It pleases me to see the spring training scores on the banner at ESPN. It also pleases me to see that the Dodgers are playing like ass. But I doubt that will last very long. I’ll enjoy seeing them at the bottom of some standings while I can. Across the pond, the Copa Del Rey semifinal first leg was a wild affair. Chelsea have nosed ahead of Man City into the fourth UCL slot, although I think the EPL is gonna end up with 5 anyway. But where is that massive points deduction for City I was hearing so much about over the holidays? Come on, Britain. Drop the hammer. Two huge matches in the chase for the league are taking place today. And in Krautland, Bremen lost to a third-tier side in the German Cup quarterfinals. The last of the quarters is today, and I hope like hell that VfB draw Bielefeld in the semis. And that’s it for sports.
Wow, this sounds so nefarious. Oh, wait. Any outlet in the world will be able to cover him. They’ll just rotate who is in the actual room, which has limited access. That sounds less nefarious. Not anything like pulling a Zellenskyyyy and consolidating all media under control of the state.
Why not just punish them with deportation? This seems like a very nice, orderly way of doing things. But I’m sure people will say it’s just like the Nazis or something.
Good. This kind of hostile environment was a massive lawsuit waiting to happen. Not to mention the degeneracy on display is hardly the kind of mental stability, or lack thereof, you want from the people in your intel apparatus.
“This has gone on long enough.” They’ll have plenty of time for theatrics on the street outside.
I still can’t believe she’s evaded prosecution. But now that she can’t hide the books anymore, I would imagine that’s coming soon.
LOL. Not sure whose idea this was, but it’s hilarious.
This was always going to be the best way to fight illegal immigration. I only hope they follow through on it.
People need to go to prison. A bunch of them.
I hope this man wins whatever he decides to run for. He’s, in my opinion, the most principled libertarian/conservative in all of politics.
I’m gonna try to keep track of this case. Because it could be very interesting if she’s telling the truth.
This video is deep. By 80s standards, anyway. Such a great song. The original video of this song is even better. But I don’t like the version of the song they play in it, so you get the generic one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
AP has a first amendment right to be present in a particular room of the white house at a particular time, just like every user on Twitter has a first amendment right to subscribe to the president’s Twitter posts.
I quite seriously can’t conceive of a leg that the AP case can stand on. They’re not being banned from speaking, they’re not being forced to print “Gulf of America”, they can still call Trump a fascist warmonger, the only thin reed I can think of is claiming that they need access to petition the government, which is BS on its face.
It’s right there in the first amendment. Didn’t you realize that “the press” is a reference to credentialed Columbia J school graduates and not to the printing press?
It violates “the Aloha spirit” will likely suffice.
If there is a 1A right to be in the briefing room for every press conference and to ride up front in AF1, wouldn’t that mean everyone has that right? How would that work?
(Boeing Exec) “We just need a million Westinghouse Turbines and build an Air Force One the size of Manhattan…. call it an Ultra Wide Body! Cha-ching!”
The nice thing about is that when the inevitable software failure leads to a crash we could lose a substantial number of the political and media class in one fell swoop.
I’d be worried about casualties on the ground when that thing hit and exploded.
Make it a tilt-rotor, and I’m all in favor.
To paraphrase OMWC’s favorite movie “We’re gonna need a bigger AF1”
The Nazis were orderly. Trump is orderly. Ergo, Trump is a Nazi. QED.
Trump is many things, orderly is a stretch.
Meh, if you saw the porn search history of half the people you work with you’d probably never speak to them again. The degeneracy is less the concern than, you know, having actual degenerate chat rooms to use AT FUCKING WORK. Unless you’re a Pornhub developer, there’s no real reason for that to be a thing.
/looks at the gender ratio of IT support
You’re probably right.
That’s all blackmail material in a civilized world. I don’t really want people who could be so easily blackmailed in charge of this stuff.
You can’t blackmail the shameless.
The shameless cannot be blackmailed.
Is it blackmail if everyone already knows you’re doing it?
Dammit!
I figured drugs falling out of your ass was your degeneracy.
AT WORK sums it up. These people self-identified as ‘The Resistance’ with their chat room behavior and handed themselves to Tulsi tied up with a bow. Probably 90% of the NSA resistance gone overnight, with cause.
THIS IS PROOF TULSI IS IA RUSSHIN AGENT UNDERIMING THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY!
I will not be surprised if that ends up being an editorial somewhere. Along with an explanation that discussing kinks at work it part of equity.
Wait until the people with the Nazi kinks start posting.
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS is high art, not degeneracy!
Won’t someone think of the NSA agents with a history of looking up AI generated Tulsi porn?
*Jeffrey Toobin has entered the chat*
By my understanding this is one of those “affinity group” chats for a “protected class” and therefore it cannot be “degenerate” by their own definition.
The fact that this protected class engages in massive amounts of kink and fetish should have been expected.
They should have used the international gender symbols.
“BIOLOGICAL MEN”
LOL
As is usual with these reports — sounds exactly like what’s been going on with mass layoffs / site closures in the private sector for years.
Plus I’m wondering if they’ve been WfH since the pandemic for the most part… what’s still there that they give a rat’s fluffy hindquarters about? Shouldn’t take long….
So yeah — I sound my resounding “Meh” to the Swamp.
I’m beginning to think that none of the government workers or journalists have ever worked in a private company during a RIF/layoff/closing/boss just really didn’t like your attitude day.
Yup. There are all patriots of the highest order who accept money just to pay “the man” for things that should be provided to them for FREE since they are patriots of the highest order.
H-1B visa holders are in the country legally. So no, it doesn’t mean that.
I think they’re referring to the companies who have been… slightly less than accurate… in their statement of need for an H-1B, or where there was other shenanigans (such as nepotism, bribes, discrimination, etc.).
Even in that case it’s unlikely the actual employer would face charges, since about 85% of H-1Bs are through gigantic consulting companies that dole them out to Big Tech.
Pat:
Depends on the industry. Current place I work will not sponsor H1-B’s, previous place, it felt like half the company here in the US was an H1-B sponsored by the company. I’m well aware of the consulting and staffing agencies as well.
Half? I have seen entire companies short of the CEO that are H1B. There will be decimation for IT companies in some sectors.
The “Of H-1B Visa Holders And Other Immigrants” in the lede was the tell that it was always going to be a fear-mongering and misleading article.
In the article, it played up the procedural issue of failure to notify for things like change of address.
I seriously doubt the hammer is falling for the H1Bs.
Certainly not if Elon has anything to say about it.
And yeah — I read it as “Companies that have played fast and loose with H-1B and gotten away with a wrist slap in the past will be surprised when the rules start to be enforced.” as far as the H-1B section went. The rest of the article was more about immigrants in general.
Maybe…. probably the California bias here — but given this was the Democratic Primary, it is Illinois… and it is therefore unsurprisingly being treated as the general election… my faith that the replacement will be any better and will have any vested interest in turning over the rocks instead of just assuming his place at the trough is low. As long as he doesn’t go punching people at a City Council meeting, he can probably stay happily off the radar and still benefit from whatever graft she set up… threatening them with exposure if they don’t play ball as well. Win-win!
It’s “she.” And she did, in fact, go punching people at a city council meeting. Her and her supporters. Literally.
Oh, I misunderstood what you were saying. Still, I think her freak out will probably cause even her own side to go after her. What better way to ensure your own reelection in the future than going after a piece of low-hanging fruit and convicting someone as corrupt as her?
If only the Dems in Harris County treated Lina Hidalgo the same way, Houston might be salvageable.
“He” refers to the person who won the primary, who certainly looks like a man.
Her side will side-line her, as she is a black eye on the party when they need to keep tight discipline in the face of a voter revolt.
That said, she will not be charged, another party hack will end up in her slot, and the Illinois Dem party will moveon.org.
Same, but he probably won’t win in a statewide contest with the GOP just as much against him as the Democrats, and then we lose him in the house.
Agreed. NKY loves him but Louisville would despise him cause he wouldn’t being home the bacon. I expect a squishy replacement that votes the money
Lose a Massie. Gain a McConnell.
Do they really love him? If he switched to “I” or “L”, would he get re-elected, or are they just a bunch of right-handed lever jerkers? You know, the opposite of the left-handed lever jerkers in AOC’s district?
Good point ji. Of course his demographics are changing
A state with Rand Paul and Massie as senators?
Where do I sign up?
I hope he wins too and destroys AIPAC in the process. They have already labeled him a raging antisemite for the crime of being against sending taxpayer money to Israel.
I’d probably go one step further and have a collection of campus maps available beneath it — with the Biology building highlighted and a “In case of questions….” sign.
Roberts and Gorsuch will never let that happen.
I’m interested in the case as well. Over a decade ago while I was a contractor at a company, I was told the reason it was taking so long to get me a permanent job offer was because I was a straight, white, male. It was nearly 9 months after that before I was finally offered a permanent position.
Thirty-odd years ago I was thinking about applying for a law professor position. One of the professors told me not to waste my time, as they would never hire a white male for the position. And they, in fact, did not.
We had a policy where hiring managers were paid $500 (if I recall correctly) if they hired somebody “diverse” into management. It was mentioned on an all hands call by the CEO and then never came up again. As far as I know, it’s still in place. We haven’t hired a non-diverse manager since.
Agreed. Might start with those Midwest towns who got large batches of “asylum seekers” who just coincidentally started working cheap in the factory owned by the mayor (iirc… it was something that blatant). “Asylum” revocation and stern letters of “You need to stop now” first… then this applies. A clear “Thou Shalt Not Profit From Exploting Lawbreakers” needs to be the norm again — not the “nudge nudge wink wink” we’ve had from the GOPe Chamber of Commerce class for probably longer than I’ve been alive.
When the Braceros program that allowed temporary farm workers from Mexico to work in the US was terminated in 1964 it was predicted by all right-thinking economists that the price of tomatoes would skyrocket to the point that they would become a luxury good. And then once the program and the migrant workers went away, most of the harvesting was automated and prices actually dropped on an inflation-adjusted basis. And now, of course, tomatoes cost $14 a pound at your local grocery store, on the rare occasions you can find them. Uh, right?
The braceros must have been raising chickens for eggs.
It’s midwinter, tomatos are out of season, you’re just going to get fruit that was picked unripe and shipped halfway around the world.
UCS:
At least locally, there’s a pretty thriving indoor, greenhouse, and aquaculture farming supply chain as well. There’s even several winter CSA (Community Sponsored Agriculture) subscriptions.
I had thought about greenhouses, but Pat’s sarcasm was specifically about the price at your local grocery store, which in most cases isn’t the recipient of those goods.
UCS:
That must be regional. Giant Eagle and Heinen’s (the two main grocery store chains around here) both have sections and signs up for “Ohio Produce” and “Buy local” with the names of the farms written under most of them.
Maybe when apple season rolls around we’ll see things like that, but not winter produce.
Eating tomato’s is a sign of moral degeneracy akin to sharing penis removal techniques on an internal gov’t chat.
FIGHT ME!!!!!
*keeps munching BLT*
FIGHT ME!!!!!
[hmms Bob Seger tune, sings modified lyric “night shades”]
Degenerates.
ZWAK:
But then what about caprese sandwiches/salads/snacks, red sauces, chili, and more?
I don’t like to just eat pieces of tomato, but ketchup and salsa…
Home-grown tomatoes in cottage cheese with a little black pepper… 😋🍅
Just like the Knights Templar, kissing the Devil’s bunghole…
“But… but… the leaker was charged and convicted… maaaan! Only one count because he was fighting Orange Man Baaaaaad — but he was prosecuted!”
Add this to the unfortunate pile of “What institution hasn’t collected more data than they should and leaked the shit out of it” these days….
34 felonies!!!!!!!
Harvey Silverglate says that’s a piker.
“This was always going to be the best way to fight illegal immigration.”
It’s high on the list, but IMO behind going after the NGOs organizing the illegals and supporting them once they get here.
While I’m generally not in favor of shipping American nationals to El Salvador’s prisons, I’d make an exception for the people running the NGOs.
This. And not just NGOs but actual elected governments.
Turn off the spigot. It’s really that simple.
It would be — and it wouldn’t surprise me if she is one bit given the BLM then CRT inspired quotas focus that they were flat out proudly proclaiming over the last few years (it was there before, they just thought they’d won and could be overt before the pendulum started swinging back). It was “good” discrimination after all… :eyeroll:
Their entire defense of the racial and sex-based quotas will probably be “we wanted the workforce to be representative of America.” Which will be a bad line of argument if the justices read the civil rights act accurately and/or if they do a statistical analysis of the breakdown of demographics in the federal workforce re: race, sex, and sexual preference.
For crying out loud, openly racist “affirmative action” has been practiced my entire life. This should be 9:0.
“past rulings that set a higher legal bar for men, straight people and Whites to prove bias in the workplace than for groups that have historically faced discrimination.”
Men, white people, and heteros have been sucking hind tit for years now, decades in some areas. At what point does that become historical?
“That higher standard is unconstitutional, her suit says.”
Of course it’s Constitutional and contrary to the Civil Rights Acts.
Make that “unconstitutional”.
I think she is telling the truth. Two points:
1) There has been no refutation, or attempts at character assassination and this case has been discussed for months.
2) It is well known that bias in hiring jumped the shark under Biden in a big way. You would have to be blind to not notice.
I wish her luck.
1. Have your employer get hacked
2. Have this hack set them on you
3. Trust 1Password
4. Since you don’t work for the NSA you can’t do “adult” things with your work computer.
5. Get terminated.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/disney-employee-ai-tool-hacker-cyberattack-3700c931?st=Urw9fX&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Oh wow.
Case #906,725,344,098 in the “There is no cloud, it’s just somebody else’s computer” files. Even if your cloud password manager has 2fa, your phone number will probably be spoofed if somebody wants what you have badly enough. A local password manager with a strong pass phrase and keyfile, OTOH…
Or hackers will gain access to the backend, download your credential store, and brute force offline. See LastPass.
So, yes, I know that Dropbox is somebody else’s computer.
HOWEVER, my husband and I need to share our password vault. So. Somehow (and I don’t remember how I did this because it was years ago) (I do remember it was a third-party tool, but I don’t think it was Cryptomator or Veracrypt), I encrypted a Dropbox folder to put that in.
The more layers of encryption the better. But if you have to share a password database, it’s best to limit the number of entries to just the passwords you need to share. If possible, your own NAS with a VPN tunnel for access would be best as the share point, but I understand not everyone is going to expend their time and resources doing that.
For those somewhat tech inclined, I can’t recommend a locally hosted instance of Bitwarden enough. It’s a bit of a pain to get configured, but once set up, it’s bulletproof. it also has features that make sharing and other common functions easier.
Was his password 12345?
Isn’t that the password for your luggage?
Smart luggage is dumb since it’s not allowed on planes.
I hate two-factor authentication for everything except my bank accounts. That is the only thing you can get in and do some damage and it needs a bit of extra protection*. Having it for every little stupid thing drives me nuts.
*Not too much damage, as I have a bunch of higher level accounts set up so there is no ability to transfer electronically.
Amazon, too.
But yeah, I don’t need it for Home Depot, for crying out loud.
Any e-mail address which is linked to those accounts should have MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) as well. Otherwise, get access to the e-mail, start getting access to the other accounts and lock you out of everything.
Since sloopy brought up dodgers…
“Although the funds usually go to what many consider good causes”
Do they really, though?
“Lining connected pockets is a good cause!”
I didn’t know “behest” was a verb. It’s archaic, but a real verb nonetheless.
Vance called it. Romanian Presidential candidate Calin Georgescu arrested. We need to extricate ourselves from Europe asap.
https://x.com/business/status/1894711327714676969
For the crime of daring to be Pro-Romanian?
Unf*ckingbelievable. We need to get Pie out of there, pronto. Start a fund or something.
No one noticed how that worked for our establishment, doing that with Trump?
Fortunately for OMB, the people working against him really think that opinion is reality.
If you’re more concerned about reality-reality, arrests can have more effective solutions.
They think they’ve seen to the heart of the matter and there’s more at stake.
So you’re saying a little sunlight will dissolve the problem?
No; they’re airing his dirty laundry.
Here’s the why of it. The EU, NATO, and the last administration need Romania for the arms pipeline into Ukraine. And they’re willing to do anything to keep it open.
https://x.com/JohnMcCloy/status/1894725220268654615
We are good to go people! Egg prices are coming down.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins: My Plan to Lower Egg Prices
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/agriculture-secretary-brooke-rollins-my-plan-to-lower-egg-prices-6be0f881?st=JxhX67&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Stop culling huge swathes of chickens?
Stop telling people to kill healthy chickens?
It’s the NSA chicken-choking you gots to worry about.
JI, you cannot win this by choking the chickens.
Internet proves there was never just one village idiot…
https://x.com/USAEdMartin/status/1894113722827690318
I’m convinced it wasn’t a principled stand to un-ban TikTok, it’s cause it was known people will just confess their crimes in the wake of a Trump win
Wow. The stupidity, it burns.
Would Preet Bharara have prosecuted this case?
…and what about a REASONABLE prosecutor?
If that same event happened today, I strongly suspect neo-Reason would dime out the victims no questions asked.
Woke archaeologists are burying humanity’s past
Huh. Archaeologists must have converted to Isam back when Egypt was the trendy place to work.
No.
It was rock stupid last time it was mentioned, and is even dumber now.
Also, end all presumption that the dead belong to whoever was on that land when whitey showed up. Until it is shown that they actually do belong to that tribe beyond a reasonable doubt, the remains should be treated as if they were from a precusor or peoples who were displaced when that group arrived. Nobody was here since the beginning of time.
Mr. Servant:
Comparing these creatures intelligence to rocks insults rocks.
“the dead belong to whoever was on that land when whitey showed up”
In the area? When Columbus showed up? When the Vikings tried to colonize Newfie? Hairsplitters want to know! / sarc
Modern Lysenkoism.
Mr. F:
+1
I have a better idea. Let’s purge academia of all traces of marxism and critical theory. Just get rid of all of the regressive fucks.
“the remains of any specific person, regardless of ancestry… including photographs, drawings, x-rays [or] 3D models’.”
If this applied to art museums they would have to be completely razed.
Well, I9 docs meeting w Walmart on Sunday. Full time, which is legit all I need. My last gig was taking blood from reprobates, so I wager I’ll manage.
Seizure the 7th and still a mangled tongue, but my (most recent) 10wk unemployment comes to an end. Life takes all sorts, and many curve balls. (Kinda the fun. Tho I’d welcome the ease of a ‘boring’ life, ya only get one. An “interesting” one, indeed. (Far better than an expired one.))
Kick ass, y’all. I’m officially in chill mode, tho gotta manage PT w Dad, who prefers walking stiff-legged, for more steps!, than doing anything to actually increase his range of motion. Well, I ain’t his papa, but he needs tellin’.
‘Grats! Hope it works out. I do a few hours of merchandising a week in the Big Box Store that shall not be named.
Great! My oldest got a job at Speedway, it’s part time but it’s money while she looks for something full time.
How did that appointment go regarding your blood pressure and heart rate?
TOK, I am really glad to hear that everything is working itself out in this situation.
It really is the Daily Ray of Sunshine.
I wouldn’t say everything, she still has zero initiative and a serious TikTok addiction. If you don’t specifically tell her to take a shower, clean her room, do laundry, etc. she won’t do it on her own. Today we had her write a checklist of things she needs to do every day, so we won’t need to nag her about everything. Just ask if she checked off all the boxes on her list.
I appreciate you and the rest of the Glibs listening.
That’s the measured, deliberate response we’ve all come to expect (from the T part anyway) of the QUILTBAG community.
Broken people are broken.
EVERYONE is broken, but why are these people SOOO broken?
EVERYONE is broken
If everyone is broken, then noone is broken.
[snips soapbox rant on overpathologizing everything]
These people are particularly broken for three reasons, mainly. Broken or neglectful homes resulting in attachment disorders, educational and parental malpractice resulting in arrested development, and a desire to trade in the social currency of the day, performative victimhood.
There’s a crack in everything.
Everyone is imperfect, but that doesn’t mean everyone is broken.
Nice distinction, RC.
Because heterosexual progs decided that this was the new hill to die on, and they got the “medical” community on board to legitimize it and break these people’s brains.
The entirety of Christian theology is based on the premise that everyone is broken. I wasn’t pathologizing anything. I was asking why THESE people are soooo broken that they can’t function.
My answer is not the same as yours. My answer is primarily, boredom born of prosperity, lack of purpose/goals/hopes/dreams, and overly indulgent parents.
The entirety of Christian theology is based on the premise that everyone is broken.
I think this is a definitional issue. Fallen =/= broken. Fallen is a moral/spiritual condition. Broken is a mental/emotional condition.
Everybody is fallen. They are morally and spiritually blemished.
Not everybody is broken. Plenty of people are able to manage their thoughts and emotions in a way that doesn’t create personal or social hazard.
It’s a genocide.
I was murdered
Imagine getting so worked up over “use the bathroom that matches your genitals”.
Corvo? That’s one letter off from a misanthropic cartoon character:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XnS-BXlG5w
Jeez, you need to stop recording me at home!
Update on Mom: She is doing really, REALLY well in skilled nursing. She’s walking again (slowly) (with a walker), building strength. She can get out of her wheelchair and stand up with a walker. She can get OUT of bed, but not back IN bed yet.
She’s happy, laughing, making friends with the staff (she who doesn’t know why people love her 🙄), and positively giddy at not having to go home with her cunty sisters. The further away from them she gets, the more clarity she gets on how she is NOT being treated now, as opposed to then. I was afraid she’d get sucked back in as time went on and she forgot how she’d been treated, but I think the lawsuit is going to keep that from happening even if she DID want to live with them again.
Lawsuit has stalled out a tidge on the agreement as to when to list the house. Susie’s stalling, and I keep telling my lawyer that everything I have done and demanded so far is just to keep her from doing so. Yesterday I told him I also want him to tell Susie’s lawyer to make her stop being a cunte to my mom. I don’t know how he’s going to word that, because this crossed the border from real estate dispute into bitter divorce territory some time ago.
Great news about your mom, Mojeaux!
When I was a kid my parents rented a place from a property management company called Cook & Associates, which firm had a penchant for rather exorbitant rent increases at the end of each 12 month lease term, and wouldn’t write a longer contract. After our first year there, every check my dad sent was written to “Crook & Associates.” Perhaps your attorney could file a motion of cuntinuance, in due course. It can always be blamed on a scrivener’s error.
What you did there. I saw it.
The best kind of idiot. Single vehicle accident. Non innocent bystanders harmed other than the inevitable traffic backup.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1iynmxp/oc_why_you_dont_speed_past_on_the_shoulder/
Why? I kind of get it when there is a mess of traffic, but when the roads are as empty as that, what is the point of driving on the shoulder?
Cause people in general are retarded
DNI Tulsi Gabbard moves to terminate, revoke security clearances of NSA employees tied to explicit chatrooms
This is extraordinary, not because it is the correct course of action, but because this would never have happened under any previous administration. You’d see a story like this, followed by some mealy-mouthed statement about “thorough investigations, reprimands and additional training” and then …. nothing.
And Noem yesterday, “we found the leakers and they’ll be fired.” Bravo, really amazing stuff.
They will be fired, their clearances will be revoked is still a fair distance from they have been fired, their clearances have been revoked. And in the case of the law enforcement leakers, even further from they have been indicted.
IOW, still all talk, waiting for the action.
It’s easy to cosplay resistance when there are no consequences. When you lose your job and can’t get rehired in your industry, not so much.
Nice work if you can get it
A Chinese zoo has sparked a social media storm after it started selling tiger urine, claiming its “medicinal properties” could treat rheumatism.
A visitor to the Yaan Bifengxia Wildlife Zoo, situated in the southwestern Sichuan province, shared a post on social media saying the facility was selling “medicinal tiger urine” allegedly from Siberian tigers.
I wonder who gets to “milk” the tiger every morning?
Charlie Sheen?
Could you milk me, Greg?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXI21S4ZWJU
Ozymandias:
Maybe?
10 to 1 it is just plain cat pee from domestic cats.
Probably just yellow ammonia.
better than rhino horn
Why doesn’t China start farming/breeding Rhinos?
Slow-growing large mammals with solitary births don’t farm well.
China is the land of shortcuts, much easier to sell some trash and label it as ‘rhino horn’.
Slow-growing solitary large mammals with single births.
Bah. A little CRISPR and bingo! You’re growing rhino horn on any far animal you choose!
Or I guess you could make rhinos with super-fast growing horns that also like to walk on treadmills.
Pope Jimbo visits and look what happens!
Preliminary data released by the government body Statistics Korea on Wednesday showed that the number of babies born per 1,000 people in 2024 stood at 4.7, the first rise since 2014.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/26/south-korea-birthrate-rises-marriages-surge
Genghis Jimbo?
His Korean name is Gembo.
You’ve got a friend in Jimbo. https://youtu.be/5h-T6nnd-gk?si=kjnHy1NHDaROIBr2
But what about the huddled masses?
President Trump said he is planning to introduce a new visa to attract rich foreigners to America — something he is calling a “gold card.”
For $5 million, people will be able to apply to become lawful permanent residents. Trump said the program would be rolled out in two weeks, would bring in “very high-level people,” and said the proceeds from the program could help pay down the deficit.
“It’s going to be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card. They’ll be wealthy, and they’ll be successful, and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes,” Trump told reporters at an unrelated event in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called it the “Trump Gold Card” and said it would effectively replace the current EB-5 immigrant investor visa. That program gives residency to foreigners who invest at least $1.05 million in a new business that creates jobs — or $800,000 if the business is in a rural area, high unemployment area or an infrastructure project.
Not only is it something every country does, it’s a modification of an existing program. How monstrous.
So I just need 4 million 900 and something dollars… close
Romanian supermodels can get in for half price if they agree to participate in Q’s NSFW lineup.
If we’re talking Romanian supermodels, I’m willing to revisit that whole “excess bedroom” thing and help them out.
The question is: do Romanian supermodels fall in the crazy/hot matrix between Italian and Korean women, or are they in the normal range?
Maybe even excess bed?
Mary Kate Cornett Coin Surges By 654% On Solana Blockchain, Crypto Enthusiasts Celebrate
Mary Kate Cornett sparks an online frenzy amidst allegations of an inappropriate relationship with her boyfriend’s father, with reports suggesting the couple remains together.
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/mary-kate-cornett-coin-surges-by-654-on-solana-blockchain-crypto-enthusiasts-celebrate-7798373
we are either in a simulation or this is the dumbest timeline
Literally who?
literally some bimbo or other
University of Mississippi student if that helps
How do you know all these obscure shitcoins?
I don’t otherwise I’d be rich.
I think it is time to start the ZWAKcoin. It will be based on the silver standard, as everyone has some spare flatware lying around.
Its reputation will be sterling.
OK, Shpip. Give Zwak his account back.
I’ll not have my reputation tarnished by ZWAK’s amateurish attempts at punning.
My wordplay is much more polished, thank you very much.
I know that no one will ever see this but I think this is one of the finest examples of Glib exchanges that I’ve ever seen.
Asked by a reporter whether Russian oligarchs could apply for “gold cards,” Trump said — seemingly tongue-in-cheek — “Yeah, possibly. Hey, I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people.”
He’s a caution.
2000s
@PopCulture2000s
brazilian actress viviane araújo performing at the rio de janeiro carnival in 1999
https://x.com/PopCulture2000s/status/1893459946382971171
would (maybe nsfw?)
Yes, NSFW.
And very much would.
What sort of VD might you get?
there were no VD on a nice clean actress in 1999
It’s nice to know NSA spares no expense for important things like pervert chatrooms rather than hiring linguists for obscure languages like Arabic.
As if there will ever be an international crisis where knowledge of *that* is useful…
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There is also speculation that Hamas operatives tried to deceive Israel about the group’s intentions by communicating a desire to avoid a new confrontation on channels they could assume were monitored by Israeli intelligence.71 Hamas also reportedly sought to reinforce this impression by providing Israel with information about the PIJ.72 In addition, there are several indications that Hamas’ efforts to gather intelligence, including through open-source information as well as cyber-attacks, have in part gone undetected.73 m
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https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-october-7-attack-an-assessment-of-the-intelligence-failings/
Hey, look over there!
I hope for your sake your monitor (or whatever it’s called) wasn’t one of those people.
There was a gay USAF guy in my section, but he was solid. I never knew any of the auditors or compliance people personally.
Well, there was that one that came out to meet me in bar who gave me a wink and nod that she’d been spying on me.
Brunette, 5’3, late 20s (in early 2022), diamond tattoo on the right side of her left index finger
Pretty sure her name is Carly. She knew my full name and where and when to find me somehow. Never saw her before in my life.
Finger and face tats I just can’t do. Anywhere else, whatever.
I can do discrete finger tats, but no back of the hand, face or neck tats.
Ink Blot
@inkblotistan
he attacc
https://x.com/inkblotistan/status/1893952516322160698
see this is why girls don’t make good hunters.
Unless you’re bear hunting.
“The order “directs the Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to rapidly implement and enforce the Trump healthcare price transparency regulations,” according to a fact sheet from the White House. The regulations to force transparency, the release stated, were “slow walked by the prior administration.”
“The departments will ensure hospitals and insurers disclose actual prices, not estimates, and take action to make prices comparable across hospitals and insurers, including prescription drug prices,” the release added.
The order stated that the “regulations require hospitals to maintain a consumer-friendly display of pricing information for up to 300 shoppable services and a machine-readable file with negotiated rates for every single service the hospital provides.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-requires-all-healthcare-providers-insurers-to-publicly-disclose-costs-of-services
Good idea in principle, no idea how it could work.
They have the standardized price sheets, which bear no correlation to out of pocket costs, so it’s total bullshit not matter how well intended.
Gigantic Hospital Group: “Hey, Gigantic Health Insurance Conglomerate, we’ll do laparoscopic appendectomies for your group members for $[dollar figure].
Gigantic Health Insurance Conglomerate: “The most we’ll pay is $[dollar figure].”
Gigantic Hospital Group: “We can’t even make money on that, how about cost + $[dollar figure]?”
Gigantic Health Insurance Conglomerate: “We’ll do cost +[80% of dollar figure].”
Gigantic Hospital Group: “Done. Put it in the contract.”
Rinse and repeat. Negotiating huge contracts isn’t some mystical impossibility, we just like to pretend it is because of how callous it seems to treat medical care like any other service.
Better still, Gigantic Health Insurance Conglomerate could just give a lump sum maximum payout per procedure and let their group members shop around for the best price at places like the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, which has been doing transparent pricing for a decade and a half.
It’s all negotiated as a percentage of Medicare rates these days – 110%, 115%, whatever, in a big game of chicken. The hospital system can’t afford to do without the contract, and the insurer can’t afford to have a network without the hospital system.
I can’t remember the details, but I recall reading a pretty convincing article that the Surgery Center of Oklahoma’s model isn’t scalable/reproducible.
Likely only owing to the byzantine set of regs and rules we have set up for the medical care system and the business models of insurance companies, whose structure is in many ways a product of those rules and regs. If you blew it up and started from scratch, I don’t doubt there’d be a way to have price transparency, or something much closer to it than we have now. Hell, even with auto insurance, you get in a crash, you get an estimate (or several) for repairs, and then the insurer decides what they’ll pay under your coverage limits. You don’t take the car in, have the repairs done, then find out 8 months later what the repairs cost.
Why is the only way to get this stuff noticed and fixed is to get the national media on it?
Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter’s Name From ‘Unakite Thirteen Hotel’
The name, which appeared to be generated by a computer, was meant to be temporary after the mother surrendered the child. But two years later, the nonsensical name remains.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/us/unakite-thirteen-hotel-baby-name-nebraska.html
https://archive.fo/ll6rb
What happened to Jane and John Doe?
Too common, led to confusion.
“We need Ms. Hotel to sign off, and she’s not old enough to consent to a name change”
Sounds like an alt rock album title from the early 2000s. Maybe he can sell the name to Wilco.
I changed my surname to my step-father’s as an adult. Prior to that, we would have had to get consent from my biological father, whose alcoholism, drug addiction, and physical abuse led to the acrimonious termination of his relationship from my mother and I, and she did not want to have any contact with him to resolve the issue. The DMV let it slide on my first license, even though my SSN bore my birth name. Renewals didn’t require documentation, so I didn’t end up making it official until I was in my 20s. Weird edge cases like that. It’s hard to balance that out without obliterating parental rights and so forth.
Uniki would be a cute girls name, and, shortened to Uni, would be a nice, strong woman’s name.
I don’t know, I think Uni is a little low-brow.
Knock knock, it’s the Thought Police: As thousands of criminals go uninvestigated, detectives call on a grandmother. Her crime? She went on Facebook to criticise Labour councillors at the centre of the ‘Hope you Die’ WhatsApp scandal exposed by the MoS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14424959/Knock-knock-Thought-Police-thousands-criminals-uninvestigated-detectives-call-grandmother-crime-went-Facebook-criticise-Labour-councillors-centre-Hope-Die-WhatsApp-scandal-exposed-MoS.html
Police conceded that the 54-year-old had committed no crime – yet Mrs Jones says she has effectively been silenced by the officers, as she was intimidated by them calling at her door and is too terrified to post on social media again.
Had Helen Jones continued to post criticism of Councillor David Sedgwick after being informed of his complaint, the police could claim she could reasonably predict that her posts would cause alarm and distress.
It would also count as a course of conduct for harassment.
https://x.com/CF_Farrow/status/1893761824870305799
Oh no alarm and distress
Lord Nelson: won the Battle of the Trafalgar
Yvette Cooper: expanded the recording of non-crime hate incidents
https://x.com/StandUptoWoke/status/1894706265240035641
Britain is circling the drain, it is unsalvageable.
UK cops have a lot of hubris considering they’re armed with nothing more than the “civilians” they oversee. Well-founded hubris, evidently.
Novel
The Supreme Court on Wednesday considers the novel legal question of whether a woman can pursue a workplace sex discrimination case over claims she was discriminated against because she is straight.
The court’s ultimate ruling could lower the bar for people belonging to majority groups to bring so-called reverse discrimination claims.
Marlean Ames brought a claim against the Ohio Department of Youth Services under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits sex discrimination in the workplace, after a lesbian woman obtained a promotion she was also seeking. She was then demoted, and her old position was taken by a gay man.
We need more homosexuals. For the children.
/looks up at the links
Ohio Department of Youth Services – hear me out… close the thing and fire them all
I can agree with that.
Well, fuck. Yesterday, I threw a lowball limit order in on a stock which shall remain nameless, which has been hovering around its 52 week low. I missed it by about a nickel. This morning it’s up significantly.
Casino life.
Drugs, or schizophrenia?
A 20 year old goes to the local BMW dealership looking to buy an M4.
Dealership looks at his credit score, won’t even let him test drive one.
So the kid does the rational, sensible thing.
Young Florida Man
I blame social media
I’ve never understood people who counter a reasonable in my view but maybe somewhat insulting preconceived notion by confirming the other party to be 100% correct. It’s like being denied entry to a bar because you look like a troublemaker so you take a swing at the bouncer.
I have great fun in subverting expectations based on my dress and appearance.
Neph is the guy who dresses up like a janitor at the gym and makes fun of the body builders?
Last American Gyro:
Not quite. More along the lines of the guy in the punk shirt with a shaved head and a beard who just got out of a car blasting loud music, will be the same guy who will hold the door open for you, offer to help with a cart, and is able to recommend a decent beer or cocktail to pair with your meal.
I’m not sure I can live down to the expectations my slovenly appearance evokes.
Based upon the unanimous results of a Discord poll of my lousy soi-disant friends, I got another fade and am letting my hair continue to shag out after 25+ years of a #1 or #2 all over every 2-3 weeks. I still think I look like a twat. I decided to try growing my facial hair to balance things a little bit. I can’t tell, but it may have made me look even twatier. But on the bright side, it also makes me look less friendly.
I recently got told to go fuck myself on a virtual retailing chat by somebody who didn’t receive any approval decisions from the real-time lenders pre-configured for the dealership I was representing after they were cordially invited to come in and discuss alternative financing options with a finance manager. Some people get very emotionally invested in their wheels.
Well, his new cell mate is going to test drive something.
“FIGHTING ELECTION FRAUD – BIG UPDATE: 20 Ohio Counties Launch Investigations into Suspicious Progressive Group that Allegedly Turned In Piles of Phony Voter Registrations”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/fighting-fraud-this-is-big-20-ohio-counties/
They should just ban third-party registration entirely.
The darkies are too stupid and poor to even get an ID, and now you expect them to know how to fill out a voter registration form and drop it off at an office or the blue mail receptacles on every other street corner without the assistance of their beneficent white NGO
mastersoverlordscommunity organizers?Industrial Greatness Requires Economic Depressions
https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/02/21/industrial-greatness-requires-economic-depressions/
The state’s role in supporting economic growth is critical. Our wealth comes from industry, that is, from the ability to mass produce goods—more goods, better goods, cheaper goods, produced with fewer hours of labor. The biggest advances in industrial production have required massive investments and social transformations so large they can only succeed with the support of the state, including in countries where the state’s support comes largely via market mechanisms, like the United States and modern China. A well-designed industrial policy works by incubating new, better modes of production to move a nation from its current economic equilibrium to a new, wealthier equilibrium.
It is a tragedy, then, that our current economic policy does exactly the opposite. We are vastly poorer because, instead of supporting “infant industries” until they can stand on their own feet, the U.S. government has spent trillions of dollars to keep the most senile and sclerotic businesses on life support. This keeps millions of talented people and tens of trillions of dollars worth of plant and equipment locked up in decrepit enterprises run by mediocrities who specialize in preserving the status quo, or by outright incompetents running their businesses into the ground.
The biggest advances in industrial production have required massive investments and social transformations so large they can only succeed with the support of the state
Um, no. The state just need to stay out of the way.
Yep. It’d be nice to see Trump sunset all industry supports but that ain’t gonna happen.
Fuck off, commie.
not everyone is a commie.
that sounds like something a commie would say.
I am not sure commies are creative destruction fans…
They’re not. They prefer rigidly conformist and standardized destruction.
“The biggest advances in industrial production have required massive investments and social transformations so large they can only succeed with the support of the state”
Well, not including the first and second industrial revolutions, anyway. What you need isn’t the support of the state, you need the state to not oppose you. Not the same thing.
enforcing contracts and protection from enemies helps.
If you want to call that the support of the state for social transformations and massive investments, I guess you can. Careful on that slope though, it looks slippery.
Not supporting is opposing.
Yes, to be sure, free people following their own self interest and the incentives of a market where efficiency leads to the best financial outcomes are far too retarded to properly distribute themselves into the labor force in a way that facilitates the production of goods and provision of services. Thank Marx for the beneficent hand of government guiding us into the post-scarcity future.
🙄️
Go fuck yourself.
Morning, Glibs! Sorry I wasn’t around for my finale on Osprey smashes – my hockey game got moved up so I was on the ice when it published and didn’t get back until late.
Thank you to everyone who read and commented. Looks like I’ll have to come up with some new series of stories to tell so I can earn my keep around here.
I think the next series will be “Secret Agent Man” in the Graveyard of Empires.
Nice links, Sloop. The Cure is always a good choice.
The AP is absolutely high. This has nothing to do with Gulf of America – that’s just the cover story for the fact that AP was the leading voice in the Marxist language takeover with their “style guide” on what words must be used (like “birthing person”). This is Trump enacting some revenge on them.
The “reverse discrimination” suits are coming – in many, many different contexts. It is going to be epic; I know because I’ve got my greedy hands in some of them. I wish I could talk about it but can’t until after we file. It’s not at all what you would expect, but it will cause a lot o’ wailing and gnashing of teeth on the Left.
It’s not really “reverse” discrimination, it’s just discrimination, and it’s gone on far too long.
Yep – hence my quotations. The anti-discrimination laws are about to be applied across the board. I know of some successful cases back in the 90s, but they don’t get much run for the obvious reasons. But yes, the “some animals are more equal than others” schtick is about to backfire craptastically and I’m here for it.
Hell, I’m going to retire on it.
Also, thanks for the awesome series, and keep on fighting the good fight!
popculture
@notgwendalupe
PJ Harvey for i-D magazine, September 1995.
https://x.com/notgwendalupe/status/1894460766126051387
Polly Jean is great
PJHarvey is the best PJHarvey.
I love songs about infanticide.
Have I got the band for you!
Just about every music algo believes I should like PJ Harvey, but I just can’t for some reason.
Then you are weak, and going to die.
See, I don’t even get the reference. Unless it’s not a reference. In which case, that’s fair.
It is a tragedy, then, that our current economic policy does exactly the opposite. We are vastly poorer because, instead of supporting “infant industries” until they can stand on their own feet, the U.S. government has spent trillions of dollars to keep the most senile and sclerotic businesses on life support. This keeps millions of talented people and tens of trillions of dollars worth of plant and equipment locked up in decrepit enterprises run by mediocrities who specialize in preserving the status quo, or by outright incompetents running their businesses into the ground.
Let me guess. We’re underspending on Green New Deal fabulism by trillions while “propping up” proven effective technologies.
well you guessed wrong.
Jacobin
@jacobin
Karl Marx saw how presidential systems with strong executives threatened to eclipse the democratic power of the legislature.
https://x.com/jacobin/status/1894433055994953864
Hahahahahahaha! Those guys are hilarious.
I just got the noise-cancelling to work on these headphones.
It has been a long time since I’ve heard such silence.
It’s eerie.
I need to try those someday. Intend to buy the last-gen of any JBL headphones so I have yet to get any with good noise cancelling.
These are the $200 Sony that some Glibs recommended last time I was griping about office noise.
The biggest delay was in not having a long enough usb-c cable at the office to charge the battery. They still work as regular headphones with flat batteries.
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/ugreen-max5c-25-nc-headphone-review.58627/
Where’s the audio cable?
Wires are so much more reliable than bluetooth.
In restless dreams, you walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Of all America’s numerous utopian communities, an attempt at building a libertarian socialist paradise seems to have been the shortest lived, along with a Danish socialist colony
https://x.com/edwest/status/1894417099071623646
Can’t imagine why that didn’t last. 🙄
Ackshually, I’m surprised it lasted that long. The inherent contradiction should have caused it to instantly vaporize.
Technically speaking you could have a non-Marxist conception of socialism within a libertarian context. The issue you inevitably run into is the herding cats problem. People who reject most forms of authority and want to live their lives free from interference will generally only cooperate on a small subset of subjects that are insufficient to coalesce a society larger than an immediate family unit.
There really isn’t a contradiction. You could have a libertarian socialist, but that would require everyone there to agree on the rules, and the problems with getting even three libertarians to agree on anything won’t get easier with the addition of socialism.
I disagree, Neph.
All three of you are obviously wrong about this, so wrong I question whether any of you are True Libertarians™
Indian givers
During a telephone hearing, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali grew impatient with a lack of clear responses from the administration’s lawyers to claims from aid contractors that they have seen no payments from the State Department or U.S. Agency for International Development since Ali issued an emergency order Feb. 13 halting a broad freeze on aid-related programs.
“I don’t know why I can’t get a straight answer from you,” the judge lamented after Justice Department attorney Indraneel Sur repeatedly sidestepped a question about whether the Trump administration released any funds following the judge’s earlier order.
After Sur suggested that officials were holding up or canceling payments under the terms of individual contracts, Ali said he was baffled by the government’s view.
“I guess I’m not understanding where there is any confusion here,” the judge said. “It’s clear as day.”
The Fairness to NGOs Clause. It’s right there in the Constitution.
This is an order the administration should ignore, as it is way beyond any authority of the judiciary. This is basically like a district judge ordering the President to withdraw troops from Europe. Sorry, you have no constitutional authority.
So the judge’s position is, pay the NGOs, contract terms be damned?
OK, then.
Earlier this month, Ali — an appointee of President Joe Biden — ordered an end to the blanket freeze after grant recipients and foreign assistance organizations warned of catastrophic consequences. Ali said the State Department’s freeze — and its execution by Peter Marocco, a Trump appointee who oversees day-to-day operations at USAID — likely violated the law.
We wouldn’t want those NGO contractors to miss a meal.
The eternal Wednesday question – do I eat lunch now or wait to see how I feel after the noon posting?
eat a protein bar.
Get a stronger stomach.
I feel like that’s just asking for SugarFree to really bring it.
Definitely eat now. Nothing’s worse than the dry heaves.
RESIST
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the American Federation of Teachers union and the American Sociological Association, says the Education Department’s Feb. 14 memo violates the First and Fifth Amendments. Forcing schools to teach only the views supported by the federal government amounts to a violation of free speech, the organizations say, and the directive is so vague that schools don’t know what practices cross the line.
“This letter radically upends and re-writes otherwise well-established jurisprudence,” the lawsuit said. “No federal law prevents teaching about race and race-related topics, and the Supreme Court has not banned efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in education.”
“You’re not the boss of us.”
Funny how federal funds can come WITH demands to teach certain subjects, but not the reverse.
“No federal law prevents teaching about race and race-related topics”
Neither does the EO.
World ends…
The Washington Post’s Opinion Section editor David Shipley resigned after owner Jeff Bezos mandated the section prioritize two topics, personal liberties and free markets, and not publish dissenting views in those areas.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/washingon-post-jeff-bezo-opnion-editor-resign
That covers the weed and ass sex. Throw in the Mexicans and it’s neo-Reason.
But with less Trump derangement.
owner Jeff Bezos mandated the section prioritize two topics, personal liberties and free markets
The horror.
The HORROR.
Saw Hank Johnson on the TV this morning. Yeah. That guy is still in congress. Looking at the Dem leadership and thinking just how useless and stupid these people are it hit me: It is worse than even I thought and I was under the impression I am the most black-pilled guy there is. My bet is that the likes of Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Obama, Biden, Harris, Johnson, Crockett, the squad members and so many other I cant think of quickly enough…those useless fucks have never really won an election in their lives. They have never produced anything useful or accomplished anything worth mentioning – ever. The whole thing is rigged. It’s all theater.
The changes will dramatically reshape The Post’s opinion coverage
No shit, Shirley?
Richard Scarry! squee!
Had to look up who that was. Momentarily I confused him with Bryan Scary.
As a kid he was hands-down my favorite. Lowly Worm!