Greetings, humans. Fear not, for I bring you the gift of knowledge. The one known as a servant of the Swiss is still out – therefore, I share these with you…
Behold, a site whereby you may learn many tongues for free:
LangMedia | Five College Center for World Languages (fivecolleges.edu)
And lo, here is a good resource for making realistic wargames:
ODIN – OE Data Integration Network (army.mil)
This among other things, gives the location of the Pizza Farm, my favorite place on earth:
Wikipedia:Unusual articles – Wikipedia
This site illustrates a holy book in an amusing way (the ending is a doozy, as humans say):
The Brick Testament (thebrickbible.com)
And last, probably some of the best cartoons from this part of the outer spiral arm:
He’s not bored with the games so you shall play his role today? Neat…
Glad to see you back around, Derpy.
Me as well. You had me concerned last week.
Same.
4st. Glad you’re still around, Derps.
Not to be a downer, but when was this submitted?
+1
A very enthusiastic +n
A lot of us would probably be better served by being more cunning in our linguistic skills, yes.
Speak for yourself rookie
Thank Yahweh there is a content warning on the Brick Bible.
Kinda need one on the real one.
We were just doing the story where King David sends his best buddy to the front lines in war so he can bang his wife.
Pretty brutal
The banging?
That’s the OT. OTH, in the NT you get the crucifixion. Although it does say there will be a happy ending…
Christians missed a big opportunity in the 80’s. If they stuck some of those “adult content” stickers on The Bible kids would be more likely to read it.
It could have been a real Tipper!
It would probably gore someone’s ox.
I gotta ask. In the morning lynx photo, is that a girl getting headlocked? She doesn’t appear to be enjoying it.
In my wrestling days that was called a chicken wing (arm behind the back) with a cross face (other arm across the face). It looks like he is about to scoop her head up and swing around in front to turn her on her back.
Not enjoyable.
And do-si-do?
Something just occurred to me. The right was always against the trans thing, the mushy middle is quickly being disabused of it now, but the only thing that is gonna get the left to give up its death grip on this is when a girl dies at the hands of one of these boys.
And that is going to be very, very sad.
Rape didn’t make them care — I think the only thing that will get the left to give it up is in 10 years or so when the victims come to find them.
The only thing that will make the Left care is when the Right starts supporting it.
That is because they never really cared about rape, qua rape.
They cared about frat boys and the patriarchy, knocking those down. Rape is a great reason why they need to do that, they can’t get rid of a moral cudgel.
https://www.oldeshillelagh.com/cudgels
I have one of these.
Happy I worked from home today, but tomorrow I get to again experience the joy that is NYC where weapons of any kind are forbidden unless you’re crazy.
Mayor Adams blames ‘failed’ system after man accused of stabbing spree in Manhattan
Perfect liberal Gothamist article with a perfect quote from the useless mayor.
Too bad Daniel Penny is still tied up with his show trial.
First thing I thought too.
Bonus:
Witness in Daniel Penny trial lied about his involvement — and proves no good deed goes unpunished
Pretty much.
Ponder the fact that the next mayor is almost certainly going to be much, much worse.
Like that commie Lander who beyond any reason seems so popular.
Chicago says “uh-uh, we still got you beat”.
OK, that guy is truly awful. But don’t think NYC doesn’t have it in itself to cough up someone even worse.
Yeah, just pointing out how bad you have to get to make your predecessor look halfway competent. Johnson seems to have done that.
Not all weapons are prohibited. Under the ADA, you can even take one of these on a plane:
https://www.blackswiftsticks.com/
Although you’ll want some training. I recently saw one being used in a class, and they are brutal.
I prefer the classics
https://www.oldeshillelagh.com/classic-31-34
That’s cultural appropriation. My unemployment and hereditary drinking problem are not your costume!
I’ve contemplated that or similar.
If that was directed at me, note that kinnath’s grandfather’s grandfather was born in County Tyrone and his wife was born in County Cork.
“Olde Shillelagh”
That’s a euphemism I may have used in the past.
A Wizard’s Staff Has A Knob On The End
I’d probably prefer an old-school sjambok, but I could imagine the freakout if a 50-something white dude went medieval on some vibrancy with an apartheid-era switch.
I have handled both a sjambok (well, a modern version, not the one made out of rhino hide), and this thing is not too different. I expect a hard hit with the skinny end would open up the skin. A hard hit with the handle would definite break bones.
Bernie Goetz for mayor.
If only we could get rid of the kitchen knives.
Saw one of my buddies in the back yard today.
He was pretty chill, but the local amphibian wasn’t toadally on board with what was happening.
I was going to introduce Mr. Garter to my wife, but she has a reptile dysfunction.
Cool! Late in the season even for garter snakes, which are fairly cold-tolerant.
Someone is about to get toad.
Fun fact – Garter snakes (Thamnophis sp.) are rear-fanged and mildly venomous, although their venom is specifically targeted at amphibians and would be incapable of affecting even a small child.
Because of their diet, which includes poisonous frogs and salamanders, they are also one of the rare species of snake that is both venomous and poisonous.
Dammit, I have racked my brain and cannot come up with either a toad the lion or wet sprocket joke.
Go ahead and introduce your wife to both of them. She’ll forgive you, she loves you warts and all.
That’s a myth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzMfzPFcvJU&ab_channel=PrinceAdamBinAlwaleed
And now something that helps lighten my mood.
April Fools’ joke results in Japanese firm making a beige ’80s throwback PC case
They made it as a joke for a trade show and people loved it so much they decided to produce it.
I’d be happy to be able to buy gaming components without LED’s on them, but I don’t want the old beige cases back. I prefer my towers with the power supply on the bottom, preferably modular (the power supply more than the case).
This is my new build.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/PXL_20241019_132406318.jpg
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/PXL_20241019_130350292.jpg
Only LEDs are turned off on my EVGA 3080 GPU. I wish the MB had an actual error code LED, but it’s got 4 LEDs to show where in the boot process. Otherwise no lights.
Sensei:
Very nice. Mine is several years old at this point, and I should probably start considering my next build.
I kinda dig it, but I’d like to get the case with the dive and port bay covers pre-broken, just for the realism.
Nice. I hated when horizontal fits-nicely-on-my-desk got replaced by vertical where-the-fuck-do-I-put-this-thing.
NERDS!
The totes “You Have Arrived” status symbol at my first job was getting a laptop! Only managers could get them.
I was the second person to get an IBM Thinkpad (they weren’t Lenovo back then) instead of the standard Compaq piece of shit. I only got the Thinkpad because we had gotten a new global VP from IBM and she wanted a Thinkpad too. So I piggy backed on her request.
Jimbo – where you in Kyushu?
Police track down unlikely shoe thief from Japanese kindergarten
And then ten seconds later you remember what it really means is you’re on call twenty-four hours a day.
Sensei:
I’m in Kobe. That is Hyogo?
Speaking of Japan, we were discussing the difference between gaijin and gaikokujin on a recent zoom and I wasn’t able to give a decent answer on the difference.
I still give my niece shit for calling me a gaijin because she is a racist, but I have no idea how widespread it is here.
Jimbo – yes Kobe is Hyogo.
I think the whole gaijin and gaikokujin thing is just overblown. It just became a PC tempest in a teapot.
外人 – literally outside + person (gai jin)
外国人 – outside + country + person (gai koku jin)
Outside is modifying the person and not the country. The idea being you will always be on the outside of society. Which as we know is actually generally true… But it allows us gaijin to make jokes at our own expense.
So, maybe you are just gai, you holiness.
Sensei:
When I first came to Japan in the ’80s I was told that gaijin was literally foreign barbarian, but was now used for foreigners. Other Marines were my source for that, so I wouldn’t be surprised to find out it was 90% bullshit.
I just like finally being able to say “gaijin please”. My problem is that my niece isn’t worried at all about me calling her a racist. She just laughs.
Rhywun:
And then ten seconds later you remember what it really means is you’re on call twenty-four hours a day.
There was a beater laptop that got passed around to the oncall person. The laptop and a pager. Ugh! I hated being oncall back in those days. 56K baud modem was the way you dialed in to fix things at night.
The nice thing about the laptop is it gave you plausible deniability if you weren’t at your desk. You might have been off somewhere else working. The problem with the desktops is that if you weren’t sitting in front of it, you weren’t working.
House to house doorkicking
Overnight, Trump responded to a social media post from Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton, who said earlier this month there are reports the incoming administration is preparing such a declaration and to use “military assets” to deport the migrants.
“TRUE!!!” Trump wrote.
Trump pledged to get started on mass deportations as soon as he enters office.
“On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out,” he said during a rally at Madison Square Garden in the closing days of the presidential race. “I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible.”
Round ’em up and head ’em out. Thousands of people chained together in cattle cars.
Dictator on Day 1, just as they said. I can already smell the book bonfires.
PA Supreme Court just ordered Bucks County to cut the shit.
https://x.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1858618365180252559
So they’ll just date them, right?
At this point every thing is just so trustworthy.
“Stop, or I’ll yell stop again”
I wanna see bitches in handcuffs and crying.
Tweet doesn’t cover the “Or…. ?” I would have expected. Hopefully the Court did.
There’s another way to end this.
The Supreme Court telling marxists to stop marxing is the same as sending a strongly worded letter. They will not stop.
I should probably be more worried about it and all.. but since I can definitely see the argument that this was a foreign invasion and hence the rightful province of the military to defend the States… I don’t find myself all that upset about it.
It was a 4am ‘tweet’, you know it wasn’t really the Donald. Had to be The Hair.
Homan reiterated his plan to “take the handcuffs of ICE” and ramp up arrests, though noted that he will need more resources to carry it out and said there are “a lot of what-ifs.”
“So, I’ve been asked a thousand times, how many people can you remove the first year? Well, how many agents do I have?” he said. “Can we bring rehired agents back, the ones that are retired bring them back and rehire them. How many buses do I have? How much money do I have for airplanes? Right? Can DOD assist? Because DOD can take a lot off our plate. There’s a lot of what ifs …”
Throughout the campaign, Trump vowed to mobilize the National Guard to assist with the deportation effort. Experts told ABC News such a move would mark a fundamental shift for the military, which does not normally engage with domestic law enforcement issues.
At times, Trump went further, suggesting thousands of troops from overseas be moved to the U.S.-Mexico border.
We’ll need those European based troops to fight the Russians.
This is a fool’s errand. There is no way they can deport that many. Better to just grant them all citizenship and write them a check every month. /Dems
Anything less would be fiscally irresponsible.
They need to predawn raid every state’s dmv or other government agency that has been giving drivers licenses or benefits to illegal aliens and use those lists as priority deportations. And arrest all of the government officials who have been enabling this bs.
Stop deferring DACA and advanced parole, deport now back to their country of citizenship. Unhappy? Blame your parents like everyone else.
It’s not like it hasn’t been done before….. Task Force FORSCOM Border Support, Operation Jumpstart…. Though the NG wasn’t acting as law enforcement.
This site illustrates a holy book in an amusing way
I was surprised to learn that coffee is in the Bible.
Bah-dunn-tisss
He Brew, the chosen beer
Saw that, did not try it,
I think a lot of folks pass over it.
I’ve had it, if you take a drink, you definitely are not shellfish.
Not for sale in Egypt
Problem is, if you drink too much, you will part sea red.
Back before they closed (and were purchased to bring them back), the Uncle Lenny RIPA was a regular go to.
Available everywhere, just look for the blood on the door?
“Not for sale in Egypt”
They are in denial.
Horrifying
In his Project 2025 chapter, Carr outlined his agenda for the FCC. Carr wrote that one of the goals for Trump’s administration should be reining in Big Tech’s “attempts to drive diverse political viewpoints from the digital town square,” according to Business Insider. Carr suggested that companies be unable to censor content unless it is illegal, allowing consumers to choose their own content filters and fact-checking services.
Carr’s intentions for social media are perhaps best demonstrated by X, which has been transformed into a MAGA misinformation echo chamber by its owner, Elon Musk, who seems to have permanently attached himself to Trump’s side.
That’s just crazy. What about our right to never hear a discouraging word?
“MAGA misinformation echo chamber”
Sure, Jan.
I think it is fantastic that the anti-1A people are outing themselves.
I saw the title and larfed.
Glad to see you Derp- I mean, MOTHMAN.
How often does PBF actually update? I know I stopped reading it a number of years ago because there weren’t any new comics (got the first hardcover book).
Does MOTHMAN wear Swole Squatch brand active wear?
Does anyone?
We will never know.
Xwitter has been quiet today. Outside the FCC chair, no announcements. Bhattacharya for NIH and Bongino for USSS are rumored, those would be fun.
Xwitter? Come on man, it’s TwiX!
Right Twix is better than left Twix.
Okay nerds, here’s your evening reading assignment.
There may, or may not be a quiz in the morning.
You seem to have confused Nerds with Wonks. That’s a paper for Wonks, not Nerds.
I am unburdened of what needs doing today, and tomorrow.
[racks pump action shotgun]
Because every dollar in the budget is stolen goods?
No, because you just invite the left to swoop in with their morality.
The purpose of the budget is to allocate resources to federal priorities. This is like the WFA red herring – we need to argue (and crush the opposing argument) about what to actually spend on. Do that and we might actually have more money in tax collections that could then be returned to the tax payers.
Lamentations from the reservation
After she took over as the party’s nominee, Harris, a longtime champion of organized labor in the Senate who also walked a picket line, vowed to uphold and expand on Biden’s pro-union policy.
But that policy was not enough to overcome larger societal forces that have led many working-class voters to doubt Democrats’ commitment to their well-being.
“If there is one single lesson of the last election, and really the last four years, it’s that delivering material benefits to workers will not help you electorally,” said Will Stancil, a progressive policy analyst with a large social media following. “Which basically annihilates the left’s entire theory of politics.”
Telling the rednecks you hate them won’t make them vote for you? That’s quite an eyeopener.
So that’s what they’ve been doing this whole time! Truly we are not worthy.
Some with proper (and possibly surgically altered) genitalia as well as skin color are, however, more worthy.
Oh yes. The last four years have been nothing but an exercise in “delivering material benefits to workers.” People are just too ignorant to realize how much their economic fortunes have improved.
Maybe if the left had actually, you know, delivered material benefits to workers, things might have worked out better for them.
They still cant figure out why they lost. Spoken like a true sociopath.
My father told me not an hour ago he remembers when you could not put 20 dollars worth of groceries into one grocery cart. Hell, I remember that myself.
Turns out that printing shitloads of dollars that dont represent any actual wealth then handing it out to non-productive people is not a winning economic strategy, especially when the biggest business in the world is government which produces nothing.
That votes don’t stay bought?
“What have you done for me lately?” is the most important question in electoral politics.
Kids say the darndest things
Harry drives the Macan “Turbo.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vJOriNNGcc&ab_channel=Harry%27sgarage
He’s unimpressed with the towing.
What a weird car.
Hmmmm…. No description of the attackers? I’m thinking that our brave trans neighbors might have run afoul of some wrong thinking Somali neighbors.
How can you have an entire article about a despicable attack on a couple of trans women and not give any details about the people who assaulted them? Instead the entire article is about how Minnesoda is a trans refuge and Trump is scaring them.
“Well, apparently ones was named Muhammad, but that doesn’t really narrow it down much.”
The article doesn’t even mention how many times the attackers screamed “This is MAGA country!!!” Dozens? Hundreds??? Did they have the traditional red MAGA hats, or the newer camo ones?
Obviously we know those bigoted monsters are the only people on earth who would do such a thing.
Pretty sure it was tranny on tranny violence. Time will tell.
“how Minnesoda is a trans refuge”
You misspelled Twin City Metro area. I’m surprised the non-paying riders didn’t step up and help those in need.
That’s totally believable. 🙄
Hrm. Trans violence is almost assuredly higher than the ‘average rate,’ but Islamic hatred off gays+ is another level up. Inward, translamic violence would be a ‘more interesting’ story, and double-secreted if true.
That’s why there’s a bathroom between the master and kids’ bedrooms. Much less sound transmission
I always imagine Laura Ingalls in the loft of that little house hearing the bumping and grinding from Charles and Caroline that produced Laura’s younger siblings.
It does interest me how, or if, old-timey families with lots of kids boned around. Sending them out is the easiest, but nighttime fun is more ‘natural.’ (“Already naked and in bed, honey…” plus my eager-morning tumescence and all..)
Surely plenty of cultures were much more open than now and likely didn’t think of it. Going further, sleep, sex and shitting are the three times you’re most vulnerable times for an adult. (I’ve had sex in bed, I’ve shat in bed (bedpans for surgery time!), but never combined all three. Gotta Costanza it at some point, ev.) Humans are humans, I’m positive much ribald humor has always been had at the expense of it. See also: Getting hit in the balls. Funny as fuck til its you.
Well, this is interesting. Sweden, Finland and Norway warning their citizens to prepare for nuclear war.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ww3-fears-sweden-tells-citizens-34135588
Someone post this already?
Biden authorized American arms to be used inside Russia. It’s insane.
I knew that but I assumed everyone involved knows what Biden is up to and it wont happen.
1. The Ukraine war is a money laundering operation. It is not supposed to get out of hand and blow up the world.
2. Zelensky cant run his scam if Ukraine is a smoking heap of ash.
3. Putin knows Trump will be in a couple of months from now and as soon as the money from DC stops the war will stop.
4. None of the NATO countries are on board with full on nuclear war with Russia.
I could go on. No one wants this.
Maybe I am wrong but I hope not. If it does break out there is not much that anyone can do about it.
Newland wants war more than she wants money laundering.
I don’t believe it will happen, but I’d still be nervous if I were near Russia.
Feels like a desperate escalation too.
So, wow. Fannie Mae or somebody related wanted us to redo every outlet in every apartment in every building in two apartment complexes. We started a few weeks ago. Needs to be done by the 1st. Today, they sent me one guy, with 30ish apartments left. We got 4 done, which I think is pretty good. Maybe 16 outlets per plus 2 GFCI’s. Aluminum wiring from the 70s. My back hurts like crazy. Bending under the kitchen cabinets? And they are like full occupancy, so lots of furniture to move. I need a new job.
How many illegal immigrants are they putting in those apartments?
Not too many on the outskirts of Flint,MI, but they got their own problems round here.
Michael Moore hanging around with a camera crew making DenverJ and Me?
Derp has a highly active page on the book of faces. He posts interesting shit frequently, but I’m not sure if I’m at liberty to say.