Just two more days.
Not much in sports going on. Opening day is coming up Thursday. Thank God. Also, that trip to Eagles Canyon Raceway was amazing. Perhaps I’ll post a video or two to YouTube and link them later in the week when I don’t get up late and have to scramble. Anyway, on to the links.
Man just wanted a soak. He got a little more than he bargained for.
“Controversial,” lol. What a bunch of fucking retarded, entitled jackasses. Some day the reaping will begin for all the stupid they’re sowing.
You’re not alone out there.
“Head on a swivel,” you money-grubbing dipshit. She’s a weird, self-absorbed lady, but she still deserves to win. This guy is an asshole.
What an amazing coincidence. I’m sure it’s just that though. The IRS has never targeted people over political beliefs or statements. The scumbags.
There’s nothing worse than people who don’t tolerate other cultures. Except maybe the Dutch. So this is a two-fer.
“Hire that man!” PACE
That’s some genius hiring standards you got there. Why not hire Dick Van Dyke to fill in for sick people next time? Oh well, it’s the taxpayers who will foot the bill, so no biggie, I guess.
Uh, it’s a public forum. The sensible thing would have been to let him speak and then goon about your business. But these idiots are incapable of tolerating dissent. Also, the entire article is filled with bias, so read through it warily.
Houston’s race to the bottom continues. And this retard just might take them there.
And lastly, this crazy piece of shit is already being labeled a victim. I didn’t want to even put up a story, but it’s gonna get talked about at length, so I may as well.
One of their best, and also longest, songs. It just flows together so beautifully. And here’s another one that jumps in at full speed and keeps going. What an amazing band. Sure, the lead singer is an odd duck, but their whole chemistry was amazing. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
Cougars are getting aggressive. No mean no.
The poor thing was just bobbing for skulls.
Meeting a cougar in a hot tub can mean two very different things…
Apropos, let me introduce you to the best YouTube channel to piss away your time on.
Just be careful not to get the search for that wrong…
LOL…
“The final four nickname options narrowed down during the “First Impressions” phase of decisions are “Ambassadors,” “Blue Fog,” “Revolutionaries” and “Sentinels.”
as reported by the school paper known as… The Hatchet.
Blue Fog please!
“Cucks” and “Pussies” already taken?
It’s lucky for Taibbi he wasn’t hoarding TOP SECRET NUKULAR CODES
Glenn Greenwald is fully black pilled
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1640476282503741441?t=E7tztgEMALUD_-kSv1NTYQ&s=19
Immediately calls out the people who are trying to radicalized the crazies for political unrest.
As of now, 8:09 am, CNN still not directly reporting that shooter is transgender. Instead, buried in a huge “what we know” article they have a bunch of interviews casting the police in a bad light… and one phrase…
Well, just look at this wording:
“Police have referred to Hale as the “female shooter” and at an evening press conference added that Hale was transgender. When asked for clarification, a spokesperson told CNN Hale used “male pronouns” on a social media profile.”
Looks to me to be entirely constructed to avoid concluding that the trans angle is true. They did not change any of their name, pronoun or gender use in the article.
Remember the judge who “refused to use proper pronouns” for a supposedly transgender defendant who announced his new pronouns during trial but did no other transitioning? Remember all the activists protesting?
Yeah… somehow I don’t think they are going that route here.
Also, last night CNN was reporting details from LinkedIn profile… yet omitted the pronouns.
What does the autopsy say?
Allopathic medicine is colonialist thinking and erases indigenous sources of knowledge.
So?
“What does the autopsy say?”
Dead of multiple gunshot wounds, I think.
I almost commented on the CNN thing last night – utter silence – completely absent from any of their reporting.
I haven’t been to the CNN site in ages, and only looked because of a mix of curiosity and frustration.
Fox (who likes to pretend they’re conservative-ish) was consistently writing “transgender woman”, which (i think) means a male pretending to be female. Seriously, if I’m wrong on that, yell. But CNN was outright burying it – wow.
And relatedly, if I were in charge of Fox, I’d take this opportunity to drop the whole proggie “transgender woman/man” terminology hard. Letting them control the language is a straight (ho ho) surrender. Just say “We’re done with this crap. We’re going off of biological sex, not your derangement.”
Completely agree. Maybe “We’re going off biological sex, but will mention mental health diagnoses, such as gender dysphoria, depression, etc., when it seems relevant to the story.”
So, rather than “transgender woman* shoots up school”, you would report “woman with untreated gender dysphoria shoots up school”.
*Yeah, that’s a dude pretending to be a chick, so Fox got it wrong.
I understood the shooter to be AFAB.
“all females are bastards”?
Another Fucking Antisocial Bitch
There’s this one little test, only takes a few seconds, that will determine male or female. So simple a child could do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFoHZWApvDE
A link to such would have been helpful to support that wild accusation.
Because when I’m fearful that right-wing death squads are going to hunt me down, I shoot up a school?
It’s the only rational choice.
Terry Moran helpfully explained that the 28 year old chick pretending to be a dude was driven to it by Tennessee’s law banning genital surgery and puberty blockers for minors.
Wait, so a legal adult who could get treatment protested the unavailability of treatment for kids by murdering kids?
Makes perfect sense to me.
To be fair, he also speculated it could be the ban on drag shows for children wut dun it
What a cunte.
It’s a bold strategy, Cotton.
Is “inset pronoun” supposed to wait for them to grow up?
Just a total coincidence that the day before The View had a tranny on that said drag shows were fine for kids and that the biggest problem for children was guns.
And it’s just a total coincidence that The View had Jane Fonda calling for the murder of Christians just two weeks ago.
From the SFGate public forum article:
Funny how those accusations of “heavily edited” always get thrown out there and are never proven. Always the same stupid “Don’t believe what they showed you! Believe our words, trust us!” crap.
And ugh… haven’t made it through yet… but “neo-fascist” “promotes and engages in political violence” (no, that’s the FBI), “homophobic”… the article author must be playing Left NPC bingo today or something.
Morning, Sloopy… look forward to the race track videos. You should do your best race commentary impression over it for fun. 😉
OH FFS!
There’ propaganda… and then there is outing yourself as an idiot….
NBA 3 point shooters are the public face of the modern KKK, it is known.
“his remarks at Thursday’s meeting — in which he echoed the homophobic trope that the LGBTQ community is full of “pedophile groomers””
This is an op-ed disguised (not well) as a news article.
I see you are new to SFGate.
And this retard just might take them there.
“Let the fire start,” the U.S. representative said in her launch speech.”
Is the FBI launching a counterterrorism investigation? Because I have been assured that this is the normal response to this sort of incendiary rhetoric.
“Candidate Advocates Arson”
/if the parties were switched
House of Reps to mayor seems like a weird, backwards move. Was she expecting to be primaried?
She doesn’t know…
…anything.
She’s angling for the ambassadorship to Japan.
Not necessarily. I think it depends on the size of the city. I suspect Houston is big enough to be a bigger jurisdiction than her Congressional district. And it’s an executive position that can be leveraged for other offices in a way Congress can’t (although I doubt that’s the issue in this case).
She means a fire like the one Nero fiddled to.
🙂
OK, this was my fastest lap of the weekend.
And this was probably my best lap of the weekend. But I was held up a bit.
Still have work to do to find the line in a few places, but for my first time ever at the track, I think I did ok.
Well crapadoodle… “Sign in if you want access to this video”. Sorry, no… not going to make a YouTube account (I certainly understand why you want to keep it private, not a knock on you…)
It shouldn’t be private. I post all my business videos to that account.
I fixed the settings. Should be visible now.
Yup… watching now, thanks.
Nice… does the track give you an adviser normally? (I’ve never booked time on a track, so honestly don’t know…). I’m just assuming that’s not Banjos telling you how to drive, of course. 😉
And nice of the guy to wave you on coming onto the straight. I was a little worried coming up to there that he’d have a little better straight line speed and stay ahead of you to hold you up in the next set of corners. (queue Vettel impression: “Blue flags! Blue flags!”)
They gave pretty much everybody an instructor. Since it was my first time there, I had a guy ride with me the first two sessions of Saturday and then I drove alone until my last Sunday session and I asked her to ride with me to point out a few changes I could make to speed up on a few sectors. She was quite helpful.
It’s all point-to-pass at these events, so he was ready to point me by as soon as we got to a straightaway.
Also, I was about 18 heat cycles into the semi-slick tires I was running, so the stickiness wasn’t quite there. I’ll be back toward the end of May most likely, although I’m considering going to NOLA the weekend before and I have to pick one of the other.
Anyway, that entire facility is amazingly nice. All that elevation change and the way you are forced to drive into so many blind spaces was a bit unnerving at first but I felt pretty comfortable by the end of day 1. It was a hell of a place to drive and I can’t wait to get back there again.
What no tire blankets? 😉
Yeah… sounds like a blast. Best I can hope for in the near future is coming into ATL on I-20 and dealing with the racetrack that is I-285 presuming I make my usual trip this summer..
Here’s a COTA lap that was almost really good. If only I hadn’t fucked up corner 11 so badly.
https://youtu.be/XOk7o35_5RA
Liked the “Fuuuuck…” reaction, though. 😉 Very human.
Do you normally go that wide on T16 and T17? Seemed like you were a tad over the limits on those (not a criticism… if I wanted to really embarrass myself I’d see if I have a F1 video game replay for COTA and throw up a lap… The sector one chicane typically has me completely miss at least 2 apexes and all…)
Which also makes one wonder… what do those red/white curbs do to your suspension? Sounded like / felt like / thought they were like rumble strips… can’t be nice to go over at 60+!
But again, thanks for sharing, sir.
I was barely inside track limits. I think. 🤣
ECR is a great track! Glad you had fun!
Thanks. It was such a great venue. I can’t wait to get back.
Obviously this could have prevented if we gave the BATFE authority to conduct
warrantless searchessafety inspections.Just have BATFE storage lockers available at every Post Office. That way you can keep all the weapons safe, and prevent people from modifying them. If they have a weapon that’s not out for it’s authorized use, that’s a crime. In the case of a home invasion, send a runner down to the Post Office with your form (filled out in triplicate) to allow them to bring your weapon back for a defensive use*.
*Defensive use allows for a single shot to be fired above any attacker. Any injuries due to defensive use will result in criminal action.
Looks like the FBI handlers caught on though…they’re no longer supplying top shelf weapons to these shooters.
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
Betcha a Coke the “…turned up a sawed-off shotgun” is complete BS, but will never be retracted.
It’s 2023. Who on earth shortens a shotgun barrel today? Even an “honest mistake” (coach gun or short-ish pump) only signals that the writer is a complete idiot and should not be believed regarding anything.
Or a bullpup…
Who knows? I haven’t seen any photos of that yet.
Put a regular grip/stock on a Shockwave or TAC14 and it’s now a SBS.
What else was sawed off?
A KelTec PCC was one of the “assault weapons.”
I recognized it by the grip. Fucked up a perfectly good plinker.
Is that an SBR or AR pistol?
Paranoid me: “They gave the crazy tranny the latest stuff they want to ban”.
No way!
OMG it’s comical. I had to tap out halfway through.
Did you make it this far?
One of my favorites. 👍🏻
Most trannies who make it to 28 are only interested in killing themselves, so I guess this is progress of a sort.
Unless it was to get someone else to kill her.
Doesn’t sound like the plan involved a clean getaway followed by a long happy life.
A man was attacked by a mountain lion while relaxing in a hot tub at a rental property in Colorado, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
“Although this victim had only minor injuries, we take this incident seriously,” area wildlife manager Sean Shepherd said in a news release.
This was nearly a catastrophe.
He needs to use the iron reinforced hot tub cover next time to keep the mountain liner away. Sound to invest in a Fe-liner.
‘Orning ‘Ordles… Mediocrity again dominates my life.
Daily Duotrigordle #391
Guesses: 34/37
Time: 04:12.63
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Blossom Puzzle, March 28
Letters: G I N A P W S
My score: 224 points
My longest word: 8 letters
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Play Blossom:
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pignapping
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Blossom Puzzle, March 28
Letters: G I N A P W S
My score: 306 points
My longest word: 9 letters
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Play Blossom:
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Is this beginner slops a mile long? How are you gaining enough speed to ‘send someone flying’ in a collision as this money hungry plaintiff describes?
Known as “Colonials,” the university’s sports teams were the source of controversy when students said the name had a negative connotation regarding violence toward Native Americans and other colonized people.
The natives never committed violence against each other…
Go fuck yourselves and get out of my state.
The final four nickname options narrowed down during the “First Impressions” phase of decisions are “Ambassadors,” “Blue Fog,” “Revolutionaries” and “Sentinels.”
Ambassadors are just modern day colonialists.
Suggestion: “WEFfer”
Squaw Fuckers is taken?
“All I saw was a whole lot of snow. And I didn’t see the sky, but I was flying,” said Terry Sanderson, a 76-year-old retired optometrist, calling it “a serious smack.”
Pussy.
Yeah, four broken ribs and a concussion is a pussy.
Or it means he was too frail to be out there, especially if this happened on the beginner’s slope.
Testimony by one of the doctors was no osteoporosis and normal bone density.
I got broken ribs on the bunny slope at Whistler at 29 years and in good shape. One needn’t be going far or fast to break ribs while skiing. You just need to land bad.
Do we have any idea who really hit who?
Right now all we have is two stories. (And two unsympathetic people…)
If I’m the guy she hit this seems like an awful lot of work for 2/3rds of $300k if it really didn’t happen.
Not directly. There’s one witness, a friend of the plaintiff. There’s been testimony from others including ski staff as to who was on top, orientation to the slope direction, etc that are being painted to indicate that.
His contention is he was hit negligently and has ongoing neurological issues stemming from the accident.
Her defense is he hit her and/or his issues were at least in part preexisting. Also his (or his family’s) motivation is to secure a chunk of change for his retirement.
Spot on about the unsympathetic people. Paltrow was aping the bailiff’s words during one opening. Her first thought when she was hit was that someone was trying to sexual assault her. I dunno if that’s due to her being a psycho or previous bad experiences of nut jobs with boundary issues.
I am guessing that he thought she would settle out of court, so good on her for going the distance.
As I was a notoriously assholish skier in my teens, I can say that I’m lucky I was never sued.
I always figured if I went to a ski place or even a sled hill, that I was assuming the risk by being there and unless someone intentionally hit me, there would be no grounds for a lawsuit.
I was also surprised when one of my wife’s friends sued another friend after they were riding together and got in a wreck, so what do I know?
Not knowing the entire story sometimes this wind up being forced on you by health insurance.
If you clock your best buddy on the slopes and your buddy actually tells his health insurance that he was hit by a skier instead of had a solo accident there is a good chance the health insurer is going to try to subrogate against your personal liability insurance associated with your homeowners’ insurance.
An IRS agent stopped by the home of Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi the same day of his congressional testimony on the weaponization of the government, according to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, who’s demanding an explanation over the oddly timed visit.
“Way to prove my point.”
“We at the IRS routinely send agents around for routine matters – registered mail is expensive”
Tard Tuesday: Houston Gets Tardier
A US star of the hit Netflix show Squid Game has revealed footage he recorded of the moment he claims he was assaulted and refused service by a McDonald’s manager ‘for being American’.
We’ll leave you to the Germans if they ever regrow a spine.
“Agatha Christie novels reworked to remove potentially offensive language”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/26/agatha-christie-novels-reworked-to-remove-potentially-offensive-language
Yo HarperCollins, rework this!
*grabs crotch*
You really want to make that challenge when emasculation is all the rage these days? They’ll invert it on you.
Wait, I thought editing out offensive lines was just a current year phenomenon.
So when does Citizen Ropespierre get summoned to start head chopping?
As soon as Madame Guillotine is ready. Or Monsieur Guillotine. I’m not a biologist.
“It’s Ma’am!” -Guillotine
Two different titles if I remember correctly, with the later one being Ten Little Indians.
There’s a difference between the author deciding to change the title and some ideological hack shredding through the text wholesale.
Agreed, and changing a title of a novel doesn’t really bother me (as long as it’s still linked to the old title in references and the like). Changing the text of the story and saying it’s the same is another thing.
Changing the title is like re-releasing a kung-fu film with a different name in a shameless money grab.
Things are getting spicy in France
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1640594564275900417
Because of a slight reduction in free shit.
Lovely.
Maybe. I’ve heard the retirement age is a small part and that the riots are mainly about expensive energy and continuing to support from their politicians for the war in Ukraine. The media doesn’t want to show the latter, so they focus on the retirement age to drive division between us and the French people. Kind of like picking police shootings where it looks like a good cop shoot to encourage divisive race riots instead of focusing on egregious murders like Breanna Taylor that could actually unite the populace.
I don’t know but it makes sense. Could also just be what I want to hear though.
That wouldn’t be surprising at all.
Narrative is everything and western liberal democracies are very good at crafting narrative.
No it wouldn’t be surprising and yes, the media I have seen are only mentioning the pension thing.
“Narrative is everything and western liberal democracies are very good at crafting narrative.”
Like spreading the false idea that we are a “liberal democracy” for example.
The “Yellow Vests” were protesting for months about energy prices, stupid regulations and immigration. The current riots are probably about the same stuff plus Ukraine and the retirement age. It’s certainly convenient for the narrative to emphasize free shit and forget about everything else.
Macron is a WEF darling, correct?
This is correct, and I would not be surprised if the “retirement” angle was a smokescreen for more farmers protests.
The WEF is addicted to the US Fed’s zero-bound interest rate. They are going ape with the increased interest rates.
Now is not a time to lose one’s head.
Good luck putting the genie back in the bottle. Personnel is policy.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-times-fires-off-warning-to-staffers-after-trans-coverage-brouhaha
If you’re going to do anything, written warnings are step one.
We’ll see if they actually start canning repeat offenders; you just know those self-righteous children won’t heed a formal warning.
Canning or caning ? For the lack of an ‘n’ I got a butt whuppin’
Better than the preservative option there
Depends on how they respond to the pressure.
The NYT is pushing a conspiracy theory?
U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee announced she will be running for mayor of Houston on Monday, March 27.
The gravy train must continue into retirement.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake did not say exactly what drove the shooter to open fire Monday morning at The Covenant School before being killed by police. But he provided chilling examples of the shooter’s elaborate planning for the targeted attack, the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country that has grown increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools.
Luckily s/he was incompetent.
“We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident,” he told reporters. “We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.”
Probably a MAGAt.
Biden wants to continue bipartisan efforts like the Safer Communities Act and wants to pass common-sense gun safety laws, including a ban on “assault weapons,” Jean-Pierre said.
I saw an AR pattern 9mm carbine pictured. You trying to ban those?
“We can’t do this alone. The president can’t do this alone. That’s how government works. Congress needs to take legislative action,” Jean-Pierre said. “It is time to show some courage here. It is time for Republicans in Congress to show some courage and to answer to these parents, to these families.”
Sure, go ahead and violate your oaths and recent scotus decisions on the issue of guns.
It was a Kel-Tec, CNN. Not an AR pattern.
There was an AR pistol too.
That was a keltec 22 magnum pistol, holds a ton of rounds. Great plinking gun. Not a 9 mm. I recognize the grips under all that tape.
Looks like a sub2k to me. 9/40 cal.
Maybe. Here is the handle of the 22 WMR up close. Have you got a view of the one you mentioned?
https://images.gunsinternational.com/listings_sub/acc_739/gi_101081960/KEL-TEC-PMR30-22-WMR-USED-GUN-INV-205858_101081960_739_C9BCD0C0DC418061.jpg
https://twitter.com/MNPDNashville/status/1640521034594918400/photo/1
I found one.
https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/143023/979910912/wm_8948498.jpg
You are right, the handle curves at the butt.
I really doubt anyone’s going to put a stock and 16″ barrel on a PMR30. Also, the PMR doesn’t take Glock mags.
Well…other than KelTec…
https://www.keltecweapons.com/firearm/rifles/cmr30/
🙂
Visually I want that tubular stock in-line with the barrel.
Alas, I am not up-to-date on my Kel-Tec knowledge.
Me neither. I recognized that stock, I thought, but it was obscured with paint. This crowd source is the best crowd source.
I stand corrected. Only got a glimpse.
I saw an AR pattern 9mm carbine pictured. You trying to ban those?
Of course they are. Washington state is just about to do so along with ~90% of other firearms. The legislation is about to be signed into law and will be effective immediately.
…yes? Have you not been paying attention?
“Probably a MAGAt” – speaking of this, the red hat sh/he/whatever was wearing in the released video is NOT an accident.
Obvious creation of a story/memory via visual association. Nevermind the truth (ever, of course) – creating this pic in peoples’ minds is very deliberate.
And will pass totally unnoticed.
With apologies to Tulip and any of our other fairer-sex glibs who think I’m a misogynistic prick: Is there anything men aren’t better at than women? Even the autismo in Newtown racked up 28 kills.
(That’s a joke, FWIW)
Cunnilingus.
Biden wants to continue bipartisan efforts like the Safer Communities Act and wants to pass common-sense gun safety laws, including a ban on “assault weapons,” Jean-Pierre said.
The best way to bring the nation together is to demonize and subjugate anybody who disagrees with you. That’s DEMOCRACY! 101.
Unity, healing, etc.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s great! I’m making a sign right now and am going to stand/sit at the end of my driveway. If it worked for that guy, well, it may be that one little trick…
Thanks, Jimbo
Awesome! Thanks, Holiness – that’s a good one.
The New York Times has left no stone unturned in its quest to crack down on staffers who signed an open letter last month criticizing the paper’s trans coverage.
Formal complaint to the NLRB incoming?
We have a cat that loves to hang out around the hot tub when we’re in it. She walks along the edge and makes you pet her till she is soaking wet. She loves “people soup.”
So he’s a fed?
Ha!
Nah, just has a Perry Ellis tie in black and gold.
If she hit him from behind coming downhill, it’s absolutely her fault. People downhill always have the right-of-way.
The inverse is also true.
Teaching is a calling. And you definitely need to go to college for that. (AKA: Fuck you kids. Our union comes first)
I sort of hope that the union tries to defend this with the argument that “these wannabee teachers are bad teachers” and then get hit with “are you calling ‘educators of color’ inferior?”
If “teacher quality” is so incredibly important, why not make teachers “at will” employees. Seems to me that, if having only the best teaching is an imperative, it sure as hell makes sense to be able to terminate underperforming teachers. Credentials like this are, at best, a crude proxy for actual performance. Why no let employment be contingent on performance itself than a proxy?
It is important to increase teacher pay to attract the best people. Also all the people at current pay level are great and no one is underperforming.
Yeah, when AZ was on its way to approving a massive pay increase for teachers, my question just got blank stares:
“So, we are going to pay more to the same people to do the same thing. How is that going to have better results?”
MN is doing it’s best to drive people out of the state. One day all the people that know stuff will be gone off to places that want them.
OT. Last Wednesday I had surgery to repair a torn ACL and clean up other damage that I’d built up in the ~2 years I was running around on the damaged knee. Some takeaways from the past week:
1. Not being able to drive myself around is slightly maddening.
2. Cabin fever is a real thing.
3. Hydrocodone is a godsend.
Good luck with your recovery.
Cabin fever is 100% a real thing.
I was going insane after 8 weeks of being stuck on the couch last year.
I hope you have someone taking care of you, my wife was amazing, but it was still very difficult.
I always wondered how those old timers made it through a winter in North Dakota living in a sod cabin. Sure you probably knocked you wife up around December or so, but by February both of you would be so ripe that there would be no desire to keep humping.
My guess is that every spring there would be a bunch of empty sod cabins with a bunch of bodies buried out back somewhere. Some axe murderer just moved on after deciding to teach his family that sniffling will not be allowed!
Now do MN. We’ve been shut in for the winter but with youse guys/gals it’s a lot easier these days. The Missus has HSN/etc and the telephone. The Visiting Angels (OMWC and SS) helped a lot though.
So your ACL has been…reconstructed?
Hope you have as speedy a recovery as possible!
That’s the label on the tin. What really happened was that they took ACL bits from a couple of cadavers and grafted them in. Apparently the ACL doesn’t survive being ripped in two. And the doc said that for patients over 40, long term outcomes are the same, and healing time is reduced when using cadavers over a self-hosted donation.
Get well soon 🙂
You can still do biceps curls to stay in shape… That is what matters most.
I severed my ACL decades ago. Back then repair was open surgery so I opted to only repair the meniscus tear. Can they repair with arthroscopy now?
They can, in fact. The holes (or at least one of them) are bigger than when I had the MCL repaired in this knee ~30 years ago, but not having to have my knee laid open was definitely a bonus
Woot! I hope you heal quickly.
Didn’t qualify for a new knee?
Wouldn’t want one at this point, tbh. Those replacements last (from what I’ve heard) ~20 years. I plan on needing mine longer than that, so committing to another knee surgery @ 70 doesn’t sound like fun. Doc actually said if I was 65 and sedentary, that might be an option, but that given my age and desire to continue playing soccer, this is the best route.
If she hit him from behind coming downhill, it’s absolutely her fault. People downhill always have the right-of-way.
What are the chances they both had helmets and headphones on?
And/or that both were moving, somewhat blinded/oblivious, and just kinda merged into each other, and each therefore thought the other hit them from behind?
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Received. Odd. Seems to hit random people day to day. I am clear so far.
We don’t know why it happens or how to fix it.
If only some of the Glibs were some sort of technical experts…
(that’s a passive aggressive way of once again offering to take a look)
Thank you. I’ll bring that up to Swiss because our current webmistress is way busy.
It usually appears to be tied to some select words or quotes in the comment that’s trying to be posted. Updating the wording or paraphrasing the quote instead of using a pull quote has usually allowed me to post the comment.
So how do we kill the censor bot?
If I had an answer to that, I would provide it. I would posit, based on observation and error pattern that it’s probably something timing out when attempting to run the comment through the check for spam. But that is one step above a WAG.
My suspicion is that the issue is related to something in quoted text. Did you get the error after copy/pasting something from an article?
Just got to hear Steve Harvey complain about “conservative republicans beholding to the gun lobby” being the reason for the school shooting.
We need to make these guns illegal, no one needs an AR-15, NRA, yada, yada, yada.
I really can’t stand him.
Anyone want to wager Steve Harvey has a security detail?
Think his security detail is all white so they don’t get hassled when driving around nice neighborhoods at night?
AR-15
Well, maybe if you’re boring you could get away with one. You’ll need at least two of them if you’re going to go 2×4, and depending on which ruleset, you’ll need an additional one for PCCO/PCCI in the same SCSA match. So at least three. I’m assuming you’ll need a fourth one for irons/optic rifle categories, but I don’t shoot in those games… yet.
The Black Tape Project at Los Angeles Fashion Week Powered By Art Hearts Fashion March 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22jMrYD1Ik
Partisan pressure
Two of President Biden’s picks for top administration posts have withdrawn their nominations in the past month, both caving to Republican pressure campaigns while also failing to get enough support from enough moderate Democrats.
Phillip Washington, Biden’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), withdrew his nomination this week amid criticism that he doesn’t have enough experience in the area. And earlier this month, Gigi Sohn, Biden’s pick to serve as the top telecommunications regulator for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), withdrew her name after facing months of controversy.
Both have served as blows to the president, as the FAA has been struggling with high-profile mishaps and the FCC lacks a regulator to help push through Biden’s internet agenda.
The politically charged environment going into the 2024 election cycle, coupled with the Democrats’ narrow majority in the Senate, has also put Biden’s picks under increased pressure.
“The withdrawals, in my view, stem from a combination of factors — a very tight Democratic majority so that almost every vote counts, absences of key Democratic senators due to health, and persistent and effective Republican attacks,” said Anne Joseph O’Connell, a federal bureaucracy expert at the Stanford Law School.
Persistent and effective Republican attacks, like “This nominee sucks. Try again.”
Unfortunately, the Republicans haven’t been nearly effective enough.
Needs more luggage stealing trannies with canine fetishes.
That whatever is a snapshot of the culmination of Biden’s presidency. I just feel like that even if your main goal is to make sure that the first whatever in X office happens so you can be the president that makes history, he still could have done a better job. Surely there are a batter sort of freak than the freaks he’s chosen.
I mean, the best team you could find was a luggage stealing weirdo?
but MANDATE!
I’m sure the luggage thief freakshow had been on some man dates.
if Gerry were were a politician, he’d definitely have a MAN-date…
Don’t Dems have a majority in the Senate? There must be a defector or two if they can’t get their nominees confirmed.
If Republicans weren’t such obstructionists Democrats could afford a few defections.
And let’s just elide the reasons as to why moderate Dems aren’t on board.
I’m playing chicken today with the alligator arm people on my team. I am refusing to look into our VPN issues. That isn’t my job and I will not be sucked into figuring it out.
Too many times I have relented and missed finishing my own tasks because I help figure out what part of our crappy infrastructure is broken. Worse, is after it is done, several of them will start nit picking on the solution. “Yeah it works now, but remember years divisible by 500 don’t honor Leap Day so in 2500 this will break” FUCK YOU. You fix it.
I will also not tell anyone to work on it. My boss will actually have to manage today. Let him assign this shit to someone. And if he tries his usual “Let’s all get on a video call and figure it out together” solution, I will not join.
Sorry, but this has gotten ridiculous.
I wonder how much testosterone that loon in Nashville was hopped up on? Roid rage is real.
Good point
I’ve actually been wondering when we would see something like this. Our culture has been encouraging mental illness and prescribing large numbers of women high doses of anabolic steroids while encouraging a victim complex. It’s a recipe for one of these.
Toxic masculinity strikes again?
everything about birthing culture is wrong.
babies should be had at home in beds and baths, not fluorescent hospital rooms.
the process should be organic, unmediated by chemical or surgical help and unassociated with the dread and pain it often is today.\
https://twitter.com/jane_gatsby/status/1640504561231187970
never mind that childbirth used to kill lots of women
and babies
My chiropractor had his kids delivered at home because he is a nut like this. Two kids were fine but then they lost a kid during the delivery. I’m not sure about the details and I don’t want to pry. I just know the kid died.
I always wonder how much it weighs on him and his wife about having that kid at home and not a hospital. Maybe there was nothing that could be done. But if it was me, I’d always wonder if being in a hospital might have saved the baby.
Used to?
You should see the current first-world mortality rates.
Also, being 104F 8 days postpartum gets you fast-tracked through the ER on turbospeed. Ask me how I know.
how do you know?
Summary: I was 8 days postpartum with a 104F fever, called the doc, and got fast-tracked thru the ER at turbospeed. I’d lost a lot of blood during delivery (hemoglobin of 5—fuckers wanted me out at the 47-hour mark so they didn’t transfuse me). It took me 18 months to recover from that birth.
Well – let’s not mention that even first world countries have different definition of what counts for viable preterm birth.
It’s a nice way to play with mortality rates.
I thought about that as soon as I hit POST.
Also in the US if you remove addiction and women that essentially actively choose no prenatal care it also will also noticeably change the statistics.
Not suggesting that those aren’t issues to be looked at, but women of all income groups can get prenatal care if they wish as well as help with addiction.
There’s a whole lot of stuff that goes into that data, but shit happens to even healthy women. My delivery team in a high-end hospital and brand new maternity wing was … suboptimal.
Agree with you mojo.
I actually am pro home birth, or at least midwife mediated births. If the pregnancy is low risk you do not need a surgeon (obgyn) attending.
I’ve heard horror stories on all sides- home birth people waiting too long to go to the hospital as well as people being told to hold their baby in until the doctor arrives at the hospital (can’t bill it if you don’t appear) which ended up causing all sorts of medical issues for the mother when the birth would have gone just fine without an MD supervising. Way too many people are going under the knife without proper aftercare.
Maybe if it wasn’t the norm to waste hospital space having every single woman who gives birth show up there would be more time and resources to great actually injured people like in mojo’s case.
My old hospital ran a nurse midwife program and had on-site OB/GYNs 24/7. It also has a high volume/high risk delivery program.
Many of our “bad babies” came from the nurse midwives waiting too long to call in a physician on a case that was either higher risk than they should have tried, or went bad partway through.
So, YMMV. The trick with deliveries is, once they go sideways, you have minutes to get the baby out without permanent damage. Minutes that you can’t spend getting to a hospital. I, of course, am biased on this topic, but I also have some experience with it.
My guess is that every spring there would be a bunch of empty sod cabins with a bunch of bodies buried out back somewhere. Some axe murderer just moved on after deciding to teach his family that sniffling will not be allowed!
I read a book a long time ago about “life on the plains” which referred to such phenomena. A mother killing her children and herself, for instance. “Old Jules” by Mari Sandoz. She also wrote an excellent fictionalized biography of Crazy Horse.
In which Gutfeld runs down a list of Babylon Bee headlines that came true.
https://youtu.be/IH9OtrpmdAA
Yes, they are actually beyond parody
Good morning, Sloop!
Glad you had fun at the track! The pic of all the Porsches was cool.
That Taibbi story is outrageous. Fucking monsters. And yet, half the country thinks it’s fine. The next step will come via the banks – just shut off access for dissenters.
That shit agitates me.
Nice song choices. The Smiths (and Morrissey) were a band that I hated at the time, but have grown over the years to really like.
Y’all have bands like that?
The Smiths and Joy Division. I am still not a huge fan of The Cure, but all of these bands were popular among an adjacent crowd to mine in high school, so I think a lot of it was “punk is so much more cool than that stuff” type bullshit. What makes me sad though are people who only listen to the same music that they listened too when young, and haven’t explored what else is out there.
babies should be had at home in beds and baths, not fluorescent hospital rooms.
Nonsense. They should be had in the field, with minimal disruption of the work at hand.
Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,200 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’ 🍺, ‘stung by a scorpion’ 🦂, and ‘embalming brother’
https://twitter.com/AlisonFisk/status/1640285517559341057
“Plague of frogs”
This one was good:
Perfect.
Two early mansion blocks, Whitehall Court and Hyde Park Court, designed by the forgotten Thomas Archer and Arthur Green. Existence proofs that 10+ storeys and 85%+ plot coverage can be consistent with London character, enormous popularity, and harmony with the street.
https://twitter.com/SCP_Hughes/status/1640673372534185984
INSIDE a $21,000,000 Modern Colorado Mountainside Oasis | MEGA MANSION TOUR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BnOV5Njq2s
Vail…so probably a million dollar home anywhere else.
Really Rolex?
Rolex stuns with ’emoji’ watch debut
How to destroy your brand in three easy steps.
That’s what I thought.
OTH, I remember decades ago when Coach went from expensive staple to fashion brand and I thought it was going to blow up spectacularly. I was wrong.
Here we have things with significant secondary markets. If you blow that up you are also going to blow up demand for new.
Ick? Given my taste I imagine they will sell thousands and it will be a collectors’ item.
If the dull-ass ceramic Pepsi bezel GMT didn’t do it…
Who needs an AR? This guy needed an AR (or an inferior AK if that’s all he could get). Longish but interesting read that came from a link from a link that Tundra posted yesterday. This guy lived through a SHTF scenario and gives a detailed description of what happens when a society completely falls apart.
https://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/a-survival-q-a-living-through-shtf-in-the-middle-of-a-war-zone
Good read.
Good call, an inferior AK is still better than an AR and don’t even get me started on the better ones.
The Bank of England’s gargantuan money-printing scam is to blame for rampant inflation. Rather than resigning in disgrace, the bosses of this failing institution seem to be blaming everything else.
https://twitter.com/RichardWellings/status/1640646777354215425
Remember when Nancy Pelosi called inflation a “global phenomenon”.
If all the world is printing money and following the same stupid policies, that’s how it becomes global.
While Washington’s nomination has been in limbo since it was announced in July, the FAA’s issues dealing with an alarming uptick in close calls at U.S. airports — including a national flight grounding in January due to a technical outage — have largely fallen to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, another favorite target of the GOP.
Maybe those Republicans finally learned their lesson about rubber stamping Biden’s dim-bulb political spoils nominees.
Sitting here having bfast in a hospital cafeteria (best.food.evar) awaiting my husband’s gallbladder to be extricated from
herHIS person. I somehow managed to flick sausage gravy in my eye.Yo, that’s a slow pitch right over home plate.
I aim to please.
Again…
Or, somebody aimed.
From personal experience, it isn’t much fun as the person losing the gallbladder either.
Oh, him? He’ll be fine. We are old hats at this surgery biz.
For me, mine was easier than when my wife had to get hers done.
I get nervous about her stuff but am very unconcerned with my own.
Dr. was amazed that I ate a large sandwich on the way home from my surgery. (I was HANGRY)
My experience was unusually unpleasant. Most people can just have a same-day outpatient procedure if they catch it ahead of time.
I was an unscheduled patient. Went to Urgent Care with abdominal pains, CT scan showed a 16cm long gall bladder with stones up to 3cm. (apparently the acide reflux for the past ten years had been gall bladder related but nobody figured it out) Got sent to the hospital.
Overnight that first night it hurt to breathe and I had to consciously control which muscles I used to operate my lungs to minimize it. Kept waiting through the next day to find out when a surgical time would be available. Finally got sent to the OR for a 5pm operation because the surgeon decided to stay after the end of her normal shift just before vacation to deal with it.
Largest gall bladder she had ever extracted (of an estimated 4500 or so since she’s being at it for a while) meaning in addition to the normal larposcopic incisions, there was a two inch long additional one at the base of the rib case to get the darn thing out (even inflamed ones fit through smaller cuts)
Post surgical pain they finally gave me morphine for. Got snippets of sleep when they deigned to give a booster dose that second night. Since I live alone I ended up asking my boss for a ride home, and all the while I fretted over the day to day logistics of the recovery weeks.
0/10 would not do again.
I remember you posting about that, much worse than either me or my wife had to deal with, she was a little longer to recover than me, but not unusually so.
awaiting my husband’s gallbladder to be extricated from her person.
These new pronoun rules are so galling.
Oh shit.
HIS* gallbladder.
I’m guessing you had a long night and/or a rude awakening.
Rude awakening. I NEVER get up at the ass crack of dawn (which is to say, 7:00 a.m.).
Is there something else you haven’t told us about your hubby?? 😕
Hope… your husband is resting comfortably soon and recovers ASAP!
I COULD change it and make you all look effing nuts, yanno.
Check your editing privilege! 😉
I did, I did!
Had mine out a few years back.
New opioid restrictions meant I did not get anything stronger than acetomenophen.
I spent the night in considerable pain, and they wouldn’t give me anything more until the doctor saw me in the morning.
Anesthesiologist told me that a year earlier he would have put me on a morphine drip. Prosecutions of pill mill doctors and new guidelines meant he was worried about jail time, not just a review board.
It was only about a day or so of “more than it should be” pain, and when I went home I retrieved some old codeine to sleep that night.
Moral of the story:. Be ready to advocate for better pain management if he needs it.
When my kids were born our birthing class nurse practitioner coach assigned me the task of going and finding the anesthesiologist myself and escorting him to the room when it is time for any pain medication or epidural. She said they often arrive too late and then you have to go drug free or be out under for Cesarean. And I indeed did have to physically go get him the first pregnancy (turned out to be a Cesarean).
“New opioid restrictions meant I did not get anything stronger than acetomenophen.”
Fuck that noise. The problem is illegal fentanyl.
The illegal fentanyl market exploded when the people hooked on the opioids were cut off by their docs/law.
Docs who questioned the massive push to prescribe opioids in the 90’s were threatened much like the docs of the last few years who questioned the covid jabs.
As ever, the cleanup of the mess takes a lot longer than it took to create the mess. And while the cleanup goes on, new fads begin that create another mess elsewhere.
“The illegal fentanyl market exploded when the people hooked on the opioids were cut off by their docs/law.”
That is not what happened.
“Docs who questioned the massive push to prescribe opioids in the 90’s were threatened much like the docs of the last few years who questioned the covid jabs.”
There wasn’t a massive push to prescribe opioids in the 90’s. In the 80’s, doctors were handing out benzos and pain meds like candy. And nothing else happened.
What happened in the ‘90s (I think, could have been a little later) was a change from “opioids are only for acute pain” to “prescribe opioids for chronic pain”. This shift was based on, wait for it, crap “science” from pharma. The gargantuan profits from the opioid industry followed this change in opioid prescribing.
I couldn’t really say what the right way to manage chronic pain is, but I’ve had a good look at some of the internal pharma documents and marketing campaigns around opioids for chronic pain. And they are as bad as you think.
You *would* want to make other women look effing nuts, wouldn’t you?
I see we missed the word “all.” I should have said “all y’all”?
Hope all goes well for Mr. Mojeaux and you.
Thanks. He hates “Mr Mojeaux,” so I need to get out of that habit. I call him Dude everywhere else on the web.
Mr Mojeaux sounds way better, unless he drinks white russians all day.
He doesn’t like riding my moniker like that. Erases who he is.
yes. This is why I don’t refer to the wife as Mrs. kinnath.
There’s no way of putting this without sounding like an asshole, but this is some real autistic postmodernist shit, IMO. That you married somebody, share a name, and became a conjoined unit doesn’t rob you of your individuality, unless you were forced into an arranged marriage. That’s the entire point.
My wife never objected to being called Mrs “Last name goes here”. But she always objected to being called Mrs “my first name”.
I guess I can understand the logic – it’s a bit different for the womenfolk too. It just seems like such a trivial thing of which to make an issue. I’ve seen people get pissed off about a spouse being referred to as the other’s “better half” as well. At a certain point you’re into “lighten up, Francis” territory. Then again, maybe this is why I’m terminally single.
My husband doesn’t like it and has requested I stop. That’s all I need to know. Dissecting the reason and veering into philosophy is interesting, but it means nothing. He doesn’t like it. I don’t do things he doesn’t like.
There needn’t be a deeper reason.
I have a set of names I am willing to be referred to by. When people uses a different one, I get annoyed. So “I don’t like being called that” is all there need be.
OK, Glove Boy.
Sir JoMeaux!
Obligatory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=42jlK_L8heM
The Dude Abides.
“awaiting my husband’s gallbladder to be extricated from her person”
*rubs eyes, squints*
I feel like I’m missing some context, here.
She has her husband’s fall bladder in her pocketbook just like she has his balls in her pocketbook.
Gall bladder, lousy autocorrect.
Yanno, most of the time I don’t know whether you’re joking and I don’t get it, or you’re poking at me moreor less maliciously. I always take it as you’re telling jokes that don’t land with me because I’m dense,
This time, no.
Fuck you.
Yeah, not every old joke needs to be recycled at the slightest pretext.
“awaiting my husband’s gallbladder to be extricated from her person. ”
Is he suffering other health issues related to gender dysphoria?
Hope it goes well.
Okay, everyone else and their mother picked up on this too.
I found it especially funny because my work had my wife down as a male and that messed up our insurance coverage.
Front page headline:
“TRANS SHOOTER TAKE DOWN”
“‘Stop moving… hands away from the gun’: Cops release six minutes of confronting bodycam footage revealing the moment they took out Nashville mass shooter who killed six”
“Moment brave cop takes down Nashville school shooter with precision shots before colleague finishes her off on the floor: Cops release six minutes of hellish bodycam footage”
“Hale was born female but had recently begun using he/him pronouns and the name ‘Aiden'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11911549/Cops-release-six-minutes-bodycam-footage-Nashville-school-shooting.html
“‘I’m planning to die today… you’ll probably hear about me on the news’: Trans school shooter Audrey Hale’s final messages to a friend before she shot six people – including three kids in private Christian school”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11911021/Trans-school-shooters-final-messages-revealed.html
Seems a bit odd the Daily Mail is calling the shooter “she”, when they were calling Demi Lavato “they”.
Once you start killing people, your “trans-ness” is nullified I guess. Otherwise misgendering someone is worse than the Holocaust.
Wasn’t the Springs shooter a tranny, or non-binary or some such absurdity?
Also, I didn’t read your review until this morning, but it is excellent. Thanks for writing it up.
“Wasn’t the Springs shooter a tranny, or non-binary or some such absurdity?”
Turns out that was bullshit.
Not according to NPR
Somehow that’s morphed into Neo-Nazi, but whatever.
Particularly egregious and intentional at CNN and MSNBC where they have spittle flicking from their lip as they rant about deadnaming and misgendering… Yet they both had the social media profile with updated pronouns and name early in the evening, yet continued with the misgender, deadname and wrong pronouns.
If this was Canada. They would be guilty of a hate crime.
Even more odd, if they went with masculine name and pronouns, it would make the killer a white man. Which is what they want.
Great observation.
I thought “Trans Men are Men”.
Guess not. At least not until some moveon think-tank tells them how to spin it.
Probably the same way they handled the red SUV that drove down an active parade route.
Really Rolex?
Sometimes your seven year old needs a really really special present.
Maybe it’s me, but I honestly never saw the point to a $10k watch. It always had a hint of “Look at me! I’m successful!” to it. So, the goofy emoji watch really doesn’t seem that out-of-place. I went to college at a school with a lot of guys with old family money (I was a scholarship student). One of the things I picked up is that the old money buys quality and keeps it for generations. And if you’ve got the money, and you’ve always had the money, you don’t need to advertise it.
It’s like any piece of ornamentation or social signaling.
Suit, tie, shoes… You could move to automobiles next.
That said for me what makes high end watches attractive is they are generally rather reserved and timeless. That goes to your point above about buying quality and keeping it. In the case of a watches for a lifetime or generations. I’m currently wearing a mechanical Omega Seamaster I bought roughly 30 years ago.
Others and I have mentioned if you properly buy a second hand Rolex you will never lose money. Unless Rolex destroys their secondary market with gimmicks like this…
mechanical Omega Seamaster
Pricey. But, that is a very nice watch. I’d say it makes a statement by not making a statement. And like you said, you’ve had it for the last 30 years. But, when they start making stuff that is going to be popular for a few seasons, that tells me something about quality.
Patek has been using the slogan “You never really own a Patek Phillipe, you merely take care of it for the next generation” for many, many years now.
Rolex is the prototypical (don’t kill me for this terminology, but there’s not really a more polite euphemism) “nigger rich” bit of wrist bling. 80% of the time they’re fake, and the 20% of the time when they’re not, 50% of the time they’re on the wrist of somebody who knows absolutely fuck all about watches and only a little about brand names. I say this as someone who would be tempted to jump on a deal whereby I had to kill an infant for a vintage GMT Master.
brave cop takes down Nashville school shooter with precision shots before colleague finishes her off on the floor
Que?
I caught that too.
Watch video. Extremely intense.
Cops are fired on as they arrive at what appears to be the library. They pushed in blind and under fire and the cop with an AR takes her down at distance. She is behind some chairs and still holding the gun. 2 guys with handguns rapidly advance and fire repeatedly.
Second guessing will probably ensue… But if you shot up my church and were shooting at me, I would not stop to negotiate after every shot fired.
Watch video
Can’t/Won’t watch shootings online.
I expect the police were actually justified in this case with every round that was fired.
I respect them for doing what they were hired to do and going in under fire.
But the quote in the paper is off-putting, and that is the fault of the news agency that wrote it.
Taking it even further… A British paper that is a rank tabloid has the most objective US news coverage… And that is the best they could do.
“still holding the gun”
Then the anchor shots were justified.
Agreed.
Did she identify as a dog?
Glad they didn’t wait outside like some cowards in Texas.
Hats off to them.
Absolutely. I watched the video and it looked like they did a terrific job.
Titty Tuesday will solve this quandary!
https://archive.is/Gww0b
Same shit, different century.
We’re never gonna be rid of neocons.
It was called a “Roman Peace” for a reason.
Have you listened to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History?
He has a series on Caeser’s war with the Guals and the fall of the Roman Republic that deal with what the quote is talking about.
I relisten to them occasionally, they do have some parallels with what we are seeing now.
Luckily, we are not at the “every bigtime politician has their own army” stage yet.
I went to college at a school with a lot of guys with old family money (I was a scholarship student). One of the things I picked up is that the old money buys quality and keeps it for generations. And if you’ve got the money, and you’ve always had the money, you don’t need to advertise it.
I had a similar experience. There were people who had nice things, unquestionably of high quality, but not flashy or ostentatious. The kids with money were pretty low key.
Jesus Christ. Ready for Patriot Act 2.0?
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1640729098745171969
This is gonna pass effortlessly. So fucked up.
More good news.
https://www.cbtnews.com/auto-industry-scrambles-to-develop-mandated-alcohol-detection-tech/
“Stakeholders” is the giveaway that lets you know how hard you’re gonna be fucked.
And once that rolls out, how long until a workaround hits YouTube?
Real alcoholics generally don’t get DUIs. They’ve learned how to drive drunk under the radar.
Not saying that’s an absolute however.
I’d be more worried about malfunction. False positives, or simply a bad sensor.
Time to withdraw from the Internet. I lived a long time without it. I can go back.
Oh it can be repealed. Saying nyaahh nyaah in the bill and passing it does not make it constitutional. God help us all for now though.
The extreme partisanship and propaganda has had an odd result. Nobody even bothers debating bills anymore. They don’t even bother reading them.
This started with the budget and emergency spending bills at the national level… But it is pervasive now. Florida is seemingly passing bills the same day they write them. Even when they are good laws (like the new school choice here in Florida), I would really prefer that they make informed decisions.
If it does pass, hopefully that part will piss of the judiciary, and they won’t waste any time in putting it down.
I think this is 3.0
It doesn’t even ban Tik Tok.
I told someone right after 9/11 that the US was dead. Welcome to the police state that will follow.
First tyranny comes slowly; then suddenly.
TSA == terrorists won
DHS, but yeah.
If the things I’ve heard are at all accurate, there should be rioting in the streets.
I’ll bet fewer than 1 percent of the population even knows this is going on.
My seventeen year old told me about it yesterday and he was pretty outraged, so at least some of the youts are catching on. But I’m sure the vast majority of people still think it’s about tik tok and China.
Allow me the rare opportunity to play the optimist:
Perhaps this will force a course-correction towards the adoption of secure, decentralized services and finally fix what the normies broke when Steve Jobs made it possible for retards too stupid to use computers to access the internet.
I have no optimism.
I am beyond black-pilled at this point.
I can only see the mindset behind Soviet Union given complete access to modern data tracking and surveillance technologies.
We are so fucked.
Ayup.
It’s optimism in a cynical context, I guess you’d say. By forcing 3 generations of imbeciles out of the walled garden that the internet and worldwide web have become, it may accelerate adoption of the kind of alternative technology that privacy schizos such as this guy have been advocating for at least a decade and a half. I wouldn’t be the least bit perturbed if every centralized social media and e-commerce site disappeared off the face of the earth tomorrow and the people unable to make the transition to better alternatives just never returned to my glorious sekret club.
Jesus Christ. Ready for Patriot Act 2.0?
Cannot be reviewed or repealed.
Land of the free.
Home of the brave.
More accurately, when actors of the deep state review the actions of the puppets of the deep state, they find no fault.
Do not expect any standup judges.
“To be honest, I think it took everyone by surprise that this legislation appeared, not just at our company but at all the OEMs and Tier 1’s. It’s an idea that has previously been proposed. However, everyone assumed that Europe would be the first to impose it. Mothers Against Drunk Driving worked with the auto industry for years, which is essentially how it came about in the U.S.,” added Franchy.
Something something we have to pass it to find out what’s in it.
“Burger King will close 26 outlets and lay off 400 employees next month: So will your local be closing?
The closures will mostly affects stores in Detroit, but also Dearborn Heights, Ecorse, Ferndale, Flint, Highland Park, Livonia, Royal Oak, Southfield, Walled Lake, Warren and Whitmore Lake…..
In a letter to the state Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, EYM King of Michigan LLC said they had failed to reached an agreement with Burger King Corp…
Foot Locker said last Tuesday it would close 420 stores across the United States over the next three years as part of a cost-saving exercise that will ‘allow the company to introduce new store concepts’ and boost revenues by $1bn.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11910563/Burger-King-close-26-outlets-lay-400-employees-month-local-closing.html
Can’t have shit in Detroit
Not that I particularly give a shit about any of the back and forth about the Nashville shooter’s gender identity issues, but when I saw her photo in an article, I would have said it was a 14 or 15 year old boy. Is that a current photo? I was surprised to see “28(?) year old woman”.