Good morning one and all to another wonderous day!
Supreme Court grants Trump request to lift stay halting Venezuelan deportations
Trump tells Americans don’t be ‘weak’ or ‘stupid’ and not to panic amid tariff negotiations
Scott Bessent says up to 70 nations want to negotiate over Trump’s tariffs
EU Must Buy US Energy to Get Tariff Relief: Trump
RFK Jr. Says He Will Tell CDC to Stop Recommending Fluoride in Municipal Water
Life expectancy increased in 2022 but not enough to make up for pandemic loss
Three states ban foreign funding of ballot measures amid concerns of influence on elections
Colorado House Passes Bill Treating as Child Abuse Dissent From Transgender Orthodoxy
Kathy Hochul’s $370M Gun Control Plan Includes Credit Card Surveillance of Ammo Sales
SURVEY: 55% Of Self-Identified Leftists Say Killing Trump Is Justifiable
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Fox should turn off autoplay.
“Justices on the high court ruled 5-4 to grant the administration’s request to lift the stay, in a temporary victory for Trump and his allies.”
Article doesn’t say which ones
I heard that Roberts joined the 4 who dissented
I thought I read it was ACB.
From an NPR article:
ACB, wasn’t she sold as an ultra-conservative?
“I heard that Roberts joined the 4 who dissented”
Don’t we all know Robets is completely owned by the globalist marxist cabal through Norm Eisen?
ABC has stopped pretending.
At this point ACB can be relied on to side with the looney leftists, leaving Roberts once again as the swing vote.
“ABC has stopped pretending.”
It’s typo Tuesaday!
Barrett and Kavanaugh are both one-trick ponies. Abortion and executive privilege, respectively. Barrett is disappointingly statist and votes to preserve the status quo. Kavanaugh could be replaced by a coin-flipping machine for non-EP cases, and nothing would change.
There’s no such thing as a perfect justice. Hell, even Thomas upheld a strip search in a school for a fucking aspirin.
I am unsurprised at ACB. This, not some Handmaiden Tail, was the likely outcome from her background.
Handmaiden Tail
Giggity.
At least on my phone, Brave shuts it down. PC may be a different matter.
Yes, I’m on desktop.
Mornin’ Banjos
***skims links
Think I’ll crawl back in bed and stay there.
Trump touts tariffs, and accidentally creates a world of free trade.
I hope so. Not only is the stock market down, prices are already up based on my Amazon browsing.
Yep. I bought all I needed for the house early on. I knew that was coming.
I had plans to buy some things back in February. Then my mom was in the hospital for almost two weeks, and died. So then I had to deal with that. I was thinking that things could go up because tariffs, but shopping wasn’t a priority.
Things that were $200 are now $250.
I went to the liquor store and bought a mixed case of wine last week to beat the tariffs.
Hope my daily drinkers don’t go up too much.
The leaders of Colorado need some woodchippin’
Penis-slicin’.
I don’t understand why Coloradans put up with it. I’d have moved out long ago.
Colorado isn’t a state I’d ever love to, though. It is an incredibly beautiful place, but any state that limits your use of water is a place I will try to avoid.
*move to, not love to
Having spent my life where the problem is too much water, not enough, I agree.
Its the same problem any state has with one large city. See also, Illinois.
Basically, everyone else ignores what comes out of Denver.
Now do New York, Rob.
““A well-stakeholded bill does not need to be discussed with hate groups, and we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion,” she quipped…
“I will call those groups hateful, and I am not the only person who has done so,” Zokaie said. “Some of the groups in opposition to this bill are on a list of hate groups maintained by one of the most well-known civil rights law firms, and yes I will compare that to saying it’s like asking someone working on civil rights legislation to consult with white supremacist groups, and I will do that unapologetically.””
CWAC
If your group isn’t on a list of hate groups you should be ashamed.
“But I hate women and that’s A-OK.”
“well-stakeholded”
What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
“Right-thinkers support this”
I’m one of the “stakeholders” in that I could be threatened with pound me in the ass prison if some tranny gets offended by my words. I wasn’t consulted.
So you want to settle this the old fashioned way, without words, but ending in death.
See my comment, Teds’.
You’re the wrong kind of stakeholder.
Kansas, Kentucky, and Wyoming are the three states that banned foreign money in ballot measures.
Ballot measures are barely even a thing in Kentucky.
If it was NY, CA, and IL we’d be getting somewhere.
I love how the left is against guns and for assignations.
“Assignations” or “assassinations”?
You are assigned to carry out the assassination.
Fun and exciting date activity?
Who isn’t for assignations?
Sweet, sweet assignations.
I need more covefe.
We all do.
So much covfefe you’ll be sick of covfefe?
#metoo
Works for me
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/3372963/life-expectancy-increase-2022-not-enough-for-pandemic-loss/
Colorado: Failing to abuse your child is child abuse.
There is a cabal with a seriously evil agenda targeting minors…
CPS: Why isn’t your child trans?
Oh well, since I’m going to lose my parental rights – I’ll just kill you.
“For the safety of our public servants, abusive parents will be pre-euthanized prior to removing the transgender child to an affirming environment.”
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s what good parenting does.
Why do you have to ruin my day, Jimbo?
Someone needs to keep you grounded 4Score.
“Colorado House Passes Bill Treating as Child Abuse Dissent From Transgender Orthodoxy”
I am sorry but at this point the LGB crowd needs to step up and fight this shit being done under cover of their name. This is beyond lunacy into obvious attack on parental responsibility if it stops the agenda to abuse people suffering from mental disorders.
I will reiterate it again: there are no trans kids: there are parents with mental disorders (Munchausen by proxy, for real) being supported by the cabal of adults that wants to legalize pedophilia.
It’s not going to stop until a boy kills his mother for trying to transition him against his will
It might not stop even then.
I expect a spate of such killings in the not too distant future.
In this case there was literally no debate.
“Caldwell noted that the Democrat majority invoked Rule 16, which calls the question and ends debate, leading to a vote. “I believe they did this to silence us because they know how much negative attention this has been getting nationwide,” he said in a video message Sunday.”
Unfortunately, if there is a debate, it’s two retards fighting, with both sides talking past each other. The right can define “transgender” about as well as the left can define “semi-automatic”.
The difference being semi-automatics are a real thing. “Transgender” is just made-up bullshit.
Delusion: a false belief or judgment about external reality, held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, occurring especially in mental conditions.
Thank you for proving my point.
Transgender gets rid of the thing that goes up, which is what makes assault rifles so dangerous!
*inserts still from Zardoz*
There are several sensible non-tranny groups fighting this stuff but they are completely drowned out by the mainstream orgs who are hardcore leftist radicals. *shrug*
Yes, there are Gays Against Groomers, Moms For Liberty, etc., but those are all nazis according to the SPLC. They also have way less money than the formerly pro-gay groups such as the Soros-funded HRC.
Which HRC? Nevermind, they’re both Soros funded.
Why would they suddenly turn around and start fight against something they’ve supported?
Yes, there are a handful that have spoken out, but not a single advocacy group has said enough is enough and 19 out of 20 high profile LBG is all in.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/science/dire-wolf-de-extinction-cloning-colossal/index.html
But which edition’s dire wolf did they resurrect????
I need to know what AC I have to hit to kill one if I get attacked.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/4775812-dire-wolf
I’m waiting for the Dire Rat.
The Capybera?
Best I can do is Wererat
Imagine a Capybara the size of a human. It’s staring right at you …
Capybara are herbivores. Probably no more scary than a cow.
I know a couple ranchers who would tell you that cows are pretty much all assholes.
Three is still functionally extinct.
And they will remain functionally extinct until there are viable breeding pairs that produce viable offspring that breed true as dire wolves.
They are also not dire wolves. They are grey wolves with a handful of dire wolf gene pairs spliced in and a number of other gene edits that are meant to mimic the appearance of dire wolves. It’s interesting, but it is far from restoring the species.
How much deviation from Dire is acceptable before they become “true”?
As I understand it they used 15 dire wolf gene pairs total in the recreation. I think asking how much deviation from grey wolf does it take for them to cease being grey wolves is a better question.
UCS:
The Dire Wolves of Theseus?
The only way to settle this is to build a time machine and go live trap some dire wolves to see if these critters can produce viable fertile offspring with them.
Just get a vorpal BFG.
Publicity stunt. Not even close to an actual site wolf.
Indeed. These are genetically edited gray wolves, not dire wolves.
Like Neph pointed out, how much gene editing is necessary before they become indistinguishable from the OG?
Like Neph pointed out, how much gene editing is necessary before they become indistinguishable from the OG?
^ this. If I’m understanding correctly, they compared the grey wolf code against an actual dire wolf code and then rewrote the mostly similar grey wolf DNA to match the DNA of a dire wolf. These are not merely phenotypic changes as the result of line breeding for desired characteristics. It’s an actual dire wolf. Offspring will breed true dire wolves.
I started down this line of research 20 years ago (creating chimeric organisms by rewriting DNA), but the technology just wasn’t there at the time and bailed. It’s amazing to see it being achieved now.
This is a great example about the difference between laboratory-created genetically modified organisms and those modified through traditional line breeding.
100% probably required.
Based on what they said it’s 90%.
So a hybrid wolf.
Maybe they should put them in some sort of park.
There is only one edition. The rest are a copy to get rid of the creator’s author credit, a fanfic variant where everybody can be and do anything, an attempt at a tabletop mmo, and whatever the current knock off is.
“tumblr, the RPG!”
Not Adahn:
I saw an article recently talking about Gen Z latching onto the one social media site that wasn’t destroyed by Millennials. The one they picked?
Tumblr.
It would be difficult to destroy tumblr, this is true.
BECMI, 1st, and 2nd edition are OK. Everything else is junk.
The dnc crime syndicate asshats are so fucking useless that they need to pay people to pretend to be on their side…
I haven’t watched the video but if the text description is correct it sounds like the type of thing the left would condemn if anyone else were doing it. No MAGA or red apparel is totes legit, as is the sign and marching. But the after-the-fact test is complete bullshit. Imagine if a fast food worker had to pass a test after their first shift in order to get paid for said shift. I hope more of these people come forward and that this story gains traction.
That is a great point you made Tonio: when the left does it, no matter how criminal or evil, it is for the cause, so it is OK. Anyone else doing something they regularly do is however a Nazi.
They are on “the right side of history” or somesuch BS.
This idea, that history “bends to the left” is what gives the far left emotional cover for hypocrisy in things like this.
The US regime pays protesters in other countries all the time when they don’t like the faction in charge; it’s no big stretch to find out they’d do it here.
Sorry Sensei, but no more Manga.
You’re a mean one, Mr Ted.
OK, this is it, the ultimate expression of voter stupidity. Speaking to AOC as a prospective Democratic leader…
What kind of moron votes for AOC and Trump? A NYC moron apparently. Idiocracy isn’t about the future at all.
One can argue the movie’s premise that it would take a few centuries for humanity to go stupid was incorrect as it took less than a couple of decades and an orange guy pissing all over the marxists and their agendas to get there…
Somehow voters in NYC voted for both the orange ogre and AOC. You can’t explain that – it defies all explanation.
Attacks on the system from both ends? The abuse orange guy attacks one end, and the batshit crazy marxist bartender big booty latina attacks from the other?
They are both populists, of one sort or another, JI.
How effective they are at the games they are playing is left up to you, and everyone else, to decide.
@alexinCT:
“big booty”
[citation needed]
She’s cute and has big tits.
Voting with your dick?
Have you ever seen the cover of Cosmopolitan? It’s not just men.
It was about the future when it was released. We are living it now.
What kind of moron votes for AOC and Trump?
I poked around on the Intertubes. I remember when she was first elected, she came under some fire for not taking care of constituents like her predecessor did. Poking around, it looks like she has started taking care of constituent services. So, yeah, I can see folks splitting a ticket for her and Trump.
Here is the letter Marcy Rheintgen sent to Florida legislators:
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25878810/rheintgen-letter.pdf
Here is an interview she did with TransNormal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3IOTWKX0QE
I don’t think this story is going to get much attention, since a pretty Christian trans woman doesn’t fit the the left or the right.
I know that you know in your heart that transgender people are no different from you or anybody else.
Wrong toots, I’m not deluded about my identity. You are. You can have that penis removed (which you likely have not done), but you still aren’t a woman.
You have the dignity that should be afforded to all human beings, God loves you, and you’re mentally ill-no more a woman than you are a dog.
“I know that you know in your heart…”
That’s either incredibly smug, or incredibly delusional. Even more delusional than his belief that he’s a woman. It’s understandable as a coping mechanism.
Having one delusion does not necessitate having others. Nor does it make one evil or stupid any more than having depression, or a physical defect does.
Good example of trans’ing the gay away.
Possibly, as she is a Christian who describes herself as being a “flamer” before she transitioned. Although her speech and mannerisms do seem like someone who had gender dysphoria. I’m good at this, like Tonio can hear chest hair.
“pretty”
gonna have to disagree with you there, no amount of make up can make that not be a dude.
I had just seen a still of him before. Watching the video, he’s a lot more masculine than he looks in the still.
Photoshopping?
When did she express this alleged delusion? Yes, there are leftist trans people (and even leftist non-trans people) who claim to be the opposite sex, but most trans people don’t. Most trans people aren’t that political, or want to announce to the world that they are trans. The few trans people who are, and not leftist ideologues, such as Blaire White or Buck Angel openly and repeatedly admit that they are not the opposite sex.
Then what is “trans” actually supposed to mean? Because that makes no sense.
I guess you haven’t been to Seattle, where the entire LGBT population is one to two steps away at most from full blown marxist revolution.
It’s very much a team thing. Since team conservative wasn’t on board with gay marriage, therefore they support the left’s policies on everything from education to taxes to trade to wars to transing the kids to trains because whacha gonna do, vote Republican?
Dysphoria is a delusion. The belief that one is in the wrong body is at odds with reality. Understand that I am not arguing that this delusion makes the sufferer evil or even more broken than many other mental illnesses imply.
Actually, the Democrats weren’t for gay marriage either. Both Obama and Clinton during the 2008 primary said that marriage was between a man and a woman (back when they could define those things), as did all the Democrats in the Senate. Gay marriage was illegal in most deep blue states. No one wanted to vote for it because black people. So they waited on the Supreme Court.
“Dysphoria is a delusion. The belief that one is in the wrong body is at odds with reality.”
Dysphoria is a profound negative sense, so it’s comparable to, and often accompanied by, affective disorders such as anxiety or depression.
A physiological basis of gender dysphoria is neurological dimorphism. Brains can be sorted into male and female. So there not only can, but should be based on how genetics work, male people with female brains. We would know way more about it, if feminists didn’t throw a tantrum over scientists researching the sex differences between brains.
It is not clear to me that you would have female brains in male bodies absent some sort of intersex genetic defect, and I do not consider intersex situations to be in the array of conditions that constitute transgenderism. I freely admit I am a layperson, but I think it is an important distinction to make.
My issue with our current way of looking at this (other than the issues arising with children) is that we have politically decided that this one category of mental illness should be treated by attempting to modify physical reality to match the mental map rather than, as with other mental illnesses, trying to help the sufferer deal with physical reality in the best way possible for them.
Sexual dimorphism has a bimodal distribution. So you have two statistical groups of non-reproductive traits where the graph looks like a bra from the 50’s. So it’s not some “intersex genetic defect” when males have some typically female trait, or vice-versa. Sydney Watson is much taller and has lower eyebrows than Ben Shapiro. Jillian Micheals looks like she has larger hands than Donald Trump. This applies to neurology as well. There are women who are color blind or schizophrenic.
That seems to me to be you moving the goalposts. Of course the male and female distribution curves of traits will have overlap, but the claim that one has a male or female brain is not saying one has some traits that are more common with the other sex. The idea of being a man in a woman’s body is more than saying you are a somewhat masculine woman. It is saying you have a man’s brain, which I am only willing to concede is a thing if you can show me a direct sex link to some structural difference. Show me something akin to the pelvic differentiation between sexes in the brain and I will agree it represents a male or female brain. Then show me someone who is otherwise male with a female brain by that distinction and I will grant your point entirely. I will still say that the treatment should emphasize psychological treatment rather than surgical, because the surgery is harmful, irreversible, and frequently ineffective in reconciling the issue.
Woke + Tariffs = New CEO. They are still likely heading to BK or distressed purchase.
Harley-Davidson Seeks New CEO, Facing Sales Slump and Tariffs
https://www.wsj.com/business/harley-davidson-seeks-new-ceo-facing-sales-slump-and-tariffs-6b3e4618?st=mA6aY6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I read a few weeks ago that tariffs and local taxes will push HD’s largest models in Europe in excess of $100k. For a toy…
If they’re heading to BK, they can have it their way.
The modern audience doesn’t want big, noisy motorcycles anyway, right?
HD also has a problem selling to youngsters. Their bikes are only being bought by rich old people. Dentists who want to pretend that they are “rebels” and bad asses.
The kids a) can’t afford a HD and b) don’t want to be seen on a boomer bike.
Hence the reason for the embrace of all things woke. It will make all the young kids like us.
The youngest generations can’t drive a manual transmission auto and the rates of young people getting driver’s licenses are declining. HD needs to take a lesson from luxury goods like mechanical watches and the like.
I don’t have a good solution for them particularly with the regulatory environment they face unlike other luxury goods. I’d probably shop it to somebody and make it a boutique division of a broader power sports company. But that gave us AMF which was a disaster.
Downsize and embrace the customer base is the only answer. Middle aged dentist money is just as green as a 25 year olds.
Problem is those dentists age out. You need to replace them with new cohorts.
Hey now, I like the faux biker crowd. They’ve filled many a bar that my band has played at, and you don’t have to worry about anybody getting shot or stabbed in the parking lot.
Another problem is that motorcycles are extremely durable goods. The HD buying era peaked 20+ years ago and all of those bikes still run fine. My 2002 HD needed a shaft seal replacement. My friends 95 Dresser runs fine. HD already went to the lifestyle and boutique trend, and all of the motorcycles were SVO (Performance). Their market is saturated, there is no reason to buy a new one, they are stuck.
They are rolling lifestyle statements, and nostalgia. They are in no way good motorcycles.
8 years ago, I worked on a project with HD to connect their bikes to the internet.
HD knows all about their looming issues with kids. Their solution was to put in a cellular module that would connect the bike and rider to … Facebook.
Yes, their big idea was to “add social media” to their bikes. Because the kids love Facebook right?
It was a super painful project. The HD people demanded that even demos comply with their huge style guide for web sites. More than one time the team was chastised for using the wrong logo image on a demo page. Or color. Fuck, we were just happy that the demo actually received bike information.
I want to be on the road with bikers doing the social media thing.
The other thing is that HD aren’t objectively good motorcycles. They are not economical fuel-efficient transportation (like Japanese commuter bikes), nice touring bikes (like BMW), or high-performance racers.
Part of the reason for my “toy” comment and the luxury watch comparison.
Minnesoda. Always a poor man’s California.
The Met Council president pinky swears that they won’t spend money willy-nilly anymore. That they will be careful from now on.
Isn’t growth bad, always? Is that what “strategic” means there – making static (or decay) sound like growth?
Depends, economic growth is always evil, growth in regulatory control and the size of the bureaucracy is always good, growth in population is good as long as the increase is people from hostile cultures who are in no way pressured to assimilate.
Monday’s report is the 4th major review produced by OLA
Did SVEN produce a report too?
Cali without the coastline or the sunshine. They are sooo screwed.
TW: NPR
The simple fact they HAD been DEI indicates that as employees, they were useless, no matter what slot they are currently sitting in.
The experience gained over years of grifting was lost.
“Each brought years of experience to their roles.”
Which is no guarantee that the results of their efforts were beneficial to Americans.
Mengele was quite experienced
None of them had been in the private sector, where actual results are expected.*
* funny line years ago, and still somewhat accurate, but in reality, the private sector has almost as much bloat and only purges it when the bottom line absolutely demands doing so
That’s true about the bloat, but the fact that there is a line and that there is competition that enforces at least some level of productivity vs no line and no competition still makes a world of difference.
“vs no line and no competition still makes a world of difference.”
Not to mention the immensely powerful public sector labor unions that make some of the biggest political donations in an effort to ensure that the government personnel ranks just grow and grow. It’s their entire business model.
I skimmed it, but this caught my eye:
Love the “served” for the U.S. Postal Service.
I am doing my continuing ed to maintain my license despite having retired. Every single course I have taken so far, regardless of the topic, has spent at least 20% of the time gushing about how wonderful AI research and drafting is. The current guy is saying that not using it should be seen as malpractice because it is clearly a failure to use one’s best efforts…
It’s good to have confirmation that retiring as soon as I could was wise.
Aaaand he is now talking about the Green Pledge… Dick the Butcher was right.
Has he done a land acknowledgement yet?
No, but he is talking about AI having ethnic biases now…
AI can’t get the Irish right.
AI is the new new thing. We will see what happens when things settle.
It’s been oddly useful for me studying Japanese. I can ask it to use a specific piece of grammar and give me examples. The reverse is handy when helping my Japanese friends learn English.
In the legal profession I can see it making some inroads.
It probably is quite useful in languages, that’s its niche. The issue with it in legal research is that it has been known to make up cases to support the position it was told to find support for, and lawyers are 1. lazy and 2. often harried and have been known to not go back through and check the results manually.
Older models made really bad grammar mistakes. The new models are much, much better.
The hallucinations (fictional citations) are a big issue with me as well. As I noted to Swiss below my GC uses it, but more on contracts. You can train it on a bunch of existing contracts and have it generate permutations.
Yes, AI has no idea about “true” vs. “false” – it doesn’t reason at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room is still a good analogy.
I’m on the fence on AI. I think some things it is good at. Other things… ?
The big factor is what happens when they start charging for AI at levels that actually cover their costs. Last number I heard was MicroSoft spent $5B to make $3B.
My guess is that if they start charging enough to sustain itself, a lot of AI users will check out.
Or mine the voluntarily provided inputs and results.
Interesting – I am taking mine now for IL – the courses the ILARDC has up are very cautious about AI. “A fine tool, but here are a good dozen ways it can get you hauled in to be standing tall before the Man.”
A lot of my GC’s office are using to summarize existing contracts according to them.
I don’t use it much for work related stuff. Partly because I don’t have the corporate account my legal folk do so I can throw any internal or PII into it.
To be fair, the classes I have taken have acknowledged those risks as well and it is possible that I am shifting to the Boomer side of Gen X to grumble about those damn kids and their computers on this issue.
Exactly. It lies. Trust and verify should be the rule. Or just use your own superior mind.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1909271956190326988
That’s amusing.
Where’s OMWC?
Love it
BANZAAAIII!
BONSAAAI!
Bonsai superstar…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Ro-PX_GU0
Fuck! I would have filled up a suitcase of those as presents if I had known about them.
Did you bring anything?
Some One Piece cards, some cat toys and some little LED rockets you shoot up into the sky with a sling shot.
I’m stockpiling ammo, Kathy. Me. I just bought 2,000 rounds of 9mm Luger, and I plan to shoot it all before the end of the month. The next order will be for 20,000 rounds, and you (and Chase Visa) can gag on my ass if they don’t like it.
Eh, if you’re going to shoot it in a month, it’s not really “stockpiling.”
USPSA and SCSA matches this weekend!
Meant to include: There’s something that always bugged me the way that SCSA matches were so ammo-consuming for so little shooting effort.
That is fair. I’d like to stockpile more ammo, but I chew through it fast enough that it’s financially difficult.
SCSA is a big ammo churn, especially if you shoot more than one gun in a match. It’s fun though. And since all the heat is in the rimfire divisions, you can mitigate the ammo cost a little…
I need to mount that red dot on my P322 for that reason. No reason I can’t do that tonight, I guess.
Luger – NAZI!!!!!!!!!!
I do find it interesting that the US gives credit to the cartridge inventor, whereas the eurolanders just go by a committee’s naming convention.
Be redundant – 9x19mm Luger Parabellum NATO.
I propose .380 long to get it into freedom units.
.38 Rimless
357 Auto
You mean 9x33mmR?
D’oh! My bad.
Weak. OG luger is 7.65mm, like mine.
Some third hand knowledge I have (with a bit of my own interpretation): If you are a hypothetical therapist treating eating disorders, guess what, you have a lot of transgender patients. And you are supposed to treat one as a treatable mental illness and ignore the other, even though they are really the same freakin’ thing. Same root causes and everything.
Yep, body dysmorphia and both are manifestations of the same issue.
I’ve noted that for a while and haven’t seen it explored very much, that trangenderism (which Apple says is not a real word) is just one type of body dysmorphia. It is not accepted practice anywhere that I know of to “affirm” eating disorders, and aside from fringe clinics in places like Spain, those suffering from belief that their limbs should be cut off are not generally recommended amputations. Ultimately, I see a great deal of the transgender craze to be somewhat like the extreme cosmetic surgery fad that came about over the past few decades.
We had this conversation with one of our kid’s therapists years ago. She agreed that transgenderism is indeed body dysmorphia and essentially the same as an eating disorder, and that’s how she would treat it. But her hands were tied because society has decided it’s acceptable, and the governing bodies of psychology have decided to not see it as a mental disorder.
I remember when cutting was a thing.
Replaced by tats, and now body dysmorphia.
Spectacular.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1jtxztf/oc_the_situational_awareness_of_some_people/
Slow-motion accident.
“Surely they’re not going to keep going backwards…”
Havertown. I thought it looked familiar.
The fact that Harvard’s borrowing costs are lower than it’s investing costs and return on it endowment suggest we continue to have a problem here.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/8/april-2025-bond-sale/
Mentioned in the article is that they issued $450m in non-taxable capital bonds earlier. Nice to know that FedGov and MA underwrites that too!
It’s OK when we do it to the right people. It wasn’t supposed to happen to us.
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-mel-gibson-congress-667a79b368b215bb0cd7b0333f372fc7
Where’s Sean’s avatar pic?
Where are the arrests? Where are the prosecutions? Where are the executions for treason/espionage?
““It should alarm all Americans that the leadership of the Department of Justice appears to value political loyalty above the fair and responsible administration of justice,” said Liz Oyer, who has said she was fired last month after refusing to recommend that the gun rights of actor Mel Gibson, a supporter of President Donald Trump’s, be restored.”
Oh come on, he was in four movies called “Lethal Weapon”.
I’ve forgotten – why was Mel a prohibited possessor in the first place? Felon, coke head, just generally nuts?
EvilSheldon:
Probably tied to the drunk driving, anti-Jew ranting, “Sugartits” incident.
“domestic violence” charges (conviction?)
From what I can tell it was misdemeanor domestic violence.
🤬
We open a ticket because half our servers are down, and the Service Desk route it to… US.
No, you stupid shits, send it to the Datacenter folks!
Open a ticket about a Service Desk error.
We regret the error, we will soon have the other half down as well.
IT’S LIBERATION DAY, GO PLAY GOLF. YOU ARE FREED FROM THE TYRANNY OF YOUR SERVERS.
The NY/NJ IT staff of the financial I worked at would have a golf outing every Columbus day. The market and the branches were closed, and we warned people do not have an IT issue that day.
I did get a call one year, that they “said” was very important. I would get to them in about an hour when we were back in the clubhouse. They ask for my manager, so I handed the cell phone over, and he said that we would get to them in about an hour.
Stocks are +1200 this morning, gas prices are creeping down this week, and I’m seeing some positive articles about the tariffs.
I have accepted the fact that humans are bad at making predictions, especially about the future. So I’m resigned to being an observer. We’ll see how it goes.
“I have accepted the fact that humans are bad at making predictions, especially about the future.”
LOL
True, although I can definitely understand why people are nervous now — stocks went down, and prices went up.
So I’m resigned to being an observer. We’ll see how it goes.
That sounds positively stoic, TOK.
I drank the Bogleheads kool-aid awhile ago, so I’m in “keep doing what you do” mode. Maybe have to rebalance at some point (I _did_ rebalance into more bonds last year, which felt a little weird with the market doing well, but I’m glad I did).
Stocks are creeping back up a little because it looks like tariff moron Navarro (who should be in a padded cell) may have lost some favor to Bessent who wants to negotiate free trade with some countries.
My retirement account is above where it was a year ago. Gas is almost under $3 again. I need some bad news.
My retirement account is above where it was a year ago. Gas is almost under $3 again. I need some bad news.
Every second you get closer to death.
Happy to help.
“Retirement” huh? Sounds made up.
Last time I went grocery shopping, eggs were slightly cheaper but everything else was the same or higher price. We’ll see what it looks like when I shop later this week.
Stocks are +1200 this morning
So you’re saying I missed the bottom?
It might actually be time to move some back into the market (beyond retirement funds) as interest rates no longer make sense for any large amount of cash.
Maybe, or maybe this is a false recovery based on overly optimistic analysis of how quickly deals will be made. I suspect we’ll see another wave of selling in the next week or two. But even at today’s prices I suspect you’ll see significant gains by years end.
Disclaimer, I am at best an amateur and I have made some really boneheaded moves in the past including the recent past so if you do anything based on what I think you are probably screwed.
Nah I think you might be right.
And the people saying yesterday the stock market doesn’t matter will flip back to that it does.
Dead cats do bounce if you throw them hard enough.
Unless they fuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EI08o-IGYk
I vaguely recall that someone here did custom computer builds either as a favor to someone else, or possibly as a side hustle. Anyone remember who that was? I may be in the market soon and my eyesight and dexterity make me loathe to try to build one myself.
The assembly isn’t the problem. It’s the BIOS setup, software install, driver installation, updates and configuration side that makes me hate building new PCs.
I will admit the old eyes do make it more difficult.
It’s not the days when you had to deal with jumpers and non-oriented connections. Stick something in the wrong way or set the wrong jumper and the magic smoke escaped.
I don’t do it for others (OK, I did one for my nephews a couple years back, that was just slotting in a new hard drive to my old machine), but do it for myself. I highly recommend PC Part Picker for compatibility checks. I’ll also say I’m a huge fan of the Antec bottom mount power supply cases (especially when paired with an Antec modular power supply).
The country is in the best of hands.
My new co-worker, Swastika, is e-mailing me.
I will never get used to their name.
that name needs an apostrophe
There’s a person on my team who goes by Neph in the real world. It’s very disconcerting to see e-mails with that in it in my work environment. I need to keep reminding myself that they (very likely) don’t know about this place. 🙂
I’ve seen a number of co-workers and customers named Steve Smith, so there’s that.
They spell it with a “w”?
Yes, “Swastika”.
I wonder if it gets awkward when my other co-worker, Stalin, runs into them.
What To Do If Border Police Ask To Search Your Phone
Know how much the law does—and doesn’t—protect your privacy rights.
https://reason.com/2025/04/04/what-to-do-if-border-police-ask-to-search-your-phone/
shit something tells me commenting on this here website makes one ineligible of entering the US. I AM ON A LIST!!!
Who are you gonna believe?
“Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks,” Musk, Trump’s top campaign donor, wrote on X, the social media platform he owns.
“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk wrote in another post.
Musk should fire Navarro.
Why didn’t anyone speak out during the Salem witch trials, given how incredibly fake they were?
The first two “witches” accused by the roleplaying girls were the obvious suspects: women of questionable repute on the fringes of society. The third was a (reluctant) insider who could be controlled, a slave of the cunning village minister who was father and uncle to two accusers.
Their next choice was very shrewd. The fourth person the “afflicted girls” accused was a highly religious and respectable woman who had publicly expressed skepticism of their ridiculous bullshit. She was immediately arrested and imprisoned.
Genuine belief would do for most; preference falsification would keep the rest quiet.
After the skeptic, the next “witch” accused and imprisoned was an elderly church lady of spotless reputation. And the same day, a four-year-old girl. She went to prison too. At that point, the accusers knew they could get away with anything.
https://x.com/literalbanana/status/1907498621265940563
It is not correct that no one spoke out about the accusations and trials.
From On August 5, 1692, Nathaniel Felton, Senior, and his children, Nathaniel Felton, Junior, Ruth Houlton, Elizabeth Watkins, Hannah Endecott along with their husbands, and others, signed a formal petition defending their neighbors, Elizabeth and John Proctor, during the Salem witchcraft trials. A great act of defiance and courage in those scary times!
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One of my ancestors. A copy (badly blurred) photo of what remains of the original petition follows the linked quote.
My family has done which has made me more proud.
*nothing
Between done and which. Sigh. The horror lol.
My new co-worker, Swastika
“it’s Swah-STEE-kah. Totally different.”
Swastika Hakenkreuz, named to be a tenured professor at Columbia.
the left cant meme
https://x.com/beyond_capital/status/1909402170019266832
Odd, I’m neither exhausted, nor frightened of dying old and homeless. Maybe something about me is different…
The fact that Zoomers are unironically referring to the em-dash as “the ChatGPT hyphen” is wild
https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1907832984964837385
em dash should not exist. Delete it.
Wait, there is something old fashioned you hate?
Huh. Apparently I’m an LLM.
I didn’t even know you were a lawyer
I hate the kinetic captioning much more.
Days earlier, Musk in a since-deleted X post said Navarro “ain’t built s—.” In a separate post, Musk questioned Navarro’s credentials, writing, “A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing.”
That’s hard to argue with.
Are you a utilitarian, aiming to maximize overall wellbeing, or a Kantian, motivated by absolute duties regardless of the consequences?
A new twin study suggests our moral leanings may be partially written in our DNA, report
https://x.com/koenfucius/status/1909484103558111482
I am still uncertain how maximize overall wellbeing can be in any way objectively defined and measured.
Partially written… Well yes, I suspect that there is some degree of genetic determinism, if only in having the capacity for moral thought.
A chimney demolition in Eisenberg, Germany, with water jets used to limit dust spread.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1909617226316968158
The water jet thing is nice. The people on the other side can just get fucked, I guess.
Give him a whack on the nose with a rolled-up Wall Street Journal
With uncertainty emanating from DC, some on Wall Street say it’s time to send an unambiguous message to the president and his team: Don’t buy the dip.
Stocks are cheaper than they were a week ago, so it’s only natural investors may take a break from the sell-off and load up on some bargain assets. But going into dip-buying mode risks rewarding Trump for playing chicken with the global economy. Like training a puppy, you sometimes need a negative correction if you want it to stop peeing on the rug.
”We need this market to crash — to keep the pressure on the administration,” Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, told my colleague Matt Egan on Monday. That is a frankly shocking comment from an analyst as prominent as Yardeni, who also happens to have a Ph.D in economics from Yale.
Bring back business as usual!
Apparently neither is one from Yale:
This really should kill off the lie that the Left’s opposition to the administration is somehow motivated by anything other than petty spite.
TW: Rolling Stone
Everybody hates him
Millions of Americans flooded into the streets this past Saturday, April 5, to protest president Donald Trump; his Department of Government Efficiency hatchetman Elon Musk; the GOP’s agenda to pay for tax cuts for the richest with cuts to Medicaid; preposterous cuts to science, heath, and education; Trump’s mistreatment of trans kids and immigrants; as well Trump’s tariff blitz which is decimating their retirement accounts.
The “Hands Off” protests drew massive crowds to streets of blue cities including New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. But large demonstrations also erupted in smaller red-state urban centers, like Salt Lake City, Utah, and Missoula, Montana, as well as in hundreds of conservative communities across America from Flower Mound, Texas, to Tupelo, Mississippi.
An anti-Trump protest in Missoula? No fuckling way!
I know it’s the Rolling Stone, but are those cuts they mention even in the realm of reality?
I wish they were.
I wonder if it gets awkward when my other co-worker, Stalin, runs into them.
They should have a non-aggression pact.
At the lawyer to sign personal agreement between Mom and Cunty Aunt Susie.
I had a job interview that seems to have gone well.
I’ve written strongly worded emails to 2 different merchants.
I did some things on my mom’s to-do list.
Cleared out my email mostly.
All in all, a good time is so far being had by all.
I’ve mostly
Glad to hear things have started going well.
I was tempted to snark on your mostly complete comment… I’m sorry.
You mostly finished her comment.
Glad to hear things are going better, especially with CAS.