Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – hunchback juice

by | Mar 27, 2024 | Daily Links | 200 comments

Viral debate erupts over how to properly eat a sandwich — and what it says about your personality

The way you eat a sandwich can reveal a lot about your personality, it has been claimed.

A photograph showing a common conundrum when eating the classic meal has sparked a fiery debate.

After asking “where’s your next bite” many have been divided, with some insisting there’s a “right” and “wrong” way to eat a sandwich.

Debaters have been split into three camps, those who taking a bite out of one crust, people who go straight for the more tempting piece in the middle of the sandwich (which is stuffed with the delicious filling) and those who choose to nibble a corner.

I hate the future.


The Unimaginable Horror of a Trump Restoration

It is an overcast, unseasonably warm morning on Wednesday, Nov. 6, and the world has woken up in shock as Donald Trump has emerged as the winner of the U.S. presidential election. America’s cities are once again full of mute, stunned liberals avoiding eye contact with one another on the morning commute, as the grim reality of what Trump might do with this power begins to set in. At his victory speech just after 2 a.m., when the networks called Wisconsin, and thus the election for him, Trump took the stage and declared, “Judgment Day is coming for America’s enemies, and no Marxist, Harvard leftist, gender-radical, illegal, or criminal thug in our great country will be safe come January.” And in some ways that bleak morning might represent the high point of the next four—or 40—years, given what Trump and his allies have in store for us.

This is a worst-case scenario. But it’s far from impossible. A Trump restoration is in the works—and it should feel like an existential threat to everyone who cares about liberal democracy and the incomplete but tangible social, racial, and economic progress that has been made since the New Deal era.

Un. Imaginable. Horror.

I mean, I guess they doomjack to this shit or something? The left have been doomers since <em>Silent Spring</em> and arch-fraud Ehrlich’s <em>The Population Bomb</em> (with heavy salting of The Cold War, of course) but they really get off on imagining the worst case scenario and then encouraging it.

We all love a little doomsday now and then, and prepping like Mormons, but the histrionics over Trump are darkly amusing.


 

New York becomes first U.S. city to approve congestion pricing tolls

New York has become the first U.S. city to embrace congestion pricing to reduce vehicle traffic and pollution in its busy urban core.

The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday capped a years-long, often fraught review process by authorizing plans to charge drivers a $15 daytime toll to enter Manhattan below 60th Street, which is expected to generate billions of dollars to improve the region’s mass transit.

Congestion pricing is scheduled to launch in mid-June. The $550 million effort by MTA contractor TransCore to install cameras along the perimeter of the congestion pricing zone is mostly complete.

You will use the mass transit or be destroyed. You will use the mass transit and be murdered. You will use the mass transit and go to jail for defending yourself. GET ON THE BUS! GET ON THE TRAIN! (for your clothes here’s a pretty flower)


 

 

The trailer for the movie the song is referencing. (It is age-restricted and can only be watched on YouTube.)

Living Dead Girl (1982) is from the wonderfully cracked mind of Jean Rollin. It’s in French, so don’t bitch at me about subtitles.

The entire film can be watched for free with ads on Tubi.

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200 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    I was told there was going to be no math.

    • SDF-7

      I thought given SF it was going to be “No mĂĄs”…

  2. Common Tater

    “I hate the future.”

    I’m no historian, but the past also stupid.

    • juris imprudent

      Yeah, I think Swift covered this, what three and half centuries ago?

      • Common Tater

        She looks good for her age.

      • Bobarian LMD

        She rejuvenates by eating Kelce’s soul.

  3. SDF-7

    some insisting there’s a “right” and “wrong” way to eat a sandwich.

    I think that’s more indicative than anything else — anyone all anal about how other people eat a sandwich needs help.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yeah, there’s no right or wrong way to eat a sandwich except for those who prefer open faced sandwiches. Those fuckers are SICK!

      • SDF-7

        “… and the Dutch!” ? 😉

    • Nephilium

      I think the “right” way to eat a sandwich is to put it in your mouth. I would say the “wrong” way to eat a sandwich would be to try to put it in any other orifice.

      • SDF-7

        I swear there was a South Park episode on that topic…. there’s no way in hell I’m going to go look for it to be sure.

      • Nephilium

        There was. B-plot of Red Hot Catholic Love.

      • Sean

        Almost 22 years ago!

      • Certified Public Asshat

        We must be getting close to Tik Tok asking if we’ve been sitting on the toilet backwards.

      • Nephilium

        I was surprised to find out that the Underpants Gnomes were introduced in South Park all the way back in the second season.

      • pistoffnick

        I would say the “wrong” way to eat a sandwich would be to try to put it in any other orifice.

        DON’T KINKSHAME ME!

      • The Other Kevin

        There was once a doctor who treated morbidly obese people. His controversial treatment involved them putting their food in their behind. They were able to get just enough nutrients to survive but still lose weight. One day the doctor entered the exam room and the patient was bouncing up and down in his chair. “What are you doing?” he asked. “I’m chewing gum.”

      • creech

        No right way, except sammich must be made by a woman?

      • juris imprudent

        C’mon, not just any woman – a woman that wants to please you.

  4. Common Tater

    “world has woken up in shock as Donald Trump has emerged as the winner of the U.S. presidential election”

    Shock, fully erect, let’s not quibble.

    • Common Tater

      “”“Judgment Day is coming for America’s enemies, and no Marxist, Harvard leftist, gender-radical, illegal, or criminal thug in our great country will be safe come January.””

      Because that would be bad?

      • The Other Kevin

        Judging from the source, yes? Because if I read that on Twitter I’d give it a like.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If only that were true but Trump’s a milquetoast ‘90’s Dem at best. He’s not even close to being a Jair Bolsanaro for god’s sake.

      • Drake

        Line the beltway with his enemies on spikes or crosses like Crassus did on the Appian Way. Maybe all of I95 from Florida to Maine (minus a bridge in MD).

        That would be worth fearing. Not an 80s Democrat arguing with the deep state and temporarily making the country prosperous again.

      • DEG

        (minus a bridge in MD).

        That bridge carried I-695.

      • creech

        I-95 doesn’t cross that bridge (only trains did!) but it does go through a tunnel where a whole bunch of heads could be displayed at the entrance.

      • Drake

        My mistake. When I drive north, I take the westerly route through Charlottesville to avoid the imperial capital.

      • rhywun

        It is literally nothing but a list of things the left likes.

    • juris imprudent

      tangible social, racial, and economic progress that has been made since the New Deal era

      That can’t be, the Reagan era destroyed everything. At least that’s what liberals told me then.

    • Grumbletarian

      America’s cities are once again full of mute, stunned liberals

      ‘Once again’? They were anything but mute in 2016.

  5. Tres Cool

    sup’

  6. The Other Kevin

    “New York becomes first U.S. city to approve congestion pricing tolls”
    Unless Google scrubbed it, weren’t there articles decrying Uber for doing just this?

      • The Other Kevin

        Ah yes, thank you. Sometimes I can’t keep up with all these 180’s, it’s like I’m watching Tony Hawk.

      • Nephilium

        Look. When a private company is doing it, it’s exploiting those who chose to use the service. When government does it, it’s to save the world.

        Why do I think the Lyft/Uber surge pricing is going to wind up being much more open than the NYC surge pricing.

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

        Or, “ government is the word for things we do together “

    • Urthona

      Dallas currently has a toll road under 635 (one of the busiest loops) that is congestion priced so I do not think NYC is first.

      • Lackadaisical

        Actually now that you mention it, I live just off a highway that has an express lane which uses surge pricing. They just don’t call it that.

        Maybe the difference is you literally can’t access parts of the city without paying the price.

      • DEG

        Flyover country doesn’t count.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Toll lanes on the 91 between Orange County and riverside have had congestion pricing since they were built 35 years ago

  7. SDF-7

    histrionics over Trump are darkly amusing.

    And more than a little exasperating. It isn’t like the guy wasn’t actually President before. Were there right-wing mobs roaming the streets to pluck out the stout-hearted liberal Resistance? No? Then maybe stop projecting and shut the hell up, idiot weasels. (Yes, I’m in a mood today it seems… sorry).

    If we were electing Millei maybe some of their histrionics would have merit as at least their sacred programs would be cut — but at this point, we’ll be lucky if Trump even trims down the IC (and they were flat out at war with him) or pardons some of the J6 crowd. I expect very, very little — I’ll just be happy to get the current crop of Executive Order assholes away from the levers of power for a while and hope we might get the economy going again.

    And that this time the germophobe might not listen to his dictator/doctor wannabes.

    • The Other Kevin

      I expect him to promote more drilling for oil, which will be fought tooth and nail in the courts. And to stop inviting people over the border, which will be fought tooth and nail in the courts.

      • SDF-7

        Agreed — I think just about anything we want him to do will be followed with “which will be fought tooth and nail in the courts.”

        Well, well chosen courts as well I suspect.

      • Rat on a train

        “You can’t repeal Biden’s EOs. You need Congress to pass a law for that.”

    • juris imprudent

      right-wing mobs roaming the streets

      Jussie waves hello.

  8. Common Tater

    “The entire film can be watched for free with ads on Tubi.”

    Would it be good for a Thurs?

    • The Other Kevin

      That seemed like a good place for some cross promotion.

    • SugarFree

      I think so. It’s not as slow and atmospheric like most of Rollin.

      Running it through https://hearo.live/ also cuts out all the ads.

      • SDF-7

        He really should invest in a proper perch away from his actresses for his bats then.

      • Common Tater

        I’ve seen Requiem for a Vampire. Not atmospheric, but not good either. Mostly one of the Castel sisters getting naked.

      • Common Tater

        That website sucks. It has almost no information about what their app does.

    • UnCivilServant

      “With Ads” means it’s not free. That time is far too valuable to waste on ads.

  9. SDF-7

    New York has become the first U.S. city to embrace congestion pricing to reduce vehicle traffic and pollution in its busy urban core.

    I will continue to happily do my part to keep NYC (and most other major metro areas if I can help it) congestion minimized.

    And I sincerely hope the WfH trend can pick up and lots of other people get to do the same…. and that the cities can work with the tax base of the people that actually want to be there instead of leeching off of everyone who has to come in just to suffer in a cube for 8 hours.

    • rhywun

      NYC basically dies if everyone who could WFH does WFH.

      • Sensei

        Three presidents in town tomorrow fund raising for sleepy Joe. Rain all day.

        It’s going to suck going to the office.

  10. SDF-7

    The entire film can be watched for free with ads on Tubi.

    Wait — so we get a mid-week bonus Glibflick now? Neat!

  11. The Late P Brooks

    After asking “where’s your next bite” many have been divided, with some insisting there’s a “right” and “wrong” way to eat a sandwich.

    Next, an impassioned debate about toilet paper.

    • SDF-7

      THERE.

      ARE.

      THREE.

      SHELLS!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Do you ball it up or fold it?

      • bacon-magic

        Euphemism?

  12. kinnath

    over

    • SDF-7

      10-4 good buddy… we’ll keep an eye out for bears for ya.

      • Tres Cool

        wall to wall and treetop tall!

    • Rat on a train

      out

  13. B.P.

    “America’s cities are once again full of mute, stunned liberals avoiding eye contact with one another on the morning commute…”

    Nah, America’s cities are on fire when the black bloc predictably freaks out.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Mute” lol

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Trump took the stage and declared, “Judgment Day is coming for America’s enemies, and no Marxist, Harvard leftist, gender-radical, illegal, or criminal thug in our great country will be safe come January.”

    I’ll be in my bunk.

    • Tres Cool

      I happen to like the Marx Brothers.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        *honk*

  15. KSuellington

    “It is an overcast, unseasonably warm morning on Wednesday, Nov. 6, and the world has woken up in shock as Donald Trump has emerged as the winner of the U.S. presidential election.”

    This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to accelerate and our planet began to plunge into doom…

    Thanks for the Slate link SF. These things always amuse me.

  16. Certified Public Asshat

    And like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Trump would surely relish the opportunity to sign legislation banning public school teachers from going on strike.

    He won’t fire them? What kind of dystopia is this?

    • Spudalicious

      If they want to be considered essential employees, they can be treated like cops and firefighters. No going on strike.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Carryover from last thread-

    Youtube puked up a video (which I have not watched) from some dumbass swapping a big block into his new Corvette. Whoop dee fucking doo.

    There must be somebody out there swapping a manual transaxle into one. I want to see that.

  18. Common Tater

    “A Nigerian woman is facing up to seven years in prison for writing a damning review of a can of tomato puree, after its maker accused her of damaging its business.

    Chioma Okoli, a 39-year-old businesswoman based in Lagos, the country’s largest city, is being criminally prosecuted and sued in a civil court after she made negative comments about a product made by Nigerian foodmaker Erisco Foods.

    She called on her 18,000 Facebook followers to share their thoughts about Ericso’s Nagiko Tomato Mix, after sharing a picture of an opened can of the product and saying it was too sweet….

    The businesswoman, who’s currently pregnant with her fourth child, was arrested by plainclothes officers from Nigeria’s national police in September while she was in church, and told CNN that she was made to stand around in a leaky cell for hours.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13245169/Nigerian-woman-faces-seven-years-prison-writing-damning-online-review-tomato-puree.html

    They should hold the trial in Italy.

  19. kinnath

    I do not look forward to another Trump presidency. The last one was a mixed bag of good and bad policies and actions.

    I do, however, totally fear another term with Biden in charge.

    So go Trump!

    • trshmnstr

      I just hope the revenge tour is actually a revenge tour and not just a bunch of hot air. Aside from that, my day to day isn’t likely to be much impacted by who inhabits the figurehead position of the largely obsolete 3rd of 4 branches.

      • juris imprudent

        Trump is only full of hot air. He may as well be one of those flailing figures at used car lots.

      • Tres Cool
      • Mojeaux

        I dunno. The “figurehead” we’ve got now directly did a lot of damage to my checkbook (see: closing the Keystone pipeline, for starters) without Congress’s say-so.

  20. Lackadaisical

    “The $550 million effort by MTA contractor TransCore to install cameras along the perimeter of the congestion pricing zone is mostly complete.”

    Sweet Jesus. I wish I owned one of these consulting businesses. 550 million.

    • juris imprudent

      Yeah but how much of that is kicked back?

      • Lackadaisical

        Very typical for government work.

        Some of it is definitely a scam by consultants.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      CisCore would have done it for less, but the MTA”s DEI chief rejected their bid.

  21. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    Will there be a two drink minimum to go along with the Manhattan cover charge?

  22. kinnath

    Jon Stewart found to have overvalued his NYC home by 829% after labeling Trump’s civil case ‘not victimless’

    Jon Stewart is facing online backlash after the comedian opined on air this week that Donald Trump’s civil real estate case for overvaluing his properties was “not victimless” — when it turns out the price of a previous home sale finds Stewart doing the exact same thing, The Post has learned.

    In 2014, Stewart sold his 6,280-square-foot Tribeca duplex to financier Parag Pande for $17.5 million. The property’s asking price at that time is not available in listing records.

    But according to 2013-2014 assessor records obtained by The Post, the property had the estimated market-value at only $1.882 million. The actual assessor valuation was even lower, at $847,174.

    Records also show that Stewart paid significantly lower property taxes, which were calculated based on that assessor valuation price — precisely what he called Trump out for doing in his Monday monologue.

    Pande, who purchased the penthouse from Stewart, then resold the property at a nearly 26% loss, according to the Real Deal — at just over $13 million — in 2021

    The prosecution is being lined up as we speak . . . . . right?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Meanwhile, the New York assessor valuation on Stewart’s former penthouse is the exact same citation method and metric that New York Attorney General Letitia James used to value Trump’s private and personal properties, and then sued him for inflating those assets.

      Get him Letitia.

    • Lackadaisical

      I hate everyone involved.

      Stewart’s always been a political hack, but this is the first I’ve heard him being a hypocrite. Not surprising. I wonder how he got it assessed quite that far off.

      Of course, the assessors value sounds much more realistic to me.

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

        A Tribeca duplex for less than a million?

        Shit, my house in podunkville is worth a half mil.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Preposterous hogwash

    Boeing needs to be led by engineers if it wants to pull itself out of its current crisis, Tim Clark, the president of Emirates Airline, said Wednesday.

    Boeing said Monday that CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of the year, part of a broad management shake-up. The U.S. aerospace giant is once again mired in controversy following a recent series of mid-flight technical failures, starting with a door panel that blew off of a new Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 midflight on Jan. 5

    ——-

    “To fix Boeing’s issues the company needs a strong engineering lead as its head coupled to a governance model which prioritizes safety and quality,” said Clark, who leads Dubai’s flag carrier Emirates.

    Boeing needs more diversity and inclusiveness, not a bunch of slaves to physics.

    • Sensei

      I’m torn. I’m a finance guy by background and they make shitty CEOs of most anything but financials.

      Engineers are bimodal CEOs in my experience. Really good or really shitty.

      I feel like BA needs a really good operations person.

      • kinnath

        Boeing was historically run by engineers. Moving the headquarters to Chicago was specifically intended to cement the break in that tradition.

      • Sensei

        Yup. That move was bad news.

        Lots of tech cos are engineer lead. I get the history at Boeing, but I’d want one with lots of operations experience if I sat on the board.

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

        Whether it is a finance CEO, or an Eng CEO, I don’t care, and I don’t think it really matters. What matters is someone with a strong background in success.

        IE, if you pick someone who failed up, you are going to fail. Doesn’t matter what their background is.

      • Sensei

        I’ve personally met quite a few Fortune 100 CEOs. With rare exception non really failed up or were at all dumb.

        The unsuccessful ones picked poor subordinates and made bad strategic choices.

        Essentially if you have to pay McKinsey to come and tell you what everybody in the fucking place knows, but your subordinate won’t tell you, you have a problem.

        Welcome to Boeing and more than a few other companies.

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

        Yeah, that is what I was kinda getting at. I good boss is someone that A) listens and B) wants people to give them bad news. How they frame it is often different (problem or challenge? Same thing, just different perspective) but both can work, and are needed at different times.

      • UnCivilServant

        Please tell me how you fail upwards? I’ve been trying to succeed up but that hasn’t worked, I might go for another track

      • Spudalicious

        By assuring your bosses through your incompetence that you’ll never be a threat to them.

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

        By getting promoted out of harms way.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Trump is only full of hot air. He may as well be one of those flailing figures at used car lots.

    Something like this, perhaps

  25. Aloysious

    TikTokers are debating how to properly eat a sandwich.

    Tikety Tokers are fucking stupid.

    • UnCivilServant

      By design.

      The more harmful the content, the more the algorithm promotes it.

      • The Other Kevin

        I have hear the US version is banned in China, and the version they have in China promotes math and science and stuff. Besides the data stealing, that’s another reason some people want it banned here.

    • The Other Kevin

      See now you know why people want to ban it. You feel dumber just reading the story.

    • juris imprudent

      Big endian versus little endian.

      • UnCivilServant

        Clearly you’re taking your bytes wrong.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Aviation analysts and former Boeing employees have criticized the company’s reported sidelining of engineers in its senior management ranks. They note that of the top executives at Boeing, the only one with an engineering background was Stan Deal — the outgoing CEO of Boeing’s commercial airplane division. He is stepping down and will be succeeded by Stephanie Pope, Boeing’s newly named chief operating officer, Boeing said Monday.

    They’re setting her up to take the fall!

  27. DEG

    The way you eat a sandwich can reveal a lot about your personality, it has been claimed.

    The woman that wrote this article needs to make me a sandwich.

    Wait you say, I haven’t read the article yet so how do I know a woman wrote it?

    C’mon man, that’s gotta be a woman author.

    OK, OK, I’ll read the article.

    Hmm…. cites an Aussie news site. Includes link to Aussie news site. Let’s see….

    Link takes me to the Aussie news site, but not the original article. Dammit.

    Here is the original article. And yes, written by a woman.

    On second thought, she can make Tres Cool a sandwich.

    • Tres Cool

      Oh hell yeah!

      But she’s an Aussie, and that accent grates on my ears. The only thing more aurally unappealing to me is some broad with and Afrikaan accent.
      Have to pass, unless I can keep her quiet….

      • Lackadaisical

        She looks just like a coworker of mine.

        All yours buddy. You just be swimming in poon.

      • Tres Cool

        Then let me drown!

      • Lackadaisical

        Well, that was a terrible mental image.

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

        Good, I thought I was alone in finding that accent grating.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Kiwi is worse. Tha grite vowul sheeft?

      • Raven Nation

        *wanders off to find someone else to talk with*

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Aw, soz, darl. Come beck. 😉

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

        It isn’t the male Aussie accent, it is the distaff voice.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Kath and Kim moight be the funniest sitcom oi’ve evah seeeen, though.

      • UnCivilServant

        You want a grating accent? Look to the northeast US.

        Joisey, Lawn Guy Land, New Yawker, Bostonian – ye gads, the land is just chock a block full of grating accents.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Down here that would be exotic and charming.

        I find Seth Efricans appreciate having their accent correctly identified.

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

        That is one I don’t mind.

      • Don escaped Texas

        I like midwestern guys, but up east Yankees are grating.

        But that’s nobody’s fault and small of me: I should get over it.

        I talk so slow and drawl terribly, not the smooth or landed way that a Shelby Foote might use. I think it’s okay to think I’m a hick, but I don’t want to change….excecpt….maybe…..to be even more Southern.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    I feel like BA needs a really good operations person.

    It certainly sounds like they lost their way on process control.

  29. DEG

    The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday capped a years-long, often fraught review process by authorizing plans to charge drivers a $15 daytime toll to enter Manhattan below 60th Street, which is expected to generate billions of dollars to improve the region’s mass transit.

    The Port Authority has had peak and off-peak tolls on its bridges for quite a while.

  30. Shpip

    Greetings from Dauphin Island, Alabama, where I’ve ventured to annoy some of the local fish.

    Unfortunately, yesterday’s trip was canceled due to a nasty storm front that passed through, and today’s excursion got eighty-sixed by strong winds and high waves. Tomorrow’s my last chance to not go home empty-coolered.

    To add insult to injury, despite the island’s name, I’ve been here two days and have yet to see a single dauphin. I think they just wanted to attract unsuspecting tourists, and gave the place a misleading moniker on porpoise.

  31. Certified Public Asshat

    How long will it take to rebuild the Key Bridge following its collapse?

    The Francis Scott Key Bridge could rejoin Baltimore’s skyline in as little as two years or as many as 15, with some experts eyeing a number in between.

    Such expertise!

    Abieyuwa Aghayere, an engineering professor at Drexel University, said safety, cost and sustainability are major factors considered in the construction of bridges. Aghayere, who teaches a course dedicated to finding out why certain structures fail and will incorporate the Key Bridge collapse into his lesson plan, said rebuilds must aim to “remove the vulnerability that may have been there.”

    I’m not an engineer, but I think I can guess why this bridge failed.

    • UnCivilServant

      This isn’t the first ship strike to a pier.

      Generally, it’s the lack of barriers which would allow the ship to strike something other than a bridge structural element that are now becoming standard practive in bridges which cross shipping lanes.

      What is unanswered is why the ship went haywire, but the bridge is no mystery.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m not sure how you remove that type of vulnerability. Maybe add some torpedo tubes.

      • Grumbletarian

        Well eventually the sea will rise high enough that ships will sail over the bridge, right?

    • cyto

      There was a photo from a different angle thar showed the ship from the side and the bridge more down the roadway. It was very clear from that angle why the boat flattened the bridge. The bridge looks like a little bit of tin foil scattered across the bow of the huge ship.

    • Aloysious

      They posed for an iconic family photograph – three generations of Kennedys, with a smiling Biden, 81, in the middle of the family scrum – in an event hailed as a snub for Bobby, and a win for Biden.

      What a family.

      BARF

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Yikes.

    Nauseating.

    • cyto

      “One of the best things to enhance Milei’s credibility as a libertarian is a ridiculous hit piece from Reason.

      Badge of honor.”

    • cyto

      “Only Reason could write a hit piece on the greatest and most successful libertarian in the world on the grounds that he’s not libertarian”

      • rhywun

        He probably got snippy with the Jacket at a cocktail event or some shit.

      • Tres Cool

        His chainsaw act triggered Froot Sushi.

    • Suthenboy

      Because no matter what he does the only thing that matters is what label is slapped on him. No true libertarian? I will have me some of that.

    • Grumbletarian

      I’m going to devil’s advocate a bit on this and say it was an interesting article, not written by anyone I’ve read at TOS before. Much as I like Milei there are a few inarguably unlibertarian directions his administration is taking. He’s a big drug warrior, which is generally not something most of us here espose. THe administration is purportedly considering reinstating a military draft.

      As good as he is, it’s not unfair to note places where he could improve.

    • Sensei

      They can’t be out of money they still have checks left!

    • Suthenboy

      So the first thing they do is stop paying the firefighters? What about city parks? The water?
      Keep all of the bean counters on the roll whatever you do.

    • Sensei

      He did know the Clintons…

    • cyto

      A reminder of a time when senators had a certain degree of dignity about them.

  33. UnCivilServant

    I’ve been out of debt for a year, and I still marvel when I pay my bills and it turns out I’m not completely out of money at the end of the month.

    Here’s to living within my means! 🥂🍻

    • Lackadaisical

      Good job.

      I miss when that was in sight for me. Don’t ever go back.

      • UnCivilServant

        I think it’s coded into me to stick with what I can afford. Debt has always been an “I have no choice” circumstance. The Mortgage was cheaper than my rent, the car loan was unavoidable if I wanted to remain employed, the roof loan was necessary to keep my house intact, etc.

        While there are annoyances with my current house, I don’t want the debt required to move.

    • Tonio

      Congratulations.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      Debt-free living is nice. Congrats!

    • Common Tater

      Go you!

  34. Suthenboy

    A. How do I eat my sandwich? Any damned way I please, that’s. how.
    B. Never forget: With them it is all projection all of the time. I do wonder what they will do. They are already planning a soft coup by not certifying the election should he win. That is an open admission that they dont give a shit about elections, our system or the will of the people. I expect him to win with the Biden admin campaigning so hard for him. We will see what they do.
    C. I dont give a fuck. NYC can sink into the sea and all of the leftist shitbirds with it.

  35. Raven Nation

    The terror over Trump is somewhat bizarre. I mean, I’ve not voted for the guy and I doubt I will this year but…you have a four-year track record wherein he did none of the things these people fear he’s going to do if re-elected. What was his 23rd-dimensional chess? Govern according to norms for four years and then, having lulled the country asleep mount a coup after he was reelected? Mussolini took complete power within about 14 months, Hitler within two months, the Bolsheviks in 4.

    • grrizzly

      For three years we had a separation of powers between Trump and the Deep State/Uniparty. And then when coronavirus emerged, both sides united on lockdowns and social distancing. The modern version of bipartisan, i.e. both evil and stupid.

  36. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    My neighbor gave me 2 beers and it’s 6:47 and I’m buzzed af

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      So, Zoom?

      • UnCivilServant

        Depends on whether this darn program actually works.

      • UnCivilServant

        I think it’s working, but I’m all alone.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        I think usually it gets started later, but I’ll join early if you like

    • Tres Cool

      Make it 0647 and I call it breakfast.

  37. Certified Public Asshat

    RE: the bridge

    4/ Cool, direct, urgent, successful. Maybe not a college degree or a 6-figure salary among them—and they used their training & experience at the most critical, high-pressure moment to save lives.All day, every day—that happens & we don’t see it.That’s your ‘deep state.’—>— (((Charles Fishman))) 💧 (@cfishman) March 27, 2024

    Ha, take that conspiracy theorists!

    • rhywun

      I don’t know whose ‘deep state’ that is, but it’s not anyone’s who actually raises complaints about it.

  38. Certified Public Asshat

    In Last Ditch Attempt To Save Job, Ronna McDaniel Gets Lesbian Haircut https://t.co/5lxHJPp8na — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 27, 2024

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      That’s more empty-nest soccer mom than lezbeen

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

        It is the new Rachel!

      • Urthona

        How can you be an empty nest soccer mom? I call foul.

      • Tres Cool

        Cluck off.

      • Tres Cool

        Karen-lite

  39. Common Tater

    “NJ politician under fire for sharing meme

    Paula Gilligan, a councilwoman in the tiny Bergen County town of Glen Rock, said in a statement posted to the municipal website Sunday that she shared the apparently tongue-in-cheek, rainbow-colored meme to her Instagram stories because she was mocking pro-life “personhood” laws.

    But the post — which said that “Easter eggs are aborted chicken babies that are painted in drag for small children to worship” — struck a nerve in the wealthy town of about 12,000 perched 20 miles northwest of Manhattan.”

    https://nypost.com/2024/03/27/us-news/nj-politician-under-fire-for-sharing-meme-that-calls-easter-eggs-aborted-chicken-babies-that-are-painted-in-drag/

    It just wasn’t funny.

    • Suthenboy

      Wow…that just…no, its not funny, it is worse. AI level retarded?

  40. Mojeaux

    Q: Does anybody keep a stash of cash in their house for any reason, say, $1,000 or thereabouts? I’m a little concerned about doing so because reasons, but I also feel we should be keeping a little bit in the house.

    • EvilSheldon

      Yes, about five grand in small bills. It lives in the gun safe.

      • Ted S.

        [takes notes of where to steal Sheldon’s cash]

        /sarcasm

      • UnCivilServant

        You may want to note that it’s the cash living in the gun safe. The guns are more accessable for use against you.

      • prolefeed

        Did that gun safe get lost in a tragic boating accident?

    • kinnath

      I have about 1000 in one of my gun safes.

      Derecho in Iowa took out the telephones and all credit/debit transactions for a week or more in some locations. Many, many people were fucked.

      • Tres Cool

        Samesies. Around $1K in small bills.

    • UnCivilServant

      Given how often I’ve lived in a place that has either been burglarized or was at risk of being burglarized, I don’t keep cash on hand.

      • The Hyperbole

        Isn’t any place at risk of being burglarized?

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s a balance of probabilities. And you know it.

        One of the places I’ve lived was burglarized by our Landlord, who was a piece of shit.

        There are neighborhoods where burglars are not going to go out of their way to get to.

      • Mojeaux

        Well, many of you know why I’m a little gunshy about this.

      • Tres Cool

        Need a loan ?

      • kinnath

        If someone gets into the gun safe, I have much bigger problems to worry about than a thousand in cash.

    • Common Tater

      Yes?

    • The Hyperbole

      Nice try, fed burglar.

    • Raven Nation

      Yep. An amount between Evil Sheldon and Kinnath. In a fire safe.

      Mostly for the same reasons as others: just in case money. Also, I’ve seen stories of a neighborhood being hit by a storm with a lot of tree clean up. Crews passed through putting people on a list to revisit in a week when they could get money. The few people with case got taken care of straightaway.

    • rhywun

      No, it’s not something I’ve given thought to before.