RTD used to be a respectable newspaper. This is how far they have sunk. No link since they are paywalled.
SC FETAL-HEARTBEAT LAW STRUCK DOWN: A South Carolina state law that would have restricted abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected was declared unconstitutional by the state’s Supreme Court.
WISCONSIN LAW ALLOWS DETENTION OF PREGNANT WOMEN FOR ALCOHOL USE: This only disincentivizes women who are, or may be, pregnant from seeking care for mental health and substance abuse issues. We have long been aware of hospitals doing drug tests on women who deliver there, often with dubious consent.
DNC PISSED BECAUSE NH DEMS UNABLE TO CHANGE PRIMARY DATE: Womp, womp.
TEDIOUS, DELUSIONAL ASSHOLES: Non-binary Welsh speakers have said they feel unable to express their identities in the language due to its gendered nature. They want to see more awareness and use of inclusive LGBTQ+ language.
COMMIES USING “CLIMATE CHANGE” TO ESTABLISH PLANNED ECONOMY: We’ve been calling them “watermelons” for years. Better late than never, FEE.
MENTALLY-ILL NH TEEN TASED, THEN SHOT BY POLICE: Granted, the teen had a knife and was extremely disturbed. Was it necessary to shoot him after tasing him? IDK, I wasn’t there. This was not the first police intervention for this teen. With each intervention the chances of him getting shot increased. Why was he not institutionalized? Why was he allowed access to knives?
CALIFORNIA EXODUS CONTINUES, TEXAS TOP DESTINATION: You brought this upon yourselves, Californians. Good luck with that shrinking tax base. Hopefully, these people are refugees, not missionaries.
“INDIGENOUS” GRIFTER AND SCOLD REVEALED AS FAKE: Fauxcahontas Syndrome strikes again.
whaddup doh’
(Sorry Mojo)
The non-binary Welsh speakers, both of them, need to spend some time down in the mines carving out high wall, to get their heads unfucked.
*both of thems*
[golf clap] for EvilSheldon for “both of them…down in the mines.”
Welx, not Welsh.
Whelx
There’s a blog out there, something called “Stuff white people like”. The blogger is black and he lists things only white people like, such as pumpkin spice and roller derby. It’s pretty funny. But I wonder if being transgender is one of those things. Is it popular with mostly white people? Hispanic people seem to hate that Latinx thing, but now we have Welsh speakers who want that.
New balance
Same as the old balance.
We won’t be shoed again.
The enlaces were Tuesday.
Is New Balance really a wypipo thing? I like their sneakers for one reason, they have an extra-wide option for my flipper feet.
No other decent gym shoes seem to have a wider option.
Topos are the bomb.
I’m looking for wide lifting shoes. My Adidas are more pointed than chick shoes.
#MeToo. After perpetually wearing shoes that were either too tight or too big, I bought my first pair right around the time I turned 30, which would correspond to the age when a normal white guy settles into suburban dadhood, so I guess I was right on schedule.
Just wait till you hit the Rockport phase.
New Balance (with the orthotic inserts, natch) are the ultimate Dad Shoe.
Nothing screams “50-something suburban white guy” more than some NB 624s with white crew socks, jean shorts, and a polo or camp shirt.
My Fresh Foam Roavs aren’t too dorky. I’ve gotten compliments.
Still comfy on my Barney Rubble feet.
I know a black male-to-female trans. I think he’s just a gay guy with mental health issues who had a shitty upbringing, though.
There’s also the famous urban female-to-male Susan Be Anthony
I was co-conspirator in this short-lived blog.
First trans, actual trans person I ever met, was SE Asian. He was mid-transition, had nice tits, and stood next to you to pee in the men’s restroom at work. This was back in the mid-90’s.
A few doses of estradiol and the bro code is erased.
The senior engineers would pay him to follow new hires into the bathroom for the shock value.
They got their laughs and he got money for his surgeries. Win-win?
I was a little bit of a disappointment because my reaction was Gen X apathetic. “Nice tits, dude”
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WISCONSIN LAW ALLOWS DETENTION OF PREGNANT WOMEN FOR ALCOHOL USE: This only disincentivizes women who are, or may be, pregnant from seeking care for mental health and substance abuse issues. We have long been aware of hospitals doing drug tests on women who deliver there, often with dubious consent.
Won’t someone think of the Family Services Busybodies?!!!
“We have long been aware of hospitals doing drug tests on women who deliver there, often with dubious consent.”
The general consent you give on admission covers most tests done for clinical reasons, so you don’t have to go through a bunch of paperwork every time the hospital wants to send a sample to pathology. Now, if you pop positive on one of those tests (and, yes, hard drugs can be clinically relevant), I don’t see a problem. And also, at that point, the hospital may be legally required to rat you out.
Tests purely to see if you are using, OTOH, should require specific consent. We fired a nurse not long ago for having one of those run without consent.
The use of drugs is very rarely, if ever, relevant enough to justify running a drug screen without the patient’s express consent, especially when the results will require a referral to a law enforcement agency.
Drug screens are replete with problems. They don’t test for all drugs of abuse and in particular often don’t screen for synthetic compounds such as fentanyl or oxycodone. Even when they do, false positives and false negatives are rampant. Furthermore, the tests are expensive. Finally, no research has ever demonstrated a benefit to patient care outcomes, reduction in length of stay, or any other measurable benefits from urine drug screens.
The cornerstone of the doctor-patient relationship is trust. My patients have to be able to trust that I am acting on their behalf and doing the best I can for their benefit. Similarly, I have to be able to trust that my patient is telling me the facts regarding their situation. If the patient believes that they risk prosecution for admitting drug use to me, it automatically reduces my ability to care for them as they have every incentive to lie to me and none to tell the truth. I’m not a police officer and I did not go to school in order to be one.
The patient is hardly ever informed that a drug screen is being performed on them and especially not told that if it is positive the police will be contacted. Running tests of this kind is a serious breach of your duty to the patient, whether legal or not and whether or not you have the fig leaf of “oh, it says that in the agreement that you signed” which you know damn well the patient didn’t read and which is frequently signed when altered or in pain, as well as with the implication that if it is not signed we won’t treat the person.
I’ve spent my whole career advocating against the practice of urine drug screens in acute care medicine. If anyone is interested I’d be happy to expand the above into an article, but I think it covers the major points.
When aren’t we?
Same could be said for lots of professions that are being roped into being snitches for The Man.
It’s disgusting.
Maybe so, but I’ll be damned if I’ll go along quietly.
I’d love to read that.
On our drug screens at the hospital the printout says “for diagnostic purposes only — not for legal determination” or something like that. We would never report a result to the police, and our screens clearly state they aren’t valid for the police or courts anyway.
In the ER knowing whether a drug screen is positive or not can be the difference between admission to a psychiatric hospital and a discharge home, so they’re often vitally important in diagnostic and treatment decisions. But these results are certainly not any business of the police — and anyone reporting hospital drug test results to authorities sounds like a HIPAA violation to me.
“The use of drugs is very rarely, if ever, relevant enough to justify running a drug screen without the patient’s express consent”
My understanding is we do it somewhat infrequently for clinical purposes. The ones I have heard about (which is a very non-scientific sample) were when there were concerns with drug interactions. Chronic use, but not currently loaded, is not generally a clinical issue, is my understanding.
“Similarly, I have to be able to trust that my patient is telling me the facts regarding their situation.”
You’d like to be able to do so. You’d also like to believe they won’t sue you if they lie and it turns into a bad outcome.
“The patient is hardly ever informed that a drug screen is being performed on them and especially not told that if it is positive the police will be contacted.”
They are in my hospital (see, above, re terminated nurse). We don’t call the cops*, but if it’s an L & D patient we have to call CPS. We have a special unit in our NICU for babies born addicted to opioids, we see so many. Spend a few minutes in there, and your sympathy for mothers who use while pregnant will be sorely tested.
Write it up, Contrarian!
*For a plain old positive drug screen, that would indeed be a HIPAA violation. For someone with kids, it can be shaky under AZ law, but I’ve discouraged it in the absence of other indicia of abuse/neglect. For a pregnant mother, it’s mandatory under AZ law.
You brought this upon yourselves, Californians.
I think they are actually bringing on to us.
Where is Lex Luthor when we need him?
I’m giving back to my home state,
Yes I’m crazy.
Let’s go!
Haha! Good one🙂
Moar crazy!
Crazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKTOvHw8qFM
A little more specific…
Let’s go, indeed
Shine On! (You Crazy Diamond)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGE9Gi0bB0
Well, being crazy is now necessary to live there, so it may work for you.
I am a native, I grew up crazy
I am too, and I’m not that kind of crazy.
I get it. Home has a gravity all its own, Yusef.
HAHAHA!
I was ready for your lynx!
Fake! If that was real there’d be more rust stains.
You have a license for that cod piece?
It is considered body armor, and we all know that’s only used by school shooters.
Tell it to this guy.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/mightyboosh/images/6/69/Ape_of_death.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091112172937
Hopefully, these people are refugees, not missionaries.
First word about how they can’t get some-damn-thing like they did in California, pack ’em up and send ’em back.
Surprisingly little of that, at least in my town. Dallas and Austin may be different. If anything elections went even more red than usual. I met one real ex-pat so far who was very red.
Mrs. 99 works at the driver license office and sees the flood daily, and she ensures she remarks to these refugees, “don’t mess with Texas’s gun laws.”
So far all have indicated they left CA to be free, but I’m sure many are saying what they know she wants to hear.
Good for her.
In between a constant stream of stuff stolen off of porches and animal sightings, the Nextdoor app for my area features a lot of, “New to town. Where can I get a decent Chicago dog/bagel/tenderloin sandwich/whatever it is Californians eat?” The responses are an even mix of “I’m from there too!” and “You can get your hot dog at the place you came from.”
I trust y’all have seen the Bee’s series, right? If not, go do that.
+1
It’s hilarious.
Thirded.
Fourthed.
But how about a link?
I think the flood of missionaries was the first wave, and now we are into the refugees.
“Punishing New Hampshire Democrats, who have no ability to address voting laws in the face of a Republican trifecta in the state, could have dire consequences for Democrats up and down the ticket in 2024,” a letter led by New Hampshire Senate Democratic Leader Donna Soucy says.
This makes me smile.
Donna Soucy was in the state senate during the 2018-2020 term when the Democrats controlled both chambers of the Legislature. She was the Senate President, so next in line for governor. Sununu was governor, so he probably would have vetoed any bills changing the Presidential primary date had the Dems decided to change it back then. The Dems didn’t have a veto proof majority then.
As if the Welsh language is not sufficiently absurd already….
I was wondering, how would anyone know?
Vowels are kind of stupid.
An everyday hero:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM
This is a complete non-issue.
Weirdos are free to use whatever words they want, and if they become popular – the language changes. So it has always been.
This, of course, is about them shaming everyone else into doing it.
You aren’t doing what I want – you are oppressing me!
Working an IRS audit, this is from a recent communication:
I think I’m close but I still think I need some help from you as to what I should be ask exactly for.
*loud sigh*
Talk dirty to them?
With CORRECT grammar!
Dirty talk with grammatical errors? Instant boner killer.
An internal auditor for my company reached out last year. He said they wanted to audit my team but didn’t understand what we did. Could I let him know what they should be auditing.
He didn’t like my response and eventually went away.
I’ve found it easier to work with them on that. At least I can steer them away from stupid requests that take hours to answer and yield the blatantly obvious.
The worst part of the job is having restraint. I would love to tell this guy what a fucking moron he is, but I also want him to go away without making any changes.
One of the things that would get you in deep kimchee muy rapido at my organization is not cooperating with auditors.
Auditors know how to audit. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise that they don’t know how to do everyone else’s job. Our internal auditors routinely sit down with operators to design the audit.
*insert the Bobs asking “So what would you say you do, here?”
Auditors have their place and are certainly critical at hospitals, etc. I get they may not understand the exact job, but I would expect a financial auditor to have basic understanding of finance. An OSHA auditor should have a basic understanding of workplace safety. Someone auditing nurses should understand healthcare at a basic level. I have little patience for those looking to drum up busy work at the expense of my team and clients.
SSD’s response: What would be helpful is you could compare our output against the Industry Best Practice Guidance.
Auditor: We don’t really want to do that. We don’t understand what you do and don’t want to read the Guidance you pointed too. We’d like to find things your team is doing wrong so we that can document it. Tell us plainly what we can look for so we can document what you’re doing wrong.
SSD: Well, our output is custom tailored to every client so there is no wrong way as long as we follow Industry Guidance. Points again to the Guidance and suggests the auditing team compares our output against it.
*Auditor wanders off to harass another team.
I get it now. Your auditor was an idiot. I have been blessed with competent auditors.
I was constantly telling people “The auditors found things we* can improve. That makes it a successful audit.”
*Really, you, but I try to be nice on occasion.
Exactly.
Ah a diversity auditor!
Please do the needful?
I am always amazed when I request something from an (Indian) IT guy, he forwards my request with just that – and it gets done in a day or two! Happened just last week.
One of our Indian overlords in trying to get us to get through more work a few months back chatted “Please progress the good production on today”. I nearly responded that we would kindly do the needful.
My current CPA to me: “I’m a little wary of that accounting structure because the average IRS auditor is too stupid to understand it.”
Because there aren’t any institutions. Rather, there aren’t any affordable ones for the crazy poorz, and think of the families who live with the crazies, who have no help and no recourse but to just…live with it.
It’s possibly my least libertarian opinion, but I think we desperately need to bring back the sanitariums. It’s one of the few problems that I don’t ever see the free market really dealing with. As I live in the premier place for the crazies and drug addicted to go to in this country I see and deal with it on a daily basis. I think it would actually be way more cost effective that the current model that is absolutely broken and totally inhumane.
There is no correct answer here.
You cannot imprison people that have not harmed anyone just because they are crazy.
You cannot force crazy people to take treatment.
It hurts to watch crazy people destroy themselves. But you can’t imprison them or force them into treatment.
I do not want to see a return to sanitariums and forced imprisionment.
I agree there is no correct answer. But a very large majority of these people are already cycling through the jails for various minor (and sometimes not so minor) criminal offenses. They often have dozens or more emergency room visits per year for overdosing. The record holder a few years back had something like 90 visits to SF General in one year. These people come from across the country to hear for the unencumbered ability to use any drug they want, lots of social services and lax policing of quality of life type offenses and minor theft. That’s where the sanitariums really should enter the picture. As an alternative to jail for those.
kinnath’s solutions
1) end the war on drugs
2) remove all victimless crimes from the books
3) remove the mandates for ERs to treat people that can’t pay (it’s cruel, but will force people to clean up their act or go off someplace and rot away)
4) remove rules/laws that prohibit cheap “substandard” living quarters that actually prevent the lowest classes from paying their own way
and many other to come
I hate to tell you this, but you already live in the sanitarium with them. The smart move would be to leave it to them.
And when they threaten people?
It’s a daily occurrence here. At what points do the threats count?
I’m like KS as I work in a city.
Jail them if you convince a judge they are a true threat to others.
Also carry a gun. Shoot them if you are convinced they are a true threat.
“Also carry a gun. Shoot them if you are convinced they are a true threat.”
May as well assume the Holy Spirit will protect me since this is NYC.
So utopia aside, any other suggestion? The next time some homeless guy says “move out of the way before I beat you, MF” what do you propose?
This.
any other suggestion?
Live in Iowa?
I’m a highly skilled engineer. I could live anywhere the US — anywhere in the world actually. And I live in Iowa because fuck the big cities.
I can think of no better suggestion than GET THE FUCK OUT.
I live in Iowa because fuck the big cities.
We’re all well aware of the charms of Allamakee County.
Stab him. Establish your dominance.
Agreed on all counts.
It’s one of the few problems that I don’t ever see the free market really dealing with.
Flophouses? An inexpensive place for a cot, bowl of soup, and drug of choice.
A lot of these would be dirty and dangerous but still a much better place than the streets.
Flophouses, cage housing, cold water flats, boarding houses, etc. are inhumane and we got rid of them for that reason. Much better to be living on the streets than to live in mean housing. /progressive.
And every hotel/motel owner is in bed (intended) with the progs on that. The innkeepers don’t want competition from the boarding houses, rooming houses (flophouses), etc. Boarding is meals included with rent, rooming is just that – a furnished room and access to a bathroom.
We got a fuckload of flophouses (although admittedly less than decades past) in SF. They call them SRO’s and there are dozens of them in the Tenderloin and surrounding hood. Plenty of cheap ass Asian and ethnic joints to eat in and free food handouts all over the place. There are also plenty of homeless shelters but they rarely get to capacity because they enforce rules like no smoking crack, no prostitution, and no massive cartfuls of crap with two mangy dogs dragging behind. A lot of these people prefer the streets and a tent to having to follow rules.
I wouldn’t really consider SROs as flophouses. I’m talking about a warehouse type room stacked with bunk beds. You can eat, shit, sleep, do your drugs openly and all without leaving the premises. For very cheap.
The closest modern day equivalent I can think of is a trailer that rents out space to multiple unrelated people. You have several people in each bedroom, living room, etc. That’s really a black market solution though and not free market.
I heard a woman complain the other day that she couldn’t “access” shelter services because they wouldn’t allow her three ESAs (“emotional support animals”) “even though [she] had a note from [her] doctor.” Yeah, and what happens if your PET attacks another person or someone else’s pet? What about people who are allergic? What if your damn cats shit/pee all over someone else’s stuff. Cat shit is super toxic, particularly to pregnant women and people with compromised immune systems.
This is the problem – we let the crazy people define the problem. Conform bitch or die. I got no problem with either of those outcomes.
And the last thing she needs is to be responsible for others (even pets) when she can’t even support herself. And it’s not a good life for the pets, either.
Mojeaux, thanks for your insight on this. My heart goes out to any family dealing with this type of situation.
I know that Virginia has (at least) two state-run mental hospitals, but I have no idea how many total beds they have, occupancy rates, waitlist times, etc. This kid would probably have needed space in a disturbed (high security) ward, space in which is probably harder to come by than the regular wards.
I agree (mostly) with Kinnath, but it sounds like this kid threatened people (his parents) prior to this since the cops had been summoned to the house before. And I definitely agree that we had a big problem with over-institutionalization up until (at least) the seventies. Doctors would drug patients before their court hearings so as to keep them institutionalized and keep their jobs and benefits.
I have lots of thoughts, but I will say this, that after reading the article, my heart hurts. Again.
Per the neighbor who didn’t know anything was going on:
Confused? Because you think the neighbors should have told you all their business?
New Hampshire Democrats plead with DNC: We can’t change our state voting laws
Or you could spend your own money as a private organization to set up your own election or choose your nominees anyway you see fit. Smoke filled rooms, caucus. etc.
When the LPNH had automatic ballot access, they continued to use a convention to chose candidates instead of taking part in the state primary.
The Republicans and Democrats could do it too, but don’t.
Spend their own money? /politicians blink uncomprehendingly
choose your nominees anyway you see fit
Thunderdome!
CALIFORNIA EXODUS CONTINUES, TEXAS TOP DESTINATION
There is a pretty good chance that Texas doesn’t have a Governor Beto due to the Californians that moved there. There is a reason this state is tending more Dem and it isn’t just the massive influx of East Coast lefties over the past five decades.
Also I have no context for the photo and the rebuke of the Richmond newspaper. Why are they terrible, for mentioning his cause of death?
1. The lefties are home grown in Texas. Coming out of Austin and Dallas. Now Houston, even. The influx are all conservative.
2. Is that a penis piñata in the background glued to that car?
I think it’s a flamingo.
It’s way in the background, kind of out of focus.
You are absolutely right. During the Cruz’s last election, California transplants to Texas were polled. They were +17 for Cruz. The people leaving California are primarily middle class and well aware of what has gone wrong in this state.
And I’ll say it again. California is the only state where you live for five years and become a Californian even when you move to another state. Most of the “Californians” that get the natives all riled up are likely often not California natives (not that Cal natives can’t be fucking terrible as well).
I wish those Californians would move to AZ. The ones we get (based on my microscopic sample) seem to want AZ to be just like CA except without the earthquakes and mudslides. We do catch fire, though, so they aren’t going to get away from that.
Thankfully, they don’t come to Ohio.
Well, they do, and then write entertaining articles about how we reject their opinions (yes I’ve linked this before, but it still entertains me).
I could be just dead wrong, but I think the pattern is economic migrants bring the politics of where they moved from with them and political / social emigres intensify the local politics.
Chris Sununu’s inauguration speech is funny
“Big government authoritarianism might be how they do it in 49 other states, but that’s not how we do it in New Hampshire,” he said. “It’s a very simple formula: In New Hampshire, we distill decision-making down to the lowest possible levers of power, empowering individuals to make their voices heard at the local level, where their voice is greatest.”
Now do the 18 months where you micromanaged the state’s economy because of the Lil Rona Panic.
Did you throw a shoe at the TV screen when you saw that?
No, I wouldn’t throw anything at my computer monitor.
You are a better man than me. I’m a thrower. The wife can’t take me anywhere.
Little Government Authoritarianism. Modeled after HOAs.
Hi-Rez’s 2+2 = 5 music video is out.
New Hampshire, we distill decision-making down to the lowest possible levers of power, empowering individuals
to make their voices heard at the local level, where their voice is greatest.”I wish more people understood that the lowest possible lever of power is the individuals. Any number of things don’t need you to make your voice heard as the only voice you need to listen to is the one(s) in your head.
Shpip, or anyone who knows him, I still do commision work and a large studio. Ask TPTBfor my email if you wish.
You can find me at pjshpip_(at)_gmail
I will,
Speaking of non-binary, my friend & hub, who are up here in CT for the funeral, tell me their daughter (whom I last saw maybe 10 years ago) is now a 17-year-old “they”. They (the couple) said they are encouraging they (the daughter) to hold off on any big decisions.
The whole convo about their (the daughter) future college plans, etc. was confusing af.
Interestingly, this is a couple that are generally lefty and plugged into the DNC and they’re (the couple) skeptical of the entire thing.
My granddaughter is currently going through this madness. It’s sad to watch.
I’m sorry that your family is going through this.
My lefty brother’s boyfriend is dealing with this with his daughter. Both the dad and my brother are way totally over the whole trans thing, which actually shocked me, but the other problem is that uber conservative ex-wife is using this as a cudgel in the divorce. I suggested it be treated like an eating disorder (which is what the ex-wife wants to do), and my brother agreed, but it’s not his kid, so … He said they marginally go along with it just so the girl doesn’t hate them until she grows out of it.
I just had breakfast with my middle daughter, who was going through this as well. A year or two ago she was angry that we wouldn’t help her get testosterone (T) therapy. But now she says she has baby fever and she wants to have a kid a few years from now. I let it slide, but internally I’m grateful we were the asshole parents that didn’t go along with her dysphoria. If we had, who knows what kind of complications she’ll have when she tries to have a kid.
Will “they” have to pay double tuition? Because that would put an end to a lot of this nonsense pretty quickly.
I wonder if this treatment would actually work.
Ok that’s fuckin awesome
You still looking for some custom work?
I have a studio to work in again, look me up if you want
@Shpip
Left you my email addy upthread.
I want to believe.
Pray the they away.
You people are on fire today.
They (the couple) said they are encouraging they (the daughter) to hold off on any big decisions.
Is there a process for transitioning to a “they”? I thought it was you get to be annoying without any of the physical side effects.
I think they (the daughter) wants to do the whole kit n kaboodle. They (the daughter) already changed their (the daughter) name, legally.
My friend and I have known each other since college, so we discussed the pitfalls of people their (the daughter) age making those kinds of decisions.
Just call her “her”. No need to go along with her neurosis when she isn’t in the room.
I know, but I’m amused by the utter confusion
We now live in an open air Abbot and Costello routine.
A couple of my daughter’s friends have chosen to be non-binary, too many to actually be real and not just a fad thing. My wife and I do laugh about it a bit in that many of these same girls will be females in about 5-8 years after this trend has passed them by and it no longer fascinates them or solidifies their friend group. There’s probably 1 girl in the group who probably turn out to be a real lesbian.
My daughter has said she is A in the alphabet soup, which is asexual. She just turned 15, so I am cool with that choice.
I don’t think she’s gay after observation of interactions with peers of the same sex, and she’s definitely not interested in being a male.
She is a tomboy and will not wear dresses, due to being very shy and self-conscious about her body (which is a pretty normal teen girl body)
Count Potato linked this, the death of the tomboy. Of course, I called this a year ago, but others did too. This is just a really good video on the subject. You could also call it the death of the lesbian.
I was (am still to a great extent) a tomboy. I shudder to think what guidance counselors and teachers would be trying to tell me if I were a school kid nowadays.
Have I generally enjoyed being a girl/woman? Nope.
Do I feel like a man in any way shape or form? Nope.
and will not wear dresses
Your daughter is Marina?
It’s rampant.
If it were just a social contagion, it would be one thing, but the goddamned adults are encouraging it.
Aside from the biological production of children, too many people have no interest in being parents.
Too many parents never grew up. They want to be the kids’ cool friend.
I wonder if they even know what it means.
Beyond biology, I mean.
How could they? We’ve raised the narcissism of victimhood to moral superiority while relegating personal responsibility to “white supremacist” traits.
Have a couples-friends whose daughter is tetched in the head anyway, so they were already treading thin ice when she decided she was a boy. They didn’t like it but went along with it in the wake of her (at least two that I know of) suicide attempts. HOWEVER, they would absolutely NOT let her get hormones or change in any way that wasn’t just hair and name. The mom told me she didn’t want to face a 20-so ething asking, “Why didn’t you stop me?”
Anyway, the girl has been in and out of residential facilities, and her issues have completely taken over the whole family, and the other 3 non-crazy children are suffering for it. She’s 18 now, but still in high school, and they had considered getting conservatorship over her, but getting released from conservatorship is apparently a battle and a half even when the conservators want that too.
The entire movement is absolute poison to the nuclear family. And that is by design.
There’s a price to pay for wearing the left liberal mantle.
I have a friend whose an English Prof and is reliably middle left on everything political. Her daughter came out as trans-dude at age 15 and mom is “going along with it” because what choice does she have? She lives in California, she works for a university, all her social circle despises Republicans, etc…
She’d have to completely upend her life in order to save her daughter from that decision. No one in her life would support her if she did that.
All the trans folk should learn Turkish. It is a very gender-neutral language. The words for “he” and “she” are the same word and you’re supposed to understand which gender you’re talking about from context.
By the same token, I wonder why trans activists haven’t targeted, say, Iceland, where people’s names are appended with “son” or “dottir”
Too small a target I would think.
Ditto Finnish.
And the trannies have already fucked over Icelandic names.
Are Turkish prisons gender neutral too? Asking for a friend.
Is that where they make movies about gladiators?
Filipino is the same. No gendered pronouns. Few gendered nouns. It is why Filipinx makes no sense since Filipino is gender neutral.
Hopefully, these people are refugees, not missionaries.
I want to believe.
Two of the people I know who moved from CA to TX cited guns as a major reason. “I want to be able to shoot my guns from my back porch”. Based on my small sample it’s mostly refugees.
I’m dead.
What happened to coke-snortin’, naked billiards-playin’, hooker bangin’,Nazi-dressin’ Harry?
Because I miss that guy.
Brothers fight. News at 11.
Meghan must have some magic in that hooha of hers. I mean, we in Romancelandia joke about the magic hooha and magic schlong, but daaaaayyyyyyaaaaaammmmm.
She has the fake BLM clout that Harry so desperately wants to infuse into England
This YouTube channel I watch (the creeptastic HG Tudor) calls it “spicy poontang”
I think in one of the headlines I read he also blamed his brother and what’s her face (Kate?) for the Nazi costume. Of course.
That’s a candidate for Didn’t Happen Awards
He’s morphing into Ian Ziering physically.
I have to hear him take responsibility for anything that happened to with family. They may have their problems but he ain’t perfect either.
Nobody picked up on “methamphetamine toxicity” (first illo) as wokespeak for “overdose?” You people…
Commenting without first following the link, what has this place become?
“No link since they are paywalled.”
Commenting without reading the post, what has this place become?
No, but I did pick up on the airlines using “rough air” in lieu of “turbulence”.
Le sigh.
There are consequences to being
an addicta person with addiction.I think that’s “a person experiencing addiction”.
I’m still using an older version of the Newspeak Dictionary.
Reddit tells me that “wheelchair bound” is offensive. Newspeak is “wheelchair user.”
Wouldn’t person-centered language require “person who uses a wheelchair”?
“Wheelchair Bound” sounds like a great twangy country song.
Treatment Bound is better
“Label wants a hit, but we don’t give a shit.”
Or maybe something you do when you get kinky with your dirty little vegetable
I did note that, but somehow “methamphetamine toxicity” sounds worse than “overdose”. Most Newspeak uses obscurantist language where that sounds more precise. And like Rat said it may actually be more precise.
I noticed it, but thought it may have been something different. I seem to recall that in rare cases cocaine can have a negative (deadly) interaction with alcohol.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-weapons-package-ukraine-includes-50-bradley-fighting-vehicles-officials-2023-01-05/
With a move like this I would be thinking we are supplying an invasion force
Well if you have a bunch of bunkers and are trying to reset the world, a nuclear war would be just the thing.
I loved McConnell saying we should send them tanks, after we spent last year learning that tanks are missile magnets that did the Russians little good.
Once we send them tanks, then we have to “secure the airspace” to prevent said missile attacks, and once we’ve “secured the airspace”…
I, too, am not getting what is objectionable about the Richmond paper’s blurb.
“Methamphetamine toxicity” == newspeak for “overdose”
Elon is a funny guy. His latest poll is
Elon Musk should
Stay out of politics
Keep shooting his feet
Guess which one is winning.
I was just looking at a bunch of headlines from California about flooding and other weather damage. I can’t wait to hear the reaction when the President says, “We’d like to help you people out, but since we sent all that money to Ukraine, we don’t have any left for you.”
You’ll be waiting a long time to hear the President say that. Good Democrat state like CA will definitely get a spot at the trough.
*money printer go brrrrrrrr*
This just in: Generalissimo Kevin McCarthy is still not the speaker of the house
Since the omnibus was rammed through, what’s the rush?
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Nobody tell them about Spanish, they’ll have an aneurysm.
Welsh is just as “gendered” as Spanish so they’d be right at home (or not, if they’re like these folks).
Tell them about Russian. Pronouns. Nouns. Adjective-noun agreement. Past tense verbs. Patronymics. Last names. Nationalities.
Here at Vox, we blame everything on capitalism, it’s simpler that way
There was nothing remarkable about the play that led to Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin collapsing on the field during Monday Night Football. A Cincinnati Bengals player caught the ball over the middle, ran upfield, and collided with Hamlin in a rendition of a play that football fans have seen countless times.
But this time, Hamlin staggered to his feet, wobbled, and dropped. We learned later that his heart had stopped. The game, between two of the NFL’s best teams, was suspended, but only after the teams reportedly balked at the league’s suggestion that they regroup and finish the game. (The NFL has denied this; the journalists who reported it stand by their reporting.) It felt like a seminal moment for a sport beleaguered by questions about the dangers it poses to its players.
But the odds are against any long-term impact. America’s most popular sports league will still conclude its regular season next week, followed by three rounds of playoffs, all leading to the Super Bowl on February 12, which will inevitably be the most watched TV show in the United States of the entire year.
That’s because the NFL’s grip on the American consciousness is ironclad. The worst-case scenario — a player dying after one of the violent hits that are football’s hallmark — nearly came to pass on Monday night, but this weekend’s games will kick off unabated.
A uniquely American concoction of capitalism and culture has allowed football to continue to thrive, even as the dangers it presents to players, both professional and amateur, have become clearer. Football remains the biggest hit on TV.
It’s slavery, really. Those poor football players. We must save them from themselves.
It is known that non-capitalist countries treat their athletes with the utmost respect for their humanity. Just ask the former East Germans.
I dunno. Katarina Witt seemed genuinely confused by the idea that East Germany was anything but a wunderlund.
The Stasi took care of her to keep her from defecting. She was probably also an informant for them. Her East German experience is not at all normal.
I had the issue of Playboy where she appeared nude. Supposedly, it is the only the second issue that sold out. The first issue that sold out was the inaugural issue with Marilyn Monroe in it. I no longer have that issue of Playboy. Sad.
The sheer number of informants the Stasi had was staggering. Of course, we don’t need informants anymore in the modern, liberty-loving
NSAUSAI was being facetious. She was taken care of in grand style her whole life and she was completely confused when asked about human rights violations or suchlike that East Germany was guilty of. She really thought everything was kosher so of course she informed. I’m sure the other athletes they pushed but didn’t take care of like that were not as valuable to them PR-wise as Witt was.
For every Katarina Witt there were probably dozens who didn’t make the cut, but were nevertheless pumped full of steroids and then thrown away.
Baseball — which football overtook by the late 20th century — is, by contrast, pastoral and individualized, Ross wrote. And whereas baseball looked back to a time before industrialization, with its expansive setting and leisurely pace, football embraced the modern age of specialized toil under the pressure of a clock steadily ticking down.
The ever green bucolic allure of Mudville. Weep for that lost America.
with its expansive setting and leisurely pace
Leisurely pace is one thing. Taking a two hour sporting event and making it 3 hours is another.
test
I love watching baseball live. I sit back, have a few beers and enjoy the weather.
I enjoy it when my uniform is winning a lot.
Are they plagiarizing George Carlin?
Yep… no one ever died playing baseball.
Not even mentioning the little league and high school deaths.
The game today looks very different from the game Ross was writing about. But at its core, it is still American football. Those reforms didn’t prevent Damar Hamlin’s injury. Enormous men running at breathtaking speed over very short distances and colliding with one another cannot be made entirely safe.
May Hamlin recover quickly. But he won’t be the last player to experience such a trauma. Until America stops watching, there will always be another game on.
I am not convinced that hit caused cardiac arrest. I am also not convinced the vax had anything to do with it. Sometimes, shit just happens, for no readily obvious reason.
But any excuse to bash capitalism and Flyoverstan will be seized by the big brains at vox.
I’m betting an underlying cardiac issue. As you say, the hit wasn’t that hard or even in the chest (IIRC). High school kids to whom this happens always have an underlying undiagnosed condition. He’s only 6 years out of high school.
It could be an underlying cardiac issue exacerbated by the vaccine.
Let’s check in with the guy at the center of this to see what he has to say…
https://www.denver7.com/news/national/doctors-report-damar-hamlin-has-made-remarkable-improvements-in-the-last-24-hours
“Doctors treating Hamlin said Thursday that the football player is awake and able to write. One of the first things he asked his bedside nurse was whether they won.
“You won the game of life,” doctors said Hamlin was told.”
You can’t even keep a football player who just suffered an unsettling, life-threatening injury from being interested in football. It’s a sinister virus.
Hillary Clinton to teach global affairs issues at Columbia University
In keeping with the Niels Bohr adage: An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
*swoon*
What a win!
“And that kids, is how you destabilize entire regions of the globe and cause mass suffering and death.”
I’d have thunk that Bill would be more qualified to teach about global affairs.
Maybe I need to read the whole rolling but this string of words makes no logical sense.
“Writing for the majority, Justice Kaye Hearn said, “We hold that the decision to terminate a pregnancy rests upon the utmost personal and private considerations imaginable, and implicates a woman’s right to privacy. While this right is not absolute and must be balanced against the State’s interest in protecting unborn life, this Act, which severely limits — and in many instances completely forecloses — abortion, is an unreasonable restriction upon a woman’s right to privacy, and is therefore unconstitutional”
If they give the state the interest to protect unborn life, what does the time after conception have to do with anything? Is detecting a heart beat inherently more invasive than determining the age of the baby?
I wonder if the very same woman could refuse to disclose her income to the IRS. Perhaps the state’s interest in collecting money is more urgent than its interest in protecting unborn life.
I can decode that for you:
F Y T W
you’re welcome.
‘TEDIOUS, DELUSIONAL ASSHOLES’
Are there more than 3 of them?
Fuck me.
We’re never going to know the truth.
If only we held Pfizer/BioNTech to the same standard before we rolled out a vaccine to a phase III clinical trial that included ~280 million people.
He has pronouns in his bio! And he’s a dog dad!
Oh boy!
What a load of shit.
Don’t forget the rainbow flag. That means something!
That God won’t send another flood to destroy the world?
At the rate we are going God won’t need to do anything this time, we’re going to take care of it on our own.
Most people don’t want to know the truth. And that is the real problem.
The simple fact is there are 700 side-effects from the mRNA vaccines that triggered the safety threshold limit for investigation.
Myocarditis is one of them and it is an acknowledged side-effect now. The FDA admits this even though they’re downplaying it.
But there are 500 serious side-effects with a higher incidence rate than myocarditis. Yet, they have not been acknowledged.
The government will never willingly admit wrongdoing. Waiting for them to do so is a fool’s errand. They will have to be hounded and forced to do so.
I heard the vaccines actually good for the heart, it makes you strong like bull.
It’s at least comforting to know that if people actually start falling over dead in the streets, like flies, tomorrow, by the millions. And they can prove the jab caused it, THERE’S NOT A DAMN THING ANYONE CAN DO. Because they guaranteed that no one can sue Pfizer or Moderna, no matter what. An experimental vaccine, rushed to market, in unheard of time. And what’s even more, no doctor or health professional can even speak about it or they will lose their license to practice. And even though Musk has published all those facts from Twitter proving they did tall of this, the media have already buried it to the extent that no one much has even heard about it, or eve will. Dead like Bull, strong like bull, why it matter!
On the one hand, the whole “rushed to the market” thing wouldn’t necessarily bother me, in the sense that I don’t believe the FDA is within the proper purview of government and shouldn’t exist. In Patopia, bring your untested drug directly to the market without so much as an animal model study if you want. Just be prepared to accept full liability for any claims you make regarding its efficacy and safety. And much more importantly, if the FDA is outside the proper scope of government, then compulsory medical treatment sure as fucking shit is as well. I don’t have a problem with the fact that these, at best, ineffective vaccines were rushed to the market. I do have a colossal problem with them being rushed to the market using a disparate standard by a captured government bureaucracy and then made compulsory for basic participation in society for hundreds of millions of people while the companies who produced them are shielded from any form of legal liability.
Well, I should have included that. Thanks. That is the part I have the biggest problem with too, that they forced it. That and the part where they cannot be held accountable.
We are a very short drive from the place where they force you onto the cattle cars, for your own protection.
Have you ever heard that story about how commies way back when, after the Bolshevik Revolution, came up with this wild idea. The idea was that they could destroy the USA from within by infiltrating the education system and making everyone too dumb to think? Well, they’ve succeeded beyond their wildest imagination. This is why we are never going to know the truth. Because there are very few who even want to know. You tell them what to think and they do, easy peasy.
Allowing others to think for you is so much easier though. I kind of envy people that just swallow whatever information they’re fed in a way. Life would be so much simpler if I could just put that thing between my ears on autopilot. Those people with no internal monologue must have it made.
Knowledge is the beginning of all sorrows. Blissful ignorance is the way to go.
Then there are those of us just trying to survive and don’t have time/energy to think about much at all beyond making next month’s rent.*
(*We are in a much better place than we were 2 years ago, so this is from our past when really, it was a luxury to be able to process information as propaganda because it didn’t affect us in the short-term.)
So the faithful old wise man went into the hall where the thieves were working with all their might at their empty looms. “What can be the meaning of this?” thought the old man, opening his eyes very wide. “I cannot find the least bit of thread on the looms.” However, he did not say his thoughts aloud.
The thieves asked him very kindly to be so good as to come nearer their looms. Then, they asked him whether the cloth pleased him. They asked whether the colors were not very beautiful. All the time they were pointing to the empty frames. The poor old wise man looked and looked. He could not see anything on the looms for a very good reason. There was nothing there.
“What!” thought he again. “Is it possible that I am a fool? I have never thought so myself. No one must know it now if I am so. Can it be, that I am unfit for my job? No, the Emperor must not know that either. I will never tell that I could not see the stuff.”
The answer to your riddle is in bold.
Which is why academia is the perfect breeding ground for The Borg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEzilvXBlz0
Heh. I had the original album that that’ cover’s a copy of.
MUH DEMOCRACY!</a.
Huh, I wonder where the leader of world democracy got an idea like this? I mean, no way he got it from anyone in DC, so I guess no one knows.
Like everything else in my world today, it looks fucked up, but it still works.
If we don’t censor information, persecute religious and ethnic minorities, outlaw opposition political parties, and conscript 50 year old men to the front lines then the turrurists win!
Imagine, Zelensky gets billions of dollars, and all he has to do is shit like this to make sure no one ever learns about what is really going on in Ukraine. And 10% for the big guy!
But it is convenient having Z write the Dems’ future legislation for them.
Z. For fuck sake they will be calling him that soon enough, like he’s some sort of superhero. I’m a be sick.
Soon he will be Наш лідер.
Hmm, how about Lord Zedd?
Lucky bit of climate change!
Klaus grinds his teeth as his brilliant plans fail again.
Damn lucky for the Germans.
I don’t get it. I thought this is what they wanted.