Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 4:17 pm
No bukkake.
Pope Jimbo
on August 15, 2022 at 3:55 pm
The Lone Ranger would like a word with you. Pervert.
Shpip
on August 15, 2022 at 3:04 pm
Generated from a dairy farm in Middlesex County, the cow manure is collected and placed into tanks that use bacteria to turn the organic waste into biogas, which consists of methane and carbon dioxide. The methane is separated and converted into renewable energy often used for fertilizer, or in this case, to power a truck.
So if you don’t count pumping the manure into the tanks, introducing the bacteria, or the energy required to separate out the methane, the project is wildly efficient and saves a ton of money. It’s like magic!
To be fair, methane capture in processes where decomposition is going to happen anyway often makes practical sense. It was already widespread in waste processing long before the recent craze. A lot of times it does result in a net cost savings over letting the methane escape. Yes, there are inputs, and infrastructure needed to implement it, but there is often a measurable ROI.
Bobarian LMD
on August 15, 2022 at 3:12 pm
Shit happens.
JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)
on August 15, 2022 at 3:31 pm
Caca pasa.
one true athena
on August 15, 2022 at 4:49 pm
yeah, my local sewer treatment plant is combined with a power generating station for burning the solids and the methane. Powers several thousand homes.
Rebel Scum
on August 15, 2022 at 3:13 pm
They make up for it in volume, or something.
Fourscore
on August 15, 2022 at 3:23 pm
Need more cows! Little known secret oil companies don’t want you to know.
Add an addition onto your garage for the livestock, cut out the middleman
robodruid
on August 15, 2022 at 3:53 pm
Lizzy and Molly (our mini Jersey cows agree)
However when in a drought, they eat a lot of expensive hay.
Timeloose
on August 15, 2022 at 3:27 pm
I guess we know who runs Barter Town.
Grumbletarian
on August 15, 2022 at 3:55 pm
How’s that going to pair with the crusade to reduce animal farming?
Aloysious
on August 15, 2022 at 4:24 pm
Hush, you.
That’s different, like, totally.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on August 15, 2022 at 3:04 pm
Here’s to swimmin’ with no-legged Odessans…
The Other Kevin
on August 15, 2022 at 3:15 pm
Won’t do them any good, they keep getting kicked out of the Paralympics.
Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo
on August 15, 2022 at 4:45 pm
Between the mines and the fish chomping your dink, I think JAWS was safer.
Rebel Scum
on August 15, 2022 at 3:08 pm
Horrifying moment two men are blown up and others injured in mine blast while taking a dip at Odesa beach despite warnings not to swim off Ukraine’s coast
Failure to head the warning yielded explosive results.
Yusef
on August 15, 2022 at 3:12 pm
Now they are called Bob….
Bobarian LMD
on August 15, 2022 at 3:14 pm
And the guy who hit the wall? Art.
Bobarian LMD
on August 15, 2022 at 3:15 pm
Russell was lucky, he landed in a pile of leaves.
Yusef
on August 15, 2022 at 3:16 pm
What about Matt?
Bobarian LMD
on August 15, 2022 at 3:17 pm
Ended up in a doorway.
Yusef
on August 15, 2022 at 3:18 pm
Wha? I’m floored
Rebel Scum
on August 15, 2022 at 3:09 pm
It’s been one year since Afghanistan’s government fell and Republicans are vowing to hold President Joe Biden accountable for the disastrous troop withdrawal that paved the way for the Taliban to rise to power.
First, they’re going to exhume Truman’s desiccated corpse so they can hold hearings about who lost China.
DEG
on August 15, 2022 at 3:10 pm
Generated from a dairy farm in Middlesex County, the cow manure is collected and placed into tanks that use bacteria to turn the organic waste into biogas, which consists of methane and carbon dioxide. The methane is separated and converted into renewable energy often used for fertilizer, or in this case, to power a truck.
In the first six months, the truck will displace carbon dioxide emissions from 18,000 litres of diesel, which would be a reduction in greenhouse gases of more than what the truck will emit.
I smell bullshit.
DEG
on August 15, 2022 at 3:10 pm
Despite the improvement in Chicago and its immediate suburbs, masks are still recommended indoors across most of the metro area, public health officials said Friday.
Masking still. Go fuck yourselves.
Rebel Scum
on August 15, 2022 at 3:12 pm
Generated from a dairy farm in Middlesex County, the cow manure is collected and placed into tanks that use bacteria to turn the organic waste into biogas, which consists of methane and carbon dioxide. The methane is separated and converted into renewable energy often used for fertilizer, or in this case, to power a truck.
This shit is udderly ridiculous.
Yusef
on August 15, 2022 at 3:14 pm
Don’t have a cow man!
The Other Kevin
on August 15, 2022 at 3:19 pm
I’ve had enough of these puns, I’m hoofing it out of here.
Yusef
on August 15, 2022 at 3:22 pm
You will be stunned to learn the answer!
Fourscore
on August 15, 2022 at 3:26 pm
Swissie’s gonna horn in here and he won’t be horsing around
Tonio
on August 15, 2022 at 3:30 pm
I need to ruminate on this.
R.J.
on August 15, 2022 at 4:58 pm
Maybe we can chew the cud and work it out.
JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)
on August 15, 2022 at 3:33 pm
You guys are milking these puns for all they are worth.
Yusef
on August 15, 2022 at 3:34 pm
Thats a beefy statwment to make
Yusef
on August 15, 2022 at 3:34 pm
Or statement
Shpip
on August 15, 2022 at 3:55 pm
We Brangus our “A” game on puns today.
Fourscore
on August 15, 2022 at 4:19 pm
The Glib Staff (a likely story) won’t re-veal who they are
R.J.
on August 15, 2022 at 5:00 pm
Gotta steak our claim in the great pun fest before the narrowed gaze comes down.
DrOtto
on August 15, 2022 at 6:34 pm
I’ve got a beef with this language being used on a family friendly web site.
A massive ecological study that’s happening across the United States, and which is designed to track the impact of long-term changes like a warming climate, is deliberately releasing a highly potent and persistent greenhouse gas in national parks and forests.
The gas, sulfur hexafluoride, is “the most potent greenhouse gas known to date,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s 22,800 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, and lasts in the atmosphere for thousands of years.
So far, this ecology study has released around 108 pounds of the gas, which has about the same impact as burning more than a million pounds of coal.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF), which funds this large ecology study, told NPR that it supports an evaluation that’s now underway to see whether phasing out the use of this gas would affect the quality of the information that’s being gathered.
That’s not good enough for one watchdog group, which is calling for an immediate halt to the release of this gas on public lands.
You don’t compromise in a holy war. Anything is too much.
Timeloose
on August 15, 2022 at 3:30 pm
SF6 is also a very good gas for etching trenches in silicon and SiO2 once you crack it with RF or microwaves.
Tonio
on August 15, 2022 at 3:34 pm
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
This is actually good news that they are fighting amongst themselves. Any time you sow division and create paralysis among your enemies it’s a good day.
I read the article and it doesn’t mention “Woke” policies at all. Just a rehash of unqualified young people, etc
Drake
on August 15, 2022 at 5:13 pm
In his opinion, “we now have a Department of Defense [DoD] that has taken various political positions that are very much opposed to the heart of America.”
According to Lewis, military readiness has been impacted in the past few years by “a toxic combination of poor leadership and the politicization of the military.”
In addition, he said, “The woke culture has bugged some people.” In one example of wokeness infiltrating the Coast Guard, he said, “When writing awards or performance reviews, I can’t even identify myself as a he, [adding that] I can only identify myself by my name, rank, or by they.” He finds it strange that he cannot assume his own gender. Taking diversity and inclusion to this extreme, alongside the vaccine mandate, has hurt retention in his opinion.
The Late P Brooks
on August 15, 2022 at 3:27 pm
For decades, ecologists have sometimes burbled small amounts of sulfur hexafluoride into streams and rivers, in order to study how quickly gasses can move from the water into the air. One reason that’s of interest is that, although inland waterways cover up only a small fraction of the Earth’s surface, researchers believe these running waters could be an important source of greenhouse gasses, as rainfall can carry carbon from the ground into turbulent streams that later release it into the atmosphere.
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The planning for this half-billion-dollar ecological project, and the construction of its monitoring instruments, took around twenty years. It began operating at full tilt in 2019.
And twenty years! That’s a basically an entire career without any results.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 4:21 pm
“Hold my beer.”
— Joe “Puddin’ Cup” Biden
Certified Public Asshat
on August 15, 2022 at 3:31 pm
Today we’re releasing some new packs. We're donating 100% of profits from all orders to forced-birth Republican hellholes to @abortionfunds. We’re also donating an extra $100k right now. https://t.co/KZK4hD7Yea— Cards Against Humanity (@CAH) August 9, 2022
Cards against customers.
Yusef
on August 15, 2022 at 3:33 pm
So much for buying new cards you fucking idiots
JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)
on August 15, 2022 at 3:34 pm
“Forced birth”. Sure, guys.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on August 15, 2022 at 3:34 pm
It appears they really are against humanity.
Sean
on August 15, 2022 at 3:36 pm
^^ Nice.
Fatty Bolger
on August 15, 2022 at 3:51 pm
lmao. Totally on-brand.
The Other Kevin
on August 15, 2022 at 3:36 pm
“Forced birth” is a ridiculous term if you think about it for one second. They aren’t good at that sort of messaging. Contrast it with “groomer”, which make more sense the longer you think about it.
“Brianna, my observations on this is that he is makes those statements because he knows the effect they will have, right? He had a distinctive experience on January 6th. That crowd that came and unleashed a violent attack on the Capitol did so, according to many of them who have testified, because they thought that’s what he asked them to do.”
“He knows that that community of very aggrieved, politically extreme people are listening to everything he says and doesn’t say. And they react in ways they think he wants them to act. I think that’s why he’s making the statements he is now.”
Scruffy Nerfherder
on August 15, 2022 at 3:36 pm
They have no will of their own. Drumpf has hypnotized their small, deplorable minds and controls then.
Yusef
on August 15, 2022 at 3:36 pm
Delusional and melodramatic posers, nothing more….
The Other Kevin
on August 15, 2022 at 3:39 pm
Trump is completely incompetent and stupid. But he can convince huge numbers of people to unquestioningly do his bidding.
rhywun
on August 15, 2022 at 3:42 pm
The FBI is totally not discrediting itself.
Drake
on August 15, 2022 at 3:35 pm
Castro Junior introduces a Digital Identity Program for Canada.
If Canadians can’t see what’s coming by now and don’t rid themselves of Fidelito, they deserve what they get.
Semi-Spartan Dad
on August 15, 2022 at 4:14 pm
I’m not sure they can, at least through the ballot box. Did Venezuelans truly elect Maduro?
Scruffy Nerfherder
on August 15, 2022 at 4:15 pm
I’m not particular about method at this point.
DEG
on August 15, 2022 at 4:19 pm
Members of Parliament vote for Prime Minister.
Trudeau is elected to Parliament by voters in his Riding, not by all of Canada.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 4:34 pm
Yeah, good ol’ Pappy Knows.
I’m convinced that the average IQ of voters in that riding is just above absolute zero.
JasonAZ
on August 15, 2022 at 4:04 pm
I keep hearing how unpopular Mini-Castro is up in the great North. Can somebody explain to me why they don’t change their government? I thought they had parliament style like UK and could pretty much change leadership with just a single confidence vote?
DEG
on August 15, 2022 at 4:17 pm
A majority of Members of Parliament support Trudeau.
If I remember correctly, the last elections were at a good time for Trudeau before the trucker protests. His party and allied parties did well enough that he stayed as PM.
Canadians have to wait for the next election. If I remember correctly, it happens whenever the governor-general, on the advice of the Prime Minister, calls an election or five years after the last election, whichever comes first.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 4:29 pm
Further to what DEG said, The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ made a deal with the leader of the New Democrats known as a “supply and confidence agreement,” which, absent intervening shit-that-might-happen, guarantees that the Liberal minority government will *not* see a confidence motion from the NDs for the remainder of term of their government (2025). Unless that agreement falls apart, the Libs remain bulletproof.
Cynics note that, since Jagmeet Singh (the ND’s leader) was first elected in 2019, he must serve without interruption until the year 2025 in order to be eligible for an MP’s pension. The fact that he has basically agreed not to rock the boat until the 2025 election is just mere happenstance, total coincidence, and means absolutely nothing, you racist haters.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 4:32 pm
The saving grace of this move is that, if it ever becomes operational, and based on past experience, it will be delivered in the year 2103 and will cost forty-six quadrillion dollars in fees to IT firms, plus it’ll need at least a decade of debugging before it works with something approaching reliability.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 4:36 pm
Oh, and just after they get it working, 4chan will issue an app that allows you to completely route around it without the government being any wiser.
Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo
on August 15, 2022 at 4:49 pm
Will Castro be the first DIP?
Certified Public Asshat
on August 15, 2022 at 3:36 pm
Nuclear power needs tons of government subsidies, loan guarantees, and other assistance in order to be viable. Solar just needs deregulation.https://t.co/Yu2K6MKitS— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) August 15, 2022
Big Brain Noah Smith.
Yusef
on August 15, 2022 at 3:39 pm
Delusional seems to be a theme today, jeesh
rhywun
on August 15, 2022 at 3:44 pm
Solar just needs deregulation.
Then why are we throwing billions at it?
Bobarian LMD
on August 15, 2022 at 3:57 pm
The subsidies are totally unnecessary and are just getting in the way of solar’s obvious dominance.
Talking out of his ass AND both sides of his mouth. Maybe that’s because his head/mouth is UP his ass?
Grumbletarian
on August 15, 2022 at 4:14 pm
Right, there are no regulatory obstacles whatsoever involved if one wants to build a nuclear power plant. It’s just too darn expensive is all, yup yup.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on August 15, 2022 at 4:14 pm
In a nuke plant, you have file paperwork if a light switch fails.
Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo
on August 15, 2022 at 4:43 pm
All of the people who are against nuke power are all the people who are pro gov’t subsidies.
I mean, the Venn circle overlap.
JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)
on August 15, 2022 at 4:15 pm
Missing from the part of the article I perused is an example of how solar is regulated.
To be fair, someone is attempting to build a solar farm near me, and it has received a lot of resistance from the local residents. Previously someone tried to build one in a sparsely populated area over the hill next to a large substation. It was a good location for such a project, but it was halted because someone found some kind of endangered animal or plant. I guess you could call that regulation, but it’s regulation that stymies all kinds of development.
The Late P Brooks
on August 15, 2022 at 3:37 pm
Castro Junior introduces a Digital Identity Program for Canada.
JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)
on August 15, 2022 at 4:15 pm
There are bears in Florida? Other than the two legged kind?
grrizzly
on August 15, 2022 at 4:24 pm
I was as shocked as you’re when I discovered that bears in the Jacksonville zoo were located in the Florida Animals section. They seem to be doing all right.
Shpip
on August 15, 2022 at 4:55 pm
Florida bears are best. They range from the panhandle over to the Okefenokee and (as we of a certain age remember) down to the Everglades.
The Late P Brooks
on August 15, 2022 at 3:42 pm
Nice racket
If somebody offered me a big bag of money to go “do SCIENCE!” in Yellowstone, I’d take it.
OT to the OT (but kind of on topic to part of the video): JLPT registration began last week. Was considering doing N4 just to see how I was doing and a bit of a challenge since slacking for the past 2.5 years.
But… their COVID policy is completely insane. If you don’t comply with whatever the hosting institution requires (masking, sanitizer use, proof of vaccination, proof of negative test, etc), you forfeit the testing fee entirely. And they don’t have specifics of what each location requires nor will they refund if the policies change. Eff that.
Yes. And many schools still went forward with their mandatory vaccination policies for employees and students even as private employers largely halted it after the feds got shot down. No idea if they’re applying those to test takers or some other rules because AAJT doesn’t have any site specific information posted. From email correspondence are no locations with no restrictions right now, the least is Florida and they do have some (don’t know what). And they expect more as winter approaches.
Other than personal goals, N4 does nothing so I don’t see any reason to play the game.
I assume I could pass N3 wit N2 a distant possibility, but taking the test turns what I do for fun into work.
I’d much rather gauge my success on my ability to have conversations and get what I need to done.
At my age I’ll never be able to be fluent in a professional environment. Mostly because of my lack of interest in mastering honorific forms. I understand them, but could care less about fluently using them.
Me neither. My ultimate long term goal is really just to be able to have basic conversations and read/watch media. Working there sounds nice in theory but it’s not realistic for my situation. I’ve learned enough to see beyond the initial impressions (and it’s still fun for me). Likewise, test taking is enjoyable for me.
This guy has lived in Japan for something like 15 years or so. He’s about as fluent as you can get as an adult learner in Japanese, but that’s really not native level. He is an independent photographer / YouTuber who visits all kinds of out of the way places in Japan. He’s always wanted a private pilot’s license and since Japan is home, decided to go for it and get some clicks at the same time. I watch him for his other videos for out of the way places to go.
Biological males are now participating in rush week to join a sorority at University of Alabama
Scruffy Nerfherder
on August 15, 2022 at 4:00 pm
I am so going to use this to bust on my buddy who went to Alabama.
Roll Pride!
Pope Jimbo
on August 15, 2022 at 4:19 pm
Since Memphis State’s football program was utter garbage when I went there, I chose Bama to be my team to follow. Mostly because they had David Palmer back then and he was amazing.
This is making me think I better go buy some Auburn gear.
Think how bad it must be at Ole Miss.
robodruid
on August 15, 2022 at 4:02 pm
The initiations are going to get pretty odd.
JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)
on August 15, 2022 at 4:16 pm
Boyfriend Jailed After Felonious Cheeseburger Battery At Burger King
During an argument at Burger King, a Florida Man threw a cheeseburger at his girlfriend with such force that when the sandwich struck the back of her head, the woman fell “over a curb onto the ground,” police charge.
According to a criminal complaint, James Hunt, 41, and his “girlfriend and cohabitant” argued Saturday afternoon about “the victim not eating her food” at a Burger King in Clearwater, a city in the Tampa Bay area.
The dispute turned violent, cops say, when the 53-year-old woman began to leave the restaurant. That is when Hunt (seen at right) allegedly “threw a cheeseburger at the victim, striking her in the back of the head. This action caused the victim to fall over a curb onto the ground.”
Decent band name.
Mustang
on August 15, 2022 at 4:01 pm
I saw Felonious Cheeseburger Battery live a while ago. I don’t relish the thought of seeing them again.
Florida Man threw a cheeseburger at his girlfriend
Did the cops throw him in the back of the patty wagon?
R.J.
on August 15, 2022 at 5:14 pm
Did a cheesy joke start the fracas?
pistoffnick
on August 15, 2022 at 4:20 pm
…James Hunt…
His brother, Mike, was unavailable for comment.
Mustang
on August 15, 2022 at 4:03 pm
Had my follow-on job interview today. It ended with the hiring manager saying “wow, that was great, we need to get you out here. How soon can you fly out for a tour?”
A repair technician for St. Paul Public Schools, Thompson emerged as a prominent activist while protesting the 2016 police shooting of a friend and coworker, Philando Castile. In 2020, he won a seat representing St. Paul’s East Side in the Minnesota House of Representatives, pledging to fight for criminal justice reform, affordable housing, and free public transportation.
Thompson seemed no more attached to political niceties this past week as his tenure in the Minnesota House of Representatives neared its end. On Tuesday night, the St. Paul politician suffered an overwhelming loss to Liz Lee in the primary election.
Lee, a former congressional staffer, secured 89 percent of the vote in her victory against Thompson, who gathered 11 percent of the vote.
Thompson is the jackass who not only might not have lived in his district, he might not even have been a resident of Minnesoda. He also formed a mob to go out to the suburbs to picket the head of the cop union and screamed through a megaphone about burning the suburb down.
He does have some things I agree with though…
The representative didn’t mince words when asked what he learned from his term.
“I learned that politics is full of shit,” he said, laughing. “And that some of our favorite politicians are the same way–full of shit. And you can quote me on that. I mean that in the most disrespectful way.”
Pope Jimbo
on August 15, 2022 at 4:08 pm
I love this too:
In the search for more information about Thompson’s residency, Fox 9 surfaced five police reports detailing domestic violence allegations against Thompson. Thompson and his lawyer denied the allegations.
The controversy surrounding Thompson posed a moral quandary for many racial and gender justice activists. While many Democrats have pushed for a zero-tolerance policy on gender-based violence, some progressives worried that Thompson was being singled out, while white politicians avoided censure.
“I believe survivors every single time,” Asma Mohamed, advocacy director at Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment, told Sahan Journal last July. “And I also know Black men are being held to a different standard. And I think John Thompson is being held to a standard we would not expect of anyone else.”
Who among us doesn’t have a bunch of domestic violence allegation reports floating around the local cop shop? It is just an impossible standard to expect our leaders to have 0 accusations of domestic violence against them.
Our piece of shit ex-governor (Andrew Cuomo) is part of that club too.
Pope Jimbo
on August 15, 2022 at 4:13 pm
Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment
I bet they get all sorts of grants. Doubt the bureaucrats even bother reading the rest of the application when they see that name.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on August 15, 2022 at 4:14 pm
Do they wear the mailbox uniforms?
rhywun
on August 15, 2022 at 4:11 pm
I mean that in the most disrespectful way.
LOL
Count Potato
on August 15, 2022 at 4:11 pm
“Three Arizona parents were arrested following their attempts to enter a locked-down elementary school and protect their children after reports that an armed man was seen trying to enter the building on Friday morning.
Officers in El Mirage, Arizona, used a Taser gun to subdue two parents helping a third parent whose handgun fell to the ground as he was being taken into custody outside Thompson Ranch Elementary School, a police report said.
One of the two parents was taken to a local hospital to treat Taser injuries.
At the time of the confrontation between parents and police, officers had confirmed that there was no longer a threat, a ‘suspicious package’ had been removed and determined to be free of explosives, and police were working to reunite parents with their children, Lt. Jimmy Chavez said in a statement.
The parents tried to enter the school while it was still on lockdown, and their attempted entry while ‘forcefully pushing on the officers trying to get on campus’ violated law enforcement and school procedures, Chavez added.”
The trust is falling away like scales from a rotting fish.
Good
Semi-Spartan Dad
on August 15, 2022 at 4:17 pm
This will get ugly soon. As it should.
Mustang
on August 15, 2022 at 4:16 pm
While I understand why it’s happening, having a bunch of parents running into a school during an active shooter or bomb threat is pretty much a guarantee that things will go from bad to worse. I understand the reactions of both the parents and the cops in this, but one admittedly horrifying example in Uvalde is not a trend and if you want to pretty much guarantee more dead kids and parents, you’ll run into a school waving a gun around while cops are trying to clear it and evacuate kids.
Semi-Spartan Dad
on August 15, 2022 at 4:22 pm
Disagree strongly on both counts. If there is a bomb threat, the children need to be evacuated immediately. Not restrained inside the building. I was held in the gym during a bomb threat in a high school. After realizing it was a bomb threat, we knocked down the police, security guards, and teachers who tried to stop us and ripped the gym doors of the hinges to escape. Many school officials were hurt and each one of the pieces of shit deserved that and worse for trying to keep us in the school.
If there is is an active shooter, the cops need to be in there clearing immediately while evacuating children. If the cops are sitting around outside without immediately engaging, they need to be removed by the parents. There should not even be enough time occurring in ending a mass shooter situation for parents to arrive at the school to confront officers.
Mustang
on August 15, 2022 at 4:32 pm
That’s nice.
I agree that in your first experience they should have been evacuated.
In your second example, you’re assuming that there aren’t cops already clearing the building. Having a bunch of armed parents running in while officers are actively clearing a building is just a terrible idea. Again, one instance in Uvalde is not a trend.
How many different agencies responded to Uvalde? Yet somehow they managed not to have a blue on blue incident outside.
EvilSheldon
on August 15, 2022 at 4:43 pm
It’s not exactly one instance though. Can you think of a single instance where law enforcement responded to an active killer event in time to intervene? I can’t.
Yes, if the police are actively clearing the building you really don’t want a bunch of yahoos wandering around the site. That’s what the perimeter team is for.
But the cops aren’t clearing the building. They’re probably waiting around for the shooting to stop.
Mustang
on August 15, 2022 at 5:05 pm
You can take the source for what it’s worth. This shows that the shooter is subdued more frequently before cops arrive, which is a different conversation than “the cops don’t do anything” because it also shows that LE frequently stops shooters, just less so than other instances. This is the libertarian argument for why people should be armed, which I agree with.
It is incredibly difficult to intervene before a shooting has started because shooters rarely actually do anything worth having a law enforcement intervention. Mental health intervention, maybe, but now we are talking about red flag laws that we all hate.
So LE have a difficult situation. They need to get there as fast as possible to stop a shooter and could be coming from long distances to do so, so frequently shooters are subdued before they there. That’s not a LE problem. Go for a few ride-alongs, most PDs and Sheriffs are happy to have them. Ask a lot of questions.
I’ve done quite a few.
There are definitely cowards and they are abetted by God-forsaken police unions. I’d rather the discussion revolve around eliminating public sector unions, increased standards for recruiting and retention (along with higher pay), and better training. The more law enforcement is demonized, the fewer people will go that route, leading to worse training because they literally don’t have time between calls, which makes people hate cops even more. It’s a vicious downward spiral.
Semi-Spartan Dad
on August 15, 2022 at 4:45 pm
For the second, I’m talking about an active mass shooter situation. That’s a situation that should be over in 5 minutes with either a dead shooter or pile of dead cops who died engaging. An active mass shooter isn’t exactly hiding or difficult to locate. That’s a completely different situation than clearing a building after the shooter has been engaged. And certainly the children could be evacuated while the police are clearing the building afterwards. There is no need to lockdown the children inside.
The problem isn’t parents waiting for cops to clear a building. It’s that there is story after story of cops being chickenshit to engage the shooter. That’s why parents are upset. There would be no issue here if cops immediately engaged shooters and then began releasing the children to the waiting parents outside while clearing the building afterwards. The situation should be over before a single parent even approaches the school.
Parents are just going to start clearing a path at 300 yards out if that’s what it takes to protect their children. Or much better yet, choose to homeschool and not outsource protection of their children to the State in the first place.
Mustang
on August 15, 2022 at 5:07 pm
You should consider going for a few ride-alongs and asking lots of questions. There’s very few circumstances where a five minute response time is even possible.
It does reinforce the argument for arming anyone and everyone for self-defense. It’s not an either/or situation.
Semi-Spartan Dad
on August 15, 2022 at 5:19 pm
Maybe we are talking past one another. I agree that parents don’t need to be in the school while it’s being cleared. Clearing should occur after the shooter has been engaged and ended. Cops could do better PR on this front. Work with the parents and release the children to their parents waiting outside while clearing rather than locking down the school completely.
If there is an active shooter, then the quickest factor to ending it is a good guy with a gun. Doesn’t matter if that good guy wears a blue shit or not. If cops are waiting outside rather than engaging an active shooter, that’s a major problem. If they are preventing others from engaging the shooter while not engaging themselves, those individuals have become just as much of a threat as the active shooter is. I just threw out 5 minutes. Whatever the time is, I assume a cop is going to receive notification and get there faster than a parent will. Especially given the rise of onsite school resource officers.
I don’t know how to clear a building. I don’t have the tactical knowledge for that and would only get in the way. I can engage someone pointing a gun at my child and end that threat. Elisjsha Dickens showed no special training or tactics knowledge is needed to stop a mass shooter. Just a good guy, any good guy, being there first with a gun and some balls to do the right thing.
Mustang
on August 15, 2022 at 5:23 pm
I agree with everything you said.
Dickens has to be some kind of mutant because that was just insane (in a good way). The gun forum I’m on has a thread going where they set up that scenario for training and posting their split times for completing it.
Conversely, there’s this outcome for someone trying to stop an active shooter as well https://youtu.be/CQOHBSuY7TM
R C Dean
on August 15, 2022 at 6:49 pm
“Again, one instance in Uvalde is not a trend.”
Uvalde was merely the most recent in a well-established pattern. Not just school shootings, either. The gay nightclub shooting in FL also featured cops staying nice and safe, listening to people beg and bleed out on their cell phones.
DrOtto
on August 15, 2022 at 7:07 pm
The last several school shootings have cops waiting around or going the opposite direction (Parkland SRO) for the shooting to stop before going in. It’s SOP at this point.
I have a friend trying to go through the process there. Of course it is a bunch of convoluted bs that takes forever – while they continue to name places where you can’t carry.
Plus I mostly commute to NYC so even after that I’m screwed.
Pope Jimbo
on August 15, 2022 at 4:26 pm
Yeah it is a bad situation to have lots of parents running around, but the cops have no one to blame for this but themselves.
It isn’t just Uvalde either. Was it Parkland in Florida where the resource officer ran away like Sir Robin?
The list of incidents where cops ran like cowards is longer than the list of incidents where the cop risked his life and put down the shooter.
B.P.
on August 15, 2022 at 4:32 pm
Columbine also featured a teacher bleeding out for three or four hours while students begged the cops to come help. They stood outside. That event changed protocol on how police are to engage active shooters, and yet incidents still persist where cops are in “wait it out” mode.
Mustang
on August 15, 2022 at 4:37 pm
You’ve listed two instances since Columbine, which is where tactics changed for the better. I know I’m going up against a lot of dedicated cop-haters here and I also recognize the need for criminal justice and law enforcement reform (fuck police unions in particular), but the hate and discontent here is unnerving sometimes. I read a lot of comments where it’s clear some people have never had to deal with the insanity of an event like this from the responder side.
I wouldn’t call myself a hater and I appreciate you taking flak here.
But I’m a small white guy in NJ working and living in mostly affluent areas. My interactions with police are rare, but roughly 50 / 50 pleasant versus roid raged asshole.
I can’t imagine what the hell it is like in Newark
EvilSheldon
on August 15, 2022 at 4:52 pm
While the tactics have indeed changed for the better, the application of those tactics doesn’t seem to happen when the rubber meets the road. Either the cops don’t show up in time to intervene (which I don’t really bame them for) or they do show up and fail to act, whether due to cowardice or bureaucratic dithering.
My take is, this is not a tactics problem.
Pope Jimbo
on August 15, 2022 at 5:02 pm
Sorry Mustang. I didn’t mean to throw shade at you.
I don’t think I’m a cop-hater. Growing up as the son of a probation officer in a small town I got along fine with the cops.
All I was saying is that I don’t blame the parents for doing what they did. I agree that lots of parents swarming the school is not a good thing if you are trying to come up with a plan to stop a school shooting. That said, if it was your kid in the school and seeing how the cops have behaved recently, would you trust them?
* In fairness to cops, the job itself warps them. They deal with so many dysfunctional people who are doing horrible things that they can’t help but to get twisted themselves. I don’t know how you stop that. I sure would never want to do that job myself.
Mustang
on August 15, 2022 at 5:13 pm
I have been stewing about this for a while so I didn’t mean to snap. It’s a vicious cycle though. You’ve got standards that continue to worsen, communities that are taught to reflexively hate law enforcement, DAs who don’t support you, pulling funding, extremely shitty pay, worse hours, and then you’re expected to just roll over and take it. Yes, there are cowards. The problem is that we’ll get more and more of them until we stop demonizing police and give them the funding and standards necessary to recruit and retain quality individuals. We can argue the merits of state-funded law enforcement, but that usually devolves into anarchy vs minarchy and doesn’t solve the very real problems we have right now.
Go for a few ride-alongs. I’ve done quite a few and they’re always very enlightening. Here is LA, where we read all the stories about the DA, we don’t hear what they’re doing to the deputies. It’s not enough that they let criminals go unpunished, the courts will actually issue bench warrants for the deputies instead. Why would anyone with any sense want to do this job? And then everyone wonders why cops suck so much ass? It’s a perfect storm of crap, with police unions protecting shitbirds and courts and communities demonizing the ones who actually do their jobs.
It might be because I’m a white woman, but even when I’m being pulled over for speeding, my interactions with cops have been nothing but helpful and relatively pleasant.
And yet I get why the cop-hate. For me, this has caused me no end of philosophical grief.
“Would you label the FBI a ‘terrorist organization?’”
“Should we investigate Sen. Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi for their role in January 6th?”
“Would you support the repeal of the 17th Amendment and return the appointment of U.S. senators to the state legislatures?”
Those were just a few of the non-traditional questions fired at Republican candidates in two debates hosted by the Government Integrity Project, an organization promoting claims that the outcome of the 2020 election is either in doubt or that it was out-and-out stolen by Joe Biden and the Democrats.
Rat on a train
on August 15, 2022 at 4:19 pm
Elections? D-1 for Cheney. If for some reason crossover Ds can’t save her from insurrectionists, she can look forward to winning the presidential primary in 2024.
JasonAZ
on August 15, 2022 at 5:41 pm
Haha! Those are fantastic questions. YES, YES and YES!!! No wonder the Establishment GOPer ran for the hills.
Count Potato
on August 15, 2022 at 4:16 pm
“A Las Vegas landlord is standing trial for allegedly forcing a mother of five to sign a contract agreeing to sex with him in order to rent a four-bedroom home.
Allan Rothstein, 81, is accused in court documents of making a woman sign a document entitled ‘Direct Consent for Sexual Intercourse and/or Fallatio or Cunnilingus’ in order to move forward with her lease.”
This is about that asshole who made an announcement about sending hormones and other drugs to kids — including testosterone which is a controlled substance.
I was on Friday and Saturday (albeit early, as is my wont), but did not see her.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 4:59 pm
Imma needin’ some of youse folks’ help — specifically, those with chemistry smarts.
I’ve purchased several pieces of EICO/Heathkit test equipment from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, and they all have a suspicious-looking bright yellow powder inside them (reminiscent of pollen, sorta), which further research leads me to believe is a result of cadmium plating on the chassis of this equipment. The plating appears to have reacted with humidity and atmospheric SO2 to produce cadmium sulphide, and it’s now a hazard to work with. However, while I think I know what it is, I can’t be sure.
Is there any at-home chemical test/reagent I can whip up that will test for either cadmium (on the chassis) or cadmium sulphide (everywhere else)? One on-line recommendation was to mix citric acid with hydrogen peroxide and wet the suspected substance (if it’s cadmium, it’ll turn brown after some minutes), but this doesn’t seem to work. On-line searches for appropriate test kits is turning up bupkis.
If you don’t get answer OMWC might be able to help if you see him around.
Electronics and chemistry is his sweet spot.
Count Potato
on August 15, 2022 at 6:02 pm
You can combine the two. CdS emits light when you run a current through it. It also becomes a better conductor when you shine light on it.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 6:09 pm
CdS LDRs. I have a couple in my parts collection.
Pope Jimbo
on August 15, 2022 at 5:05 pm
What does it smell like? Can you take a deep, deep whiff of it and get back to us?
*Just kidding. I have no idea. I faked my way through chemistry.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 5:07 pm
It smells like a Level 1 lung carcinogen, apparently.
Not willing to test that.
MikeS
on August 15, 2022 at 5:08 pm
“I didn’t take the cadmium sulphide to get high, I just liked the way it smelled.”
Sean
on August 15, 2022 at 5:08 pm
You’ll shoot yer eye out!
Timeloose
on August 15, 2022 at 5:29 pm
You could see if it dissolves in distilled water. If it does it isn’t CdS.
CdS is insoluble in water.
Timeloose
on August 15, 2022 at 5:33 pm
It is soluble in acid. So if you replace the water with vinegar or lemon juice and it dissolves it might be CdS.
I would look for a heavy metals test kit.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 5:39 pm
I have done so, and they’re all of questionable value/utility (they’re normally about finding cadmium in water samples). Inorganic test kits for solids are few and far between, and I can’t locate one specifically for cadmium or cadmium sulphide. I was hoping to find something like those lead test kits you find in places like Home Depot, but apparently cadmium’s a much more difficult beast to test for.
No idea of it’s quality. Looks like a real old website.
rhywun
on August 15, 2022 at 6:10 pm
Ha I was looking for a “visitor count” or a “guestbook”….
At least we got “Share this page” LOL
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 5:42 pm
I’ve also tried enlisting the help of our regional government-sponsored recycling enviro-hazards authorities. Man, are those people ever useless. ”We don’ do that shit, mon.”
I’m tempted to say “Right! — general waste-stream it is, and fuck anyone who comes into contact with the stuff after I’ve dumped it.”
How the Hell am I supposed to do the right thing when TPTB don’t even provide the path to do so?
Scruffy Nerfherder
on August 15, 2022 at 5:47 pm
You’re pushed towards using professional toxic waste contractors like https://hepaco.com/ and they will charge you a small fortune to deal with it.
I’ve used them for some stuff in the past. Identifying materials is almost all they do.
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 5:52 pm
Interestingly, the pro contractors didn’t want to talk to me, ’cause I had no possibility of giving them a juicy $50K/yr contract. And the small-scale e-waste recyclers don’t want to touch this stuff either, ’cause they have a nasty tendency to either shred or shred and then burn their waste. Both actions are big no-nos with cadmium.
R.J.
on August 15, 2022 at 7:18 pm
Step One: Put on some gloves.
Step Two: Wipe it all up with a paper towel
Step Three: Wipe the paper towel on the mayor’s toilet seat
Step Four: Profit!
Name's BEAM. James BEAM.
on August 15, 2022 at 9:57 pm
I bet it has kind of an earthy flavor kind of like how a bait and tackle shop smells in the summer. You know, gross.
rhywun
on August 15, 2022 at 5:40 pm
🤮
Sort of along these lines, I saw a humorous product the other day – something like “Dirty Potato Chips”. I thought that meant unpeeled or some sort of “home style”. Nope, they literally mean old potatoes that are turning brown.
Animal rights group PETA has called for officials in Leicester to rename the city’s Pork Pie Roundabout to promote healthier food and help the environment.
…
The organisation said the junction should be called Vegan Pie Roundabout to “help reduce Leicester’s concerning obesity rates”.
Try Kim Roundabout if you really want to lower the obesity rate of the proles.
Mustang
on August 15, 2022 at 5:31 pm
Wow. That might be the dumbest thing I’ve read in a long time.
“Black is beautiful, but not when it comes to eggs!”
Tundra
on August 15, 2022 at 5:45 pm
Pistachios are more addictive than heroin.
Gender Traitor
on August 15, 2022 at 5:50 pm
How salty are they? Most packaged nuts are too salty for my taste. Had a vendor at the local farmers’ market whose peanuts were PERFECT as far as I was concerned, but she hasn’t been there for several weeks. 😞
Tundra
on August 15, 2022 at 5:56 pm
Wonderful Salt and Pepper version. Salt is just right and the pepper brings a whole new level of awesome.
Also a huge bag from Costco was like $16.
Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo
on August 15, 2022 at 6:20 pm
Interesting stuff. Tracks pretty closely with my experience.
R.J.
on August 15, 2022 at 6:21 pm
Chihuahua: 67 out of 79. No surprises there.
kinnath
on August 15, 2022 at 6:23 pm
I like my shelties. Very bright. Very attentive. Respond very well to commands. Small enough to live in a house with a big yard and not go bonkers from lack of exercise.
My daughter has an Australian Cattle Dog. Wonderful dog that goes bonkers if she doesn’t do a few miles on the road with the dog every day.
Tundra
on August 15, 2022 at 6:32 pm
Aussie Cattle Dog is on my short list. We have a mix now and she is a sweetheart.
And too old to be hyper!
kinnath
on August 15, 2022 at 6:34 pm
My daughter can’t run enough to wear out her dog. I bought her a bike-leash so that she can ride for miles to wear out the dog.
MikeS
on August 15, 2022 at 6:42 pm
I had a Lab/Greyhound mix, and I would take him out on gravel roads and follow in the pickup while he waked/ran/sniffed/peed for miles and miles. We usually went for 2 or 3 miles, I think the longest was 6 and he wasn’t done, I was. And those are straight-line numbers, not dog miles. That greyhound side just wanted to go and go.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on August 15, 2022 at 6:24 pm
I had a border collie for a while.
Total pain in the ass, but a loving dog.
kinnath
on August 15, 2022 at 6:27 pm
Border collies really aren’t pets. They need to be worked. Either in a traditional farm/ranch environment. Or in an agility/obedience program.
Tundra
on August 15, 2022 at 6:31 pm
That’s most good herding dogs. My GSD did obedience and my PON did agility.
Luckily my wife and I are very active.
PutridMeat
on August 15, 2022 at 6:38 pm
Luckily my wife and I are very active.
Wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say no more.
Mostly have had pure-bred mutts, no real dummies.
Tundra
on August 15, 2022 at 6:41 pm
Oh yeeeeah.
See, that’s our dilemma. We have a supermutt now, but our other dogs were purebred. I kind of want to train one more really good dog, but I struggle with how awesome mutts can be.
We did obedience with our mini Aussie and my wife did agility for a little bit. We weren’t always active in the conventional sense, but I worked graves then so for the first 8 years, she basically got double days with not much more than extended naps. We rarely left her home alone too.
Tundra
on August 15, 2022 at 6:24 pm
One thing that they really don’t discuss is how much of a pain in the ass some of those top tier dogs can be. Intelligence and work drive is great, but if you aren’t super engaged, they will make your life hell.
My late PON was closely related to the Puli, a third tier doggie. I think this is about right. He picked things up really fast, but definitely had no problem pretending he couldn’t hear you. My GSD, on the other hand, was damn close to 100%, as long as you kept her busy.
Dogs are weird.
Semi-Spartan Dad
on August 15, 2022 at 6:34 pm
I’ve had GSDs and a Doberman. They’ve always been very quick. Also had a hound dog that was not. We’ll see where the Great Pyrenes end up. I think rotties are next on the list after the GSDs cross the rainbow bridge.
The GSDs pulled some pretty incredible tricks all on their own. I remember watching the donkeys attacking a newborn calf in the field, while the stupid bull 3x their size did nothing but bellow. I opened the gate to let the GSDs out in the field, pointed at the donkeys, and yelled get em. The dogs drove the donkeys off the calf and then forced them further down the pasture. The GSD pack just immediately worked as a unit, circling the donkey herd to keep them group together, while continuously moving the herd forward. They disengaged and came back immediately when called. And they didn’t attack the injured calf or the donkeys while herding them, despite the donkeys doing their best to kill the dogs.
Just a really cool thing to see. No training whatsoever, but they instinctively knew what I needed done with a vague command and the right way to do it.
Tundra
on August 15, 2022 at 6:39 pm
So cool!
We had our GSD for 6 years before we started a family, so we didn’t know how she would take a baby muscling in on her turf. First night, I can’t find her (she always slept on the floor next to me). Turns out she was laying under my son’s crib.
We also had a pond in the back. I let the kids play down by the water, but she always tried to keep them away – same with the road out front. They are just magnificent animals.
Years ago, we went to the dry cleaners and my wife came out pissed that they had misplaced her clothes. Just absolutely livid. Before we left, one of the employees ran out to say they found it. My wife followed the employee in, but didn’t notice our doggo slipped out at the same time. And bolted straight into the dry cleaners. Doggo didn’t know what it was, but there was clearly some threat upsetting her people.
Zwak. And once again, the mall is his Waterloo
on August 15, 2022 at 6:57 pm
Did it talk only about the response to commands, or to problem-solving? My Lhasa was a demon for figuring stuff out, but would only obey commands if he got something out of it.
Surly Knott
on August 15, 2022 at 7:32 pm
My first dog was a Keeshond. Smartest dog I ever owned, in just this way. Brilliant at figuring things out, totally not interested if there wasn’t a payoff. Mind you, sometimes the payoff was the figuring out, but usually not. Of course, the dumbest dog I ever owned, my 3rd, was also a Keeshond. Good natured beyond even what’s typical for that breed, but dumb as a box of rocks. I still miss him terribly, and it’s been 18 years [gods, really? OMG, yeah, 18 years. Sigh]
Tundra
on August 15, 2022 at 7:38 pm
Little fuckers sure burrow into your heart, don’t they?
It’s only been a little over 3 weeks since we lost our sheepdog, but I’m still looking for him every damn day. I forgot how long that takes to fade.
Rat on a train
on August 15, 2022 at 7:10 pm
13 English springer spaniel – great family dogs
Seguin
on August 15, 2022 at 9:19 pm
Neat. Didn’t know Labs were that high. Guess that explains my Inky mutt.
Too bad Blue Laceys aren’t on the list, I would’ve liked to see where my passed on pup’s breed landed.
The Justice Department intends to unseal additional documents connected to the FBI search at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate but is urging a federal court to maintain the secrecy of the sworn affidavit describing the basis for the search.
The DOJ is particularly concerned that the release of details from the affidavit might harm ongoing efforts to interview witnesses, given the threats to federal agents in wake of the Mar-a-Lago search.
“If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” U.S. Attorney Juan Gonzalez and Justice Department counterintelligence chief Jay Bratt said in a filing urging the continued secrecy of the affidavit.
“The fact that this investigation implicates highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation and exacerbates the potential for harm if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or improperly,” the DOJ officials wrote.
Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on August 15, 2022 at 6:54 pm
Shorter Version: Fuck you plebes, we’ll drag this out as long as we want and mark you for retribution if you dare question us on it.
I don’t know what’s going on. I’m here to take the abuse for the evening’s article and AFAICT it’s not being published. No worries. All will (hopefully) be revealed tomorrow.
straffinrun
on August 15, 2022 at 8:04 pm
May as well give us a teaser while we’re waiting.
Richard
on August 15, 2022 at 8:07 pm
No. You definitely don’t want a teaser. You want to run away.
R.J.
on August 15, 2022 at 8:11 pm
Hey, Richard! Haven’t seen you in a while, I think.
Richard
on August 15, 2022 at 8:20 pm
I pretty much only comment on my own articles. I just don’t have the time. To quote one of my heroes:
“Don’t any of you work?”
Both battery-powered devices of my jury-rigged off-the-grid home Internet setup are about to expire. If I disappear (poof!) suddenly that’s why.
Tonio
on August 15, 2022 at 8:20 pm
It was scheduled for tonight at 7:00 CT, the WordPress says it was published, but I don’t see it in the feed.
IDK what is going on here. This is not Richard’s fault.
Richard
on August 15, 2022 at 8:22 pm
I’ve not had a squirrel incident before. This one is a doozy.
Serena Williams’ opening match in the Western & Southern Open has been rescheduled.
The 40-year-old Williams, preparing to retire, is set to face 19-year-old Emma Raducanu, the defending U.S. Open champion. A spokesman for the tournament said the change was “on account of a number of factors related to scheduling.”
The Tennis Channel said it’s because she has an injury to recover from. But they will move heaven and earth to accommodate the wishes of the most darling of critical darlings there ever was.
Flying home today. I’ve go my bag in perfect order. Every shirt etc folded military grade. Wife: You have any space left in your bag?
I’m thinking, “Well, it’ll throw off the precision balance of weight. But OK.” I nod.
I’m expecting her to hand me an handkerchief or the like. Instead she hands me a hair dryer.
R.J.
on August 15, 2022 at 9:44 pm
Like a regular hair dryer or a Spaceballs hair dryer?
I feel triggered!!!!
Are you going to go off on us?
Yes, be afraid!
No bukkake.
The Lone Ranger would like a word with you. Pervert.
Generated from a dairy farm in Middlesex County, the cow manure is collected and placed into tanks that use bacteria to turn the organic waste into biogas, which consists of methane and carbon dioxide. The methane is separated and converted into renewable energy often used for fertilizer, or in this case, to power a truck.
So if you don’t count pumping the manure into the tanks, introducing the bacteria, or the energy required to separate out the methane, the project is wildly efficient and saves a ton of money. It’s like magic!
To be fair, methane capture in processes where decomposition is going to happen anyway often makes practical sense. It was already widespread in waste processing long before the recent craze. A lot of times it does result in a net cost savings over letting the methane escape. Yes, there are inputs, and infrastructure needed to implement it, but there is often a measurable ROI.
Shit happens.
Caca pasa.
yeah, my local sewer treatment plant is combined with a power generating station for burning the solids and the methane. Powers several thousand homes.
They make up for it in volume, or something.
Need more cows! Little known secret oil companies don’t want you to know.
Add an addition onto your garage for the livestock, cut out the middleman
Lizzy and Molly (our mini Jersey cows agree)
However when in a drought, they eat a lot of expensive hay.
I guess we know who runs Barter Town.
How’s that going to pair with the crusade to reduce animal farming?
Hush, you.
That’s different, like, totally.
Here’s to swimmin’ with no-legged Odessans…
Won’t do them any good, they keep getting kicked out of the Paralympics.
Between the mines and the fish chomping your dink, I think JAWS was safer.
Horrifying moment two men are blown up and others injured in mine blast while taking a dip at Odesa beach despite warnings not to swim off Ukraine’s coast
Failure to head the warning yielded explosive results.
Now they are called Bob….
And the guy who hit the wall? Art.
Russell was lucky, he landed in a pile of leaves.
What about Matt?
Ended up in a doorway.
Wha? I’m floored
It’s been one year since Afghanistan’s government fell and Republicans are vowing to hold President Joe Biden accountable for the disastrous troop withdrawal that paved the way for the Taliban to rise to power.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Did you see this?
Amazing.
That’s awesome.
First, they’re going to exhume Truman’s desiccated corpse so they can hold hearings about who lost China.
Generated from a dairy farm in Middlesex County, the cow manure is collected and placed into tanks that use bacteria to turn the organic waste into biogas, which consists of methane and carbon dioxide. The methane is separated and converted into renewable energy often used for fertilizer, or in this case, to power a truck.
In the first six months, the truck will displace carbon dioxide emissions from 18,000 litres of diesel, which would be a reduction in greenhouse gases of more than what the truck will emit.
I smell bullshit.
Despite the improvement in Chicago and its immediate suburbs, masks are still recommended indoors across most of the metro area, public health officials said Friday.
Masking still. Go fuck yourselves.
Generated from a dairy farm in Middlesex County, the cow manure is collected and placed into tanks that use bacteria to turn the organic waste into biogas, which consists of methane and carbon dioxide. The methane is separated and converted into renewable energy often used for fertilizer, or in this case, to power a truck.
This shit is udderly ridiculous.
Don’t have a cow man!
I’ve had enough of these puns, I’m hoofing it out of here.
You will be stunned to learn the answer!
Swissie’s gonna horn in here and he won’t be horsing around
I need to ruminate on this.
Maybe we can chew the cud and work it out.
You guys are milking these puns for all they are worth.
Thats a beefy statwment to make
Or statement
We Brangus our “A” game on puns today.
The Glib Staff (a likely story) won’t re-veal who they are
Gotta steak our claim in the great pun fest before the narrowed gaze comes down.
I’ve got a beef with this language being used on a family friendly web site.
Today in enviro-absolutism
A massive ecological study that’s happening across the United States, and which is designed to track the impact of long-term changes like a warming climate, is deliberately releasing a highly potent and persistent greenhouse gas in national parks and forests.
The gas, sulfur hexafluoride, is “the most potent greenhouse gas known to date,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s 22,800 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, and lasts in the atmosphere for thousands of years.
So far, this ecology study has released around 108 pounds of the gas, which has about the same impact as burning more than a million pounds of coal.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF), which funds this large ecology study, told NPR that it supports an evaluation that’s now underway to see whether phasing out the use of this gas would affect the quality of the information that’s being gathered.
That’s not good enough for one watchdog group, which is calling for an immediate halt to the release of this gas on public lands.
You don’t compromise in a holy war. Anything is too much.
SF6 is also a very good gas for etching trenches in silicon and SiO2 once you crack it with RF or microwaves.
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
This is actually good news that they are fighting amongst themselves. Any time you sow division and create paralysis among your enemies it’s a good day.
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 15.08.2022
How Did Ukraine Pull Off the Attack on Saki Airbase?
Speaking of war and stupidity:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/woke-military-policies-to-blame-for-recruitment-crisis-servicemembers-say_4664277.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2022-08-15&utm_medium=email&est=rEkIkQCfujgBFASOKjzsKNI4X6MyximtgVOGBZjTvKBzxi7%2BubQwrN%2BHaViOr%2BwEVxbXug==
I read the article and it doesn’t mention “Woke” policies at all. Just a rehash of unqualified young people, etc
For decades, ecologists have sometimes burbled small amounts of sulfur hexafluoride into streams and rivers, in order to study how quickly gasses can move from the water into the air. One reason that’s of interest is that, although inland waterways cover up only a small fraction of the Earth’s surface, researchers believe these running waters could be an important source of greenhouse gasses, as rainfall can carry carbon from the ground into turbulent streams that later release it into the atmosphere.
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The planning for this half-billion-dollar ecological project, and the construction of its monitoring instruments, took around twenty years. It began operating at full tilt in 2019.
SCIENCE!
Half billion?
Nice racket
And twenty years! That’s a basically an entire career without any results.
“Hold my beer.”
— Joe “Puddin’ Cup” Biden
Cards against customers.
So much for buying new cards you fucking idiots
“Forced birth”. Sure, guys.
It appears they really are against humanity.
^^ Nice.
lmao. Totally on-brand.
“Forced birth” is a ridiculous term if you think about it for one second. They aren’t good at that sort of messaging. Contrast it with “groomer”, which make more sense the longer you think about it.
The left can’t meme.
To be fair, baby-murdering *is* against humanity.
Cards Against Humanity, Especially Children
I don’t need your product. Let’s see who suffers first.
Drumpfler sic’d ’em on the capitol. Now he’s sic’n ’em on the FBI.
“Brianna, my observations on this is that he is makes those statements because he knows the effect they will have, right? He had a distinctive experience on January 6th. That crowd that came and unleashed a violent attack on the Capitol did so, according to many of them who have testified, because they thought that’s what he asked them to do.”
“He knows that that community of very aggrieved, politically extreme people are listening to everything he says and doesn’t say. And they react in ways they think he wants them to act. I think that’s why he’s making the statements he is now.”
They have no will of their own. Drumpf has hypnotized their small, deplorable minds and controls then.
Delusional and melodramatic posers, nothing more….
Trump is completely incompetent and stupid. But he can convince huge numbers of people to unquestioningly do his bidding.
The FBI is totally not discrediting itself.
Castro Junior introduces a Digital Identity Program for Canada.
https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/08/12/national-digital-identity-program-to-be-introduced-to-canadians/
We need to refer to him as Klaus’s Boy from now on. He’s going full WEF.
Lloyd Klausmas.
If Canadians can’t see what’s coming by now and don’t rid themselves of Fidelito, they deserve what they get.
I’m not sure they can, at least through the ballot box. Did Venezuelans truly elect Maduro?
I’m not particular about method at this point.
Members of Parliament vote for Prime Minister.
Trudeau is elected to Parliament by voters in his Riding, not by all of Canada.
Yeah, good ol’ Pappy Knows.
I’m convinced that the average IQ of voters in that riding is just above absolute zero.
I keep hearing how unpopular Mini-Castro is up in the great North. Can somebody explain to me why they don’t change their government? I thought they had parliament style like UK and could pretty much change leadership with just a single confidence vote?
A majority of Members of Parliament support Trudeau.
If I remember correctly, the last elections were at a good time for Trudeau before the trucker protests. His party and allied parties did well enough that he stayed as PM.
Canadians have to wait for the next election. If I remember correctly, it happens whenever the governor-general, on the advice of the Prime Minister, calls an election or five years after the last election, whichever comes first.
Further to what DEG said, The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ made a deal with the leader of the New Democrats known as a “supply and confidence agreement,” which, absent intervening shit-that-might-happen, guarantees that the Liberal minority government will *not* see a confidence motion from the NDs for the remainder of term of their government (2025). Unless that agreement falls apart, the Libs remain bulletproof.
Cynics note that, since Jagmeet Singh (the ND’s leader) was first elected in 2019, he must serve without interruption until the year 2025 in order to be eligible for an MP’s pension. The fact that he has basically agreed not to rock the boat until the 2025 election is just mere happenstance, total coincidence, and means absolutely nothing, you racist haters.
The saving grace of this move is that, if it ever becomes operational, and based on past experience, it will be delivered in the year 2103 and will cost forty-six quadrillion dollars in fees to IT firms, plus it’ll need at least a decade of debugging before it works with something approaching reliability.
Oh, and just after they get it working, 4chan will issue an app that allows you to completely route around it without the government being any wiser.
Will Castro be the first DIP?
Big Brain Noah Smith.
Delusional seems to be a theme today, jeesh
Then why are we throwing billions at it?
The subsidies are totally unnecessary and are just getting in the way of solar’s obvious dominance.
Noah is a poopnozzle.
He just wrote this
Why renewable subsidies are better than carbon taxes
Talking out of his ass AND both sides of his mouth. Maybe that’s because his head/mouth is UP his ass?
Right, there are no regulatory obstacles whatsoever involved if one wants to build a nuclear power plant. It’s just too darn expensive is all, yup yup.
In a nuke plant, you have file paperwork if a light switch fails.
All of the people who are against nuke power are all the people who are pro gov’t subsidies.
I mean, the Venn circle overlap.
Missing from the part of the article I perused is an example of how solar is regulated.
To be fair, someone is attempting to build a solar farm near me, and it has received a lot of resistance from the local residents. Previously someone tried to build one in a sparsely populated area over the hill next to a large substation. It was a good location for such a project, but it was halted because someone found some kind of endangered animal or plant. I guess you could call that regulation, but it’s regulation that stymies all kinds of development.
Castro Junior introduces a Digital Identity Program for Canada.
Will there be scores?
Bear scales barbed-wire fence at Air Force base in Florida
He was just looking for a pick-a-nick basket.
There are bears in Florida? Other than the two legged kind?
I was as shocked as you’re when I discovered that bears in the Jacksonville zoo were located in the Florida Animals section. They seem to be doing all right.
Florida bears are best. They range from the panhandle over to the Okefenokee and (as we of a certain age remember) down to the Everglades.
Nice racket
If somebody offered me a big bag of money to go “do SCIENCE!” in Yellowstone, I’d take it.
There already is. You just need a good grant writer and premise to get some of it.
OT https://youtu.be/QymnTfHHC7c
You don’t get more Japanese syntax than this.
The chorus is “kanojou ni natte ageru”.
The context is she wants to be the protagonist’s boyfriend. But the literal translation is she “is giving him becoming (his) girlfriend”.
OT to the OT (but kind of on topic to part of the video): JLPT registration began last week. Was considering doing N4 just to see how I was doing and a bit of a challenge since slacking for the past 2.5 years.
But… their COVID policy is completely insane. If you don’t comply with whatever the hosting institution requires (masking, sanitizer use, proof of vaccination, proof of negative test, etc), you forfeit the testing fee entirely. And they don’t have specifics of what each location requires nor will they refund if the policies change. Eff that.
Ugh. My guess is it is a college somewhere. You could check what their continuing Ed requirements are.
Yes. And many schools still went forward with their mandatory vaccination policies for employees and students even as private employers largely halted it after the feds got shot down. No idea if they’re applying those to test takers or some other rules because AAJT doesn’t have any site specific information posted. From email correspondence are no locations with no restrictions right now, the least is Florida and they do have some (don’t know what). And they expect more as winter approaches.
Other than personal goals, N4 does nothing so I don’t see any reason to play the game.
I assume I could pass N3 wit N2 a distant possibility, but taking the test turns what I do for fun into work.
I’d much rather gauge my success on my ability to have conversations and get what I need to done.
At my age I’ll never be able to be fluent in a professional environment. Mostly because of my lack of interest in mastering honorific forms. I understand them, but could care less about fluently using them.
Naturally they are required on N1 and N2…
Me neither. My ultimate long term goal is really just to be able to have basic conversations and read/watch media. Working there sounds nice in theory but it’s not realistic for my situation. I’ve learned enough to see beyond the initial impressions (and it’s still fun for me). Likewise, test taking is enjoyable for me.
Related, https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/comments/6vh3xn/re_possible_to_be_a_foreign_md_in_japan/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92DUFA-UWGA
This guy has lived in Japan for something like 15 years or so. He’s about as fluent as you can get as an adult learner in Japanese, but that’s really not native level. He is an independent photographer / YouTuber who visits all kinds of out of the way places in Japan. He’s always wanted a private pilot’s license and since Japan is home, decided to go for it and get some clicks at the same time. I watch him for his other videos for out of the way places to go.
And I thought getting a drivers license would be a pain. Good lord.
Not to mention comprehending the heavily accented “English” used for ATC communications.
All those pic-a-nic baskets…
I know my college girlfriend did all of her research, at tax-payer expense mind you, on Brando’s island in French Polynesia.
“Cook County back down to medium COVID-19 risk level, but hospitalizations and deaths high across Illinois”
This shit reminds me of those terrorist threat colors.
The one that never dipped lower than orange?
The Porky’s guys went about it all wrong.
Biological males are now participating in rush week to join a sorority at University of Alabama
I am so going to use this to bust on my buddy who went to Alabama.
Roll Pride!
Since Memphis State’s football program was utter garbage when I went there, I chose Bama to be my team to follow. Mostly because they had David Palmer back then and he was amazing.
This is making me think I better go buy some Auburn gear.
Think how bad it must be at Ole Miss.
The initiations are going to get pretty odd.
I could see doing that as a joke.
Your tax return looks problematic.
That is scary.
No kidding. Mia Khalifa really let herself go.
Agents: We’re here to tell you that you left your pronouns off of Line 26b of your Schedule X.
Me: Oh… My pronouns are He/OR/SHe/or/IT. HORSESHIT, for short, like all bespoke pronouns.
Agents: Skip the audit! Go directly to gulag!
They may be federal agents (no, they’re not), but they’re not police. Neither are the DHS/GSA FPS security guards.
Because everyone wears UGG’s when going on a “totally not a raid!”
I’m going to have my first overnight guests in the next couple weeks. 😬
(I’ve forgotten how to have guests. That being said, my door and awning are open!)
It’s been a long time since I had overnight guests. Most guests prefer it that way.
Amazon finally delivered that bottle of chloroform?
This is how you euphemism, for all you non-sluts out there.
😉
With a nice Chianti and some fava beans?
Do RV parks charge the same $20 as downtown?
Asking for a friend.
Wonder what his beef was.
Boyfriend Jailed After Felonious Cheeseburger Battery At Burger King
During an argument at Burger King, a Florida Man threw a cheeseburger at his girlfriend with such force that when the sandwich struck the back of her head, the woman fell “over a curb onto the ground,” police charge.
According to a criminal complaint, James Hunt, 41, and his “girlfriend and cohabitant” argued Saturday afternoon about “the victim not eating her food” at a Burger King in Clearwater, a city in the Tampa Bay area.
The dispute turned violent, cops say, when the 53-year-old woman began to leave the restaurant. That is when Hunt (seen at right) allegedly “threw a cheeseburger at the victim, striking her in the back of the head. This action caused the victim to fall over a curb onto the ground.”
Decent band name.
I saw Felonious Cheeseburger Battery live a while ago. I don’t relish the thought of seeing them again.
Saucy opinion.
Exactly what kind of burger are we talking about? How big was the chick? He doesn’t strike me as the type to splurge on a double whopper w/ cheese.
Also, wrong brand but https://youtu.be/sIFZ-tzM_Sc.
Did the cops throw him in the back of the patty wagon?
Did a cheesy joke start the fracas?
His brother, Mike, was unavailable for comment.
Had my follow-on job interview today. It ended with the hiring manager saying “wow, that was great, we need to get you out here. How soon can you fly out for a tour?”
So I think things went well.
Go you!
Congrats, Mustang!
You’re gonna get tired of all the winning.
Is this how you answered interview questions?
Hey, at least I was using my mouth to talk.
Excellent.
Yay you!
That’s cool. Congrats
Thanks all. I just try to be honest.
Congrats! That’s awesome.
Excellent! 👍👍👍
This could have been a Ray of Hope, but it is probably too local.
Thompson is the jackass who not only might not have lived in his district, he might not even have been a resident of Minnesoda. He also formed a mob to go out to the suburbs to picket the head of the cop union and screamed through a megaphone about burning the suburb down.
He does have some things I agree with though…
I love this too:
Who among us doesn’t have a bunch of domestic violence allegation reports floating around the local cop shop? It is just an impossible standard to expect our leaders to have 0 accusations of domestic violence against them.
Fair point. OTH, believe all women.
Is Al Franken the only Democrat who has been forced to resign because of sexual harassment charges?
Brother Keith was able to still run and win as AG here in Minnesoda even though he roughed up his live in girlfriend. Thompson got a pass.
Franken was the last of Team Blue to get caught in that trap.
Our piece of shit ex-governor (Andrew Cuomo) is part of that club too.
Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment
I bet they get all sorts of grants. Doubt the bureaucrats even bother reading the rest of the application when they see that name.
Do they wear the mailbox uniforms?
LOL
“Three Arizona parents were arrested following their attempts to enter a locked-down elementary school and protect their children after reports that an armed man was seen trying to enter the building on Friday morning.
Officers in El Mirage, Arizona, used a Taser gun to subdue two parents helping a third parent whose handgun fell to the ground as he was being taken into custody outside Thompson Ranch Elementary School, a police report said.
One of the two parents was taken to a local hospital to treat Taser injuries.
At the time of the confrontation between parents and police, officers had confirmed that there was no longer a threat, a ‘suspicious package’ had been removed and determined to be free of explosives, and police were working to reunite parents with their children, Lt. Jimmy Chavez said in a statement.
The parents tried to enter the school while it was still on lockdown, and their attempted entry while ‘forcefully pushing on the officers trying to get on campus’ violated law enforcement and school procedures, Chavez added.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11113165/Arizona-parents-arrested-trying-force-way-school-protect-children.html
So this is a thing now.
The trust is falling away like scales from a rotting fish.
Good
This will get ugly soon. As it should.
While I understand why it’s happening, having a bunch of parents running into a school during an active shooter or bomb threat is pretty much a guarantee that things will go from bad to worse. I understand the reactions of both the parents and the cops in this, but one admittedly horrifying example in Uvalde is not a trend and if you want to pretty much guarantee more dead kids and parents, you’ll run into a school waving a gun around while cops are trying to clear it and evacuate kids.
Disagree strongly on both counts. If there is a bomb threat, the children need to be evacuated immediately. Not restrained inside the building. I was held in the gym during a bomb threat in a high school. After realizing it was a bomb threat, we knocked down the police, security guards, and teachers who tried to stop us and ripped the gym doors of the hinges to escape. Many school officials were hurt and each one of the pieces of shit deserved that and worse for trying to keep us in the school.
If there is is an active shooter, the cops need to be in there clearing immediately while evacuating children. If the cops are sitting around outside without immediately engaging, they need to be removed by the parents. There should not even be enough time occurring in ending a mass shooter situation for parents to arrive at the school to confront officers.
That’s nice.
I agree that in your first experience they should have been evacuated.
In your second example, you’re assuming that there aren’t cops already clearing the building. Having a bunch of armed parents running in while officers are actively clearing a building is just a terrible idea. Again, one instance in Uvalde is not a trend.
How many different agencies responded to Uvalde? Yet somehow they managed not to have a blue on blue incident outside.
It’s not exactly one instance though. Can you think of a single instance where law enforcement responded to an active killer event in time to intervene? I can’t.
Yes, if the police are actively clearing the building you really don’t want a bunch of yahoos wandering around the site. That’s what the perimeter team is for.
But the cops aren’t clearing the building. They’re probably waiting around for the shooting to stop.
You can take the source for what it’s worth. This shows that the shooter is subdued more frequently before cops arrive, which is a different conversation than “the cops don’t do anything” because it also shows that LE frequently stops shooters, just less so than other instances. This is the libertarian argument for why people should be armed, which I agree with.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/22/us/shootings-police-response-uvalde-buffalo.html
It is incredibly difficult to intervene before a shooting has started because shooters rarely actually do anything worth having a law enforcement intervention. Mental health intervention, maybe, but now we are talking about red flag laws that we all hate.
So LE have a difficult situation. They need to get there as fast as possible to stop a shooter and could be coming from long distances to do so, so frequently shooters are subdued before they there. That’s not a LE problem. Go for a few ride-alongs, most PDs and Sheriffs are happy to have them. Ask a lot of questions.
I’ve done quite a few.
There are definitely cowards and they are abetted by God-forsaken police unions. I’d rather the discussion revolve around eliminating public sector unions, increased standards for recruiting and retention (along with higher pay), and better training. The more law enforcement is demonized, the fewer people will go that route, leading to worse training because they literally don’t have time between calls, which makes people hate cops even more. It’s a vicious downward spiral.
For the second, I’m talking about an active mass shooter situation. That’s a situation that should be over in 5 minutes with either a dead shooter or pile of dead cops who died engaging. An active mass shooter isn’t exactly hiding or difficult to locate. That’s a completely different situation than clearing a building after the shooter has been engaged. And certainly the children could be evacuated while the police are clearing the building afterwards. There is no need to lockdown the children inside.
The problem isn’t parents waiting for cops to clear a building. It’s that there is story after story of cops being chickenshit to engage the shooter. That’s why parents are upset. There would be no issue here if cops immediately engaged shooters and then began releasing the children to the waiting parents outside while clearing the building afterwards. The situation should be over before a single parent even approaches the school.
Parents are just going to start clearing a path at 300 yards out if that’s what it takes to protect their children. Or much better yet, choose to homeschool and not outsource protection of their children to the State in the first place.
You should consider going for a few ride-alongs and asking lots of questions. There’s very few circumstances where a five minute response time is even possible.
It does reinforce the argument for arming anyone and everyone for self-defense. It’s not an either/or situation.
Maybe we are talking past one another. I agree that parents don’t need to be in the school while it’s being cleared. Clearing should occur after the shooter has been engaged and ended. Cops could do better PR on this front. Work with the parents and release the children to their parents waiting outside while clearing rather than locking down the school completely.
If there is an active shooter, then the quickest factor to ending it is a good guy with a gun. Doesn’t matter if that good guy wears a blue shit or not. If cops are waiting outside rather than engaging an active shooter, that’s a major problem. If they are preventing others from engaging the shooter while not engaging themselves, those individuals have become just as much of a threat as the active shooter is. I just threw out 5 minutes. Whatever the time is, I assume a cop is going to receive notification and get there faster than a parent will. Especially given the rise of onsite school resource officers.
I don’t know how to clear a building. I don’t have the tactical knowledge for that and would only get in the way. I can engage someone pointing a gun at my child and end that threat. Elisjsha Dickens showed no special training or tactics knowledge is needed to stop a mass shooter. Just a good guy, any good guy, being there first with a gun and some balls to do the right thing.
I agree with everything you said.
Dickens has to be some kind of mutant because that was just insane (in a good way). The gun forum I’m on has a thread going where they set up that scenario for training and posting their split times for completing it.
Conversely, there’s this outcome for someone trying to stop an active shooter as well
https://youtu.be/CQOHBSuY7TM
“Again, one instance in Uvalde is not a trend.”
Uvalde was merely the most recent in a well-established pattern. Not just school shootings, either. The gay nightclub shooting in FL also featured cops staying nice and safe, listening to people beg and bleed out on their cell phones.
The last several school shootings have cops waiting around or going the opposite direction (Parkland SRO) for the shooting to stop before going in. It’s SOP at this point.
Not a problem in NJ.
Serfs still can’t carry.
I have a friend trying to go through the process there. Of course it is a bunch of convoluted bs that takes forever – while they continue to name places where you can’t carry.
I’m ok letting the dust settle.
Plus I mostly commute to NYC so even after that I’m screwed.
Yeah it is a bad situation to have lots of parents running around, but the cops have no one to blame for this but themselves.
It isn’t just Uvalde either. Was it Parkland in Florida where the resource officer ran away like Sir Robin?
The list of incidents where cops ran like cowards is longer than the list of incidents where the cop risked his life and put down the shooter.
Columbine also featured a teacher bleeding out for three or four hours while students begged the cops to come help. They stood outside. That event changed protocol on how police are to engage active shooters, and yet incidents still persist where cops are in “wait it out” mode.
You’ve listed two instances since Columbine, which is where tactics changed for the better. I know I’m going up against a lot of dedicated cop-haters here and I also recognize the need for criminal justice and law enforcement reform (fuck police unions in particular), but the hate and discontent here is unnerving sometimes. I read a lot of comments where it’s clear some people have never had to deal with the insanity of an event like this from the responder side.
I wouldn’t call myself a hater and I appreciate you taking flak here.
But I’m a small white guy in NJ working and living in mostly affluent areas. My interactions with police are rare, but roughly 50 / 50 pleasant versus roid raged asshole.
I can’t imagine what the hell it is like in Newark
While the tactics have indeed changed for the better, the application of those tactics doesn’t seem to happen when the rubber meets the road. Either the cops don’t show up in time to intervene (which I don’t really bame them for) or they do show up and fail to act, whether due to cowardice or bureaucratic dithering.
My take is, this is not a tactics problem.
Sorry Mustang. I didn’t mean to throw shade at you.
I don’t think I’m a cop-hater. Growing up as the son of a probation officer in a small town I got along fine with the cops.
All I was saying is that I don’t blame the parents for doing what they did. I agree that lots of parents swarming the school is not a good thing if you are trying to come up with a plan to stop a school shooting. That said, if it was your kid in the school and seeing how the cops have behaved recently, would you trust them?
* In fairness to cops, the job itself warps them. They deal with so many dysfunctional people who are doing horrible things that they can’t help but to get twisted themselves. I don’t know how you stop that. I sure would never want to do that job myself.
I have been stewing about this for a while so I didn’t mean to snap. It’s a vicious cycle though. You’ve got standards that continue to worsen, communities that are taught to reflexively hate law enforcement, DAs who don’t support you, pulling funding, extremely shitty pay, worse hours, and then you’re expected to just roll over and take it. Yes, there are cowards. The problem is that we’ll get more and more of them until we stop demonizing police and give them the funding and standards necessary to recruit and retain quality individuals. We can argue the merits of state-funded law enforcement, but that usually devolves into anarchy vs minarchy and doesn’t solve the very real problems we have right now.
Go for a few ride-alongs. I’ve done quite a few and they’re always very enlightening. Here is LA, where we read all the stories about the DA, we don’t hear what they’re doing to the deputies. It’s not enough that they let criminals go unpunished, the courts will actually issue bench warrants for the deputies instead. Why would anyone with any sense want to do this job? And then everyone wonders why cops suck so much ass? It’s a perfect storm of crap, with police unions protecting shitbirds and courts and communities demonizing the ones who actually do their jobs.
It might be because I’m a white woman, but even when I’m being pulled over for speeding, my interactions with cops have been nothing but helpful and relatively pleasant.
And yet I get why the cop-hate. For me, this has caused me no end of philosophical grief.
Too local news: NH Establishment GOP candidates skip debate hosted by election integrity group
“Would you label the FBI a ‘terrorist organization?’”
“Should we investigate Sen. Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi for their role in January 6th?”
“Would you support the repeal of the 17th Amendment and return the appointment of U.S. senators to the state legislatures?”
Those were just a few of the non-traditional questions fired at Republican candidates in two debates hosted by the Government Integrity Project, an organization promoting claims that the outcome of the 2020 election is either in doubt or that it was out-and-out stolen by Joe Biden and the Democrats.
Elections? D-1 for Cheney. If for some reason crossover Ds can’t save her from insurrectionists, she can look forward to winning the presidential primary in 2024.
Haha! Those are fantastic questions. YES, YES and YES!!! No wonder the Establishment GOPer ran for the hills.
“A Las Vegas landlord is standing trial for allegedly forcing a mother of five to sign a contract agreeing to sex with him in order to rent a four-bedroom home.
Allan Rothstein, 81, is accused in court documents of making a woman sign a document entitled ‘Direct Consent for Sexual Intercourse and/or Fallatio or Cunnilingus’ in order to move forward with her lease.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11113227/Las-Vegas-landlord-accused-forcing-mother-sign-sex-contract-him.html
Was in noon links. Oral contract and all.
Who has time to read a nooner?
Speaking of which, I’m sure these ass drugs fell out in the weekend links but I still think it is funny.
You need to multitask your nooners.
I’ve suggested that a million times to my wife, but she still says that nooners will be serial processing only. No other tasks may be added.
Noon links?
User submitted after the delay.
At his age fallatio could be deadly. I guess he can contact can contact LifeCall if he can’t get it up.
I’m calling BS, not on the document but on the follow through.
Sex at 81 is like watching football on TV, purely a spectator sport
“Exposing Eli Erlick Trans Predator (w Leaked Texts, DMS)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-o8iBeTnzM
This is about that asshole who made an announcement about sending hormones and other drugs to kids — including testosterone which is a controlled substance.
Where is Tulip?!
Haven’t seen her in a bit, nor much of Trshmonster.
Taking breaks?
Taking breaks?
When you think about who we are and how we behave, can you blame them?
We are a little insular and redundant, I will agree.
Trashy went out to eat with me, then ran for the hills. Sad, I am.
Hopefully he can handle legalizing freedom.
I last saw her in a zoom a couple days ago.
I was on Friday and Saturday (albeit early, as is my wont), but did not see her.
Imma needin’ some of youse folks’ help — specifically, those with chemistry smarts.
I’ve purchased several pieces of EICO/Heathkit test equipment from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, and they all have a suspicious-looking bright yellow powder inside them (reminiscent of pollen, sorta), which further research leads me to believe is a result of cadmium plating on the chassis of this equipment. The plating appears to have reacted with humidity and atmospheric SO2 to produce cadmium sulphide, and it’s now a hazard to work with. However, while I think I know what it is, I can’t be sure.
Is there any at-home chemical test/reagent I can whip up that will test for either cadmium (on the chassis) or cadmium sulphide (everywhere else)? One on-line recommendation was to mix citric acid with hydrogen peroxide and wet the suspected substance (if it’s cadmium, it’ll turn brown after some minutes), but this doesn’t seem to work. On-line searches for appropriate test kits is turning up bupkis.
Any help greatly appreciated.
If you don’t get answer OMWC might be able to help if you see him around.
Electronics and chemistry is his sweet spot.
You can combine the two. CdS emits light when you run a current through it. It also becomes a better conductor when you shine light on it.
CdS LDRs. I have a couple in my parts collection.
What does it smell like? Can you take a deep, deep whiff of it and get back to us?
*Just kidding. I have no idea. I faked my way through chemistry.
It smells like a Level 1 lung carcinogen, apparently.
Not willing to test that.
“I didn’t take the cadmium sulphide to get high, I just liked the way it smelled.”
You’ll shoot yer eye out!
You could see if it dissolves in distilled water. If it does it isn’t CdS.
CdS is insoluble in water.
It is soluble in acid. So if you replace the water with vinegar or lemon juice and it dissolves it might be CdS.
I would look for a heavy metals test kit.
I have done so, and they’re all of questionable value/utility (they’re normally about finding cadmium in water samples). Inorganic test kits for solids are few and far between, and I can’t locate one specifically for cadmium or cadmium sulphide. I was hoping to find something like those lead test kits you find in places like Home Depot, but apparently cadmium’s a much more difficult beast to test for.
http://www.home-health-chemistry.com/Cadmium-Test.html
No idea of it’s quality. Looks like a real old website.
Ha I was looking for a “visitor count” or a “guestbook”….
At least we got “Share this page” LOL
I’ve also tried enlisting the help of our regional government-sponsored recycling enviro-hazards authorities. Man, are those people ever useless. ”We don’ do that shit, mon.”
I’m tempted to say “Right! — general waste-stream it is, and fuck anyone who comes into contact with the stuff after I’ve dumped it.”
How the Hell am I supposed to do the right thing when TPTB don’t even provide the path to do so?
You’re pushed towards using professional toxic waste contractors like https://hepaco.com/ and they will charge you a small fortune to deal with it.
For testing, you may want to give these guys a call (https://www.marinechemist.com/services/environmental-industrial-hygiene-laboratory/).
I’ve used them for some stuff in the past. Identifying materials is almost all they do.
Interestingly, the pro contractors didn’t want to talk to me, ’cause I had no possibility of giving them a juicy $50K/yr contract. And the small-scale e-waste recyclers don’t want to touch this stuff either, ’cause they have a nasty tendency to either shred or shred and then burn their waste. Both actions are big no-nos with cadmium.
Step One: Put on some gloves.
Step Two: Wipe it all up with a paper towel
Step Three: Wipe the paper towel on the mayor’s toilet seat
Step Four: Profit!
Don’t tempt me, R.J. Don’t. Tempt. Me.
The insects the WEF wants you to eat are now available.
https://www.amazon.com/Cricket-powder-made-100-22/dp/B00OMCTODQ
They are already sneaking it in the foods.
Fucking disgusting. Note the allergy warning.
I bet it has kind of an earthy flavor kind of like how a bait and tackle shop smells in the summer. You know, gross.
🤮
Sort of along these lines, I saw a humorous product the other day – something like “Dirty Potato Chips”. I thought that meant unpeeled or some sort of “home style”. Nope, they literally mean old potatoes that are turning brown.
And they charge a huge markup for it.
Making tara flour seem ok…
https://observer.com/2022/07/daily-harvest-has-discovered-the-ingredient-in-its-lentil-crumbles-that-sent-customers-to-the-hospital/
Calls for Leicester’s Pork Pie Roundabout to be renamed – amid concern for city’s obesity rates
Try Kim Roundabout if you really want to lower the obesity rate of the proles.
Wow. That might be the dumbest thing I’ve read in a long time.
KAREN ROUNDABOUT
Zyklon roundaBout
Cricket flour roundabout
The Tofu Traffic Circle
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oD09gmrsLIg
Your daily dose of Sanford and son.
“Black is beautiful, but not when it comes to eggs!”
Pistachios are more addictive than heroin.
How salty are they? Most packaged nuts are too salty for my taste. Had a vendor at the local farmers’ market whose peanuts were PERFECT as far as I was concerned, but she hasn’t been there for several weeks. 😞
Wonderful Salt and Pepper version. Salt is just right and the pepper brings a whole new level of awesome.
Also a huge bag from Costco was like $16.
So, you like a good nut snack?
Well they do use a shit ton of water.
Therefore everyone in the US must have low flow plumbing fixtures.
Give these a go: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B087NKGCJJ/
I love hazelnuts. Will have to try those.
I started with the unsalted ones, which were good, but i like these better.
“Smartest” dog breeds.
Interesting stuff. Tracks pretty closely with my experience.
Chihuahua: 67 out of 79. No surprises there.
I like my shelties. Very bright. Very attentive. Respond very well to commands. Small enough to live in a house with a big yard and not go bonkers from lack of exercise.
My daughter has an Australian Cattle Dog. Wonderful dog that goes bonkers if she doesn’t do a few miles on the road with the dog every day.
Aussie Cattle Dog is on my short list. We have a mix now and she is a sweetheart.
And too old to be hyper!
My daughter can’t run enough to wear out her dog. I bought her a bike-leash so that she can ride for miles to wear out the dog.
I had a Lab/Greyhound mix, and I would take him out on gravel roads and follow in the pickup while he waked/ran/sniffed/peed for miles and miles. We usually went for 2 or 3 miles, I think the longest was 6 and he wasn’t done, I was. And those are straight-line numbers, not dog miles. That greyhound side just wanted to go and go.
I had a border collie for a while.
Total pain in the ass, but a loving dog.
Border collies really aren’t pets. They need to be worked. Either in a traditional farm/ranch environment. Or in an agility/obedience program.
That’s most good herding dogs. My GSD did obedience and my PON did agility.
Luckily my wife and I are very active.
Luckily my wife and I are very active.
Wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say no more.
Mostly have had pure-bred mutts, no real dummies.
Oh yeeeeah.
See, that’s our dilemma. We have a supermutt now, but our other dogs were purebred. I kind of want to train one more really good dog, but I struggle with how awesome mutts can be.
We did obedience with our mini Aussie and my wife did agility for a little bit. We weren’t always active in the conventional sense, but I worked graves then so for the first 8 years, she basically got double days with not much more than extended naps. We rarely left her home alone too.
One thing that they really don’t discuss is how much of a pain in the ass some of those top tier dogs can be. Intelligence and work drive is great, but if you aren’t super engaged, they will make your life hell.
My late PON was closely related to the Puli, a third tier doggie. I think this is about right. He picked things up really fast, but definitely had no problem pretending he couldn’t hear you. My GSD, on the other hand, was damn close to 100%, as long as you kept her busy.
Dogs are weird.
I’ve had GSDs and a Doberman. They’ve always been very quick. Also had a hound dog that was not. We’ll see where the Great Pyrenes end up. I think rotties are next on the list after the GSDs cross the rainbow bridge.
The GSDs pulled some pretty incredible tricks all on their own. I remember watching the donkeys attacking a newborn calf in the field, while the stupid bull 3x their size did nothing but bellow. I opened the gate to let the GSDs out in the field, pointed at the donkeys, and yelled get em. The dogs drove the donkeys off the calf and then forced them further down the pasture. The GSD pack just immediately worked as a unit, circling the donkey herd to keep them group together, while continuously moving the herd forward. They disengaged and came back immediately when called. And they didn’t attack the injured calf or the donkeys while herding them, despite the donkeys doing their best to kill the dogs.
Just a really cool thing to see. No training whatsoever, but they instinctively knew what I needed done with a vague command and the right way to do it.
So cool!
We had our GSD for 6 years before we started a family, so we didn’t know how she would take a baby muscling in on her turf. First night, I can’t find her (she always slept on the floor next to me). Turns out she was laying under my son’s crib.
We also had a pond in the back. I let the kids play down by the water, but she always tried to keep them away – same with the road out front. They are just magnificent animals.
Awww
Years ago, we went to the dry cleaners and my wife came out pissed that they had misplaced her clothes. Just absolutely livid. Before we left, one of the employees ran out to say they found it. My wife followed the employee in, but didn’t notice our doggo slipped out at the same time. And bolted straight into the dry cleaners. Doggo didn’t know what it was, but there was clearly some threat upsetting her people.
Did it talk only about the response to commands, or to problem-solving? My Lhasa was a demon for figuring stuff out, but would only obey commands if he got something out of it.
My first dog was a Keeshond. Smartest dog I ever owned, in just this way. Brilliant at figuring things out, totally not interested if there wasn’t a payoff. Mind you, sometimes the payoff was the figuring out, but usually not. Of course, the dumbest dog I ever owned, my 3rd, was also a Keeshond. Good natured beyond even what’s typical for that breed, but dumb as a box of rocks. I still miss him terribly, and it’s been 18 years [gods, really? OMG, yeah, 18 years. Sigh]
Little fuckers sure burrow into your heart, don’t they?
It’s only been a little over 3 weeks since we lost our sheepdog, but I’m still looking for him every damn day. I forgot how long that takes to fade.
13 English springer spaniel – great family dogs
Neat. Didn’t know Labs were that high. Guess that explains my Inky mutt.
Too bad Blue Laceys aren’t on the list, I would’ve liked to see where my passed on pup’s breed landed.
We need more time to complete our parallel construction
The Justice Department intends to unseal additional documents connected to the FBI search at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate but is urging a federal court to maintain the secrecy of the sworn affidavit describing the basis for the search.
The DOJ is particularly concerned that the release of details from the affidavit might harm ongoing efforts to interview witnesses, given the threats to federal agents in wake of the Mar-a-Lago search.
“If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” U.S. Attorney Juan Gonzalez and Justice Department counterintelligence chief Jay Bratt said in a filing urging the continued secrecy of the affidavit.
“The fact that this investigation implicates highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation and exacerbates the potential for harm if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or improperly,” the DOJ officials wrote.
Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
Shorter Version: Fuck you plebes, we’ll drag this out as long as we want and mark you for retribution if you dare question us on it.
https://twitter.com/YesSirHumphrey/status/1484033269670760451?s=20&t=3_beOPfGLMjopENoE5KvsA
Morning, Glibs.
Evenin, Straff
It’s still VJ Day here in the States.
Omedetou!
I don’t know what’s going on. I’m here to take the abuse for the evening’s article and AFAICT it’s not being published. No worries. All will (hopefully) be revealed tomorrow.
May as well give us a teaser while we’re waiting.
No. You definitely don’t want a teaser. You want to run away.
Hey, Richard! Haven’t seen you in a while, I think.
I pretty much only comment on my own articles. I just don’t have the time. To quote one of my heroes:
“Don’t any of you work?”
Both battery-powered devices of my jury-rigged off-the-grid home Internet setup are about to expire. If I disappear (poof!) suddenly that’s why.
It was scheduled for tonight at 7:00 CT, the WordPress says it was published, but I don’t see it in the feed.
IDK what is going on here. This is not Richard’s fault.
I’ve not had a squirrel incident before. This one is a doozy.
Today in AYFKM?
The Tennis Channel said it’s because she has an injury to recover from. But they will move heaven and earth to accommodate the wishes of the most darling of critical darlings there ever was.
Ratings over all…
It’s very frustrating when the matches I want to watch are always pre-empted by the matches I don’t want to watch.
I hate pretty much all the media darlings so yeah this happens a lot.
https://archive.ph/oDzvv/436bbf8c5cd52e62acc0026500585a4923dd79b8.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/CuTIS/564436093b6c1c6c3ccaa2cbc10b1292e7038962.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/kacon/b6bf77a732aa3306e4a9bb04cec68ea152b46ade.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/eEagy/a13a850c3d609b35c397151ec5eb0166304eca82.webp
NSFW.
https://images.i.thechive.com/__8ef37cd18555b610f3fd292b0ef75ed7_width-300.gif
Flying home today. I’ve go my bag in perfect order. Every shirt etc folded military grade. Wife: You have any space left in your bag?
I’m thinking, “Well, it’ll throw off the precision balance of weight. But OK.” I nod.
I’m expecting her to hand me an handkerchief or the like. Instead she hands me a hair dryer.
Like a regular hair dryer or a Spaceballs hair dryer?
Link provided: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0f5y1w7sZ0s