HI LAND HOOMANS!
SEA SMITH WORRY NOBODY DO LINK FOR TODAY, SO HE SWIM TO GLIBERTARIANS HQ AND HALP! HE SORRY ABOUT WATER EVERYWHERE. JANITOR HOOMAN RUN AWAY, HE SCREAM “SEA MONSTER”. SEA SMITH USED TO YELL, NOT PROBLEM.
SEA SMITH HAVE TO SAY, THIS NO HE FAULT! SEA SMITH NO LIKE VIET FOOD! HUNG PHAT 89 IS FUNNY NAME TOO!
HERE LINKS FOR GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS;
- THERE NO SUCH THING SPACE SMITH! IT COINCIDENCE.
- THIS NOT SEA SMITH FAULT TOO. NOT DEATH PART. OR DRUG PART. HE NO SAY ON RAPE PART.
- FOUND JOB FOR FURRY!
SEA SMITH TOLD HE MUST MUSIC.
COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
….sure. Unless you’re dousing yourself in fox postpartum pheromones, SEA SMITH is right.
Yeah, canines interact with their environment primarily through their sense of smell. Unless they smell like foxes, the other shit doesn’t matter too much.
The brave new world is arriving faster than I expected.
“SEA SMITH WORRY NOBODY DO LINK FOR TODAY, SO HE SWIM TO GLIBERTARIANS HQ AND HALP! HE SORRY ABOUT WATER EVERYWHERE. JANITOR HOOMAN RUN AWAY, HE SCREAM “SEA MONSTER”. SEA SMITH USED TO YELL, NOT PROBLEM.”
Very topical with my kitchen being taken down to fix a leak in the walls that has done damage and left mold. At least I got the insurance company to agree to cover it all.
Water was everywhere and I am feeling like I had a visit from one or more of the SMITHS…
Hope your insurance rates don’t go up like ours did.
Oh, they already jacked up my annual premium by 50% this year. I suspect after this claim it will double. I am just happy they didn’t try to get out of covering this, because it is gonna be a cool $35-40K to replace the kitchen.
That’s when it’ll really feel like he got a visit from the SMITHS.
Well I can be pissy about the premium – but I’m still not out the $50K it was to repair our water damage.
Who is your carrier? We had Farmers back when we had a post war house, and they were good, but went full retard on us when we bought an historic. So we switched to State Farm, and so far so good. Nothing has come up, but they seem OK, and were cool knowing that some of the wiring was tres old in a place like this.
Good call on that Wildlife Rahabber / Furry link. This is local to me and none of the articles I’ve read state whether the Furry costume was supplied by staff members of paid for by the wildlife rehab center. If the latter, it seems that some Furry staffer (volunteer) has found a way to have one of their hobbies subsidize another of their hobbies.
I would like to believe that a Furry would have better teeth on xer fursuit.
“FOUND JOB FOR FURRY!”
Yeah, I think this is just stupidity gone wild…
I can already see this bunch of idiots making the argument they should hump each other after to teach this cub about sex…
For some species, it can work. I’m thinking of that Condor rehabber, or the person who taught the birds (Hate Birds, the Birds that Hate) how to migrate using his ultralight.
Did he dress up like one of them and flop around?
They had imprinted on him as goslings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky4-8zWF8xU
Classic story of imprinting.
This is what happens when your goslings don’t imprint.
OBE’s brain: Better be what I think it is…nailed it
*curtseys gracefully*
The only version of that song I ever hear in my head.
Did I ever mention that I had a boss who was in a STYX cover band?
Same. Cartman is a national treasure.
The left is desperate to hold onto power. So desperate that they only have fear left as the cudgel to wield to influence people. We now see an orchestrated effort to scare people using the idiotic argument that Trump has caused something they have labeled “White rural rage”, which of course is raciss. But the reality is that Trump is just someone that has come to understand the blue collar middle class’s justified distrust and anger towards the elite class running the country into the ground. There is no denying that many Americans have chosen to turn their backs on the neo-marxist identity politics liberal establishments decades of policies – and real destructive and idiotic ones to boot – and the massive ineptitude & destruction said policies have foisted on us all. The elite are just reaping the result of decades of ineptitude, corruption, destruction, and downright evil, that has benefited them – and benefitted them exclusively and greatly – at the expense of the working class.
“You don’t deserve a good life, bigots! Also, why are you so angry?”
It’s far worse than you don’t deserve a good life. They actively made choices that destroyed real lives. Then they compounded that by telling the people they screwed over to go learn to code or that they deserved their fate for being unwashed non urban bumpkins that hated Gaia. The marxist academically credentialed elite, and even more so the laptop sub class of that cadre, has made bank because of these destructive choices & policies that gutted our manufacturing and destroyed the blue collar middle class. But the really galling part was that while they were doing this and after, they looked down on the people that do that actual icky manual work that keeps the country actually working and their opportunities going up in smoke with scorn, and done so for decades now. That disdain for the common manual labor man is a real tell to me that our leadership class is scum.
Well the funny thing is they think anyone other than white urban liberals is going to read about white rural rage.
Don’t be silly! Everyone knows white rurals can’t read! 🙄/White urban liberal
“Apes don’t read philosophy.”
“Yes, they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it.”
Starship Looks like its being pushed back in 15 minutes increments. Go for prop load.
T -46 minutes…hopefully. Fueling has begun.
Said in the style of Dr. Evil.
And were is Klaus
BarbiSchwab in his little outfit these days, anyway?Zip it Scott!
The Everyday astronaut had thermal camera footage that allowed you to see the cryo tanks being filled…. and of course, they turned them off as soon as I started writing this.
More Starship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ
Not. Clicking. 😒
That city was built on Chinese labor, not Rock and Roll. Detroit OTOH…
Related to that city, Warrior is such trash TV, but I’m liking it. I did yell at the screen when the actor was showing modern trigger discipline with a revolver in the purported 19thC.
t -12, probably will have a hold at the t -2 hold…
I vote for a lot more of this, please….
Nothing will cause as much damage to these evil idiots as the groups whose votes they are now taking for granted and buying on the cheap, turning their backs in droves on them.
Because everyone in the world has right enter the country illegally and be supported on the backs of American taxpayers.
And she will get reelected, because voting for Republicans is icky.
What damage? Guaranteed re-election in perpetuity?
Wow. Such a tough road they have ahead.
And the other shoe finally drops. Perhaps The Narrative will ever so slightly shift – driven to suicide by the beating [in a fight Nex actually started]. Of course that last part won’t be the official version.
Man I hate that whole story. The harpies on both sides of the culture divide ripping apart that body is disgusting.
It really boils down to young asshole gets deserved ass-kicking, which should be the end of the story.
She did, and then went and OD’d. Any story should focus on her mental state, not the supposed bullying. That kid had deep issues which people were exploiting instead of helping.
Maybe if she’s useful enough to The Narrative, she can have her ashes entombed in the National Cathedral next to the meth dealer.
She could have still been bullied, just not by the girls that she poured water on. Still, why is mental health declining in schools when we have never been more aware of mental health?
*Abigail Shrier has a new book on this.
Schoolgirls also seem way more violent than they were in the past.
“why is mental health declining in schools when we have never been more aware of mental health”
I would say it’s been declining in part because we are obsessing over it, constantly poking and asking, etc. It creates a self-fulfilling expectation that there must be something wrong. I first got annoyed with it when they would close schools and flood them with counselors after a kid died.
*adjusts belt onion*
I think when I was in school we had one or two kids die. The reaction of the school? Exactly nothing. Had nothing to do with the school, so why should they feel compelled to do anything?
Fictional, but remember the ghoulish press-courting teacher in Heathers?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097493/quotes/?item=qt4159539
(I just noticed that Winona is the only one of the four without big hair!)
yep. We had a kid die and one severely injured in a nasty car accident. There was a somber announcement on the morning announcements and we went about our day. No closed school, no grief counselors on hand, nothing.
A kid died in a plane crash while I was in junior high, obviously nothing to do with the school, but the parents had weekly memorials for the boy that were announced over the loud speakers with the other junk. It became something of a joke among the students, sadly. I know that the parents were devastated, as my grandmother never got over my uncles death, but it did not help to have this mentioned every week, especially to kids who had no idea who this was (he was about to got to high schools when it happened.)
You just spoiled the book, or at least that is what I have gathered from the few podcasts I listened to.
What kills me is how many of these kids are so fragile and lacking in mental acuity/fortitude that they choose to commit suicide just because people are assholes. How soft have these kids become?
Raised to be an attention whore and when deprived of attention – the world just ends.
Please don’t get me going…
That whole “We need to instill self-esteem in kids that have accomplished nothing worthy of self-esteem” participation trophy culture irked me to no end. I remember arguing with people that false sense of self-esteem was far, far more dangerous and destructive than not having self-esteem, and I think where we are in society today proves that. I work with to many young people that wouldn’t be able to find their way out of a cardboard box but think they are ready to be CIOs.
If they are from a non-gender conforming historically disadvantaged group, they might be right.
Can’t be bothered to look it up, but I’m guessing that the impeachment of elected officials by the state house contains language more in the vein of “high crimes and misdemeanors” and not so much “has opinions about the mentally ill deemed icky by homosexual activists.”
I’m getting the sense that this is a political hit-job more than anything else.
Oklahoma put the woman behind Libs of Tik Tok on a school advisory board.
“Book bans” create violence in the bathroom.
More “two-spirit” gibberish at the top.
Stop that.
Have to go here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvujypVVBAY
It is appropriate as well.
Better Sea Smith music. (TW: UCS Bait)
UCS no likey the ink.
Interesting (strange?) she changes colored contacts in the different shots.
Do all California Glibs have alibis? Does Guess they got their dummy bombs mixed up with a live one. Hopefully Hannah Guitierrez has an alibi.
They are the only ones with the training and competence to handle bombs.
Incompetent as well as corrupt!
Oopsie!
I was at work.
Rufus will be pleased.
What are the odds this was supposed to be planted somewhere else as part of a false flag op and they botched that? *Adjusts tinfoil hat*
I have been in the FBI building (justice dept.) in Sacramento and driven FBI and Marshals service cars, but not at a training facility and never with bombs.
*notes the glow around Zwak*
“Florida woman, 27, is found dead in her cocaine-filled cabin on a cruise ship in the Bahamas as island police arrest 32-year-old American man”
How much cocaine does it take to fill a cabin on a ship? Inquiring minds and all. It’s expensive, as I understand it.
/Naive in Podunkville
“and two hard boiled eggs.”
(honk)
Maybe she was there to escort him out?
Today is Pi Day for all you Glibs (except, ironically, Pie, for whom π Day is July 22).
I think that this is the most important holiday for math nerds, though you’re entitled to a secant opinion.
This is a bad sine of things to come.
If you keep going on tangents we are going to get in trouble.
This pun string will get derivative all too quickly.
I will de differential to your judgment.
Integrate people, INTEGRATE!
Take it as a complement.
I cosine this remark.
Happy Pi Day, everyone!
https://youtu.be/eDiSYp_51iY?si=4W3pHHtu9TAEvkf7
Kitty!
o.O
She’s obviously used to interacting with people.
People are great! They give you pettings and are easy to catch for a snack!
Nice kitty! 😳
It’s all fun and games until the cat eats someone’s head.
Wow. They really are useless authoritarians. I had no idea about the count.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-bill-tiktok-bytedance-china-cd4f51c1?st=1fl87a66u25zvgh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Well if you dare question this you must be a Chinese bootlicker! Cause its LIMitEd!!111!!
Meanwhile – Patriot Act, AUMF, etc all snicker in the background on claims of limited.
Yeah. That vote made me sad. Sure I am concerned about Tik Tok. This isn’t how to handle it.
Sure the Chinese are our biggest threat. Remember when they put peaceful protesters in a gulag, sent trannies into schools to groom kids, and opened our borders to invasion?
Without reading the bill, I’ll guess that they are giving some totally trustworthy government agency the power to shut down any website.
Or, maybe they are just writing a bill of attainder.
Yeah, left out of any discussion is where in the constitution the government is granted the power to do any of this.
Well in the past we took it to court but those are pesky and unpredictable and might lead to some of our darker intentions being let out in the open.
My staff told to vote “aye”.
+1 Ralph “I’m helping” meme
The Chinese employ their own intelligence agents at TikTok and keep out American ones. Now the USA can kick out the Chinese spies out of TikTok and insert American ones.
Advice from evil idiotic morons should be mocked and ignored..
Taibbi absolutely shredded that New Yorker piece.
Aah, NYM, not New Yorker.
One more perfect bit:
That’s exactly what this Chu is – a white dude pretending to be a woman, which he blames on his obsessive consumption of sissy porn. Now he is of the Great Oppressed.
Chu is an absolute stereotype of the misogynistic autogynephile.
Ignoring Blanchard’s theory is bullshit, wouldn’t sissy hypnosis lead one to being “HSTS”?
Considering that Blanchard-Bailey accurately describes an observable phenomenon, how is it bullshit?
And no, since she’s in a relationship with an AFAB.
Most sissy hypnosis is all about the dick.
“Considering that Blanchard-Bailey accurately describes an observable phenomenon, how is it bullshit?”
I wouldn’t call it “accurate” but you can excuse it as a description, just like you can sort battleships and elephants in the same category because they are both grey, it’s not all that helpful. It’s the “theory” — the explanation — that’s bullshit.
He ripped her a new one.
She doesn’t need one. She already has “the universal vagina through which femaleness can always be accessed.”
No reason to stop at just one vagina.
Bonus hole… Call it the bonus hole.
Been wondering why much of the rest of the western world is backing away from this nonsense while in the U.S., it’s full-steam crazy.
It’s becoming ever clearer that the movementarians are running this show. By some means I’m not able to grasp yet, the most literally batshit insane radical leftist scum have managed to take full control of our society in ways that isn’t happening in Europe or other western countries anymore.
There is Stonewall in England, but most of the former gay orgs that ran out of gay shit and needed to keep the grift going are based in the U.S.
When I was young, we knew all this shit they now want to normalize/legalize was a clear sign of a perverted adult and pedophilia. The moment someone told you not to tell others, and especially your parents, about something you knew this was fucking a sexual predator you were dealing with. I used to dismiss the people that told me the whole thing would end with people legalizing pedophilia, but now I am frustrated it has actually come to that. The targeting of kids is the agenda.
As we’ll see a little later, this traces back to Rousseau – who believed that parents exerted tyranny over their children and that society adhering to the General Will would raise them better.
[Mr Rogers voice] Can you say, totalitarian?
Pedos in some, maybe many cases, certainly along with misplaced and stupid empathy and post hoc justifications for mistakes they made in their own lives. Regardless of the motivation this stuff must be smashed.
I too ‘member Nikki claiming that children didn’t consent to being born.
Apparently she moved to Canada.
So in leu of direct CCP grooming & brainwashing, they have decided to have that dirty work of dumbing down and destroying Americans outsourced?
Hey, it’s gotta be sold and cheap, so why wouldn’t a former appartchik be all set to buy it?
How many CIA/NSA/FBI/DHS employees with a fake “former” prefix to blur the criminality, will be on staff to properly guide content distribution based on orders from government?
Now, now Alex, they aren’t orders, they’re more like suggestions.
Touche, mon ami…
Well played.
Interesting. I wondering if this is being driven more from the left, right or regulatory concerns.
Meta Platforms plans to shut down a data tool long used by academic researchers, journalists and others to monitor the spread of content on its Facebook and Instagram services, the company said on Thursday.
The social-media giant said it will decommission CrowdTangle in five months and is replacing it with a tool called the Meta Content Library, which will be available only to academic and nonprofit researchers, not to most news outlets.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-to-replace-widely-used-data-tooland-largely-cut-off-reporter-access-43fc3f9d?st=i7wcnf0jlzekrqm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The story of Don Lemon and X as told by a journalistic outfit other than Zero Hedge.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/elon-musk-cancelled-don-lemon-show-x-7318369f?st=kyawt02mb5phkwu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This article is understandable.
When you bite the hand extended to you in your dark times…
Cornered animal panics?
So on my way back from that barren, desolate, wasteland, known as Indiana yesterday the Challenger acquired a rock-chip on I-70 that quickly became a crack.
Anyone every try the DIY windshield fixers from Rain-X, Perma-fix, et al ?
If it’s cracked and not chipped the best you can hope for is to stop the spread.
I’ve not had good luck with any of them. The “pro” versions use a vacuum pump and are really for chips and not cracks.
I’ve used the Rain-X ones with success on small chips, but I don’t think it’ll work on a crack.
This might help you decide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fxxfZDOD1U
He has really good product reviews.
Sensei and Ron are right. A chip can be fixed yourself . Think the size of a quarter or smaller. Bigger than that and a pro will be needed to fix it.
Just get a new windshield. They’re like $0-$100 depending on your insurance company. (Many will waive the deductible).
I keep seeing these hysterical articles about how if Trump is reelected, he will prosecute his political opponents, which would be the end of Democracy.
I just can’t understand how these numbnuts can actually write that shit.
Progjection. It’s not even what they will do in the future – it’s what they are doing right in front of us.
Maybe rig up a protest in the Capitol and toss everyone involved into a gulag indefinitely.
Trump won’t even need to rig up a protest – the left will do that all on their own.
That only works in one direction politically. Y’all ought to know that by now.
I have considered 1/6 will seem even sillier if Trump is reelected and the left protests his vote certification.
Their protest at his inauguration was already more violent than 1/6.
They simply don’t care about contradicting themselves.
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!!!
This doublethink writ large: “It’s different when we do it. And we’re not doing it. And we’re doing it to save Democratcy.”
Shorter: projection.
“Damn you Ron, and your quick reading!”
/shakes fist at sky
“Gerald M. “Jerry” Levin, a television executive who rose to the top of Time Warner and orchestrated its ill-fated merger with America Online, which defined his legacy, died Wednesday at the age of 84 in Long Beach, Calif.”
I worked on Wall St. When this happened. I was among the minority that thought this was the dumbest thing I’d ever heard. The rest of the street was simply trying to get some of the lucre.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/gerald-m-jerry-levin-tv-executive-behind-time-warner-aol-merger-dies-32937e90?st=44f90zjwh7fhtge&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Ah, the forerunner to Net Neutrality – the impending doom of the TW/AO merger. Guess I forgot about how the world ended back then.
SpaceX launch update.
SpaceX keeps moving the launch time up, currently it’s 9:25 AM EDT. apparently there were boats that needed to be cleared out of the area near the launch pad. Their launch window closes at 9:50 AM EDT.
As noted above (thanks OBJ FRANKELSON) there is this awesome fanboy website called Everyday Astronaut who have an awesome feed and commentary here.
Looks like they are going to hit that mark. Well..close to it.
4 minutes to zero
Official spacex stream https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1LyxBnOvzvOxN
Labpadre stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS2PHJmvJzo
Looks like they got it off a lot quicker….now for the hot staging…
They…….did it!
Hotstaging hit, 2nd stage hit…now they need to hit the propellent transfer…and that would be 100% test success.
Soft landing not good…only 2-3 of the 13 engines lit…
Starship engine shutdown successful. What an amazing job by SpaceX….
Looks like they lost that, but they have so much data now this is something they will be able to correct.
I think that was on the “nice to” list of objectives.
It was always going to be a loss to the vehicle as they were just demonstrating they can relight those 13 engines. For sure they will have the data and based on their flight to flight record, my guess they will not even go for second soft-landing in the ocean and try a landing on the pad.
It’s flying!
Wow. Good test. Really good. Looks like the booster soft splashdown stage isn’t quite there yet (dunno, looked like the engines didn’t refire on plan and they lost the signal).
I would purely love to see one these launches in person.
Appears door test partial, but their payday test was the propellent transfer in microgravity was successful and worth I think a $53 million dollar contract.
Skipped the relight burn…onto reentry.
that was epic.
i expect it to fail reentry but here’s hoping
Reentry is always tricky in space.
The cheering is so cringey.
The reentry video is pretty sweet though.
seems to me it slowing down to slowly speed wise
Think they lost the vehicle….unless its just telemetry loss through the atmosphere
Cheering achievements is dumb
Stoically sigh contentment, and walk into hallway alone for a fist pump.
Really? I like it. If I couldn’t be at the launch site, I think being at HQ would be nearly as much fun.
I agree. It would be great to be a part of it. These people worked hard to make this stuff happen.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 03/14:
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📖 In the top 5% by bonus words
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Text of the TikTok bill for anyone interested:
https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240311/HR%207521%20Updated.pdf
Fairly short (surprisingly) and not good.
“foreign adversary” is vague language.
Trump is a KGB plant, a Russian agent.. Hence anything related to him is a foreign adversary…
Hence government now has to regulate Truth Social, and also X, you know, because…
Not by accident, I’m sure.
You’re probably working with a foreign adversary if you point that out.
Goodbye Russia Today for certain. I wonder about sites like Rumble that refuse to deplatform them (already banned in France for not doing just that).
Al Jazzera?
Sky News Austrailia?
Those are right thinkers. Until we have always been at war with eastasia.
“EXCLUSION.—The term ‘‘covered company’’ does not include an entity that operates a website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application whose primary purpose is to allow users to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews.”
Amazon says thank you.
Others have said that, but isn’t Amazon mostly U.S. owned? I’m thinking it might be a carve out for Chinese companies such as Temu.
Most days I try to be optimistic that the American people will come to their senses and halt the continued slide into an authoritarian state. Then I pick up today’s paper and am reminded just how biased news sources are. Between half-truths, lies, omissions, one-sided partisanship and spin I don’t see how many voters will ever see the path to folly and denial of liberty that this country is on.
Three examples from Associated Press before I even got to the editorial pages:
1) Headline is that Gov. “Shapiro unveils plan to make power plants pay.” No, the plan is to make all CONSUMERS of electricity to pay for electricity generated by fossil fuels. But the headline tells the reader that some greedy power plant owner will pay.
2) A news story about dropped charges against Trump in Georgia tells the reader that D.A. Fani Willis is facing calls for removal because of “a romantic relationship with a colleague.” Colleague? How about him being the Special Prosecutor she hired, at big bucks, to pursue the case against Trump?
3) News report on Jan. 6th probe by GOP: “Trump exhorted his supporters to ‘fight like hell'” No mention that he also told them to demonstrate peacefully.
Yeah, I’m sure Cronkite and Brinkley and those other journalists of old engaged in this kind of shit, but the propaganda seems so blatant and destructive these days.
1) Mr. Burns hardest hit.
Weren’t the media instrumental in pushing the “Gulf of Tonkin Incident”?
There are no corporate taxes. Corporations price in their tax liability and collect taxes from their customers. If you buy a product or a service from a corporation, you are going to be paying any taxes levied on them. But for some reason economically illiterate socialists seem immune to this simple and immutable logic. Just like they think you can have insane minimum wages without that impacting the consumer’s cost for product or service.
The taxes are also paid by investors in the form of reduced dividends or capital gains and by employees in the form of less demand for labor.
with all the shit in the world the starship is something nice to see.
“Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff are caught up in scandal over their elite Hillcrest Country Club that’s been labeled a ‘racist aristocracy’ that ‘disregards reports of sexual assault’ and rejects anyone not white or Jewish in blockbuster lawsuit”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13189357/Kamala-Harris-Doug-Emhoff-scandal-elite-Country-Club-racist-aristocracy-lawsuit.html
Kamala is Jewish?
Kamala is whatever she needs to be.
Whatever Xe needs to be.
“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new internet law would allow for judges to give life sentences to those who commit the worst speech crimes on social media. The Online Harms Act, designed to make social media platforms safer, is being slammed as ‘Orwellian’ and an ‘overreach’ by voters. The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood said the bill was ‘Lettres de Cachet all over again’ referring to royal diktat for imprisoning citizens made by former Kings of France. ‘The possibilities for revenge false accusations + thoughtcrime stuff are sooo inviting!’ Atwood warned on X, formerly Twitter. ‘Trudeau’s Orwellian online harms bill,’ she concluded.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13196875/justin-trudeau-canada-orwellian-imprison-life-crime-bill.html
WTF, Canada?
Canada is just showing the world what not to do. Unfortunately the world will take is as instructions.
It always amazes me that so many people have confused the dystopian warnings in books such as 1984, brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, and use these books as “How to” information manuals.
I’m actually surprised that Atwood realizes this could be used against her. Unless she’s in JKR’s camp.
They voted for it, now they’re getting it good and hard.
WTF Atwood? You were a cheerleader for this authoritarian shit until you saw it might impact people you like.
Puppetry
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the German Marshall Fund and a former tech and national security official in the Biden administration, said it’s difficult to say with certainty whether Trump’s reversal on a TikTok ban — or his general stance on the app over the years — is informed by his relationship with one or two billionaires. But she wouldn’t be surprised.
“The autocratic playbook — we know that Trump admires autocrats and strongmen — the autocratic playbook is to enrich cronies, and to make policies in support of cronies,” Gorman said.
Gorman said that worldview could color Trump’s approach to Chinese tech in a new presidential term — potentially endangering U.S. national security and undermining efforts to convince allies to dump risky Chinese technologies.
“It doesn’t seem like there’s a significant moral center driving Trump’s China policies,” said Gorman.
Long form slander and innuendo.
tl;dr- Trump’s interest in tiktok is purely transactional, and the pay window is always open if you’re a billionaire.
American owned soc media companies seriously stepped on his balls last election. Maybe that made him rethink his stance.
Meanwhile, the current occupant is a recipient of Chinese bribes. But ignore that.
Anyone wanna buy a Jagr commemorative bobblehead? Fresh off the back of the truck!
https://twitter.com/penguins/status/1768262286244790701
Also LOL
https://www.ebay.com/itm/116094694886
We’ve turned the corner on global warming
“Our city hasn’t seen a storm like this in a few years,” Denver Mayor Mike Johnston posted Wednesday on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The storm, which began Wednesday night, wasn’t expected to wind down until Friday morning. The heaviest snow accumulations were expected in the Front Range Mountains and Foothills, with a large area expected to get 18 to 36 inches (45 to 91 centimeters), and some amounts exceeding 4 feet (1.2 meters), the National Weather Service said.
Major sections of Interstate 70 were closed in the Colorado mountains, with numerous reports of vehicles stranded on the highway for hours.
“Stay home !! Troopers are getting stuck trying to get to all the stranded motorists,” the Colorado State Patrol posted on X.
You can all stop panicking now.
This reminds me of getting caught in a massive Easter blizzard in Limon, about thirty years ago.
I give us to next winter and they start declaring emergencies and mayors do shelter-in-place orders.
You mean like they’re doing for the eclipse?
The faux pants shitting I see from anyone in the path of totality is amazing. Seriously, you’d think we were in the dawn of man and must be angry gods punishing us.
How is Ohio keeping residents safe during the eclipse? State officials reveal plans
As if this is some planned disaster instead of a predicted and pretty damned well understood phenomena.
Two counties in Texas did declare an emergency, just to get extra funds for traffic control and police. Not because they expected collapse of society. The backup data is pretty compelling. Seems like some counties are expecting over 100,000+ visitors in places that don’t even have 20,000 citizens. Thankfully I am in the dark path, maybe 15 miles from the dead center dark line so I don’t have to go anywhere if I don’t want to.
When we were at Hilton Head, SC this year, they had a forecast of 29 degrees and were running PSA’s about local warming shelters. Because the cold was so bad.
So far I am underwhelmed. We have 2-3 inches, with another 3-4 predicted for today. But the predictions were all over the place the last few days.
And Castle Rock isn’t going to get quite as crushed as was still being predicted yesterday.
The prediction was the snow would start at 6 PM yesterday, but at 6 the Temp was still in the 40s, so we had rain until about Midnight.
We can’t accurately predict the next day’s weather, but we can predict the entire global climate decades from now!
We’re getting pretty good accumulation in central Denver. But yes, it rained a lot last night. I suspect there’s a pretty good basecoat of ice on the roads. Two ski resorts are closed.
Garage Conversion to a Full Woodshop, Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDm8fzFPBF0
from the category e-thots try everything for clicks: today carpentry
Those shorts are hideous. At least match.
Not enough camel toe?
I’d frame her garage anyday if you know what I mean and I think you do.
I’d be interested in seeing her work with wood some more.
CitizenFreePress having an absolute meltdown for anyone not cheering our government banning a vehicle for speech.
No surprise there.
It’s just so hypocritical. If Tik Tok sells, it will then be beholden to another government. Probably ours.
A quick perusal of the bill also shows that all judicial review is to take place only in the District of Columbia federal court. It just keeps getting worse and worse.
Didn’t they try that with another bill?
Probably in a lot of bills, we’re just unaware. The idiot Republicans have handed the Dems the heads of any right wing friendly websites on a plate. Just unbelievably stupid.
And a limited time period to challenge both the act and any determination.
Mark Cuban has taken a break from his retarded DEI thoughts to post a decent idea on how to deal with Tik Tok:
Still a heavy hand by the government, but not a ban.
You expect them to be honest?
Until the hardware is destroyed and the people strung up by their entrails, you will not be freed from the corruption.
I’m thinking that’s because there is a lot of pro-Palestinian/anti-Zionist stuff on Tik Tok.
A quick perusal of the bill also shows that all judicial review is to take place only in the District of Columbia federal court. It
“Those hick federal judges out there in Flyoverstan don’t grasp the subtleties of Constitutional law as it applies to us always getting our way.”
Collectivism- it’s what you crave
“People talk about the land trust as a way to sell in, instead of selling out,” Ness says. “If you have to sell – not your fault, no judgment. How can we make sure you have what you need and the land stays in the highest and best interest of the community?”
Burke decided to join the effort to develop the land trust, which she says will hopefully lessen the pain for neighbors who choose to leave Lahaina.
“We know we can’t save every parcel that’s gonna come up to be sold,” Burke says. “But if we’re an option on somebody’s table so if they have to walk away, they can do it in good conscience, that’s all we’re there for.”
When hurricanes, floods and wildfires destroy housing, the ensuing upheaval can permanently shift the makeup of a community. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans in 2005, a third of displaced residents still had not returned after three years, and lower-income residents were the most vulnerable to being displaced. Neighborhoods damaged by flooding were also more likely to experience gentrification.
First- journalists who use the construction (people or communities) “experiencing [X]” should be strapped to a wagon wheel and thrashed with a knotted rope.
The article is about noble wimmens coming together to establish “land trusts” funded by the government to fend off profiteering capitalist gentrifiers and anybody else who does not share their vision for the community. Land trusts involve communal ownership of land where “affordable housing” will be built; the houses may be “sold” to approved deserving people (you know, cops and school teachers) at prices controlled by the to-be-named-later plantation bosses.
Who could possibly object to that?
THICC Thursday nominates the inventor of yoga pants for the Nobel Prize in both Peace and Biology.
https://archive.is/qovSY
How do they walk around without constantly trying to pull that wedgie out of their asses? Seems like it’d be uncomfortable.
They aren’t good for yoga either.
But they are extremely effective at getting attention, both in real life and on social media.
Yoga pants IN THE CORRECT SIZE* work just fine for yoga.
*Camel toe and/or wedgie = incorrect size
GD those Space X launches still give me the chills. I proud that our country and the species has re-started the push to space. Doing this as a private enterprise, not a defense contractor who also makes ICBMs, is also a big win.
“Public funding is really a necessity in order to preserve land in the aftermath of a disaster, particularly in an affluent location,” Kirk says. “Because in the absence of that, market conditions will cause speculators and others to step into that land and end up serving a completely different income level.”
In Lahaina, Burke says organizers aren’t sure how many properties the land trust might be able to buy, but they hope to start within the next six months.
“I don’t think we’re at a place where we can’t come back and still make this a beautiful, vibrant community,” Burke says. “We’re gonna need help and we’re going to continue to need help for years.”
I want Zuckerberg to buy everybody out and rebuild it as a Disney theme park.
You say you want manic pixie wood shop videos?
She is adorable but my word that girl has a lot of energy.
The Last American Hero on March 14, 2024 at 9:48 am
Just get a new windshield. They’re like $0-$100 depending on your insurance company. (Many will waive the deductible).
Hah! Waiting to see what Progressive will pay out, but my guy at Safelite can replace it (2016 Challenger SRT) wants $340.
Double that for OEM.
I’ve taken my beloved Subie to Safelite twice – once for a chip (repair) and once for a crack (replace,) and wasn’t out a penny either time. Didn’t have to contact State Farm myself – Safelite took care of that. Easy Peasy.
Safelite cost $400 for my wife’s Corolla.
It cracked a week after they replaced it, I took it to them, it took a minute for their tech to decide it was a stress fracture, and they replaced it gain for free with no hassles.
Im not a car guy, but looking at all the air bubbles in the seal around the frame I wonder how much good adhesive is left.
It may be time for a new one anyhow.
That’s downright cheap (in a Biden economy).
I have full coverage, but my deductible is $450.
Depends on the state.
https://www.progressive.com/claims/faq/glass-repair-vs-replace/
There is no way I’d take a 6 inch crack repair. Assuming you have comprehensive you should just pay your deductible worst case. Best case is a state like FL that requires no glass deductible.
Some forms, no idea with PGR, have a separate glass sublimit.
Cause of death: MAGA-cide
The death of a nonbinary student the day after a fight inside an Oklahoma high school restroom has been ruled a suicide, the state medical examiner’s office said Wednesday.
A summary autopsy report was released more than a month after the death of 16-year-old Nex Benedict, a student at Owasso High School. Family members said Benedict had been bullied at school and the teenager’s death in February drew concern from LGBTQ+ rights groups, as well as attention from Oklahoma’s governor and the White House.
“From the beginning of this investigation, Owasso Police observed many indications that this death was the result of suicide,” Owasso Police Department Lt. Nick Boatman said in a statement. “However, investigators did not wish to confirm that information without the final results being presented by the Oklahoma Medical Examiners Office.”
Despair over the prospect of another bout of Trump’s America is wot dunnit.
Still waiting for an explanation how she was LGBT? Anyone can say they are “non-binary”. Remember when Demi Lavato was non-binary for 45 minutes? Her pictures look like a feminine-presenting female.
BIGOT!!!!
Name change, pronouns, bad haircut. It’s all there.
Name change, pronouns, all just words. It might be a bad haircut, but it looks like a girl’s haircut.
This week has been so full of little irritations that I just don’t know which end is up. I’m completely catawampus, confuzzled, and discombobulated. I can’t even type right, and I’m trying to do some transcription this morning. I can’t figure out what this mush-mouthed doctor is saying even though I’ve transcribed him for a year now. I want to go back to bed, but I’ve had caffeine, so…
Expert labor economist
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will hold a hearing Thursday on a bill he introduced to reduce the standard U.S. workweek to four days without loss of pay.
The bill, titled the “Thirty-Two Hour Work Week Act,” would reduce the standard workweek from 40 to 32 hours over the span of four years, including lowering the maximum hours required for overtime compensation for nonexempt employees. It would also require overtime pay at time and a half for workdays that last more than eight hours and overtime pay that would pay workers double their regular pay if their workday is longer than 12 hours.
A press release on the bill described it as an “important step toward ensuring workers share in increasing productivity and economic growth driven by technological advancements.”
“Moving to a 32-hour workweek with no loss of pay is not a radical idea,” Sanders said in a statement. “Today, American workers are over 400 percent more productive than they were in the 1940s. And yet, millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages than they were decades ago. That has got to change.”
Bring on the robots!
We are not a serious country.
Of course it’s Bernie.
Hes never had to produce anything of value. And he has all week to do it,
I still can’t believe* his:
didn’t ruin his career.
*I can easily believe it
Today, in top-notch parenting
“A heartless Florida mother allegedly tried to sell her toddler for $500 at a bank before no one took her up on the offer and she abandoned the child last week.
Jessica Woods, 33, was spotted loitering outside an H&R Block location in Palatka, Fla., with her 18-month-old daughter when she was approached by one of the bank’s employees.
The employee had recognized Woods as the mother who frequented the area and even used the bank’s restroom to change her daughter.
Woods at one point was spotted hitting her daughter with her elbow and spanking her inside the bathroom, according to a probable cause affidavit viewed by the Daily Mail.
The next morning, on March 5, Woods was found sleeping on an exterior air conditioning unit while her daughter was inside a nearby shopping cart with no blankets.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13193709/florida-woman-loitered-business-sell-toddler-daughter.html
https://nypost.com/2024/03/14/us-news/florida-mom-jessica-woods-tried-selling-daughter-for-500/
It’s all fun and games until the cousin you’re fucking catches feelz.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/26652388/sex-cousin-thrilling-step-too-far/
Just marry her like all the Brits used to.
Sanders, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has asked United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, Boston College sociology professor Juliet Schor and Jon Leland, chief strategy officer of Kickstarter and cofounder of the Four Day Workweek Campaign, to testify at the hearing on the proposal.
In a news release on the bill, Sanders cites studies that say that although weekly wages for average American workers are lower than they were 50 years ago after adjusting for inflation, CEOs make hundreds of times more than what their workers earn.
If we can just get it up and running, the Ministry of Plenty will put things right.
And if they distributed that equally among the workers, each one would get a couple dollars a month.
Maybe he should fix the women’s pay gap while he’s at it.
Daily Spike of Revulsion
I blame my mom for being a liberated woman who taught me to treat women as equals. Every time I see women wearing a hijab or burka, it drives me nuts. To me it is a big flag for a culture that treats women as second class citizens. It is extra bad when it is a young girl. A woman wearing the hijab at least has some agency to decide to ditch it, but a kid doesn’t have that.
If I ran that hospital, I’d be so tempted to call child welfare on any parent who made a stink about their sick daughter showing too much arm in the hospital.
How about calls to prayer over the PA system?
ISTR that burkas and hijabs aren’t for children anyway, just for post-pubescent women.
So it’s just (more) stupid signaling.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
And if they distributed that equally among the workers, each one would get a couple dollars a month.
Exactly. I suspect a very large part of that pay discrepancy is a question of scale. Companies have gotten bigger and bigger, but nobody knows why.
It’s one of the first U.S. hospital systems to offer modesty gowns specifically designed for Muslim children.
Put burlap sacks on them.