Good morning one and all to another absolutely brilliant day! After a much needed vacation, Sloopy and I are back to provide for you beautiful people the daily links!
End of realtor commission model poses biggest ‘jolt’ in housing in 100 years
Biden’s New Shoes Appear Designed to Prevent Him From Falling
Conditions in Neighborhood in AOC’s District Blasted as “Third World”
Resignations in Congress At Near Record
Elon Musk: Either There Is a “Red Wave This November or America Is Doomed”
LA battles spate of ‘burglary tourists’
Googled Sued for Discrimination by Black, Deaf Worker They Touted as Diversity Success Story
Target to Limit Self-Checkout to 10 Items
Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr resigns after EV push goes bust
Tyson Foods closes Iowa plant but looks to hire 42,000 immigrant workers
Why auto insurance costs are rising at the fastest rate in 47 years
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
What about us ugly people?
You get the pic of a Raccoon dancing in a rainbow tutu!
I thought it was cute… of course, I tend not to look in the mirror.
A Queens neighborhood in New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s congressional district was likened by locals to a “third world” country with people selling goods on the sidewalks and prostitutes openly soliciting sex.
Hmmm. Import the third world, get the third world.
What da fuq? Are you trying to imply there are foreseeable consequences to actions?
And they aren’t even unintended!
They’re only taking the clients American prostitutes won’t do.
Winston’s mom hardest hit?
Immigrants make the best grasshopper-wranglers
When your homegrown serfs are fighting that return to feudalism you want under the guise of creating one global community that fights for social justice, bring in new more compliant serfs whose loyalty is bought with free shit, and presto! You can reinstitute that new feudalist system and claim it was with the consent of the serfs.
The most terrifying possibility for the feudal overlords is that the new and old serfs join forces.
They are inept enough that this is a viable scenario, but then again, they will burn it al down rather than accept that they are done.
Heh. Remember WWI? Good times.
That’s what we got for all of our belief in nationalism, well, that and WWII.
Nationalism?
I would blame it more on the stupid belief of aristocracy and its superiority.
WWI was basically three cousins settling their childhood differences by sending their countrymen to die in droves.
WWI was the last war of kings, nationalism had very little to do with it. WWII was the sorting out of what would come next; internationalism vs. nationalism (for real that time). Internationalism won, and this one will be/is what comes after that.
France should have told the three cousins “I:ll hold your costs this time
“. And fuck Woodrow Wilson.
“Let’s go!”
“No, seriously; let’s go over to Enterprise and see if they have any vehicles left that will actually get us to Destin.”
I think they’re part of some federation of rental shops — hence they tend to be fairly reliant on a good supply of cars. I expect in a few years as the batteries wear out, there will be a whole galaxy of used EVs to choose from if Hertz wants to use them with some frequency, but the non-EV rental market will doubtless remain sovereign.
That was so terrible I’d call for your arrest, but then you’d have to be read your Miranda rights.
Heh… nice comeback. As Stan Lee would put it… “Excelsior!”
“Target limits self-checkout to ten items.”
It’s exhausting for their employees to watch all those checkout kiosks at the same time.
I have conclusively heard from people that self checkout in the major urban areas is DOA and being rolled back because of theft. In fact, the whole idea has now become toxic, as the false positives and follow ups to tat are also back firing for the companies doing this. Without a compliant and law abiding people, you simply have no chance of keeping anything that requires lawful and compliant citizens t work.
Self checkout should be like the express line not a place where morbidly obese geriatrics can attempt to scan $900 worth of crap.
/Has to go to Costco later
Preach brother! Amen!
This. I was there last night, with a whole two items. Scanned them, paid, walked out. The woman next to me had an overflowing cart, was having trouble scanning half the items and trying to bag at the same time, NOGO!
I am not sure if all Costco stores do it (I don’t recall how the one in Vegas was setup), but here in Kentucky, you have to remove from basket and place on a scale. So it is a nice deterrent for the ‘should be quicker’ self-checkout lanes.
(I was at a Krogers, but was referring to the self-checkout line.)
Honestly, they should probably get those “You walk out the door with it, you get charged” concepts Amazon was working on figured out. For folks that don’t want to pre-register an account, I suppose a “pre-authorize” scan at the door (similar to gas pumps), then either RFID tags or camera scanning or something (because if it is RFID — you know the next thing will be people finding/ripping out the RFID tags).
No idea whether that level of video surveillance would end up cost effective at the end — but it is getting to the point where it is either that or armed guards with authorization to shoot at this point. The lawlessness is past extreme in more than one location.
Require everyone going in to get a subcutaneous micro bomb be implanted on their artery. If you try to steal it goes off…
Shopping with the Suicide Squad — this fall on Bravo!
Must watch Tee-Vee!
There is money in this shit… Bring back gladiatorial fights while we are at it too.
Considering the dumb idiots are currently down south celebrating spring break, i think they could also have a show of how many calamities these people foist upon themselves.
Self checkout shouldn’t be for full carts if they don’t have the conveyor belts to go with the kiosks.
And if you call it express self checkout, limit it to the same number of items as you would in the traditional express lane.
“Biden is fortunate in that this is, to some degree, a rematch of two incumbents and so it should be easier to make it a choice in the end and move away from a referendum,” he said. “If there’s any group that will be moving in any direction, it’s the people who dislike both of them and may just have to choose one or the other.”
Translation: Keep the AWFLs and Basic College Girls all wee-wee’d up by mentioning abortion and what a cad Orange Man is, while finding a way to GOTV among the Three Ds of our urban base (darkies, dogs, and dead people).
The lie of our days
What would be the consequences of a majority of the populace just not voting?
On the surface, it seems that the wrong people (statists) win. But will they be deemed legitimate?
If the police and military refuse to fight the citizens, what then?
If the majority of the people don’t vote and their pick wins, they will make it legitimate. See the 2020 election. It was illegit as fuck, and obvious, but they closed ranks, canceled the people with questions, concerns, or legitimate complaints, and foisted a crypt keeper as the front man for another Obama criminal enterprise admin.
The status quo is a majority of eligible voters don’t vote in primaries, midterm, or special elections. Even in presidential election years, it’s barely a majority even if you were to believe the dubious assumption that almost all ballots were cast by eligible voters.
Sometimes it’s hard to get out of the pan!
LOL
Sometimes I like a treat after work.
Wouldn’t have anything to do with government emissions, tracking and “safety” regulations pushing the cost of vehicles up dramatically, repairs astronomically higher (because most of the car is designed to crumple to absorb energy and a lot of what gets crumpled has expensive electronics or batteries), EVs being even worse on the repair / crumple / cost front and being pushed combined with a huge influx of illegal immigration driving up the number of uninsured motorists and therefore leaving the insurance companies holding the bag, now would it?
Let’s see…. okay… Yahoo does cover the increasing cost of parts / repairs… but then oddly claims more people are “driving unsafely because of pandemic habits”… yeah… that’s the ticket Just pay no attention to the uninsured / undocumented increase in the population… I’m just betting they have nothing to do with things… :eyeroll:
Yep. Just like our health insurance, the normals who pay their premiums are covering the cost of the illegals who don’t.
When the basic product’s cost rises drastically there will be an impact. Mediocre cars now cost over $25k at the bottom of the scale, and a decent one over $40k to begin with. If you look at EVs the cost starts at $60k and the thing literally becomes a death trap if the battery carriage is even jostled (they total these things after a bump non EV cars would require only some body work to repair). There is no way understanding these dynamics that insurance claims are not going up and going to keep going up. Distracted or dumbass drivers are the least of the concerns now.
Same logic applies to homeownership. Homes cost way more, so any damage will cost way more to repair.
Tyson Foods says it would like to hire 42,000 immigrants to fill positions just days after the company announced it would close a plant in Iowa that employed about 1,200 people.
Tyson is joining Tent Partnership for Refugees, a nonprofit that works to get refugees hired, and it plans on hiring at least some of the more than 180,000 migrants who have gone through New York City’s intake system over the past two years, Bloomberg reported last week.
What’s their incentive to do this? Follow the money.
They are doing what the CIA tells them to do.
I miss the robber barons. If we are going to have big business and big government colluding, let’s at least have some good personalities. Top hats, coats and tails, that sort of thing.
The currently privatized profit and socialized losses scheme that has been foisted on us sure as hell hurts when you are not one of the current top men. And yeah, they are not even cool enough to wear monocles and top hats anymore.
“Elon Musk: Either There Is a “Red Wave This November or America Is Doomed””
There will be a red wave. There was one in 2020 as well. However, like in 2020 the plan is that it will be canceled by the cabal that knows that wave would be the end to their business as usual plan that has destroyed America to create their aristocracy of the credentialed but inept elite class.
It used to be that our elections were rigged to between choices approved by the cabal which means they won regardless of wat the people chose. Then too many of the voting people wised up, and the cabal’s plan to drag the crooked crone with a 52% negative approval rating over the finish line by getting a guy they thought was a clown and never would stand a chance, backfired in 2016. Now the cabal has decided that until the serfs bend the knee and accept they should only be allowed to choose between approved candidates (meaning they are owned by the cabal and will not do anything for the people), the stupid unwashed serfs will not be allowed to have their outsider candidate win.
And have no doubt that this cabal would rather destroy the country, nay world, than give up their plans.
This election will be interesting. They RNC has hired their own activist to do ballot harvesting and get out the vote. And this time people aren’t going to just go along when they say there’s a leaky pipe and everyone has to go home. The lawfare doesn’t seem to be working, and Trump will be on the ballot in all 50 states. But that cabal isn’t going down without a fight. I’m really concerned about the things they have planned next. My gut is telling me it’s going to get bad.
There will be blood.
I saw that movie. There wasn’t much blood.
It isn’t like this is all that novel…
What wave? Two Senate seats (WV, Montana)?
I’ve officially been rooting for Musk for a while. Fascinating person. And pobody’s nerfect. He’s hilariously (necessarily?) our Tony Stark in-flesh-and-time. With hints of darker things. *Meh* He angers the Right People. He’s still valuable for DC. But… (Hrm.)
The US (like me) needs to get proper-slapped in the face. (Hrm-dinger.) Dreadful intrigue, She Wrote.
[To TPTB: I think I organized my submission pretty propa’. BUT: I thought the Featured Image would be one folk clicked on. I had that pic of a car with a good smiley face. (Just fine!) I’m cool w the one of me at my desk after The Incident I put in there. Confusion, She Wrote.]
Hope y’all are all having a pleasant morn.
Not sure whether to be intrigued, or horrified.
That truly would be hell on earth.
Purchase physical copies of your favorite media.
Isolate your media server. SwiftAI is coming for your music.
They had to go with her because the algorithms remained dominant in the AI learning. After all, T-Swizzle sticks.
“Googled Sued for Discrimination by Black, Deaf Worker They Touted as Diversity Success Story”
The only reason HR offices doesn’t see these fucking DIE/CRT people as financial risks for their company is that most of the HR people are themselves idiots steeped in that cesspool of idiocy. If I was hiring and some green haired fugly full of piercings and a “I dare you to cross my line” attitude showed up to interview, I would tell them the job was already filled to avoid the trainwreck down the road.
Taibbi in fine form (and free).
And my immediate and innate reaction is: “Good. They have zero business doing so.”
That’s before I delve into any of the OMB stuff, obviously… I don’t really care what reason they trot out (COVID misinfo, OMB, Christian “nationalists”, etc….) — they’re not supposed to monitor and suppress speech in the first place – and they have abundantly shown that they don’t deserve any slack in this space over the last several years.
And while we’re at it, the NSA / IC aren’t supposed to be data harvesting on US citizens…. (and I want a starship as long as I’m obviously fantasizing).
Disinformation, misinformation, and whatever other bullshit term they use really means “Shit we don’t want you unwashed dumb fucks to know”.
Yep. The Twitter files uncovered that directly. There were request to censor things that “While factually true, would cause vaccine hesitancy.” While convincing the masses it’s only about removing lies and falsehoods.
Malinformation = true but inconvenient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ
Heh… you know I was thinking more of this. I don’t need to be any closer to San Francisco, after all.
Breaking eggs, shutting people up, disarming people…always taking more of people’s resources…destroying societal norms
Has the left ever relied on the soundness of their arguments to win people over? Always with the lying and force.
Seems like that to me, I have noticed that for decades. In some ways Biden is peak left. He’s giving them a lot of what they want, and it’s going just as bad or worse than you’d expect. And all they can do is deflect and lie.
The only just society is one were government – despite the fact we always find out government is comprised of the biggest wretches in any and every society – picks the winners and losers. Because if even one person that isn’t of the right kind succeeds, society has failed.
“Resignations in Congress At Near Record”
How many people have held the thought these people “retiring” are all basically being “encouraged” by our intel apparatus (blackmailed) in order to create a more favorable balance of congress for the coming 2024 electoral steal? I mean it is a strange coincidence the retirements skew drastically in favor of giving team blue the upper hand when it would be convenient for the machine.
I’m almost certainly too tin-foil-hatty these days, but yes… that thought did cross my mind.
The more optimistic second thought was that the folks coming in were more stubborn in resisting the graft and the non-Donkeys thought their troughs might get less slops, so it is better to jump to their “consultant” jobs now. (Optimistic because it assumes the incoming folks aren’t immediately co-opted… which they almost certainly are.)
Evidence.
You don’t have to like or dislike her to see this was done to hurt her.
That’s not too “tin-foil-hatty”.
I was wondering if they know something we don’t and are headed for their bunkers.
All depends on what angle you peer through the looking glass really.
The really odd thing, the tell, is the ones retiring immediately rather than at the end of this term (which has been the norm).
“But, this term, there has been triple the number of members who resign before their term is up. ”
Huh.
Real or imagined political culling in the correct sense of the term bloodbath?
Thoughts on why they are voluntarily giving up very well-paid ‘do nothing’ jobs, where they literally don’t have to show up for work unless someone sends the sergeant-at-arms to drag you in for a vote?
Would you subject yourself to that do-nothing job?
Sure. Vote no on damn near everything, and otherwise go paint or something.
I wouldn’t subject myself to doing what it took to get elected, or re-elected.
Well, the election business is what I mean by subjecting yourself.
Epstein’s book
Used to be the sky was the limit, now it’s to infinity and beyond! Thanks Donnie – for Space Force, no doubt your one true legacy.
I am looking forward to leaving this planet. I have been told it is doomed, anyway.
Yeah, though I don’t expect I’ll be going via spaceship when I depart.
It’s easier to travel as energy than it is as matter, anyway..
BIDENOMICS…..
No, first off, this is Obamanomics. On steroids. And yeah, the scumbags in the credentialed aristocratic class and their urban laptop class supporters are pissed that the unwashed masses have realized that and are complaining that the priorities and plans of the credentialed morons have devastated our country’s economy. This is why these scumbags are hard at work fast tracking the destruction of the blue collar middle class. If everyone is either in the urban laptop class or on the government take bandwagon, their will be no resistance to their abuse.
Yes, it is all the machinations of an evil cabal – WORLD DOMINATION jerk-off fantasy.
Does it never occur to you that this shit could just happen because it’s kind of the nature of humans?
What do you think the term cabal makes a reference to? The humans that are doing the evil shit…
You think it is an organized effort. A conspiracy, even if in plain sight. I say it’s just people doing what people do – looking after number 1.
So you really are making the argument these like-minded people are not pulling together to protect their interests? I would agree if your argument was that there is not one united effort, there are factions, but the disagreement within these factions isn’t at all the end goal as much as which one of them gets on top at the end. Otherwise they all are seeking the same solution: one world government to protect the interests of this elite credentialled class that has become so inept and evil that the serfs are rebelling.
“…serfs are rebelling.”
I thought the term is ‘revolting’.
That’s the term they use when speaking about the serfs, Suthen…
And yes, they, while a fragmented group, all have the same end goal and are currently working together until they are assured their end goal is inevitable. After that they will turn on each other as all collectivist systems indubitably and inevitably do.
one world government
Recreating the Roman Empire has been the goal of every tyrant of the western world since the fall of the original. No one succeeds, but the dream won’t die.
It was the U.S. that wanted the League of Nations and then got the United Nations. Our plan, all along.
Brentwood was such an attempt with the US taking on the responsibility and cost…
What we have going on now is precisely because Brentwood has failed and the old order is fragmenting.
Bretton Woods I assume you mean. That was the deal for us to defeat COMMUNISM!!! Be part of our side and we guarantee your security (and we’ll even overlook your human rights record as long as you HATE commies). Remember the crowing – History is over, we won!!!!!! Except we didn’t know what to do next. And it turns out commies weren’t the only bad people in the world.
I call it Bretonwood cause it gives these morons wood…
Know what I am saying?
What irks me is that we understood we could not compromise with the USSR and didn’t only to then sell out to China. Because some idiot thought those totalitarians somehow when they got wealthy would embrace freedom. Instead we danced with that devil and now envy the CCP their ability to stomp on their citizen’s faces with their booted feet.
ALEX! It worked to beat COMINTERN. How can you not love it?
The CCP is about as Marxist as you are.
I referred to the CCP at totalitarians…
They are not marxists. At least not in any other sense than that they consider their hold on power paramount to all other things and are willing to murder everyone to keep it so.
Another quote from (I think) RAH: “never underestimate the power of human stupidity”.
Without wading into Alex’s theories directly, the fact is that history is full of examples of elite classes deliberately manipulating the masses through various means. As a class they are usually more driven, organized, and knowledgeable than the people they rule, and they use their influence to try and keep it that way.
End of realtor commission model poses biggest ‘jolt’ in housing in 100 years
You know what the problem was?
A settlement in the real estate industry is a case study of a central flaw in free-market economic theory.
Free market? Who licenses real estate operations? Some free market entity?
Our government has perfected the bait-and-switch tactic…
The only way I hear the government response on that…
Certainly and anyone who doesn’t see it is either a retard or is in on the game. Also, not that he’s mentioned here but Dan Crenshaw is a sack of shit.
Either he’s on the take, or he’s one of those naïve Republicans who still think the Dems will join forces to do what’s best for the country when things get tough.
Just in case you think only Republicans suffer from that delusion.
I think he just hates the ‘opposite of so-con’ videos.
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Ten days without computer access. Great vacation.
Welcome back.
thanks
NYC neighborhood in AOC’s district blasted as ‘third world’ conditions with illegal vendors, prostitution on streets
Sounds libertarian to me
If it were libertarian, none of that would be illegal.
the International Brotherhood of Pimps should lobby congress more
I thought congress’ love was already the same as a pimp’s love… And that they both were different than a square’s love…
I bitched about this last night – there is nothing “third world” about that neighborhood – third-world is more than just brown people selling stuff on tarps.
So to get the clicks they had to toss in “piles of garbage” that hmmm don’t actually appear in any of the snapshots. And of course zAOC despite the fact brown people are setting crap on tarps all over the city.
Never change, The NY Post.
Haiti is a sufficient shit-hole that a stretch in an American prison is an upgrade?
Of course the victim was also a flown-in undocumented immigrant on parole.
Don’t even have the excuse of trading this kind of thing for good food when talking about Haiti unless you’re really into goat meat and mud cookies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_cookie
Anyone else worried that when it all shakes out, realtor commissions will end up greater than 6%?
It’s an assumption
When I was still practicing law and worked for a firm that did a lot of real estate I loved drawing clients attention to the realtor commission. It was even better when, after a closing, a realtor would hang behind and express their displeasure.
When we bought our house last year, I was displeased that the realtors didn’t get an even split. The sellers’ agent got more than ours, even though she was completely worthless.
Assume it will be lower for higher-value properties.
PRIVILEGE!!!!! THE WEALTHY GETTING ANOTHER BREAK!! sqwack! sqwack!!!
Probably.
The part that annoyed me is that the buyer’s agent didnt have a strong incentive to negotiate hard for a lower price, as that lowered their commission.
Mentour Pilot put out a very interesting review of what is known about the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines 370.
I found it riveting and eye-opening.
https://youtu.be/Y5K9HBiJpuk?si=WXsalYeG3Jlo23ka
My wife’s cousin is a part time realtor. They really are freaking out. Her company is having an all hands meeting to discuss, there are going to be big changes.
are realtors really needed when you have internet?
Are realtors really needed?
I bought my first house, a condo, from a FSBO. It worked fine.
I have had good results with realtors, so don’t mind being some commission, but the 6% is crazy.
And the buyers commission being more if I spend more to buy the house is … counterproductive.
Eh, my realtor did a lot of the leg work
My required realtor and lawyer did jack shit.
Fortunately, I was able to enroll in a lawyer’s “insurance” benefit at work before it was time to close.
The lawyer did file the necessary paperwork, but I still hate the condescending joke assuming the $68k check from the mortgage being the most money I’d seen.
Needed, no.
Required, yes (depending on the state).
Real estate agents aren’t the ones that lose big, it is the brokers they work for. That’s where the real money is; the agent gets a fraction of the commission.
Googled Sued for Discrimination by Black, Deaf Worker They Touted as Diversity Success Story
I assume the execs are not particularly racist, but see a worthless diversity hire as worthless, some theater they need to do in full view but not behind the scenes
Token objects to being tokenized.
Some people prefer a lump sum payout rather than cash over time.
“Glamorous MAGA star’s ex-mother-in-law pens brutal op-ed demanding she drop out of congress race for ‘raising a murderer’ after her daughter killed her ex-husband: Also accuses her of sex scandals and posing for ‘lewd pictures'”
Christine Halseth, the mother of Daniel Halseth who was brutally stabbed to death 70 times by his own 16-year-old daughter Sierra and her boyfriend Aaron Guerrero, 18, back in 2021, described MAGA darling Elizabeth Helgelien, 41, as ‘the worst Congressional candidate ever.’
Sierra, Helgelien’s daughter, and Guerrero are now serving life sentences, while the 41-year-old has launched a bid for Nevada’s 3rd District, in a crowded primary set for June 11.
But her prospects may have taken a hit after Halseth wrote a scathing op-ed in the Nevada Globe, claiming Helgelien ‘raised a murderer, was forced out of office after a series of sex scandals, was caught in a series of lies, posed for lewd photographs, and has already proven to be unelectable.’
Christine also dismissed claims from Sierra that she was abused by her father, which was cited at her trial as she was convicted, alongside her boyfriend, of stabbing him to death in April 2021.
After sustaining over 70 stab wounds, Sierra and Guerrero then dismembered her father with a variety of saws, before stuffing him in a sleeping bag and setting it on fire.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13208505/elizabeth-helgelien-congress-murder-sex-scandal.html
Anything worth doing is worth over doing?
So daddy raised a perfect little girl, but that mommy just ruined her? MIL sounds sane.
There isn’t a single country in the world that spends more on public services than the UK without taxing the average worker more heavily:
Can we raise more tax by solely taxing the wealthy/companies/closing down avoidance?
Sure. And I’ve written about how. But it’s chicken feed in fiscal terms. If you want to move the dial, the average person has to pay more tax.
https://twitter.com/DanNeidle/status/1769639595782635784
nonsens the to 1% can pay for everything . Also am surprised Australia taxes less than the US.
total taxc in GDP seems lower for US then Australia…
https://twitter.com/DanNeidle/status/1769646157100151083/photo/1
Although I am not sure the US collects that little at all levels. I remember reading somewhere that most US gov spending as percent of GDP you find by googling is lower than reality
It’s not about taxes, it’s about
So they’re taking for granted that more spending = more better, and using the weasel term “average worker.”
Hmm, that seems to be only income tax. Back in my day, there were a bunch of extra levies to pay for things like government health care that weren’t included in the tax number. Plus, Australia has a Goods & Services Tax (like a VAT) of 10%.
I also wonder if the US number includes average state & local taxes?
Curious that Greece and Turkey are so similar on taxes and so different on govt-spending-as-a-%-of GDP.
I also don’t believe total US govt spending is over 40% of GDP. Not even including state/local.
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@NeeedlesEye
okay so, friends, socialist revolution: any ideas how we do that?
https://twitter.com/NeeedlesEye/status/1769158592764989917
it is a real dilemma…
Just a couple of genocides and a violent purge or two and, bing, bang, boom, you are only one totalitarian state away!
those come after the successful revolution
Collectivists/progressives are real good at the revolution part, cause after all that effort involves destroying things, which they excel at, But when it comes to building things up, which is what should follow, they are miserable fucks. it’s not an accident that they as soon as they realize that building is real hard to do, go back to destroying. Collectivist systems have round after round of dead bodies and destruction, because that’s easy to do compared to creating.
Based on the history and historical data of just the last 100 years, the formula is clear to me: mountains of dead bodies and the “lucky” survivors living in hell on earth, while being told they have it the best.
Believing you are on the right side of history regardless of the body count… priceless.
Nothing is more dangerous than the idiot that thinks they are doing the right thing, call it God’s work, and can moralize that no matter how blood soaked their hands and high the pile of bodies stacked is, their end goal, because it is good, is not tainted.
And we’ve been doing it in one form or another since Rousseau first jacked-off to Plato.
Man’s history is bloody because it has been that way from the beginning, but most people simply fail to see that.
“The panel in charge of drawing up New York’s plans for slavery reparations is under fire after it emerged that members attacked black senator Tim Scott, blamed white people for climate change and slammed Israel within days of October 7.
Governor Kathy Hochul urged New Yorkers ‘not to excuse’ the state’s role in slavery as she set up the task force at the end of last year.
But she is facing calls to fire panelist Ron Daniels after he labelled Scott ‘Uncle Tim’ and branded him a front man for white supremacy.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13208317/reparations-daniels-hochul-uncle-tim-new-york-israel.html
Who did she think was going to join such a panel?
David Duke would provide balance and diversity.
Think?!? That’s for peasants! I command!
/Hochul
Yeah, all of this stuff is just retread of sixties “Black power” gussied up for whites who have been prepped with decades of propaganda. When you dig a millimeter beneath the surface huh it’s all Marxist radicals huh imagine that.
Sorry folks. We gave all the reparations away to illegal aliens.
People are leaving Congress while they’re still breathing. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
Yes! The Dead deserve proper representation… after all, they vote!
Not sure if this was linked over the weekend.
This is my shocked face.
No.
Really.
Flabbergasted am I.
broken linky
I cant remember- is that a “Gilmore”, an “SF” or neither ?
SDF SF’d the link
Well, shitpuppies.
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2024/03/17/zerohedge-seventy-percent-of-f-35s-may-not-be-combat-capable-n2394077 without being cute then.
Maybe the next design should have a flight hours to maintenance hours ratio greater than 1 as a requirement.
I was more stunned than you at that link.
I, too, am flabbergasted with your link.
That link gets posted a lot.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/03/14/russias-economy-is-going-strong-why-havent-western-sanctions-worked
The really stupid part is – the sanctions have worked, much like high tariffs can work. Without the ability to spend or save money in the West, Russian oligarchs are investing it in Russia instead of the American stock market or buying fancy yachts on the Mediterranean.
Jacobin
@jacobin
In the past two decades, a succession of crises has led to the rise of authoritarian states, acutely showing how capitalism and democracy were never compatible to begin with.
https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1768789274462200011
ah then the question is which one of the two do we give up? a conundrum…
When you define democracy as the institutions of power in the state instead of the ability of the people to choose their leaders and the policies they push, then yeah. Democracy and capitalism don’t work well together. Then again, nothing that would involve free choice would work well with that definition of “democracy”.
Believers in Rousseau’s General Will – the terms of submission to Islam look good in comparison.
I have purchased a fake crow. I hope it will keep the pigeons away. But I doubt it.
The fake coyotes outside my office haven’t kept the Hate Birds away. I think they knocked one of them over. 😒
If I took the time to train Marta to only operate in a given perimeter (hello, invisible fence) she would be a great Goose-chaser-offer.
In fact years ago at an office building down there on Congress Park they had 2 Australian shepherds that spent all day doing that.
Lily has cleared my property of wildlife unfortunately. She especially hates turkeys.
If it doesn’t move/attack the pigeons, they’ll acclimate and just perch on it.
In the 1980s someone had a line call “mall walkers”. I someone just went through Joe’s closet and picked a pair.
Joe Biden’s new ‘boat anchor’ shoes meant for maximum ‘stability’ as president’s falls spark concern
Old man wears orthopedic shoes. Film at 11.
:: looks at Banjo’s links:: Does Joe also have underwear that would keep drugs from falling out of his ass? 😉
What?
Are we expected to read all those ?
Nobody like a tattle-tale, GT.
Well, except me of course.
Today I learned about the McGangBang.
I’d try that.
“He wears them for exercise.”
Really? He exercises in a suit and tie?
Well his debilitating suddenly present since 2021 livelong struggle with stutterism forces him to exercise in a suit and tie.
Never change AP, never change and may you be constantly reminded that if you think you hate the media enough, you don’t.
Technically true, since censoring is a type of response.
In case you want to hear the Government argue censorship is okay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0TjQaI0Rr0
If I listen to them you will be a conspirator in incitement to murder.
I think I’ll wait and read the case once it is decided.
“The government didn’t violate the 1st Amendment because they were just asking”
“Its no different than the bully pulpit!”
“We were encouraging, it wasn’t coercion”
The mob also “encourages” people to pay protection money, but we consider that to be criminal…
And the mob wields not even a fraction of the power government does…
look the people cannot be allowed to read whatever they want online, that would be madness. The dear leaders need to curate an appropriate version for the hoi polloi
When explaining and justifying your positions and logic are impossible, your only recourse is to silence the challengers. We live in a time where people with bad and evil ideas and plans do not have to defend those because they are able to accuse any challengers of being motivated by evil or to be actually evil, and thus avoid any serious discussion that would expose the stupidity of their actions/plans.
See “Defund the Police” as just the latest example of this shit.
This is cool ride?
https://twitter.com/ThebestFigen/status/1769687696396693631
South Park did it.
Know exactly what that is and nope not gonna click it; still funny as ever though.
The Clumps down under.
Another domino
A critical US partner in northwest Africa is turning toward Russia amid warnings from the top US commander in the continent that the Russians are trying to “take over” the entire Sahel region of Africa.
Niger, which has served as a crucial foothold for US counterterrorism operations in the region for nearly a decade, announced Saturday that it was ending the accord that has allowed US military personnel and civilian staff to operate in the country since 2014.
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Now, however, there is concern among US military officials that with Russia’s increasing presence in Niger, the Kremlin has established another foothold in the Sahel region and the West is losing its influence, a military source with knowledge of the situation said.
Langley, the AFRICOM commander, told lawmakers this month that the US has been “drowned out” by Russian disinformation across Africa in previous years, leading to Russia’s success in stoking “a lot of the instability across the Sahel.”
He added that both Russia and China “want that ground. They want power projection capabilities. … But I think at [an] accelerated pace, the Russian Federation is really trying to take over Central Africa as well as the Sahel.”
It’s a good thing the grownups are in charge of American foreign policy.
When all the US gives you is lectures about how you need to be more open to and focused on crazy shit that adds zero values, but Russia and China give you tangible assets….
Yeah, you will want less US.
Who the fuck wants another lecture about stupid shit when what you need is cheap energy to grow your society.
Sounds very official, even if anonymous. Wonder what it would be called if some non-officials had disclosed this?
Officially official: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85fx0LrSMsE
This cool little frog marionette performing classical music on a tiny piano is handled by street artist Daniel Loeza, a dextrous pianist, and puppeteer whose sophisticated technique fascinates many people
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1769632437594677496
Nottingham Forest docked 4 points. Now in the relegation spots. If that holds, I need to revise my statement that Burnley are doomed.
Burnley’s goal differential is -34 and that includes a 5-0 win against Sheffield.
Yep, and that was one reason I thought they were doomed. They were 8 points from safety but really 9 with the GD. But now they’re only 5 points (really 6). I still think they will be relegated but, for me, it’s not as definitive as it was. Three of their remaining games are Forest, Sheffield United, and Everton.
Of course, this is all pending a Forest appeal and a possible 2nd deduction for Everton. I think the Forest deduction will stand. After Everton’s appeal, I think the PL decided on a penalty that won’t get modified.
Ah hmm, what is the general consensus on what will be Everton’s 2nd punishment?
On Everton boards, 4 pts to reverse the appeal.
Long, but interesting, take here: https://theathletic.com/5317485/2024/03/06/everton-psr-appeal-second-case/
They might avoid a penalty altogether (sort of a double jeopardy argument). If they do get a penalty, it will probably be less than the first one.
On the original decision, the rule was 6 pts for any breach, plus 1 pt for each 5 million pounds. So 19 billion breach rounded to 10 pt penalty. The appeal reduced it to 6. Forest’s breach is 34 million. I have no idea how to calculate it, but under original Everton decision rules, that would be a 13 pt penalty. So reduced to 8 under appealed rules?
But its 4 somehow.
Setting up, IMO, a 4 pt penalty for Everton to reestablish the 10 pt penalty.
Ok wait, Burnley won this weekend after a 5th minute red card gave them a penalty kick. What do you see in them exactly?
Not sure if you saw my 10:04 before you posted this, but that sums up my thinking. I still think Burnley get relegated, I just think there’s a small glimmer of hope.
And, even though it’s only March, two relegations so far: one in Scotland (Edinburgh City, League One, 10 point deduction there) and Bishop’s Stortford in NL North.
And how many did Man city get?
Oh thats right, too complicated to get to them yet. But I am sure they will be treated fairly.
Premier league math: 15 million pound breach of FFP is a 10 pt deduction reduced to 6 on appeal. With possibly more to come.
For 34 million you get a 4 pt deduction. Despite the PL saying in actual documents that 6 is the minimum for any breach.
Sorry, 19 million pound in line 1. 15 million pound difference between the two situations.
Hey everybody! How’s it going?
Haven’t logged in for a while, got ridiculously busy with work, more work, the struggles of home ownership, work, getting manhandled by sweaty dudes, and even more work. It’s been a few months, let me tell you.
Anything interesting happen while I was AFK?
I’m working Area 8, so you’d better sign up.
Oooh. I wasn’t planning on doing any majors this year, but if you’re gonna be doing A8 then I’d better get a wiggle on with the training…
Nice to hear from you! I can’t recall anything too out of the ordinary.
getting manhandled by sweaty dudes
For Tonio/Rhywun/et al: go on…
Trying to decide whether this warrants further clarification.
He might be doing underground gladiatormatches?
EvilSheldon… have you ever been — in a Turkish prison?
I’m doing above-ground gladiator matches. I took up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as yet another hobby.
Doctor phoned in an antibiotic: doxycycline 50mg tablets, qty. 28. Drugstore price, with BlueCross insurance: $358. For a generic antibiotic!
I yelped in protest. Pharmacist suggested I ask the doc to switch to doxycycline 50mg CAPSULES, qty. 28. Identical medication. Price: $11.
I don’t understand why we don’t burn the medical insurance system to the ground.
https://twitter.com/StephenFleming/status/1769594564262932917
I blame the free market
Delivery mechanism is part of the patent. I blame our stupid IP legal regime.
This. Just look at epi-pens.
I’ve seen weird pricing from drugstores, but not usually when insurance is involved. In this case my guess is that the capsule form has a patent for the delivery method. Maybe the capsule dissolves more slowly, or there is some other controlled release technology involved.
Switch that, the tablet form possibly has a separate patent for controlled release or some other technology.
okay so, friends, socialist revolution: any ideas how we do that?
“This ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?”
Uffda We are going to be swamped with bugs
And those bugs pee funny
Why would they pee? They don’t eat.
Also, there is a fungus that replaces a cicada’s genitals and spreads itself when the bug attempts to use the myco-strapon.
I would’ve thought that Berlin Polytechnik would’ve had more institutional knowledge pertinent to that line of inquiry.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
CBS headline:
Despite taking jabs at Trump at D.C. roast, Biden also warns of threat to democracy
Que?
Somebody swapped out a teleprompter with a mirror?
The New York Times thinks the First Amendment is an “unsettled question”
What is happening
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1769481754509799697
Principals over Principles, in Public.
The people that believe government should decide what rights people get (so they can use government to control and oppress people) are desperate to destroy the concept that rights that come from government are not rights at all.
You are riding in a car driven by a close friend. He hits a pedestrian. You know that he was going at least 35 mph in a 20 mph zone. There are no witnesses, except for you. His lawyer says that if you testify under oath that he was driving only 20 mph, it may save him from serious legal consequences.
Do you think:
A) that your friend has a definite right to expect you to testify (as his close friend), and that you would testify that he was going 20 mph, or
B) that your friend has little or no right to expect you to testify and that you would not falsely testify that he was only going 20 mph?
https://twitter.com/lillybilly299/status/1769504207898292618
Was the pedestrian hot?
Is my “friend” a hot girl that has not been putting out for me before?
Just kidding.. I don’t have friends this dumb.
“I did not see the spedometer”
Presidential quippery
Speaking to hundreds of journalists and leaders at his first appearance at the annual dinner, Mr. Biden said the two candidates had clinched their party’s nomination this week for president, saying that “one candidate is too old, mentally unfit to be president.”
“The other’s me,” he quipped.
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But the remarks also veered toward the serious, as the president cited threats to democracy and freedom.
Highlighting what his administration has accomplished over the last few years, the president said the work was done “all without destroying the economy, embarrassing us around the world or itching for insurrection,” in an apparent nod to Trump.
“Look, I wish these were jokes but they’re not,” he continued.
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The president urged that at home, freedom is “under assault,” making reference to voting rights and abortion. He warned that the threat apparent during the effort to overturn the 2020 election remains, calling it “poison” within the “veins of our democracy.”
And the trained seals clapped and honked their horns in unison.
Dude your girlfriend is a real dog!
Oh, bitch bitch bitch….
Beyond the Pale: Irish cultural uniqueness past Rome’s reach
How ancient history set Ireland on an alternate route despite genetic unity in the Isles
The Irish are different. White Roman Catholic Christians, they nevertheless identify as a people colonized and oppressed for over a millennium, starting with Viking invasions, followed by Norman conquest in the Middle Ages and culminating in their eventual total assimilation into the incipient British Empire. This history, which matured into anti-colonial militancy in the modern period, resulting in the Republic of Ireland’s independence a century ago, and decades of civil war in Northern Ireland, explains Irish solidarity with Palestinians in 2024. But Ireland’s cultural differences run deeper than just the last eventful millennium. They go back to the island’s unique relationship (or lack thereof) with the Roman Empire, and its liminal position on Northwest Europe’s furthest edge.
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Ireland, in contrast, converted piecemeal and organically in the two centuries before 600 AD. J. R. R. Tolkien wrote The Fellowship of the Ring to provide the English with a national mythos; something that had been lost with their rapid forced transition from pagan tribesmen to Christian subjects. No such trauma afflicts the Irish, whose monks recorded The Book of Invasions, The Ulster Cycle and The Fenian Cycle, and whose tribes continued to engage in internecine conflict centuries after they had been Christianized. No Irish king declared his people henceforth Christians by fiat. The people of Ireland became Christian on their own terms and at their own pace. Despite the British Christian St. Patrick’s name recognition in our era and his genuine missionary success, the new religion actually diffused gradually through Irish society, weaving itself into the fabric of Gaelic culture, as opposed to just being a vector for Romanitas. Christianity became very Irish long before the Irish became fully Christian.
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To establish the position of the Irish genetically within a European context, I created a pooled dataset with 172,000 shared markers assayed across 2,944 individuals whose ethnolinguistic background is recorded. Broken down by ethnicity, they include 488 English, 299 French, 284 Italians, 176 Dutch, 414 Norwegians, 292 Poles, 469 Scots, 44 Welsh, and finally, 478 Irish. I put the data through a principal component analysis (PCA), and the figure above illustrates PC1 on the y axis and PC2 on the x axis. PC1 explains 1.7 times more of the variation in this data than PC2, reflecting the greater genetic distance between southern vs. northern Europe, as opposed to western vs. eastern Europe. I rotated the normal configuration here (PC1 is conventionally the x axis), to better align with geography. The PC plot shows a clear separation between the Polish, French, Italians and Norwegians, but demarcations between the Scottish, Welsh, English and Dutch are comparatively obscured by their overlapping distributions.
https://www.razibkhan.com/p/beyond-the-pale-irish-cultural-uniqueness
Dear Out of Town Richie Rich, we just want to talk.
once lost, it is lost forever
Maybe they are building a giant whore house?
Park Point is a desirable place to live. Housing prices there are expensive. And to get to town you have to cross the lift bridge.
Reinert is being a dufus here. The lack of housing is due to the slow city and county permits and inspections (not to mention the high city property taxes).
If the good socialists of Duluth don’t want her to buy houses on Park Point, they can buy them. The did it with the strip club (and spent a ton of money to make it ADA compliant).
Who will think of the differently abled strippers?
I’m sure there’s someone who does. What’s the number of that rule again?
*paging Dr. Adder*
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/business/uber-australia-taxi-drivers-compensation/index.html“> Illegal competition
Uber will pay more than 8,000 taxi and hire car drivers in Australia almost 272 million Australian dollars ($179 million) in compensation for losses they suffered after the ride-sharing giant entered the country in 2012, lawyers representing the drivers said Monday.
The settlement is the fifth-largest in Australia’s history, according to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, the law firm that filed the class action suit in 2019. Uber confirmed in a statement that it had reached an agreement in principle but did not comment on the details of the proposed settlement.
“This case succeeded where others have failed,” Maurice Blackburn said on its Facebook page. “We’re proud that thousands of people put their faith in us to deliver this outcome, and to hold Uber to account.”
Uber has faced serial litigation around the world since its launch in 2009, including from passengers, governments and its own drivers. It has also made “significant contributions to various state-level taxi compensation schemes” in Australia since 2018, according to the company.
The bitter feuds between Uber drivers and conventional taxi operators have subsided in recent years, as the company has steadily gained regulatory approval to operate in countries around the world. Uber now teams up with taxi drivers in many countries. In November, it announced a partnership with London’s iconic black cabs to give cab drivers access to Uber trip referrals.
The lawsuit in Australia alleged that Uber had operated illegally in four of the country’s six states — Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia — using vehicles and drivers without the necessary licenses and accreditations.
Who said you could do that?
At least the link works.
Something which occurred to me:
The SEC is working on a set of rules dictating disclosure and dollar valuation of corporations’ “environmental impact”. The ecofanatics are all in on this process because they think it will destroy the fossil fuel industry. What happens when Tesla (and anybody else who produces EVs) is forced to account for the “global” carbon costs and environmental impact of their products? That “zero emission” nonsense is going to go out the window. What about Apple, and all the battery powered consumer electronics companies? You never hear about that in the news stories.
“‘Woke’ people more likely to be unhappy, anxious and depressed, new study suggests”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/lifestyle/woke-people-more-likely-to-be-unahppy-anxious-and-depressed-new-study-suggests/
Shocking. Who could have guessed being butt mad at imaginary things isn’t fulfilling?
I am dead serious when I say this, but these people need hobbies. Constructive ones, where they make things and/or use their minds. “Idle hands are the devil’s playground” exists for a reason.
These people do not create. They destroy. Maybe that’s their “hobby,” but it’s really just envy dressed up as concern.
So, so, so true. People who obsess over model trains or whatever may have other problems, but they rarely throw public tantrums and generally fuck up the world…
Unless you’re Neil Young.
Remember his electric Cadillac project? It burned up.
I’m also thinking the lack of hobbies could be do to too much screen time.
That is absolutely a factor.
*Continues to stare at screens…
it’s really just envy dressed up as concern
No wonder they found common ground with the commies.
Speaking of environmental cost disclosure, what about solar panels and wind turbines?
“Twin teenage girls stabbed, one fatally, at NYC bodega after rejecting attacker’s advances: reports”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/18/us-news/twin-who-survived-park-slope-stabbing-desperately-tried-to-protect-sister-after-drunken-man-followed-attacked-them/
https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/two-women-19-stabbed-one-fatally-overnight-in-brooklyn/
Samyia and Sanyia? That’s just confusing.
I’m really glad I sold my Boeing stock when I did.
Its quite clear that SCOTUS will probably kick the free speech case back down to the lower courts. They don’t know what social media is, except maybe Barrett. Also, seems like those that brought the suit against the government presented some false or misleading information in their brief to the court.