Good morning one and all to an absolutely stupendous day and to the morning links!
Libertarian Christmas temporarily held off
Hunter Biden Deposition Transcript Released
Road to Hunter Biden’s Burisma riches was paved in Moscow with effort to court Russian oligarchs
Biden Visits One Of Border’s Slowest Sectors To Blame Congress, Talk Climate Change
Catherine Herridge Held in Contempt for Refusing to Expose Source
Supreme Court takes center stage in run up to 2024 election
The Media Is Wrong — Trump’s Immunity Appeal Is Moving Along At ‘Lightning’ Speed
Texas Suffers Second Largest Fire in State History, Fire Engulfs 850,000 Acres
Insane NY AG Letitia James Now Targeting World’s Largest Beef Producer Over Climate Change
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Road to Hunter Biden’s Burisma riches was paved in Moscow with effort to court Russian oligarchs – is there any country Hunter didn’t try to schmooze?
Flyover Country?
Hungary?
No, I’ve had breakfast — thanks.
Have some Turkey
Too much Greece.
Yea, Norway I can eat that, it’ll give me stomach Spains.
If I partook, people would probably expect me to pick up the Czech.
Maybe need to Sweden it up a bit? Den mark the place in the book?
I’d go Dutch with the tab
*mass narrowed gaze*
P.S. Thanks for the interesting book, Fourscore!
with Swiss?
NEIN.
Marlboro?
You might arrive in Po land.
Swissy has weighed in. Time to Finnish these puns.
Biden Visits One Of Border’s Slowest Sectors To Blame Congress, Talk Climate Change
Well the climate in the non weather sense around borders is a changing.
Supreme Court takes center stage in run up to 2024 election
But is there a man behind the curtains?
Yes, but he identifies as an elf. And the curtains identify as draperies.
González is a Spanish name. Its origins trace back to a Visigothic name combining the words gunþo (guntho) (battle or war) and alf (elf); the Latinized form was Gundisalv.
So the man behind the curtain is named González . At least I know the name
Maybe Biden will accidentally veto the spending bill…
One can dream…
Like they would let him hold a pen. Too dangerous, it might go off and kill a Bill!
Nonsense. He signed it himself this morning.
https://www.theonering.net/images/scrapbook/orig/8376_orig.jpg
Texas Suffers Second Largest Fire in State History, Fire Engulfs 850,000 Acres
I blame the Sun myself
The panhandle is extremely windy, as I recall. The wind probably blew fire everywhere.
Well yesterday I learned the panhandle is not really a panhandle
Now Oklahoma, there’s a real panhandle.
Oklahoma also has an interesting fast food restaurant called “Taco Mayo”.
I liked it.
Much better hot sauce.
What I’ve never understood is the Florida panhandle. Both parts are panhandles!
It’s panhandles all the way down.
Florida is more of America’s wang than a pan.
That would make the keys…
Mosquitos
Simmer down there, Monty.
Can’t beat this site for wildfire tracking. Click on an icon to get the map for the fire. The big ‘un in TX – holy crap.
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/
The one in NoCo is sitting behind the Whole Foods in Fort Collins instead of up in the Mtns where it is supposed to be.
Well, it is a government website. But it’s the only one I’ve found that will actually give you a map showing what a fire has burned.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire has spread to Oklahoma. >1M acres, 3% contained
It was the evil power companies!
Insane NY AG Letitia James Now Targeting World’s Largest Beef Producer Over Climate Change
You Americans need to import more good Romanian beef not that inferior stuff y’all got. Romanian cows are classier.
If only there was a way to isolate the climate changers and let them live out their dream. They could be so happy.
Why is it that do-gooders always want to include those that are satisfied with the status quo? Giving people what they, the deciders, want, good and hard .
Because all of us sinners have to be saved, whether we want it or not.
Because cows are bad for climate, but millions of buffalo roaming the plains before the white man raped mother gaia were just fine.
where is everybody this morning?
Working.
One of my direct reports decided not to do something I’d assigned because he thought he didn’t know how and didn’t tell me that he wasn’t working on it
I’m unhappy. I mean, if you think you can’t do a task I assigned, tell me and I’ll either help you figure it out or assign it to someone who can. Don’t just leave the work hanging!
Such a ride thing to do. I bet his/her coworkers aren’t happy with him/her, either.
*rude
Ugh, I’ve had similar problems with juniors spinning when stuck instead of reaching out for help.
Me as well. That employee might have had an unpleasant boss in the past that yelled when they couldn’t figure it out instead of using it as a teaching moment. Overcome that fear and you may have a good employee.
On the other hand, that person could just be a putz. Hard to tell without a few interactions.
Meh. I’ve been on the other side of it where I’ve asked for help with access issues (and the like) multiple times with no response from supervisors/managers. My favorite is when they refer to documentation in a different system that not everyone has access to.
It’s gotten worse with remote work. You used to be able to see someone struggling.
I was that junior. I remember getting talked to about that.
It’s a big shift in mentality to go from engineering school, where you’re expected to figure it out on your own, to the workplace, where you’re expected to work with others to solve a problem.
I still lean in the DIY direction at work. Much less than 15 years ago, but I still have to remind myself that it’s perfectly acceptable to drop a meeting on my manager’s calendar to talk through a problem.
Yes, but as I’m sure you’ve learned, you need to come in with a plan or a discrete set of questions.
Simply, a “help me” is not going to endear you to your manager.
Don’t just leave the work hanging!
In my opinion, this is why Agile was invented and taken hold. At least you find out every two weeks that someone hasn’t been doing their job. Hopefully at standup you might discover that earlier.
Fucking kindergarten for developers. Make everyone waste their time with pointless meetings because they can’t be trusted to do their work and reach out if they have issues.
Have you seen the social IQ of developers? It’s not impressive. They have a hard time asking for a temporary ID badge because the girl at the front desk is cute. If you don’t force interactions, they won’t happen.
Sort of true.
I also think that a big part of it is that a myth grew up about devs being quirky and different so they weren’t held to the same norms as other employees.
The vast majority of devs now are the same as any other employee, but they still get away with murder.
Yeah ain’t nothing quirky about me. That stereotype died out a couple decades ago.
“waste their time”
OMG new x-times up boss is nuts about timekeeping. It will take at least 2 hours a week to catch up with it. Grumble.
He’s a government employee. You find this surprising?
Leap Day is over. It’s back to the mines.
J. Smith wants to start his trial on July 8, the week before the GOP convention.
It’s like he is trying hard to get Trump favorable publicity.
I can imagine a lot of the convention will be taken up by reporting to delegates (most of whom will be Trump supporters) elements of the trial. Massive boos over things they dislike, and cheers for anything that happens that’s favorable to Trump.
That article has a quote from Fox supporting her. Any leftie media orgs have her back or nah?
CNN ran the story, and had this quote at the bottom:
“Requiring journalists to reveal their confidential sources deters whistleblowers and others from coming forward, meaning the public has less access to information,” Caitlin Vogus, deputy director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation, told CNN last year.”
A less passionate story write up, but functionally similar.
Whycome Mojeaux never told me about [[[toys]]]?
https://www.brickemyoung.com/
Those are great. I love the Elder Missionary figurines. I could glue one to my doorbell.
OH CUTE! Also clever name. “Don’t care how you Brigham, just Brigham Young.” Brick ’em young! Awesome dad joke.
This headline… Future historians can refer to it when trying to understand the collapse of western civilization.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/berlin-walks-back-plan-daycare-sex-rooms-toddlers-masturbate-privacy
Have we passed the fall of Rome yet? Where are we in the timeline?
Rome fell to barbarians, we’re falling under something much worse.
Miss Leap Year: Belinda Penelope seen here proposing to boyfriend holding a gun (1964)
https://twitter.com/shitbritishpics/status/1763308162122424690
Missed the boyfriend holding the gun
You have to take the author’s word for it. We can’t see his hands.
I don’t see a holster. Wonder where she stores it when she ain’t proposing.
That trigger discipline is shit!
I’d turn her down just for that.
Doctrine was different back then.
the recently departed pistoffnick was a man of principle
Another funeral today. Brother of a classmate. With covid in the rear view mirror at least we can say good bye to old friends again.
My condolences.
I’m sorry.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“My heart fell in love with you”
Someone you know, via the HH, was adopted in Korea at about age 10. She said she cried as she saw all the younger kids getting adopted. An Iowa farm family with 3 kids decided they needed a sister. As life turned out she was chosen by a great and loving family. Now, not so young, she is a part of the HH family, married to a lurker Glib.
One of her first memories was on the way back to Iowa the family stopped for ice cream, she had never had it before and thought she was in heaven.
There is an observant Jewish family next store with an adopted Chinese daughter. I always wonder new people think when they see her at Temple.
One of my old friend group was adopted into an Irish Catholic family. He happened to be Korean (as were his unrelated adopted sisters). From this, he wound up with the nickname Irish %first name%.
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
https://thecritic.co.uk/lutfur-rahman-and-the-future-of-localism/
Between 2008 and 2010, Rahman served as Labour’s council leader in the borough, before being replaced in May 2010 following an investigation which linked him to the fundamentalist Islamic Forum for Europe (IFE), which has previously called for the implementation of Sharia Law in Britain.
Naturally, Rahman was not to be deterred by this minor inconvenience; it takes more than accusations of Islamist extremism to keep a good man down. In October of the same year, he stood as an independent candidate in the borough’s first ever mayoral elections, winning out with a respectable 52 per cent of the vote — but why did Tower Hamlets switch to a mayoral system in the first place?
Under the local government regulations of the time, councils were obliged to conduct a referendum on switching to a mayoral system if 5 percent of registered voters signed a petition supporting the change. In mid-2010, IFE activist Abjol Miah successfully organised such a petition; 99.3 per cent of the signatures were Asian names, half of which were reportedly found to be invalid by council officers, with entire pages of names and addresses written in the same handwriting. Still, the people — some of them at least — had spoken.
Democracy rules, haterz drool
Just another marker on the West’s suicide journey.
MSNBC legal analyst says First Amendment makes US ‘vulnerable,’ calls for ‘common sense’ speech restrictions
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1763218444646744428
I agree. The superior Romanian constitution has a least half a dozen speech restriction. N ot a one which is not perfectly common sense.
They are psyching themselves up for the next big thing.
—“calls for ‘common sense’ speech restrictions”—
Just like guns, nobody would oppose “common sense” restrictions on freedom of speech. They are just common sense.
Somehow commonsense restrictions on abortion are extremism beyond the pale.
Vulnerable to what? Hurt feelings?
Why don’t you love democracy? Is it because you want the terrorists to win?
/looks at the airports
You mean the terrorists didn’t already win?
Someone is sick and tired of carrying water for Joe.
This next election would be so much easier if they could just shut down anyone who dares to question Joe’s brain power.
They want to just show a photo of Joe from 40 years ago and read a “transcript” of what he said.
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I am so looking forward to hearing how much Minneapolis will have to pay for this fun.
I’m sure the city will have to cut big checks for the two injured bums and the houses next to the camp that were damaged. None of the NGO’s that have been advocating for the bums to be left alone in their camp will have to pay a dime. In fact, I’d bet that they will get even more money from fundraising on this.
*Yes, yurt. I have no idea why, but every journalo has decided that the bums are living in yurts. Not tents.
I hope this guy gets a payout.
He must offer them shelter under his own roof, while the state or city pays the bums but not the “host”.
I like him because he at least tells the truth about the bums being a problem.
Way too many proggies in Minneapolis – like my sister – would never admit to a journalo that the bums were a problem. Even if they were standing in the charred wreckage of their home, they’d talk about systemic inequality or something.
With all due respect to your sister… that’s fuckin’ retarded.
No arguments here.
is it really *Minneapolis * who will pay?
Yurts are cultural appropriation, unless you’re Mongolian.
God Damn Mongolians!
Yurts generally have a wood structure, are larger, and can’t be transported on your back.
The homeless encampments in your town have names? Well la-di-da.
From the article it seems like the camp is run by activist-types, and the city isn’t really happy with it. Also…
“Brandon Elias, 35, who has been homeless for the last 12 years…”
That’s a pretty good run.
It was a genius move to start naming the bum camp. Especially with an authentic Anishinabe name. It gets the white savior proggies all tingly.
Easy to feel no pity when the cops clear out a bunch of bums. But when you hear that Camp Nenookaasi is going to get cleared out, you know that the Evil White Men are back to their old colonialist tricks.
Sounds more like a veneral disease that needs to be burned out with fire.
Sun rays piercing the nave at Ripon Cathedral
https://twitter.com/fotofacade/status/1763096381059690696
Look who came out of the closet!
At least that is what I think happened after reading Tonio’s story about humpback whale homo sex.
He was just innocently driving slowing throw an area notorious for rent-whales? Suuuuuuuuuuuure.
I can’t believe that Trump hasn’t been charged with dolphin (or manatee) molestation. He lives in Florida, right? Has to be at least as realistic a charge as his “fraud” case.
Remember when he genocided the sacred Japanese Imperial Koi?
There’s no way a guy like him goes for manatees.
OT, but it’s been an hour
Is there any interest in a Glibs Eclipse Meet-up? Right now it is tentative for Waco (Valley Mills), but if there is interest for, say, Waxahachie or other similarly located place, please chime in. I am not from/in Texas, so I don’t know the area very well and am going by maps.
Well yeah, but since I’m in the path, I’ll probably just go enjoy some of the beer that our very own Great Lakes is brewing for the totality.
Where in CA are you, if you don’t mind my asking?
The CA glibs are so spread out.
—“Where in CA are you”—
High desert area of San Bernardino County which, I have you know, is the largest County in these here United States. But that’s about all it has going for it.
👍
High desert – that takes a lot of weed
That would be around Joshua Tree.
(I’m in the southernmost one.)
I don’t miss 29 Palms even a little bit.
what Eclipse ?
Mitsubishi! I thought you were a car guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Eclipse
Off course not I live in civilized Europe where you don;t need a car.
I like nice cars but it is not one of my main interests, so no a car guy.
I will do my best to make a meet up, but cannot make any promises. My plan is to look for sunny skies and Valley Mills is my first choice. I will try to change it to Waxahachie if there is a meetup there, again depending on cloud cover and the heckler’s veto of the group I’m with. If North Texas is cloudy, I’m headed south to Lampasas or Fredericksburg.
Sorry this seems so fluid at the moment, but I will email you with tighter plans as the forecast approaches.
I’m looking forward to the pics of Swiss stylin’ and profilin’ in his sweet new ride
Combine that car with a Mr. Microphone (“I’ll be back to pick you up later”) and Swissy will be slaying it this summer.
So you’re saying it is half-fast?
You are in a maze of twisty little passages.
You see, the author is a hardcore proggie, and they aren’t worried and so Biden shouldn’t worry about appeasing them. Doesn’t that all make sense?
“Independents show a modest uptick, from 16% in January to 22% now”
Just a rounding error, like 2 guys in Iowa. Nothing to worry about.
I love how a 40% increase in concern by independents (from 16 – 22%) in one month is a “modest uptick”).
If that sustains and translates to voting, the Dems are dead in the water in November. Or would be, if we were counting votes instead of ballots.
Hello Glibs,
Happy Friday, I hope all is well. I’ve been too busy to comment on anything for the past month or so. Lots of BS going on.
I’m sure this was referenced several times already, but I will be going to see the second Dune movie tomorrow and get my “not a sex toy” popcorn bucket.
https://thedirect.com/article/dune-2-sandworm-popcorn-bucket-explained-where-purchase
I hope all is well – the world is literally burning
I’ve convinced the girlfriend that we’ll be seeing Dune 2 tomorrow (preferably in XD). She refuses to let me try to get the popcorn bucket.
convinced – be a man and just tell her. lay down the law. go full trad.
Tell her you will not cut a hole in the bottom…
Yup. Need to decide on an IMAX theater.
My hockey friends and I have been laughing about that for months. There’s no way that design was an accident.
Yes I’m an incompetent, lying buffoon, but this isn’t about me – it’s about you!
A minority of Brits realise that nuclear power is a low carbon source of energy. This is driven by a huge gap in understanding between men and women.
https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1762806160137011395
Guiness Record? Largest Lesbian Erection?
WTF? The navy can’t do shit right anymore! This ship should have been named the Ted Kennedy, not the John Kennedy
looks rusty for something new
Ted Kennedy’s car has killed more people than my aircraft carrier.
JFK got the PT boat he commanded rammed in half by a Japanese destroyer. May as well name an aircraft carrier after McCain.
Which is quite astonishing, as the PT was much faster and more maneuverable than a destroyer. He should have been court martialed.
There is a funny Grand Tour episode where Jeremy Clarkson demonstrates the crappy low speed maneuverability of PT boats.
As I recall, PT-109 was drifting in the dark with motor off and crew asleep. If the skipper’s name had been John Slavik, well I don’t think he’d have been deemed a hero.
British leftist gets stabbed and almost dies.
He blames the Tories for not funding youth clubs, says the kid who stabbed him wasn’t at fault because he’s the real victim.
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1763282713682088284
Let me guess, he was struck in the big empty hollow that is his head.
Thank you, sir. May I have another?
Bezmenov said that people wake up from their demoralization only when the boot is crushing their balls. Clearly, this guy would be writhing in agony with the boot pressing down, screaming out in self-loathing for somebody to forgive him his sins against the state.
Or as Nietzsche would see it, the ultimate expression of slave morality (in the slave, not the priestly ranks).
🤣😂
I had to tap out before what I’m sure must be the good stuff.
Why? Seems to me there are plenty of folks who are living there not illegally and are not working.
Sorry, I am rapidly losing patience with platitudes like this. You want to pad the number of residents. Go ahead and tell us the truth.
What is a “mechanism” in neuroscience? https://
https://twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic/status/1763172348566360159
https://www.theblaze.com/news/blaze-news-investigative-writer-steve-baker-says-fbi-wants-him-to-self-surrender-friday-in-dallas-over-his-jan-6-reporting
The feebs have requested that he dress to make the cavity search easier, and that they are refraining from telling him or his lawyer what he’s being charged with because they’re afraid it’ll be leaked to the media.
JFC, you would think that at some point, they’d taper off, but NoOOOooooo.
Why would they taper off when there are no consequences?
Last I checked, that is supposed to required and be public record..but hey, its America.
Interesting and chilling article in today’s WSJ.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/how-one-woman-duped-chinas-censorship-machine-1f3924de?st=7mddm2yykp55q5h&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The most female videogame genre player-base seems to be those games where you match up three pieces of something in a row and they disappear
The most male? Sports.
https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1763445713047032137
Chicks are into threesomes?
yes. with two other chicks.
That is what is great about our society. I can now easily say I’m a chick and get in on this action!!!
Do you know how to pillow fight?
I honestly don’t believe MMOs are 35% female. Sounds way high.
they are females when online maybe
Depends on what’s being classed as an MMO. But there’s also quite a few female gamers that go with male avatars to avoid the other players learning.
But more males who have female avatars. Way more.
Thats why GIRL in MMO is guy in real life.
Well, most MMOs require 20% of the party to be a healer, so…
And they usually have a max cooking skill level too
It varies by game, but yeah, there’s often a lot of women in MMORPG’s.
The most libertarian video games are word games, right?
Are you kidding? Any of the %business% tycoon games or good 4X games would be the most libertarian ones.
I don’t want to register for this article, but it seems fun: Drag queen helps kangaroo researcher win Dance Your PhD contest
Animal behaviour expert Weliton Menário Costa wins international prize for flamboyant take on how marsupials have distinct personalities
tough trolley problem
https://twitter.com/reddit_lies/status/1762960536214356081
We have recently traveled with our 4 months old baby to Iceland. Here are some essential tips for parents who wish to do the same:
1. Don’t do it.
https://twitter.com/DocLarus/status/1684315225539969025
We travelled with our 4 month old son to France, but we drove. And our original destination was Spain. Iceland would have been a bit more difficult.
“OnlyFans stars are shamelessly bypassing Instagram’s nudity restrictions by pretending to breastfeed baby dolls – as furious viewers claim they are ‘making a complete mockery of mothers’
nstagram has a strict ‘no nudity’ policy which includes photos and videos of female nipples.
However, it does make some exceptions – including posts of women ‘actively breastfeeding’.
MailOnline discovered several OnlyFans stars utilising this loophole by posting videos of dolls held up to their exposed breasts, pretending to breastfeed.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13145103/OnlyFans-stars-shamelessly-bypassing-Instagrams-nudity-restrictions-pretending-breastfeed-baby-dolls-furious-viewers-claim-making-complete-mockery-mothers.html
Don’t hate the player?
“It also includes some photos of female nipples, but photos in the context of breastfeeding, birth giving and after-birth moments, health-related situations (for example, post-mastectomy, breast cancer awareness or gender confirmation surgery) or an act of protest are allowed.'”
Sounds like there are a lot of options to get around that policy. Just write Free Palestine on your boobs with a Sharpie and anything goes.
Pretty sure any OnlyFans person would prefer to stay away from the word “free”.
Speaking of no nudity aka youtube
Transparent Clothes Dry vs Wet Try on Haul with Moonsi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDojndiUJDs
NSFW. I would say rather little left to the imagination.
YouTube’s rules are also over-complicated bullshit. Critical Drinker’s last video got age restricted. I’m guessing because there was drinking within the first minute.
but did you prefer the dry or wet look? that is the question
“Alexander Smirnov, 43, is accused of fabricating a story he told the FBI about a $10 million bribe paid to Joe Biden and his son Hunter by a Ukrainian oligarch. He has pleaded not guilty.
As details emerge about the 10-year FBI informant, keen-eyed intelligence analysts have noted an intriguing similarity between Smirnov and an unnamed FBI source cited in a government report on Crossfire Hurricane, the Bureau’s past probe into the Trump 2016 presidential campaign’s links with Russian intelligence operatives.
The similarities raise the prospect that Smirnov may have been a source for both the investigation of potential corruption by the Biden family, and also a counterintelligence probe linked to Trump – making it all the more embarrassing for the FBI if he turns out to have been a fantasist, or worse, a Russian double agent, as is suggested by prosecutors.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13142017/Alexander-Smirnov-linked-intel-connecting-Trump-Russia.html
America, what a country.
So they’re back to going after people who lie to the FBI in order to make a politician look bad?
Doublethink of the highest order. Hell, right up to his exposure, he was too valued of a source to reveal to Congress.
Federal Bureau of Incompetence
What you did there was seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXDuHFzkrSI
Testing teapots for quality
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1763428792792387719
its is a goddamn teapot. it pours hot water. silly Japanese paying thousands of dollars for teapots.
So what is the most a glib has spent one one teapot? Do tell.
I don’t think I ever bought one. Mu goose-neck electric kettle was like 120 American.
$5
My wife has a fancy Japanese one she got from her Granma, but I have no idea on the cost.
Do you actively use it?
Occasionally, she’ll make me some hot green tea with it.
These euphemisms…
Pretty sure the electric kettle I’ve got was ~$20.
it was in fact 95$
I was focused on something that could accurately hold 93 degrees for my v60 then realized I don’t need it really I can heat up to 95 and by the time I am done it is down to 92 and the coffee is perfectly okay on that range
I was looking for one to put on my woodstove. All the Japanese teapots were tiny so I never bought one.
There was an American company that made a massive cast iron kettle. I had one in the 1980s. Disadvantage is rust, it will happen. Treating it like a cast iron skillet periodically is mandatory and can end up flavoring your water. A thick stainless kettle would be better. Neither one would be under $30.
I think some japanese teapots adding some iron to the water was a feature not a bug
I have a Chinese enameled cast iron one that you use for steeping green tea,
I think it was like $20. You need something like it because you want steep the tea at a lower temperature than black tea.
I have a tea kettle for boiling water, but no tea pot. When I drank tea, I’d steep it by the cup.
For steeping tea i have one of these
https://www.hario-europe.com/collections/teapot/products/teapot-maru?variant=34423153787031
French Presses work great for steeping tea.
I spent about $40 USD on a electric kettle with a safety shut off for my mom and dad to keep them from burning down their house. One of them was using a traditional metal whistling kettle to make boiling water for tea, but left the spout cover/whistle open and forgot about it. The water boiled away and melted the kettle into the glass ceramic cook top.
Yikes!
Electric kettles are awesome.
$0. I inherited one, got another as a we’d present and donated both to charity when I got an instant hot water tap.
Gentlemen, start your conspiracy theories: Can 15-Minute Cities Work in America?
I actually think 15 minute cities are a good idea. Perhaps the initial marketing on them was poor, but having errands take twice as long because you need to drive everywhere is stupid.
But even the libs have found a problem with them:
depends if you can leave at will or not. Nothing wrong with voluntary living in a walkable neighborhood with most amenities. I like walking to most of the places I go. My walking range is about 2-3 miles from my place.
Well yeah, also doesn’t work if there is filth and crime. The Jon Stewart’s of the world see these problems as the price of freedom, but we know they are easily solvable.
Buchares is quite safe for now excep a couple of areas. Wherever i go i can walk all day and night and feel safe. And i see women walking alone at night all the time. There has been an increase in crazy looking homeless and asian immigrants lately, lets see how it goes in the future
It’s almost like I knew that was coming.
The left wants the poors to surround themselves with their betters at least once in a while but remember the other side are the racist ones.
I envision their view of 15-minute cities like any dystopian depiction just on a smaller scale. The elite above the crowds while the others wallow below on the streets…but hey! you don’t need a car.
I enjoy my mostly 15 minute city and I love not having a car but no I did not sign up for training the help how to behave.
When was younger, and single, I loved living downtown. I could walk to bars, restaurants, bookstores, etc. But now, in my fifties and handicapped? No. I want to live in a small city with good parking, and shop were it is easy to park. I also no longer want to live near a bar. I don’t need a bunch of drunks stumbling through my yard, yelling at 2am, and so on.
And that is a huge part of my pushback on this. It is a bunch of kids (my son’s age) who hated growing up in suburbs, blame them for a bunch of other failings, and come up with this crap. We have the solution already: cities. You want to walk every were? Great, move to NYC, everything is already like that. You can live above a greasy diner, walk to a bar and everything else. But the second you have kids, it becomes a huge pain the ass. Try carrying enough milk home for two teenage boys to last a day, let alone a week. Try going to Home Depot and buying a 4’x8′ sheet of 3/4″ ply.
But when rich people move into the neighborhoods isn’t that gentrification and a bad thing?
I like being able to decide to go other places.
There is a great farmer market and Korean Restaurant (2 separate places) about a half hour’s drive that we go to about every 6 weeks.
About a half hour the other way there is a European grocery and a Puerto Rican Restaurant we frequent around the same frequency.
Would a 15 minute city have as many options? Probably not.
Practically every side I’ve lived in is a 20 minute city of it’s not rush hour and so have a car.
If 15 minute cities were a good idea, they’d already exist and this fucking moron would have to write about something else.
Well they are essentially illegal to build.
If you want a lot of 15 minute cities, you’ll have to make it illegal to build anything else.
I do not want to be stuck with whatever shitty establishments my neighbors frequent.
You currently live in a locality that allows people to abandon baby pools full of motor oil.
It wasn’t to the brim full.
And all the more reason to not be stuck amongst them.
I’m not sure what you are objecting to, you need to move.
I have paid off my house.
Most of my neighbors are renters. They move out with some regularity.
Good riddance.
You complain about them often. I would think that goal would be to move to a betterneighborhood now that this house is paid off.
🎶 Movin’ on up 🎶 to the East Side 🎶
I’m working on building up my savings. The down payment is easier when there’s cash in hand.
I know, that’s what my neighbors say as well.
15 minute cities might, might work if you don’t have kids. The minute (not 15 of them) you have to tote a child around, while buying food for a family, or running any errands, the whole idea falls apart.
There is a reason people use cars, move to the suburbs, shop at big box stores, etc. and it isn’t because the don’t love cutesy small shops. It makes life doable for families.
Here i would say the suburbs are not worth the hassle if you need to go to the city for work. Also in Bucharest the suburbs grew without having schools in them so geting the kids to a decent school is a hassle. Easier to live in a city appartment with all the associated problems.
Du-te înapoi la muncă.
Ce ar fi sa nu iti bagi nasul unde nu iti fierbe oala?
Them furrin idioms.
The suburbs in America do have schools, often very good ones. They have the money, and will build them, along with having plenty of teachers who want to be there. Inner cities do have very good schools, possibly the best, but those are expensive private schools that have both a waiting list and you must be of the right class to be accepted.
They are not good schools, they are just better than the alternatives.
Are you referring to the schools in the suburbs or the private schools in cities? I know, from living in Sacramento and raising a kid there that the suburban (both inner suburbs and outer) schools are often very good.
Private schools are fine. With public schools, we just accept things as the way they are and then justify how some are better than others. Because of the system, we cannot even comprehend what education might look like instead if it was all completely privatized.
My kids’ suburban public schools were excellent. There was no need to either get a private school or homeschool … with ONE exception, which was the LGBTQ indoctrination, which … Well. Anyway.
The suburbs here could have used some planning at least for roadz which are at times too narrow for two cars to pass toghether and have no sidewalks. People extended their yards usually beyond the actual property line and there was not enough space left for streets
Yes, the current places we have built are not suitable for kids. A 15 minute city is building a place where kids can also live. It’s giving them back the freedom they lost when they were moved to the suburbs where they can’t go anywhere without mom or dad driving them. And then we wonder why they are fat and mental cases.
You are missing my point, so I must not be explaining it well. When you have kids to tote around (under 7, say) then the suburb is preferable as it makes doing that easy. You can park, do your shopping for the week (not just a day), while easily maneuvering two kids in strollers. They just work better at that point in peoples lives.
Kids didn’t lose their freedom with the advent of the suburbs, as the ‘burbs have been around forever (see medieval castles with small communities outside the walls, the various arrondissements of Paris, the English “home counties” with their direct rail lines to London, and so on). No, kids lost their freedoms due to a change in parenting, and are fat with mental issues due to smart phones and video games. Going to a small, walkable city will have no effect on that. In other words, there is a societal change in both what kids want to do and how they are raised that has nothing to do with what part of the city they live in.
After our Swiss neighbors moved back to Switzerland we kept in touch via emails and video chats. The wife admitted that she really missed the convenience of having a car and shopping at big box stores.
She told us how hard it was to get a new vacuum cleaner from the shop back to her house. Trains and taxis made what would have been a 15 minute deal here take most of the day.
How is her day to day life when not buying vacuums?
Roll back zoning restrictions and see if they spring up naturally.
It is no fun without central planning. People might get the idea other things cand be achieved that way
Thank you. The government should not build 15 minute cities, this is obvious. It should allow for the possibility to private developers.
*in the case of existing towns and cities, they should not surrender themselves to the suburbs.
We should have sent Joe and Kamala
Thousands of Russians chanted Alexei Navalny’s name and said they would not forgive the authorities for his death as the opposition leader was laid to rest in Moscow on Friday.
In video streamed from the Borisovskyoe cemetery, Navalny’s mother Lyudmila and father Anatoly stooped over his open coffin to kiss him for the last time as a small group of musicians played.
Crossing themselves, mourners stepped forward to caress his face before a priest gently placed a white shroud over him and the coffin was closed.
Caressing the corpse’s face? That’s not creepy.
So what is the most a glib has spent one one teapot? Do tell.
I just bought one for $25. We’ll see if it lasts twice as long as the $14 one. If it burns out in a year, the joke’s on me.
Federal agents arrest Blaze Media journalist Steve Baker in handcuffs for his reporting on January 6.
https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1763569770127913076
Three years after the fact. They are stretching this out and widening their circle to keep that threat fresh in the minds of their voters.
Palpable glee
New York appeals court judge refused to give the former president additional time to satisfy a $454 million judgment from a civil fraud case. A federal judge is poised to decide whether to grant Trump’s last-ditch legal effort to delay or post a fraction of an $83.3 million judgment he owes E. Jean Carroll from a defamation case.
The scramble over the past week reveals challenges Trump is facing in raising the combined judgments totaling $537 million. In pleading for relief, Trump’s lawyers told judges it could cost him an additional $104 million to post the bonds – their estimate of fees he would need to pay. Trump’s lawyers said he may have to dump some of his properties under “exigent circumstances” to raise cash quickly, tap the capital markets, or find another source of cash. Last month Trump began hawking $399 gold sneakers.
“It is a really substantial problem. He’s really between a rock and a hard place,” said Adam Kaufmann, a criminal defense lawyer.
The cash crunch challenges Trump’s long-projected image of a successful businessman with deep pockets and a maverick’s ability to outmaneuver legal and financial troubles. He rode that reputation to the White House in 2016.
Now, the leading Republican presidential candidate in 2024 could end up heavily indebted to a bank, donor, or some other source of capital. Adding to the uncertainty over Trump’s future earnings are the four criminal indictments he is facing.
They are absolutely giddy at the prospect of tossing Bad Orange Businessman into the workhouse.
And- I don’t really think it was his business acumen (real or imagined) people were voting for in 2016. But the idea that people preferred him to The Most Qualified Candidate Ever causes them to black out.
I imagine that even most billionaires don’t have hundreds of millions of dollars in liquid assets. It would take time for him to liquidate a property and he’s been blocked from borrowing from banks registered in New York.
The idea of a fair, impartial criminal justice system that treats everyone the same was a good idea while it lasted.
If he had burned down Gracie Mansion, he wouldn’t have been required to post cash bail.
On Thursday, lawyers for Carroll pointed to Trump’s growing legal issues when urging the judge to reject Trump’s request to delay or lower the amount of the bond in her case.
“If Trump is convicted of even a subset of the 91 felony charges lodged against him, the implications for his ability to satisfy the judgment here could be significant. And even prior to a conviction, Trump’s ‘brand’— purportedly his most valuable asset, though not one that can easily be utilized to satisfy a civil judgment — may suffer as a result of the various legal proceedings in which he is enmeshed,” Carroll’s lawyers wrote.
He must be bled dry. He must be made to suffer.
15 minute cities might, might work if you don’t have kids. The minute (not 15 of them) you have to tote a child around, while buying food for a family, or running any errands, the whole idea falls apart.
That’s what servants are for.
You people are excessiively frugal in your teapot purchases
Even more so in your kettle purchase
Why should I be profligate when I’m not a major consumer of tea?
That is what keeps the economy going
https://twitter.com/liz_churchill10/status/1763384864261230739/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1763384864261230739¤tTweetUser=liz_churchill10
Fake?
I got an interesting email today. I subscribe to a web site that has artist models on it (these are models and poses geared toward drawing and painting). The email talked about diversity, and how they try to get a variety of models (age, gender, ethnicity, body type). They do, and I appreciate that. From the email:
“Still, sometimes we receive requests from members asking for more male models, more black or Asian models, older models, and plus-size models.
It’s not that we aren’t looking for different model types; rather it comes down to availability.
For instance, we know from experience that male models comprise around 10% of the model pool. Of those, perhaps only 1-2% are experienced, qualified art models. So, you see right away, the proportion of male to female models is relatively small. ”
This in a nutshell is why DEI is harmful. Just swap out “model” with “software developer”, and replace “male” with “female” or some ethnicity, and the problem is right there.
It’s like stealing from the government
The IRS has unveiled plans to target “non-filers” with a new round of letters, starting with high-income taxpayers who haven’t filed federal returns since 2017.
Starting this week, the agency will send letters to wealthy non-filers, with the first batch going to those earning $400,000 to more than $1 million.
Formerly known as CP-59 notices, the letters will go to between 20,000 and 40,000 non-filers per week, according to plans announced Thursday. The IRS said recipients should take “immediate action” to avoid more letters, higher penalties and “stronger enforcement measures.” Non-filers can learn more about past-due returns here.
“If someone hasn’t filed a tax return, this is the time to make it right,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told reporters during a press call. Citing staffing issues, he said the non-filer program has only run sporadically since 2016.
The failure-to-file penalty is 5% of the amount owed per month, capped at 25% of the tax bill, according to the IRS. There’s also an interest-based penalty based on the current interest rate.
The agency urges non-filers to work with a tax professional to file past-due returns and calculate taxes owed, penalties and interest.
The IRS has allowed millions of wealthy capitalists to skate on their fair share payments for years? This calls for a Congressional investigation.
We could start with people who made millions in foreign business deals who haven’t filed taxes in years.
Sure. Leave off one 1099 for $601 and the IRS will be after you quickly. But they can’t have been bothered to chase the non-filers since 2017? Why do I think the number of employees fired for failure to perform this task is zero? [Actually, I wish IRS wouldn’t pursue any non-filers and would make that policy widely known!]
Please tell me that Harry Reid will be in charge of this effort.
While it’s unclear exactly how much the IRS will collect via the revamped non-filer program, the agency estimates there could be “hundreds of millions of dollars” in unpaid taxes from these cases.
“This is a very material amount of money that is being left on the table,” Werfel said Thursday.
It’s still peanuts compared to what your boss is spending.
Going for my first-ever curly-girl haircut today (and first haircut in probably 2 years). Hopefully, my hair is curly enough to pull this off.
Mrs OBE would die for that look
It’ll probably be more like this. That’s about how much curl I really have.
Still and I think grey is a great look on ladies.
👍
The plaintiff, L’il Rod, alleged that, during the time he worked for the famous rapper, he became aware of an on-staff hitman, that P Diddy’s house was wired for secret video recording in all its bedrooms, that separate drugged liquor bottles were reserved for special guests, that underage sex parties were held for celebrities and influential businessmen, that LA Police cooperated to facilitate the illegal conduct, and strongly implied that P Diddy used the recorded sex videos to blackmail the music stars and industry executives.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/annus-dislosus-friday-march-1-2024?r=d0r3d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post