The Cowboys found a comical, yet satisfying, way to lose yet again. And that’s pretty much it, aside from noting that the UCL is back today and tomorrow with Atalanta-Madrid and Inter-Leverkusen probably being the headliners today, although there are more than a few teams playing desperation matches as well this afternoon. And that’s it for sports.
I can tell you what an auction is. And I can also tell you that this was not an auction. Let’s see what the judge decides. Side note: I’ve done more than a few auctions in Harris County for trustees of both bankruptcies and estates. And the items always had to be put up for auction and the highest bid had to be accepted in every one I’ve been involved in.
More evidence that our schools are failing students. This used to be commonplace but now it seems to be rare. And that’s to the detriment of our country.
Christ, what an asshole. Side note: the capture of this guy is about as sketchy a story as I can imagine. I’m not putting on my tinfoil hat just yet, but it’s quite bizarre.
Christ, what an asshole (part 2). I’d almost forgotten about this little cretin. Unfortunately she keeps popping back up with more retardation.
Christ, what an asshole (part 3). I still don’t understand why anybody gives this woman airtime.
Somebody in the US government needs to start taking notes. Well, somebody in the incoming administration, anyway.
I don’t like it, but I understand it. Hopefully they’ll get a case where the defendant has standing soon. But I fear they’ve just given the state the ability to simply slow walk trials for years in order to keep this bullshit on the books.
Good thing this guy didn’t move to Ohio. Jeez……
This is quality trolling. Especially in that city, and double-especially because there were likely at least a dozen piles of human feces in the street within a few blocks of the signs.
I’m not so sure about this lawsuit. Are airlines a public accommodation? If so, I guess it’s valid. If not, then it’s frivolous. Also, if they are public accommodations, this would be a fun case for the Supreme Court. I could see the defenders of the policy being disappointed at winning the case there but having public accommodation laws eviscerated.
Let’s rock! Kind of. Yeah, let’s do it. Such fun, short songs. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
Parts 2 and 3 link to the same place.
So Part 1 is the stink?
I guess we know who reads the links.
Or at least hovers over them to get the headlines.
Oops. Fixed it.
*clicks through again*
Oh, that asshole. I think I just saw that she’s already been canned again.
Like most of these attention seeking props on the global stage… I wish we’d do the cruelest thing possible to them.
Ignore them until they go away.
But this is the society we live in — preoccupied with the ripples on the waves of the ocean of our lives so we won’t notice the leviathans closing in beneath.
TL;DR — SQUIRREL!
“Fetch the rabies guillotine!” -NY DEC
Now there’s a circular Venn diagram if ever there was one.
So (((they))) have weather control machines that are working in league with Big Oil to sink the islands and make Israel wet again?
I do find it hilarious that they’re not even pretending otherwise.
“solidarity with Palestine and the climate movement.” 🙄
It’s all support for terrorism against modernity and mankid.
Wait… the smartphone app doesn’t let us keep track of them and make sure they make their court dates?
The FedGov lied about that?!!?
Gasp! Sob!
The feature is there, it’s just not enabled, coded, designed, or usable.
But it’s there!
“It’s in the list of ‘nice to haves’ in the requirements document. That’s good enough!” – Bureaucrat.
It wasn’t part of the minimum viable product?
Meanwhile, the FBI and US Marshals have been able to use geolocation data from nothing more than a name and phone number to send SWAT teams to bumfuck Alaska to harass old ladies who they falsely accused of stealing Nancy Pelosi’s laptop on January 6th, 2021.
While 85% of high schoolers nationwide say they want to learn about financial topics, according to business software company Intuit, only 10 states require such a course, according to Champlain College’s Center for Financial Literacy. But by 2031, that’s expected to jump to 26 states.
High school seems a bit late to me for this. Grade school is better. But, better late than never.
On the other, a tech company’s billboard proclaimed, “Stop hiring humans.”
Various versions of the provocative advertisements are emblazoned across the city on rotating screen displays on bus shelters and on classic vinyl billboards on poles and buildings, plugging the San Francisco startup Artisan. SFGATE spoke with Artisan’s CEO about the campaign. The company has just 30 employees and is less than 2 years old;
I wonder how many of those employees are humans.
Eh, they need to learn fractions and percentages in grade school. Building blocks, yo.
We did that in my grade school. Financial stuff, which admittedly was light but we did go over, was the year after fractions. Percentages was, if I remember correctly, concurrent with the financial stuff.
Mortgages should be taught in first grade.
What grade level do they teach percentages?
Introduction is in dealing drugs 101, but the meat of percentages and compounding interest rates is covered in loansharking 201.
The two students were identified under pseudonyms in the lawsuit for fear of retribution “because of their involvement with the Alliance or their opposition to race-based programs.”
You have nothing to fear from the tolerant left. Unfortunately the tolerant left is an insignificant portion of the left.
Standing is the biggest bullshit in law, and should not stand. Anyone affected by even the possibility of a law should be able to sue, whether or not they have gone to court or not, where they live, or if the law has even been enacted. It gets passed, start suing the gov’t pronto.
I don’t think you need to get rid of standing, because if you do, you’ll have the watermelons immediately sue every energy company non-stop. What you need to do is pass a law saying that every citizen has standing to sue a government that they are subject to. Assuming you believe that the government derives power from its subjects, the subjects should have a say when they feel the government is using those powers against the governing documents (Constitution in this case).
My tweak regarding standing would be to add that the mere existance of a law that would inhibit a constitutionally protected right grants standing to sue – even if the law has not been enforced.
My tweak to the shuffle the commas solution is that laws substantively similiar in function to those previously shown to be unconstitutional must be put under immediate and manditory injunction until they can be adjudicated, with the legislators personally footing the costs of the adjudication if it is shown to be unconstitional.
That is a better way of saying what I am going for. Yes, every state resident should be able to sue said state for any and all reasons. And the same goes for the nation as a whole; every citizen should be able to sue the Fed gov’t for any and all reasons.
The kicker being that as soon as a law is voted in, and not just takes effect or damages someone, it should be eligible for a lawsuit against it. And as far as watermelons go, energy companies do not make laws, so standing should not change then, although it could be tossed out and have much more strict judges pair* back the number of court cases.
*just for the grammar Nazi’s among us.
English is too weird when a pair is a pare but a pear is not a peer.
Par for the course
Redress of injury is a cornerstone of our legal system, and you would kick that out eh?
Where do you get that idea? Nothing I wrote says you cannot sue…
You in fact say that no injury is necessary, just butthurt.
You in fact say that no injury is necessary, just butthurt.
With regard to state action, everyone within the jurisdiction has immediate standing, by definition, regardless of direct impact. You are immediately subject to those rules and therefore have standing.
In the private sector – neglecting the fascistic conflation of the two that is part and parcel of modern western governance – requires showing of impact/injury – standing – since your are not by definition subject to the actions/policies of a private actor.
No, you don’t have instant
karmastanding because you haven’t been harmed by the effect of the law. There has been no injury [to you]. Hypothetically it could be you, or it could be someone else, but until there is a concrete case – you’re only dealing with hypotheticals.The drepivation of your constitutionally protected right is a harm, even if it’s just a chilling effect upon protected activities.
Any infringement on the rights of the community at large definitionally injures the individuals who comprise that community. If Nebraska passed a law tomorrow banning men named Steve from owning firearms, but never once enforced the law, until one day they decided to use it to strip Klansmen and neo-Nazi Steve Doe of his firearms despite his having committed no other crime, the very ability of the state to arbitrarily use their bullshit law to selectively target an unsympathetic victim constitutes an injury to every single person in Nebraska. This is precisely the way that the EPA, for example, gets away with stymieing property development for decades at a time by hanging the sword of Damocles over the heads of property owners by threatening to issue back-dated fines if they begin development, but not actually issuing any fines until then so that the owner has no standing to challenge the EPAs rulemaking authority unless they’re willing to take on the financial burden of the fines as well as a court case. Civil law is an entirely different matter. Fuck the goddamn government being able to shit all over your rights and then bar you from challenging it until they’ve already showed up and shot your dog.
the community at large
Ah, the joys of collectivism.
selectively target an unsympathetic victim constitutes an injury to every single person in Nebraska
Democracy in a nutshell – it doesn’t harm me, and those like me, so we have no problem with it.
The exact opposite, actually. I’m recognizing that when the government oppresses what you deem to be an undifferentiated group of people, it’s definitionally oppressing individuals, who should have standing to challenge the oppression, precisely because groups are not nebulous non-entities as you would have them, but merely collections of individuals.
And that’s why it’s so important to allow the non-normies a chance to challenge bad laws, even if those laws haven’t *yet* been used against them personally, especially when said laws are widely supported by the broader community, who will never be subject to them. Otherwise you get situations like, say, southern rednecks in the post-reconstruction south kindly suggesting to itinerant negroes that it might be better to leave town before sunset to avoid copping a loitering, vagrancy, or public disorder charge, with no legal consequences, because if the itinerant negro took their advice, there was no cause of action. One of the tradeoffs the government should have to put up with in exchange for the pretense that it exists at the consent of its subjects is having to face a higher legal standard than a civil action that definitionally cannot apply to non-parties. I didn’t ask to be made a party to government that existed for centuries before my birth, but if you’re going to make me a party, I should have standing to dispute the terms.
The point of requiring injury/standing is that it puts to test the real harm. Relax that and all you’re going to get is butthurt about being on the losing side of EVERY political question.
If you think we are an overly litigious society now, remove standing and watch what happens.
I certainly expect you’re right — and appreciate that the Nazgul bothered to write out their dismay with the Aloha ruling but why they couldn’t smite it at the moment.
Many of us have said it before, but what’s the internet for if not reharping on old gripes…. one huge flaw in our current system is the complete lack of penalty for unconstitutional laws and actions by the various levels. They can eventually be stopped… but get to benefit (from their perspective) for years if not decades until it finally gets struck down.
They can eventually be stopped… but get to benefit (from their perspective) for years if not decades until it finally gets struck down.
And once struck down, they move a few commas in the old law, change a word or two, then enact a new law that’s effectively the same. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Yep… (yep yep yep yep). The New York model.
I did like the Gorsuch bit about nice court ya got there, be a shame if anything were to happen to it.
Moral will improve.
https://x.com/wayotworld/status/1866262837070377325
I was already aware of that practice, and worse. I do not like it. And it is destructive.
It’s counterproductive. Often your stressed employees are the ones actually doing the work. You have just made things worse for your bottom line.
Anyone got a link to this other than a Twitter screenshot?
Meh, a lot of employees at certain places were unduly stressed about Covid, or the election or re-election of Donald Trump. To the point where they weren’t getting actual work done.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/yesmadam-apologises-amid-massive-social-media-backlash-over-layoffs-claim-posts-were-planned-101733812973137.html
More obfuscation. Not clear if they are digging out or PR gone wrong.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Tough love and tough kid
Thanks, Jimbo
In high school we’d congregate at my buddies house every Sunday morning for the double header of the wrestling show on TBS (local AWA wrestling during commercials) followed by Kung Fu Theater.
My buddy’s dad (who was a huge guy) would sit in his EZ Boy and laugh at our antics as much as the TV.
Wasn’t Tay-Lo on TOS? ISTR The Jacket declaring her the authentic voice of the yoot or something.
The authentic voice of two yoots – like a couple of them if you added their ages together?
She’s the one who made so much hay out of the fact that the horrible people on the internet sent her death threats?
I guess sending death threats is beyond the pale, but actually killing someone is A-OK.
Yeah, after the worthless little cunt had spent a decade doxxing random people and destroying their lives on twitter, then had her uncle, who is a board member of the Internet Archive, scrub every trace of her website, blogs, and Twitter posts from the Wayback Machine after she got a taste of her own medicine. Oh, but that list bit is fake news, because there’s no DNA proof of their relation, and their family connection cannot be verified, on account of some kind stranger completely scrubbed her entire life history from the internet for her, bless their heart.
So what you’re saying is that there is no reason to believe Tay-Lo is a real person rather than yet another hallucinating AI project.
Well, since she predates the rise of consumer AI image generation, she’d need to be a government plot.
I have my doubts about the “trial” and the “verdict” myself.
A billion dollars for hurt feelings is totally normal.
There was no trial.
The judge went “Produce a document you don’t have.” and when they could not went “you failed to obey and impossible order, therefore you lose the case and cannot appeal”.
No worries, SCOTUS will address predetermined civil verdicts in US courts just as soon as somebody can show video footage of the judge ass raping them so they can show standing.
Uffda. Minnesoda crime season is upon us. The green gold thieves are out and about.
If you put out a warning sign that trees are randomly protected…
https://ksmetals.com/products/mw36-3-16
What can you say about Minnesoda’s govt? They can’t even give away money without people bitching.
It is breathtaking the amount of fuckuperry Walz and the DFL managed while they had the Trifecta (gov, senate and state house). They couldn’t even come up with a simple rebate plan for e-bikes. They had to try to add in some soak-the-rich bs in the bill and now everyone is mad.
I’ve never seen anywhere in Minnesota where a bicycle, with or without deadly electrics, would be a sane option for transportation.
OMWC begs to differ
UCS:
Did you not read the article? Did you miss this line?
which was intended to give working people a chance at the ascendant transportation option.
That’s right! E-bikes are the ascendant transportation option.
I thought those were elevators.
Another perfect example is our new legal pot laws. Of course, they couldn’t just issue licenses for pot like liquor licenses. Nope, had to come up with a plan for giving social equity preference points to people who had been busted for pot selling.
Which would have been <sarc>great</sarc> except for that other part of the law that automatically expunged everyone’s pot convictions sort of screwed them over.
I’ve never understood why you couldn’t just tack pot onto existing liquor licenses under the same rules for selling liquor, and move on with your (regulatory) day.
Now do EV rebates.
One problem for the left is that their various biases and “principles” conflict with each other.
Only if you attempt to reconcile these and not just bask in your feelings of moral superiority. Also why we must never examine results that might run contrary to our good intentions.
I’ll be honest – the hard left going all-in on CEO hate is taking me aback in much the same way their giddy Jew hate did last October.
Click-bait.
You answered your own question.
She’s going to be a crazy old lady someday and still used for click bait.
And by some day, you mean, some day soon. I think somebody finally burned through the chaff on her life history to uncover her deepest darkest secret: her age.
She’s 40, BTW.
In both cases, it’s been simmering under the surface for years. It appears now is the time when it boiled over.
The fucking progs still think they’re the rebellion instead of the Man.
It is hard to speak truth to power when you are the power.
Not only are they The Man, they are also the Squares who insist on conformity at all costs.
It has to sting to now be the party of the unhip and uncool.
If being unhip and uncool is what gets the graft, then I suppose it’s worth it.
Pope Jimbo:
The peak of that was when Whimper Against the Machine had a concert that required proof of vaccination and masks.
“Fuck you I Won’t Do What you Tell Me!” my aching ass.
LOL
I always hated those assholes.
I remind you this asshole has gotten more air time, and sympathetic coverage from the left, then either Trump assassin wannabes. And that is by design…
If I understand the Alex Jones auction nonsense well enough, the logic of rewarding the smaller bid was that the superior bid would have needed to have topped The Onion’s bid plus whatever the Sandy Hook families (or their wealthy benefactors) kicked in because they are ones owed money? Sure would be nice if the article didn’t just gleefully mock Jones and instead actually tried to break down the positions.
But that doesn’t even really begin to make sense because where the hell did they get the seven million dollar valuation from 1.5 million or whatever? How are they going to get more value from the $1.75 million than one twice that number?
It doesn’t matter. The entire thing is a charade meant to screw Jones over. It is a conspiracy all bankrolled by powerful figures who want to do away with the second amendment (and the first, for that matter).
That’s not how an auction works. By that logic, the Onion could have have bid a billion dollars because the people financing their bid were getting the billion from the judgment.
The trustee has to collect and distribute the funds. They’d have to have the cash on hand to make the purchase, it would go through the court and be distributed to the correct parties. Allowing a plaintiff to manipulate a bid by incorporating what they’re owed into their own perverts the auction process and results in FMV manipulation. It might not matter so much for this sale, but if this sets a precedent, you’ll see a lot of manipulation in estate and BK auctions in the future.
For “debtor-in-possession” bankruptcy auctions, the (main?) creditor does, in fact, get to credit their bid with the amount they are owed.*
*Note: not a bankruptcy lawyer, but I’ve watched a few bankruptcies go down, and I think this is the way it works.
RC – The Onion was not a creditor in this case. Had the Sandy Hook coalition themselves bid, they could use their interest as part of the bid, but the Onion is only backed by them.
I don’t know BK law well, but you absolutely can credit bid (bid up to the amount of the judgment owed to you without producing cash except that needed to cover sale costs) as the judgment creditor in a foreclosure case, and I see no obvious argument under which personal property auctions would have stricter rules than real property. Credit bidding generally requires a perfected security interest.
I’d like to see where the $7 million valuation came from. It sounds like utter bullshit.
The other 21 percent couldn’t scrape together the airfare but there’s always next year.
Denying reentry seems appropriate. The danger has passed, congrats you are no longer a refuge.
Everyone…every fucking one…knows they aren’t really refugees. They don’t even fit the definition of refugee in international law. They crossed the borders of a slue of countries to get to Europe. None of this about humanitarianism.
Or, more accurately “You never werew a refugee. Get out and stay out or we’ll shoot you in the head.”
Now do DACA recipients here and Advance Parole so they can come back from their country of citizenship.
It’s all chump effect bullshit.
Except for the mysteriously popular for some reason MAGA parties that the establishment parties are trying to ban.
*face-palm*
Can’t even stop the flow of contraband into prison. I’m sure they’ll fix that one in a right minute.
Maybe we need to teach them that it is Creole to be Kind?
I think when your leaders have names like Barbecue, maybe the flow of arms isn’t the biggest problem.
“warlord”
WTF, Haiti?
Another sign of the irrelevance of higher education.
Wouldn’t the real important topics be: boob jobs, lip fillers and ass implants?
Just think, a major that even the gals majoring in English can look down on.
Pope Jimbo:
What do you think the gals that were majoring in English aren’t going to change to this major?
Neph:
Good point. I can only imagine the wave of gals switching majors because they are so tired of all the studying they had to do as an English major.
Meh, unis have been offering degrees in entrepreneurship for decades. It’s a blow me non-credential, but only slightly more so than an ordinary business admin or business management degree. I’d try to get a refund on mine if the taxpayers hadn’t footed the bill. Thanks, guys.
They have to do something. According to their website,
1) enrollment is down almost 30% over the past 10 years, and
2) only 10% of their undergraduate degrees are in STEM areas.
For a “Tech” university, I’d say those are serious problems. I’d be grasping at straws too.
Besides, even business and education majors need a place to fail to.
Our administration would probably think this is a genius idea.
The tinfoil hat conspiracy theory of the CEO murder. Makes as much sense as the mainstream story.
https://stateofthenation.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Healthcare-CEO-Assassination.pdf
I mean, what doesn’t make sense to people? It’s rather easy for me to wrap my head around it.
5 days later he’s arrested with the murder weapon and a written confession on his person?
I just presume the plan was he was to be killed with that evidence on him and the foul-up was getting him alive.
And the fake ID. And still riding around on Greyhound busses. Relatively close to where the crime was committed, even.
And escaping into Central Park on a Citibike.
And the… exuberant… media circus.
LOL now I’m sold.
Is part of the conspiracy theory that he intended to get caught/convicted, which is why he was hanging out in public in Altoona after a multi-day head start with the incriminating evidence in his possession?
I admit this part seems rather odd. Dispose of gun and paraphernalia. Change. Stop shaving and get out of public view. For a while.
I suppose folk get comfy and forget to be careful. Humans are predictable – We’re frequently fantastically silly creatures.
If he intended to get caught/convicted, he could have just hung out in Manhattan.
Supposedly, he developed a back issue, which made him crazy and he disappeared from his family. That could be plausible. But overall, the whole thing is crazy.
Eh, I can see how showing the impotence of the police for a bit would play into his glorious martyrdom for the cause.
It sure is.
Well, you know it’s true, it’s in pdf form.
Better or worse than being in Twitter screenshot form?
The move is to take a Twitter screenshot and embed it into a PDF.
Pat:
I find I like it best when they create a multi-tweet thread where each post is a single page from the pdf.
Do they get tax dollars? Then I would say yes.
For UnCiv:
Kayaderosseras passed the rules changes for 2025. PCCs are a go! And 10/22s count as a PCC.
Also for anyone else feeling like engaging in running gunsports. Matches are in Ballston Spa NY on the second weekend of the month starting in April.
Which type of event?
Action Pistol.
IDPA targets, IDPA scoring, Freestyle engagement. Rulebook is only 10 pages, should be on the club website soon(tm).
👍
I don’t think peace is going to break out in the Middle East or eastern Mediterranean any time soon. Here’s a Turkish TV program talking about what the borders of Turkey will look like.
https://x.com/FAFOZone/status/1866482452505477293
While the IDF is already on the outskirts of Damascus.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/10/world-news/israeli-troops-near-damascus-say-syrian-security-after-israeli-airstrikes-hit-syrian-bases/
The Turks want more Kurds to deal with?
And Greeks! Then they take Georgia and southern Russia with Janissaries.
Restore the Ottoman! MOGA!!!
Fuck that noise, the Ottomans have no claim on the area, it all nees to go back to the Sassanids and the Romans.
When the Kurds have to flee because of all the war and atrocities, I sure hope someone in the FedGov is thinking and doesn’t try to relocate them to Wisconsin.
Those brandy soaked heathens would engage in so much cannibalism that even their native son Jeff Dahmer would be appalled.
You realize that Kurds are not actually cheese curds, right?
UCS:
Yes, I do. I’m a sophisticated Minnesodan. Nothing like those rubes in Wisconsin.
Get a few Brandy Old Fashioneds* in them and they hear the word Kurd and there is no stopping them.
*Brandy Manhattans are perfectly acceptable, Brandy Old Fashioneds are not.
JI:
Restore the Ottoman! MOGA!!!
Unfortunately, too many people will think that is Make Ottoman Greek Again.
Jimbo – that sounds like a Trojan horse ploy to me.
That’s a lot of people needing weapons, and a lot of brown people who could be bombed. Merry Christmas, Deep State. Santa’s been good to you this year.
I’m gonna need something more than “Syrian security sources say the perfidious Jews are in Damascus.”
Do we even know who is running Syria, much less what its “security” consists of, these days?
No question that Israeli forces are in Syria. How far in, and will they ever leave? Those are the questions.
No doubt, Drake. Israel has held the Golan Heights for decades now.
A museum I never knew existed. Very cool if you like cars for heads of state.
One Man’s INSANE Car Collection! Presidential Cars and Joseph Stalin’s Armored Packard! (Full Tour)
I had no idea Kennedy’s Lincoln convertible was blue and not black.
Mind blowing.
Wasn’t it white and gold?
Medium metallic blue from the video.
Mind blowing… Ha. Red pinstripe too.
Not even a dark blue almost black like dark green locomotive enamel (Brunswick green), but blue blue.
The storming of the Capitol bathrooms
Toilet insurrection!
Just because the MAGTards are flushed with victory doesn’t mean you should stop fighting!
Shouldn’t that be MAGTurds?
Far be it for me to help you
enact your laborget a handle on this, but I don’t want to see you circle the drain around here.I’m pretty sure these asshats are purposefully goading on something horrible so they can have a body or 2 to stand atop as they cry about not being able to swing their lady dicks around the women’s bathroom.
I’m sure the insurrectionists will be held for years now, and not released immediately after booking.
Drama queens.
Wait, I thought that’s what happened after they strung themselves up.
This whole “not letting me use whatever bathroom I want = genocide!” wore thin a long time ago.
I think they are losing a lot more than they are gaining by pursuing this.
Won’t anyone think of the neurotic white women?
If you don’t want to read the entire article about this brave stunning woman, her whinging caused the local hospitals to know have an opt out button for discussing/seeing any discussion of weight.
I so want to follow up and see if the same people that bent over backwards for crazy people would also add a check box to let the docs/nurses know I never ever want to be asked if I “feel safe at home” or if I have guns in my home.
Fuck her and her insecurities. Yeah, cupcake. We kinda need to know your weight and much more. If folk just estimate the doses for whatever’s going in you, well. Ya could die.
You could have follow-ups w the remaining family after you die. I’m sure they’d complain about not having weight listed, plainly visible.
The world is not ‘designed’ to make you happy. Nature don’t play. Adapt or die. Next?
Evan,
I think they still get weighed. Just they don’t list any weight of BMI on any of the post-checkup forms.
I also liked this quote (emphasis mine):
Unfortunately for me, I have squatter’s rights on my fat ass and can’t seem to get evicted from it now.
“If folk just estimate the doses for whatever’s going in you, well. Ya could die.”
So be it. Assumption of the risk, and all that.
They have to be weighed, yes. It also needs to be distinctly visible at glance for docs, nurses and staff.
These folk don’t like being *reminded* of how far they are. And yep! Weight is if massive proportions. Pun purposeful if patient’s fat.
Turns out being a lardass is a useful diagnostic criteria for about 47,000 different diseases and afflictions affecting human health. If you’re happy to accept the risk of being a lardass because it’s a genuine expression of your divine lardassery, seeing the evidence shouldn’t bother you.
They’re healthy at any size Pat, it’s just misogyny and system racism that says being overweight causes other problems.
The gal in the article was actually an anorexic person with a front hole living in a skinnier body.
I haven’t been in for a physical in a lot longer than I’m supposed to, but when my congenitally high cholesterol comes back high and the physician tells me I should only drink liquor on the occasion of my own funeral, or whatever the latest CDC guidance is, I suppose I should get cracking on my stunning and brave letter.
True, and that’s fair enough, but the information is on your paperwork because it’s relevant to you as a patient, and the 99.5% of the patients who aren’t anorexic, 2/3 of which are obese, would probably benefit more from having it there. The clinic staff can use white out to accommodate the headcases who will blame seeing their BMI for their suicide (avoiding the lawsuit for which this policy change is actually about).
Pat:
The last doc I had that I liked was an old fat guy too. He’d tell you all about the risks of being fat and then say “but you can see I’m preaching not practicing”. He was pretty good about being realistic about what was what.
I was really sad to see him retire. I found one other decent guy later, but he retired too.
Now when I need some doctoring they ask me who my primary care doc is and I say “I don’t have one” and they look at me like I’m a maniac.
And you’re dancing like you’ve never danced before?
Telling me I’m sick and that I have to take medicine makes me anxious, so don’t put any of that on my discharge forms, yup yup.
JFC
Trainer had to leave work, so I’m pretty much chilling and getting paid for it. I was told to do this. I’d rather be pokin’ folk to get sharp again, paradoxically.
I’m semi-complaining, but not at out loud. Physical factory work, esp w blood and humans, requires fresh muscle memory.
“I’d rather be pokin’ folk”
We know, Evan. We know.
Paging Winston’s Mom to the white courtesy phone.
Does your state have safe injection sites for junkies? You could always volunteer for the practice.
Titty Tuesday will never stop being hired.
https://archive.is/XjfJp
#6 looks a bit like a grey, and I’m strangely into it, which is mildly unsettling.
Calamity when every Glib in the Secret Santa program buys this
(except the Glib who had Tonio who bought this)
But they’ll still vote Team Blue.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/maine/article_3061279c-ab63-11ef-894a-fb5b799b9939.html
“You can’t boycott us! We’re boycotting YOU!”
It’s useful to have the bigots out in the open like this. I hope they’re proud of themselves.
Phase 1 of the Holidays complete. The youngest TOK is back in Washington after a nice (but too short) visit. And she left us the present of a flat tire on our truck. Mrs. TOK is back from her last Spartan race of the year, and I’m done with hockey tournaments until I meet up with Tundra in January.
It’s going to be a real empty nest Christmas, I doubt we will see any of the kids this time.
NBC wants us to know that Luigi trained on the assassination sim “Among Us.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ironic-suspect-unitedhealthcare-slaying-played-video-game-killer-rcna183550
NBC is on a tear. That also made sure to claim he reads conservatives on the internet, despite what their views may actually be.
Reddit is pushing not a lefty in my feed.
That take is sus.
Man, they couldn’t even go with something obscure like Deathloop could they?
Jesus tapdancing Christ, I could understand being that out of touch 25 years ago when video games were relatively niche and beneath the dignity of the Very Serious People in the professional class, but you’re telling me in a modern newsroom comprised nearly entirely of under-40 Twitter bots who got through Columbia J school on a 2.4 GPA, nobody piped up and went “Lol, seriously, you’re going to try to create a moral panic about video game violence based on Among Us?”
Now I have the music from Super Mario World running in my head.
And now you do too.
Have a job interview today at a helicopter workshop near me. They thought my resume was interesting. They make these:
https://composite-fx.com/models/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puKiOrYsCAI
Might end up with a sales job dealing with Arabs. That’d be cool.
Nice. I hope you get in.
Just be wary if they ask for training on how to fly the helicopter, but not how to land.
As long as he’s a member of the Rotary Club in good standing, he should be a shoe-in.
Uffda! This is cheaper than a lot of boats.
No more fucking around at the boat launch and fuck the DNR and their game laws! No size restrictions and no limit!
If you get hired, see if there is a Friends & Family discount.
“The Commie Dropper 3000”
I don’t think you have to go that high. 200ft should be sufficient.
Didn’t Ozy post that chart about safe operating elevation/speed?
Arabs? They are selling helicopters not rugs…
Watch out or you’ll end up in DERPSCAM.
Type 2 helicopter, the type that hasn’t crashed … yet.
A whole bunch of daily sunshine for you.
https://x.com/Vinod_r108/status/1866191072776560668
Those were awesome Q. Thanks!
Seconded. Those were lovely.
Cavill seems like one of the genuinely nice guys in the business.
I can only see the first post in the thread, but I think I have seen the entire thread somewhere else.
Cavill is not nice cause he paints warhammer minis and this gives women a false idea of what warhammer nerds look like.
Having met many co-hobbyists, the stereotypical potato-faced introvert is not even a plurality.
I feel under-represented in tabletop gaming.
Threadreaderapp version
It’s a good thread. Thanks Q.
Thanks DEG
Very nice. Wish I could see more than just the first entry, but that does the job.
Anyone have a contact in the Biden admin? I might have some outstanding tolls, and who knows what else might come up in the future. A 10 year blanket pardon should be fine.
Two quick takes before I am off….
They aren’t migrants. They are invaders and should be treated as such.
The CEO killing…no one has yet told us why that particular guy? The whole thing is just too just so, looks scripted and all on camera. The conspiracy nuts are going to go wild over this one.
Lenacapavir is a long-acting antiviral injection for HIV. It was initially approved to treat people with resistant HIV, and recent trials show it’s also highly effective for prevention.
Two recent phase 3 trials have demonstrated its effect:
In the first, in Uganda & South Africa, not a single woman on lenacapavir got HIV, a 96–100% reduction compared to the background risk.
It was >9x more effective as tenofovir, Gilead’s daily oral PrEP pill.
In the second trial, involving men and gender-diverse people across six countries:
Only two people taking lenacapavir out of thousands contracted HIV, an 82–99% reduction in risk compared to the background rate, and again, 9-fold improvement over tenofovir.
It may be surprising that tenofovir, the daily oral pill, appeared ineffective: one major reason is that many people struggle to take it consistently, which is especially a challenge in the poorest regions.
Lenacapavir avoids this by requiring just 2 injections a year.
https://x.com/salonium/status/1866448921364435346
You know, we’ve gotten to the point where wishing someone gets AIDS and dies just sounds ridiculous now.
Miracle man
It was an almost impossible job, and Milei’s lack of government experience, unkempt hairdo, sexual boasts and missionary-like zeal for his dead dog, the Rolling Stones and the free market didn’t inspire much confidence in a country with a history of failed economic reforms.
“It wasn’t a given that he could govern Argentina when he took office,” said Marcelo J. García, Americas director at geopolitical risk firm Horizon Engage. “He was Mr. Nobody.”
On taking power, Milei implemented a series of austerity measures, including slashing energy and transportation subsidies, laying off tens of thousands of government workers, freezing public infrastructure projects and imposing wage and pension freezes below inflation.
It has been brutal. Unemployment has climbed, economic activity has declined and poverty has surged.
But now signs have emerged that Argentina’s bizarre and long mismanaged economy is starting to look a little more normal.
It wasn’t a given that he could govern. All the smart people wanted to stick with the proven losers, but somehow democracy was subverted.
“Unemployment has climbed, economic activity has declined and poverty has surged.”
I’m not even sure who I would believe as a source for those claims.
I just recently listened to an interview with Milei with Lex Friedman. Good talk until the end when he started lobbing the most banal personal questions at him.
When curbing hyperinflation, there is *always* going to be pain before things get better.
Herion, alcohol, tobacco. Withdrawals are brutal but none more so than socialism withdrawals.
In a country with a long history of raucous street protests, it’s striking that the mass unrest pundits predicted last year has not materialized.
That his approval ratings have held up at some 50% is also a sign of how desperately Argentines wanted change after years of crisis.
“Strangely enough, there comes a time in all societies, when the cost of a fiscal adjustment becomes less than the cost of continuing with inflation,” said Sebastián Mazzuca, an Argentine political scientist at Johns Hopkins University. “It’s like a fire. There are badly injured people, but the fire was put out, wasn’t it?”
It helps Milei that Argentina’s left-leaning Peronist opposition is in disarray, with former President Alberto Fernández charged with beating his ex-wife while in office.
Many also attribute the social peace to Milei’s expectation management. He warned that things would get worse before they got better.
Strangely enough, when something can’t go on forever, it will be stopped.
He told people the truth? That’s insane.
I would speculate that things got to a point where enough people knew too many “useless eaters” feeding at the government trough and decided they were fresh out of fucks to give if all that “social support” went away.
Proud martyr to a greater cause
A woman is dead after police in Georgia received an email from a Russian IP address claiming the sender had left a pipe bomb in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s mailbox.
A police officer responding to the scene hit another car, killing its driver, the Republican congresswoman confirmed on X.
“I’m heartsick right now,” Greene wrote.
The Rome Police Department’s assistant chief of police received an email Monday with the subject “For Palestine” that said the sender had created a pipe bomb using “a 1×8-inch threaded galvanized pipe, end caps, a kitchen timer, some wires, metal clips and homemade black powder.”
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A Rome police officer with the Floyd County Bomb Squad driving a personal truck, a GMC Sierra, hit a Mazda Protégé that was pulling out of a private lot, according to the reports. The Mazda’s driver, 66-year-old Tammie Pickelsimer of Rome, was taken to the hospital and later died of her injuries. The officer, who has not been identified, was not injured.
Obviously right wing domestic terrorists. Round up the usual suspects.
Homemade black powder?
Artisanal
Gluten free!
I guess they couldn’t call MTG’s home and advise her to not go to the mailbox until police arrived?
Right out of your team’s playbook, Vox
But what does that really mean? What would the consequences be for people’s health?
By articulating a few big, noble goals in alluringly plain language — without getting into the weeds about how to achieve them — MAHA has drawn what were once distinct causes together under one banner. But it’s in between the lines where its dangers lie: MAHA’s calculated omissions allow people to project their own priorities onto the platform, without having to think too hard about the trade-offs.
What does it all really mean? Don’t worry about it. You’ll find out.
That isn’t even remotely true. He was doing speeches and interviews since he was a candidate and he gave plenty of specifics.
I am so tired of these “journalists” reporting on second hand information.
I would speculate that things got to a point where enough people knew too many “useless eaters” feeding at the government trough and decided they were fresh out of fucks to give if all that “social support” went away.
I want to believe there a lot of people in this country who are beginning to realize, on a visceral level, that we cannot continue on our current trajectory. Fixing it sooner will hurt less than fixing it later.
Despite the weight of the evidence confirming vaccine safety and the immense global benefits of childhood vaccinations, it became Kennedy’s most important cause. He spent the next two decades at the helm of Children’s Health Defense, one of the leading organizations in spreading anti-vaccination messages.
It represented a break from his activism on behalf of a more conventional and scientifically sound cause to one on the biomedical fringes. Environmentalism “is a shockingly mainstream movement overall” rooted in a faith in science, expertise, and a belief in an active federal government that can implement solutions, says Brian Drake, a historian of environmental movements at the University of Georgia.
But anthropogenic global warming is REAL!
*outright prolonged laughter*
“rooted in a faith in science, expertise, and a belief in an active federal government that can implement solutions”
Interesting formulation. Not mentioned: evidence, history of success, etc.
Rooted in faith is right.