Monday Swiss Links of Update.

by | Jan 22, 2024 | Daily Links | 136 comments

Webdom has hired some help…

Webdom is going to nuke the site launch the new site design – next Tuesday, January 30th. Our version just can’t be maintained anymore. It also may be a bit of a learning experience for authors, editors and those with such powers. We had enough pine needles and maple leaves in the vault to bring in some help – STEVE SMITH, PROMINENT INTERNET HALP. So, this may be a bit rough, if you take my meaning on this. In the interim, here some links.

  • I was rather hoping that with the recent news, airlines had discreetly looked over their planes to avoid such things.
  • I am not saying this was SPACE SMITH, but…
  • Too bad, USDA.
  • The EU pulls out dick, prepares to stomp on it. (You’ll need to run translate on this, sorry).

Music is on your own, the comments belong to you.

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Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

136 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    *puts tape over camera*

  2. Common Tater

    Don’t tell me. The mechanics are union.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Biden administration: Republicans are stopping us from enforcing the border. Also, step aside so we can cut all this barbed wire that’s stopping people from coming across.

      • SDF-7

        I think they’ve been pretty consistent, actually: “Republicans are attempting to hinder and will not fund our personnel sufficient to process all asylum seekers into the United States.”

        That they view every single person who gets to the border and claims “I was persecuted” as an “asylum seeker” is the disconnect with the rest of sane reality us.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Consistent policy wise, sure. But the propaganda is that the Republicans are blocking them from securing the border.

      • The Other Kevin

        Are they using the term “securing”? From what I’ve seen, the Dems want a “border package”, but what they don’t tell you is they want more resources to process people faster and give them money as they enter. Yet another bait and switch.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yes, they use the term “border security” along with others that imply the same without actually saying it (like “fixing the border”, “addressing the crisis”, and so on).

      • Fourscore

        If I was a fed I forget my tools, gloves, etc and not be able to safely handle the wire. Union rules, ya know.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The case is still going through isn’t it though? This ruling just strikes down a lower court injunction from what I can tell.

      • Lackadaisical

        So, who actually owns the land in this case?

        I’m assuming Texas otherwise there’s no way they’d have any standing at all, right?

      • Urthona

        The barbed wire isn’t working. Might I suggest land mines?

    • Urthona

      I hate to say but I’m not sure Texas does have the power to block federal agents.

      But it’d be awesome if they did.

  3. Common Tater

    “Since the passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, only low-fat or fat free milk has been allowed to be served in schools.”

    That’s neither healthy nor reduces hunger.

    • Common Tater

      “”The issue is not milk as a product, but rather the precedent Congress seeks to impose. The rules for school meals were developed through a science-based transparent process,” the USDA said.”

      LOLOL

      • The Other Kevin

        +1 Food Pyramid

      • SDF-7

        They Are The Science(tm)?

      • Chafed

        Only if they hired Fauci.

      • Fatty Bolger

        It’s not their fault science hates whole milk.

      • Chafed

        That is a hilarious explanation.

      • Gustave Lytton

        USDA employees who wrote that need to be curbstomped.

    • B.P.

      Back when Michelle Obama was ruining the school dining experience.

      • Suthenboy

        That’s what I was just thinking. Lets put kids on rabbit food that they hate. I must admit, it would be effective at having them lose a few pounds.

      • Urthona

        They just don’t eat it and then hit the vending machines.

    • Sean

      Fat is important. Stop fucking serving french fries and tater tots instead.

      • SDF-7

        So… hot dish for everyone?

      • Lackadaisical

        I only serve my son whole milk with some extra heavy cream added in. Guess I’ll have to up his cream ration.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Mix in some whey.

      • Bobarian LMD

        “Drink your cottage cheese, or you won’t get dessert!”

      • Tres Cool

        Don’t you have to eat your meat 1st? Or that only for pudding ?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Skim milk is fucking disgusting.

      • Lackadaisical

        Skim is a crime against humanity.

        Honestly surprised they haven’t removed milk entirely since it’s racist against the lactose intolerant.

      • rhywun

        Indeed.

        I was raised on 2% because while we were poor, we weren’t that poor.

      • The Other Kevin

        I was too, for that reason but also because my dad had a heart attack in the 80’s and low fat was the in thing.

    • Rat on a train

      The pediatrician told me to give my kids whole milk.

      • Chafed

        He/she must be competent.

      • Rat on a train

        She also didn’t push the clot shot.

      • rhywun

        Saw a new primary care doc last week – she didn’t bat an eyelash when I told her I’m open to various suggested vaccines but not that one.

      • Tres Cool

        Tres Sr often labels me as an anti-vax for that one shot.
        I remind him I recently took a tetanus booster, just due to my work. And the baby-mama (Ms. X®) and I had no issues with getting our kid his vaccines (though spaced out). And the miserable cunt (to me) and I had no argument that our kid wasnt getting “that” shot.

      • grrizzly

        I will not get any vaccine for the rest of my life. And if I had a child (not that there’s any chance of it) he or she wouldn’t get vaccinated. I could afford that.

      • Suthenboy

        After talk of combining the cootie vaccine with other desirable vaccines to make sure everyone gets it I am reluctant to touch any of them. I would be surprised if they did not combine them and give it to us without telling us.

      • Mojeaux

        I am so glad I don’t have young children, and I’m thrilled neither of my kids want to have children.

      • rhywun

        talk of combining the cootie vaccine with other desirable vaccines

        That is alarming.

      • trshmnstr

        That’s where we’re at. We did the “spaced out” thing with kid 1. Kid 2 was born Nov 2020 and hasn’t gotten a shot beyond what the hospital did, and we skipped the optional stuff. Neither of them will be getting any more shots while they’re under my roof. Maybe with the exception of tetanus.

      • Fourscore

        Breast milk is whole milk, babies love it.

        We only have whole milk in this house.

        /Old Farm Boy

      • Tres Cool

        How many breasts does that require ?

      • Name's BEAM. *James* BEAM.

        What are you, some kinda serial breast-sucker?

    • Fourscore

      Government should not be involved in determining what a kid needs.

  4. Shpip

    Whole milk proponents like Bjerga have pointed a shift in understanding milk fat, including a 2018 study that re-examined the role of dairy fats.

    A National Library of Medicine analysis from 2019 of 7,467 children, aged 9 months to 8 years, found that whole-milk consumption was associated with a 16% lower chance of becoming obese.

    Anybody familiar with this? I only have time to skim the milk study.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’ll have to read it later to whey the pros and cons.

      • SDF-7

        It is one of those government programs to redirect agricultural output to less-favored ethnic groups abroad.

        In this case, the Kurds.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Yogurt to be kidding me.

    • Spartacus

      Maybe someone can condense it for us.

      • The Other Kevin

        I think right now we are in udder disbelief.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I agree with real milk,
      Whole heartedly

    • Common Tater

      I wouldn’t cry over it.

    • Drake

      Sounds like they got a raw deal.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Given that it’s probably being served with fast food, at best, this seems to be a moo point.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Only 2% agree

    • juris imprudent

      Swiss is going to pastuerize this thread.

      • Lackadaisical

        Lots of cheesy puns.

      • Rat on a train

        Casein point.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        He can write about it in his dairy.

    • Tres Cool

      I’m not going to cow-tow to that silly organization.

    • Aloysious

      Too busy watching Moons Schumer lactate?

    • The Gunslinger

      If Michelle Obama wants to enforce what kind of milk the kids drink she’ll have to get in HereFord and drive over here and try and do something about it.

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

      I have only read 2% if it.

  5. DEG

    Webdom is going to nuke the site launch the new site design – next Tuesday, January 30th.

    Nice.

    Footage shot by Hardy showed one of the engineers climbing onto the plane’s wing before using a screwdriver to tinker with some of the fasteners.

    Screwdriver? You’re supposed to buff it out.

    • Chafed

      Were they out of bondo and duct tape?

      • kinnath

        Aviation speed tape.

      • Tres Cool

        We called it the classic “100 mph tape”.

  6. Shpip

    The “Moon Sniper” mission, officially titled the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), was aiming for a crater where the Moon’s mantle, the usually deep inner layer beneath its crust, is believed to be exposed on the surface.

    Interesting theory, but take it with a grain of basalt.

    • SDF-7

      I was looking forward to their results — but turns out to be slim pickings.

    • Lackadaisical

      “If sunlight hits the Moon from the west in the future, ”

      Uh… Either it will or out won’t. What’s with the ‘if’?

      • Necron 99

        Might be cloudy that day?

      • Suthenboy

        If?
        Journalist knows jack-shit about the extremely predictable clockwork nature of the universe around us.

  7. Lackadaisical

    ‘So, this may be a bit rough, if you take my meaning on this.’

    BY ROUGH MEAN…

  8. juris imprudent

    So, this may be a bit rough

    Everyone chip in for a pallet of those 55 gallon lube barrels?

  9. Lackadaisical

    “Footage shot by Hardy showed one of the engineers climbing onto the plane’s wing before using a screwdriver to tinker with some of the fasteners.”

    There’s no way they called engineers out to return some screws. Mechanics? Sure.

    • trshmnstr

      It’s a journalist. We’re lucky they knew what a screwdriver was.

      • TARDis

        I’ve been told some countries refer to technicians as engineers. I don’t know how true that is, but some countries are seriously addicted to (inflated) credentialism.

      • Tres Cool

        Nice to hear that you’ve worked with some germans.

      • TARDis

        Yes. Yes I have. It’s been a long time since I lived there though.

        We briefly had a German muckety-muck doctor of engineering at my company here. I didn’t know that existed. He didn’t last long.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Not credentialism inflation, just different terminology

        US train engineer = UK train driver

        US telephone technician = UK telephone engineer

    • Lackadaisical

      Shocking.

      Anything you type into the Internet will eventually be public.

      • The Hyperbole

        Oh noes, this shit I put out there for anyone to read might be read by anyone!

    • kinnath

      Fortunately, I don’t use any of those sites.

      • The Gunslinger

        #metoo

      • rhywun

        I have a linkedin account but it’s not like they have my credit card or anything else useful.

    • Tres Cool

      From LinkedIn?

      Maybe Ill get job offers.

    • Fourscore

      Tater’s trying to lure us in for his private use. I’m not falling for that trick again.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Yes, but that is not what it means. 4% were obese.

      • UnCivilServant

        Whole milk is 4% milkfat. That’s what I was referring to.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Lol, whoops. I should have known you weren’t reading it as kid’s had 4% body fat in 1960.

    • Suthenboy

      It is so fucking stupid. Jesus, everything they do is retarded.
      Lipids are the most difficult foods to digest. It’s not like fat goes down your throat and magically sticks to your ass. What lipids are digested, a small percent of what you consume, may or may. not be reassembled as human fat storage.

      More of what I was saying the other day about all of the snake oil bullshit. You cant take a magic pill, you cant lose weight while you sleep. Fork control and exercise, which no one wants to hear about, is the only way to lose weight. You. have to work at it.

      • The Last American Hero

        Who am I gonna believe – you or the rotund lady on the ribelsys commercial?

    • Urthona

      Whole milk is the healthiest version of milk because it contains a little fat to help with satiety.

      Otherwise it’s pure sugar. You might as well give kids soda.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      “Piano, piano! Non tirare!” 🌕 🦮

    • Common Tater

      RIP

  10. Suthenboy

    Re: Nutrition

    Moderation is important, of course. However, your body will naturally develop a craving for things you need. Things that taste good to you or that you crave are things that you need.
    Our natural revulsion by certain foods or quasi foods evolved because those things are either useless, poisonous or are likely to contain dangerous pathogens.

    If you are craving fruit juice you probably need some nutrient in it, mostly Vit C. If you crave milk you probably need milk fats or protiens.
    Be moderate in your consumption and you will be fine.

    *I once developed a craving for purple grape juice. It was summer, I had been working in the yard a lot, sweating and so on. I bought two half-gallon bottles of the stuff. I poured it over ice in an oversized tumbler and guzzled it down. Yum. I think I will have another one of those…and I did. And another and another. I drank the first half-gallon and about 1/4 of the other.
    Jesus…I didn’t realize what it was going to do to me. I was sky-writing for a week. I had to sleep on the couch. It was so bad I spent half of my time excusing myself and stepping outside so I could grimace and groan.
    If you like purple grape juice….moderation is highly recommended.

    • Fourscore

      After a high school track meet the bus would stop at a DQ, I ran to a store and bought a quart of whole milk, seemed to be dehydrated.

  11. rhywun

    I think I’m not going to fly again, ever.

  12. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    I’m moving to Franklin, NC on May 1! I’ll be staying on the RV up there indefinitely while I look for property in the area.

    • kinnath

      congrats

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      I will spend this summer at 2200 feet…average high-high temp in July is 82 (as opposed to 90 where I am now)

      • Drake

        Every time I watch the local weather, Franklin is the low temperature by 10 degrees. Great in the summer. Kind of chilly right now.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        😃

      • rhywun

        Great in the summer. Kind of chilly right now.

        ^ Yeah my new town is regularly 15 degrees cooler than my old town….

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      My next door neighbor (the 60 year old woman) is out there yelling at someone. I hope my new neighbors are quiet.

  13. Spudalicious

    “The EU pulls out dick, prepares to stomp on it.”

    Sounds like Swiss time is running out.

    • pistoffnick

      *pulls out flare gun*

      “Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky”

      • Spudalicious

        Thank you for not fucking up the joke, like Hype did.

    • The Hyperbole

      You’ll need to run translate on this, sorry

      As if you Nazi’s cant’ read German.

      • Ted S.

        Schwyzerdutsch isn’t German.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    According to my model…

    The UK should invest £26bn a year in a low-carbon economy to revive prosperity instead of planning tax giveaways that will only lead to further stagnation, leading economists have advised.

    Investing in energy infrastructure, transport, innovation in new technologies such as AI, and the natural environment would boost the UK’s economy rapidly, the research found.

    Public investment at that level would be likely to generate about twice as much accompanying investment from the private sector, and would quickly pay off in higher productivity, efficiency savings, economic growth and carbon reductions, according to a major paper by Lord Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, and colleagues from the London School of Economics.

    “Well would you look at that. This analysis completely validates our assumptions. Are we smart, or what?”

    • Suthenboy

      “Well would you look at that. This analysis completely validates our assumptions. Are we smart, or what?”

      Amazing how people can cling to that kind of thinking all the way down the drain.

      • rhywun

        While paying no attention to Germany’s rapidly failing economy practically next door.

      • Suthenboy

        Yep. One of the problems we have here is that only a small minority remember the USSR. Now the WEF can argue that under their plan we will own nothing and be happy about it. That is the same argument the early socialists made. They learned, albeit slowly, that complaining that only blacks were enslaved, that everyone should be (except themselves of course) is not an easy sell.
        Yet here we are. We have enough people that have not seen it or ignored it that we have a substantial percentage of Americans that actually think that that evil horseshit is a good idea.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        The Berlin Wall fell 34 years ago, so I wouldn’t expect anyone under forty to remember it.

  15. Mojeaux

    Thanks for the heads-up, Swiss. In anticipation of the nuking restructuring of the site, I’ve saved all my posts.

    • R.J.

      Good point. I might write my next one in LibreOffice and upload after Tuesday.

      • Drake

        I’m not the only cheapskate who doesn’t trust Microsoft?

    • Tres Cool

      I know I miss mine.

      Wait….I thought you meant Volvo.

      • Tres Cool

        She called her vagina “Lebowski” because that rug really pulled the whole thing together.

    • rhywun

      They don’t hate women so much as they are terrified of the wrath of trannies.

      • Mojeaux

        Embrace the power of “and.”

    • Gender Traitor

      If Helen Reddy were alive today, she’d be spinning in her grave.