Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another absolutely amazing day and the links!
Biden White House facilitated DOJ’s criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims
Sources: GSA Packed Boxes of Documents Trump Brought to Mar-a-Lago, Not Trump Political Staffers
Fauci to retire by end of 2022 as GOP slated to retake Congress
Retrial of two men accused of plotting kidnap of Michigan Gov. Whitmer goes to jurors
Biden takes two-week break as vacation time outstrips Trump, Obama, Bush
97 percent of execs say US in recession despite Biden’s definition change
Half of US Companies Looking to Slash Jobs: PwC Survey
Dems in Deep Trouble: ‘Suffering Index’ Hits Highest in History of Measuring
American Academy of Pediatrics president backtracks on policy of medicalizing ‘trans’ youth
Trump’s Truth Social App Enjoys 550% Increase in Downloads Following FBI Raid of Mar-a-Lago
That’s all I got for today. I will leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Mornin’, Banjos — looks like Chaplin was grabbing that coworker for coffee to me…
“On Monday, after Trump had formally requested an independent review of the documents seized by the FBI during the raid, a source close to the former president confirmed to Breitbart News the veracity of Martosko’s claims and that the GSA indeed packed the documents prior to Joe Biden assuming the presidency.
According to the New York Times, sources close to the investigation claim that the government has received more than 300 documents “with classified markings” since Donald Trump left office.”
We’re never getting to the bottom of this.
This raid was done, by the same cuntes that lied for 4 years about mah Russia, because they needed to take away Trumps documents proving they are nothing more than a criminal entity working hand in hand with the democrats and the coopted legacy media. They have a new plan, another scam is coming, because they need to get rid of Trump without just dropping any and all pretense of not being a crime syndicate, or worse, being forced to kill him to get him out of the way. As Trump warned, the criminals are not after him, but after those of us that have had enough of the weaponized unaccountable criminal bureaucracy. He is just the guy they have decided to target to give all of us the message: don’t fuck with the syndicate, or else…
Next press release – “The boxes siezed by the FBI were empty all along!” after they burn the contents.
I’m sure they can find something to plant so they’re not just empty.
They got what they wanted – the files on how badly the FBI fucked up with Russian collusion hoax. That shit will be buried under the JFK files.
They have been focusing all their efforts on making sure the facts do not make it to the public despite the fact Trump declassified this shit for that sole reason and Durham is criminally investigating them for being the nastiest version of a politically motivated crime syndicate. If Trump can release these papers when they start their next hoax, they would really be fucked over trying to make that shit flinging show stick with anyone but the moron class. In fact, it would give those not in the moron class reason to say the system no longer can be trusted, period. They expected that raid to work in their favor. It blew up in their fucking face. I expect the desperation to give themselves cover and take down those resisting them in what passes for the crime syndicate’s justice and legal system to make things worse. A cornered animal, especially one that is rabid and corrupt, will not just take it lying down.
The cuntes will get away with it, because nearly half the people in this country are just fine with what’s happening, and even cheering it on.
The problem with totalitarianism is that the idiots attracted to it always cheer on their side wrecking their enemies, and never pick up the fact that sooner than later the machine comes for them as well….
They were so sensitive they had to be burned, before they could do more damage to public eyes. More dangerous than an eclipse.
Note the distinction between documents with classified markings, and documents that are actually still classified.
Nice catch.
You must be one them high-falutin’ lawyer types.
And the difference between charges under the NSA of 1947 (establishing the classification system and handling requirements) and the Espionage Act of 1917.
The plot, it thickens.
I am gonna bet there is nothing there unless they plant. After the “nukulur secrets!!!1!!eleventy!” shit, I know they are just flinging crap at the wall and hoping something, anything, sticks…
Well, the poo eaters are busily licking the walls.
“Biden White House facilitated DOJ’s criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims”
Obama weaponized the fucking bureaucratic state for a reason. and now that he has his third term, they are desperately using that weaponized criminal entity because they fear they will lose it all if the fucking unwashed masses don’t just shut the fuck up and do what they are told by their betters.
Juries really should be able to pronounce guilty verdicts against persons other than the defendant – in particular, lawyers in the courtroom, law enforcement, and the judge. “We, the Jury, find the FBI Guilty of entrapment and terrorism.”
There are other cases where I wanted the jury to convict the DA of malicious prosecution, and the judge for contempt.
I suppose it should be restricted to parties involved in the case or controversy before the court.
“We find the defendant not guilty, but find his attorney guilty, along with officer rodriguez.”
I used to be pro death penalty, but after seeing the abuses by government and DAs I simply can no longer trust these people, ever, to be fair in any way. In fact, I would never allow myself to be taken to court for anything other than a traffic ticket, because I have no faith in the fucking corrupt and broken legal system.
Given the contempt judges have for nullification and how many act like petty tyrants in their domains, can’t ever see that happening.
I don’t say it would. But if implemented, you would also need to take the power of jury selection out of the hands of the judge and the attorneys.
There was a Bloom County about that.
As far as I can tell, the only content from that I’ve read were linked from here. I came up with the idea watching trials and wishing for some way to punish the judge.
gocomics search engine absolutely sucks, or I’d link it.
Bloom County was amazingly prescient wrt wokeness
From 19-freaking-88
https://twitter.com/johnedwinmason/status/767853864011894789
une autre:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/30ogzh/offensensitivity_a_bloom_county_comic_strip_from/
Ah those glorious pre- social media days.
Not to mention the obsession with a minor celeb and property developer by the name of Donald…
Petit juries can’t do that, but apparently grand juries can broaden the scope of their criminal investigations. There was an article a few years back about a prosecutor who lost control of a grand jury and was not a happy camper. Investigating and publicizing that would be another worthy endeavor of the Fully-Informed Juror Association if those people still exist.
I’m still hiring.
remote?
See, not a recession.
This is a good indicator that a large number of jobs in the US are, how do you say, non-productive?
Fauci can “retire” (or “move to the next phase of his career”) all he wants. I still want the bastard prosecuted for illegally funding crap he explicitly wasn’t supposed to fund, fostering research and methods we’d never sanction, etc. I’m sure there’s a crap load. Shouldn’t collect his way-overly-generous pension, should rot in a prison cell.
Biden “governs” best like he campaigned best. Shut away in the basement doing the minimum of harm. Of course his staffers keep running the joint, so it is a minimal blessing… but I strongly suspect as the midterms approach, they’ll fall back to keeping the Gaffer in Chief well away from any cameras.
Re: recession — Don’t know these people before they popped up in my random feed (but hey… so did “Little Nicky”, which can only be described as “What drugs were the writers of this ON?!?”) for Youtube… but they make some pretty persuasive arguments that the real estate indicators are pretty clear that we’re most certainly in one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mes-gvmWQjg. Makes the job slashing inevitable. Joy… old enough that in my industry, have to seriously wonder if my position gets cut if it is even feasible to find another. Tech doesn’t like the older workers at all..
Heh… nice song. That’s a classic, definitely.
I do not get why people remain obsessed with this fucking idiot gnome. I say good riddance. May life take a giant dump on the asshole.
I hear what you’re saying, but it’s important to at least discredit him, and if we’re really lucky find something on which to indict him for, or fuck with his pension. Looking forward to congress subpoenaing him.
The Obama presidential directive (prohibiting funding GoF research) would have still been in effect even though Trump was president. It might be a stretch, but a charge of misappropriating govt funds would be nice.
Maybe the problem is mine in that I consider congressional hearing to be waste of time. Shit, after the Russia hoax, the 2 fake impeachments, and this J6 circs, I think the whole thing is a fucking joke. If we expect justice from our corrupt and broken system, we will just be disappointed. The crime syndicate has rigged the system to make sure they are never going to be held accountable. At this point I can’t see justice coming from such a rigged and corrupt system.
Andrew McCabe on line 2…
Black pill?
Even abused puppies didn’t bring him down.
Blacker pill? Tens of thousands of dead gay men not only didn’t bring him down, but the gay community became one of his fiercest defenders.
Lather rinse repeat for COVID Karens. Well said.
Shows whose dicks are really being sucked by the rainbow lobby. (pun most definitely intended)
How many tens of thousands of people did he kill by recommending remdesivir while blocking hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin?
https://thedcpatriot.com/fauci-recommended-remdesivir-over-safer-drugs-knowing-it-killed-54-of-test-subjects/
Not strictly related to the death dwarf, but a British doctor reviews a Thai study on Pfizer vax when given to 13-18 year olds.
Wait until you see the moron that takes his place.
Meaningless.
That is unless you believe the government never classifies anything with regard to its own culpability or embarrassment in dirty dealings.
At this point, I strongly expect the Pentagon Cafeteria menus to be Top Secret and disclosing them could reveal “methods and assets”.
Salt.
The.
Earth.
Where did you get the name of the cafeteria’s Sea Salt Dark Chocolate Caramel Trifle?
Very nice. :polite applause:
I hope it has beef, peas, and onions.
What is the price of salt these days? did it go up like everything else?
Nationals security is the cover you use to prevent the serfs from seeing how corrupt & criminal what you as a government entity are doing, is.
The very first test case before the Supreme Court, when the underlying materials were declassified, proved this exact point. It wasn’t about national security – the details that had been classified merely embarrassed the Air Force. But the Court upheld the law and protected the classification (without examining the details). So much for the vaunted independence of the judicial branch.
Once again, Yes Minister/Yes PM has the answer
https://twitter.com/YesSirHumphrey/status/1484033269670760451
“The presidency is a nonstop job that chief executives can do from anywhere in the world,” White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told the Washington Examiner during Biden’s stay in South Carolina.
We can fuck things up from anywhere.
So why are we paying vast sums of money for the President’s DC office? Just give him a laptop and a cell phone, right?
I mean, his handlers are ruling in his place anyway. Why even bother with the pretense? Just have FJB sign a Power of
attorneyPresidency and make it official.Then they would have to name names.
When I think ‘digital nomad’ an octogenarian government official isn’t usually the first thing to spring to my mind.
Our GC just issued a policy (which they claim is not new) that forbids any of our employees from working remotely from outside the U.S. “for several reasons, including potential tax issues”. If there really are such tax issues–which I am skeptical of–then how does POTUS manage it? We don’t have a state income tax, so any reference to tax issues has to be related to federal taxes.
Possibly taxes to the foreign country, designation as an employer in that country, work visa issues, and reporting requirements.
The President probably falls under exemptions or specified treatment under US law, and temporary , legal, or diplomatic exemptions in foreign countries.
Gustav gets it. I saw what happened when employees returned to home countries during COVID to work remote. If the company doesn’t have an office there and know the tax laws, it gets real expensive to hire tax lawyers and CPAs to figure it out for you.
I think there’s also a bit of fuck you in that coworkers and management chains got pissed when some employee figured out how they can do their job to standard, from a beach in a low cost country.
(In addition to actual complications and reasonable what if’s)
There are rumors in my company that some in essentially low workload remote positions have picked up second remote jobs to maximize income/benefits.
I asked GC if that meant that faculty leading a study abroad program could not check their email while they were away. I got conflicting answers.
Good days my friends!
Its covfefe and golf, shame about the economy.
According to their plan for the future of humanity where the masters keep the new serf class in check, the economy is doing great. Their efforts to really grind the blue collar middle class into extinction is going swimmingly…
Can’t argue with that
“American Academy of Pediatrics president backtracks on policy of medicalizing ‘trans’ youth”
These people have sold out to the political crime syndicate and adopted their talking points & agenda for research funding. That’s what the people that claim they are about science think science should be like. It’s a fucking religion, and a dark and evil one at it.
“American Academy of Pediatrics president backtracks on policy of medicalizing ‘trans’ youth”
Unfortunately, both the letter and the original article at WSJ are behind a paywall.
“Szilagyi and the AAP now agree that “the vast majority of children” subject to “gender-affirming care” should NOT be medicalized. “
What’s this vast majority BS? How about “absolutely no children” should receive medical transition “treatments”.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-american-academy-of-pediatrics-dubious-transgender-science-jack-turban-research-social-contagion-gender-dysphoria-puberty-blockers-uk-11660732791?st=05gmne3cy7jddw6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trans-gender-pediatric-aap-kids-children-care-surgery-affirm-treatment-11660942086?st=tqiu4marj3hdpk6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
There’s an article on Quillette today regarding the AAP’s about-face on this policy. Apparently the rank-and-file in the organization don’t like the idea of authoritarian pronouncements (and the possibility of horrendous lawsuits down the road).
Goddamnit this stupid fucking hot weather won’t end. And the worse is that the lows are high. last year at this time the lows were like 13C it cooled down during the night. Now the just don;t want to get bellow 20c. The highs of 30-31C would be more bearable if the lows were under 15C
*Houston pats Romania on its adorable little head*
Where I live, we will consistently have lows of 25c and highs of 34-35c for the next several weeks. Unless a hurricane comes through to cool everything off.
sounds dismal… to me at least
I’d have assumed he would have ascended in a chariot of fire.
I’d wager he’s scuttling away in fear of prosecution.
nonsense aint no way the deep state prosecutes mister Fauci. Not that any give a shit about him, but think of the precedent
“Dr. Fauci returned to his home planet, never to be seen again.”
I hear American Sports talking heads like mr. Colin cow maintenance specialist saying US athletes like Florida due to the weather. The weather looks awful to me. Daily low of 27 meaning it is never a pleasant temperature for months on end.
I’m not sure what 27 refers to (presumably some arcane French measurement system), but I live in Florida and can report that it lacks the gloomy overcast winter weather that more northern states get. In summer it is often overcast when dramatic thunderstorms roll in, but not in such a way that induces seasonal depression. And they do cut the heat.
The next time some eurodoofus busts out the “metric is simpler!” canard, ask them why metric thread screws don’t match the allen key needed to tighten them?
As a technician for a line of British paintball guns, I got used to it. They’re still whole numbers at least. “Take your 2mm hex key and remove the solenoid valve cover” is still easier than “Where’s the damn magnifying glass so I can tell if this is a 1/16 or 5/64?”
There’s another pet peeve of mine – no human scale grips on the tiny allen wrenches. How am I supposed to apply torque if the implement is going to cut me before the screw moves?
Gloves.
Then I can’t pick up and align the allen wrench.
The aforementioned line of guns has a few air passages that are plugged with M3 grub screws secured by about a gallon of red Loctite each, as well as one extremely tiny imperial grub screw whose size I can’t recall right now, so I have a lot of experience with that. My advice: Lots of heat, do not use the long end of the hex key, and clamp the corner of the “L” of the key in an adjustable spanner or vise grips – the last bit is what gives you sufficient torque. T-handle keys can also be helpful, but they’re often too long, and the handles are often cheap plastic that snaps too easily to remove anything requiring a lot of torque.
Putting red Loctite on a 3mm fastener is proof positive of bad design.
The design itself really doesn’t even necessitate that level of thread locker, it’s just there to maintain air fastness in a transfer channel bored into a hunk of aluminum at ~60-90 PSI. When I remove them I always replace it with blue and have yet to have a leak in just over 20 years.
Hex driver sockets?
In my experience the really small ones snap more easily than big box hardware store chinkshit drill bits.
T handle hex keys.
Meh, that’s just poor (if very common) design. I used to have an X-ray Diffractometer that only used two different sized fasteners for the entire thing. That’s how things should be.
But I’ve been burned when I ordered some M5 screws because I was using a 5mm wrench to tighten them. Boy was I embarrassed.
not sure what an allen key is but it may be what we call imbus in Romania
hex key?
It’s a hexagonal metal rod with a 90 degree bend in it that is always the wrong size.
^is obviously a dilettante. If you can’t tell the difference between a 2, 2,5, 3, and 4mm by sight, you need to tinker moar. And 6mm is visibly different than 0.25″, though you can sometimes get away with interchanging them for tube fittings and the like.
I bet you can tell if something is ‘shopped from the pixels because you’ve seen a lot of ‘shops in your time.
3mm? 4mm? What giganto-things are you tinkering on?
I did once fab a $600 part with a four week lead time out of a cleanroom pen. Boss was not impressed at year-end review time. Asshole.
At your hourly rate, it was probably cheaper to buy the part.
It looks like a queen-sized canopy bed had a baby with an Iron Lung and slapped some laz0rz on it. The techs were bitching that the KVM mounting was “too floppy.”
They also like it for tax reasons.
I mean, if you want to be outside you can still be outside in Florida in the morning or evening in summer. You cannot really be outside for any amount of time in say, Minnesota in the middle of January.
I though having the right eldritch runes on a hockey stick gave one immunity to cold
I guess I am forgetting about hockey because it’s not a thing in MD, but any other sport goes away in the winter.
Agreed. I hear that in relation to tennis all the time. Most of the American players live in Florida. I think they’re fucking nuts.
I can’t stand summer in NYC and it just gets worse and worse as you travel south.
When I played organized sports in high school (central Florida) we used to practice early in the morning during summer months. And drink lots of water. Same reason roofers usually start work at 7am here.
I live in the Deep South and wouldn’t want to live in Florida. It’s hotter than Hell here but it’s hotter than the Devil’s balls there and twice as muggy.
Daily low of 27
I do long for winter temperatures.
“UN diplomat from South Sudan claims diplomatic immunity and is RELEASED from NYC jail after ‘raping woman twice in her apartment after spotting her walking a dog'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11135835/UN-diplomat-South-Sudan-followed-woman-Manhattan-apartment-raped-twice-released-cops.html
What the Dickens?
I’d really hope that if the diplomat got wacked before he could get on a plane that a NYC jury would nullify.
That is weird. Only Ambassadors and other big shots have unrestricted diplomatic immunity. Embassy staff only have diomatic immunity as it relates to their official job duties.
Either way, the government of South Sudan will formally waive his immunity and ship his ass back to the States for trial.
What god is diplomatic immunity if you can’t use it to bang whatever poon you want?
GO UN!
Weird
A couple weeks ago, my truck was stolen. This wasn’t just any truck. It was a 1999 Toyota Tacoma that I owned for 20 years. I bought it used back when I was a teenager, and it was my primary mode of transportation for basically my entire adulthood. Sure, it was dented. It was rusting. It was starting to fall apart. But I loved that truck.
Then, in the dead of night, in front of our apartment in San Francisco, poof, it was gone. I moved to this city almost exactly a year ago — and this is the third time the truck was either stolen or broken into since I arrived. Which is weird: It was never broken into or stolen in the 19 years before. That includes the years I lived and parked my truck in rough parts of Brooklyn.
Something something more of what you reward.
“Walmart is set to pay $4.4million in damages to a man who sued the store, saying he was racially profiled and harassed by a Walmart employee at a Portland, Oregon, area store in 2020.
On Friday, August 19, 2022, a Multnomah County jury awarded $400,000 in non-economic damages and $4 million in punitive damages against Walmart — the claimant’s lawyers said it was the largest discrimination case in Oregon history.
According to the lawsuit the employee ‘spied’ on Dovey Mangum while shopping, ordered him to leave and called police when he refused.
Mangum, who was 59 at the time, visited the Walmart in Wood Village on March 26, 2020, to buy a light bulb for his refrigerator.
The litigation was a landmark test of a recently passed state law allowing lawsuits against anyone who improperly calls law enforcement with the intent to discriminate, his lawyers said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11136309/Walmart-ordered-pay-Oregon-man-4-4M-racial-profiling.html
That bill was sponsored by the Oregon Union of Mind Readers and Psychics.
And underwritten by the Trial Lawyers Association.
Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another absolutely amazing day
Meh.
Last work day for the next couple of weeks for me – vacation time starts at 4:30pm.
Alaska’s snow crabs have disappeared. Where they went is a mystery
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/alaskas-snow-crabs-have-disappeared-where-they-went-is-a-mystery
The theories are many. The crabs moved into Russian waters. They are dead because predators got them. They are dead because they ate each other. The crabs scuttled off the continental shelf and scientists just didn’t see them. Alien abduction.
They weren’t abducted, they went home.
+ So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
They moved to Russia because they were tired of American politics
So season 97 of Deadliest Catch is canceled?
Last year they canceled king crab season. I should probably catch up on my Deadliest Catch viewing
Sam Harris, religious fundamentalist
Voltaire claimed to have offered only one prayer to God in his life, and that it was granted to him: “Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” I’m convinced Trump possesses a copy of the same prayer book.
The sad fact is that the criminal enterprise that passes for the US fed government is, by the virtue of the fact that it is a cauldron of progressive stupidity, where the inept with the dumbest ideas and a total lack of any real life skills of value, go to thrive and feel important. Things are bad because these people are simply idiots, but things would be really, really bad if they had even a minor modicum of competency.
Trump was simply the harbinger of the authoritarianism to come – precisely because the govt refuses to be accountable. Not that authoritarianism is going to really work better, but because the status quo just can’t hold.
The North Carolina DOT is eminent domaining 27 homes, 5 businesses and a church to make room for a Vietnamese electric car company.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article264660354.html
What does the DOT have to do with a car manufacturer?
“We have eminent domain authority.”
It’s an industrial park area and they’re expanding the infrastructure on their behalf.
Eminent domain should not apply to private businesses.
funny
[waves hands furiously] but, but there’s public benefits!!!
So sense in letting Kelo just sit there and go to waste.
This would have happened even without Kelo. They’re expanding the exit ramp and highway for increased traffic. What they and other DOTs do all the time. Fytw.
Biden White House facilitated DOJ’s criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims
Listen, Jack. We only learned about this when we saw it on CNN. The DOJ is completely independent.
Fauci to retire by end of 2022 as GOP slated to retake Congress
Convenient.
I wanted to see Rand Paul personally cuff and perp-walk Fauci for lying to Congress and breaking every law Congress passed against gain-of-function research.
Did Congress pass a law against it? That would be very clear misappropriation of funds.
They did last year. Before that there were administrative prohibitions against it – which Fauci skirted by outsourcing it the Chinese. That worked out really well.
Exactly, Congress closed the barn door after the horse was long gone. No ex post facto, not even for the little gnome.
Haul him before an administrative court with no representation or due process then. It’s good enough for us proles.
He’s probably lied under oath enough times to warrant some sort of punish— LOL I almost got it out.
The case of two men being tried a second time in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer went to jurors Monday.
Curious considering it is known that it was the FBI that plotted to kidnap the governor.
Precisely why they need this sham trial. The hope is they find a bunch of idiots to give them some kind of guilty verdict, so the propaganda machine can rewrite the story to pretend this was not an FBI entrapment operation, for political gain and driven by political motives, from the get go. If it fails they will just bury the facts and make the whole thing go away.
Analyzing the failure of the private market to beef up anti-theft technologies in cars, the economist Simon Field wrote in 1993 that the problem was that drivers lacked strong incentives to take precautionary measures. “In practice, there is very little incentive for individual owners to prevent auto theft, since most of the costs fall in the form of insurance premiums and government expenditures rather than in the form of losses falling to individual owners,” Field wrote. In other words, why invest in car security when, on the off-chance your car gets stolen, taxpayers will foot the bill for the police work and your insurer will compensate you for any losses? Economists call this “moral hazard,” which refers to the lack of incentives to shield yourself against risks when you’re protected from the consequences.
Meanwhile, Field argued, car manufacturers had little incentive to provide built-in security devices, like engine mobilizers, because insurance-protected consumers apparently didn’t demand them. “In the current automobile market, the incentives on individual car owners to secure their vehicles are so low that manufacturers have little incentive to research and develop more effective security measures,” Field wrote. As a result of this market failure, Field recommended that the government mandate better security technology for all new cars.
Market failure. Not shown: actual probability of 99.7% of Americans’ car being stolen.
There’s nothing a government edict won’t fix.
Clearly more regulations and inconvenience on non-stolen cars will fix the problem of stolen cars!
Clearly Simon Field has never had his car stolen. Anybody who thinks having your car stolen and replacing it (and all its contents) is a minor nuisance, is a moron.
An expert’s point of view on a current event.
Why Quantum Computing Is Even More Dangerous Than Artificial Intelligence
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/21/quantum-computing-artificial-intelligence-ai-technology-regulation
The world’s failure to rein in the demon of AI—or rather, the crude technologies masquerading as such—should serve to be a profound warning. There is an even more powerful emerging technology with the potential to wreak havoc, especially if it is combined with AI: quantum computing. We urgently need to understand this technology’s potential impact, regulate it, and prevent it from getting into the wrong hands before it is too late. The world must not repeat the mistakes it made by refusing to regulate AI.
100 years from now when they figure out how to make a quantum computer of more than 1 qubit that doesn’t require a liquid nitrogen bath to run, I guess I’ll have to update my encryption algo.
I don’t get why people would want to intern with us. Not just my agency but my group within the agency.
Then I see that our new intern is only three years younger than me. (Mind you, I’ve been at the state 14.5 years now 🙁 ) I’m wondering if I should go find his resume and see if there are insights into the unusual timing of the internship. Note – I didn’t hire him, and I’m not his supervisor, so this is all idle curiousity.
I don’t get why people would want to intern with us – fame, big bucks, travel, easy pussy. the usual.
If those are his motives, this move was an utter fail. We’re obscure, pay crap, have no travel, and interactions with women are liable to cause a complaint to HR if you even acknowledge they’re anything but a fellow drone.
men are drones. women are all queens.
This is the civil service, there are no queens. And if there were, we’d be obligated to treat them identically to the drones.
Say fifteen “hail Hochuls” and report for remedial DIE training. v
*files out of title greivance*
He might be the notorious hacker 4chan, there to steal the pensions. See if he starts scattering thumb drives around the office.
Daily Quordle 211
5️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
Chessle 192 (Normal) X/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟩🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
https://jackli.gg/chessle
I am aware of this opening, but I don’t play the first move as white or the second move as black, so this exact order isn’t something I see. Although I still should have got it.
Chessle 192 (Normal) 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
https://jackli.gg/chessle
Standard opening (which I play as White) but reached via a very odd move order – after Black’s first two, White’s third is strange, and then after White’s third Black has better alternatives IMHO.
Daily Quordle 211
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Look at Mr. Fancy here getting them in numerical order.
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Proxy war is going swimmingly
“I got a call from a nurse at a military hospital in [the Ukrainian city of] Dnipro,” Morris recalled. “She said the president of the hospital had stolen all the pain medications to resell them, and that the wounded soldiers being treated there had no pain relief. She begged us to hand-deliver pain medications to her. She said she would hide them from the hospital president so that they’d reach the soldiers. But who can you trust? Was the hospital president really stealing the medications, or was she trying to con us into giving her pain medications for her to sell or use? Who knows. Everyone is lying.”
Oh well, at least the soldiers are well-equipped and have AKs which I’ve been assured never jam due to dust, unlike Western weapons.
Another soldier in Ivan’s unit sent us a video of himself from a trench near the frontlines in Donbas. “According to documents, the government has built us a bunker here,” he says. “But as you see, there are only a few centimeters of a wood covering over our heads, and this is supposed to protect us from tank and artillery shelling. The Russians shell us for hours at a time. We dug these trenches ourselves. We have two AK-47s between 5 soldiers here, and they jam constantly because of all the dust.
“I went to my commander and explained the situation. I told him it’s too hard to hold this position. I told him I understand this is a strategically important point, but our squad is broken, and no relief is coming for us. In 10 days, 15 soldiers died here, all from shelling and shrapnel. I asked the commander if we could bring some heavy equipment to build a better bunker and he refused, because he said the Russian shelling could damage the equipment. Does he not care that 15 of our soldiers died here?”
Tard Tuesday: We’ve Got Him This Time!
It’s telling that they think this is of any actual significance.
They want people to believe it is.. because that’s the likely next hoax they plan to spring on us all…
Good thing nobody ever did this with their emails when they were requested.
Noticed it’s framed as ‘stolen docs’….whatever they are smelling their armpits
Tard Tuesday: I Understand Christianity Better Than Christians: Episode 1,569,586,204
Hilariously ironic coming from that cohort as well. “You’re not supposed to celebrate when your ideology achieves victory through the courts, now bake the cake you bigot!”
It’s breaking right now on Maddow and O’Donnell that trump himself…
personally went through the stolen docs to see which ones to keep and which one to give back to the FBI.
Was he on the phone with Putin, asking for advice?
Vlad was telling him which ones to declassify and which ones to keep classified but hide in Melania’s underwear drawer.
What a dick.
Democrats penis-bombed Sarah Palin.
Sarah will get the last laugh in November.
I haven’t seen her lately, but there was a time when I’d absolutely volunteer to penis-bomb her.
The non-misogynist party, everybody.
A biotech company wants to take human DNA and create artificial embryos that could be used to harvest organs for medical transplants
https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-human-embryos-dna-mouse-medical-transplants-2022-8
I think I saw that movie. And still say it is a shame to clone a perfectly good Scarlett Johansson just to harvest organs.
She’s welcome to harvest my organ.
Russians With Attitude podcasters offered this cyberpunk explanation: “One of the most common methods of illegal drug dealing in both Russia and Ukraine is dead drops arranged through deep web marketplaces & apparently the SBU is recruiting drug couriers who do those dead drops for sabotage purposes.”
https://twitter.com/TPSGunsSeized/status/1561735577757704196
As far as can tell, this isn’t a parody account.
Were they handing out free tetanus shots as compensation?
First reply
Drop that thing in a pillowcase and whack somebody upside the head with it and you could do some damage.
We keep telling the government about our boating accidents
There’s the proof
Cry havoc and let loose the tits of war!
https://archive.ph/sv4kd
Titty Tuesday.
Clown. World.
Live seafood ‘tested’ for Covid-19 in China
Source: South China Morning Post (Youtube)
At some point we need to scale back the covid hysteria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkCwFkOZoOY
Obey the rediculous mandate, peasant. Demonstrate your fealty and submission.
The virus can “survive” in seawater?
Never Forget!
That the CCP is Evil?
How can I?
Hysteria yesterday, hysteria today, hysteria FOREVER!!!
Nothing outside the hysteria, everything for the hysteria, nothing against the hysteria.
LA is actively advertising to get pets tested also…it isn’t just China, but it’s surrogate State of California too.
Ben & Jerry’s fails to stop sales in Israeli settlements
That was laughable.
I think the parent company needs to give B&J management a good spanking.
Seeing a surge of Kia and Hyundai thefts in their city, the Milwaukee City Council recently wrote a letter to their parent company. “We write to ask that KIA Motors America Inc., make fundamental changes to the mechanisms used to secure its vehicles,” the city council wrote. “We do this not only in the interest of protecting the property and persons of those who purchase your vehicles, but to try and do something to lessen the drain on police and other resources that seems directly attributable to certain defects in their locking system.” Kia and Hyundai are reportedly now, as of 2022, making all their vehicles come standard with immobilizers.
*outright prolonged laughter*
“Our city is a lawless shithole, and it’s your fault.”
Remote kill switches and “secure its vehicles” do not belong in the same article.
Is Yusuf anywhere near Milwaukee?
The ice cream maker’s board argued that its social mission could be undermined.
By selling ice cream to Joos. Good grief.
You know who else wouldn’t let (((them))) eat ice cream?
“You ain’t black.”
Where’s Trump at? #FJB
https://twitter.com/Yogalnstructor/status/1561581566232387584
solid marble cowboy hats are a thing it seems
Ain’t gonna blow off, that’s for sure.
https://pjmedia.com/culture/athena-thorne/2022/08/22/soulless-greens-are-trying-to-ruin-scotch-whisky-n1622956
*racks AK*
No life enjoyment allowed. No meat, no scotch, no tobacco, no fun…
For you and the other serfs…
They plan to keep the right for themselves to do anything they want, however.
Along with golf, tartan, and the highland bagpipe, Scotch is Scotland’s great gift to the world.
Wow, somebody’s never read How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It.
Whisky must have been their penance.
Can’t ruin drink that is already undrinkable.
GET BEHIND ME SATAN!
but but but peated whisky is best whisky
Correct.
You’re gonna need an AK. I have a Romanian made one I can loan you.
Who wants to tell him?
Eric Swalwell
It’s not like separation of church & state is in the Bill of Rights or anything …
The Hill
.@GovRonDeSantis: “The purpose of our school system should be to educate our kids, not to indoctrinate our kids. […] We’re going to teach real history. We’re going to teach them the truth. […] They need to understand that our rights come from God, not from the government.”
Lordy, the man might just be stupider than Maxine Waters.
I remember watching a political debate and the republican woman said “Separation of church and state is not in the Constitution”.
The audience, moderator, and opponent all laughed at her.
I told this to a fellow Marine the next day and he couldn’t believe she was stupid enough to think that.
I got a nice dinner from betting him he couldn’t show me where it said that.
To be fair to Swalwell, separation of Representatives and Chinese honeypot spies isn’t in the Constitution.
I’m sure the fact checkers will say the separation is in an amendment not the Constitution proper: mostly true.
Those dipshits I smacked down on Twitter were getting paid and my dumb ass did it for free!?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/un-recruited-over-100000-digital-first-responders-push-establishment-covid-narrative
At this point if you don’t know that the governments pay people to flood social media with propaganda and target contrary narratives, you haven’t been paying attention.
WEF delenda est
Wasn’t this a problem when Russia did the same?
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!!!
Hell, the CDC is paying thousands each to individual influencers to push the vaccines.
Arkansas cop seen kneeing, face punching then grabbing hair of person & smashing person’s head into cement
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1561477349488484352
I mean I assume there is not much to keep one entertained in Arkansas
It was a white guy, nobody cares.
Beat me to it.
When they all look up simultaneously and see the camera…
I’ve seen enough 30 second Twitter clips distorted into oblivion to reserve judgment though.
Two hands on his head and smashing it into the pavement is enough for me.
It’s not exactly an accepted method for restraint.
Officer Moe Howard
True, but if it comes out a week from now that the guy was cranked up on blow, crashed his car into a daycare center, and the cops had just pulled him off a woman mid-rape, I A) wouldn’t be the least bit surprised, since it seems those cases are the only ones police brutality activists ever want to highlight anymore, and B) I could be talked into caring less than I did about, say, the Kelly Thomas or Dillon Taylor killings.
That’s an interesting thought experiment – would we be equally offended if the victim here had been fucking his 7-year-old stepdaughter? And why or why not?
Nope, if we start carving our “well in this case…” it just means we are okay with some boots on necks and that is just as bad as “I believe in X amendment…but….”
I tend to agree. Even if someone is such a shitbag that they deserve street justice, the police shouldn’t be the ones dishing it out.
You know the scene in A Time To Kill when the prosecutor badgers Samuel L. Jackson’s character on the witness stand about his motivation for killing the two men who raped his daughter until he finally screams “Yes they deserved to die, and I hope they burn in hell!”? Welp, that’s a pretty universal human experience. The last several years have soured me on high minded idealism and autistic libertarian purity tests. We already live in a lawless society. There is no justice. There is not even a cheap facsimile thereof. Evil people are allowed to commit evil with impunity. The law is so morally dyslexic that very often it is the victim rather the perpetrator of a crime or misdeed who is punished. If some asshole who richly deserves to catch a beating catches a beating, I can no longer be counted on to give a shit, much less to come to his defense. Think of it as pre-trial jury nullification.
Personally I’d be happy to beat the shit out of him. That doesn’t give the police license to do so. Wear that badge and you better have more restraint.
That’s Fort Smith, Arkansas which is almost in Oklahoma.
It’s generally a low-crime area. Seems the cops got bored.
Would be interesting to see the whole thing from the beginning.
So we can see if he deserved to have his head smashed into the concrete or not?
Sure. It’s even slightly possible that he did deserve to have his head smashed into the concrete.
Good to know the “evil” in your name is literal.
So you’re 100% certain that the guy on the bottom of the pig-pile didn’t have a blade that he was trying to get to? Or you don’t think that a knife at extremely close quarters is a deadly threat?
I readily admit that this looks like attempted murder under color of authority. My own initial reaction was to check if the background was safe for three fast headshots. But I’m always going to be open to the possibility that I’m wrong.
Where I was going. If he produced a weapon or grabbed a cop’s weapon and didn’t release it then maybe…
There’s three of them. One to sit on him holding the cuffs and one on each arm. Instead, two of them chose to beat on him. Regardless of what happened prior to the video, it seems pretty obvious to me that this went into “you will respect mah authority” territory. And their reaction when they saw they were being recorded speaks volumes.
…then maybe he deserves an ass beating?
To be clear, that’s basically where I am as well. I would hope that none of you would mistake me for a cop-sucker, but seeing as I’ve been away a while it may be worth restating. I also don’t get riled up when a cop gets plugged, and for the same reason. But we’ve done this dance before. Like, a lot. If they beat the fuck out of this guy just because he was insufficiently obsequious or whatever other bullshit reason they’ll make up, then they go into the “richly deserved beating” category I mentioned earlier, and I probably couldn’t be persuaded to shed any tears for them even if they were forced to watch their wives get raped in front of them and then beaten to death with their own truncheons. On the other hand, I’ve been burned enough times by 30 second twitter videos that I’ll reserve judgment until more facts are known.
I’m firmly in the camp that cops should not be afforded any privilege or deference beyond what any “civilian” would receive. With that in mind, would I vote to convict you if you were up on attempted murder charges and it turned out you were tangling with a guy who lunged for your concealed firearm or pulled a knife on you and you tore his ass apart? Nope. I wouldn’t.
The objective is to get the cuffs on the dude right?
The guy in the middle actually seemed to be trying to hold the guy down and get hold of the guys arms to cuff him.
His partners were no help in his efforts with their punching/kneeing and slamming his head into the ground.
Had the one on the legs put his weight down on the dude’s hips, the one in the front putting his weight on the shoulders, dude in the middle could have slapped the cuffs on in about 10 seconds.
“10 year-old girl is the youngest trans model to walk New York runway”
https://twitter.com/lgbtqnation/status/1561519032989270016
No.
Disgusting, the kid’s parents should be in prison.
Just in case child modeling and youth beauty pageants weren’t fucking creepy enough…
Kid looks like Eddie Munster btw. Thanks mom and dad.
Nothing but creeps and weirdos.
Leave the kids alone.
Diversionary tactics
In years past, it would have been a political Waterloo moment for Republicans: President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats racing frantically to finalize sweeping legislation to hike taxes on corporations and spend trillions on climate change and health care subsidies.
But instead of mounting a massive grassroots opposition to tank or tar the Inflation Reduction Act, conservatives and right-wing news outlets spent the past week with their gaze elsewhere: the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion.
Hundreds of them gathered instead outside Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in South Florida to protest what they viewed as an egregious example of federal government overreach. Back in Washington, conservative activists did rally against the bill and targeted vulnerable Democrats in ads. But even the main organizers conceded that they had little time to muster the opposition-party gusto of years past.
“Everything was moving so fast, the tax provisions were being debated on the fly, so there was very little time for groups to do that in-depth grassroots pushback like we saw during Obamacare,” said Cesar Ybarra, vice president of policy at conservative grassroots organization FreedomWorks. “To create buzz in this town and for it to penetrate across America, you need more time. So yeah, we got rolled.”
5D chess. Democrats run rings around those dopey deplorables.
I’ve seen ads for Elaine Luria that tout the fact she voted for the “Inflation Reduction Act”.
I thought they would know that could turn into an albatross, so that surprised me a little.
I’m not sure it matters in her case, she’s been faithfully doing her duty on the 1/6 committee for Pelosi. She’ll be judged on that come November.
Who is the GOP running against her anyway? I’m officially no longer in that district, which is unfortunate because I wanted to vote to end her career.
I can’t remember her name, but Tim Scott is in her ads.
Luria’s ads against her are showing the devastated people after Roe was overturned(seriously, these people look like their child has died) and letting us know this woman tweeted out the she “applauds this decision”
Ah, it’s Kiggans.
She’s going to run on MOAR MILITARY MONEY. No surprises there.
I was not aware until I looked it up just now that 0 Republicans voted for that pile of shit. I was half-expecting my sometimes squishy GOP creature to have voted for it.
Heh.
Footage Of FBI Raid On Castle Mar-a-Lago
WEAR DAYDREAM | Official Miami Swim Week™ The Shows 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77EUNEpn-Jc
You know, I sure do like titties and asses
all men of culture do
I need to quantify that while I agree, I want mine on natural born females…
Rare bird last seen in Britain 22 years ago reappears – only to be killed by wind turbine in front of a horrified crowd of birdwatchers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350267/Rare-bird-white-throated-needletail-killed-wind-turbine-crowd-twitchers.html
sounds like something you would see in a cartoon
Pretty soon they’ll be using that argument for the culling of the human herd as well.
Bill Gates says “hello and get your booster”.
That’s all folks!!!
flew into a wind turbine
Or put another way, the bird was caught in a vortex caused by the giant machine and whacked by one of its rotating blades. Can’t wait until they’re all in a landfill.
I was driving and did not get a picture of a massive pile of broken blades lying in a field outside Amarillo. Where the Hell would you dispose of those? It’s like trowing away a one-piece building!
Here’s the pile near me that has been “being prepared for recycling” for about 6 years now.
It’s probably home to a group of rare chipmunks, and is bow a protected habitat.
I have to be honest, if wind farms weren’t a corporate welfare scam and were a great way of producing lots of energy, I wouldn’t give a single shit if they killed off 90% of the known extant bird species. It’s a fun cudgel to whack greenies over the skull with though.
That’s a fowl story.
You just had to wing a pun into it.
That’ll get Swiss’s feathers ruffled.
He thinks puns should be ill eagle.
Swiss may dive in here and give us a patience my ass, I’m gonna kill something stare.
I am egging on this pun stream.
NO FUCKING WAY!
I tell you these people are not just inept but evil. They lie constantly, knowing that their team will simply ignore the fact they are being played for fools, and think they will always be able to get away with it. The really fucking scary thing is that these scumbags keep pretending they are the good guys. They want to save democracy! No wonder they hate Trump and the people that see Trump as the guy that fights this evil cabal. Mark my words: they will sooner than later attempt to kill Trump, because he is a threat to their crime syndicate’s hold on power.
My guess is there have already been attempts, stopped by Secret Service before it got serious and not communicated to the press. It’s unnaturally quiet on that front, for years.
Sure, make documents retroactively illegal to possess and then prosecute based on possession of said documents. I doubt it’ll ultimately fly but it looks like they’re going to give it a shot.
Shit, they ignore the rest of the constitution, what matter if this time it’s ex post facto laws?
They know they’re lying.
We know they’re lying.
They know we know they’re lying.
They don’t care.
Great song, though I am more familiar with this version from my youth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giKeix3NsKg
I was driving and did not get a picture of a massive pile of broken blades lying in a field outside Amarillo. Where the Hell would you dispose of those? It’s like trowing away a one-piece building!
Ix-nay, bub. They’re saving the planet.
I just found a praying mantis in my bathroom. I took her outside. It’s kind of chilly out there, but it should warm up soon.
This is way off topic, but I am trying to remember the source of one of my favorite insults:
“you are the second biggest idiot in the world”
From a TV show in the 90’s, a guy in a hospital is dying and he tells the male nurse he had a disagreement with his friend Charlie years ago.
He has something he wants to tell him before he dies.
Nurse tracks down Charlie and the dying guy says, “Charlie, you’re an idiot. You are such an idiot, that if there was a contest for biggest idiot in the world, you would come in second.”
Charlie: “If I’m such an idiot, why would I come in second?”
First Guy: “Because you’re an idiot.”
Does anyone know this one?
Glibfit?
Damn, I was waiting for this to end with bloodshed and was disappointed…
“They have forgotten how to be free” – Vespasian justifies the imposition of taxes on the Greeks.
If somebody bumped off Trump, there would be people calling for a ticker tape parade.
They’d be rooting for a Presidential Medal of Freedom for the assassin.
Not the Bee.
Funny how these virtuous cuntes suddenly stop demanding unfettered immigration be allowed once they have to feel the pain of that idiotic stance, huh?
Immigration policy has been a disaster for over thirty years now. Why did it take so long for the border pols to come up with the idea of bussing them on? It’s clever and all but it doesn’t take Einstein to think of the idea.
The pols all had the honor among thieves mindset, and now some of them have finally realized that they’re no longer part of the club so they might as well burn their bridges.
Ages ago, a guy on talk radio in Cincinnati (700 WLW) was promoting the idea of taking homeless from downtown and bussing them to some of the more affluent suburbs. I think part of the promotion was that he was going to provide them with menthol cigarettes, lottery tickets, 40 oz beers, and a bus ticket.
The Cartman gambit
Nits were picked
Zatko’s complaint takes aim at a tweet posted in May by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, in which Agrawal said Twitter was “strongly incentivised to detect and remove as much spam as we possibly can.”
Zatko’s complaint says: “Agrawal’s tweet was a lie,” adding: “Agrawal knows very well that Twitter executives are not incentivised to accurately ‘detect’ or report total spam bots on the platform.”
The complaint says that Twitter executives are incentivised not to count spam accounts as “monetizable active users” (mDAUs), a metric Twitter provides to advertisers. However, there is little incentive to detect spam accounts in the huge numbers of accounts that do not count as mDAUS, the complaint says.
Twatter is a national treasure. Anybody would be proud to own it. It’s a bargain at twice the price.
“…monetizable active users,” is a delightful bit of corporate jargon…
“kinetic enforcement actions were carried out” is still one of my favorites.
“Deliberate ignorance was the norm among the executive leadership team,” the complaint says.
According to the complaint, Zatko in 2021 asked Twitter’s head of site integrity roughly how many accounts were spam, and was told: “We don’t really know.”
Zatko’s complaint also says Twitter deployed “mostly outdated, unmonitored, simple scripts plus overworked, inefficient, understaffed, and reactive human teams” to detect bots.
The complaint notes that Zatko started preparing his whistleblower disclosures in March 2022, before Musk signalled interest in acquiring Twitter.
They were too busy kicking real humans who wouldn’t tow the narrative lion off the platform to worry about bots.
So the new defense is “We are not evil fucking crooks, just inept ones”?
90% of tweets are from 10% of users. Take away those that are crazy, bots, and/or trolls and I’m sure your left with about <2% of heavy users being sane human beings. And yet corporations and other institutions still listen to them. I don't understand it. In the past corporations would estimate that one letter writer would equal a certain number of customers. I'm wondering if they ever updated those estimates to take into consideration the change in technology.
Submitted to Glibs legal counsel for comment (12 minutes):
Verdict Tossed After Attorney Bragged About It
Idiots gonna be idiots.
I thought lawyers were supposed to be smart. Yeesh!
At least the doctor that will most likely be sued again can sue the lawyer for the same amount his malpractice claim will be.
I know this will ruffle feathers here since we have a hospital attorney, several other attorneys, and since libertarians are generally anti-plaintiff as a rule, but just about every medmal case involves some slimebag defense attorney spinning the events and facts to distribute culpability for the death or maiming of a patient among as many people as possible in order to minimize or eliminate liability for their client. So-called “jackpot verdicts” are rarer than rocking horse shit, and there is a colossal mountain to climb as a plaintiff to seek redress. Meanwhile, medical errors are the third leading cause of death nationally.
So what’s the problem here, that the slimebag said the quiet part out loud? And how does his having said that after the conclusion of the case change the findings of the jury? He didn’t suggest he hid evidence, he suggested he basically spun the facts in favor of his client, which is what every defense attorney does. Hillary Clinton went on a fucking talk show and cackled about getting a child molester off the hook.
They used to be not so rare. My dad was a PI who did work for plaintiff medmal attorneys and they were VERY picky about what they took on, but they had enough to make a quadrazillion dollars.
Hospitals and surgeons now have safety procedures in place (e.g., marking the patient, second and third timeout procedures) in what used to be the really big stuff (e.g., doc on call on Christmas Eve being drunk and operating), so I’m not surprised to know the blockbuster suits are rare now, which is a good thing.
A successful, very well-funded, multi-decade, state-by-state lobbying campaign to cap punitive damages for medmal under the marketing name of “tort reform” certainly played a role as well. Team red did an especially good job whipping up their base with fantastical stories about quarter billion dollar judgments against honest, hard-working doctors as if they were the norm rather than an infinitesimally small exception, and convinced them they were sticking it to those dirty commie Team Blue trial attorneys. In reality, the mean payout on a medmal case is about $350k, and bear in mind that the majority of cases are settled before trial with confidential terms and may not be part of the dataset.
Sounds like bullshit.
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we’ve picked up actual sound. Here it’s amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!
^^
Gaseous Nebula says “pull my finger”
No justice, no indoctrination
Hundreds of staffers at American University in Washington, D.C., say they are planning to go on strike Monday over complaints of unfair working conditions and low wages.
The strike, which is scheduled to last for five days, comes after the university and its union did not reach an agreement on a new contract that provides employees with better wages and equity pay, according to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 500.
Currently, there are 550 staff members at the university — ranging from administrative staff, counselors, advisors, technicians and coordinators — who are represented by SEIU 500. More than 91% of American University’s staff voted in favor of the week-long strike, according to the union.
“Over almost two years of bargaining, the union has made multiple proposals around wages and equitable pay structures,” said Pia Morrison, president of SEIU Local 500, in a statement to NPR.
“The administration’s choice to walk away from negotiations and refuse to meet over the weekend gives staff little choice but to strike,” Morrison added.
SEIU says they are aiming to get raises for staff totaling 9% over two years. In addition, the union has also filed unfair labor practice charges against the university.
I’m sure the NLRB will be scrupulously impartial.
‘A Glibertarians Exclusive: Things Have Changed ‘
This was a great read, if you haven’t already, strongly recommend reading it. Strong vibes of cowboy bebop (space bounty hunters, a little gritty, a little comedic, in just the right proportions).
https://www.glibertarians.com/2022/08/a-glibertarians-exclusive-things-have-changed-i/
Tales from the Road #3: New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan, who won by about 1,000 votes last time, is running for re-election. Her tv ads stress “bi-partisanship” in working with Republicans in D.C. for fiscally responsible legislation, yadayadayada. Another ad brags, of course, about all the Fed largesse she’s brought to NH. One thing, and correct me if I’m wrong, I never saw Hassan mentioned along with Manchin as pushing back against the huge inflationary spending legislation of Dr. Jill’s husband. In fact, didn’t she vote for all that bullshit? Are the voters in the “Live Free or Die” state going to let the wool be pulled over their eyes again?
Is…Elon buying Disney now???
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1562105413977493504
That would be AWESOME for the lulz.