. But it would still be a bad day to be working at General Mills PR department.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Timing, timing, timing. Drop this story as SCOTUS might dump Chevron. Because without government, this would be much worse! Scare the people back in line like always.

  33. Pope Jimbo

    Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?

    Girl Scout cookie season is upon us, but getting your sugar fix in the Twin Cities will cost you a bit more this year.

    What’s new: The prices. Girl Scouts River Valleys, which covers southern Minnesota, western Wisconsin, and one county in Iowa, is among the councils raising the price per box to $6 — a $1 increase from last year.

    Why don’t the rubes think they are doing better today than before?!

    • The Other Kevin

      The current recipe for Thin Mints is terrible. Not enough mint and they’re chalky. Blech.

      • pistoffnick

        *stirs shit*
        Samoas/Caramel deLites > Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs > Thin Mints

    • Nephilium

      Damn greedy Girl Scouts. Don’t they know how bad greedflation is?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Mah thin mint sleeve is one short! #shrinkflation

      • Fourscore

        How much thinner can a thin mint get?

        “Full 24 count”

        “Not sold by weight”

        Could be the next ad campaign

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Waffer-thin?

  34. OBJ FRANKELSON

    From what I have seen, Fanni’s play is to angry, indignant black woman her way out of this.

    Bold strategy Cotton…

    • R.J.

      I have a feeling it may work. Every judge seems bought off at this point. I would not be surprised if she was given a clean bill of health.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Sadly you are probably right. I am curious to see what loopy loos they do with the law to prove that Trump didn’t think he won Georgia.

      • ron73440

        It has a better chance of working than Trump’s defense of actually not doing what they’ve accused him of.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        You hush! He had bad lawyers, lawyers that should have been more than competent to avoid the fix that was already in!

        /sarc

    • R C Dean

      It’s gotten her this far. The only reason I wonder if it might not work is Harvard demoted its Angry Black Woman(tm).

      She shouldn’t be removed from office for putting her boyfriend on the payroll and splitting the take with him, as much as for admitting to multiple crimes under oath, inadvertently, in a highly publicized hearing. I mean, that display of incompetence was just jaw-dropping.

      And the next day, the SLAY KWEEN talking points went out.

      The eternal dilemma: shitshow or clownworld?

      • Gender Traitor

        shitshow or clownworld?

        Not mutually exclusive.

      • R C Dean

        My favorite part was the next day, the regime propagandists tracked down her father, to confirm that yep, he told her to keep a lot of cash in the house.

        As if whether he had told her that was remotely relevant to anything.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        What GT said.

        The eternal question for me is: Is the ruling class getting more incompetent or are we just able to see it better now?

        I figure it is some combination of the two but I think of late, there has been a significant qualitative decline in our elites, Robert McNamara may have been a sunuvabitch in oh so many ways, but the man oozed competence, our current secretary of defense on the other hand….

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Harvard’s black woman didn’t seem all that angry, so the obvious lesson is that she must ramp up the anger.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Clown shit.

        Always clown shit.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Another group that had circulated the image, the Harvard Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine, also apologized for circulating the image, which it termed “antiquated” and “offensive.”

    “We apologize for the hurt that these images have caused and do not condone them in any way,” it said.

    We’re sorry we were too stupid to figure this out on our own. How were we to know we could be cancelled too?

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Tragedy

    A Colorado man has died after being bitten by his pet Gila monster in what would be a rare death by one of the desert lizards if the creature’s venom turns out to have been the cause.

    Christopher Ward, 34, was taken to a hospital shortly after being bitten by one of his two pet Gila monsters on Feb. 12. He was soon placed on life support and died Friday, Lakewood Police Department spokesman John Romero said Tuesday.

    Jefferson County coroner’s officials declined Tuesday to comment on the death, including if tests showed yet whether Ward died from the pet’s venom or from some other medical condition.

    My money is on stupidity.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Anyone who keeps venomous pets for the sake of keeping venomous pets is an idiot with the possible exception of a platypus. Those mixed up fuckers are adorable.

      • ron73440

        I had a Staff Sargeant that caught a rattlesnake in 29 Palms and took it home.

        We kept telling him that one day he was not going to show up for work and when we went to check, the snake would have killed him.

        Eventually he took it back to the desert because it wouldn’t eat.

        He was an oddball, the pet store stopped selling him rabbits when they figured out that he was butchering and eating them.

      • R.J.

        I just got to see some Gila Monsters. AT THE ZOO. Those would be the shittiest pets. They spend 99% of time underground, hiding and only come out to eat.
        He must have had some medical condition. The bite is venomous, but they really have to chew on you for a while to get a lot of venom in. And it is not usually fatal, it’s for defense, not hunting.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Ward’s girlfriend reportedly told officers they bought Winston at a reptile exhibition in Denver in October and Potato from a breeder in Arizona in November, according to the animal control officer’s report. Told that Gila monsters were illegal in Lakewood, the woman told officers she wanted them out of her house as soon as possible, the report said.

    Officers working with the Colorado Department of Natural Resources sent the lizards to Reptile Gardens outside Rapid City, South Dakota. Twenty-six spiders of different species also were taken from the home to a nearby animal shelter.

    *outright prolonged laughter*

    • R C Dean

      I’m surprised you can buy them. You can’t kill them in AZ*. They aren’t “endangered”, but whatever is next door to endangered.

      *Which meant that, when the Dean Beast killed one in a fair fight, I had to toss it rather than taking it in to get an awesome watch band or even hat band made from the hide.

  38. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Thiamine: The correlation is based on a Chinese study that uses self-reporting of dietary habits over a period of years. Maybe the findings are legit and maybe not but I almost guarantee the data is garbage.

  39. Cunctator

    To TPTB

    Several years ago when I was in a difficult time in my life, I wrote down a list of I believed so that I could apply it consciously when I had to decide what to do. It is just a list at this point, but I could add a few explanatory sentences for them, since I know what I meant but it may not be exactly clear to somebody else. They are very simple and very general. Is this something that would be of interest as a post?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Send it in, I’ll read it,
      Content!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Seconded…feed the glibverse

      • Fourscore

        I need it!

        No assembly required, I hope

    • Not Adahn

      “She came out very pink and has a puggy nose, so I’m calling her Piglet for now.”

    • Trials and Trippelations

      When I did my maternity clinical for nursing school. Someone said a mom almost called her baby meconium because she her it mentioned and thought it was nice.

      Meconium is the fluid the new born poops out shortly after birth.

      The nurses did explain to her that naming her child that was a very bad idea

      • Gender Traitor

        There’s an apocryphal story of a woman born shortly after JFK’s assassination, while he was lying in state in the Capitol, whose mother named her “Rotunda.”

    • kinnath

      Two Dogs Fucking

    • Sean

      I’m not clicking that.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Can you milk an almond?

    • Sensei

      Bend It Like Beckham?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Growing trend. Last year one idiot did it. Now there are two.

      • Common Tater

        100% increase!

      • cavalier973

        And that’s a 100% increase

      • Certified Public Asshat

        That’s it in a nutshell.

  40. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    How many times has Puddin Cup traveled to CA in the last 6 months? I count 3. Two in the last 2 or 3 weeks.

    (AF1 is landing in San Franshithole today)

    • ron73440

      Obviously we need to make it mandatory to pass background checks prior to stealing any firearms.

    • mindyourbusiness

      And it’s doubtful that the rest of the competitors would boycott the event for fear of being mobbed by wokeabys for sexism.

    • The Other Kevin

      This has been a thing for decades. Make things harder to fix so people just buy new ones. See also: cars.

      The one exception I have in my house is a Speed Queen washer. Built like a tank and has a 7 year warranty.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Maybe things are harder to fix, but now we have Youtube videos to show how to fix things, which is a huge help.

      • Trials and Trippelations

        Amen to that. I wouldn’t have been able to do many of the kids I made to the RV without YouTube.
        Plenty of times YouTube saved me with house stuff too

    • ron73440

      The other day I was talking to my wife about our ancient commercial grade Maytag washer and dryer.

      We have had them for 16 years and all I’ve done is untangle one of her hairbands from the stem of the washer and replace the thermal fuse in the dryer.

      Wife says no matter what, she will not get a front-loading washer.

      • Sensei

        Finally called it on my 25 year old dryer and bought a new one when it broke.

        Bought the simplest one we could find, but it still was more complex than the old one.

  41. robc

    9+7 model is better than 5+7. But 5+7 is still better than “best” 4, with bullshit determining best.

    Its like football has learned nothing from basketball.

  42. Trials and Trippelations

    Re: Google Gemini not producing white males

    Has anyone asked it to show a KKK member

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Facts, and nothing but

    In Michigan, Arizona and Georgia, intense internal battles are tearing through the state Republican parties. The fights largely pivot around divisions that opened up in the wake of the last presidential election. A new cadre of Trump-loyalist party leaders, in many cases propelled into power based on their defense of the Big Lie that former President Donald Trump actually won in 2020, have found themselves at war with more establishment-aligned Republicans … and, increasingly, with each other.

    These rifts in three potential swing states are one of the many ways that Trump’s hold on the GOP and the rise of election denial in the aftermath of the 2020 election are defining not only the election this fall — when Trump loyalists could be looking at their 2020 playbook for ways to influence the outcome — but also the Republican state party organizations that will shape their states’ politics for years to come.

    I think I know whose 2020 playbook those “Trump loyalists” will be studying, and it ain’t Trump’s.

    Fortification isn’t a proprietary technology.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Obviously we need to make it mandatory to pass background checks prior to stealing any firearms.

    Being the victim of a gun theft should be a felony with mandatory hard time.

  45. Brochettaward

    Testing 1 2 3

  46. Brochettaward

    Either they have employed Anti-Firsting technology against me, or you can’t add comments to the Sugarfree post.