Monday Afternoon Links

by | Sep 26, 2022 | Daily Links | 267 comments

“Posts!”

So, this morning…I was scheduling what material we had available, and I clicked on the calendar view. Yikes. We are awfully short of material right now. So I am humbly requesting some help for our stalwarts, who have been contributing steadily.

So, enough of that – let us look at the world out there.

  • Ironic or inevitable?
  • Drink the salty tears of Reuters.
  • I wonder if Russia will get a bunch of Vietnam War style songs out of this?
  • So, not like here.

Comments are open and all yours.

About The Author

Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

267 Comments

  1. Homple

    I vote for “inevitable”.

    • Gustave Lytton

      And totally believable. Two guys driving luxury vehicles just happen to meet over a street corner three card monte.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Who doesn’t know that 3 card monte is a scam? Even us rubes know it is fake.

    • rhywun

      Well, yes, under the current circumstances. We are basically re-living the late sixties and the seventies which was another criminal-friendly era. Which led to 2,000+ homicides per year by 1990 – more than four times now. So, buckle up.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Oooh, gun violence!

        *rubs hands in anticipatory glee*

        /leftist politicians

      • Fatty Bolger

        Back when Escape from New York seemed far-fetched… but not completely out of the realm of possibility.

      • Bobarian LMD

        That was when walls still worked.

      • EvilSheldon

        The actual number of homicides in the US in a typical year is closer to 35,000, and the number is only that low because of the miraculous advances in trauma care in the last twenty years.

        Stay strapped!

      • WTF

        And the vast majority of those deaths are suicides and gang-related shootings.

      • EvilSheldon

        Gang-related, maybe. No one collects that particular piece of data.

        Suicides, no. I’m talking 35k+ deaths as a direct result of violent criminal assault.

      • rhywun

        I was talking about NYC.

        miraculous advances in trauma care

        Interesting point I hadn’t thought of.

    • Fourscore

      Russian war songs may earn a trip to the far North East, via a train ride.

      The VN War created a lot of songs, mostly in the anti vein is my guess. Somehow conscripts don’t enjoy leaving girl friends and home too much.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_the_Vietnam_War

  2. Rat on a train

    Record low turnout casts shadow over result
    The election was illegitimate. We must reject the results to defend democracy.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Italian turnout was 64%, which is casts a shadow. US turnout in 2020 was not much different at 66.8%, and you better not question the mandate, you bigot!

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        👆👆👆

        Reuters is engaging in pure editorializing. Notice they didn’t mention the number.

  3. Tundra

    Switzerland’s accumulated nuclear waste is to be buried in Zurich’s north. There is hardly any opposition to the plan. The question is why?

    Because your propaganda doesn’t work anymore? Because the volume of waste is almost nothing compared with your precious ‘renewables’?

    Am I close?

    • Timeloose

      They had no representative turned senator getting eternal re-election monies from the green lobby?

    • Fatty Bolger

      The Swiss are a very pragmatic people, and have a high trust in their institutions. It must go somewhere. If the experts say this is the best place, then so be it.

      • rhywun

        have a high trust in their institutions

        Makes me wonder if they have any reason to, or if their “experts” are just better at hiding the incompetence and corruption than ours are.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        From what I have read, it comes from every dude having been in the Swiss Army. You know Bob, he is the bank manager, but he is also a Captain in the Army. Steve is just a private, so, not so much trust in him.

        It is the ultimate in paternalism, but it seems to work.

      • robc

        My boss in Switzerland was a Colonel.

      • Swiss Servator

        I got more respect for being an Obersteleutnant, just like the C-Suite guy for our function in Switzerland was, than any qualifications or experience in my job…

      • Fatty Bolger

        That’s a good question. My gut feeling is that they really are more competent. Something people who want to apply the “Swiss Model”* or the “Swedish Model”* here like to ignore.

        * (Only the parts they like, of course)

    • Urthona

      It turns out also that nuclear waste is really not that dangerous anyway.

      There’s sort of a Hollywood mythology about it.

      • Tundra

        And a lot of can be reworked to be used in the current gen plants.

      • Fourscore

        Give the waste to those poor folks that are still using coal fired generators or have other ambitions

      • Bobarian LMD

        I heard in a documentary that it will melt all the way thru the earth’s core and we’ll all die in a lake of fire.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Sounds preferable to our current direction

      • R.J.

        I have a little glass example marble that shows how the waste is stored. It’s still on the advert card. Pretty neat.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      I never understood why they don’t just keep the waste on site. It is so little, weighs so much, and is so useless as to beggar belief. The only reason Yucca Mt. became a big deal was due to ignorant a-holes freaking out.

      • Urthona

        yup.

        this.

      • Timeloose

        We can’t store it where we tested all of our nukes. It might contaminate the ground.

      • robc

        Reprocess to extract the Plutonium in the waste for use as fuel.

        It reduces the volume dramatically. That volume is pretty nasty though.

      • Homple

        In the US just about all generating plant fuel waste is kept on site.

    • Homple

      You are correct, the best kind of close.

  4. Yusef drives a Kia

    I got one Ill finish up and send in for submission asap Swissy!

    • Swiss Servator

      You are already up tonight.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        For later sometime, not now,

  5. SDF-7

    I look forward to the Director’s Cut of Born on the 12th of June.

    And sorry I don’t have a contribution to throw your way, Swiss — I barely rise above lurking here, every time I think I might have an article or story I quickly remember why I think I purely suck as a writer. So I’ll continue to depend on the leavings of others instead of being free and enjoying pets and whatnot. (hat-tip to Animal if anyone didn’t read Shadow, Part 2: Shadow Harder this morning).

    • Rat on a train

      I am not a writer. My freshman composition professor said my style was best suited for writing stereo manuals.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        My 6th grade teacher’s assessment of my writing: “His writing style is sparse.”

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        So you are a Technics writer?

      • Rat on a train

        I’m not a good technical writer. I am too terse. My style worked well for writing intelligence reports.

      • Homple

        I wrote really good FORTRAN. Any market here for that?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Just go straight to metal and give us an article completely in assembly.

      • Homple

        I never did much of that and have misplaced my OS 360 green card and can’t remember a thing on it.

    • whiz

      My style is academic at best. I submit very few articles, but I try to submit if I think that something that interests me might interest others. Give it a go, the worst that can happen is a cat butt.

      • Rat on a train

        An article about cat butts?

      • The Hyperbole

        Animal is already on that.

  6. The Other Kevin

    “Shock troops arrest 2,000 protesters nationwide in clampdown”

    Can we start calling the FBI “shock troops”?

    • SDF-7

      Given the persistent khaki-groups-coming-out-of-U-hauls, I think “shock troops” is giving them way too much credit. They do want to be the SS to Antifa’s SA, but they’re not there yet.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Sturm Straßen.

  7. Rebel Scum

    Giorgia Meloni looks set to become Italy’s first woman prime minister at the head of its most right-wing government since World War Two after leading the conservative alliance to a triumph in Sunday’s election.

    I do nazi the relationship.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      You are reich about that

      • SDF-7

        Calling Mussolini “right wing” when he was so blatantly socialist is hilarious. So tiring that they keep repeating that lie to putsch conservatives in their place.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        He didn’t support gay marriage or transsexual rights. He was clearly a right-winger.

      • Homple

        Right whanger?

      • rhywun

        So many axis to grind around here.

      • rhywun

        Dammit.

      • The Other Kevin

        How she handles the energy crisis will dictator success.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It may be noose to you, but this pic really toes the line.

      • R.J.

        *golf clap

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      Boo, SS, Boo, SS!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Only a total duce can’t see it.

      • Pope Jimbo

        So this chick is Il Trey?

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        You just had to drop that.

  8. rhywun

    So, not like here.

    The writer clearly wants it to be. “Why aren’t these stupid rubes angrier?”

  9. Rebel Scum

    Russian opposition to Putin’s Ukraine invasion grows as families flee to Georgia to escape conscription: Shock troops arrest 2,000 protesters nationwide in clampdown – as even allies turn on regime and blame mobilisation for exodus and anti-war demos

    From Russia without love.

    • Timeloose

      That exodus was not anything like the VN draft here. They all GTFO as soon as possible like there was a hurricane coming.

    • Fourscore

      So all Russian lads have a low draft number. None go up to 11.

  10. DEG

    So I am humbly requesting some help for our stalwarts, who have been contributing steadily.

    I started work on the next part of FreedomFest 2022 coverage. I might get it done this week depending on work and other stuff.

    At the Weiach festival grounds, the opinion was unanimous: The experts will know what they are doing.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  11. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    So I am humbly requesting some help for our stalwarts, who have been contributing steadily.

    I’d like to see some fresh meat, too. Like, anyone who is a prolific commenter, it would be awesomw to read an article from you than someone who never interacts with us plebs.

    • Tundra

      *looks around*

      Why is everyone looking at me?!?

      • Tres Cool

        Because you look like a Cabela’s advert.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      So, KK wants some fresh meat?

      Well, alright, alright, alright!

      • SDF-7

        She has been getting frisky with her euphemisms lately… which is only fair given I think there’s more cheese than beefcake on average — I’m sure the ladies (and some bears) are plotting how to balance the books.

    • Tonio

      We have many fine commenter-contributors who enrich our lives with their quality non-fiction and fiction submissions. Including you.

      But I, too, always like to hear a fresh voice on here, and encourage those who have always wanted to write to submit to us. One of our kind, friendly editors will guide you through the editorial maze your first time.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        Commenter-contributors are the BEST. Like, YOOGE. The ones that comment on other people’s articles as well as their own are the best of the best of the best.

      • MikeS

        Seconded

  12. The Late P Brooks

    It’s about time

    President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA).

    Snowden, 39, fled the United States and was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013 that revealed vast domestic and international surveillance operations carried out by the NSA, where he worked.

    I haven’t read the comments yet.

    Appy polly loggies if I’m redundant.

    • SDF-7

      That Trump didn’t pardon him (and imho, give him a medal) for revealing the crap the IC was doing that they’re not supposed to — and then hold the IC accountable was one of the major missed opportunities that bugged me about his admin. I don’t expect PPP to do it, and obviously Obama hated him for calling out the Machine — but once Trump found out about the early rumblings of Russiagate (tapping his phones per-inauguration), the gloves should have come off.

      • grrizzly

        According to Glenn Greenwald, Trump was going to pardon him before the end of his term. But then J6 and the second impeachment happened and Trump was told that he would not have enough GOP senators to avoid the conviction in the Senate if he pardons Snowden.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Absolutely.

    • Penguin

      He only did so Snowden could be drafted.

      • grrizzly

        Only those who served in the Russian military can be drafted at the moment.

  13. Timeloose

    This Resort/Music event feels like it has potential. It will either be a huge blast or turn into Fyre fest.

    https://www.destinationchaos.com/

    • Nephilium

      Nice band line up. This bit from the FAQ is promising as well:

      Neither the Dominican Republic nor the resort require our guests to show proof of vaccination or negative test prior to or upon arrival.

      • EvilSheldon

        Hmm. I’ve never seen Amigo The Devil live…

    • slumbrew

      Rooms already exist at the resort, so they’ve already avoided becoming Fyre 2.0

  14. Rebel Scum

    You keep using that word…

    “I think that there is going to be such a landslide against the traitors, especially the 147 Republicans who, just hours after the insurrection, voted to not certify the elected president of the United States, Joe Biden, and I think there is going to be so many people coming out to vote,” Moore said.

    “There are so many signs of this that I think, I honestly think, if we all do our work and we all get people to get out there and we get out there ourselves,” Moore said in an interview on Maher’s show Friday night, “I think we can throw out a huge number of these Republican traitors in November.”

    • Drake

      I assume Rand Paul did the perfunctory proposal of an audit, and was shot down by everyone on the take.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m sure that the new Congress will stop shoveling money over there and audit the past payments and punish anyone who might have been grifting.

      • kinnath

        this is where the gratuitous link to the onion goes . . . .

      • Fourscore

        …and that’s just the navy…

      • Bobarian LMD

        It’s more like this.

    • rhywun

      I identify as Ukraine

      *snort*

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Just wait till Ukraine requires bodies instead of money.

      Do you really think this administration wouldn’t put Marines in Ukraine to save the war we so desperately need to fight for some fucking reason?

      Tit for tat for tit for tat for tit for tactical nuke…

  15. Rebel Scum

    I tend not to trust this guy.

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is promising three protections to Russian soldiers who willingly surrender. Zelensky’s offer comes as Vladimir Putin announced plans to call up 300,000 reservists to replenish the troops who have died in battle. Zelensky delivered his offer directly to Russians as he made his nightly video address.

    Zelensky addressed them in Russian. He said every Russian soldier who surrenders is guaranteed three protections.

    1. You will be treated in a civilised manner, in accordance with all conventions;
    2. No one will know the circumstances of your surrender, no one in Russia will know that your surrender was voluntary;
    3. If you are afraid to return to Russia and do not want an exchange, we will find a way to ensure this as well.”

    • SDF-7

      “Oh… and 4) We will buy you a bungalow in the Caribbean… we have more than enough US dollars sloshing around, why the hell not?”

    • Swiss Servator

      They will shove them into Germany, etc.

      Heh.

      • B.P.

        From the Daily Mail article you linked above…

        “German officials have voiced a desire to help Russian men deserting military service and have called for a European-wide solution.”

        Yikes.

      • Count Potato

        Will it be final?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Sounds better than the way Russians are treating their prisoners

      A British soldier who was captured while fighting in Ukraine has revealed how he was forced by the Russians to listen to ABBA and Cher on repeat while a prisoner.

      Shaun Pinner, a 48-year-old army veteran, has spoken of how he was forced to listen to the music 24 hours a day, as well as being stabbed and subjected to electrocutions.

      While in captivity he was forced to listen to the soundtrack of Mamma Mia and only given stale bread and dirty water to consume.

      After he was sentenced to death in June, alongside fellow British fighter Aiden Aslin, they were moved to new accommodation where the music torture continued.

      “The conditions were better but they still played music – and this time it was Believe by Cher,” he told The Sun.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        So… Gitmo

      • B.P.

        Hollywood agent: Good news — Your movie is back in the news. Bad news — Stabbing and electrocution have taken second and third billing as torture devices to the movie’s soundtrack.

  16. Pope Jimbo

    The big question is who those Ruskies fleeing to Georgia will vote for? Kemp or Abrams?

    • SDF-7

      Too much vodka — they read the news and were trying to flee to Giorgia.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Finally, good news

    • Animal

      I could use some .45-70 ammo. They list none in stock.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    I have been out in my well house, cleaning up the giant mess and marvelling at the wiring. That tangled mess of 2ires would have made a perfect “Don’t do it like this!” video for one of those home wiring youtube guys.

    It’s less scary now, but I probably should fix a couple of things before I run power to the shop.

    Bushings, or whatever electrician-speak is for the wire protection and strain relief thingies, for example. Running hot wires through a hole with a raw sheet metal edge makes me itch.

    • MikeS

      Grommet.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Wallace?

    • Tundra

      Shocking!

      • SDF-7

        Careful, you might jolt Swiss out of his meditation…

        “Ohm….. ohm…. ohm…” … cough… “What?!? I let them have the comments and even then they can’t conduct themselves well? I’ll have to show them who has the power and crush any resistance… right after I go for a run and watch The Wire, anyway…”

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      Is it a chassis punch hole, or did someone just take a drill to it?

    • The Hyperbole

      Romex connector.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Box connector

  18. Rebel Scum

    And you call the right “fascist”.

    The European Union will be “vigilant” of any threats to “human rights”, especially in regards to its pro-abortion regime, after the Italian public decided to hand the country’s right-wing a sizable victory during the country’s general election on Sunday.

    While the exact results of the snap election remain unknown, it is expected from exit polls that a coalition of three conservative and nationalist parties will end up spearheading a new Italian government, with Fratelli D’Italia (Brothers of Italy) head Giorgia Meloni expected to become the country’s first woman Prime Minister.

    European bigwigs have responded with hostility to the projected election result, with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen threatening that the bloc has certain “tools” it could use to attack Italy should it deviate from the Brussels agenda.

    Such threats have now been echoed by France’s Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, who told broadcaster BFMTV that the EU would be watching closely to see if any “human rights” were being put under threat following Sunday’s vote.

    • Drake

      Stocking up on popcorn. I’m going to enjoy watching the EU fall apart.

      • Tundra

        I’m not. History suggests that a failed Europe doesn’t bode well for anyone.

        This has been building for awhile. It appears to have progressed too far to go back.

        I’m at that point of morbid fascination.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Don’t worry, Germany has a history of getting the rest of Europe to pull together in a single cause.

    • SDF-7

      What, will Brussels cripple their economy, tie their foreign policy to a proxy war with a nuclear power and outlaw fertilizers to cause food shortages or something? Must be some “tools” in the EU….

      • rhywun

        Who wouldn’t want to eagerly sign up for that.

      • Chafed

        The Dutch and Brits?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Our Democracy means electing only politicians that are approved by the bureaucrats in Brussels.

      I seem to recall the EU throwing a fit about some right winger in Austria winning an election (no not that guy), meanwhile the Austrian flag still has a hammer and sickle, albeit in the claws of the eagle rather than in the usual Commie configuration.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Roughly translated, that means Ursula will lay the blame on the European sovereign debt crisis on Meloni and Italy.

      Then Italy will threaten to leave the euro and Brussels will demand repayment of Italy’s 1 trillion in liabilities to the ECB.

      Grab your popcorn because things are about to get “interesting.”

  19. Mojeaux

    Shit, Swiss, I could serialize one of my books in a set time slot and you’d have that slot filled for 6 years.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Will there be bodice ripping?

      • Mojeaux

        Well, there was that erotic asphyxiation scene where my pirate took a knife and slit the other pirate’s corset laces so she could breathe again, so … maybe?

        Wait. I was supposed to say

        FIE UPON YOU, SIR! THIS IS A FAMILY FRIENDLY SITE!

    • Swiss Servator

      Your offer is acceptable.

      • Mojeaux

        Do you want gangsters, pirates, knights, or Mormon(ish) libertarians?

      • MikeS

        What about cuntes?

      • The Last American Hero

        I’ll take the Mormonism librarians.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      you’d have that slot filled for 6 years

      That’s a lot of slot filling right there.

      • Mojeaux

        Yes, well, better to have and not need than need and not have.

  20. Rebel Scum

    Braindead Brandon is getting worse.

    Someone has to remind Joe Biden they’re going to take a picture as the players instruct Biden to hold his jersey up for the photo.

    • Hyperion

      “Holly Thornton
      @beachmamax2
      ·
      4h
      Replying to
      @RNCResearch

      Two more years of this. God help us.

      This lady has it right. We’ll never survive it, it’s over.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      This guy is in charge as we inch ever closer to the nuclear precipice.

      We’re going to need some divine intervention.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Not grommet. Bushing with strain relief.

  22. Hyperion

    I didn’t even know until now that Europe’s 3rd largest economy is Italy. I only knew about Britain and Germany. So what is Italy, about 1/4000th of the top two? Just kidding, I have no idea. I work with a guy who lives in Italy several months of the year. I don’t talk to him about things like politics and economy. All he talks about in that regard is the great free healthcare there. I guess the scary right wingers scared him so much that he’s returned to the US for now, home of scary right wingers who drive around in planet killing pickup trucks with machine guns mounted on top. So the Italian right wingers must be real scary. Mussolini clones is what I heard.

    • Drake

      They still pretend the Russian economy is tiny?

      • Hyperion

        They still pretend that Biden is brilliant and has Putin right where he wants him.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Stumbled across an interesting video from Tucker yesterday that digs into the insanity of DC and Zelensky essentially being a Western puppet. Was really surprised to see Tucker take this viewpoint, since his audience is staunchly anti-Russia. Good to see that someone in the MSM has finally brought up that Ukraine and Russia had all but accepted a peace treaty until Boris Johnson rushed in to ax it and push regime change on a nuclear power.

        It’s worth a watch. Seems like more and more people in the US are waking up to the evil that the Western governments have done here and that the Ukrainian government is pretty bad themselves. Yes, Russia is bad too.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MJDvr-1Z-A

      • MikeS

        Was really surprised to see Tucker take this viewpoint, since his audience is staunchly anti-Russia.

        ?? Hasn’t he been getting called Pro-Putin for months because of stories in this vein?

      • Hyperion

        He should tell them to fuck off and explain why we are giving billions in tax payer money to the most corrupt country on earth and Hunter Biden’s crack dealer, Zelensky.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I don’t know. I haven’t seen a Tucker clip in months. I assumed the Fox News audience would continue their tradition of being strongly in favor of any military action regardless of the location, target, or rationale.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        To clarify, I meant in favor of US-directed military actions.

      • Drake

        Tucker at least has turned the corner on that topic. He’ll admit we wasted thousands of American lives and $trillions for absolutely nothing in return.

      • Hyperion

        “we wasted thousands of American lives and $trillions for absolutely nothing in return.”

        And now we’re willing to waste all of that and add in nuclear war.

      • Fatty Bolger

        the Ukrainian government is pretty bad themselves. Yes, Russia is bad too.

        “It’s a pity they both can’t lose.”

      • Fatty Bolger

        Pretend?

      • Drake

        Yes.

    • Urthona

      Wait. Italy has a bigger economy than France?

      • Fatty Bolger

        No. Must mean only EU countries. UK is second in Europe after Germany.

      • Hyperion

        ^this^

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      I believe it is Germany, France, Italy.

      John Bull is out of the club.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I wonder how much of the output numbers for the larger economies in Europe are being inflated by laptop class jobs? By that I mean jobs with relatively high pay that don’t really produce anything of value (government jobs, NGOs, regulatory, finance, lots of tech type jobs like Facebook, etc). And on top of that, the energy shortage this winter may destroy much of Europe’s industrial base.

      Seems a bit like a house of cards, but maybe I’m looking at it the wrong way.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        You’re not. Germany has the highest percentage of manufacturing compared to overall national output at 23%

        But in that regard, we’re not any better. Our economy is dominated by the service industry at 80% and that includes financial services. The catch is that we stand to survive the winter and they don’t.

      • rhywun

        don’t really produce anything of value

        Don’t tell my finance-industry employer that I don’t produce anything of value.

  23. robc

    I just put together a quick article. Submitting draft now, will finalize tomorrow.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Is it a chassis punch hole, or did someone just take a drill to it?

    I’s an electrical box with knockouts.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      (a knockout is a chassis punch does when they aren’t pre-done)

      But, you were right to put a strain relief bushing in.

    • MikeS

      When you said a hole through sheet metal I pictured a drilled hole through the wall of a steel building, hence grommet. For a box, yes, what you pictured: NM cable clamps (Romex connector)

  25. Count Potato

    “The White House press secretary on Monday said it was important to have a conversation about the Atlanta Braves’ name, hours after President Joe Biden celebrated their 2021 World Series win with the team.

    It comes at a time when several professional sports teams have jettisoned Native American terms as nicknames or titles – such as the Cleveland Indians, now the Guardians, and the Washington Redskins, now known as the Commanders.

    In contrast, Braves’ fans continue to do their ‘Tomahawk Chop’ celebration.

    ‘We believe that it’s important to have this conversation,’ said Karine Jean-Pierre when she was asked about the name during her daily briefing.

    ‘And Native American and indigenous voices, they should be at the centre of this conversation. That is something that the president believes, is something that this administration believes and he has consistently emphasised that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11251887/Karine-Jean-Pierre-says-conversation-Atlanta-Braves-changing-name.html

    Native Americans don’t care.

    • Hyperion

      Not the point. Rich white kids on Tik Tok care a lot. Your priorities are all messed up.

    • rhywun

      he has consistently emphasised that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect

      😂🤣

      Pull the other one.

    • Rebel Scum

      he has consistently emphasised that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

      Dignity, like removing them from all references in society.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I think there are more important things to discuss at the moment.

    • Urthona

      Danged uppity blacks.

      • Hyperion

        Them is just Uncle Toms raging against them Uncle Juans. When they should both be raging against whitey.

    • Bobarian LMD

      It said they were a “right” group right there in the title.

      Obviously Nazies.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I’d pay a fiver just to watch your average prog try to frame that one.

      • whiz

        The NYT wants to sell you a subscription.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      But, but he just had his seventh baby with Chlamydia, or whatever her name is.

      • Hyperion

        Don’t worry, he’s going to be just fine until his fellow progs decide to turn on him, which is why he looks so worried.

    • Bobarian LMD
    • db

      Wait, is he actually being charged criminally?

  26. Raven Nation

    Speaking of genuises…New Zealand high school principals have announced that two years of covid-related disruptions are taking a toll on students.

    • Count Potato

      No way!

    • Hyperion

      But it was totally the right thing to do, there were 3 cases reported in the country that did not involve sheep!

  27. Pope Jimbo

    SCIENCE!!!!

    Drinking beer is healthier than sniffing young girls.

    Drinking beer every night may lower your risk of dementia, scientists claim.

    Australian researchers studied the drinking habits and dementia rates among 25,000 over-60s.

    Results showed people who drank the equivalent of two pints a day were a third less likely to get the memory-robbing condition than teetotalers.

    Non-drinkers faced the highest threat, according to the results. They were roughly a fifth more likely to be struck down with dementia than the biggest boozers, who got through at least three pints a night.

    • Urthona

      Man it seems like they do this kind of bullshit study al the time and it always gets reported.

      Healthy, active , and social people drink alcohol more often into their late 60s. It’s correlative.

      • robc

        The longitudinal studies on life span show the same result for just generic “life span”, which wouldn’t be the case if the moderate drinkers were dying in hordes in their 40s.

    • Hyperion

      Science is just fine. The problem is researchers turning into career grant writers. There will be another study that comes out next week that says beer is bad for you. And the week after that, there will be another one that says beer is good for you. Choice is great, just pick the one you like the most! We’re going to just keep churning them out, because NEEDZ MOAR FUNDING!

      That study is pure bullshit. There is no way that any amount of alcohol is good for anyone. Alcohol is poison and to get rid of it, your body converts it into an even worse poison, acetaldehyde. Those two things will wreck every organ and even every cell in your body, if you consume enough. OK, it’s good for anxiety, until it wears off, then you get an anxiety rebound. Alcohol is BAD for you. The South Park buy was right all along, drugs are bad, mmkay? It’s just that some are worse, alcohol being the worst of all of them. I mean except for the ones that are the newest craze sweeping the nation that will turn you into a crocodile.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I will not sit here and listen to you badmouth alcohol!

        If it wasn’t for booze, I’d still be a virgin! I get down on my knees every night and thank doG for female beer goggles.

      • Chafed

        This man speaks the truth.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Boo! Boo!!!

      • Hyperion

        That’s what I said until I fried out all of my happy juice receptors. Anhedonia is a modern term for HELL.

        But I’m a luck guy they say because I’m a 62 year old with the liver of a 20 year old.

      • R.J.

        …And you better give it back! That young person needs it to live!

    • Fourscore

      Now do early morning and pre- afternoon beer drinking. Should prevent any memory loss but I forget what else.

  28. Pope Jimbo

    So disappointed. Not one black dude at Nige-Fest

    • Hyperion

      But at least the one in the 3rd pic down is a sort of pleasant rosey hue.

    • B.P.

      They were all just making plans.

      • Penguin

        Crap. I just need to repeat “Always refresh before posting” over and over.

  29. Tundra

    How do you say sayonara in Hungarian?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Szija. Pronounced “See ya”.

    • Pope Jimbo

      They sure seem upset. Maybe they should change their name to Hangry?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I guarantee the Italian election results are a factor in that decision.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      Electoral Autocracy.

      Nice.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Band name?

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        12″ dance remix.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I’m pretty sure I saw them at the Bahnhof Club in Budapest in the 90s.

  30. Gadfly

    Drink the salty tears of Reuters.

    I like how they tar the party as being “post-fascist”, when that history is that there was a neo-fascist party that moderated, merged with some more main-stream right-wing parties to form a new party, then that party merged into a center-right party that ran the Italian government under Silvio Berlusconi, then fractured out of that larger party to form the Brothers of Italy party that exists today. If that history merits them being labeled “post-fascist”, then I say it’s only fair that Reuters starts calling the Democratic party in the US a “post-white-supremacist” party, as there’s a much shorter through line.

    • Hyperion

      Don’t they tar the AfD in Germany in exactly the same way? Just like they will do with DeSantis the same way they did with Trump? They’re lefties, it’s what they do. They have a narrative and they never stray too far from it. They pulled this shit straight from the Bolshevik handbook under the propaganda section.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Yes

        And neighborhoods in Germany are very political. You don’t want to be outed as an AFD in a town that’s SPD.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      People are fucked up.

    • Hyperion

      This is why Elon no longer wants to buy Twatter.

  31. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    Why does La Croix soda taste so bad? Bubly is by far the superior product

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      It’s like a brief hint of Duncan Hines canned vanilla frosting, followed by a lingering flavor of bilge.

      (this is supposed to limoncello flavor)

    • Rat on a train

      I never had a good La Croix.

    • Tundra

      Target’s Good & Gather brand is really good. Ginger peach is my fave.

    • R.J.

      Anything is superior. You can’t even mix the stuff.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      La Croix is a product whose success I can’t understand.

      I felt the same about Pinkberry. Nobody can possibly think that flavorless sherbet is tasty?

  32. Rat on a train
    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      I guess he isn’t feeling blue anymore.

      • Hyperion

        And he gets first shot for that HR job! No wait…, he’s gonna need to whack that weewee first, but then he is in!

  33. grrizzly

    More Trans Teens Are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’

    Dr. Gallagher, whose unusual embrace of platforms like TikTok has made her one of the most visible gender-affirming surgeons in the country, said she performed 13 top surgeries on minors last year, up from a handful a few years ago. One hospital, Kaiser Permanente Oakland, carried out 70 top surgeries in 2019 on teenagers aged 13 to 18, up from five in 2013, according to researchers who led a recent study.

    • Hyperion

      What is a top surgery. Is that when they only remove your dick but not your balls?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Breasts only. either adding or cutting off. Everything down below is left intact.

      • Hyperion

        But I’m sure they acknowledge all of the girls who badly regret this? I guess at least they can get a boob job. The people who did the ‘top’ surgery should pay for that along with millions in damages.

      • Urthona

        The woman claimed that she never had a single person regret the surgery.

      • Hyperion

        I see, a liar.

      • Urthona

        The interviewer was able to point out a case and she was all “oh yeah well except that one”

      • Hyperion

        Someone needs to take the time to interview every one of her victims and when they find one who does regret it and was underage when the surgery was done, she needs to be sued for every nickel she ever thought she had. We’ve thrown the rule of law completely out the window here to the point where we can no longer even protect minors from being victimized by these serial pedophiles.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Small studies suggest that breast removal surgery improves transgender teenagers’ well-being, but data is sparse. Some state leaders oppose such procedures for minors.

      I have a study right here that says if you identify as right handed, you’d be happier without your left hand. It’s scientific, and if you deny it, you’re denying SCIENCE.

      • Urthona

        I think if I added new boobs to my torso in high school I may not have gone outside for awhile.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Does she sing little catchy tunes about cutting your tits off?

      • Count Potato

        Worse.

  34. Penguin

    Trudeau Syndrome.

    • Penguin

      Supposed to be a reply to Roat.

  35. Shiny Nerfherder

    I just had someone tell me that they have no reason to take my word on an issue, meaning that they don’t know whether I’m right or wrong, but that they definitely had a hard opinion about it that cannot be changed.

    • Ted S.

      And then you fucked Mrs. Nerfherder’s brains out?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        She just gets slapped around a little and then I hide all the steak knives before bed.

  36. Urthona

    I just took my daughter to Starbucks and they had straws there that are made out of plastic.

    I don’t know why no one ever thought of this before because they’re fucking fantastic.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      DIRTY ROTTEN TURTLE KILLING PICKLE!

      • Urthona

        Sea turtles are assholes anyway. I saw one of them not return his shopping cart at Kroger.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Freedom Straws.

  37. Chafed

    Hey Swiss. An article I submitted some time ago is still in the drafts bin. As far as I know, Tonio finished editing it.

    • Swiss Servator

      Anything ready should go to “Pending” – I will talk to Tonio.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    I just had someone tell me that they have no reason to take my word on an issue, meaning that they don’t know whether I’m right or wrong, but that they definitely had a hard opinion about it that cannot be changed.

    That’s just, like, your opinion, man.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I was expecting “You’re full of shit.”

      Instead I got “I don’t know but I don’t care to know.”

      • Gender Traitor

        “Well, they DO say that state of being is bliss…”

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        There’s a lot of bliss going around.

  39. UnCivilServant

    Evening, Glibs, I am back at my house, most of my luggage inside. I left the Steel Fourscore gave me in the backseat for the night, because it won’t get hurt, and people probably won’t steal it.

    • MikeS

      Wait. Fourscore gave you steel?

      😥

      • UnCivilServant

        There was a piece in his garage he wasn’t going to use.