It’s back, baby!
Many, many sports happenings. MLB is back, baby! Clemson, Bama, and Illinois all won tight games to advance to the final 8. Uconn won easily. The last four games are today. It’s been a good tournament so far. Some big soccer matches this weekend. And that’s it for sports.
Once you calculate in all the graft, pet projects, set-asides, and how the contract gets offered, I’m sure it’ll cost even more. That’s simply how government projects are done these days.
Ugh!
I’m shocked! OK, not really. But question for the aviation nerds here: is this plane really as fucked up as it seems, or are we just hearing more about it because the news wants to make it a bigger deal than it is?
More of this, please. It very clearly should be legislated, not “made a rule with the force of law.” I suer wish the SC would hurry up and gut Chevron so this wasn’t necessary all the time.
This is actually common sense. Now let them follow up on those who ignore the sign by using whatever means necessary to remove them. Oh wait, they have disarmed almost everybody in the city.
I’ll believe it when I see it. And if it was gonna happen, it should have started long before now.
Let’s be honest: they’re overdue. Way overdue, if history is any indication.
This is just fucking great. I can’t imagine a worse decision if I thought about it for a week. So it’s probably likely to happen.
Oh, now it matters to them? They didn’t seem to care when it was just happening to the hoi polloi.
It’s a good day to play this. Actually it’s always a good day to play that. This one too. They’re both fantastic songs from a band that later sucked. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy Good Friday and the Easter weekend, dear friends.
whaddup doh’
feelin hungry? Its Skyline time!
*shudders*
It’s like pineapple on pizza.
We’ll have to meet up at the one off 271 near Lyndhurst.
If you people haven’t burnt it down.
We didn’t burn it down, we drove it out. It’s been closed for a couple of years now. The one in Brooklyn (by 480 and Ridge) closed down a couple years before that. We’ve been Skyline free for a while.
And to think I agreed to work up there?
Up here we’ve got Polish Boys, and Slyman’s.
Apparently TedS is going to be opening a restaurant near me.
To be honest, I don’t know how that chain stays in business. Their food isn’t that good and they keep correcting your grammar.
Not to mention the in-house music! ::shudders::
How’s the music?
Dammit
You lucky man!
But question for the aviation nerds here: is this plane really as fucked up as it seems, or are we just hearing more about it because the news wants to make it a bigger deal than it is?
IIRC, Boeing sells the aircraft to the airline with whatever engines the airline wants. So this is either an airline maintenance issue, or an engine manufacturer’s issue.
But it’s probably a nothingburger. Cockpit crew see a warning light and follow procedures for a twin-engine aircraft and bring it down without incident (would you want to fly San Francisco to Paris on a possibly dodgy engine?). All the passengers will eventually get to France, just a bit delayed.
I heard a conspiracy theory that the media is giving undue attention to Boeing related problems to help prop up the Chinese entry into the airliner market.
The timing seems suspect regardless of the veracity of the claim.
PLEASE, GAWD, NO! Have you seen the lack of attention to quality in most Chinese goods?
Thirty day free returns…
I’ve had parts guys say this to me. Look, I only want/have time to do the job once, I don’t care if I can keep getting new parts, I only make my labor on the first time. My labor rate is $104 per, labor claims pay $45 per and that’s if they acknowledge it, which means I only push them when I’m really pissed.
I have. It’s a reason among many why I dislike buying from them.
It’s the news, so of course they want to make it a bigger deal than it is.
I pass through Boeing in Everett WA every day. I say “pass through” because it’s a huge facility that straddles the highway,
On any given day there are dozens of planes sitting out in their pearlescent green primer color, no engines, waiting their turn for completion. Local folks in the know told me that when COVID lockdown hit, plane orders were delayed or cancelled because no one was flying and no engines were being made.
After lockdown ended, it was estimated that the engines wouldn’t get delivered until 2025 at the earliest. So people were very happy to see the engines rolling in and getting attached starting late last year.
It does indicate that engines are the long lead items, so there’s probably immense pressure to rush them now. Could be affecting quality.
I’ve noticed a bunch of Army gray ones being finished up lately. Brace yourselves.
That’s not pearlescent; it’s a patina.
Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim
A lot of these are United Airlines, so it seems United has a problem with maintenance. There probably are always issues here and there that never got reported before, but now the media is focused on it. It’s like the rash of shark attacks that the media covered in 2001, when in reality the really weren’t more shark attacks than normal. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Boeing’s competitors are feeding the frenzy in the media.
In reading the abridged headline URL for the canukistan story, I’d initially hoped it meant the RCMP was in revolt against Trudy.
Their initial nonarrest of the truckers was the most they’d ever do.
if history is any indication
the hemophiliacs knew what to do in these situations
with cancer sweeping through Buckingham, there’s no way we’re going to get proper trenches dug in time
‘the hemophiliacs knew what to do’
Stay Catholic, repress the revolutionaries and speak to the Pope for a little help?
Remove kebab?
George helped kill 20 million people
all Chuck can do is drive helios: fecking cuck
Interesting question, is the English general staff worse now or worse in 1914?
‘I’ll believe it when I see it. And if it was gonna happen, it should have started long before now.’
At least at the current prices, a lot of under 35s in the US will never own a home either.
Why buy when you can squat?
/King of the Road
“Ecological meltdown”?
I wonder what that is supposed to mean.
“the difference between the extremes of wealth is greater now than it has been at any time in several generations”
Blah blah blah. That is not a cause.
The Boeing 777 has a stellar safety record. 737 is King of the Hill in terms of safest airframe. However, so many moving parts in terms of pilots, crew, ground crew, maintenance, etc. I hear a lot from jet engine maintainers that they are low staffed and new hires are not that great if they are straight out of a maintenance school and not prior military.
Rebuilding Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge could take anywhere from 18 months to several years, experts say, while the cost could be at least $400 million — or more than twice that.
Looking at a historical example: a freighter struck Florida’s Sunshine Skyway bridge in May 1980, taking out 1200 feet and causing 35 deaths. A new, improved bridge that was higher, had a longer span (widening the narrow shipping channel by 50%), and had concrete “dolphins” protecting its piers opened in August 1987.
Depending on the cleanup and engineering challenges, and if it would be feasible to use the design of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, replacement could take as little as four years, in my opinion.
I was living in Los Angles during the Northridge Earthquake. While highway overpasses are far simpler structures than bridges, I actually saw government working quickly and efficiently to solve problems and was shocked at how fast they restored the LA Freeway system.
Of course that was with a Republican Mayor and Governor in a totally bygone era.
The best analogy I can give is like an alligator. Most of the time it just drifts along lazily and eats, but can sometimes explode into a lot of motion very quickly.
Yeah, there was a bonus (per diem IIRC) for early completion.
Helps that Mayor Reardon was both an officer in the Korean War and a very successful businessman.
Aw heck, maybe I was thinking of the construction of the 105 Freeway a year (?) earlier.
Local news station in Philly mentioned a figure of $4 billion yesterday.
That’s probably more accurate and on the low side. Bring in the California fiscal experts. Now those are the people that know how to keep the meter running.
Oh, now it matters to them?
we can’t seem to get the proper response from the LAPD
cops owe you nothing, so shut up and pay your taxes !
There was a squatter case in Seattle where the local bar association has a govt-funded program to fight evictions, including squatters inside a multimillion dollar home.
I don’t understand why neighbors don’t just come together and physically remove these people and then bolt the doors. Let them take the owner to court and make their adverse possession claim before a judge instead of the other way around.
These aren’t adverse possession. They’re tenants’ rights. Don’t know the details, but I suspect it’s set up so the owner/“landlord” has the burden of proof before they can “evict”.
Hire some illegals to clear the house with baseball bats at the next big party, would be my suggestion.
Yup, if NYC doesn’t already have this, they will spin it up within the week.
On top of that good luck with any sort of Florida-style law. Because a “lease” typically includes all the adults plus some number of children who are allowed to live there. The second someone points out that such a law can be used to sweep for illegals, it’s over.
Those free antieviction lawyers are popping up left and right, some pro bono and some government funded.
Find their houses and move right in!
Yep. There are free clinics everywhere for this stuff. I got pulled into one back ca. 2015 in TX. At least the laws were somewhat reasonable there, but I still felt icky about the whole thing. Owner wants you out, and your first thought is to find some way to use the legal system to gum up the eviction?
Users are gonna use.
You do not have that entitled mindset. It is a completely different way of thinking, almost beyond our grasp. And I am glad for it. I could not live with myself if I felt I should steal time or property from another.
But question for the aviation nerds here: is this plane really as fucked up as it seems, or are we just hearing more about it because the news wants to make it a bigger deal than it is?
This is the 777, which has decades of service under its belt and is a fairly safe plane. Engines go out on planes fairly regularly*, so this story is just being amplified to cast Boeing as troubled. The 737 Max does have issues, but even the issues with that plane are not a huge problem from an overall safety perspective. They speak to a broader culture issue at Boeing, one that I’ve heard employees talk about the company being well aware of. It’s not a DEI culture issue per se, but a bean counter issue that puts engineering quality behind financial priorities (including, but not primarily, DEI).
The big (known) issue with the 737 MAX is solved. MCAS isn’t forcing the plane into the ground on takeoff anymore. The doors falling off issue is one of quality control.
*it’s a rare occurrence, but with the number of flights each day, it’s something that happens frequently
From the Beverly Hills Squatters article:
Does the property’s status as abandoned change anything? The neighbors wouldn’t seem to have standing for anything other than noise complaints from the parties being thrown.
Also: Beverly Hills Squatters could be a good sitcom.
Id watch that for a dollar.
h/t NewWife: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/slums_of_beverly_hills
A slob and a neat freak squat in a multimillion dollar mansion in Beverly Hills. Throw in a couple of homeless Antifa sympathizing hot chicks if those actually exist and it’d be a laugh riot.
Plot Twist – They’re all different personalities of the same person – as is the rightful owner trying to evict them. The series finale ends in a mental hospital where you think the character is getting help, but the doctor is just another personality!
/totally not how dissociative personality disorder works, but it’s TV.
This weeks guest stars are Rip Torn, Ru Paul, and Kyle Rittenhouse…
Rip Torn is still alive?
Dr. Drake Remora?
Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named Bob,
A real piece of shit, who could never hold a job…
Beverly Hills, that’s where I want to be.
Come and listen to my story
‘Bout a man named Jed
A poor millenial,
Barely kept his cat fed.
And then one day
He was walking down the road,
And through a fence he saw an empty abode.
Yep and can’t really attribute engine issue to Boeing. Its either a General Electric, Rolls-Royce or Pratt & Whitney problem and/or maintenance issues/quality.
United uses GE engines on the 777, according to this article about a frivolous lawsuit.
All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful
Florida Coon rules them all
This year’s Cadbury Bunny is a raccoon named Louie, the first of his species to earn the title, the candy company said.
The raccoon won the hearts of voters on Instagram with his friendly face and his special skill: creating paintings to be sold to benefit wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centers.
” his friendly face and his special skill: creating paintings to be sold ”
Hunter Biden hardest hit
Paging SugarFree, Mr. SugarFree to the white courtesy telephone!
Where did you think Hunter sources his paintings from?
Send in German peacekeepers!
Sloop, ya forgot to mention that the Cincinnati Reds are currently number 1 in the NL Central.
I’m too worried about my last-place Astros.
Twins are red hot, on a winning streak, longest of the season…
The Diamondbacks had a 14 run 3rd inning to open the season.
Royce Lewis on pace to hit 162HR’s this season!
I’m not going to take their planning seriously until they add a tunnel option.
Can’t happen since there’s no current bridge route going that way to accommodate Hazmat loads. Tunnels are no-gos.
Wait a second…they can do a bridge and tunnel both! That should ring the cash register for a couple billion and make the local pols happy.
Why not both? A bridge for hazmat and a tunnel for non-hazmat. Two for the price of more.
You’re not thinking big enough!
A covered trench tunnel for the traffic, a train line at sea level, and elevated causeway for hazmat, and an elevated elevated viaduct to carry the shipping lane interrupted by the rail line!
The viaduct needs to be a drawbridge
How about a swing bridge instead – it will be more expensive to build but we can turn it with a ship inside!
As stupid and expensive as all this would be, the engineering nerd in me is drooling…
engineering nerd
the engineer in me can’t quite grasp why Balti needs three interstates to service that peninsula (autocorrect just saved y’all from an intriguing (but incorrect) etymology suggestion)
muh bridges: I say sell the bridging rights off to a private entity and lets see what rates they can get
What’s ‘need’ got to do with it?
“can’t quite grasp why Balti needs three interstates to service that peninsula”
Could be a relic of sixties “urban renewal”. The Bronx for example is way overloaded for that reason.
relic
right: everything is that way
I look up in the ceiling of some new restaurant and see traces of six different ways the building was previously used
maps are the same way: I-35 is the basically the Chisholm Trail, for example, and it’s there for a reason
then you look at the Corps of Engineers mixmaster Angola and it’s just a riot of good intentions
at my age, life is revealed as a tapestry of attempts at permanent solutions, a rich map of folly in every color
And before it was the Chisholm Trail…?
@GT
ruts everywhere
Speaking of which…. [NSFW}
Ships should go through a series of locks taking them down to a shipping tunnel.
We can add that for the outbound shipping lane and keep the inbound shipping lane on the swinging bridge viaduct. Double the throughput and more budget!
What about a bridge for cyclists, you car-centric asshole?
cyclists can take the fucking ferry!
Combine the two, ferry passengers get on while the container ship is waiting in line, get off with the cargo.
Gotta add that train level in order to cover up for Joe’s lies.
Here is a crazy idea. Build it using the same design with the same materials as before, add some kind of barrier with a reasonable cost to prevent a similar event or don’t. If it costs significantly more for anything other than materials and labor rate increases since the original, then that is something that could be addressed and should be justified.
Permits – Rebuilding should not require them, if the design was good enough for X# of years and this is an emergency cut them out or expedite. I know I sound naive, but is this an emergency or not? If not it should be cheaper not more expensive to do it slowly
Environmental studies – It was acceptable to build a bridge in this site when first built and this reconstruction should not be any worse. Is this an emergency or not?
Labor – hire a contractor(s) and ensure they meet the deadlines and schedule, give them a bonus to get done on time and severe penalties if it is delayed. Find ones that have done this in the past, even if they are not the cheapest. Ignore any labor union, % of local workers, or other mandates in this decision.
Materials – This is one where it could cause delays, but if need be have it built where ever it can be done the fastest, highest quality, and at a reasonable price.
Overall use resources and contractors that have done this in the past, like the examples given in the article.
Most importantly, get started and stop waiting for mommy to come wipe you and do it yourself.
That’s just silly, this is new construction, it must abide by the new rules and fill the correct pockets.
I know, how foolish of me. I did read that the tolls collected on the bridge were >$50M. I’m assuming this could be enough revenue to justify the financing. Make it a private enterprise. Charge the ships to go under and the cars and trucks to go over to pay for the bridge. Have it pay a tax to the state/local out of the revenue and finance it like any other major project.
absolutely correct
which is why……………….
Brit schools are no better than USian ones apparently.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/03/27/Lower-Moss-Wood-Wildlife-Hospital-hedgehog-pom/5771711571646/
Fake news! That’s a TRIBBLE!
This going to make Swissy all prickly.
David Attenborough wasted his life, should have concentrated on English wildlife
Florida Woman seems like a stand-up kind of gal.
Why I am sure it was just “constituent services” and her love of all people.
Neph,
Did you go see Less Than Jake last night at Bogarts? They are playing nearby and I’m dragging a crew down to see them tonight.
Playing the Hello Rockview album.
They didn’t play up here, that down in Cincy?
Dam you are correct. I saw OH, read Cincy, but my brain compiled it as Cleveland.
The girlfriend and I are catching the Slackers next weekend. They’re always a great band to see live.
They are such a great band.
Yeah. I saw in one of their e-mails that they were planning on being at PRB, but they’re not on the lineup of the main event or any of the club shows, so now I’m wondering if they may be going just to enjoy themselves (and maybe play some pick up). The girlfriend is much more agreeable to seeing them now that she’s met Vic a couple of times, and likes him.
Good morning everyone!
I am really sore. That is all.
No context? You know we’re just going to make shit up now.
Now I kinda want to hear what you weirdos make up…
Did it involve a MMA fight that turned into sex or sex that turned into a MMA fight?
He fell into an industrial clothesdryer and got permanant pressed.
Somewhere, a domme is smiling this morning.
four bore ?
He’s more into rasslin’ these days.
This year was supposed to be the year I take a step back from shooting, and really focus on the BJJ and the guitar for a while. And then I found out that pretty much everyone at my gym is a huge gun nerd…
focus
I can have an excellent day at the range or on the links, but nothing ever seems as correct, centering, and fitting as a couple of pints with guitar. I’ve never been serious about guitar, but it pays the most consistent dividend.
the last few years I learned I’ve got nerve damage in my left arm and was upset about my limitations, but I’ve since learned that my left hand fingers are actually much stronger and better coordinated than most righties, so I’ve sucked it up and kept at it, reduced thought I be
some dude having an excellent time
“YOU’RE thore?? I’m tho thore…”*
*Most of a punchline from an old, vulgar Norse mythology joke
But it did used to get thunderous applause.
well played
wrecked ’em, hell
777 has been in service since the late 90s. It’s one of the most reliable aircraft flying. So yeah – media hype in this case.
I have my flight radar app set to alert me whenever a plane squawks emergency. There are about 6-10 every day of all types. The ones that squawk most frequently are military.
Took me all of 5 minutes to setup a query on NTSB to compare Boeing/Airbus incidents. About the same rate of incidents for both worldwide.
If I could choose to take my next flight on any type of aircraft (for safety & reliability only, not aesthetics or geekery), it probably would be the 777.
“Louis Gossett Jr dead at 87: First black man to win supporting actor Oscar for his role in An Office and a Gentleman passes away in Santa Monica”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13252469/Louis-Gossett-Jr-dead-officer-gentleman.html
RIP
Another icon gone but 87’s a pretty good run.
RIP.
Now poor Dennis Quaid has to raise that alien baby all alone.
+
14 Iron EaglesThat movie is such a guilty pleasure.
“Could the FDA ban chemical in decaf coffee? Agency is looking into whether substance used by Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts to strip out caffeine may cause CANCER”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13249459/fda-decaf-coffee-ban-cancer-chemical.html
Methylene chloride is nasty.
Methylene chloride
true, and: this risk was understood at least three decades ago
FWIW, before the war paint was removed with acetone
I don’t want to drink anything that can strip gaskets.
Then how are you supposed to clean out your pipes?
Masturbation.
yes, I get it: I’m trying to say that, for that very reason, I haven’t wanted to drink the stuff for 30 years
you could toast your grind a few minutes at, say, 20 degrees above its boiling point to be sure the job got done ?
So is decaf coffee in general, so…
“A Delta passenger who says she was threatened with being kicked off a flight because she was not wearing a bra has demanded to meet the airline’s boss, claiming she was “targeted and humiliated” in the boob brouhaha….
“I was targeted and humiliated,” Archbold said during a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday with her attorney, Gloria Allred, NBC LA reported.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/29/us-news/dj-humiliated-on-delta-flight-for-not-wearing-a-bra-demands-to-meet-with-airlines-boss/
If Gloria Allred is her lawyer, then Delta was right.
Maybe it was the see through shirt..but you know..free the boobies and all.
If Gloria Allred is involved, the plaintiff has no credibility.
“We, the Jury, find the Plaintiff’s lawyer guilty.”
“This is a civil trial.”
“Then we find her liable.”
And contemptible.
She should sue Boeing. It’s the fashionable thing to do.
And if she changes lawyers,
Delta is still in the right.
So many Burning Man jokes in there.
“Music executive Suge Knight has warned his long-time hip-hop rival P Diddy that his “life’s in danger” after federal agents raided the singer’s Florida and California homes.
The clip, obtained by TMZ, was allegedly an outtake from the Death Row Records founder’s podcast “Collect Call,” which he hosts from a California state prison where he’s currently serving a 28-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/29/entertainment/suge-knight-warns-diddy-his-lifes-in-danger-during-jailhouse-call/
Podcast he hosts from prison?
Mumia Abu Jamaal’s been doing that since before “podcast” was a word.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 03/29:
*23/23 words (+10 bonus words)
📖 In the top 12% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 03/29:
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📖 In the top 3% by bonus words
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Can anybody tell me what the devil thus sentence means?
MSC, the largest ocean carrier in the world, has joined the list of ocean carriers terminating the delivery of diverted containers outside of the port for shipping clients as a result of the container ship accident near the Port of Baltimore that led to the tragic bridge collapse.
Which one?
it’s a question of who pays the extra shipping (probably truck/rail) cost
because your container is now diverted to, say, NY/NJ or Charleston, so there’s all this extra cost
think of it as force majeure for shipping: it’s like an act of doG or a war broke out; MSC isn’t going to pay the extra bill on thousands upon thousands of crates that can’t be delivered
when does my shipment get to Baltimore? quoth the raven……………….
Yanno, as long as my Temu order of cute stickers gets here safe and sound, that’s all that matters.
“We ran out of cute stickers, here is ugly sticker instead.”
Have no fear…
On Thursday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had a meeting with supply chain professionals about the crisis and how to mitigate any congestion. The meeting included ocean carriers CMA CGM, Maersk, MSC, Evergreen, and railroads CSX and Norfolk Southern. The Port of New York/New Jersey, Georgia, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, South Carolina and Virginia were also in attendance. Shipping clients at the meeting included John Deere, Stellantis, Home Depot, Under Armour, and Volkswagen.
“We are much better equipped to mitigate supply chain disruptions than we were just a few years ago, thanks to increased coordination across the supply chain and new efforts to strengthen both our physical and digital infrastructure,” Buttigieg said, according to a readout from the meeting.
National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard, who was also in attendance, noted that in previous disruptions, the lack of complete information across different components of the private sector and the public sector hampered the decision-making capabilities and responses. She cited the recent DOT FLOW initiative as a difference maker. “It has already been activated to bring the full capacity of all the agencies in the federal government to make sure that we’re helping ocean carriers, port leaders, railroads, shippers, and unions to all come together to assess potential supply chain impacts and then work together to address them.”
By the power of gibberish, I command thee.
hampered the decision-making capabilities
now as then, the problem is public sector infrastructure: if the docks we owned by private entities, this would get worked out in a straightforward orgy of self-interest, but, with all the government fuckery, we can all now sit back and let them figure it out for us
so, lay back and enjoy this; think of England…it will all be over soon
That’s genuine McKinsey speak there. I’m surprised he didn’t talk about leveraging synergies.
IT facepalm of the day: We are given partition space on a shared drive but they tie to my physical location…so when IT got around to move me from one location to another, I lost access to said drive.
🤦♂️
I assume your job duties still require access.
Some. Important items I keep local backups to access
I’ve been wondering when the squatting thing would really take off and become a common problem. The crafty ones find the last owner’s name on tax records and write up fake rental contracts. Often this is done to houses that have been empty for a while due to foreclosure or probate or whatnot, although now I see it has metastasized in certain, mostly Dem run fiefdoms, into people’s vacant rentals getting squatted. The new Florida law is absolutely the right tack. I’ve had a front row seat to some insane squatting situations.
The Florida bill was an easy win and a smart move politically. It’s hard to believe anyone would be against it unless they were a crook.
Yup, I had a gander at the Reddit news page for that and even there in leftist hive mind central, most of the comments were grudgingly in support of it. Lots of “I can’t believe I agree with DeSantis on this one thing”.
one of the few ways I’ve managed to reach proggies is to explain that all these chickens will move on to roost at their house next
today it’s squatters setting up in empty houses; tomorrow they’re setting up in your back yard while you’re
at workfucking off at the PBS stationthe only way to get people back to first principles is to gore their ox
There’s your trouble
Squatters beware. Florida’s latest law makes it easier to remove those illegally staying on private property.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 621 into law Wednesday, eliminating squatters’ rights in the state.
Rights? You’re a thief. You have no rights.
When you watch a YouTube titled “Trying the best pizzas in NYC” and the first slice is vegan…you know it’s a deeply unserious video
Absolutely not serious.
Cheese is a non-negotiable ingredient in pizza. End of. If it does not have cheese, it cannot be classified as a pizza.
And vegan ‘cheese’ is not cheese.
“If it does not have cheese, it cannot be classified as a pizza.”
Pizza is the dough (eg. pizza fritta).
“And vegan ‘cheese’ is not cheese.”
True. Milk is from mammals.
Sorry, but Italian language has no place in this discussion. We stole the word and applied it to a cuisine forged on these shores from foreign inspiration. We’re talking about the American foodstuff.
If you are talking about the American foodstuff, then it doesn’t have to have cheese. You can throw anything on it and call it pizza.
Also, pizza stuffed with anchovies and scallions is great.
Weak trolling.
Your alternative bread-based concoctions do not qualify as pizza.
The point you are missing is that they aren’t bread-based concoctions, they are pizza dough based. So it includes the two examples of traditional Italian fare already mentioned, and any newfangled American thing based on that dough. It’s the dough that makes it pizza.
Or not. To put it another way, mozzarella and tomato sauce on a tortilla, slice of Wonder bread, or roofing tile, isn’t pizza either.
I am not missing your assertion, it is simply wrong.
“Of course, a majority of Americans know the FBI today is a lawless extension of the deep state and Democrat Party apparatus.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/fbi-posts-ridiculous-tweet-combating-hate-crimes-then/
No, they don’t.
They do not. I usually watch Scott Adams’ daily show, and in the last few weeks he’s stated the reason he’s not totally taken out is that he’s in a silo. No Dems are listening to him, and he’s not reaching anyone new. Just preaching to the choir.
Havent seen this linked yet, but 3rd circuit slaps down one aspect of PA’s mail in vote shenanigans.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1233743082/pennsylvania-undated-ballots-ruling#:~:text=%22Pennsylvanians%20deserve%20to%20feel%20confident,mail%20ballots%2C%22%20Whatley%20said.
I feel like I haven’t seen you in forever. Glad you are back!
+1
(Lots of people haven’t been here forever.)
Get out, Satan
Networks, meanwhile, need contributors to speak authoritatively and get beyond talking points, said Mark Lukasiewicz, a former NBC executive who is now dean of Hofstra University’s communications school.
“Journalists in a lot of newsrooms are starting to think more about the stakes, thinking about the costs of delivering a large audience and a platform to someone who doesn’t fundamentally believe in a system that allows that platform to exist,” Lukasiewicz said. “I think there is a higher bar for somebody who is on the payroll of a journalistic institution, rather than just somebody you interview.”
If publicly supporting, or at least not objecting to, Trump lies about a rigged 2020 election is a litmus test for a job as a network contributor — well, that would eliminate a lot of Republicans.
“To remain itself, the MAGA movement has to practice election denial, minimize the events of Jan. 6, and treat the news media as a hate object for pointing this out,” said Jay Rosen, a New York University professor and author of the Pressthink blog. “Extending the hand of welcome is just too costly for a self-respecting newsroom with a public service charter, as NBC learned this week.”
You cannot allow the Devil to come into your church and preach his poison.
Heaven forbid they just read the news.
Read the news? What spore of madness is that? You have to carefully curate what gets reported and how it gets spun to support the rightthinkful narrative.
All the news that fit to be read.
To quote the title of a book written a while ago, All the News That Fits.
Margaret Sullivan, executive director of the Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia University, wrote in the Guardian that NBC could “earn itself a lot of good will and recover from this blunder” by publicly apologizing.
Apologize? To whom, and for what?
“Biden’s celeb-studded mega-fundraiser interrupted by pro-Palestinian activists
Activists chanted “Democrats, you can’t hide, you’re voting for genocide!” “Genocide Joe has got to go!” “F*ck Joe Biden!” and “Down with the USA!” while waving Palestinian and trans flags.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/bidens-celeb-studded-mega-fundraiser-interrupted-by-pro-palestinian-activists
The silly thing is that both the pro-Palestinians and most of the pro-Israeli people are still going to vote Democrat anyway.
When we said “speak truth to power” we didn’t mean US.
Can’t expect consistency with people waving both Palestinian and trans flags.
Look, everybody, we’re Doing Something
New York City officials announced a pilot program on Thursday to deploy portable gun scanners in the subway system, part of an effort to deter violence underground and to make the system feel safer.
They will keep people from getting pushed onto the tracks, too, maybe.
Since the subways are “gun-free” zones, it’s a way to jam up the law abiding people who jumped through hoops to get carry permits.
That is a very small number of people.
Can’t be too careful about those people.
“Gun Violence” is the worst kind of violence.
“Pushed on to train tracks violence” isn’t even a term that exists.
AP headline:
NYC subway rider is fatally pushed onto tracks, reviving discussions about mental illness in system.
“You’d have to be crazy to ride the subway.”