Crazy finish
The US will play Japan in the WBC final. That tournament has been a to of fun so far, with the exception of Altuve getting drilled with a fastball and ending up with a busted hand. That’s it for sports since it’s too late to discuss what happened over the weekend. So on to the news.
Remember, Elon Musk is the villain. How dare he pare down his workforce by a lot fewer people than these guys or Zuckerberg.
Lay them all off!
“Attorney-client privilege? Never heard of it.” -Fulton County DA. I don’t understand why these people don’t demand their rights be respected and tell these witch-hunters to go fuck themselves.
What a shithole. You couldn’t pay me to go to that city.
I have no problem with this. In. fact, I think it should be normalized.
A blind squirrel finds an acorn. Good on him. Now if only he’d stop being a commie.
Yikes!
Oh, she cra-cra. What a sad situation.
They’re keeping the drugs off the streets!* *Except fentanyl, meth, crack, and some others.
Good, fuck em. I hope they kill every last one of the bastards.
Here you go, people. Such a solid song. And here’s another solid one. And no, Jamie Raskin is not the lead singer. Anyway, enjoy them and enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
“What a shithole. You couldn’t pay me to go to that city.”
That’s pretty much my stance on any metropolitan area. I avoid cities like the plague.
I don’t even like going into Wasilla.
“I have no problem with this. In. fact, I think it should be normalized.”
For too long phantom shitters have not been given their place of honor because people didn’t see the brilliance in their dumping in public places to surprise the unknowing. If this shit can be done by homeless people, why not by people that make it an art to surprise others with their droppings?
and when you do it around crooks like Hillary or any other politicians, it should be a first amendment thing!
Where’s Sandi when we need him/her?
So you approve of the job San Francisco has been doing in this regard?
The fact that it was outsourced to the homeless is genius….
Sources said the mother-daughter power duo stayed for the show’s second act.
Uffda. I’ll give Hillary credit for being a power player in Washington, but Chelsea? What has she ever done in her life?
Make money off her parent’s criminality and name?
Speaking of which… who else comes to mind when you look at the issue in that light….
She got a job with NBC News!
I suspect the Usual Suspects were really hoping to make Chelsea into a figurehead of some kind, but she is just so crushingly mediocre that it’s beyond even their power to do so.
She might also be lacking the sociopathic gene that most politicians have. Not only is she mediocre, she might not have the drive and ambition needed to climb to the top over the bodies of her victims.
Someone tell Bro about this, since he’s a master of Firsting he might be looking for a new challenge.
Well, he’s met the same challenges of these pages and persevered.
whaddup doh’
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I am surprised the totalitarian globalist left has not assassinated Greenwald yet for destroying them consistently and constantly…
While I don’t disagree with him, I’m having trouble deciding if Greenwald’s voice is more annoying than Ben Shapiro’s or not.
He has a voice made for print media
Which sucks, because people won’t hear the messages
He’s big on the Twitters, apparently.
Ben Shapiro and it’s not even close.
God bless Greenwald for his reporting, but he’s not the best live presenter.
I eagerly await seeing how our justice system can somehow twist this case to come out in Li’l Joey’s favor.
“They’re keeping the drugs off the streets!* *Except fentanyl, meth, crack, and some others.”
Big sugar is much worse than the cartels. The cartels pay well, so the politicians are forced to look away. Big suger deserves this for not paying..
Pretty sure the Skittles ban is over a coloring agent used, not the sugar.
Not for being a crappy candy option?
If Necco wafers are still around, I think crappy candy is safe.
Necco wafers
Ahhh! ::recoils in horror::
I like Necco Wafers so fuck you all!!!!!
+1 Circus Peanuts
So if someone adds coloring agent to “the ebil drugs” they will all be banned? Dang….
Oh, they’ve been yammering on in the local news here in Tucson about “rainbow fentanyl” coming across the border. Pills with, yup, coloring added. It’s . . . Wait for it . . . Targeted at children.
Supposedly. Me, I think it’s so they can track their product through a logistics chain which probably isn’t big on record keeping.
I really want some company to decide that giving CA the middle finger is less expensive than complying with one of their idiot laws in order to continue selling their product there.
I live here — and I want all of the companies to stop playing their reindeer games. Remind them that while they’re an important market, they aren’t the only one.
(Then do China.. yeah, yeah… I know the likelihood…)
“Good on him. Now if only he’d stop being a commie.”
The picture in the in article of him in his Bernie hat with this caption:
“Ben Cohen (left) and Jerry Greenfield (right) – the original founders of now-Unilever owned ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s.”
is hilarious.
They Sold Out to The Man!
He does have the right idea. If he’s trying to make peace more lucrative than war, it’ll take a lot more than $1 million.
Fun fact about Ben and Jerry’s. My father in law knew them in college and they asked him for twenty bucks to help them start up their company but he said no. My wife could have been an ice cream princess
Yeah, but then she might have been influenced to be a commie too.
Cold comfort, I know.
With a sprinkling of regret?
Yeah. I mention that we probably wouldn’t have met. Not that that makes her feel better.
The real scoop is that if she was an ice cream princess she wouldn’t have married your poor self.
That’s cold, Pope
Damn it, Slum, I did my best but not good enough
Story of my life, in 3 words
Cone-dolances Fourscore
Man, that’s cold…
What terms were they offering? Who said he was getting equity for that, instead of a lecture on the evils of capitalism?
“Remember, Elon Musk is the villain. How dare he pare down his workforce by a lot less people than these guys or Zuckerberg.”
Elon’s crime was to get rid of the woke and the woke’s nefarious agenda. The crooks running assbook and boogle/screwtube are still part of the leftist cabal of liars and censorers.
I’m going to have to ping the “solution architects” that Amazon has assigned us. They haven’t been the brightest bulbs I’ve ever seen. Mostly they are gophers who can go ask the real experts internally at Amazon for advice.
I get that our company isn’t a big player, but our assigned helpers are pretty bad. So bad we “fired” one of them.
“Good, fuck em. I hope they kill every last one of the bastards.”
I spent 3 days in the hospital because of one of these fuckers when I was young. Concur on the wish they all be fucking killed.
Had to mention the WBC after it kept getting brought up, didn’t you?
I was proud of my “all-star spring training” line.
That was a quality line.
It was. I was pleased when I pointed out that the real WBC hasn’t even required all samples in yet (still 3 days to go).
Just in time for the finals.
At least one of the lynx peeps aren’t commie.
This tournament has been as good as the last in 2017, and the WBC is the best product put out by the modern MLB. I definitely don’t buy the “This is the REAL World Series!” arguments put out by foreigners enjoying watching bullpen pitchers who are in local leagues get their time to shine (or be lit up) by major leaguers, but this is fun baseball to watch.
Besides, when the fuck else is Trout or Arenado going to be on my team? Watching Trout playing meaningful baseball is a treasure in itself.
I was told by the lefties “cheering on this move it is necessary to save democracy”!. They get really pissed when I remind them we are a republic precisely because of evil shit like this which is facilitated by the false illusions of democracy.
That’s some chutzpah right there. Though approving any corporation with that name for anything should be grounds for
summary executionimmediate termination from any place of employment.I don’t bother with the Republic thing anymore. I ask them, if we are a democracy, when did we vote for censorship? Or open borders, or $200 billion to the Ukraine…? Did I miss those votes?
I don’t really get the Republic thing. I’ve never found terminology gotcha to be reflective of the actual issues. “A Republic, if you can keep it” is more to the point and reflective of where we stand now.
Same with firearms. It doesn’t matter if a gun grabber calls a shotgun shell a bullet. Washington State had no problem finding someone knowledgeable enough to describe pretty much every gun configuration possible in their recent legislative bid to end gun ownership.
Our club’s gov’t rep gave a report on the gun bans that have been drafted to drop if SCOTUS invalidates NY’s current ban.
Bill 1: Since nobody needs a rifle for home defense, and anyway a shotgun or handgun is a better option, it will require that to purchase a rifle, one must possess a valid hunting license.
Bill 2: While the current requirement of 18 hours of classroom instruction is a good idea, guns are just so complicated and diverse that it makes no sense to have a “gun license.” Instead, this bill will require a different license for each gun type. Supposedly this does not mean just form factor, but action type (bolt action rifle, semiautomatic rifle, lever action rifle, slide action rifle, semiautomatic pistol, revolver…) and each specific gun license will also require you to go through the aforementioned classroom training!
This is just what a club officer told me, I do not have access to the raft legislation in question.
JFC
Unreal
Since nobody needs a rifle for home defense, and anyway a shotgun or handgun is a better option
Second part is debatable. First part contradicts the point and purpose of 2A.
Bill 2
Both of these are next level malicious legislation.
I think we just got a proof of life from Sandy.
Deep cover for years pays off!
“What a shithole. You couldn’t pay me to go to that city.”
My wife is current en route to that
faircity for work.I’m assuming she’ll be nowhere near the bullshit. Hopefully.
The bullshit is a small sliver of area, and spurred on by Ultrafest mixed with spring break.
The problem wasn’t that they made me the face of an evil cabal’s efforts to censor and punish political enemies, no, it was the people that saw through that evil effort and rejected it!
Fuck, religious fanatics are the worse because they really have no moral qualms justifying the most evil shit to achieve their end goals.
Oh my God, the fucking comments.
They are nothing but religious fanatic morons…
Team blue uber alles!
Looking at youtube comments is a sure-fire way to ruin your day. They are the Necco waifers of comments.
I couldn’t even listen through half of it.
I tapped out at the book. It’s not just women or liberals who face harassment online.
How dare you dismiss their delusion!
It has a really easy fix, too.
*pushes power button on device*
Partisanship makes everyone stupid.
Hey! It isn’t partisanship for me!
How are you supposed to make a Trayvon Martini without Skittles?
How many “white latinx people” are needed to make one?
And how many shots do you need?
At grave risk to myself I’m going to pedant at UCS:
Strength is not resistance to deformation, that’s hardness.
Strength is resistance to breakage. See also: tensile- compressive- and shear-.
Thanks, I was wondering about that.
Does hardness also refer to resistance to flex?
*lights Warty signal*
This does present the humerous edge case where, under load, the material droops and stretches into wire as the load reaches the ground/floor/next structural element, but technically did not break despite providing none of the functionality expected of something strong.
Sounds to me like you have a bone to pick.
Don’t cast him in that light.
You think it will fracture the commentariat?
That is a good plastic design. Great for earthquakes and blast.
Though, it should also still provide the expected performance under load…
I thought strength lies in nights of peaceful slumbers…
And thanks for the materials lab flashbacks, Not Adahn. 😉
Tard Tuesday: You’re Not Supposed To Fight Back
Using Our Methods😂🤣
I needed that laugh.
I wonder what he was teaching – it’s impossible to find it through all the tears and handwringing.
IT WAS JUSTICE! WHY DO YOU HATE JUSTICE?
Because we know they’ll end up with “thought justice” and “line up at the trench justice”…
I hate these language games.
1) Start with something I don’t like.
2) Assert that it’s exactly like something that is universally detested.
3) Keep doubling down.
These people are unserious and dangerously/maliciously ignorant/dishonest.
That must have been a doozy of a complaint! Naturally Democratic Underground will have no details of that…
Thanks. I was debating opening it up in a Private Tab to see just how bad it was. Resisting the urge because, well…. DU. You saved me from wondering.
Yeah, must have been pretty bad to get fired.
It’s a private, conservative Christian College – professors do not have tenure there. They did not renew his contract.
From last night’s GlibCar – Toxteth is correct about the car Tundra asked about. It is a 1965 XK-E.
Thanks everyone!
Unfortunately, I woke up with a cold. I am heading back to bed soon.
Tard Tuesday: Seniors For Starvation
“Old hippies”
I hate hippies. Smelly and stupid is no way to go through life.
And hippies that are working for The Man and its campaign of grift are the worst.
When they realize that their SS check accounts won’t be available they’ll quickly adapt to fossil fuels for the win. When the shuttle to the Medicare program is down for lack of fuel they’ll be surprised and pissed.
The ending of Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is glorious.
Speaking of hippies, did anyone ever get in touch with Trigger Hippie after his abrupt departure the other night?
“When customers of America’s four largest banks visit their local branches on Tuesday”
Yeah, okay. I haven’t been to a bank branch in over a year.
Same. Mostly because they’re only open between 10am-4pm.
*Looks to move my money elsewhere*
I go regularly to take out cash and the only people likely to be blocking the entrance are vagrants looking for a handout.
So you’ve encountered these old hippies.
Best explanation of the globalist movement’s 15 minute cities where nobody owns anything, but are cared for by the masters and have everything they want, so they are happy as can be…..
Socialism 101.
It sounds like a feudal manor but worse. At least feudal peasants had a common religion, race, and culture with their overlords which hopefully inspired some degree of kindness. The knight or Count who owned or managed the land the peasants were tied to obviously had a stake in their long-term prosperity.
A 15-minute city sounds like putting yourself completely at the mercy of strangers who have nothing in common with you. Hoping they’ll be merciful even though they’ve shed their religion (except worship of the State) and all the morals that came with it.
It’s akin to Hunger games in a new incarnation….
Preceded by an Amtrak ad. Oh YouTube, they name is irony!
How many grocery stores will be in a 15 minute district? One? So it will be a monopoly, which means that the government will feel compelled to step in and control prices. This is going to be great.
15-minute city
They say this and I hear “prison” or “concentration camp”.
Prosecutors in District Attorney Fani Willis’ office have requested an interview with Trump’s attorney Christina Bobb, according to multiple sources. It is not clear what information prosecutors hope to gain from Bobb, whose role in Trump’s handling of classified documents is also being examined by special prosecutor Jack Smith.
I wonder if we export bananas.
https://youtu.be/8QqkrIDeTeA
What with the rush to put people in positions of power due to their sexual and gender preferences, it seems like United Fruit is taking over.
Why would we export them. Our supply is so limited that we have to carefully dole out the ones we do have. Of course, they all eventually end up in the hands of some cute chiquita.
A bunch of derp, I’m green with envy
I have no problem with this. In. fact, I think it should be normalized.
Couldn’t happen to shittier people.
Daily Quordle 421
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, March 21
Letters: E I N U O R S
My score: 204 points
My longest word: 9 letters
🌼 🌺 🌷 💐 🌻 🌹 🏵 💮 🌸
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 421
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Awful.
Average, to be generous.
Daily Duotrigordle #384
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 05:12.83
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 421
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Meh.
Daily Quordle 421
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nearly shit the bed on that one
Daily Quordle 421
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, March 21
Letters: E I N U O R S
My score: 314 points
My longest word: 9 letters
🌸 🌻 🌹 💮 🌼 🌷 🌺 🏵 💐
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Ben & Jerry’s founder Ben Cohen calls for the U.S. to stop supplying more weapons to Ukraine as he pours $1M into campaign to negotiate an end to the war with Russia
I wonder how the left will deal with the fact that B&J are clearly Russian assets.
BJs from Russian assets? What’s that you say?
BJs from Russian assets? What’s that you say?
perks up
That’s…. one hell of a Christmas present for some lucky man.
I would feel depressed if all I got from that was a hummer…
C’mon Alex!
In this Golden Age of Trans, taking the pants off some hot rando gal who wants to blow you is akin to trading everything to Monty Hall for what is behind Door #3.
Just accept the hummer and don’t get greedy.
Wisdom like this is why you are holy and I am just wholly….
Commies who are Russian assets? Well, I never!
In February, Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel introduced Assembly Bill 418, which would prohibit the manufacture, sale and distribution of food products containing five chemicals linked to cancer and other health risks. One of these chemicals is titanium dioxide, which is listed as an ingredient in Skittles on the candy brand’s website.
The meme is real.
Titanium dioxide is about as inert a substance I can think of.
*checks complaints*
Ah yes, nobody has conclusively proven that titanium dioxide is completely safe. Or rather, nobody has proven that there are absolutely no side effects from consumption. What’s that about proving a negative?
Holy crap. It takes an incredible amount of energy to reduce titanium oxides. To imagine that TiO2 is reactive enough to cause any health concerns, outside of dust concerns from breathing respirable powders, is utterly crazy.
The kids got started on the pixie sticks, snorting them straight. Eventually they moved up to smarties, grinding them down themselves. The real hard core ones have moved their way up to the Skittles, chewies they call it. Smash them, spread them out thin, then cut them into a line. We need to protect those children.
Hey, fluoropolymers are so super-deadly that we have to set a 1 part-per-trillion limit in drinking water! And they’re so deadly because they’re so inert they stick around forever!
Please don’t get me started
That’s the Precautionary Principle in action.
My biggest question about the precautionary principle is when they will use it while applying the precautionary principle?
The only thing they’re not precautionary about is in actually using the precautionary principle. They never ask what will happen as a result of X precautionary policies.
I’ve always thought the precautionary principle would fail the precautionary principle. In what universe does banning everything that might cause harm to somebody, somewhere, sometime not cause harm to somebody, somewhere, sometime?
That’s long been my argument against it.
Fundamentally it’s a stupid and evil notion under a gloss of “it would be nice if …”
I think the concern about TiO2 is the size of the particles. I used to work for a startup that made nanosize TiO2. You didn’t want to breath it in because it was too small for the lungs to expel. We tried selling it for use in sunscreens, because it goes transparent unlike the zinc oxide people used to put on their noses. The small size has unique properties that aren’t fully known.
What a sad situation.
She used to be fun and normal looking.
I don’t care what Pat says, Amanda Bynes + Lindsay Lohan at their peak (18-21) was elite.
They’re not even on the same tier as Ashley Judd, Christina Applegate or Mira Sorvino at their peak.
Natasha Henstridge, FTW!
Salma Hayek. Then and now.
Word.
Ok old man.
I’ll throw the Olsen twins in too, all of the ’86 girls destroyed by Hollywood.
Elizabeth (the normal one) is the only truly good-looking one of the lot.
Apparently 1986 is full of psycho women. The Olsen twins will have to drop off the crazy Mount Rushmore in favor of Amber Heard and Megan Fox.
Eh, Mira Sorvino’s career crashed when she told Weinstein “No.” Or, as I like to dream, “Get your filthy hands off me, you grotesque old creeper.”
But we got The Replacement Killers.
You would Paul could’ve called in some muscle or a hit on Harvey.
“think” should be a word in there somewhere.
Yeah, he could have done the best job of scaring the shit out of her boyfriends ever.
Meh.
Grumble: “Oh boy, gonna take a week off from work. De-stress, do some woodworking, maybe wire up some puddle lights on the truck.”
Texas: “How’s about a week straight of rain?”
“You said you wanted puddles! Here are all the puddles!”
Welcome to Cleveland.
I’d move there for Wednesdays alone. The only thing stopping me is the mandate that I root for the Browns.
It’s not really a mandate, just ill advised to root for the Stillers or the Ravens.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Background on the ray
That’s very sweet. Thanks, Holiness!
Coming from a long line of mechanically declined men, it is also helpful to those of us who know crap about fixing things.
Wonderful. The back story is amazing.
Thanks, Holiness!
My kids still call me about some things. I failed as a father.
If they still call you did a good job.
They are checking up on me, you know, just in case.
Inheritance?
I hope all the feds can make it to the GAP before the
glowie entrapment partyprotest.WASHINGTON DC — Bike racks deployed around the Capitol complex.
To be Franc, I’m not sure what they are so upset about.
I’d be more impressed if they weren’t rioting over not getting enough free shit.
Macron “deeming” it passed without a vote from the legislature would have me upset. I guess he needed to preserve their democracy.
Yeah, they riot over basically nothing over there.
The Gaul of those people!
They’re just a bunch of winers.
Frankly they are awful.
Nice crowd for a 15 minute notice
Ummm, sex trafficking? I’d call it a prostitution sting since there was no actual person being sex trafficked.
So glad these 23 horny guys are off the streets. I’m sure they were probably the creeps behind the record number of car jackings and catalytic converter thefts.
Silly pope – since they’re female, prostitutes have no agency, so the men are responsible for trafficking them.
Except there was no prostitute. Just an internet ad.
That’s even worse!!!111! That purely theoretical prostitute had even less agency.
False advertising! ‘Bate and switch! I’m calling my lawyer!
I have to thank you, BTW; I bemoan the fact I live in deepest-blue, Mass but, somehow, the news from your neck of the woods makes us look positively purple.
Glad we can help?
We try extra hard because of our Flyover Country insecurity complex. We just want to show you Coastal Elites that we can prog with anyone.
“pictures of an undercover officer seeking prostitution services from a sex worker”
So the men who responded were all prostitutes? I haz a confuse.
You can’t expect a person who was a journalism student to put together clear concise sentences.
They’re ridiculously bad. At least get the basics right.
Entrapment like this should be illegal.
Seems that the only crime was committed by the undercover officer.
Good morning, Sloop!
Those Man ‘O War are creepy little fuckers. Do not like.
I also do not like Miami Beach.
I do not like Skittles.
But I really like both of those songs. And the pirate shirt.
I know that Man ‘O Wars aren’t jellyfish, but they’re jellyfish-adjacent. That’s enough to give me a major case of the whim-wams.
*clutches chest like Fred Sanford*
One or two is fine, but before long, the acid burns out the taste buds for a while.
“Good, fuck em. I hope they kill every last one of the bastards.”
A few years ago the whole ocean was going to turn into jellyfish, did apocalypse ever happen or is that getting memory holed like predictions of the world burning by 2020?
Yes. We all died when waterspouts picked up the billions of jellyfish and threw them on shore and into our faces. Don;t you remember?
I remember hearing about how the ocean was going to start throwing rocks at us, haven’t been back to the beach since.
Starro coming.
I don’t remember that, probably because I died because of Net Neutrality being rolled backed.
I remember when Bobb was on OAN. I’m sure that has nothing to do with the media’s coverage of her.
As for attorney client privilege, the feds have set that standard for a while to go after and intimidate lawyers defending targets of federal investigations and prosecutions. Look right at Bobb again. DOJ is going after her regarding documents at Trumps residence (while ignoring Biden’s attorneys relocating similar documents when the feds went to pick those up).
Proof AGW is a cult and the priesthood is composed of the insane.
Thanks for confirming all of our accusations.
That’s kind of a sick burn, though I’m sure they didn’t mean it that way.
Maybe they’re just praying it will shut her up about how she should be in school and all.
I can’t help but think that it’s the sly Scandinavian sense of humor at work. Yes, I know Finns aren’t Scandinavian.
You saying they don’t eat lutefisk or whatever that assault on human palate monstrosity is called?
Curse you
Global WarmingClimate ChangeThe only reason that there isn’t a bounty on the assholes stealing catalytic converters is because we are all sick of this winter and hope that global warming kicks in soon and gets rid of all the snow.
Happy first day of spring then your holiness…
Speaking of which. What’s your take on the machine giving an unaccomplished wretch like Greta Thornburg the mantle of divinity? Does it cheapen your denomination’s devotion and piety that the cult of AGW is expanding its priesthood with evil wretches to fight the coming crusade against yours??
I’m not worried. Sure Greta and her congregation seem like a cool new thing. But eventually I’ll win on price alone. All I ask is a mere 10%. You wouldn’t believe how much the priests over in the AGW church want.
Stick it to the MAGAts.
I just vetoed my first bill.
This bill would risk your retirement savings by making it illegal to consider risk factors MAGA House Republicans don’t like.
Your plan manager should be able to protect your hard-earned savings — whether Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene likes it or not.
That’s not what it does. And it had to pass with Democrat support.
As if little things like facts or truth matter to PPP (and/or his handlers).
Christ, what a mendacious asshole.
The first bill he vetoed was surprisingly a decent one.
I guess it’s surprising it passed, not surprising it was vetoed.
Wish there was a need for a constitutional justification for vetoes.
So, like everything else involving the government sector in NY, the government schools are terrible. And it’s never the fault of anyone being paid from tax dollars. When I first moved here, the excuse was that the tests students were taking weren’t accurately measuring what the students were learning. Then the teachers were telling the students (as they were handing out the tests) that the tests were not required, would not affect their grades, and if they felt like playing on their phones instead that was cool. The teachers then complained that the percentage of students taking the tests were too low to be a representative sample and the tests needed to be thrown out.
Then it was “but covid!”
Now they’ve gotten to the “Fuckit. You pass! And we deserve raises for how high the pass rate of our students is!” stage (might be paywalled, but the link gives you the gist).
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/new-york-lowers-bar-student-math-english-17841120.php
Heard about this. It is breathtaking. They are literally raising a generation of failures and nothing else happened.
It’ll pay off long after the politicians and other retards involved with this have retired or otherwise moved on. They’ll get a short term boost and secure their positions from it, everyone else will get fucked.
We need to decertify NYSUT and prosecute anyone involved with that criminal organization, including the Dept of Ed hacks who allowed them to become part of the school systems, and especially all of the local administrators.
I remember the big issue in the ’86 governor’s race in Mississippi was education. There was a lawsuit by a bunch of black ex-students that said the schools never taught them anything and just passed them along. The result being that they graduated with no skills (or even ability to read, write or do math) and it made them unemployable.
One guy said that the schools needed complete overhauls. The other guy said everything was just fine and that the lawsuit was a secret plan by the Yankees in DC to come in and take over the schools.
I’ll let you guess which guy won.
But yeah, sounds like NYC has sunk to Mississippi level education.
When I hear about the Albany graduation rates it’s always RUFKM? In my HS in Broken Arrow OK, we’d get well over 80%, and over 90% if you included those that finished out their term at the Frances E. Willard School for Girls.
Of course, my HS had ag and vocational-technical tracks for students that were uninterested in college.
There are Albany graduates?
There are really good schools in NY, and really bad schools. it’s just surprisingly localized. I kind of approve of the system of separating the cream from the raw milk.
Overall the spending is out of control for the results you get, particularly the poorly performing schools.
Yeah, my HS in Rochester was great. It attracted some national attention back in the day. Probably a toilet now.
Oh, and this is definitely doubleplus ungood these days. I remember Deblasio trying to destroy the good schools left in NYC – didn’t succeed but I know they’re still looking to do it.
For Jimbo.
/dad jokes
Keep that up and he’ll get pretty teste.
Getting rid of Dad jokes is not what I de-sire.
There’s a vas deferens between dad jokes and standard humor.
You have to go balls out or it just doesn’t work.
Swissy may just go nuts over this
We’re really teste-ing his patience.
Going to see this oldies act tonight.
(Can it really be “too soon” after thirty-two years?)
It can be… I mean, if it were Milli Vannilli wouldn’t you want them to wait a while longer?
25th anniversary of Rob Pilatus’ death next month.
I saw Kenny Wayne Shepherd last weekend. He started he career young, so it’s his 25th anniversary tour and he’s 45. Great show, he’s still got it.
What if we gave a government program and no one showed up?
The rest of the story is about how no govt entity is willing to contribute resources to this bold plan to make light rail safer. Of course, no one thought that maybe forcing people to pay to get on light rail might be a good idea. (Currently our light rail is on the honor system. You are supposed to buy a ticket, but there is no turnstile or other gate to force you to buy one).
Buried in the story:
Wonder why social workers wouldn’t want to go work on the light rail with the violent crazies?
I’m rather wondering why there would be high demand for those who can’t or won’t work in the field… as in “What exactly would you say you do here?” level wondering for those folks….
Around the turn of the century Minnesoda closed several state mental hospitals and all the social workers there were turned into probation officers. Most of them were women and my dad would complain about them going to the supervisors and weaseling out of having to handle the violent offenders because they were scared.
“They scare me too, but why should my caseload consist of every single dangerous probationee in this area?”, was his basic complaint.
I think he basically shut up about it in return for them turning a blind eye to his increased “field time” (aka hunting and fishing).
Checking tickets is akin to slave catchers looking for fugitives.
Don’t worry, the train cops have purged themselves of the wrong thinkers.
If there were turnstiles, the cops would probably be told to let people jump over them anyway because it’s racist to demand payment or something.
Somebody would come up with some fable about how turnstiles were used to count the slaves being loaded onto ships or somesuch.
“…that is to protect the investment that we have made in the transit system…”
Sounds like a SVB project. Is throwing someone else’s money at a losing project an investment?
This bill would risk your retirement savings by making it illegal to consider risk factors MAGA House Republicans don’t like.
President Ass Backwards.
Or “President Lying Fuckface”. Either will do, I suppose.
When I first moved here, the excuse was that the tests students were taking weren’t accurately measuring what the students were learning.
What happened to the Regents’ Exam? Let me guess; racist?
Here, kitteh kitteh…
Gotta watch out for cougars in hot tubs. It’s a deadly combination.
Wow. But I was hoping they’d all curl up on the hot tub for warmth.
If the tub was uncovered and empty, we could see whether they have the feline box gene.
They do.
At the Bio-Dome in MTL, they use that to get the lynx out of hiding where people can see it.
If you’re cold they’re cold, let them inside
😀
That’s more faith in that glass door than I’d be having. But kittehs look like they’re just being sociable, thank goodness.
Really?
I would be very concerned about a’social’ big cat.
Related…
https://kdvr.com/news/local/mountain-lion-attacks-man-in-colorado-hot-tub/
Might be ass drugs:.
https://stream.org/sustainable-electric-cars-are-getting-junked-over-minor-damage/
Not very sustainable.
Producing electric vehicle batteries emits much more in terms of carbon dioxide emissions than producing a gas-powered car, in some cases requiring an electric car to rack up more than 10,000 miles before it makes up for the additional emissions in production
Does that include the emissions of the power plant generating the electricity to charge the car?
Silly Grummun, we all know it magically appears at the outlet.
Grrrrr.
There IS no “climate benefit”.
Using electrical appliances creates heat.
Why don’t they just get it over with and behead Trump on the White House lawn?
Macron asked them not to give the Parisian mob more ideas.
Live, on pay per view.
Whoah.
I strongly suspect it would be equal to keeping a dragster nose down and straight if he floored that…..
Well, yes, seeing as that is a drag racing build.
Even with those fat rears, I wonder if there is enough weight over them to get traction?
Love. What a great build!
The drive probably screws up the weight distribution though.
DrivER.
Ford – we’ve decided to brand things whatever we want.
Ford reveals new Explorer EV for the European market
At least it’s an SUV like contraption and resembles it’s namesake unlike that Mach e Mustang or whatever it was called stupidly named monstrosity.
The “Mock-E”
I aint buyin no EV
It occurred to me last night that every single car commercial on TV is now “electric this” and “sustainable that”.
You still have a TV?
I will always own a tv so I don’t turn into one of those “I don’t even own a tv” people.
I own a TV so I have something nice to display my DVDs on.
So they haven’t come for Trump yet? Will a low-level lawyer greet him with a kiss, and will a young MAGA who came in nothing but a cloak run away naked when the mob arrives? Will The Hat strike the Attorney General’s slave in the ear with a sword?
They better get on with it, poor SF will be working late into the night for tomorrow’s installment.
I have started drinking more coffee and am not sure if it is a good idea. Not necessarily because I fell sleepy but because I feel like some coffee.
Also I am very hungry today and my gym session seemed particularly exhausting though I did not do anything special.
I get one cup of regular, then it’s decaf. I like coffee but try to limit the caffeine.
Well I do a v60 250ml/17g in the morning and 4 shots of espresso during the day
That’s barely 8oz.
It’s the time of year where I pivot to iced tea after my morning iced americano.
Not too much caffeine…
Iced tea is likely one of the things I would have to refuse if offered in the US. Is that seen as rude?
Nope. We’re pretty understanding that some people have o taste.
You are sell aware of your lack thereof? That goes against the usual stereotypes
Not at all.
“There are only two things I can’t give up: one is coffee, and the other is tobacco.”
– Andrew Jackson 🇺🇸
After working all night, if I take Tres 2.0 to school Ill get a cup of coffee. Same with our weekly breakfast.
Other than that, I run through (unsweetened) ice tea by the gallon. Well, when Im not drinking The Best.
Sounds like you should eat more.
Ford Motor on Tuesday unveiled its first all-new electric vehicle exclusively for the European market and said it plans to leverage the well-known Explorer nameplate to gain traction
Why not Taurus?
Because it’s bull.
They wouldn’t want to ruin the sex appeal of the Taurus brand with an electric clunker.
92 Taurus saw many an awkward teens figuring out sex.
Not the Probe?
Thats in San Fran.
The snark name for them is “Exploder”. Seems a good fit for an EV.
“A Trump-supporting Twitter influencer who is charged with conspiring to deprive citizens of their right to vote in the 2016 presidential election has appeared for trial in federal court.
Douglass Mackey, 33 – known on the internet as ‘Ricky Vaughn’ – is standing trial over his tweets encouraging Hillary Clinton supporters to cast meaningless votes by text message, instead of casting an actual ballot…..
During his opening remarks, Mackey’s attorney Andrew Frisch argued that his memes encouraging Clinton supporters to ‘vote from home’ by text were simply ‘online trash-talking’ in the hopes of gaining viral fame….
The phone number in the fake ads received least 4,900 text message responses with variations on Clinton’s name, including some from people in New York, prosecutors said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11883983/Trump-supporting-influencer-known-Ricky-Vaughn-leaves-Brooklyn-court-day-trial.html
It’s not his fault people are that stupid.
How many were from actual eligible voters…
“ALL NYPD cops will be in uniform TODAY in anticipation of Trump’s arrest: NYC and DC brace for protests and Stormy Daniels ramps up her personal security – with an indictment set for Wednesday ‘at the earliest'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11885365/ALL-NYPD-cops-uniform-ready-deployed-TODAY-Trumps-arrest.html
03/22 doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Heard a report they are monitoring flights to NYC from ‘known locations of J6 conspirators” … America, isn’t it grand!
I think Elon’s tweet that Trump’s arrest will hand him the White House in 24 is beyond laughable, but it may help him win the Repub nomination. Trump’s chances of winning against BidenHarrisNewsom are in the single digits and an arrest and charges are not going to help him win an election. I’m wondering if the Dems are thinking exactly that with this bullshit they’re pulling in NYC.
Nah, it’s just some politicized piece of shit douchebag prosecutor going way out of bounds. That’s it.
^Not everything has to be a carefully calculated strategy. After all, what is the point of having power if it’s not used to punish your enemies?
This and J6 are part of the same approach to destroy anyone who acts against the State (the uniparty of both Dems and GOP).
The election outcome will be decided in a handful of carefully chosen and prepped locations.
Since it revolves around Stormy, the should have done it on PI Day.
This is language not dissimilar to that used in 1930s Germany.
https://twitter.com/DamCou/status/1637981011723034624
I assumed they spoke German?
“SHEEP: Essential Facts You Don’t Really Need To Know”
Parody?
I assume a fun fact columns
Sheep lie.
“Iranian man who raped his lodger in London ‘can’t be deported in case he is persecuted in his homeland for being a convicted rapist'”
“A very violent rapist was found trying to abduct young girls v near to where my daughters go to school. He previously raped and throttled a woman, was released after just six years but couldn’t be deported – so let out! He may be free next year”
https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1637800727098671104
I wonder what would happen if you want to deport an immigrant but the original country does not want to take him back. What can you do like dump em somewhere outside your borders?
Drop them off in international waters.
Get in the choppa!
Tough shit. Bye.
Speaking of Iranians, I just learned that the actress who plays Chrisjen Avasarala ISN’T EVEN INDIAN!
#Suchdesiface #Ican’teven
persecuted in his homeland for being a convicted rapist’
I don’t think persecuted means what they think it means.
Speaking of totalled EVs- that kid I linked to the other day (boostedboiz) bought that Tesla Plaid in a Copart auction. Far from cheap (60K?), but the it only had what would ordinarily be straightforward body damage from being rear-ended at relatively low speed. He bought a parts car with truly impressive fire damage, for the rear deck and bodywork.
I have no idea what he plans to do with it. His point of origin was absurdly overboosted Hondas.
This may have been done before but picky eater test
https://twitter.com/angrynorfman/status/1637595510172205056
I got 1, pineapple. Cauliflower I will not eat cooked, but like pickled.
I like fresh only, along with broccoli, in a salad. Cooked is too mushy, no texture
It’s okay roasted, but not the best veggie by far.
Decent in a curry since it doesn’t have a lot of it’s own flavor.
I had 8, but I’m pretty picky.
9, but I don’t think of myself as picky. I guess I’m wrong.
0. Cauliflower when done right is great but as Fourscore mentioned, overcooked and its mushy. I prefer it either roasted or steamed then blended to make a puree
Same here. Only one, maybe two I won’t eat. Oddly, radishes weren’t on the list.
And neither was cilantro.
Love radishes.
10, but some were for health reasons.
32, but many for dietary limitations.
when the post apocalypse comes it will be tough for people with dietary limitations. how are you with long pig?
vaxxed or unvaxxed?
4, pork, and three chocolate things.
pork? religious thing or what? Strange one not to eat
For some it is texture and/or being ruined in childhood of being overcooked and dry.
*shudders*
Don’t worry, you can be cured. Give it a try sometime.
My mother could have used some cooking tips when I was growing up- you can recover.
Oh I have no issues. I got over it and when you are the smallest and youngest of a large family you eat whatever, even if it is pork pucks
My brother once quipped “oh boy, pork chips” when our mom overcooked the pork chops by more than a bit.
The key to pork is to undercook it, take it off the heat, let it rest to cook itself the rest of the way through.
Pigs are smarter than dogs. Just seems cruel.
I mean…you do understand where bacon comes from, right?
Well we’d have to be talkin’ about one charming motherfuckin’ pig.
Pigs are more hateful than dogs too.
I’ve stopped as well. Just doesn’t agree with me anymore.
2.
Mayonnaise and liver.
I’m sure I eat mayo fairly regularly being disguised as an ingredient for something that no longer tastes of mayo, but I will fucking die of starvation before I eat anything that I knowing has mayo.
There’s several things on the list I would strongly prefer not to eat, but will take a bite if offered to be polite (oysters, mushrooms, liver, coconut, etc.). I’ve gotten much less picky as I’ve gotten older.
I’ve tried every one of those things, but don’t regularly eat more than 20.
I guess I’m picky.
It is not about regularly eating is about what you would not eat
. I only ate snails twice and not in the past 10 years , but do not count them as something I would not eat…
I’ve had them, but they’re disgusting.
I wouldn’t do it again. Same with livers and bone marrow. They just don’t agree with me.
roasted bone marrow on toast is a thing of beauty too bad about the calories
I guess I could eat it, it’s just I ate too much the first time I had it, combined with drinking a lot…. And my (then) best friend’s partner hitting on me. It wasn’t a good experience overall.
How can any sane person think snails are bad. It just tastes like garlic butter.
I got 11.
3 – mayo, ranch, and olives.
Off the top of my head the only other “avoid if at all possible” things I have are sour cream and Italian sausage.
Interesting, none of those bother me in the least. Well, okay olives can be a bit much, but I will eat them if they’re balanced by other things in the food.
Only one definite no – beets. Never tried oysters or escargot. I’ve had pate de foie gras (a long time ago) but never chicken liver nor beef liver, the latter because my mother hated it and loved her children.
I will only eat the misnamed “white chocolate” under protest.
I’m surprised neither squid nor calamari were on the list.
(Sub “octopus” for “squid.”)
I got 3 1/2…ketchup, liver, beans (for dietary reasons unless they’re green beans).
0.5 for coconut. Depends on how.
You eat Tofu, brah?
Why would you eat something with the texture of foam rubber?
5.
Blue Cheese
Oysters (although I could try them)
Snails
Olives (have eaten, don’t particularly like)
Zucchini
Most of my food issues are texture, not flavor.
Ahh yes, rental boat training. Having grown up at the seashore we always chuckled at the rental “training”. OTH, NJ now requires a boating license for owners or private operators. So despite living and sailing on the water for decades I can no longer legally operate a boat in NJ.
Florida boaters missing after anchor mishap on lake, sheriff says
How is that not a polish joke ?
They found their bodies already.
Maybe don’t rent a boat if you can’t swim.
At the very least wear a life vest.
Both men are dead but not the chick who jumped into the water with the anchor…. okay….
She was a better swimmer. The other guys could swim but apparently not as well as they thought they could (which is pretty common).
To be fair, we were taught to swim down to the anchor and set it manually.
Seriously? That just sounds totally nuts to me.
That’s sad.
Everyone should know how to swim.
So despite living and sailing on the water for decades I can no longer legally operate a boat in NJ.
I grew up on lakes and in boats, but I took a Power Squadron class one winter and loved it. I didn’t know as much as I thought I did.
I went to sailing school for week. My family owned a sailboat for 30 years. I raced sailboats for two summers.
My wife took and passed the Coast Guard “advanced coastal navigation” course.
Neither of us can legally operate a boat off NJ.
I saw that, pretty sad. They made so many common sense mistakes besides the anchor thing. Not wearing life jackets, jumping in after her instead of throwing a life preserver, both of them jumping in instead of leaving an adult on the boat who could bring it back to pick them up.
NoDak purveyors of pseudoscientific gobbledygook set to unveil their latest excuses in June.
https://www.universetoday.com/160516/the-first-all-electrical-thruster-the-ivo-quantum-drive-is-headed-to-space/
Word on the street is that Trump may be arrested today. This will be the first president that this has ever happened to.
I thought, “what if all of the presidents were comic book villains?”
This, here is my newest list of presidents you never asked for.
https://twitter.com/hamcarless/status/1638128433531088897
hmmm I did not link the first tweet in the thread but it matters not
Dr. Jefferson is pretty badass. I’m pretty sure that pic of MechaWashington is from Bioshock Infinite tho.
I assume most were taken from somewhere and modified to look like the presidents faces
I like the trump and obama ones
Umm, Trump isn’t the President, you know. So even if they arrest him, it will still be teh case that no President has ever been arrested.
Grover Cleveland to GROVER CLEVELAND!!!!! Apparently the gamma rays worked?
Speaking of food. I made a ‘Louisiana’ Shrimp Shakshuka last night. Not a fan of the addition of the shrimp, just seemed out of place. However the star was the green chili zhoug that you dollop on top. I will be incorporating that chili ‘pesto’ into many a dishes from here on out.
/patiently waits for the weather to warm up so I can start riding out for breakfast/brunch on weekends
‘just seemed out of place. ‘
Sounds like a mistake of biblical proportions.
https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1621597311619973123
Man! Maybe test that with a weighted mannequin first.
Voxsplanatory
Using ESG principles enables financial managers to factor in things like a company’s environmental practices while making investment decisions. It can also include consideration of other “social” and “corporate governance” practices, such as how a firm treats its workers or whether its board has diverse representation.
This approach, while framed as a more socially conscious way to invest, centers on examining how these issues could impact a company’s bottom line, financial experts say. For instance, if rising sea levels due to climate change could affect a company’s products, that could be viewed as a riskier investment by a financial manager using ESG principles, a Harvard Business Review article explains.
ESG is whatever you want it to be.
Also, Republikkkin culture warriors are bad people.
I don’t care, knock yourself out with “ESG” ratings crap. The problem is they are trying to mandate it.
So, if imaginary problems would affect a company’s bottom line, err, who cares?
As far as rising sea levels go, its very hard to see how a “problem” which, by its own terms, won’t manifest for decades should affect your investment in liquid/tradable securities today.
Of course, what gives the game away is that if ESG investing were legit, it would just go without saying as it would be identifying high-performing investments. The fact that it has to be pushed means it’s not a legit way to invest money for financial return.
Because the drugs are so much more humane.
The @GOP are so pro life they believe death by firing squad is “humane.”
“Look at me. I’m journalisming.”
Mindboggling.
So were a bunch of Idaho Republicans gathered one night for a bout of good ol’ drinking, degrading of women and minorities, and looking at child porn when someone said, “Hey, you know what I REALLY miss?! EXECUTIONS BY FIRING SQUAD!!! Let’s bring that shit back!”
Curious how it seems this is actually a leftist thing as they don’t think only biological women are women, constantly harp on skin pigment and push a radical trans/child-mutilating and sexualizing’s agenda. It’s progjection all the way down.
For those too young to have lived through what happened twenty years ago, a thread of self-styled left/liberal types endorsing the invasion of Iraq
https://twitter.com/NicholasGuyatt/status/1637840296569438215
Good thread. Notice that none of those fucks paid a career price.
By focusing these resolutions on issues that could be controversial for moderate voters, Republicans are forcing House and Senate Democrats who are up for reelection in 2024 to go on the record about them. Additionally, they’re underscoring existing Democratic divides on subjects such as policing and crime.
I am shocked. SHOCKED! to discover there is politics going on in Congress.
Same, tedious Republicans Pounce! framing.
Get a new schtick, already.
I was thinking. If you framed it properly, I suspect a big chunk of the people all in on “gender affirming health care” could be induced to support shock therapy and lobotomies.
Well of course, it’s for those people’s own good…
Unreleased transcripts from Uvalde show police waited to breach the classroom because the killer had a combat rifle that could penetrate their armor. They we too scared. We are a nation that allows anyone to buy a rifle that can massacre children while keeping the police at bay.
https://twitter.com/BrandondelPozo/status/1637798944800403458
Nope…talk about drawing the wrong conclusion.
Also, fuck off.
One of the many data points over the last few years that have made me black pillish is the fact that, as far as I know, most of those cops still live in Uvalde and have their cop job.
Negotiations over a new labor contract for West Coast dockworkers are under increasing strain amid a spat over lunch breaks
The union doesn’t want to stagger lunch breaks to allow the port to keep running. They want it shut down completely from 12-1.
https://twitter.com/JASutherlandBks/status/1637994352705241089
I would think staggered lunch breaks would be good for workers if you want to buy anything from nearby places as it would mean smaller lines…
This is what people pay union dues for? Seriously?
Gee – I wonder why.
Viral Hit ‘Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Pulled From Cinemas in Hong Kong
capitalist decadence is my guess
Such a crap article. The reason was mentioned briefly in the last sentence. Winnie the Pooh references irritate the Great Exalted Leader and he banned all of it years ago. Another writer who should go work at McDonald’s.
“I am glad to see scientists going after the “technological unemployment” nonsense. It is one of the most vicious sophistries ever ballyhooed into being.” – 1934
https://twitter.com/PessimistsArc/status/1637825877386960896