Not really feeling it today. It’s spring here in manly time, and yard work is in full swing, but it’s chilly this weekend and I don’t want to work in the yard. So here I am with you fine folks.
Links?
In my veins. Now shut down the whole thing.
Donny throws tech bros a bone.
This is not an epidemic. Get the MMR and you’ll be just fine.
No. No. No. This makes you as bad as them.
Two carrier groups and six B-2s seems to have got Iran’s attention.
I remember when I had a shocked face.
Alrighty then, that’s it for me. Time to go look for some enthusiasm. Peace out, Glibbies.
NSFW.
“Department of Employment Services”
Is this where I go to sign up for unemployment benefits? Is there a penalty if I quit my job?
Not pressure; flow.
Yes, kill the CFPB pronto.
Chaos – When I still had a dishwasher it was annoying to have the pre-wash the dishes so the dishwasher could ‘clean’ then. It was that or have to chip porcelainized egg yolk off breakfast dishes.
Throw a bone’ – Not what I would have done.
“MMR Vaccine” – Unnecessary for me as I had all three when young.
How much of that money actually went to the bogus claimants?
Anti-Christian bias – Just forbid Pro-Muslim bias.
The Big Stick approach works.
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I’ll take “rectally sourced statistics” for $600, Alex.
Popular with whom?
Entrenched manufacturers!
Oh, and green warriors who don’t understand math and economics.
His moves were opposed by industry and environmental groups alike. If it’s possible for regulations to be popular, these ones are. They have cut America’s water and energy consumption, reduced global-warming emissions and saved consumers money.
they claimed, without evidence.
When I retired from the army I went to school on the GI Bill. I was allowed to draw unemployment benefits at the same time, as long as I was looking for a job, uh-huh?
I also was allowed to work one day a week as long as my pay was below some threshold.
I enjoyed the tune.
Thanks, Spud! I gotta add this, as it’s desperately needed in DC+. See also: Mo and I agreeing buying Twitter was the biggest single act of charity in my life. (I’m sure there are other contenders. But damn. He broke their brain with ~$40T he really could do without. *mwah*)
It *is* precious Dems only act upset by this when they have to try and save their asses, one way or the other(s).
‘(Bipartisan) Lawmakers at a Senate hearing on Meta seemed to agree the company is a threat to democracy and its CEO is untrustworthy.”
Whistleblower Wynn-Williams testified that Meta, as part of its pitch to expand Facebook into China,
– developed censorship technology that could be used by its government.
– censored a Chinese dissident at Chinese officials’ behest.
– deceived the U.S. Congress about its ongoing operations in China.
Senators Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have opened a joint probe into Meta’s alleged operations in China.’
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/careless-people-book-meta-zuckerberg-senate-testimony-rcna200682
If the contract is indeed canceled, experts told ProPublica, it would cripple the government’s efficiency standards program, which relies on the consulting firm’s technical expertise and testing labs to update standards, ensure compliance and punish violators.
Nobody at the Dept of Energy knows how any of this works? I think I see some more potential savings.
Nobody sees a problem with outsourcing essential lawmaking and enforcement to consulting firms?
The DOGE audit found that “24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits,” “28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits,” and “9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits.”
“In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k,” DOGE added in a post on X.
That last one seems too absurd. I suspect the DOB was February 1, 1954.
Literally nothing “seems too absurd” anymore
Nonetheless, there it is. Even if it turns out the actual recipient was legit entitled to the payout, it shows their controls are utter shit.
This has produced confusion for everyone from appliance manufacturers to government officials to the contractors paid to enforce the rules. If the contract is indeed canceled, experts told ProPublica, it would cripple the government’s efficiency standards program, which relies on the consulting firm’s technical expertise and testing labs to update standards, ensure compliance and punish violators.
“It would have a huge impact,” said George Washington University law professor Emily Hammond, who helped run the program as deputy general counsel at the Department of Energy and now serves on its appliance standards advisory committee. “DOE does not have the internal capacity to do that work. Taking that away pulls the rug out from under the agency’s ability to run that regulatory program.”
How the fuck is a government agency outsourcing compliance to a 3rd party?
Every time I think DOGE has uncovered some piece of stupidity that can’t be topped, there is a new one the next week.
You can read that grammar multiple ways.
Near and dear to you the manufactures certify compliance with FAA with their oversight. But you essentially monitor yourself.
These fuckers don’t have that knowledge in the first place. So they rely on a third party to determine what a wing is and how it generates lift.
So, I misread that.
Instead, the acknowledge that they are incompetent and can’t do their jobs. Much better that way.
The FAA Air Traffic Operations COO taking the early out just as heads roll for that shitshow crash… what a pussy – OBE
Think you’re going to have to a bit more specific these days…
Probably the Flippy Chicks up north eh?
Believe that was one ‘flippy chick’ (pilot flying) and one ‘flippy dude’ simulator instructor (pilot monitoring) with sort of low actual flying time. Will be interesting to see the final report – seems like a fair amount of pilot error/minimal experience plus just the right (wrong) wind conditions to screw up their power settings.
Tim Arel was flight safety and union boss for years…fucker okayed that shit flight path in a way
Ah, presumably route 4 and the RJ-copter crash. Yeah, that seems completely ridiculous. Partly controllers fault – should never have granted visual separation (sounded way too routine) and actually should have held the blackhawk at the top of the route until traffic on 33 had cleared/landed. But even then, a disaster waiting to happen. Even if everybody does exactly the right thing (no one making a mistake, minimal error on altimeters), your separation is less than 100 feet. Not really acceptable and just asking for trouble. Sure the controller (IMHO) fucked up and the black hawk was too high (but I believe marginally within the tolerance of the instrument?) – the only one who, again IMHO, did everything right (RJ pilots) stilled payed the price; just should have never been SOP for those flight paths to cross like that.
They were allowing 400′ separation on shirt final. This was going to happen.
“California, New York, and Massachusetts tallied nearly 80% of improper unemployment insurance benefits handed out since 2020. An initial review of claims by DOGE found $382 million in fraudulent payments.
The DOGE audit found that “24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits,” “28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits,” and “9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits.”
Bureaucracy is so efficient, far better than any private management. As we all know, monopolies are bad, and public servants become angels when taking power. Just like *all* of human history! Plans work so much better when they’re led by people driven with the purity of their soul, as opposed to the oppressive and regimented structure enforced by capitalism and its henchmen.
That a typo’d DOB could slip through the cracks and ‘receive’ payments is damning enough.
The government’s efficiency requirements originated with the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, signed into law in 1975
So… if Trump was real change, he’s going to have to get something through Congress. Instead we get a EO that the next president can undo. Getting legislation through Congress is a lot harder than signing a EO.
Possibility: Let’s say shit like CAFE and California regs go bye-bye. (Easy one I’ve mentioned) What if a Saturn-like car company could start making cheap, reliable, simple cars for ‘average’ folk? It would be far simpler to ‘re-tune’ existing factories, or build new, though ‘more simple’ manufacturing facilities to build these get-ya-there boxes. Comes with radio! And probably all sorts of other shit that’s way too easy for car companies to ignore.
Imaging continues: Let’s say that goes on for four years, and perhaps four-eight more with Vance. What if people see the veil lifted? Suddenly, pretty-damn good cars for $10k?!!
Plenty more examples, I’m positive, especially with tech where the changes could be immediately felt.
Without the guarantee of anything past 2026 or ’28, so far this seems to me like a great Rock ’em Sock ’em Executive Time. Just keep pounding at the Left. Biggest benefit? Their laser-pointer attention span is forced to fight against complicated legal and econ assaults. This assault on Washington at least feels legit, and is coming from, pretty much, all the right angles, even if I don’t ‘love’ how all have been handled.
The Useful Idiots weren’t trained to be smart. Hence, their tedium. I admit, other than how I have to keep mum around my family, I’m quietly enjoying watching the pants-shitting ’round me. (Nothing to do with Dad and his faithful Depends.) My brows and lashes flutter in glee, or when playing into it, in bemused tones to hear about their latest feverish attempt to combat Orange Man Bad.
(Now White Man in Term 2.0. That’s extra-palidocious racist.)
“Instead we get a EO that the next president can undo.”
True, but it’s something. As much as he can do.
“Getting legislation through Congress is a lot harder than signing a EO.”
It is, especially a Congress as fundamentally corrupted and dysfunctional as the one we have. Little of substance will get through Congress until a lot of the current Congressholes are replaced. Until then, I don’t think Trump saying “well, I’d rather wait for Congress to do this right, rather than do an EO” is the way to spend his very limited time in power.
I’m a little pissy since I remember some Trump supporters, none of the ones here by the way, saying during the election that Congress doesn’t matter.
CFPB might be done?
Good.
Give Chief Sitting Bullshit the boot as well. She won’t be missed.
I like the chaos of analog appliances.
Speaking of which, I need to find a good shop that can fix old stereos.
OMWC is your guy for old stereos
That’s it. I’m sick of Shariffs.
edit: tariffs.
My stupid fat fingers.
Omar hardest hit.
🤔
Its because of the Cashbah, isnt it?
Cash box.
Cash bar?
Hosted bar! 🍻 🥂
What? Do I look Arabic to youse?
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Casbah is a word that refers to the old city or citadel of a North African city. The word is derived from the North African Arabic dialect kasba, which means “fortress”. The word was first used in 1738. The word is also spelled kasbah. The word is derived from Arabic qaṣaba, which means “to cut up”. The word is a singulative derived from qaṣab, which means “stalk”.
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Basically, the Arabs conquered North Africa piecemeal and built a fort at each new frontier. The Russians did the same thing with their ostrog log forts.
Strogat’ means to shave/sharpen in Russian and refers to the sharpened logs used to make fort walls.
We don’t need no stinkin’ Sheriffs!!
But you’re not sick of no Daputies?
Sharif means “honorable” in Arabic and is a boy’s name. Tasharafna means “you honor us” but a better translation is “nice to meet you”.
Omar means “flourishing” and also “eloquent”. It was also the name of one of the Rashidun (the first four rightly guided Caliphs after Muhammad).
He liked chess…
Checkmate is garbled Arabic for Shah mat = the king is dead.
Although shah is a Persian word. The Arabic word for king is Malik, which is also a boy’s name.
Malik also means owner/ruler, like Vladimir (great ruler) in Russian.
Many Goths had names ending in -mir. That’s probably where Tolkien got the idea for the name Boromir.
Oy vey ist mir!
My life in a galaxy far, far away:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT18pTfJDkE
Or was he a bridge player? Aw heck.
@Derpy, they’re coming out with a movie about the Press Your Luck episode.
They are no true random number generators (except the one I invented in 2021). Cryptographically secure random number generators exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographically_secure_pseudorandom_number_generator
A true random number generator would necessarily by a one-way function. That is, it would be impossible to deduce the input from the output no matter how many example pairs were available.
The existence of one-way functions is listed as one of the great unsolved problems of computer science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science
Trump seemed uninterested in starting a war in his first term. I hope that continues because Iran would not be an easy target. Also a chance the Chinese and Russians decide not to stand by.
https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/hold-my-beer
Can’t we just bomb all of them?
We should definitely bomb the Russians.
https://youtu.be/hI2MC8T2H1k?si=ixRswAcOSkX2zhl-
Won’t someone think of the regulators?
I drove about 1/2 the distance from the Gulf of America to Canuckistan today in 10 hours flat.
That would not have been possible with an electric car.
Eat shit, watermelons.
“In his first term, Trump pursued an array of gimmicks to try to undermine the rules. His moves were opposed by industry and environmental groups alike. If it’s possible for regulations to be popular, these ones are.”
Spot the stolen base.
These ones? What kind of English is that?
Sounds like Russell Crowe movie
Errr… Ad hominem. Assumes facts not in evidence. Argumentum ad populum.
Bingo?
You got gud werds,
Heh
If regulations are usually unpopular, as implied, then why must we have them?
4. Appeal to authority.
“ If it’s possible for regulations to be popular, these ones are.”
Popular with whom? People who donate in triple digits to PBS? Fuck that asshat!
Stolen base? More like a homerun.
1. gimmicks
2. undermine
3. opposed by whom?
4. popular
2-0 Glibs! 🫸🫷
In the 9th grade gym class, we were playing whiffle ball inside. It was one of those very rare occasions where we where I was at bat. Maybe the pitcher liked me or was just curious if I could even hit the ball at all. It was a nice easy pitch, and I slammed it like Babe Ruth and got a home run, much to the astonishment of the teacher and consternation of the opposing team.
I did the mandatory exercises in gym class, but when we allowed to do our own thing, I played chess with the other contrarians or walked around the track by myself.
We measured my girlfriend’s son’s longest eyelash today. 1.25″.
That’s a long eyelash.
Is “eyelash” what the kids are calling it nowadays?
Ummmm…. you’re a cuck and a loser?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/my-girlfriend-keeps-sleeping-boss-35022811
Can I get my own advice column now?
No, actual eyelash length.
He’s kind of a freak. Full head of hair (was down to his buttocks, until he cut i recently) in a family with male-pattern-baldness. 350 lb. high school center and long snapper. Beautifully sharp with one-liners. Perpetuously lost in real life. I ache for him to succede (almost more than I ache for my own children to succede.).
Brooksed the reply: What ever.
It still worked in unintended context.
I keep hoping that one of these babes will have an ankle monitor.
https://archive.is/NDJY5
Silicone Saturday After Dark.
NSFW.
Didn’t make it past #1.
Fun fact: Your testosterone and horniness peak in the morning. There really is a reason for Morning Would.
I’m late.
All of the screeching about Trump’s attack on regulatory capture are hilarious. They are trying to defend the indefensible.
I like the quote yesterday about ‘creating chaos’ – “…the market will be full of upstarts making junk!”
Uh…have you fuckers looked at your own products lately? Hint: They are shit. I cant get a decent washing machine, dryer, deep fryer, refrigerator, microwave, faucet, water heater, blender, etc for love or money. I dont want to pay those prices for throw away junk. I have tried the expensive ones, the cheap ones and the in-between ones. They are all disposable shit.
My cousin has a Hamilton Beach blender, Tappan stove, Westinghouse washing machine, and a International Harvester refrigerator that my great grandmother bought in the ’40s or ’50s. Get that? Those things are almost 100 years old and they still work like the day they were bought. The good old ceramic coated steel bodies. The seals have been replaced, that’s it.
I have exactly the same number of tears for these peddlers of shoddy goods that I have for the Fed employees complaining about losing their fake jobs.
Fuck. Them. All.
Now I am properly pissed off. I am going to have coffee and make some seafood stock for some magical bisque I am whipping up later today.
I’m later and I agree with your rant. The fridge I’m next two is close to 50 YO and works fine. Ditto the oven and the stove, although one back burner is out. God knows how old the chest freezer in the basement is.
Car repair costs are ridiculous, but so are new car prices, plus I don’t feel like being tracked everywhere I go (EZPass does that enough when I’m on the turnpike). So I’m keeping my twelve-year-old car going as long as I can.
My ’13 Chevy nods in agreement w its owner.
Amen.
Mornin’ reprobates! Bouncing off to work, and Sunday FunDay commute commences. With the weekend, church, and piss off, it’s the most chill morning of the workweek. (It gets congested when the morning wears off and people realize they forgot to prepare for their worklives. Fuckers.)
I don’t have ink for many reasons (, which I don’t think I’ve shared). My favorite was a simple one from a fellow expat in Korea. On the outside of his left hand, on the fleshy space between the thumb and index finger. Almost prison ink, but perfectly legible:
‘Be better.’
Just asked the Mrs. to change from the news to Hallmark or something for the sake of our sanity. As many here have already said just when you think it couldn’t get any worse….
As Hegseth noted recently “When you see the incompetence and corruption and ‘poor handling of national security’ it just takes your breath away.”
He said poor handling of national security. The word I wish he would have used is ‘Treason’ because that is exactly what it was.
Trump turns on the kitchen light and there are 1000x as many roaches as we thought. All of the screeching we are hearing amounts to that roach from the commercial screaming “RAID!!!” before scrambling for cover.
Cherry on top: Now that we know what USAID was and that all of the MSM were just Democrat propaganda outfits (I always wondered how any of them could stay afloat) my advice is do not believe a single word they say. Not one word.
Morning! I made sausages, but did not bring any to share.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BblV6AQsd2s
🎶🎶
https://www.nj.com/education/2025/04/tiny-coastal-nj-school-district-proposes-125-tax-hike-residents-are-enraged.html
Bring back tar and feathering.
https://www.reddit.com/r/XFiles/s/lDPUDSfI8d
Yup
I saw Leadfoot Granny at The Mothership last night, young kids playing good old Rock and Roll.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/12/us-news/four-cowboys-arrested-for-riding-horses-through-walmart/
🙄🐴
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/04/12/minneapolis-cafes-close-after-workers-attempt-to-unionize-n2411296
And they will have learned nothing.
If leftists could learn there would be no leftist ideologies
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