At least it wasn’t the sidebar
Something I noticed while on LinkedIn I thought was somewhat unusual given how often companies and their employees will trip over themselves to virtue signal on social media. Its just like any social media, really, except you are required to use your real name, and often display your employer’s name while you are at it. People are still psychologically safe enough to say, change their profile picture to a Pride flag in June or wax poetic about the current thing.
What I find odd, is how many posts I come across from the same people supporting Israel. Its the new current thing.
Anyways, enlaces!
The big news is an openly they/them magistrate was found dead in they/them’s home.
Mexico’s security minister, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, said authorities were investigating the cause of death.
“We don’t know yet … if it was a homicide or if it was some kind of accident,” she said during the president’s regular morning press conference.
But human rights activists have pointed out that Mexican authorities have a history of dismissing murders as crimes of passion and asked for a full investigation into whether Baena’s death was related to their gender identity.
That’s a safe bet.
I don’t think they actually care?
Fuck you. Cut spending.
Narrator: It didn’t occur to any of them to outlaw the ATF selling guns to Mexican gangs.
Well, if Mossad says so, it must be true.
There’s a adolescent joke here somewhere.
The Argentine runoff is scheduled for Sunday. Their polls are calling it a toss up, far left outlets are saying high inflation (185%) might give the far right Milei a sporting chance. They had a debate recently, and I was disappointed Milei did not pull out the chainsaw.
Here’s a tune you weren’t expecting, have a great Tuesday!
Why are all the pictures so huge now?
Whoops. Okay do I leave it or nah?
🤷♂️
Meh. Leave it.
It wasn’t just you. It’s been a thing recently.
We never get to see the bottom of that, I kind of dig it.
Now we just need a rear view…
OK, did you just flip the photo from one side to the other, or have I finally lost it?
Well, it’s legal in Ohio now.
I did that. When I removed the featured image I got an error: “could not parse response”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Because they like us
Yeah — I liked the big version of the kitten this morning.
Everyone loves a big pussy.
Oh? Size matters?
You know what else is huge?
*looks down at belly*
Yeah, I do.
“Just weeks before their death, Baena was presented with a certificate by the electoral court recognizing them with gender neutral pronouns as a “maestre”, a significant step in Spanish, a language that historically splits the language between two genders, male and female.”
OFFS!!
Non-binary in Spanish is masculine, btw.
I still don’t understand why they won’t choose the perfectly good gender-neutral pronoun that already exists in English.
Well, they tried to force Filipinx when Filipino is already gender neutral.
It’s masculine but can refer to people of both sexes. Latinx is extra stupid because in English you could just use Hispanic.
Til they demand herspanic and they panic…plus way too close to spic
I assume those who speak Spanish would get more out of this than me.
Miho goes to Junior college!
Filipino is an Austronesian language that lacks grammatical gender. They tried to apply their torturing of Spanish.
Teacher, master, etc. in Spanish is maestro (m) or maestra (f). Even with an “e” ending, the articles and adjectives would be gendered. For example, “clave” referring to informational things (keys that open locks, passwords) is feminine, and referring to physical things (keys on a keyboard) is masculine, so using gender in a gendered language is pretty much unavoidable.
It?
“It” doesn’t refer to people.
As long we’re redefining grammar… why not?
People have been using “they” as singular in English long before non-binary was a thing. It might not be correct grammar, but neither are plenty of other common usages.
Only as a placeholder until “he” or “she” can be chosen.
What Rhywun said. I have changed it in contracts when it was attempted to be used as a non-binary singular pronoun, on the theory that it makes it difficult to know who is being referred to – one party, or both parties?
And….?
These are not people, like you or I.
“The administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has rushed to create more protected natural areas at the end of his presidency, but environmentalists accuse it of trying to “greenwash” an image of favoring petroleum in a time of climate change.”
CWABOA
BOA? Got the CWA part …
You know like murder of crows, rafter of turkeys, pack of dogs, pod of dolphins, etc.
Bludgeon of assholes?
Browning of Assholes.
It is the correct plural, after all.
I thought it was bleaching these days.
I cant keep up.
I suppose a woodchipper would have been too heavy for Milei to wield.
“The Caribbean island of Dominica says it will create the world’s first sperm whale reserve.”
Starting the first whale sperm reserve would make bank.
Sidebar:
“Giving birth with no painkillers under the bombs in Gaza
“There was a shortage of painkillers,” she adds. “So they only administered it if the pain became really unbearable and only to those most in need.”
She gave birth with no painkillers.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67398743
Like the way most women have given birth since forever?
They had what she really needed.
If ever there was a candidate for a Pulitzer it is they.
A not insignificant number of American women opt for no pain-killers voluntarily.
Some even make it all the way through the delivery without anything.
I tried with #2 but only because I had complications with the epidural on #1. 16 hours hard labor after being induced. It was ugly. Finally gave up the ghost and got an epidural with the same complication, even after the anesthesiologist said he wouldn’t make the same mistake. Narrator: He did.
I always figured the pain from delivery must be off the charts if the treatment for it is to stick a needle in your spine.
I spent many hours rocking the bed and howling in pain while my husband, mother, and mother-in-law took shifts shoveling ice in my mouth. Child just didn’t want to come out. Then when he did, no one was there to catch him except the bed, and if it hadn’t been for my mom moving fast, he would’ve slipped right off the bed onto the floor. I lost so much blood my hemoglobin was 5 and they wouldn’t transfuse me. It was in their brand new birthing center meant to be “like home.” There’s more to the story. It was all around a horrifying experience. 0/10 would not recommend.
Why are they called sperm whales?
Because unlike the relatively placid humpback or blue whales — they’re just always teste.
*whistles, throws flag* after further review the pun will be allowed to stand, it is indeed a penis joke
Lol
To my understanding they were hunted specifically for a product called spermaceti.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/spermaceti
I did not know that, but I’ll be honest that I posted this fishing for funny responses.
Here? You know what passes for humor here? I mean, my jokes pass for humor here.
It’s not the jokes we’re laughing at.
(O.O)…
Dayum. Fourscore from the top rope!
But how is anyone going to top the reality that a bunch of sailors saw a viscous white fluid in a whale and called it sperm?
Why don’t we have Election Day on Saturday or Sunday? More people are off from work.
Can you imagine the howling if we did the purple finger thing?
You vote at a nightclub?
Purple finger thing?
Iraq…
Where voters get semi-permanent ink on one fingertip to show they’ve voted.
I bet I could beat the system.
“You want a
toefinger? I can get you atoefinger, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.”haha
You’re a pickle. You don’t have fingers.
I do indeed have a great discrimination case if this were ever a law.
I really don’t want to vote where they’re coloring folks’ pickles.
Ummm… Is the ink gluten-free and vegan?
It is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
Because Sunday is a day of rest and you should be at church. Monday is a day to travel to the county seat to vote. And Tuesday is a day for voting. It would require a constitutional amendment to change it, though with early voting these days, it seems to be a moot point.
We could do what Mexico does, and suspend alcohol sales for the day.
Don’t give them ideas. I’d rather we went back to the candidates sitting there with barrels of whiskey and a dipper. Whichever barrel was emptied first won.
Actually, this would be make an easy fix to all the BS early vote junk.
“constitution says Tuesday. No other day. Now, nock this crap off.”
Man the supreme court really needs to go down this path.
It appears that an amendment isn’t required. This is what the Constitution says: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.”
There has been subsequent legislation that has set the dates for the elections.
Is that how the founding fathers really spelled choosing?
I am cool with tearing down TJ’s statue now.
“I have no respect for a man who can spell a word only one way.” -Mark Twain. Allegedly.
this is correct history
I have never understood how early voting or junk mail ballots are Constitutional under that provision.
Good point. I didn’t even remember that “Tuesday” is in the constitution.
What does bear repeating is that the US breaks every item on the list of best practices that we use to judge the fairness of other countries’ elections.
The Australian ballot is a relatively recent development.
The stupid Tuesday thing in the constitution.
I live in a Republican suburb. I love to waltz in on a Tuesday for a non-presidential election. They are so surprised that anyone at all has come to vote.
There is a district near me that is all students – you can win alderman with like 20 votes.
Texted this relationship “advice” to Mrs. Prole with a standard disclaimer (“warning: all actors here are trained professionals. Do not try this at home.”)
https://babylonbee.com/news/experts-reminding-your-wife-the-bible-says-she-should-submit-leads-to-the-happiest-marriages
“The science is settled” Fauci
Tourists will be able to view the whales from boats and even swim with them, but their numbers will be restricted under new regulations.
“Swim” with them. John McAffee could not be reached for comment.
In loving memory of the whale fucker.
FBI: Other signs that an employee was a “right-wing radical and disloyal to the United States,” according to Ms. Perkins and Mr. Veltri, were failure to wear a face mask, refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccination and participating in religious activities.
All those conspiracy theories just keep coming true don’t they?
There was a hint of fear even in the FAA that they would use the list of us who did not disclose our vaccine status as ‘non-loyal’ too. It appears they were not totally unfounded.
Sigh…
Standing and moot are the flavor of the 2020s
Can’t believe he participated in religious activities.
Creepy as fuck.
They simply defined “The United States” as “The Democrats in general, and the FedGov in particular” and made the logical inferences… if you aren’t 100% an enthusiastic member of the Party, then
Comrade Andropov and his icepick…um, I mean – then we revoke your security clearance.And the assholes in Congress keep allowing this crap.
Congress just approved a nice fancy building so they can keep doing this in comfort and style.
have you seen who is in congress?
The FBI needs to be entirely disbanded.
Oh, wait. That is not The Bee.
No shit?
These banana republic monkeys have to go.
This is what scares me most about next election. There isn’t a chance in hell they will let Trump win and challenge their racket. I can’t imagine there is anything off the table at this point.
Trump is an extreme moderate compared to other republican options.
Compared to all other options.
I hope he wins and I hope they have pissed him off badly enough at this point that he comes in not with a broom but an axe.
He won’t.
I keep hearing that. I am on the fence. We will see.
Trump can win, and he won’t even be running the Executive branch, let alone getting any legislation passed. All of the fussing about the doom of democracy is just childish tantrums.
So much this. His first term taught me that he talks big but doesn’t get much done.
yeah.
His first term taught me that the President is a figurehead, and the agencies are essentially self-governing and autonomous.
And there isn’t even a pretense. Even the political appointees don’t give a shit about their purported boss.
Biden certainly reinforces that point.
something something everything for the state
JFC
Worse…for the party. It is all projection all of the time with them. Remember the accusations that Trump was demanding personal loyalty oaths ala Hitler?
I think Obama already did that but if they aren’t doing it now they soon will be.
News on TV: All Gaza, all of the time. They are currently debating the finer points of who gives a fuck what as they have been since Oct.7.
I think I will call in. “The time for talking ended on Oct. 7. Ceasefires, treaties, deals and diplomacy are off of the table. Proportionality, my ass. This is as stark a contrast of good and evil as any of us will see in our lifetimes. We cannot battle evil on evil’s terms. We should keep shooting until they stop moving. That is the only way to make them stop.
Sterilize Gaza. We will see who else wants to fuck with us after that.”
I would normally try to equate with something more at home like if the cartels openly did exactly that to border towns and how our response would be, but nowadays? Probably invite them for a beer-summit or some bullshit or long discussions of why are they doing what they are doing.
Proportionality doesn’t mean “they kill 1,000, we kill 1,000.” It can mean Hamas has openly deck war, Israel will now seek a military victory over Hamas. It also can mean that it isn’t the business of the US to fund any of this, unless individuals wish to contribute via charity.
And we haven’t had a clear goal in any of our military actions in decades so we are projecting how we would go about it.
“Pink has partnered up with Pen America – an advocacy group for free expression – to give away 2,000 banned books at her concerts in South Florida.
The So What songstress has thrown her hat in the ring regarding the row about certain books being removed from Floridian libraries and classrooms.
Literature that contains mentions of sexuality, gender identity, and race are being stripped away from classrooms in the state, according to the BBC.
Florida authorities claim they are not banning books but blocking inappropriate and harmful material.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12747405/Pink-hand-two-thousand-copies-banned-books-Miami.html
If they are banned how did she get them?
I was a little surprised she was giving out books teaching children to give blowjobs, but it turns out she got her list from a fake banned book list posted on social media.
Got community noted on El Twitter right away.
Removing age inappropriate books from government schools is book banning.
I started to list out some other examples of the left’s bald faced lies but what would be the point?
The important thing is that some people, not sure how many, swallow this horseshit.
41 years
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Trees_School_District_v._Pico
Solution? Simple. Ban government schools.
How is this even up for debate?
I might as well ask where is my right to receive a blow job from one of those cowboys that went to Israel.
What’s also funny is more of the books in the fake list are banned from schools in California. Where she currently resides.
Gosh, I hope she doesn’t get arrested when she crosses the border. She’s so brave.
PEN is for free speech it supports. Other speech, not so much.
I prefer the Patsy Cline “Crazy”.
The new FBI headquarters should be a 12 x 12 plywood shack with a dirt floor. In Yuma, Arizona.
There’s got to be 100 or so like that already there!
We cant find a small town in AK that is snowed in 9 mos out of the year? Access by ship only during the month every third year when the sea isn’t iced over?
No. Because of Climate Change.
https://www.androidpolice.com/android-teens-problem/
I think this is on point in the US and other developed countries. Although the anecdote from me in my work team of 11 is that the two youngest members and me are the three Android users.
Almost-18yo XY is borrowing my old Samsung for now until he can get his own phone, but he loves iPhones and Apple. Dunno why. I don’t know what 20yo XX would get if she were to upgrade. We raised them both on Samsung/Android, but they got Macs from school.
The shine is about gone off of the apple.
Constant updates, OS is becoming more counterintuitive all the time, too expensive, too many bugs and vulnerabilities. Everything that made it attractive is being fixed to death. I think most of the people who work there has the primary job of making sure they have a job.
I called it when Jobs died, I said apple would die with him.
A Cajun food company here had the best stuff imaginable. Old Mrs.XXX who ran the family company using family recipes died. Family sold out to go lay on a beach somewhere and a suit with a MBA runs the company now. The recipes were all changed I suppose to save money. I bought some before I knew that and whew, I wouldn’t feed that shit to my dog.
I see that some stores have stopped carrying the brand. What a shame.
It is a natural life cycle I guess.
I just paid to get a new battery in my IPhone 8, rather than get a new phone.
*shrug* I stick with the cheapest iPhone. I don’t have any of those problems.
I left the iMac, though, because they no longer offer a “pro-sumer” option. Plus they’ve pretty much abandoned gaming.
My Samsung S23 Ultra is superior to any iPhone.
I’m the odd guy that has an iPad and Pixel 5a.
I much prefer Android for a phones, but Android tablets generally suck. So I’m relatively well versed with the OS on both. Some things are better on Apple, but more are better with Android.
Not mine. Mine has all of my contacts on it.
When I upgraded to S23 earlier this year, absolutely everything (contacts, texts, apps, photos) was quickly transferred from the old phone. And the old phone had a non-functioning USB port.
What is this mad science?
I had to install an app from Google Play on the old Pixel phone. The same app was already preinstalled on S23 and then the two phones saw each other and transferred my data over Wi-Fi. Probably some sort of data transfer is possible from an iPhone. Maybe not everything.
There is a lot to be said for inertia, or “ecosystem” if you want to call it that.
I have no compelling reason to switch to an Android device – all phones do everything I want them to.
The desktop sitch is way different.
I just went over to the dark side, iPhone 12. It is… better. I have had iPhones in the past, and they all sucked, what with that idiot button on the front of it. Now that they got rid of it, and use what is basically the Android logic (control wise) it is so much better, and the quality is miles above any Android phone I am familiar with.
All that said, I hate thinking about phones, and this is just seemless.
One of us. One of us. One of us. . . .
Just in time for the Bidenomics Referendum
The Federal Reserve is likely to make significant cuts to interest rates next year beginning as early as March, according to a new estimate from UBS Investment Bank.
Slowing inflation could enable a 2.75 percent decrease in the interest rate over the course of the year, nearly halving the current rate of almost 5.5 percent, UBS said.
The firm predicts that the U.S. economy will fall into a recession by the second quarter of next year, enabling a rate cut. Rates will fall as low as 1.25 percent by 2025, the market experts predict.
Who knows?
I don’t see how rates come down when the government spending and debt are so high. They need to create demand for those short term tbills.
No fucking way. That’s a fantasy.
Wishcasting. If I played that game, I’d short UBS.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1724526032173064258
This is everywhere today.
This chick is so toast.
One would think, but I wouldn’t bet on it. She’ll have the media pushing her as the acceptable Republican.
I don’t know. Republicans don’t listen to much mainstream media these days. Not really even Fox.
Fuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuu
Really worried some of you guys are gonna figure out that I’m Elon Musk.
Absolutely. I don’t even understand her rationale.
“We promise we won’t keep a list of gun owners. Nope, we will never make such a list.”
When will people learn?
it is worth keeping in mind when many people, especially pols, talk about national security, our democracy, our country etc what they actually mean is the Federal Government.
The FedGov is NOT America. The people of this country are America. The FedGov is just the hired help run amok and we are going to have to do something about that.
t’s a screaming buy
Shares of electric vehicle startup Fisker sank Tuesday after a disappointing earnings report and a regulatory filing that raised concerns about the company’s previous financial statements.
The company’s shares fell more than 18% to close at $3.34 apiece.
Fisker reported its third-quarter results on Monday afternoon, and they weren’t what Wall Street had hoped to see. Revenue of $71.8 million and a net loss of $91 million, or 27 cents per share, that fell short of the Street’s expectations.
But there was more. In a Monday night regulatory filing after its earnings report, Fisker said that following the abrupt departure of its chief accounting officer in October, it “determined that it has material weaknesses in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.”
Those weaknesses will delay its quarterly 10-Q filing, it said.
The market will come back, honest.
I am curious. I would like to see the numbers.
How many joules of energy do ICEs extract from the mining of coal? How many joules do those engines use doing so? How about processing and transporting that coal? How many Joules in energy come out of generating plants? How many usable joules do we have at the end of the process?
Will a system consisting entirely of EV machinery even support itself? Support itself and all of our energy needs? Run the same numbers for Natural Gas.
Would such a system even break even?
Joules
** in cousin voice ** you know perfectly damned well this has nothing to do with facts
“Those weaknesses will delay its quarterly 10-Q filing”
Holy fuck. Quarterlies aren’t audited, but are “reviewed” by your auditors. That tells me the auditors probably said if you post this garbage, we’re quitting. Missing a 10-Q deadline is the kind of thing that gets you on de-listing (removal from the stock market) review.
| Tourists will be able to view the whales from boats and even swim with them, but their numbers will be restricted under new regulations.
If any of you Glibs ever go to La Paz, Mexico (which is a cool old colonial city at the end of the Baja Peninsula with awesome desert and beaches nearby) in the months between November and March you can swim with whale sharks. It is one of the closest to land places in the world where you can reach them. They hang out just a 20 minute boat ride of the main sea front promenade. It is really incredible to swim around with these 30 foot long beasts of the deep. It’s scary even tho they don’t have any teeth they are so massive you feel you could get smacked around by them if they wanted to.
I have seen video of people getting smacked around by them. No thanks, I will take a hard pass on that.
Besides, we have done some salt water diving but Mrs. Suthenboy prefers fresh water (no sharks). She is cool with dolphins and gets to see them at Crystal River.
He has sued the FBI. His security clearance has been suspended for 14 months, and the FBI forbids him to accept donations or find another job while suspended without pay, he said.
How does that work? Is he the chattel property of the U S Government? Is he allowed to paint watercolors and sell them to sophisticated art investors who recognize his exceptional artistic ability?
Only if you play for Team Blue.
The not being able to accept donations is what gets me. It seems like an attempt to starve him out.
“Seems”?
I thought something was rotten at the FBI but holy crap. I wasn’t cynical enough, as usual.
This.
They have to go. It is beyond fixing.
I opted to bring scalloped potatoes to our work Thanksgiving pot luck. Cause of heavy oven use, I am trying a slow cooker receipe…I have doubts.
However one of my wife’s pet customers gave us one of those newer food processor and what a marvel. Thin potatoes in seconds and shredded blocks of cheese in no time
Nikki Haley: “Every person on social media should be verified by their name” because of “national security.”
Dick Cheney in drag.
This image will replace the whale in my nightmares.
Well, KSuellington can tell you were to find it.
Awesome
A Republican senator and the president of the Teamsters union nearly got into a fistfight Tuesday in the middle of a Senate committee hearing, until Sen. Bernie Sanders stepped in and broke it up.
The exchange began when Sen. Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, read a tweet that Teamsters President Sean O’Brien had posted in June.
“You want to run your mouth? We can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here,” Mullin said to O’Brien, who was testifying at a hearing on labor unions in America.
“OK, that’s fine, perfect,” O’Brien replied. “I’d love to do it right now.”
“Then stand your butt up then,” Mullin shot back.
“You stand your butt up,” O’Brien said.
Mullin, dressed in a white shirt and no jacket, then stood up and began to move toward O’Brien.
“No, no, sit down! Sit down! You’re a United States senator!” shouted Sanders, the Vermont independent and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
Mullin and O’Brien continued to trash-talk each other in the hearing room.
“This is a hearing. And God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress, let’s not make it worse,” Sanders said.
What was the hearing about? Who cares? That’s not important.
Fact check: False.
I’d have less contempt for them if there were more fistfights.
“Then stand your butt up then,” Mullin shot back.
“You stand your butt up,” O’Brien said.”
Middle school. For the slow kids.
Fuck you
no,fuck you
no fuck you
fuck you
fuck you
no, fuck you
The ‘fuck you’ contest. It’s the bullshit two tough guys sling when they suddenly realize they screwed up and really dont want a physical fight.
How George Floyd actually died
As recently reported in these pages, Hennepin County prosecutors knew from day one how George Floyd did not die. Medical Examiner Andrew Baker reported to the prosecutors the evening following Floyd’s May 25, 2020, death, “There were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd’s neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation.”
For political reasons, the prosecutors buried the truth. To save his career and possibly his life, Baker finessed his findings to include “neck compression” and declared the manner of death a homicide. So doing, he gave the state the wiggle room it needed to slip a noose around Chauvin’s neck.
To learn what did kill George Floyd, I have consulted with two physicians. One, Dr. John Dale Dunn, is a veteran emergency physician and lawyer with expertise in cause of death matters. The other, a pathologist at a major medical center with more than two decades of experience, I will call “Dr. Quincy.”
If it’s Quincy, “It was murder!”
If it’s really Dr. House then it’s definitely not sarcoidosis.
What about Lupus?
It’s not lupus!
I’m torn between what difference at this point does it make? and was that wrong? Should I have not done that?
Yep. The Party got their champion for the mobbing hordes and what’s done is done.
I’m going to settle on “seething contempt for the racist cowards who have wrought so much destruction”.
I probably won’t even live long enough to see any recovery from it.
All of this came out in real time. I remember commenting here about the changed findings of the autopsy. I also remember the exact words of the coroner. “Mr. Floyd was a dead man walking before the police arrived. He had many times the amount of fentanyl in his system needed to kill him. There was nothing the police could do.” That got memory holed.
Are they going to have a new trial?
Do the Democrats need another summer of street riots?
Isn’t it pretty much over? I assumed it was
Chauvin is rotting in prison. It won’t be over until the man is exonerated. Cop or no cop, he did nothing wrong. I saw the full video and it was clear to me that he (Chauvin) should have never been charged.
Welp, just got my bill to register the 2022 Toyota Highlander. $680 a year.
Pure extortion. I get nothing out of it other than not getting abused by cops. What a clownshow our society has turned into.
??? I mean New York is evil, but registration is $70 every two years.