Yeah, you were probably expecting Banjos or Sloopy, instead you get stuck with me.
Idiots believing in Russian propaganda.
I’ve been playing this to waste my time. It’s rough around the edges, but I blame Paradox gutting the dev company before release, and killing all support for it shortly after it released.
For those who have been following along with UnCivilServant’s work, this may be of interest.
You know, there’s a reason you don’t generally run your demo on something that hasn’t been tested to death.
Who’s ready for the deepfake debates?
In local news, with recreational marijuana moving forward, don’t forget there’s other drugs that should be legalized as well.
I really don’t need more glassware, but it’s always tempting.
After killing one industry, they’ve decided to move onto another?
Don’t question your betters in NYC government.
It’s just a step up from counting cards.
The NFL released their full schedule last night, and I already see a problem. Someone scheduled a cruise during the Ravens/Browns game here in Cleveland.
Let’s TCB with some music, and don’t forget to super size it
– “high-end penetration testing duties”
Where do I sign up?
STEVE SMITH HAPPY TO HEAR OF YOUR INTEREST. HE BE RIGHT AROUND TO DUTIFULLY TEST YOUR PENETRATION LIMITS.
Wait, I’ll be the penetrator not the penetratee right?
STEVE SMITH HAVE POEM FOR YOU:
BEND OVER, TOUCH YOUR TOES
THEN WE’LL SEE HOW DEEP IT GOES
Depending on how high the end is, I may need to stand on a box.
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS PROVIDE UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE. LOTS OF THRUST TO GET YOU OFF THE GROUND.
Re: Implementing bad tech in NY, this has happened before.
NYS: Wind Turbines! We want them! We want this one!
Manufacturer: Are you sure? That part of the state seems windier than that model is rated for.
NYS: Don’t care! Gibs us turbine!
Wind turbine: *bursts into flames*
NYS: Tricksy nasty false manufacturer! Weesa sue you!
Judge: Lol, no.
https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/nys-thruway-authority-loses-lawsuit-over-nonfunctioning-windmills-judge-dismisses-court-case/71-b6118d4b-abf8-4817-9f3d-4e0da5cdecfd
NYS: [appeals to friendlier court]
Judge: Appeal granted!
I can only assume that the debacle was politically useful to someone, because that didn’t happen.
Yet?
Wait… did Gollum and Jar-Jar adopt or something?
Have you met a NYS politician?
That would explain Chuckie Schumer, I suppose…
Hey — sometimes the stories are read! 😉
Re: Blob-girl. I have sympathy for obese / overweight people… since my metabolism slowed down in my 30s, I have a paunch I don’t care for and can’t get rid of (admittedly I could try a lot harder, I know). Every study I’ve heard says that once gained — the human body tries very, very hard not to lose weight (because the mechanism evidently doesn’t understand 100 to 90 pounds is very different from 220 to 200 pounds).
But all this “Love all bodies!”… “Everyone must accept and support me!” bullshit ignores 1) The slim people probably didn’t choose it (genetics) or if they did, they worked for it. And while it may not be easy for the obese — there’s definitely some choice there. and 2) There are fundamental health issues with obesity (joint wear [physics!], organ stress, etc.)
As such — it isn’t something to be celebrated… you’re hurting yourself in the long run. (And in the short run, squishing everyone sitting next to you and likely having sweat / body odor issues (because of all that insulation and it being harder to clean) is a thing.
Anyway — morning, Neph. Morning, all. On to other links.
Some forms are to be followed, and some snark is to be thrown regardless of the veracity. 🙂
I take issue with the demand that I (as a fellow chubby person who’s trying to drop weight) need to subsidize her travel for raisins that make no sense.
l. I have sympathy for obese / overweight people – there is a big difference between the two and grades for both. I have little sympathy for most morbidly obese people and zero sympathy for those who are not even trying to reduce, especially those who do want other to accommodate them.
Every study I’ve heard says that once gained — the human body tries very, very hard not to lose weight – meh most of those studies I saw were nonsense though, just excuses.
This meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2600689-iq-bell-curve-midwit
Isn’t there some b.s. circulating that the morbidly obese actress who was on “This is Us” has gotten herself down to about 150 pounds? {She claimed to have weighed only 250 when on the show but it sure looked like twice that.}
I don’t know about that one, but Ethan Suplee, who played Randy in My Name is Earl</em,lost 250lbs.
https://people.com/health/ethan-suplee-wife-helped-him-lose-250-lbs/
also it is very very rare for metabolism to slow down in the 30s, and usually people think it did but it absolutely didn’t.
I thought of you, because of the homemade wine and diacriticals:
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1790869266226393550
i feel insulted. You will here from my seconds.
Been there; done that.
No change in diet or exercise — but I went from “burn anything, 29 inch waist since I was a teenager” to “36 inch waist, sometimes fluxing to 38”, so my anecdote is the singular of data as far as I’m concerned! 😉 And around the same time I started getting grey hair, etc… so I very much think I hit the “Welp, he’s past his reproductive prime… time to shut down and clear the way for the next generation!” mode.
Did you get your testosterone levels checked? 30s is too early for that sort of slow down.
See yesterday’s comment “Haven’t seen a doctor since GHWB”. I’ll survive — not worth worrying about at this point (almost 20 years since the slow down, after all).
Even though that may be the biology, our social indices differ. Women peak in attractiveness during the best reproductive years, men more plateau (with a very long trail off).
/raises hand
It was about my 30’s as well where my metabolism shifted. The only thing I’ve found that works consistently for me is calorie counting, which is tedious and difficult when traveling.
I was fine until I hit 45, but coincidentally that was when I got out of the Marines and my activity level has dropped.
Starting to get back to it, we’ll see if I need to worry about my diet or not(I mostly eat healthy, but don’t obsess over it)
Yeah, when I was injured out of the phone company at 44, that is when I started to put on the pounds. Didn’t help that walking was difficult, nor that I was, unbeknown to me, living with MS. But, now with a good PT advising me and changing my diet (no more potato’s every morning) I am dropping weight.
My metabolism is as fast as it has been in a long time. Yeah, I’ve not been losing weight by the scale, but im more muscle and less fat than 6 montjs ago. Given that my only change has been adding an hour of lifting 3-4x per week, I’m impressed with the metabolic improvement. Now I’ll see how going gluten and added sugar free for the next 6 weeks helps move the scale.
/turning 36 next month
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I guess everyone has decided step counting is passe now, but a lot of people just need to walk/run 15k+ a day.
I need to be better about doing that. I’ll usually go on a walk once or twice per week. Wouldn’t be hard to get that up to 5 or 6 days per week.
Play more Disc!
138lb. Soaking wet
60 years old
/ducks
I walked quite a bit already but added an hour more for walking the new pup. I’ve noticed a difference.
When I start to get fat and achy, I dump added sugar and the weight falls off. If I really want to supercharge it, I delete fried foods as well. 50+ here. The problem is, I’m a life long sweet-tooth.
And God forbid the answer to widespread election doubt is to tighten up security of said elections so their integrity is self-evident and no one can cheat…. Because that doesn’t make people immediately think that your goal is to exploit said issues and
cheatfortify as needed or anything. Nah… just attack anyone raising concerns… that will do the trick!Don’t worry, CBS is happy to set the record straight:
I mostly skimmed and tapped out after that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they said all the courts looked at it and they all said it was the most secure election ever.
Yeah I tapped out there too.
They are on record admitting they stole the election, assholes.
My brother has lived in Washoe county for 30 years, and it is a pretty dirty political environment. Casinios do NOT want the clean up (not too surprising, as they aren’t the primary source of revenue there anymore.)
Neph pitch hitting this morning. Nice job sir.
I do like the older style martini glasses better than the unstable version that became popular. I don’t want to spill my drinks just to make a visual statement!
I do like my little Nick and Noras I picked up, just the right size for a three ounce cocktail with an appropriate collar. But I don’t have any coupes, and I saw some much nicer Nick and Noras that were not expensive.
I figured Nick and Nora would just be drinking out of the pitcher. Have you read The Thin Man? Even in my drinking heyday I would never be able to keep up.
Drinks were smaller back then.
Three ounce pours were the standard for a martini. Regardless of how the drink size has grown, drinking in America has been in a steady decline since the founding. I wind up using my larger v-shaped glasses more for home made frozen cocktails (ED NOTE: Look to the archives)
But yes, I have read the Hammett and Chandler classics.
I like the v shaped martini glass but my general cocktail consumption is closing in on 0. It just does not fit in the alcohol budget.
And it’s summer, so it’s more of “and soda” drinks. Though I do still love a Pimm’s Cup.
I have two styles of V shaped glasses in my house, one is mounted on the back of Hot Wheels cars (about a 4.5 ounce capacity), the other is on a solid base (about a 7 ounce capacity). Both are stemless, which helps alleviate the tipping problem. Which is one of my problems with the teku glasses (although I do have a couple stemless tekus in the house as well).
I usually order my cocktails ‘down’ – just give it to me in a rocks glass. I promise to keep my hot hand off of it.
Standard travelers should subsidize first class seating for extra tall people. OTOH I’d rather subsidize fat people seats than have the spillover affect into my comfort zone or have a sign that says “If you’re this wide then you pay extra for your ride”
Fourscore, I like the cut of your jib.
As cars have gotten smaller it has made it more difficult for fat/tall people to get comfortable in a car. I don’t mind paying more for a bigger seating arrangement (bigger car) but somehow he EPA has a one size fits all mentality.
That does seem to be Paradox’s MO lately — there was a Star Trek game built off of Stellaris that they did much the same on. Released… a patch or two — then the devs were gutted from what I can tell.
If it doesn’t make enough money to support DLC cash cows, on to the next one! seems to be their business model.
This one they laid off (reportedly) 80% of staff a month or two before the go live date, which is why I’m assuming the tutorial is harder than the starting missions, and doesn’t touch on some of the mechanisms clearly (since it’s a game that’s meant to be replayed multiple times, it’s not the end of the world).
I did see that Harebrained at least got to hold onto the rights for the game (and Battletech). Full disclosure, I was a backer of their (failed) tabletop mini game, Battletech, and the Shadowrun games. I enjoyed their take on Battletech and Shadowrun quite a bit.
Yeah, I have their Battletech PC game and it is mostly fun (I think the AI gets way too many cockpit shots at low levels and think the ranges (both firing/accuracy and detection) are silly for the mech sizes and weapons involved, but I’m assuming that stemmed from the tabletop game more than anything else.
Yeah, the range rules for tabletop were made for balance reasons (and then rebalanced for the PC games). That’s why LRMs, SRMs, ballistic, and energy weapons all have different strengths and weaknesses.
I was always partial to building an LRM 20 missile boat to sit in the back and use indirect fire to take out enemies with a couple of specialized spotters/melee mechs. I’ve probably played through the career mode four times.
Was just looking at maybe playing one of the newer city-building games again, and noted all the reviews are “mostly negative”. Lots of complaints about half-backed base game and I recalled that the previous iteration had more DLC than base game and this one will most likely be the same.
Something seems rotten in the state of game development. What the hell happened to just putting out a complete game?
If it was a Paradox game, that seems to be their MO. Release a bare bones base game, and then release scads of DLC for it.
Number 1 on the list is the previous version. 38 DLC’s.
No.
It’s complete bullshit. Your choices are to play an unfinished game or to spend hundreds of dollars to “complete” it.
They have a bunch of fans. Who will then argue what’s the best DLC’s to run with the game for the best experience. I’ve got too big of a backlog to allow myself to get dragged into that kind of minutiae to play a game anymore.
And none of it will be half as much fun as I had playing SimCity 2000 decades ago.
Manor Lords is okay for a city builder.
Huh. Not really interested in the “large-scale tactical battles” but it does look nice and Franconia is my German home away from home.
I shall wish-list it and see where it goes.
Its early-access, but I believe there is a “I just want to build shit” mode.
Why not build an empire with “Rome: Total War”? You can autoplay the combat, or play the combat, and build all over three continents.
I just want a 4X game that doesn’t plop 3 AIs right next to you immediately so you can actually explore again.
(And that doesn’t suck in general).
I had a good time with a couple of play through of Old World. Civ builder that is only interested in the initial couple of ages and has dynastic leaders that can influence your play style.
I’ve got it… stopped in the tutorial, if I recall correctly wasn’t too thrilled with how the AI seemed to be able to dance around my lines however they wished while my troops couldn’t advance past them. Been a while, though — may be misremembering. Obviously stopped there for some reason though…
I recall that unlike in most Civ games, you can’t move all of your units each turn. You only have a set amount of actions you can take, and troop movement can eat those up quickly. From memory you can work on upgrades and research paths that allow more actions and even some free actions as the game goes on. To me it rang as an interesting (and thematic) restriction on large troops that would fit the time frame.
OK, for certain definitions of prominent I suppose.
You won’t need more than a short bus.
Looks like most of them ride a short bus.
I honestly expected the Biden campaign to stipulate that not only would they be in a TV studio, the mics would only be on during their “time” and friendly moderators — but that they’d be in different studios so that they could either keep the old fool injected or do an AI filter of someone who could hold a conversation, yeah.
Maybe it is time for President Max Headroom? Might as well go full AI deepfake, after all.
I expect Trump to be jailed a day or two before the debate.
Nah but there will be a gag-order of some kind and he will not be able to address issues.
That would be hilarious if NY cops drag him off the stage.
Actually, it wouldn’t be too bad if the mics were turned off at the end of the allotted time for each speaker. It is annoying as hell when one debater keeps babbling on after time is up. If you can’t manage your time slot, how can you manage the Executive branch?
Two thoughts on the inevitability of a Biden victory. First, it may take an unthinkable amount of fortification to overcome actual vote loss. Second, it is much easier to fool everyone once than it is twice.
My thought on the second point is that they’ve amply demonstrated over the last several years… they don’t care if anyone is actually fooled. Their trained seals in the media will keep telling you to deny what you see (inflation, anyone?) or that “Yeah, it happened… but it doesn’t matter.” or “If happened… but what are you gonna do? No reasonable prosecutor….”
I’d say they’re shameless, but really — they’re at least two quanta beyond shameless at this point. There seems to be no accountability and they know it.
Interesting article — though from my perspective it would be a tough sell on “fairness of economic outcomes” when Biden’s tried very hard to kill the energy sector, the trucking/transportation sector (by bringing in advocates for all the California stupidity and pushing it national), manufacturing regardless of what he says (because over-regulation and expensive energy makes you non-competitive) not to mention bringing in hordes of people directly competing for the jobs of the people you’re trying to sway and all…
And that the sole comment on it immediately harps that “Biden isn’t getting credit for how good the economy is!” makes me wonder just what they’ve been reading (bubbles, I know… but just Krugman? I mean… who seriously thinks wages have outpaced inflation?!?!)
The media will slow walk articles like this to soften the blow to Biden. “It could be worse!”
Sure you’re paralyzed because of negligence but at least you don’t have terminal cancer. Just be thankful and shut the fuck up.
You know what they say…
I guessed…poorly, but, at least in the right comedy troupe
He loudly bragged about wanting to destroy the economy (sorry, “end fossil fuels”) during the debates.
Did nobody listen?
Here’s two more thoughts:
2020 and 2022.
2022 was down to abortion – it drove Dem turnout.
The first story was because of his Cuban background and the revolution he felt compelled to have physical gold. He was going to get a psychiatrist to testify to that effect until the judge said no. I like this one because it shows just how willing he is to completely throw his wife under the bus. I’ll expect he will run her over a few more times in the course of the trial.
We in NJ just don’t deserve him and his service to the state and the country,
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/bob-menendez-defense-team-seeks-to-explain-stashed-gold-bars-as-corruption-trial-starts-df19b0ef?st=fmmtaerqsnpsg7i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Yeah. Saw that on the news this morning. Quite the course change. 🙄
Bout as believe as Fani Willis having hoards of cash in her home cause its a ‘black people’ thing.
Everyone knows you only keep that cash in the freezer if you are black. — former Rep. William Jefferson
If I was the prosecutor, I’d point out that Menendez is a NJ politician, where collecting bribes is a cultural norm.
Was Menendez too dumb to have a “tragic boating accident” with those gold bars?
The left is not doing a very good job at convincing me this anti-Israel stuff isn’t really just commie agitation in disguise.
Are they even trying?
That story is hilarious. The demonstrators are so unlikable. Having the UAW defend them makes them even more unlikable. I also imagine at some point the actual auto workers are going to ask why they are involved in this.
Well, Henry Ford hated (((them))) too, so it kind of is going back to their roots.
Seems perfectly rational for Tesla not to do business with a firm that has attorneys that actively try to thwart it.
A Legal Scholar Critiqued Elon Musk’s Pay. Now He’s Out of a Job.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-tesla-pay-vote-scholar-lost-job-0e3cb38b?st=uzrb9nksw5etn1v&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Not to mention the law firm’s conflict of interest problem with representing a company and filing amicus briefs against it.
Firewall!
I love that on Wall St. the “Chinese Wall” is a now a firewall.
I fail to understand how making note of a noted historical barrier is now no longer PC.
The Sanctions Wars, they have begun.
https://rumble.com/v4vhp0t-putin-and-xi-preparing-for-big-sanctions-war-w-alex-krainer.html
A half dozen of us logged in to work today to discover that somehow our VPN desktops had been fucked up. Lovely morning.
HaXx0rZ!
My work decided to start rolling out blocking personal devices from accessing our Office 365 instance a couple weeks back, with no notice sent out. When I complained about it to our service desk, I was told that the executive leadership team had been notified, and that I should bring up my complaints with them. They helpfully gave me a VP’s name to complain to.
I am not impressed with our internal service desk.
Free day to go fishing!
Catholic guy has Catholic thoughts: Backlash against Harrison Butker grows: NFL wades in to say it does NOT support his controversial comments
I need to find a copy of the entire speech, sounds like a banger.
The NFL’s chief DEI officer
Stop convincing me I’m completely done with your enterprise, I don’t need any more convincing.
Isn’t the league around 60% black?
Yes, and the transgender crowd is massively underrepresented on the field.
the transgender crowd is massively underrepresented on the
fieldcheerleader squads. FTFY [sort of]The Panthers have a tranny cheerleader. That’s enough.
I’m afraid to look, so I’ll take you’re word on that.
Catholic guy has Catholic thoughts – ban thinking
Everyone knows good Catholics should be all in for LGBTQ2S++++ and abortion like Pelosi and Biden, after all. Not believing in sanctity of marriage, the inherent worth of life starting at conception or the degeneration of morals being designed to push us away from God or anything… nope… that’s all domestic extremist Catholicism worthy of years in prison. Because the 1st Amendment is all about Freedom From Religion, dontchaknow…
More Catholic than the Pope.
Of course, OMWC is more Catholic than the current Pope.
The Georgia-native even quoted self-made billionaire Taylor Swift? Haven’t heard that before.
hahahahahahahahahahaha OFFS
I’m loving this movement of men with “F you” money throwing caution to the wind and saying inconvenient things.
And he’s a kicker so they can’t even argue his brain is scrambled from concussions.
But Rashee Rice is totes okay!!!!
Every time sports writers say they want players to stand up for what they believe in, what’s meant is that the players should stand up dor whay they the sports writers believe, not what they the players believe.
Yep.
“They don’t want to hear what you think. They want to hear what they think, coming out of your mouth.” – Buzz Lightyear (I think)
I had no idea the $10k transaction limit was put in place in 1945.
In the waning days of World War II, the Treasury Department required banks to report to the government when customers made unusually large cash transactions, with the goal of stopping black marketers from harming overseas supply efforts. In 1945 Treasury considered $10,000 to be an unusually large cash transaction—equivalent to more than $170,000 today.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ten-large-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-regulation-banking-suspicious-transaction-1412e30d?st=32zvwvb839n3x00&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Shades of the NFA tax on full autos.
Our intelligence services and tax dollars at work.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/chinese-family-hotel-spy-jet-switzerland-712fe15c?st=8xrqt4fim1u16ae&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
built to penetrate enemy airspace undetected
Didn’t they decide to sacrifice stealth as part of combining joint service requirements?
It was designed by committee. Every component is an expensive compromise.
Success! It does nothing well.
It sounds like a high-maintenance hanger queen.
But enough about my ex-wife.
I’ve got the mid-day post, but I’ve also got doctor and dentist appointments, so I doubt I’ll be around much before it hits its expiration.
real men don’t go to the dentist.
Bodystocking Review | Try On !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhc105UqlmY
It is strange these transparent try on hauls get past youtube cause I would think it would be against the rules
nsfw
Transparent Try on Haul with Jana | No Bra Challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuB1CS0uiLE
Sex sells and what else will the horny community censors at YT do if they can’t look at quasi softcore porn at work all day?
“Sex sells”
Wrong. I tried and between the laughs and the threats I gave up after the first 2-3 log hauling trucks went by.
If you looked like the girls in the videos (I’m assuming they’re good looking) the trucks would stop in a heartbeat.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 05/16:
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🔥 Solve streak: 370
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 05/16:
*24/24 words (+7 bonus words)
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Rut roh. The guy who shot the Slovakian Prime Minister is married to a Ukrainian woman who has now also been arrested.
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1791037202211709231
The SBU leap is speculation right now.
IT WUZ RUSSIANZ!!!!! /The Blob and MSM
If that’s the case there’ll be so many levels of plausible deniability built in it’ll never get sorted out.
This fine Thursday I feel oddly prepared. New grading strategy came together and looking at yesterday’s stats…It worked! Kids as Cogs: The two biggest essay metrics are graded from 1-4, 4 being best. Quite few are piss-off 1s and equally few A+++=level papers. About 50% of all go in the ‘2’ category. “Uneven/partial.” I was splitting far too many 2s into 1s or 3s. I tried to rectify this and made a note to myself: ‘Any wonder between a 1–>2 or a 2–>3? Just round it to the 2.
Just looked at todays stats. I was the ‘most accurate’ of anyone in our team, though several had a higher output, though not consequential. The secret? Care less! I was once again overthinking everything. This is simple factory work, Ev. Treating it as such is beneficial to my rep for the company.
Fuck the kids, though, right? Can’t have folk actually examining their papers intently. I learned this. Yesterday in our team of 12, I was either best or second best in scoring and was right at the average of 215 papers/shift. (I did 216. Max from a ‘reasonable’ person was about 100 more. Hrm.
Kids as Cogs.
“I was shocked by the whole thing,” Elson said, likening the tactic to threatening a witness. “But if you have to choose between your job and your integrity, you choose your integrity every time.”
A spokesman for Holland & Knight said the firm determined Elson’s course of action was inconsistent with its obligations to its client, and that its determination wasn’t based on coercion or threats from anyone.
“Tesla categorically rejects the Amicus Motion’s suggestion that it is ‘appalling’ or ‘bullying’ to raise a potential conflict issue with outside counsel, or for outside counsel to insist that their lawyers—consultants or otherwise—comply with their ethical and fiduciary responsibilities,” Tesla said in a letter to the judge responding to Elson’s brief.
A legal egghead who doesn’t understand conflict of interest. Checks out.
“Biden BLOCKS release of special counsel audio tapes where he sounded like an ‘old man with bad memory'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13426145/Biden-BLOCKS-release-special-counsel-audio-tapes-appeared-elderly-saying-AG-Merrick-Garland-shielded-Republicans-preparing-vote-hold-contempt-Congress.html
As opposed to how he usually sounds?
To hear the recounting he was having a particularly foggy day.
Remy needs to do a Foggy Day in Bidentown cover.
[to the tune of The Foggy Dew]
A deposition I sat for
on a cold wintry morn
sharp questions there posed
that made me quite forlorn
My voice did break
before it shaked in great dismay
Words of salad my life a ballad
Rang out on that foggy day
Bravo!
“Nearly 80 officials overseeing elections in 7 swing states doubt 2020 results”
This is where I see the ruling class as not that bright. They think they can just berate, censor, and threaten anyone who questions that election. But it just won’t go away. It seems that their strategy, and utter refusal to do simple things to make elections more secure (or outright pushing for less security) raises red flags with people. Much like the lawfare against Trump.
“The Court should have no illusions about what happened here,” Elson wrote. “The frivolous assertion of a conflict was a fig leaf for Musk, acting through Tesla, to try to bully a law professor.”
Boo hoo, you pompous blowhard.
Coming soon to the US of A!
Coke’s Attached Bottle Caps Keep Hitting Soda Drinkers in the Face
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cokes-attached-bottle-caps-keep-hitting-soda-drinkers-in-the-face-7409e270?st=ql7wbwc8942olxd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The change highlights the often-chasmic gap between what humans, marketing departments and environmentalists consider optimal packaging.
That’s a warm gentle rain on your back people!
You don’t like having plastic whack you on the nose every time you take a swig? This minor imposition on your comfort level is a small price to pay for saving the environment. You really need to reevaluate your perspective.
Nobody has a knife?
Never mind it’s the EU, so you probably need an impossible to get permit.
Unless you are an immigrant that’s into honor killings.
Meh, that’s an easy fix.
They just need more knife control.
Nobody needs scissors. All they do is hurt people.
Correct.
The old man asked Brochettaward what is best in life.
To post before your enemies, see their posts beneath yours, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
The change highlights the often-chasmic gap between what humans, marketing departments and environmentalists consider optimal packaging.
If it saves one pigeon…
Speaking of retards…
“This purposeful act of cognitive dissonance is proof that the governor and state Legislature are not acting in the best interests of Floridians, but rather to protect profits for the fossil fuel industry,” said Yoca Arditi-Rocha, executive director of the nonprofit Cleo Institute, which advocates for climate change education and engagement.
We pay those fossil fuel extraction companies to spew carbon and other pollutants into our pure air. That, and nothing else.
Interference
U.S. elections face more threats than ever from foreign actors, enabled by rapid developments in artificial intelligence, the country’s top intelligence official told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Federal, state and local officials charged with protecting voting integrity face a “diverse and complex” threat landscape, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told the Senate Intelligence Committee at a hearing about risks to the 2024 elections. But she also said the federal government “has never been better prepared” to protect elections, thanks to lessons learned since Russia tried to influence voters in 2016.
This year, “Russia remains the most active foreign threat to our elections,” Haines said. Using a “vast multimedia influence apparatus” encompassing state media, intelligence services and online trolls, Russia’s goals “include eroding trust in U.S. democratic institutions, exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the United States, and degrading Western support to Ukraine.”
We should probably just cancel the election and declare Biden the winner. That would be the best way to save democracy. Anything else would be too risky.
Right on schedule, priming us for more censorship and persecution of “election deniers”.
You might be subjected to information that is contrary to our lies and thus, will interfere with our ability to choose your vote for you.
I love the doublethink from pretty much everybody on the possibility of foreign interference in US elections versus things like the Georgia (Tbilisi) law on registering putative foreign organizations.
Wednesday’s hearing was the first in a series focused on the election, said committee chair Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), as lawmakers seek to avoid a repeat of 2016, when Russia’s meddling caught lawmakers, officials, and social media executives off-guard.
2016, when the Russians installed their puppet in the White House. Just say it.
$100K in bad ads on Facebook in a multibillion dollar campaign. Those wily Russians.
Good news is that dude had no idea what he was doing. Wow…
Amazon security guard tries to kill unsuspecting boss before he’s shot dead in gunfight with police: ‘He almost executed me’
https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/us-news/amazon-security-guard-tries-to-kill-unsuspecting-supervisor-before-hes-shot-dead-in-gunfight-with-police/
Apparently he failed the marksmanship part of his training.
“BLM Greater NY founder Hawk Newsome arrested after berating cop during caught-on-camera confrontation at NYPD officer’s manslaughter hearing: ‘You a vagina!’
New York Black Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome has been arrested after shocking video showed him towering over an NYPD cop while threatening to “beat the s–t” out of him.
An enraged Newsome was cuffed on Tuesday after he showed up to Bronx Criminal Court for the hearing for an NYPD sergeant accused of throwing a cooler and killing a man last summer, CBS reported….
The BLM leader notoriously threatened “riots,” “fire” and “bloodshed” if Mayor Eric Adams cracked down on crime back in 2021.”
https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/us-news/blm-greater-ny-founder-hawk-newsome-arrested-while-attending-nypd-cops-manslaughter-hearing/
Not guilty, by reason of lulz.
The new Scooter-Riding Drug Suspects album is lit.
Is the cop in fact a vagina?
“A 66-year-old Florida man gearing up for retirement was stunned to discover he’s not a US citizen when applying for Social Security payments, despite having lived in America since he was a toddler and voting in numerous federal elections for the last six decades.
Jimmy Klass said he was expecting to receive a letter from the Social Security Administration in 2020 telling him when he could expect to start raking in his well-earned benefits after decades of work, but instead was informed his money was “frozen,” News 6 Click Orlando reported.”
https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/us-news/florida-man-stunned-to-learn-hes-not-a-us-citizen-after-voting-paying-taxes-for-over-60-years/
Yikes!
Layers and layers of bureaucracy relentlessly validating records. It’s why everything takes so long.
Seems SSA should’ve figured that out before his card was issued.
Elections are secure
Just as secure as the SSA!
Local news, while the state is doing the annual purging of the voter rolls:
Frank LaRose’s office flags 137 potential cases of voter activity by non-citizens. That would be .002% of Ohio voters.
“Lecturing Biden Official Destroys US Relations with Niger – Now US Troops are Stuck in Country, Biden Is Abandoning its $100 Million Airbase, and Russian Forces Have Moved In”
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/africa/2024-05-14/us-threats-rupture-ties-niger-13854717.html
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/another-genius-biden-regime-just-destroyed-us-relations/
Is there ANYTHING this administration does right?
I don’t think so.
Incorrect. The current administration is great at screwing shit up.
Well, this admin isn’t to blame for the decision to build the base the $100M wasted therein.
Now this part…
That’s all on this admin.
Angry woke lectures accompanied by threats is not diplomacy. Since the end of the Cold War, our State Department has been taken over by violent Karens.
We’re heading into a bipolar world – those who do as we say, and those who are sick of our obnoxious shit and have stopped listening.
Did the Biden official demand that the country change its name to “The ‘N’ Word”?
“Man arrested for assaulting Canadian cop with ‘block of cheese’
Exactly which variety of cheese had been used in the attack was not made public.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/man-arrested-for-assaulting-canadian-cop-with-block-of-cheese
Who had secret assault cheese on their 2024 bingo card?
Bingo!
“Suspect seeks political asylum in Wisconsin.”
Are we sure that isn’t a Monty Python sketch?
Praise Biden
Grocery prices fell on the whole in April for the first time in 12 months, according to data released Wednesday by the Labor Department.
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After rising quickly for most of the past three years due to supply chain constraints and the impact of the Ukraine war, grocery prices are up just 1.1 percent over the past 12 months.
Grocery prices grew far slower than the overall annual inflation rate of 3.4 percent in April and even the Federal Reserve’s target for 2 percent annual inflation.
See? Bidenomics is working.
“Supply chain constraints” like leaving food rotting in the fields based on a hysterical overreaction to a hyped up plague?
Especially since people are now going on record that 6-feet separation was all made up bullshit (which people knew back then too as it was some high school science project if I remember right)
I know a doctor who believed masking was bullcrap, but 6′ was somewhat effective in stopping spread of colds due to sneezed or coughed droplets.
“Grocery prices fell on the whole in April…”
“Grocery prices grew far slower than the overall annual inflation rate of 3.4 percent in April…”
Which is it?
It’s Washington. A reduction in the rate of increase is a cut.
Another software band-aid for a mechanical issue.
The software update would reduce engine torque in the event the vehicle’s computers detected potentially elevated clutch assembly temperatures. The Jeep transmission doesn’t have any way to directly measure the temperature of the clutch, however. Instead, Jeep engineers figured out that they would estimate clutch temperatures indirectly. The clutch assembly generally gets hot when the clutch isn’t fully engaged, and is allowed to slip relative to the flywheel and pressure plate. The sliding friction generates a lot of heat, which can damage components. By comparing engine RPM with vehicle speed sensor signals and the current gear selection, it’s possible for the Jeep’s computers to determine whether or not the clutch is slipping, and thus is likely to be getting hot.
Jeep Still Can’t Get A Basic Stickshift Right And It’s A Disaster For Wrangler Owners
https://www.theautopian.com/jeep-screwed-up-a-simple-manual-transmission-and-still-cant-get-it-right-years-later/
how do you fuck up a manual transmission?
It’s a Jeep thing…
That is a massive mountain lion.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13422429/young-girl-mom-mountain-lion-chased-pets.html
Almost the Warty Hugeman of cougars.
By comparing engine RPM with vehicle speed sensor signals and the current gear selection, it’s possible for the Jeep’s computers to determine whether or not the clutch is slipping, and thus is likely to be getting hot.
No kidding. And then it takes away fuel and timing. Is this a wear issue or driver incompetence?
That is a massive mountain lion.
Handsome, too.