Just got back from some time spent at the Rochester Jazz Festival. There’ about a million others going on as well, but surprisingly, this is one of the better ones. That owes to the presence of the Eastman School of Music, a first-rank conservatory with a strong jazz program. Rochester being what it is, though, it’s also a happy hunting ground for local yoots, given that the attendee demographic skews heavily older, whiter, and affluent, basically an NPR fan fest. That said, I managed to stay out of trouble and see some pretty fine shows (and a few that were… meh).
Birthdays are fine, too, including an appropriately named architect; a guy with a good, healthy glow; the author of arguably the most prescient work in the English language; what Woody Allen wants to be and never will; a guy who made the accordion cool; mother of the hottest woman to ever appear in an American TV show; an amazing and versatile multi-instrumentalist; a guy who ran a single word into fame and fortune; a massively overrated writer and chef; and a TV guy who I’m supposed to know who he is but I don’t.
And with that…. Links.
Fuck the fuck right off, Vivek. My cynical side says this is election season posturing, my suspicious side says that it’s Phase One in chopping up the Bill of Rights.
The tefillin make using the gunsight a bit more difficult.
When the brain-damaged guy is the most sensible person in your party….
Lysistrata minus 40 IQ points.
This is some good news, but a full pardon would be even better. Now do Snowden.
The entertainment value of this whole story is beyond measure.
When I went up to Rochester, Tomb Raider told me that she had just seen this band and was blown away. So we went to another show of theirs, and the Old Guy was as well.
There always seems to be at least a couple around. Hopefully causing less trouble and not with a similar car.
Morning, OMWC. Morning all you other reprobates!
Happy Birthday Frankie Yankovic!
Early Bruce Hornsby would be an acceptable answer as well.
Dick Contino knows that neither of you do.
Holy shit, that’s a name I haven’t thought of in about a million years, or to say back in my childhood when I learned accordion.
The girlfriend went to school with one of Frankie’s grandkids. Pretty sure the man himself lived over in Lakeline in the 80’s/90’s.
Because men apparently don’t give a f**k about the planet, as a new study shows that males contribute significantly more to the climate catastrophe than females through their higher consumption of meat, PETA is asking people to stop giving a f**k—literally—by withholding sex from their meat-eating husbands and boyfriends until they go vegan.
I didn’t think that the types of shrill harpies who make up PETA activists were getting much action anyway.
I don’t know any meat eaters who date vegans more than a few months.
10b0t married one.
I’m sure she’s not an asshole about it, though.
Anyone who’s actually looked at the information will realize that because of land use suitability, a vegan lifestyle is more ecologically destructive. Meat livestock can be grazed on marginal land that does not support plow agriculture, and forcing human feed to all come from plants necessitates more intensive fetrilizer and chemical use.
Oh, wait, the peta nuts will respond with “just kill of a few billion people then”.
“… we’ll start with all those who disagree with us politically and work down from there!”
A few billion non-white people as it happens. Funny that.
A few billion non-white people as it happens.
The left has always been willing to sacrifice the well-being of non-white people in order to feel better about themselves.
Oh, Cow farts!
The whole argument is moot. There is no climate catastrophe and the natural cycle of climate changing is not affected by us or our diet. The whole thing is bullshit.
Some people are just agitators, disrupters etc. give ’em what they want and they will start screeching about something else. It is all they know.
Well, they got away with violating the shit out of the constitution with the phony Covid health crisis, so they already set the precedent. Which was likely a goal, and quite a few people at the time predicted this shit. Next they’ll use the same tactics with ‘climate change’.
Hapsburg jaw.
The more they reach the more they discredit the entire field. I’m okay with that.
“Most prescient work” singular?
Animal Farm wasn’t prescient, just descriptive.
As JI says below, I think we’re reaching closer to a dark Brave New World than a light hearted 1984.
Fuck a plea deal, the U.S. had no jurisdiction to even charge Assange.
Also it is not Aldouos Huxley’s birthday and he was far more accurate than Orwell.
True enough — but at this point, knocking it off does seem like at least a minor victory.
Certainly the PPP Admin would never pardon him or Snowden — and given the love OMB seems to have for “national security” no matter how many times they shank him in the back, I don’t think he would either.
Razing the IC to the ground, melting the NSA data centers and fashioning some of that material into a medal for Snowden would be my preference. But We The People lost the war against the IC ages ago and they’re not going to let us forget it. (Who would have thought I’d lean more into JFK conspiracies as I get older? I figured it was just LBJ that bumped him off….)
I always dismissed theories that anyone but Oswald was involved as a dipshit conspiracy theory with no merit. But the more I’ve learned about what actually went on, and looked at actual evidence that contradicts the official narrative, the more I tend to believe that certain people and agencies wanted him gone.
There is still a gap between “Wanted him gone” and “Facilitated Oswald”
Particularly because they keep delaying the release of the last tranche of documents.
Won’t somebody rid me of this troublesome priest?
The sad part is that Assange will probably have to do like Snowden and leave the West if he doesn’t want to be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life. Remember when people would defect from communist countries to the U.S. or UK, not out of them?
Et Tu SDF-7??
Has to plead guilty for exposing actual criminals.
Suffered torture and lost years of his life for telling the truth about the monsters who run our country.
Yep. I’m very glad he’s free, but I’m afraid it’s too late, the damage has been done. Wikileaks is over, and nobody will dare to step into its place.
My suspicious side is right there with you. Like declaring climate change an “emergency”, my first instinct is that they’re trying to use actual disaster-time limited in intention powers to sneak in their policy through the back door and ram it through harder than STEVE SMITH in a nubile hiker convention. They’re always going to be chasing that next COVID-era high.
They’re always going to be chasing that next COVID-era high
You mean the rush you get when you can force other people to obey? I heard that it gets harder and harder to replicate that rush. Addicts call it chasing the dragoon.
Well yeah, that’s why it always ends with camps and mass graves.
/whistles in admiration, tips cap
/whistles in admiration, tips cap
Right back at you Shpip! You are one of the enlightened elect who realize that the pun is the highest form of literary expression.
*STRONGLY NARROWS GAZE*
I suspect that “strike” will be about as effective as was the proposed general women’s strike yesterday, meant to mark the 2nd anniversary of the Dobbs SC decision overturning Roe v. Wade. I did not, as I’d considered doing, buy another gun to cross the “No shopping except from women-owned businesses!!” virtual picket line, but I went to work as usual. I note that American civilization did not seem to come to a grinding halt. I suspect America’s sex life will be likewise unaffected by this clarion call. 🙄
It’s almost as if nobody listens to the shrieking eels demanding disruption.
Eels!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5JoxISdBzmY
Luftputebåten min er full av ål.
Το χόβερκραφτ μου είναι γεμάτο χέλια.
Мое судно на воздушной подушке полно угрей.
私のホバークラフトはウナギでいっぱいです。
Sorry, I don’t speak foreign.
Eels!
https://youtu.be/V2yy141q8HQ
So they protested Dobbs by engaging in abstinence?
Are these the same people that protested the election of a boorish president by wearing vagina hats in public?
Embattled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s attorney has resigned as her counsel after the mayor gave a press conference Monday without informing him.
She’s just the latest example Hmong many of what happens when a city elects a young progressive as mayor.
You had to stretch to put that slant on it.
You could be heading down a slippery slope.
No need for a narrow gaze on this one
I thought Swiss might be after me, so I’m going to lay Lao for a while.
Am I going to tattle on you to Swiss?
Yes! Yes Siam!
Swiss is too busy doing his Elvis impersonation. It’s actually really good.
You should see him swivel his hips as he belts out:
♫ I’m a hunka-hunka Burma love…
We haven’t seen Swiss yet for this set of puns, so I am guessing he turned yellow and ran.
They are going to throw you in Laotian for that one!
That cover photo isn’t even Rochester. 😛
I was skeptical because houses in Rochester don’t look like that. A search turned up Newburgh, NY. A place I think I don’t want to experience.
When I first looked at the photo I thought “Camden”, but it was actually a different shithole.
My first thought was, “I guess the Old Man is visiting Balmer again.”
Mine too.
Not his vacation pictures to the TC?
That’s downstateish…
If you’re going to slander upstate, there’s plenty of urban decay pictures actually from upstate to do it with!
True but sheesh that pic is worse than anything I remember from Rochester.
The decay there is mostly evident as empty lots.
It’s what GIS gave me when I searched “Rochester slums.” Tomb Raider lives in a not-slum part, and so far this year has had her picnic table, grill, chairs, and umbrella stolen from her back yard.
I would recommend concertina wire atop the fence, motion-activated machine gun autoturrets, and land mines.
so far this year has had her picnic table, grill, chairs, and umbrella stolen from her back yard
She doesn’t have a bike?
Clearly, that was stolen last year.
Sad. That shit didn’t happen in my day growing up there. I haven’t been back in decades; I can only assume it has gotten much worse.
OMWC:
And yet, here in my neighborhood people still leave doors to their house and cars (if they’re in the driveway) unlocked shockingly frequently. About every couple of years, some kids go around and steal change and anything worth taking out of the unlocked cars. The police harrumph about it and tell people to lock their doors.
I am trying to imagine people walking down the street carrying lawn furniture/grills and I don’t think they’d get very far.
She doesn’t have a bike?
Tougher now that I don’t have SP to keep distracting people while I…
Wait, I’m NOT GONNA CONFESS.
I lived there for a year after college. I wouldn’t recommend
I think that is Baltimore.
The report noted that between 2012 and 2022, children and young people experienced a “staggering” jump in firearm-related suicides: 43 percent among people aged between 25 and 24; 45 percent among those between 15 and 24-years-old; and 68 percent among children aged between 10 and 14.
Note that the report doesn’t note the overall suicide rate or the absolute numbers. So I’m supposed to renegotiate the Bill of Rights because kids are shooting themselves instead of cutting, hanging, jumping from buildings, or popping pills?
And let’s ignore any possible contributing social factors like the sexual identity/gender/tranny craze.
I would have thought that 2020-2022 might have seen a big jump in suicides amongst yutes for some other reason like ….. LOCKDOWNS!
And without doing any research, I’m guessing 2012 was some sort of outlier as well. A low year that can really juke that stat.
But they already have the lie ready:
We’re not transing enough kids == more suicides.
If it weren’t for Big Rope, my classmate who hung himself in high school would still be alive!
Your classmate’s family should sue the rope manufacturers.
We need to force manufacturers to produce safer rope.
It may, in fact, have been a dog’s choker chain, which would have been a terrible death.
I guess you could request the autopsy report, depending on the laws of your state.
(Someone did that for a mutual friend once, and it was helpful. Eh, you brought it up.)
So this means the fentanyl crisis is over? We can’t have overlapping crises.
I am quite sure Bourdain is a highly overrated chef, but I’ve never eaten his work. *Urge to euphemize.. rising…… *
That said, I very much enjoyed his travel show. I do not enjoy his chosen departure.
The girlfriend’s a fan of Bourdain. I think he’s a pompous self-centered asshole.
If I’m going to be paying attention to a food channel person, it’s going to be Alton Brown.
What? That smarmy asshole who confidently declares wrong things as though they were fact?
New Yorker wasn’t he, so pompous and self-centered are pretty standard.
In his defense, Bourdain himself never claimed to be any great shakes as a chef. He got famous for his writing about life in the kitchen, not for his food.
And, yes, he had a pompous streak. Plus what kind of man kills himself over a girl have his age, when he has an 11 year old daughter? He was a man-child.
Yes, to both grafs. The back of the kitchen is fascinating. I liked his TV personality as well. Close enough to Off the Beaten Path as can be for TV, I suppose. I enjoyed it. His end, AFTER he got money? Uh, wtf? I can’t imagine being so fucking crass. A woman? Sure, hell yes. Your own kid? Fuck off. Monstrous.
And over THAT woman. Ugh.
I mean, Argento had publicly accused him of being an abuser in an effort to catch onto the leading edge of #MeToo/distract attention from her own history of predatory sexual behavior. I’m willing to cut the dude some slack.
I’m also kinda fond of pompous streaks.
As opposed to Sean, who’s a fan of pompous steaks.
Today’s nut punch or cunt punt, depending on your preference.
https://www.steynonline.com/14394/tournante-after-tournante-in-the-widening-gyre
Do you want roving bands of blackshirts? Because that’s how you get roving bands of blackshirts.
Yet this has been going on for years, and . . . crickets.
“I used to worry there’d be a civil war. Now I worry there won’t be.”
I sympathize with this sentiment.
Who knew that Assange’s deal would threaten a dam in MN?
https://ibb.co/C0m0G1N
You assume he gave a dam.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I’m surprised it took them this long to declare guns a public health crisis. They learned from the plague that “public health” is the magic incantation to implement any kind of totalitarian BS they want. If you can close churches in the name of public health, why can’t you confiscate guns?
So no, it’s not election year posturing. They are dead serious, I have no doubt.
I am hoping it hurts them as bad as abortion hurt the republicans last cycle.
This has been going on for a long time. Hell, more than thirty years ago, the CDC was caught doing their “gun violence” studies not from a scientific perspective, but from a propaganda perspective. CDC official and research head Patrick O’Carroll stated in a 1989 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, “We’re going to systematically build a case that owning firearms causes deaths.”
Plus ça change…
“I’m surprised it took them this long to declare guns a public health crisis.”
They’ve been doing it for decades. Remember when the CDC did gun research, and they buried the results?
How bad is the Fed program to bring the internet to the jackpine savages? So bad that the grifters won’t even take the grift
I guess the rubes are just too dumb to buy starlink?
Government always thinks it can repeal the laws of economics.
StarLink isn’t everywhere in the states yet, is it?
Only a couple of holes:
https://www.starlink.com/map
Starlink was excluded from that sweet, sweet government cash because ‘Elon bad’ or something.
There’s an Antarctic waitlist?
Makes sense – scientists are bandwidth-hungry, I’m sure and have grant money to throw around.
Just double the price on everyone else duh.
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the accordion has never been “cool”
Wrong!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79QxturUolo
Hey! Ho! Let’s go to the Art Show!
They must not have Zydeco in Romania…
https://youtu.be/HVxsxKAAveA?feature=shared
That’s basically the soundtrack I hear in my head when anyone is talking about Louisiana.
Not this?
Earlier this month marked the forty-ninth anniversary of the release of one of America’s greatest cinematic masterpieces.
I was re-watching it this weekend, saw a particular prop, and thought to myself, “That’d be a helluva thing to have when I build my place on the coast.”
Of course, someone already beat me to it.
So many 1975 films to make jokes about – but you had to go “this month”. You bastard.
If you get a matching all-white one, you can OJ the shark hunts in person.
Peak intersectionality?
Brave so brave? Stood up to her shitlord of a dad who wanted xer to stop wearing dresses. Probably wouldn’t even let her use puberty blockers.
Bonus points for also being oppressed by whitey
How dare he not marry Ozaawindib just because she kept trying to force her meat on him?
Is that a side of moose meat under your dress or are you just happy to see me?
Why do I get the feeling that story is mostly fabricated based on super-flimsy “evidence”?
This shit again.
Why do I have doubts about the veracity of all the “two-spirit” nonsense?
If you can’t trust this guy who can you trust?
Go ahead and read his take on Ozaawindib if you want an example of some authentic 2-Spirit gibberish.
VIOLENCE!!!!
Well I forgot about that one. I don’t like the nonshitlord Vivek, like at all.
“Lysistrata minus 40 IQ points.”
PETA needs some new ideas. They pull that every few years.
But it could potentially be used to disguise a night vision device.
““Raw-dogging” has become the buzziest travel trend of the summer, seeing stealth plane passengers forgo the modern comforts of flying to stare at either the in-flight map or nothing at all during lengthy trips.
No music, no streaming, no snacking, no sleep.”
https://nypost.com/2024/06/24/lifestyle/men-are-raw-dogging-it-on-flights-what-the-travel-trend-means/
That’s not what “raw dogging” means. Stop making up “trends”.
Can’t wait to hear someone tell their manager they’re planning on raw-dogging it on their next business trip.
Those pussies are really living on the edge aren’t they? Also that’s not raw dogging.
Has to be a 4chan prank.
Who can get their grandmother to say Raw-doggin’?
Same old song and dance
Biden should say Trump is running for president to weaponize the Justice Department to serve his interests and punish his adversaries; cut taxes for himself, his wealthy donors and corporations; cut spending on programs benefiting millions of Americans; collect campaign contributions to pay more than $100 million in his legal bills; boost earnings from his businesses (he reported over $1.6 billion in income as president) and stay out of prison.
Most importantly, Biden should emphasize the grave threat a reelected Trump would pose to our democracy and free elections, abortion rights, the rule of law, our free press, the independent powers of Congress and federal regulatory agencies and U.S. and global security if Trump makes good on his threats to end U.S. aid to Ukraine and withdraw from NATO.
Biden should note that Trump’s frequent praise for dictators who rule Russia, China, North Korea and other nations sends a clear warning that Trump wants to follow in their footsteps, placing himself above the law and ruling with an iron fist.
And Biden can call out Trump for his long history of racist remarks and actions aimed at Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans dating back to the 1970s.
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Biden can add that psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have warned that Trump is mentally ill and suffers from dementia, citing the bestselling 2019 book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.”
The Big Bad Wolf is going to eat you!
If only he could remember a list of talking points or articulate the simplest of thoughts he’d be golden if he followed this advice.
And Biden can call out Trump for his long history of racist remarks and actions aimed at Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans dating back to the 1970s.
Oh, that’s rich.
“Fuck the fuck right off, Vivek.”
Had me worried for a minute, I thought this was the good Vivek. But yes, we are all conditioned to accept the suspension of our rights because of an “emergency”, so this is a pretty logical step. The left has no respect for rules or traditions, the only thing that matters is they get what they want.
I’ve watched some of the videos of Ukrainian army press gang grabbing men out of their homes to die on the front. Every time I think how those thugs would be gunned down here – and get real suspicious of anyone who would take our guns.
Biden has a strong record of achievement as president and has been credited by historians for accomplishing more legislatively in his first two years than any president since Lyndon Johnson. Biden should highlight some of his accomplishments in the debate, but he shouldn’t let a long recitation of his record take up most of his speaking time.
Stick to insults an ad hominem attacks. People really admire that.
Every time I think how those thugs would be gunned down here
Would they?
In my neck of the woods they actually would be. Maybe it depends on what part of here your here is in.
I would imagine that any gun you may want is swirling around in Ukraine right now.
In an ordinary town it would not happen.
I imagine going into Chicago or the like to get recruits would be a losing mission.
I think that press gangs trying to take one of the two kids (or even both) would get gunned down by Suburban Mom. Read something the other day about how small families makes societies much more sensitive to war casualties.
When you had 10 kids, you could send a few off to get killed in stupid wars. When you only have 2 (or even 1), your tolerance gets real low for having them drafted and sent to some shithole.
China with its 1 child policy is very sensitive. The author pointed out that the CCP kept a tight lid on the deaths during the recent skirmishes with the Indian troops along the Tibet border because they were worried about unrest from the rubes because they only had one kid to give and Tibet wasn’t kid-worthy.
Heh – there are a few southern Moms in my neighborhood who would come out with guns blazing.
I don’t talk nonsense about how I’d be a hero in the next civil war. But they come to take my son off to a nonsense neo-con war – I will fight them to the death with everything I have.
One cop shot in Philly trying to confiscate one gun. I think they will run out of cops long before they run out of guns.
“Chicago woman Taylor Casey vanishes in Bahamas while attending yoga retreat
A Chicago woman has been missing since last week when she vanished during a yoga retreat in the Bahamas — and her desperate family believes she’s in danger.
Taylor Casey, 41, was last seen Wednesday around Paradise Island, which is near the crime-ridden city of Nassau, according to a missing person bulletin by the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
Casey traveled to the Caribbean country for the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat before she went missing, according to a press release issued by the family on Monday.”
https://nypost.com/2024/06/24/us-news/chicago-woman-taylor-casey-vanishes-in-bahamas-while-attending-yoga-retreat/
Maybe that’s a woman?
Anyway, I spent five weeks there a long time ago. The island is well-insulated from Nassau, which during the day seemed nice, albeit touristy. You also can’t “go missing” without a boat or helicopter.
They’ll fish up some great white predator.
*narrows gaze*
“Baby girl who died from being left in the back of a hot car ‘for hours’ in San Diego – just two months after being adopted by local gay couple”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13555347/Baby-girl-dies-hot-car-San-Diego-adopted.html
It’s San Diego. They could have just opened a window. Not that you should leave babies in cars in the first place.
Serious question: what’s the relevance of the “gay” part? “Careless” couple, that seems more on point.
It was 82 yesterday, plenty hot enough to kill a baby, or a dog, stuck in a car.
“”Streaming Use: CNN’s debates are exclusive to CNN and may not be streamed or streamed with verbal or digital commentary on any platform or social media site by another party, other than the embeddable YouTube player via the CNN YouTube channel.”
“Podcast Use: Similar to broadcast rules, news organizations may use audio clips (up to 3:00 minutes at a time) on their shows after the debate conclude and must credit the ‘CNN Presidential Debate’ verbally in introducing the clip.”
Press will not be permitted in the debate hall, per rules demanded by Joe Biden’s campaign. Mics will be cut strictly at the end of two-minute time periods and there will be absolutely no audience. Press will be made to watch from a Spin Room, and while some selected photographers will be permitted to shoot in the debate hall, they “are required to remain stationary throughout the debate.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-cnn-threatens-youtube-channels-that-provide-trump-biden-debate-commentary
This is a banana.
Trump was stupid to agree to those terms.
But at least they’re calling the press box the Spin Room.
That crazy theory I had yesterday sounds less crazy now. With no witnesses (besides Trump who they can discredit), they would be able to record video of Biden doing an amazing job answering the questions this week, and splice those in on the fly. Everyone in the press room would see the recorded version and think they are watching it live just like the rest of us.
Alternately, they want to be able to cut away from Biden immediately if he goes off the rails, and have no witnesses to him freezing up or whatever.
If they don’t have individual cameras trained on each debater – you sir will most likely be correct.
Joe starts rambling or mumbling, cut away to Trump who most likely will be making a face, cut in new audio and there ya go.
Not just audio. They could get on the set, dress Joe in the same suit he’ll wear Thursday, and record take after take until he sounds good. Cut to the person asking the question, then while Biden answers show the recorded version on the TV feed. Later Trump will say “Wow he just rambled on” and the press (and people at home) will say “No he didn’t, we saw him with our own eyes!” They are literally telling us real unedited video of Biden is fake, would this be far fetched?
selected photographers will be permitted to shoot in the debate hall, they “are required to remain stationary throughout the debate.” Well…that just seems odd. Why stationary? Specific still photography angles? Ya it just all seems like a setup now.
Two words:
4
Chan
No way they could get away with that. Not yet, anyway. The lip syncing would be imperfect, there would be inconsistencies if they tried to swap in video. Those guys found someone in a cabin in remote Finland based on the wood grain of the wall paneling, for crying out loud.
They’re going to dope him up, rehearse on the questions (which of course they have now), and hope for the best. Don’t forget – they don’t really want him to run, anyway. If he faceplants, that helps those factions that want to replace him.
Saturday Night Live did it with Dana Carvey playing Perot and Bush. Just saying.
So Trump should spill some mustard on Joe’s coat right away? So if they try slipping in the pre-recorded bits the stain will be missing or it will be a different tie and jacket?
The part I like best about your crackpot theory TOK is that when Trump tries to tell everyone about it, he will be universally mocked for such a crazy idea. Suuuuuuuuuure, everyone in the MSM was in on the plot Donny. Then after the election Time will run a story gloating about all the money Bezos and Zuckerberg spent faking the debate.
Or maybe they will go super-duper in your face and have the faked debate answers shot with Joe wearing a space suit and standing on the moon. After all, if you are going to brazenly fake one thing, why not weave in the faked moon landings too?
Make them pull the channels in real time or force YouTube to do their bidding. What a ridiculous notion that a public debate is controlled in such a fashion.
“Trans, non-binary mom who claims to be a witch angered after North Carolina school ‘outs’ non-binary 6-year-old twins”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-non-binary-mom-who-claims-to-be-a-witch-angered-after-north-carolina-school-outs-non-binary-6-year-old-twins
“non-binary 6-year-old twins”
Yeah, that’s his influence and that’s child abuse. I say throw him in a river and if he sinks he was innocent.
Still trying to figure out how one becomes “trans non-binary.” Just take the process halfway so you have nothing?
Barely beat me to the reply button!
Because they are twins, you have one of each, bi and non bi. It’s a math question.
I’m struggling with the logic of the term “trans non-binary.”
I’m starting to suspect that “non-binary” doesn’t actually mean anything past “look at me”.
It is a witch — so naturally, it transitioned to hex-a-decimal.
So… they’re becoming Meeseeks?
“I’m Mx. Meeseeks! Look at me!”
Narcissexuals.
It’s a way to put more people under the transgender umbrella. Just like “queer” doesn’t require homosexuality.
“Narcissexuals”
We have a winner.
I was trying to work in Octal as a substitute for non-binary, but SDF crushed it with his joke.
It is a witch — so naturally, it transitioned to hex-a-decimal.
I donno, I found it off-Base
Confession re: Assange – it’s hard for me to remember the details on his role vs. Snowden’s vs. everybody else’s.
My main memory of the Wikileaks thing from back then was that it seemed to derail a lot of the popular sentiment against government overreach. The media cast it as a pack of villains spilling vital national security secrets, harming the country and endangering US security. And the normies pretty much bought it, unable to comprehend that what was spilled was all (mostly, I guess) about USG misdeeds, and stuck them on same side as classic Cold-War era spies.
The dumbest thing about the Assange prosecution was that the Feds argued that (i) he had committed treason – which has a very defined meaning and (ii) because he was not a US citizen, he did not need to be afforded the rights of US citizens.
They just want to help people
Federal judges in Kansas and Missouri on Monday together blocked much of a Biden administration student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower monthly payments for millions of borrowers.
The judges’ rulings prevent the U.S. Department of Education from helping many of the intended borrowers ease their loan repayment burdens going forward under a rule set to go into effect July 1. The decisions do not cancel assistance already provided to borrowers.
Joe wants the truth to be free. Who doesn’t want that?
“The decisions do not cancel assistance already provided to borrowers.”
The logic behind “You’re not allowed to do that, except for what you already did” is difficult to grasp, to say the least.
Together, the two rulings, each by a judge appointed by former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, appeared to greatly limit the scope of the Biden administration’s efforts to help borrowers after the U.S. Supreme Court last year rejected the Democratic president’s first attempt at a forgiveness plan. Both judges said Education Secretary Miguel Cardona exceeded the authority granted by Congress in laws dealing with students loans.
But their intentions are good!
In a statement, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Biden administration “will never stop fighting for students and borrowers — no matter how many roadblocks Republican elected officials and special interests put in our way.”
In a statement posted on the social media platform X, leaders of the Student Borrower Protection Center, which advocates for eliminating student debt, called the decisions “partisan lawfare” and “a recipe for chaos across the student loan system.”
Repaying your loans is not fair.
These little fucks actually believe they have a right to other people’s money.
It’s not real money, it’s just numbers in a database!
/idiots actually believe this
Well, I mean … it kinda is.
No one is above the law or something.
The dumbest thing about the loan forgiveness plan is that it doesn’t even pretend to fix the root problem.
If you were being logical, you could at least say “we’ll pay off the debts for the kids who got screwed* but going forward we will no longer guarantee any student loans and let the market set the rates”. Theoretically, that would bring some sanity back to lending.
Nope, they are going to pay off the loans for the dumbos who took out those loans and leave in place the stupid system that caused the current situation. “I will put more air into my flat tire, but won’t fix the leak. Then I’ll be surprised when it is flat again tomorrow”
*The kids didn’t get screwed. They made a stupid choice.
Has anyone been following this?
“A temporary election worker for Maricopa County in Arizona was arrested after he allegedly stole items from an election center.”
This guy already had a felony, and he was allowed to work for the county, around voting equipment?
Felonies are cheap these days. Even the president was able to pick up nearly 3 dozen.
*slow than quick rapturous clap*
Can you say “mechanical over-rev”?
Ford is recalling more than half a million models of its F-150s after some of the pickup trucks are suddenly downshifting into first gear.
Ford said Tuesday that the recall affects 552,188 F-150s built in 2014. The recall does not affect vehicles in a certain VIN number range, so the automaker is asking people to call its toll-free number or contact a local dealership to find out if their truck is among the faulty ones.
The malfunction can cause “an abrupt transmission downshift to first gear,” Ford said, which “without warning could result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
I wonder what sort of genius solution they came up with.
It’s Ford so it will be “software”.
The question is there an underlying mechanical issue that they want to mask. Answer is better than 50% that the answer is yes.
10 years later?
I rented a car for work and drove to Charleston SC for a week.
Turned in the car on June 14th Enterprise charged my card the expected amount, no issues.
Got a notification today that Enterprise charged my card $150 today.
Log in and see there is now a traffic citation added to my receipt.
I hate speed cameras.
In South Carolina?
I don’t know, it just says “Traffic Citation” next to the charge.
So how do you confront your accuser?
So how do you confront your accuser?
You don’t. Automatic speed cameras are treated like “parking tickets”. They don’t apply points to your driving record, so an officer is not required to issue the ticket.
There is basically no practical way to challenge the ticket (the system must have a process for challenges, but I don’t know anyone that has successfully challenged one).
At least here in Ohio, the state passed a bill that any traffic camera tickets are counted against the amount of state funding that municipality would receive. Not the collected amount, but the total ticketed amount. Since they can’t apply points, people routinely just don’t pay them (and there is a process to fight them here), anything obscured, and the ticket can get tossed. The counties and cities claimed it was unfair, since they NEEDED that money, and the cameras were there for safety!
https://rumble.com/v50hvww-london-blade-runner-cuts-down-big-brother-camera-in-broad-daylight.html
These don’t go away until people stop just paying and flood the courts with challenges to each and every one (to include normal movement tickets). Judges eventually will get fed up with their dockets slammed with them.
Okay back in the real world for me. What horseshit about treating them like ‘parking tickets’.
Here in Tucson, they had red light cameras that they had to take down because the courts ruled that tickets issued based on a camera still had to be served in person to count, and they had too many problems trying to serve the tickets.
Not sure why speed cameras would be any different.
Just curious: how many MPH over the limit were you? $150 sounds like a pretty stout fine.
No idea, don’t know where or when it happened.
Drake:
At least one suburb here had red light cameras up. Local
hooligansheroes would go around once every couple of weeks in a truck with paintball guns and hit the lenses of all of them they could. This went on for well over a year before the city started taking down the cameras.I got nailed by a speed camera in Spain. They actually have signs that there’s a speed camera ahead, so there’s really no excuse for getting caught. I just didn’t think they were serious, or maybe that the cameras were on siesta.
There were many signs on the route and I thought I was careful, but I must have missed one.
All the speed cameras are marked in Korea AND the gps units in the car will start chirping with a special tone to let you know one is coming up.
So everyone drives like the Korean maniacs that they are, then slams on the brakes just before the speed camera zone. Once past the camera they all stomp on the accelerator and go back to driving like the soju-sucking heathens that they are.
That has to cause more accidents than any other reason in Korea.
I’ve been assured by Musk that self-driving is coming real soon now.
Carmakers File Challenge to Parts of New Automatic-Braking Rule
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/carmakers-file-challenge-to-parts-of-new-automatic-braking-rule-ebb653e9?st=bn10ktk0wralhbz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
John Bozzella, president of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, said in a letter to Congress on Monday that the rule would require systems to work at higher speeds than are practical with current technology. He also said NHTSA’s requirements would cause vehicles to apply brakes well before what other drivers expect, leading to more rear-end collisions.
How am I supposed to look at my phone and drive?
In case the corn subsidy gravy train starts to get a little thin.
An even bigger issue is emerging between the EU and the U.S. In Europe, regulators are effectively excluding “crop-based” feedstocks such as corn, soy and sugar cane—basically anything that could be used for human food or animal feed—from a new mandate, meaning they can’t be counted toward a SAF quota rolling out next year. Meanwhile, the U.S. says that fuels made with these inputs can be eligible for tax credits as long as they meet certain requirements.
The U.S. and Europe Can’t Agree on What Counts as Sustainable Aviation Fuel. That’s Leaving Investors in a Bind.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-and-europe-cant-agree-on-what-counts-as-sustainable-aviation-fuel-thats-leaving-investors-in-a-bind-a9bf9843?st=k6b7z8182g9a5cr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Narcissexuals.
Most excellent.
Automatic speed cameras are treated like “parking tickets”. They don’t apply points to your driving record, so an officer is not required to issue the ticket.
Randomized toll collection.
Is that “no points” really true?
Probably varies by state.
Can’t confirm for all 50 states, but in general, tickets are based on the license plate of the vehicle. Therefore the ticket is issued to the registered owner of the vehicle (like parking tickets). They can’t prove who was driving (and don’t have to). So the driver does not receive a moving traffic violation (a ticket with points).
Perhaps some future AI will match the image of the driver to a driver’s license or some other “public” image that has an ID.
It doesn’t work that way in AZ or TX (the two states I am familiar with) – speeding tickets give points.
Thanks for the info.
How does the system ID drivers and issue a ticket?
Oh, and if they don’t know who the driver is, why should the owner be tagged without proof that they were driving? Sounds like a major due process problem, to me.
“How does the system ID drivers and issue a ticket?”
You hand the officer your license. AZ doesn’t use cameras as far as I know, and TX didn’t when I was there.
For the red light cameras that they had to get rid of, they had an image of the driver. Although those were still issued based on the plate, I believe. One of the many problems with cameras.
I just can’t grasp why you can impose one penalty (a fine) but not another (points) on a person based on the plate, without any ID of the actual offender.
If you were being logical, you could at least say “we’ll pay off the debts for the kids who got screwed* but going forward we will no longer guarantee any student loans and let the market set the rates”. Theoretically, that would bring some sanity back to lending.
You slay me.