The NFL wild card weekend is in the books. And there were a couple good games, a couple of stinkers, and an absolute shock as the Rams drilled the Vikings. Jerry Jones is talking to Deion about the Cowboys job. The next round of the FA Cup is set. And I think that’s about it for sports.
Way to finally get around to doing something constructive. I’d almost say this is one of their core functions. Maybe they should have done it a while ago.
This would be a good thing. But even if it happens, they’re still gonna have to solve the bigger problem of Hamas existing as the de facto government and a terrorist organization at the same time.
I hope this guy takes them to the bank. Because what they did is quite obvious to anybody who paid attention.
It took them long enough to fix this stupidity. I guess people will have to pay or find another bathroom to shoot up or jack off in.
I think it’s gonna work this time. Of course, the person replacing him might be even worse. But it’s worth the risk of finding out to get rid of this loon.
I’m sure somebody will find a reason to complain about this. Hell, they’ll probably find a way to call it illegal and try to impeach the guy.
“We must keep our puppet.” Nevermind the people who are being killed in the stalemate and the incredible amount of money being thrown away.
OK, buddy. Whatever you say. I can’t imagine there’s a single person with a functioning brain that believes this.
And another one gone. And another one gone. Another one bites the dust.
“Oops. We really fucked up.” “But the good news is we investigated ourselves and found nothing bad happened. So let’s all just move along as if nothing happened.
Here’s a lovely song. At least I think so. And here’s a better one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
“I’m sure someone will find a way to complain about this.”
“Hello; customer service? My garbage didn’t get picked up today, as scheduled.”
“Sowing the Seeds of Love” seems a little Beatles-ish to me.
Have you looked up the video where someone replaced the lyrics of “Head over Heels” with a literal description of what the singer is doing?
Also, Curt Smith appeared twice—as himself—on the tv show “Psych”.
His line: “Please stop saying you love me.”
Psych is probably the most Gen-X show I’ve ever seen.
Nothing beats this one for literal videos.
*hurries to microwave some popcorn*
That’s absolutely amazing. I now have a knew favorite thing to track down and laugh at.
Wow.
It really does, doesn’t it?
I had NO idea that was Tears for Fears.
This one was a tribute to them…
No, but that sounds hilarious.
Israel will sign a peace deal, Hamas will break that deal down the road, and everyone will blame Israel for the resulting chaos.
The price you pay in a world where evil people with stupid ideas get to force you to do stupid things in order for them to keep grandstanding on their cult’s mendacious and evil beliefs and agenda.
If there ever was a case where you should just say screw these people and their opinions and beliefs…
This tells me everything I need to know about this “deal”.
Never change, asshole.
One hopes that Israel is just stalling until 1/20. This deal As it’s being reported) is a guarantee of FAR more unending bloodshed.
Listen, you can’t expect HAMAS to free all of the hostages, that just an unserious proposal and shows you’re not capable of adult statecraft.
I can’t fathom why they wouldn’t be. They have to know they’ll get actual support under the new administration — and as you alluded to below, anything that leaves Hamas in charge of Gaza is just a “ceasefire to reload” scenario in the long run. They’ll just be delaying the next attack.
Then again — as I typed out “trying for a deal that has a better chance” — the cynic in me kept saying that even if Hamas is gone, the populace raised from children with Jihadi Sesame Street is almost certainly going to have the same shit under a different name in charge… so what the hell do I know. Bleah.
Not Adahn:
Of course not, I mean how will they free the ones they’ve already killed.
Any deal that leaves Hamas standing is a bad deal.
If that means Gaza gets harrowed again and again, well, that’s what it means.
“Well… philosophically speaking, we freed their spirit to re-engage with the cosmos. Liberate the Jews!”
And I haven’t even looked at the details.
Wasn’t the Afghan pull-out similarly timed for narcissism?
The only “good” deal for Israel is one that completely razes Gaza and leaves it uninhabitable with all of its former residents deported to whatever country that will take them (North Korea?).
Mossad and the CIA and create an alternative to Hamas. Maybe call it the PLO.
NPR said the deal included Hamas releasing 33 hostages and Israel releasing something close to a thousand detainees. Seems fair.
…and not all of those 33 were going to be alive. But “most” of them would be.
OFFS. “No.”
^^^^THIS^^^^
Fit the 1000 with bomb collars which detonate if removed.
After the 33 are returned, give Hamas the ‘disarm’ code, which detonates the bombs.
They should put the bomb “collars” around the Hamas-holes arms, so when Hamas puts in the “disarm” code, it works. Just as advertised.
–“NPR said the deal included Hamas releasing 33 hostages and Israel releasing something close to a thousand detainees.”–
I think I remember the last time one of these lopsided exchanges occurred, the lefties complained that the 30/1 ratio indicated that the Israelis were worth more that the Hamas prisoners, thus indicating the racism of Israel’s supporters.
Looks like I have the place to myself.
*begins scratching butt*
That’s what happens when you visit the site at the crack…. of dawn.
I dare say there are significant segments of society that would do well to get back to their core purpose and not the fluff luxury has allowed them to be distracted by for at least the last 30 years (since the end of the Cold War). Of course — while it is NATO doing it here, there’s no reason for NATO to do this — you don’t need a multi-national trans-oceanic alliance for the Baltic Sea countries to keep an eye on their own area.
But choir… preaching… I know. Morning anyway, y’all.
I was kinda under the impression that nobody really wants to know who’s fucking with Baltic undersea cables. How many different theories have there been?
I’m not saying it was aliens….
“good faith error” is the name of my new 90’s music cover band.
$870 million, sucked from the veins of Houston tax payers.
If this happened to the Founding Fathers, Houston Bay would be filed with pencils and notebooks.
Wouldn’t it have been quills and parchment?
/pedant
Yes, California voters will find someone more loathsome than Newsome – either with a recall or at the next regularly scheduled election.
There’s not really any point in trying to recall him (again… wish it had worked in the COVID days). He’s out in 2026 anyway — a recall election / process wouldn’t have an election before November 2025 at the earliest I would think.
And likely we’ll get the idiot Lt. Gov. next time around I expect… it’ll be Her Turn and all.
It wouldn’t surprise me if she Hochul’d him.
The dude is chum at this point.
The point is to render him radioactive for the 2028 prez election. Any guy who’s too incompetent even for California…
Any guy who’s too incompetent even for California…
So, future Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Always seems how these blue areas do business. Once the crooks take over, the process for putting top crooks in charge will only render crooks. You can’t vote your way out of socialism and its evils isn’t just a phrase.
Governor Kamala.
As governor, I will govern!
The good news is that he’ll never be President now, even if they don’t manage to impeach him. He may run but his campaign will fizzle early as he won’t attract support or funding outside of a few diehards in California.
I hold out hope that the voters of California will come to their senses and elect a more moderate Democrat. There is change afoot. California may never turn red, or even purple, but hopefully a less crazy blue.
hopefully a less crazy blue
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
I thinkCA can be turned red. It used to be red. Of course anyone with sense has already left CA, or will leave soon enough.
I realize that I made a failed prediction of Kamala being close enough to fortify herself to a win, but I find it hilarious that the right and libertarians are singing in unison that this is the end of Newsome. California is supermajority democrat and even those that lost their homes will crawl over broken glass to vote far-left-D. We are too close to 2026 for the recall to get enough legs to happen. As the ashes clear, the media will once again run cover for this being beyond anyone’s control etc. and Trump is a meanie.
He will run in 2028, he will run as Whitmer’s VP, and all will be forgiven and forgotten in the blue states. If the economy is at all wobbly or there is a foreign policy disaster, he’s moving into the naval observatory in 4 years. Fear Whitmer. Suburban women love her and will turn out in droves for her.
Newsome is termed out of being governor at this point, and has not done anything that could push him over on the national stage. There will be no fortifying him into the presidency.
Dude is chum.
“He cut regulations to rebuild! He’s a doer!”
And now they’ll probably get sued for access and they’ll end up just removing public restrooms at all and we’ll continue the trend of not having any because some people can’t help but abuse the commons. Pure tragedy.
I don’t use the bathroom at a *gas station* without purchasing a candy bar, or something.
I feel comfortable enough to use Walmart’s bathroom without buying anything, though.
lol Only because you know why.
I will choose to take this as another sign that woke is dying.
Yeah, NATO is going to stop the CIA from cutting cables under the Baltic.
Pull the other one…
ALOL!
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1878452101933563927
So the culture that condones and encourages the fucking of little boys for sport think this is bad? HAH!!
I have to admit… I laughed.
Derision couldn’t be aimed at a nicer group of people….
This seems like a fully generalizable technique for any of the commie/solidarity fists.
I can’t believe I didn’t think of it myself. It’s brilliant.
I imagine there’s a standard commie fist stencil, which means you could make a standard dick and balls stencil to match.
Why bother? It’s easy enough to freehand, a lot of artists started out drawing them.
This seems like a fully generalizable technique for any of the commie/solidarity fists.
I’d take it further. Start gluing dildos on the hands of the JSO clowns who glue their hands to roads. Or putting them in the back of their pants. Or gluing them to their heads.
Now I wonder how cheaply dildos can be obtained.
I dated a girl who worked in an “adult novelty” shop in Dallas, and those things were too expensive to leave on protestors.
This was before I lived with the stripper.
Those adult novelty producers make money hand over fist
Ahem. https://skdtac.com/skd-bag-of-dicks/ $50/6, but they’re out of stock right now.
Isn’t that just a colored version of the BLM symbol? Also, I saw that with the BLM symbols, no one threw a hissy fit that I’m aware of.
I hope the graffiti dicks for the BLM symbols were bigger, at least.
Why the outrage, it’s a circumcised dick.
That’s why there’s the outrage. I mean Palestinians giving (((them))) handies?
Sir Richard Burton says hello.
I LOLd
Fifth Rule for Radicals: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
Two comments are awesome:
“Free Phallustine” – I like that more than is probably due;
“At least it’s not a black dick. That would be racist” is pretty good for starters.
If The Arabian Nights are not lying to me, Arabs hate Black Africans.
At the minimum it will foster some trash talk, certainly.
I expect people will recycle the same old accusations.
That’s a bunch of rubbish.
I refuse to be drawn into this series of puns.
If this guy gets clemency, Biden deserves to be put out of our misery.
I am surprised he has not issued a blanket pardon for all the crooks in government that have destroyed everything. I am sure they feel they deserve it.
“Well, we’ve got that one on the calendar for the morning of the last day, so that it covers everything right up to the end.”
Just about everything his administration has done for the last 3 weeks of their term has been a FYTW to the other side — so probably going to happen.
Yup.
A true piece of shit to the very end.
What are you, nuts?
My top three TfF songs:
1. Head over Heels
2. Mad World
3. Everybody Wants to Rule the World.
You see what I’m setting up, right?
An excuse to post a video of a seven foot tall clown singing a cover of “Mad World”:
https://youtu.be/aVevvbFNKiY?si=uvy-chj3nO60g9Bw
Their early stuff was the best. The Hurting. And this one (look out for that paper aeroplane!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUfcT5OoP-8
Your link gave me a literal BSOD.
What the fuck, Windows?
Re: The Hurting – agreed, the best.
I am awfully sorry!
@Tox
Not yours, Cavalier’s.
“Way to finally get around to doing something constructive.”
The Estonian naval ship pictured (a) looks more like a yacht, to me and (b) appears to be unarmed.
Your point is?
This would be a good thing.
Strongly disagree. This reeks of Obama blackmail. The only possible solution given the reality of the players is Israel going full Sherman until Hamas is gone, the hostages all released, and any capability for Arab Gaza to cause trouble is ruthlessly eliminated.
This is the path they chose and they show no sign of change. It’s a great pity.
Agreed. See my comment above.
Gaza = uninhabitable.
Former residents = expelled.
That’s a good outcome for Israel.
The problem is, nobody, absolutely nobody, will accept Palestinian immigrants. There is nowhere at all to expel them to.
Greenland!
I was thinking there are some secure-now-empty-facilities in Venezuela, or so we’ve heard.
“There is nowhere at all to expel them to.”
“Hey Qatar, nice corrupt banking system you got there… It’d be a shame if we started enforcing international law against it. No, we can definitely work something out, you’ve got space for a couple million illiterate jihadi lunatics right? I mean, you love enslaving people! Think of how many hotels they could build!”
Obama has absolutely had a death wish towards Israel. The marxist cadre that created him is not enough to explain his obvious disdain for Israel. Siding with Iran to spite Israel and the Jewish/American people sounds biblically stupid and evil to me, but that’s where Obama’s team went.
He’s an old school lefty, black power anti-Semite. I mean, the guy used to pal around with Farrakhan.
Like I tell people: “This is one of the many evil and downright destructive things that asshole meant when he promised to fundamentally change the country.”
The democrats have gotten away with getting Jewish money for more than a decade now despite this change. At least some people are wising up to the fact team blue would love to see genocide in the Middle East if the ones being killed are the Jews.
And those same people continued to support him and his party. He ain’t that dumb.
I’d only believe him if the next sentence was: “Oh wait.. you said DE-porting… My bad!”
“CNN’s defense that the plaintiff, Zachary Young, was not a central focus of the report at the heart of the lawsuit.”
I was unaware that one of the elements of a defamation claim was that the plaintiff has to be a central focus of the report.
Now here’s something you don’t see every day – someone at The Nation is actually right about something.
My answer to anyone bringing up the Trump being a convicted felon is: “Yeah, exactly like young Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Solzhenitsyn, and Jesus Christ.”
They indubitably then tell me: “But they were falsely accused by evil whatever.”
And I respond with: “Ayup! You got it.”
Silence after that…
But none of their crimes were so heinous as to get unconditional discharge.
That is a pretty good retort, Alex.
Bravo.
actually right about something
I suppose, but it’s damning with faint praise. I note that the writers problem with ‘prosecutorial liberalism’ and
‘The use of prosecutors and courts’ is not that it’s immoral, destroys any semblance of rule of law, and destroys even the little bit of trust out institutions might warrant, indeed goes against the foundations of our republic. No, the problem is that ‘it is a failed strategy.. [that strengthened] Trump]’. I’m not going to give the writer nor The Nation much credit, other than for admitting publicly how unethical and focused on power they are, even if the admission is inadvertent.
Hmmm…. a cancer research biotech Bay Area company having cash flow problems at the tail end of the PPP admin that had one of their “throw money at it” goals as “ending cancer”. That one’s kind of flown under the radar… but can’t help but wonder if we had some Green New Deal / Build Back Better style “grift to our connected cronies” going on with the “cancer research” companies… especially in Nancy’s back yard. And now they expect that trough to be diverted…
Pure speculation, mind you… but the suspicious mind suspects what it suspects….
“Oops. We really fucked up.”
But at least the $870MM in contracts that weren’t approved by the Board were no-bid contracts.
Titty Tuesday squeezes and bounces into your day!
https://archive.is/Hbb7A
We are in a weird position here in Mama Mojeauxland. She’s not sick enough to die (long story how we went from “she’s dying” to “oh look at that urine!”, but she’s not nearly well enough to live, either.
The hospital wants her out and we have to find a SNF fast. Hey, did you know you have to SHOP for that? I didn’t.
We also have to find a way to pay for it. When my brothers went over to talk to her sisters and gently brought up the idea that Mom would need to liquidate her equity in the house, the co-owning sister (no, I haven’t seen the deed yet) absolutely REFUSED to sell/move. “ThIs Is My HoMe!” No shit. It’s also my mom’s, you selfish cunt, and if you think I’m going to release her funds to help you pay the mortgage while she’s in rehab, you’ve got another think coming. If it’s your home, you can fucking well pay for it.
We have a consult with an elder law attorney, but not till the 30th. It will give us great pleasure to force the sale of that house out from under that cunty thief.
I asked my mom if she really knew her sister before she moved in with/bought a house with, and she said no.
And now mom’s mad she’s not dying.
Sorry 🙁
“the co-owning sister (no, I haven’t seen the deed yet) absolutely REFUSED to sell/move. “ThIs Is My HoMe!” ”
Once the government gets involved, and they definitely will when it comes to end of life care costs, that sister will get no choice on this happening, Mojeaux.
“And now mom’s mad she’s not dying.”
Ugh, that is sad.
And now mom’s mad she’s not dying.
I can understand that, especially if she won’t really be living.
Sorry, Mo. I hope nothing but the best for you.
If the sister is a co-owner, and nothing can be negotiated with her, there is a legal process called partition which severs the co-ownership, and under which a court can order a property sold and the proceeds split. I’ll repeat my disclaimer about not being licensed in Missouri, but it is covered by Rule 96 of the Missouri Rules of Civil Procedure.
96.01 | Right to Partition in General
Owners of interests in land in joint tenancy or tenancy in common, including estates in fee, for life, or for years, may bring an action for partition, if the same can be done without great prejudice to the parties in interest, and, if not, then for a sale of the property, and a division of the proceeds thereof.
Does the fact that this is the other siblings’ primary residence change things?
Generally speaking (because I have no specific knowledge of Missouri law) the right to partition comes with ownership, not possession. Any owner can seek a partition.
I don’t know if living on the property creates the “great prejudice to interest” barring partition, but it shouldn’t. Otherwise the nonresident party doesn’t have anything like equal rights in the property.
The great prejudice to interest language refers to physical partition. The forced sale is the remedy when physical partition would create great prejudice to interest. ie. in the case of a single family residence where physical partition would destroy the utility of the property.
cannot really give any advice and not much to say except sorry..
It’s been a long time since my wife had to deal with this for her mom, but as I recall Medicaid (income based) paid for rehab/long term SNF. If your city/county has a senior services office, they were help in offering a directory of ones with open slots.
My mother in law was in a nearly identical situation. It was hell on Mrs. Suthenboy. You have my sincere sympathy Mojeaux. I wish I knew how to advise you.
My mom has been in assisted living since 2021. Initially they gave her 6-12 months to live. Now they’re saying she could live another 5 years. She is unable to get out of bed so she continues to need full time care. We sold her house in 2023 but the money will run out in 2026. Her all in cost of living is $8000 per month. She receives $3500 per month in SS/pension. My sister and I will have to make up the $4500 per month difference when the money runs out. I’ve spent the last 2 years saving my money in case I have to cross that bridge, but my financial life is being put on hold for the foreseeable future. It sucks but I’ve had worse things happen in my life, hang in there Mo, you’ll come out of this stronger and wiser.
My wife works in a SNF (admittedly in Zanesville, OH) but: if you don’t want your mother to spend her last days laying in her own filth, I’d be very choosy about which SNF you put her in. Ask about staffing levels (are there enough nurses and aides to actually take care of the residents) and plan on visiting a lot to make sure the staff knows that someone is looking out for her.
My wife’s experience has both of us thinking we’d rather die in our own home.
we’d rather die in our own home
Or as the wife and I also discuss, the nice long walk into the woods of a frigid night.
JI, the thing that scares me the most in my twilight years is becoming a burden to the ones I love and then pissing away my life’s work on keeping me alive with zero quality of life, so I am familiar with your comment.
be very choosy
Confirm. For my father, I found the residential care homes to be the best rather than the larger facilities. He was in Oregon, so care homes were limited to 5 residents. The trade off is that, depending on care needs, some will not be willing to take it on, but in my experience this was mostly a non-issue. It took several weeks/a month and visits to probably 20+ facilities, but we got one with a very competent and caring owner. She took good care of him all the way to the end (and looked the other way when we wanted to visit him during the Covid nonsense). What I got from the larger facilities was a lots of superficial ‘nice’ stuff – activities, menu plans, bureaucracy to handle paperwork etc – but no real feeling that he would get the attention and care (and actual caring about his well being) that he definitely got with the small care home.
Sorry Mojeaux.
The hospital wants her out and we have to find a SNF fast. Hey, did you know you have to SHOP for that? I didn’t.
Yes you do have to shop for that. My parents are in one now and it took my relatives in PA a while to find one.
To tag along with what Mr. Meat says, the larger facilities aren’t that good. I have a friend who is an orderly at a large SNF, and according to her it is staffed by the lowest common denominator of employees. If you can’t get a job anywhere else, they will hire you.
Anyone have any suggestions on putting a newly arrived next door yappy/yippy dog out of my misery?
chocolate peanut butter doggie treats?
Don’t take it out on the dog… Do it to the neighbors…
Do they still make the volume controlled “dog whistle” devices? Volume gets over a certain level, high pitch tone gets played.
Yes, a customer just used one on her yipper the other day. They work very well from what I saw.
This would be my suggestion. Probably won’t work if the li’l yapper is indoors. This one seems to get good reviews, but none of them are a panacea in and of themselves.
https://www.chewy.com/petsafe-outdoor-ultrasonic-bark/dp/48542
I suggest don’t.
If it is anything like living next to a railroad crossing, which I did for three years, you will stop hearing it in about two weeks.
OT life update: I have decided against head and neck radiation therapy.
I want my grandkids to remember me as a vibrant and fun grandfather, not some old sore head that was always grumpy and sick. I want to ride my motorcycle to see my sister in Montana, not have my wife stressed out while being a caregiver. I want to enjoy life, not manage side effects. I want to be able to pass my assets on to my kids, not lose everything in medical bankruptcy.
I will consider immunotherapy or oncologic virology, but blasting my face with radiation is out. I may have complications in the future, but that is a problem for future me and I am confident (probably over-confident) that that guy can work things out. Quality over quantity.
Hope you live and then go out on your terms bro. I plan to do the same.
There’s lots of things we wish for but get something different.
OTOH being a grumpy old grandpa ain’t bad either
Damn dood, that’s a tough situation. I wish you the best.
Good luck!
tough situation, hope for the best…
Good for you, Necron. I know I always feel better once I have made a decision.
Sorry and hoping for the best outcomes possible for you.
If you’re not doing traditional ‘standard of care’ type stuff, have you thought about non-traditional therapeutics? Certainly minimizing/elimination sugar – those tumor cells love them some glucose – if that fits in with your quality of life decisions.
There are also (very) non-traditional therapeutics that are showing some promise in small trials and case studies. Fenbenzadole is getting attention, though from a cursory reading seems to have been mostly ‘tested’/used in gastrointestinal type cancers.
The benefit of these sorts of approaches is that even if they don’t work, AFAIKT, they have very minimal side effects, so shouldn’t impact quality of life, and are in general pretty cheap, so you can maintain passing on that legacy with minimal impact. So you can take positive action for yourself without sacrificing your other priorities.
Again, best of luck, hoping for the best for you.
This is all excellent advice and I hope you will consider it.
Regardless, I will pray for you and your fam. Good luck.
I like the cut of your jib Necron. I hope the best for you.
Me too.
Best wishes
I don’t know what the fuck this guy thought he could accomplish over there but this seems very much like a case of playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/cricket-loving-australian-executed-hands-34475489
“The Russian Federation is obligated to treat all prisoners of war in accordance with international humanitarian law”
Not if he’s a mercenary.
The lack of animal protein in his diet drove him insane?
The Geneva convention applies to people, not vegans.
If he was wearing a Uke army uniform and in the Uke chain of command, I’m pretty sure the Geneva Conventions apply to him the same as any other Uke soldier.
A lot of people have fucked up ideas about war. It’s not a game.
GAY
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/f1/ralf-schumacher-wife-cora-f1-34475128
chicks tits look fake.
NYT headline: Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted.
No shit, Shirley? What else would they say to justify millions of dollars and who knows how many man-years devoted to hounding him and anybody associated with him?
Just the headline they wanted to carry on for the next 4 years. Felon and would have been convicted for more if not for you dastardly and pesky rubes.
That’s why they got right on it and convicted him when he….wait, what did he do again?
“I would have been the star quarterback and banging both the homecoming and prom queens”
Trying to collect all the photos that best define the grotesque lunacy of the Woke Era.
Feel free to post the ones I’m missing in the replies.
https://x.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1878849801695174799
My God…
I finally logged in just to see the many, many replies.
Nude cycling in San Francisco have never been limited to Woke Era.
Re: Starbucks – I’m probably a huge racist bigot, but if you’re doing a ‘business meeting’ in a public place, shouldn’t you be dressed like businessmen?
I judge men who wear sportswear in public unless they’re on their way to/from the gym or the game. I also judge anyone who takes up a table at a coffee shop without buying anything, as the cheap ass they clearly are.
And wouldn’t it be the same as if you have business meeting at a restaurant? In which case you get a table and order food.
The human brain runs continuously at a modest ~17 watts of power and only increases its energy consumption by 5% above baseline when it is actively thinking.
The brain is organized to minimize energy consumption while maximizing computation. This means that, while the brain consumes the largest proportion of energy in the body, it is remarkably energy-efficient considering its computational power. Here, we review the metabolic costs of cognition, that is, the how glucose metabolism sustains brain functions including core homeostasis, memory consolidation, repair and the execution of specific cognitive tasks.
Although it accounts for only 2% of body weight, the human brain accounts for 20% of its resting metabolism, more than tenfold the amount expected based on its weight. However, the brain nonetheless runs continuously on only ~17 watts of power. By comparison, a large high-performance computing cluster uses up to six orders of magnitude more power, operating at ~2 megawatts. From this perspective, our brains are remarkably energy efficient relative to their computational depth and agility.
Relatively simple unimodal tasks (such as visual perception and visuospatial processing) are less costly that complex multidomain tasks (such as social cognition and emotion). Although these observations regarding energy utilization are convergent, an important caveat is that engagement in explicit goal-directed behaviour and cognition is only associated with a relatively small increase (~5%) in glucose consumption [compared to] the ongoing costs of resting neural activity and homeostasis.
https://x.com/DegenRolf/status/1878702746800635947
Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
In 2023, the volume of alcoholic spirits sold in the U.S. declined for the first time in nearly 30 years
And last year, bourbon had its steepest annual sales decline of the century
https://x.com/DKThomp/status/1878954298723475487
which one of y’all are slacking?
Guilty as charged…
I now limit myself to one glass with 3 fingers a day instead of half of the gallon bottle.
half of the gallon bottle – that is not a believable amount though. fingers as in width or length 🙂
Three fingers deep in a mixing bowl is still just three fingers…
What kind of cheap-ass bourbon were you drinking that comes in gallon bottles, anyway?
Jim Beam Black…
You’ve heard of two fisted drinker, right? Well Alex is a two handle drinker.
I’d discount sales volume of bourbon from 2020-2022 as an anomaly for obvious reasons and in reality, 2023 was a great year for sales.
I posted this yesterday.
https://www.wsj.com/business/americas-bourbon-boom-is-over-now-the-hangover-is-here-3e9961d7?st=WsWKKK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I would have gone with “binge” rather than “boom” for that headline.
maybe some more fancy bourbons will make their way over to Europe
PieInTheSky:
Only from the big distilleries. It’s too cost prohibitive for the smaller distilleries to deal with all of the legal and financial risk to ship a couple barrels overseas.
*sigh*
Sorry. This is my fault. 2023 was when I switched back to scotch.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24579126.scotch-whisky-industry-suffers-huge-fall-exports/
It’s me too, since I retired I drink so much less.
We only drink Corona and Dos Equis now, with tequila reserved for special occasions.
Local liquor store sold out their barrel pick of Blantons Gold in a couple hours yesterday. I guess it’s down in that it didn’t sell out within an hour.
Me. I’m cutting back on, though not eliminating, booze.
Gross injustice
“Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations,” said Monday’s report from special counsel David Weiss, whose team filed gun and tax charges against the younger Biden that resulted in felony convictions that were subsequently wiped away by a presidential pardon.
The report is the culmination of years-long investigations that predated the arrival of Attorney General Merrick Garland but became among the most politically explosive inquiries of his entire tenure, capturing Republican fascination on Capitol Hill and ultimately producing a fissure between the Justice Department and the White House over the treatment of the president’s son.
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Biden had repeatedly pledged that he would not pardon his son but reversed course on Dec. 1, saying that such an action was warranted because of what he called a “miscarriage of justice” and a selective prosecution. He said he believed that his son had been treated “differently” on account of his last name and that “raw politics” had infected the decision making of the Justice Department.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong,” Biden said.
The Deep State persecuted the Biden family.
Absolutely shameless. And they have a whole bunch of idiots that will believe this blatant and obvious lie to stay in the cult.
“Other presidents have pardoned family members”
True enough. Rarely mentioned that one of them was Abraham Lincoln.
Do in-laws count? Mary’s kin included some Confederate officers. Lincoln gave amnesty to all Confederates (except very high ranking ones like Davis and Lee) who took an oath of loyalty to the Union. In one instance, Mary Lincoln’s half sister, the widow of a Confederate general, was given amnesty in 1863.
Color me surprised? Not.
“The president’s characterizations are incorrect based on the facts in this case, and, on a more fundamental level, they are wrong,” Weiss wrote. Such remarks undermine the public’s confidence in the justice system, Weiss said.
Calling judges’ rulings “into question and injecting partisanship into the independent administration of the law undermines the very foundation of what makes America’s justice system fair and equitable,” Weiss wrote. “It erodes public confidence in an institution that is essential to preserving the rule of law.”
That ship has flown.
Of course, “President” should be capitalized. Sorry, but bad proofreading in a lawyer’s document always sticks in my craw.
Also, it’s not a justice system, it’s a legal system. Justice is an outcome, not a process or system.
Justice is a fiction.
take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and THEN show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy.
After grinding down the universe, you do not deserve to be shown mercy.
High functioning societies are based on reductive materialism.
It is known.
Justice is a fiction.
So are liberty and rights. Some fictions are kind of important unless Hobbes appeals to you.
Some fictions are kind of important unless Hobbes appeals to you.
Actually Hobbes is pretty damn fictional himself.
Fair enough, but the world he describes as baseline is the best approximation I could think of for what I imagine a society (for want of a better word for the state of existence absent everything that makes a society) with none of the aspirational concepts would be like.
Not really. Hobbes wrote in the wake of intense, bloody political conflict – and construed that as the natural world rather than civilized man’s behavior. I’ve criticized Rousseau for his absurd supposition about natural man, and his intent was to refute Hobbes; his outcome was just more ridiculous than his target.
It is the same criticism I have for Nietzsche and his critique of morality – it obsesses with coercion. Humans operate on a much higher degree of cooperation than compulsion. Only looking at coercion, or putting it above all else, warps the lens you are using to view human social organization.
Show me a society, any society ever, which had none of the aspirational concepts and I will accept your critique. My position is that cooperation depends on them. I do not believe that the trust needed to have any cooperation at all, much less extra familial cooperation, comes from concepts which have no physical reality. Love, fairness, justice, rights, etc. I am not arguing for leviathan, quite the opposite.
sorry, I changed how I was formulating it mid sentence. It should read “I do not believe that the trust needed to have any cooperation at all, much less extra familial cooperation, comes from coercion, rather it comes from the concepts which have no physical reality.
the world he describes as baseline doesn’t come across as a repudiation of Hobbes, since he claims the ONLY solution to that is sovereign power. That is the only way to order, not some late step to deal with the corner cases.
Ok, you are looking for an argument we don’t have. I used Hobbes purely as a stand in for a lengthy description of life without concepts like justice. You are choosing, despite my repeated disavowals of the idea, to read me as arguing that Hobbes was correct. My entire point was that saying “Justice is a fiction” does not distinguish justice from any other value, all of which are fictions in the materialist reductivist sense, and that those fictions are vital to human flourishing.
Hobbes was a bad choice to make your point, since he never made the argument you are.
Somehow I missed this sports news:
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/lazio-fire-falconer-online-video.html
Hunter Biden subsequently entered a surprise guilty plea last September to federal tax charges, averting a trial that would have showcased potentially lurid evidence on top of the salacious and unflattering details about his personal life aired during his earlier trial in Delaware.
Lurid evidence about exactly whose finances, one wonders. “Tell the court, on penalty of perjury, where the money came from, why it was paid, and where it went.”
I’m watching bits of the Hegseth meetings. I like the cut of this guy’s jib. He’s emphasizing a return to “warrior culture”, capability, accountability, meritocracy. Of course some dipshits are protesting and shouting him down.
I get where he’s coming from, but (highly) organized militaries don’t need warriors, they need soldiers.
/ackchually OFF/
What’s the difference between “warrior culture” and “soldier culture?”
I assume a warrior wants personal glory
To me it comes across as dropping the woke and DEI crap, and getting back to training people how to efficiently kill other people.
Basically, what Pie says. It’s a spectrum, of course. Warriors are oriented toward fighting as individuals.
The Roman Legions were made up of soldiers. The Celts, for example, were more of a warrior culture. Not sure where I would put the Mongols (Genghis-era) on the spectrum.
And break their stuff, TOK. Don’t forget to break their stuff.
https://youtu.be/47y5bo8wtqM
To mentally and physically prepare yourself to function as a soldier in an elite unit, you have to have some warrior in you.
“Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back.” — Heraclitus
I am sure the people bought & owned by the CCP will do their best to stop this nomination. A more competent US military no longer turned into a shitshow by DEI/Woke shit would pose a big problem for their future plans.
It’s sad when ChickFilA has higher grooming & clothing standards than the military (or most police departments) these days. But Dipshit Sleeve Tats isn’t going to change that.
I see the Dem harpies are screeching at him for saying true things about wokeism and women in combat roles.
Guy writes to Slate to say he likes everything about sex except ejaculating. He thought that might make him gay, so he had sex with men, but that wasn’t great either.
Advice columnist tells him to explore new sexual identities, like “orchidsexual” or “aegosexual.”
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1879003688397873432
advice columns are running out of ideas. You can only make up so many stupid questions.
Da Fuq???
If you think you might be gay then you’re gay. Also those two “orientations” appear to be nebulous alternative terms for “I like beating off and I don’t even want the commitment level that comes with hiring a prostitute.”
I would guess that if you’re not sure if you’re gay, you’re just bad at being gay.
Gay or just really horny and desperate. The new party quiz game that is taking prison showers by storm.
Does it also burn when he pees?
Nothing new under the sun, he is just another Hindu ascetic that needs to injaculate to preserve his vital essences.
Mahdi Zaidan
@mahdizda
Yesterday I became British. I thought the ceremony will be nationalistic and a bit cringe until the lord mayor of Brighton started his speech with al salamu ‘alaykum
https://x.com/mahdizda/status/1879095835298013218
this is probably bad trolling, but also probably true.
Where’s Robin Hood and his merry band of antijihadis when you need them?
I guess I need to re-calibrate my cringe meter, because that level of patronizing dick sucking just about wrapped the needle around the stops…
“they’re still gonna have to solve the bigger problem of Hamas existing as the de facto government and a terrorist organization at the same time.”
No one wants to solve that problem. There is only one way to solve it and no one is going to do that. The major players are fine with sacrificing a few thousand jewish teenage girls to rape and murder to keep playing their games of empire.
You almost wish there was an alternate timeline you could see; one where Palestine is the Bangladesh of the middle east.
It goes unremarked, but Britain still has something like 8,000 magazine titles in circulation. These range from well known media publications to tiny niche hobby groups.
I think it reveals an important part of the Anglo/WEIRD mindset about how group associations are formed.
The richness of the smaller hobby sector includes everything from model railways, insects, arts and crafts, astronomy, botany, gardening, cooking, choirs and organs, horse care, military aircraft, medieval architecture and the like
These types of voluntary organisations are historically much more important than traditional forms of association like clan, tribe, caste or even extended family.
The assumption that older Anglo lifeways were broadly similar to other peasant societies, and that ‘modernity’ has disrupted some imaginary communitarian age is wrong. Kinship and lineage has been ‘ego centred’ for a long time.
https://x.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1879104681261379741
I keep hearing all this things about the Anglo mindset while England is sinking deeper and deeper into shithole status. Maybe the point is to show how the mighty have fallen?
What the fuck happened to the courage that British men used to exhibit following bagpipers into battle against machine guns?
I wonder what scars they show on St. Crispin’s Day in modern Britain?
I was unaware they finally caved. It’s still going to be an epic disaster.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/california-fires-los-angeles-insurance-regulation-premiums-risk-fair-victoria-roach-gavin-newsom-1306d0a1?st=jBmZX6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I heard on the radio something about CA having a fund to reimburse the reinsurers… but if it runs out there would be an “assessment” on Policy holders. So basically an insurance tax.
Insurers.
Yes, you pay into a fund that pays if an insurer fails. However, if there isn’t enough money there is a “special assessment” proportional to market share that pays.
When these guarantee funds pay they pay limits that are usually much less than the policy so nobody “wins” here most of the time.
It’s irrelevant for most everyone, isn’t it? Unless the building regs are eliminated the insurance money won’t even come close to what it will take to rebuild.
Leftist shaking their fists at reality again. Actuaries rate risks – very accurately in this case.
Instead of fighting the Actuaries, the state could have worked on the risks – clearing brush, cutting firebreaks, arresting arsonists and vagrants… But they didn’t.
This is weird. From a CNBC article: The U.S. military maintains a permanent presence in northwest Greenland at the Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base.
That’s it. The entirety of what we know about this base. How many people? Don’t know. What do they do? Don’t know. Economic impact? Don’t know. Do they play any sort of role in “national security” interest in Greenland? Don’t know.
Just a few space cadets up there sitting around playing pinochle, I guess.
It’s an old ballistic missile radar and bomber interceptor base from back in the days of the cold war, and it is supposedly highly classified.
Is it still an emergency airport for planes that experience trouble on the North Atlantic route to Europe?
First of all, lower your voice! That’s where the entrance to Hollow earth is.
Pituffik Space Base
Couldn’t help reading that as pity fuck – and I imagine it is.
I don’t know but I’ve been told
Greenlander pussy is mighty cold
They so desperately want this horrible story to go away and keep trying to obfuscate the fact this is happening, but it refuses to go away.
It sucks to lack control of the narrative like they used to.
I guess just arresting the gangbangers is out of the question.
Well if you do that, it become public record on any affiliations and well, we cant have that.
I dont know why you are making a big deal about that. It’s just a few apartment complexes.
I’m late to the links this morning. Tears for Fears is better than ever on tour. See them if you can. Their new music is still great.
Give it a listen. https://youtu.be/iemvnxDjrBY?si=eWxIp8gTOWdgBvCC
Looks like only Vegas so far in 2025. I missed them when they came here in July.
Maybe they’ll do another countrywide tour, I would like to see them.
MONTREAL—Free Our Feeds, an international collective of tech leaders, is launching a fundraising campaign to try and keep Bluesky out of the hands of billionaires.
The group, whose supporters include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Mozilla Foundation president Mark Surman, aims to raise US$30 million over three years to back Bluesky’s open-source mission, even in the event Bluesky doesn’t.
https://thelogic.co/news/quebec-ink/bluesky-free-our-feeds-elon-musk-twitter-takeover/
The fate of the world is in their hands.
Start your own damn social media network.
I thought they were collapsing under the weight of their wokeness?
Umm, what? Isn’t that couch cushion money for bay area techbros?
$30 million with zero return.
Don’t go away mad, just go away
President Joe Biden announced Monday that his administration had approved federal student loan relief for more than 150,000 borrowers, bringing the number whose student debt has been canceled during his administration to over 5 million, he said in a White House release.
Although Biden lost the legal battle to deliver on his campaign promise to implement a broad federal student loan forgiveness program, he said Monday that his administration has still “forgiven more student loan debt than any other administration in history.”
That’s nice.
5 million! That’s one hell of a lot of kids that Dr. Jill and her friends screwed over for college educations that didn’t lead to jobs that could pay back the cost of those “educations.”
Hegseth just now: “Politics has nothing to do with the battlefield. ”
True for those on the battlefield.
Not true for those not on the battlefield.
Hegseth gets it. He is the right guy for the job. So of course the left is going to fight him tooth and nail.
The hearing so far have been just what I expected: a dog and pony show.
I should save my blood pressure and just listen to opening statements. You’re right, these are all going to go the same way: Republicans asking boring questions, Dems grandstanding and fishing for a sound byte. It get so tiring listen to the Dems treat every single thing Trump does as “OMG THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD I CAN’T EVEN!”
Throughout history there were plenty of guys fighting and dying on battlefields that had been selected by politicians and not by the military strategists. Churchill and the Italian campaign come to mind.
The New York Times
What Causes California Fires? Power Lines Can Be a Contributor.
11 hours ago
By Jeremy White
Also the “undocumented” and “unhoused” intentionally setting fires can also be a contributor. Thanks NYT!
Future headline “Why underground power lines in earthquake prone CA didn’t work out so well”
Matches?
I saw the bit where the homeless guy was going around with a blowtorch starting fires randomly and stopped by residents. Cops let him go because he was just using the torch to light his joint. That might have something to do with how the fires start.
Biohazard
The fire suppressants are generally considered safe for people, but many worry about their potential effects on wildlife.
The Forest Service bans use of aerial suppressants over waterways and endangered species habitats, “except when human life or public safety are threatened,” due to potential health effects on fish and other wildlife.
McCurry, from USC, said he and other researchers tested several suppressants and found heavy metals, including chromium and cadmium, in one commonly used by the U.S. Forest Service.
McCurry said the study’s findings suggest that it’s “plausible” that fire suppressants could contribute to spikes of chromium and other heavy metals in waterways downstream of wildfires.
“We don’t quite have a smoking gun yet because it’s difficult, although not impossible, to prove where a heavy metal came from,” McCurry said. “We’re working on that.”
Just let it burn.
That looks like the stuff they put on puke when we were in grade school.
Wife recently bought some kind of cleaner that had a minty smell. Yuck. It immediately brought back the scent of that with an underlying acrid smell of kid puke. I convinced her to try another cleaner.
And just like that I remember the exact scent. It’s amazing that we humans have that kind of scent memory.
Just let it burn.
Oddly enough that isn’t wrong. Fire is part of California’s eco-system and only intensifies catastrophically when that cycle is interrupted by man’s interventions.
Populist justice
Spain is planning to impose a tax of up to 100% on the value of properties bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK.
Announcing the move, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the “unprecedented” measure was necessary to meet the country’s housing emergency.
“The West faces a decisive challenge: To not become a society divided into two classes, the rich landlords and poor tenants,” he said.
Non-EU residents bought 27,000 properties in Spain in 2023, he told an economic forum in Madrid, “not to live in” but “to make money from them”.
“Which, in the context of shortage that we are in, [we] obviously cannot allow,” he added.
Fucking incentives- how do they work?
Kemp has now published a series of economic papers about skateboarding. One paper, recently published in The Journal of Economic Analysis, is titled “Shred Central: Estimating the user benefits associated with large public skateparks.” Kemp estimated the consumer benefits of the Lauridsen Skatepark in Des Moines, Iowa. At 88,000 square feet, it’s the largest skatepark in the United States.
Public media, public spark, public university, public funds. Win!
https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/01/14/g-s1-42171/this-skateboarding-economist-suggests-we-need-more-skateparks-and-less-capitalism
are you questioning the EXPERT???? that is almost as bad as denying SCIENCE
I get how brushy hillsides can burn uncontrollably, but there are also pictures of what appear to be developed downtown business centers completely burned down. I suppose resources have been so widely dispersed it’s had to focus efforts on anything.
The winds are throwing burning shit for miles, so unless the building is specifically built to be resistant to that – you’re pretty much fucked.
I’m sure it’s mostly irrelevant since I gave my DNA to Ancestry (who almost certainly won’t safeguard the data, but holy shit 23andMe
https://archive.fo/uT4rT
I gave 23andme my DNA only to find out I am 93% from here and the rest from around here…
Beats finding out you’re largely not who you thought you were.
What was their business model, that’s what I don’t get.
My assumption was selling data to big pharma.
My sister did one of those DNA things. A lady in southern MN contacted her saying they share a lot of the same DNA. It turns out my mom has a half sister no one knew about.
Oddly enough that isn’t wrong. Fire is part of California’s eco-system and only intensifies catastrophically when that cycle is interrupted by man’s interventions.
All this blather about “global-warming-induced” giant increases in fire severity overlook that part of the story. If that stuff hasn’t been burned away for fifty years or more, when it goes, this is what you get.
Not even 50 years. Two good winters and heavy spring growth driven by that, and then just give it a couple of months with no precipitation and it is acre upon acre of kindling.
The winds are throwing burning shit for miles, so unless the building is specifically built to be resistant to that – you’re pretty much fucked.
Speaking of which, We’re already seeing stories about people whose homes “miraculously” survived. How much was dumb luck and how much was smart choices in building materials and landscaping? I assume they’ll be scapegoated in some way or another.
Little Pig Number Three was a kulak and a hoarder.
I think all three, really. But who knows. All I know is that if my house survived I would hire full time security.
All my buildings have steel siding/roofs. There’s a reason