Links of Saturday evening

by | Sep 16, 2023 | Daily Links | 133 comments

You know who you are. I am sorely disappointed at the level of skepticism received by Mexi’s in depth analysis on the correlation of UFO sightings and the rise of seed oils this morning. He did a lot of work on this and has put himself firmly in the crosshairs of Big Seed Oil. I expected better. Humph.

 

Links.

 

Speaking of crosshairs, Russell has found himself in them.

 

Bidenomics.

 

Oh look, it’s Rahm.

 

I have found a place for Hunter.

 

You know who else snubbed Harry’s birthday?

 

A long one on Napoleon Bonaparte Musk.

 

I am not the only one who is disappoint.

 

Okay, that’s good for today. Lot’s of good human interest stuff. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

133 Comments

  1. LCDR_Fish

    Couple carryover from dedthread-

    1. I’ve kept [generic salted brand] butter on my counter in butter dish for weeks if not months without touching it at 74 degrees F in my house….don’t cook enough. No noticeable issues. It’s not even one of the specialized butter dishes that cools with water – just clear glass with a lid.

    2. As far as beer abv, the really good Trappist brews (smaller bottles) are consistently 12+%. Maybe as high as 15? I’d go for a Belgian before most US if I wanted to be certain of enjoying the taste.

    • rhywun

      Hmph. My butter starts to taste off after a few weeks in the fridge.

      That water-seal butter thingie looks neat.

      • Beau Knott

        They work well. Change out the water every few days and you’re good. I loved mine.

      • rhywun

        Not any more?

    • Homple

      The whole point of making butter, I thought, was to squeeze out all the stuff from milk that would go rancid, then use protein-rich squeezed-out stuff for other nutritional purposes, leaving the butter to last for a while.

  2. Gustave Lytton

    Jeezus H. I think the Royal lapping media is more desirous of continuing the schism than the participants.

    • Beau Knott

      Which sells more ads/clicks/whatever — family infighting or family reconciliation?

    • Sensei

      And meanwhile former Princess Mako doesn’t get enough credit.

      I’m not sure the public ever warmed to her husband, but they seemed happy when he finally passed the bar.

  3. R.J.

    Aliens, indeed. They looked like they were made of chocolate mole. I am insulted.

    • Suthenboy

      I figured watercolors on paper mache.

    • Aloysious

      So the alleged aliens were… Mole Men?

      Sounds like a Marvel comic book from the sixties.

      • R.J.

        I can’t make the accent mark over mole on the phone.
        I go to the box, and I feel shame.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        It’s just “mole” anyway.

      • C. Anacreon

        As in mole pollo aka chocolate chicken

  4. Sensei

    I really enjoy Destin and the respect he shows people in his videos. Also I respect that he both simplifies, but never dumbs down.

    I amazed the resolution these folk get out of industrial robots.

    ROBOFORMING: The Future of Metalworking?

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Poor Joe. Why won’t MBS open the taps?

    • Spudalicious

      You mean constantly slapping someone in the face and then demanding they do things to benefit you doesn’t work?

      • juris imprudent

        Only if you’re the top.

      • Spudalicious

        And that’s definitely not Joe.

  6. Steve

    I didn’t know someone could receive emergency services for rape without there being some sort of follow-up investigation.

    Rahm Emanuel did take anything, Reuters is just advertising his Twitter account.

    Does this mean Elon Musk is going to revolutionize artillery tactics?

    • rhywun

      Oh look, it’s Rahm.

      That asshole is still around?

      /Every American

      • Suthenboy

        “We agree with Mao, that power comes from the barrel of a gun.” and yet we still have mush-brained citizens that can’t see what gun control is all about and what granting the left’s wishlist would lead to.

  7. Steve

    What does an introspective chimp think about?

  8. Shpip

    The palace’s official social media accounts instead spent all day posting about King Charles, Prince William, Princess Kate, and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh – without mentioning Prince Harry once.

    The royal family watched the institution of the monarchy get rocked once when Eddie the 8th married some American grifting social climber. They’re not about to let that happen again anytime soon.

    • Suthenboy

      Who? What? They still have that in England? Who knew?
      I hear blips every now and then but the names mean nothing to me. I have no idea who those people are.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      But they just did. “We had better let him marry the divorced American actress, as we don’t want to be thought racists.”

      I wouldn’t return his texts either.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      Hey, watch it! That “American grifting social climber” is family!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        You’re related to Wallis? Why does this sound familiar?

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Bessie. Bessie Wallis Warfield was her name.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Or, as the Queen called her – “That Simpson Bitch.”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Cookie”.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    That roboforming thing looks really interesting. Maybe tomorrow.

    Speaking of “things you don’t know”- When I was in high school, I never paid much attention to what other people’s parents did. One of my good friends parents were both doctors, and it was impossible to know about that. Other people did other stuff..

    One day, for reasons unknown, I was talking to one of my friends; I think we were on the way to go skiing, and he told me his dead was a packaging design engineer for International Paper in Hudson Falls. That sounded extremely weird to me at the time (cool, but weird), but ever since, now and then I will see some sort of packaging and think, “Somebody spent a lot of time and energy figuring out how to make that work.”

    • Steve

      My mother in law works for Hallmark and I’m always surprised when she mentions the engineers that are employed who work on…I don’t know. Glue? My small brain can’t comprehend the intricacies of the basic shit I absolutely take for granted.

      • Sensei

        Those musical cards to play themselves.

        Or the origami with pop up variants.

        Or the production lines.

        Or…

      • rhywun

        The minutiae I spend my days on as well…. It all adds up.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    What does an introspective chimp think about?

    Stoicism.

    • Steve

      Do the chimps consider humans to be animals?

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Buckingham Palace has indicated that the Royal Family now only sends public birthday wishes to those who are senior working members.

    Loafers and malingerers not wanted

    • R.J.

      They are all loafers and malingerers. Is there some kind of division into group of grifters?

      • Suthenboy

        Those that bring in the bucks and those that spend them?

      • R.J.

        All of them are social vampires without any redeeming value.

      • prolefeed

        Harry and Meghan have both produced valuable goods and services that people have voluntarily paid for – his book, her Suits acting.

        So, no wonder they get snubbed for acting like peasants.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Fucking Daily Mail website.

    • C. Anacreon

      Wikipedia does not permit anything from the Daily Mail to be used as a citation. Interesting that college instructors won’t allow Wikipedia to be cited. Turn, turn, turn.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Some malingerers are more equal than others.

    • C. Anacreon

      The current politically correct term for malingerers in the ER is “contingently suicidal”

    • R.J.

      And I thank you for it.

  14. LCDR_Fish

    So – Gourmeltz VA meet-up on Sat 7 Oct (Monday is Columbus Day so a 3 day weekend for some of us)?

  15. Mojeaux

    A meme

    Q: What’s the best thing about having kids?
    A: Playing with the box they came in.

    • KK, Non-Man

      🤦

      (my Ma would have loved that!)

  16. Sensei

    The non vinyl top hidden headlight 67 looks so much better.

    Too Many Cadillac Customers Complained About This 1967 Eldorado Issue…

    I love that it lost the hidden headlights because FedGov came out with a rule for how fast the lights had to deploy because of tunnels. GM, being GM, decided to take the opportunity to go standard lights with an ugly ass grill.

    Meanwhile the US was totally ok with shit sealed beam lights until the 90s. Because safety!

    • R.J.

      The government is your friend, and they know best.

      • UnCivilServant

        That “friend” that won’t leave, eats all your food and trashes your house, then judges you for your actions.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      I am diggin’ those hidden ‘lights.

      • Sensei

        Same channel has a great video on the Torando and Rivera of that generation and platform.

        His and my favorite is the Olds on looks, but the best driver is the Rivera. Buick kept it rear drive to save a significant chunk of cash. That allowed better suspension and interior with money left over. It was also the best seller of the three.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Give me a Boat Tail Rivera, 71-73, with the 455. Straight up dope.

  17. Evan from Evansville

    The day has gone remarkably well. I anticipate more to come.

    Had fun at Global Fest and juggled with some kids. I drew in talent far better than Dad did. I am not entirely curious as to why.

    Cubs coming up and it’ll be Triscuits w olive tapenade and salami. Comfort food as close to Schlotzky’s as possible without any real effort. I think taking this covenant of the Cubs will assist their efforts. If not, I just didn’t eat enough of them. (And possibly many other actual answers to their potential woes-to-come (if they do) in T-Minus eight minutes.

    • R.J.

      I am pleased to hear it.

  18. Shpip

    A little good news for your weekend: lots of people are moving to Tampa, but they’re not putting their kids in the government schools.

    Paywalled, so archived https://archive.ph/pRX1n

    • rhywun

      enrollment is dropping

      Same in NYC – dropping like a stone here.

      The difference, I suspect, is that many if not most of them are simply not going to school at all anymore.

      • hayeksplosives

        At least if they’re not in public school they’re less likely to be taken from their parents by CPS for refusing to put them on trans affirming care.

  19. R.J.

    I am so dead. Wrapped up like a mummy watching Dr. Sardonicus on Svengoolie.

    • Ted S.

      I’m watching Private Hell 36 on Tubi.

      • R.J.

        Wonderful.

    • rhywun

      Columbo here.

      Final 90-minute from the original era wraps around to S01E01 later, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring the deliciously oily Jack Cassidy.

      • Ted S.

        You should see him and his dog in The Eiger Sanction.

      • rhywun

        Never have seen that.

      • R.J.

        Eiger Sanction is awesome. A must see.

      • Ted S.

        Any way to get that link to open in the browser and not try to force the Tubi app on me?

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        I remember seeing it in a London hotel room with my parents as a wee one. But, I later learned it comes from a Trevanian “novel” so, pass.

      • dbleagle

        Watch it despite being from Travanian. Cassidy does a great job and so does Eastwood. The climbing scenes are not terribly realistic in places but part of the Eiger part was filmed on the lower part of the route and the escape tunnel

        Plus the character George is better looking than almost any other George on the planet.

      • rhywun

        better looking than almost any other George on the planet

        lol, you almost had me

      • The Hyperbole

        What’s wrong with Trevanian?

      • R.J.

        “ deliciously oily Jack Cassidy.”

        Hehehhehehehheh

      • C. Anacreon

        Just like his son David

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      Father Brown here. And drinking 805’s.

  20. Suthenboy

    Sowell on Levin tonight. As you might expect it was one gem after another.

    “Stupid people can create problems but it takes genius’ to create real catastrophe.” – Sowell
    That one is going to stick with me.

    • hayeksplosives

      Sowell is a national treasure

  21. The Gunslinger

    Oy vey. Michigan is making Bowling Green look like osu.

    • rhywun

      Don’t watch much on Saturdays except occasionally my alma mater who are the Washington Generals of CFB.

      • The Gunslinger

        My BHA Seagulls dispatched Man U today so that was good.

      • rhywun

        I almost feel sorry for Man U, having to share a city with that other team. And unable to throw around nearly as many millions.

  22. Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

    Well, both PAC 2 teams won, and are 3-0. I wonder how those pussies in the SEC are doing?

    • slumbrew

      11th ranked Tennessee currently shitting the bed vs unranked Florida.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Well, surprise, surprise, surprise.

      • Spudalicious

        It’s not been pretty.

      • slumbrew

        Oh, and might Bama pulled their QB and was lucky to get by unranked USF.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        University of San Fransisco?

        /just kidding.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Q: What’s the best thing about having kids?
    A: Playing with the box they came in.

    Bravo.

    Or should it be Brava?

  24. rhywun

    LOL work really oughtta check my PTO status before calling. Given that my work machine is unplugged and packed into a moving bin I think I did pretty well helping the night staff from memory.

    • slumbrew

      You would have been justified in making them squirm for awhile, but it’s also fuel for ‘rhywun is exempt from the back-to-the-office rule” decision.

      • rhywun

        I still don’t know if I will have a job, say, next year.

        The situation is seriously messed up but given that the next time I log in I will be a literally a three-hour commute away from the nearest office, the ball is in their court.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Better to ask forgiveness than to beg permission.

  25. rhywun

    Today in no fucks to give.

    In the interview, Wenner seemed to acknowledge he would face a backlash. “Just for public relations sake, maybe I should have gone and found one Black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism.”

    LOL.

    Last year, Rolling Stone magazine published its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and ranked Gaye’s “What’s Going On” No. 1, “Blue” by Mitchell at No. 3, Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life” at No. 4, “Purple Rain” by Prince and the Revolution at No. 8 and Ms. Lauryn Hill’s “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” at No. 10.

    OFFS. I remember previous iterations of this list being quite different.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      “What’s Going On”, correct at #1.

    • Chafed

      Does anyone under 70 read Rollingstone?

    • Suthenboy

      Another failed attempt to objectively judge the subjective.
      I am in the no fucks to give camp as well.

  26. pistoffnick

    @ 4Score,

    The home made pickled beets are too salty. I wont be bringing them to Honey Harvest. I cant with good conscience…

    /hangs head in shame.

    I will be bringing tried and true smoked salmon, some Wisconnie sharp cheddar, and some Norf Dakoda tangy summer sausage.

    • Fourscore

      Understood, we have some cuke pickles suffering the same problem.

      We’re ready to crank up tomorrow, had the stove going in the garage, warming up the H.

      Headed for bed

  27. Brochettaward

    I have encountered three ephemeral beings while traversing the Firstiverse.

  28. CPRM

    LOL, Kept the zoom open to see if anyone showed up. Some guy named mark something enters the zoom,
    Me: And who might you be?
    Him: It;s Mark something. Is Ryan going to be in on this?
    Me: Who?
    Him: Ryan Johnson, is he going to be in on the meeting.
    Me: *LOOK OF CONFUSION*
    HIM: I think I got linked to the wrong meeting
    He left the zoom

    • rhywun

      lol how does that happen?!

      Mark Something has a Glibfriend?

      • slumbrew

        I was thinking the same thing – the links are random, so it’s not like some rando got a letter wrong…

    • Ted S.

      Mark was a glowie.

  29. creech

    I’ve always kind of liked the Buffies but am getting annoyed at all the “Coach Prime” slobbering by the announcers every week.

    • rhywun

      Is this the one with alternate universe goatee Buffy? Don’t remember “Coach Prime”.

      • creech

        Univ of Colorado Buffaloes

      • rhywun

        Oh, that. That’s too many time zones away to catch my attention.

      • slumbrew

        It has potential to earn “most personal fouls in a game”. It’s chippy.

  30. pistoffnick

    14 pints of salsa canned from 17 lbs. of Roma tomatoes. Future Nick (circa January 2024) better damn well appreciate what current Nick has done.

    Also changed the rear brake pads on my girlfriend’s car. No more grinding.

    • Chafed

      Let’s hope there is some grinding for changing her brake pads.

      • slumbrew

        Giggity.

  31. Brochettaward

    The paper said several others had accused Brand of physical and emotional abuse, sexual harassment and bullying, adding that those who had come forward did not know each other and had mostly chosen to remain anonymous.

    So, how exactly did they manage to find all of these women for a story unless they solicited them? There have been no prior allegations and nothing we know of that could have sparked an investigation, but somehow they ended up with half a dozen different stories of illegal behavior. Not one went to the police.

    They say this was an open secret in TV and radio production world UK. Someone went to these papers with this story idea, and someone put them in touch with these women. They are full of shit when they claim there was no such coordination.

  32. pistoffnick

    It is amazing how little tomato “product” remains after scalding, peeling, and , seeding 17 lbs. of Roma tomatoes.,

  33. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Call me a cynical asshole (I am one so no skin off my nose) but I strongly suspect old Russell wouldn’t have these accusations being tossed his way if he wasn’t antivax and anti Ukraine war. His shtick grates on me after a while but he seems to be a truth seeker for what that’s worth and a decent enough fellow. When it comes to these accusations, the way things are now Imma need some proof and someone’s word don’t quite cut it.

  34. Suthenboy

    Tonight saw both Mark Davis Hanson and Thomas Sowell interviewed by Mark Levin. Just woke up and this had coalesced in my foggy brain.

    Levin refers to the left today as marxists and Hanson calls them Jacobins. They do both embrace similar mish-mashes of Liberty and Equality. By equality of course they mean equity….equal outcomes for all. This creates an incoherent philosophy as equity requires cutting the tall poppy – negating liberty…and vice versa.
    Another commonality is that the leaders do not anymore believe in the ideals than I believe in STEVE SMITH. These ideals are simply conduits to power for the leadership. It is the followers who are required to engage in all sorts of cognitive dissonance and suspension of disbelief to hammer the square peg.

    I know…STEVE SMITH will make a believer out of me and by make a bleever out of me mean…
    Something else the philosophies have in common.

    • Suthenboy

      I may not have made my point very well. I plead sleepiness.
      Both men were making comparisons of our contemporary progressive movement to those older failed political schools of thought. Both movements were the inverse of Silent Cal’s famous quip “If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”

      “If they are endowed with inalienable rights…” is the sticking point for those with an insatiable hunger for power and thus their point of attack. All of these alternate philosophies are just some regressive fun-house mirror image of each other.
      I am probably just rambling nonsense….maybe I should eat some more peas and rice and get back to bed.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I was thumbing through Trotsky’s Permanent Revolution and he was whining about how Stalin was claiming Russia demanded customized socialism but everywhere else got cookie cutter socialism or other critiques of Stalin. Similar thought. Stalin didn’t give squat about revolution or creating a socialist ideal. The fucker just wanted to be top dog and eliminate any personal threats. His philosophy was just cover.

      • Suthenboy

        You put it better than I did. Cover, indeed. I am convinced the incoherent philosophies were concocted specifically for that purpose.
        See: American left today.

  35. Rat on a train

    Heading out to Mormon territory today. I will be in Ogden for a week. I hear the local cuisine is green gelatin and cheesy potatoes. I will smuggle in some tea.

    • Suthenboy

      Of course he is correct. Someone is pulling Biden’s strings and the top contenders are Obama, Clinton and their lickspittles. I am not the only one with that suspicion. I dont understand why no one in the press seems curious about that. Incuriousness is responsible for an awful lot of what we dont know. That incuriousness seems to me to be evidence of snake in the grass behavior by the people that purport to be in opposition to the left. I am looking at. you Republican Party.
      Most people are dummies that cant tell the difference between something obvious and ‘conspiracy theory’, i.e. anything that departs from the narrative fed to the public.

  36. Suthenboy

    I have been up since….uh….oneish? Since you goobers appear to be in bed I have been watching random videos.

    This guy burns up a ton of rounds in about 13 seconds and lands very few hits at 10 yards. Good grief. I can do better than that in about 2.5 seconds and four rounds with my ’94 winchester.
    Full auto is more effective at getting the enemy to duck and run than it is for knocking them down. I prefer semi-auto.