I gotta tell ya, I don’t get the hate everyone had for OJ. Maybe because I’m a white woman, he was always nice to me. Had a weird fetish. He took down my measurements one weekend when he covered a Giants game at the Meadowlands, told me not to gain any weight. Then later that year in DC he comes back with this rudimentary outfit. Said it was just a template, and told me again not to gain any weight. Whatever. He sent for me again shortly after a Bills game that January, he seemed really excited. He had me wear this absolutely beautiful leather catsuit. Almost uncomfortably skintight, but made in an haphazzard pattern of different color leathers. Expertly tanned. So soft. So supple. Refused to tell me where he got the material.
He said he was trying to make matching gloves. Took it away later that evening and said he needed it to make sure the gloves fit. Sure, we fucked in the back of a rental car in the hotel parking lot, but he at least paid for it and let me drive it back to Jersey.
Anyways. What a fucking day. assume the position cucks. Let’s get this over with.
How about NO, you periwinkle tasseled cocksuckers.
What? They’re from Seattle?
Eh. Another dog and or pony show.
The outfit run by Homosexual Econ Mam seems to be stuck in 2020.
Finally! After this weeks market shitstorm over the triumphant return of Bidenflation….Krugabe responds by…
Running like a bitch and lockin gthe comments! Ahahahahahahahahaha. I need a cigarette.
Wait, the ATF are Ed majors? That explains so much.
DIE/DRT Hires…
“periwinkle-tasseled.”
a 10-year-old article from my blog:
Teachers have the lowest SAT scores, so shut up already about your “low pay”
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2014/02/teachers-have-lowest-sat-scores-so-shut.html
I’ll give them credit for having enough self awareness to get a degree that pays something at least.
In my experience as either a student and a parent, it is a rare wonder when you find someone that isn’t mediocre in education, and even rarer to find someone that is good. granted, I get parents that are not pushing their kids into getting educated is a huge problem, but the schools system today just a glorified baby sitting effort.
People who are really good at math usually do not become math teachers. I guess I’m an exception to that. At least I’m trying to be. T-minus 6 hours or so til my next job interview for that.
Good luck man.
I was in a meeting several years ago with several superintendents of neighboring counties, discussing a grant proposal.
One of them said out loud that they do not like to hire math majors to teach high school math, because they always got a better job and left after a couple of years. They wanted education majors, even though they are much weaker in content knowledge, essentially because that gives them captive employees.
After I did my student teaching at a big TX high school I knew I wasn’t cut out for that. That was 45 years ago
For the reasons cited above
My SIL is a math teacher at a private school, she says the same thing.
“…the schools system today [is] just a glorified baby sitting effort.”
I take credit for that remark. My departure from Carmel-Clay schools will warrant no attention. I actively see the misery and absolute waste involved. The amount of food my school throws away after solely MY shift…is astounding. By law, it can’t be donated to Goodwill or whatever other pantry would happily take ’em.
That alone SHOULD rankle folk, but of course it won’t. “Gots to be safe!”
It’s utterly baffling that teachers don’t get the veneration they think they deserve given that everyone in the country has a dozen years of close, personal experience with them.
Timely article for the topic.
I think it’s pretty obvious who the loyal commentator really is on this here chatroom.
Just like a fed to try to prove their loyalty with something simple.
Morning to you.
*Lifts cofefe*
Workday has begun full-on crazypants.
Happy Friday!
A happy Friday to all of my coffee guzzling work pals. May the constant barrage of unexpected tasks end soon.
Storm last night took out 4 large trees. There goes my relaxing weekend watching the Masters. There goes a lot of cash to a tree service too.
I recently had to remove or severely trim some trees. The fee to haul away and dump the wood made up half the estimate. I negotiated that the tree trimmer trim the tree and I’d take care of the dump runs and it saved me major cash,
We’ve been in full on self-inflicted pain mode for the past quarter or so. There are reasons I’m unhappy with the new role, and will be looking to make another change once I get to the ~2 year mark for the resume.
In my experience reality is that the shit is always there no matter where you go. I have worked both as a consultant/contractor and an employee, for more than a couple of dozen companies – from small to top 100 – and numerous bosses and disciplines, and I have always found there is dysfunction. Reality is that you just need to try to find a level of tolerable dysfunction, cause there is no perfect, and even good enough is so rare it is a fleeting unicorn.
Dysfunction is why we all get a paycheck. If the company ran perfectly it would have no need for our services. Think of it that way.
We have been in constant cost cutting since covid, despite financials being good. This last quarter, we went even deeper into cost cutting because we had a bad quarter.
All of this was supposedly to avoid layoffs, even though we had a couple rounds of layoffs last year. I don’t know what they’re chasing, but a couple years of solid post-covid growth wasn’t it.
Ours involved releasing a product that wasn’t ready for primetime, pushing it on several customers (as it’s the future!) in some ill advised way to increase pressure on the dev team to fix the underlying issues. As any old cynical IT person knows, this is the way to get the worst possible product in the end.
My role is also much less technical than I was led to believe it would be, with more time fighting our internal tools than actually being able to work. Add to that a culture that involves lots of cargo cult troubleshooting and divined knowledge with poor documentation and I’m not feeling like a great fit here.
Did you not say the proper praise of the Omnissiah and twelve Ave Machinas?
Damn, Neph.
That does sound like serious crap…
Ours involved releasing a product that wasn’t ready for primetime, pushing it on several customers (as it’s the future!) in some ill advised way to increase pressure on the dev team to fix the underlying issues.
The fucking kids who sneered at actually getting a fully working product first rather than just releasing updates “later”. That’s the old development methodology.
divined knowledge with poor documentation and I’m not feeling like a great fit here.
That’s a huge problem with my new role. I’ve spent the last year trying to get the fundamentals down , but I talk with my manager about a given project and he has some story about the history of the engagement that changes the answer. If not him, then one of my coworkers has the institutional knowledge in their head.
It results in me often throwing away work because of the new info. I can’t go into the meeting with my boss unprepared, but more often than not the preparations were pointless.
I’m not necessarily regretting this role, but I’m really annoyed by that particular phenomenon. That’s when I remind myself that the paycheck clears no matter whether or not the work I did actually benefits the company.
That’s the old development methodology.
Agile and CI weren’t supposed to be for releasing half-baked products on unsuspecting customers, but that is what they have turned into.
trshmnstr:
That’s what’s keeping me going as well. “Well fuck it, they’re still paying me.” The customers I support appear to approve of dealing with me, which is where I put the metric to if I”m succeeding in my role. I had dealt with some of the underlying tech that the company uses way back (in another role, at another company, before they were acquired by the company I’m now working with), which I was somewhat excited to get to work on again.
Now I see how they’ve bastardized it, and spackled over the holes with the shift from a premise based to a cloud based solution. Then they siloed things away from different groups, and each group protects its fiefdom. Recent internal changes have seemed to intensify this, with management seeming unaware of the consequences.
I might have gone with “which is why the financials are good”.
We had 2 years of solid revenue. Not saying the cost cutting didn’t contribute, but the covid and post-covid tech buying spree was the primary reason.
Meh… too much crap this morning. Trying to get work quickly to a point I can step out for at least a couple hours — because my car decided to stop firing on any cylinders (I’m assuming probably fuel pump) while driving down the highway last night. So I have to go arrange a tow and talk to the mechanics and all. Yay.
The car is just evil because I was going to call them today for the smog check and probable 100k tune-up routine. But nooooo… it just had to decide to stop working first. Pbbbt.
Shit man, car trouble sucks. Especially as it impacts everything we do or can do…
Hope this gets resolved quick.
Is it a 2000 and up Toyota? If so, I’ve seen issues with bad sending units in those (and Mercedes to a lesser extent) and they stick, telling you, you have gas when you don’t. May want to try splashing a gallon or 2 in it.
’03 Monte Carlo. 490k miles — so I can’t complain too much… it has been good to me.
And I filled up not long back, so I’m at least at 7/8ths of a tank. If it is fuel, it is filter, pump — or something crazy like the computer fritzing out and telling the EFI not to pull fuel. 😉 (Being 20+ years old… I’m paranoid that the computer will start dying).
Besides needing a tow to get it anywhere and not having enough of a garage to do much beyond oil changes — this is definitely in the “let them plug it in and hopefully they can ask the computer what’s going on better than an OBD-II reader (which I swear I had in the car… but didn’t have it when I went to look for it…).
Yeah, with those miles, you’re probably right.
Half a million miles is a respectable run for any vehicle. There’s bound to be some character by that point, whatever machine you’re talking about
Damn!
Original owner?
I still have my 06 350z. Drove it to work today.
A mere 111,500 miles on it.
He, I don’t think I have ever had or kept a car beyond 90K…
Even when I was driving 40K miles a year as a consultant.
Too much shit to deal with at that point.
Sounds like a garage queen.
Sounds like a garage queen.
I don’t drive it in the winter. Small, high-power, rear-wheel-drive is not a good combo for snow.
I didn’t drive much of anything for nearly 4 years during WFH.
And we have 4 vehicles, so the mileage gets spread around.
But yes, I put 70k miles on it in the first 7 years. And 40K in the following 11 years.
Yup.
Awesome
Still have my 03 WRX, the last new car I’ll ever buy. 350000 miles. Those first 100k miles when I was 22 years old weren’t exactly gentle either.
’85 Mazda 626, 90K miles
Xmas gift to Mrs F in ’84. Garaged for the last 25 years. Runs great but needs a little clean up maintenance. Too small for me to get in and out, Missus doesn’t drive anymore
Hertz? Or was he not all that big?
Did OJ ask her to wear a strap-on?
No. He made me wear a skintight leather outfit he made on his own. Do you not read the fucking links?
I was told there would be no links shaming!
You libertarians and your fucking rules.
When you’re only No. 2, you try harder.
So like the backseat of a Volkswagen?
I’m fairly impressed with his flexibility — being in an Escort and all.
Alamo-aning that was going on, I figure it was decent.
You’r goddamn right it was Hertz. Chrysler K-car! I miss Iaccoccoa too.
“Give them a few years.”
Because like all other government infected DIE/CRT bureaucracies, NASA is a giant shitshow, they can’t do that in this age where they can’t put anything in orbit without going outside of NASA to get it done in time and without costing 1000% of what it costs to do it in the private sector. Have no doubt however that as soon as they think that the private space industry has become too big of a problem or that they can take it over, they will do so. They are far more likely to “nationalize” it, maybe while declaring Elon Musk a foreign enemy, so they can make it as inept as NASA is.
“The outfit run by Homosexual Econ Mam seems to be stuck in 2020.”
It’s not like the leftard media doesn’t have a history of shilling for evil anti-humanitarian monsters and their collectivist agendas. They covered for Stalin/Mao and marxism as they murdered tens of millions of their own people. Shit, they even covered for Hitler and fascism while they all looked at that shit and pined to have the same freedoms as they saw these evil collectivist ideologies have elsewhere.
it is not a coincidence that we are seeing another cultural revolution in the US. Reality is that marxism’s appeal to totalitarians is like light is to a moth.
Krugman is living proof that this is Clownworld™ and you can be suckcesspool if you keep pushing the narrative your masters need.
As Winston’s mom would say., if you suck dick well, no matter how dirty the job, lots of people will love you… Krugman is a dick sucker that gets love because he is good at it.
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$20 is now $2. Suck more dicks Kruggy
You laugh about that…
Just the other day I drove by an Arby’s, and they had a deal going. Remember back in the day when they did the 5 for $5 specials? Then they eventually changed to 4 for $5? The deal is now 4 for $10.
Was there some lib asshat out there accusing them of shrinkflation and price gauging?
Cause that sort of idiot always feels the evil/stupid shit the left or government does that causes these things, is just the kulaks & wreckers not eating their shit sammich and asking for more.
God damn it.
“But that’s a really good idea. We’ll work on getting it implemented!”
Do not challenge the propaganda the machine wants the legacy media to peddle to the morons…
Or else…
And remember, the reason the left keeps telling us Trump will be an authoritarian is because they are doing it right now themselves, and they are prjecting.
Can’t wait to see what angle the Dems take to attack her. Racist? Conspiracy theorist? MAGA?
It really is something to see them just reflexively come out punching. They have absolutely zero interest in the truth or what’s best for the country.
“So called journalist” like Matt Taibbi.
Ah there it is.
She’s always been a real journalist but she had to know or should have that journalists are not wanted in media anymore.
I knew about this, but it’s a nice write up.
Gail Wise bought the first Ford Mustang sold in the United States; 60 years later, she still owns it
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/04/11/ford-mustang-first-sold-in-united-states-60th-anniversary-1964-gail-tom-wise-park-ridge
Great story.
Can’t seem to get out of third grade though
Neat!
It’s a grift…
Norm is missed:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1778453695572656389
Perfect!
The only reason i didn’t care OJ got off with committing that crime was the dysfunction and abuse by the prosecutor to get him at all costs. I guess that was 1995 telling us abuse of government power was on the way.
May the Juice enjoy his stay in hell, however.
I’m sorry Norm didn’t live to see this day. I heard a collection of his OJ jokes this morning. Fantastic.
I also heard a story this morning from the singer of Mighty Mighty Bosstones. He said the day he heard that OJ’s ex wife was murdered (before the Bronco and all that), he was doing a KISS tribute album and met Gene Simmons for the first time. He told Gene that he heard OJ’s ex was murdered, and Gene took one second, looked at him, and said “Dickey, OJ did it.” LOL
Take that Supreme Court!
The Biden administration said Friday that is using existing student loan forgiveness programs to cancel another round of student debt, totaling $7.4 billion for 277,000 borrowers.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/12/politics/biden-student-loan-forgiveness/index.html
They are not canceling the debt for anyone: they are just shifting the debt to the tax payers whom tend to mostly be people that were either not dumb enough to sign up for this criminal government racket or that did so knowing they would get a j0b that would allow them to pay off the debt they took on.
Note that the one thing they do not do, even though they claim this loan system is downright abusive and outright criminal, is actually change it so colleges can’t abuse low information idiots they brainwash into inutility and stupidity and will have skin in the game.
It’s almost like the broken evil system is propped up because it serves a different purpose…
“The purpose of a system is what it does”.
After years, I think I finally found a worthy new addition to the Iron Laws.
He can figure out a way to spend $7.4 billion buying votes, but there’s nothing he can do about the border. Not a single thing.
Nice. Now perhaps we can stop the Tesla exclusive focus and maybe focus on the actual systems and their multiple shortcomings.
Driver in fatal Texas crash was using Ford’s auto driving system, officials say
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/11/ford-mustang-mach-e-automated-blue-cruise-system-fatal-texas-crash
Ford’s Blue Cruise system allows drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel while it handles steering, braking and acceleration on highways. The company says the system isn’t fully autonomous and it monitors drivers to make sure they pay attention to the road. It operates on 97% of controlled access highways in the US and Canada, Ford says.
Well, at least it’s restricted to the one place that automation makes sense (to me anyway). Still, this is a complete failure of whatever detect and avoid technology is installed on the vehicle.
I believe it’s radar based and the radar based systems have issues with filtering signal from noise with stationary objects.
It’s one of the reasons Tesla moved to a vision only approach. The other (and likely real) reason is that during Covid there was a shortage of radar units and integration of the visual and radar data is non-trivial. Musk decided to go all in on vision only basis. He has quietly backtracked and there are regulatory filings indicated radar in the vehicles again.
“It operates on 97% of controlled access highways in the US and Canada, Ford says.”
Interesting statement. You know what it doesn’t say? “It operates well”, or “reliably” or “safely”.
Very interesting statement.
How does it know that it’s on a controlled access highway? GPS and maps perhaps? At any rate, another potential failure point in the system.
Ford is beholden to the crooks running things. Musk is a danger to the crooks running things. They will make exceptions for Ford.
Yes, but they aren’t happy with the recent band-aid recall they proposed. Love that the NYP decided go Bronco and OJ themed when they reported it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ford-recall-probe-bronco-escape-engine-fires/
In this case I agree with FedGov.
Bronco, Pinto, both horses that end in O, so why not both light up with minimum provocation?
These systems are what is called automated driving Level 2 or 2.5. For level 0-2 you are still driving, but the automation is present to provide you with “assistance”.
Level 2 automation requires the driver to constantly supervise the support features to maintain safety.
The car company advertisements like to promote or sell the level 3 autonomy, when actually the consumer/user needs to understand that we are not yet at level 3 and certainly not level4.
I really need to write my article on this topic. I have multiple papers and presentations on it.
See reference below.
https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/assets/cm/content/blog/sae-j3016-visual-chart_5.3.21.pdf
Yup. Do you have any experience with the MB product?
https://media.mbusa.com/releases/automated-driving-revolution-mercedes-benz-announces-us-availability-of-drive-pilot-the-worlds-first-certified-sae-level-3-system-for-the-us-market
“ATF recognizes the role firearms play in violent crimes and pursues an integrated regulatory and enforcement strategy. Investigative priorities focus on armed violent offenders and career criminals, narcotics traffickers, narco-terrorists, violent gangs, and domestic and international arms traffickers,” the online statement reads.
Why don’t I believe that?
Because they seem to have a lot of time and energy for going after local gun shops and people who sell a few guns now and then?
Here’s a video representation for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCkagYixpuc
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Well off topic, but I made it through the first four episodes of Fallout (half the season), I have thoughts. I understood the concept of jumping between the factions to try to get an understanding of the world, but I think that it really hurt the storytelling. Instead of starting with a level of normality and spiraling out from there (as happens in the beginning of most of the games), you’re already aware of the different groups. They did this, and still tried to keep in some of the Vault Dweller sees a city for the first time big shot, even after we’ve seen a Brotherhood training ground, raiders attacking, and the pre-oops world. There was zero Dogmeat in the first episode, and based on my understanding of the show, made him an important deal going forward instead of just a good boy who many of us tried to keep alive through the endgame of Fallout 2 (look, sometimes you have to cripple your dumb animal companion so he can’t charge headfirst into two miniguns). The show turns up the “zany” and “crazy” level of every faction and character to 13, so there’s no real grounded character to follow. They’re also already going for a “control the wasteland” plot instead of something basic.
Trying to fit it into the game timeline and locals is also a rough fit.
Overall, it’s not as terrible as I thought it was going to be, but it’s not something I would strongly recommend. I may have the girlfriend give it a shot (she’s only played a part of New Vegas) to see how someone with next to know knowledge of the world understands it.
O.o
How do you fail that badly? He’s the main character of the franchise.
I saw you ask Sean about the Amazons politics in the dead thread. The only thing that really stood out to me so far (I’m through 4 like Neph) is there is a trans character in the BOS, and the elder uses ‘they’ as the pronoun. Not a major character, but sure feels out of place.
The bigger thing to me is some of the filmmaking itself, several things happened that the way they were shot I wasn’t sure why they happened. That and Michael Rappaport’s character with 90% of his lines just being “Shit shit shit fuck fuck fuck” felt out of place. The cussing in general, I don’t know why there is so much from so many characters, it’s just unnecessary. Then again, I am prude.
I didn’t notice the trans character, but this BoS seems completely unlike any of the ones from any of the games. So far, they only seem to be building up “bad guys being set up for redemption” instead of building up any audience surrogate characters (the role that would traditionally be done by the main character in the games).
Maybe they went “The only people who’ll watch this are fans of the games” and decided to skip it.
Or maybe they’re not good storytellers. It is Amazon, so I can’t ignore that possibility.
The trans character was the one who was originally supposed to be the squire. Small unobtrusive role. The only thing that made it stand out to me was the elder referring to the character as they. Single blink and you miss it line, but just stood out because I don’t think the BOS would play the pronoun game.
Not having a character for the audience to identify with is a problem all too common in todays media. Most stuff I stop watching because I don’t like any of the characters.
The show seems to be taking the Mandalorian style of writing as well, where the first 4 episodes only have enough plot for about 35 minutes worth of a 190 min movie. Although, not as bad as The Mandalorian.
I was looking for it, and thought that was the character you were referencing. I have several issues with the portrayal of the BoS as they’re done in the show. One other thing that stood out to me is that they had the opportunity to do some easy world building with the Vault Dweller listening to the radio (as is done in the Bethesda games) to provide some background on the environs and the factions while using the soundtrack they licensed in a way that ties in to the world and the games.
… Am I the only one who turns off the ingame radio because it’s annoying?
I noticed the character too, but it was very low key. The “they” reference was a smidge off, but that was it.
One of the more disappointing things for me has been the pre-war era. Other than quick shot of Mr Handy, so far it’s just been regular 50s looking with Sugarbombs and Vault-tec painted on it. Hopefully they flesh that out a bit more in the Final Four.
Youtube served this up for me. Story of the Ford GAA engine.
They should have made a three liter version.
The amount of innovation and technology in 1940’s military engines was amazing. It took 30-40 years for the automotive side to adopt most of what was used in WW2. There is something to be said for what can be done when cost and reliability are second to performance.
48V DOHC
Aluminum block
Biden’s Green-Energy Price Shock
The cost of electricity has climbed by 29.4% since January 2021.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/electricity-prices-biden-green-energy-labor-department-2b4ea2cb?st=7e94a5gfyeh7pih&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s those government-controlled monopolies being greedy!
Nothing but the apolitical facts
Even before announcing the 34-count felony indictment against Trump last year, Bragg was a lightning rod for conservative critics who said he wasn’t tough enough on crime. The upcoming trial will test the Democrat’s efforts to portray himself as apolitical in the face of relentless attacks from the Republican former president and his supporters, who say the prosecution is the epitome of partisanship.
Echoing the racist tropes he has deployed frequently against his legal adversaries, Trump has called Bragg a “thug” and a “degenerate psychopath,” urging his supporters to take action against the “danger to our country.”
Bragg, who declined to be interviewed for this story, has rejected that, comparing the prosecution against Trump to any other case of financial crime.
“At its core, this case today is one with allegations like so many of our white collar cases,” Bragg said in announcing the indictment last year. “Someone lied again and again to protect their interests and evade the laws to which we are all held accountable.”
Alvin Bragg is a hero.
It would be fun to ask Bragg and Tish to list recent cases they prosecuted that were just like this.
Trump is so uniquely evil, there can’t be anything equivalent in legal history!
When he resurrected the case last April, the charges of falsifying records were raised to felonies under an unusual legal theory that Trump could be prosecuted in state court for violating federal campaign finance laws. Some legal experts say the strategy could backfire.
“It seems a bit of a legal reach, and the question is why are they doing it?” said Jonathan Turley, a professor at the George Washington University Law School. “It can be hard to escape the conclusion that this effort would not have been taken if the defendant was not Donald Trump.”
That’s just good old fashioned American ingenuity.
To be fair to him, Trump chooses his lawyers by bust size, so they probably won’t touch on legal theory too much.
Just saw another study the other day again pointing out that good looking lawyers, yes even the male ones, but especially the women, win far, far more often than their intellect and legal chops dictate would be expected. And not by any close margin. I bet Trump knows that…
I was jury foreman on a child murder where the 2 defendants were tried simultaneously (separate defense lawyers). Short version of result is that he was clearly not guilty but she was. Anyway, the prosecutor lady wore fitted “suits” with either slacks or business-appropriate skirts the whole week, and had her hair tightly wound up in a helmet. She was an attractive woman but kept it all buttoned up.
Until closing argument day. Then she went full Boudica – long gold hair down and loose, and a dress that was fitted up top and big and flowing beneath.
She was gonna win on the guilty one anyway, but that was clearly on purpose for the visuals.
Ironically, Mike Lofgren, popularizer of the term “Deep State,” seems to have such a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (a well-known comorbidity underlying Covid Derangement Syndrome) that he has forgotten or discarded all of his Deep State insights when it comes to the pandemic response. In articles related to the pandemic Lofgren rails exclusively against “right-wing authoritarian personalities,” “angry paranoiacs like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.” and what he calls a Republican “Death Cult” for the desire to reopen the economy.
He knows an Enemy of the State when he sees one.
“The Los Angeles Times has been mocked for an excruciating error in its OJ Simpson obituary — suggesting that former President Donald Trump had served the accused murderer’s prison sentence.
“Long before the city woke up on a fall morning in 2017, Trump walked out of Lovelock Correctional Center outside Reno, a free man for the first time in nine years,” the left-leaning paper wrote, somehow mistaking the presidential nominee for the disgraced ex-NFL player.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/us-news/la-times-trump-gaffe-in-oj-simpsons-obituary-goes-viral/
LOL
That is absolutely precious.
Bless their heart.
“Landscapers find possible Civil War cannonball buried in Virginia yard
“We assumed it was a Civil War-era cannonball. Because [those] can be very unstable we treated it as if it was a live ordinance,” Weller said.
He warned others that if an unusual object like this was to turn up in their own backyards to leave it alone.
“Don’t pick it up, don’t toss it around, call us and we’ll get the proper authorities there to dispose of it,” Weller added.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/us-news/possible-civil-war-cannonball-dug-up-in-virginia-yard/
live ordinance?
Explosive shells were in use during the civil war.
Though I have my doubts about the black powder charge being viable after that long in the dirt with water infiltration through the fuse hole.
I think he was mocking the spell-checking.
I graduated from New York Public School. I don’t spel too gud.
Well, there were ones that could be packed with black powder. Those were expensive and not used as often as people thought. But they are out there.
Here is a decent writeup:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/news/civil-war-2.html
OK, but adding to what UCS wrote, black powder doesn’t suddenly explode just from being knocked around.
No, but when you flick your bic to get better light to see through the small hole to see what is inside that giant black Pokeball, you just might set off the Pokemon’s explosion attack.
It absolutely can. Black powder is friction and static sensitive.
Yeah, after 150+ years in the ground, the chances of the ordnance still being live are about as close to zero as you can get. But you don’t take chances with other people’s explosives if you want to keep counting to ten on your fingers…
Hey! I know Binary, I can count up to 3FF on my fingers.
Static sensitive? The ball is covered in deep rust. Pretty much the opposite of keeping your powder dry.
SAFETY! ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION! EXPERTS! PROFESSIONALS! DON’T THINK, DON’T ACT! You are helpless. We’ve taken care of everything, the shells you find, the words you fling.
Last day of glorified daycare! If only Winston’s Mom would treat me to some whimsical delights for my efforts.
Hi Evan.
How’s that?
*Unzips*
That does nicely. My kids’ parents are my age. (Though I’ve never met nor seen one.) I would highly approve of this, proper extra-curricular curriculum. Not that *I* would be committing adultery. *They* would. This is good. The Extended School Enrichment requires the thrust of my proposals.
“Dem Tennessee county commissioner says Presidents’ Day is ‘racist,’ proposes ‘Family, Friends, and Employees Holiday’ as replacement
While presenting the bill, Brooks argued that the holiday was created to honor Founding Father George Washington, which she cannot support because President Washington was a slaveholder, saying, “If we’re going to honor his history and legacy, let’s not cherrypick and whitewash.”
“Slavery was legal in this country from its beginning as a nation, having been practiced in North America from early colonial days,” she continued.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-tennessee-county-commissioner-says-presidents-day-is-racist-proposes-family-friends-and-employees-holiday-as-replacement
Black politicians have nothing better to do?
And slavery was present here even before Europeans came.
When has Brooks (not that Brooks) ever honored the history and legacy of Geo. Washington?
Cherry-pick? 🪓 🍒 🌳
The dance team wasn’t from Seattle, they were from the exurbs. The competition was held in Seattle.
Given that high school kids aren’t allowed* to wear patriotic gear on 9/11 in suburban high schools, this should shock nobody.
*Principal did end up quitting after parental backlash on that one.
President Checkbook-and-Pen to the rescue
The Biden administration on Thursday awarded $830 million in grants to fund 80 projects aimed at toughening the nation’s aging infrastructure against the harmful impacts of climate change.
The money is expected to improve bridges, roads, ports, rail, transit and other infrastructure across 37 states, Washington, D.C. and the Virgin Islands, particularly those battered by increasingly frequent extreme weather events brought on by the planet’s warming.
The funds come from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021 and add to other funding already flowing to states for similar projects, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
It’s the latest of many federal efforts to address the negative effects of human-caused climate change. President Joe Biden has earmarked more than $50 billion toward climate-related projects through the infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act. He has emphasized the importance of climate resilience and adaptation as he seeks a second term.
All aboard the gravy train. Woo woo!
Anyone good at writing proposals? I need to come up with some bullshit about how our gym fights climate change so I can get in on the grift. If we succeed it could make you a millionaire.
“We have seen far too many examples of transportation infrastructure being shut down or damaged by extreme weather, which is more extreme and more frequent in this time of climate change,” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said in a call with reporters ahead of the announcement. “America’s infrastructure was not built for the climate that we have today, and the consequences of this are very real and being felt by people in every part of the country.”
Much of what was built in the past could not be built today because of the political climate. Rods and bridges are racist.
Extreme weather like boats running amok in Baltimore.
Your fingers. They are nimble.
Modern day version of the Salem Witch Hysteria
The Vermont Legislature is advancing legislation requiring big fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather.
The state Senate is expected to give final approval this week to the proposal, which would create a program that fossil fuel companies would pay into for climate change adaption projects in Vermont. It will then be considered in the House.
“In order to remedy the problems created by washed out roads, downed electrical wires, damaged crops and repeated flooding, the largest fossil fuel entities that have contributed to climate change should also contribute to fixing the problem that they caused,” Sen. Nader Hashim, a Democrat from Windham County, said to Senate colleagues on Friday.
Maryland, Massachusetts and New York are considering similar measures, but Vermont’s bill is moving quicker through the Legislature.
Cavorting with Beelzebub by the light of the full moon, they were.
No.
“A recent Gallup poll reveals that a mere 4% of Hispanic and Latino Americans use the fake term “Latinx.” Interestingly, a significant portion, 15%, prefer to be identified as “Latino” or “Latina,” while 23% favor the term “Hispanic.” Another separate survey conducted by Bendixen & Amandi International, a Democratic firm, found that only 2% of respondents like the term, and 40% find it offensive.
That has never stopped woke liberals from using the fake term to virtue signal their gender inclusivity. Latinx may get a lot of hype from woke white liberals, but it’s not mainstream. So, naturally, a brand new term has dropped: “Latine.”
“Latine is the new Latinx,” declared Axios. I guess that means no one is actually going to use this new term either.
“‘Latine,’ a gender-neutral way to describe or refer to people with Latino origins, is surging in popularity on university campuses, in museums, and among researchers and media,” the outlet insists….
“Using Latine (sounds like “la-TEEN-eh”) in the U.S. “makes sense as an internationally used way of speaking and writing in a less gendered manner,” says Monica Trasandes, director for Spanish language media and representation at GLAAD””
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/04/11/move-over-latinx-theres-a-new-fake-word-no-one-is-going-to-use-n4928113
OFFS!!!
I’m surprised it’s as high as 4%.
Probably young wokesters.
Sure. Go around and refer to Jefe as Latine (-a). See how that guess over. 🙄
“That has never stopped woke liberals from using the fake term to virtue signal their gender inclusivity. ”
That’s their entire mindset. They’re the smartest people in the room and everything they do is for your own good, you’re just too stupid to realize it.
Calling Hispanic people a name that could sound like “latrine” if you ain’t careful — what could go wrong?
I’ve been thinking about attaching a gopro (which I already own) to the dash on my car to get a time lapse of some of my road trips, especially the drive through the Rockys. When driving, I have to keep my attention on the road and cars, so I don’t get to enjoy the scenery unless I find a place to stop.
If I do, would anyone be interested in seeing the videos, and what is a good hosting site?
Only if you do a voice over in your very droll way reading encyclopedia entries about the things you’re showing us. If you don’t want to use youtube to host, there was a ‘libertarian’ variant I used to upload Hat and Hair to in the beginning, but it was too much hassle to upload the videos twice. But I forgot what the site was. There is Rumble, I’ve never used it.
I dislike hearing my recorded voice. I sound nasally and stuffed up to my ear.
I dislike hearing my voice as well, doesn’t stop me from inflicting it on others.
I might drive to New Hampshire this weekend as a proof of Concept, to see if the videos are any good.
I mean, I made that drive plenty of times, but it’s the same scenery versus watching the road issue in Vermont.
That sounds like it would be fun to watch. Wouldn’t hurt to do some test runs. I have an acquaintance I met though my previous job who’s really into videography with drones and stuff. He’s known for exploring abandoned buildings. But during the eclipse, he set up a time lapse video of the sun over his house. That sliver of sun rotated as it moved (you wouldn’t pick that up just looking at it). That was the best eclipse photography of the day.
A day trip to Keene might do my mind some good anyway. It’s only four hours in total (there and back).
Our beloved P Brooks gets his own cable news show, artist’s depiction;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJdsX181QU
Gay men cannot keep a secret. They seem ridiculously easy to honeypot.
Who did O’Keefe get this time?
The video on the CIA contractor talking about Alex Jones. Clearly another set-up using a gay dating app.
It’s apparently not an O’Keefe operation, but they basically did the same thing he seems to do.
It’s almost always gay men.
In the days of yore, homosexuality was a common disqualifier for work in the so-called intelligence community, as it was seen as a major risk factor for blackmail.
James Shoemaker was the first openly gay NSA employee.
link
Wasn’t there a CIA employee who put out a video claiming cross dressing made him a better agent? How times have changed.
They don’t have to worry about being blackmailed anymore. Or probably even repercussions with sharing secret information with the little twink they just met on Tinder.
Gaze upon the derp, and weep:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/transgender-cia/520050/
Ah, his fantasies about how transgender Jew is the worst nightmare of ISIS…
The Atlantic wants me to pay for a subscription to read the rest of that article.
And I’d like the Atlantic to pay me reparations for making the world a dumber place, but I guess no money is gonna change hands either way.
Under the legislation, the Vermont state treasurer, in consultation with the Agency of Natural Resources, would provide a report by Jan. 15, 2026, on the total cost to Vermonters and the state from the emission of greenhouse gases from Jan. 1, 1995, to Dec. 31, 2024.
The assessment would look at the affects on public health, natural resources, agriculture, economic development, housing and other areas.
Don’t forget the cost of repairing the asses those numbers will be pulled out of.
Theoretically maybe slightly warming up a really cold state is characterized as a “cost” — really?
He has Firsted.