DICKEY BETTS DEAD AT 80: The Ramblin’ Man has left the room. RIP.
THE PANTS-SHITTING CONTINUES APACE: Over at The Daily Beast, Michael Daly opines about how “Trump’s bodega visit should scare the heck out of Democrats.” Last week I covered desperate Democrat outreach to the QUILTBAG++ community. It seems that the Democrats are reluctantly realizing that not all minority votes are belong to them.
YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO RESTITUTION: “San Francisco DA tells ‘victims’ trapped by Gaza protesters on Golden Gate Bridge to contact police for ‘restitution.'” Looks like the institutional left have had enough of ‘mostly peaceful’ protests from the radical wing of their party, or at least realize how coddling the little commie punks isn’t going to do them any favors at the ballot box this November. A civil judgement against the bridge blockers might be uncollectable since LCPs tend not to own real property, and often eschew private vehicle ownership, but hopefully would make their lives more difficult forever.
THE MOST HILARIOUS THING I’VE READ TODAY: Columbia U prez grilled at congressional hearing, unfamiliar with woke terms in guidebook distributed by Columbia’s own School of Social work. Biggest Laff Line: “They don’t know how to spell,” in response to a question about the term “folx.” (h/t: Sensei)
SPACE GHOST GLOBAL LOGISTICS: Not just coast-to-coast, but anywhere on earth. The clever folks at Sierra Space are testing a prototype of their Ghost cargo craft which they envision staging in earth orbit pre-loaded with cargo and delivering it on demand. Ninety minute delivery time to anywhere on the surface of earth, up to 1750 pounds of cargo, landings accurate to within 300 feet. “Hello, Sierra? I need an infantry squad support package delivered to…” Imagine the possibilities for rescue, humanitarian relief, and, of course, military operations.
BUILDING A BETTER LAMPREY – FOR SCIENCE: Your long read for today. TLDR version: Myelin, the sheath surrounding nerve fibers in most vertebrates appears to have originated as RNA of a retroviral infection in an ancestral vertebrate. And not just myelin, “[a]stonishingly, 40 percent of the DNA in mammals consists of remnants of these retroviral infections.” Lampreys, the most primitive vertebrates, do not have myelin sheaths around their nerve fibers. “Final proof[…] would be to introduce the retroviral gene into lampreys and see if they form myelin.”
INFLATABLE SPACE HABITATS, THE SEQUEL: Florida-based startup Max Space is working on inflatable space habitats to achieve more volume to mass than is currently available with hard-shell habitats. This was tried before by the now-defunct Bigelow Aerospace whose inflatable BEAM module is still attached to the ISS.
MEA CULPA: My inbox is overflowing with manuscripts and author queries. I’ll tend to those tomorrow. Apologies to all.
This was originally going to be your tune for today, but in light of breaking news you get it as a bonus track.
“Your linkster takes a day off from hot bear sex and mountain biking to bring you… the links.”
I don’t know if that sounds worth it?
Honor and duty, Tater.
Sacrifices were made. Tonio, I have time to spare if you want to entrust me with a sliver of Glib authority.
I can’t assign admin rights. That’s way above my level of authority, and I like it that way. After decades as a professional sysadmin I’m happy to leave that to others now so I can focus on writer development and my own fiction.
We’d love to have your contributions (and those from the rest of you heathen scum). You are a solid contributor and one of the few who writes about libertarian and adjacent topics.
As has been said recently, we need content. Unfortunately this need coincided with the sweaty, hairy rites of Spring.
Alright, whichever PTB that does the assigning – you have a volunteer if you need it. In the meantime, I’ll work up another Nietzsche piece.
I other other bear news,
“Group snatches bear cubs out of tree just to take selfies with them in disturbing clip”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/north-carolina-bear-cubs-snatched-out-of-tree-by-group-to-take-selfies-with-in-disturbing-clip/
CWABOA
You can get away with that with a black bear.
Try that stunt with a brown bear and you’ll likely come to a grizzly end.
Those cubs had to grin and bear it.
[bear sits on haunches, claps forepaws together happily]
Tonio, he is just pandaing to you.
This thread is going to polarize the commentariat.
They’re playing with fire…with their bear hands.
Sure, sure, bears of color, but what about white bears, huh?
What a Charmin group of bears and so taken by the tourists.
I remember touring the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as a wee lad, and the other tourists treating the bears like animals in a petting zoo, even to the point of making them beg like a pet dog. Humans tease bears with food, bears become food-aggressive towards humans, bears have to be killed or relocated.
I’m constantly shocked by the number of ppl who think that wildlife is one handout away from a housepet species domesticated over thousands of generations.
“Wildlife is one handout away from a housepet species”
Well, it works for people.
RJ, from the top rope.
Oh no you di’in’t!!
I’m constantly shocked by the number of ppl who think that wildlife is one handout away from a housepet species domesticated over thousands of generations.
Too much Disney, not enough Animal Planet.
Some of us even remember Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.
Some comedy show did a fantastic parody of that. I don’t have time to find it now, but if I do I will hide it in the Thursday Night TUBI help section like I do all the other secret short films.
SNL?
I remember them capturing a drunk bum.
Carson used to regularly do a Marlin Perkins impression and would have Jim Fowler on regularly with animals.
African Wino, from memory.
Wild Kingdom rocked.
Watched it religiously as a kid.
Or the BBC nature shows. Love those until he got super woke lately.
I blame Hanna Barberra. Eh, Boo Boo?
“Thanks for the snack… but I couldn’t help noticing that you are made of meat and not particularly dangerous looking.”
Looks like there’s a trouble bruin.
“It seems that the Democrats are reluctantly realizing that not all minority votes are belong to them.”
Seems fair. They were against blacks voting in the first place.
“Looks like the institutional left have had enough of ‘mostly peaceful’ protests from the radical wing of their party, or at least realize how coddling the little commie punks isn’t going to do them any favors at the ballot box this November. ”
Well, that only works if you elect Biden things will go back to normal.
Who is going to pay the restitution. I bet it’s the taxpayers.
I expect there is a system in place that allows the victims of crimes to request restitution from people who are convicted of those crimes. I assume that system is woefully ineffective at actually getting restitution back to the victims of “ordinary” crimes. I expect nothing will happen related to protesters who get arrested and then let right back out onto the street as the ADA decides not to charge the protesters.
I notice the DA didn’t say she planned to do anything herself about the commie punks. Just volunteered the police budget for restitution. Not, say, announce a task force to criminally prosecute them or even just hit them with civil fines.
“The DA is also weighing charges against the 26 Hamas-supporting activists who were arrested on the bridge but said her office needs more evidence to prosecute.”
They were arrested on the fucking bridge. How much more evidence do you need?
My pleasure. Funny about this afternoon’s coincidental timing on this too.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/nypd-cops-enter-columbia-after-university-warns-anti-israel-protesters-to-clear-out/
“Remember who started this? Hamas, that terrorist group,” he added. “We pay a lot of money to come here and we should feel safe and protected.”
First part, correct. Second part, grow a spine.
“Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, suspended from Barnard College for her involvement in anti-Israel protests ”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/ilhan-omars-daughter-suspended-from-barnard-college-for-her-involvement-in-anti-israel-protests/
The asshole doesn’t fall far from the tree.
You saying taint much difference between mother and daughter?
Alolz
privileged cunt
That is all just Hirsi. Not admissible in court.
It sounds like she was suspended for refusing to vacate property that wasn’t hers when she was told to do it. Maybe it’s not intentional by the writers, but I can’t understand why “Daughter of Ilhan Omar suspended by Columbia for trespassing” wouldn’t be obvious. Especially when the whole gripe of these people is “stolen land”. They certainly have no problem with occupying land that isn’t theirs.
*Golf clap
My hand are getting tired from all the golf claps tonight.
Wouldn’t she be Omar’s niece as well as her daughter?
slap L
slap R
GOTO 10
Somali-town?
Looks like the NY Post buried the story. It was on the front page this morning.
NYP is an evening paper. So that means it was from yesterday.
Democrats are reluctantly realizing other things too.
That’s a price the elites are willing for the proles to bear.
Yeah, and it isn’t going to win them the votes they need to implement it – that’s the author’s point. But of course we know that the votes, just like the points on Who’s Line, don’t really matter.
Britain discovers that passing legislation does not, in fact, cause the physical world to change.
Fortunately for the UK, there’s a NEET solution to this: round up the layabouts and press them into His Majesty’s Electric Company. Some youths will find that they’re quite good at this, others will be shocked when they discover that they aren’t.
Press gangs #FTW!
IOW reality bites
DICKEY BETTS DEAD AT 80: The Ramblin’ Man has left the room. RIP.
RIP.
Columbia University’s president was grilled during a tense House hearing Wednesday about a glossary of woke terms distributed to students that included the words “Ashkenormativity” and “folx” — leading her to suggest at one point that administrators at the Ivy League institution “don’t know how to spell.”
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) asked Minouche Shafik whether she could enlighten the House Education and Workforce Committee about the bewildering glossary of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)-related words highlighted by the university’s School of Social Work.
It sounds like she doesn’t have a Master’s degree from Columbia University.
the bewildering glossary of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)-related words highlighted by the university’s School of Social Work.
My employer does monthly DEI brown bag lunches. As I was figuring out what popped into my inbox, I saw a link to the company’s “inclusion glossary”. I was almost curious enough to click, but I enjoy my brain cells too much.
My brain cells cause me no end of trouble. I am in the middle of a long war of attrition against them.
Down page in the Daily Beast article – quoting Alvin Bragg’s fake crime statistics. When you downgrade crimes from felonies to misdemeanors or ignore them altogether, crime stats look great.
Maybe that was the plan behind the coof shots all along? Make humans better, one mRNA mutation at a time? Keep the best, cull the rest?
/dons AlexinCT hat
“[a]stonishingly, 40 percent of the DNA in mammals consists of remnants of these retroviral infections.”
This strikes me as the genetic biology equivalent of finding a notch on a tooth and fabricating an entire cuisine for an ancient culture from it.
Hey, PhDs in Anthropology have been granted for less specious blatherings.
Congratulations, Dr. Tonio!
FEV doesn’t work that way.
Dicky Betts Best..
Today in schoolgirl ultraviolence,
“Middle school student repeatedly punches girl in front of cheering kids in brutal on-camera beatdown”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/florida-middle-school-student-repeatedly-punches-girl-in-brutal-beatdown-video/
lord of the flies level stuff
Suspended kids have no place to go so they come back to school and roam the hallways.
Seems strange that the parents of the kid that shot up the school got put to trial. Maybe the parents of these thugs ought to suffer some consequences, like paying the hospital bills of the injured.
Kids in Chicago are playing cowboy with real guns and their parents walk away.
Shockingly, the article never mentions of race of the attacker and victim.
It’s not shocking at all. There’s no reason to mention the race of the attacker or the victim–anyone can make a very accurate guess from the headline.
The guess you made was 100% accurate.
No reason at all….unless it were the other way about.
“Hardliners in the House Freedom Caucus have activated their Floor Action Response Team, also known as FART, to carefully monitor for any surprise resolutions aimed at sabotaging them, a source familiar with the move told The Post.
FART entails Freedom Caucus members taking turns on the lookout for unannounced resolutions that congressional leadership could pass via unanimous consent to sidestep any hurdles from rabble-rousers.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/freedom-caucus-deploys-fart-group-amid-republican-tensions/
Really?
Is the senate equivalent SHART?
You people are knocking it out of the park today, I tells ya.
The difference is this FART is seeking out what stinks.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-rebels-derail-johnsons-border-security-pitch-fury-95b-foreign-aid-plan
Mike Johnson having trouble getting another $95 billion printed for his handlers to launder.
C’mon guys, this is what we do – we spend and then we complain about what DC does. You guys don’t really WANT to cut spending, do you?
Cut the other guys spending but leave my stuff alone
“Grieving families of the Covenant Christian School shooter’s six victims have claimed they own copyright of the full handwritten confession of the killer.
They are arguing before a Nashville judge that the confession, and other documents, should never be publicly released because no good can come from it.
The families’ claims comes as both city police and the FBI fight to stop the confession, and potentially information about mysterious notes and numbers found on Hale’s body, from being made public.
Audrey Hale, 28, was a transgender artist, who identified as a male named Aiden, shot her way into the Tennessee elementary school in March 2023, killing three adults and three nine-year-olds, before responding officers killed her.
Following the shooting, Nashville’s Metropolitan Police Chief John Drake said his force had recovered the shooter’s manifesto, as well as hand-drawn maps in her car, and said they would eventually be made public.
Now, both city police and the FBI say the material shouldn’t be released because the information could damage any potential investigation.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13323557/Nashville-Audrey-Hale-transgender-school-shooter-manifesto.html
Neither of those arguments make sense.
Potential investigation? OF WHAT?
Of you for wanting to read it. I mean, obviously.
How dare I notice evidence that not every trans-person is an angel?
Yep. Clearly a bullshit reason, so the true one is something else.
I keep waiting for somebody to ask him that. We know who did it. We, well, you, even know why she did it. What, exactly are you investigating, especially more than a year after the actual event?
The copyright argument is (technically) interesting, since the shooter’s family gave her estate to the victim’s families. Whether the manifesto itself is actually copyrighted (did the killer intend for it to be?), exactly who and how the right to control its distribution are exercised, and I’m sure a myriad other issues are utterly unresolved. Regardless, I’m pretty sure that “it’s copyrighted” isn’t an exception to FOIA.
“The copyright argument is (technically) interesting, since the shooter’s family gave her estate to the victim’s families. ”
I did not know that. So the argument makes some sense.
Tangentially related, and one of my hobby horses…. why do we never hear about the dark corners of the internet where these losers hang out getting blown up by the Intel agencies or by Anonymous or 4chan or law enforcement?
Find every place where the loser had an account, dox the shit out of everybody who encouraged them, and expose every one of them to microscopic scrutiny to find criminal activity.
So you’re okay with them doing that when (not if) a Glib snaps and all of our dark jokes are taken horribly out of context , manipulatively edited and plastered all over the media?
The person who pulls the trigger is the only one who needs to go down. The impulse to turn every crime into a RICO case where anyone on Reddit that ever made a woodchipper joke to someone who snapped can be held liable is one of the most dangerous suggestions I’ve ever heard. You’re better than this Trashy.
his is just a reactionary, conservative stance, not a moral failing; I don’t recall his ever asserting that he is libertarian
I have made very similar points here and generally got shouted down; action and speech are clearly very different things for me, but it’s just one of those situations where outcomes are so overwhelming that some can’t stand on process. I prefer the extreme and narrow and let the pieces fall where they may, but my philosophizing has been repeatedly met with “that ship has sailed” or “you’re living in a fantasy world.”
This isn’t even about the morality of it. My point is that giving that power to any law enforcement agency would be stupid since there is a 100% chance it would be abused and weaponized. They were handing out twenty year sentences like candy on the most absurd interpretation of Sarbanes-Oxley. Could you imagine what they’d do if you explicitly told them they can round up anyone that ever interacted with a violent criminal online if their statements could be even vaguely interpreted as “encouraging violence?”
“As Ben Affleck’s daughter comes out as ‘Fin’, why are so many A-list celebrities’ children trans and non-binary?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13322883/Ben-Affleck-daughter-Fin-celebrities-children-trans-non-binary.html
It’s a real head-scratcher.
Having a nontrans kid with you in public when you’re a celebrity is about as passe as wearing nondesigner clothes as a celebrity. Their poor kids are fashion accessories who get mindfucked at an early age into a very bad decision.
It was funny when AbFab did gay infant accessorizing in the nineties. Not so funny now.
I thought Edina fetishized her mixed-race grandkid. But pqn los dos.
Could be. Dammit.
“You have a vegan cat too neat!”
Why can’t these people go back to purse puppies.
Hollywood could not be running out of money and relevance at a better time.
Fun with numbers
Climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that’s not warming, with the poorest areas and those least responsible for heating the atmosphere taking the biggest monetary hit, a new study said.
Climate change’s economic bite in how much people make is already locked in at about $38 trillion a year by 2049, according to Wednesday’s study in the journal Nature by researchers at Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. By 2100 the financial cost could hit twice what previous studies estimate.
“Our analysis shows that climate change will cause massive economic damages within the next 25 years in almost all countries around the world, also in highly-developed ones such as Germany and the U.S., with a projected median income reduction of 11% each and France with 13%,” said study co-author Leonie Wenz, a climate scientist and economist.
According to our model, our model is correct.
Yes, yes, of course. The cost of inaction is a billion times more than the paltry cost of completely upending the energy economy worldwide.
I will accept their 30 year projections when their forecast for the next 5 years is dead-on accurate.
Complete nonsense. In fact, I bet you could easily make a case that the opposite is true.
I suspect that actually achieving “Net Zero” in the next 25 years would reduce global income by a lot more than 19%.
“compared to a fictional world that’s not warming”
I wonder if that fictional world has accounted for the costs of getting to no warming, or if it it just magically is not warming. I suspect it’s the latter.
“Our analysis shows that climate change will cause massive economic damages within the next 25 years in almost all countries around the world”
Yeah for the same reason COVID caused massive economic damages. Because the fuckfaces who run things massively exaggerated a threat and instituted emergency policies that would launder public money to a small cadre of billionaire political donors and massively increase their own power while the rest of us get treated like Winston’s mom at a WEF conference.
Bob got good news today. I was recently diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in my stomach, which they found when I had a kidney stone. Had surgery to have it removed around last Thanksgiving. Surgery was complicated (gutted me like a fish), but successful, however the biopsy showed an “intermediate growth rate” so the put me on medication and said I’d need re-occurring scans to check for further growth.
Had my first scan, and it came back with what the radiologist identified as another larger tumor. So I have been a little freaked out and pretty numb over the news. My regular oncologist was concerned and sent me back to the oncology surgeon.
Took two weeks to get back to see him, but I saw him this morning. He asked a lot of questions and then went and actually looked at the scans of the “tumor”.
Came back into the office and said “Oh that’s just the sponge we left in there. Nothing to worry about.”
I had no idea how stressed I was over the situation until he told me that. I almost cried.
Now I probably need to go kick that radiologist in the yarbles.
He then explained that when they had to cut some of my spleen, they had to leave a ‘cellulose sponge’ that would prevent bleeding and would be absorbed by my body as healing progresses.
Congratulations on the clean bill of health!
Good to hear, Bob, at first read I thought, “Oh no, another invasion to recover the sponge”
All’s well at your residence.
Good you don’t need more surgery to remove the sponge.
Damn. Until the end I thought the sponge was accidental. Amazing how specialist docs fail to communicate.
Feel better!
Sucks you had to absorb all that anxiety.
Typical libertarian. Acting all tough, but really just a sponge on society.
Super glad to hear you are gonna be all right!
I’m glad things turned out well!
I share Sensei’s dismay/amazement at the poor communication across all the doctors, et. al., involved.
We should be doing so much better.
I’m not amazed at all.
Of course, you worked in that world. Most of the rest of us encounter it between 1 and single-digit n times. My friend was diagnosed with jaw cancer, by his dentist, on May 23. He finally got the PET scan at the end of July/beginning of August. He died the morning of Aug. 16, before treatment beyond removal of the tumor in/on the jaw even began.
That Bob’s case turned out as it did is a blessing. Still, how does the radiologist not know a lump of cellulose sponge was left in place and should be taken into account when reading the scans?
I posed the same question to Mrs. Sensei, RN. She suggested the radiologist was likely unfamiliar with that surgical technique of leaving the sponge. She as expected of a nurse also unhappy with the treatment.
This is good news.
Best wishes on your recovery.
So now we can call you SpongeBob?
Congrats!
*Golf clap
Also very glad you are well.
Unfortunately “SpongeBob Smallspleen” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.
Congrats on cancer free status!
Nice!
Just hope he stays away from Krabby Patty now that he has a clean bill of health.
Helluva roundabout way to find out that you’re spongeworthy.
Damn your nimble fingers.
I see who doesn’t click on the links.
You were too subtle.
So you are saying you are sponge-worthy?
Yay, Bob!
found when I had a kidney stone
same exact thing with my best friend three months ago
very best wishes
Dude.
Seriously, dude.
Congrats. Now you can just soak up the good vibes.
Naturally. Bombs and TikTok. Like chocolate and peanut butter.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/us-likely-enact-law-soon-ban-tiktok-nationwide-rcna148391
Oh, fuck off. What happened to that guy?
Nothing happened, he just became secure enough in his position to tell the Republican voters to eat a dick. IOW he was lying when he said he was against that stuff.
He had one – one – classified briefing and changed his mind on the entire national security apparatus.
He must be as dirty as a worm in a leech field.
“You wouldn’t want anyone to see these pics of you fucking this wombat, would you?”
Whoa whoa whoa, I don’t like the guy at all but let’s not go jumping the gun by condemning wombat sex just yet.
Go on…
That briefing was so convincing that he went from thinking the whole thing needed to be torn down to thinking that even a single reform is just too much to consider.
He would only go up in my estimation if he got caught fucking a wombat. I think we can all agree that wombats are the third sexiest land mammal.
It isn’t his fault – it’s that damn Speaker’s lectern. That’s why it couldn’t be let loose on the country and everyone associated with J6 has to be punished – they nearly took the great source of power from it’s proper place!
Wouldn’t it have been True Justice if those evil MAGA protestors had managed to bring the Speaker’s Lectern back to their cave and ended up with their faces melting when they tried to harness the power of it?
The lectern needs to go in the vault under the antique store.
What happened? I suspect he partied a little bit too hard at P. Diddy’s or took a free flight from Epstein. Someone has some footage on him.
Or he’s just a lying shit weasel politician.
The one teacher that the union won’t defend.
I’ve been assured that teacher’s unions are all about the children and not about teachers.
They’d be more concerned about the kids if they would keep current on their union dues.
Nice knowing y’all.
Japan hardest hit by new kaijuu.
As long as they don’t have those stupid singing fairies.
Harry Potter should have gotten a STEM degree. I don’t think he’s gonna make much as a folx therapist.
Someone forgot to take the staples out of her nose. Should see a real doctor
I think that’s a hot dog, not a bun. Those puberty suppressors do a number on the body.
She? wants to know the pronouns of her clients’ support animals.
OFFS
You’re a FOLX therapist who should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail.
Well, the cops have gone too far with their latest jackboot actions
Obviously this is retaliation for her mother’s courageous stance on the issue!
<test
I see your test, and raise you a poke.
Florida-based startup Max Space is working on inflatable space habitats to achieve more volume to mass than is currently available with hard-shell habitats.
Appropriate theme music.
Not disappointed.
Strangely enough, Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky features inflatable space habitats.
That’s some good space news today! I’m guessing, based on human history, the in-orbit delivery system won’t be used for peaceful purposes, at least initially.
Ninety minute delivery time to anywhere on the surface of earth, up to 1750 pounds of
cargo, landingswarhead accurate to within 300 feet.It’ll mostly be used for UberEats.
I think we can already do that militarily but with a lot more accuracy.
Also, space bouncy castles! Finally a bouncy castle for the differently-sized adults!
That’s funny!
Lady part warning:
First visit from Aunt Flo in 8 months. Fuck this shit. Fucking fuck.
Haven’t seen that bitch since 2011.
Condolences.
<english-accent>That’s bloody terrible!</english-accent>
@RCDean
read the tactical first aid stuff: kewl and thank you
I was married to TICU FirstWife, PhD for over 20 years and learned a bit; she cut her teeth at the Memphis “Med,” west TN’s Level 1 trauma center, 1.8 GSW/day, a place she preferred to call the Gun&Knife Show.
Anyhoo, for us boy scouts most of first aid is warm soapy water and wait for the ambulance; hurry cases and ABC and all that are the only time you really must get dirty and serious…only happened to me once (first guy at car wreck). During Wilderness First Aid training I learned the other axis of intervention: if it’s going to be a day before the helicopter dusts you off to civilization, you get deeper into things than if a bus were just four minutes away.
So I figure I’m about a First Aider, Fourth Class® now that I’ve taken every course a dozen times: a bit better to have me around than not.
thanks again
Update coming on that in my next post (probably next week). Online training and gear resources!
Industrial policy never gets old
President Joe Biden suggested to cheering, unionized steelworkers on Wednesday that his administration would thwart the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company, and he called for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel, seeking to use trade policy to win over working-class votes in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
The Democratic president’s pitch comes as Donald Trump, his likely Republican opponent, tries to chart a path back to the White House with tough-on-China rhetoric and steep tariff proposals of his own.
During a visit to the Pittsburgh headquarters of United Steelworkers, Biden said U.S. Steel “has been an iconic American company for more than a century and it should remain totally American.”
Put your money on the table, gramps.
more than a century
you know, like
Lehman Brothers
General Motors
Chrysler
Texaco
U.S. Steel “has been an iconic American company
I interviewed there in undergrad. I’ve never felt less welcome in a place than I did wearing a suit and tie at US Steel.
I just grabbed a game on the Switch. It’s called “Placid Plastic Duck.”
It really is just plastic ducks floating in a pool. Occasionally something happens, like one duck gets swept down a slide. There isn’t really any controls beyond adjusting your camera.
I am ready to make Tonio blush in 10 minutes with… Repligator!
Put on your NSFW goggles if you are coming…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNqOnvXI2RY
The elephant one was the not. Congrats to the winners. I just went on a 4 mile walk that turned into a 6 mile walk. 2 more miles, and I’d have gained the power to win rap battles.