So it’s a busy weekend here in Glibs Gulch, all honoring our departed Queen and love of my life- besides the usual local crew of WebDom, l0b0t, and me, we have the man-mountain Warty, the enigmatic SugarFree, the Biden-level addled Spud, the always spicy and beauteous Riven, the exceptionally tall JW, the dangerous Swiss, the perpetually drunk Neph, impressively mustachioed db, the Professor and Mary Anne, the voice of the Hat and the Hair; the millionaire and his wife… whatever. Point is, the staff has the weekend off. So Links will be DIY. The only thing I’m providing is background music for them. You all choose the links YOU think we should have and make the most of the teacher being out of the room.
Here’s two VERY different versions of a great Dylan song, which again seem to capture my feelings perfectly.
Well, OM, you certainly have a house full or is it a full house? What a crew but certainly not motley!
You choose.
No. His house is quiet in peaceful. A bomb went off in mine. And there’s bodies everywhere.
It must have been quite an orgy.
You did note how few women were mentioned.
In too-local news, there was a wee bit of excitement in my neck of the woods courtesy of the government overreach brought to you by 9/11. Not quite sure yet what it’s all about, but whatever it is, I have an alibi.
OMG financial improprieties!! DO NOT PANIC!!
WTF?
too-local
bunch-o-shootins ain’t really news round here
but two good old boys’ boat went down in our lagoon yesterday, and only one bobbed back up
fishermen didn’t shut them out this time: catfish will get on the board
Hopefully not too many guns were lost.
I see one of the businesses they raided was Fuyao
Glass. I had a windshield installed on one of my cars and saw the manufacturer was Fuyao and then saw “Made in USA” and was confused so I looked into them. Chinese owned, US manufacturing. Then wondered how many kids they sneak in on the 3rd shift. Looks like my usual cynicism may be right.
The other side of my cynicism suggests this is probably a politically motivated raid to get a union endorsement for a certain party.
You won’t be up a creek with a broken paddle. And good morning, GT!
Good morning, 4(20)!
That’s quite the gathering. Watch out for drone strikes.
Original
I let the video run with no sound and read the closed caption lyrics. It was almost like reading an Agile Cyborg post.
Professor Dungeon Master is certain that Hasbro is murdering traditional Dungeons & Dragons by making the game all digital.
https://youtu.be/EC8p9IuDa80?si=m-IK1ZPHTHMRlxUT
Let the market decide?
I do not have the time to play, so i listen to podcasts as i work. I think digital sucks, its to limiting.
There are other options out there.
I’m in a group that’s playing online. It drags so much, even when the group stays together.
I don’t love digital compared to in-person play, but my only other option is “Don’t play.” I don’t have any local friends who do TTRPGs.
Best wishes, and may the occasion be fitting of its object. I’ll hoist a glass of Oak & Eden in honor.
Some disturbing images out of China this week.
They hit the flooding material right at the beginning of the show. Gotta wonder if this is getting progressively worse it might finally tip the scales on the “mandate of heaven” concept. Hope it doesn’t impact the civvies too much though.
How I’m spending my Saturday morning
Seems about right.
See the next post for why I’m having problems.
How I’m spending my Saturday morning
Apparently, I’m spending it SugarFreeing my links.
Nice. Good weather for it this weekend. My first weekend with working AC here in VA. Got indoor projects to work on before I head to the brewery.
My first weekend where I am happy to turn the AC off in a long time.
I almost forgot the sixties.
Dude, a lot of people can’t remember the sixties.
ON the middle of nowhere?
ON?
Really Teds, this is not like you.
I was on Dallas
I didn’t lug a full computer keyboard up the mountain.
Ex-Mueller investigator Peter Strzok reaches settlement with DOJ over anti-Trump texts
Yeah, saw this on twitter last night. It’s basically a pay-off. They had no legal rights to any personal material on government issued phones. It’s such a dick move by a politicized agency. Gotta do our part to publicize the duality at least.
Can’t have the king’s men worrying about being accountable after all.
Weren’t those govt-issued phones – for official use?
Not sure where we could start – maybe pjmedia and animal at red state – but we gotta start emphasizing that every government “payout” is taxpayer money.
Whatever it takes to get Russia! Russia! Russia! back in the news.
In exceedingly too-local news, I join you all this morning after a bit of a hiatus on account of finally securing an overnight shift that aligns with my vampiric circadian rhythm. And no sooner did I get my desired shift than I got approached by a recruiter for a job that’s substantially identical but with about 20% better pay, which would afford me the opportunity to either quit my 3rd job and still take home the same amount of money, or continue at my current pace with a nice little increase. However, it’s an indefinite third party contract, which may mean less security. On the other hand, this wasn’t a job I was planning on making career-track anyway. On the other other hand, I got a small lateral promotion along with the shift change, and am due to begin training for another in about 2 weeks. Should I be offered the job with better pay after the interview, I’m in a bit of quandary.
Pray about it?
I always feel kind of silly doing so, but at least once a week for about 2 years now, I take communion and pray. Wisdom, discernment, guidance, and good judgment are standard askings, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t most likely just rationalizing decisions I’ve already settled upon. It can’t hurt though.
My mentality is that it’s a relationship. It’s a constant conversation every single day. There’s nothing going on in my life that’s not too important to bring before God in prayer – lasting career decisions even moreso. Hope to have a major update soon on my next stage (maybe by next weekend).
Always been a struggle for me, tbh. I love the idea of a pantheistic, “watchmaker” sort of God. A personal God that gives a shit about what job I take? It just feels too trivial. Had I not been raised in Christianity, I’d probably be a deist. Nevertheless, the past year in particular has had some occurrences that are so coincidental I can’t help but suspect there may have been an element of the supernatural. Here’s hoping.
Also, strangely apropos of little, Constant Conversations
I am not sure how old you are (good to see you, by the way), but if I was in your shoes, and post 45yo, I would stay away from contract work. It might not be the career you wanted, but at that age, it might just be the career you get.
A regrettable 37. Technically, I’d still be a W2 employee with health insurance, but the company I’d be working for is contracted with General Motors (my current job is basically lead generation for nationwide, and some international, auto dealers). This right here is exactly the contemplation:
I’m not necessarily wild about the upward prospects at this company, but there’s a couple of avenues that may be at least somewhat promising longer-term, whereas the higher paying gig would be a bit less certain.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/please-dont-come-here-at-night-its-too-dangerous-a-neighbor-says-following-arrests-in/article_dac76f56-4c00-11ef-af97-cbdbe7ad606e.html
A marijuana scavenger hunt?
Those crazy gangbangers these days.
Donde esta pot?
The history of “Choose Your Own Adventure”:
https://youtu.be/B-f5YelgmMs?si=pBgjoQSYoiMQTseg
And round and round we go in the Circle Game [–Joni Mitchell lyrics]
[snort][snicker]BWAHAhahahahahahahaha
There are times when only tits fit the bill.
https://archive.is/gtOrk
Silicone Saturday.
I don’t suffer from yellow fever, but certain very specific Asian women really do it for me. First on the list being one of them.
Rawr.
More on the LBFM side of the “Asian” spectrum than, say, Han Chinese.
I approve.
You are my kind of therapist, Q.
See what we need are more driver assistance features, alarms and cameras that increase car costs and repairability.
Or we could stop driving while looking at the phone.
Girl looking at phone takes flight after hitting my parked trailer.
What shocks me is that big auto seems to cave to DC at every turn, but big telecom seems to convince DC that the blame lies with the human and not the device.
That’s not gonna buff out.
NGL, I’m a big fan of the cameras.
Well given that A pillars now need to be 12 inches wide to make a car that can survive you texting and driving and getting into an accident they have become a requirement to be able to see.
Relevant
Not always texting! Sometimes it’s just good ole not paying attention.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1eb03vc/state_of_the_police_around_here_oc/
In other news…..
Our first lawsuit (defamation) filed against those people who have been harassing us.
Federal one (tribal) imminent.
OOTL, but best of luck.
If I never had to speak to a lawyer again for the rest of my life it’d be too soon.
*walks away, head hung low*
Lol, I mean professionally, of course. Although I’m living in a house for which a medmal settlement paid about 30%. Everything about a lawsuit fucking sucks.
Seriously though, I was on a call yesterday with one of my technical clients and with lawyers from a particularly difficult partner org.
My technical client was talking through some issues and said, out of the blue, “see, now this is why we don’t like doing business with you. Youre obnoxiously difficult to work with.”
I unsuccessfully tried to hide my smirk.
lawyer
lawyers, I’ve had a few
but this latest is the friendliest; I had to call yesterday about a meeting next Wednesday, and he was helpful as could be; hell, I could hear him smiling over the phone………
because he’s going to bill me a $75 courier fee for the five minutes he spends emailing a document
Trashy, I like my house counsel and generally get along fine with them. Most of the time they do work as a partner.
However after one particularly contentious discussion I said, “I understand why you are being adversarial with me right now, I trust you will be equally as adversarial with our regulator over this issue as well.”
He shut up after that and realized who his client was.
I’m a little hurt.
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Pretty sure I saw db in his barn last night
Real life or a sex dream?
Darwin in action.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/doctors-share-what-happens-your-33304084
More Darwin
“Emerged” 🙄
What will those crazy kids think of next.
It’s probably safer to ride on top of the car than in the car.
Still only July, but the Dem candidate for senate is up by 15 points over the republican in so called swing state Michigan.
Older article. I can’t tell if this is just another moral panic or if there’s something to it, but I’ve been interested in hikikomori as a culture-bound syndrome for a while and wondered about the possibility of it spreading.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/lets-stay-in/
Tbh, I’d basically be a shut in if it wasn’t for my part time local gig, which is basically the sole reason I’ve kept it.
They don’t date; they don’t mate; they don’t work; and they don’t socialize.
subsidized behavior is the simplest general explanation for what is wrong with everything
the West is so rich we can afford armies of broken folk with pointless lives
something iron law something something
Well… seems more a “rich country” phenomenon to me. And just another reflection of the ongoing endumbening.
If rhywun’s still around, somehow I missed the release of a new Alvvays album 2 years ago and just now picked it up last week. I know you like shoegaze and jangle pop, so if you haven’t had a chance, give it a listen.
👍🏻 I picked it up a few months ago. Really good band.
I slept on Alvvays until their second album because they were getting so much critical hype, but once I finally relented I was a fanboy from the first 5 seconds of In Undertow.
I only found them in Feb. and bought all three albums that day.
I am more or less immune to “hype”. I only find stuff by word of mouth or sometimes Bandcamp links. Maybe it was one of you lot who mentioned this band.
Well, that being the case, Islands and Man Man both put out albums in the last couple months as well, if that’s up your alley. Both good records, although not quite up to either band’s peak. On the rare occasions when I actually purchase an album, it’s almost exclusively on Bandcamp, since the artists get a better cut.
Never heard of ’em but sure I’ll take a look.
Islands is the post-Unicorns project of Nicholas Thorburn, if you’re familiar with The Unicorns. Ironically, he and the songwriter from Man Man (Ryan Katner, dba Honus Honus), put out 2 records together as Mister Heavenly, both of which are great in their own right (they concocted a genre they call “Doom Wop”).
Also, Alvvays is at least vaguely libertarian:
Nope, never heard of any of that 🙂
The actual Necronomicon is up for auction:
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/evil-dead-ii-1987-stunt-necronomicon-ex-mortis-111-c-5bd4140a76?objectID=190395912&algIndex=upcoming_lots_prod&queryID=a81d2291d6f72c71cc8ae39425b91b2c
OT: saw your comment to some silly post of mine where I inevitably included a knock on Texas
you’re right, of course: there’s so much to love about Texas; I don’t hate it generally even though that’s my pose
I know The Corner and every inch of 287 well; folks betwixt Fort Worth and Amarillo are generally excellent
but Dairy Queen is some janqui shit, and the one in Wichita Falls sucks
good morning
Wichita Falls was one of the areas I was shopping for properties last year. All told, I’m kind of glad I ended up where I did. Other than my Realtor, I haven’t met a single person who likes this area, but God fucking help me, not only can’t I bring myself to hate it, but I actually like this little pisshole, as well as what I’ve seen of Abilene so far. Our little downtown corridor is so charmingly quaint that I sometimes hike the mile or so up there on my days off and just meander around a bit.
I forgive you Don. Every place has its ups and downs.
I lived in Fresno and Merced for about six years all together, and even though the rest of Cali hates that area, I kinda liked it. Very genuine.
Estimated value 80-160 K.
As I recall the crew made Evil Dead 1 with weekend beer money.
What’s a “stunt book”?
Intel confirms no recall for Raptor Lake CPUs, microcode won’t fix affected units
TLDR. Our chips over voltaged due to a bug. It can be fixed with a software update, but the damage from the excess voltage is permanent. So if you used it lightly you are probably ok, but hardcore and business users are fucked hard.
Speaking of lawyers, I bet the class action will be epic. Seems to be a strange coinkidink that ever since Intel fired a bunch of its old engineering staff and decided to go all in on DEI, they can’t produce a fucking CPU that isn’t a housefire or ends up losing 20% of its performance to a bug or microcode fix.
OMG that fucking article is infuriating.
Tedious racist bullshit.
charmingly quaint
if I had a nickel for every lovely story I have from de Leon, Bridgeport, Ranger, Midland, Palo Duro, Palo Pinto……..
I worked in Graham for one very long year
the pool scene in The Last Picture Show was shot in Wichita Falls, where Cybill Shepherd proves once again that the greatest things about Texas are from Tennessee
The important thing is that we’ve muddied the waters -FBI
Trump Was Struck by Bullet, FBI Finds
Ahh, so it wasn’t a winged teleprompter shard after all. Good to know.
Don’t hold your breath, America.
To quote SWMNBN, “What difference does it make?”
“MrBeast’s trans co-host Ava Kris Tyson is now accused of racism – after accusation of ‘inappropriate relations’ with a child”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13668065/MrBeasts-trans-host-Ava-Kris-Tyson-accused-racism-accusation-inappropriate-relations-child.html
This is getting silly.
Fucking kids was one thing, but racism? CANCELED.
No claims Tyson was fucking kids, just inappropriate communication with a minor.
So then, trying to fuck kids but not being able to close the deal?
Not from what I’ve read.
Muslim is a race?
I guess that’s convenient.
PS. I still think xer partner has a pedo-smile.
Good article with nothing really new but a good roll up.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/left-wing-normies-have-been-radicalized/
That said, my issue is with the statement “None of this is normal”.
Actually, it’s completely normal and the way things have been done throughout the overwhelming majority of human history. In fact, *not* using violence to settle political scores and determine a nation’s leadership is so uncommon in history that I’d even say it’s exceptional. Just because it was/has been fashionable for a few decades in a few countries doesn’t mean that it’s the typical way business is done. I suppose it was inevitable given the fact that humans are trash incapable of learning, but I think we’re just in the process of returning to baseline.
The savages have always been with us. When they cant get what they want (take what they want rather than produce it themselves) by violence they use deception. They are confident enough now in their own strength that they are abandoning deception and using violence.
In short, the mask is off and the monkeys are off the leash.
guillotines
I was telling NewWife how the vapidity and frenzy of everything reminded me of die Französische Revolution: mob rule where the innocent and even the best will die by the thousands; seems to happen everywhere eventually: Russia, China….
I’m outnumbered by a hundred million toothless reactionaries: they shoot well and are pointlessly passionately; now that they united under an identity politics and fueled by a regressive populism, there is no stopping them
They don’t shoot all that well.
“…they shoot well…”
“No” – Trump
Will dive in but I note the pic – someone wondered somewhere why this phenomenon is mostly women.
It turns out that men and women have different needs and thus different motives and mentalities.
So we burned all our uniforms
And let nature take its course again
And the big ones just eat all the little ones
It sends us back to the drawing board…
“Kamala Harris’ pro-Palestinian stepdaughter Ella Emhoff campaigns for step-mom after staying silent during Biden’s run
In March, Ella Emhoff posted a link to her Instagram calling for donations to the The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The organization has deep ties to terrorism and the Biden administration cut off funding to the program in January after receiving evidence of their complicity in Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel.
Emhoff has also raised cash for “urgent relief for Gaza’s children” — which critics said would find its way into terrorist hands. The presumptive first stepdaughter remains “an active presence in pro-Palestinian circles,” according to the New Republic….
When she’s not politicking, Emhoff works as an avant-garde model — even making boobs-out appearances at New York Fashion Week in 2022.”
https://nypost.com/2024/07/27/us-news/vice-president-harris-stepdaughter-joining-in-race-on-instagram/
How is that person a model?
And yet the bulk of NYC’s secular Jews will cheerfully vote Team Blue.
To ask the question is to answer it.
Same way Hunter was qualified to sit on the board of Burisma?
No great loss here but I do find it incredibly amusing that the perp’s name is “Letcher”.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/26/us-news/south-dakota-suspected-pedophile-donald-letcher-kills-himself-after-admitting-to-watching-child-porn/
Sometimes the flowers arrange themselves.
Toyota takes a pile of cash and lights it on fire. Great contrast to Intel, however.
Toyota to Replace Every Single Engine in 100,000 Tundra Pickups and Lexus SUVs
it’s such an unforced error
reminds me of the twist between the frailty of people who can’t be trusted to rule themselves
and the high-mindedness of elections, where a majority of frail people picks between frail people to rule over them:
the funny thing about a PFMEA is that people can talk themselves into believing whatever they wish about risk and status; they give the score a number, but it’s mostly just a feeling; after Deming proved to us that we can’t inspect quality into a process almost a century ago, we still let subjective calls lull us into senses of security: Toyota felled by a foe supposedly vanquished so long ago
Meanwhile GM would bury this and ride out the warranty and lawsuits.
GM
confession: I’m driving Chevy trucks for 40 years
but I helped build Georgetown (1990?), and I bought a Camry from its first year’s production
I’ve owned at least four white, four-banger, five-speed Toyotas, and they were all infinitely reliable
GM’s modern problems almost always stem from outsourcing and calling it “good enough”. The Chinese and Korean crap GM is foisting on the public is absolute garbage. Most of the actual homegrown stuff is very good. One other issue I see from GM every 20 years though is trying to use zinc in wiring when they need to use copper. My ’96 Roadmaster has a copper lead from the fuse box precisely because the ’94 & ’95s didn’t and had fire related recalls that involved costly replacement of the harness to replace the zinc with copper. Just over 20 years later, Silverado pickups have failing door harnesses because they are using zinc and the replacement uses copper. Learn where you can and should cost cut vs. where you do and shouldn’t.
GM has shit designers and engineers making decisions. If there are two ways to do something, GM will pick the wrong way every time. I hate the POS Chevy at work.
OMG. That is bad.
I have to say that in the last week I was impressed by your American lefty media capacity to churn out propaganda. Must be that American productivity. The Scientific American was top shelf stuff.
I’m afraid to even look at SciAm to see what you’re talking about.
The descent of a once great magazine has been depressing.
https://x.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1817039745148731726
OFFS!
It’s pretty much all we are good for anymore.
“In 2008, then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris appeared on CNN with host Mike Galanos to discuss a proposal that would decriminalize prostitution in San Francisco. During the segment, Harris argued against the proposal, emphasizing the need to protect vulnerable individuals from exploitation.
Harris was joined by a bisexual sex worker named “Starchild,” who advocated for the legalization of prostitution. During the discussion, Starchild claimed that while seeking re-election, Harris said that she “wanted to be an honorary sex worker.” Harris laughed at the claim but did not respond to it directly.
According to the Espler Project, a pro-sex work organization, these claims regarding Harris’ comments are accurate. While running for re-election for San Francisco District Attorney in 2007, Harris tried to gain the endorsement of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club and in a public meeting with them described herself as “an honorary sex worker,” they said.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/kamala-told-harvey-milk-democratic-club-she-wanted-to-be-honorary-sex-worker-report
Weird flex, but OK?
Given her rewards for being Willie Brown’s knobwipe, I’d say she’s more than honorary.
“… joined by a bisexual sex worker named “Starchild…”
Of course she was.
Amazing how many stand in the long shadow of Jim Jones.
And I thought the mandatory stop for every Democrat to kiss Sharpton’s ring was unseemly.
So what is everyone drinking?
https://www.vivino.com/IT/en/villa-trasqua-nerento-chianti-classico-gran-selezione/w/3280114
not bad at all actually pretty good
My local liquor store owner turned me on to a “basil blast” G&T, which I’ve been preparing with Farmer’s Organic Gin and Fever Tree tonic water. I love basil. I love gin. Highly recommend.
Farmer’s Organic – what are ya some sort of hippie?
I literally rolled my eyes reading the label, especially when they proudly announced that hemp oil is one of their botanicals (having spent a few years taking hemp-oil-based tinctures, it tastes like dog shit), but damned if it’s not a solid juniper-forward gin that makes for a nice G&T, and the basil blends nicely.
Earl Grey.
My latest hobby is tee-totaling.
Trager Brothers Blend 70 full city roast, with a splash of heavy cream.
no idea what that is but my default assumption is that American coffee is crap.
Coffee tastes are very regional here. In general we have the best coffee in the world.
In general we have the best coffee in the world – never been so don’t know but gonna call bullshit on that one
Pity about Romania – allegedly great coffee, but no Google…
*smiles and takes a sip*
Suit yourself.
American coffee was crap until the nineties or so.
coffee tastes
Maxwell House (was a hotel in Nashville) rules the South and is deplorable, but it was a step up when we could afford more than chicory
I spend a fortune on coffee: what am I running from?
I was drinking Maxwell House this morning.
Is chicory in coffee a real coffee?
I’ve switched to MW Columbian. It’s a lot better than many of the small roaster crap.
I wish I could get good chicory blend here. I’ve tried most of the brands and it just doesn’t taste right when I make it. Used to use it for work coffee when I made thermos every day.
Gustave: It has been quite some time since I had any but I remember this one as being very good. Might be worth a try?
https://www.amazon.com/Community-Coffee-Chicory-Premium-Flavorful/dp/B07CHD3NPF/ref=asc_df_B07CHD3NPF?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=79989526348755&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583589104887195&psc=1
An Arnold Palmer from the place down the street.
This is crazy. Opening your event by replacing Jesus and the disciples at the The Last Supper with men in drag. There are 2.4 billion Christians on earth and apparently the Olympics wanted to declare loudly to all of them, right out of the gate
NOT WELCOME
https://x.com/LibertyLockPod/status/1816938415822159951
I dont much care on the religion angle but just shoving this shit into everything all the time it testing the limits of my tollerance
They have exceeded mine already. I didn’t give a shit one way or another before. Now I have a burning hatred of them.
thing is that I dislike this about myself. But I am left with little choice.
Why would you dislike that about yourself? I dont dislike people who think differently, people who choose differently than myself. I really dont care if they return the favor and leave me alone.
Someone constantly rubbing my face in shit and demanding that I agree with them and OBEY, that is a bit different.
I dunno I used to think these people are wrong, now I think they are evil and I am somewhat uncomfortable thinking large numbers of people are evil
This stopped being about “love” and “tolerance” (what they claim) at least a decade ago.
It is now about things like “new Soviet man” so you are absolutely right to hate it. I know I do. They used to hide it more cleverly but now it’s just right in your face and they don’t give a shit.
Yeah… but it’s clearly true.
That sums it up nicely.
Yes, large numbers of people are evil. I am not bothered by that, just puzzled as to why they would choose to be that way.
A natural symptom of being herd animals?
Bad Cat has a few things to say about this.
Sometimes people sitting at a table are just people sitting at a table.
It’s not the sitting at the table part. It is the ‘people’ part. What kinds of people are they and what do they want? What are they going to do? Eat? Fine. Murder? Not fine.
reasons to like France
I like France, but, in fairness, I’ve never spent more than a week at a stretch there
My gentleman caller is supposed to be here in 45 minutes! 😬
make sure the barrel of lube is in the right place
hope and good company are everything
best wishes
NewWife just made sausage and biscuits
So I find myself at loose ends today. My only plans involve vacuuming the apartment and calling a few more HVAC guys.
Maybe I’ll go for a short hike this afternoon. I’ve kinda been out of that habit since I picked up BJJ.
Or I could start the next book on the intake pile.
First things first though, I’m going out for a bagel. Everything’s more in focus after a bagel.
Can you get a real bagel?
When my son lived in PA he used to stock up and freeze them when he visited here.
Probably not as good as NY or NJ, but we do okay. Lots of the tribe in and around DC.
I have a buddy in Long Island who goes out every morning at 5 AM sharp (6 AM EST) for a bagel run. Not my thing, but I respect the process.
I like that our local realizes the difference between a realtor and a Realtor.
Ahem, that’s REALTOR®.
“…its strict Code of Ethics.” Which reads in its entirety – we will only sell the right house to the right person, and the right house is the one that you are standing in and trying to sell at that moment.
The German thirst for beer is waning – it’s not cool to be drunk any more
Nicholas Potter
From Berlin’s techno scene to Oktoberfest, a revolution in drinking culture is taking place, and it’s led by young people
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/27/german-beer-culture-berlin-oktoberfest-revolution
so the yuts are not just retarded woke socialists, they are also lame
It was never “cool to be drunk” in Germany. That is an American and British thing.
Plus, Guardian so I don’t believe a word of any of it.
Not to brag or anything, but about 3 weeks ago I got absolutely shitfaced at the home of my on-again off-again girlfriend’s co-worker and had to spend $200 to pay for cleaning of their couch I unconsciously puked on.
$200
paying your way is cool
wanna be the next Fed chair?
I literally couldn’t do any worse.
Retarded woke socialists exist to destroy. Love, Joy, beauty, humor, peace, hope, imagination, exceptionalism…everything good must perish. Thus is the nature of Satan.
I just saw a photo of Emhoff’s “daughter”. Yeah, okay.
More Births
@MoreBirths
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Jul 25
Why Poland’s Birthrate is Collapsing
Poland’s fertility will be just 1.1 births per woman in 2024, among the lowest in the world. This in a Catholic country with strict laws against abortion.
Why is fertility in 🇵🇱 so low and what can we learn?
🧵,
Poland’s fertility collapse is thus driven by several factors: an obsession with work and economic success that is competing with family formation, a housing shortage that is exacerbated by a refugee crisis and a loss of Poland’s traditional Catholic faith among young people. On top of this, recent policy moves by the conservative government may have been too heavy-handed and led a negative attitude toward family formation among young women.
https://x.com/MoreBirths/status/1816241080615985662
The fecund Polaks should just move to Hungary and take advantage of the subsidies for reproducing.
hungary’s fertility tanked by 17% this year to the dismay of Orban fetishists
Fact checkers to the rescue
Vance’s using “cat lady” as a dig at Harris “expresses hostility for women in public office by implying they should be at home” with children, said Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, a professor at the University of Wollongong in Australia who authored a chapter about “crazy cat ladies” in the nonfiction book “Animaladies.”
But Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, doesn’t fit the part of the stereotypical “cat lady.” She’s married, for one, and has two stepchildren. She’s a politician and therefore a public figure, not a shut-in. And as far as we know, she doesn’t own any cats.
“It’s a sexist framing for child-free women, but more importantly, it doesn’t seem to matter if she has children or not,” Probyn-Rapsey told CNN. “It’s a tool in the misogynist’s tool box — an attempt to exclude women from the public sphere and imply that her contributions to political life come at the cost of family, or, as Vance is implying, the whole nation.”
“My mother? Lemme tell you about my mother…”
Not denying that a) Harris doesn’t have children and b) childless people are wired differently.
Notice all the stability related issues in release code. I love that beta and borderline alpha code is now the new norm for consumer software.
https://www.sonos.com/en-us/blog/update-on-the-sonos-app?utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_source=x&utm_campaign=patrickblogpost
That one, in particular, was driven by release of their new headphones.
They would have had to delay releasing those in order to get the software redesign correct. Probably a mistake to link those two major projects but they not have been able to make the headphones work with the old software.
Yup. I’ve followed this fiasco as a business case study.
You have a premium product with a fiercely loyal following that completely pissed off its users and professional AV firms to release a pair of headphones to please Wall St.
It was also incredibly arrogant when called out by the users.
Fuck them. (Not the users, management)
The hardware equivalent of “We’ll fix it in post…”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/07/the-week-in-pictures-queen-kamala-i-edition.php
The desperate yearning of the suburban salvationist
“I stood there in the crowd and I just looked around and I thought: I haven’t seen this since 2008. The energy level was off the charts,” Sinicki said. “I had a group of young women around me who had never been to one of these before. And as soon as the vice president came out they were just screaming. It’s as if she was a rock star.”
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Almost overnight, the vice president has eclipsed the president. Videos and memes of Harris are everywhere.
“We’ve all gone from doom scrolling to hope scrolling,” said Katie Paris, the founder of Red Wine and Blue – a group with about 500,000 members that organizes suburban women around reproductive freedom and pushing back on book bans, among other issues.
“That feels good. I know I shouldn’t be looking at TikTok before I go to bed at night anyway. But before it wasn’t very good for my mental health – and now I feel like I can kind of make an excuse for it,” she said. ”It’s like joy is back in town.”
The personality cultists will always be with us.
*Living Colour nods sagely*
“Red Wine and Blue – a group with about 500,000 members that organizes suburban women around reproductive freedom”
Can we get them all in one place at the same time?
Generational shift
— “ Brats for Harris.” “ We need a Kamalanomenon. ” “ Gen Z feels the Kamalove.”
In the days since President Joe Biden exited the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, Gen Z voters jumped to social media to share coconut tree and “brat summer” memes — reflecting a stark shift in tone for a generation that’s voiced feeling left behind by the Democratic party.
Youth-led progressive organizations have warned for months that Biden had a problem with young voters, pleading with the president to work more closely with them to refocus on the issues most important to younger generations or risk losing their votes. With Biden out of the race, many of these young leaders are now hoping Harris can overcome his faltering support among Gen Z and harness a new explosion of energy among young voters.
Since Sunday, statements have poured out from youth-led organizations across the country, including in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, California, Minnesota, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, as leaders thanked Biden for stepping aside and celebrated the opportunity to organize around a new candidate. On Friday, a coalition of 17 youth-led groups endorsed Harris.
What “issues important to young progressives” has Biden failed to pursue? Abortion, college debt cancellation, the cult of global doom…. What the fuck else is there?
Same as it ever was
“Kamalanomenon”
This stupid portmanteau doesn’t make a lick of sense. “Kamala” sounds nothing like the letters (“phe”) that it is replacing.
“This changes everything,” said Zo Tobi, director of donor organizing for the national youth organizing group Movement Voter Project, when he heard the news that Biden was dropping out of the race and endorsing Harris. “The world as it is suddenly shifted into the world as it could be.”
Okay, Robespierre.
Yeah, yeah. “Unburdened by what has been.” 🙄
Estee Palti continues to brighten my days in this election season.
https://x.com/c3pmeme/status/1816990701441147133?s=46&t=g7EG4Y-juKY6VXgHEzprrQ