Victim #450
Albert Pujols hit a home run last night. He’s now completed the feat against 450 different pitchers, which is mind-blowing. Serena won her first round match at the US Open. Based on the little bit I saw, she’s not going very deep in this tournament. Play continues today. Midweek soccer returns to England today in the EPL. And we’re so close to the Ohio State-ND gamer that I can taste it. Now on to the links!
Oh no, this is absolutely horrible. Wait, quick question: if its already melted into water, how come the sea didn’t already rise? See, when ice melts in an already full glass of water, that glass overflows. But somehow when an ice sheet in the ocean melts the ocean doesn’t respond? Somebody explain that to me. Oh, also I’m sure the whole study is bullshit like the other claim in the story that sea levels have risen 10 inches already due to antarctic ice melt.
Raise your hand if you’re not all there.
This isn’t a surprise. Hell, Biden didn’t even campaign with Biden and he managed to win an election from his basement. Why would a man-child like Fetterman want to do anything but the same? He’s equally brain-damaged and he’s running against a moron. He can sit this on out and probably win easier than if he spends every day on the stump.
How the fuck? They shouldn’t even have to be fired. They should have all quit in shame by now. I wish disgraced public officials would take a page out of old Japanese culture and be more “open” after events like this. Like all the way open.
Welp, they have their fall guy. I suppose they’ll blame everything on him and act as if nothing else should be done. I hope at least some media members stay on their ass, because it had to be much bigger than him.
Yes, the 2A is for them too.
And nobody was harmed. This shows the 2A works, friends. And yes, even assclowns have rights.
Well it took you bastards long enough. Unfortunately, this will probably end up being as corrupt as the rest of the city’s government. Especially once it becomes an elected position. But something is better than nothing.
LOL, seriously? Talk about a shallow bench.
Is it monkeypox? Because I wish it was monkeypox.
This is a bit modern for me, but it’s solid. Their infighting was a shame. And here’s their best song, in my opinion. Yours may vary. Anyway, enjoy them.
And go enjoy this fantastic day, dear friends. I’m gonna go pack for me and Banjos’s road trip to Columbus to watch the Buckeyes take on Notre Dame.
“This isn’t a surprise. Hell, Biden didn’t even campaign with Biden and he managed to win an election from his basement. Why would a man-child like Fetterman want to do anything but the same? He’s equally brain-damaged and he’s running against a moron. He can sit this on out and probably win easier than if he spends every day on the stump.”
REPUBVLICANS ARE NAZIS, RACISS, EBUL!
Look, I know republicans are never going to be the solution to problems, but democrats ARE the cause of all the problems.
“How the fuck? They shouldn’t even have to be fired. They should have all quit in shame by now. I wish disgraced public officials would take a page out of old Japanese culture and be more “open” after events like this. Like all the way open.”
Actually I am all for slow walking this investigation to make sure all the facts are collected. Once that’s done, these people can be properly fired and never be allowed to get a job in law enforcement again. If they rush judge them, you know they will get lawsuits and the tax payers will take it in the ass.
The officer who shot Tamir Rice continues to try to get a law enforcement job. The police union even sued the city saying that his firing was unjustified. Publish their names.
YES…
These people should never again be allowed to be in a position where they can abuse the power of the job.
I’m afraid Monkeypox is viral. So if it really is a bacterial infection, it’s something else.
LETS GO BEAT UP SOME MONKEYS TO SHOW OUR DISTASTE WTH THE POX!
/WHO morons
I believe Micky Dolenz is the only one alive.
Which one of them was the foot fetishist?
This story being in the news for multiple days makes me suspicious.
Has it been? I don’t pay that much attention to Bobby Frank.
Make me think it’s drug rehab.
Alcohol or amphetamines?
Xanax.
As far up his own ass he is, more likely methane poisoning.
Oh, no, I figured it out.
He’s been sniffing Whipped Cream!
😂
“Welp, they have their fall guy. I suppose they’ll blame everything on him and act as if nothing else should be done. I hope at least some media members stay on their ass, because it had to be much bigger than him.”
EXACTLY!
Do not fall for this shit. They are desperate to recover from the disaster of the raid and the revelation they hid the Biden laptop story and are prosecuting people tat took a diary from a private citizen, and this is all smoke & mirrors. This guy will actually be let off with a slap on their hand while the system claims the problem was with individuals and not with the entire weaponized bureaucracy. Don’t let them do it.
The FBI & DOJ, at a minimum, and the IRS too if possible, should be disbanded and in the case of the DOJ, maybe reconstituted with some serious safeguard. The FBI and IRS can just stay the fuck gone.
BATFE needs to be disbanded, and the constituent members hunted down for sport.
Since almost the entire reason for the BATFE’s existence is to violate the second amendment, yes they should never have even existed in the first place.
Did those two people actually take the diary from Biden’s daughter?
I thought she left it behind and they found it when they started renting the place.
The FBI should be reconstituted into something similar to INTERPOL. A clearinghouse that gives notice to state/local police on criminals who are wanted for crimes. Fun fact, INTERPOL as portrayed in movies is nothing like how it works in real life. There is no armed INTERPOL agents running around serving warrants or arresting criminals.
That’s just what they want you to think!
We have a weird situation in Nye county right now arising from a 3-fatality car crash last year in which a drunk and drugged driver plowed into a family’s minivan. The drunk guy is serving prison time for that.
BUT the other complication is that drunk guy had been stopped earlier that night by sheriff’s department deputies. He admitted he’d taken drugs and was clearly DUI, but they let him go. And then he killed that family.
So the Sheriff’s department can’t investigate itself, and a higher Nevada law enforcement agency recused itself yesterday due to a conflict of interest.
Who should investigate? That’s where an FBI would make sense if they hadn’t been hijacked for other purposes.
SMDH.
Let me mansplain density and displacement to you…
By the time I get my iron ice to melt, all the water’s gone.
I remember doing this experiment in Jr High. Something tells me they don’t do it anymore. Hard to indoctrinate the group when you’ve already shown them evidence to the contrary.
Some one has probably already said this, but the distinction is that this ice is on land, do when it melts it enters the ocean for the first time.
whaddup doh’
Meh
https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1564576027350913024
The first thing you look for whenever you get one of these “Studies” decrying the climate disaster, make sure to look at what the span of time they use in any part of their analysis as well as how their data is collected. You will find that some massive cherry picking was done to skew the information into telling us a story that is not real, but serves the criminal element making bank peddling this racket.
I remember when I first got interested enough to look into the science. I was blown away by what I found. That we’re actually already at or near the warmest period of an ongoing ice age, and the next major change on a geological time scale will be cooling and eventual glaciation. That the data shows that CO2 lags temperature, not the other way around. That there is no evident feedback effect for rising CO2 levels. That CO2 levels are still extremely low even with the increase. That most climate studies are based on the same set of temperature data that has been very obviously been manipulated by black box algorithms, covers a relatively short time, and seem to have starting dates chosen to exaggerate any warming.
Then I read attempted rebuttals to these major points, and saw a lot of hand waving. Because they can’t be refuted, they try to overwhelm them with sheer volume of studies that poke around the edges instead.
If only someone had written a novel…oh wait…nevermind.
Compared to the low of 2012 the Arctic has grown a bit including Greenland. Antarctic sea ice is somewhat bellow average. Then again the issue with sea ice is it is hard even with new satellites to figure out thickness and coverage and it depends on winds and ocean currents and many a thing.
The Arctic does not seem to go above average temps in summer, only in winter the temps are high
The speed at which CNN is refuted is white pillish.
The day CNN reports something Trump did isn’t that big of a deal and we should just chill, is the day Trump is in real trouble. That’s how opposite world they are.
The recent droughts have me celebrating victory over climate change. Water levels were supposed to rise and they are receding, we’re winning!
“Oh no, this is absolutely horrible. Wait, quick question: if its already melted into water, how come the sea didn’t already rise? See, when ice melts in an already full glass of water, that glass overflows. But somehow when an ice sheet in the ocean melts the ocean doesn’t respond? Somebody explain that to me.”
You are not smart to understand du science!
<"Oh, also I’m sure the whole study is bullshit like the other claim in the story that sea levels have risen 10 inches already due to antarctic ice melt.”
As I tell all the assholes saying you are a climate denier if you don’t believe we need more marxism: The one thing about every system, especially climate, a system so complex that we still barely understand it superficially, is that things will change. That’s nature. Physics, chemistry, biology. Whatever. Things change. If you make a ludicrous claim that because things are changing we need to give up freedoms and modernity to save Gaia, I think you need to make a case that is not as leaky as a sieve. Once you have done that, and we have done an economic assessment of the impact and cost, then MAYBE we can discuss things as long as all your solutions are technology, not marxism. And nuclear power better be the highest priority while I never hear anything about the serfs needing to give up their standard of living so the masters can keep doing what they are doing without having to come into contact with serfs that are not acting in the role of servants.
If you had a computer model that was sufficiently predictive, you should be able to rewind it to any point in time and start it running and the results should track with what actually happened.
Have any of these climate scientists done that? Have they set their models to be 1/1/1900 and run them? Did the results show the Dust Bowl? Or the cold snap in the early ’70s?
“Trust us,” they lied.
As someone that went into IT because my work as an AE & EE was to model systems, I have repeatedly pointed out that if my models had the accuracy of the climate models, aircraft would be dropping out of the sky and signal processing or transmission systems would constantly be failing.
I remember reading about a climate model that regardless of when it was run, always produced Waterworld. Ice age? Waterworld!. Mild systems? Waterworld!. No data? Waterworld!.
The thing didn’t care about input: it was simply a hard coded output. And they are all modeled this way. By design.
The secret is that they top men in the climate field are barely proficient in the field they claim to hold expertise. They know shit.
Funding is dependent on getting the correct conclusions.
“…transmission systems would constantly be failing.” – the Nissan CVT transmission would like a word.
Not my work… I did power generation & fiber optics..
Shit, we don’t even understand the worldwide supply chain enough to predict how it will respond (or “fix it”), and that’s orders of magnitude simpler than the climate.
Wait, quick question: if its already melted into water, how come the sea didn’t already rise?
I thought they were using the term “zombie ice” because it hasn’t melted yet, but they just know it’s going to cause a rise in the sea level.
NB: This isn’t, as I understand it, the north pole icecap, but land ice, which would be adding water to the system. The area of the oceans is about 200 times that of the Greenland ice sheet, so the depth of the sheet would have to decrease by 200 feet for there to be a one-foot rice in the oceans, if I’m doing the back-of-the-envelope caluclations right.
200:1 ratio seems low. I’m going to do some napkin math.
Greenland’s total land area is 836,330 sq mi
Earth’s surface area is 196,940,000 sq mi, of which approx 70% is water, or 137,858,000 sq mi Or about 165x the land area of Greenland. Okay, given that the ice sheet is smaller than or equal to the land area of the island.. 200:1 is within the margins of error.
I looked up the numbers, which were around 1.7 million km^2 for the ice sheet and 360 million for the area of the oceans.
I just figured there would be more ocean, that’s all.
I think you need to factor in that water is denser than ice, so 1 ft of ice won’t be 1ft of water. Looks like ice has a density that is .916 compared to 1 for water.
Only compound that we know of, if I recall correctly, that expands when the molecules are forced into a solid matrix.
IIRC, there are others, but they are super rare.
“expands when it becomes solid”
I’ve got something in my pants that does that.
Check out the guy with the liquid penis!
This Ain’t Terminator 2
Check out the guy with the liquid penis!
Legit LOL 😀
Bom dia, looks to be a real gullwasher today.
I hope we dont get any major hurricanes this year, because I’m pretty sure by now the ground is saturated in most of thr gulf coast.
The problem with the FBI and other entrenched beauracratic agencies, is the one we all know: there really isn’t any accountability to the public. We can call for things all we want, but if they choose not to listen what can we do short of revolt? Nobody wants to be revolting.
I was watching a documentary on Carl Laemmle (founder of Universal Studios) yesterday. Laemmle was a German Jewish immigrant, so part of the documentary focused on the anti-German sentiment in World War I. J. Edgar Hoover, aged 22 at the time, was the head of one of the departments dealing with the internees.
Let me mansplain density and displacement to you…
Assume an ice cube.
A spherical, frictionless ice cube?
How could it be spherical and a cube?
I’m sorry you can only think in three dimensions.
Yeah, I want to see you square that circle in your calculations.
So a biologist, engineer and physicist are called to help make a dairy farm more efficient.
The biologist tells the farmer that he should feed the cows certain hormones to make it lactate more. The farmer asked how much it’ll cost and the biologist says it’ll cost many thousands of dollars.
The engineer proposes to make a better milking machine to get more milk per cow. The farmer asks how much it’ll cost and the engineer says it’ll cost many thousands of dollars.
The farmer then asks the physicist how much his idea will cost. The physicist say “It’ll cost nothing and can be implemented immediately!” The farmer was astonished and ask how this is possible.
The physicist responds, “Now assume a spherical cow emitting milk in all directions…”
He’s still around.
But decidedly less crazy a motherfucker, and no longer outta Compton.
My remaining mortgage identifies as a student loan. And a Pell grant one to boot….
Where the fuck is my $20K government hacks?
Oh no, this is absolutely horrible. – sounds dreadful. Someone tell the people with beachfront property to sell now.
Obama got a sweetheart deal after he scared the previous owner to sell his beach front property cheap to avoid Waterworld…
Note that a lot of people in the Obama administration – most if not all of them according to records I saw – made serious bank using the power of government regulation to destroying private entities, only to turn around when these entities were massively devalued and gobbling up the devalued entity, then suddenly reversing the rules and having the value skyrocket.
Climate change is one racket that allows you to do a lot of this shit…
When you search for news about arctic ice levels no one seems to agree with what’s actually going on. It makes me feel crazy.
It is doom. DOOM I SAY.
That just tells me the data doesn’t support the narrative.
you just don;t know to read the data right is all
Leave it to the priests.
They are called druids in the AGW cult…
Santa’s elves keep dismantling the instruments for toy components.
Due to climate change, ice no longer melts at 32 degrees.
Is it monkeypox? Because I wish it was monkeypox. – when he becomes your governor and raises your taxes you will not be so flippant anymore
Bobby Frank isn’t going to be Governor of Texas.
I prefer the long form, Robert Francis.
Should probably include his confirmation name too.
RE: Drag shows for kids.
IMNSHO, the SLD doesn’t apply here in the same way it doesn’t apply to 12 year-olds consenting to sex. The whole “age of majority” concept is tricky for libertarians because it creates a solid artificial boundary where none exists (yesterday you were a child, now you’re an adult). However, a fuzzy boundary does exist somewhere between child and adult so the best we can do is pick a spot and do the best we can. Of course, none of that matters if the kids are being exposed to it compulsorily by the State through school.
All that said, should parents taking kids to these things voluntarily be illegal? Probably not. I think a good dose of public shame is in order. That’s all ancillary to the Civil War LARPers that just want an excuse to showcase their micropenes.
In local news… lefty rag shames the protestors (who are probably not all good people).
Lol. “Nearly 20”. At that point, just take a head count and publish the actual number.
The reporter didn’t want to take off their shoes to get an accurate count.
If these idiots want to fuck up their kids, have at it. But there is no way in hell I would ever frequent the place giving them the space to put on this show. A local hotel/restaurant/conference center had a drag show in the conference center recently. From what I gather no kids were involved nor any dollar tipping. Doesn’t bother me a bit. If they had kids there, they’d never see another dollar of mine.
I generally enjoy Natalie Solent’s articles at Samizdata, and she’s got two vintage pieces that relate to this:
The morality of not teaching your child English (Obviously, she’s writing from the UK, an English-speaking country for at least some values of English.)
and
What do the Maori and Welsh languages have in common?
I liked the Dave Barry comment on the UK.
They are nice and try to speak English to you, but half way thru the sentence they realize they don’t really know the language and just start making words up.
I feel a little strange, I like the ladies, always have, from as long as I can remember. Men dressing/acting like ladies are not the same. I would have no interest and would certainly not bring my kids to such a show.
What someone else does is not my business but I won’t be a supporter of the farce.
“Monacelli, who is also a journalist with Rolling Stone, posted a tweet with pictures of the protest nothing the unrest. The tweet read, ‘Anti-trans activists are protesting a drag brunch in Roanoke, Texas, but are outnumbered by supporters of the event.’ ”
Anti-trans? Because protesting Italians killing puppies would be anti-Semitic?
“A group called Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club (EFJBGC) seemed to take credit for the Antifa members’ presence at the event, appearing to identify the armed masked protesters as members of its organization in a tweet.
EFJBGC claims to ‘[promote] and [assist] marginalized communities in organizing community defense against white supremacists [and] fascism,’ according to its website.”
What do words mean?
Just call them the Pro Child Sexualizing Pedophile Going to Get Someone Killed if They Keep This Up Club
Interestingly enough, Don’t Look Back In Anger was the first Oasis song I ever heard (not counting the All Around the World blurb that ran in the AT&T commercials when I was a wee lad), rather than the ubiquitous Wonderwall (which is among their worst tunes). It remains among my favorites, and was the encore finale one of the times I saw Noel Gallagher live, which was phenomenal. Who’d have thought you could play Pachelbel’s Canon on dueling guitars with the piano riff from Imagine and come up with something that much better than the sum of its parts.
All Around The World?
stupid ragweed allergy. August 20 to September 20. It gets better if the weather would just fucking cool down. Horrible summer. the fucking worst.
Fall is nigh. I want cooler weather.
this is unfair. I had 0 allergies till age 33. It should be if you don;t get any by 20 you never get any.
Who gets a soy allergy at 35?
You are doing better than I am for sure. I have been rocking prednisone now for 5 days trying to fight back the poison oak rash covering more than half my body.. Fuck, I hate this shit.
yes but presumably you touched the poison oak, I did not touch ragweed the shit is just in the air. But I am only taking Claritin
I was hiking when we had a rare rainfall and the drip from the oak trees got me… I decided against using the special soap to deal with that stuff once I got home cause I figured I would be fine. Three weeks later the shit is all over me.
poison oak is potent. I got it bad once from dry vines in the dead of winter.
I used to not have any problems with oak or ivy… Sumac was my bane. Now I need to watch for oak too…
Didn’t know poison oak was found out east. I remember that fun (just once).
I have a severe reaction to red cedar, gives me a rash worse than poison oak/ivy. Found out on a paddle in Florida. A large cedar had fallen across the creek and I crawled over it, pushing my board through beneath it. Where I crawled over was raw core wood apparently from a large branch having broken off when it fell. The inside of my thighs, my stomach and my forearms were a blistered mess that lasted a month. I still have discoloration in those areas, almost a year later.
I should add that my son crawled over the same tree and had no reaction.
Yeah, in my younger years I was completely unfazed by this stuff too. it seems as I age, my dermis is not as resistant to these irritations. It could have something to do with my liver being tested continuously and hard…
That’s a long time.
then again sounds rough get well soon
Ireland launched a campaign against greedy landlords with rent control, 52% tax, no deductions, no evictions.
They succeeded & landlords left the market in droves
Now there are 716 homes available to rent in the entire country and 150 queued for this one bed yesterday.
https://twitter.com/conorsvan1/status/1560372918223134721
But they need more immigrants, pie.
I’m behind in my podcasts, so it was only a couple of months ago that I was listening to a BBC documentary (I think an episode of Assignment) about the housing crunch in Ireland, first broadcast just before the start of the pandemic. No interviews with anybody actually building housing stock, but they could sure find some socially-conscious artist from another EU country making furniture from recycled wood, and her African immigrant friend making cushions with her cooperative.
It strikes me that the people who fancy themselves the greatest adherents of The Science and the quickest to buy into alarmist claims made about something like the climate, where really no predictions made by alarmists have ever come true, are the first ones to dismiss studies and hard data that has proven true time and time again in the realm of economics.
It’s trust the science, not trust science.
…but a government spokesman on TV said…
I’ll cut them some slack on that one. If economics is a science then so is tarot card reading.
When it comes to basic economics, starting with something as simple as supply and demand and rent control, the data is pretty damn solid no matter how much people want to pretend it isn’t.
True more or less, but macro theory and econometrics routinely manages to fuck up even those simple concepts when modeling aggregate data – and it’s not just the lefties.
Just tax unused capacity in all homes. You have an unoccupied room in your house? Rent it at set rates or pay a tax.
Imputed income!
Look, you can either pay us 52% of the rent you receive or 52% of the rent you would have received.
By choosing to not rent that space, the owners are obtaining a taxable benefit, obviously.
Next up: implanted fitbits. Any orgasms the females have could have been monetized on onlyfans and will be taxed accordingly. And orgasms males have could have been obtained via the services of a prostitute, and the saving of not hiring one is the same as income for tax purposes.
And since we know sex trades across state lines, totally cool for Congress to ‘regulate’it.
The Mann Act waves hello!
Speaking of the Mann Act, I haven’t seen Creosote Achilles around in a while.
…CA is tied up…
If you aren’t a bureaucrat you’ve missed your calling.
Why not tax them regardless of whether the room exists or not? That way you can make sure you pick the right winners & losers…
Your property perced for 10 but you only built a two bedroom house. You will pay a tax for the unused capacity.
But that trans binary lady that identifies as a cryptid over there will only pay for 1 room cause we like Xer!
Err, this is pretty much what “highest and best use” valuation for property taxes is already.
LA to lead the way
Lol, right.
Check who owns these hotels… Especially the dump ones that will be charging the government luxury facility rates…
Don’t be surprised when you find out it the same people that came up with the idea to use hotels for this so they could make bank…
They didn’t say the hotel’s rate.
Of course.
“we have determined the market rate by taking the weighted average of a sampling of hotels…”
Report when? Like when the night auditor closes them at 1am?
I’m sure the rank and file will enjoy cleaning up after and dealing with the bums. Not that any large union gives a shit about the rank and file.
Right. I sometimes don’t show up to check in to my hotel room right at 3 pm.
Who wants to turn out the hobos I’m the morning after they’ve gotten into the minibar?
1. Trade homeless people vodka for vouchers
2. Sell vouchers online to travelers
3. Profit!
LA wants to put the homeless in hotels only a few years after closing all the SRO hotels.
But god forbid they admit their new policy is to undo the previous policy.
So, a Single Room Tax?
https://twitter.com/Klaus_Arminius/status/1564264261098110978
Netflix France does its part to cool tensions. Releases film about racial harmony.
Historians don’t want to talk about how bad the replication crisis is in their field
AFAIK virtually every time they’ve tried to re-run a tragedy, it’s turned out as farce the second time
https://twitter.com/resnikoff/status/1564263227835289600
boooo
This must not look at marxism/collectivism history?
Titty Tuesday invites you to bury yourself in a bonanza of bountiful breasts and busty beautiful boobs.
https://archive.ph/yIcpR
Straffinrun, what the hell is this?
Yeah, that right there.. Reasons for Armageddon…
English style French toast flavored like an American pizza with Spanish toppings?
Made in China
Better still It’s got ドイツ風 on there too.
どいつ – is DOITSU – meaning German. The other character is “wind”. Not sure WTF German Wind is.
The made in China is a nice touch too.
German wind? Something to do with cabbage?
Google says “German style”.
So it does. Not sure what onyomi (Chinese / sound) reading you use for that.
I am disappointed the text in the white line doesn’t add more countries.
CURALLI Flying Solo Miami 2023 – Swimwear & Underwear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwfcDwGYjQ
I keep worrying you are softening us up with links to hot babes in little clothing, so one day, once we have been conditioned to click through on your linx, you can send us to a spot where land whales are frolicking nekked in the wild, and end up causing those of us that see it to suffer trauma.
Nonsense. I like em skinny myself.
plus-size trans swimsuit models
+ 1 monkey fist in a bikini.
Pennsylvania governor calls for $2,000 checks for families hit by inflation
Fuck Wolf.
Vote buying using the tax payer coffers… Didn’t someone point out more than 3 millennia ago that’s how collapse starts?
a dead white guy?
peanuts. make it 20k to really make a dent. Also send me one willya?
Printing money to fight inflation! What could possibly go wrong?
Once we reach Hyperinflation, regular inflation will have been defeated!
They are printing money to buy votes, hoping the rubes fall for this dumb shit (I have Tee Vee commercials for the last few days telling people Biden’s crazy bill will make them happy, so vote team blue), and once the inflationary and economic impact of this shit hits, it will be too late cause they already banked from their racket to skew voting.
Sad to say, but the gun rights community’s main goal now seems to be encouraging their enemies to arm up. It’s what happens when you base your identity on nothing more than an inanimate object–not culture or heritage.
https://twitter.com/ScottMGreer/status/1564271435631284224
Imagine having principles in [current year]
You see, someone who’s never owned a gun before who goes through the process will learn what controls are alreayd in place, plus after having been exposed to the actual culture of ownership and shooting will convert, reducing the number of people opposed to guns through their ignorance.
That fact that whoever whote that is ignorant of both the culture and heritage around gun ownership in this country shows they don’t even understand their opposition, let alone our strategy.
Is that true, comrade? If we take up arms we will become fascists?
We’re already fascists because we oppose a unitary executive state or something like that.
That guy does not have an IQ of 187. That’s all imma say.
I would be surprised if he breaks half of that number..
Pug rescue is coming for a home visit this afternoon! 😬
(I’m kinda hoping she brings her pug(s) with her)
Is she trying to steal your pug?! Hide the critter!
Or were you hoping to ambush her and steal her pugs?
Purveyors of pugs are preposterously pugnacious.
Wines of Germany
@WinesofGermany
As August comes to an end – make the most of the BBQ & grill some pork & apple sausages. German Weissburgunder (also known as Pinot Blanc), is fresh & bright with well-integrated acidity to balance the fat & salt of the sausages
https://twitter.com/WinesofGermany/status/1564558049662193664
this was not a reply goddamnit
My future pug may occasionally get sausages, but I generally avoid giving dogs alcohol
Reference….
I was expecting the scene in Where The Buffalo Roam where Hunter S. Thompson is sharing wild turkey his dog.
My dog won’t touch alcohol, I have to keep my beer from the neighbor’s dog.
Would you like some dictatorship of the proletariat with that?
California lawmakers on Monday approved a nation-leading measure that would give more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections, over the objections of restaurant owners who warn it would drive up consumers’ costs.
The bill will create a new 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers’ delegates and employers’ representatives, along with two state officials, empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California.
A late amendment would cap any minimum wage increase for fast food workers at chains with more than 100 restaurants at $22 an hour next year, compared to the statewide minimum of $15.50 an hour, with cost of living increases thereafter.
“We made history today,” said Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry, calling it “a watershed moment.”
Sure, why not?
Why not $50?
Pussies.
Nah, you’ve torpedoed the jobs of the people you ostensibly represent lots of times. Don’t sell yourself short.
Want to represent. How many fast food workers are unionized? Yet I bet 100% of the “worker” delegates are union or union picks.
How much are these “workers delegates” going to be paid?
Ideally – one ice axe to the brain.
These are the people who are against tipping, despite what the actual good waiters/waitresses who earn a lot in tips, want.
I was making $17.50/hr waiting tables at a low-mid tier steakhouse in Houston… in 1994.
The restaurant automation industry cackles quietly to itself.
Related?
Panera is testing out AI in the drive-thru lane
Anbalagan confirmed that this technology is not meant to replace employees
Sure, lol.
“i told them it’s not going to be used to replace employees!”
Panera is just spending a bunch of money on the testing because the technology is neat-o.
OFFS.
And then they will be totes surprised when the unemployment rate for young men climbs even higher than the already 25% or so that it is now.
10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers’ delegates and employers’ representatives, along with two state officials
So rigged to be 7-5.
Ah, 6-4.
Ha ha, such an innocent child that the employer representatives will be representative either. More like 8-0 or 7-1.
They could go Pelosi and reject representatives from the employers and select their own.
I would be shocked if the actual appointments were not made by the state.
“MiniFast” for short.
This seems like a major tactical error on her part…
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19631323/sex-ban-boyfriend-ex-topless-pictures/
Grow. The. Fuck. Up.
Yeah, using sex as a weapon in a society where the old rules (marriage) no longer exists will work out well for ya lady…
I bet he will be banging the ex to make up for your dumbassery.
So she is going to throw him in the bra-less-iar patch?
First
lauren (summer renaissance) 🦋
@laurenhtexas
it’s kind of amazing how a democrat can say things like “healthcare and education are human rights” and a republican can say “5th graders should be forced to have babies and we should overturn election results we don’t like” and some people are like “these are both extremists”
Second
Cathy Reisenwitz (51/100 sketches)
@CathyReisenwitz
What’s really upsetting is how little impact left-wing extremism has on policy while the right wing is actively legislating its unhinged, malicious agenda.
Democrats are never going to defund the police while Republicans are actively forcing 10 year olds to give birth and criminalizing trans healthcare. Both-sidesism is bullshit.
https://twitter.com/CathyReisenwitz/status/1564328083477463042
This Reisenwitz chick I think used to have something to do with reason right?
Anyway I like how nice and innocent seeming bullshit like healthcare is a human right sounds. No it is not extreme for government to have complete control over health and education with massive associated taxes.
Human rights that obligate other people to work for you without having the choice or the ability to charge you what they want for their labor used to be called indentured servitude and or slavery..
Know what I am saying…
10 year old girls typically are not menstruating yet and certainly shouldn’t be having sex. Scratch a leftist or about half of libertarians and find a fucking pedophile. Ironically enough, one of the few instances where puberty blockers would actually have a legitimate medical use would be in the case of precocious puberty.
but Rape and Incest
Yes, I know the left wants to legalize sex with children and incest…
I didn’t know republicans were the party of rape and incest.
we should overturn election results we don’t like
Only a right-wing position.
SELECTED NOT ELECTED!
In other progection…
Local proggie pig biting mad over “do-nothing” GOP. He’s sure that they will lose big because they won’t vote for Dem plans.
I think the guy is serious and not writing tongue in cheek.
Reisenwitz was always a lefty cunt even when she was at Reason. Sort of ENB Jr, only further left.
What the lefty shot callers (Lauren and Cathy ain’t them) understand, is why bother controlling policy when you can control the language…
The first half of B2B nationals is Limited, not L10. Should I treat it as a dry run for the second staff match (Prod) and use my NY mags, or should I order normal-cap ones and have them delivered to my friends in TX I’ll be visiting on the way? I mean, I’m probably not going to earn a classification in any case, but is it gauche?
In general, i think it’s more fun to shoot a new division with the right gear (thats why i shot Production at NY instead of CO-10). I’d order some extendos.
Do you have a .40 gun to shoot?
Alas, no.
I still need to get halfway decent with my current irons before I buy new ones to dilute my too-insufficient time to learning.
If I do buy a limited gun, it’ll probably be a TS2, just so I can have the same grip/controls. However, last I saw they hadn’t released one in .40.
They have! SKU 91222 is the .40S&W Tactical Sport 2.
Trailer for the upcoming PornHub documentary.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/mum-hits-back-criticism-posing-26635198?int_source=nba
most of the pics are quite a bit photoshopped
Nice abs.
Threatening behavior
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Sunday that if former President Donald Trump is prosecuted, there will be “riots in the streets.” Some call it a prediction. New Abnormal podcast host Andy Levy is calling it a threat.
“The United States has a long-standing policy that we do not negotiate with terrorists because that’s what this is. This is, in essence, a terroristic threat,” he tells co-host Molly Jong-Fast on the latest episode. “This is saying, ‘If you do this, we are going to burn the place down.’ The only response to that is ‘If you try to burn the place down, we will take you down.’”
It’s tough guys, all the way down.
#resist #BLM #saytheirnames
No justice, no peace
You fight it in the courts, but you also gotta fight it in the streets – some terrorist Republican
Redeye’s Andy Levy??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgPVkcLBjK8
Did he hear it from the intelligence community analyst while he was sucking him off Saturday night?
How much are these “workers delegates” going to be paid?
A FAIR WAGE, and not a penny more.
Five people who are the voice for every single fast food worker in Cali. That’s a heck of a responsibility, so I’m sure the taxpayers will compensate them appropriately.
Honestly, they should be given their proxy votes for local/state/federal elections too, while they’re at it.
500k is a fair wage
Does not compute.
Anyway I don’t do “bests” but I do do “favorites“.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I hope the kid is nonbinary
The kid learned it from home. Most parents are still doing a good job, if left alone.
Thanks, PJ
It’s always funny and strange how mad a certain type of person gets when you point out that the world is steadily improving in many ways.
There are people who don’t *want* things to be getting better, because it would clash with their worldview.
https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1564289231232684034
I like the 3 point motto:
The world is awful.
The world is much better.
The world can be much better.
basically child mortality lower than the 50s was countered by many comments “but the environment is much worse than in the 50s” which I doubt it is
I would think most of the SuperFunds sites were active dumps in the 50s.
but cee oh two
Rivers here in the US are magnitudes cleaner than they were back in the ’50s.
Stop othering Neph like that!
And, anecdotally, littering (small and large-scale) is way down since I was a kid in the 70s. “Give a hoot” and the crying Italian seemed to have worked.
I’m probably on the cusp of being one of those people. It’s not that I actually don’t want things to be getting better, I just take issue with what constitutes “better”, and outside of a very small number of factors I think things are getting substantially worse.
people’s children not dying is one of them
That’s in the “very small number of factors” category. It’s also what’s driven almost the entire increase in life expectancy, which is often erroneously conflated with average life span, over the last century, which is one of those “I take issue with what constitutes ‘better'” things for me. I don’t think surviving to 82 years of age, shitting your pants, unable to recognize your own children, aching from every joint, living for the next pain pill, which you can’t get because the government has to keep you in agony to make sure some 25 year old junkie can’t get high, is markedly better than dropping dead at 65 of a massive coronary.
Oh my!
Don’t listen to him, Fourscore. You’re not living for the next pain pill.
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Not a great plan ^w day — seed words were not helpful, had to burn up to 4 guesses just to get enough letters to work with.
Daily Quordle 218
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Funnily enough, the warm up duotrigordle went pretty well — doubt I’ll ever get a perfect one, but not complaining when I’m +3.
Daily Duotrigordle #181
Guesses: 34/37
Time: 08:16.96
https://duotrigordle.com/
My score is exactly the same, same order even. Same problems and all.
Got chessle in 4. Could have had it in 3, but I split options on try 3 to guarantee a result in 4.
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#waffle221 4/5
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🔥 streak: 45
🥈 #wafflesilverteam
wafflegame.net
Daily Quordle 218
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Seriously, that? I had 4 letters and wasted 3 guesses to miss THAT?!
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Yuck.
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Daily Duotrigordle #181
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:18.12
I don’t think I’ll break the 4 min threshold until I learn how to type better, lotta time lost due to fat fingers and typos.
Hah, I remember trying to figure out how you were so fast at Duotrigordle. Then there was the glorious day I discovered I could use the keyboard rather than the mouse-pad to play. SMDH
Still, and all, 4:18 is brilliant. I got a 5:36 the other day, which is far and way my best.
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I have a chemistry question. Absent abnormal external froces like ignition, how long does it take isopropyl alcohol to break down in the plastic bottle?
I spotted an expiration date on a bottle of the stuff at home and wondered what that actually signified.
if it is past the date, you should drink it as fast as possible
Rule of thumb: Don’t leave bottled alcohol too long, needs to be aerated often.
It’s just a way to get you to buy more when you don’t need to. All the retailers are in the pockets of Big Isopropyl.
Why does this have an expiration date?
it doesn’t.
Compliance.
Someone found a cache of well-protected OTC drugs from the 70s. It was tested and most of it was just as effective as current drugs.
Things like Tylenol.
There is no fucking expiration.
What that means is it has been tested for that long and proved to still be effective at that date. There is no incentive to test for longer time frames.
Good, because that bottle is still half full.
Only certain antibiotics (doxycycline?). The rest, can confirm.
Sorta. There are a few drugs that do break down over time. A few antibiotics, aspirin, and amphetamines should all be used by the factory expiration date.
Most other drugs in pill form can be used for years past the sell-by date.
IPA absorbs moisture from air and dilutes itself over time so the listed percentage would decrease. More if it’s something like 99%. Is the plastic container chemical resistant for extended periods or will the IPA start destroying it? I’ve never get IPA around that long to find out.
Count Dankula’s Mad Lads series covers Ted Kaczynski:
https://youtu.be/EE-dAerfrWk
What an interesting nutcase.
I re-read Industrial Society and Its Future a few years ago, having first read it at 16, and was astonished not only by how reasonable and prophetic it ended up being, but also how profoundly it influenced my thinking in subtle ways that I had forgotten.
He was/is smart, no doubt.
All those bombs, when alls he needed to do to change the world was to First.
I don’t need a manifesto, though I have one, too, for posterity. My First That Will Change Everything will usher in my utopia.
World Gravy Wrestling Championships returns after two-year break
The women’s division champ is very clearly not British, judging by her teeth.
Fucking fetishes…
She looks Slavic to me. And that third pic shows that (((stereotypes))) are still A-OK in the UK.
Maybe she pays for private care.
Both of my British friends have better teeth than I do (and mine aren’t that bad, just a tad crooked).
That stereotype is pretty dated at this point.
Ali G won the men’s division.
The culinary traditions of mainland Europe’s only indigenous people
And the husband and wife duo committed to sharing their Sámi heritage with others
https://www.salon.com/2022/08/28/the-culinary-traditions-of-mainland-europes-only-indigenous-people_partner/
wait none of the other peoples of Europe are indigenous? What about the fucking irish for example? If they were not indigenous to Europe they would not burn in the sun
It’s Salon, they’re required to deny that white people deserve to live anywhere.
Is this some long article telling people to eat bugs?
On a long enough timeline, no group of people on Earth is indigenous anywhere. Indigenous does not simply mean non-white inhabitants of the land.
Your newspeak is plusungood.
It’s my understanding that the redheaded Irish who sunburn are the Vikings’ fault. (Thanks, ancestors!) Can’t say what’s the origin of the dark-haired, pale-skinned Irish.
Alcoholism and Hungarian women with poor taste, in my case.
The story I was told at one point was that the black Irish (dark haired) were due to the sinking of the Spanish armada, and the survivors who made it to Ireland. Which doesn’t appear to be all that accurate.
The Irish didn’t treat any Spanish who washed up on their shores too well. The survivors were those who stumbled onto Scotland.
Black Irish cannot handle their intoxicants
nearly overlooked! https://media1.tenor.com/images/e20c49b2992ab0d141b109ade5f52737/tenor.gif?itemid=12534568
Hey there, answers to questions from the overnight thread:
Not a step up, more like sideways and down. “Independent Senior Living.” It reeks of poverty and despair (I exaggerate, but only slightly).
But it has the advantage that I’m living sans roommate. I have slightly mixed feelings, but it’s pretty much a win.
Now back to the old place for more cleaning and finishing up moving the kitchen and bathroom. Yuck.
I hope it turns out to be better than you expect. (Been trying to encourage one of my sisters that direction.) Good luck with the final cleaning! Last time I moved, trying to get the old place’s refrigerator completely clean drove me to tears. 😢
Wouldn’t surprise me. I did Ancestry DNA once, and the results were pretty much what I expected (mostly a mix of Irish, Italian, English, Scottish). I knew where all of my ancestors emigrated from, which was those countries (plus a few from Germany who barely show up in my genes). The one that was the surprise was Sweden and Denmark. Undoubted that was the product of long-ago Viking pillaging and raping in the British isles.
there was a scandi stand up comic with a joke “they say my ancestors engaged in rape in england, looking at the people I say not enough”
Hah! Hard to believe anyone could get away with that joke today.
The Scandis were there before the Sami, yet the Sami are the indigenous ones.
Indigenous apparently now just means “primitive”,
The Irish migrated across the Atlantic from Boston.
OddIy Terrifying
@closecalls7
Guy finds thousands of scorpions in an abandoned house
https://twitter.com/closecalls7/status/1563800293263179777
I am not sure that is *oddly* terrifying
Indeed.
Python trap using live chicken
https://twitter.com/closecalls7/status/1563495388304515073
Fuck that snake up!
Dude, leave the snake alone.
This parasite inside of a praying mantis
https://twitter.com/closecalls7/status/1563086348419862534
Hate the invasive IRS? You might be a racist.
No mention of the left using the IRS against their political enemies as a reason for that hate, huh?
So…the Republicans created the IRS?
Liar.
Sure, just like Lincoln loved black folks and ending slavery was why most northern soldiers enlisted. IOW, it’s almost entirely fantasy.
I miss the good old fashioned days when people were just greedy and did not want to pay taxes. Now they are just evil, the money does not even matter
I have long detested that horse-faced motherfucker. He is, unsurprisingly, completely full of shit. The IRS was not created in 1862. The Commissioner of Revenue was, to collect the income tax that was a temporary measure to pay for the war. By 1870 or so it ceased to exist. The modern IRS didn’t come into being until the permanent income tax did, in 1913.
In any matter, virtually no one knows any of that minutiae anyway, so it hasn’t a goddamned thing to do with why anyone hates the IRS. The vast majority of the Union Army would have been a bit taken aback to discover that they were fighting to “burn white supremacy to the ground”.
It’s the timeline that comes up first when a quick Google search is done which was obviously the whole of his research.
It’s amazing how rapidly a country founded in a bloody revolution because people were pissed off about having to pay the Stamp Tax turned into a nation of gibbering retards begging for more taxes.
No wonder they have started to hate this guy..
Elon just ain’t crazy enough for them. And that’s saying something.
He still needs a way to manufacturer the cars first.
That’s racist.
I know people say “you couldn’t make it up” about quite banal things but if I was writing a satire about Harry and Meghan I’d have no hope of dreaming up such a hilariously insane thing to say.
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1564363032926593024
I literally LOL’d at that bullshit. That’s gotta be top-10 “shit that didn’t happen” for the year.
The female version of Tommy FlaNAgan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIZ3ySoMNYQ
NPR writer shocked to discover car dealers are in it for the money
We reached out to the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), which represents more than 16,000 dealerships across America, and they provided a statement. “State legislatures passed franchise laws — and continue to overwhelmingly support franchise laws — to separate car sales from manufacturing, prevent monopoly pricing by factories, promote competition in auto sales and service, and keep jobs and investment local,” says NADA Vice President of Communications Jared Allen. “The franchise system delivers these tremendous benefits better than anyone.”
Some of these claims — like the fact that local dealerships create jobs — are undeniable. Others are highly debatable. First of all, there are more than a dozen automakers in the United States, so no single carmaker comes close to being a monopoly. And it’s not clear how adding a middleman to the process reduces prices for consumers, especially when you consider that this middleman often resorts to a slew of tactics that tends to raise prices. Many of these dealerships, by the way, are not mom-and-pop shops; the industry is seeing growing consolidation, with multibillion-dollar corporations now owning hundreds of dealerships across the nation.
For years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the agency tasked with looking out for American consumers, has advocated relaxing state franchise laws so that companies like Tesla or Rivian can create new, direct-to-consumer business models. “States should allow consumers to choose not only the cars they buy, but also how they buy them,” FTC officials wrote in 2015. But franchise laws continue to protect the dealership model and thwart innovation.
This is the guy whose truck got stolen, giving him a valuable sight into the Prole Life.
Consolidation? How/why does that happen? Nobody knows.
Now do the 3 tier booze distribution monopolies.
I already did. Link upcoming as soon as I search the archives.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/03/the-beer-wars-an-incomplete-history-of-the-american-beer-industry-pt-2/
Whew, good to know they got rid of that one bad apple at the FBI. Now we can go back to trusting them. Democracy is saved!
Cruz, Crowder, and the other semi-edgy normie Republicans are likely to be pleased and that’s what matters.
That is my favorite Oasis song, too. It’s a joy to play on guitar as well.
Bromides of the expert class
Question intellectual authority
https://thecritic.co.uk/Bromides-of-the-expert-class/
In his essay on (of all things) English-language dictionaries, David Foster Wallace argues that experts in a democracy have a particular hurdle to surmount: they have to persuade listeners of their authority without alienating them through elitism. We have dealt with this problem by assigning authority to a largely technocratic class, whose rhetorical claims rest upon specialised expertise — think doctors or accountants — rather than some political right to rule.
This has given rise to what I have come to think of as the “Krugman phenomenon”. Paul Krugman, you may recall, is a trained economist who has used his sinecure at the opinion page of the New York Times to discourse on geopolitics, democratic theory, race relations, constitutional law, congressional races, et very much cetera.
Of course, Krugman has no greater standing to declaim on these topics than most other people. Yet this is the process by which nominal expertise in one area is laundered into political authority. It’s a neat trick and a sneaky form of rhetorical arbitrage, and he is hardly alone. What gives living malaprop factory Thomas Friedman the authority to speak on international affairs? Or David Brooks on virtue ethics?
If the NYT masthead represents the modern apotheosis of our obsession with expertise, the Vox “explainer” is its postmodern apotheosis, wherein the very idea of technocratic expertise stands for itself in the absence of actual, well, experts. In practice this mostly cashes out as having a readership that learns of a given subject from a writer who has just Googled it fifteen minutes prior.
Vox is quite literally nothing more than propaganda whitewashing. They occupy the same space as NPR, giving the effete upper middle class figleaves of “reason” to wear over their opinions.
I can’t believe Vox is still around. They should have been laughed out of existence right after that Gaza land bridge story fiasco.
That’s an attitude that could only be held by someone so uneducated as to not realize that “facts” are defined as “things experts say.”
Who else will speak for random untraceable taxi drivers who spout just so geopolitical insights?
Being an expert in one field gives you tv interview time. “Those who matter” decide you are “somebody” and invite you to cocktail parties and such. Now you are rubbing elbows with politicians, power brokers, tycoons, celebrities and other academics. You hear the party line from the horses’ mouths and begin to parrot it. You want to be part of the in crowd, don’t you? Next thing you know, you too are qualified to lecture the rubes on all sorts of things you’ve never gotten your hands dirty doing.
Road quality in Europe: the best and worst roads in Europe
https://viborc.com/road-quality-in-europe-the-best-and-worst-roads-in-europe/
my friend in dutchland was praising the roads there and he was right, best in Europe. also the dutch are maligning Belgian roads, and they are right as well, worse in the area. Romania, unsurprisingly, is utter shit.
I’m assuming a direct correlation between (lack of) quality in roads and libertarian leanings.
meh there is little libertarian leaning anywhere. Belgians are more lefty than the dutch… But it is all western socdem
Roma wagons and carts, which I’ll just assume without evidence are everywhere you turn, don’t really need good roads.
Nah, cotter pin might come loose, donkey might stumble…
horse not donkey be accurate in you stereotyping.
Yeah, circus wagons are too heavy for donkeys.
That’s why they originally used elephants.
/Damn Lies
My brother’s only been living in dutchland for a couple of weeks, and the shine is already starting to wear off.
He claims that restaurants don’t like letting you use their restrooms. Do Eurolanders not wash their hands before eating?
He claims that restaurants don’t like letting you use their restrooms. – strange did not experience that
Do Eurolanders not wash their hands before eating – some do, some do not. like everywhere. I mean if they don’t plan to touch food with hands, many do not. I always do but that’s just me.
Good point — I hadn’t considered the relative untensil-centrism of EUers v. USians. I mean, eating your fries with a toothpick?
wot? That just sounds like asking for trouble.
Wooden two-pronged forklet.
Oh, this meeting is waaaay too big to be useful. Seventeen people? Nothing’s going to get done.
is anything supposed to get done? If the point is to not get anything done, then it could be useful towards achieving that goal
Perfect size for an orgy though.
– Hendrik van Loon
There are times when you need more than one person.
you would make a bad supreme overlord
Some meetings can be quite worthwhile. I remember one about 15 years ago where the owner called all the senior execs into a meeting and told us he had filed for divorce after catching his 3rd wife in bed with a guy doing carpentry work on the new manse.
😳😳😳😳
I got an invite for a series of meetings, from 8:30-11:30, every day this week.
55-80 invites for each meeting.
GTF outta here with that nonsense.
That’s a ‘no’ from me, dawg.
we have such meetings but they are more presentation than anything… Someone presents a new tool or a new way of doing something or a tech upgrade and others listen and maybe ask questions.
As do we, but this isn’t that – they’re spending a bazillion dollars on a new asset management system and think this is the right way to get things started with implementing it and replacing various existing systems.
That seems like a terrible plan.
That’s chump size. Try over 40.
This is a tree that got hit by lightning and it exposed it’s vascular system. Nature is so complex 😲
What are your first thoughts when you seeing this?
https://twitter.com/Sciencenature14/status/1563718530415083520
That’s not the tree’s vascular system.
who made you an expert huh?
Its the Lichtenberg effect, look it up
I found something about the Stasi headquarters.
Makes me want to have spaghetti for lunch.
My first thought was that most of the replies were written by morons. But then, it’s Twatter, so that’s hardly a surprise.
More regulation- the answer is always more regulation
This latest whistleblower report makes clear that social media platforms not only pose potential privacy risks to users, but also national security risks. Congress needs to urgently pass a law regulating what data social networks can collect, how they can share it, how they can store it, who can access it and under what circumstances. Lawmakers also need to give the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a specific mandate to closely oversee social media companies’ security and privacy practices. That would ensure that these companies follow any new regulations put in place. We simply can’t trust them to maintain their own data collection and sharing and security standards.
Consider the ramifications of a social media company’s inadequate security protocols. If a company lacks proper safeguards to protect user passwords or employees’ accounts, the accounts of legitimate sources such as high-profile people could be taken over and used to issue dangerous, even deadly, claims or directives.
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Further, if a company lacks protections against how many employees have access to user information and safeguards to ensure that employees and users aren’t hacked, then hackers — or even employees — could gather sensitive information about users from their social media data and share it with foreign intelligence agencies. Gaining access to their passwords or private messages can reveal evidence of things like affairs or abortions that bad actors can use to try to blackmail them into spying.
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Such threats are too serious to leave to social media companies to manage on their own. We need legislation that strictly limits the number of employees who can have access to user data, prohibits the sharing of that data with third parties, and requires companies to take stronger measures to guard against hackings.
You wouldn’t want to risk some bigtime twatter influencer urging people to vote Republican, would you?
Don’t forget the CIA and the FBI; make sure there’s a big back door for them.
Such threats are too serious to leave to social media companies to manage on their own. We need legislation that strictly limits the number of employees who can have access to user data, prohibits the sharing of that data with third parties, and requires companies to take stronger measures to guard against hackings.
Or you could just not use social media. Twitter hackers won’t get my information no matter how hard they try to hack Twitter.
Me neither, assuming they actually deleted my account and not just pretend-deleted it.
We definitely need the benevolent hand of government to lay down the law in order to accomplish such things!
You think private industry would come up with something as rigorous as PCI?!
(we have to deal with PCI, SoX, FedRamp and… some Australian thing – in practice, if it’s PCI compliant the others are fine)
Who knew that the Periferal Component Interconnect standard was so robust.
I am so happy to not need to deal with PCI compliance anymore.
Picking the winners & losers…
Government’s most important job.
There are times when you need more than one person.
There has to be somebody to blame.
^^
Upper management material right there.
For engineering and aircraft nerds.
Watch “The Pratt & Whitney J58 – The Engine of the SR-71 Blackbird” on YouTube
If you subsidize them they will come
First Solar announced Tuesday that it will build a new solar panel manufacturing facility in the U.S. on the heels of the Inflation Reduction Act, which incentivizes domestic manufacturing.
The company will invest up to $1 billion in the new factory, which it plans to build in the Southeast of the U.S. The newly announced plant will be the panel maker’s fourth fully integrated U.S. factory.
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CEO Mark Widmar pointed to the IRA as the key catalyst that made the company decide to build another factory in the U.S. rather than looking elsewhere.
The funding packages creates, for the first time, a “long-term view and understanding of the industry, and policies aligned to that industry,” he told CNBC.
“With that level of clarity, we stepped back and evaluated the alternatives or the options of where we could go with our next factory and when we looked at it comprehensively the U.S. was a very attractive option,” he said.
It’s like an offer we couldn’t refuse.
That’s a lot of words to say, “We looked for the biggest grift.”
Didn’t Trump have rallies where a number of manufacturing companies announced new plants? As I recall, some fell through and never started, and others turned out to provide far fewer jobs than promised. Politicians are always selling sizzle, but instead of steaks, we usually get turds dropped on hot sidewalks.
Widmar added that this is the first time the entire supply chain has been incentivized, from the manufacturer to the generating asset and finally to the end customer.
“With that type of alignment, you can create partnerships and opportunities to grow together collectively and more of a win-win type of structure than maybe we had before the implementation of the IRA,” he said.
Government, making markets more efficient through co-operation.
I wonder if there’s a name for that.
Money laundering?
Love speech
The National Labor Relations Board has reversed a Trump-era decision by finding that Tesla can’t stop factory employees from wearing clothing with union insignia while on the job.
The board, in a 3-2 decision released Monday, overruled a 2019 NLRB decision involving Walmart and union clothing. The board wrote that a 1945 Supreme Court decision established the precedent for allowing the clothing.
It ordered Tesla to stop enforcing an “overly broad” uniform policy that effectively stops production workers at Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory from wearing black shirts with the United Auto Workers union’s logo.
The board said by ruling against Tesla, it reaffirmed a longstanding precedent that it is “presumptively unlawful” for employers to restrict union clothing without special circumstances that justify the ban.
The board majority determined that Tesla failed to establish any special circumstances that would allow banning the UAW clothing.
That’s not offensive or disruptive. Everybody loves unions. Everybody wants to be in a union. Only an evil kkkapitalist oppressor parasite would take offense at something as completely innocuous as pro-union shirts.
We had a dude here at work wearing a shirt that read, “I EAT ASS,” in an Old English font that was somewhat difficult to read. Management thought it was funny. No complaints from other employees. Not sure how a union shirt would go over.
You work with Heroic Mulatto?
I honestly don’t know how flaming progressives could stomach my books enough to beg me to write more. The shit I see my readers post on FB just flummox me.
Nobody secretly wants to be ravaged by a soy boi?
Soi boys don’t ravage anyone: they get ravaged by someone else…
Nobody is GOING to be ravaged by a soy boi. That’s the problem.
There was some talk some time back ago about wanting to see “beta” heroes, notably just described as laid-back, chill, no-drama, low-maintenance, and not into being assholes. I’m not sure how chill, no-drama, low-maintenance == beta, but whatevs.
Wouldn’t that quickly degenerate into those betas complaining why the other dudes are getting the women – or worse, banging their wives – as they wonder why nobody respects them for being soft asshats?
I do not necessarily subscribe to alpha==attractive and beta==unattractive. I have written dudes who are what I would term bad-ass betas, and I have written chill alphas, but you know, it’s usually just about context. What’s difficult is putting all these men in the same room and figuring out who is THE alpha and doing that is not a Good Thing To Do. When all your heroes are alphas, none of them are. They’re just chill dudes hanging out, and women can respect and be attracted to chill dudes hanging out.
What you describe is an incel, and they’re usually incels for a reason.
Question: do you notice the rank-sorting that happens among men? I don’t think it’s subtle at all, but aparently most women don’t see it. And the mismatch between male and female status sorting seems to be the main driver of complaints about sexism from when I’ve personally witnessed both the incident and the complaint.
Ofc, if it’s not something that most women notice, then most readers probably don’t want to see it taking up space in their stories.
When things run on an instinctive level like that, the onscious mind often doesn’t see the indicators, especially when not a participant.
Yes, but that is because I always hung out with dudes, because rank sorting amongst unaffiliated women is often times based on levels of cruelty and I find cruelty to be uninteresting.
One example: So there I am, 18, at BYU, away from home for the first time, kind of dragged into the martial arts world. There are two competing alphas, the owner of the dojo, who is charismatic and suave, and one of the brown belts, who is a law student, closed off, quiet, businesslike, but an undeniable air of POWER. Confidence. He knew who he was. There was an underlying tension there between them I could feel. The charismatic one was more accessible, but the undoubted alpha of the two was the law student, and the dojo owner HATED that. I didn’t give it much thought at all until I made the law student laugh and then he BECAME accessible, and then I could really feel the tension. It was off the charts.
One complaint about romance novels I have heard in the past is that the heroines often lack a female support structure (female family, female friends, female coworkers). Female support structures really do exist and the ones I have seen are quite robust. The problem with WRITING those, which is where fairy tales often focus on orphaned or disenfranchised girls/women, is that then you have to take up space writing all those relationships.
Notice that Hollywood is the biggest promoter of gun battles and action heroes. Movies people love. But in personal life they are all crazed lefties, and many lovers of those films are lefties too. That must apply to books as well.
Smells like right wing paranoiac disinfo
China currently is the source of the most essential component of non-combustion-engine cars: electric batteries. The Biden administration pretends it can fix this problem by encouraging (with more subsidies and tax breaks) the building of new factories in the United States. But the Chinese have already cornered the market on the mining of minerals, like lithium, cobalt, and nickel, that are necessary to build electric batteries.
Last fall The New York Times published a major investigative article that explained how the United States ceded control of these minerals in a series of disastrous transactions that gave the Chinese Communist Party a near-monopoly on them.
One such deal was the stealth Chinese acquisition from a failing American company of a mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that had the world’s largest reserves of cobalt. Though the Times buried it in the middle of a dense story, one astonishing element of the tale was that Hunter Biden had a major financial interest in the firm that Beijing chose to facilitate the sale.
That fact is relevant when you consider that many major Democratic campaign donors and Wall Street firms that supported Biden for president stand to benefit greatly from laws that will validate their bets on electric vehicles.
Nothing like that could ever happen here. This is America.
“astonishing”
WeMAWkabo! https://media.giphy.com/media/Dq2NL7dfAdODe/giphy.gif
If we grant it is true that Carolyn exists, why did a nurse get a masters in science right before retiring? (because I am not granting she got it 44 years ago)
She may just be financially an idiot, but I agree, after 20 years I heard the loans get forgiven or some idiot shit like that. Anywho, I am gonna bet this moron they invented wouldn’t be able to retire even if they could have someone else pay off their student loan for them, because this mythical creature is not smart enough to do serious financial planning.
I have really had to restrain myself lately watching some of my academic friends post on social media screen shots of their zero-balance student loans. Forgiven in full b/c they are working at public universities. Some of them were still carrying $30k balances even though they are making at least $65k p.a., have bought houses, and taken multiple overseas vacations.
I could do a lot if my debt was canceled if that is the criteria.
Yeah, is a nursing degree a MS in 1978?
Not to be a total shit-lord, but is $20,000 really the difference between retiring and not retiring for someone? If that’s your margin, you may want to delay a bit longer.
That was my thought too.
I honestly don’t know how flaming progressives could stomach my books enough to beg me to write more. The shit I see my readers post on FB just flummox me.
I started to say maybe they can still distinguish between author and fictional characters, but on second reading maybe they want the titillation your forbidden content brings. It’s not exactly a rare thing, apparently.
Straight-up libertarian philosophy? Mormons? Fox News? Cuz, I got all that and more.
There was some talk some time back ago about wanting to see “beta” heroes, notably just described as laid-back, chill, no-drama, low-maintenance, and not into being assholes.
*nods off*
Naw, it can be done and have a nice little romance going on. There are whole subgenres of romance where you have a nice dude and a nice lady finding each other. They’re sweet and cute and sometimes they hit the spot.
In film, see The Clock with Judy Garland. Heck, Napoleon Dynamite.
‘Brooklyn’, pretty much.
People like that don’t do heroic shit. People like that hang around the coffee shop and whine about their lame-o lives.
So, like, The Dude?
I don’t think I’d be able to abide The Dude.
This is where I admit I have not seen that movie.
But, like MY dude, yes. Chill, no-drama, low-maintenance. He steps up when he has to, no problem, but I have come to believe that MOST decent guys are chill, no-drama, low-maintenance, and they step up when they have to. They just don’t…have to very much.
Straight-up libertarian philosophy? Mormons? Fox News? Cuz, I got all that and more.
*hangs out “do not disturb” sign, locks door*
NY & CA vie for The Worst
https://www.foxla.com/news/ny-bans-sale-of-cans-of-whipped-cream-to-those-under-21-years-old
Not big Oasis fan but those are two good tunes and they’ve had a few others. There best one though, is an instrumental.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fzUT5lzdNA
So, apparently losing 9-0 gets you fired in British football (unless you manage Southampton).
I’m not sure NF signing 20 new players is the way to stay up, but Bournemouth making no effort to improve the squad is how you lose 9-0 and go right back down.
Carolyn from Arkansas wrote in telling me that student loan debt relief means she’ll be able to fully retire. She has been a nurse for 44 years and is still working on paying off her Master of Science in Nursing. This relief would make that possible
So would making more than the minimum payment, year after year. If you only pay the interest, the principal never goes away.