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  1. Count Potato

    “RNC Accuses Google Of Sending Election Emails To Spam, Files FEC Complaint”

    Also, searches for climate change.

    “Don’t Be Evil”

    • AlexinCT

      There is nothing to look at here…

      /DOJ

      Now what do you think we would be hearing non stop if it was done to team blue?

    • SDF-7

      To be fair to Google — most of the political emails I get do read as spam. And are about as annoying. The only question would be if the DNC ones get through (which I suspect they do), but maybe stop hectoring anyone who ever showed any interest in your party with constant “We just need $5 more to stop the APOCALYPSE!”, jerks.

      • Atanarjuat

        Somehow I get pandering fundraising emails from Republicans and Democrats alike. My favorite are the ones from Donald Trump himself with subjects like “I’d love to hear your opinion”.

      • AlexinCT

        I would send money if they send me an email with pics of Obama, Biden, and the Clintons wearing orange jump suits and making my next set of license plates…

      • SDF-7

        I’m sure they’d be happy to photoshop that for $20, same as downtown.

      • AlexinCT

        Photoshop not accepted. I want that for real or not…. Next you will tell me to date some lady that was born with a wiener to prove my props…

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        During the 2004 election I worked for an email company and the DNC was one of our customers. They called on election day complaining that their emails weren’t going through, and they had lawyers at the ready to file suit if we didn’t resolve their issue. I suspect the DNC has been far more aggressive far longer, and therefore their emails go through at GMail.

    • juris imprudent

      I was amused by an ActBlue ad that came through my FB feed, which had the disclaimer “not affiliated with Meta”.

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

      It is now spelled Goeggles.

    • Not Adahn

      “We own the science.”

  2. Count Potato

    “All three southern Indiana judges, who were in town for a judicial conference at the time, were noted to have been drinking heavily prior to standing in the parking lot of the restaurant, according to testimony during Kaiser’s trial.”

    Does anyone ever eat White Castle sober?

    • AlexinCT

      Not even drunk. If I feel like eating ass, I eat real ass.

    • juris imprudent

      *cough* Waffle House *cough*

      • SDF-7

        That’s like comparing Chez Pierre to McDonald’s, man. WH is at least reasonable diner food, White Castle is just a crime against humanity.

    • pistoffnick

      Does anyone ever eat White Castle sober?

      *raises hand*

      White Castle is my guilty pleasure. When I commuted from Duloot to the Cities, I would sometimes stop there for breakfast of the way down, and for supper on the way home.

      • AlexinCT

        Someone put that Indiana Jones Last Crusades meme of the old night saying “You chose poorly” here, please…

      • AlexinCT

        night=knight

      • R.J.

        Nighty-knight

      • R C Dean

        Do not do an image search for nighty knight.

      • R.J.

        I used Brave Search so my eyes were not seared.

  3. Raven Nation

    Rules for reporting hurricanes:

    1. Democrat governor, Democrat mayor, Republican president: blame the president
    2. Republican governor, Democrat president: blame the governor

    • AlexinCT

      And the sad thing is that some idiots will fall for it because TEAM!

      • juris imprudent

        Some?

      • AlexinCT

        Some people are outside the bubbles.

      • juris imprudent

        Well some people aren’t idiots voting for TEAM either. I thought we were talking about TEAM voters – in which case, some should be most.

      • AlexinCT

        But there are two teams…

        Never mind.

      • straffinrun

        Yep. Me and everyone else.

    • SDF-7

      See also, water treatment, power grid, any infrastructure… I’m sure PG&E dug up a Republican from somewhere in this state or the West Coast in general to blame their crappy maintenance on. If nothing else, the donkeys around here always fall back to Prop 13 (because they hates it, nasty hobbits!) and/or Reagan’s time as governor. All ills stem from that time period, they just need another 100 years or so of power… then we’ll achieve Utopia (when all their enemies are dead).

      • juris imprudent

        They can’t run out of enemies, ever. It’s a fundamental requirement for the True Believer.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        👆👆👆

      • Bobarian LMD

        “We’ll Make More!”

    • Count Potato

      3. CLIMATE CHANGE!!!

  4. SDF-7

    Leftist Media Slavering To Turn The Tragedies Of Hurricane Ian Into Ron DeSantis’s Katrina

    Unlike W (and most other GOPe), DeSantis and his press secretary seem perfectly capable of (and willing to) hit back. I don’t expect any of that crap will stick. “Why aren’t you God? Why didn’t you control the weather?” Morons.

    • AlexinCT

      The machine knows that if you push lies and nasty false accusations long enough, not only do you reach the usual idiots, but you wear down the resistance of those not immediately willing to believe the ideocracy.

      Team blue will accuse anyone that is politically dangerous to them of being the latest incarnation of Hitler, but should those turn coats suddenly start defending the deep state, they become heroes. See how they treat Liz Cheney, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, for example.

    • Rat on a train

      Darth Cheney isn’t going to use his weather control device to help extremists.

  5. Atanarjuat

    The bill was among several measures introduced by members of a Legislative Vaccine Work Group, who authored measures to bolster the state’s response to the pandemic and combat misinformation.

    You start to wonder, how does Pfizer have such a broad reach? In this case it’s pretty obvious though. They made tens of billions of dollars, and legislators are for sale.

    • SDF-7

      I’m just glad the mandate for all school kids (including home school) with no exemptions got canned for now. That was going to be an “instant move out of the state” line. We’ll just have to see.

    • rhywun

      Watching them tighten the screws is getting pretty amusing. People aren’t falling for their shit anymore.

    • juris imprudent

      Someone vying for the Mengele award?

    • Atanarjuat

      According to Eileen, this clinic is funded through Title X of the Public Health Service Act.

      CHOP has come under fire after it was revealed that the hospital provides medicalized gender transitions for minors, including through surgical or pharmaceutical means.

      I’m not sure our society can get any more perverse or evil.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Instigating nuclear war would do it.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Have mercy, she’s a predator and proud of it. That’s really messed up.

  6. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Cutting off kids’ genitalia for profit isn’t the problem, it’s the people that get incensed by that fact that need to be dealt with. Who the hell do these stethoscope wearing cocksuckers think they are? The AMA: yet another formerly respected organization that eat a dick.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      And even worse, I apparently agree with Eyepatch McCain on this issue. I feel so dirty.

      • Lackadaisical

        There is a reason he got elected… And it’s that season again. Don’t beat yourself up over it.

    • AlexinCT

      I feel the people that need to be punished is the fucking idiot parents that think destroying their already mentally compromised child’s mental ability completely so they can score woke points.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Certainly them and the Mengele level doctors, the administration, and the water carriers for this kind of insane garbage. Any society that not only ignores this but stands up for it should be destroyed.

      • AlexinCT

        We are being forced to pretend serious and deadly mental disorder is something to encourage and finance more of…

    • Drake

      Somehow, without anyone voting on it or a public debate in any legislature – the government is paying for these procedures.

      These messed up kids and their broken families aren’t paying $30k+ for elective procedures. It’s us. Our tax dollars and / or our medical premiums are covering this horror. Who decided this?

      • Lackadaisical

        Experts.

      • Count Potato

        I thought it was part of Obamacare, but the language is rather vague.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      “yet another formerly respected organization that eat a dick”

      Maybe that’s why they are cutting them off.

  7. SDF-7

    California doctors could lose licenses for spreading unapproved COVID-19 info

    I’ll take “More Blatently Unconstitutional Censorship” for $200, Alex.

    • SDF-7

      Major Medical Orgs Demand That The DOJ Prosecute People Who Share ‘Misleading’ Information Online

      I’ll take “More Blatantly Uncoconstitutional Censorship” for $400, Alex.

      Talk about a Daily Double.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Toe the line or lose your job. Better get used to it.

      • juris imprudent

        ♪♫ Lido, oh, oh, oh, ohhhhhhhhh

      • SDF-7

        I work on the West Coast for a major tech company near Silicon Valley. I try not to get anywhere near politics at work for at least 6 years now.

        Just yesterday, had a coworker mention in a Zoom meeting that she was a bit off her game because her 6 month old was cranky after the first round of vaccines (which apparently the pediatrician thought was just peachy to do all at once… reportedly *nine* shots. For a 6 month old.) And of course, specifically cited was COVID and flu shots.

        For a 6 month old.

        I seriously wanted to ask just how bad they thought the flu would be for a baby that age, if there was a problem with immunodeficiency and if she ever gave risk analysis a passing thought, but I bit my tongue. She’s a nice person, as are most of my coworkers… but I live in a very different thought bubble at times.

        I think there’s a couple more of us out in the Midwest, but I don’t want to out them to ask. And of course our company (like all tech ones) are all about diversity for the different points of view. Just not wrongthink. Blech.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s just depressing how stupid people can be. Thank God it’s National Vodka Day.
        *takes swig*

      • AlexinCT

        I am a gin, whiskey, or bourbon guy, but I guess I can do a bloody Mary for the day…

      • Rat on a train

        I work with people in NoVA. I don’t know how bad they are compared to Silicon Valley but there are definitely a lot of Covidians up there.

      • Cowboy

        Yeah, the number of vaccines they give babies now is unreal.

        Cowpoke’s pediatrician, fortunately sees this, and encourages a spaced out vaccine program, that omits some of the “less necessary” vaccines. He also doesnt encourage the flu shot, and believes the covid vaccine is dangerous. I’m really glad we have him. Interestingly enough, he was my pediatrician when I was a young gun.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        We spaced out the jabs with the first kid, but our pediatrician for the second one said that we could get along just fine with the ones she got at the hospital. We may get her the DTaP eventually, but feel zero desire to get the rest of them.

      • Brawndo

        IIRC the flu actually is pretty dangerous to infants/toddlers. COVID on the other hand…. Let’s just say when my 14 month old had it, he didn’t even notice. And he gets runny noses ALL the time from daycare.

  8. RBS

    Never ignore election fundamentals

    Vote early, vote often?

  9. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

  10. AlexinCT

    Gas Price Hits Record High $6.466 in Los Angeles; Soars Past June High

    OPEC+ just agreed to cut back 1.1 million barrels a day and Obama’s Biden handlers have all but emptied the national reserves (creating a crisis situation for the US). You ain’t seen nothing yet. The prices are going up again. And that is what the fucking reseters want.

  11. Atanarjuat

    The comments did not disappoint.

    Cop: Have you been drinking?
    Me: Heck no! I’m sober as a judge…at White Castle at 3am!

  12. AlexinCT

    California doctors could lose licenses for spreading unapproved COVID-19 info

    This is done to protect the little guy! From knowing things that would make them realize the people in charge are not just inept but evil. They want to loot the valuables on the sinking Titanic without interruption from the people they plan to leave on the sinking ship because they need the life rafts to carry their loot.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Nah man, nah, everything’s fine…

  13. Count Potato

    “The American Medical Association (AMA) sent Attorney General Merrick Garland a letter Monday calling on him to “investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities coordinating, provoking, and carrying out bomb threats and threats of personal violence against children’s hospitals and physicians across the U.S.””

    Last I checked there was no evidence of a bomb threat except the hospital claiming they received a bomb threat.

    “Multiple media outlets reported hospitals across the country promoted gender transitions to minors, including ones at Vanderbilt University, the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin. Hospitals responded by taking down videos and websites discussing transitions for children.”

    So let me see if I get this correctly. The AMA wants Big Tech to stop people such as Libs if Tik Tok and Gays Against Groomers from posting about what hospitals publish on their own publicly available websites because that’s “misleading”and an “intentional campaign of disinformation”?

    • AlexinCT

      Anyone that exposes the evils of the machine and their great reset is a terrorist…

    • juris imprudent

      Hey, it worked for school boards!

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      The AMA is an extension of the government and the pharmaceutical companies. It is a wholly corrupt organization that has colluded in cartel price fixing for decades.

      I only hope all of these institutions burn up what little credibility they have left before they destroy the rest of us.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yes although your list isn’t exhaustive by a long shot. They can’t argue their case so they just want everyone to be STFU.

    • Gustave Lytton

      “Accurate, but Fake”

  14. juris imprudent

    Here comes the next turn in AGWclimate-change.

    “Climate pollution” is becoming common on the websites of green groups and atop news stories. “Carbon pollution” has been adopted by the Biden administration, appearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s site, in press releases about cleaning up manufacturing, and in speeches by the president.

    • AlexinCT

      They will beat you down with lies, force upon you a credit score to track compliance, and in general ostracize you from society unless you believe whatever lies they tell you in their pursuit of taking us back to the feudal system of the middle ages?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Constantly shifting language is their foremost weapon.

      • juris imprudent

        It’s a technique the DoD uses to hide its programmatic failures.

      • Swiss Servator

        Constantly shifting and language and a fanatical devotion to…wait, I’ll come back and start again!

    • rhywun

      Ugh, I need a shower after reading Slate. What a bunch of navel-gazing flapdoodle.

    • R C Dean

      They are trying to move the Overton Window so CO2 is pollution to leverage SCOTUS into allowing the EPA to control our energy economy.

  15. Shiny Nerfherder

    Another Dem-Friendly Poll Shifts Dramatically Towards the GOP as a Possible Red-Wave Reappears

    Every single time…

    • Lackadaisical

      Completely random variation in the sampling errors, I’m sure.

    • juris imprudent

      [yawn] All that means is Republicans in charge of the dysfunction that is Congress.

      • R C Dean

        Confident prediction: A Repub controlled Congress will increase funding for the FBI/DOJ, will retain the expansion of the IRS, etc. ad infinitum.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        👆

      • Lackadaisical

        Sad but true. We’ve still got Obamacare going and every other leftist program.

      • AlexinCT

        I am sure Cocaine Mitch & his house counterpart that really are there to protect the machine will want this, but there are enough team red people in both houses that have personally been subjected to the machinations of the team blue mandarinate that there will be some resistance. Personally I wouldn’t mind Mitch making my next set of license plates either.

      • R.J.

        Hear hear!
        *stands and waves arms

  16. Lackadaisical

    ‘inventory was on the rise from May to July but stalled in August, according to Black Knight.’

    How many months of 1% declines will it take to get to the pre pandemic prices? 50? I doubt the trend will last that long.

    • Nephilium

      Considering I’m seeing news stories about how the economic downturn is helping businesses such as Aldi’s and Applebee’s as “wealthy” shoppers shift their spending from more upscale places to cheaper alternatives. News guys… that’s not exactly a rosy picture you’re painting there.

      • Lackadaisical

        I can barely afford* Aldi prices anymore, a third of a cat was $100 for me the other day. That used to be a full to the brim cart.

        * In other words, other spending is going bye-bye

      • Sean

        a third of a cat

        Say what now?

      • rhywun

        “Sliced thin, please.”

      • Lackadaisical

        Cat, it’s what’s for dinner.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        The other other white meat.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Huh. So that’s what they mean when seniors are eating cat food.

  17. Lackadaisical

    ‘Major Medical Orgs Demand That The DOJ Prosecute People Who Share ‘Misleading’ Information Online’

    I’m starting to really hate these right wing spin headlines. This is extremely misleading, since they only requested they go after people posting threats.

    Now, wood chippers and all, but that is a lot more nuanced than the headline suggests.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “organizations, individuals, and entities coordinating, provoking”
      Not just those individuals calling in threats but also people and orgs who relay the information.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        👆👆

        They’re not content to go after the violent actors. They want to take down those who provide the information that inspires them.

        Words are violence after all.

      • Lackadaisical

        Hmm, I may have to retract my statement. Depends what you mean by ‘coordinating, provoking’, but it is hard to come to any other conclusion to what they’re really asking for…

      • Lackadaisical

        Technically if you coordinate and provoke someone to a specific criminal act, then you would also be committing a crime of incitement. But yeah, they would prefer the much more inclusive view of those terms, rather than the narrow view I presented above.

      • R C Dean

        These organizations have been very clear that anyone criticizing transism, or even just reposting what the docs and hospitals post online publicly, are responsible for subsequent “threats”.

      • Count Potato

        Apparently, they count things such as name-calling and protests as “threats”.

    • Count Potato

      “since they only requested they go after people posting threats”

      Do they have any examples?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      When you know where the bodies are buried, you’re guaranteed to get funding (or offed).

      • robodruid

        Epstein didn’t kill himself.
        Seems the only way to win is to not play.

  18. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles — Preliminary round was almost chump-tastic (one or two stupid guesses and you’re close to the line, but that’s why it is the warm up round). Main event also tiptoed near the minefield… but frankly, given the words for today — I’m happy just to have made it through. LL was extra fun since due to the seeds I chose, I got to burn 3 guesses with no hints on the middle letters… could have been so many things. That’s why I tackled the other words first.. .but it gave me *nothing*. Sure y’all will do better, you almost always do! 😉

    But honestly, Quordle felt like “Now they’re just fucking with us” for $2000.

    Daily Duotrigordle #216
    Guesses: 37/37
    Time: 06:22.97
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 253
    6️⃣5️⃣
    9️⃣4️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 253
      9️⃣5️⃣
      7️⃣8️⃣

      Ugh…

    • Cowboy

      Either I cant brain today, or quordle decided to be overly difficult today

      Daily Quordle 253
      7️⃣9️⃣
      4️⃣5️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 253
      5️⃣6️⃣
      4️⃣8️⃣

      Dumb guess on LR sent me over the line.

    • Grummun

      6 5
      8 7

      I had hopes for a theme after the top two, sadly disappointed. Also, Safari reports that the Quordle page is a CPU hog.

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 253
      4️⃣6️⃣
      7️⃣8️⃣
      quordle.com

    • robc

      Chessle 234 (Expert) X/6

      🟩🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛

      https://jackli.gg/chessle

      This is my preferred opening as white. And I know that the 3rd move for black is a possible move, but at my level NO ONE plays it against me, so I had no idea how to continue after it. I figured out white’s 4th move, but because it didn’t make sense with black’s 5th move, I never played it…because I didn’t see black’s 4th move.

      The funny thing is, my preferred line is great, I have lots of fun with it. But, there is a move for black on move 5 that completely nullifies it – forces the game to a very boring end game that is pretty much a guaranteed draw (for good players). This is why my opening isn’t played at grandmaster level.

      In literally hundreds of games in which I got my first 5 moves in as I want, how many times have my opponents played that proper move on their 5th turn? Zero. Absolutely zero. I know some day I am going to have to give up playing my opening, but that day isn’t any time soon.

    • robc

      Daily Quordle 253
      7️⃣4️⃣
      8️⃣6️⃣

      FU quordle creator. My score isn’t totally awful, but I hated those words.

    • robc

      I decided, not today, but in general, that quordle should be scored not by total sum, but by low-ball poker rules.

      So a 1,2,3,9 is worse than a 5,6,7,8.

      • whiz

        That’s an interesting idea. I like it since it seems that getting it done in 8 should be better than in 9.

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 253
      6️⃣4️⃣
      5️⃣7️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Grosspatzer

      Daily Quordle 253
      4️⃣8️⃣
      5️⃣6️⃣
      quordle.com

  19. Lackadaisical

    ‘At some point, an SUV with two men drove into the parking lot and exchanged words with the group. Bell was noted to have given the two men the middle finger.’

    Be careful the women you hang out with, they can get you into a lot of trouble without realizing the stakes among men… Men can too, but most know they’re getting into dangerous territory at least.

    • slumbrew
  20. Gustave Lytton

    Ugh, woke up too early. And no communication from my overnight guy that the change ticket had been worked.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Guess I woke up too early. It’s done. Huzzah!

  21. Shiny Nerfherder

    Tard Tuesday: When It Becomes Apparent That The Law Isn’t Why You’re In Law School

    At law schools across the country, thousands of professors of constitutional law are currently facing a court that, in their view, has let the mask of neutrality fall off completely. Six conservative justices are steering the court head-on into the most controversial debates of the day and consistently siding with the Republican Party. Increasingly, the conservative majority does not even bother to provide any reasoning for its decisions, exploiting the shadow docket to overhaul the law without a word of explanation. The crisis reached its zenith between September 2021 and June 2022, when the Supreme Court let Texas impose its vigilante abortion ban through the shadow docket, then abolished a 50-year-old right to bodily autonomy by overruling Roe v. Wade. Now law professors are faced with a quandary: How—and why—should you teach law to students while the Supreme Court openly changes the meaning of the Constitution to align with the GOP?

    • Rat on a train

      How can we teach living constitutionalism when the court is originalist?

    • Lackadaisical

      It was much easier when progressive judges were following the syllabus we had prepared in advance. Now we might have to actually read the Constitution.

    • R C Dean

      There’s an Iron Law for that.

    • Brawndo

      If we don’t read their published opinions we can say that they don’t have any reason for their decisions!

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

      Holy cow, they might have to teach instead of preach.

  22. Sensei

    So long lightning cable…

    I hope everyone likes USB-C because we are going to be stuck with it for the rest of our lives.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      On the bright side, that reg may last as long as the EU, which is looking mighty frail lately.

      • R.J.

        Heh. Very true. I will say that lightning cords get dirty and short when used in the car. USB C doesn’t. So USB C has that going for it. How about devices too small or thin to use USB C? That seems to cut off development of that. Blah blah. Rambling this morning.

    • Rat on a train

      Be brave Apple. Drop all ports.

      • R.J.

        I could see that happening too.

      • R.J.

        Take that 1/2 inch thick steel case off your phone, it will work better.

      • slumbrew

        What will he use as a trauma plate, then?

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t be absurd.

        He needs to add another 1/2 inch of plastic to insulate the steel.

      • Not Adahn

        Then 4chan can release articles about where to drill on your iPhone to get to the charging port.

    • rhywun

      Stifling innovation one reg at a time. Vorwärts!

  23. Sensei

    Formisano, who was just months shy of retirement from the 4th Precinct at the Newark Police Department, never denied he fired his handgun, but levied a defense of diminished capacity, claiming he “blacked out” and suffered a mental defect that rendered him unable to intentionally shoot his wife, whom he was divorcing, and the man she was dating.

    I don’t know what happened… next thing I knew they were all dead.

    Ex-Newark cop found guilty of murder, attempted murder in Jefferson shooting

    Also this cop lived quite a distance from where he worked. I’m sure there is angle to that too.

    • Atanarjuat

      be careful investigating cops

      Lawyer for LAPD officer killed during training exercise by other cops says dead cop was investigating a gang rape by four cops at least one of whom was there when he was beaten to death.

      • UnCivilServant

        At some point, before you’re killing people to protect your rapist buddies, you’d think someone would go “Wait, are we the baddies here?”

  24. Rebel Scum

    Leftist Media Slavering To Turn The Tragedies Of Hurricane Ian Into Ron DeSantis’s Katrina

    Leftist never fail to attempt to capitalize on a tragedy. Too bad for them DeSantis is competent.

    • AlexinCT

      The left can never run on their actual agenda or achievements, because these are both horror stories. That’s why their strategy is to call all their opponents Hitlers, Putin’s operatives (notice it is never Xi’s operatives for some reason that should be obvious by now), racists, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and so on….

  25. AlexinCT

    This video has Nancy Pelosi basically going back to the the roots of the pre civil war dnc with the following call out : “We need them to pick the crops”……

    That’s how you go back to your roots….

    • Homple

      In the long run, US slaves turned out to be the most expensive labor in history.

      • AlexinCT

        Slavery, sadly, was inevitable before the industrial revolution both because of the nature of war and economics of the pre-industrial world. Without machines to do the heavy lifting, societies needed manual labor to produce the most basic of necessities, putting a horrible strain on any economic system. You filled that gap by getting slave labor. You got that slave labor from war spoils. A society without the modern conveniences of the industrial revolution will be forced back to depending on some form of indentured servitude or slavery to meet basic needs.

        That’s why whenever I hear fucking idiots rant against industrialization and the modernity it gave us, for whatever stupid reason, I know I am dealing with morons that have neither a historical or biological/anthropological clue about the nature and difficulty of primitive life. The whole concept of the noble savage is an idiotic made up piece of shit that bears nothing with the reality of how brutal and difficult life used to be before our more modern world. People used to believe war meant that you killed as many of your enemies and enslaved the survivors, after you broke all this shit, because if you didn’t do it to them, they would do it to you. It was existentially horrible, and people risked everything doing that.

        Now we have a whole bunch of idiots that think we should clean up war, and thus, we have a shit ton more of it, with people only getting mad when the side they don’t like gets accused of doing something they feel is too harsh.

        Anyhow, no society paid a higher price to end slavery than the American society, but the marxist have bamboozled enough idiots into believing exactly the opposite so they can bring in another utopia where the masses will be treated no better than slaves yet again.

      • Lackadaisical

        I don’t agree that societies need slavery without industrialization.

        Free labor is always more productive. But then you have to cede economic power to lower and middle classes, which is why slavery becomes a preferred practice to the ruling classes. To the extent serfdom isn’t slavery, it was not practiced in Europe after the conversation to Christianity, well before industrialization.

      • AlexinCT

        I am sure serfs of feudal Europe, Christianity or not, might disagree with you.

      • Lackadaisical

        If it is necessary economically, how do you explain england and Scotland abolishing the practice well before industrialization? They did not seem to experience an economic collapse as a result, perhaps the opposite.

      • AlexinCT

        Do you not see a parallel with the industrial revolution starting in Britain with the abolishment of this practice, while continental Europe, where it was not cancelled, lagged the Empire in that revolution?

      • Lackadaisical

        I do, but it works almost in the opposite direction that you seemed to indicate since serfdom was abolished centuries before the start of industrialization. The abolition might have freed up the productive capability of society, raised living standards generally and that played a role in spurring innovation both due to better human capital, and higher producer costs.

        After the industrial revolution everyone was FORCED to remove serfdom to remain competitive. Before that, England was still kicking everyone’s behind, they weren’t an economic backwater in any extent due to not having serfdom in the intervening 2-3 centuries.

        Am I just misreading your earlier comment? You seemed to indicate that slavery is an economic necessity without machine labor.

    • Rat on a train

      Glibs use orphans not tractors.

    • Tundra

      Something so cool about old tractors.

      Not $420K cool, but definitely cool.

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

      Sigh. That isn’t a tractor, it is a traction engine. Steam power, biznaches!

      • UnCivilServant

        Type: Convertible

        So, how do you put the top up?

  26. Rebel Scum

    Gas Price Hits Record High $6.466 in Los Angeles; Soars Past June High

    And with lax production and depletion of the strategic reserve it will only go up.

    • Drake

      Like a rocket the week after the midterms.

  27. Rebel Scum

    US Home Prices Now Posting Biggest Monthly Drops Since 2009

    Here we go. But seriously the latest Zillow estimate for my house was completely retarded at a 95% increase in value. I expect the drop. Luckily it can’t possibly won’t go below what I paid in 2017.

    • waffles

      A drop to 2017 levels would be huge. I’d be happy with 2019/20 prices.

    • Rebel Scum

      Strike the “won’t”. Jeez. *gets coffee*

    • Cowboy

      Yeah fortunately and unfortunately I dont see home prices in my area falling much. When I purchased in 2008 100/sq ft was the going price for a newer home, 80/sq foot was considered a great price or a 20+ year old home. Now the new and nicer homes are around 150/sq ft, and the older or wierd ones are 120.

      50% increase in a decade seems fairly reasonable to me, especially considering inflation. I could be off, though, I dont follow the housing market that closely

  28. waffles

    Weird times. Some things are going bonkers inflationary, other prices contracting. And we are sitting at 2 seconds to midnight. I just got back from vacation in the desert, socked in rain back at home. Le ugh.

  29. Rebel Scum

    Corrupt dictator rejects peace proposal

    But Zelensky is fighting for freedom and democracy, or so I am told.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I also appreciated the very statesmanlike response from Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany. These people are definitely the adults in the room.

      • rhywun

        You’d think our “friends” would have learned by now not to trust us.

        But I guess the grifting there is just that good.

  30. Count Potato

    “The COVID-19 pandemic has unfortunately led to increasing amounts of misinformation and disinformation related to the disease including how the virus is transmitted, promoting untested treatments and cures, and calling into question public health efforts such as masking and vaccinations,” the California Medical Association wrote in support of the bill. “Many health professionals, including physicians, have been the culprits of this misinformation and disinformation effort.”

    So who decides what is misinformation?

    • Sensei

      The Ministry of Truth. I thought everyone knew that.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Do you trust your doctor or Gavin Newsom?

      • rhywun

        No.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Based.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      The licensing boards, which are wholly captured by pharmaceutical interests.

    • Pope Jimbo

      promoting untested treatments and cures

      So vaxxers are going to be punished? Because that shit sure wasn’t tested thoroughly. I look forward to all the Camp Lejeune commercials being replaced with mRna shot commercials one day.

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

      Frau DOKTOR Biden.

  31. Rebel Scum

    California doctors who spread misinformation about COVID-19 could be subject to discipline by state medical boards, even risk losing their licenses, under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

    I miss the days when doctors were allowed to have their own medical opinions.

      • juris imprudent

        It’s actually kind of astonishing that so few seem to really see just how fascist we’ve become – institutionally, not wrapped around a cult of personality (though we do get those each administration, but always in a limited way).

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Gillespie thinks Meloni is fascist. His recent comments on her self-identification as an Italian Christian mother are beyond stupid.

        Yet he remains rather quiet on these types of developments.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s because the left coopted the real definition of fascism – a socialist system that came when disillusioned marxist realized that moronic ideology would always fail and cause death & misery, decided to solve the problem between loyalty to the ideology/leadership vs. the need for expertise to run top down system, by fooling people into thinking there was a private sector when what really happened was that government still retained the power to pick winners & losers – and has basically twisted it into meaning “Not one of us”.

    • Surly Knott

      It’s past time we reminded people of this guy and how long it took for his ideas to take hold.
      Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.

      • Lackadaisical

        That’s exactly who I thought you would reference, props.

      • The Other Kevin

        That’s a great example. I’m also reminded of gay rights, women’s rights, hell even abolition, and how for a very long time all those things went against popular opinion. If their was such a thing at the time, they all would have been labeled “disinformation” and banned.

      • whiz

        The thing is, the established procedure for a virus/flu used to be (and still is, really) to protect the susceptible, but not lock everyone down. And there are many real (actual) experts who said that this time, it’s just that the people in charge went the lockdown route. And many non-experts went along with it because they assumed the people in charge knew what they were doing.

    • Pope Jimbo

      If I was a doc, I’d remember how the medical profession was used way back in the ’50s to “assure” the public that smoking was just fine and no reason to worry. I’d think about how bad that looks now and then extrapolate that I might be viewed the same way in another 20 years or so.

      Of course, if I was a doc, I’d be a sanctimonious prick who thinks I am smarter than everyone and could never make a mistake. I’d never engage in self-reflection.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I’m not a doc, and I’m still like that.

  32. Count Potato

    “A federal agency-backed censorship machine that affected thousands of web URLs and millions of social posts during the 2020 campaign put a focus on some members of Congress and candidates for federal office, raising concerns about the separation of powers and election meddling…

    The consortium of four private entities, led by Stanford and University of Washington research centers, mass-reported alleged misinformation for 100 days before the election and about two weeks after, targeting Just the News among other news organizations. It claimed a success rate of 35% for content removal, labeling and “soft-blocking.”

    CISA and the DHS-funded Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, as well as the State Department’s Global Engagement Center and the Democratic National Committee, could also submit misinformation “tickets” through the consortium to tech platforms.”

    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/federally-backed-censorship-machine-raises-separation-powers-election-meddling

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      As soon as you create a system for shaping media coverage, it is guaranteed that interested parties would game it to their advantage.

      The Dems are typically first to market on this stuff as they see no issue with doing it. The GOP will follow eventually.

      • juris imprudent

        Dem complaints get censored when Repubs in charge – howcome that happen?

      • Nephilium

        Because the evil Republicans are politicizing the system!

  33. Rebel Scum

    The American Medical Association is asking Big Tech and the Department of Justice to censor, deplatform, investigate, and prosecute journalists who question the orthodoxy of radical gender surgeries for minors, arguing that public criticism is “disinformation.”

    Someone has lost the plot.

  34. Rebel Scum

    Back in August, in the midst of all the “Democrats are surging” talk, Monmouth put out a poll showing Democrats up seven points. Their latest iteration? Republicans are now leading by two points. When adjusted for registered voters, the swing is D+3 to R+2.

    Nothing a little fortification can’t handle.

    • juris imprudent

      It would take more than a little fortification.

      • R C Dean

        I would expect the real efforts at, err, adjusting the raw data, will come in Senate races.

  35. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    US Home Prices Now Posting Biggest Monthly Drops Since 2009

    Not big enough. Although:

    The sharpest correction in August was in San Jose, California, down 13% from its 2022 peak, followed by San Francisco at almost 11% and Seattle at 9.9%, the company said.

    Hmmm. What do those cities have in common?

    • rhywun

      An exodus of tech workers?

      • Lackadaisical

        As far as I can tell they’re all coming to Florida. Le sigh.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Highly overinflated housing prices too

    • SDF-7

      Those that Shadow doesn’t really trust… and Shadow?

    • Tundra

      I liked the Great Dane at the end! So patient.

      Good one, Holiness!

    • AlexinCT

      The person that made this meme is a moron. With or without industrialization, drinking water straight from nature was a gamble. All it took was one decomposing animal carcass upstream releasing bacteria in the water to kill anyone that drank it downstream. And most animals, and even early humans, were not worried as worried about getting sick from water as they were from getting jumped by a predator while distracted by drinking. I prefer modernity, something that a slew of idiots that learned about nature and how it works from Disney’s dumb shit and think it is all kumbaya and predators and prey animals hanging out and talking about starts being giant balls of burning gas or some such shit…

      • UnCivilServant

        Let them contract Amoebic dysentery.

      • Nephilium

        Go with one with a much more fun name… Beaver Fever!

      • UnCivilServant

        Naw, I was hoping that when the cranial cysts formed, the amobae would provide more brainpower than they had now.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        The person that made this meme is a moron.

        You could have stopped right there.

  36. Rebel Scum

    You can’t debate with crazy.

    Just had a heated verbal altercation with this left wing protestor. He was talking nonsense!

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Nope. Under postmodernist rules there is no objective truth, just feelings, labels, and guilt by association. We’ve got an entire generation of idiots that will never compromise, nor will they ever be satisfied because there is no end point for their philosophy. It’s never good enough, never progressive enough. It’s constant dissatisfaction, constant struggle towards a utopia that doesn’t even exist for them.

  37. Rebel Scum

    Because the left is not done insulting the man.

    Lizzo playing James Madison’s flute might have conservative pundits up in arms, but the folks repping the 4th president’s home couldn’t be happier and they’re urging her to make a house call ASAP.

    A rep for James Madison’s Montpelier estate tells TMZ … Lizzo now has an open invitation to take a private tour of Madison’s well-preserved estate after she made history with the crystal instrument formerly owned by the prez.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Moral degradation is the order of the day.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Are conservative pundits up in arms? Who are they and why?

      I haven’t seen anything but yawns from most people. I’ve seen a few people roll their eyes at Lizzo’s assertion that she is the first person ever to play that flute.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Eh, sort of. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think there would be less outrage if she had played it wearing a tuxedo. But you know, Lizzo being Lizzo she looked like an overstuffed sausage casing in a thong.

      • Tundra

        It’s filth pretending to be avant-garde. The whole point is to rub the normies’ noses in it.

        Weimar shit.

        There will be a response and I don’t think they’re gonna like it.

      • waffles

        People have been saying this. It used to be funny just a few years back but now I am thinking it’s less so. I hate this. It all makes me uneasy.

    • rhywun

      Interesting article about what the left has turned Montpelier into.

      You can probably guess.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        All funded by The Carlyle Group. Color me shocked.

      • Fourscore

        I’m reading a great book about Madison right now. I’d be happy to pass it on when I’m finished.

  38. Pope Jimbo

    Are the rest of you getting a ton of news articles about Brett Favre stealing money from the poor to build a volleyball court for his daughter’s college team? Because I keep seeing the local proggie sites here venting a lot about this.

    The latest outrage: He hired a Trump lawyer!!!!

    Eric Herschmann, a top White House lawyer to President Trump, confirms to Axios he is now lead counsel to NFL legend Brett Favre, who is embroiled in a welfare-funds scandal in his home state of Mississippi.

    I don’t know why it is so important here. Not sure if because we are near WI and he played a couple years here or what.

    All I know is that the local rags are way more interested in Favre’s pilfering of $20M from a welfare fund, than they are about locals stealing $250M from hungry kids. Especially when King Walz and Brother Keith have been caught in lie after lie about what they knew and when.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The swing demographic is the nisei (second gen Japanese immigrants). The election will always swing the same way as the Nip vote.

  39. Rebel Scum

    Useless cuntes.

    The U.S. Supreme Court, which expanded gun rights in a major decision in June, on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a federal ban on devices called “bump stocks” that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire like a machine gun – a firearms control measure prompted by a 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.

    The justices turned away appeals by a Utah gun lobbyist named Clark Aposhian and firearms rights groups of lower court rulings upholding the ban as a reasonable interpretation of a federal law prohibiting machine gun possession.

  40. Not Adahn

    Last night my main tools went down because a jackass shut off the nitrogen flow because he was welding on the argon system. They originally denied doing it, but the fact that I saw them under the floor kinda squelched that. Now I’ve been thinking up all the different rules they broke and all the different departments that have jurisdiction over enforcing the rules. I sent the last one I can think of to my boss. The first two groups have already sent investigation team in to gather evidence before I got the last notice sent out.

    Righteous sadism is a hell of a drug.

    • PieInTheSky

      why do you need nitrogen

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s an essential element.

        It’s got what microchips crave.

      • PieInTheSky

        fuck microchips who needs em

    • Sensei

      So if you are welding on argon lines do you still need a shielding gas?

      Just kidding…

    • Brawndo

      Argon is a pretty common shielding gas when welding. Or am I mis reading your post?

      • Sensei

        He works in a fab. My bet is the argon is piped around and used in various manufacturing processes.

        But that was why I made the joke above.

      • Brawndo

        I see. I read it as “he was welding using argon” not “he was working on the argon system.”

      • Not Adahn

        We use a super clean grade of argon to run our Inductively Coupled Plasma systems. The orbital welding guys have their own sources.

      • UnCivilServant

        “But this argon is cleaner!”

  41. Not Adahn

    NPR had a joyful celebratory report about how EPA has a new department of Environmental Justice and Civil Rights, and it has as many people and as big of a budget as the departments dealing with water and air!

    They have billions of block grants to give out to PoCs.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Fuuuuuuuck

  42. Tundra

    Meanwhile, in Japan.

    The military activity on the Korean Peninsula is at its highest level since 2017. President Donald Trump and Yoon’s predecessor, Moon Jae-in, engaged Kim in negotiations. During the period of diplomacy, the US and South Korea drastically cut back on their military drills and North Korea halted missile and nuclear testing.

    I remember when Two-Scoops was gonna start WWIII with his hateful rhetoric.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Fuuuuuuuck

      • Drake

        After I have a bunch of those reactions during the day, the thought of complete economic and societal collapse is kind of comforting. It will be God and nature’s way of making all this nonsense go away. And you won’t have to do anything – other than try to keep your family alive.

    • PieInTheSky

      I told you before: no nuclear war unless I get the chance to drink my scotch collection first

      • Grummun

        You’ll have plenty of time to drink your scotch before the fallout gets to Romania.

    • straffinrun

      My Facebook (used for work purposes only) has about 200 Japanese “friends” many of which still have Ukrainian flags in their bios. They are counting on the country that nuked them to have their backs in a future war.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’ve said it before, but if the Norks decide to nuke anyone it will be Tokyo. And a lot of ROKs will smile into their kimchi and soju.

        Not a lot of love lost between the Koreans and the Japanese.

      • straffinrun

        I don’t see a lot of love between many neighbors in this community of nations.

      • Sensei

        + 1 Nanking

    • PieInTheSky

      what difference at this point does it make?

    • rhywun

      Cue mob protests.

    • Grummun

      I like, at the end of the clip, when the lady basically says “I’m not going to debate you because I can’t counter your argument.”

    • R C Dean

      I’m back to “unknown” after reading about what happens to natgas pipes that are cold without gas moving through them, as were the Nordstream pipes.

      • slumbrew

        “Cock-up over conspiracy. But don’t rule out conspiracy.”

  43. PieInTheSky

    The Conservative Party has essentially been libertarian for the past 12 years. Journalists use the label of ‘far-right’ to describe conservatism. It’s a way of silencing people who think that politicians should focus on family values and stop immigration.

    https://twitter.com/adamcccc123/status/1577178414410498049

    We are all looking for libertopia and it seems it was england all along. Who new jailing people for a racist tweet was the essence of libertarianism.

    • straffinrun

      He said “essentially”. You can add that word to any idiotic statement and weasel out of it.

  44. Rebel Scum

    What?

    Texas woman has been found guilty in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia of a misdemeanor charge for resisting efforts by law enforcement officers to clear the U.S. Capitol grounds after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.

    Micki Larson-Olson, 53, of Abilene, Texas, was found guilty by a jury on Sept. 29, 2022, of unlawful entry onto public property, a District of Columbia offense. She was sentenced today by the Honorable Michael O’Keefe to a 180-day jail term.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Not all animals count as people. And public property belongs to The People.

    • slumbrew

      FYTW

  45. The Other Kevin

    I’m told gas prices around here went up fifty cents during the day yesterday. Once again, narrative and bullshit collide with reality, and reality wins.

    • Lackadaisical

      Not sure what the deal is here, prices have been falling significantly, recently saw $3.00/gal.

    • Grummun

      Gas went from ~3.25 to 3.99 in the space a week here in central Ohio.

    • The Last American Hero

      We’re back up to mid-5’s in the PNW.

    • PieInTheSky

      When do we say “enough?” – I say next Tuesday

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Purging this from society is not going to easy or peaceful.

      • PieInTheSky

        maybe not everything should be peaceful… though it is preferable

    • Banjos

      This is the kind of thing that creates far right dictators. And people vote for them not only willingly, but happily. And cheer on the public executions.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      “There are just boys and girls, and there’s no “wrong” way to be either.” – the crazy right wing/conservative position in 2022.

    • MikeS

      I’m surprised we haven’t heard that one of these poor kids grew up, realized the terrible damage done to them, and killed everyone responsible for it. It’s only a matter of time.

    • PieInTheSky

      How could there be I have an outlet on the wall that gives the stuff

    • AlexinCT

      When their kW/h price for electricity is 500-5000% higher, they will have to resort to burning their space heaters to get warm, anyway…

  46. straffinrun

    I met one of these guys today. I’m sure you’ve met him:

    “Hear me out before you jump in. There weren’t any Jews killed by the Nazis. Can I finish? You don’t know where I’m going with this. So, the 6 million number is bullshit, I’m gonna tell you why so just hold on. This cabal of Jewish bankers… just relax cuz you’re gonna agree when I get there…have taken control of all the media. Oh, I see you aren’t gonna let me finish. Fine. Stay ignorant.”

    I didn’t say a damn word the entire time. He was just reacting to my facial expressions.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I meet more of the 9/11 types but they are fun ridiculous people

      • straffinrun

        Same type. Always promising a happy ending.

      • Ownbestenemy

        +1 The Dancing Israelis

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      He’ll have plenty of people to talk to in Europe before long. They can’t scapegoat Russia forever and eventually the old prejudices are going to come out as the economic situation becomes unbearable.

    • Sensei

      Did you ask him if he was planning to go Yasukuni anytime soon or for New Year’s?

      • straffinrun

        “We’ll meet again in Yasukuni.”

        Kamikaze goodbye.

    • Not Adahn

      In glorious Nippon?

    • AlexinCT

      Say wut?

      Seriously, WTF is this?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Its a college…college aged kids still do dumbassery. News at 11

      • AlexinCT

        I know people peed or took dumps in elevators or classrooms in college, but pressing buttons with you shlong or clintoris just sets a whole new level of insane for me…

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wait…defecating is less insane that pushing a button with your penis in an elevator?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Germs, dude… germs….

      • AlexinCT

        Phantom shitters all over the world feel othered by you…

    • Pope Jimbo

      That sign combined with the “Guns not permitted in this building” sign at the entrance really tell the double amputees that “Unarmed Not Welcome”

    • Sensei

      Go Tide?

    • Pine_Tree

      I didn’t know a button could have genitalia…

      • UnCivilServant

        How do you think they reproduce? You can’t possibly believe they just come from some factory somewhere!

    • R C Dean

      I have no doubt the rate of button clicking with genitalia skyrocketed after the sign went up. Because people.

    • AlexinCT

      On a scale from 1 to 10, this is a -10…

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Who can afford an egg?

      • straffinrun

        Planned Parenthood?

    • slumbrew

      I’d say that’s a 5 year old’s breakfast, except for the egg.

      WTF eats SpaghettiOs for breakfast ever?

      • Ownbestenemy

        The SpaghettiOs I can forgive…but with a tomato based sauce already present, why the need for ketsup?

      • slumbrew

        A 5-year-old’s palate

      • straffinrun

        SpaghettiO’s taste like acid reflux after drinking a rancid V8.

      • slumbrew

        You are being too kind.

      • straffinrun

        Let me finish. Can I finish? Geez. So as I was saying …after drinking a rancid V8 out of the asshole of a 14th century Parisian hooker.

      • slumbrew

        There it is.

      • PieInTheSky

        14th century Parisian hooker were reasonably clean for the time

      • straffinrun

        Why do you know this?

      • Count Potato

        He was “living” in Paris at the time.

      • Mojeaux

        Why do you know this?

      • straffinrun

        In High school I used to practice French kissing with my sister and she always forgot to check expiration dates.

      • Sensei

        The imouto thing helps explain the Japan attraction.

      • Mojeaux

        V8 comes out of the factory rancid, but how dare you cast aspersions on SpaghettiOs (with franks, not meatballs or plain).

      • straffinrun

        Two girls and one cup is leaked footage from the SpaghettiO’s factory.

      • slumbrew

        That poor egg.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Bacon and sausage look way over cooked too. My guess is someone who is insanely worried about food-borne illnesses and everything has to be cooked to 250 degrees internal temp.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Thats no egg

      • R.J.

        Did that dude fall asleep on the couch while that bacon and egg were cooking? That bacon could be repurposed as 2x4s and that egg is only suitable to make knee pads. I wouldn’t even trust the beans after looking at the state of everything else on that plate.

      • EvilSheldon

        The white looks terrific though.

      • Count Potato

        RACIST!!!!!!!!

      • Drake

        For people who really hate their co-workers. Sulphur and brimstone all morning.

  47. waffles

    Gas Price Hits Record High $6.466 in Los Angeles; Soars Past June High

    I just got back from a 1500 mile journey in Nevada and Utah. Rented a full-size truck. It had a V6 which averaged about 22.5mpg, not terrible. Gas prices went up in proximity to California, but still solidly $2/gallon less than this.

  48. Certified Public Asshat

    Two gay men who both attended law school filed a legal complaint against the City of New York arguing that not having access to a woman's reproductive potential is a form of discrimination, and that they are entitled to have the City pay for a "surrogate".https://t.co/bEvEGlyoV4 — Women's Voices (@WomenReadWomen) October 1, 2022

    Already posted? What a timeline.

    • PieInTheSky

      I would also like to have access to a woman’s reproductive potential

    • Pope Jimbo

      Chill out dudes! I have been reliably informed that the country will be awash in Handmaid Babies soon because the Patriarchy has banned all abortions anywhere. There will be so many babies up for adoption that you can even get a white one.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      JFC

      • Swiss Servator

        If they and their counsel are not sanctioned, nobody ever will be.

      • juris imprudent

        Sanctioned with extreme prejudice?

    • Drake

      Shouldn’t they be suing mother nature?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Hey stop that! You can’t use that against us! The argument is only one-way street buddy….er..you know what I mean.

      • Mojeaux

        Gaia laughs at us mere mortals about … everything.

  49. Ownbestenemy

    A useful training class today, electrical safety and lockout/tag out. I get to see the same videos I have seen over and over about arc flash danger.

    • PieInTheSky

      I got some of those even though I work in an office

  50. DEG

    “Our emails have been suppressed despite concrete changes that have improved overall performance. Despite having a significantly positive impact on performance, this appears to have had absolutely no impact on the timing of this end-of-month spamming,” the official said.

    Did you ever fix the unsubscribe link?

    In the 2020 election year, I was on some GOP mailing lists. None of the unsubscribe links worked.

    • slumbrew

      “Unsubscribe link” == “confirmed valid e-mail address”

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^^ We will unsubscribe you but we know we can sell this email addy now.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I would not be surprised to learn that the Democrat Party runs an operation to mass subscribe to GOP mailing lists just so they can report their emails as spam to Google and game the system.

      Nor would I be surprised to learn that Google tilts the playing field as well.

      • R C Dean

        Google already knows when the Repubs send mass emails. It doesn’t need the Dems’ help on that front.

  51. PieInTheSky

    I don’t know who invented parasitic extraction but I hope things did not go well

    • Count Potato

      ???????

    • Timeloose

      It will converge eventually Pie.

  52. Shpip

    Something to brighten your day. The Florida legislature and DeSantis get a win in court.

    TALLAHASSEE — A federal judge has rejected — at least for now — a lawsuit challenging a controversial new law that restricts instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools.

    U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor on Thursday issued a 25-page order dismissing the case, finding that plaintiffs did not show they had legal standing. Winsor, however, said the plaintiffs can file a revised lawsuit as they seek to block the restrictions.

    Typically, activists do some forum-shopping to get their case in front of a friendly judge, who then rules in their favor. That the judge will get overturned in the appeals process (which happens almost inevitably) doesn’t seem to matter. The initial decision is splashed all over the front pages, and the appeal smackdown is never reported on at all.

    • Ownbestenemy

      A sane judge would ask this “Are these books/materials available on the open market for parents that wish to teach their own children it? Yes? Dismissed in favor of the State”.

    • rhywun

      I wonder if they’re still kicking Germans out of public housing in favor of refugees.

  53. Certified Public Asshat

    Look, if there's one field in this country where we need grim, ruthless, no-bullshit meritocracy, it's in the medical profession. When I lie down on the operating table, I want to know I'm going to wake up.— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) October 3, 2022

    Lol, Noah finally finds the end to one of his stupid arguments.

    • waffles

      Yeah but he cheerlead us to this point.

      This comment nails it.
      “Uh uh uh comrade. The social revolution doesn’t stop where YOU are comfortable.”

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        👆👆👆

        He took this road with no consideration for the endpoint.

      • juris imprudent
    • Nephilium

      So… Noah Smith comes out against affirmative action.

      • PieInTheSky

        Are you saying black trans women can’t be surgeons, bigot?

      • UnCivilServant

        Not with those mental health issues.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Only in the medical profession, he wants the good foreign doctors.

    • UnCivilServant

      People don’t want to undergo the pixelization surgery. It’s painful.

    • slumbrew

      Maybe not quite that ratio, but my understanding the US industry has a similar “a zillion women, a few dudes” ratio – the former don’t do it for long, the latter stick with it for years.

    • AlexinCT

      Packing my bags…

  54. Mojeaux

    RIP Loretta Lynn.

    I’m somehow related to her, idk.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Awe…90 is a good run.

      • Mojeaux

        Yep. I don’t feel bad. I feel like those folks have earned their rest.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fA0IMhP0OI

        I liked her on Roseanne. “I admire this girl* for standin’ up for what she believes in. Now hand me one of them loose-meat sandwiches, cuz I’m starvin’ to death!”

        *Darlene the new vegetarian is refusing to serve meat

    • Fourscore

      My son sent me an email, he knows me.

      The kids can have the metal stuff, I’m sticking with the music I can understand.

  55. PieInTheSky

    Does mask-wearing affect behavior?
    New research, set in China, suggests that using masks for health reasons also leads people to behave more ethically.

    https://news.mit.edu/2022/mask-wearing-behavior-1003

    The research, conducted across 10 studies focused on deviant behavior — such as running red lights, violating parking rules, and cheating for money — shows that people wearing masks were less likely to behave deviantly than those who were not wearing them. The researchers say this is not just happenstance, but that in China using masks increases moral awareness and thus spurs some people to be more rule-abiding.

    lol. And I mean lol. SCIENCE I fucking love it

    • UnCivilServant

      Those prone to OBEY blindly, OBEY blindly?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Selection bias of the first order.

      • UnCivilServant

        They aren’t even measuring that they claim to be. Observed behaviours have nothing to do with ethics and everything to do with simple obedience of arbitary rules.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Or the underlying authoritarian nature of what happens when they don’t listen to the State.

    • Sean

      I guess China doesn’t get flash mobs robbing convenience stores.

    • Lackadaisical

      Sad compared to huge crime spikes in the US?

      I think I know whose numbers I believe more.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      That’s not electric.

    • rhywun

      forgive student loans

      Go fuck yourself.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      He should not be driving a car, but he is also the President.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Wait, wut:

      My dad used to say, “Joey, don’t compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative.”And here’s the deal: Democrats want to codify Roe. Republicans want a national ban on abortion. The choice is clear.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 3, 2022

      • Lackadaisical

        😂
        So, the Democrats are Satan and the GOP is Biden’s Dad? Or is someone God in this situation? I’m so confused. 😂

  56. Swiss Servator

    I am on a global call with our Operations folks… they are really, really counting on the US and Canada to carry the load this next year. Facilities is planning and practicing “blackouts” as an issue in Europe.

    • slumbrew

      What could possibly go wrong?

      • juris imprudent

        Their backup site is in California?

      • Swiss Servator

        We used to have a data center….right on the San Andreas fault.

    • PieInTheSky

      well this is where your American work ethic kicks in. Should make Rufus happy

      • Swiss Servator

        Let us just say that the US (and to a small extent, Canada) have been the #1 source of profits for the past few years. Yikes.

    • Sensei

      I’m assuming that means also bailing out Credit Suisse.

    • AlexinCT

      I am gonna put up a web site telling young & nubile Euro chicks if they need a warm place for the winter, I have extra room… They will get free heat, food, and lots of love…

    • UnCivilServant

      So, the company is going to shut down the european facilities and relocate to a country with working infrastructure?

      • Swiss Servator

        Nah, they still have furniture to burn to keep warm.

      • straffinrun

        What do they burn after the furniture is gone?

      • PieInTheSky

        politicians?

      • straffinrun

        Dude, I’m gonna run out of socks if you keep up these answers.

      • waffles

        Start with the health ministers, they are robust with adiposity. Good fuel.

      • straffinrun

        Heh, about as renewable energy source as they’ll find.

    • Drake

      “That clinch walk”

      We’ve all been there.

    • juris imprudent

      You tackle him, I ain’t gonna tackle him.

  57. PieInTheSky

    Prosthesis is called ‘the anti-robot’ because it has no automation and is 100% controlled by the person inside via the exoskeletal interface. This is why it is what is known as a mech, not a robot

    https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1576989528434573313

    a few adjustments and could solve Japans shortage issue

    • EvilSheldon

      It’s cool and all, but functional? I didn’t see anything there that a competent forklift operator couldn’t do.

      • Lackadaisical

        Good for disabled people once you combine it with neutral reading. Eventually.

      • EvilSheldon

        Once we get to that tech level, I’ll just stick with the repurposed airport fire truck.

  58. Ownbestenemy

    Jesus….waiting on this virtual class and the asshole facilitator just pumped music through the stream at full volume…uh…some of us use headphones asshole

    • Nephilium

      One guy who used to work for the same company as me constantly played Christmas music in the background, even when hosting meetings in April.

      • AlexinCT

        Is that as bad as keeping up and (keeping on) your Christmas decorations & lights all year?

      • Nephilium

        Worse. I can look elsewhere if you keep decorations up, if you’re hosting a bridge I need to be on, I can’t mute your audio.

      • UnCivilServant

        Refer them for psychiatric evaluation if they’re playing christmas music in April.

      • EvilSheldon

        Hey, every day is a good day for the John Denver/Muppets Christmas album…

    • Lackadaisical

      Just making sure you were awake.

  59. Shpip

    Today in false dichotomy fallacies

    Because this is Twitter, none of the replies say anything like “How ’bout parents feed their own offspring?”

    • straffinrun

      Americans are lacking food, eh?

      • Swiss Servator

        Not where I live… fatties abound.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I had never heard of her (Suits-case girl) before Harry. I miss those times.

      • Nephilium

        She was in a handful of episodes of Fringe as a religious counterpoint to the mad-science of Walter before she got written off the show. A show that used a case from the first season as the grand plan to put everything on a better path.

    • waffles

      Kill Bill is fucking awesome and has aged really well. I just recently got the gf to watch it, she had never seen it. She loved it.

      • Sensei

        I loved it too.

        I’ve mentioned before I find it rather humorous Cameron DIaz had much better Japanese pronunciation than Lucy Liu.

        Also I’m wondering if Meghan understands that the whole Austin Powers bit came from Bond’s “You Only Live Twice”. Even for the time that one is really pushing it, not that I don’t love it.

      • Mojeaux

        I’ve said before many times, I sat my daughter down to watch it when she was like 8th or 9th grade. The next year, she went as Beatrix for Halloween. EVERYBODY knew who she was. #win

  60. Count Potato

    “LAPD officer who died in training was targeted because he was about to blow the whistle on four other cops he was investigating for gang rape, lawyer claims: At least one of them was present when he was injured

    LAPD officer Houston Tipping who died during police training was targeted because he was investigating fellow cops for an alleged gang rape, his lawyer has claimed.

    The 32-year-old suffered a fatal spinal cord injury after he fell down while holding another officer in a ‘bear hug’ grappling exercise on May 26 at the Police Academy in what a coroner ruled was an accident…”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11278091/LAPD-officer-died-training-killed-investigating-four-cops-gang-rape-lawyer-says.html

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m willing to believe a lot of bad things about the LAPD, but this conspiracy seems pretty unlikely.

  61. Count Potato

    “‘Everyone knows Black Lives Matter was a scam’: Kanye West dismisses social movement in scathing post after wearing inflammatory ‘White Lives Matter’ top at Paris Fashion Week show…

    The Anti-Defamation League has previously called the phrase ‘White Lives Matter’ a hate slogan.

    The slogan worn on West and Owens’ shirts has previously been used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations as an attack against the Black Lives Matter movement and Black people more broadly.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11278539/Kanye-West-dismisses-social-movement-scathing-post.html

    That settles it.

    • slumbrew

      He keeps making me like him.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Stopped clock? Unusually wired? He’s not wrong here.

  62. Count Potato

    “U.S.’s first mobile abortion clinic will open in Illinois in WEEKS and offer procedure to women in Kentucky and Missouri where it has been outlawed after Roe v Wade

    Reproductive health giant Planned Parenthood will bring a mobile abortion clinic to red-state borders to assist women legally barred from obtaining the procedure.

    The clinic will operate in southern Illinois and travel along the border between neighboring Kentucky and Missouri, whose legislatures have passed near total bans.

    Missouri specifically banned abortion with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest immediately after the Supreme Court threw out the legal right to an abortion in June, in what’s known as a trigger law.

    In Kentucky, abortion is illegal from the point of fertilization – unless the woman is at risk of death or serious permanent injury with no exceptions for rape or incest.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11276701/Planned-Parenthood-plans-mobile-abortion-clinic-women-deep-red-Missouri-Kentucky.html

    I guess if they don’t cross the border it’s legal?

    • Mojeaux

      Kansas has the other side of Missouri covered.

      I am not happy about the complete ban. There’s a whole lot of space between “never, not even once” and “at the point of viability.”

      • slumbrew

        Aye.

      • Count Potato

        True, and the case that lead to the SCOTUS decision was objecting to 15 weeks.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        One of the greatest self-owns ever.

    • straffinrun

      Wait, she sucks on gun rights, no?

      • R C Dean

        She was a pretty party-line leftish Dem on everything but foreign policy. Maybe that’s changing.

        The Tactical Games do look like fun. If you are in massively better shape than I am. And a better shot.

      • slumbrew

        Tulsi has a consistent record of advocating for sensible gun control. She has long called for reinstating a federal ban on military-style assault weapons and high capacity magazines, requiring comprehensive pre-purchase background checks, closing the gun-show loophole, and making sure that terrorists are not allowed to buy guns. Tulsi has an F-rating from the NRA, a 0% rating by the Hawaii Rifle Association, and a 100% rating by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. She is focused on building bipartisan solutions that can actually be passed into law, rather than using the issue as a partisan political football.

        https://justfacts.votesmart.org/public-statement/1269487/issue-position-gun-control

      • EvilSheldon

        If this is true and current, then fuck her. You don’t get to go out and play with toys that you would ban for everyone else.

      • straffinrun

        Really testing my resolve to support anyone as long as they are opposing these pointless wars.

      • slumbrew

        If she’s had some sort of genuine change of heart, fine.

        But I strongly suspect you’d hear some “well, I was in the military so…” special pleading.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I believe she still is.

      • slumbrew

        Light colonel in the reserves – the 351st Civil Affairs Command in CA.

        My point still stands – I strongly suspect there’d be some special pleading there.

      • Not Adahn

        She’s not a peon.

    • EvilSheldon

      Sorry, the ‘slow is smooth smooth is fast’ just killed my boner.

    • Animal

      I’ll be in my bunk.

    • Gustave Lytton

      There’s a ferry from Norway to NZ? No wonder the batteries ran out.

    • PieInTheSky

      That is one o dem far right accounts