The Yankees collapsed and the baseball season is finished. ManUre finally won a game, albeit in the English version of a JV tournament. Liverpool continues their defense I the same tournament while Man City were bounced out. And that’s all I could come up with for sports, so moving on.
This is not news. It’s a narrative. Do better, AP.
Do these woke asshole DAs not believe in punishment? I don’t care if those two can be rehabilitated. Sometimes rehab isn’t what the criminal justice system is there for.
If nothing else, the guy’s a showman. I’d hate to think we won’t get to experience this kind of fun for the next four years, but instead will he hectored for not being ::insert immutable physical characteristic here::.
The government is evil. And neighbors can be as well. Private property is private and everybody in this story aside from the homeowner is an asshole.
“THEY’RE EATING THE BABIES!” What the hell is wrong with this guy?
Too bad a Daniel Penny wasn’t around. Nevermind. The fact that he’s on trial is a deterrent to people attempting to stop lunacy like this.
I’m shocked! Oh wait, I’m not shocked at all. Shut these idiots down.
Joe gets it. Although he’s an outlier with deep pockets and friends in high places. An average person would not have the same luck.
There’s lies, damn lies, and a KJP presser. I think every elected or appointed official should be sworn in before making an official appearance. That would make these things even funnier.
What were they supposed to do? “Shitsville, CA” has too many characters.
Were the endangered species polled? If not, this headline is retarded.
In honor of the day’s festivities. Complete with Back To School montage. And here’s another masterpiece of theirs. Such a fun band. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Halloween Thursday, dear friends.
Introducing DEI is the first step in demolishing the CIA. You have to have employees who don’t know how to destroy documents, and who spend all their time whining about micro-aggressions, so that they aren’t aware of the US Marshall’s closing in.
I’m honestly confused. Are the CIA evil geniuses running everything, or the same incompetent DEI-infused organization as any other in our government?
I was just thinking the same thing.
Could be both, in pockets, I suppose.
DEI is just an aftertaste of natural bureaucratic bullshit. It isn’t like they’ve been promoting competence, so this is just a small variation in the pattern.
They need a segment of the org to sacrifice when the evil shit gets exposed.
Now whether it is the ones hired for competence/malevolence or those hired for skin tone/sexual proclivities is the internal turf war I’d love to see play out. My bet is it’s ultimately a malevolent, competent perverted man identifying as a black lesbian to bind all the warring factions together.
“THEY’RE EATING THE BABIES!” What the hell is wrong with this guy?
If it were his own grandchild it would make sense. What is more wrong with people offering up their children to politicians is the better question.
Yeah, I hate the senile pedo as much as the next guy, but mock-biting a baby dressed up as a turkey for Halloween is jokey and grandfatherly, not psychotic. Pinching little girls’ tits and showering with your adolescent daughter, on the other hand…
I guess you missed the part where he put almost the entire bare foot of a baby in his mouth.
That’s not jokey and grandfatherly. That’s weird as shit.
The best (worst) part is the look on his face at the end as he gets a look at the next child being served up to him.
https://x.com/tarabull808/status/1851783496563593480?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
I mean, he probably took the bit too far. He is, after all, deep in the throes of senility. Comparatively though, it’s among the least weird things he’s done to/with/around children.
I’m with Pat on this one.
Not defending pedo’s, but we should be cooler with adults (especially older ones) fucking around with kids. It isn’t a bad thing for kids to not be terrified of old coots.
FULL DISCLOSURE: Personally, I’m catnip when it comes to kids. They love me because they instinctively realize I’m not “rules” guy. I really like Korea (and Japan to a lesser degree) because they do have a kids/coots dynamic that doesn’t freak out.
It isn’t all one way either. When the Altar Kids were babes, I got uncounted “lessons” from old Korean folx. The one I remember was a grandpa worried because my kid was playing with an empty beer can. Not because it was booze, but because he was worried the kid would cut his finger on the lip of the can.
That would be one way to get rid of the “stain” of Navy.
People have been offering up their children to politicians for thousands of years.
At the resentencing hearing can the judge go “Your original punishment was too lenient.”?
Oingo Boingo was on constant play in my household.
Had a room mate in college who played Boingo, Zeppelin, Floyd and Bad Religion non-stop.
Can’t listen to any of them anymore.
I remember being so disappointed by Oingo Boingo.
As a kid stranded in NW Minnesoda on the edge of the NDak prairie, I head they were a super cool new wave/punk band (we weren’t well versed on the subtilties of genres back then). I spent a lot of effort to find some of their early albums. I tried to like them, but horns? What sort of punks have a brass section?!!!
I sort of like them today, but back then I was PISSED
Only the bestest ‘punk/ska’ bands have brass sections sir!
Yeah Pope! Horns in punk bands? What kind of monsters would do that.
C’mon Neph!
Cut 17-year-old Pope some slack. I had to drive 50 miles to FARGO, ND in the hope that I might find an interesting album.
The locals thought our generation was coddled because we could watch MTV and see how “Big City” folx really were. We didn’t haven’t to guess what was cool. We could watch MTV and see how everyone had red hair like Annie Lennox.
OBE:
I still say that if you ain’t James Brown, you shouldn’t include any horns in your band.
Pope Jimbo:
A playful barb, as I was just about the same age when the ska punk scene blew up, so horns in punk band were the norm to me. Back then, the music wasn’t played on local radio (other than college stations) and only a couple of bands made the jump to MTV, so compilation discs were the way for us to find new bands/music (outside of going to shows and hoping for a decent opener instead of the same shitty local band that kept getting gigs to open).
*Johnny Cash rises from the grave*
I still say that if you ain’t James Brown, you shouldn’t include any horns in your band.
Wrong. There’s always a place for a sax.
And, I’m a big fan of Kath-era Chicago.
You’re not wrong. Musicianship has no place in punk music.
Neph:
so compilation discs were the way for us
WHIPPERSNAPPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I tried to like them, but horns?
Are you forgetting about of Minnesota’s finest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNx1i8Gx3hM&ab_channel=SpinningVoices
And in honor of the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlvNBaPjbe4&ab_channel=twintonedigital
I was always lukewarm on Oingo, but I’ve probably seen the ‘burbs more times than any other band.
Punk with horn. And they’re from Minneapolis…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NRYAn8whBU
Noooo…. I don’t want to be sad.
@B.P. Another Twin Tone artist. Loved them, too.
Twin Tone had one hell of a stable:
https://www.twintonedigital.com/artists
Tundra — I didn’t realize all of those labels fell under the same umbrella. I haven’t thought about some of those bands in forever. Das Damen, Lifter Puller….
A long time ago I sold all that alleged music. Thankfully I didn’t have to listen to it. I don’t think any of my young employees did either. A potential buyer would ask my opinion, since I had no idea, I always told the truth.
“I don’t know and I don’t care”
Well, if election officials have said it, that’s good enough for me. Nevermind that there are no paper records for hundreds of thousands of disputed ballots from the last election, which had their security envelopes and signatures discarded. But we counted them all twice, and came up with the same number!
I could just fucking imagine if corporate accounting was as slipshod as US elections. You’d have congressmen calling for business executives to be strung up by their nuts.
“Well, if hacking the system is well-nigh impossible, then I guess we have to go with good old fashioned ballot stuffing.”
— Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Phoenix poll workers
Whoah, whoah, whoah…
Don’t leave out Philly!
JFC, I doubt actual cracking would be needed. Good old social engineering would likely get a person the access they would need.
I’m of this mind… every fucking computer system in the world can, and has, been hacked. Banks, credit card companies, hospitals, any US government agencies. But the election system, which arguably provides the highest incentive to be hacked, is the only system that is 100% secure?
Yes. Absolutely impenetrable.
Evergreen
https://xkcd.com/2030/
100% secure with the passwords on a hidden tab in an unprotected Excel worksheet. What more could you ask for?!
Here is a short clip, at the end of an amazing scene. Halloween, as it once was celebrated:
https://youtu.be/3w5gzi68BZA?si=S0wMZKeit6YX8cfT
Toody—“the most horrible”—had just approached a man’s house, knocked on the door, and when he opened it, she shouted, “I HATE YOU!” and threw a fistful of flour in his face.
I’m telling you: trick-or-treating is for sissies.
They’re doing exactly what they’re being paid to do.
I tapped out after the first paragraph. The editors of Pravda would have blushed to print such a pack of lies.
Meh, to be fair, if there’s a reasonable case to be made that they don’t pose a danger to society 40 years on because their outburst of youthful homicide was in response to abuse by their parents, then great, let them make the case, and if a judge buys it, well… that’s the justice system “working” too, I suppose.
It doesn’t matter if they’ve run out of parents to murder, they should server out their original sentence.
*serve
I just type ‘server’ so much more that it become reflex.
I don’t mind them serving out their full sentence, either. This one just doesn’t raise my hackles too much. Clemency is part of the legal system (which should never be mistaken for a justice system). There’s a thousand other murderers in CA that have served less time than those two overprivileged twats have.
I am always affronted when a murder doesn’t net multiple decades minimum.
Though I am not exactly a sympathetic observer.
Why no sympathy for orphans?
They didn’t do a good enough job protecting their parents from violence.
I lean much more towards a restitution and rehabilitation based justice system than a retribution based one.
I think we’re too soft on violent crime. Armed robbery should result in decades behind bars with no parole. Rape and murder should result in execution.
There are some crimes for which financial restitution will never make the victim whole again, either physically or emotionally. And rehabilitating a rapist or murderer isn’t worth the effort. Put them down like animals.
I would be, if such a thing were demonstrated to be possible.
OTOH, trying to perfect humanity to ignore their inborn desire for vengeance is suspiciously utopian.
sloopyinca/NA:
On the retribution side, I would prefer things along exile or making them open season as an actual outlaw. I would also lean into jury nullification quite a bit.
If you exile them or make them an outlaw, you are just lining up other victims for them.
String them up in the public square for all to see.
Giving the state a monopoly on retributive violence was probably a good compromise in terms of social stability compared with vigilantism or outlawry, but there’s several ways to skin the proverbial cat.
I wonder if the monopoly on violence really was a good thing. Our professional violencing caste seems to be much less beneficial than our professional entertainers, farmers, manufacturers, etc.
I was playing around with an idea of having a rebuttable presumption of justification for someone using violence in their own home or business. Right now, the police are defaulting to the state, which regards both aggressors and defenders as violating the states’ monopoly.
I’ve done a 180 on this.
As a kid, I was all in on rope futures. Now, I’m against killing them because the gubment is as bad at proving who killed who as anything else they put their mind to.
The real eye opener for me was the West Memphis 3. I was living in Memphis at the time and thought the Satanic spin on the case was silly, but was 100% sure that they had the right people.
If we are OK letting 1000 guilty people go free to save 1 innocent person from being locked up, shouldn’t we also be OK with letting all the guilty people live so we don’t kill one innocent person?
This is why I’m warming to the idea of vigilantism, with “needed killing” as a legitimate defense.
Individuals are much more limited on the damage they can do, and outside of sadists, lack the motivation to go out and fuck with innocent people. Po-po have an incentive to fuck with anyonethey can to get the case closure.
The standard I would like for Capital Punishment is “Beyond a Shadow of a doubt” The conviction takes “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” but if we want to fry ’em, I want more. If they’re caught on clear video violently raping and stabbing a woman, I have no problem with offing them. But I need more than some circumstancial case (even if highly compelling).
I hope it’s not my neighbors who offer them up a place to stay.
As if the CIA hasn’t been populated with incompetent nepo babies from the get-go anyway. What possible difference would it make?
MUH SEKRET CLUB!
Go fuck yourself, you pretentious cunt.
Breaking – The name of San Fransisco has been officially changed to Shitstain.
I’m not going to use any name but San Fran from now on. Hopefully it will irritate that child-grooming deviant.
You can fuck right off.
These people are mentally ill. “Frisco” is by far the worst.
So… San Fran Frisco is the way it should be written now?
No, I told you, it’s been renamed ‘Shitstain’.
If anything, the Dallas suburb should sue anybody who calls San Fran by that name. They don’t want to get confused with the poop map place.
Ya know, my father was born there, my great-grandmother was born there, and parts of my family have been there since the 1850’s. There are hotels and performing arts centers with my family name on them.
I am gonna call it Frisco or San Fran when I fucking want too.
Asshole.
I’m from SoCal where San Fran is intentionally derogatory.
Ya I think in my neighborhood in SoCal we used Frisco or San Fran. Never deserved its full title.
Your family name is War Memorial?
Have San Narcisco and Narcissco completely disappeared from the picture?
It seems to me that this shit can be easily enough swept away on Day One by a new president.
Just like racist Joe mandated its takeover of every agency on his Day One.
Not really. The permanent bureaucracy will just carry on doing its thing, knowing good and well that even if they’re found out, it’ll take well into the administration after next before they’re able to be fired, and by then they’ll have been reinstated with back pay and a nice settlement anyway.
This is why you literally fire them – burn the offices down with them inside. Reprime the sprinklers with gasoline so that it speeds things along. The one-time cost is worth it.
Wait…can you give me a heads up when that will happen.
They have spent years and millions of dollars doing studies and writing this into manuals. Those do sound flammable.
The CIA probably should have some kind of diversity. You don’t want a monoculture when you are gathering intelligence around the world, because there things you might miss. The devil is in how you implement it.
To be fair, even a grammatically correct headline would have segued into a retarded article. Earth will probably be OK without that particular varietal of sea snot, in any case.
I have a feeling the people who push this stuff don’t, in fact, give two shits about the fate of any of the creatures they go on about.
Also…”taking aim at native state species threatened by extinction”
Didn’t know that extinction was an active agent, roaming the Earth seeking out poor species to cull.
It is, and it is currently using the alias ‘human’.
As someone who surveys for rare and endangered species as part of my job, I am of two minds about this. T&E (Threatened and Endangered) species are bellwethers; many don’t or can’t live in degraded environments. If the water is too shitty for these mussels to survive, what about the people drinking that contaminated soup? And in this case this is the West, where clean water is at a premium. I also dislike destroying or degrading habitat simply for profit, partly because I enjoy nature and scenery (which is just one reason I would like to ban bird-and-bat-and-butterfly destroying wind farms and desert-destroying solar farms) and partly because they also improve the quality of the air and water we breathe and drink, they’re sponges and filters. We’re good at killing things intentionally and unintentionally; the country is big enough for both wild things and people.
On the other hand I am a big advocate for private property rights, and IMO the activist environmentalists (which I am NOT one) in and out of government engage in a lot of ‘takings’ like this. Almost sixteen hundred miles of river is a LOT of river; and the Permian Basin can be exploited using fracking which enormously reduces the footprint of oil and gas extraction efforts. These particular ‘edicts’ IMO are some of these.
Also involved is the two-tiered justice involving environmental ‘crimes’. Wind and solar? Kill all the golden eagles and free-tailed bats all you want! They’re all acceptable collateral damage for saving Gaia! One endangered bird drowned in an accidental oil slick? Ban gas and oil extraction nationwide! That sort of attitude makes me volcanically furious.
Uncivil is quite right about humans being a prime cause of extinctions. Again we’re good at dealing out death; we should refrain when we can.
I want an article.
Sometimes rehab isn’t what the criminal justice system is there for.
The one thing my uber-proggie aunt and I have agreed upon in the last few years is the fact that sometimes – as unfair as it might be – the purpose of fucking over someone is to provide an abject lesson to the rest of us to not tread the same water.
Minneapolis won’t recover until they fuck over some kids that were involved in some car jackings or other crimes that were decent candidates for rehabilitation.
From my own personal experiences, I know there were times when i “fuck NO! I’m out of here” at certain ideas my halfwit buddies came up with because i knew that it would fuck me up for the rest of my life. Even though the crime might not have been that severe.
Sucks to be the example kid, but just like ditch diggers, society needs them too.
“Minneapolis won’t recover until they fuck over some kids that were involved in some car jackings or other crimes that were decent candidates for rehabilitation.”
Best we can do for you is sucker-shoot some Australian woman.
He joked that the vest made him look thinner and quipped that the vest could become part of his everyday attire.
^THIS^
This is what make him awes0me! I disagree with a lot of his doltish ideas, but making a decent joke about being fat and old would win my vote (if I was actually going to vote).
It might have been a change after he got shot, or maybe he’s in a good mood because he’s optimistic. But his sense of humor has really come out lately, and every time a Dem opens their mouth he takes full advantage. I think that’s as good a closing message as you can get.
Showing up in a garbage truck for a press conference after what transpired is pretty hilarious.
Daily Ray of Sunshine (aka robots are inevitable)
That’s more sad and drepressing.
Where’s the human gone?
Cats and I don’t get along so it’s a win.
Where’s the human gone?
Cats don’t care. That is their charm.
The old saw:
Dogs see their owners open the fridge and pull out food for them… “They are GODS! The provide for me”
Cats see their owners open the fridge and pull out food for them…. “I AM A GOD. They must provide for me”
An old, bad, oversimplification written by people who’ve never lived with either.
@UCS – ok, how about this oversimplification – lock your wife and your dog in the trunk for an hour. When you open it, which one is happy to see you?
Couple of problems with that – Currently I have neither a wife nor a dog. Also my car is a hatchback, so the ‘trunk’ is open to the passenger compartment.
UCS:
who would you loan your driving gloves to? Your mythical wife, your mythical dog or mythical cat?
Jimbo, those gloves wouldn’t fit any of them.
UCS: Really?
My driving gloves are of a size to fit my oversized hands and sausage fingers.
They would not serve as kitten mittens or any intermediate size between that and mine.
Where’s the human gone?
Applying Bactine to their lacerations because the cat demands scratches in the most energetic manner?
Now, there’s a name I havne’t heard in a long time…
A long time…
I’m trying to figure out how common this is. I have oft run into situations where I see people praising a video game’s soundtrack, and my reaction is “??? I played that through to the end and I don’t remember the music.”
A prime example is the game Mechanics, which is slow-paced enough that I should be able to notice the soundtrack. As an example of what it sounds like you have tracks like Noosphere.
I couldn’t say for sure how common it is, but there’s a certain kind of music hipster that listens to video game OSTs despite having no interest in the actual game; often without ever having actually played it. Those types are typically judging the music on a stand-alone basis in a very different fashion than you would by simply encountering the music while playing the game. You might be seeing some of that.
I’ve posted about Arknights before – but they have a ton of music produced as promo tracks for different characters, etc – that are never played in the actual [mobile] game but are available as mini-videos on youtube or to listen to on spotify, etc.
Eventually it’d be great if they put out some CDs. I’ve posted some of the big live concert events they’ve already done with music – some in-game, some unique tracks, etc. Highly recommended.
I always notice the music and sometimes purchase the soundtrack – around a dozen times I guess. I have discovered several new to me artists that I like that way too.
Literally the only video game music I remember noticing during gameplay was Hell March
The music for Grizzly Hills was pretty awesome.
I actually would play the CD I got from the Pandaland collector’s edition in my car as driving music.
I don’t play games other than Jewel Quest, solitaire, Tetris, and Angry Birds. I ALWAYS turn the music off.
However, somehow I ran across two game soundtracks that I absolutely adore. LA Noire and Chronotrigger. Beautiful work. Absolutely beautiful.
Chrono Trigger has one of the top video game music soundtracks.
Look how many covers there are just of the “Guardia Millennial Fair” theme. There is a jazz version. There is a mariachi version.
I liked the sound in the old Sierra adventure games. Unfortunately, you needed a Roland to get the full effect.
Ya Kings Quest, Space Quest and even Police Quest. Brings back the memories. Though hated scrambling through the manual to find word 10, page 6 to prove you owned the game.
Soundtrack for Ghost of Tsushima is fantastic.
The whole Halo series does have some epic tracks too. I picked up the Video Games Live concert blu-ray a while back. A lot of the older 8/16 bit games really shine when you upscale the soundtracks with a full orchestra.
Some of those 8/16 bit games I know the music, but never played them, because I didn’t own many consoles during that era.
Judge orders Elon Musk to appear in Pa. court over $1 million voter prizes
Remember when Musk announced he was offering the million bucks as a publicity stunt, because the media wouldn’t cover it otherwise?
Nice touch with the anti-Semitism smear, too. Gotta be all those white nationalist Trumpalos in Philly what done it…
The negative posts are from his own followers?
Yeah, bullshit. Progjection to distract from where all the anti-Semitism is actually coming from.
I guess they figured the federal voter interference charges weren’t going to stick, because he wasn’t actually violating that law.
Now, it’s entirely possible that this is an illegal lottery, of which there are tens of thousands a year in Pennsylvania alone. Every time a business does a drawing for employee morale or as a customer promotion is almost certainly an illegal lottery. None of them rate an emergency hearing. The only thing worse than never enforcing a law, or enforcing it absolutely, is enforcing it selectively.
Their claim of harm is the data collected from people who signed a piece of paper.
“I strongly support clemency for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are currently serving sentences of life without possibility of parole. They have respectively served 34 years and have continued their educations and worked to create new programs to support the rehabilitation of fellow inmates,” Gascón said in a statement Wednesday.
He’s just being kind to orphans.
He should server the remainder of their sentences for them if he cares so much.
“I wouldn’t have charged them.”
In a just world, they would have only served a few months in prison. The appeals could have been fast-tracked to complete them on that schedule.
Once those appeals were done, they would have been strung up in the town square.
Listened to this interesting podcast last night. Won’t make you feel better, but he has a hell of a resume and an interesting perspective on things.
https://rumble.com/v5kr8et-coffee-and-a-mike-em-burlingame-what-the-resentful-might-do.html
I came across a CNN piece that referred to Biden’s calling Trump supporters “garbage” as an “imprecise attempt” to defend Puerto Ricans.
It has all become a poorly written episode of Fawlty Towers.
lol
I do feel like Basil a lot these days. As in WTF is wrong with everyone around me.
One of my step dad’s favorite shows. The Germans at the table episode puts me in stitches every damn time.
Akshually, it was an unpronounced apostrophe.
Yeah, that doesn’t even make grammatical sense. Biden has denigrated republicans before, and so have Hillary and Obama. The lies just keep getting more ridiculous.
You didn’t hear the apostrophe because he stutters.
If one were generous, you could interpret it this way:
“They only garbage I see is Trump supporters’ (garbage)”.
But Biden spent years misquoting and flat out lying about what Trump says. So he doesn’t deserve a generous interpretation.
Why is Biden snooping through Trump supporters’ garbage?
That WaPo column would’ve been refreshingly honest if, at the end, there were a few line breaks and then, “Well everyone, I tried.”
In his letter to the DMV, Wiener called for a cease and desist of the term “San Fran” and said the acceptable references for the city are San Francisco, SF, The City, City by the Bay and Best City in the World.
“Best City in the World”?
Just gotta remember: There is no such thing as Peak Delusion.
Cities, by definition, are cess pits where excess humanity is stored, ‘best’ is a low value.
Cities are required to do truly great things. Great things require a large imbalance and concentration of resources.
We’d never have Bach (nor a pipe organ, nor a grand church to install one in) without cities.
It’s the best city in the world for him, because the city doesn’t actively prosecute child-grooming perverts.
We’re not Detroit!
One of their local news outfits uses that slogan. I never heard it in any other context when I lived there. But yeah, fuck that guy (again).
I’d be changing my shorts on carnival ride.
Best possible outcome of an out of control situation.
This would scare me more
The sadist who came up with it deserves to be pitched over the rail.
Also, don’t install glass bridges anywhere
I dunno, some of those, at least, look post-production.
The VFX sadists go over the rail too.
Terrified me!
Vic Morrow nods in agreement.
What a bigot that guy was.
Mum settles legal action over air pollution death
Bullshit bullshit bullshit.
I guess western countries (you know this is coming to the US) have decided they can’t swirl down the drain fast enough.
“Those eggs over there? You know, the ones that are gold colored? No one is eating them! Free Food!”
I’m not sure revitalize is the word I’d use.
Not once to they use the word “illegal”. Nor do they dwell on the idea that those meat packing jobs used to go to young German, Swedish and Norwegian kids (second or third generation now).
“It’s more brown!”
Literal tingles, probably.
I wonder what those 2nd and 3rd generation kids are doing now.
“I wonder what those 2nd and 3rd generation kids are doing now.”
Fentanyl
I wonder what those 2nd and 3rd generation kids are doing now.
They all moved to the Big City of Minneapolis for some reason. If I was more ambitious and willing to enact labor for free, I could link to countless articles about how WE could keep the kids down on the farm.
the stories you link are too local.
Here you go:
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2506542/ex-pentagon-official-shares-alleged-ufo-mothership-image-from-romania
Is this the Blood Libel sort of thing I keep hearing about?
I do not think so
I have nothing against the new wave of empanada, pupuseria, and arepa places opening up around me to compete with the Indian, German, Polish, and Hungarian places.
I continue to maintain that ethnic restaurants are just about the only advantage of multiculturalism that people can point to. YMMV, but it seems a pretty minor thing to me.
As a non food person, I personally could give two fucks about another empanada shop opening up. I would much rather have the rule of law, with a side of justice.
The whole notion that the hicks just are now coming around to it. Fuck that guy.
“They’re attracted not only by jobs but the feeling they’re safer and more familiar with the leave-doors-unlocked, no-traffic-lights pace of life, said Omar Valerio-Jiménez, a University of Texas at San Antonio history professor.”
Familiar? I thought they were fleeing violent, crime-ridden hell holes. I can’t keep up.
I’m not accusing PO’d Nick of not being the One True Glib (with his assumption of the HH crown and Glib Skipper Hat), but The Weather God don’t lie</a.
Neither do the tag gods.
The only real question is did Gropy Joe learn biting from Major or did Major learn it from Gropy Joe?
For those in NH: NHLA’s 2024 state legislative endorsements.
listening to greenoid Ulrike Herrmann sell her degrowth plan for Germany: no personal automobiles ofc, living space to be rationed at 50 sq metres/ person, train speed capped at 100 km/hour & train travel also to be rationed (everyone will get a personal kilometre allotment).
whole industries will be shut down, especially the construction industry via her proposed ban on all new construction.
this is not satire, and Herrmann is not a fringe figure either. she edits taz (basically, a German- language Guardian) & appears regularly on tv talkshows.
https://x.com/eugyppius1/status/1851654565742940330
Sensible policies for a happier Germany
Strength through joy?
I believe I read recently that the Greens had been excluded from governing by German voters.
Death cult.
Why isn’t she already living the Stone Age Affluence life that she wants everybody to live too? Or does she feel that ‘getting her message out’ is too important not to continue to live in modern Gaia-killing society?
Of course she assumes that there will be the same level of affluence, and that they can all have iPhones, MAC’s, etc.
‘Public health’ is an outright grift. It syphons money from the poorest people in society to wealthy academics to produce worthless research.
https://x.com/cjsnowdon/status/1851687296539517304
Today in weird youtube recommends old videos from when the Onion was somewhat edgy
Overcome Stress By Visualizing It As A Greedy, Hook-Nosed Race Of Creatures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PC8Luqiws
Wow.
Yeah, they used to be able to do edgy and funny.
I Remember When:
My old coworker had a kid going to UW-Madison when The Onion was just going online.
He’d have a stack of printed The Onion copies in his cube and we’d talk about how they had gone Corporate to maximize their online revenue.
For Example, the printed copies had a feature where they printed the pic of some blasted drunk freshman every week that they had spotted in the night hotspot street (sorry can’t remember the name). The liability of that is stunning to us in 2024. Back in 1995 it was funny as fuck.
Vice had something like that, too. Now it is just pedophilia in bodysuits.
The print edition of the late 90s was essential reading. I still have a print copy of the edition put out the week after 9/11.
Apropos of nothing, I just linked that to a buddy of mine a week or so ago for reasons I can’t recall off hand now.
They’re eating the babies
They’re eating the kids
They’re eating that babies who live there
And that’s all I could come up with for sports
You missed that the North Korean U-17 women beat the U.S. U-17 women? There were no reports of cannibalism in the game.
But, uh, was there any, uh, eating of the cats?
A small village in Brandenburg, Petersdorf, will receive 500 migrants despite having only 600 residents, and local residents are outraged, alienated, and feel helpless. It is a story happening across Germany and is likely to only fuel anti-immigrant resentment.
Petersdorf is situated next to Bad Saarow, a spa town, and is known for attracting Berliners for the weekend for its thermal baths, restaurants and beautiful views of the local lake, the Scharmützelsee,
However, just outside the town in an old army barracks, which the local district is planning to convert into a home for hundreds of migrants. It is the type of story that conservative critics say is further evidence of the Great Replacement, which describes the ongoing demographic replacement of Europeans in their native lands by non-Western immigrants. While the left describes it as a “conspiracy theory,” the right states it is an irrefutable fact supported by data, and in many ways, illustrated clearly by these types of cases.
The barracks are a four-story building that can house 300 men, but they are set to be expanded, including with the installation of residential “containers.” Construction teams are already at work and are set to soon finish. In total, the accommodations will house 500 migrants. The plans for the construction are moving forward despite the local council unanimously voting against expansion plans a year ago.
https://rmx.news/article/we-were-totally-betrayed-500-migrants-for-tiny-german-village-of-600-will-nearly-double-population/
I wonder what kind of jobs there are for 500 people there
Fill for mass graves. Any town getting that many migrants should just start a massacre. Toss the migrants and the governemnt officials in a pit.
0 jobs.
And they wonder why people are becoming vehemently anti-immigration.
This is outrageous. I’d be plotting to destroy that building. If they start it again, destroy it again ad infintum.
How Long is this Fucking MEETING!?!
😡
It just finished 9 minutes early
Until you all come to an agreement.
An agreement that all stakeholders can sign off on. An agreement that is fair equitable and fully supports Justice.
BWAAAA-HAAAAAA-HAAAAAA
You’re going to die on this call UCS!!!!
UCS:
Unless it is literally a “fucking meeting”. Then it will last 20 minutes. But if the average age of the participants is under 30, there will be multiple follow up meetings.
It’s a change management call where we review all open changes.
No agreement needed.
If was a “fucking meeting”, then most guys would be on the call for 30 seconds at most, while the women would stare at their monitors thinking of new shoes.
I regret to say that I am going to have to side with Andrew Tate. I do not expect this to be a continuing state of affairs.
https://x.com/kendrictonn/status/1851514753773940751
Ah the age old question of what is red
Isn’t Green the new Red?
The Futility of Conservatism in Pavane
http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-futility-of-conservatism-in-pavane.html
“Pavane is one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Often billed as the best exercise in alternate history, it exemplifies everything about and delivers on the promise of the British new wave: an SF setting suffused with literary finesse. That it is unlikely to be touched by mainstream readers because of its inclusion in the Gollancz Master Works collection and the attendant livery is a real shame.
Keith Roberts produced six interlinked stories set in a stunted 20th century Britain under the heel of the church. An assassin’s bullet struck down Elizabeth I on the eve of the Spanish Armada, with the consequence that the invasion was successful and Protestantism was crushed. The country becomes an unhappy satellite of Rome, Britannia never rules the waves, and the industrial revolution unfolds at a snail’s pace. The heavy hand of the papacy weighs on technological development, so in Roberts’s 1968 there is no television or radio. The internal combustion engine is in development hell, waiting for its sanction by papal bull. There are no railways, with commerce between cities centring on chugging steam wagons. A dependency on horseback remains. Bandits and dangerous wild animals roam the countryside as smugglers plough the waters. Communication across distances is only possible via chains of mechanical towers under control of the secretive and fiercely independent signallers’ guild. As our 20th century compressed time and space and sped everything up, history in the world of Pavane is an unhurried crawl.”
I heard of a lot of old scifi books but I never heard of this one. Strange
Wait – how would shooting Lizzy have stopped the storm that destroyed the Armada?
well I don’t know I did not read the book, but apparently she was essential to the english victory or something.
After the Battle of Gravelines, the Armada sailed north from The Netherlands up the coast of England. The Armada was in bad shape due to the battle, but no news of the battle had arrived in England until after Elizabeth gave a speech rallying the troops and remaining forces.
The remaining English fleet pursued the Armada as they sailed up the coast to prevent a landing on the east coast of England.
The storm came after the Armada sailed around Scotland towards Ireland.
I’m going to guess the book thinks that if the speech didn’t happen, the remaining English forces wouldn’t have been rallied and wouldn’t have prevented the Armada landing on the east coast of England.
I haven’t read the book either, but I would assume the country falls into mourning, the military leadership is caught flat footed, and Guzman is then able to successfully rendezvous with Farnese to launch the ground campaign instead of getting kamikazied by fireships and fleeing into the vagaries of the weather.
Too many sailors were too busy killing Catholics to keep the Armada from picking up Parma’s troops and ferrying them to the island.
The storm that scattered the Armada didn’t occur until after the battle at Gravelines.
IMO Elizabeth’s death would not have inevitably led to a Spanish victory, there were a lot of significant factors (low-draft Dutch ships, lack of adequate transport) that caused failure of the Armada’s mission, but I’ll cut Roberts some slack, he’s setting up an alternate timeline, not writing an alternate blow-by-blow account of the battle and the subsequent conquest of England.
I’ve read the book. Six different vignettes describing different periods in his ‘modern’ England. I didn’t like the tack-on ending.
Another alternate SF book I enjoyed is Bring the Jubilee, where the South had won the war a hundred years earlier and the protagonist traveling back in time to learn how Lee won Gettysburg inadvertently causes Lee’s defeat.
I’ve never gotten the rabid anti-Catholicism of some people.
As alt-history goes, I’m not seeing how the Spanish Armada succeeding leads to the complete eradication of Protestantism throughout Europe, either.
It’s just another group that can usually be identified due to customs, that allows people to blame them for all of their problems. The fact it has its own hierarchical leadership that’s been around for a long time just makes it a bit easier.
Ironically, Anglicanism has fared worse than pretty much every other schismatic denomination. I guess the Spanish could have springboarded from victory in England to a continental eradication of Lutheran protestantism and Calvinist reform theology. But the schismatics just went and populated the entire New World anyway.
The Brits, post Henry VIII, were very anti-Catholic, so, historically, it fits.
This is a code phrase for, “Filled to the brim with dimwitted, heavy-handed left-wing allegory.”
I mean the author was seen as conservative politically
Eh, Hyperion is as stuffed with literariness as you can get.
Well, we cannot live on Mac Bolan alone, we need something to fill our brains.
Never heard of them – guess they were a product of the 60s. wikipedia says Pavane was a set of short stories….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Roberts
Pavane is a great alt-history, one of the best. I really enjoyed it.
I heard of a lot of old scifi books but I never heard of this one. Strange
Neither have I. I’m going to say “because that’s not Science Fiction”. It’s Alt-History, unless I’m missing something obvious in the description. Which can be great. But that’s not SF.
Eric S. Raymond
@esrtweet
Recent conversations on X suggested it’s time for me to explain the difference between a pragmatic and a performative libertarian.
A performative libertarian does things, including voting, mainly to signal allegiance to libertarian values, even if the audience for the signaling is only him- or herself.
A pragmatic libertarian behaves in such a way as to move the world in the direction of less coercion and reduced state power, even if that requires compromises with existing statism.
There aren’t only two positions. There’s a spectrum between them, though the distribution tends to be bimodal and fat at both ends.
That distribution is not particularly strongly correlated with other variations of libertarianism, such as anarcho-capitalist versus minarchist. (For those of you unfamiliar, minarchism is the libertarian term for a position in favor of a tiny night-watchman state of the sort of the U.S. Constitution was intended to frame.)
I am an extreme libertarian, an anarcho-capitalist who would be willing to use violence to oppose government if I believed that were a necessary or the most effective move towards a future of freedom.
I am also an extremely pragmatic libertarian. I will do things that I think nudge the future in the right direction, including voting for the least collectivist candidate in any election where I think my vote might actually matter.
I happen to live in Pennsylvania, which in recent cycles has been the most pivotal of the swing states. As a pragmatic libertarian, I don’t have the luxury of voting for the Libertarian candidate for president as I would if I lived in, say, Texas. Or New York State.
A performative libertarian is the sort who would say “a plague on both their houses”, vote for the Libertarian candidate, feel good about himself, and not notice that his voting behavior might have condemned his neighbors to increased robbery and coercion.
https://x.com/esrtweet/status/1851751936212496717
Myself, I’m a very proud performative libertarian. I think one could argue that libertarianism itself is performative.
Regardless which type you are, your vote has about as much effect on the result as your purchasing a lottery ticket has on the drawing, so patting yourself on the back for your principled individualism and third party contrarianism, on the one hand, or your heroic incrementalism in ushering in Libertopia via the long game, on the other, is delusional.
Yes, but my conscience is clear.
Maybe as a write-in. That weirdo is not on the ballot.
I would counter that the act of voting for the lesser of two evils election after election merely means that you are tolerating evil as the norm.
On this election I see principled and rational pro-freedom arguments for voting L, R, or D*, or simply sitting the election out. I think ERS is missing that this is a wicked problem with no clear solution.
For the curious…
Sitting it out: incentivizes politicians to be less evil in order to get higher turnouts in future elections; or refuses to waste time on a meaningless exercise where the government picks who appears on ballots and ‘counts’ the votes to declare who won.
L: incentivizes politicians to adopt L policies in a bid to get more votes in future elections.
R: Taps the brakes on the headlong rush of progressivism over the cliff.
D: Keeps the pedal to the metal in a bid to break the system faster so that we are less poor when the time comes to pick up the pieces.
How? How did a massive number of Britons sitting out their election months ago convince Starmer to be less evil? How would it convince Kamala?
Again, the only way to change direction is to convince more and more people of liberty. How does sitting it out do that?
Rather, making alliances with someone who could be in power to see and act with greater liberty in mind, such as putting a Libertarian at the head of the FBI or ATF, and SHOW people how liberty is better and would go farther than taking your ball and going home.
I did performative libertarianism.
One of my characters, who is a politician, got elected as a libertarian. So there.
Starmer and Kamala aren’t the only two power hungry politicians out there.
Incidentally, your criticism of sitting it out applies equally to every other voting strategy out there, so I’m curious why you are singling sitting it out as the strategy you aim that criticism at.
Goddam it! That was supposed to be a reply to Zwak.
Poor ESR.
A pragmatic libertarian behaves in such a way as to move the world in the direction of less coercion and reduced state power, even if that requires compromises with existing statism.
You know, like voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Eric S. Raymond
@esrtweet
I am about to weigh in on what X clearly thinks is the most important issue of our day.
Cider. Not eggnog.
Hot, with a stick of cinnamon in it.
https://x.com/esrtweet/status/1851647517991002274
both suck.
Tom and Jerries.
/drops mic
This is the way.
ehm ewww gross
Those are good too.
Yes.
Pie:
What’s gross about it? It’s a warm milk and egg drink with lovely spices and alcohol. After I made them once, they have become a mandatory thing for me to make up when the snow starts falling.
Any drink recipe that has survived for 100+ years did so for a reason.
every drink that has a significant quantity of sugar in the recipe is bad. Drinks should not be sweet.
I drink beer, dry wine and whisky. I would not waste liver real estate on any other alcohol.
Pie:
There’s less than a tablespoon of sugar in the final drink (it uses one tablespoon of the batter, which has a cup of sugar in it).
I love you, Pie, but your taste is in your ass. Egg Nog and cider are both awesome when properly made..
I have the finest taste on this website, possibly in the World.
Clearly you’re using the definition of ‘fine’ meaning ‘small, miniscule’.
shush UCS people are talking about taste.
I have the definitive taste here.
The guy can distinguish between Type O negative and B Positive and thinks he’s got a cultured palette.
Legit LOL
Eggnog and cider, when done right, are fantastic.
Cider with a stick of cinnamon sounds good.
I’ll pass on eggnog.
DEG is the one, true god.
Hot spiced cider is awesome.
Egg nog is awesome in small amounts.
Autumn has arrived! It’s supposed to rain all next week and there is NOTHING better about autumn than the rain. Except pumpkin spice.
Why yes, I AM a Basic White Bitch. Why do you ask?
Today is my annual day to make Alton Brown’s Aged Eggnog and have it perfect for Christmas.
https://altonbrown.com/recipes/aged-eggnog/
When I had surgery a few years ago, I had a batch made, but forgot about it for 2 years.
My wife was alittle nervous about drinking that batch, but it was still good.
If you say you don’t like eggnog, I would guess you never tried this one.
It doesn’t have to be aged, but ageing does make it smoother.
Stalinist Utopia
How socialists envisioned the post-war future: Eisenhüttenstadt
Earlier that day, I had visited nearby Eisenhüttenstadt, which translates as ‘Ironworks City’. Architecturally, it was without exaggeration one of the most fascinating settlements I’ve ever visited. Yet, I’m not convinced that Eisenhüttenstadt itself has quite realised its own uniqueness. It lost half of its population since 1990, leaving what is aesthetically a pleasing place somewhat empty and deserted.
Eisenhüttenstadt was built completely from scratch in the 1950s. It’s about 70 miles southeast of Berlin, right by the Polish border and was intended as a town for the workers of a newly established steel mill. Since the Soviet Zone of Occupation after the Second World War hadn’t included Germany’s old industrial heartlands, East Germany had to build new industrial infrastructure for itself.
It was an ideal opportunity for the East German authorities to construct a model city. The ‘first socialist city’ was built in socialist classicist style, also known as Stalinist architecture. Indeed, the city was renamed Stalinstadt – ‘Stalin City’ for a few years between the dictator’s death and destalinisation. I know a couple of people who still have ‘Stalinstadt’ named as their birthplace in their passport (which makes my ‘Wilhelm-Pieck-Stadt Guben’ – named after the first and only president of the GDR who was also born there – sound less severe).
https://www.katjahoyer.uk/p/stalinist-utopia
Sounds like it could have been used in the series ‘Life after People’.
This kind of horror show is what I think of when it comes to East German Stalinist.
In a socialist paradise none of this would happen
Millions of people across the U.S. live in places that are falling into disrepair, even becoming uninhabitable, making a massive shortage of affordable housing worse. They are disproportionately lower-income and Black or Hispanic, and many are seniors on fixed incomes. But a patchwork of repair programs — federal, state, local and nonprofit — are largely underfunded, with years-long waitlists. It’s a crisis that threatens people’s health and lives, yet can be invisible from the outside.
“We don’t see the black mold inside the house that gives a kid asthma. Or the fact that inadequate air conditioning means that an elderly couple is suffering from heatstroke,” says Todd Swanstrom, a public policy professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Another long weepy thumbsucker about the need for infinite government funded rescue programs.
If only the government owned and maintained all the houses, age and entropy would vanish.
Carousel is a Lie!
But a patchwork of repair programs — federal, state, local and nonprofit — are largely underfunded…
Sorry Professor Swanstrom, we sent all of that money to Ukraine like you wanted.
Hell, they were unfunded before pit-Ukraine.
And, of course-
The state program was funded with pandemic aid, and counties coordinate the repairs. They decide who qualifies based on income, and can offer up to a $50,000 grant to a household, or loan to a small landlord. There’s also money to make homes more energy-efficient and for workforce training to combat a construction industry shortage.
“Word of mouth traveled incredibly fast” when it launched, says Pennsylvania state Sen. Nikil Saval, the program’s sponsor. One county reached its funding limit in hours, he says, and demand was so high around Pittsburgh that only 6% of those who applied will get repairs.
No government spending program can ever be shut down.
Graft + keeping the poor poor.
Something for everyone!
The worst example of Covid money being spent locally is both if the local HS will be getting their full athletic fields turfed. Turf is great, but why are my federal tax dollars that were supposed to be used for Covid relief being used to build football and softball fields where there are already perfectly good fields?
Iguana was a lot tastier than I expected. Like eating the most delicious pork ribs but they’re an invasive species that you need to get rid of anyway. I could get used to Florida.
https://x.com/AthenaAktipis/status/1851968984012181963
In case you are wondering, iguana does not taste like gator.
https://x.com/SarahTheHaider/status/1851839454337446204
I would have thought they skin it before grilling
You are supposed to – if only to apply seasoning and fat to the edible parts.
Iguana hide is tough, you don’t want to try to eat it.
Tough skin…
I have a neighbor who shoots them with a CO2 pistol. They just bounce off the bigger ones if he isn’t very close.
My dog caught a good sized one – about 3 feet – and was carrying it around the yard, shaking it and biting it for a good 15 minutes before I got it away from him. I chucked it in the canal for the crabs to eat, and the damn thing swam away.
They are really tough critters.
You’re eating my pet!
ISTR the only time Anthony Bourdain was disgusted by something he was fed was iguana tacos in Mexico.
I’m an adventurous eater, but tree chicken sounds pretty gross indeed.
“I don’t care if those two can be rehabilitated. Sometimes rehab isn’t what the criminal justice system is there for.”
Rehab is absolutely not the main purpose of prison. The main purpose is to keep them away from committing more crimes as that is what they likely would be doing. The Menendez Brothers I don’t think would be, and it seems that all their relatives agree and want them out. I have no problem with them being granted clemency.
This. Yeah, I always thought “rehab” was kind of bullshit.
Rehab is a great idea, but I don’t think it works so well in current practice. I’ve had two pretty long conversations with convicted murderers in the past 6 months, with one who I now deal with regularly through work. I’ve already thought mixing populations of prisoners together that will be out in a few years and that stand little chance of ever getting out (or only so when very old) is a terrible idea, and our conversations lead me to hold that opinion even more strongly. He was telling me about how at a certain point he was given an ultimatum to join a gang or be killed and that he was lucky enough to have a guard on his side who liked him to get him moved to protective custody away from the gang. He said if it wasn’t for that one guard he’d be dead or never out as he would’ve had to have killed or seriously injured someone else.
Okay, so, XY was in a rehab program for about a year because reasons. About 1/3 jail, 1/3 school, 1/3 psychiatric treatment program.
It worked marvellously. However, I think some terms and conditions apply as far as a person’s rehabability and I don’t think you can know that from the outset. XY got to see a) we aren’t bad parents; he was being an asshole, b) other people have it much worse than he did, c) he does not want to spend the rest of his life with the kinds of people he spent that year with, d) he was able to graduate from high school, which he wouldn’t have done otherwise, and e) he got to earn money while there.
I don’t know how much that program costs versus juvie, but juvie would have just put him in the system forever.
I should qualify my typical blanket statement….
“Rehab” as a kind of euphemism for “prison” always annoyed me.
Agree that it has its place for certain people as part of the deal.
To quote Raising Arizona: “I don’t know how you come down on the incarceration question, whether it’s for rehabiIitation or revenge, but I was beginning to think revenge is the onIy that argument makes any sense.”
I’m so glad he is on the right track Mo, I can only imagine how difficult that would be as a parent. I saw it firsthand as an older brother and he didn’t make it, drug addiction is a fucking bitch. I absolutely think a rehab model is needed unless you have capital crimes or repeated offenses that warrant real hard prison time. 3 strikes seems about fair to me. In every study I’ve seen it’s an amazingly small number of offenders that commit the vast majority of crimes. A better job needs to be done of separating them from the salvageables. We also need to bring back sanitariums to have more options that’s jail and prison for the highly mentally unstable.
Thanks. My kid has a strong personality and MUST be in charge, and a parent’s only punishment recourse for a kid like that would land them in jail, so he needed someone with some bite. He moved out with his head screwed on straight and a job that let him be in charge. He still comes back to us for help and guidance (although, you know, an $800 car is NOT a good deal), and we’re happy to help.
Agree on sanitariums absolutely.
Audio editing question – can you speed up and pitch down a sample to counteract the chipmunk effect? Or would it sound doubly odd?
That would give you AC/DC.
You can, but changing tempo is a better method.
A: I had not been aware that ‘chipmonk effect’ was an actual term other people used.
B: it might be a while before I get to watch that, as I’ve got music going, and I’d prefer to not interrupt it.
C: are the more recent versions of Audacity still awful towards the users?
After the shit storm, they reverted some of the worst excesses, but I’m not sure if they ever reintroduced them. The distro I use has kept the pre-acquisition version maintained in the repos, so I still use that. The Tempo plugin was present even in the ancient versions of Audacity I was using in the mid aughts though, so you can safely use just about any version. That video is super short, so it’s easy to squeeze in somewhere, but the gist of it is, instead of “Effect > Change Speed and Pitch,” just use “Effect > Change Tempo” and play around with the percent change you want. That plugin does the work for you so you don’t have to correct pitch after changing speed.
Thanks.
The short answer is no.
You can find granular processors that can time stretch, but that’s not really what you’re looking for.
Hate and lies
X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t addressing the flood of U.S. election misinformation on Elon Musk’s social media platform, according to a report published Wednesday by a group that tracks online speech.
The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate analyzed the Community Notes feature and found that accurate notes correcting false and misleading claims about the U.S. elections were not displayed on 209 out of a sample of 283 posts deemed misleading — or 74%.
Misleading posts that did not display Community Notes even when they were available included false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that voting systems are unreliable, CCDH said.
Best elections in the world.
The nonprofit (but funded by a CIA cutout) Center for Countering Digital Hate ftfy
Stop the world, I want off.
San Francisco-based X also pointed to external academic research that has shown Community Notes to be trustworthy and effective.
Imran Ahmed, the CEO of CCDH, however, said the group’s research “suggests that X’s Community Notes are little more than a Band Aid on a torrent of hate and disinformation that undermines our democracy and further polarizes our communities.”
Dissent is treason.
The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate
What don’t you people understand?! They’re a nonprofit! Their motives are pure and their findings objective.
And they are against hate. That’s double good.
“Dissent is treason.”
Presidential polling suggests it might be turning back into the highest form of patriotism in a couple of weeks.
Just following orders
A 28-year-old Texas woman died in 2021 after her abortion care was delayed for over 40 hours as she was having a miscarriage, according to a new story from ProPublica.
Josseli Barnica was told that it would be a “crime” to intervene in her miscarriage because the fetus still had cardiac activity, despite her 17-week pregnancy already resulting in a miscarriage that was “in progress,” according to medical records obtained by ProPublica.
The medical team told Barnica that she had to wait until there was no heartbeat due to Texas’ new abortion ban, Barnica’s husband told ProPublica.
There was absolutely nothing they could do. They bum-rushed her right out of the emergency room. And how are the plaintiffs getting on with their $500 million malpractice lawsuit?
These stories reek of missing details and outright fabrication.
*insert “I smell shite” gif here*
I don’t see how it is possible to still have a heartbeat and have already miscarried. Without a blood supply via the placenta, it ain’t lasting minutes.
When my ex had the stillbirth, we went through this. She had pre-eclampsia and suffered a placental abruption. The baby had a distressed heartbeat for a while, but by the time they got her to the hospital, the baby was gone.
We had to wait a couple of days to deliver the baby. The pre-eclampsia was extremely dangerous and she could easily have died. I stayed up around the clock for 4 days making sure her medicine was delivered every 15 minutes as prescribed.
So, yeah, there is a lot more to the story than they are letting on.
I cannot imagine rushing someone who is 17 weeks pregnant into a procedure room for an immediate D&C if the baby has a heartbeat. It just doesn’t seem plausible.
In the case of GA, an abortion can be performed if it’s “medically futile” to keep the baby alive. I don’t know if TX has something similar, but I would guess they do. It seems a miscarriage would count as medically futile.
Huh. So one nanny fucker is endorsing the wife of another nanny fucker. Where’s my shocked face at?
Where is the Epstein footage?
I imagine Arnold was in the prime Epstein demo. Dude likes to fuck and has a flexible morality.
Screw your freedom.
Screw your nanny.
“Screw your freedom.”
I forgot about that.
Fuck that guy.
How the cheat is going this time. “Glitches” with dominion machines and, oops, we released the passwords – so we need a “patch” after the machines were certified and sealed.
https://x.com/PatrickByrne/status/1851746933884223683
A patch might not even be available, according to the Michigan Secretary of State:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/10/30/michigan-secretary-of-state-jocelyn-benson-explains-current-nationwide-issue-with-dominion-voting-machines/
The answer is to get rid of these machines, permanatly, incarcerate the people who bought them, those who made them, and the officials who didn’t get rid of them sooner.
Border crossing have dropped off in recent months, although they’re going back up again due to the built-up pressure of hundreds of thousands prevented from going north by Mexican authorities, apparently to aid the Democrats.
No matter who wins the election, expect a deluge of illegal aliens.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/31/mexico-is-holding-back-a-massive-wave-of-illegal-immigrants-that-will-break-after-the-election/
Strafing runs. These are clearly invading aliens.
…and catch the coyotes at the same time. Make it a bad idea to try to cross the border..
Meep Meep!