“It’s no secret that Megan Thee Stallion is a huge anime fan.”
“Japan’s HTV9 cargo ship visited ISS in May-Aug 2020.”
“Mechs Are Coming To Helldivers 2, If You Can Liberate Tien Kwan”
“Inuyasha’s Kagome the definitive anime hot girl”
“Even then-president Trump got in on the action of smacking Sweden around.”
Don’t worry, this is just regular trash-pop, not Real Hot Girl Shit (TM).
Those votes won’t buy themselves
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday announced new steps to boost the supply of affordable housing by unlocking billions of dollars in unspent COVID-19 aid funding to state and local governments to support a wider array of housing projects.
The initiatives are part of a Biden administration drive to address a key economic challenge facing Americans: lack of housing affordability. This is in turn contributing to inflation and negative voter sentiment on President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy.
In the biggest of the moves, the Treasury said it would allow state and local governments to use unspent funds from the $350 billion State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund to support housing projects serving families earning up to 120% of the area’s median income, a big jump from 65% previously.
These funds can also now be spent on projects that meet the terms of one of a dozen or more federal housing programs as well as those supported by government mortgage enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to house essential workers such as teachers, firefighters and nurses. This will open up a significantly wider array of housing projects eligible for support.
The “essential worker” clause. It’s right there in the Constitution, plain as the nose on W C Fields’ face.
I couldn’t get past that first sentence. God forbid we return unspent funds to the treasury.
Seriously. WTF?
It reminds me of when they “find” a few billion they can send to Ukraine without having to vote on it.
I seem to remember an Ollie North fella who got in a fair bit of hot water for spending money in a way that Congress didn’t approve of…
Yeah, but he was one of those Reagan people, so, you know.
Yeah… Principals > Principles,,, same as it ever was,
Surprised they haven’t sent it to Ukraine. 😒
I think the proper phrase is ‘laundered it through Ukraine’.
Yeah… similar reaction.
Local news had a story recently about how some people may be leaving food stamp money on the table, and it may expire!
It was from funds that were released over a year ago, and in the hundreds of dollars per person.
It is the same here with the ongoing choo-choo train fiasco that has ballooned from under a billion to over $3B. “We can’t stop now! We’ve already paid out $1.5B.”
Yes you can stop. In 2008, when the subprime loan shit hit the fan, developers simply walked away from projects. I had a buddy who had a house where you could look across the man-made pond to look at the half build homes. The construction crews just packed up and left.
The people running the choo-choo project are almost sure that there won’t be any more cost overruns. They still can’t say when it will be running though.
How does Treasury have the authority to override a Congressional appropriation, anyway?
Still, nothing like a subsidy to bring prices down.
The Dragonball guy kicked the bucket. I can’t believe you don’t have that.
Supersayan is superdyin’
God forbid we return unspent funds to the treasury.
So much money was thrown, in a completely indiscriminate way, at the “crisis” they still haven’t figured out how to waste it all.
She’s 14 or so, you crazy rapper girl.
Just go to the archetypes — A-ko, B-ko and C-ko.
This is anime. It starts at DD-ko and only goes up from there.
I’m surprised Megan would pick someone who doesn’t have a giant ass.
Suggested topics other than politics:
-Foot fungus
-Dental surgery
-Dogs’ anal glands
-The accumulation of grease and grime under your stove’s burner cover
-Testicle sweat
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Testicle sweat reminds me of a word we like to use, “Swalls”. And the somewhat female equivalent, “Swoobs”.
Schweddy Balls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpcfH_HHH8
Thank you for enacting my labor.
Plastic Seat Sweat
Calling Mrs OBE on the anal glands….shit is nasty. Ya..that was intended.
Dogs’ anal glands
Just make sure you are talking about canines. And make it gender neutral.
Complete disaster if you start with “What is the deal with bitches anal glands?”
‘testicle sweat’
Skeet-skeet, motherfucker
skeet-skeet, God damn
Megan is an uncastrated adult male horse? What an odd professional name!
Respect the pronouns!
Solid wood.
In keeping with you anime and Harry Potter theme. He actually raps surprisingly well. (Subs in both Japanese and English).
Creepy Nuts – Bling‐Bang‐Bang‐Born / THE FIRST TAKE
It’s the theme song for the Mashle. It’s a blatant Harry Potter ripoff, but actually rather funny slapstick. The premise is that the protagonist has no magical aptitude whatsoever, but instead fights all magical attacks with his amazing strength. Naturally he is as dumb as a box of rocks.
Who doesn’t want to help fight climate change?
Companies might have been masking the higher prices from customers, but they were straightforward with investors on earnings calls, the report said. Some companies such as General Mills have also portrayed the reduced package sizes as a way to manage their own costs and address the challenge of climate change.
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Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania, has introduced a bill that would ban shrinkflation by ordering the Federal Trade Commission to treat it as an unfair or deceptive practice, enabling the government to pursue civil penalties in court against companies that do so.
Biden gave the measure a full endorsement in his speech.
“Pass Bobby Casey’s bill and stop this,” he said.
The FTC should issue rules on appropriate package sizing. That will fix it.
Should pass a law against poverty too.
I didn’t vote for him.
>.>
How do you know how your vote was counted? I don’t think Bucks County is immune to a little vote rigging.
Whip inflation now
They should just raise prices like the did in the old days.
These people think the bad guys in Atlas Shrugged were heroes.
They honestly think they’re the smartest people in the room.
I used to think they had to be at least somewhat smarter than average to get where they are, but recent years have convinced me that they really are stupid.
I can live with them being that stupid, but I can’t tolerate them assuming I am as dumb or dumber than they are.
They have gamed the system such that many of them are basically running unopposed and don’t have to worry about results.
Why don’t they just tell people the chocolate ration has been increased?
How putting less product in a package fights climate change is an exercise for the reader, I suppose.
No gentleman ever takes exercise. –Oscar Wilde
And OW was no gentleman.
“All women become their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
Let me tell you about my mother.
Oh do it! Not enough popcorn in the world to watch the left’s head explode.
Surprise
Car makers in Europe are being encouraged to stop using touchscreens for basic functions like turn signals and wipers in an attempt to promote safer driving. As reported by the Times, the European New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) — an independent and well-regarded safety body for the automotive industry — is set to introduce new rules in January 2026 that require the vehicles it assesses to have physical controls to receive a full five-star safety rating.
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“The overuse of touchscreens is an industry-wide problem, with almost every vehicle-maker moving key controls onto central touchscreens, obliging drivers to take their eyes off the road and raising the risk of distraction crashes,” said Matthew Avery, director of strategic development at Euro NCAP, to the Times. To be eligible for the maximum safety rating after the new testing guidelines go into effect, cars will need to use buttons, dials, or stalks for hazard warning lights, indicators, windscreen wipers, SOS calls, and the horn.
Some manufacturers like Tesla and Volkswagen have gained a reputation for placing basic vehicle controls behind touch-sensitive interfaces. There’s no shortage of complaints about such features, but equipment manufacturers continue to push touchscreen interfaces because they’re more cost-effective to produce than physical buttons and dials.
Luddites.
touchscreens for basic functions like turn signals and wipers
I can’t think of anything I’d want less..
Touchscreen turn signals?!
Seems stupid doesn’t it? No warm gloves for the cold part of the morning drive for whoever owns that nonsense.
Sure they can.
https://www.autolist.com/6tuem73u73an/2wo6PjfBQvX5sQztVCGFIp/0b455317c9a04d9f1adfae2c3bab1ce2/top-hand-signals-driving-1166-image.jpg
The article is misleading on Tesla controls. Yes you *can* turn on wipers or turn signals or lights with the touchscreen, but you can also do all those things and more with the 2 stalks on the steering column.
Things that make sense to have noticeable feedback? What are you? Ancient or something. Boomer
I wish there were a car company that built basic vehicles that were easy and inexpensive to repair.
Line, crossed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pro-palestinian-activist-filmed-slashing-spraying-historic-cambridge-painting-in-anti-israel-protest/ar-BB1jzAwK
You knew it was only a matter of time.
“Trinity College regrets the damage caused to a portrait of Arthur James Balfour during public opening hours,”
They “regret the damage “. Wow, quite the powerful condemnation by the college. Assholes all around.
“Vows to pursue harsh punishment for the vandal” would be more to my taste.
I was kinda hoping to read “the vandal was found unresponsive in a pool of his own blood after an onlooker sliced him open from naval to neck. He was later declared dead, and no charges are expected against the onlooker.”
I could go with having “VANDAL” tattooed across her* forehead.
*I think it was a chick
Oops. My pronoun game needs some work.
He was sliced open from air force to neck.
The line was crossed for me a couple of months ago when they did this shit at the LA VA cemetery. Protest, wail, moan..whatever. This shit is just to get clicks and shit.
Screw Tesla
But to be clear, this has nothing to do with there being a shortage of demand. The executive team intentionally keeps volumes low in order to support the company’s status as a true luxury brand. It’s no wonder that Ferrari’s gross margin in the last five years has averaged an excellent 50.5%. There’s a lot of pricing power in exclusivity.
Last year, the business saw its revenue and adjusted earnings per share increase 17.2% and 35.6%, respectively. Steady top- and bottom-line gains are a usual occurrence.
Impressive, but I’ll pass.
Friday Funbags.
https://archive.is/ntAOx
Security puppet theater
An experimental self-service screening system for airport security checkpoints is being unveiled for testing starting this month, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced on Wednesday in a press release.
TSA PreCheck passengers at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas — which has the one and only “Innovation Checkpoint” — will be the first to have the option to use the new system, which has been compared to the self-checkout at a grocery store.
“The prototype has a video monitor that provides step-by-step instructions for passengers to complete screening at their own pace,” according to the release.
It eliminates the need for Transportation Security Officers (TSO) to pick up carry-on bags and trays as well as the need to move passengers to a secondary screening if a bag triggers an alarm. Typically there are five to seven TSOs at each checkpoint, but for the self-service screening system prototype, there will be two.
It’s a labor saving device. For the TSA.
What if we just fire them all and stop pretending?
Does the machine steal your stuff, like normal TSA agents?
So…did everyone here get sorted to House Rivenclaw?
Not the same plane that lost a wheel recently:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13174293/United-Boeing-737-Max-Houston-runway-grass.html
What’s going on at Boeing?
What could possibly be going on at Boeing?
And they aim for even more by 2025! Onwards and downwards!
I used to joke about this kind of thing leading to bridges falling down and whatnot. Not so funny anymore. Maybe our airlines can buy Sukhois or something.
You were joking? I missed that. I thought it was so self evident that everyone saw it coming. That is, after all, the point of DEI – to promote incompetence.
They have openly admitted how many times that meritocracy is bad.
https://dallasexpress.com/business-markets/is-boeing-prioritizing-dei-over-safety/
DEI is just as important as staying the air. They can spin as much as they want, but that was/is their reward structure.
I wonder if these are bad design by Boeing or bad maintenance by the airlines.
If it were airline maintenance problems, then we should see this with other plane manufacturers, right?
Maybe the airlines are just being mean to Boeing.
Fair point, but the two most recent examples are United. Maybe United’s maintenance isn’t up to snuff.
Alaska Air had the Boeing that blew a door out semi-recently.
The cause and effect will either become too obvious to ignore, or it will remain murky like today. I don’t think it will take long to find out.
In both cases, nothing else will happen.
It was just factory serviced by a mandated diverse team!
Like all things in a connected world..when it rains, it pours. If it bleeds, it leads. Etc, etc.
https://simpleflying.com/easa-require-airbus-a320-family-sharklet-inspections/
https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/a320-veered-off-runway-as-late-hydraulic-failure-surprised-pilots/142507.article
So on, so on. Boeing is the hot topic for the moment. That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve it and question should be asked…but malfunctions occur all the damn time and I will tell you, close calls happen way more than the media reporits.
Has the fight of the century already been mentioned?
https://apnews.com/article/today-in-history-06806bcf20ccb18a8f6c89d3cab89b5d
The lefty sports journalists who built the mythology around Ali love to make excuses for why Ali lost. It’s basically forgotten because he won eventually, though none of the excuses afforded to Ali are ever given to Frazier.
Ali fought 2 rounds with a broken jaw after Norton nearly knocked his head off.
https://youtu.be/eIm2eK5uuVA?si=FGNvB6Vdz9qc7C9f
I’ve not watched many boxing matches; I’m about halfway through this one.
Ali is beefier than Frazier, but they are going at it with around equal ferocity. Frazier is consistently keeping his head down, hunched over. Ali finally started trying that neat trick, after taking a couple of jabs to the face.
Oops; it’s only round 5.
Frazier is in constant motion. Bouncing, ducking, swerving, then throwing a punch. Ali is not nearly so energetic.
At one point in round 5, Frazier fldrops his guard entirely, and simply dodges Ali’s punches (most of them).
LOL
It was a more innocent age, I guess.
He should be waving both middle fingers and farting in the general direction of all of his neighbors who got drunk with power.
Instead we’re getting Sweden irrelevancing itself into fucking NATO.
#TooLocal
D.C. Memo: A Biden shout out for Twin Cities teacher in feisty State of the Union address
Nothing special about this story except for the fact that “fiery” was used in the headline. No way the media has some method of disseminating the talking points for The Narrative. Every single headline today in the MSM used “fiery”. I guess that fiery = ‘incoherent yelling by old man’
If you can’t pay back your student loans, you shouldn’t have taken them out? I’m sure Mr. Jones also tells anyone who will listen about how he spends the measly $$ he gets as a salary on classroom supplies. Because, gosh darn it, he just wants those kids to learn so much.
Not sure why pointing out the truth is “nervous”. I do, though, give extra credit for “Republicans, as expected, panned the address”. Much better than simply saying “Republicans pounced”
‘Fiesty’ = so amped up on speed that he was angry and yelling. Only way to keep him going for an hour even with Democrats clapping every 30 seconds.
You know who else was hopped up on speed in his later years?
Mr. Gonzales?
Burt Munro?
Dale Earnhardt ?
I listen to one or another of the public broadcasters’ news podcasts from the German-language world each day to try to keep up the language, and SRF out of Switzerland also used the term “on fire” — literally, in English.
Warms the heart-cockles, doesn’t it?
What a hero.
“A 2.9-ton cargo pallet”. That seems…over engineered? Incidentally, I couldn’t remember how to spell “engineered”, and autospell helpfully supplied “engendered” to every single one of my guesses, until I finally asked Google “who drives a train?” and copy-pasta.
I finally asked Google “who drives a train?”
“This ain’t no fuckin; railroad, and I don’t need no goddam engineer.”
-A J Foyt
Chicken thighs, with ramen and hoisin sauce. Yum.
You kids and your sexual euphemisms!
I was hoping to see something about the Sweet Baby controversy today Mostly because I understand this controversy better than the original “GamerGate”. I can understand:
I grew up with Norwegians (and a few Swedes) and even as a ginger, I wasn’t the palest person in any group of people. I think that deciding the Aesir needed a black woman is a bit of a stretch.
That’s like woke Brits claiming the Celts were black folk
Are you trying to erase Bill Russell?
I remember reading an article years and years ago about Red Auerbach, the premise being that Red was a genius at picking up what others weren’t because of racism.
In the early years, racism against blacks in the NBA let Red steal Bill Russell. Then in the ’80s racism against the white guys let him steal Larry Bird. It was an interesting point, but I don’t think Russell or Bird would have ever been relegated to the end of the bench because of racism.
You might make a case for Danny Ainge and Kevin McHale in the ’80s. I’m not enough of a geezer to know enough about the Celtics in the ’60s to say the same (KC Jones?).
OMGLOL – that’s Three Year Letterman-level shitposting
Huh?
And the crackers today…where did they come from?
Much like Gen X and female libertarians, white people don’t exist
C’mon Suthen! This is kindergarten level material.
Everyone knows crackers came from Yakub
“made to attract others, who could, with the knowledge of tricks and lies, rule the original black man”
“Those devil white wimmen!” Am I interpreting that correctly?
(the NOI mythology is wild and the most racist thing ever)
” Meccan branch of the Tribe of Shabazz”
Q-tip’s 1st band before he changed the name.
For reals? If I knew that I’ve forgotten it. I’d believe it.
It won’t dent my undying love of the Tribe.
(Rapaport’s doc is pretty damn good, if you haven’t seen it).
Some day there will be an L. Ron Hubbard that will mine that material.
I have heard and read a shitload of schizophrenic rantings and that one is fair to middling. So much so that I would call it stereotypical.
Oi’m bleck an’ oi’m proad!
SORRY!
A helpful Kotaku reporter explained that Sweet Baby is as blameless as the drifted snow
Wait until they make Q*bert a lesbian.
L*bert is a lesbian.
Q*bert is just a fierce woman who happens to be shattering all the women’s swimming records.
Yes, it’s very easy to understand. BLM and a zillion -alikes have been playing the exact same grift for years.
Back from work and went pretty well. Taking Monday off for the Indiana Republican Candidate Debate for Gov. I know the acting Lt. Gov. I work in education. See if I can get some react quotes or something. I was gonna do it before they told me the news I didn’t get the gig. Might as well see what’s up.
Ya miss 100% of the shots ya don’t take.
To the rescue
The third-party presidential movement No Labels decided Friday to field a presidential candidate in the 2024 election after months of weighing the launch of a so-called “unity ticket” and discussions with several prospects.
Delegates voted in favor of moving forward during an online convention of 800 of them from every state, said Mike Rawlings, a former Dallas mayor who is affiliated with No Labels.
No Labels was not expected to name its presidential and vice presidential nominees Friday. Instead, the group will announce its candidate selection process on March 14, Rawlings said in a statement.
Now comes the hard part; finding somebody who can siphon off Trump voters.
Another day, another United Airlines emergency diversion. This time a belly door didn’t close.
But it’s an Airbus, so it won’t make the news, or they’ll misidentify it as a Boeing for clicks.
can’t tell by looking at it what door it is…doesn’t look like a landing gear door – seems bigger
I need to work on my avatar a little, what size should it be?
1:1 aspect ratio
I don’t know, but it should be shiny.
My avatar is exactly square. It’s big, 2272×2272. A full 5 MP picture. I didn’t reduce it and it appears to work fine.
The executive director of the group MoveOn, which is aligned with Democrats, said a No Labels ticket would help Trump win.
“Any candidates who join the No Labels presidential ticket will be complicit in making it easier for Donald Trump and MAGA extremists to win a second term in the White House,” Executive Director Rahna Epting said in a written statement.
Seditionists! Traitors!
LOOPHOLES!!!!
Oh no! The poor pot heads in Minnesoda are surely doomed to a life of misery and addiction.
Personally, I’m looking forward to the proggies flipping on pot because it will now be out in the open that some people sell pot just for profits! Similar to Big Pharma becoming OK because of the vax or Natural Gas becoming bad because it actually became profitable.
Enh, I think the left will flip on pot because it’s not going to be just more nice white collar folks partaking quietly at home. It’s also going to be hordes of filthy druggies hanging outside every pot shop and park and playground etc etc.
“…hordes of filthy druggies hanging outside every pot shop and park and playground…”
Welcome to Portland!
I see the MSM is claiming Joe hit it out of the park with the State of the Union speech.
Duh. It was the greatest SOTU speech ever (done by a man pumped full of amphetamines)”
Just asking. Is his record of Best SOTU speech hang in the balance? Does he have to pass a drug test before they actually update the Guinness Book of World Records?
It is amazing that they can’t see that their gaslighting is causing them to lose even what little influence they have left.
On the other hand, if you have decided that OMG has to be defeated, what choice do you have? You have to get in that kamikaze plane.
OMG, OMB—I’ve heard it both ways
It’s incredible watching it happen live – or, in my case, quoted the next day – isn’t it?
So I’m shopping for a slug barrel and a shorter (18.5″) barrel for my classic Mossberg 500A 12 gauge.
Any recommendations on an on-line retailer ?
Rifled slug barrel?
Run saboted slugs through that and you should get good results. The trick is finding the right ones to run. I probably tried 5 different kinds before I found the best one for my gun. I could do 3” groups at 100 yards.
No recces on a retailer. Sorry.
I look online and Im innundated by places Ive never heard of.
I’ll likely just go to my brick & mortar place: https://www.oeoutfitters.com/
It’s cool that Helldivers has an ongoing narrative like that and rewards the players for moving the story along. Wish I had the time to pick it up and get into it.