I hate the “convention crud”
Back from BGGCON, last night…looks like I got the usual cold/bronchitis you get from hanging around 3000+ geeks for 4 days. ‘Vid tested twice so far…pre-Thanksgiving with 3 elderly people, so I can’t be too sure. But that can’t stop our Links from being posted!
- “Tilapia is overrated anyways.”
- More SugarFree fodder.
- Just what Skynet wanted…
- Man, do I crave jury duty…but only for this.
Music is self-serve today, and the comments are all yours!
Why is she still breathing?
I didn’t think he would bleed that much.
Tilapia is crap.
Well, some people have been known to farm it in sewers. That can’t help.
Some people eat catfish, too!
Its crap unless you know you are getting some good farmed Tilapia, but since cooking shows push it, its just as economical to buy better fish.
It’s fish, that’s enough description. I’ve tried Tilapis; Walleyed Pike is better.
Some day, I’ll try Tilapia.
A fish managed to not get eaten? I’d say it’s not newsworthy but as depressing as the news has been lately I’ll take it.
Some people might find it newsworthy that nature isn’t all puppies and rainbows.
LOL
That saucepan!
Good news everybody! Bipartisan bill to tax content providers to support the FCC’s slush fund!
https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-colleagues-author-bill-to-lower-broadband-costs-boost-connectivity-for-rural-and-tribal-areas#
Yeah, it will lower costs for consumers…
Mike Crapo proposes shit bill, everything goes in the toilet. And he’s a Republican apparently.
That bill represents a good number of his constituents here in Idaho.
Remember shit like this every time some GOP shill hurls accusations at Dems of pandering to urban voters.
I guess the intent is to lower costs for rural users which I bet is his constituency, so yeah, costs go down for them, up for the rest of us. Yay.
I am a rural user. My costs will not go down. Any taxes will be diverted to other things.
That corn doesn’t subsidize itself!
lol
It’s subsidies all the way down, for sure.
There’s already a broadband bill of some sort. The Dickey, ND Rural Telephone COOP must have availed itself of some funds. Here’s what it offers.
https://www.drn.coop/services/internet/
Since it serves small towns in North Dakota, it’s probably a benchmark for graft-free implementation.
Any independent confirmation?
I mean, laser anti-missile systems were always just a few years away, kinda like commercial Fusion.
Isn’t it about time for another perpetual motion machine scam to roll around?
just like commercial fusion
HEEYYYYYYY!
J/k. But the pulsed power part of the gig pays the bills.
Fondue is just overrated cheese dip. *sprays easy-cheese on saltine
Not if you dip thick sliced, crispy bacon in it.
“Snoop Dogg ‘quitting’ smoking appears to be a marketing ploy for the rapper to sell a smokeless FIRE PIT instead of giving up marijuana – as fans react: ‘Genius marketing!'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12771587/Snoop-Dogg-not-quitting-smoking-marketing-ploy.html
Or is *this* the marketing ploy?
He sells a ton of weed adjacent shit.
The dude has been a walking, talking-too-much marketing ploy for decades.
My faith in humanity is restored. I’m going to have the orphans fed real gruel tonight in celebration.
You’re too generous.
Not Krusty imitation gruel?
I am disappointed.
Most embarrassing leak ever: Marion police chief’s own video shows he’s unfit to serve | Opinion
I’m shocked, just shocked…
This Taxi Has Been Driven 550,000 Miles. Its Days May Be Numbered.
It has been years since I’ve ridden in the back of a Crown Vic or it’s upscale cousin the Town Car.
It’s amazing how well those plastic intakes and valve covers held up. When that first started I predicted endless issues. Boy was I wrong.
I owned Grand Marquis, which is slightly upscale Crown Vic. All four of the electric window mechanisms failed, some multiple times. Found out why – they were using glorified fishing line plastic cables in the window winding mechanisms.
Never bought a UAW product after that POS.
Manufacturers still do.
Usually the plastic wheels fail and not the cable itself.
I was always bummed when police forces stopped using Crown Vics. It made the fleet key I have rather useless.
I miss the Crown Vic.
Hoochie coochie girls all look alike.
Biden made those kinds of gaffes his whole career. He’s always been one of those “look at me I’m hip with the kids lingo” kind of phony dipshit.
“Hello fellow young people”
What a fucking douche that guy is.
It is bacon curing day.
Slab one: 3lbs. This will be an experimental slab of juniper berries and coriander spice blend.
Slab two: 3lbs. I have some smoked jalapenos that I dried out and ground up. Sweet and spice blend for this one
Slab three: 3lbs. Basic “American” bacon.
1 and 2 I am going to venture out and cold smoke them. Supposedly my pellet smoker can do it and temps here are nice and ripe for it. Humidity is okay.
3 will be a hot smoke once I figure out why my grills internal temp prob is reading too low. My guess dirty.
Obviously an ode for the return of bacon-magic
I’ve been CURED!!! Thank you!
Slab 3 should be renamed Basic Bitch Bacon™.
Pellet smokers are easy bake ovens for grown-ups.
It is..and I don’t give a fuck. Ill be Susy smokes-meat-alot all day long.
Pellet smokers…
Goddam right – I’ll put that brisket on around midnight and I won’t think about it again until I wake up from a good night’s sleep. You must enjoy waking every couple of hours to check on that stick shit.
I have a digital electric smoker. A butt takes three ounces of wood. It set and forget, even if there are temperature and time changes.
Music
whaddup doh’
Im crunk
TALL CANS!
In case you all didn’t know, it is yet another day of remembrance…
Has he mentioned the Argentinian elections yet?
Another note, ‘his’ tweet about Thanksgiving wit the troops…who writes like this?
The sinew? lol
who writes like this? — Kipling?
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
But wouldn’t we then be remembering their killers for 47% of them?
(Yes, I know that’s not how the statistics work)
I had to look this up. I can’t even with this shit.
They just spin with lies and more lies no matter how many times this crap is debunked.
You man like Aidan Hale?
In the body camera video, Cody calls Newell “Honey,” which is not generally how law-enforcement officials address citizens whose criminal complaints they’re following up on.
Maybe he’s from down south.
Or a former diner waitress.
I was gonna say….that would be common around here.
“How’s that investigation going, sugar drawers?”
There used to be a girl with a fan-fuckin-tastic rack that ran the register at a nearby convenience store. I shit you not, her name tag read “Sugar Tits”.
Sadly she moved on to college and marriage and. a real life. I miss her.
It has been years since I’ve ridden in the back of a Crown Vic or it’s upscale cousin the Town Car.
Bring back Checker.
At least you had room in those!
I’ve only been in them a handful of times as they were no longer new service before I got to NYC.
Fran Lebowitz owns one “in such a subtle shade of pearl grey that straight men think it’s white.”
Long gone by the time I got there in the late nineties.
Modern sedans all look the same to me – I guess the Crown Vics were bigger? I would not have guessed they were gone until reading this.
The last few cab rides before I left were minivans. 👎🏻
For you:
https://ironicsans.substack.com/p/a-celebrity-in-every-taxi
Ha, I totally forget about that.
Nice reminder of a much better time. NYC was a blast around that time.
My first time there too. I remember Eartha Kitt growling at me. I feel retroactive pity for the cabbies having to listen to the same recording with each fare.
A. No shit.
B. ‘Botched’. If there is any word that describes the Biden admin that is it.
C. Dont care
D. Judging a cheese contest? I could do that.
Heating the grease now….fried fish tonight.
I still don’t know why that guy I never heard of before yesterday is a SHOCK OUSTER as the media hive are universally reporting it.
Because the fortification didn’t work, and that is a shock to all right thinking people.
Same here. I even played with ChatGPT one day a few months ago. I was unimpressed.
I’ve used whatever AI Bing has a couple times. It does a decent job of collating multiple results into a nicely worded paragraph. And it can zero in on a technical answer way better than a regular search.
It’s not doing my job for me but it has its uses.
From the ded-thred Politico link I was stunned to learn that I have a right to elect a representative, not just to vote for one that I hope wins. Or at least, that seems to have been the contention of the plaintiffs. Yeah, if I was a judge I’d kick them out of the court too.
Speaking of taxi cabs… I haven’t been in NYC in at least thirty years. I just sort of assumed all the cabs would be yellow minivans by now.
Open the section.
Lots of Toyota minivans.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/tlc/businesses/yellow_cab_hackup.page
I can’t find Michael Malice kicking ass on Cash Cab, but there’s this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9vOoRUeveY
Oops. And repeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_h9dPhVUyE
Oh and naturally the Bee has the best reaction to Milei’s win.
lol
Some Americans’ bizarre obsession with prices
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pointed to the consistently higher prices that Americans pay for food and rent today, compared with pre-pandemic levels, as a major factor driving voters’ negative outlook on the economy.
“Although prices in general are rising less quickly, Americans still see increases in some important prices, including food, from where we were prior to the pandemic. And this remains notable to people who go to the store and shop,” Yellen said on CNBC’s Squawk Box Monday.
As overall inflation rates have come down over the past year, food prices have consistently outpaced baseline inflation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There are lots of reasons for this, ranging from the war in Ukraine’s impact on grain prices to restaurants charging higher prices for menu items.
Rent price inflation also remains stubbornly high. “Rents are rising less quickly now, but are certainly higher than they were before the pandemic,” said Yellen.
The economy is great. The Teamsters and the UAW just got big raises. Why don’t you join a union?
I hate my union. It is a parasitic coupon club that funnels cash to people acting against my interests.
Sounds like we need to raise taxes on landlords.
“And this remains notable to people who go to the store and shop”
That tiny sliver of the populace?
“…to restaurants charging higher prices for menu items.”
Greedy profiteers.
I spent six hours in the ER yesterday, five hours of it just waiting in a chair.
I spent an hour and a half at the pharmacy today to pick up a plastic bottle with ten pills in it.
The economy is all kinds of fucked up and prices are just one visible part of it. Everywhere I go I hear the same thing: nobody wants to work. Or work at a market rate.
Hope you’re feeling better now! 😟
Thanks! Nothing serious, we think some cartilage swelling in my chest causing the pain I finally got sick of. But because chest, I had to go through the whole battery of heart-related stuff.
If people aren’t willing to work at the market rate, maybe the market rate needs to go up.
But I agree, service has gone to crap the past couple years.
Actually it’s even worse in pubsec. Ithaca is not NYC, where so much money is just sloshing around.
I’m assuming the hospital (the only one in the area) is some sort of public facility. It was obvious from everyone I talked to that they were short-handed.
The bus company is always short drivers – they had to cut a bunch of service because of it. And they pay what I would consider a decent wage, 22-something plus free training and benefits.
Half the police force disappeared since 2019.
Etc etc etc
“maybe the market rate needs to go up“
Well, yeah, that’s the theory. And if everybody gets a big raise, what happens to prices?
But from what I can tell, there’s a lot of people who just don’t want to work period. Even if they are getting a “market rate” paycheck.
I know, old man yells at clouds, but things sure seemed to just work better before the Plague Years. A good chunk of the workforce disappeared then and hasn’t shown up (and damned if I can figure out how they are eating). And I know it’s a matter of degree, but “getting overpaid for doing shit” is now something people openly boast about and strive for. It broke cover just before the big tech layoffs, I suppose, but it’s a thing now.
I have a friend who is the co-owning partner of a small law firm (20 associates or so). He speaks to me of resumes from newly minted law school graduates that say “Work from Home Only” across the top. I would think all of those crushing student debt numbers I keep hearing about would be a motivator.
Even the Stones taught us that you can’t always get what you want.
That’s me but I earned it after decades in the trenches, dammit.
I can’t imagine what excuse whippersnappers have for that shit.
A good stiff recession with unemployment north of 7% will be like a 2×4 upside the head of these folks.
Of course, the recession will be blamed on the GOP and 51% of the voters will go along with the nonsense.
“the consistently higher prices that Americans pay for food and rent today, compared with pre-pandemic levels, as a major factor driving voters’ negative outlook on the economy”
Check out the big brain on Janet!
Food and shelter. Only the top two things needed for survival. I’m sure prices in other sectors are just fine.
I’m in a blue state surrounded by lefties who are experiencing sticker shock. I refrain from going all “This is what you wanted.” They probably think some cosmic force is causing it.
Same. The next person who tells me “the rent is too damn high” is gonna get a sock in the face.
Get healthy first!
“So I do think we’re making considerable progress in bringing inflation down. But Americans do notice higher prices from what they used to be accustomed to,” she added.
Insights like this are why she makes the big bucks.
I like the repeated references to “before the pandemic”.
It allows her to put blame on the pandemic in some vague sense, and also allows here to refer to how much better off we were back then without admitting “under the Trump administration.”
Speaking of unions, there is something like a nationwide labor “action” against Tesla in Sweden because the “technicians” in their repair facilities are not unionized. In one article I saw, they quoted a Tesla worker as saying he specifically preferred Tesla for that reason. He sad it’s a great place to work, and those other guys should leave them alone.
Yeah, NPR ran a story about how the heroic union dockworkers were refusing to unload Teslas.
Free to choose
Amidst the contrasting narratives surrounding the ongoing strike against Tesla in Sweden, there is one group that has mostly remained silent — Tesla’s employees themselves. And if a recent post from what appears to be a Tesla employee is any indication, it would appear that the company’s workers are getting quite exasperated with the union’s ongoing strikes.
There are mostly two contrasting arguments in the escalating conflict between Tesla Sweden and IF Metall. The union claims that it is fighting to secure a collective agreement with Tesla for the sake of the company’s workers. Tesla, on the other hand, has claimed that it already offers “equivalent or better agreements than those covered by collective bargaining.”
An opinion piece published in Nerikes Allehanda (NA), a daily newspaper in Sweden, suggested that Tesla employees are getting frustrated because nobody seems to be listening to the people who are actually working for the electric vehicle maker. The piece’s author clarified that Tesla workers are afraid, not of the electric vehicle maker, but of the union.
Join the union, or else.
That’s a nice arm you got there, shame if something happened to it.
Stop thinking and do what the [union] bosses tell you!
“I enjoy my job. In fact, Tesla is the best employer I have ever had. I used to work at another workshop that had a collective agreement, where we were much worse off, which is why I chose Tesla.
“I chose Tesla because I want to be part of and contribute to a greener transition. Tesla is the car company that is responsible for the largest part of the green transition in Sweden, and I’m proud of it.
“Why does IF Metall continue to threaten us all the time just because we democratically choose not to have a collective agreement? It is actually us service technicians (not car mechanics) who do not want a collective agreement.
Think of the poor starving labor organizers.
President Biden confused pop superstars Taylor Swift and Britney Spears on Monday as he badly missed a joke attempt during the annual turkey pardon event at the White House.
That’s an easy mistake to make. Those women are too old for him to be sniffing their hair.
He is worse than Leonardo Di’Caprio in that aspect
Protestors are totally going to destroy the DNC office for that embarrassing snafu.
I vaguely remember what Britney looks like. I could not identify T-swizzle in a lineup.
I just have no interest in their… music.
I remember the day Hugo Chavez was elected I told a couple of friends that Venezuela would be utterly fucked within a few years. Now I don’t think the election of Milei (in a positive sense this time) will be quite the political earthquake that Chavez was, I do think it very much has the potential for real positive change in LatAm. I am guessing it will be as much of a sea change as Presidente Dudebro has been for El Salvador, just in economic terms instead of crime reduction.
I would bet even money that Dudebro is good part of the reason Melei was elected. The old ways aren’t working anymore, around the world, and when people see something as small but effective as that, it has big repercussions.
Indeed it may have been a factor. And yes I agree with the naysayers that it will be very difficult to turn around Argentina. One President does not make the country instantly change. But it can start things rolling and cause worldwide implications if things improve there. Sure the legacy media won’t report on it fairly, but they are increasingly irrelevant anyway.
I mean the economy had already been destroyed.
That’s what it actually takes to get a libertarian elected.
I don’t know much about their government structure but it’d be almost impossible to make it worse. Famous last words I know.
It is so much easier to destroy – proven time and time again throughout history.
Should have been in the previous post. Still I’m rooting for the bear in this one.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tourists-keep-poking-poking-poking-093151992.html
Paging Tonio/Swiss – new content in the queue.
Literally everyone has a prostate.
*blinks* So men have won? We won the great Gender Wars?
It appears that men are also better than women at being women. 🙄
I have a grand niece and to think the shit she is going to go through tires me immensely
I really don’t mind the trannies who can pass, honestly.
That live their life? Sure. Have at it. Man, woman, whatever you want to call yourself, but a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Same but fuck them ruining girls’ sports.
And fuck the ones who don’t try and dare you to call them out – they’re just in it for the power.
As a libertarian I am antistate.
OK, dad.
And?
black bear vs brown bear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM1u8osq_Bc
successful test of an anti-missile laser system from [drum roll] 1973!
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In 1968, the Air Force Weapons Laboratory (AFWL), formerly the AFSWC and now the Directed Energy Directorate of AFRL, was authorized to begin a new program on building and testing a CO2 gas dynamic laser. Shortly thereafter, research into the idea of mounting a laser on an airplane as an anti-missile system began. Before any proposed weapon could be used aboard an aircraft it first had to be tested on the ground, a process that made its first noticeable advancements between October and December, 1972 when technicians fired a ground-based 100 kilowatt CO2 laser that propagated at 10.6 microns against a variety of stationary targets. The tests went so well the project elevated to firing the laser at a moving airborne target.
On November 13, 1973, the laser was used against a 12 foot long Northrop MQM-33B radio controlled aerial target, a drone, in an attempt to knock it out of the air. Indeed, the drone did drop, but not precisely as planned. The laser beam burned through the drone’s aluminum skin, frying the control system. The Air Force had hoped the beam would ignite the drone’s fuel tank. The next day, the laser performed according to expectations. The beam found and locked onto the area of the drone where the fuel tank was located for 1.2 seconds, long enough to raise the temperature on the exterior of the fuel tank to ignite the interior vapors. This time the drone went down in a fireworks-like burst of smoke and flame. The two tests marked the first time that aerial targets had ever been destroyed by a highenergy laser.
Flushed with success, the Air Force decided that the next step would be to mount the laser on an aircraft, then shoot down targets while circling above the clouds. Earlier, in March 1972, the organization that was managing the project, the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, had secured a 15-yearold KC-135A, the military version of the Boeing 707. Once it was turned over to the Weapons Lab, it was designated as “nonreturnable” by the donating unit, thus getting a new designation as NKC-135A. However, it would win its place in history known as the Airborne Laser Laboratory (ALL).
ALL flight tests began in January 1975 but the early ventures were merely shakedown operations to see how the aircraft would fly with the laser aboard and test support equipment such as tracking and alignment hardware. It was eight years before the ALL scored its first “kill.” The next stages of the ALL revolved around three key cycles: demonstrating that an airborne pointing and tracking (APT) system could accurately track an aerial target; aligning a low-power beam with the APT and then directing the beam out of the turret on top of the aircraft to an aerial target; and combining a high-powered beam with the APT to shoot down the targets. The three cycles were finally completed in 1983.
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The above is from an article on globalsecurity.org.
That organization was based at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque and I got to tour the facility and the aircraft when I was in college. Cool concept but there were many problems that they had to deal with that pretty much doomed the project. For example, at full energy the laser would cause a plasma in the atmosphere that would block the following beam. They were trying to pulse the laser to ameliorate the issue with mixed results, last I heard.
The plane carrying the laser system was so overloaded that they could only take off in the cool of the morning and even at that the only way to get off the ground was to use water injection on the jet engines.
I have been absent for a bit. Did I miss this being discussed or did y’all miss it too?
Apparently Biden has invoked the war time powers act to empower the government to skirt congress and implement the left’s climate policies. We are in a climate emergency.
This act apparently allows government, specifically the president, to in any situation or condition arbitrarily declare an emergency and do as it sees fit. There is no oversight, no second guessing and no consult from the other branches of government. So, a coup.
It appears to me this government has become everything it was never supposed to be. A natural inevitability it seems. I do not consider them legitimate, I have said this before.
These people have to go.
It’s been invoked at least 6 times from what I can tell under Biden. Trump did too, and so did Obama.
However, this one should raise eyebrows. Hamstring the production of energy and energy producers then invoke the Federal Government to hand out millions in funding to have select companies make shit.
https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-169-million-accelerate-electric-heat-pump
Did I miss we were in wartime? Didn’t they try this tactic with the loans and it was smacked down as we are not in wartime? Meh, at this point what difference does it make.
They couldn’t even describe turbocharging.
There’s leather and chains involved, isn’t there.
Just nod and smile and remember that Donald is the fascist.
Our own Ozymandias got mentioned in a Brietbart article.
Keep up the good work Ozy!!
WOOOOP woop woop woop woop!