Yeah, it’s that day.
All I will say is how happy I am that prep is down to only half a gallon.
Links anybody?
Aaron Rodgers has retired from professional football and is now playing for the Jets.
This is right out of a ’30s sci-fi novel.
Pull the other one. Unless it’s the seed oils.
It does make for a nice, clean look. They would have been better off to cut their losses.
No worries, it will soon be replaced by a federal digital currency.
Later Glibs. Here’s the original for comparison. I still don’t hear it.
“It does make for a nice, clean look. They would have been better off to cut their losses.”
Sooner or later, they do decide it is better to just shut down and cut your losses, yes.
I say go for credit card activated vending machines!
How soon until those are stolen and/or vandalized?
“No worries, it will soon be replaced by a federal digital currency.”
Getting a database of gun owners so they can confiscate that is proving to be too hard even in today’s fascist government, but they have a workaround. Having everyone on a state sponsored crypto currency and getting rid of cash solves the big problems of forcing people that won’t comply into non-personhood. And it allows you to stop people from buying ammo for their guns too unless they are approved.
Find your local VFS swap meet, make friends, and figure out what you have of value to barter.
I have goldbacks, 1/10th oz gold coins, and silver, plus the ability and tools to repair electronics.
^^^THIS^^^
If you are smart you are planning for when they try to go to their system so they can control you.
Yep, I have the ability to reload in several calibers, and can build precision rifles from parts. Our son and I are thinking of getting our Type 07 FFL and the Class 3 SOT for good measure. If it goes well, manual and CNC mills and lathes in the plans.
I just have a shitload of ammo.
“Aaron Rodgers has retired from professional football and is now playing for the Jets.”
Farve 2.0?
Fuck, so he’ll be here in Purple next year?
Fuck fuck… my brain jumped to PPP full on declaring the Imperial Presidency for some reason with that. “Mega MAGA Republicans seek to deny me the Purple.”
“Pull the other one.”
Best stress relief is…
Damn. Shouldn’t go there on a family friendly site…
“Pull the other one. Unless it’s the seed oils.”
Food has never made me depressed. Especially fried foods. A lot of stuff is not edible unless fried.
Realizing the people with power tend to be the biggest fucking credentialed idiots every and that they are hell bent on stealing everything they can while stomping their boots on the faces of the people they hate, that does. Nothing makes me more depressed.
Fried foods cause depression when you can’t get your next fix.
I’m thinking people eat fried foods as comfort foods, so that means they need more comfort, hence tend more to depression (?).
Looking for the downside
back alley mutilations?
Wasn’t it Thailand and Sweden that used to be the world leaders in sex-reassignment surgeries?
I was told there was a YUGE market for lady-boys and for women with beards, brah.
Brazil, maybe?
Nope, almost all Brazilian MTF are non-op. Lots of boob jobs and butt implants though.
I am not going to ask you how you know this.
Aaron Rodgers has retired from professional football and is now playing for the Jets.
Stealing headlines I see.
I am not a huge fan of copyright in general, but it should always end with the author’s death. This “the estate” thing is bullshit.
I’m amenable to a short time to the estate if the author/originator dies unexpectedly early on (say a 20-something hit by a bus… should provide for his family for a few years instead of suddenly being cut off). Fixed time, not hard tied to death (the original 7 years seems enough) — if you tie to death, then you can’t transfer to corporations that technically don’t die.
Fixed term of somewhere less than an average career length is my reasonable duration. I’m up for negotiation on the exact time.
Also, corporations can’t own copyrights.
Given how the major publishers are raping the original texts these days, I’m moving in the direction of being more supportive of long copyright.
The Roald Dahl bowdlerization was being done with the full support of his heirs, the copyright holders.
This seems silly to me without copyright there would be plenty to satisfy demand for the original product
Goddamn it I just got set a meeting from 17:30to 22:00… Those aint workin hours
Depends on your type of work, doesn’t it?
I blame you fuckers. The time is so that Americans can also join.
Eastern Time is the only real time.
Not sure but I think some of them are in Lexington, Kentucky whatever time that is
Central, I think. The Eastern/Central line is around the Appalachians, iirc.
Much of eastern Kentucky is in Eastern Time.
Dammit, Rat… I’m not going to care enough to look it up! 😉
Oh, goddamit… I suppose I am. And of course, you’re right… I did think the line bent east a bit from the GA/AL line where I normally worry about it…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Kentucky
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/@4297983
if anyone else starts to care or you just want to look there, Pie.
I get tripped up on time for the western tip of Florida – I just assumed it was Eastern.
Lexington is definitely Eastern.
I’m on the bleeding edge of eastern time and roughly 100 miles west of Lexington.
Tulsa Time – Don Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bHVYvRMm9Q
08:58
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 (EDT)
Time in Lexington, KY, USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY
I also think there are some Californians to account for the late hour
I just gave up trying to schedule meetings with co-workers in California, Boston & India simultaneously. Two meetings it is.
we also have India in the meeting, but if it was only India and Europe could have been early which suits me. It is probably a lot worse for the Indians than me
I’m in Eastern but most of my project is in Mountain. It makes for some late meetings. It’s not as bad as when I worked with people in Japan.
When I was in California, I worked with teams in Finland and Shanghai.
That sucked a little.
Whistling Col Bogey March does get old after a while.
Eastern Time.
Most of our online meetings are set to Eastern. Getting to work at 3am for a “9 o’clock” meeting sucks.
I understand; the sun probably hasn’t set yet.
Will there be a decision made during the meeting that requires your input? Are there tasks you will be given during the meeting? If not, decline.
It is a workshop in which people will be talking about the general state of some topics and a bunch of people who are generally concerned are asked to join. In general I does not look good to skip
whaddup doh’
That’s how it all starts, Spud. First the voluntary week end stints, then an occasional fill-in spot. After awhile it’s “We can give this to Spud, he’s a good guy and besides he needs something to do”
/Remembers Days Long Ago in the Army
The Army just voluntold people when I was in.
Same, but it seems the more competent one is, the more voluntold you got.
most organizations have more ways to punish competence than to reward it
Yes. The competent get loaded with tasks until they become incompetent.
Human nature, I think — the next level higher in the organization is looking for someone who’ll actually get something done. When you show you get something done — they’re more likely to want you to keep it up. The incompetent they avoid for anything important.
Competence is a career limiter.
Boss 1: We can promote one person this year. Should it be John or Bob?
Boss 2: It has to be John. Bob does the TPS reports every week. He never forgets the cover sheet either.
When you find a flunky who can do a shitty job well, you don’t do something stupid like promote them.
Gervais Principle.
So fuck up and move up then. Works in politics too.
I lucked out getting voluntold to be unit armorer early. Every commander wanted 100% go on inspections so they stopped voluntelling me to do things.
Spud’s going to watch out for those tricks though — he’s got his eyes on you.
Is there a full out assault on people that have bucked their attempt to program the lemmings by the deep state? Because we keep seeing I keep seeing this whore that sings dystopian authoritarian excusing songs pop up all over the place whenever the machine tries to cancel someone they have labeled as disruptive to their evil shit
As the next election cycle begins, it’s a full-on assault and the First Amendment.
Informed people might not go along with the deep state’s choices for them…
I just so wish that I got to have a real instead of virtual encounter with someone insisting they know what is best for me, moreso than myself. I would get a wonderful stress relief and they would get a meaningful lesson (and a bloody nose).
The plea deal to a misdemeanor assault charge and a thousand hours community service comes later.
Fighting words!
Amazing how Hersh has gone from hero to villain by not changing at all. Just shows how deeply embedded the MSM has become with the establishment.
There’s no daylight between them anymore. The relationship has become so symbiotically parasitic that it’s impossible to separate one without killing both.
Interesting that they didn’t even bother cooking up a response to the embezzlement story, unlike the ridiculous fabrication they came up with for the NordStream story.
“Shut-up peasant!” seems to work just fine now. Why even bother lying?
Good point, lying would mean they care what we think.
They got tired of the inevitable “Did you see ‘im repressing me? You saw it didn’t you!” after their “Bloody peasants!”.
the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built
Tribute.
Was it Don Lemon’s idiotic exchange with Vivek that finally gave the CNN propagandists the reason they needed to encourage Don to pursue his new career following Stelter’s steps.
In a sane world that would be a great reason. But Vivek is a conservative so CNN could give a rat’s ass what Lemon says to him. Lemon must have insulted somebody CNN cares about.
Stopped clock.
But so problematic.
If women wanted to make as much money, why don’t they simply identify as men and then go play for the men’s team?
I was actually in your neck of the woods in Minneapolis a couple of years back your holiness when a bunch of ladies of a particular persuasion showed indignation with the compensation of the ladies soccer team not matching that of the males. I remember they all got furious at me, including my girl, because I asked how many of them were attending games and buying fan merch, and pointed out that unlike with government socialism, the team’s ability to make money from fandom drove how much money was available to pay them.
to many women seem to want to make the argument that it shouldn’t be your skills & marketability that defines your earnings, but arbitrary shit.
Our lesbians put there money where their mouth is
We get tireless updates on this team because it is “proof” that a) everyone loves soccer and b) women’s soccer is the best.
What you did there is seen.
Women’s soccer would earn more than men’s soccer if women supported women’s soccer.
I think he was just past his prime.
So did the Bee.
They would have been better off to cut their losses.
That would be a better target.
Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon should team up to make an across the isle show
Only if Tucker wears a bow tie.
That would be just strait up wrong, Pie.
Marooned?
Does it count as a really bad pun if it contains images?
https://twitter.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1650465889358315521
YES.
*narrows gaze*
Oh, I donut know about that.
He said gaze, not glaze.
Look out, he’s gonna get frosted.
Well that sure as hell wasn’t a good pun in any sense of the word…
Yeah, he definitely wasn’t on a roll with that one
Yes, rather half-baked if you ask me.
That’s why a baker can’t quit his day job and go into comedy. He kneads the dough.
Can he at yeast make his mortgage and car payments?
He batter or his credit-score won’t rise.
Musk should have had special bleachers for the press, right up front.
I was thinking the press can sit right under it.
Credit spread on German Bund / US Treasury is falling like a lead balloon this week.
Blackrock is in deep shit. Expect the push to make them a systemically important financial institution to ramp up. They soaked up trillions of pension funds and invested them in bloated assets like the German Bund when it was at -0.8% yield. The bubble is absolutely massive.
The pressure on the Fed to pivot is going to reach hair on fire levels.
I can only pray that Powell keeps his resolve. I wouldn’t mind kicking some dirty, slushy snow in the face of a Blackrock executive as they beg me for change on a windy street corner.
The issue is all of the pensioners that they fucked. Fink is going to use that as leverage to force a pivot.
It’s almost as if the entire strategy was designed to create a crisis.
And I’d rather see Fink on the gallows.
*Posts Robespierre “Soon” GIF*
The states that passed laws banning DEI/Green bullshit investment directives for their pension funds suddenly look like they really were the good guy after your usual media attacks were made on them for being racist, misogynist, homo & trans phobic, and not caring about Gaia…
Absolutely. Blackrock’s scam is predicated on interest rates forever at the zero bound.
Was it the Blackrock CEO that told people during an interview how impressed & envious of he was with the Chinese system because markets wanted stability (and nothing says stability like a state controlled ability to lie about things and to crush any dissent from those calling you on those lies)?
We really have evil inept fucks in charge of things.
Well they were already fucked, Blackrock just fucked them harder and gave them AIDS.
Solve your ponzi failure by getting in on the ground floor of a new ponzi. Been the U.S. financial “plan” for decades.
Yep. Blackrock is socializing their losses across the globe by loading them into already failing pension funds.. There’s a reason the French rioters burned down their offices in Paris.
Maybe they’ll relocate to Thailand.
Step up, prep up!
Thanks to medication I can still hook up with strangers.
Fuck me, it’s gd snowing outside right now!
No it’s not, I just looked out the window to double check
We had thundersnow this morning.
Some physicians, frustrated by state GOP bans on gender reassignment procedures for minors, are considering quitting their jobs and retiring early, according to a Sunday report in Politico.
You are lucky that you only face that instead of a short drop and sudden stop.
I watched Biden’s re-election bid speech so you wouldn’t have to. Minorities are heavily featured. He may be surprised.
Is the DNC really going to let Joe run in 2024? I can’t see it. I also can’t see how they excise Kamala in an elegant way, but they can’t run her, either.
The grand plan is showing a little wear and tear.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/eu-japan-reject-washingtons-proposal-to-ban-exports-to-russia/
While the US attempted to isolate Moscow and cripple its economy after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has weathered the Western sanctions.
I watched a couple Russian bloggers recently walk through several grocery stores. I’ve been watching their Youtube videos sporadically for years and highly doubt either is a Russian agent. Every store is full of food, including western brands, at a fraction of the prices here in the US. The produce looks better and even has digital scales that spits out a barcode after you weigh it for the cashier. Lots of meat, seafood, etc.
I went into Kroger last weekend and couldn’t find the chicken section. It’s normally about 10-15 feet wide between the pork and beef. I finally found it, wedged into the very corner. About 2-3 feet wide with limited options. The other meat sections had shrunk too and it seemed liked a good proportion of staples throughout the store had bare shelves. My wife thinks Costco has cut their options considerably and instead expands existing stock to fill shelf space.
I’m starting to think we (Americans) have been sold a load of shit. Both about how good we have it here, and how bad it is in countries outside of the US/EU.
digital scales that spits out a barcode after you weigh it for the cashier
That’s been the standard at Wegmans for years.
I’ve never seen that before. I always have to wait while the cashier tries to tell the difference between a bell pepper and jalapeno.
I like it a lot – checkout is much faster.
They’ll still do the lookup at the register if you forget / can’t be bothered.
Yes. Long supply chains, over processed foods (not just additives but packaging into marketable and SKUable products), and employees and customers that don’t have a clue and don’t care. I just shake my head in disbelief that the produce departments cut the green onions down to a third green just so it fits in the assigned cubbyhole. Or leave terrible produce to sit until it’s rotted. Sysco delivering that sort of thing would quickly get a call to come back and pick up their crap.
The deglobalization of the American supply chain is going to sting a little.
But not nearly as much a it will for Europe.
Or Asia…
I think this plan is going to bomb.
Tell me the Biden administration is laying the propaganda groundwork for a loss in Ukraine without telling me that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/us/politics/ukraine-russia-war-spring-offensive.html
increasing pressure to enter serious peace talks
Peace? How terrible!
THERE IS NO PROFIT IN PEACE!
So… peace sells, but who’s buying?
SALZBURG | Hochrechnung Landtagswahl OGM/ServusTV, 17:09 Uhr
SVP: 29,4% (-8,4)
FPÖ: 29,1% (+10,3)
SPÖ: 17,9% (-2,1)
KPÖ: 11,0% (+10,6)
GRÜNE: 6,1% (-3,2)
NEOS: 4,3% (-3,0)
Sonstige: 2,4% (-4,0)
Änderungen zum Wahlergebnis von 2018
https://twitter.com/Wahlen_AT/status/1650156093862027264
Say the cuntes that want to mRNA jab and gender-bend your kids.
The propaganda is out of control.
‘Republicans want to poison your children.’
And Regime Media repeats it word for word.
Was that the idiotic “their government reduction in spending to 2019 levels will melt people’s bones!” quip? No way I’m listening to that moron to find out…
Just stumbled onto this, and absolutely love the neologism – Marxcissist! No teasers, just click and enjoy the whole thing.
This, over and over. I’ve been saying this for years. “Woke” is the Latin bible. Its incomprehensibility is intended to insulate the priestly caste from the rabble.
The democratization of knowledge through our smartphones and search engines is a threat to the intelligentsia. It is only rational that they would pursue an impenetrable and fathomless philosophy in order to solidify their position as the arbiters of all knowledge.
How is this different than Russia? The Soviets also used a revolutionary vanguard from the intelligentsia to force the proletariat to comply.
I think the falsehood is that America didn’t and doesn’t have its very own homegrown version of communism.
We love to blame the Soviets for our egalitarian inclinations instead of looking in the mirror and recognizing that we are just as guilty.
What transferred to America was Trotskyism, not Stalinism. It didn’t really survive intact but merged with the native progressivism in the New Left of the 60’s.
I’ll say it again, Lasch traces our pathologies back into our own history, whereas the neo-McCarthyites have an unshakeable faith in American purity.
Two aspects, first, the Bolsheviks were not at all all from the elite. Second, they didn’t coopt the institutions, they bulldozed them. There was no such thing as skin-suiting.
Very much so. Coopting the institutions is a fascist thing.
‘Orning ‘ordles — good on guesses, bad on time for DuoTri. Mediocre but not complete suck for the main event. I’ll take it.
Daily Duotrigordle #419
Guesses: 34/37
Time: 04:28.46
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 456
3️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
You keep selling yourself short. Anything under 22 (“the line”) is a good score.
Daily Quordle 456
3️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
There’s a lot of 16 to 18’s ’round here to make the line seem blase.
I don’t think so.
Daily Quordle 456
3️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, April 25
Letters: A D E R H N U
My score: 327 points
My longest word: 12 letters
🌼 🌹 🏵 🌻 💮 🌸 🌺 💐 🌷 🌼 🌹 🏵
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
And there’s an 18 from Sean. 😉 Just wait for Cowboy, he’s typically way up there too.
Well, he’s an outlier.
Bah.
Daily Quordle 456
2️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Better.
Blossom Puzzle, April 25
Letters: A D E R H N U
My score: 357 points
My longest word: 12 letters
🌻 🌹 🏵 💮 🌼 💐 🌸 🌷 🌺 🌻 🌹 🏵
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
I got excited about solving LL before even realizing UL was one of my seed words.
Daily Quordle 456
2️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
Daily Quordle 456
5️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
“Boys would be taught how to respect women and girls as part of the national curriculum under Labour’s plans to prevent laddish banter leading to misogyny and violence”
https://twitter.com/TonyDowson5/status/1650722857603743745
I’m guessing no one else is doing it.
Sure. It’s those darn English lads grooming girls.
Traditionally, it’s the English lords grooming the lads.
The Pakis’ mistake was to keep it heterosexual.
The difference between a Paki and an Afghani?
Kill them all and let god sort that shit out?
Seems harsh. The traditional approach was to let them live in and run their own countries while we did the same.
A random British imposed border…
That’s pretty much all of Central Asia and the Middle East.
Cue Alex, Dim, Georgie and Pete.
Marxism 101: reengineer mankind…
And since women tend to be far more enamored of socialism, you want that to be the predominant attitude..
I bet they will also teach all these boys to sit when they pee.
Respect women and girls but don’t dare open a door for them.
Facebook work filtering posts ‘cost me my humanity’
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65346062
Behind the scenes on Facebook, thousands of moderators protect users from graphic content by filtering out posts that break its rules. The BBC has spoken to one moderator based in Kenya, who is taking legal action against its parent company Meta.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s social media. Of course you’re going to see depravity. You should have known that going in to the job.
I’m just thinking of the one eternal from the Good Place who was assigned the role of scoring strange sex acts that humans had invented.
He was not a happy creature.
How did he rate the Houdini?
That’s when you do your woman doggie style in front of a window, switch in your buddy, then run outside and wave at her…
… (-.-)
So I got contacted by a guy from my old team about some of the documentation left behind. The command he was having trouble with went like:
The question? “Is the destination password for the keystore or the pfx?”
*headdesk*
He’s a nice guy, but it’s literally in the command.
Is that desk government property? If so stop lest you damage it
I’m remote, it’s my desk, I can do what I like with it.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Kids and dogs, I seem to remember a comedian never wanting to follow that act.
Good show, Jimbo
For good reason.
Nice one, Holiness!
Purge comin’
I emailed a media friend who has contacts inside Fox News and asked what was going on. He wrote back simply saying, “Big purge coming.”
——-
Years ago, the Ukrainian-American comedian Yakov Smirnoff told a joke about what constitutes a “warning shot” in Russia: “It’s when they shoot at the guy standing right next to you in line.”
So, was cable news management firing warning shots on Monday? Is this only the beginning of a big purge to come?
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So, was cable news management firing warning shots on Monday? Is this only the beginning of a big purge to come?
Will others follow Lemon out the door at CNN? And at Fox, what about other hosts who promoted Trump’s “big lie” of a stolen 2020 election, even as they told each other they didn’t believe it? Is Sean Hannity in trouble? How about Laura Ingraham? Or Maria Bartiromo?
And what about their nominal boss, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott — is she safe? She’s the one who made sure everyone at Fox knew that they had to “respect” the audience, as she put it – by which she apparently meant, tell them what they want to hear – to make sure they don’t abandon Fox for other rightwing news outlets, like Newsmax.
Lemon could wind up at MSNBC, a place in tune with his progressive, left-of-center opinions. But what about Tucker Carlson? Where does he go? I wouldn’t be shocked if he became the new big star at Newsmax — or, who knows, maybe the Russia state television channel RT, which, according to a New York Times report, “has already extended a welcome.”
And why not? Carlson seems to be a favorite of sorts inside the Kremlin. He has questioned U.S. support for Ukraine, and some of his reports have been re-broadcast in Russia.
He’s also big on conspiracies, suggesting that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was an overblown story.
Tucker Carlson hit it big because he understood the cable news business model: Pander to your audience. Give them the kind of news they want to hear. Never surprise them with inconvenient facts. Give them red meat so they’ll come back for more.
——-
If the big purge is coming, it can’t come soon enough for anybody who cares about honest journalism.
Blah blah blah rambling nonsense and wishful thinking.
What does any of that that have to do with “purges”? Are the “legitimate journalists” about to mutiny and seize control of FOX?
Hahaha!
I didn’t catch that. That is funny.
promoted Trump’s “big lie” of a stolen 2020 election
Curious since Dem media still doesn’t accept 2016.
Carlson seems to be a favorite of sorts inside the Kremlin. He has questioned U.S. support for Ukraine, and some of his reports have been re-broadcast in Russia.
Questioning the regime is treason. Hang the traitor.
suggesting that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was an overblown story.
Everyone knows it was worse than Pearl Harbor.
Pander to your audience. Give them the kind of news they want to hear. Never surprise them with inconvenient facts. Give them red meat so they’ll come back for more.
Because Faux News Channel is the only entity that would even dream of doing this.
Curious since Dem media still doesn’t accept 2016.
Well that’s because that one was stolen from the Rightful Ruler!
Whelp, there goes the neighborhood
Black wolves matter>
Stunning? There have been black wolves in northern MN since at least the 90s.
When your drug mule takes thing literally. “Look honey, I know I told you to put these drugs in your pussy, but I meant your vagina!”
Oh, do we have a new term here – Poping the link?
We prefer the term: Papal Bulling the link
Try again
Helluva a tail, Jimbo
The basic architecture of the music is similar, but lyrically they are very different songs. Crap like this is bullshit though. Marvin Gaye has been dead for how long? I remember the headline while delivering newspapers. Why, at this point, do a group of people who didn’t do shit, have a say over someone else’s creative product from a monetary standpoint? It’s ridiculous.
The copyright scheme is thoroughly broken.
The lesson is there plain enough – by securing for limited times – that no power, even directly stated won’t be perverted by those who can profit from that power.
George Harrison agrees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0i9rjTxhpY
The basic architecture of the music is similar, but lyrically they are very different songs.
I imagine it will be similar enough, the was “Ghostbusters” was similar enough to “I Want a New Drug”
Inducing anxiety in large language models increases exploration and bias
https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1650299035566346241
Da Fuq?
How do you give a language model anxiety?
Garbage in – garbage out…
Unlimited access to social media, just like with everyone else…
Without a decisive victory, Western support for Ukraine could weaken, and Kyiv could come under increasing pressure to enter serious peace talks to end or freeze the conflict.
Oh. HORROR.
Not only are they not pulling off a decisive victory right now, they’re being pounded like a twink in state prison. If defeat is an off-ramp for these psychopaths it should be coming up soon.
Ikr How can you blame Russia for inflation and high gas prices if the war is over?
Meanwhile, in Sudan….https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/04/25/WHO-warns-of-huge-biological-rick-after-Sudan-fighters-occupy-laboratory
Wonder how many non-African states have interests in that lab. The linked report says it contains “holding measles and cholera pathogens and other hazardous materials.”
Jeez, how’d you like to live across the street from a Sudanese bio lab? No thanks.
racist much?
A man goes to checkout. A man is at the machine and a woman is standing well back. He asks the woman if she is in line. She explains that she is from Africa and it is not appropriate in her culture to stand close to an unrelated man when she is alone. The man respects her culture by standing back from her about the same distance. When it is the woman’s turn at the checkout someone asks him if he is in line. He responds yes but he is keeping his distance because she is African.
Just don’t shop at the wet market next door to the lab and everything will be fine.
I’m wondering if it was set up by the CIA like the Ukrainian one no one talks about anymore and just how many biowarfare divisions we have scattered around the globe and what the hell they’re up to. That’s what levels of black pill paranoia the last 6 years of shit have driven me to — that that’s my first thought now. Yay.
They’re trying to create a reason for yet another intervention.
Doubt it was the CIA, unless I’m mistaken I believe the current recognized Sudanese government leans more towards the Russian side.
It isn’t really paranoia when people are doing hellacious things in the name of the American people where those American people can’t see it.
Yeah, it’s well established that we farm out all kinds of stuff that we’re proscribed from doing here and we take advantage through reciprocity: See also Five Eyes.
Or allowing Mossad to run Epstein on our turf in exchange for intel…
Or the Wuhan lab, or torture facilities in Syria and Egypt for alQaeda and on and on and on.
Got a bonus Daily Ray of Sunshine for you. We have an unconventional family. All three of my girls were adopted, but the youngest was an open adoption and we’ve kept a very good relationship with her birth mom. Since she had our daughter, birth mom has gotten married and has a 4 year old son who is a great little kid. Two years ago she brought a daughter almost to term and lost her. We were all devastated (I think I may have mentioned it here). Well, last night she had another daughter, 5 weeks early but still almost 7 pounds. Mom and daughter are feeling rough but they’ll be ok and will be home in a few days. Extra bonus: They are a two AR-15 household so they’re doing their part to make our future better.
Great news!
That’s definitely a DRoS Kevin! Thanks for sharing!
Here’s a Tundra certified Daily Ray of Sunshine
Rawr.
Man, French billionaires get all the chicks.
Yowza!
Thanks, Scruff!
Excellent!
Congratulations!
Huzzahs all around.
May all involved live long and prosper
Vulcan vampire?
That’s good news.
🙂
Oh that is wonderful!
Good morning, Spud!
All I will say is how happy I am that prep is down to only half a gallon.
That’s shitty.
Pull the other one.
I like claims without any support and – especially – no actionable items. Is this Science (TM)?
Copyright is retarded. Even if the pasty kid ripped off MG, who the hell would mistake the two?
Good luck with the procedure.
All I will say is how happy I am that prep is down to only half a gallon.
Totally missed the reference – I was thinking “surface prep? He’s painting?”.
As I told my doctors a few months back, as an adventurous eater I’ve done far worse to myself.
Totally. I didn’t even think the prep was that bad.
Speaking of prep:
Prepping America for Genocide
h/t Warty
Yup. It’s reaching dangerous levels.
They’ve show over and over that violence and even murder will be overlooked if the perp has the right politics. This is not a good situation.
That’s why they want the populace disarmed.
It’s amazing, but the BOJ is still at -0.1%
http://www.worldgovernmentbonds.com/country/japan/
If they raise rates, the carry trades are going to unwind and all financial hell is going to break loose.
Which we’ve been expecting for six months. How on earth are they able to keep it going?
CNBC Anchor Alleged NBCUniversal Boss Jeff Shell Sexually Harassed Her, Prompting His Exit
He claimed inappropriate relationship. My guess is that is going to be his defense – that somehow whatever got him canned for cause was consensual.
Dailight come, and me wanna go home…
Hold on to your hats
TW: New Republic
Fox will get worse because the logic of the market in which Fox operates demands that it will get worse. They have to keep pushing the boundary. They have to keep shocking. They have to keep working their viewers into a state of outrage, and doing that requires getting more and more extreme and fanatical with each passing year. So the person who replaces Carlson will be more shocking than Carlson. He will go places even Carlson wouldn’t go. And if Murdoch is smart, he’ll be Black. Or he will be a she. Or maybe a Black she. Which one is still alive, Diamond or Silk? Maybe her. Or Candace Owens. That would be a very Murdochian move, if he’s still on his game at his advanced age.
It works for President Jungle Fever.
FOX will careen at ever increasing speed down into the Hellish depths of right wing extremism and pandering to the completely unjustified paranoia of their target audience.
I disagree. They just cut off their last rabble rouser and they’re going full milquetoast Republican.
Yeah, Fox didn’t get rid of Carlson because he wasn’t extreme enough.
This.
That writer is delusional.
Agreed. So many wrong takes coming off of this. FOX is aiming to be the next bland cable new network. Cost be damned. Amazing how these people want to just lose money. Chances are we will end up with a stack of talking heads with government papers in their hand. The only thing that I have in my mind is that CNN and FOX are receiving giant government payouts t(unbeknownst to us) to cool it down and just be shills.
The major cable news networks have shifted their revenue model to being supported by global corporations (and government) that use them to launder their messaging and propaganda. It’s not actually about marketing driving product sales. It’s about spending ad dollars to exert political control.
Additionally, the major investors like Blackrock and Vanguard make their capital available only to those who toe their political line.
That revenue stream is somewhat, but not totally, independent of viewership numbers. It just depends on how long big business can afford to maintain it.
That does make sense.
They are hell bent on censoring anything but the approved narrative. They’ll achieve that in the open or behind the scenes, whatever it takes. When there’s pushback, they’ll just do something like this.
Wrong takes? No, it’s deliberate framing.
Pfizer buys ad time.
Meanwhile, back at the Progressive Ranch, we will ignore how anyone to the right of center has been declared a full on Nazi by president mushmouth while MSDNC, CNN, and the major networks repeated it breathlessly for seven years.
White supremacists love Candace Owens?
Candace is practically a Grand Dragon of the KKK ///BlackFaceofWhiteSupremacy
requires getting more and more extreme and fanatical with each passing year.
The premise of this article is ass backwards.
I said this on TOS over ten years ago: TV Networks are becoming obsolete. 20 years from now they will be seen as quaint.
NESN just started a streaming service that doesn’t require a TV provider. Other sports outlets will follow. People haven’t watched TV for “news” since the smartphone – if you want local updates you get it sent to your phone from whoever you trust. And if they lose your trust, you find an alternative in a matter of minutes.
I can’t stand to watch any TV news – every fucking one is an insult to my intelligence.
Flying chunks of concrete, twisted metal sheets, craters blasted deep into the ground: the thunderous power of SpaceX’s first test flight of Starship — the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built — inflicted serious damage on its Texas launch site.
It’ll buff out.
“Within spec”.
A running meme in the Tesla community is that many of the documented fit and finish issues identified on vehicles is always “within spec” when taken for service.
Do it.
Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis will announce “charging decisions” this summer arising from her election-interference investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies, according to a letter she sent to local law-enforcement agencies warning of the potential for violent reactions to that key milestone in her two-year probe.
In the letter addressed to Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat, Ms. Willis said she would be announcing charging decisions relating to the investigation sometime between July 11 and Sept. 1.
Ms. Willis said she wanted to give law-enforcement agencies sufficient time to prepare for the “significant public reaction” her announcement could trigger.
“We have seen in recent years that some may go outside of public expressions of opinion that are protected by the First Amendment to engage in acts of violence that will endanger the safety of our community,” Ms. Willis said. “As leaders, it is incumbent on us to prepare.”
But enough about BLM/Antifa.
Hey, speaking of Atlanta – apparently that guy the cops killed, that supposedly shot a cop wasn’t armed. So you now have to wonder, was the cop shot by friendly fire?
Meanwhile, in Haiti:
https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1650806159987691520
The word tragic gets thrown around a lot, but I think this qualifies.
Jay-sus, what a disaster.
…cannibalism… 👀
And yet, the DR is right next door and doing relatively OK.
The Clinton foundation and UN never got involved with the DR…
Just saying…
Also big difference between Voodoo and Catholic.
I had to cancel our family vacation to Port-au-Prince this summer.
Normally I wear protection, but then I thought, …
Haha! Classic.
Heheh, classic SNL, I’ve linked that one before.
Top notch YouTube comment there.
You excited for the Azerbaijan GP this weekend Slum? That’s my fav street track of the calendar. I’d love to see Alonso pull a higher podium place, love the comeback he has made this year.
Oh, yeah! I know that most of the drivers don’t love the street courses, but I do – the mayhem potential makes them exciting.
Alonso is indeed a great story this year – along with a petulant Hamilton (dude just rubs me the wrong way).
Heap big no-no
An American woman has been arrested at an airport in Australia after arriving with a 24-carat gold-plated handgun in her luggage.
The 28-year-old woman, who authorities did not identify, was arrested and charged shortly after arriving at Sydney Airport from Los Angeles on Sunday, the Australian Border Force said in a news release.
The border force said the woman had not declared the golden firearm, nor did she hold a permit to import or possess the weapon in Australia, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the world.
Importing American gun carnage into a civilized nation? Off with her head.
Does she have three nipples?
From LOS ANGELES????
Good God, don’t look directly at it.
I am somewhat sympathetic to arresting her because the gun was gold-plated, I have to admit
Wrecked.
As usual, Frum goes straight for the “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” line.
He is a piece of shit for the ages.
He needs to sit and spin on that axis of evil.
Neo-cons speak in absolutes about things that we have absolutely no national interest in. This attitude has bled into our diplomatic service that now preaches instead of listens or negotiates. Then they are surprised when India, China, or Saudi Arabia tells us to piss off.
They have no reverse gear and no ability or interest to see an issue from the other side.
Wilsonianism has been the core of our foreign relations for generations, the neo-cons aren’t even ascendant these days, they’re at the tail end of their influence.
Victoria Neuland would like to differ.
Really? You don’t think she believes in transforming Russia into an American puppet state?
Isn’t that the neo-con goal? For Russia in particular, then the rest of the world.
Neo-cons didn’t originate that goal – which is exactly my point.
CWAA
Come again?
It is in his mind and that’s all that matters.
ABF Enforcement and Detained Goods East Commander Justin Bathurst credited the discovery to the diligence of border force officers and the use of sophisticated detection technology.
“Time and time again, we have seen just how good ABF officers are at targeting and stopping illegal, and highly dangerous, goods from crossing Australia’s border,” Bathurst said.
“The ABF is Australia’s first and most important line of defense,” he said. “ABF officers are committed to protecting our community by working with law enforcement partners to prevent items like unregistered firearms getting through at the border.”
Thousands of deaths prevented.
It was a hideous thing to look at. Was it a war trophy from Iraq?
NYT – Paywall
Well RIP. Dame Edna the other day.
I shall toast his memory with a banana. It’s already daylight.
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5dpBWlRANE
Non-paywall version.
“New Math” is Not Math.
A persistent myth within math education is that, since “numbers are universal,” math classrooms are objective and free of bias. …
Research shows clearly that any space where learning occurs is neither free of bias nor resistant to oppressive systems such as racism, sexism, classism or xenophobia…
Based on surveys of our learners, we need to:
Include they/them pronouns in our word & contextual problems (not just he/she) …
[W]e need to:
Strengthen relationships between students and teachers, helping to develop learners’ mathematical identities …
Scholars have demonstrated the ways that mathematics socialization and mathematics identity development are critical aspects to the learning and participation of students, particularly Black students
Huh. I thought it was about numbers, arithmetic and analysis.
helping to develop learners’ mathematical identities
The fuck?
I identify as a math genius. Validate my identity by giving me an A or you’re a bigot.
I just wheeled my trash out to the end of the driveway. Fuckin heck, it’s cold out there.
Once again Google News catches the original headline versus the current one.
Original:
Boy groomed on Twitter and abducted after Musk takeover
By inference it must be Musk’s fault, right? Current headline:
A 13-year-old boy was groomed publicly on Twitter and kidnapped, despite numerous chances to stop it
Research shows clearly that any space where learning occurs is neither free of bias nor resistant to oppressive systems such as racism, sexism, classism or xenophobia…
What does that have to do with American government-run schools?
By inference it must be Musk’s fault, right?
He fired all the content moderators!
Years ago, visiting with my dad down in Texas we drove the Space X launch site. It looked pretty desolate back then. I’m not sure what that photographer saw then, but I saw a lot of scrub land with a few scruffy bushes. The Space X stuff was also pretty scruffy. Looked more like an old junkyard or some rancher’s out buildings back in NoDak.
At the time, I commented on how if that was NASA, the site would be full of immaculate hangars and other shiny stuff. But nothing would be getting done. Instead there were some beat up trailers, some steel buildings and one tiny parking lot.
My dad was anti-Elon back then because Space X bought out some guy who ran a bait shop next to the gulf shore. So he and his buddy drove all the way out there to go fishing only to find out that they couldn’t buy bait and beer from the guy anymore.
Dishonest or stupid?
We’ve said it before, but it is always worth repeating for the millions of younger people coming to voting age each year who may not have considered it before: It doesn’t take a grammarian or a constitutional scholar to tell you that the opening clause of the Second Amendment is obviously conditional:
Meaning, so long as a militia of citizens is necessary (and a well-regulated one, at that), then what follows is true. But only if that first part pertains.
It no longer pertains and hasn’t since the modern National Guard was formally established in 1916. We’ve got the Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, Air Force and even that Space Force thing, as well as the National Guard, with members who swear an oath to both their state and their federal governments. (I note that dual allegiance for all the anti-federalists still lurking out there, seething about some “tyranny” of the federal government, while at the state and local levels you busy yourself with taking away voting rights, reproductive rights, public schools and public libraries.)
The six branches of the armed forces, including the National Guard. No other militia need apply. It’s covered.
It’s fine guys/gals/xers. I mean, like, c’mon. We have the government and it’s military, which is obviously here to help. In fact, maybe it can deal with you crazies and your fantasies about government “tyranny”. So, like, give up your antiquated “rights” already so we can have progress.
A well nourished populace, being necessary to the health of a free nation, the right of the people to grow and consume food, shall not be infringed.
Obviously this would mean that the government should dictate to people what they should eat so they can stay well nourished. Things like mandates on how much junk food they can consume and where they can be served unhealthy foods, vegetable mandates are okay. Fucking mendacious assholes can’t even fucking get their grammar correct, let alone their piss poor understanding of rights.
You will eat bugs and you won’t get to deep fat fry them!
Soda Free Zones, high capacity bottle size limits, and junk food consumption licenses all would be Kosher under such an Amendment.
That works. I also like the book comparison:
A well-educated electorate being necessary to the function of a republic, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
“the opening clause of the Second Amendment is obviously conditional”
Despite having exactly zero conditional words or phrases. I see no “if/then”, I see no “so long as”, I see no “to the extent that”.
Ya feckin’ moron.
CWAA
A well educated electorate being necessary to the workings of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed.
nuts, too slow. Damn you Rebel Scum.
LOL!
Show me a workplace safety video that goes harder than this.
There’s always Klaus, the forklift driver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ_86lxP36I
Bill Meyers would clap for your movie, but well….
Awesome. I got a lot of great ideas from this video…er, I mean ideas about being safe.
A few years back Marvin Gaye’s no-talent, money grubbing heirs sued Pharrell and won a shitload of cash from saying the hit song he wrote with Robin Thicke was a ripoff of Got to Give it Up. It was laughable, the only thing that was very similar was the drumbeat, which Pharrell even admitted that he used as an inspiration but it wasn’t the same. If having a similar drum beat could net you most of the profits of a popular tune John Bonham’s heirs should be many many times richer than they are.
Newspeak News
As Republican leaders in the Montana legislature doubled down on forbidding Rep. Zooey Zephyr from participating in debate into a second week, her supporters on Monday interrupted proceedings in the House by chanting “Let her speak!”
Zephyr, a first-term Democrat from Missoula, wanted to speak about a proposal that would restrict when children could change the names and pronouns they use in school, with their required parents’ consent.
When lawmakers voted to continue subjecting Zephyr to a gag order, denying her the chance to speak, the gallery, made up mostly of her supporters, erupted, forcing legislative leaders to pause proceedings and clear the room.
It was the latest development in a three-day fight over Zephyr’s remarks against lawmakers who support of a ban on gender-affirming care. Zephyr, who is transgender, hasn’t been allowed to speak on the statehouse floor since Thursday because she told her Republican colleagues last week they would have “blood on their hands” if they banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.
Female impersonator advocates sex change operations for children. Lunatics and other useful idiots disrupt proceedings.
Yellowstone memes are better than the show.
“New Covid variant Arcturus is now behind one in TEN infections in the US and may have already killed… so how prevalent is strain in YOUR state?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12008827/At-one-American-died-Covid-variant-Arcturus-sources-say.html
No.
Who the fuck is still testing?
“New Covid strain Arcturus can cause pink eye, say doctors”
Mrs. TOK’s cousin had pink eye, and I just got over an eye infection that was more in the eyelid than pink eye. So maybe we had it. But in the grand scheme of things neither of us cares. Get back to me when there’s a significantly higher percentage of people dying from it.
Don’t dare them to release one of the deadlier bugs they have developed overseas.
In New York Times guest essay, Brown president asserts danger of threats to free expression
In an essay titled ‘The gravest threats to campus speech come from the state, not the students,’ Christina H. Paxson says those who try to ban the advancement of knowledge will find themselves ‘on the wrong side of history.’
https://www.brown.edu/news/2023-04-21/essay
“In 1633, Galileo was forced to renounce the “false opinion” that the Earth circled the sun since it collided with the prevailing beliefs of the Catholic Church.
Shortly after publication in 1859, Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was banned from the library of Trinity College, where he had been a student.
And in the early 1950s, during the McCarthy era, many university professors were subject to “loyalty hearings,” and some lost their positions because of defamation campaigns and indiscriminate allegations of Communist leanings.
Each of these episodes of censorship and repression of knowledge reflected the unique social and political tensions of its time. But the proponents of censorship and repression all had one thing in common: they were on the wrong side of history.
The mistakes of the past are being repeated in this country, right now. The state Senate in Texas last week advanced one of three bills aimed at public colleges that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion activities, end tenure, and fire professors accused of indoctrinating their students. Several states, including Georgia, Idaho and most notably Florida, have passed varying laws making it easier to ban books and limit what American educators can teach.”
Galileo was just like DEI bureaucrats
Saying wrong side of history should be grounds for firing that dumbshit.
Speaking of Marxist dog-whistles . . . .
She will bury you.
I love how the state consists solely of the legislature, and not the state universities themselves. How dare the state limit what the state can say? And when those universities are busily banning speech, why, that’s not state action at all.
What a feckin’ moron.
Brown is private, isnt it? So that critique doesn’t apply.
For Brown maybe, but the article is about laws that affect public colleges.
Yep, a not so subtle slight of hand attempt to equate actual science with political ideologies. Specifically communism, and DEI – but I repeat myself.
That may be the dumbest thing I’ve read all month.
“Harry Belafonte dead at 96: Barrier-breaking singer and actor best known for ‘The Banana Boat Song’ and ‘Jump In the Line’ turned civil-rights activist passes away at home in Manhattan”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011757/Singer-Harry-Belafonte-dead-96.html
R.I.P.
I got 4 correspondents from the Tom Woods show, who were aspiring writers or writers of libertarian children’s books. One wrote a picture book that was adorable and kind of hit that Rainbow Fish sweet spot for morality tales. One wrote a chapter book with an 11-year-old protagonist, which I have not yet read. One wanted to chat on the phone *shudder* (this involves talking to people). And one wanted to know how to write a novel. I told him many of my books start out life as fashion porn. Amazing what questions a little black dress can ask.
Amazing what questions a little black dress can ask.
“Out, Damned spot!”
– Monica– Hillary
Got it covered.
In Defense of Ugly Jackets
I saw on the internet that there is a guy who has no children, but he self-identifies as a person that has children. Something about unfair tax breaks.
He thinks he’s smart, but I can see right through him.
I saw the D&D movie the other night.
It was a lot of fun.
The music was a mix of a few Celtic-ish tunes and stuff similar to the computer game, “Icewind Dale” (which happens to be the region where the movie’s opening happens). I liked the music more than that of P. Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings”.
In fact, I kind of liked this D&D movie more than PJ’s LotR. Those movies give me a tummy ache, how much they got wrong from the book, despite some brilliant casting and a few good scenes in “Fellowship”. Jackson cut out the most important part of the story, the fool.
The story is derivative, as are many of the scenes. “That reminds me of Jurassic Park!” “That reminds me of Indians Jones!” “That reminds me of the Avengers!” “That reminds me of A Ghost Story with Casey Affleck!”
I can’t tell if it was just an attempt to crib the best stuff from successful movies, or if it was a meta commentary where, when one runs a game of D&D, he shamelessly steals ideas from his favorite movies, tv shows, and books. That’s if one accepts the possibility that the movie is a film representation of someone’s tabletop campaign.
There was some concern expressed about the film being “woke”, but it wasn’t.
Hugh Grant was in top form. Chris Pine was fine, Michelle Rodriguez was fine, the other three were fine. The villain was appropriately creepy.
There was quite a bit of humor, but your tastes might differ from mine. I was sold in the movie with the first joke, which took a few minutes, but was cleverly done.
There is a kind of theme, where the characters focus on trying something particular, struggle through the challenges, finally succeed at that one thing, but then it turns out it doesn’t matter, after all, and they have to improvise another plan.
There is a fun cameo that I appreciated.