Well, the color change from peach to powder blue for my leisure suit bombed. I wasn’t quite invisible, but mostly what I got was stares, pointing, and wide avoidance. WebDom sympathized and opined that this wardrobe was just too hip for this hick town. But she’s the sort who always has a proposed solution when a problem arises. “Dad, what you need is a Nehru jacket. See this photo? That’s exactly what you’ll look like. What woman could resist?” She has a point. So I just ordered one from Amazon and we’ll see…
Birthdays today include a guy responsible for America’s worst rat-infested shithole; a guy whose work was described as “an unclear thoughtless flow of words”; the second sludgiest writer in the English language; a guy who was not a Weimarauner; a guy who was not Tony Perkins; an amazing piece of shit who would be our most evil president if it weren’t for Woodrow Wilson; a guy who had a pres pass; best baseball name ever; the guy who should have written I’m Your Captain; a guy you don’t want to sit next to at the movies; and my favorite chemistry student.
Now to Links.
He’s not westernsloper, but still… shut the fuck up.
“We gotta protect our phony baloney jobs!”
Here’s an idea: don’t live in fucking Turkey.
One more thing to worry about.
They don’t send us their best.
Old Guy Music is something I wasn’t allowed to post prior to SP’s passing (she had a massive phobia and couldn’t even abide the word “snake”; we had to call them “strings.”). But it’s a damn good song.
“Disco Jew” sounds like one of RJ’s movies.
Don’t give me ideas.
OMWC, Speaking of ideas, long beards are in. Wear some flannel, grow out the beard and maybe braid in some beads. Chicks dig it, at the very least you’ll get women touching your beard. It’s like carrying an adorable dog everywhere.
If the beard gets long enough — put an adorable dog in it. Win win!
Yes!
Disco Jew should be the Hebrew Hammers side kick.
Well crap — I thought my work was an unclear thoughtless flow of words most days.
Standing on the shoulders of giants again, I suppose.
Morning, OMWC. Still think you should try the line dancing outfit approach….
Cowboy boots never go out of style.
Not line dancing – that’s so ’90s! Where it’s at is SQUARE DANCING! 😃 And with this on the back, the Buffalo (or wherever) gals will follow you home!
Mathematicians would tell you it’s not line dancing but segment dancing.
That joke is so derivative…
Whwrever I’m dancing would be considered the local minima.
Your puns leave me breadthless.
I learned to play music so I never had to dance.
TBH, dancing is one of those things I never “got.” I understand that it’s something people enjoy, but it always seemed dumb and boring to me, so I never learned how and have less than zero interest in trying.
Good dancing is music.
https://youtu.be/C8YTNUgSz98?t=16
https://youtu.be/mP3l5QmWyIo?t=35
Oh, and that first link is definitely for Q
My buddy Cheech covers Snake Farm quite often at his shows and it turns into a rockin’ jam. Here’s an insane version recorded by yours truly. It even has psychedelic keytar in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KmgBshCXBk
He also does a great version of Drunken Poets Dream, this one with his country band and more like the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSKgWIOUR2E
The lead guitarist looks like he’d be fun to hang out with.
Dancing is pretty profound. The same mental skills involved seem to apply across everything requiring physical/social interaction. Which is why it’s such a good signal of sexual prowess.
Mornin’
Hegel had some interesting ideas. I can’t comment on his use of words because I can’t read German.
‘But she’s the sort who always has a proposed solution when a problem arises. “Dad, what you need is a Nehru jacket. See this photo? That’s exactly what you’ll look like. What woman could resist?” She has a point. So I just ordered one from Amazon and we’ll see…’
I actually have one of these (gifted to me) I can’t recommend enough, I was drowning in Hindu puss.
Rock on.
https://n3.sdlcdn.com/imgs/i/l/i/Hangup-Multi-Polyester-Blend-Nehru-SDL433469322-2-8a4f0.jpg
Where did you find my tinder photo?
Is your username yoni_guru?
Rocks on
Stay away from drunk Mexican-American women in Texas then apparently.
That USB cable is impressive work.
Kudos to the guy who built it.
Yeah, it’s impressive. Scarily so. I usually keep a usb charging cable in my purse, but have occasionally borrowed one.
No more of that. I’ll be getting name brand ones from reputable sources from now on.
There are ‘power only’ USB adapters, like https://www.startech.com/en-us/cables/usbschaamf
“UNRWA services 5.6 million refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, east Jerusalem, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. It has a $1.6 billion budget for 2022, of which $817 million is for core programming. To date, the organization has received $838m. in donations, just over half of the total amount, of which $573m. is allocated for core programming.
Money outside of core programming is used for emergency relief including food and cash assistance in the Palestinian territories, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.”
WTF is core programming?
Salaries. Primarily for their educational programs.
Now ponder that the UN is funding primary education in the West Bank which probably teaches that Jews are a sub-species and need to be eliminated.
That helps keep the grift going.
“I appeal today to member states who have reduced their funding to reconsider the impact of their decision on the region’s stability,”
Right, it is imperative to maintain the current stability of the region. My dictionary is a bit dated; is there a current one in which there is a definition of “stability” which corresponds to the situation in the ME?
Sounds like a threat to me.
Bingo.
That’s blatantly obvious. And he’s insulting Palestinians at the same time: “We can’t be held responsible for how we might react.”
As far as Powell goes, he’s at least headed in the right direction.
Those are rookie rates though, he’s got to pump those rates up!
Yea. Dave Smith makes the point on his podcast that they had to raise rates to 20 something percent to combat the inflation of the 70s. As someone born in 88, I imagine that’s why my parents insisted on me opening up a savings account at the bank to learn the value of saving and earning interest. That’d be laughable and downright irresponsible nowadays.
Little known fact about savings accounts, there’s typically restrictions on the availability of funds.
So if you have any reason to doubt the stability of the bank, don’t put your money in one.
I remember my mom buying a house in 1981 after my parents got divorced. The interest rate on the mortgage was 11%. If you want to pop the housing bubble, that right there will do it.
When I bought my first house in 1987, we got a 9.8% mortgage. It was the first time people were seeing sub-10% rates in a long time.
My (much younger) wife was horrified that we had a 3.25% interest rate on our house. She worked hard to get the rate down. Admirable, but amusing considering what it was like in the eighties.
Ah yes — “Keep bribing our ‘officials’ so we don’t shoot missiles into… *cough* oh wait… I mean, so we don’t produce children’s programming telling them to.. *cough* oh yeah, that too… I mean, so we don’t have a humanitarian crisis! Yeah, that’s it!”
If she can move away from Turkey with any of her money intact, that’s just gravy.
Re: Ukraine — No idea. Still don’t trust anything said by anyone on either side of that, and still think we should have (and should as soon as possible) stayed out of it. If our Ivy School Idiots hadn’t destabilized the region in the first place going back to the ’90s and didn’t want to use it to launder their own overseas assets (I assume based on reactions, no evidence there I grant), we’d all be better off. All the “The Dems did this!” crap over the last week from Strawberry Shortcake’s replacement makes me keep thinking: “The Dems destabilized the globe and have us closer to full on nuclear war than I can ever remember, and I grew up in the ’80s!” Who the hell would vote for these morons….
Oh for fuck’s sake… people have been warning about malicious USB cables for as long as there’s been USB. The downside to increasingly “smart” cables (that and Thunderbolt/USB-C is sometimes really persnickety about what it will recognize. Don’t use strange cables. Probably don’t trust the $3 ones at Walmart. Preferably, don’t manufacture them in China where the CCP is happy to insert spyware at bulk prices (fat chance, I know). Don’t use usb *ports* in public areas — use your own wall wart plugged into power. Don’t use it in the damned rental car especially. Come on people… this shit is known.
I don’t know… I’m getting goddamned sick of these snakes in this goddamn song… 😉 [Or however that quote went].
Watching a murder show about that Christopher Dorner dude.
No mention – not even a hint or allusion – to the Hispanic ladies that the cops shot up, thinking they were a gigantic bald black man.
Oh shush you
The cops were just ahead of the curve… What’s a woman? What’s ‘gigantic’? Are you follicaphobic? What’s black? (What’s white?)
What about dark
What about light
What about wrong
What about right
What about death
What about sin
What about the web you’re trying to spin
Gah… SF’d the damned link. What a shame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otn29pk-FvY
What about dark?
I only want to share it with you
What about dark?
Don’t let it slip away.
I thought they were Asian.
Maybe they were Asian Hispanic. Filipino?
LMGTFY
Dorner shot the Asian couple.
Must be Mandela effect. I thought it was two Korean ladies in a green pick up. It was 2 Hispanic ladies in a blue pick up.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/2-innocent-women-shot-during-manhunt-for-ex-cop-chris-dorner-had-no-warning/
I remember that whole manhunt. The memes were incredible. Christopher “Hide and Seek Champion” Dorner.
Cry more, pussies. If anyone deserves to be dissolved…
LSD is a helluva drug.
Bom dia,
So I found some pure liquid allulose and decided to make a few old fashioneds with it last night while working on my java coursework. Probably stayed up til 2, had a pretty strong buzz. So of course minime decided to wake up crying at 5:30 instead of his usual 6:30. Pretty envious of my friends whose toddler sleeps in til 8
“WebDom sympathized and opined that this wardrobe was just too hip for this hick town.”
Maybe she has a point, youre scaring them away with your too suave attire. Maybe tone down the suits, and go more casual with a turtleneck jumper
First one would also work as a Halloween costume for Moonbase Alpha… Nice.
He should walk i to the bar, cosplaying Space 1999, complete with theme music blasting on his phone.
The belt really makes it work, just like Hunter’s running shoes.
Well, the color change from peach to powder blue for my leisure suit bombed. I wasn’t quite invisible, but mostly what I got was stares, pointing, and wide avoidance.
I’m telling you. White like Leisure Suit Larry.
a guy you don’t want to sit next to at the movies
What if that’s your kink?
NB: That is not my kink.
Then if his performance pleases you, give him a hand, obviously…
What a jerk…
It really tugs at your heart.
Higher interest rates can restrain economic growth by making borrowing money more expensive and slowing consumer spending.
It doesn’t matter what the Fed does, with Biden doing everything he can to supercharge spending, both public and private.
I agree, feed policy didn’t fuck over inflation (outside of investment-grade assets) despite a couple decades of loose policy. 2 years of direct payments and an economic shutdown has caused this.
Mornin, OMWC and the rest of you reprobates.
Pee Wee Butts is a great baseball name, but not the best. That distinction belongs to Peter Marshall’s kid.
Izzat Franch?
How’d the joke go where Dick Van Dyke had changed his name from Penis Von Lesbian ?
Dick Pole says hold my … something…
But auto racing had this guy.
our most evil president if it weren’t for Woodrow Wilson;
FDR is up there too.
I was thinking Jackson should be considered as well. But yeah, I have no problem with Wilson, then FDR beating him out.
Jackson gets a bit of leeway for fighting the central bank. I like to joke that replacing him with Harriet Tubman on the 20 would be a win win. Jackson would probably hate being put on central bank currency.
What’s Obama? Chopped POS?
LBJ?
Lindberg and Jelly?
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Ugh
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I have to wonder: how long does it take to tune this instrument? I’m thinking a while, even if it’s been kept in good tune
Yeah, that is a lot of strings, but the sound makes it worthwhile. That is a gorgeous tune.
Interesting. No frets under the bass strings. You’d have to tune them to the key the song is in.
I’m no musician but I was wondering that based on the fingering. Thanks for confirming.
Beautiful composition and playing, thanks for sharing Penguin.
I love classical guitar, and view this as related. See below for Albinez’ Asturias, performed by Ana Vudovic, who is quite a gifted guitarist.
I love this song by Albinez. Also, the woman playing it is rather pretty.
Caught a version of this on the Sirius Baroque program a few weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3SVrrx7UPM
A dancer with castanets! Nice – thank you, Toxteth.
On it.
Also good advice:
Salmonella and all.
Cook it first?
Dutch Oven?
But the yogurt! And the ceramics!
“Anything to declare?”
“Yeah, don’t go to England.”
whaddup doh’
whats goody yo
Press secretary Humpty Dumpty
The actions of some Republicans allied to former President Donald Trump fit the definition of fascism, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Friday, a day after President Joe Biden said they edged toward “semi-fascism.”
“I was very clear when laying out and defining what MAGA Republicans have done and you look at the definition of fascism and you think about what they’re doing in attacking our democracy. … That is what that is. It is very clear,” Jean-Pierre told a press briefing.
We’re all fascist, now.
They want a civil war. That’s all I can figure at this point.
This is another step in trying to win in November. Biden is up in the polls, especially after his bribe. Now it’s time to smear opponents for a few months.
This is utterly astonishing to me.
Biden is ALLEGEDLY up in the polls. The “polls” are designed to influence in certain direction and create a narrative, not to measure reality.
Pretty much this.
Same. I imagine that loan forgiveness would do almost nothing to move the needle. The people who have been agitating for it/benefit from it are already going to pull the lever for whatever lizard the Dems put up and the people who didn’t go to college/paid their loans off already know the Democrats hate them.
I could see it if it was an “approval” question. Some people who were going to vote D anyway in a mid-term might not have been happy with what Joe was doing but they approve of this policy.
He had nowhere else to go.
I think Dems are looking to either burn it all down rather than lose an election again, or cause enough civil-war type skirmishes around the nation to enact martial law.
Not so grand a plan. They want skirmishes with wackos so they can point to it and say “look at the crazy Republicans!” That gives them more votes.
Kick the dog, kick the dog, kick the dog; dog bites; shoot the dog-damn thing was dangerous
“Argle bargle herpity derpity doo.”
What a hateful bitch. Her and this entire goddamn administration.
Can it be there wasn’t a single ‘journalist’ to ask the obvious question: WHAT EXACTLY IS A SEMI-FASCIST? Be precise.
Everyone’s useless.
It’s all garbage.
Look, the definition of neo-fascism is sort of like the rules of a balk:
Balk Rules
You can’t just be up there and just doin’ a balk like that.
1a. A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can’t do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can’t be over here and say to the runner, like, “I’m gonna get ya! I’m gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!” and then just be like he didn’t even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you’re about to pitch and then don’t pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there’s the balk you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn’t been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn’t typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(ii). “get in mah bellah” — Adam Water, “The Waterboy.” Haha, classic…
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
Do not do a balk please
(I’d update the copypasta inserting neo-fascism but aint nobody got time fo dat)
Baseball is the perfect metaphor for life. Its subtle parts can’t be explained but they’re ‘there’ and we all see or feel it. The only way to get it is to run out the play. Like life.
You forgot “come to a complete stop”. Don’t be bringing your hands down and then come right back up without stopping. Criminy.
The Craft was good.
Valmont.
Better than Dangerous Liaisons
Cruel intentions
Please.
Tho Selma Blair is adorbs.
“‘I am a VICTIM!’ Ukrainian truck driver’s daughter who posed as Rothschild heiress to infiltrate Mar-a-Lago and meet Trump says she’s innocent – as FBI probe her ‘ties to Russian organized crime’
Inna Yaschyshyn, 33, claims she’s been framed by a former friend and business partner called Valeriy Tarasenko – and insists she didn’t raise cash for Russian gangsters through a fake children’s charity.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11151505/Ukrainian-truckers-daughter-posed-Rothschild-meet-Trump-says-SHES-victim.html
Who the fuck knows?
I though Ukrainian chicks were supposed be be blond and good looking
Not blonde obviously but she’s cute enough.
“I was brainwashed by the trans community’: Detransitioner reveals he regrets having his penis removed and says woke doctors didn’t warn him of negative consequences because it would be ‘bad for business’
Going by the name Shape Shifter, the 32-years-old who lives in Massachusetts grew up in a Muslim country in the Balkans where even being gay was frowned upon, but he believed that if he transitioned to female he would finally feel happy with himself.
He was given a referral letter by Fenway Health in Massachusetts, which he claims has been taken over by biased pro-trans activists…
Speaking to Blaire White, 28, herself transgender, during a more than hour-long interview, he explained how after the initial surgery to become female he suddenly fell into a deep depression.
During the interview, which has been posted to YouTube and received almost 500,000 views, Shape explained how the new vagina that had been constructed for him using tissue from his penis fell far short of expectations and left him unable to have intercourse.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11151433/Detransitioner-says-brainwashed-having-gender-reassignment-surgery-woke-doctors.html
The Blaire White Project in the Daily Mail?
Look, that is just Darwin level dumb.
Most men have a normal urge not to lop their dicks off.
Hence why it used to be that hospitals required a significant amount of psychological counseling before they would agree to do it.
There are post-ops that are happy with it, but it shouldn’t be something doctors push, and consent needs to be very informed.
No, it isn’t.
A lot of these people are being misled into believing that becoming a pretend woman or man and “passing” is better than being gay – I’m sure there’s lots of culture pressure in that reckoning. The grisly mutilations are bad enough but then they figure out that “passing” is damn near impossible. Depression seems inevitable.
Being gay isn’t good enough. Denying reality is where it’s at these days.
Officially, in Iran there are no gay men or women. However they have a lot of transgender people — if the government thinks you are gay, then you get transitioned.
He was given a referral letter by Fenway Health in Massachusetts, which he claims has been taken over by biased pro-trans activists…
That wouldn’t surprise me – my longtime doctor joined Fenway some years back & I have noticed it’s been “trans, trans, trans” in the last few years.
(my doctor is awesome – picked him as the closest doctor to me decades ago, having no idea he specialized in HIV-positive patients. I think he likes having a relatively straightforward [no pun intended] patient to deal with – ‘you should lose some weight and drink less’.)
MAGA refers to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. Fascism is a political philosophy that exalts nation and often race above the individual and supports an autocratic government led by a dictatorial leader involving the forced suppression of opposition, U.S. dictionary Merriam-Webster says.
Wild west laissez faire capitalism by any other name…
So what they’re saying is that anyone who wants their country to be great, or thinks it is already great, is a fascist? Does Mumbly Joe know about this?
See, “The Joe Biden administration”. Are they really this self-unaware?!
Yep.
That definition is functionally interchangeable with communism and just about any other authoritarian system.
Webster really has turned into a cesspool of shit. Definitions for fascism do actually exist. They were provided by the people who created the political philosophy.
The public/private “partnership” so favored by the neoliberals is a specific hallmark. Funny how they left that out.
They want a civil war. That’s all I can figure at this point.
Unity. And healing.
Or else.
it is no longer Turkey you bunch of racists it is Türkiye
also since it is fashionable for current peoples to atone for the sins of the past, it is fair for Romanians to be able to raid Türkiye and take 15 year old girls as sex slaves (the few hot ones, not most)
Few? All the Turkish women at work are absolute smokeshows.
At what age do they start growing their mustaches?
To share the unkind observation of one of my Brit friends: “the only problem with Greek and Italian girls is that, at some point, they turn into Greek and Italian women”
(I imagine that works with ‘men’ as well)
The problem with women my age is they are my age…
As a guy whose looks are rapidly declining, I think it’s okay for me to say:
Mexico built a wall. For Mexican women at age 30.
Incontrovertible proof… of something!
Three years before retiring from the U.S. Army in 2017, Donald Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College, according to a copy of the photo obtained by Reuters.
The previously unreported photo, released by the War College to Reuters after a request under the Freedom of Information Act, showed Mastriano in a 2013-14 portrait for the Department of Military Strategy, Plans, and Operations, where he worked.
You can’t elect a Johnny Reb to public office in this day and age.
I did not no this is overall worse than blackface, which if my memory serves me a governor elect did
I am at my free article limit. Did it explain why, such as he had just completed a reenactment or was participating in historical war games? Both are very likely.
Maybe he admired Lee’s strategic ability…Good thing he didn’t look up to Mannstein I guess.
Maybe he should put on a Klan sheet or blackface, like that dink down in Virginia did with zero Dem disapproval.
-Here’s an idea: don’t live in fucking Turkey.
“In Michigan, an exemplary young man was arrested for an obvious joke“
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/05/in_michigan_an_exemplary_young_man_was_arrested_for_an_obvious_joke.html
Or in Michigan it seems. I randomly ran across this guy’s story this morning on YouTube and what he’s being persecuted for is way more tame than plenty of things I’ve seen here.
I don’t think Michigan is the problem (their harpy of a governess notwithstanding.) I think the lesson is “don’t go to college.”
Yeah that is part of the lesson but the cops arrested him anyway. The problem is wider than just colleges.
It’s a travesty really, thank God my college days ended in the early ‘90s
It was bad enough back then. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110759/quotes
I love that movie.
It’s interesting that the director and one of the writers never really did much else, given how good a movie it is.
Though, wait, what!? The director was in Breaking Away?!
Now I _really_ need to make my wife watch that.
#1 on my list of must criminally undershown sports movies. It’s _never_ on, for reasons I can’t fathom.
+1 also filled with great lines but never gets quoted like other comedies of the era.
Never saw it, I must confess. Looks funny though.
Admit it. After a few years here we can all be honest.
None of you work, right?
Not 9n Saturday, no
Oh I work. But I must also snark. The snark is life.
Mange-moi, muppet. I just got home from work a bit over an hour ago.
The devil, you say. I’m Workin!
I’m working on my ERP right now.
Can’t do it during the week day because my ungrateful employees bitch that I’m fucking up the system while they’re trying to make me money.
Japanese prog-rock group Emerson Rake and Parmer.
I used to work, but now I am a tenured professor, so…
Haha – ditto!
My university is considering starting a Great Books program. Any advice?
I used to work but then I took a low level FedGov management job
We had a ‘wellness day’ yesterday and it’s the weekend now so… no. Not for a couple of days now.
Displays of Confederate symbols can be seen as insensitive to those who view them as painful reminders of racial oppression and the Civil War that saw 11 rebelling Confederate states fight to keep Black people enslaved.
Now do the Hammer and Sickle, and Che t-shirts.
“painful reminders”
Grow up and fuck off. If a former slave bends my ear about it I’ll give it some creedence.
Exactly what a confederate lover would say
I thought a confederate lover would say “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
Have some Creedence
None of you work, right?
I am
fullymostly functional.On a day like today – dull and rainy – Lester Young and Billie Holiday does seem appropriate.
Lester Young is always a good choice.
You know what’s scary? Five foot four inch right of center podcasting Jews:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/podcast-group-slammed-over-apology-for-ben-shapiro-presence/ar-AA116CHm
Have mercy, I’m not really a fan but if you can’t handle the emotional strain of Ben freaking Shapiro you need a padded room and a Haldol.
Yes! I saw that. Absolutely nuts. People that sensitive are beyond repair.
It’s all gotta collapse.
It’s all garbage.
https://babylonbee.com/news/thousands-dead-after-ben-shapiro-casually-strolls-through-whole-foods
“a 23-year-old twin-spirit dragonkin shopping for her cat” I LOL’d
Incessant shrieking, self-pitying, poo-flinging monkeys
I’m getting closer and closer to being fine with helicopters just to shut them up.
Half the problem is that these folks are already medicated.
His voice is more offensive than his viewpoints.
I have one of his audiobooks and have to play it at 80% of normal speed so that my blood pressure doesn’t rise when I listen.
Min Ju Yoon
https://twitter.com/PeterQuill49/status/1562568391671435265
nsfw. I am not sure why I am linking this but whatever
WHOA NELLY!
I need to do more research on this topic.
Lil too glibfit for me…
#metoo
Are you filling in for Q today?
That back, while well sculpted, to way too much like a dude’s.
Pass.
When she’s just, uh, hanging out, her back won’t look like that. That’s flexing and pumping up for the photo shoot.
Anyone use video editing software?
I am trying to do a few simple things like merge videos (add opening and ending scenes to videos), I may need to add black space to get the right aspect ratio…. and if it has a blur feature that may be good, though maybe youtube has that already?
This is intended to go up on youtube for a business, but hoping to get free software…
I use Premiere. Not free.
But I may be switching over to https://shotcut.org/
Thanks, giving this a shot.
I believe OBS can do that and they have a free one
Goddamit, Old Man.
Snake Farm will be going through my head the rest of the day.
Monkey see, monkey do
Washington state will follow California and prohibit the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035, Jay Inslee, the state governor, said.
California regulators on Thursday moved forward with a landmark plan to phase out the sale of gas cars over the next 13 years in the US’s largest auto market.
You could knock me over with a feather.
California regulators on Thursday moved forward with a landmark plan to phase out
the sale of gascars over the next 13 years in the US’s largest auto market.FTFY
Screwing over the normal people in the state to appeal to a small fringe. Par for the course for the left coast.
I’ll have to find it and not sure it was real or even Cali, but there is a video out there of a street lined EV charging station that is a homeless camp.
Found it.
https://jdrucker.com/homeless-camp-at-ev-charging-station-is-california-in-a-nutshell/
All the comforts of home, and free electricity. What’s not to like?
It’s a better spot than the off ramp but their architect was a bit too greedy. If they would have given the stations a 5 foot abatement people would still use then and the beggers could go to work. Instead, because of the lack of regulations and a fierce Homeless Camp HOA battle that has all but crippled the community, they are left with this.
Right, and I’m shocked. If California of all places can’t provide opportunity for mendicants we are truly doomed.
Rival militia groups clash in Libyan capital Tripoli
https://www.africanews.com/2022/08/27/rival-militia-groups-clash-in-libyan-capital-tripoli/
Clashes between rival militia groups in Libya erupted in the capital Tripoli on Saturday.
Supporters of Haitham al-Tajouri, the leader of the Tripoli Revolutionaries’ Brigade, fought with armed groups linked to militia leader, Abdel-Ghani al-Kikli..
Witnesses say al-Tajouri’s TRP defeated al-Kikli’s forces to take control of the internal security headquarters, hold three people and seize several cars.
Libya has faced conflict and instability since a NATO-backed uprising killed the former dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, in 2011.
The country was divided by rival administrations; one in the east, under military commander Khalifa Hifter and a UN-supported administration in the capital of Tripoli in the west.
…including the Brigade of Revolutionary Tripolitans and the Revolutionary Brigade of Tripoli.
The People’s Judean Front commiserate with their predicament.
The Tripolian Brigade of Revolutionaires declined to comment.
SPLITTERS!
Libyan “Capital” Tripoli.
Thank you Hillary. I wonder if she has someone perusing the slave marts daily.
Huma Trafficking.
A spectacular Iridescent pileus cloud/
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1563167052567019521
In 2020, lawmakers in the state passed a law directing the department of ecology to adopt California’s emissions standards. This year, they set a goal of phasing out sales of new internal combustion-powered cars by 2030.
A state council, set up by Inslee to plan for the future of electric vehicles, held its first meeting in July. Members discussed building a network of fast-charging stations on state highways, said Anna Lising, senior climate adviser to Inslee. The effort will be helped by $71m from the federal government.
The state legislature also has budgeted $69m to set up “community charging” stations for people who don’t live in single-family homes.
Lising said she expected the new regulations to incentivize manufacturers to make more and cheaper electric vehicles.
Magic Hat Economics strikes again.
She is right. Ford dropped the price of their electric truck after the fed government announced a new subsidy for electric vehicles. /Sarcasm
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents many large carmakers, said meeting the state’s ambitious timeline would be challenging due to the lack of charging infrastructure, access to materials needed for batteries, and supply chain problems.
And even with the new rules, California’s transition to electric vehicles will take time as gas-powered cars will outnumber zero-emission vehicles for years.
Not after Cash for Clunkers Two: Impoverishment Boogaloo.
Since they cannot wait for the technology to continue to mature, I fully expect Cali to start things like: no more permits for gas stations, additional fees on ICE vehicles at the DMV, some hotline to report icky ICE vehicles with authority to police to cite a moving violation, etc.
Here’s Knifey gameplay from High on Life. He’s more than just a knife
https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1563239046289051648
That one is a “don’t let anyone off their rocker play it” material.
I have this t-shirt:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcoverstreet.com%2Fcontent%2FFzQiCyP43HdrIwxMvXaePD7ePH87FBtAaNDOo9imTsfl2UYm7qGvEGZC2vT41Rx2.png&f=1&nofb=1
I feel like I need to be discreet about wearing it these days.
That game looks awesome.
“German Beastiality Buffs Demand Legalization Of Sex With Animals”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/german-beastiality-buffs-demand-legalization-sex-animals
Slippery slope is slippery…I wonder what’s next.
Think of the necrophilia community and how marginalized they are!
Fucking Germans… weird-ass motherfuckers
What they need is an honest national discussion on commonsense ________ control.
A Man Allegedly Pulled Out His Penis Then Beat Up A Woman With A Dead Seagull In Germany
Again… Germans
Shut it down
It’s a veritable feast of terrible things. The company allegedly has half its 500,000 server fleet running an insecure operating system that’s no longer supported by vendors. And the site has allegedly experienced one security incident per week. Delicious!
As thrilling as that is, there are other parts of the story that are a lot less entertaining. An internal report says in no uncertain terms that Twitter is completely unequipped to cope with misinformation and disinformation on its platform. That’s more than a little worrying, especially with the US midterm elections coming up. (In the company’s defense, it says it’s working hard in advance of the midterms, which is good to hear, but this week’s report doesn’t inspire confidence.)
Twitter has been around for 16 years, and its disinformation problem has been extremely obvious for at least six years. I spent nine years on the platform before it ceased to be fun. It’s clear to me that the time has come to bid farewell to the whole thing. Take the site, wrap it in a heavy wet blanket, and drop it into the sea—ideally before it can damage any more elections.
If we can’t keep conflicting ideas and viewpoints of of Twatter, it should be shut down.
For DEMOCRACY!’s sake.
As always, they only call “disinformation” that which goes against the Politics Calss’ narrative.
Um… interesting admission, that.
It’s not an admission because they are Faith warriors for the left and see themselves as the shield against the right.
Yeah, he probably thinks Biden would have received a billionty more votes if it wasn’t for Trump’s meddling.
Or he could be referring to the 2016 election that was obviously stolen by Russian tweets. And Trump.
Most likely as Ted stated, 2016 is probably it
They think the 2016 elections were damaged.
“Twitter is completely unequipped to cope with misinformation and disinformation on its platform”
When, and why, did that become part of Twitter’s mission?
And how is Russian disinformation, as opposed to actual Russian cyberattacks, a “foreign threat indicator” the FBI should concern itself with? I see nothing in the 1A saying “well, except those filthy Russkies”.
Exactly the response predicted by some of you
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-responds-mark-zuckerberg-claims-joe-rogan-show-rcna45082
“In a statement Friday night, the FBI said it has provided companies with “foreign threat indicators” to help protect their platforms and customers, but that it “cannot ask, or direct, companies to take action on information received.””
The CDC did, but we are noble creatures that wouldn’t dare do such a thing.
Daddy only beats us out of love.
Nice business you got there. Be a shame if sumptin happened to it. Forget about it
Ah, OK then.
🙄
The FBI a “legitimate institution”? I didn’t know Zuckerberg was doing stand up.
He doesn’t want to wind up dead in the streets where the mugger didn’t bother to take his wallet.
The Washington Post(Opens in a new window) broke the story about the Twitter whistleblower—former head of Twitter security Peiter Zatko, aka Mudge(Opens in a new window). Along with the whistleblower complaint and a report authored by Zatko outlining the many security problems at Twitter, the Post also included an internal report on Twitter’s attempts to squash mis- and disinformation on the platform. The Post reports that the document was commissioned by Zatko from an outside group, allegedly the Alethea Group.
The report, which is based on employee interviews and examinations of internal documents and processes, underlines the bare minimum effort to curb Twitter mis- and disinformation. It shows a dedicated staff undermined by understaffing, underfunding, and near-pathological need for upper management to do nothing other than squash potentially embarrassing “fires.” From the report:
“Interviewees described a largely reactive approach to misinformation, disinformation, and spam in which action is taken on content and threats only if it is flagged by reporters or news headlines, partners, or political officials due to the lack of people and sufficient tools to do proactive analysis.”
Revolt of the hall monitors.
“It would be so much easier to offload that work to MiniTru.”
“Interviewees described several instances in which Twitter was slow to act on misinformation because teams did not see the topic or narrative as falling under their purview or fitting neatly into a particular threat actor they monitored, such as QAnon or Pizzagate.”
We can’t allow ourselves to be constrained by nitpicky rules. We need broad powers ton stamp out the virulent threat of wrongthink, no matter what form it takes.
We know it when we see it.
Like Cold Fusion, it’s just 5-years away but only if you give us money.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/soon-electric-vehicles-could-charge-faster-than-your-iphone/ar-AA119ZNO
“…government researchers said they have found a way to charge electric car batteries up to 90 percent in just 10 minutes. The method is likely five years away from making its way into the market, scientists said, but would mark a fundamental shift.”
I^2R would like a word.
That’s racist
They could achieve it by making the batteries much smaller.
Oh and no word on how long the additional 10% will take or how it effects the battery over multiple charges at a high rate.
Or what kind of chargers we would need, or what it would do to the grid.
“To qualify for “gender affirming” surgery, providers require a letter from a mental health professional stating you’re ready for surgery. Now they’re just handing out these letters at festivals
There’s actually an organization which I posted about a few months ago that will give anyone a letter to clear them for surgery without an evaluation
An organization called GALAP apparently just hands out letters to anyone wanting “gender affirming” surgery without having to prove anything or get a psychological evaluation.”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1561925899250937861
“The US gender-surgery market was valued in 2021 at $1.9 billion, with predicted annual growth of more than 10%…
Clinics are popping up like mushrooms to take advantage of this new business opportunity: The first American pediatric gender clinic opened in 2007, and there are now more than 50 nationwide.”
https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1562873464478121984
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
Seen on FB: “What if they’re not looking for evidence on HIM, but evidence HE might have on THEM?”
That’s been floated…and highlighted that they supposedly retrieved FISA documents
I assumed that was the case all along.
“…government researchers said they have found a way to charge electric car batteries up to 90 percent in just 10 minutes. The method is likely five years away from making its way into the market, scientists said, but would mark a fundamental shift.”
What will they say when somebody gets zapped by one of those fast chargers? Maybe they can pass it off as a freak lightning strike.
How hot does a battery get under rapid force-feeding?
Hot and dangerous
Lithium batteries, in particular, are totally safe to force feed in your garage. If you voted for Biden and worry about COVID all the time, I encourage you to buy an electric car and fast charge it in your enclosed garage, at night, while you sleep.
Actually that is how I like my cars and my women.
A slight uptick
Ford Motor is hiking the starting prices of its electric Mustang Mach-E crossover by more than $8,000 for some models, as it reopens order banks for the 2023 model year.
The company on Thursday said the markups – ranging between $3,000 and $8,475, depending on the model and battery – are due to “significant material cost increases, continued strain on key supply chains, and rapidly evolving market conditions.”
The Mach-E is the latest electric vehicle to experience a price increase, as raw material costs for batteries for electric vehicles more than doubled during the coronavirus pandemic.
The starting prices for the 2023 Mustang Mach-E will now range from about $47,000 to $70,000, up from roughly $44,000 to $62,000 for the 2022 model year. Prices exclude taxes and shipping/delivery costs.
Henry would be proud to know his legacy of sturdy, simple, affordable cars continues.
The FBI a “legitimate institution”? I didn’t know Zuckerberg was doing stand up.
They have a logo and a website, and everything.
The Mach-E is the latest electric vehicle to experience a price increase
Add that to your Newspeak Bingo card.
Reminds me of “officer involved shooting” and “the officers firearm discharged”
How does a car experience anything?
Hydrogen would be much better than batteries. Maybe there isn’t enough money in it?
ISTR that the energy density of hydrogen is low, so you’d need really high pressure tanks in order to get good range. Which is dangerous, hard for refilling, etc.
Making safer tanks doesn’t sound that difficult.
Making environmentally friendly batteries is currently impossible.
Frankly, I’m shocked one of resident autistés can’t spout chapter and verse on hydrogen vehicles.
(my autism is focused elsewhere).
Just store it in palladium. There, problem solved.
Great music, OMWC! Ray Wylie is one of my favorites. Maybe my favorite from him:
Lucifer and the Fallen Angels
and a great newish song with some of his friends:
Fancy Boys
Man, I have no idea why my Amazon suggestions threw this up:
https://smile.amazon.com/OTOFY-Porcelain-Backflow-Craftwork-Figurine/dp/B074V17CMZ
I’ve probably made it worse by clicking on that.
Probably too late, but another good bone from Ray Wylie
👍🏻