I can’t find any sports to report on at all. So I’ll just note that the League Cup QFs are today and tomorrow. They’re always fun to watch, as you get to see some youth players. And that’s it. Moving on.
Looks like Trudeau might be on the way out. That’s good news for Canadians. The dude has been an abject failure.
Holy crap, this would be absolutely massive. I only hope Honda has complete control over the transmission program. At least for the people who are considering buying a car with a CVT in the future. But it looks like this is more geared toward TVs, which is still a silly thing to throw all your eggs in one basket over.
I’ll believe its when I see it. And if it does happen, I think the self-deportation numbers will dwarf the forcible ones.
That’s why he’s not the network’s legal expert. But I’m sure his reeeeeing over the settlement based on his actions will get him a lot of clout. Especially from the other on-air Democrat Party mouthpieces he’s used to palling around with.
This seems like a good use of taxpayer money. I’m sure the locals are pleased by the decision.
Good. Gooooood. Let the hate flow through you.
The next time some advocate for flappy-head medical care talks shit about the USA, show them this. But I’m sure they’ll somehow blame it on the US. Side note: I’m shocked her team of doctors didn’t suggest she kill herself.
I hope they all leave. And then the lawmakers can explain to the remaining people why their tax base dried up.
Things seem to be going well at the twitter clone. I wish them the best of luck.
I don’t suppose Chuck Schumer will want to talk about this. Maybe somebody else can bring it up at his performative hearting today.
Here’s an absolutely lovely song. Very smooth. And here’s another one for you. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
NDP leader Singh doesn’t want Trudy to resign until march because in march, Singh’s pension will be vested so if there’s an election and he loses his seat, he won’t be out a pension. The NDP is the other partner in the current coalition keeping Trudy in office.
I expect Trudy will try to hang on until the manditory general elections later in 2025, but just because he’s convinced he’s entitled to be in charge.
The NDP has already called for his resignation. Their only hope is that they can delay the no confidence vote for a few months, much of which will be accomplished by them soon going into recess until late January.
Well, that’s a new development. He had been a holdout.
Somehow I don’t think he wants an election before March though.
I rolled my eyes so hard I now know what my optic nerve looks like.
Huh… so the car manufacturers are prioritizing vehicles that customers don’t want.
Well, that’s a bold strategy Cotton…
Having a government regulatory gun to their heads will have that effect. At this point, I’m expecting them to drive all the traditional automakers bankrupt and we’ll get cheap Chinese crap to take over the world market. Yay.
Their interest is growing in electric cars because….yeah, they just pulled that out of their own asses after a hundred years of the worlds most competent engineers have nearly perfected the world’s greatest mode of transportation – the internal combustion engine driven automobile.
“demand growing for less polluting models”
As far as I can tell, it’s not growing for EVs. As far as hybrids go, sales of those are up because its increasingly the only option on offer due to regulatory requirements, not consumer preference.
Yup. The cars the consumers want and the cars the elites want consumers to have are two different things. Small trucks? Available worldwide – except for the US and Canada. Even the Eurocommies haven’t been so stupid to outlaw them.
True, but slightly misleading. The reason small trucks are more readily available in the UK and Europe is because anything larger than the Ford Maverick or Ranger is considered a “commercial” vehicle over there, and subject to onerous ownership regulations and taxes.
Real ‘Muricans own full sized assault pickups.
On another forum I belong too, there is always discussion/bitching about how you cannot get a small truck like we all owned back in the eighties. Kei trucks would fit the bill, as they are around the same size as the Datsun 520 I learned to drive in. But, noooo.
There is increasing demand but decreased demand.
Got it.
This was literally an excuse to throw out a useless AGW slogan and nothing else.
No mention of government mandates while companies are fighting back tooth and nail because they lose money on every car made despite being heavily subsidized by government.
Everything within the state, nothing outside the state…
Gov’t demand is a type of demand. Of course, consumer demand is what pays the bills, so the manufacturers are currently in the process of learning this lesson at the moment.
Completely ignoring Liz Cheney would be the best revenge – reduce her to the relevance she truly deserves. None.
You’d need the legacy media to do that as well.
Imagine the world where the disgraced politicians were relegated to Coast to Coast AM…
She deserves to have the J6 committee looked into rather than be ignored. There appears to be a lot of shenanigans going on, including witness tampering and destruction of records, that are most likely a violation of the law.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. I say shine as much sunlight on that group of people as possible.
With few exceptions the J6 committee members were re-elected, and will be re-elected by their constituents (“is you or is you not my constitutents”).
If the voters want to rehire these crooks that’s their problem but it’s not relevant to the need to investigate the committee’s shenanigans.
Similarly I am sick of this “high road” shit. Stoop to their level. Shine a bright light on everything that the MSM has been trying to bury for the last decade.
That’s fine – you can do that, and all of their voters will shrug and say so what. That’s the big, fucking problem. That’s the black pill no one is willing to swallow.
[insert the meme of Hercules wrestling a lion with the caption about trying to get a pill down his cat’s throat]
Rhy, JI – see my comment near the end of the previous thread. Indeed, there is no fool like the american citizen.
Sure there are.
We have entire continents that have already been subsumed by socialism. You can’t convince me that German or French or British voters aren’t dumber than ours, even if only by virtue of their current state in comparison to ours.
The British Love Affair with the NHS has entered the chat.
She seems to have crossed one of the lawyers involved and now her texts to J6 Committee witnesses are coming out. She could well end up in jail for witness tampering.
She’d probably get off on the grounds that what they conducted was entertainment and not a trial.
“She could well end up in jail for witness tampering.”
That will be a good test of whether the FBI/DOJ has actually been brought to heel.
If there aren’t consequences for her and her compatriots this’ll forever be the way things are done and it’ll go mostly one way. I understand wanting to play nice but the de facto rules have been altered.
As I’ve been saying, no one ever won a war by unilaterally disarming.
There will not be consequences. You’re only talking about the turn-coat and retribution for being a bad party player. No one is going after the OTHER party.
“Completely ignoring Liz Cheney would be the best revenge – reduce her to the relevance she truly deserves. None.”
You may be right, but it would be a lot of fun to nominate her to run the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Wouldn’t that be more approprate for Liz Warren?
Liz Warren, Liz Cheney… I get my fugly honkey bitches mixed up..
Morning, Sloopy… sorry there’s no Sporty Spice in your life today.
I think we all (for as much as we have a collective agreement on anything in this
cathousegroup of friends) agree that it is what needs to happen… so yeah — not holding my breath for Congress to do the right thing. But damn, it would be nice if it did.Morning all!
I just need to get through the next couple of days and then the football playoffs start.
I’m not exactly looking forward to freezing my nuts off in Columbus Saturday night, but I am looking forward to being there.
It won’t even be that cold, but if you really must, you could wear these.
I’m sure it’s perfectly safe trusting Chinese made heating elements and batteries in your pants on a wet day.
That’s a no from me. I’ve got a plan for my attire. And yes, it involves the utility of booze to keep me at least mentally toasty.
I’ve got a heated vest and cap, on account of I have lost any tolerance for cold. From Gobi, which at least has been around awhile and isn’t some ChiCom fake company with a name made up of random letters. Can recommend.
I have one of those electric hand muffs, for hunting and shooting in cold weather. It’s kind of awesome.
So, how much did you have to pay to finally get some new muff?
Well (as expected) the Browns/Dolphins game was flexed out of the prime time slot on the 29th.
Did you need more sportsball news than that?
The Sabres lost their 11th straight game last night and by 6:1.
That must be some kind of record of suck?
Sorry rhy, I couldn’t hear you over the Blackhawks sucking.
Looks like Castro’s kid will have to go back to being a professional blackface dresser upper. Bummer, eh…
51st state..
Might be worth calling those feelings to mind the next time you decide to make repeated, deliberate false statements on national television, particularly when the issue at question is presidential whoring and sex abuse, for which you were the point man on quashing stories regarding a president who actually did commit sex offenses while in office, you hypocritical, festering sack of monkey shit.
I still bet they believe it was a well made and calculated risk. Had they been able to drag the cackling wino lady over the finish line, this whole thing would have been ignored too.
I just wish more people would realize that they settled, not because they did wrong, that they did, and they knew they did wrong, but don’t care. They caved because they wanted to hide how fucking dirty they are which would have come out during discovery.
This times a hundred. Most of the analysis I’ve seen was that it was probable that ABC would have won in court, and that this settlement was specifically to avoid discovery which would have shone light in closets they’d rather keep dark.
Can an old Clinton fluffer really feel humiliated?
Only because he couldn’t get away with it.
Next thing you know Trump will hire Jerry Bruckheimer to add some CGI explosions and riot sound effects to silent security camera footage in order to air deliberate smears against Cheney on national television and then have the stones to accuse anybody else of being a liar.
Oh, that’s rich coming from her.
Once a political hack, always a political hack. ABC needs to deep six Stephanopoulos if it ever wants to regain credibility.
But, then again, once a political hack, always a political hack.
My first thought was “The lawyers don’t have him well muzzled to keep him from costing the company another multi-million settlement?” Second thought was: “Boy…. can you imagine how fast I’d be fired if I cost the company anything?”
Then skimmed the article… all “reportedly seeting” … “source say” type stuff. Pure gossip from “associates”… never change, British tabloids. The Incredible Frog Boy was unavailable for comment…
I thought you people were joking about Honda buying Nissan yesterday afternoon.
No, we are saddened, saddened by the mere idea of the makers of Gojirra being owned, partly or in whole, by the Shinehart Wig Company.
::polite applause::
Because this abomination coupled to Nissan’s ever reliable CVT is the way of the future!
https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/VC_TURBO_ENGINE/
The world’s first production variable compression ratio engine that simultaneously achieves high efficiency and high power while synchronizing with the driver’s intentions
It synchronizes!
Hey, if you don’t look, you don’t find. That is looking!
Now, the generator/snowblower company, on the other hand, hasn’t developed anything since the big bang.
At least the instant noodles will always start…
don’t explain the joke…
Dat is Sun good joke!
I didn’t know either company made television sets.
If they don’t, what do they mount to the center of the dash on their cars? I hope you don’t tell me buttons, switches and dials, because that would be so 2000s.
Imagine being extorted with the only result being your inability to obtain a small PNG image next to your posts on a poorly trafficked political microblogging platform that will have gone the way of Air America before Trump’s 2nd term is finished. Sayre’s law and all that.
BlueSky is already dying:
https://x.com/TheTonus/status/1869082844049645920
It should be enough to mention that 5 percent of Canada’s death rate was MAID last year. More than the “gun violence epidemic” in the US that folks weep and gnash their teeth about… so yeah, I’d be more than a little hesitant trusting their system to do anything other than try to put me down if I had anything serious.
You’d have to find out more about the nature of the deaths via MAID before that statistic would be all that alarming. If the majority of them were terminal patients who checked out a month or two before nature ran its course, it looks a lot less tragic than if it was mostly mentally ill hormonal teenagers who decided to check out before they had a chance to grow up and find out everybody else in the world felt pretty much the same way they did at their stage of life.
The West Coast as a whole seems to be doing its damndest to drive away any innovation, doesn’t it?
I hate to think Ayn Rand’s books were anything more than hyperbolic, but they seem to be growing more accurate every year, especially as it relates to some state governments.
She knew what she was talking about. Hell, she saw a lot of it first-hand, didn’t she?
On the flip side of that, the multi-millionaires in Seattle seem to be funding much of the politics of the now blue state. And while I feel a states politics should be left up to the state, and if they are blue then that is that, it does put a lot of weight on one side of the scale, so to speak. And much of the rest of the state is quite unhappy with this. I think they would take the reduced tax base as a trade for better representation.
They spent a lot of money to defeat the initiatives this last election. I’m sure they will make up for it by grifting off of the ever increasing carbon taxes.
If NYC/NYS are any indication, some millionaires might leave but the overall picture will not change in any significant way.
NYers are as thoroughly indoctrinated as Texans are. They really do see the purpose of government as taking money from the other guy and giving it to them.
It used to be that eastern WA pretty much despite western WA and was culturally closer to northern ID, but Spokane is a pretty solid blue shit hole now judging by what I hear from the couple of acquaintances from my time there with whom I still keep in touch.
*despised, not despite
Oregon is the same way, with the split being Portland and the Willamette vs. the rest of the state.
Bezos left after the state SC ruled that capital gains taxes aren’t income taxes (income taxes are banned in the WA state constitution).
Thomas Massie 3 months ago predicting the future.
https://x.com/_robertakabobby/status/1869193490653229366
When it has happened for 10, 12 years consecutively, is it really a prediction anymore?
NostraThomas
https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1869378448692523379
And everyone re-elects this Congress-critter and bitches about Congress.
This country has the government it deserves.
dammit /this/their/
New pronouns, JI?
No, those would still be fuck and this.
I would add schooling. Sorry, no free day-care for you.
School-industrial-complex: Muh Daily Attendance figures!
The teachers only give a shit about daily attendance when they don’t get to run and hide from covid.
The teachers unions will bitch about it saying it’s costing a bunch of teachers their jobs.
Count on it.
There is, unfortunately, a SCOTUS case that illegals have to be admitted to government schools.
The firehose of welfare payments, now, if that can be shut off, the self-deportations will indeed be massive. And will put the lie to the idea that many of these people came here to work. I have noted that the current trope is “seek a better life”, which just happens to encompass cashing phat American welfare checks and committing crimes against Americans.
I thought as much.
Well, at least SCOTUS cases can be overturned. Get to it, ladies and gentlemen.
The union hacks will just pivot back to “class size” anyway so you can ignore them.
Yes, there is a rule that you can’t exclude illegal alien kids. It is twofer for the teacher’s union. More kids means more teachers and also the kids don’t speak English so you get to hire more support staff to help them. You also get the Get Out of Jail free card when the kids do bad on tests that it is because English is their second language.
There is, unfortunately, a SCOTUS case that illegals have to be admitted to government schools.
Seriously? Where in the constitution does it require government to provide education for illegal aliens?
WTF:
From memory, it’s predicated on equal protection. The law says that children up to age X must attend school, and get access to public schools. It does not say citizens up to age X must attend school, so non-citizens can’t be excluded.
WTF:
I think this is the case
Maybe you could get a better ruling today because the schools are turning all the kids into a subclass of illiterates? Can you say that an illegal kid is really worse off not being turned into a ninx?
So, based on an insane interpretation of the equal protection clause.
Of course it’s a Brennan opinion.
Looks like it’s time for the Court to re-assess another example of “results-based jurisprudence.”
And as long as I’m dreaming, can someone finagle a case to SCOTUS via the Fifth Circuit that “sanctuary city” local ordinances will be subject to strict scrutiny?
Oh man, now THIS really gets at my comments about why waste, fraud and abuse are the red cape distracting the bull.
I’ve been reading George Gilder for a long time, maybe 30 years, too long for me to remember.Always one of the good guys. Couple Gilder with Massie’s rant, toss in Trump and we can understand the down hill slide that we’re in.
Massie is such an anomaly with one exception – his constituents faithfully send him back, term after term. Maybe his district should be our Libertopia, our greater Glibs Gulch, but I suspect in reality, they are all just slack-jawed monkeys filling out the ballots exactly the same as AOC’s constituents.
@JI
As far as I know, OBE is the Glib with Massie in his district. Even if they are just monkeys, this is the “right twice a day” situation for that particular broken clock. Add to that that Rand Paul is a senator and it’s not a bad spot for Glib’s Gulch.
That said, the other senator is the fucking turtle who won’t die, and we re-elected Beshear after being abused during Covid, so who the fuck knows.
I thought OBE moved to TN – not Massie’s KY district?
On the one hand, Kentucky also has beautiful distilleries to maintain the baseline Glibs BAC. On the other, the distilleries are nearly all in dry counties, which for some reason still exist.
Baptist dry, not dry dry. There’s booze aplenty in those counties, and generally speaking if you know the right people (ie are a local) you can get it delivered to your door.
OBE is in Massie’s district.
I am not, however Rand Paul, until Trump, was the only person I’d voted for who actually won.
Anyone here can get any bourbon they could possibly want in very short order. I don’t drink at all, but even I know how to get whatever bourbon I might want. Bourbon buying, selling, and trading is literally the top topic of conversation amongst the men in my sphere here. Nearly all of the men I know bourbon as a hobby.
Of course it costs good money, but it’s everywhere.
Yeah, no offense, but this is why libertarianism is as utopian and hopeless as Marxism. It turns out that not everyone on this planet comes from the homogeneously materialist, bourgeois halls of American Ivy League technocratic business schools, and sometimes optimize for non-economic factors, including national security and just plain old jingoism. While the Cultural Revolution may have beaten the traditional religion and family practices out of Chinese society, it’s still an insular culture and basically a shame society with important distinctions from libertine post-religious western civilization. That doesn’t mean we need to be ramping up military spending in anticipation of a shooting war, but it does mean it’s hopelessly stupid and naive to presume that a few hundred billion dollars in revenue from selling silicon chips is adequate insurance against China finally fulfilling it’s 70 odd year old ambition of annexing Taiwan and leveraging near monopoly power in an industry that’s crucial to modernity.
Also, why the fuck is it that any time there’s a proposal to trim the hedges of government budgeting, some libertarian shithead who otherwise spends the majority of their time bitching about government spending crawls out of the woodwork to oppose small cuts because they’re not big cuts? First law of holes. Jesus Christ, I’m as fucking socially retarded and autistic as the next libertarian, but even I can see that tackling unpopular spending is a good first step from a purely PR perspective. Getting a plurality of people on board with the concept of cutting anything is a good first step to gaining their trust and buy-in on cutting the more important things as well.
I think that free markets are the best. I get the macro economic theories behind it all. I agree with almost all of it.
Before covid, I would have defended them to the ends of the earth.
Watching supply chains get crippled by covid made me modify my stance some. Not having the capability to produce pharmaceuticals or protective gear here was troubling.
Travis Corcoran had a good (lengthy) thread on this today: https://x.com/travis4nh/status/1869135847272145233?t=yFqLplEnvoRJ3hfbx-TXQw&s=19
@Jimbo – My stance on trade is that we can and should be able to make anything we need domestically and only import luxuries where “made in foreignlandia” is used for the exotic nature of the locale rather than “because it has slave labor”
@your holiness
Uh, isn’t “here” “there” for you right now?
Muzzy:
I’m in Japan, not China!
Part of the calculus has to include who your trading partner is. I’d be less worried about trade with Japan, England, Switzerland, etc. than China.
If you are dependent on a country that you could see yourself getting into a war with, maybe make plans to remove that dependency.
The problem with all of this is that the govt will do a terrible job of deciding what is really strategically critical. It will end up with some Congressman getting a fortune cookie company in his district being declared strategically critical and thus subsidized by taxpayers.
We didn’t have the capability in 90 days. We would have had it within a year.
I knew you weren’t in China. I meant more along the lines of East Asia.
@Pope
You mean Germany and other European countries shouldn’t have shuttered their nuclear power plants in favor of buying NatGas/oil from Russia, with whom, apparently, they’ve always been at war?
“Part of the calculus has to include who your trading partner is. I’d be less worried about trade with Japan, England, Switzerland, etc. than China.”
The CCP requirement that any business doing anything in China give away their IP to them, should have ended the “Made in China” shit as soon as the CCP made that demand. And yet….
Yeah… one does not necessarily know who one will be at war with next, does one.
Better to be prepared IMNSHO. I know I’ve soured on the idea that “countries who trade don’t go to war”. It’s a nice thought but naive AF.
Distracting the bull is important.
No way the matador is going to be able to kill the bull straight up without distracting and weakening him first.
Dude, the bull is us – the voters.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Perl Harbor?
*Give me a break, I’m a Memphis State grad. I didn’t know reading comprehension would be on the test.
All of the Glib IT autistics:
I’m going to sleep now, but I’m disappointed in all of you for not turning into shit flinging howler monkeys at Perl Harbor.
UCS, I’m most disappointed in you.
Jimbo, I strive to reduce my predicability quotient day by day.
Sorry Pope, but we aren’t that scripted, we’ll have to compile our puns in a batch.
We’re going to look back on this era of insanity and wonder HTF it ever got to this.
This strikes me as hilarious – he isn’t on the job but we are evaluating his job performance! WRT Trump’s approval ratings.
Oh, fuck off.
The next 4 years will bring even more disappointment (and more deficit spending) than the last 4.
Nice 🎶
Big fan
Among my collection of “fixing things” channels I watch are people who fix up heavy machinery. It still amazes me when it comes to fifty year old engines there are only two outomes. Either it’s completely siezed up, or once they get a full rotation and get spark, it invariably fires up. I don’t expect any of todays overcomplicated abominations to be that reliable.
Somewhat related, I’ve been trying to find a watchable full restore video/series where someone starts with a heap of junk and gets it to running and then showroom. By watchable I mean – they have to tell me what’s going on (voiceover and/or in-camera); I have to be able to understand them; they can’t be annoying. I do expect such a video/series to be multiple hours long, but I can’t find one amidst the 15 minute ad-optimized cruft, silent workers, and people who are either obnoxious or completely incomprehensible. (Sorry Yorkshire Restorations, I cna’t understand a word you say). Anyone have any recommendations.
The always entertaining Derick Bieri will get you to the running part. As for showroom quality, not so much. His “craigslist rebuild engines” can’t be beat.
Here’s one for a second gen Ram diesel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITyJkob8n0s
This one fails one of my big criteria – they are ‘silent workers’ and are not explaining anything. I don’t know enough to tell what they’re doing, why they’re doing it, or how they’re going about it.
UCS,
Some of my favorite youtube channels:
Watch Wes Work (fixes anything, tenacious, and sarcastic)
Just A Few Acres Farm (rebuilds tractors and farm trucks)
Cutting Edge Engineering (especially his Franna crane rebuild)
Snowball Engineering (quiet English dude who fixes almost anything)
Farmcraft101 (especially Large Marge, his excavator)
Thank you, people.
U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes
TP-Link is the bestselling router on Amazon—and has been linked to Chinese cyberattacks
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/us-ban-china-router-tp-link-systems-7d7507e6?st=nHMyz5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
TLDR – it’s not that it is overtly Chinese spyware – it’s the fact that TP-Link does just about nothing on patching known exploits. And if anybody is foolish enough to run TP-Link on any enterprise bigger than a coffee shop they get what they paid (very little) for.
However, this doesn’t get the outrage flowing the way DC and the Biden – Harris administration would like.
Must be cheap because they didn’t pay the requisite protection money to Biden-Harris and the DNC.
Well, there’s also a good chance that a sizable number of them are running DD-WRT instead of the stock firmware.
I ran that decades ago on a Linksys.
Realistically I’d be shocked if it’s more than 1%. Most consumers don’t change the password from the one on the sticker.
Sensei:
Oh, I agree, standard consumers use default admin passwords (fun fact, most can be found with a quick search, and default ones for cable providers are very frequently just the phone number on the account). But I’m pretty sure that there’s at least a cohort that purchased the cheapest routers they could flash with DD-WRT to test with. They’re not likely still in real use (or are just set up as honeypots), but they’re out there.
Now what kind of terminal autist would buy a shitty router and go through the hideous process of bypassing the lock to flash a replacement ROM just to run a third party firmware on a device that wasn’t built for it.
Uh, amirite guys?
Not a chance that it’s more than 1%.
Too bad if it’s all tplink products. They bought Kasa and their home automation stuff consistently works.
Fuck all home automation.
QFT. Forever and ever, amen.
As usual, it is good to be connected.
Not one voter in Pelosi’s district would change their vote on the basis of this disclosure.
Well, any of the people running restaurants that did not get a grant may…
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks, Jimbo. So far the dogs/cats of Podunkville have been disappointed. No snow. The turkeys/deer and Ol’ Fourscore on the other hand have been enjoying the snow deficit.
Things are going great in Minneapolis!
When you can buy stuff for 25% of what it was 5 years ago, there isn’t any “revitalization”.
And I am gonna bet they were taken because the property was not even close to being worth what they paid for it. And wait until the regulators come in and ruin any plans they had for the building because of bullshit regulation.
They need to learn the tricks from the Crosslake folks. Downtown Mpls needs more metal buildings and fewer, like none, high rises. Metal buildings are for working folks, not paper shufflers.
Those huge office towers were paying a ton of property taxes for Minneapolis to waste on stupid things.
When your goose starts producing 75% less golden eggs, the peasants are going to be mad when they have to make up the difference. So mad, they might start asking questions about all those silly programs and NGO’s that are being funded.
End the programs and NGOs with extreme prejudice.
Under the Ice Antarctica is still peak RPG world design, they don’t make them like this anymore
https://x.com/QuetzalPhoenix/status/1868789061303124359
The one being buried owed em money?
Crashed into a funeral home? The jokes write themselves.
24 victims were found hiding in caskets.
Unfortunately not a joke:
When the cops were justifying the Waco Massacre II, they noted the “weapons” they found in the kitchen… big scary dangerous knives.
Once again a glance over the links and conversation here tells me we just keep doing the same stupid shit over and over again.
Fitting headline: Congress Wants Taxpayers to Pick Up More Soap in the Prison Shower.
We’re a rationalizing species not a reasoning one. We’re superb at coming up with stories and arguments explaining why our beliefs are correct regardless of any evidence to the contrary, and abysmal at changing our beliefs when evidence indicates that they are wrong. It’s always been true, and I suspect it always will be true.
“Evidence dictates” that almost everything libertarians believe is wrong, but we’re often operating from a different moral calculus that rejects the standard of evidence used in the evaluation. That’s probably the case as often as people simply being stubborn or stupid. The truly stupid just absorb their positions by osmosis anyway, rarely questioning them. They’re not really the problem. They’ll get on board with whatever position gains dominance. Ideological battles tend to be fought on lines that can’t be adequately addressed using pure reason, in the same way that religious and philosophical debates do. Tricking ourselves into thinking it’s everybody else that’s an unreasoning pighead is the mother of all rationalizations.
Rationalizing does not mean stupid, nor is it necessarily counter survival behavior. I am a rationalizing creature as are you, as is everyone here. Without rationalization you don’t get cohesion even on the family level, much less the nation state, or the political or religious ideology. What I am saying here is that expecting people to change their beliefs en masse is foolishness. At rare intervals in an individual human’s life they may have a reexamination of their core beliefs forced on them by contradictions too important to ignore, IF the individual in question is smart and strong enough to face them. I am in no way indicating a belief that I personally or Glibs generally are immune to this or even superior to others in resisting it. We have adopted a core belief giving primacy to individual liberty over other values, and we interpret everything in that light. Other political flavors adopt other values as primary.
I get you. I’m just saying, in some cases, it may be less a case of rationalizing, and more of the subjectivity of values. Of course, even in our weirdo communities you have the “squish” vs deontological divide. Things like that.
Digging into Nietzsche leads you to digging into your own values. It is not comfortable or fun and thus most people, even here, are not inclined. Just another of my personal defects as a human.
FWIW, JI, I’ve enjoyed your writings on the subject (although they are rarely published at times that sync up with my commenting schedule), but that may just be because of being similarly defective.
Canada Reveals Border-Security Plan to Avert Trump’s Tariff Pledge
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/canada-reveals-border-security-plan-to-avert-trumps-tariff-pledge-f9883f7c?st=GksQ8j&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The headline is $900m USD. But it’s over 3 years. My favorite line:
How quickly the government can begin spending the funds remains unclear. Officials said they might need to initially rent helicopters to do some of the additional work, and deploy individuals from other departments to the border patrol.
The question is if Trump thinks this is at all serious.
Just got back from the pirate museum at St. Thomas. If I had planned better I would have brought this to hide on the bookshelf:
https://a.co/d/3OnKEp6
So disappointed. Thought you were going to link to this pirate stuff.
Pirate?
Ah, good, was just gonna ask if we’ve heard from you today.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/18/us-news/royal-caribbean-passenger-dies-in-detainment-after-assaulting-crew-members-threatening-travelers-in-drunken-rage-report/
He died doing what he loved. RIP.
Play stupid games…
Damnit, the Glibcruise 1.0 dinner and drinks were pretty good, but they clearly skipped out on the floor show…
In lieu of a trip to Vegas this year, the girlfriend and I are staying local with Mai Tai Mayhem.
St. Thomas? I was sure the Pirate Museum would be in Arco, Idaho
Hmm, this raises the prospect of an EBR-1 Pirate crossover! Add in Craters of the Moon and you have the basis for something epic! Nuclear Moon Pirates!
All of the speculation about “this could be the end of Trudeau” reminds me of the “we’ve finally got Trump now” headlines from earlier this year.
Trudeau’s not going anywhere in the short term. He’s too insulated and narcissistic to realize that it’s time for him to go. Singh has a motivation to not bring down the government until he pension is vested, and there’s no mechanism for Trudeau’s own caucus to remove him other than voting to bring their own government down (thus likely, in most cases, ending their political careers, given current polling).
His dad hung on till he was basically a corpse, so yeah.
Pity 🙁
I’ve got news for you if you think Honda has been making their own CVTs…
I have news for you if you think Honda makes anything (worthwhile).
Hey now!
I love my snowblower!
I was also a fan of the S2000.
Honda Motorad makes the 600RR. Your complaint is invalid.
I like my Honda snowblower.
My Honda lawnmower is decent. Better than the Toro it replaced.
Yeah, I used to have an CBR 600F2. A toaster had more soul.
(I even tried to make it soulful with a Yosh pipe, Lindeman suspension, and a street/track carb kit. It was Hall & Oats going up against Curtis Mayfield. Wonder bread to the Nth)
Show me on the doll where Soichiro Honda touched you.
Trump’s rejection of Net Zero will leave the UK in the dust
I remember when Chris Wright had a hit with “Shut Up and Drill“.
Net zero is a globalist WEF communist plot to murder 86% of mankind.
Fuck that shit.
“he was recently filmed drinking bleach on camera with his employees”
I seriously doubt that. Since he’s not dead, and all.
I am curious, though, how you can be filmed while not on camera.
Technically, every time you take a sip of municipal tap water you’re “drinking bleach.”
(and to be fair, there’s nutcases who will push the ppm to it’s limit; my best friend’s former fiance was one such nutcase. she was literally drinking diluted bleach daily as part of her naturopathic health regimen; People are strange)
I was using unscented bleach to sanitize drinking water back in the Boy Scouts circa 1990. Like most things, it works great if you’re not a dumbass.
how you can be filmed while not on camera
AI
Technically correct, etc.
As presented, it’s a lie, though. If you want to be technical about, it’s a lie due to “material omission”.
Jeebus, that grifter again? The kickbacks must be insane to deliberately flush your nation down the toilet like that.
Also unfortunately, the next Democrat president will on Day One reverse everything Trump did and gleefully follow Britain down the toilet.
Ultravox? Yet another stellar choice. I swear we are the same person sometimes.
inorite?
This means nothing to me.
Tried everything yesterday and my Saab would not recognize the key.
Talking to the mechanic, we think it needs a new ignition switch module.
The service manager is giving me employee pricing, so parts and labor will “only” be $330.
Could be worse.
Lets hope that solves the problem..
That sort of stuff drives me nuts. “When I dropped it off, my keys were working just fine. Now you are going to charge me $330 to fix a problem that only popped up after you got your mitts on my car? Color me not impressed”.
I’m not a car guy and it bugs me when I can’t tell if they are just yanking my chain or not. I treasure my local mechanic because he is good and honest.
At one point the dealer wanted to charge me for repairs due to water leaking in through window seals. I asked how long they would have had to have been leaking for the damage, and pointed out that they had paperwork showing that they had down “360 degree inspections” of my vehicle multiple times in that time period, and asked why they didn’t point out the failing seals to me.
They decided to drop the charges for the work.
What drives me even crazier is my wife and her approach to car repairs.
Like I said, we have a great local mechanic. Unfortunately he has a waiting list. If your car is 100% broken, he’ll push you to the front of the line, but if it can wait, you wait.
My wife isn’t a person who can wait patiently. When she thinks something is wrong with her car, she wants it fixed NOW! She won’t even wait for me to get home from work, she will just bring it to the first place she can get it looked at. Those places are always somewhere like Jiffy Lube, Pep Boys, or Honest A-1 shops.
They see a small Asian woman with an accent come in and decide that they can give her an insanely inflated estimate for non-existent bullshit. My saving grace is that she is also cheap, so instead of giving them the green light she’ll call me and start screaming about how expensive the repair will be. So I can tell her to leave and go home and just wait.
Of course, once we wait a week or so and go see the local mechanic and he gives us a realistic estimate that is one tenth of Jiffy Lube’s estimate my wife is so grateful for my advice and thanks me for helping her avoid a costly mistake. Yeah right! As all you married guys know, she gets madder at me for being right than she is at the clip artists that tried to rip her off.
I really think it was just a coincidence.
Nothing they did with the clutch should have affected the ignition switch.
Plus they drove it an hour before I showed up and it didn’t recognize the key anymore.
My local mechanic is also awesome. I guess paying for my kid to get votech training and 10 years of experience with all brands, pays off.
Luckily, my wife knows that she knows nothing about cars, so when she has a problem, she calls me first.
Once when my truck was running a little funny, she asked why I never changed the spark plugs like I usually do when I buy a car and maybe that’s the problem.
The truck is a diesel.
Diesels don’t have spark plugs.
My truck just needed the fuel filter changed.
An ode to waiting.
…
I did not know that. Thank you.
Diesel goes boom under sufficient compression without needing an ignition source. In frigid climates, you may need glow plugs though.
As a mechanic I agree. I did a timing belt job on a Mazda Protege and the day after I did it, the AC clutch literally fell off the compressor. Fortunately, the clutch itself fell onto the belly pan and not into the street, but the bolt that holds it in was nowhere to be found. No big deal, I found a small bolt that fit and reinstalled it (with Loctite). I explained it wasn’t something I had touched other than to remove the belt from the compressor to do the timing belt job, but because it was a simple fix, and how it may appear from a customer’s perspective, I comp’ed the job. It was appreciated and she’s still a customer. Coincidences do happen, but not often.
I feel your pain, Ron. I just dropped my truck off for the 100k service, which is looking to cost me 2k.
Why 2K? It just needs brakes, fluids, and other run of the mill things. Damn, this has been a pricy month.
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is said to be ‘apoplectic’ and ‘humiliated’ following the network’s decision to pay $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit between ABC and Donald Trump.
“Well then, Hot Lips- resign your goddam commission.’
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/17/disney-decides-against-transgender-arc-in-pixars-win-or-lose-series/?in_brief=true
Disney decides against transgender arc in Pixar’s “Win or Lose” series
A Disney spokesperson said the decision was made with parents in mind
movement
This goes to show that there are still beancounters at Disney.
“This woke crap is losing money. Lose it or we drop funding for the project.”
Talking to the mechanic, we think it needs a new ignition switch module.
The service manager is giving me employee pricing, so parts and labor will “only” be $330.
Put a toggle switch on the dash.
I don’t think that would work, the car would not let him disengage the immobilizer.
Floor starter switch
I don’t know anything about that immobilizer crap, but it seems as if it should be possible to bypass it. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Go find the local chop shop and ask them.
I think I’d rather pay the 330 and have it fixed right.
Saabs are temperamental enough without jerry rigging something.
where there is a will there is a way
Huh. I thought it was “where there is a will there is an heir urging you to get your next checkup at a Canadian clinic”.
I lol’ed.
Modern vehicles being what they are, it may be a case of needing to send a specific signal, code, or encryption key to one of the dozens or hundreds of ECUs rather than simply sending the correct voltage to the correct location.
Whenever I have to take leads for keys, we have to ask if the key requires programming. If it does, it goes from a parts department lead to a service department lead. Dealerships love seeing a lead go from a $5 key cut to a $200 key programming that requires less actual labor than key cutting.
Have car thefts gone down as a result of all this security?
It seems like it’s made it so the thieves need more technical equipment, but hasn’t really made stealing a car more difficult.
Could be wrong, maybe it has helped.
On the one hand…
… but on the other hand…
ron – Kia cheaped out here and we had all the TikTok hacks about starting them with USB thumb drive.
So it has stopped casual theft. Any pro can get around it.
Don’t you wanna hang out with the bleach boys, baby?
it has stopped casual theft. Any pro can get around it.
Exactly.
Just another layer of pointless complexity and inevitable failure.
Do you have a lock on your house? Because I can guarantee you I can break in.
(did handi-man work with an ex-LAPD guy)
Further proof that this trans shit is the most misogynistic ideology in America, and second place isn’t within a AU. This is not about “trans rights”, but about taking over women’s spaces.
Also, why not name this dude? He deserves a night with Steve Smith, followed by a morning with Sea Smith.
Yes, the trannies doing this and the people pushing it are pretty nasty pieces of work. Leftist ideology is really Faustian at its core. It is more like a strategy for wanton destruction than an ideology.
The basic structure of leftism is
(1) Society sucks.
(2) Tear down society.
(3) . . . .
(4) Utopia!
Mojeaux pointed out that trannies, being men, will always revert to male behavior. I would postulate that they revert even farther than most men would, as they believe themselves to be woman and thus unfettered.
The trans motto: “Look what you made me do.”
I’ve worked too hard to let people bully me into competing with the boys.
transphobic lesbians … my juicy biologically male ass in your face
I guarantee you, not one of you will stop me
correctively rape all the TERFs
But misgendering is violence.
Most trannies just want to be left alone but the ones that make the news are almost by definition going to be assholes like this one.
Because who doesn’t cross shop an F150 and Cayman?
https://www.caranddriver.com/photos/g63106231/2024-ford-f-150-raptor-r-vs-2024-porsche-718-cayman-compared-gallery/
I’m assuming they had them both on loan and decided to get cute. That particular press car I’ve seen elsewhere and do not care for the color.
If it was an F-150 XLT I’d consider it a strange comparison, but at the price point for the F-150 Raptor R, the buyer is probably within the same demographic: affluent, status-seeking, and not a “car guy.”
Vivek weighs in on the CR.
Pretty much what you’d expect.
https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1869407887983821089
No way!
Based on the way i suspect the overwhelming majority of Raptors get used, that’s probably not an unfair comparison.
Also- Porsche with an automatic? Pfffft.
Claimed, without evidence
Attorneys for Donald Trump told a New York judge that the president-elect’s criminal hush money trial was tainted by “grave juror misconduct” and that his guilty verdicts should be thrown out as a result.
“The jury in this case was not anywhere near fair and impartial,” attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove told Judge Juan Merchan in a letter dated Dec. 3 and made public Tuesday.
Prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office responded at the time that the allegations are “seemingly inaccurate,” and noted that Trump’s lawyers oppose holding a hearing where the claims could be “fully examined.”
The seven-page letter from Blanche and Bove is heavily redacted. The visible portions of the letter offer few details or evidence to support the misconduct claims.
They carry their children in pouches.
Handles like it’s on rails!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1hgum5k/oc_guy_ignored_all_eight_of_the_signs_warning_him/
Meme-mala
“My mother … would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?'” Harris said in that 2023 speech. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”
The line became a meme, and that meme became a digital rallying cry for Democrats who were eager for a younger face after souring on President Biden’s candidacy.
Huh. All this time I thought it was a symbol of her total lack of a coherent platform.
Brief reminder that octogenarian presidents are the exception rather than the norm. Harris at 60 is on the high end of the distribution.
See, and here I figured coconut was like Oreo or banana.
To some of the young organizers who were part of that initial internet frenzy around Harris’ candidacy, watching her reference the meme in her speech on Tuesday struck a chord.
“It’s sadly poetic how truly imperative acknowledging the context of which we exist will be as we figure out where we must go from here,” Democratic digital strategist Annie Wu Henry said in a statement.
“While the line was, yes, meme-ified and funny, it also brought so many people joy and enthusiasm. And those feelings can and must still exist,” she said.
Emma Mont, the vice president of the left-leaning social media account Organizer Memes, told NPR she was moved by Harris’ remarks.
“That’s the Kamala Harris I got excited for,” Mont said. “The version of her that’s self-aware and funny and encouraging. I’m sorry we don’t get to see four years of that person.”
Generation Gibberish.
Yeah, if you camped out on her front yard you’d get arrested. Too bad you’re not obsessed with Alito.
It will be interesting to see which leftist sinecure she is awarded. I have to believe her days of elected office are over.
Maybe we should be concerned that somebody who is seeking power has different “versions” of herself?
I don’t really want to pursue policies that ‘bring joy and enthusiasm’ to neurotic midwits. I want to hound them out of public society.
“I learned it from watching you, Mamala!”
Visionary
The current German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and his center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), on the other hand, are pushing for big public investments to spark industrial growth. On Tuesday, Scholz proposed a €100 billion investment fund resembling the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S. and pledged to increase the minimum wage to €15 per hour from €12.
The goal is for Germany to remain “a successful, strong industrialized country, even in 10, 20 or 30 years from now,” Scholz said.
At the same time, the SPD is calling for tax cuts for most earners and hikes on the rich, while also proposing a “Made in Germany” premium that subsidizes companies’ investments in equipment via a direct tax refund of 10 percent of the purchase price.
Spend your way to prosperity. You just need more solar panels.
You Know Who Else had a big program to spark industrial growth in Germany?
The Royal Air Force Bomber Command?
George C. Marshall?
Albert Speer?
The war in Ukraine IS a domestic issue if they’re throwing tax dollars at it.
And those “high energy prices” that are crippling industry just fell out of the sky, I guess.
The Greens are proposing a “Germany fund” to finance investments in the country’s infrastructure and to bring down the electricity tax to the European minimum.
The fund, according to the party’s program, will “guarantee the younger generation a modern, functioning and climate-neutral country and a competitive economy instead of leaving them with deferred burdens and dilapidated infrastructure.”
Just keep clapping your hands, and Tinkerbell will fly us all to the Promised Land.