I may have made a grave mistake. Sunday the girlfriend and I are going to another brunch event. This one an all you can eat (2 drink tickets per ticket, unlimited with VIP) brunch festival. Most of the events like this, there’s usually at least some idea as to what you’ll be getting from each place. No such luck this time, so I started checking out menus to look for likely items. While doing that, I came across something that irritated me. Deviled eggs at MARKET PRICE!!?!!!111!ONE!one. It was annoying enough when I started seeing wings priced at MKT.
You Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man finished up this week, and I’ve got to say, overall, I’m impressed. There were some well done twists, unexpected changes, character development, and tons of callbacks/cameos. It’s one of the better animated Spider-Man shows out there, and probably the absolute best show to come out of Disney+ (I’d say MCU as well, but it’s not MCU, it’s MCU-adjacent multiverse bullshit).
This is in my wheelhouse, and is generally a very, very, bad idea. (Updated as of Friday morning, the policy was ended.)
In local news, this should be of interest to some of you lot.
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Here’s the weekly bit of good news about Valve.
These kids today, not remembering the great Custer’s Revenge.
Huh, I remember needing to explain every charge I put on a company card.
Today in spurious correlations, I present this.
For those that don’t want to update, there may be a better path.
You sure that it’s the majority that they’re forgetting?
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Holiday massacre! Which holiday? President’s day… seriously.
Say it with me people, “The government overreaction to COVID.“
For the cocktail this week, we’re going to stick with the two trends I’ve been running with (feel free to guess what they are). Now, this one is from the Prohibition era, which means that it will generally trend sweeter than pre-Prohibition drinks as they were trying to hide the flavor of the spirits, so they work well with cheaper pours.
Pink Lady
- 6 parts (1.5 oz) London Dry gin
- 2 parts (0.5 oz) applejack
- 3 parts (0.75 oz) lemon juice
- 1 part (0.25 oz) grenadine
- 1 egg white (or aquafaba)
Put this all into your cocktail shaker without ice, give it a 10-15 second vigorous shake (again, this is a dry shake). Then add ice, shake until chilled, strain into a chilled glass (Nick and Nora will work wonderfully for this) and garnish with a brandied cherry if you would like.
With that, I’ll leave you to comment (or not), and enjoy your weekend. If you would rather work through the weekend, I happen to know a website that’s looking for some additional content, and they’ll even publish me.
I know there’s a lot of competition, but it seems like The Atlantic is a strong contender for being the worst.
From Chris Bray, to reinforce your point.
And 100% of the time, those eggs will be deviled.
Gross.
If everybody starts voting “far right” does the term even mean anything anymore?
South Park remembers
In local news, this should be of interest to some of you lot.
Bitchin house.
The girlfriend has already informed me that the next time we’re on that side of town we’re driving by it. The story behind it was interesting to me as well.
Neat but I didn’t see any mention of how much the “smaller, more affordable” residence cost to build.
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What a waste of
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I build this link post up through the week (since the gamer and geek stuff generally skates by the other linkers), on occasion, a story that I had in there gets shared and commented on in the comments, so I remove it from the post.
You couldn’t go with the traditional “drugs fell out of my ass here”?
juris imprudent:
I could, and there’s been a couple of times I’ve missed one, or it got snaked in the end of the Stoic post, and I just leave it there in those cases. This entertains me more.
When I was younger, I had a lovely older neighbor who’d graduated from Harvard as a historian at a time when there was deep antisemitism.
Plus ça change…
He’d share facts and printed old newspaper articles he’d preserved over the years to remind me of the many ways that businesses of every size turned a blind eye to fascism in Europe in the 1930s and significantly profited off of it.
When the faction with rifles demands a say, you tend to listen to them.
All of this makes the head-spinning declarations of loyalty to the Trump Administration that many companies have shown in recent weeks rather curious.
…And with the non sequitur in only the third sentence. Well played.
Since then, several parents responded to our story asking whether, without adjustments to account for expenses like PERS pensions, the numbers paint an incomplete picture.
Parents. Right.
Maybe they should fire all the current teachers and force the old ones to come out of retirement. See if that makes a difference.
That “firefighters got fired” argument is a lie. All personnel in any way related to fighting fires or fire prevention were exempted from the layoffs.
These people don’t know when to stop.
The nostalgic OS includes the famous Bliss wallpaper, the XP Start menu and taskbar, icons, control panel, and more. You’ll have to pinch yourself that it’s not actually XP at times. Because it’s a modern OS, you’ll find cool features like virtual desktop support and the option to install the Chromium browser.
Interesting. I’d really rather have Mac OS7 back, or a functional facsimile.
Huh. I recall many 💣s.
After having an iPhone for the last year, I will take win11 before any of their garbage.
…and she didn’t kill herself tomorrow.
The list? It will be all the usual suspects and no surprise. I want the tapes. I want to know who the kiddie diddlers are. My guess is that they were all told they could let their freak flag fly and no one would ever know as long as they did as they were told. Also, be rich and famous.
None of this was ever meant to come out. I want it all out.
MSM has really gone all in on the National Park angle. I find it really interesting that of all the stuff FedGov does this is what they are playing up.
I get it that most non libertarians find the Park Service and it’s relatively low paid employees innocuous, but people aren’t that dumb. They recognize that it’s not just the Park Service that’s the issue. I don’t see this gaining them any additional sympathy.
It’s the D shutdown playbook. Inflict the most pain on the populace.
Yeah, I get that. They do it every budget shutdown. You can still visit the Washington Monument – no caution tape.
It’s just sob stories and fear about the National Parks now. Best they could pull off was this:
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/jfk-library-reopening-today/3636050/
We are supposed to turn a blind eye to these worthless fucks robbing us blind and threatening us so we can stand behind a railing and look at a waterfall?
I will pass. Put them in prison.
But they don’t hold the reins to the horse this time. When R’s shut down a D pres. then the executive makes it visible and makes it hurt.
But what if Trump said, “OK, put up a sign in front that says ‘no liability’ and leave the lights off”? They are throwing Briar Rabbit in the Briar.
It’s the government’s playbook.
Seriously…
Yosemite National Park’s only locksmith just got fired, raising public safety fears
https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/yosemite-locksmith-fired-20178362.php
Obviously they can’t call in a locksmith from Groveland or Bass Lake.
https://x.com/iowahawkblog/status/1893043743952949682
“At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.”
OMG!!!
They only had one set of keys?
Did he take them with him?
I sense a business opportunity for KSuellington.
Or maybe just fire up a power drill and drill the cylinder out…
In local news on that front:
Cuyahoga Valley National Park hit by Trump layoffs
Compared to:
Cleveland Metroparks Announces Seasonal Job Opportunities for 2025
I do enjoy the CVNP (Cuyahoga Valley National Park), but I’ve interacted more with their volunteer trail guides than any staff.
I still say privatize the national parks.
Those that people deem worth seeing will stay in business.
Those nobody visits can ask “is it really worth this being parkland?”
It is malicious compliance. Rather than actually evaluating the numerous make-work GS-13+ (or whatever equivalent in the Parks pay scale) positions that exist in every federal agency for redundancies they are firing the new hires and making a big show of it as PR play.
A variation on a theme of what they did when they barricaded open-air monuments in the National Mall during ‘shutdowns.’
More and more users are questioning Meta’s commitment to fighting disinformation and online harassment. As the US TikTok ban loomed, users swarmed to Chinese alternative RedNote, signaling both an appetite and capacity for swift mass mobilization.
Or, more likely, signalling their utter indifference to the supposed “risks” of Chinese affiliated social media.
Risk? They want to get a jump on their social credit score!
Goddammit, I hate the modular synth community. I want to discuss patching techniques and gear on a synth forum, not have people begging for donations via GoFundMe for their “surgery”, while everyone else fawns over how brave she is.
Fuck.
There are groups on the Book of Faces that are pretty good. Both hardware & VCV, they do tend to wind up being pointers to YouTube videos.
The wooden boat and bicycle communities are pretty similar. Sucks, but the shooting communities tend to swing the other way.
Right and left codes spaces, it’s all bullshit but what are you gonna do?
It’s one thing to talk about such things. It’s completely another to solicit donations to have a fake dick sewn on and your tits shaved off.
It wasn’t an overreaction. It was deliberate and calculated. They are making noises about it again. Dont fall for that nonsense. Same with the murdering of millions of chickens.
Fires will burn uncontested! Millions will burn alive!
Food for thought
Those who have never had a dachshund think that funny, we who have nod our heads.
Ultimately, what the numbers tell us is that while some of the biggest companies are lining up to abandon their DEI policies to do business with the Trump Administration, they may find themselves at odds with their customer base who have very different lived experiences and will put their money where their mouth is. This reckless lack of foresight by CEOs should alarm shareholders because it’s consumers who hold the power of the purse. And small businesses and entrepreneurs should seize this opportunity to drive their operations strategy. Because without customers their businesses will cease to exist.
Sure. Whatever. More “nobody I know” school of journalisming.
The head of Levis is a sanctimonious progressive douchebag. I still buy and wear 501s because I like the way they fit.
They act like these companies voluntarily started their woke campaigns. Most didn’t, and they can absolutely absorb the handful of trannies and white women who will boycott a business because they refused to go DEI.
Those are some fantastic links. Well done today!
Thanks, glad to be of service. It was going to be a banner day, with new fez being delivered, but the USPS fucked up. Now I wait for tomorrow.
OoooOOOo! Which fez did you get?
A truncated cone with tassel
At one point, my mother was in Turkey and asked me if I wanted a suvenier. So, I asked for a fez, seeing that is one of the places people wear them unironically. She sent me a cheap ass thing like you would get at Disneyland.
Much disappoint, such bummed.
R.J.:
The Clockwork and the Annular Eclipse.
Where’s my free charging at work?
The GSA currently operates several hundred EV chargers across the country, with approximately 8,000 plugs that are available for government-owned EVs as well as federal employees’ personally owned vehicles.
The GSA is shutting down its EV chargers, calling them ‘not mission critical’
https://www.theverge.com/news/617235/the-gsa-is-shutting-down-its-ev-chargers-calling-them-not-mission-critical
Perhaps the 18-to-25-year-old cohort whose youths were thrown into upheaval by COVID will adopt a set of sociopolitical assumptions that form a new sort of ideology that doesn’t quite have a name yet.
Nameless amorphous disdain for important people, institutions and ideas? How will civil society survive?
It survived GenX, didn’t it?
I’m never going to come up with a better Twee than this
https://x.com/Living4Winter/status/1893058124845629888
*Tweet. Godammit
Nice…
When I viewed it I also saw this gem!
BREAKING: Pam Bondi just declared that restrictions shielding administrative law judges from removal are unconstitutional and will no longer defend them in court.
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1893052896603971776
🥳
There should be no such thing as an administrative judge.
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop with this administration but other than the retarded elements of populist economics that come with a OMB admin, they are making it really hard to dislike them.
I think that I shall never see
a post as lovely as this twee.
Oh, it’s twoo, it’s twoo!
New ideologies are messy to describe and messier still to name. But in a few years, what we’ve grown accustomed to calling Generation Z may reveal itself to contain a subgroup: Generation C, COVID-affected and, for now, strikingly conservative. For this micro-generation of young people in the United States and throughout the West, social media has served as a crucible where several trends have fused together: declining trust in political and scientific authorities, anger about the excesses of feminism and social justice, and a preference for rightward politics.
Leave-me-the-fuck-alone-ism.
JFC – where is the “harrumph, kids these days”!?!
Young people who cast their first ballot in 2024 were “more jaded than ever about the state of American leadership,” according to the Harvard Political Review.
Gee, when your “leadership” runs the gamut from aspiring midwit schoolteachers to Totally Legit Joe and whatever cadre of Basic College Girls was pulling his strings, people start to get a bit cynical.
Bitch warfare
Six weeks after the start of the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for a potential blaze and finger-pointing between the chief and City Hall over responsibility for the devastation.
Bass, a first-term Democrat, said she is removing Chief Kristin Crowley immediately. “Bringing new leadership to the Fire Department is what our city needs,” the mayor said in a statement.
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Her dismissal followed weeks of growing distance between the mayor and Crowley. As chief, Crowley publicly criticized the city for budget cuts that she said made it harder for firefighters to do their jobs. In January, when the Palisades fire was out of control, Crowley said in televised interviews that her department was underfunded and understaffed and emergency vehicles had been idled because the LAFD didn’t have the mechanics to fix them.
Locking the gate after the barn burns down.
Didnt the fire chief also say firefighters were not obligated to rescue people dumb enough to get caught in a fire?
They’re not.
I thought women were supposed to support each other or something.
Not when throwing one under a bus might save your own ass.
I actually feel badly for the poor elderly woman, but the music still had me LOL.
https://x.com/PlanetOfMemes/status/1892562324226998280
*uncomfortable laugh*
Imagine had it been a particular Old Man.
Justices rule out “commingled funds” theory in Hungarian Holocaust survivors’ compensation suit
The US may still be the world’s policeman but not its judge.
Shit, I didn’t think about that. I’m still not sure I buy this “bird flu” catastrophe. They’re not telling us something.
I started seeing that locally right after the lockdowns. But deviled eggs?
I found eggs at Tops today for $4 a dozen.
“Limit 2” 🙄
No. Shit.
Agreed. They’re killing birds for artificial economic harm. Somebody’s getting a lot of money to kill those birds.
It won’t be the first time crops were ordered destroyed for nefarious reasons.
There was no bird flu catastrophe. It was a catastrophe caused by the government ordering millions of chickens to be killed.
It’s a Covid situation. Bird flu was not the primary problem. The government reaction is what caused the catastrophe.
It’s a Covid situation. Bird flu was not the primary problem. The government reaction is what caused the catastrophe.
Another trip down the Lil Rona Panic memory lane.
COOL LINK BRO!
larf No offense but I’ll call my company’s Help Desk for support but I would never, ever in million years call HP or Google or Nintendo or Apple or any other faceless megacorp to support a product I own.
Fortunately I’ve never *had* to do it but I have to wonder what on earth the people who resort to that think they’re going to accomplish.
I’ve had to do it in my roles as corporate support. The larger the company, the less hoops you have to jump through.
True… I am aware that our Help Desk works with Microsoft a lot and they do get results.
They are a client too 🙂
Wired – sucking government cock for… who knows how long now but it sure is insufferable.
Trump administration looks to slash HUD workers tackling the housing crisis
If we have a housing crisis, then those workers have been doing a shit job so far, haven’t they?
Oops. Clicked too soon.
Unless those HUD workers are actually swinging hammers or pouring concrete, they’re not really “tackling the housing crisis”.
More likely than not, they’re making it worse.
They are making it worse.
I feel bad for Paul Newman.
Are the salad days over?
Oh come on. All those regulations demanding “affordable housing” are bringing real results.
Essential
More than a dozen programs within the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s portfolio would be affected by the loss of some 4,000 positions detailed in the documents, raising concerns among former HUD officials and housing advocates who say a skeletal staff could slow or even stall the department’s critical work.
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Such dramatic staffing cuts are in line with the administration’s broader push to gut government spending, with HUD Secretary Scott Turner in recent days touting his new Department of Government Efficiency task force inspired by billionaire Elon Musk while also announcing $1.9 billion in “misplaced funds” as well as $260 million identified as “wasteful contracts.”
Some of that money might be wasted, but we don’t know exactly which. Some of it is helping. It’s better to spend it all, to be sure. A rising tide lifts all boats.
the department’s critical work
Which of course was detailed in the following paragraphs, right?
Seriously. One fucking month and we have a trend. OTH, now you can shut up how about how much worse Trump is on the “undocumented”, right? Pick one.
Trump deporting people at a slower rate than Biden’s last year in office
Homan did say in his interview with Tucker Carlson that deportations won’t happen as fast as people want them to.
Having said that, I’d expect a higher rate than under Biden.
My assumption is that it is tied into the decreasing number of entries since Trump took office.
Net outmigration either voluntary or forced, needs to exceed an average of 10k/day for the next four years to catch up to the backlog of invaders.
My assumption is that it is tied into the decreasing number of entries since Trump took office.
There are millions, according to Homan in that Tucker Carlson interview, that can be deported right away because they already have deportation orders which the Biden administration was sitting on.
Heil and farewell
— Steve Bannon was accused of making a Nazi salute as he concluded a speech at a conservative gathering where President Donald Trump is slated to speak this weekend, but Bannon said Friday the gesture was merely a “wave.”
Bannon, who once served as Trump’s chief strategist and helped lead his 2016 Republican campaign, was onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington on Thursday evening when he extended his right arm in the air, his palm flat, after imploring the crowd to “Fight! Fight! Fight!” — a reference to what Trump shouted after an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, during last year’s campaign.
The gesture drew immediate backlash due to its similarities with the right-arm salute linked in history to the Nazis and their allies.
“Steve Bannon’s long and disturbing history of stoking antisemitism and hate, threatening violence, and empowering extremists is well known and well documented by ADL and others,” the Anti-Defamation League, an antisemitism and human rights watchdog, wrote on X in response. “We are not surprised, but are concerned about the normalization of this behavior.”
Meanwhile, French far-right National Rally president Jordan Bardella said he had cancelled his scheduled speech at CPAC on Friday in reaction to what he described as “a gesture referring to Nazi ideology.”
Henceforth all speakers will be required to keep their hands in their pockets.
He was practicing his Goering impersonation, give him a break
The other one is playing the piano.
These are the same people who think Klauss Shwabb is dreamy, aren’t they?
Shoulderlock to the rescue
None of these people have ever seen Doctor Strangelove, have they? Let alone grasped what was being parodied in that.
So job offers are interesting. The two Kroger positions are pretty much out, cuz they can only tell me ‘a minimum of 16 hours.” Wal-Mart, however, talked to me today and I have 24hrs to accept the offer. It’s a gig to pick groceries for online orders; sort everything into their correct “totes”; and then walk them out to cars for their pick-up.
It *is* full time, but only $14/hr. Tricky bit! My Aldi “Group Interview” is tomorrow at 11. Per the email, I’d have until 12:32 tomorrow to decide. I have *zero* idea what the Group Interviews really *are,* judging by online testimonials.
Ya work there, and ya do everything. I’m actually guessing it has less walking than Walmart. I’m also seeing they pay $18-20. I used to live in Europe. I certainly prefer Aldi but I don’t want to miss out an *an* employment possibility w that tricky 24hr window.
I think Mom’s right: I should, best I can, tell them I need to know so I don’t lose out on another job, cuz of its immediate importance. Not sure how it’ll all go, but I welcome advice.
From before: Ya. Tough to get date, let alone get laid when ya live w your ‘rents. ‘24 was totally dry. I got laid the year of The Incident and in ‘20 after! Frustration, He Wrote!
Do you know what the lead time between acceptance and start date is with Wally World? If it’s a week or so, you could let them know that you’ll accept, but do have another interview that you were going to do.
Look, if you’re desperate to work, you’re desperate. Take the damned job and figure something else out while you’ve got a paycheck.
Aldi has a reputation for running their people beyond ragged until they burn out, usually 1 to 1.5 years.
My daughter hated being a picker at WM, but she found her bliss in the milk cooler where it was cold, quiet, and solitary. Also, she has a bit of a perfectionist streak and nobody came in to yell at her for stacking and stocking things until they were perfect.
I have until 1:32pm to accept the offer online and the projected start date is Feb 26. Sounds like a bold play, Neph. I love it, but I’m only vaguely sure I could pull it off. Well. I can *do* it, but I’m also with Mo that I’m desperate for work.
I’d be a grocery clerk, Mo: Picking; “staging” and delivering to cars. At Aldi, well, I’d do everything. I’m sure Aldi ain’t gonna hire me ‘on the spot,’ tho I am much incentivized by their $4-6/hr more pay. Being busy is good, and both would provide that.
Big Also!: I don’t want to burn bridges with either of them, just in case.
Fedex: We’ll provide a delivery estimate when your package has started to move.
Also Fedex: your package has gone from Poland to Germany.
I know, I know, they don’t know how long it will take to clear customs. But just say so.
If it’s gone from Poland to Germany it’s started to move, hasn’t it?
I still have no delivery estimate.
That because FedEx blows.
Huh, my university just closed its DEAI office. Two positions terminated.
What the name of the new “talent” office they created and the titles of the two positions it is looking to fill?
I may have made a grave mistake. Sunday the girlfriend and I are going to another brunch event. This one an all you can eat (2 drink tickets per ticket, unlimited with VIP) brunch festival. Most of the events like this, there’s usually at least some idea as to what you’ll be getting from each place. No such luck this time, so I started checking out menus to look for likely items. While doing that, I came across something that irritated me. Deviled eggs at MARKET PRICE!!?!!!111!ONE!one. It was annoying enough when I started seeing wings priced at MKT.
Despite the prices, I’d probably go to the festival.
These kids today, not remembering the great Custer’s Revenge.
I remember “Custer’s Revenge”.
Pandemics might not initially seem to cash out in any particular political direction. After all, in the spring of 2020, one possible implication of the pandemic seemed to be that it would unite people behind a vision of collective sacrifice—or, at least, collective appreciation for health professionals, or for the effect of vaccines to reduce severe illness among adults. But political science suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific authorities. One cross-country analysis published by the Systemic Risk Center at the London School of Economics found that people who experience epidemics between the ages of 18 and 25 have less confidence in their scientific and political leadership. This loss of trust persists for years, even decades, in part because political ideology tends to solidify in a person’s 20s.
Ahh. A walk down memory lane?
I’m not aware of any executive orders around Black History Month. Could it be that Forbes is making shit up again?
Nor were there any executive orders that pertain to what private companies can and cannot do.
😂🤣
i got a friday i could come out for the zoom meet. does that still happen?
Ask KK, probably so
Fuck off Tupla!
/welcome home
Tupla, Tulpa’s retarded brother from Canada
i always look forward to being tulpa’d and FO’d.
don’t ever change glibs.
Bobby!!!!!
Yep, 7p.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09