Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
Supreme Court agrees to Trump admin’s request to delay midnight deadline to unfreeze foreign aid
Trump Has Ordered Another Major Reduction in the Workforce
Witnesses in House DOGE Panel Hearing Detail Billions of US Aid Dollars Going to Terrorist Groups
String of polls highlights disconnect between media and public on DOGE, Trump’s first month
Congress Has No Plan to Fund Government as Shutdown Deadline Nears
Regretful Illegal Migrants Flocking Home In Droves After Trump Border Crackdown
San Francisco Goes DOGE: Mayor Demands Employees Show Up to Work
The Federal Reserve’s favorite recession indicator is flashing a danger sign again
Expect more restaurant bankruptcies in 2025, expert says
Michelle Trachtenberg dead At 39
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“The couple, who had been married since 1991, and their dog were found dead at 1.45pm Wednesday afternoon when police were dispatched to the home. No foul play is suspected but an exact cause of death is not yet determined, police said.”
Sounds suspicious to me.
CO or other gas leak?
Carbon monoxide leak?
Yeah — that was my first thought. Blocked chimney possibly — that’s how Weird Al’s parent’s died in their home a while back.
Probably carbon monoxide. Also, I didn’t realize Gene Hackman was that old. Although it makes sense. Shit, he looked old in The French Connection.
This is what happens when you don’t refresh the page while multitasking.
In that last pic of him, he’s unrecognizable.
95 fucking years old. Maybe his health was good, but you wouldn’t know looking at him. I really hope to go before I’m a doddering incompetent.
Damn…. I’m already a doddering incompetent on so many levels. I just hope to go before I’m drooling on myself.
Wild guess: He died, she couldn’t live without him so she and the dog had a last meal together.
I’m doubting that, when you marry someone 31 years your senior, you expect a few decades without them
If only life were so romantic
Agreed, UnCiv.
I’m going to go with Occam’s Razor & jump on the CO bandwagon.
He died…
She may be Asian, but not Indian.
Well, CO and suicide was my first thought but I was trying to be nice. sort of.
Federal workers have god-given constitutional rights to lifetime employment at above-market wages with defined-benefit retirement at 60 years of wage and no accountability for their performance, with each employment termination needing to be individually reviewed, approved, and voted on by congress, after having been through the correct administrative dismissal procedures.
No current federal workers are defined-benefit, they all are on govt-equivalent of a 401k.
Is it capped similarly to us “civilians” in terms of contributions and is taxed upon withdrawal?
I’m not positive but I believe so. As it happens, PA doesn’t tax any retirement income – SocSec, pension or IRA withdrawals.
You will pay FedGov for the money that comes out of your 401(k).
I don’t think they get to retire at 60 either, I was just being hyperbolic about their ridiculous expectations.
I mean, my FIL has a generous defined benefit and a TSP. He retired at 60, currently 65.
You will pay FedGov for the money that comes out of your 401(k).
Sure, because it went in pre-tax. I thought about splitting some out for a Roth conversion.
*glances sidways inconspicuously*
I’ll have 30 years at 55 and be able to retire at 60% Final Average Salary…
“Play my fuck-fuck games”
JUST LIKE HITLER!
Didn’t Hitler increase the work force?
Hush you
When will he make the trains run on time?
It’s like when you look at the user reviews vs critic reviews at Rotten Tomatoes.
The next step is to start going after employers of illegals.
I get that it is good to go after the extra dirty illegals now, but to be fair the next step is to go after those who employ them.
Especially when they testify at a bond hearing that they need their cheap ass labor
I’m very open to the idea of reforming immigration law. But I’ve become hostile to the idea that we can just ignore those laws entirely.
Hammer a few of these people dumb enough to testify about how they rely on illegal workers and I’m going to bet there will be a lot less businesses willing to turn a blind eye toward them.
The next step is that the illegals will self-deport.
Uffda. Hit the wrong Reply button. That was supposed to be for Pat’s post below.
BTW, both of the poor, innocent, pure as the driven snow illegals were given bail at $5000. Anyone want to lay bets on whether they will show up at their trial?
Yeah — one of Sloopy’s links yesterday I believe gave signs that they’re ramping up enforcement on employers (the article tried to distract with H-1B mentions, but it was in there). As I believe we said yesterday: “About time.” and/or “Good.”
What?!? Dare you suggest the media has been consistently
lying to uspushing a narrative to establish a false consensus! You astound me, sirrah! Harumph!Harumph, I say!
That’s cap, as the kids say. I was reliably informed that self-deportation is a myth and that a million-man gestapo would be required to search every attic and crawlspace in America for illegal immigrants and then personally frog march each one back to their country of origin.
I was promised warrantless, door-to-door searches.
I’m still waiting for ICE to march an entire school full of kids into a parking lot and demand their papers.
Get in line. I’m still waiting for my handmaid.
You might be surprised to learn that leftists are not very reliable when it comes to telling things like they are. There is a little bit of a disconnect between reality and their narrative.
a little bit of a disconnect
“Just bit outside”
Not riz?
Why don’t you say that three times?
DNRA – disconnect between media and public on DOGE. Media gets money from govt to spew propaganda. Public is paying for it and doesnt believe a word the media is spewing.
Why oh why is there a disconnect?
Maybe because they won’t honestly call out all the crimes by those dastardly Swedes in Minnesoda?
The rest of the article is about the resources available to victims of sexual assault. No mention at all about if Ole & Sven were in the country illegally.
C’mon Pope, those are just regular guys Hmong us.
Unvetted people in our country just leads to complete Laos.
🥳
Is there any reason why blockquotes no longer preserve basic carriage returns?
That was a “gift” from the WP upgrade. I’ve tried several commands to force the returns and failed.
However, my HTML-fu is quite weak.
I haven’t been able to figure it out either, so I just add a blank line with a single underscore.
You probably need multiple br elements. Multiple carriage returns don’t work in regular HTML.
It’s the war on Whitespace.
Though I feel I tried before
It ate three BR tags and didn’t give me a single additional carriage return.
I tried in my blockquote below as well, same story. Jimbo’s dastardly Swedes quote above has white space. Perhaps he will bless us with an explanation of his miracle?
Tag inflation is out of control!
Hmph. I dunno then.
For that I always use two separate blockquotes anyway.
I add &aposapos to blank lines.
Uffda. I think I forgot the semicolon. Trying again 'apos
I did it by just putting
& n b s p ;
on the line by itself.
(non-breaking space: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp)
You mean ?
The principle is why should I have to?
The last time I tried several months ago I couldn’t get non-breaking space to work either, so that’s good to know.
Yes, with your fancy ampersand encoding.
I didn’t realize you just wanted to vent.
Sometimes it’s not about the nail.
Slumbrew, my goals are multifarious – vent, encourage the sharing of the solution to glibs who don’t know, and on an snowball’s chance get a change to wordpress.
Uffda. Really stinks about Hackman. Great actor and the pic in the article really looks bad.
That is what Asian wives can do to even the best of us.
Never gets old…
https://imgur.com/aging-asians-HNJFgbC
In Korea back in 19-mumble-mumble, we called the process ‘Anjumosis’ as you never saw any in between stages, we theorized there was a chrysalis involved.
아줌마 (Romanized as Ajumma)- A middle-aged woman.
I find it a bit amusing that she’s always referred to as “classical pianist” except for that one line where “Hackman met her when he attended the gym where she was an employee.”
I have a feeling it was more about muscle tone than piano tone.
+1
Your gym doesn’t have a piano bar?
He wasn’t a big fan of the piano, he was more interested in her playing on his organ.
TOK:
Maybe it was her who wanted to play his skinny flute.
Eh, 95 is a hell of a run. And very few of us look as good as Michael Caine at that age.
What really sucks is Michelle Trachtenberg. 39 is not one hell of a run.
Sounds like she squeezed out a couple of years though with a liver transplant
Depends what you did with it, I suppose. Soren Kierkegaard died at 42, Alexander the Great and Jesus both kicked off at 33, and Heinrich Hertz departed at 36.
something something twice as bright, something half as long.
Jesus got the level up and 1 up extra life though. He just did a speedrun to show everyone else how it is done.
SDF:
Jesus got the level up, but he had to spend 3 days waiting for customer support to help him. Was it really worth it?
As some commenter on X said, “I hope when I die people will post thirst-trap pics of me on the internet.”
Yep. Mozart kicked it at 35, Mendelssohn at 38, Caravaggio at 38 as well.
The genius of Toulouse-Lautrec was also cut short.
What with Door Dash and Pornhub, I think the Hooters business model is at risk of going tits up, as it were.
With slightly better food and hotter women at Tilted Kilt and Twin Peaks, it is a wonder how Hooters is even still open
Go after the modern market by hiring nothing but trannies?
Tilted Kilt died out in this area quite a while back.
I’m being accurate as hell!
I think the Hooters business model is at risk of going tits up
I wouldn’t get my panties in a bunch about it.
chains such as TGI Friday’s, Denny’s, Ruby Tuesday, Rubio’s Coastal Grill and Red Lobster
I’m not exactly a chain restaurant snob, they have their place and the food generally is not as bad as some people make out. That said, no real losses from that list. RIP cheddar bay biscuits though.
You can buy the biscuit mix, I think we get it at Costco.
I mean yeah, a box of bisquick and some cheddar cheese gets you most of the way there.
PLEASE not Red Lobster. PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE
Nosiree, it’s been just strength to strength since October 2022…
Except for the ongoing depression thinly plastered over by falsified statistics.
Back to back quarters of negative GDP growth in spite of 2 trillion dollars in new government spending isn’t a recession until the NBER says it is, of course.
I’ve seen a couple of headlines along the lines of “Trump officials claim recession had already started”.
It is baffling how the indicator could have failed. Baffling!
Maybe all of macro-economics is about as meaningful as climate science?
It can’t be! If macro economics is unreliable nonsense then how can we plan an economy? It’s not theory that is wrong, it is the wreckers and counter-revolutionary running dogs! Probably the kulaks too.
Cool. So we can just print money?
More meaningful than climate science, but substantially less meaningful than any technocrat making policy based on econometrics believes it to be.
So we can just print money?
We can, but the govt won’t look kindly on that.
+1 Mister 880
But what about the animal spirits?
“The Agriculture Department predicts the current record prices for eggs could soar more than 40% in 2025, as the Trump administration offered the first new details Wednesday about its plan to battle bird flu and ease the cost of eggs.
With an emphasis on tightening up biosecurity on farms, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the USDA will invest another $1 billion on top of the roughly $2 billion it has already spent battling bird flu since the outbreak began in 2022.”
https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/business/egg-prices-could-jump-over-40-this-year-as-trumps-bird-flu-plan-unveiled/
That’s around a dollar an egg.
So hear me out:
We know that chickens can survive without brains.
Therefore let’s go full Tleilaxu and set up decapitated chickens on some sort of framework that keeps nutrients supplied. The axoltl tanks would be immobile, allowing for greater egg-production density and without needing to exercise or breathe they’d be immune from respiratory diseases. Plus without a brain, they wouldn’t experience suffering so no cruelty.
That sounds like a maintenance nightmare when you can just stop killing healthy chickens over false positives
I don’t know, I’d bet with the proper nutrient mix and genetic editing you could vastly extend the productive capacity of your egg generators. Obviously egg collection/grading/packaging would be easier to automate under this system. And at EoL you could just take that particular rack of generators and ship it off to Purina.
What about “abundance of caution” don’t you understand‽ There’s not time for risk assessments.
DOGE is waging a class war on America’s new clerisy
My idiot Congress-critter e-mailed me recently touting his success in expanding some FEDERAL policy with regard to protecting children. He’s a reliable vote to expand government and never going to be voted out by his right-leaning district.
I’m sure my critter is screwing me in as many ways as possible.
Ditto for mine. Tulsi was my critter and she is the most sane. She was followed for one term by a commercial pilot who never got around to quitting his airline gig so only made a handful of votes in two years. He was followed by a bog standard violet blue Dem.
Mine is, after the last redistricting, Mike Johnson… sigh.
Re: the SF dedthreds:
I found this hidden in my grandfather’s office desk back when I was a nosy exploring child:
https://www.amazon.com/Candy-Maxwell-Kenton/dp/B000ONOZSG
He considered it bad enough it was hidden under the cigar box with the gun.
I’m sad to see that right of passage fade away. My brother had a couple of ragged Penthouse’s hidden in his room, and I found those. The current generation will remember the first time they bypassed the school’s Internet filter with a VPN and found an Asian fetish site.
—“I found this hidden in my grandfather’s office desk back when I was a nosy exploring child”—
In my younger days, I worked at a library when this book was published in English. The story was (I don’t know if true or not) that each chapter of the book was written by a different person. The author(s) wrote their chapter, and passed the manuscript to the next author.
It was a very “naughty” book for the time.
That’s going to upset some young ladies who were expecting to see the latest sponsored skin care products from the hottest influencers!
Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With Violent Content
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-apologizes-for-error-that-flooded-instagram-with-violent-content-c207d5f5?st=AccyRH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
PowerPoint used as a platform for anything other than presentations is a crime against humanity.
FTFY
Would you believe I have to use it for category strategy and contract details…
And here we bitch about govt being wasteful and stupid.
Translucent Chum:
Yep. Still don’t think it’s the correct tool for it.
/deletes long rant about “training” being trainers reading Powerpoints at me
It has its uses.
PowerPoint
used as a platform for anything other than presentationsis a crime against humanity.It’s simpler and just as accurate.
https://www.edwardtufte.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/edward-tufte-the-cognitive-style-of-power-point-pitching-out-corrupts-within.jpg
I wish I’d signed up for one of his lectures when he was touring.
Now do Excel to make lists.
It is much faster to sort a list in excel than in word.
I add elements as they are found/thought up, hen sort with a couple of clicks so that it doesn’t look as crazy.
Fifth norovirus outbreak hits Holland America ships since December
Next glibcruise when?
August 2026
Aint skeert
https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-suspect-arrested-for-allegedly-planning-mass-casualty-attack-against-white-texas-police-officers-fbi
https://thepostmillennial.com/colorado-police-arrest-trans-suspect-accused-of-vandalizing-placing-incendiary-devices-at-tesla-dealership
Self-ID is retarded.
Same here:
https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-trans-dad-accused-of-stabbing-his-young-children-released-from-custody-pending-trial
UK aid has funded organisation that illegally sends abortion pills to US
Mexican group began posting drugs across border when US Supreme Court abolished nationwide protections for reproductive rights
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/26/uk-aid-funds-organisation-illegal-abortion-pills-usa/
A judge who ruled Britain should hand back the Chagos Islands has also called for the UK to pay over £18trillion in slavery reparations.
Patrick Robinson was one of the judges who ruled against Britain when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said the UK was obliged to surrender control of the islands “as rapidly as possible” in an advisory opinion published in February 2019.
The ICJ ruling has been used as a key argument in favour of Britain handing back the archipelago to Mauritius.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2019661/chagos-islands-judge-slavery-reparations
make it 20 why the fuck not round numbers…
Also the chagos islands is fantastically stupid.
lol Come and get it, what did you say your name was?
Talk about fucking historical ignorance. Britain’s Royal Navy Ended the naval slave trade through force of arms. Reparations my ass, there’s still an outstanding debt to the Empire.
See I dislike this argument because it somehow gives legitimacy to the concept of reparations, like if the Royal Navy didn’t do that, reparations would be warranted. They are not. Reparations for the distant past are nonsense and should be shot down without such justifications.
How about a compromise – We gillotine the judge.
I would say maroon on a deserted island but not that many of those these days
Nah, the new tradition of stacking their severed heads outside the courthouse should act as a deterrant to other idiot judges.
is the International Court of Justice any more useful than the UN or any of these things?
None of the western governments pushing the patina of international justice & moral crusade never considered they would get hoisted by their own retard.
*ever
an advisory opinion
Was it printed in scroll form, with perforations every 4-5 inches?
I’m still waiting for a check from Italy.
Somehow according the WSJ I’m supposed to find this problematic.
Dos Santos Amaral, 29, identified himself to assure officers he wasn’t who they were looking for. The officers looked him up and learned that he was overstaying a tourist visa from 2017, according to his lawyer, his wife and a state legislator helping with his case. Dos Santos Amaral was arrested and detained on the spot and eventually was moved to a detention center in Texas—without the knowledge of his lawyer or family.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-ice-immigration-crackdown-criminals-1e399e4d?st=eH9pXZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I am in favor of these actions but I don’t like the agents walking around like fucking action heroes in their face masks and shit.
I agree.
OTH, it’s an interesting parallel to all the “undocumented” here in NYC driving e-bikes like ******** maniacs on sidewalks and the wrong way down one way streets while delivering food under somebody else’s rented Uber Eats account.
They too are masked up and dressed in black. That way when they hit some pedestrian or car they can make a quick getaway with nobody the wiser.
lol Now that I am upstate the people riding e-bikes are mostly junkies going back and forth between downtown and their campsite (known affectionately as “the jungle”).
The people who mask up like this are largely “activists” hating on Israel.
UK wind turbines painted black to stop deadly bird strikes ‘in concession to Donald Trump’
Trump said to have spoken to Sir Keir Starmer about ‘windmills in the North Sea’ killing avian wildlife
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/offshore-wind-turbines-black-paint-bird-strikes-donald-trump-keir-starmer-washington-b1213525.html
Trump saving the byrds
I cannot wait to see how painting them black actually increases bird strikes 100 fold.
Trump sees a windmill, and he wants it painted black
Sounds like someone is just shilling for Big Paint.
So Trump is insisting that the wind turbines be the same color as the swastika on the nazi flag?
Today’s WSJ light’s the Neph and kinnath signal!
Becoming a Beer Sommelier is Almost Impossible. Explaining It Is Harder.
The exclusive club of Master Cicerones finds the title comes with a few perks and and a lot of questions
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/beer-sommelier-master-cicerone-brew-tasting-bd626d19?st=kwLNZH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It is easy. Smell… sip… bleah Belgian style… sink.
You almost had me convinced Romanians were civilized.
I looked into the Cicerone path a while back. I did the first tier – CBS (Certified Beer Server), which was easy. The higher levels go to insane things such as being given a beer sample, identifying if there’s a fault or not, and not only getting the style right, but the specific beer right. There’s not really much demand that I’ve seen for any of the certs, although I’ve heard from some of the people I know who went to the higher levels about getting offers for positions, and some of the better beer bars will boast that their entire wait staff has the CBS cert.
Yeah, the level of commitment needed to achieve the top certifications in either wine or beer is borderline insane (as documented in the film Somm and its sequels), which most people find unpalatable.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Adorbs
The puppy has that kid pretty well trained
Thanks, Jimbo, the kid has to learn early
“Rep. Laurel Libby, a Republican who represents the Maine’s 64th district, has served in the State House of Representatives since 2020, but currently, she’s unable to vote or speak on the House floor unless she issues an apology. Her specific crime? Pointing out that a high school boy named John-turned-Katie won the girl’s pole-vaulting state championship in Maine. The year before, he participated as a boy pole vaulter and came in fifth place. Here’s what she posted on X that apparently upset colleagues in the House…
On Tuesday night, the House voted 75-70 to censure Libby for the posts. After the vote, Speaker Ryan Fecteau told her they’d take a break while she thought about her apology. But Libby has not apologized and has appeared on numerous TV shows and podcasts stating that she never will. “I told him, ‘We do not need to take ease,’ as I was going to continue speaking up for Maine girls,” she told Fox News Digital.”
https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/02/26/seriously-maine-state-rep-silenced-for-defending-women-n4937357
WTF?
Didn’t this also happen in Alabama? Seems trend worthy now…claim an apology or no representation
That cannot be legal.
Oh, no! Pam Bondi has put Minnesoda on blast too!
Nice to see Brother Keith embracing States’ Rights.
I wonder how long it will take for this hysteria to fizzle out.
The Dems seem dead set on putting girls and women in their place – they aren’t backing down at all.
I had no idea Maine was so weird.
Transgender rape suspect is found hanged before court appearance on charges of attacking young girl with ‘your penis’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14439577/transgender-rape-suspect-hanged-court.html
Probably most people with actual dysphoria are not rapists, but the lefty attitude to the issue did encourage some sexual predators to take advantage and it did not do good that many on the left completely denied this.
That person isn’t trans. It’s just someone saying they are to avoid men’s prison.
It doesn’t matter if/why. If he says he’s trans, all the Right People take him at his word.
That was my immediate guess before I even saw the ridiculous snapshot.
He obviously had evidence that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
Most people with actual dysphoria are homosexuals but that is so last millennium.
Uffda. My proggie aunt (who I adore) has been peppering me with email updates about how Trump is going to fire everyone at the VA. Which includes a shirt tail relation (who is a RN with a master’s degree).
I finally lost it tonight and gave her a blistering response about govt vs private sector (she’s always been unionized or govt worker). Basically told her that the Altar Girl got laid off earlier this year (along with 20% of her company) because they lost a contract and there was no money. The Altar Girl was mad, but got another job (with a raise) within a couple weeks.
Told Proggie Aunt that it was normal for workers and companies to have to adapt. If the shirt tail nurse got laid off, he’d probably end up with a better job with more money.
Also stressed that we are $37T in debt. There is no money to pay anyone.
Ya I called the teens in Nevada and said that property is first to go if I am RIF’d.
I have a plan and will do what I need. It’s not complicated.
It is a crisis of people thinking they are owed the job they have, regardless.
Decades in the making
Government has endless money so it is just evil rightwingers who do not want to spend it to help people. Do you even Modern Monetary Theory bro?
If only Trump had access to Obama’s stash, we wouldn’t have these problems.
That $37T in debt is the key argument. Our country is putting transgender plays in other countries on our maxed-out credit cards. Any cuts will help.
My little sis works for the VA, and I asked her about cuts last week. No cuts in her location, but they got rid of a DEI department in the Chicago. People were making $150k-$200k doing zero patient care. My older sis is having a hard time at her job, she’s going to apply to the VA.
Epstein files are supposed to be released today.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/epstein-files-tomorrow-ag-pam-bondi-announces-thursday-release-250-victim-names-redacted
Supposedly there was a delay because the names of 250 victims needed to be redacted. Some will have you believe Epstein kept 250 underage girls for himself, and somehow had enough money to pay them all off.
It really wouldn’t be a lot. He wasn’t paying them off to keep quiet or to settle a lawsuit. He sugar-daddied them, and pretty much on the cheap.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/we-pay-dead-people-65785877?st=SjmUaB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That tune changed quickly from ‘ya dead people are on the list but we don’t send money to them…’
Next step is ‘ya dead people are on the list and we pay them and that is a GOOD thing.’
You can send the money to dead people, but some live person will cash the check.
Won’t somebody think of the multiplier effect? If the government stops spending like a drunken sailor, the economy will crash to stone age levels.
Zero excuse to “not have access to the Death Master File.”
Fuck you, cut spending and fucking fire anyone who made excuses over not having access to the Death Master File.
Woke isn’t over yet
WTF does the second half of this mean?
“We will proceed with imports only if the eggs meet stringent U.S. safety standards and if we determine that doing so won’t jeopardize American farmers’ access to markets in the future,” Rollins said.
https://www.wsj.com/business/the-u-s-plans-to-import-more-eggs-will-that-help-tame-rising-prices-71839968?st=tKMFaX&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“We’re not really encouraging more imported eggs.”
“We don’t want to piss off the ag lobby”
I keep getting the “I told you so” treatment from Mrs. TOK. She wanted to buy chickens last year, and it seemed like a pain in the arse. (Taking care of pets has historically landed on me). I believe we will build a coop this spring. We can get chicks pretty cheap from the nearby Tractor Supply.
From what I understand it can cost around $40-$50 a month to feed and care for enough chickens to yield a dozen eggs a week. Not sure if the ROI is sufficient for the hassle.
We get eggs from neighbors – some for free, some we buy. Generally better than store-bought.
I currently have 18 birds. They go through about 50lbs of 16% mash a week. A 50 lb. sack of feed costs me $12. They produce 5-7 eggs a day (or ~3.5 dozen per week). If I sold them all at $4/dozen, I’d make $14. I eat about 2 dozen eggs per week.
My chickens are older (2-4 years) and are not producing at peak efficiency. There are also other expenses like lime, bedding, calcium supplements, electric heat for the insulated part of the coop.
Do not get chickens to save money on eggs. It is NOT an investment. You will not come out on top financially.
There are plenty of good reasons to own chickens. Saving money on eggs is not one of them.
Chicken owner for a 12 years.
No Japanese orange eggs that would crowd out the pale yellow sad sacks from domestic producers.
YokeFan 16 or bust.
SS UNITED STATES on her final voyage to the Gulf of America where she will be sunk and become an artificial reef. This afternoon, the iconic ship passed Port Everglades while under tow.
https://x.com/pilotsam4/status/1894859443348873584
Hunter Ash
@ArtemisConsort
There is no credible sign whatsoever that the left won’t go back to stomping on us as soon as they’re back in power. No one important on the left has had a change of heart. So we have to maximally disempower them while we can. That, or just accept losing forever.
Zarathustra
@zarathustra5150
“Those who make revolutions halfway have only dug themselves a grave.”
—Saint-Just
https://x.com/zarathustra5150/status/1894866919846555658
That’s also why the executive orders are nice and all but will promptly be rescinded when the left is back in the big chair.
We need actual legislation.
And mass firings. Cut the deep state so they don’t have time on their hands to make mischief.
‘Huns are back migrated Native Americans who invaded Europe’ theorists having a good morning
https://x.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1895058239043080220
So we can end the special treatment for native americans?
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Yet another paper saying the Atlantic current collapse is NOT imminent and remains robust even with extreme warming scenarios.
Nature (2025) Baker et. al. study led by University of Exeter and the UK MetOffice.
https://x.com/RyanMaue/status/1894806436695191669
Plus she’s easy on the eyes.
Thanks to Germany’s speech restrictions it’s rather telling she does this in the US. I’m surprised Germany hasn’t tried to block her within the country.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/germany-election-afd-performance-future-politics-e71579f0?st=zpRFr2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Again, a major news paper publishes an article saying there “are ties to neo-nazis,” then does not provide names and proof.
We just told you, what more proof do you need?
So you online types:
Whycome Eyepatch McCain hates TuCa?
It seems to me that Eyepatch has undiagnosed brain damage.
TuCa?
Tucker Carlson
Yeah, that wasn’t on my decoder ring either.
I am deeply enamored with silly nicknames.
I shall nickname you NAD. as in gonad.
So local NPR has a story about some dude deciding to play border guard and arrest snowbacks sneaking over the border.
His plan (not implemented AFAICT) was to arrest them then hand them over to ICE. Guess what they charged him with? Conspiracy to smuggle illegal aliens.
Why are all the soups I like so labor-intensive???
I’ve had that problem with a number of recipes, mostly desserts that my wife makes. You’ll find a recipe that’s really involved and has a ton of ingredients, and you almost hope the end result isn’t worth it, but dammit, it’s delicious.
French onion soup
broccoli-cheddar
lobster bisque
New England clam chowder
WHYYYYYYYYYYY
I have some lobster stock frozen from when j made homemade lobster raviloi…maybe a bisque is in my future….
I’ve got to ask for some examples here, because I can’t think of much in the way of labor intensive soup. Even something like Italian wedding soup, it’s pretty quick to bang out a sheet tray of mini meatballs. But mindless things like that I’m perfectly fine with. I dislike things being fiddly and requiring touch up over and over (which I see more in desserts and baked goods).
Or maybe I’m just not making the right kinds of soup.
Depends on depth of flavor you are aiming for. A ramen can be made in 20 minutes but will be bland.
Ownbestenemy:
Yes, but I don’t see hands off work (such as roasting bones, letting it simmer and stirring every 20-30 minutes, etc.) as labor intensive. But as I said, mindless things like stripping meat off of oxtails/shanks, rolling out 30 mini-meatballs, chopping vegetables, etc. don’t strike me as labor intensive.
Mr Ilium – Mindless repeditive tasks are the worst form of cooking labor.
I hate them.
See above.
I’m talking about things like making stock from scratch and yes, chopping, peeling, sauteeing, reducing, etc etc etc. Yes, I do find that labor-intensive.
Who has lobster stock in their freezer?
And yes, I do see rolling out meatballs as being labor intensive.
I also don’t know how to make a small portion of, say, navy beans. I don’t have a ham bone and don’t know what I can buy (hamhocks?) to make a ham stock. Ham stock/boullion is hard to find in stores.
Mojeaux:
Thanks. Not much in the way of seafood fans in this house, so I’ve never even really looked them up. I’ve done broccoli-cheddar (and beer cheese) soups, but I don’t recall them as labor intensive. But I’m 99% certain we have different definitions of labor intensive in the kitchen.
UCS:
The mindless tasks are one of the few times I can just go on autopilot and let food happen.
Like I said, I did a lobster ravioli and no way am I going to take that poaching liquid and dump it. So I fortified it and froze it for future use
If I go on autopilot, I injure myself or make other mistakes.
I like food, but I don’t like to cook. I’m good at it when I do it, but I really hate it. It may be that my palate is unsophisticated because I just never had much exposure to anything but poor people food. Beef stroganoff was a treat (still my favorite to this day), and lasagna was an even more rare treat. Both things I would ask for my bday dinners, alternating years. So yes, I will go the distance for those.
My husband and I had dinner with OMWC and SP at a Spanish tapas place. I FLUV their food, but you would not see me doing that in a million years.
I have to go out for/buy any of the soups I want. Panera’s soups are passable. Walmart has a passable lobster bisque.
I see @OBE is the exception to the “who has lobster stock in their freezer?” rule.
Mojeaux:
Yeah, I enjoy cooking. I’ve got no problem chopping and dicing up veggies for a dish and the like. Growing up, neither of my parents were good cooks or had sophisticated palates (I was a teenager before I knew of Chinese food beyond chop suey). My friend group included several much more adventurous eaters, and from there, I learned of all the good food out there. Taught myself to cook (as did my sister), and we’re both at the level where we’re proud of several of our dishes and will make quite a few things just from feel. The girlfriend was brought up in a household where nearly every meal was from the freezer or delivered, and her first reaction to anything in the kitchen is to panic. I’ve been slowly trying to teach her outline recipes (like a pasta bake, pasta, meat, cheese, sauce, in approximately these quantities), and she’s still measuring things out so she doesn’t “mess it up” (it really doesn’t matter if you go with 7-9 ounces of pasta, it’ll still be fine if the recipe called for half a pound).
Baking (which would seem to line up with that measuring desire) runs into its own pitfalls.
Somewhere in the archives here is a post of recipes many of us submitted for Thanksgiving, among them my late MIL’s tortellini soup recipe. The most labor-intesive part is rolling up a pound of little Italian sausage balls and cutting up some vegetables.
There’s an old saying, “You don’t miss a slice from the middle of the loaf.” I have only heard it used in a particular context, but I think it works for USAID. That money is all just innocuous boring charity and nothing to be concerned about, until you start following it around in the afternoon.
Entering the expense code for money laundering would draw attention.
I watch a channel on YouTube about trimming cows’ hooves. It has 2.47M subscribers. It just got de-monetized for the few drops of blood a hoof may leak every so often. He had taken to saying “red stuff” instead of “blood,” but got de-monetized anyway.
Anything to keep from having to pay people.
No surprise.
And to think this guy was just about to fix this and many other issues, but OMB stopped him from saving the world.
Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/26/g-s1-50584/usaid-economist
Entering the expense code for money laundering would draw attention.
I was just skimming through a Reuters article about all the poor countries around the world which will be starved of aid by Bad Orange Meanie. I’m sure some money actually makes it to those countries, but I suspect a significant majority ends up in the pockets of preferred American people and organizations for the advancement of political programs. But children in Africa will die.
Not Adahn – Just verifying – Maharaja at Noon this saturday?
Yup. Noon?
This place had a dish I hadn’t been able to find for 20 years – dum aloo banarsi — which was fantastic. I haven’t had a chance to verify the rest of the menu is that good however.
As for noon, I picked a time at random. If google is accurate, they open at 11:30.
I watched Cool Hand Luke last night and now I have that Plastic Jesus song stuck in my head.
Also,
“What’s your plan?”
“I never planned anything in my life.”
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
“I wish you’d quit being so good to me captain.”
Welcome to Elon’s America
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChickFilA/comments/1izhmb7/the_math_isnt_mathing/
At least they rounded up?
Their pleasure.
No pennies, rounded up on the change.
Like cashier dipping into the penny bowl at the check out
Not everyone will be so generous. And eventually stated prices will be at 5 cents*. Permanent devaluation.
*except for gas which will be $0.05 & 9/10¢
Sounds good, as long as we get rid of the penny.
$.03 to make penny but I heard it’s $.13 to make a nickel…
Sounds like a path of digital currency
Exactly. CBDC.
Hochul tells Trump to cough up $15B to fix NYC subways if congestion pricing is cut
😂🤣
The whole point of “congestion pricing” was to hide the titanic amounts of waste and fraud at the MTA, and to continue to neglect going after fare theft because doing so allows them to ignore some inconvenient facts about the demographics involved.
Honor the 2A and we’ll start talking.
This is not the unelected influential billionaire they were hoping for
MAGA supporters are defending the appearance of unelected Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting by likening his status to first lady Jill Biden, who also sat in with the president.
Trump was met with laughter and applause Wednesday when he asked Cabinet members: “Is anybody unhappy with Elon? If you are, we’ll throw him out of here.”
But the billionaire’s appearance at the high-level government meeting sparked uproar from some of his opponents on social media.
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Following Musk’s Cabinet appearance, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich said on X: “Trump hosts the first full cabinet meeting of his second term today—with noncabinet member Elon Musk in attendance. It’s yet another reminder of who the wealthiest administration in history actually serves: the billionaire class.”
Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen added: “Elon Musk spent $280 million to elect Donald Trump, and he’s been handed access to government agencies, cabinet meetings, lucrative contracts and Americans’ private information. It’s billionaires rigging the game for billionaires—the most corrupt bargain in American history.”
Only authenticated peasants were allowed to advise the Biden administration.
I hope the left keeps up the hysteria. They don’t seem to realize why they lost in November.
Now that DEI is becoming toxic – let’s pivot!
Michigan Democratic Gov. Whitmer makes direct appeal to young men after sharp shift in election
https://apnews.com/article/michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer-young-men-e237387d0762e900f2dc7e38a1c49f7b
It’s your turn young man for some government handouts!
She really has the face of a psychopath.
Never, ever underestimate Trump’s ego.
“Look, let’s be honest, the European Union was formed in order to screw the United States,” Trump told reporters. “That’s the purpose of it, and they’ve done a good job of it. But now I’m president.”
Brussels insists contacts with White House ‘good’ after Rubio snubs Kallas
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/27/brussels-insists-contacts-with-white-house-good-after-rubio-snubs-kallas
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1895129237478162621?s=46&t=g7EG4Y-juKY6VXgHEzprrQ
This air traffic control situation does not sound good…
He’s boiled down a complex issue for his benefit here…
Elon do that? No way…
It’s the usual. If you want to draw attention to the issue you need put out some hyperbole in roughly 10 words or less.
Our uptime for that infrastructure is like 99.99% and most have redundancy and avoidance built in.
A perfect molehill to die on- defend it to your last breath
In 2016, the country made a commitment to transgender Americans, allowing them to serve in the military as transgender people. Many relied on that promise, taking the military at its word. There are brave transgender men and women serving today who held up their end of the bargain.
They transitioned during military service and continue in the military serving with distinction and meeting the rigorous standards applied to all who wear the uniform.
When President Trump announced in 2017 that transgender people would be banned from service, the 2018 Mattis Policy was developed to carry out that ban. And let’s be clear about what that policy actually did. Although it allowed a small group of transgender service members who had already transitioned to continue serving, it barred anyone else who came after them from doing so.
No other transgender person in service was permitted to transition and live as transgender in the military. No transgender person who had transitioned could newly join the military. It was a ban on transgender individuals serving as transgender individuals.
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The suggestion that transgender service members could simply serve in their birth sex fundamentally misunderstands what it means to be transgender.
While every transgender person has, at some point, lived in their birth sex — as everyone has — the point of gender transition is to live in a different sex. That’s what makes someone transgender: living in, or seeking to live in if one could, a sex different from their birth sex. Requiring service in one’s birth sex requires a transgender individual to suppress being transgender — echoing the goal of discredited conversion therapy practices.
Let them join the French Foreign Legion.
They transitioned during military service and continue in the military serving with distinction and meeting the rigorous standards applied to all who wear the uniform.
They said without evidence. The purpose of the military is to kill people and break shit, anything that doesn’t advance that goal has no place.
Strange things may again be afoot at the Circle K!
7-Eleven owner says founding family unable to secure massive funding for buyout
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/business/japan-7-eleven-management-buyout-hnk-intl/index.html
Strange things are often afoot at the local Circle K, which is why I won’t go in there. 🤨
One of the suburbs near me has been in the headlines all week about approval of a new Circle K, and I simply can’t see it without thinking of that quote.
☹️
WebEx thinks the video capture device I have so I can play my switch on the computer monitor without changing the display over is a camera.
No, webex, I don’t want to screen share the Nintendo. Besides, it’s only showing color bars since the Switch is off. I do have standards for workday activity.
🤔
I wonder if it works on Zoom too.
The cost to our nation’s defense of a ban is substantial and multifaceted. First, we lose qualified service members who are meeting and exceeding our standards. These are pilots, cyber specialists, medical professionals and leaders at every level — individuals in whom we have invested millions in training and development. This investment isn’t just financial; it represents years of specialized training intended to build the next generation of military leadership.
But the damage runs deeper than the immediate loss of talent. When we depart from merit-based standards, we undermine the very foundation of military excellence. Our service members strive for excellence not just because it’s in their warrior DNA, but because they operate within a system that has historically rewarded contribution based on performance.
Take away the diamond-hard transgender core of the American fighting machine, and you have nothing left but a skeleton crew of slackjawed cowardly bumpkins barely able to tie their own combat sneakers.
I have a hard time believing there are more than just a few instances.
The military is allowed to discriminate in many other cases. I did not expect them to take me when I was younger because I have a disability. Now I’m too old as well, and I don’t expect them to take me based on age either.
There is no such thing as being “done” transitioning, is there? Don’t they require hormones and medical intervention for the rest of their lives? That’s a huge liability in the military.
If I read the case histories correctly, the final stage of transitioning is suicide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Beck_(Navy_SEAL)
Just one guy, and he ‘transitioned’ after he was out. The Trump policy wouldn’t have affected him.
He has also since detransitioned and regrets transitioning in the first place.
No flat feet allowed, but endless hormone pills and surgeries are just fine.
Can’t march long! Ya priorities got all fucked up
AITA for Thinking About Leaving My Boyfriend of 10 Years Because He Won’t Leave His Mom’s House?
I’m a 35F, and my boyfriend is 42M. We’ve been together for almost 10 years, but I’m seriously considering ending things because he doesn’t seem to have any plans to leave his mom’s house or make any real changes in his life.
Good gravy.
The warning sign was when you got together with a 32 year old who was in his mom’s house and had no plans to move out.
The fact that you let it keep going for ten years is on you.
IMO it’s the still a boyfriend after 10 years that’s the problem. He’s obviously not interested in marrying, and she obviously isn’t pushing for marriage either. Both I and my wife were stay-at-homes when we met.
Is that wrong?
/over 10 years with the girlfriend and I have no desire to get married
Mr Ilium, up until 1991, that would have put you two in a Common Law Marriage in Ohio.
Don’t know why they abolished that.
@Neph, you have a marriage-like relationship, and neither of you wants to get married. Not the same thing. If she’s pining for marriage, but it isn’t happening, then it’s a problem.
When we institute blanket bans based on a service member’s identity, we don’t just hurt the directly affected individuals — we erode the motivation and trust of every service member who believes in the fundamental fairness of our military.
“GET THE FUCK OFF MY OBSTACLE PRIVATE PYLE.”
“The Agriculture Department predicts the current record prices for eggs could soar more than 40% in 2025, as the Trump administration offered the first new details Wednesday about its plan to battle bird flu and ease the cost of eggs.“
My immediate plan for bringing egg prices down (and saving lots of energy) is to end the USDAs rule that eggs must be refrigerated. I’ve been all around this world, and no other country I’ve been in has refrigerated eggs as the standard. Somehow I survived all this and Americans would as well, with a big reduction in the price.
You would have to stop the mandated washing of eggs for that IIRC.