A Swiss Servator explaner
I realize I have often put in a link about the Confederatio Helvetica and complained that the CS-UBS saga has sucked all the air out of the Swiss room. So I am going to do a very crude, and very likely only semi-accurate, summary of the entire sheißsturm.
UBS (UBS Group AG) a lovely Swiss bank from Zurich, got caught up in the 2006-2007 “slap residential mortgage backed securities together and get them out the door”… this led to 2008’s implosion costing them 20 billion Swiss francs. That is serious coin. The Swiss federal financial watchdog (the Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht or FINMA, the Federal Financial Market Supervisory Authority) unleashed their Banking Commission on UBS and the report they issued was an absolute arse kicking.
But, before that, the Swiss National Bank had to pump lots o’ money into the bank, so it didn’t dry up and blow away. A whole bunch of regulations were passed (like here in the US). Did it work? HA! Just like here, it seems that a pile of regulations isn’t a magic shield against failure.
So, in March of this Two Thousand, Twenty-Third Year of Our Lord, Credit Suisse, another big-arsed Swiss bank, strolls onto the scene and says “hold mein bier und schauen Sie an!” They fail in a whole pile of scandals – money laundering, tax-evasion, lots of shady stuff with various dictatorial shitholes, kickbacks, and jobs being dangled for business being given (do the last two sound like Chicago or what?). Remember, this is right when Silicon Valley Bank blowed up real good, so people were getting a wee bit nervous about bank failures.
Swiss authorities said they didn’t want to shell out to prop up another self-inflicted flop….so, they politely “asked” good old UBS (“remember how we didn’t nuke you in ’08?”) to belly up to the bar and take what was left. It turns out that Swiss authorities lie like ours…having said this was a purely “commercial” solution, they ended up offering a bunch of credit and guarantees. This has led to the Swiss press having story after story after story on this. I can’t blame them, as it involves every respected part of Swiss society; banks, financial regulators, business leaders, etc. Every week something else comes up.
So there you go.
Now, the Links.
- In another sign of the END TIMES approaching, France makes me wish we could be a little more like them.
- I hope I am not stepping on Riven’s turf too much with this link. I am not sure what to think of this, other than be sure the court will most likely come up with some muddled and probably wrong determination (hard cases make bad law).
- Not me tendies! REEEEEEEEEE!
Music…lets go old school.
The comments are open and all yours.
Naive of me, I know… but I really wish the governments would let businesses fail. I think a lot of our woes over the last 3 decades have been the government
deciding winners and loserspropping up husks of corporations that the market has decided should go.And I want them to stop over-regulating.
And a Sovereign class starship (and the command codes, natch) while I’m dreaming.
Thanks for the info, Swiss… I’d say it is nice to know all the incompetent and/or corrupt weasels aren’t on this side of The Pond — but I think we all knew that they’re equal opportunity at this point.
Well, it is nice to know that it wasn’t just us that have a rotten elite and a government ever so willing to prop it up.
Prosecuting government officials abusing their offices? Not in Merrick Garland’s America!
I often wish we were more like France when it comes to nuclear power if it makes you feel any better.
Good point, so two ways now!
I tripped in France once.
Eiffel over.
I’m sure they called one of their new Tesla ambulances for you. They needed to make sure it would get through traffic —- and S Car go.
I’m not rooting for anybody there. Apple and Google both curate their stores, so I don’t care that they take a cut. Everything I’ve heard is that the cut is based more on classic Nintendo figures back in the cartridge days. I care a little that Epic also bitches / goes after Steam in that Valve seems to actually do something with the money.
And I don’t trust Epic because they act like scumballs with trying to lock everything into exclusives by bribing developers (before they apparently started running out of Fortnite money) and their Chinese connections make me extra-not-trust-them. So there’s no “root for the underdog” here. I can hope they both lose somehow…
I’ve yet to lose faith in Valve, which is pretty impressive considering how long they’ve been around.
They do have a crippling inability to release a game with the number three in the title.
Yeah, Epic got its way onto certain platforms thanks to the distribution and processing networks they created and maintain oh but now that’s not faaaaiiir.
GFY
Bob! You were supposed to check the metal blades (sod the bleeding abattoir) before the grinders!
Bob?
Oh… guess the tykes get Dino Bob this time around….
Dino Tendies are METAL as fuck
I was expecting something more like this then…
Huh… okay you reprobates… where are all of y’all. Starting to feel like this is appropriate now….
I just wanted to see how long we could go with just you commenting. I’m sure you broke some kind of firsting record.
Some of us work!! ::lights candle for Rufus::
I work too… when corp IT doesn’t hose the network like today, anyway….
Because who doesn’t want more shovelware?
Devices should have as little as possible installed when the OS is completed. I hate that the first thing I have to do is rip out stuff I don’t want.
“A limited number of consumers have reported they found small, pliable metal pieces in the product, and out of an abundance of caution, the company is recalling this product,” a release from Tyson said.
Why am I reminded of parents claiming to find razors in kids’ Halloween candy?
https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/sault-ste-marie-child-finds-razor-blade-in-halloween-candy-police-1.6632674
Never gets old. 🙄
Or posters!
https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/03/pro-palestine-activist-instant-karma-israelis-posters-razors/
OFFS. Just avoid the posters with buckets placed on the ground below them to collect the blood. It’s not rocket surgery, comrades.
I too question the people putting razors on posters. Did they not have any lemon juice?
I always suggest a concentrate of poison ivy. Paints on, blisters off.
My mom was a nurse manager at the hospital in our town. They used to x-ray candy on Halloween. In years of doing that they never found one razor blade.
The steady propaganda of ‘local’ news pushing these stories, gloming onto clinics/hospitals offering this shit up, etc is really rearing its head now.
I was happy to see opened wrappers about the yard the day after Halloween. Sure I had trash in the yard, but kids were enjoying the fruits of their labor and not waiting for someone to okay their well earned gains.
Swiss – you left out the best part!
Explainer: What are AT1 bonds and why are Credit Suisse’s wiped out?
https://www.reuters.com/markets/why-markets-are-uproar-over-risky-bank-bond-known-at1-2023-03-24/
Fond memories of GM’s bailout with an international financial twist!
He played her like a fiddle.
I was watching Classic Concentration today, and the door prize for a member of the audience was Royalswiss patio furniture.
Who knew Switzerland became a monarchy?
King Candy?
That sounds a lot better than the Lee Press-On Nails.
“Transgender Antifa ‘rioter’ Jamie Marsicano whose dad’s a tycoon DANCES into Atlanta court as she and 61 others are arraigned for ‘terrorizing’ proposed police training facility”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12716329/Transgender-Antifa-terrorist-DANCES-court-Atlanta.html
The news needs to stop calling people transgender when they obviously aren’t.
… So — trans and queer? Is he going for the old Lesbian Trapped in a Man’s Body thing?
Narrator: In short, Jamie is an idiot.
Queer just means “loud and obnoxious” at this point. They’re just applying it to themselves as a kind of warning coloration.
Yup, it’s a social signal to like-minded assholes.
No prisons or police? Sounds like he just wants to return to the classic commie system of Gustapo and Gulags.
He wants to leave criminals to the tender justice of mobs of angry citizens.
Send family a bill for the bullet?
He imagines that without the rulers stomping on angry mobs with the Wrong Views, the only angry mobs allowed will (still) be the leftist ones.
Please, idiot is harmful. It’s trans-intelligent now.
But it’s Trump who’s being disrespectful to the court.
The autogynophiles make 0 effort to pass. In fact, some of them actively try not to, but slap on some lipstick and a wig and fishnets.
Transgenders try.
Drag queens succeed.
“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”
I’m not sure you’re working off the same definitions. Last time I checked, Drag Queens were men dressing as caricatures of women and wholly unconvincing.
Don’t Call It “Infertility”
New guidelines from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine will help more people access reproductive medicine, but the terminology they use feels off.
When I conceived my son with donor sperm, I wasn’t in a relationship. I’d seen too many friends get married and have babies mainly to calm their ticking biological clocks, and then soon divorce. One such friend recently told me she had never been in love. I had the rest of my life to find love with the right guy, I figured. Better to have a child on my own while I was still fertile. I briefly discussed having sex with a male friend to get pregnant, but decided that conceiving with donor sperm from a bank would avoid potential legal and emotional gray areas around paternity.
It took a few months to get pregnant with the help of a midwife who came to my home. I never considered myself “infertile.” I simply needed some sperm.
But according to a new report from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, a woman in that position today would be “infertile.” The definition of infertility now includes “the need for medical intervention, including, but not limited to, the use of donor gametes or donor embryos to achieve a successful pregnancy either as an individual or with a partner.”
In other words, basically anyone who conceives children outside heteronormative sex between a man and a woman is doing so because they are “infertile.” The former definition stated that infertility was failing to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse.
Let’s all cheer for another fatherless child.
Sounds like its a means to get it paid for by insurance.
The net effect may be more single parent households, but that doesn’t read to me as the primary purpose.
This will, of course, likely lead to more revenue for the guild members, but I’m sure that wasn’t any part of the design.
Sounds like its a means to get it paid for by insurance.
That’s how I read it.
Paul Simon put it best:
But the father and child reunion
Is only a baster away…
Hip Hip HOORAY!!👏👏
Oh fuck off.
Paleonormative.
I can make up words too.
Mrs. TOK is watching a series on Hulu or Netflix or something. Why do all these shows have terrible cover versions for their soundtrack?
m o n e y
So just hire a guy who lives in his mom’s basement and has a Moog synthesizer.
Moogs are expensive.
But moobs are plentiful.
Because all those K-Tel Sounds of the ’70s artists need to eat?
Using the originals would cost more?
Sometimes repeats or DVD’s will have different songs than the original broadcast.
I’m sure that’s it, but those singers didn’t have any original music?
Using the original means royalties for whoever owns the rights to the song AND whoever owns the rights to that specific recording, I believe.
“The proposed Hate Crimes Modernization Act, expected to be considered by the state Legislature when it reconvenes next year, would add 31 new offenses that could be charged as hate crimes, including gang assault, sex trafficking and weapons possession….
According to the state Division of Criminal Justice, hate crimes jumped by nearly 56% in 2021.
But prosecutors say they are handcuffed in fighting the surge due to the limited list of 66 offenses that can be charged as hate crimes.
Under state law, dozens of crimes can be charged as hate crimes if it can be proven that they were motivated by bias, discrimination or racism.
The proposed law would enlarge the now-limited list to include many crimes related to gang assault, sexual misconduct, some rape offenses, labor and sex trafficking, arson, falsely reporting an incident, several weapons possession charges and graffiti-related crimes.”
https://nypost.com/2023/11/06/metro/proposed-new-law-would-greatly-expand-nys-hate-crimes-statute/
Why not make everything a hate crime?
https://nypost.c
Hatefully possessing a weapon. Ok then.
I would like to report a real hate crime, somebody hatefully stole your second link.
No idea how that got there.
Just like all hate crimes, it’s the thought that counts.
I don’t always commit hate crimes, but when I do, I like to make them modern.
Lynching is so passe.
Please don’t give them ideas.
The law ‘n’ order version of “according to my model…..”
Citizens: “Hate crimes are a bad idea. Things will get out of hand.”
Govt:” No, no, it won’t get out of hand. This enhancement will only be for X and Y. Just two things we promise. ”
Uh huh.
I’m shocked that there’s money laundering, tax-evasion, lots of shady stuff with various dictatorial shitholes going on at Swiss banks.
https://twitter.com/NC5/status/1721589887877386441
I remember when the news would be clamoring for this type of story now…whatever Daddy Gov says.
The MSM and Daddy Gov are the same entity now.
So where are the unauthorized files on the Vegas shooter? We know jack shit about the worst mass shooting in our history and the whole thing seems to have been memory holed.
Something happened in Vegas?
The cops took ‘what happens in vegas, stays in vegas’ a little too seriously, thats all.
I’m sure years later we will get “Nahville shooter was upset her coffee was cold” or some other bullshit.
“BREAKING: Nashville Covenant School Trans Shooter’s Manifesto Has Been Leaked”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/breaking-nashville-covenant-school-trans-shooters-manifesto-has/
“Nashville Trans School Shooter’s Manifesto Reveals She Made a 10 Minute “Final Video”, Where is It?”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/nashville-trans-school-shooters-manifesto-reveals-she-made/
The mention of a video is what caught my eye. See above on news covering this.
What I found odd is that every outlet agreed to call her “she”.
Right. When “misgendering” a trans person in all other contexts is treated as using the N-word by white people.
I noticed at least one large media outlet felt safe in printing “cracker” without swapping out letters with asterisks to protect us from harmful slurs.
Obviously, she’s not really trans, duh. It’s just a slur fabricated by transphobes, TERFs and republicans.
Omg that’s literally trans genocide I can’t even.
“Your parents will use your real name when they bury you.”
Looks like that goes for the media too.
The acronym hasn’t shown up around here for awhile, but the incuriousness/coverup by the media is a great example of TMITE. What’s the incentive for the major players to not investigate? Just because Journolist tells them it’s not a story? Money? Party? I don’t get it.
Culture control
This. As loyal members of the ruling class, they adhere all the more slavishly to its diktats because they are low ranking members of the ruling class. Legacy Media leaves bags of money on the table every single day by refusing to cover stories that people would actually give eyeball time to.
I figure the whole manifesto which all the news has probably seen is all their narratives crashing down in one fell swoop. All their lies that have twisted this person to the point that young kids were the target.
If it isn’t, then why not just publish it, even on excerpts. If this person had lived, we’d see the evidence. They die it gets buried. What a fucked up system
I can see an argument that they don’t want to give it too much attention for fear of copycats. But if that’s the case, they should come out and say it. And it’s not like that has stopped them before.
The media is the enemy and the money is the explanation. They shape their audience and their audience shapes them and there’s no cash in bucking the narrative, bonus points for it supporting their political viewpoint.
I don’t think it is the money. In the media, more eyeballs = more money.
I think it’s quasi-religious devotion to the ruling class narrative, at a level that the most militant mullah would admire.
“In the media, more eyeballs = more money.”
Not quite. It’s more advertising dollars = more money.
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advertising follows the eyeballs…
Advertising follows, or rather helps enforce, the narrative corporations want.
hasn’t shown up around here for awhile
twas a Trashy favorite, so
I’ve never seen TMITE on any other site
I decided to name my computer company Horus. I wanted a name with a similar vibe to Oracle.
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Claudius Aelianus wrote that Egyptians called the god Apollo “Horus” in their own language.[9] However, Plutarch, elaborating further on the same tradition reported by the Greeks; specified that the one “Horus” whom the Egyptians equated with the Greek Apollo was in fact “Horus the Elder”, who is distinct from Horus the son of Osiris and Isis (that would make him “the Younger”).[10]
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If you have computer or business expertise and would like to be involved, please let me know. I need to find a few people who can vouch for my idea in the proposal I’ll be sending to the National Science Foundation’s Seed Fund. Also, I’ve never built a computer network before, so I’ll be needing technical advice as well. The deadline is in January, so there’s no rush. The idea is to make cheap supercomputers for universities and corporations. The one I built was from a Canakit for a Raspberry Pi 4. With oil and copper cooling, I was able to overclock to 5 GHz, though I never saw the CPU run that fast. The CPU temperature never rose above 40 degrees C even during a 24-hour CPU stress test. It also passed a GPU stress test.
Some more technical notes: The maximum settings for clock speed and overvoltage are 5 GHz and 6 volts respectively. Anything higher than that, and I got a kernel panic and the computer would not boot up.
I estimate a cluster of about 1,300 such computers would reach at least 1 TFLOPS and could be built for $30,000 or less. Currently, many different groups rent government supercomputers for various projects. I’m sure they’d be willing to have their own for less than the price of a new car.
On an unrelated note, I was unable to find sriracha for my pineapple pizza and decided to gamble with Old Bay hot sauce. It paid off. Once more, we see the conservative, pizza-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor.
I have a large stash of Siracha…I read the tea leaves on that. Not knock off Siracha, but the OG stuff.
I remember when Beowulf clusters were new. It has been years since I did anything involving clusters like that. I’d probably not be helpful.
I’m a network engineer. I don’t think you can network 1300 nodes that cheaply.
The other issue with parallel processing at that scale is coordination is a real… challenge.
I recall reading that for some supercomputer, light speed lag was a real problem. As in, the time it took light to get from one side of the computer to the other was messing things up.
I know that was an issue with the (a?) Cray model. It was a cylindrical shape, tall-ish but relatively narrow. Very roughly 7′ tall by perhaps 3′ in diameter. Open in a roughly quarter circle slice so the individual boards could be accessed and wired up.
On an unrelated note, I was unable to find sriracha for my pineapple pizza and decided to gamble with Old Bay hot sauce. It paid off.
That’s a step too far. I’m leaving.
I don’t have the space for a 1,300-node cluster, but I do have enough room for a cluster of a few dozen, maybe even a few hundred. Another issue is the maximum amount of power I can obtain from a regular residential outlet. I read the limit is about 1,500 watts in most cases. One Raspberry Pi 4 uses a bit over 4 watts. Add in the other stuff, and the maximum number of nodes is probably less than 300.
I’ve seen videos where guys have built clusters of 8 nodes. I like the idea of building a cluster of 100. Such a cluster would cost about $10,000 to build and be capable of 70 GFLOPS. With overclocking to 5 GHz per node, it could do about 200 GFLOPS. There might be a market for that. It’s one of those numbers that sounds impressive. So I’d need 12 8-slot racks and 1 4-slot rack for that. I’d only immerse the computers in oil, so that saves some money and space. And I can scavenge parts from Deep Dish. I built that computer for about $300 2 years ago.
There’s an oil-cooled Japanese supercomputer called Tsubame KFC. They put rubber ducks in the oil pool as decorations.
ASCI Red was a supercomputer used at Sandia. It could do 1.3 TFLOPS, but that was back in the late 90s.
Anyway, my basic plan is to get the money, build the thing, and sell it to the University of Florida. Failing that, I’d try to get it featured on TV. That should get people’s attention, and then I can sell the company for a few million to someone who knows what they’re doing. After that, I’m set for life.
For those here who are interested in helping, all I’d need from you is contact info and a summary of your experience. I figure I should have at least a software engineer, a network engineer, and an electrical engineer. But I’m flexible on that. So in the proposal and have the names of at least 3 guys who have umpteen years of experience in the field and don’t mind attaching their names to my project. In exchange for support, I’d offer an equal share of the company.
I think I’d name the computer Falcon, since that’s what Horus means in English.
Are you sure you aren’t a Nigerian prince? All seriousness sounds interesting to say the least.
There are plenty of other SBC’s out there, including those designed for clusters.
“There’s an oil-cooled Japanese supercomputer called Tsubame KFC. They put rubber ducks in the oil pool as decorations.”
They should have put chickens.
I really like this guy’s design. It has 33 nodes, with 32 in 4 8-slot racks plus 1 controller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_r3z1jYHAc
Scaling that up to 100 nodes would be easy enough. All that’s missing is overclocking and oil-cooling.
The designer adds:
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To those interested, so far HPL indicates I’m getting 10+ GFLOPS from 32 nodes (I keep the master node out of the benchmark for monitoring purposes)…not too shabby for RPis 😉
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In June 2008, AMD released ATI Radeon HD 4800 series, which are reported to be the first GPUs to achieve one teraFLOPS.
On November 15, 2011, Intel demonstrated a single x86-based processor, code-named “Knights Corner”, sustaining more than a teraFLOPS on a wide range of DGEMM operations. Intel emphasized during the demonstration that this was a sustained teraFLOPS (not “raw teraFLOPS” used by others to get higher but less meaningful numbers), and that it was the first general purpose processor to ever cross a teraFLOPS.
The RTX4090 is rated at 73tflops for singleprecision. You can even get them at MSRP now.
Noted. Thanks for the tip!
Eagle eye hindsight
Maine Sens. Susan Collins (R) and Angus King (I) sent a letter to the U.S. Army inspector general requesting a thorough investigation of how warning signs were missed about Robert Card, an Army reservist who killed 18 people and injured 13 in Lewiston, Maine, last month.
The senators pressed Lt. Gen. Donna Martin to launch a review of the incident to “fully understand what happened” and “what could have been done differently” to prevent Card from opening fire at a bowling alley and bar in the Maine city.
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Card was a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army Reserves and had a history of mental illness and troubling behavior before carrying out the mass killing.
The senators expressed concern that several warning signs appear to have been overlooked.
The Army Reserve flagged concerns over the summer about Card during training in New York, with personnel who evaluated him saying he wanted to “shoot up” an Army facility in Maine. Card was also recommended not to be handed any firearms.
Why wasn’t he sent to sensitivity training?
He had a Ukraine flag in his Twitter profile?
Shizz fixin to pop off in Iceland, yo
https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/a-seismic-swarm-started-north-of-grindavik-last-night
Another one? I saw a story over the weekend saying basically the same thing, but the eruption still hasn’t started.
It heard the sound of velcro
Once again, climate
changecatastrophe rears its ugly head.It has been interesting on Twitter to see people who are usually pretty well aligned, suddenly at each others throats over Israel. But it is also stressful and tedious because that’s 90% of the conversation.
Just the thing for drinking the blood of your enemies
An anthropologist browsing a Florida thrift store made a haunting discovery over the weekend: a real human skull on display in the Halloween section, officials say.
The shopper recognized the skull to be much more than a spooky decoration and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office was notified.
When detectives responded to the store on North Cleveland Avenue in Fort Myers on Saturday, they recovered the skull and also believed it to be human, the sheriff’s office said.
The store owner said the skull was located in a storage unit that was purchased years prior.
“The Lee County Sheriff’s Office will work in conjunction with the District 21 Medical Examiner’s Office to facilitate further testing of the skull,” the sheriff’s office said. NBC News has reached out to the medical examiner’s office for further comment.
Authorities said the case is “not suspicious in nature.”
Or you could use it as a pencil holder.
This from the Bee is just so appropriate, given the David French NYT piece from earlier today.
I think Daniel Kreps takes the cake and it isn’t even satire. Watch out Bee!
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/
Egad! A dad showing his son accountability? Trusting himself as well as putting trust in his son? What other horrors will he unleash?!
To be fair, Daniel Kreps is in the wrong business. 😉
Yes Prime Minister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUSTKisEgTo
Shannon Watts is angry
Last month saw one of the deadliest weeks America has seen in a long time. Eighteen people were gunned down in Lewiston, Maine. The following weekend, 12 more mass shootings left at least 11 people dead and scores more injured.
Yet, as our nation grieves the loss of so much life, the US Supreme Court could be poised to make it even easier for troubled people to access guns. On November 7, justices will hear United States v. Rahimi, a case that will decide if governments can continue to prevent those accused of domestic violence from possessing firearms. The fact that there can be any question about how the Court would rule in a case on whether accused domestic abusers can arm themselves reveals just how broken the Court has become.
It’s also a clear sign that the gun safety movement needs to get to work reforming the Supreme Court.
I note she explicitly says “accused” and not convicted. The presumption of guilt demands we treat everyone as a murderer in waiting.
That last line sounds like a threat.
Sounds like she needs…
[dons sunglasses]
some action.
Don’t go off half-cocked now.
You pulled the trigger before I could.
Also, she leaves out that misdemeanor domestic violence is a sick joke.
A court that applies the Constitution as written is “broken”.
Don’t like it? Amend the Constitution.
According to Sotomayor applying the constitution as written is a ‘novel approach’.
Aaaand there it is-
Now, we need to channel the energy of gun safety advocates into fixing our broken Supreme Court. We need Supreme Court expansion to restore balance and sanity to the Court. By passing a law to add more justices, we can give the president an opportunity to appoint four new justices who will help restore balance to the institution.
Yes, of course. Your cause is so popular and convincing you need to pack the court with anti gun zealots to have a hope of getting your way.
They’ve moved past convincing and even browbeating and have moved to jamming it down our throats.
In a normal time, I’d say go for it! An election year, piss poor candidates (on both sides), priming for a Congress that will reign in what ever craziness has been happening. But this isn’t normal times.
No, and if the far left figures out a way to do this, they will get it done.
They’ve been running circles around the rest of the country for many years, why stop now.
“We need Supreme Court expansion to restore balance and sanity to the Court.”
Of all of the sophistry the gun grabbers trot out this one has to be the worst. Worst yet anyway, I am sure they will top it eventually.
Who’s getting cancelled now?
A modestly more local link can be found here.
It is kind of a depressing thing to name a daycare to be fair but them doing it to coddle migrant parents, I wonder what quality made the migrant parents complain but we’re already aware, is ridiculous.
Yeah, I probably would have chosen a cheerier name for the day care in the first place.
What quality? The likely fictional protagonist of the story is Jewish.
How to express that the new clientele hates Jews without saying that the new clientele hates Jews.
I introduced you to Housinhabit. She is at the NY Trump fraud trial. Not a Trump supporter at all.
Today she reported that only MSNBC was allowed to record or report. They were able to witness though. She said that it was clear that the press was going to report that Trump was angry and combative. She said this didn’t happen. She said the judge repeatedly interrupted him and lectured him… he remained calm the entire time, until the end when he finally responded to the provocations.
Hours layer, ABC News dutifully reported that Trump entered court spoiling for a fight. She reported that the entire thing seemed preordained.
ABC right now reporting that the entire thing was a strategy by Trump, just as HousInHabit predicted during the trial today.
Per her reporting, everything you are seeing is a carefully orchestrated lie. The judge had a strategy to badger the witness until he responded so they could use that against him. The judge also controlled the MSNBC reporting monopoly. So it is all one team, closely coordinated. All of the press. The prosecutor. And the judge.
None of the Lawtubers are going? Or is the court restricting a supposedly public trial to only pre-approved persons*? Which I guess the Secret Service can very well do, shouldn’t of course.
Reiketta Law is too busy getting drunk and trying to convince the internet he had black friends growing up in the hood.
So standard fare totalitarian govt show trial. Imagine my surprise.
What is “the last six or seven years”, Alex?
It all started with the Frogs,
But I wasn’t a frog, so I stayed silent. /Alex Jones
Anyone who doesn’t think some hack NYC judge isn’t getting off on fucking with Trump from a position of authority is a damn fool.
Huh, interesting take.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq9yAqTNmLU
Didn’t know they cancelled the Marine Ball and well..the insane promotion track the Army is offering for recruiters.
The world’s largest Raspberry Pi 4 cluster, with 1,024 nodes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbVcRQQ9PNw
It’s not oil-cooled, though. Silly Oracle.
A set-up like this would be easy to cool with mineral oil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_r3z1jYHAc
Toyota reinvents the jeep
not coming to a store near you
Does it have 12 airbags and is it Euro 6 emissions compliant?
Do you want people to die and poison the planet? Better people live in dirt with no electricity.
Of course not. Only heavily regulated trucks for you!
CAFE doesn’t just pay for itself buddy.
“It doesn’t even have a shift light.”
Oh no.
“Add in the cost of stability control, lane-keeping, automatic emergency braking included in the Toyota Safety Sense suite….”
Stability control is okay I guess (although the bleeping and flashing that occurs does more to distract than help navigate out of a tricky situation), but I hate those other things.
Modern traction control on a 2WD truck is useful and likely worth the safety and cost tradeoff.
What is a Volkswagen “The Thing”?
Wow, those things are expensive.
https://www.carsforsale.com/volkswagen-thing-for-sale-C744444
I don’t think they were $3,000 brand new… And now they are pushing $30k! Wow.
According to the interwebs, a 1973 Thing was not cheap. In the ballpark of $3k (maybe a little more, maybe a little less) it cost a few hundred more than the average 4 door sedan. Nearly as much as a Karmann Ghia convertable.
And rust if you get them moist and they leaked from new.
I’d just get a Bug. But really I’d spend $30k on many other classic cars first.