It’s not quite work, but I’m getting more go live meetings showing up on my calendar. Being invited to the planning meetings would have been better, because then I could have asked if they had the list of ingress points that were migrating, what the expected behavior of each was, and what the steps in case of a variance were. Instead, they just had the list of ingress points, and spent hours trying to figure out if the behavior they were encountering was expected or not.
That’s more than people care about my work when there’s links that they can snark about. Without further ado:
In beer news, while Anchor pulls out of most of the nation, Sierra Nevada is bringing back some favorites in a mix pack. In an absolute rarity for me (outside of some IPA mix packs), this is a mix pack that I am a fan of all the beers in it.
In local news, the lefty rag writes a long form piece on the death of the one Ohio brewery to sell out. (Full disclosure: I knew the people who started Platform, I knew all of the head brewers who cycled through there, and enjoyed quite a few of their beers. I think I bought a total of two pints after they sold out.)
I think it’s safe to say that this is the summer of sci-fi revivals. We’ll start with some “Good news everybody!”, even though the modern day Outer Limits (not the Twilight Zone you ignorant writers) came back yesterday.
If it’s going to be 95%+ CGI, is it really honest to call it a “live action” remake?
Just when you thought super hero movies couldn’t get any worse.
Please EPA. regulate us harder!
Is there anything climate change can’t do?
There’s still people out there that claim to feel shame?
It’s about time you (mythical) ladies picked up the slack.
I leave you with some music from some bands that are on tour now, and great fun.
Happy Friday Glibronis!
“Is there anything climate change can’t do?”
Does climate change make some people crave the glory hole experience too?
You work at Fox News now?
“It’s about time you (mythical) ladies picked up the slack.”
I am killing a gallon of gin or bourbon ever 3 days… And I identify as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.
If we’re going to have economic malaise and empty shelves / lines for basic products, we might as well have the rampant wodka and alcoholism, I suppose.
We haven’t gone full Soviet until we get drunk on name brand liquor but stay drunk on table-scrap moonshine.
How about some Finnish
toiletsugar wine?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z62VeCwrBKg
Sugar wine? So… unfinished Rum?
I’ll stick with good old fashioned ‘Merican pruno.
A gallon?
Your poor liver.
You can spot Alex because of his shirt.
Shit, I was told 5 years ago that my liver was going to fail because sleeping only 3 hours ever 3 days for over 40 years was wearing my body down. The key indicator was kidney & liver deterioration. At the time I had a drink every other week or so, cause I was not big into it. So I I took their advice, had experimental surgery, and now sleep for 5 hrs every night. So since my liver got a second life, I decided to give it another challenge to live with.
BTW, I had my full medical checkup just 2 or 3 weeks ago, and the doc told me my liver was working like that of a 20 year old athlete. I think I need to up my drinking game.
Athlete
Binge eating is considered a sport.
What about sport fucking?
Infinity minus one….
The other day I asked someone that asked me if the information I had shared with them had come from a reputable/credible source. I asked what they felt met that standard and why. Indubitably the idiot shared with me mainstream media outlets that have been bullshitting people for ever as the sources of truth. they thought I would drop it there, but I asked the idiot how many times he had to find out that he had been played for a fool by these “credible/reputable” before he would decide they were not that. Without batting an eye he told me they had never been wrong. I started naming off things – The whole Russia hoax, that Obama was a good president, that Biden was not a crook, that the Kung Flu came from people eating bats from a wet market and not a lab, that the vaccine vaccinates anyone, and so on – he got pissed and told me I believed conspiracy sources and that the credible/reputable sources had not confirmed any of that so these things were not true. At that point I basically told him he sounded like he was in a cult and unable to accept he was being played for a fool and he called me names and walked off. I am sure the asshat will report me to HR.
Report him to HR for creating a hostile work environment.
HR doesn’t fuck with me. The stuff I know/do insulates me from anything they might feel like doin. My lawyer and promise that I will not accept any HR bullshit and will immediately go to a lawsuit and to employment elsewhere, keeps them on the short leash.
BTW, I don’t start these sorts of conversations ever. It is always some asshat that does that, then feels pissed I am not one of them when I call them out.
Oh, that’s the type of convo you never have with a coworker.
I used to be willing to talk politics with coworkers — not a damned chance for at least 4 years now. Talk about a minefield.
No shit. One time at lunch two coworkers started a spat over abortion. The whole… fucking… lunch. All I wanted to do was eat my tacos and have a margarita. Thankfully neither reported the other to HR are any such thing.
So I shouldn’t mention the conversation I had with the coworker about if the Gettysburg address or the Joe Biden Cron Pop address was the more presidential and impactful one?
You are only allowed to discuss sexual depravities.
There’s a reason politics and religion used to be taboo topics.
I think it was Dave Chappell that once discussed how when he asked a coworker whom he was voting for a while ago, the guy lectured him about how one never asked coworkers about their politics or religion at work, then the coworker went back to providing detailed information of the coworker fucked his wife in the ass without lube that weekend….
Must have worked for a culinary supply company — the worker was just going on about a chafing dish.
Ass fucking used to be off the table too.
Yeah, most of use used our beds.
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This sounds like a perfectly average American.
Which is horrifying.
Pendant answer: No.
Actual answer: No more f’s to give regarding Disney and any of the raping of their back catalog.
I hear they will add the scene where some drag queen will do a dirty dance at Bambi’s birth….
I heard it was a trans-doe striptease to “Me so horny” when Bambi gets antlers.
Bambi identifies as a doe and cuts off his antlers.
I am so looking forward to the controversy where the original white tailed deer Bambi is replaced by a black tail deer.
Mule deer everywhere are sad as they once more are ignored by the woke.
I watched the Starfield direct video, and that game is chock full of bugs. At least half or more of the aliens look like bugs of some stripe.
Oh, they meant Bethesda Bugs. I’m sure it’s chock full of those too. It is a Bethesda title. So long as it’s playable and moddable, those will get ironed out. As long as we’re not talking Fallout 76 levels of buggy, we’re* used to it.
*players of Bethesda games
I’ve played every Elder Scrolls game back to Arena. I managed to hit the bug in Arena in my first play through that gave me an end game weapon during character creation. I played with the min max system of Daggerfall where you could build custom classes. I even tried Battlespire…
I didn’t get introduced to Bethesda until they started making Fallout titles. I tried to play their back catalog, but my tolerance for older graphics can only be stretched so far. (Those Oblivion faces…)
I remember Fallout 3. I played through it once. The “But thou must” at the end of the game pissed me off so much that I couldn’t bring myself to fire it up again (I had a ghoul and a super mutant in my group at that time, and both were immune to the radiation in the sacrifice room).
Of the modern ones, the only one that I’ve liked is New Vegas.
You Are Not Alone — that pissed off so many players they had to fix it in the Broken Steel DLC to allow the obvious rad-immune companions to step in.
I’m aware, but throwing out a DLC to “fix” an obvious issue in a game series that was known for open world and outside the box problem solving in previous games doesn’t fix that they didn’t even understand the series to begin with.
I remember winning Fallout with a speech to the Master, I remember having a weak, agile, unarmed specialist who made it up through the boxing and kung fu ranks to become master with each in Fallout 2. On top of that, with the timeline, only Fallout 2 and Fallout New Vegas show the wasteland inhabitants making things better instead of continuing to live in ruins.
The “Why has nothing emerged in two hundred years?” question does bug me. After two centuries the salvage will have dried up, and you’d be well into new societies forming.
Fallout New Vegas Remastered is the game we need.
No, I don’t think it is.
They will change it.
There’s a theory (rumor? report?) on the webs that Fallout 3 was originally supposed to be much closer to the War in timeline (actually, close to where ’76 ended up, iirc). Which would make a lot more sense for the state of the world in that game.
And no argument, Neph — I also got the Master to kill himself (and just stimpacked the President to death in Fallout 2, iirc… probably hacked the turrets with Horrigan, no way I wouldn’t take every angle I could on that fight).
Nerfherder:
There’s been rumblings about a FO:NV P2 being worked on. I don’t want to get my hopes up, but they lift a bit every time I hear news like that.
For reference, since I got the FO3 collector’s edition, I do have the PipBoy (piece of garbage that didn’t work out of the box, and would have cost over $40 to send it back for a replacement that wasn’t guaranteed to work), the lunch box, and the bobblehead sitting around my house.
To be fair Fallout 4 is set in Boston, so it’s totally believable that they would continue to live in ruins,
I remember Fallout 3. I stepped out of the vault, saw the raider-infested school, decided to check it out, continued wandering west. It was hours before I even discovered Megaton. I think it was because of some quest marker. The main quest was such a secondary issue that I accidentally bypassed half of it by wandering into a future location.
New Vegas irritated me because it brought back the DR and DT mechanics which meant that when I hit a certain level, my guns stopped doing anything to enemies and it took me forever to figure out why.
Mostly I like to wander the worlds and see what I find, so Starfield sounds like exactly my kind of game. I don’t want to have to save the world, I just want to find out what’s over the next hill.
I tend to pick up games on sale well (often years) after release so I haven’t encountered many bugs.
Sad about Anchor. I still occasionally enjoyed one of their beers. I will not go to California to get one.
I was talking to my cousin the other day, and she, despite being a registered therapist who makes very good money, cannot afford to buy a house in Cali where she works. Now, that is Napa, which isn’t cheap by any means, but still. So, she is looking to buy up here, wait for her daughter to finish school, and then get out. Which will leave one family member left in the state. A state where my great, great grandfather opened up a store in 1854, Oakland.
Man, that kinda sucks. But I ain’t going back.
That’s the cut where in addition to the bat-nipples, the suits have anatomically-correct genitalia?
Ho lee crap.
Is it a drug you have to stay on to keep from regaining the pounds? Talk about a gold mine.
And you can bet that patent will keep getting renewed… This way the rich people can keep themselves skinny and pretty and the serfs can still stand out.
So if you’re the CEO of such a company, how do you structure your finances so you can rake in the cash ow, but be shielded when the inevitable “[yesterday’s wonder drug] causes cancer! ” lawsuits occur?
I’m surprised that Anchor is supposedly sold in all 50 states. I haven’t seen it for years on the shelves around here. Found two of their lines with plenty of availability in Northern California (the real Northern California) last fall. Also, new label sucks.
At least Sapporo didn’t farm out brewing to regional breweries while pretending it was still made in California.
I could have swore when I looked for it it wasn’t available in NoDak. Had to have a friend from Minneapolis grab me a sixer.
You’re lucky to have a friend in Mpls. All I have is Jimbo…
*shudders*
The Sermon on the Jimbo, and You’ve got a Friend in Jimbo.
Hahaha. Awesome. I love the Rev. Hadn’t heard this.
Before craft beer really got going here in SC Anchor Steam was one of the few non Bud/Miller/Coors beers you could reliably find at restaurants. The others being Newcastle and Hoegaarden.
Rip Newcastle.
The Kung Flu hoaxers that did the bidding of the globalist agenda will not allow the serfs to demand or get justice.
If the shaming exists, has to be more of the latter.
Shaming needs to come back into fashion. A lot of real dumb shit would grind to a hard stop if it did.
Shame is a weapon that can be used against you, that’s why I had my sense of shame beaten out of me back in the early ’90s.
Much better than that silly “love is a weakness” trope.
I’d say any friend who’s upset with you getting healthier isn’t really a friend.
Definitely. I certainly have questions about these drugs and what the cost is (not the monetary, just that there must be a health trade-off somewhere). Considering how bad obesity is though, seems to be a net positive for now.
IMO one of the worst trade-offs is that it goes after lean mass as well. Sure, you’ll lose weight, but you’ll hardly be healthy.
You ain’t fat no more! You ain’t nothin’! You ain’t nothin’!
Yo, ding dong, man. Ding dong, ding dong, yo.
Shame has social and personal utility. Eliminating it from the culture will only create more problems.
+1 topless white house photo
Close enough for the 30 min rule.
Tucker should be a glibeterian. I really like his monologues on twitter.
The fact that he getting as much traffic as he is however, is making the corruptocracy insane. When they thought they had struck him down they made him more powerful than ever, and they will not just take that lying down.
Yup, Fox has been serving him cease and desist letters. Not sure that his contract actually says he can’t post his opinions and thoughts on social media, since it probably says he can’t work for a competitor, and Twitter is not his employer.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Wow. Thanks, Holiness. Amazing story.
Yes, Thanks!
That’s a nut punch right to the heart. Thanks for finding that.
Can’t wait til we’re controlling weeds and unwanted plants by manual labor again. Gonna need a lot more help though…
Will they blame the sparrows again for the low crop yields?
“Dennis! There’s some lovely filth down ‘ere!”
Any and everyone can buy 2,4-D at their local weekend warrior store.
Also:
2, 4-D is a broadleaf killer. Coen is naturally “resistant” to one of these products. The other has Glyphosate, so yes it would need to be genetically engineered to be resistant to that one.
2, 4-D and Glyphosate (Roundup) must easily be the two most used herbicides in the US, and I assume the world. This lawsuit looks to this armchair lawyer like an end-around lawsuit; They (mostly) lose when they go after the two herbicides directly, so they devised some sneaky plan to go after a product that contains those chemicals.
“Corn is a grass” should be the beginning of the next line.
Just yesterday I was looking online about both those, which I have already, trying to decide which is better in the garden. 2,4-d won’t kill a particular waxy leafed weed that is promiscuous in my garden, Roundup maybe, try when the wind isn’t blowing
The Spousal Unit makes up 2,4-D “double strength” when doing spot applications on difficult weeds, and when the wind blows and she wants to use Roundup, she dips a 4-inch paintbrush in made-up solution and just “paints” the weeds in question.
Works a treat.
Mind you, for volunteer plants that neither glyphosate nor 2,4-D affect, she lets me go in there with a Tiger torch and blast away until the leaves curl (killing the proteins and rendering the plant unable to make its own food). That’s fun.
Buy it, for now. That’s the goal. Remove the registration and dry it up.
To self: “Oh, maybe this will be a good.”
Narrator: Three of the four beers are IPAs.
😣
There’s a wonderful pils in the pack, and two of the IPA’s aren’t traditional ones (one’s rye, and the other’s a red). The Ruthless filled the spot left by the old Schmaltz brewing Lenny Bruce RIPA (Rye IPA). Rye should be used in more beers.
My MIL got me the mixed pack last weekend for a pool day. The Hop Hunter and Ruthless are both good.
As a big fan of rye, I would like to try the Ruthless.
I miss the Browning’s Brewery Rye. It wasn’t a ryePA either. They stopped making it after their head brewer left for Upland. And eventually they closed. Against the Grain opened in their old space.
Preach it, brother!
Have you tried Zombie Dust before? It sounds aggressive, but it is a good, drinkable IPA that even IPA haters seem to get behind.
I have not. I’ll look for it. On the rare occasion I feel like an IPA I usually grab some Two Hearted. Or some hazy that catches my eye.
If you like Citra…which I do.
But if you think it smells like cat piss, Zombie Dust might not be for you.
I am in that Venn Diagram center than thinks Citra smells like cat piss and I like it.
I…did not get cat piss smell from it.
I agree with Ken Grossman on Ruthless Rye.
RE: selling out
I used to buy Breckinridge beers all the time. I loved their youtube “commercials” mocking the big guys.
I don’t buy them since they sold out. Generally, you have to have an exit strategy, and theirs was totally legit. You just seemed to contradict their earlier attitude.
I suspect it never contradicted their earlier attitude if you understand that their earlier attitude was to get big enough that when they sold out, they were set for life.
Yes, I agree. And that is what annoyed me. I thought the earlier ads were more in the “we can poke them in the eye” mode than “we can use it to grow” mode.
I hold no ill will towards the guys behind Platform who made bank on selling out. I’ve heard that they have some quite wonderful boats they got out of the deal. They helped quite a few breweries get started (though not in the way they intended to), and Noble Beast is the brewery I feel is most underrated here in the city (they have very minimal distribution, and didn’t even have cans out in stores until 2020).
I do on the other hand, think Tony Magee was a cunte for railing against other breweries selling out but saying, “It’s different” when he sold out to Heineken.
TIDDY GRAB!
Wow she had to make a slick move and stop him.
Sarah Polley set to direct live-action Bambi remake for Disney
Oscar-winning writer and director of Women Talking in discussions with studio to update much-loved animation
Oh, deer.
There’s no use bucking the tend.
Disney’s stuck in a Rut of late.
They don’t care, they know they’ll still make a lot of doe from it.
So sad, I used to fawn over her a bit.
Uffda. Crisis narrowly averted!
After working in the air traffic control business while in the Marines, my big fear of flying is exactly this sort of thing. The crash won’t be because of mechanical failure, but because some knucklehead ATC will steer two planes into each other by accident.
So long as the DEI quotas are met, the net number of lives saved will be higher.
Need moar single minded Slavics that would put Liam Neeson to same.
Climate change has raised the odds of a flight encountering severe turbulence in clear skies.
Fuck you for even making this stupid assertion.
Is there anything climate change can’t do?
It turned me into a newt.
a newt?
(whisphers) He got bettah…
All that censoring and lying, and these crooks still can’t fool the majority. Must be shit like this that keeps people from being convinced….
Americans are drinking more wine, too: 50 percent more per person since 1995.
I’m doing my part.
https://i.imgflip.com/4zlk8b.jpg
Well, crap, we’re becoming more like those degernate Euros.
you wish you were half as sophisticated as one of us.
Anything to become less like you wine-swilling city folk.
peasant
Albany isnt a city?
It is a funny one…Metro population over 1MM, but city populaton is under 100k*.
*as of 2020 census, census dept estimates it is over 100k now.
Chardonnay? Cause I heard that’s the swill most drank by urban cat ladies.
Mostly. And I have a pair of cats in my suburban house.
how the everloving fuck do they think they know how much people drank in the past? Most of it was probably unregistered. In Romania everyone made their own plum brandy and house wine.
Like this?
Sierra Nevada is bringing back some favorites in a mix pack. – you can buy some Sierra Nevada in bucharest for what its worth. A couple in a supermarket. too mainstream.
Is there anything climate change can’t do? – yes. convince morons to go nuclear. this it can’t do.
You know the green movement isn’t really about anything but control and culling the human population, when it becomes obvious that their agenda is never to find ways to provide cheap and abundant CO2 free energy to all, but instead is singularly focused on green energy schemes/rackets that allow some connected people to make huge bank while in general drastically lowering energy available for consumption (and thus progress & economic growth).
I’ve come to this realization recently. It had to do with people not being able to charge their EV’s in California. I realized that was a feature, not a bug. Everything is bait and switch with them. They have always been working toward less consumption.
Most don’t realize asceticism isn’t new.
There’s still people out there that claim to feel shame? – the problem is not shame it is that this has a fuckton of bad side effects that almost cancel out any good from weight-loss.
Well I for one feel safer. An all women of color class of EMT’s graduates.
Reading between the lines, I think Mr. Lewis said that those gals got on his last nerve with all their whining, but Mr. Lewis wants to retire with his fat pension, so he spun his thoughts in a positive way.
The Job! Can they do it?!
I don’t give a crap about shared life experience otherwise. EMTs aren’t there for community cultural enrichment.
All mothers. I bet at least one is a single mom. Perfect for an occupation like the emergency services.
And, hopefully, he taught them how to replace the battery in a smoke detector.
*cheep*
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*cheep*
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*cheep*
“I don’t know what that means.” /student
Fuck smoke detectors having to be hooked up the the electric. The one in the office next to my bedroom failed, going off maybe once a day at inopportune times until I pressed the test button. I tried removing that battery, but that didn’t help. I didn’t feel like risking a shock when I tried removing the thing wholesale, especially since Dad is a retired electrician.
Good lord what turgid prose. Why do lefties all write like that?
Because they think it makes them sound educated.
Christyn Lewis says this day is important because it creates more diversity in the field
Left unexplained: how diversity of appearance and sex improves any outcomes or provides more effective response.
Baseball so white.
Major League Baseball (MLB) earned a C+.
Apparently, a group called the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) grades the league each year on its dedication to inclusivity.
The 2023 MLB Racial and Gender Report Card, the official title of the score card, ruled that the league earned a B for racial hiring practices and a C for gender hiring practices, thus the overall grade of C+.
The grade drew the ire of ESPN. Particularly, some guy named Richard Lapchick, who ESPN bills as “a human rights activist, pioneer for racial equality, expert on sports issues, scholar and author.”
You act like MLB has not discovered the Dominican Republic. Now do basketball and football. Enough with this melanin bullshit.
You know, it is actually illegal to discriminate based on race and sex in hiring.
These grifters need to take a bat to the head.
LOL that ship sailed half a century ago.
Ships can still be sunk.
Since the WNBA is doing so well, time for a WMLB?
Black Latinos taking the jobs of white Anglos? Don’t you dare talk about it.
Black Latinos taking the jobs of black Anglos? We need a national conversation.
Joe gets some side-boob.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/15/actress-eva-longoria-expertly-handles-pro-creeper-boob-groping-manuever-by-joe-biden/#more-247815
I never want to hear about the way women are treated again from Longoria.
It’s typical for liberal women to complain about conservative misogynistic men while simultaneously tolerating and making excuses for the liberal men who behave like assholes yet hold the “correct” opinions.
Just like Weinstein as long as he was making careers.
2 thoughts.
1. That was expertly done. She clearly has experience maneuvering guys.
2. I am not convinced this was an attempt by sleepy Joe to cop a feel. They were hugging with his hands around her back and she pulled back, creating the contact. Her move was quick enough to be “Yeah, don’t need this much hugging, get me outta here” and put him into an involuntary swipe. Which she was ready for and guided his hands away.
None of which is to deny that she would have called it sexual assault had Trump done it.
I saw it the same way. Joe’s hands stayed on her side as she moved away. I didn’t see his hands moving toward her side boob.
The fake friendliness of excessive body contact is off putting. Shake hands with strangers. Maybe.
Good morning, Neph!
Great songs! I haven’t heard LTJ in forever. They are as good as I remember.
Climate change equals turbulence huh? I wonder if the people who write those retarded articles really believe or if they just pretend they are writing for the Bee.
Ukraine has fuck all to do with NATO so go fuck yourself.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that a loss to Russia could ultimately force the U.S. to choose between the “collapse of NATO” or going to war.
“If Ukraine would lose, if Russia would occupy Ukraine, Russia will continue going towards Baltic countries, Poland, etcetera,” Zelensky said in an interview with NBC News. “And they will start war with one of the NATO countries, and at this moment, the U.S. would have to choose the collapse of NATO or go to war.”
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are all members of NATO, as is Poland. An attack on any member of the alliance is “considered an attack against them all” under the treaty organization’s principle of collective defense.
Zelensky brought up the possibility of NATO involvement in response to the suggestion from some Republican politicians that the U.S. needs to limit its spending on the war in Ukraine.
Given NATO stopped having a purpose when the Soviet Union fell… I know which of those choices would be fine with me anyway.
We need to attack every country now before they get an opportunity to drag us into a war by attacking NATO.
I know Russia bad but honestly, who the fuck honestly thinks they’re going to attack a NATO country?
So they’re not doing that now? The territory they’re current occupying isn’t Ukraine? Glad up cleared that up, Z.
“If Ukraine would lose, if Russia would occupy Ukraine, Russia will continue going towards Baltic countries, Poland, etcetera,” Zelensky said in an interview with NBC News. “And they will start war with one of the NATO countries, and at this moment, the U.S. would have to choose the collapse of NATO or go to war.”
“Would you like to play a game of dominoes?”
Mathew Broderick comeback vehicle?
How about a nice game of chess?
News of the weird, futbol edition:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/16/sport/usa-mexico-ends-early-homophobic-chants-spt-intl/index.html
USA vs Mexico soccer match stopped because of “homophobic chanting”.
As is my odd obsession of late, my interest quickly turned to the journalism. The focus of the article is “homophobic chants”. They repeatedly say “discriminatory chants” and “homophobic chants”, but decline to tell us anything about those chants. Who was chanting? Who or what was the target? What did they chant?
Nothing.
Somehow a chant from the crowd is credited as the reason the Ref stopped the game 4 minutes early. But our would-be Cronkite can’t relate any of the pertinent information?
(The game did involve tons of dirty play and fights and multiple red cards)
They did include the fact that Mexico has been fined for their fans chanting homophobic things in the past, which allows one to infer that it was Mexican fans doing the chanting. But they do not actually state this.
I expected more from my high school paper.
Related…
Does the school paper exist any more?
None of my kids schools have a school paper. The kids don’t do the yearbook either. When I was a kid, the newspaper and the yearbook were both credited classes.
By my time they had become extracurricular activities.
Not sure if either still exist.
It’s always nice to see Los Putos get their asses kicked.
“discriminatory chants” and “homophobic chants”
Sounds like some faggy bullshit. Grow a pair.
Who was chanting? Who or what was the target? What did they chant?
Doesn’t really matter. These cuntes are trying to suck out whatever fun remains in sports.
I wonder what happens when social credit scores come to Latin America?
Having been to a Latin American futbol game or two, I think I can tell you with some confidence who was chanting homophobically.
Because eggshells.
The Mexican team has been punished time and time again because of their fans but I guess we’re not allowed to draw the obvious conclusion anymore.
PS. I boycotted the thing. This matchup is always plotted for maximum drama and targeted at the immigrant community. The only broadcast available to me was in Spanish. Fuck that.
The Left will not admit that for most of the world, LGBT is not cool, and while things were moving in the general right direction, the last couple years have set that far back in many communities. Stopping a match early because of something a fan said, will not help your cause among that group.
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Blossom Puzzle, June 16
Letters: C E I N L S T
My score: 368 points
My longest word: 14 letters
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Blossom Puzzle, June 16
Letters: C E I N L S T
My score: 411 points
My longest word: 13 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Austria’s Bernie Sanders Beat the Establishment and Became Party Leader
For years, Austria’s Social Democrats have embraced the values of the free market and lost ever more working-class votes. Now, left-winger Andreas Babler has surged to the party leadership — and promises to transform his country’s politics.
https://jacobin.com/2023/06/austria-andreas-babler-bernie-sanders-social-democrats-establishment-neoliberalism
You were president for 8 years. Suck your wife’s dick on this bs.
Democratic strategist David Axelrod interviewed Obama for CNN on Thursday and asked the former president what he thought of Scott’s discussions of race. Scott, meanwhile, argued that Obama missed an opportunity to bring the country together following his 2008 and 2012 elections.
“I think there’s a long history of African-American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say, ‘Everything’s great, and we can make it.’ Nikki Haley I think has a similar approach,” Obama told Axelrod when asked about Scott. “I’m not being cynical about Tim Scott individually, but I am maybe suggesting the rhetoric of ‘Can’t we all get along’… That has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present.”
Obama went on to argue that candidates must address racial disparities in the justice system and elsewhere if they want to be taken seriously when they talk about American unity.
These people have a lucrative racket in this race shit, and more importantly, can use it to keep the black voting population on the plantation (through fear mongering, not by doing anything to help them one bit), which is essential for them to be able to keep claiming they don’t steal elections. Did I mention a lot of them get real rich extorting everyone under threat of calling the extorted out as racialist?
Why did you reflexively impugn a white cop as racist when your friend went on a racist rant after police investigated a report of a break-in at his house?
Why did you send Eric Holder to Ferguson and block the truth of “Hands up don’t shoot” for a month under threats of federal criminal prosecution and more so that Black Lives Matter could spread lies and create riots?
Why did you weigh in on Treyvon Martin and endorse the “he is a 12 year old kid who could be an Obama and who just wanted skittles” version of the story when he was actually a rather violent 17 year old kid who violently assaulted a guy who perhaps correctly suspected him of being behind a series of crimes in the neighborhood and currently scouting for new opportunities?
When did you learn that “Hands up, don’t shoot” was a lie? Why didn’t you ever address this and tell people they were wrong?
When race-based riots broke out, why did you never tell people to go home? Why did you never show up on sight and tell them they were wrong?
What role did your “grass roots” organizations play on organizing riots and protests?
How did you coordinate with the press to ensure that your version of reality was the version they would cover … in advance… before events even occurred.
…… see, there are lots of questions a competent reporter could ask on the topic.
“Why did you send Eric Holder to Ferguson and block the truth of “Hands up don’t shoot” for a month under threats of federal criminal prosecution and more so that Black Lives Matter could spread lies and create riots?”
Do you have a link/source for that?
Widespread racism was over in this country by the 80s. Racial strife and the political and grifting opportunities that come with weren’t going to start themselves.
“Lenin loved children”, chinese poster, 1982
https://twitter.com/PicturesSoc/status/1669297196167237632
PPP loves children too.
Especially their hair.
That pic is bullshit. The marxists destroyed religion and Christmas, so claiming Lenin allowed that shit to be celebrated is bunk. And the only “toys” kids got in the U.S.S.R. were notebooks and pencils so they could write down the things the adults said against the state for the KGB to act upon.
Are you saying that Soviet propaganda was dishonest?
Dude….
Relevant.
Children not named Romanov *pow pow pow* ::sounds of bodies falling into a well::
I’m sure there will be opposition from the
Democraticestablishment to this.https://news.antiwar.com/2023/06/15/czech-president-says-russians-in-the-west-should-be-monitored-like-japanese-were-in-the-us-during-wwii/
They can reopen some of those “monitoring” camps left over from WWII.
Amazing how the devious Russkies are making faux democrats worldwide drop the mask. It’s both pathetic and concerning.
How convenient.
Georgia election officials have been aware of existing vulnerabilities in the state’s voting software for more than two years but continue to insist the system is safe and won’t be updated until after 2024, according to a report that was unsealed this week as part of a controversial court case in Georgia.
The report’s findings focus on weaknesses in software for certain Dominion Voting machines. Those weaknesses were previously verified by federal cybersecurity officials, who urged election officials across the country to update their systems.
A lawyer for Georgia’s top election official, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, recently told a federal court that officials would forgo installing Dominion’s security patches until after the 2024 presidential election.
Georgia election officials insist it is highly unlikely that the vulnerabilities will be exploited in real attacks. Those officials also say they have already carried out a number of security recommendations without having to update the system’s software.
“Upgrading the system will be a massive undertaking, and our election officials are evaluating the scope of, and time required for the project,” Mike Hassinger, a spokesperson for the Georgia secretary of state’s office, told CNN when asked about the delay.
We won’t need faux elections after 2024 anyway.
It’s amazing to me that a VP with Dominion was bragging about how he was going to prevent a Trump presidency in public, yet we’re crazy conspiracy theorists for suspecting that a closed-source electronic voting system might not be on the up and up.
Actually, that’s not amazing. It’s amazing that anyone actually believes them.
When you control the legal and judicial apparatus, the law doesn’t apply to you.
When you control the legal and judicial apparatus, th law doesn’t apply.
“It’s amazing to me that a VP with Dominion was bragging about how he was going to prevent a Trump presidency in public”
I must have missed that.
Director, my bad…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/fing-idiots-voted-trump-eric-coomer-admits-oath-dominion-executives-share-extreme-far-left-beliefs/
Hearsay on that count, but…
Wow
“completely morons”?
Forget voting machines. They still have not done the audit of the 2020 election required by law.
And nobody cares.
If we have a majority of our ballots cast by mail, with no witness required, no method for proving who voted and zero audits of signatures (which is lame security to begin with), how, precisely, are we supposed to pretend that we have a secure election system?
lol. Batman Forever was a terrible movie, I don’t see how any change could save it.
Moar nipples?
Probably. And bulging crotch shots.
Maybe it’s the butthole cut.
I feel sorry for the VFX people on that movie.
Tinye Swimwear FULL SHOW | Miami Swim Week 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8yw-mQaBIM
I hope Swissy is OK.
What I find humorous is that that article links to another story from a month ago about plans to evacuate the village. In that piece, there’s a video with the reporter translating the old lady’s comments from Schwyzerdutsch to Real German.
I heard he had gotten stoned.
Here’s an article in English about it
And, again more humorously, just one week ago THE SCIENCE!!! was saying the risk of what just happened actually happening had decreased.
“Having the mountain fall on our town is just the price we pay for living in an unstable landscape.”
Look, there was a consensus, OK.
Obama went on to argue that candidates must address racial disparities in the justice system and elsewhere if they want to be taken seriously when they talk about American unity.
Considering how much he did for unity in this country, I really respect his opinion.
They try to unify the country by crushing opposition.
When Obama talks about unity, I assume he means blacks being unified against whitey.
I can’t believe reddit dipshits, using a service they don’t pay a cent for, are slitting their own throats. Keep up your walkout, dumbasses.
The reddit echo chamber is nuclear grade.
I am stunned by the massive numbers of avowed communists on Reddit.
There was a time that “communist” was a slur, and they would call themselves “democratic socialists” and hector you with definitional minutia. Now? They loudly proclaim their Marxism. There are even groups with extremely high numbers of active members on bizarre communist subjects like r/antiwar
Reddit seems determined to promote this ideology too, as it regularly pushes into my feed, despite my unflinching focus on science groups (and r/whatisthisthing. So sue me. I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer too)
I only go there if an internet search turns up a specific answer to a specific question living on that site.
Apparently still a slur for some. I was sitting next to a nice young banker last night before I gave a talk on Gen. Custer. During the Q&A period, someone asked me Custer’s attitude toward Indians. I said he wasn’t the one who said “Only good Indian is a dead Indian.” Young Banker piped right up and said, sotto voce, “Only good communists are dead communists.”
Reddit’s business model works on the concept of free labor.
So Reddit itself needs to keep that in mind too. I look at it as “fun times” for both.
Yep, that’s the flip side of the coin. Reddit is worthless without the content being provided for free by its users.
And the moderation and management of that content is done for free.
Their business model has a revenue problem is what it boils down to. The AI scraping API charges is supposed to fill that hole.
The Bambi remake will only be worth it if they make the hunting scene graphic.
I’ve been flying a lot more in recent years. Turbulence is not increasing.
I don’t understand why the person feels shame about the weight loss shot. If anyone asks, it’s none of their business.
Time to party like it’s 1865!
Include the field dressing?
That is the part I’m waiting for!
Paul Verhoven or GTFO!
Superhero movies bore me.
https://twitter.com/fuckedupfoods/status/1668348641910611970
for people with trypophobia
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Homemade Sub by Jamie
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1668968288322297856
this just says dry to me
Are those Quinoa globs on a dry whole grain roll?
You’re right, the complete lack of any sauce or condiments reads as “dessicated”
Where’s the gun?
You don’t need to protect that, no one would steal it.
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Minted Lamb by Josh
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1669295313369063427
10/10
Would crush.
I don’t understand why the person feels shame about the weight loss shot. If anyone asks, it’s none of their business.
Since I have no intention of RTFA, let me indulge my penchant for wild speculation. People take some pill and lose weight. Their friends and acquaintances notice, and compliment them. This shames them, because it means all their friends and loved ones secretly were more or less secretly revolted by their grotesque fatness.
What did I win?
Take a pill, take a shot, whatever.
Let me get this straight. An avalanche missed a village. What are they complaining about?
Climate change, free markets run amok and racism. Try and keep up.
“Tear-jerking moment black boy, 10, gives impassioned speech about racism at Oregon city council meeting: Kids call him ‘monkey’ and the N-word – with one girl telling him ‘I would hit you but that’s animal abuse'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12201555/Black-boy-10-gives-impassioned-speech-racism-Oregon-city-council-meeting.html
Bullshit.
The twist – the other kids are the same race as he is, and two are his siblings.
/but I think it’s all made up by an activist parent.
IT’S HIS TRUTH!
You don’t get an individualized truth.
“Tear-jerking”
I imagine it is if you’re a sucker. I have some magic beans I can sell you too.
‘Why should us black people suffer from racism, when there are other races doing murders.
Statistically, blacks assault/kill other blacks in droves and are the primary violent crime perpetrators across the spectrum. But nice try, whoever this poor kid’s parents that made him do this are.
Black people make up about 12% of the population.
Black people are responsible for about 50% of murders and violent crime.
The math isn’t even very hard.
Progtard: Is that 50% number adjusted for climate change ‘s effects?
Colonialism.
Are you sure about those statistics? Aren’t all black kids gentle giants turning their life around and thinking about going to college?
Only after being mortally wounded.
“Mayor Ed Fitch arrived at work Monday morning and found that someone had placed a dead raccoon against his office door.
With it, there was a racist note directed at Redmond City Councilor Clifford Evelyn, who is black. ”
JFC.
Yeah, I also call BS.
My middle school daughter got in a minor league scrap with another girl on the periphery of her group. Words exchanged, other girl threatens my kid, hours later physically assaults her outside of class, threatens her again.
The other kids present report it to the AP.
AP calls me to let me know what happened. Minimizes it, and offers a mediation with the other family. “Fine, whatever. Sounds like kids being kids… let me talk to my daughter and find out what happened and I will get back to you.”
By lunch the next day, they have filed paperwork with the district that puts us on notice that our daughter is being investigated for Bullying. The district has a zero tolerance policy on bullying.
They are calling in all the other girls friends and asking them to recall anything that my daughter has ever said to insult this girl.
They are quite pointedly not talking to any of the witnesses of the assault.
Or my daughter.
When I talked to the AP, she said that my daughter never mentioned any past incidents, which means they didn’t need to talk to her.
Time for my inner Mama bear.
After a pointed meeting with the principle and the AP where I pointed out that by their own definition of bullying, this investigation was impossible to sustain, since they had a primary record of their “victime” following her “bully”, repeatedly making public threats, approaching her while she was amongst her peers and physically assaulting her…. all of which are despositive by the district definition.
Principle assures me it will be handled (implying that she has determined that she has an idiot AP who is the root of the problem.)
Important facts left to the end intentionally: other kid is black and has 2 relatives on staff. Clearly the relatives told her how to work the system. Bullying is the N-word of the school system these days. Also, idiot AP is white and principle is black… which at first blush seems opposite… but being white made idiot AP easy to manipulate by black staff members. Being black allowed principle to call bullshit on the whole thing.
The ultimate point of this story is that calling someone a racial slur is worse than punching them in the face in today’s schools.
This is not conjecture. This is literally true.
The kid who assaulted my girl didn’t even get a suspension. Bullying carries high minimum consequences, and they lean toward expulsion. We even have a law that says that if your kid is bullied (by a specific definition), you can claim a scholarship to pay for private school.
And any attempts to unravel this bullshit system will result in howls of systemic racism.
The only crimes the left left feels absolutely compelled to deal with are thought crimes and anything their political enemies are about.
It’s all about creating a legal and regulatory framework that can be manipulated by the preferred voting bloc.
For a lot of people, it’s all about working the system as opposed to actually working. The ends are all that matters. The means are irrelevant.
important facts left to the end intentionally: other kid is black….
This seemed pretty obvious to me early on since AP went right on to trying to blame your daughter.
Time for my inner Mama bear.
You’re transitioning?
Thankfully, it didn’t feel like we had any bullying when I was in school.
We called it character building experiences. Sticks & stones and all that shit.
One of the most stupid things I have seen is people that have never faced real violence demand everyone else accept their definition of insults or things they don’t like being spoken as violence. Maybe we should have everyone experience a good ass kicking so they can better identify what violence really is.
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The buyer signs the papers at 1:30pm today. I get off work at 2pm.
Whatever shall I do…?
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How’s that neighbor looking?
Masturbate?
Say wut?
OPINION: Ultimately, hate of bicyclists comes from the same place as racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia: a desire to cling to the status quo power arrangements that favor some over others, writes Ruth Malone.
https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1669142787474833408
It comes from the same place hate of fucking Prius drivers and other such smug douchebags that fart in a champaign flute then sniff it as if it is a fine bouquet comes from.
And the fact that some of them are assholes that hog the road and are oblivious to their surroundings. At least they aren’t trying to bang the kids yet unlike the transes.
Fuck you, Ruth.
Hatred of cyclists comes from their relentless cuntiness.
This right here.
As a sometime cyclist, I can testify that car driver cuntiness is every bit as high, if not more.
From my experience, semi drivers are the best about making sure both sides are aware of where the other are. SUV drivers are the second to the worst, especially those who don’t grasp the concept of turn signals. The absolute worst? Cops.
Bicycles have the same problem as motorcycles, only worse. Drivers will look right through you and not even see you.
I don’t think it is even primarily a “bad driver” thing. I think it is built in to how our brains work. We are pattern recognition engines. While driving, we are probably primarily using our “threat assessment” circuitry. Since bicycles pose no threat, our brain might completely filter it out of our perception.
Brains do this continuously. This is how that “watch this crime scene video” demonstration works, where you don’t notice the guy in a gorilla suit walking through.
This. I think the way your brain is processing the images that it’s continually getting (and as part of the threat thing), bikes and motorcycles are basically invisible. Their shape and mass and speed are just so different from all the other dynamic (car) inputs that they’re filtered out.
This may be why we were instructed, in the suburbs in my yoot, to ride facing traffic. On-coming vehicles could see you and vice versa. No one in my wide circle every got hit.
Agreed that truck drivers are usually good. The worst are Asians in minivans and Prius drivers.
If you wouldn’t dress up like a Ninja, ride around at night in the rain slicing through traffic, ignoring stop signs and stop lights, and then get pissy when some driver nearly clips you, I would be more sympathetic.
Fucking ninja terrorists is what they are.
Yes. All cyclists do this.
I don’t know about anyone else, but ninja terrorist is exactly the effect I’m going for when riding.
/puts on high vis bib shorts, bright jersey, and turns on the bike lights
a desire to cling to the status quo power arrangements
But who has the power these days? Who are you allowed to criticize?
Nope. The hatred of cyclists is because too many cyclists are raging assholes who don’t understand that share the road does not mean they’re more important than the cars that can kill you.
The flip side of this are the raging asshole drivers who think bikes shouldn’t be allowed on roads.
I’m not raging. If it can’t maintain the speed limit, it shouldn’t be on that road.
*glares at 5mph farm tractor in ‘no passing’ zone*
If you’re talking about highways, I agree.
Tractors are “slow moving vehicles” and must be marked as such when traveling on a road, in Ohio, at least. If your state laws don’t allow you to pass slow moving vehicles regardless of road markings, that’s your state’s problem.
You see, Ohio is flat. You can see oncoming traffic around those tractors easily.
Most New York rural roads wind around hills, so oncoming traffic is obscured in many places, these get marked as no passing zones. Thus “no passing” means “no passing so you don’t end up in a head-on collision”.
Agreed. Thankfully, where I am, there are lots of roads and trails through the parks. Even the most ignorant driver has given up trying to say the cyclists shouldn’t be on the road through the parks, and instead just avoid driving through the parks during the warmer months.
I don’t see drivers setting up events like Critical Mass and Slow Rolls though.
Yeah, those are straight up raging asshole events. If someone drove (slowly) into one I would definitely sympathize with them.
Around here it is cyclists on the sidewalk.
This is an urban area. Many roads are too narrow for the number of lanes, or too heavily trafficked for safe cycling.
So people take to the sidewalk. And not always on the correct side of the road.
Someone approaching at 15mph from behind on the left when you are making a left hand turn is hard to account for.
We also have heavy vegetation near the roads, so seeing what is coming down the sidewalk as you pull out is often very difficult. I have had people ride out right in front of me as I am turning right leaving a side road.. coming against the flow of traffic, up the sidewalk, behind a 10 foot hedge, they just cross in front of a car pulling out to turn into heavy traffic. Luckily, I have not hit one yet. But I did see some guy flip over the hood of a car pulling out to make that turn… put a good sized dent in the wheel well flare. Must have been riding at close to 20mph up the sidewalk of a 4 lane road, against traffic, crossing a side street without stopping or looking. Lucky he didn’t get seriously hurt.
Also cyclists versus pedestrians.
Every single day I deal with cyclists blowing throw pedestrian crosswalks against a red light without so much as a pause.
They are also known for hit and runs on pedestrians.
Almost like the cyclists have a hard time avoiding slower moving people that move in unpredictable ways….
Canes thrust in bike wheels might have the desired effect.
The world would be a much better place had sociology never been invented.
Relevant
The truth can be painful.
LOL
Well played, sir.
Spectacular!
Ha!
I’m not a fan of ‘share the road’. Expecting a 200# vehicle that tops out at ~30mph to share space with a 4000# vehicle that cruises at 70+mph seems like a protest against the laws of physics.
But if bicycles are going to share the road, they should be subject to the same rules of the road, including the ones about stop signs, signaling, and impeding traffic. Enforcing those rules might help with the festering hatred.
Around here, and I assume everywhere, bicycles aren’t allowed on highways. The majority of what we’re talking about here is city streets where the speed limit is 35 and under.
And yes, shitty bicyclists should be written up for not following the rules of the road.
On city streets, bicycles reduce their speed proportionality. They’re more of an impediment there, rather than less.
Agreed. And I dunno about elsewhere but in my state they are required to by law.
Here cyclists are required to obey the road laws as well, I have yet to even hear of any cyclist getting a ticket for anything though (other than the rare story of someone catching an OVI/DUI on a bicycle… generally for falling over/vomiting in front of a cop).
I’ve been given a warning for running a stop sign. There were no cars at the intersection, but there was a cop parked on the side street and he pulled me over.
I’ll confess to running stop signs if nobody is at the intersection. If cars are there, I won’t necessarily come to a full stop, but I’ll let everyone take their turn as if I was in a car. I’ll also occasionally run a red light because sometimes a bike isn’t enough to trigger the sensor and the light won’t change, but I always stop first and make sure nobody is coming.
I’ll roll the stop signs if I’m the only vehicle in sight on side streets. For the lights, most of the ones I’ll get stuck at where the bike won’t trigger the sensor do have buttons to trigger the walk sign, so I’ll roll up the curb to push those and wait. The few times I have to make a left at an intersection of two busy roads, I will at times go forward, then turn around on the sidewalk to point in the direction I need to go, and wait for the light to change.
Space priorities….
United States Space Force Lt. Gen. DeAnna M. Burt admitted during a recent Department of Defense (DoD) LGBTQ+ PRIDE event that she would allow access to “gender-affirming care” to take priority over qualifications when assigning officers.
1. Why are they having PRIDE events?
2. How has this statement not resulted in her immediate removal?
They can reopen some of those “monitoring” camps left over from WWII.
People are a lot easier to monitor if you round them up and put them all in one place.
OPINION: Ultimately, hate of bicyclists comes from the same place as racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia: a desire to cling to the status quo power arrangements that favor some over others, writes Ruth Malone.
Hatred of the Not Like Me, eh, Ruthless?
AKA Collectivism, which, of course, no one on the hard left ever preaches or practices.
Paul Verhoven or GTFO!
I want a Sam Peckinpah version of Bambi.
Early Sam Pekinpah. A Bambi/The Killer Elite mashup would only be interesting as a piece of pseudo-Dadaist artwork.
Fenix Ammo with a PSA.
I can’t wait to see the follow up.
Heh. Everybody loves ANAl.
So, this is not bad at all, right?
Rebuttal.
The new Snoop Dogg JackintheBox commercial with Meotch is first rate.
“Springfield College is committed to valuing and validating the gender identity and expression of members of the campus community,” its website states. …
The “gendered” nouns to avoid include: “mother/father,” “sister/brother,” “mankind,” “man-made,” “boyfriend/girlfriend,” “husband/wife,” “son/daughter,” “freshman,” and “congressman.”
Gender inclusion involve removing gender. Seems legit.
Did anybody else who watched last night’s movie (not Star crash, the other one) flash back to yesterday’s discussion about “Who owns this land?” when the Space Bad Guys auctioned off Earth from a billion miles away?
By the way- that was not a good movie.
If evil Disney starts dropping some of the woke because that shit always will flop China where the people by the left’s standards would be seriously racist for looking down on other races/people, I will still consider it a win for the world.
Let’s play Who’s the Stooge
Bill Gates and Xi Jinping met Friday, marking the Chinese leader’s first known one-on-one meeting with a Western business figure in years.
Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft (MSFT) and world’s fifth-richest man, is in Beijing this week for his first trip to the Chinese capital since 2019, before the pandemic.
During their meeting, Xi called on Gates to help promote US-China relations, greeting the tech tycoon warmly. “I am very happy to see you. We haven’t seen each other for more than three years … and you are an old friend of ours,” Xi said, according to Chinese state media.
Xi went on to tell Gates that he was “the first American friend I’ve seen this year.”
“I always believe that the foundation of the US-China relationship is in the people. I am placing my hope in the American people,” the Chinese leader was quoted as saying.
They’re all on the same team.
This is sick and needs to stop.
NEW: @DailySignal obtained a video from a Charlottesville elementary school’s “student led” celebration of Pride Month where fourth-graders tell the rest of the elementary school about LGBTQ acceptance.
Asked if parents had been made aware of this pride celebration, I was told: “We have not communicated with families every time we had a cultural observation as part of these morning meetings. However, we will do so moving forward.”
Because that’s all it is.
The left has embraced practices that means they will reduce the reproduction of kids (which would have their ideological beliefs) so they have to come up with some way to prevent the other side, which is having all the kids, from ideologically taking over in time. The solution was to indoctrinate the children of those with unapproved beliefs.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/norman-podhoretz-allen-ginsberg
It should be noted that Ginsberg was an avowed pedophile and pederast. For so much of the modern Left, their main objective has been to satisfy their hedonistic impulses on someone else’s dime and without any moral judgement.
Gates stepped down from his role as Microsoft chairman nearly a decade ago, and left the board in 2020.
Gates’ primary focus on his trip is “to visit with partners who have been working on global health and development challenges” with his family’s eponymous foundation for more than a decade, he said on Twitter.
The billionaire’s trip to China is the latest in a string of recent visits by global business leaders.
Last month, the CEOs of Tesla (TSLA), JPMorgan (JPM) and Starbucks (SBUX) all flew into the country, meeting with government ministers or state officials. That followed similar trips in recent months by the leaders of Apple (AAPL), Samsung (SSNLF), Aramco, Volkswagen (VLKAF), among others.
A procession of ring-kissers.
Did Gates swing by Wuhan?
Talked to a buddy who’s on an international committee of boys’ schools. They’ve been trying to come up with a legal policy concerning non-binary, etc…
The NE US schools submitted their predictably leftist proposal and the Australian rep leaned over to him and said “What the fuck is wrong with you Yanks, mate?”
“We do not recognize made-up designations. Students must have one or more Y chromosomes and may not pretend to be other than a boy.”
policy concerning non-binary
It ain’t real. There is only the binary.
So, the Solaris team is doing a hardware refresh. This is a non-issue for my new job, but a big deal in my old group (we were almost exclusively on Solaris boxes). I’m a little bit emotional towards one of the database boxes because I built the thing and shepherded it for years. It is also the single point of failure for one client agency (Not my fault, when I worked for said agency they didn’t want to pay for redendancy and resisted upgrades until there was a catastrophic incident).
My old team didn’t let me do the knowledge transfer my way (which would have focused on understanding how the pieces fit together) insisting instead on transferring documentation on routine tasks. Now they’re running around like headless chickens because moving this machine to new hardware means dealing with everything reliant on it. I could do it from memory, but they didn’t want to learn how the pieces fit together. (Hint, it’s like a plate of spaghetti)
Sanctimonious cunte.
The historic indictment of former President Donald Trump, which includes 31 counts alleging violations of the Espionage Act, presents a crossroads. Republicans, including my colleagues in the House, can either perpetuate the former president’s lies about this investigation, effectively taking a wrecking ball to the rule of law, or they can join Democrats in condemning flagrant lawlessness that risks our nation’s secrets, war plans and the lives of our troops.
If they embrace the former, we will see more political violence, potentially of the magnitude we saw on Jan. 6, 2021. If they choose the latter, they give our country what may be its last best chance to escape the vitriolic vortex the former president has sucked us into over the past eight years.
Now is the time for my Republican colleagues to make that choice.
You still banging Chinese spies?
I’m not lying, you are. And if you don’t capitulate to us, there will be violence.
Today, in poisoning the well
Michael Cohen, the longtime personal attorney and fixer for Donald Trump, delivered a blunt warning to any lawyers considering joining the former president’s legal team.
“Donald doesn’t pay,” Cohen said on CNN on Wednesday evening. “He does not pay legal fees, whether you are successful for him or not.”
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Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, lying to Congress and other charges, which he said was done on behalf of Trump.
He has since cooperated with investigators and turned into a prominent critic of the former president.
What would any of these people do without Trump to fling shit at?
Trump paid enough that Cohen stayed on with him for years.
Eh, Trump has a history of stiffing the little guy, which is one reason I never liked him. Cohen may not be “little,” but he may have stayed in for the big payday that never came, and now he’s in jail. If he really wasn’t getting paid through all that time, should he have cut his losses sooner? Sure. But which of us hasn’t succumbed to the sunk-cost fallacy?
Check out the 65 Project, an org trying to get Trump-aligned attorneys disbarred, purportedly to protect elections.
Ep. 4 Wannabe Dictator
This may be Tucker’s best yet.
If they embrace the former, we will see more political violence, potentially of the magnitude we saw on Jan. 6, 2021.
OH
MY
GOD!
Rivers of blood? Trillions of dollars’ worth of destruction? An entire generation lost?
But enough about Covid quarantines.
HEY! Tinky is here!
BAZINGA!
Had my drug screen for New Job™. Since they use hair, the tech went for my armpit.
Asshole dry-shaved it nearly clean. At least part of me is ready for the pool. Or beach.
I shoulda had him do public hair then Id be Speedo-ready.
“Since they use hair, the tech went for my armpit.”
That’s weird.
Im not very hirsute. And the hair on my head (what remains) is too short.
Actually, my hairline isnt receding- those are thigh-burns.
“Leftist Judge Lewis Kaplan Sets Trial Date Against Trump for Saying E. Jean Carroll “Is Not My Type” and Denying He Raped Her – Which Even a NY Jury Wasn’t Buying
Corrupt Clinton-appointed Judge Lewis Kaplan has set an early 2024 trial date for lunatic E. Jean Carroll’s original 2019 defamation case against former President Donald Trump.
Judge Lewis Kaplan set a trial date of Jan. 15, 2024, around the time of the first presidential primaries. This is the latest move by the Democrats to interfere in the 2024 election. The worthless Republican Party continues to ignore this tyranny.
Nutbag E. Jean Carroll claims then-President Trump “defamed her” in 2019 when he said she was “not my type” while denying that he raped her in a department store dressing room. The court is allowing this case to proceed – only because the defendant is Donald Trump.
A New York jury found Carroll’s accusations of rape to be ridiculous. Carroll can’t even remember the YEAR this supposedly occurred. She continued to be a huge fan of Trump’s show for years – the guy she claims raped her. That’s weird. Even New Yorkers weren’t buying the garbage. But the court ordered Trump to pay Carroll, who he has never met, $5 million.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/leftist-judge-lewis-kaplan-sets-trial-date-against/
If the jury found the accusations ridiculous, how did the court side with her?
“‘I need to die’: Penn State chemistry professor begged cops to shoot him when they allegedly busted him performing sex acts on his pet dog”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12201263/Penn-State-professor-begged-cops-shoot-arrest-performing-sex-acts-pet-dog.html
OK, I’m not going to argue.
Steam is a funny name for a dog, but whatever…
So this dude was Lacy’s Uncle ?
If this guy can’t figure out how to off himself without the cops, that doesn’t inspire confidence in his academic credentials nor in Penn State’s hiring standards.
Home of Joe Paterno. Surprised it wasnt a kid.
And Jerry Sandusky.
And Michael Mann (hockey stick climate guy).
Expedite
President Joe Biden is “open” to removing a big hurdle to Ukraine’s membership in NATO after the war, even if the plan doesn’t specify when Kyiv would join the alliance.
According to two U.S. officials, Biden would welcome the removal of a Membership Action Plan, or MAP, for Ukraine’s entry into the military alliance. The MAP requires a candidate nation to make military and democratic reforms, with NATO’s advice and assistance, before a determination of membership can be made. By removing that requirement, Ukraine would still need to make some pro-democracy changes, but alliance members could at any point afterward unanimously welcome Kyiv into the club.
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Ivo Daalder, the U.S. ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013, called the MAP-removal idea a “significant” step. “It does mean that you can get to the process of membership much more speedily,” he said. “It tells the Ukrainians they are moving closer.”
The process can take years. North Macedonia, which joined the alliance in 2020, entered its MAP in 1999 when the country had a different official name, the Republic of Macedonia.
Let’s quit fiddling around and just declare them members retroactively.
“a twitch viewer came to my house and set my car on fire..”
https://twitter.com/KyleeCarterrr/status/1668785559693656069
https://kotaku.com/twitch-streamer-justfoxii-white-car-burn-fire-1850538948
It’s a Tesla. It spontaneously combusted.
It is not a Tesla. Two things:
Fuck the author for not identifying the car correctly, basic journalism.
Fuck the author for turning around and claiming violence against women is out of control. Yes, the vandaliser is a psychopath that needs to be locked up. Probably even voted for Biden. Concentrate on the act of vandalism, not some wider thing you wish to tie it to. And it was vandalism. No human was attacked.
Sorry to sound so bitchy. No sleep, and I HATE shitty journalists with a passion.
Dupes and puppets
MISSOULA, Mont. — Grace Gibson-Snyder can remember when, at the ripe old age of 16, she asked her parents if she could join a lawsuit, along with 15 other young Montanans, that argues the state’s dependence on fossil fuels is directly tied to “dangerous climate disruption,” which directly harms them and violates their constitutional rights.
A little more than three years later, she appeared at the Clark County Courthouse in Helena, Montana, for the start of a trial that legal experts say could set a major precedent regarding the government’s responsibility to protect future generations from climate change. And beyond the legal end, the effort has become among the most high-profile efforts by young Americans to push for climate action.
“It never crossed any of our minds that we’d be on national television or having this kind of groundbreaking case,” Gibson-Snyder, 19, said.
“Never crossed your minds” you say. Stop it. You’re killing me.
You should be suing the people who have poisoned your minds with this scary campfire story bogeyman nonsense, you pathetic dopes.
I’ll confess to running stop signs if nobody is at the intersection. If cars are there, I won’t necessarily come to a full stop, but I’ll let everyone take their turn as if I was in a car. I’ll also occasionally run a red light because sometimes a bike isn’t enough to trigger the sensor and the light won’t change, but I always stop first and make sure nobody is coming.
Conservation of momentum is reasonable as long as it’s safe, in my view.
The start of the trial was a victory in its own right. The legal challenge — which stretches back 12 years — has faced a variety of efforts to prevent it from coming to trial. The state attorney general’s office has slammed the legal effort, and tried to get the case dismissed eight times since the original complaint was filed.
In a statement to NBC News, Emilee Cantrell, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Austin Knudsen, said: “This case should have never made it to trial, and we look forward to proving that. It would be impossible for the court to grant relief to the plaintiffs that would remedy their alleged injuries. The plaintiffs are just looking for another line in their next documentary.”
It’s the kind of jab that this young group has gotten used to. Gibson-Snyder said she’s seen comments calling them “climate Nazis” and uneducated. Nate Bellinger, attorney for “Our Children’s Trust,” the nonprofit public interest law firm behind the lawsuit, said the high-profile trial in a Republican-run state has led to major backlash for the plaintiffs.
And Bellinger should be disbarred for malpractice.
The fact that our legal system protects evil people in the legal system that abuse it like this should gall everyone. A change to allow prosecutors that abuse their power for political and other reasons to themselves be locked up in pound-me-in-the-ass prison is a critical thing to address the abuses in the legal system.
If this guy can’t figure out how to off himself without the cops, that doesn’t inspire confidence in his academic credentials nor in Penn State’s hiring standards.
No kidding. A chemistry professor who can’t figure out how to do himself in?