The SS PAC 12
The Pac 12 continues its slow, painful trip into nothingness as Colorado decides to bail out. They might have wanted to actually do a TV deal before now. Ohtani is superhuman (again) as the Angels decided to make a run for the postseason rather than deal him at the trade deadline. Not much else in sports, as practice and qualifying at Spa haven’t started as of me writing this. So on to…the links!
Welcome to the future. Maybe. either way, it’s pretty neat. And I know it’s not really new, they’re just doing the manufacturing on-site. But expect to see more of this. And it sure beats eating bugs while living in the pods.
I’ve got a better solution: just don’t fill the vacancies. In fact, don’t replace any retiring workers and start shrinking down to the point you should probably have been at to begin with.
Nobody cares
Don’t throw me in that briar patch. Please, whatever you do. ::rolls eyes::
This will be an interesting investigation. It’s clearly self-defense, but we’ll see what happens after the grabbers start spinning the details and pressuring the DA.
Get a room, freaks.
I never thought I’d read this headline. And now you have to read it too.
I assume this will be called either racist or classist soon. It’s certainly stupid to not open on a Saturday. But our state DMV’s are probably no better than theirs if you live in an urban area. So I won’t mock them too much.
Yeah, sure. That’s what it was. Unless they want to admit she was preoccupied with dementia, I’m not buying what they’re selling.
Where have I seen this before? They’re wasting their time, IMO. He’s not the vulnerable Texas senator. Cornyn is. And I hope he gets primaried out of a job in 2026.
I forgot how retarded the intro to this video was. But it’s worth it. Such a great song. And so is this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and the weekend, dear friends.
With regard to the featured image – I wonder how many Freak shows out there that are just halls of mirrors.
Do they still do diplomatic conferences in Versailles?
Moved to Davos.
A freak show you say?
Morning, Sloopy — here’s hoping I can enjoy Spa (I do love the track). I just haven’t been feeling it this season — Max having warp drive compared to all the other cars doesn’t help.
Reads like the brother is aspiring to be the SEA SMITH of the ocean going mammals. And that he was a bit too big for his brother to handle.
So….
All together now…
Oh, the huge manatee!
You know you wanted to.
38-year-old Florida manatee dies after ‘high-intensity’ sex with brother
I thought this was gonna be an obituary for Lena Dunham… But I don’t know if she has a brother.
Interfering would have been homophobic bigotry, obvs.
I think the sprint race is gonna be iffy, but the forecast for Sunday is looking better. I think there will be a race. And I think it could be interesting with Max taking a grid penalty wherever he qualifies (if there is qualifying today).
Fingers crossed.
“Welcome to the future. Maybe. either way, it’s pretty neat. And I know it’s not really new, they’re just doing the manufacturing on-site. But expect to see more of this. And it sure beats eating bugs while living in the pods.”
No. Houses should be made of brick. That was set piece by piece by bricklayers.
Ah, but you did not specify that the bricklayer need be human. Print the mortar, have a robot place the bricks, print an insulating layer on the inside and outside because this is in Texas, and brick houses turn to ovens in that sun.
There was an NPR story about a ruined “historic” gas station. One of the things they mentioned is that the bricks for it were made onsite using a press ordered from Sears. Now I’m wondering about the firing process. How tricky is that?
It’s not tricky if you have good temperature control. It was likely done with a small kiln like those used for hobby ceramics.
It is grossy less efficient than the large kilns at central brickyards.
Europe still has an issue with wolves with oversized lung capacity, I take it.
Plenty of wolves in Romania… And bears and boars. Can be a nuisance sometimes.
We all know about the Children of the Night in Romania.
Not by the hair of their chinny chin chins.
https://www.seaoc.org/news/486967/Revisiting-Earthquake-Lessons%2014Unreinforced-Masonry-Buildings.htm
This is just Texas still refusing to give water breaks to construction workers!
Here we call bricklayers Mexicans.
How does one get the job of telling senators how to vote? That would be useful.
The one who collects the campaign contributions.
He was a lobbyist.
“I’ve got a better solution: just don’t fill the vacancies. In fact, don’t replace any retiring workers and start shrinking down to the point you should probably have been at to begin with.”
This is nonsense. The fewer people a department has, the less power the department head has. No one want less power.
Just replace their office chairs with electric chairs. Electric is all the rage these days, right?
My current boss is like that. We split up a small dev team of 6 people into two teams of 3 because he can now have two lines under his box on the org chart.
Who hasn’t overindulged with at a buffet?
OH THE HUGE MANATEE
See? Told ya you wanted to!
Ah, I see you beat me to it. *grumble*
It’s like I’ve got to work for attention now.
At first, given that it was Florida, I thought it was Jimmy Buffet that done it. Trying to be a poor man’s John McAfee.
Wasting away again in Manatee-ah-ville?
Yeah, but the poor dead guy was just trying to get bread to feed his family. Or something.
He was turning his life around.
Finding the drive to get it in gear?
He should’ve looked in the mirror sooner.
From the local/state governments link:
Yeah — that type of job has got to be a bit of living hell. One of those where when it is truly needed (kid is in an actual abusive situation, orphaned with no close kin, trafficked and needs a home, etc.), they’re doing God’s work. But I can just imagine how soul sucking it must be to see such things day after day — hopefully helping fix them helps,… but I know a lot of them can’t be fixed. The craptastic foster system (from all I’ve read, it is pretty much crap no matter where you go — suggesting there’s some basic human psychology driving it being crap) means most of these poor kids don’t get a fair chance. And that has to really hurt.
And then, of course — there’s the tinpot dictator / corrupt exploiter types that also go for these jobs… and who either make the problems worse or hassle folks who aren’t actually abusing their kids for political reasons or power trips. So it is tough to have as much sympathy.
Some days, “Humanity can really suck” is all you can say. To get back to your point — yeah, all for trimming local/state… when it comes to corrections / children’s services, etc… just thinking there are likely some very hard questions there. And not anything I’m anywhere near qualified to suggest fixes for. Bleah.
Ok… ending with this so I don’t bring everyone down.
Mrs. Q’s best friend worked in that area for a while straight out of grad school (child psychologist contracted to CPS). She only lasted about three years and is still scarred by what she had to deal with. Humanity does, indeed, suck.
This is also one of the problems cops face. They deal with the same sort of day in/day out encounters with scum. It has to take a toll on a person after a while.
I like to think I helped (inadvertently) with that once.
When I met my wife — it was when we were both working retail. As teenagers / early 20 year olds are wont to do when working retail and having little money… after work one evening, we went to go sit in a city park in my car.
Missing the sign that apparently the park (which had no gates or anything) closed at sunset.
Local PD rolls up and gives us tickets (along with attitude… very paranoid about me using my own pen to sign things, looking back — I think maybe the park must have been a local drug exchange [never saw anything] and he was somehow convinced I had a weapon… can’t really say).
We don’t get around to paying them early — so end up having to sit in the courthouse for the judge before we’re allowed to pay the fine.
While sitting there, we remember such lines from other cases as “If you just tell us where the gun is….” — so it was apparently that sort of day for the Court.
Then I get called up… judge reads the case… and his immediate question looking at this total square of a kid — “Was there a young lady in the car with you?”
Future Mrs. SDF-7 is called up… judge ends up cutting the fines to basically court fees and tells us to get out of there. I don’t remember specifics, but I’m pretty sure he was smiling and laughing to himself as he realized what the case was about… there was a definite “Oh, some normal shenanigans!” vibe.
Along those same lines, we adopted all three of our kids. To finalize the adoption, there is a court hearing in front of a judge. In all three cases, the judges said they look forward to adoptions, because all day they’re dealing with terrible situations, and every once in a while they get to deal with a case where everyone is happy. We even posed for pictures with some of them.
Same here.
But they didn’t make adoption easy. So many inspections…
Credit to people who can be adoptive/foster/step parents, but I think humans (and most animal species for that matter) are biologically programmed to not care as deeply for children that are not theirs, and in some cases, outright hostile and abusive. It’s a sad thing to see because there’s nothing more heartbreaking than seeing a child who is in a situation where they are truly screwed. Another side effect of policies that have made breaking up families easier.
the Angels decided to make a run for the postseason rather than deal him at the trade deadline
“All I need is two Nolan Ryans to replace Ohtani.”
There is that, but there are also some serious shortages in actually useful endeavors like transportation.
The key IMHO is to party like it’s 1995 and stop paying people to not work. That goes for “asylum seekers” too.
Post links are just as entertaining as Daily Mail links:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/florida-women-arrested-after-wild-brawl-one-bit-the-others-ear-off/
¡Kitteh!!
https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/worlds-largest-cat-is-almost-as-tall-as-a-4-year-old
That thing is going to kill and eat the kid.
That’s a pretty chill cat if you can dress it up.
That’s just because it’s currently well fed.
Miss a meal, bye bye kid.
UCS, thanks for that vison…
I always root for the predators too.
Maine Coon Cats tend to have an almost dog like disposition.
One of my former co-workers raised them.
Maine Coons are like that. Ours was 26 lbs of jello. When we took him on road trips, we just let him out of the car at rest stops because he couldn’t be bothered to run away.
Imaging waking to that cat sitting on you and staring.
Adorably terrifying!
^^ yup.
I thought the point of 3D printing was to make homes more affordable.
Novelty premium pricing?
Could be. The houses don’t look great inside or out, in fact, pretty poor for that kind of money.
But they have solar panels. It’s like they’re paying you!
Solar panels in Texas? I mean, yeah probably.
Lol – that subdivision is just a couple exits down from me and when a solar issue comes up on the always horrible “Nextdoor”, it’s never to talk about how great solar is. The funny thing is they all signed on the dotted line thinking just that because some salesperson filled their heads with the same bullshit they see/hear in mainstream media. If you can’t make solar work here, I don’t know where you can make it work financially.
I have solar from Tesla. It probably saves me about $350/year.
$350/year over 20 years is $7,000 which is about what the subsidy was. So on their own, solar doesn’t pay for itself.
I’d reckon they’ll follow the same trend for pricing as 4K tvs or any other tech-intensive device. The price will fall off pretty dramatically once they become commonplace and the initial investments for manufacturing equipment are paid off and construction practices are streamlined.
https://twitter.com/imniceandsmart/status/1684606384820584475
I had to google pcos
I remember PCDOS… but yeah, pcos as an acronym took a web search from me as well.
That headline. Goodness. I’ve been able to handle everything Sugar Free has thrown at us. But that. I need some help.
The rumblings beginning that PPP might just pardon the First Crackhead made me think — if you impeach a President, shouldn’t that invalidate pardons he issues for co-conspirators in the crimes that got him impeached? (Especially if he pardons Hunter and they keep all the bribe money from over the years and all). Yeah… probably not really covered in the Constitution and no chance of pushing through an amendment… but offends my sense of justice and just seems stupid to me.
I don’t think so. Once pardoned that should be it for those charges.
Pardons, whatever else we think they are, are political acts and impeachment is the political price for a bad pardon. In my mind, pretty much all of the trappings Congress and DOJ have tried to build around pardons are unconstitutional.
“he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”
“Sure, I sent him to shoot all my political opponents in the head — but before the Senate votes to convict, I pardon him and my successor VP will pardon me… so nyah nyah!”
It may be the way the Constitution is written… but boy does it not work for me is all.
The immediate solution to your scenario is to impeach the VP and try to prove that was planned and get the vp for life for conspiracy, accessory, etc. and see if any of the conspiracy charges could stick to the pres.
That would likely also cause a constitutional amendment to be voted out if not ratified.
The solution is to make the pardoner pay a heavy price for such a bad pardon IE impeachment, the forceable early removal from office.
This is why most pardons are done at the tail end of a term.
You know someone wrote an entire article about Franklin’s quote…
“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal”
/D. Nixon
Above is a crater in Arizona caused by a meteor.
Below is in Australia.
Coincidence?
I think not………
https://twitter.com/daveguitarjones/status/1684690812414668800
Barringer crater is at 35°01′41″N 111°01′24″W
Ayer’s Rock is at 25°20′42″S 131°02′10″E
Even if there wasn’t a great deal of internal placticity in the planet, they simply don’t line up.
Not now they don’t, but where were they before they drifted into their current locations?
Barriger crater was formed only 50,000 years ago. It has barely moved on a tectonic scale.
Ayer’s Rock is about 300-400 Million years old.
Next you’re going to tell me Guam’s not really going to tip over….
We were warned in time.
Australia is further proof of Intelligent Design. God knew we’d need somewhere to put our criminals.
And other dangerous creatures.
They keep the criminal population under control.
But explain the Koalas?
Chlamydia-infected smoothbrains too dumb to realize they’re eating the wrong food. I assume they’re descended from criminals of the animal kingdom.
God’s animal experiment lab.
“The important thing to remember about Australia, though, is that it is some tough-as-nails country. It’s, like, where all the nasty stuff from evolution went to go and live in a trailer with a shotgun.”
…Chris Onstad in a long-ago web comic
Am I the only one who finds the term “Lifeways” annoying?
No, but only because I don’t think I’ve encountered that one.
It’s infiltrated discussion of history, having originated in the cess pit of academia. There was no need for the term, but academians like changing language for their own ends.
Helps them identify and shame the riffraff, I expect. “Oh.. you aren’t part of the Cathedral! Go sit in the corner and listen to your betters, peasant.”
I have yet to find my betters.
That’s kind of rude, not even knowning the names of people who flush out game for you.
Those are Beaters.
Friday Funbags wants to mow your lawn.
https://archive.is/xQ9Nv
A bevy of busty bethonged beauties!
Oh, right, I gotta mow the lawn today.
Do we really know the manatees volunteered?
They used a certified assisted communication therapist.
SEA SMITH WORLD RENOWNED AS THERAPIST.
EVERYONE SCREAM THAT AS GREETING WHEN THEY SEE HIM.
They have signatures and everything to prove it.
Of course they did. They volunteered to a manatee!
Also note this:
Volunteer manatee brothers having consensual sex. Perfectly normal.
I have seen polar bears at the zoo doing repeated movements due to years of being confined. I would imagine a lot of zoo animals have mental issues.
Look inside the world’s largest 3D-printed neighborhood in Texas
This adds a new dimension to residential land development.
Emmys to be postponed because of writer and actor strikes
And?
And no one else will care.
Have to admit at least they’re still more popular than the Tony Awards…
Let the graft from a completely contained train derailment continue.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/norfolk-southern-cost-fiery-ohio-derailment-doubles-803-101715818
It’s hard to spot that story when it’s surrounded by TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP click-bait.
Even if someone were rabidly anti-Trump, wouldn’t they eventually get sick and tired of that nonsense?
https://www.afl.com.au/news/987991/match-report-collingwood-magpies-v-carlton-blues
Goddammit I was supposed to watch that when I woke up. It was on one of the Fox channels.
Oh well, clicking link.
🤬
‘Certainly a case of self-defense, is what we have,’ San Antonio Police Department Chief William McManus said. ‘We would prefer that they call the police before taking that into your own hands, but he did what he felt he needed to do.’
So you are saying that the state is going to railroad the victim.
Dood, after 30 years it ain’t changing.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/23211645/wife-avoiding-sex-for-30-years-of-marriage/
Either leave or start seeing prostitutes (or both).
30 years? Da fuq?
What do you guess, did she really quit having sex at 35, or just sex with him?
“Our sex life used to be pretty solid until one day she announced that she was finished with intimacy.
She never gave any real reason for it, but since that day she has done everything in her power to avoid getting close to me.”
Cause she’s into pussy?
Sounds like you got an implied hall pass.
I used to be pretty pathetic too, but damn son, stand up for yourself. She’s done with intimacy? Fine, but be honest and tell her that you’re not, you want it, and you’d prefer it to be with your wife – but you’ll take your dong elsewhere if not.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Cute… but I’ll bet the kid shared something sugary like a Popsicle with the horses in the past. They’re no dummies…. the kid’s an easy mark.
Thanks Jimbo
Usually it’s the other way around, the kids run to see the horses.
Sheltered urban kids have no idea what it’s like to be around farm animals. So sad
Until they start their rat ranches and pigeon Air Forces, I suppose.
I’ve never liked horses ever since one bit me in the shoulder and shook me when I was a kid.
Sadly, it happened at during one of the few moments I wasn’t being a snot. Proving to me that there is no payoff for being good and decent, which is how I ended up here.
A Møøse once bit my sister…
I have never liked horses since I got kicked in the head by one.*
*which might explain a few things about me.
I got bit on the knee while sitting on a split rail fence offering the horse a sugar lumped, that he/she was purported to love. I have a 8 HP tractor, close enough.
*lights Tundra signal*
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/23200360/sexiest-ice-hockey-mikayla-demaiter-paris/
And she was a goalie, no need for a chest protector with that padding.
Q approved.
She has a problem with long term relationships. She’s never had a boyfriend last more than 3 months.
After three periods, it is game over.
I thought it was because (being a goalie) she was always blocking the puck.
I know I’d be called for high sticking
No one scores on the five hole.
Yikes! I wonder if she had them done after she quit playing.
Thanks, Q!
Christ, all these instachicks look the exact same.
Everyone involved in this sham prosecution deserves a short drop and sudden stop.
Donald Trump was hit Thursday night with three new federal criminal charges, and a third defendant was added to the case where the former president already was accused of dozens of felonies related to retaining classified documents at his Florida residence after leaving the White House.
Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is charged in a new superseding indictment with his valet, Walt Nauta, over an alleged attempt to delete video surveillance footage at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, during the summer of 2022.
At that time, federal officials were seeking the return of government records they suspected of being kept at that location.
Trump is also newly accused of retaining a classified document detailing a U.S. military plan of attack on Iran, which Trump showed to a writer, publisher and two staff members at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on July 21, 2021.
Deleting his own, private surveillance footage that I assume was not under subpoena? Waiving around a document in the presence of some people that he had defacto declassified? Well, take him to the gulag then.
+1 hard drive smashed with a hammer
-1 wiped? like with a cloth?
The game here is to have people say he should not be charged for this so they can then say the people claiming Hillary was let off despite clear criminal conduct, like they tried to do with Hunter, was also no biggie…
I suspect this dumb move will not just backfire on them, but backfire spectacularly.
But they have notoriously bad teeth.
Experts puzzling over the buried remains of an ancient warrior found in a 2,000-year-old grave off the coast of Britain have concluded the person was female.
Mystery has surrounded the Iron Age figure interred on Bryher, one of the Scilly Isles southwest of mainland Britain, since it was discovered in 1999. The grave contained a sword and a shield, items traditionally associated with male burials, as well as a mirror, which was typically buried alongside women.
Tooth enamel indicated with a 96% probability that the person was female, according to a study published Thursday in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
The grave, which is dated from 100 B.C. to 50 B.C., offers a rare glimpse into ancient British life and suggests that women may have taken an active part in military raids before the tribal warrior queen Boudicca led a fierce uprising against the Roman colonization of Britain in A.D. 60.
Teeth are just a social construct
I wonder why they couldn’t confirm sex from the skeleton. It’s well known that male vs. female skeletons have clear and easy to identify differences. Was this a dude with chick teeth? Cause I remind everyone that there are no chicks with dicks, just dudes with tits.
British soil is notoriously acidic, bones tend to degrade in burials on the islands. There’s a good chance that there wasn’t enough of the skeleton in any shape to make a positive identification.
Nice job misgendering that warrior, bigots.
I don’t post good news often enough. So here you go:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/joy-behar-compares-the-view-chairs-on-to-a-rollercoaster-after-live-face-plant/
That show reminds me of Animal farm. Heffers pretending to be the pigs in charge of a mass of idiots.
This article is a lot of words to not actually say anything of value.
The Nashville Christian school shooter Audrey Hale had mysterious handwritten notes on her clothes, a knife inscribed with her chosen name of Aiden and an anklet with the number 508407 etched on it, an autopsy report revealed.
The report came four months after the transgender shooter opened fire at The Covenant School – killing three adults and three children on March 27.
The autopsy revealed Hale’s clothing was covered in ‘handwritten words, drawings and numbers’. It’s unclear what was written on her clothes.
The report also noted that Hale, 28, wore an orange plastic anklet with the mysterious inscription ‘508407.’
Also…. note the dead-naming, supposedly the worst sin imaginable.
And misgendering. Seems very odd.
Great another split in measurement systems
Some people are gonna be measuring everything in hotdogs and others will be using Barbie dolls.
I am enjoying these new measurement systems.
You just want to throw another hot dog on the Barbie.
I hear Ken complained that banging Barbie was like throwing a hot dog down a hallway……
Either leave or start seeing prostitutes (or both).
Bring them to the house.
DOOM.
He said “short of a mini ice age” over coming days, some scientists estimate July 2023 would shatter records across the board.
“Climate change is here. It is terrifying, and it is just the beginning,” Guterres outlined. “The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived.
“The consequences are clear and they are tragic — children swept away by monsoon rains, families running from the flames, workers collapsing in scorching heat.
“For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, it is a cruel summer.”
Go fuck yourself and die, you dishonest cunte.
I think it’s more of a parboil myself.
Surprised he didn’t have that dishonest chart from the other day.
Thanks Bananarama.
Then I guess it’s too late so let’s just have a drink and watch the world burn.
human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
“Scientists discover the ‘most mutated Covid variant ever’ lurking in a patient in Indonesia”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12348313/Scientists-discover-mutated-Covid-variant-lurking-patient-Indonesia.html
No.
Scientists discover the ‘most mutated Covid variant ever’ lurking in a patient in Indonesia
It’s the “SOOPER OMG FORREAL” variant.
There must be some election coming up they need fortified again…
Fortunately outside the press I have no heard a word on covid all year
“DeSantis zoomed around the state Thursday in his ‘Never Back Down’ campaign bus, ending the day at the Revelton Distilling Co. in Osceola, a small town south of Des Moines.
‘When I’m president we are not going to allow any cocaine in the White House,’ he exclaimed as he took the stage, getting scattered cheers from the crowd.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12346891/Ron-DeSantis-reboots-campaign-going-Biden-family-shames-president-not-visiting-secret-granddaughter-says-no-COCAINE-White-House-wont-punch-Trump.html
Well, that doesn’t sound any fun.
Ron has been taking some very bad political advice as of late. He’s toast.
No shit. And he was so nice as governor of Florida. He completely pivoted from what worked to this crazy nonsense.
Yup. The WSj makes some valid suggestions, but too little too late.
Ron DeSantis at a Crossroads
It’s probably Ron’s attempts to appeal to the WSJ set that’s actually doomed him. He’s taken a middling approach on Ukraine and going for the “tough on China” bullshit.
That and the cheap shots at Trump aren’t helping him, not that Trump makes it easy in that respect.
The people that financed DeSantis were all deep state captured asshats hoping to use him to foil the populist movement, I like Ron, but he let the wrong people back him, and talk him into running, which has for all intents and purposes killed his chance at a presidency. Ever.
Alex is right, not to mention the fact that TRUMP!! is the 800 pound gorilla. No matter how much the elite hate the guy, he will be next to impossible to knock off the top spot, due to the right wanting blood right now. DeSantis should have kept his powder dry, and wait for the next opening, ’28 or ’32. He is young, and has the time to spend another round in the governership and then move to the Senate, keeping his name fresh. But no, too many people want TRUMP!! gone, inside and outside the party. The other shmoes are jockying for Veep, but DeSantis positioned himself outside that ring early, and didn’t see what was plain in front of his face.
I want Trump gone. I want someone who can be effective more than entertaining.
You mean someone that will just cooperate with the corruptocracy?
so president Kamala it is?
Stop that.
Nah, RC Dean is right – nominate Newsom and she is bounced. America needs it’s own Trudeau!
The hair that
walksslides like a man.“The president is a leader. The United States is a country. The leader of that country is the president”
Kmala 2024
Is that the case or just Ron being Ron? Ron works in some contexts and not others.
Could be the case. Prior to this wider exposure we could have all just seen one aspect of him.
He probably should have taken the original advice and waited four years after all.
^^^THIS^^^
But the people that backed him, and ultimately doomed him, were anti-populists (a.k.a Trump)
The San Antonio chief said he wished people would call the police, but the guy called the cops and was waiting for them to arrive when he was shot at. This isn’t even close to a questionable shoot and the guy did everything he could. I don’t know if San Antonio has become like Austin, but we just had a vape shop employee beat for refusing service to what they assumed was a white supremacist. Police response was 3.5 hours. When seconds count, the police are 3.5 hours away.
Who hasn’t wanted to do this to a left lane bandit?
intrusive thoughts won
10/10
Nice PIT maneuver in a sprinter van. Kudos to his skills.
I know the word gets thrown around a lot these days, but that van driver is my hero.
Perfection.
AND a Daily Ray of Sunshine!
And of course it’s been removed.
Fuck you moderator.
Today in fucked up shit :
Honouring Amber
We must remember victims of evil
https://thecritic.co.uk/honouring-amber/
Amber Gibson lived a life of unremitting horror. The 16-year-old Scot was born with an abusive father who would go on to be jailed for rape and sexual assault. Gibson, who was placed in care along with her brother, was raped by a man who was out on bail (for rape). She was then sexually assaulted and killed by her brother. A man found her body in the woods yet proceeded not to call the police but to “intimately touch” and conceal the corpse. Even in death, Amber could not escape evil.
WTF Scotland?
Take all of the social services employees involved and hang them. Hang the rapist. Hang the brother. Hang the father. Hang the effing weirdo in the woods. For fuck’s sake, hang somebody.
None of them were hung, obviously.
That’s beyond evil.
Damn, what was she wearing?
They make the claim that these 3D printed houses are faster and less expensive.
I just dont see how that is possible…. i mean, the comparable material would be poured concrete. The “upgrade” to make that faster and cheaper was these concrete forms made out of insulating foam with plastic clips that also act as rebar guides. They are really easy to set – any of us could do it in a couple of hours for one of these little houses (1,500 square feet selling at $475k).
They have “studies” that show it is 25% cheaper. I don’t think you need a study. Just post a price.
I was all excited about those insulated concrete forms. I saw them at a convention 25 years ago. I looked into it for building my house. Turns out — it actually was quite a bit more expensive, at least in my area.
They really seem loathe to compare apples with apples too…. they claim less CO2 … but it looks like they are comparing with poured concrete – because they use a mix of concrete with foam beads to lighten it, meaning less concrete. You could pour a house out of that too. Or, more commonly, you could use concrete block construction.
I dunno. Maybe it just is in the infancy. It seems like the real promise would be creating spaces that you cannot create with traditional methods.. at least not cheaply.
I wish we had a responsible journalism class. These sycophantic puff pieces are kinda fun… i mean, most of us used to read Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. But these stories crop up all the time. “Rammed Earth” construction was a big thing for a while. They set up forms and jackhammered a bunch of dirt into a wall. Supposed to be super energy-efficient, with high thermal mass keeping temperatures stable. I don’t think anyone is using that.
3D printed houses are nothing but bullshit and vaporware. I don’t ever see that taking off. Not for decades anyway and by then population decline will remove the need.
It’s moving more and more towards pre-built structures that are then disassembled and reassembled on site. The quality level of stick frame construction in housing has left a lot of counties with a very bad taste. So much so that I know of several which refuse to issue permits to Ryan Homes any more.
Is it 25% cheaper than concrete/concrete block or 25% cheaper than wood frame? Because those prefab wood frames are pretty damn efficient. A 4 man crew with a flatbed and a small crane can put together a frame in a half a day. Bring out the rafters the same way the next day and you’re on to putting up the exterior panels and closing in the house.
I assume they are comparing to the most expensive way to build the shell, which i assume is a poured concrete shell. I also note that they did not finish the exterior walls. I can’t see that being a thing that catches on. Adding stucco to that would be a pretty significant bump, I would think.
A man who beat two babies to death is now reportedly awaiting breast implants after being transferred into a women’s prison in California.
Jessica Hann began identifying as transgender in 2019.
https://twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/1683839260087169024
How likely is it that these types are doing this in order to get out of dude prison?
Hell, I probably would myself.
100%. If I was in for decades…. 100% I would get breast implants to escape the rapey violence of prison with men to head to the dysfunctional family that is women’s prison.
I cannot imagine any way in which it wouldn’t be better.
(my image is entirely colored by the Leslie Stahl piece where she spent a week in prison to report on the experience. She reported that they form family groups, with everyone coupling up. Images of the courtyard during outdoor exercise times backed this up. Everyone was walking around in couples. )
So bizarre.
I really, really never want to find out any of this for myself.
well, yeah…..
Oh goddammit.
Mind cleanser.
More mind cleanser
I’m rapidly reaching the point of needing a break from the news… too much stupid crap in the world… this asshole… the Scottish assholes… dumping them all on a shark surrounded island and letting them have at it with each other is more and more appealing. Not leaving assholes who want to remake society out of that mental list, mind you.
CLIMATE CHANGE
https://twitter.com/_aussie17/status/1684798026056179712
Wait, you can be a star women’s soccer player at 18?
Today in propaganda….. the propaganda of hate.
Police brutality is kinda our thing. I have been on that beat since the early 90s, and sympathetic before that. So I took note of this police dog story. Trucker gets pulled over… won’t pull over for miles so a ton of cops join the chase…. when he finally stops and complies, a local K9 cop turns the dog on him as State troopers are yelling at him to keep the dog away from the surrendering guy.
Red meat. Right down main street for us…. and not at all surprising. Nice outcome – cop was immediately fired. As we all know, this is unusual.
Now, to Today in Propaganda.
The wife loves NBC Today. And NBC news. So that was on yesterday when the video came out. Lester Holt reported the first story.
“Police officer sends attack dog after Unarmed Black Man even though state troopers told him not to”
“Unarmed Black Man” was used every single time to identify the driver.
This morning… more on that story. “When an Unarmed Black Man was surrendering to police…..” The Today Show story said “Unarmed Black Man” 3 times in the first 30 seconds of the story.
I am particularly sensitive to this kind of race-baiting propaganda, having lived in an interracial marriage for 15 years. The lengths they are willing to go to in order to recreate a racist society is astounding.
Bonus on the race baiting – Ben Crump is the family attorney, and NBC featured him heavily.
Race baiting is a huge and very profitable racket for scummy people and the political class that lives on the agenda tat they are the ones protecting the darkies from the onslaught of others. Unfortunately, these people profiting form the racket have to keep inventing racism cause there is not enough of it really out there to keep them making bank.
For the red meat – there was a case this spring in which a man was mauled by a police dog and permanently maimed and disfigured. “Unarmed” and “Not resisting” both applied.
The reason it was notable? The appeals courts affirmed that the officer gets qualified immunity.
Also notable…. NBC did not report on the case at all. I guess “Unarmed White Man” doesn’t have the same cache’
Extra bonus – the cops broke with almost every precedent. They released the video after only a couple of weeks. They immediately fired the guy. The sheriff did not come out and say “procedures were followed” and announce an internal investigation that would take 9 months.
But…. the Police Union has already filed a grievance on behalf of the officer.
Extra, extra bonus – NBC dug deep in their reporting, contacting the company that trains the dogs. They say the dog performed well, but the K9 handlers at the department need to come back for re-training. (this was reported with language that kinda implied that we should all think the dog itself did something wrong when it did exactly what its handler told it to do)
The lengths they are willing to go to in order to recreate a racist society is astounding.
Demand has always outstripped supply.
Yes and this is near the top of the list of things that makes me want to unplug as SDF mentioned above.
It’s unbelievably dangerous and evil.
Today, in cognitive dissonance
From his farm in the Yakima Valley, Rep. Dan Newhouse, a Republican and third-generation farmer, can see the domestic labor force shrinking.
With farms unable to complete tasks in a timely manner, he says yields may be lower, the quality of the produce may be lower, and farmers will shift away from labor-intensive crops. Already, some farmers in his state have stopped planting asparagus, for instance.
Food is also going to get more expensive, Newhouse warns.
That job sucks. Go to college and become a community organizer.
Jeezus H. The domestic labor market has already shrunk or priced out. The story is that children of aliens (mostly illegal) aren’t interested in permanent servitude.
Today in shit
https://twitter.com/JarrydBartle/status/1683422091889213442
Merde
Good morning, Sloop!
The 3D printed house is interesting, but I’m, having trouble finding a lot of details. Being able to build them in a week is pretty cool, but there is a development going in across the street and with so many parts prefabbed it doesn’t take much longer than than that to build a regular one. It will be interesting to watch.
I watched the Feinstein video – she’s gonzo.
Great songs from a great band. Surrender is in my top ten.
Have a great Friday peeps!
A week? That slow?
Like how do you patch up a wall after a SEPTA trolley crashes into it?
The most diverse group of cannon fodder, perhaps.
BIDEN: “…and, I might add, the most diverse fighting fice!— force in the history of the world!”
The Mongol army was pretty diverse too. Everybody participated, whether they wanted to or not.
C”MON, MAN! It’s just a stutter.
I though you had to have the nomination.
Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me.
Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request. Secretary Mayorkas: “I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time.”
Our campaign’s request included a 67-page report from the world’s leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats.
Brandon needs to keep you open to assassination.
What determination does there need to be? I thought all candidates got Secret Service protection. I saw some clips of Mayorkas from the other day, that guy is a 100% first class shit weasel.
Secret Service from 2020:
The Secret Service does not determine who qualifies for protection, nor is the Secret Service empowered to independently initiate candidate protection.
Under 18 U.S.C.’ 3056(a)(7), “[m]ajor Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates,” as identified by the Secretary of Homeland Security, are eligible for Secret Service protection.
Title 18 U.S.C.’ 3056(a)(7) authorizes the U.S. Secret Service to provide protection for major presidential and vice presidential candidates:
Protection is authorized by the DHS Secretary after consultation with the Congressional Advisory Committee
The Congressional Advisory Committee includes: Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader, Senate Majority Leader, Senate Minority Leader, and one additional member selected by the others
Criteria have been established to assist the DHS Secretary and the advisory committee in their decision making (as of 2017). Candidates must:
When determining whether a candidate for the Office of President or Vice President of the United States qualifies as a major candidate, the Secretary has broad discretion and may consider a variety of factors. These factors include, but are not limited to:
Whether the candidate has publicly announced his or her candidacy and has filed the appropriate documentation with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and is in compliance with the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended, and related laws;
Whether the candidate is actively campaigning on a national basis for the office for which his or her candidacy has been announced, as demonstrated by operating a national campaign apparatus, regularly appearing at public events in multiple states, producing and publishing campaign advertisements, and other similar indicia of a campaign;
A threat assessment conducted by the Secret Service of general or specific threats directed towards the candidate. (for these purposes, “threats” should be defined as explicit threats of bodily harm to the candidate or indications of inappropriate behavior towards the candidate suggesting potential bodily harm);
Whether, during and within an active and competitive major party primary, the most recent average of established national polls, as reflected by the Real Clear Politics National Average or similar mechanism, the candidate is polling at 15% or more for 30 consecutive days;
Whether the candidate is the formal or de facto nominee of a major party for President or Vice President;
Whether the candidate is an independent or third party candidate for President polling at 20% or more of the Real Clear Politics National Average for 30 consecutive days;
Whether the candidate is the Vice Presidential running mate of the above independent or third party candidate
Title 18 U.S.C.’ 3056(a)(7) states that the U.S. Secret Service is also authorized to protect spouses of major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, as identified by the DHS Secretary, within 120 days of the general Presidential election. Some candidates have received protection earlier in the campaign pursuant to Presidential memoranda.
Based.
Anon explains attractiveness to a girl
https://twitter.com/greentexts_bot/status/1684856288503627776
This guy has not figured out he is gay yet…
Fuck Colorado. Fuck the expansion schools. Fuck the Pac12. Fuck Larry Scott. And fuck the idea that somehow east coast viewers will ever give a shit about west coast teams.
those are all words but I don;t know what the whole thing means
MEANS GUSTAVE LYTTON COMING OVER TO STEVE SMITH STYLE OF THINKING!
Probably because he only says fuck 3 times. Not enough fucks given….
If the west coast teams won 3 or 4 championships in a row, they’d get as much attention, respect (and hate) as the SEC.
I was all excited about those insulated concrete forms. I saw them at a convention 25 years ago. I looked into it for building my house. Turns out — it actually was quite a bit more expensive, at least in my area.
I was really interested in that, too, but upon further review… The walls go up pretty quickly, but then you have to build a house inside it that envelope. It’s like shipping container houses. By the time you get done hacking and chopping, you might as well just have a load of steel dropped off and build it from scratch.
Anyone else here a veteran of Slashdot?
It was an early “links” site, focusing on tech news. It was huge in the early days of the HTML based internet. The user base was very knowledgeable and highly technical. You would run into people who actually built that on Slashdot. People like John Carmack (Doom) would engage in the discussion.
It was so popular there was something called the “slashdot effect”. When an article from a regular site got posted, the flood of users from Slashdot would bring the site to its knees… the slashdot effect.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. I bopped over there this morning to see what is up. It still exists, but nobody goes there. Articles had barely a handful of comments…. none useful. Really sad. They have one of the best systems for moderation of comments and articles. In the current state, I can’t believe it is worth maintaining.
I left slashdot at least fifteen years ago. Between the insufferable leftist/commie politics and the inexorable trend towards software over hard sciences and engineering, I got sick of it.
Checking my history — it looks like I got fed up around 2020. It just got insufferable and I stopped bothering. Could well have been vax shilling, I can’t recall now.
I would have said much earlier honestly… it’d been going downhilll ever since Taco sold out, frankly.
That is impressive. I left back when the Nerfherder left, for similar reasons. Deep tech articles became more and more scarce, and every comment became communist or team politics. I am really surprised anyone serious made it to 2020.
There’s only so many articles about the Apple/Google app stores that one can take.
At least they aren’t ArsTechnica.
TechDirt is still okay. Even if they’ve got an obsession with hating Elon.
I haven’t been on slashdot in maybe…. 20 or so years I think?
A black goat walking on two legs like a human tricks a chicken into the shed
https://twitter.com/CreepyOrg/status/1683855926476910592
Hood goat-chicken hybrids? What would they be called?
Beelzebok?
Opera.
Frackin’
Clap.
I legitimately laughed out loud. Well played.
Seconded.
Fowl.
The chicken is also walking on two legs!
Four legs good, two legs better!
The food is awful, and the portions are small
What’s happening at the FairBridge Inn is a symbol of the exponential growth in seasonal foreign workers on U.S. farms. The number of guest worker visas issued each year has more than quadrupled over the past decade. But the program is rife with labor rights violations, and farmers who have come to depend on it don’t love it, either.
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On paper, the H-2A program appears to check a lot of boxes: Give workers from poorer countries a safe, legal pathway to come to the U.S. to perform essential work, after which they can return home with earnings far exceeding what they could have made otherwise.
“It’s an opportunity to earn more money than in Mexico,” says an H-2A worker in New York state, who spoke to NPR in Spanish on the condition that he not be identified, fearing retaliation from his employer. “We all have families. We have wives, we have children, we have parents to support, and we need work more than anything.”
A downside, he says, is the program offers no pathway for workers to stay in the U.S. beyond the harvest.
“We don’t have long-term opportunities,” he says.
Beyond the guest workers themselves, there are many more complaints.
The recent explosion of the H-2A program has raised grave concerns among labor advocates and lawmakers — both about the welfare of the foreign workers who participate in the program as well as about the domestic workers they may be replacing, including those who are undocumented.
People who pick apples and cherries should make $150k, and stay in luxury hotels. And get citizenship.
But the grocery stores can’t raise their prices on food. (Alternately — and the government will just buy all the food and redistribute it for equity or something).
FAIR…
SHARE!
/dumb fucks
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Don’t stick it in, crazy!
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/21/unbelievable-tale-of-a-gentlemans-unfortunate-bottle-encounter.html
And I’m traumatized.
Where is Mojeaux when you need advice on medical coding?
I’m afraid I’m no help. I don’t grok anything about this work.
That sounds like something out of Fanny Hill, which I read for my pirate book, and which book made me giggle ceaselessly. “Engine of love assaults” still makes me squeal with laughter.
Hey from lovely Iowa. Final day, we’re behind, but everyone came in early to push to get things done.
Now, my plant is broken down and we’re sitting on our asses. Project was supposed to be done yesterday. When I left Monday I told Jugsy, “see ya Sunday”.
Seems I may have been right. Hey- I didnt make the damn schedule.
I hope you are enjoying our fabulous weather. It doesn’t get much better than this.
Yeah. Just like my time in Cali, all this global warming keeps following me around.
Seems that if I get out of here in a day or so, your weather goes back to low 80s.
Thanks.
Are you saying the sooner you leave the sooner we cool off?
Your cool-down is timed with our departure.
So yes
Guillen suspects that farms nearby prefer guest workers over local workers, because local workers in the area have been increasingly vocal about their rights, including their right to form unions.
No kidding.
Low skill jobs demanding manned by idiots demanding more compensation than the labor is worth are all going to be mechanized. Robots don’t need unions, PTO, paid vacation, healthcare, or DEI.
“You don’t have enough Robots of Color, and are only paying the fembots 70% of what the other bots make!”
“Ma’am, the bots aren’t paid at all.”
“Exactly! It’s slavery!”
I hope Skynet’s future happens at that point..
Caitlin’s a commie, but at least she’s one of the principled ones.
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1684929367187853312
What’s her stance on Ukraine?
That it’s a bloodbath for the benefit of the US and not anybody else.
One soy cunte calls it a “police state” because shit has to be locked up because Democrats allow rampant theft.
A CNN crew visited the most shoplifted Walgreens in the US. The San Francisco store has to lock up ice cream & other low-value items. During the crew’s time there, they saw three shopliftings.
How could you and more importantly why would you operate that way? No way that place can be making money. Shut it down.
“How could you and more importantly why would you operate that way?”
^^^THIS^^^
I guess the people owning these businesses can’t just shut shit down and go elsewhere, but when will they reach the conclusion it is the only move left in this idiot game?
Shoot the shoplifters.
Wasn’t it a CNN crew that was upset that all of their equipment got stolen doing one of these stories in SanFrancisco?
Never change, Deep State.
Biden regime skeeered.
The issue becomes that there are now so many in the government who are complicit in the crimes, it becomes near impossible to find someone to flip as it would bring down everything.
The stakes have gotten way too high.
We keep saying “and nothing will happen”. Which is probably true. But it’s interesting to see the corruption getting more and more blatant, and the lies getting more and more obvious. I wonder where this will end up.
I wonder where this will end up.
Mass graves? WWIII?
Joe Biden is going to kill Rand Paul on the capitol steps with a gun he stole from Hunter. Nothing will happen. Rand will be replaced by a democrat.
“We keep saying “and nothing will happen”. Which is probably true. But it’s interesting to see the corruption getting more and more blatant, and the lies getting more and more obvious.”
I think the word to use there was desperate. At this point they know if someone comes in to clean house the people running things all might be looking at pound-me-in-the-ass prison time, and they want to make sure that can’t happen. At any cost.
Which is why my belief is that they will try to fortify 2024, and failing to do so, they will assassinate Trump (and probably Vivek as well) if he wins.
I don’t know about the 3D printed house thing, sure if you can get the costs down do it. The current model of stick built houses don’t really make sense either, as it adds massive amount of labor cost and unpredictability. Really the best way to make affordable and quality controlled houses would be in a factory. It’s not a complete factory build, but I really like the post and beam kits that are available these days. I’m in the midst of a remodel of a house right now and dreaming of putting up one of these bad boys for our next house.
https://tamlintimberframehomes.com/
There was a time when you could order a house from the Sears catalog – is that the same idea?
Prefab is the direction it’s going to go except for high-end custom.
Yop, it makes way more sense than a complete hand built for all but the real high end stuff.
Yes TOK, just vastly improved, but the same general idea.
Here is another maker of some truly awesome post and beam kits. I want to live in one of these things.
https://www.timberlyne.com/
Found mine
Since moving to a small place, my desire for square footage is gone.
We have similar taste Tundra, that is one of my fav designs. I very much agree on the square footage. We have three little (but growing!) boys living with us now, but when they fly the coop I’d say around 1300 sq foot would be perfect, along with a 1000 sq foot garage/workshop. We are currently in an 1100 sq ft home for the past decade that is too small, mostly due to 1 bathroom. Within, I hope, 2 more months we will be finished with an 1800 square ft remodel on another house and move in. Drywallers should be done today and I’ll start installing kitchen cabinets with my brother on Monday hopefully.
Excellent! The need for square footage to accommodate the fam goes by pretty quick. We’re in about 2K (including an unfinished basement), so that 1300 ft is plenty to live in.
Good luck with the new place!
Those are gorgeous. Hopefully our gym business takes off, and we can get one of those commercial building for our second location.
A guy can dream.
Good luck with the biz! Yeah, those commercial ones are fantastic as well.
Dream-worthy.
When your gym business takes off, owning the RE will be the next thing. The timing should be excellent.
Science
While political differences are a function of any healthy democracy, polarization occurs when those differences begin to pull citizens apart from each other and the societal bonds they share. It can undermine faith in democratic institutions and the free press.
Significant division can undermine confidence in democracy or democratic institutions and lead to “affective polarization,” when citizens begin to view each other more as enemies than legitimate opposition. It’s a situation that can lead to violence, as it did when supporters of then-President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Conservative Facebook users are more likely to consume content that has been labeled misinformation by fact-checkers. They also have more sources to choose from. The analysis found that among the websites included in political Facebook posts, far more cater to conservatives than liberals.
Overall, 97% of the political news sources on Facebook identified by fact-checkers as having spread misinformation were more popular with conservatives than liberals.
This statistic brought to you by liberal “fact checkers”.
Here’s an idea. Stop making every goddam thing about politics. Stop injecting government “remedies” into every single aspect of life.
Is there a concept more bastardized than “fact checkers”?
It’s double think and memory holing all the way down.
It can undermine faith in democratic institutions
System rigged against the people tend to undermine themselves.
and the free press.
Rigged systems tend to be tyrannical.
Conservative Facebook users are more likely to consume content that has been labeled misinformation by fact-checkers.
We know how trustworthy they are.
having spread misinformation were more popular with conservatives than liberals.
Anything is possible when you allow the left to define what is true and untrue.
Stop making every goddam thing about politics.
It’s the same social ploy as you used to get from evangelicals, just a different god.
Does Joe Biden think he is Tony Soprano?
Attn: Scruffy
Yeah, good luck with that, Bob.
The distinction between malicious and stupid is increasingly irrelevant.
What a maroon.
“UPDATE: Silly, Spastic Trans Dylan Mulvaney to Speak on “Women’s Empowerment” at US Universities – Charging Up to $40,000 per Speech”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/update-silly-spastic-trans-dylan-mulvaney-speak-womens/
OFFS!
Nothing left to cut!!!
Nothing says women’s empowerment like being lectured to by a male pretending to be a female.
A male doing the worst caricature of being female, BTW.
Indeed. He is more flamboyant* than any woman I know.
*because he is a flamboyant homosexual that craves attention.
A gay man still wants to please his partner – I have the impression that this person is pure narcissist.
I really hope that at least part of that speech deals with the struggle of living as a female in a patriarchal society.
“Then I saw how fun and fulfilling it was to be oppressed”!
I’ve seen this in art galleries and selling anything online. Just because someone asks for that much, doesn’t mean anyone is going to buy it. There might be someone willing to spend that much on social signaling, but can you imagine listening to him for an HOUR?
Weve listened to Kamala for 2 years, can’t be any worse than that
Speaking of houses… around here, sometimes it seems as if modulars (formerly known as doublewides) have almost completely taken over a huge chunk of the market.
I don’t really get out much, but custom stick built homes, or anything which might be called innovative seem to be pretty rare. Maybe that’s based more on supply of labor and expertise than anything else.
And materials expense. It’s just really expensive to build right now.
They also noted that most people get their news and information from a variety of sources — television, radio, the internet and word-of-mouth — and that those interactions could affect people’s opinions, too. Many in the United States blame the news media for worsening polarization.
Only right wing hayseeds believe that. Without a strong liberal media, this country would an anarchic Hellscape.
Haven’t you heard about the vast, right-wing propaganda network that encompasses all of mainstream media, entertainment and education?
testing….
Test received. Let me guess – lots of errors blocking you from posting links? I encountered that last night.
Yep. Lots of internal server errors.
None call it a hate-crime.
New York City Cab Driver attacked and no one helped him. Shame shame
It’s only a hate crime when it moves along the corruptocracy’s agenda of labeling the enemies of the marxist devolution as such…
But instead of casting her vote, Feinstein initially began to give a speech in support of the budget.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Interesting conversation with Mike Rowe about Scientology and cults
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNjqd3pUfzU&ab_channel=MikeRowe
“it is incredible, they intimidated the IRS into giving them tax exempt status in the 1990s”
The claim is that they surveiled individual IRS agents, bugged IRS offices, etc.
Also claimed that detectives spoke with the wife of the head of scientology (claim is she is held against her will)….. when asked if they spoke to her in the presence of church officials he was told “that is classified”.
Makes me kinda doubt it…. is there such a thing as “classified” for the LAPD?
I’m confident there’s such a thing as “classified” for Scientology, and few have the ovaries to challenge them. Bless Leah Remini for what she’s done to expose them.
I love that turn of phrase. Well said.
“I was just fired from my job at The Seattle Times after defending Hitler. The only problem is, I never defended Hitler. In fact, my family was hunted by the Nazis; my grandfather was a Nazi killer who later almost died in a concentration camp; and some of my best journalistic work has been exposing neo-Nazi lies. But if you want to hear a story about the intolerance in our country’s “most tolerant” city and the erosion of civil discourse in American life, read on….”
https://www.thefp.com/p/seattle-times-writer-fired-over-hitler-lenin
This is a great read.
lesson not learned: never apologize
I am a democratic socialist and my wife is a DEI trainer.
Cast out of the church for heresy. Fuck if I care about that or them.
Exactly. Suprised a DEI trainer could make a living in rural GA, but I guess they have gov’t schools there too.
Any Fortune 1000 company or the like is going to have need of this crap for ass covering purposes.
“Me today, you tomorrow.”
Dumb fuck.
Why have you walked me over to this pit filled with bodies?
They were safer in Georgia.
Matt Taibbi talks with The Jacket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfyw3xA2hv0&ab_channel=ReasonTV
I watched that the other day. It was worth the time.
One thing he missed that annoyed me…. talking about the Hunter Biden laptop story, they agree that it is unknown whether the suppression of the story affected the election and Taibbi says “someone should do some polling on that”.
Now, either I missed the sly joke, or he doesn’t know that this has been extensively polled and the answer is pretty definitive.
Ah, nothing a little more fortification couldn’t overcome, right?
All politics, all the time
Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott on Thursday criticized competitor Ron DeSantis on his support for Florida education standards requiring students to be instructed on the “benefits” of slavery.
Asked by a POLITICO reporter about the curriculum requirement at a campaign stop outside Des Moines, the South Carolina senator said he hoped that “every person in our country, and certainly running for president, would appreciate that” slavery had no benefits to enslaved people.
“There is no silver lining in slavery,” Scott said. “Slavery was really about separating families, about mutilating humans and even raping their wives. It was just devastating.”
The Florida standards backed by Gov. DeSantis require instructors to teach middle schoolers that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” The requirement has come under fire from a spectrum of political voices from Vice President Kamala Harris to Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds.
Asked about Donalds’ criticism of the curriculum at a campaign stop in Iowa earlier Thursday, DeSantis questioned the representative’s loyalty to the Florida Republican party.
“So at the end of the day you’ve got to choose,” DeSantis said. “Are you going to side with Kamala Harris and liberal media outlets or are you going to side with the state of Florida?”
As for the “benefits” of slavery… I guess we just have to assume everybody wallows in pain and anguish 24/7. There is nothing to celebrate about the indomitable toughness of the human spirit.
Never mind that “the skills” section was present in the ORIGINAL AP materials that featured CRT as well. Whatever respect I had for Scott just went down to DeSantis level, and they’re both headed for Pence/Pompeo/Haley zone (which granted is sitting on top of Christie’s fat ass).
So Tim Scott is a dishonest cunte. Shame. I wanted to like him.
“Senator”
That was the indicator of cuntness.
But Scott noted that any of the benefits the curriculum suggested enslaved people had would have also been held by free people. Still, Scott said that “people have bad days,” suggesting that DeSantis may have regretted his defense of the curriculum and urging reporters to ask him again about his thoughts on the policy.
By all means, beat him with this cudgel at every opportunity.
Whatever respect I had for Scott
But he’s a black Republican. Nothing else can matter.
Scott sucks, a standard neocon and a race hustler to boot.
Happy birthday!
Now get the fuck out.
Brutal.
Interesting. Nothing showing in the scheduled posts for noon today.
The calendar has a stoic. But it’s not posted.
It’s a free for all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nywLVPvvuAg
I submitted it yesterday and it says “pending”
So you are stoically waiting?
Someone kick Tonio’s chair, he’s dozed off.
Harrumph. I may have to go down to the VA today and get fingerprinted for a gummint contracting med transcription gig. I hope this fucker pays better than my last MT jump.
Good luck, we’re all counting on you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB2yqeD0Nus
Say, would you happen to have the time and the power to post ron’s…post?
Done!
A grateful Glib nation thanks you! 😃
Thank you
And by “pays better” (because, wouldn’t I know?), I mean that in piecework, there is a great variability in the pieces, and what gets paid how. So what seems awesome on paper (my current gig) sounds awesome at the outset, then you find out your time is really spent doing the unpaid shit. For example, if I get paid by the audio minute (which is what I do now), it might sound like good money. However, these particularly clinicians only dictate 30-second files and it takes 5 minutes to do all the work surrounding processing each file, so it works out badly.
Generally speaking, getting paid by the line is better, but then you have very long gaps of silence while the provider gathers his thoughts, and again, going in, you don’t know how much work is involved in actually processing the file. Given it’s the VA, I’m hoping they have software that does all the processing for you. On the other hand, I like working in Word where I have templates and expanders, so a software that doesn’t have the capability to do templates and expanders will be problematic. On the third hand, if they have that and don’t let you work in Word and copy/paste, then you have to make a Notepad stop between Word and the software. The software should come with templates and expanders, but then I have to re-train it. Or else use a universal word expander to do it, which would mean training that one. Oy. Going into a new gig always lags at the front end, but if you can train your software right, it should make up for it later.
suggestion – when listening to audio, there is software that automatically removes the quiet bits. maybe that could help.