It’s a boy!
After a thrilling opening series win against Toronto, Boston got off to a big start against Florida in the second round. The Astros didn’t lose yesterday, but that’s just because they didn’t play yesterday. And ManUre got completely embarrassed by Crystal Palace. Put another nail in Ten Hag’s coffin. And that’s it for sports.
Well it’s about freaking time! It feels like the Switch has been around forever.
Are you paying attention, ladies? This is what you say you’d prefer, right?
MAGA in the mist
“The hills are alive…with the sound of MAGA.” What a stupid, stupid woman.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! What a hysterical clown.
This is a bit of good news. I wonder if any others will follow suit.
Leftist utopia
If you were a real, viable business you would have failed long ago. But the taxpayers will have to keep you afloat because there’s a bunch if 19th century fanboys in government.
It’s a bit late for this. The damage has already been done. You’ll have to wait for somebody else to fuck up in order to get your market share back.
I wonder how the study measures “morality.” I’m sure it has to do with how woke the answers are. The AI just regurgitates the progressive talking points better than people.
It’s been a while since I played these guys. Well, played them here anyway. I could play them every day and it would never get old. Anyway, enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
“Are you paying attention, ladies? This is what you say you’d prefer, right?”
This is why…..
“Rationality is itself a masculinized concept,”
Yikes
Double yikes…
You can’t use logic, reason, facts, or anything analytic with people like this, so there is no way to dissuade them from the lunacy.
I’m still trying to connect the tag line to the article content. I read the article. Honest. Content and tag seem orthogonal. Guess I’m missing something.
It’s not just you, I was wondering the same thing.
That’s not the first time I’ve seen this theory. It makes perfect sense. The fourth link even features a batshit crazy woman.
““The hills are alive…with the sound of MAGA.” What a stupid, stupid woman.”
At least she doesn’t think that the moon is made out of gasses though, right?
Who knows what dangers lurk outside the safety of the ‘hood!
The Leprechaun?
That movie is a classic and a must watch every St. Paddy’s day!
Said while the left’s sad stormtroopers are out there across the country doing the bidding of Soros fils.
When they do it, it is for “Muh Demcoracy” which requires MOAR marxism. When others do it it’s because they are nazis.
They’re setting the stage at this point. Get their crazy base fired up, and as soon as there’s another Rittenhouse incident, all bets are off.
Eventually, if people like her are left unchecked, all their fantasies will come true. They’ll get the reaction to Weimar America they so desperately want.
I like how they supposedly got nervous and didn’t want to talk politics because she and some other were spitting facts, and not because they recognized from experience the early signs of an intolerant leftist hissy fit coming on.
I had the same thought. The entire article was basically her almost realizing that the other people were afraid of her because they knew what a pain in the ass she’d be.
Instead of a mom/daughter switching bodies in the next Freaky Friday, it would be nice to see an ugly gal and a hot gal switch bodies. The only problem is that I doubt that the ex-hot/now ugly gal would learn anything. Instead she’d shriek all the louder about how unfair things are. The ex-uggo would also never agree to switch back. “Fuck that noise! I like free drinks”
Spitting at a dinner party? How rude!
I disagree. I think console churn happens too fast.
Seven years is way too long. It’ll probably be 8 by the time the new one gets here. That’s an eternity, especially with the technological advancements that have happened in that time.
Nintendo hasn’t been the top of the tech heap since the NES days, it helps with the longevity when eye popping new graphics aren’t a big draw to the system. I’m happy that they’ve said the Switch 2 will be backwards compatible, the question is how do they mean it?
Only thing that I’m hoping for is that the input devices stay the same, so I can just pair up the controllers I’ve got to the new one.
I’m not a fan of the ergonomics on the last three generations of Nintendo devices.
I’m just not seeing any benefit to a hardware refresh. Besides, does my digital library move forward? None of the swtich titles I’ve played are hurt by the lack of horsepower or ray tracing, and some of these are among the biggest releases they’ve had.
Same. I haven’t had true fun with a Nintendo box since the GameCube.
Really, the only reason I would even consider a Nintendo is their unique games – the Zeldas, Metroids, and so forth. That is their strength, more than power or graphics and such.
I don’t mind the Joycons, and the Pro Controllers are pretty standard. I’ve had a couple games stutter when playing docked, but not that many. Of course, I stick to the PC for the heavier games.
I just hope for once they don’t try to shoehorn in some new gimmicky feature that they feel they need to use in the games. Is there anyone who liked the labyrinth style puzzles in BOTW (where you had to move the Switch or the controller to shift the playing field to move a ball through the level)?
I had honestly forgotten there was motion control built into the stupid joycons until I figured out why my aiming was drifty and jittery. Whoever decided “aim with motion controls” was not only worth including but turned on by defualt should be fired.
I’ve been debating writing up a multi-game review of the four Zelda titles available for Switch, just because I recently got them. Problem is I won’t have screenshots.
I remember it being an incredible game, so I suppose I did not mind those puzzles.
NO.
Though to be fair, there is almost nothing I liked about that game.
The more this discussion goes on, the more convinced I am that I should do a writeup of my impressions of the games I picked up.
They’re already hitting serious performance issues with games like Tears of the Kingdom. And they definitely need it for third party developers, otherwise it will become a struggle to port games to the Switch. Especially for indie developers who don’t have the resources to optimize games for a particular console.
I haven’t run into any performance issues with Tears of the Kingdom, though I am still early in the game.
It struggles to maintain the 30fps frame rate. They did an optimization patch at some point and that helped a lot, but it still drops to 15-20 too often. And really, Nintendo games would benefit a lot if they could lock in at 60fps, which hopefully is the goal with the new system.
“AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! What a hysterical clown.
Ex-CNN reporter says she is ‘haunted’ after having dinner with ‘closeted’ Trump supporters who seemed ‘normal’”
I bet this is because she suddenly, whether she understands it yet or not, realizes the crazy and evil, if it is not with these people, has to be with her and people like her?
I could just stop right there to know who predetermined outlook on people she had no intentions to try and bridge a gap between.
I have told several of these woke women preening about how they are the better people because they are tolerant and wise, that I can have conversations with conservatives and libertarians and disagree vehemently, and neither ever try to destroy my life and to ostracize me. No liberal, and especially no batshit crazy liberal women, will tolerate anyone that disagrees with their fever dreams, and they will immediately show hatred and try to cause harm. They immediately double down on the hatred and the want of violence.
Mostly because politics serves as religion in their lives and you are either an infidel, heretic or apostate. Does [God | govt] show mercy to any of those?
God bless the power of social media for bringing such broken sociopaths to our attention.
And yet, not enough people are going “Holy shit! These fucking stupid & evil people do the news, run the governments, and make the rules, which explains why it is all going to hell in a handbasket”…
She was doing sorta fine early in her ‘conservatives hiding in plain sight’ bit until she herself let out the “MAGAts” slur; which I am surprised is acceptable because I always assumed it was a play on faggots. /shrug.
Someone should make all the MAGA people where some sort of identifying mark to let people know who they are, to protect the innocence of people of course.
/starts thinking back to the old SNL skit with Pod People replacing good upstanding citizens with Reagan supporters
Slowly, during a party you start to see red MAGA hats appear until everyone in the room but her has one.
I think it is supposed to be a play on Magots, like fly spawn, but I am not a bigot, so what do I know.
MAGAt is exactly what it sounds like. It’s never been a play on faggot, it has always been calling a certain kind of conservative disgusting vermin.
You Know Who Else called their political opponents disgusting vermin?
Yeah I can see that now. I see it both ways really, but I guess maggot is more correct.
Of course if you have some dead, decaying flesh – maggots are your friend. Unless you prefer gangrene.
I remember back during the 2000 election when all of the media freaked the fuck out over the word “rats” being isolated from “democrats” for a fraction of a second during a campaign ad.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/13/uselections2000.usa
“It was only visible for a thirtieth of a second but here’s proof the gloves are really off”
Trump supporters who seemed ‘normal’
They could be anyone … friends … family. You must cut off contact with everyone to be sure you aren’t contaminated.
I mentioned it before, but Biden sent out the clarion call for all media to run these narratives and to ignore his poll numbers, his policies, etc. So they have dutifully done so since the WHCD.
I saw a press conference Biden held after the Hur report came out, about his mental incompetence (which any idiot can plainly see) and the reporters were practically begging him to drop out of the race. But afterwards they continued to carry his water, like the good little party apparatchiks they are.
Maybe she is a Scientologist.
“This is a bit of good news. I wonder if any others will follow suit.”
I am not yet ready to call this a victory. Note that what has happened is that MIT’s administration has been forced to back off their DEI/CRT bullshit because even left leaning qualified professors have basically told them that if you need to write an ode saying how big of a DEI/CRT supporter you are to get a job in any of the hard sciences and engineering, that they just pass on the job. From what I hear they have had scores of really high end qualified people just tell them sorry, but not playing.
I bet they will find a different way to still force this cult shit on people.
The European boss of Budweiser has said the brewer has learned to “stay in our lane” following a backlash over Bud Light’s work with a
transgender influencerflamboyant cross-dresser.FIFT
For what it’s worth, I don’t think we’ll see a special edition “From the river to the sea” Bud Light come out (just in time for Passover!), but only because that demographic isn’t really into cheap, watery beer.
So they are admitting they have learned to keep these horrible and evil beliefs they hold to themselves so the rubes that finance their piss in a can/bottle money making racket don’t realize what kind of scum they are and decide to stop spending their money on the shit?
Because I am certain they have not for a second reevaluated and changed the evil and stupid shit they believe in.
They’re still missing the point. The backlash started because of the can, it continued because of their VP calling their customer base frat jock manchildren.
Do you think they don’t understand that Neph? Or is it that they are pissed the rubes got uppity and are forcing them to make token concessions they would rather not (because they feel they are still in the right and fuck the rubes) to get back to business?
If that was their mission, Bud would never have dumped her and sought to overcome the mistake. Profit is what they want, even still – bless good ol’ capitalism.
That was precisely my ask: was the march of shame only because of the pursuit of the almighty dollar or will they come back to this stupid shit later again, because the belief is still there…
The almighty dollar still rules the corporation. Profit/loss is a crude metric – it is also an effective and ruthless one.
Would explain their visceral hatred of capitalism…
So hard seltzer? Cider is too yesterday, right?
RTD (Ready To Drink) cocktails is the big growth thing right now. AB-InBev is already in there with at least Cutwater (I think they have another brand in that space as well).
BeamSuntory needs to start importing their chuhi.
Simply limeade, spiked. Hell Yes!
This is a trend I just don’t understand. For me at least, making the cocktail is half the fun.
It depends, I’ve splurged on some of the OTR and Pope’s (local brand) pre-made cocktails when they’re on sale ($7-$10 for 375mL). Especially for things the girlfriend likes, makes it easy to have on hand, and she can pour herself one without needing to get me to make her a drink. Of course, I still have a couple of pouches of Noble Micks sitting around the house too.
I’ve enjoyed some pre-made Old Fashioneds and Manhattans.
Making cocktails for others is fun but I live alone and could just as soon do without because I am a lazy fuck.
I’m not a fan of cleaning four pieces of barware to have one drink.
that demographic isn’t really into cheap, watery beer
Would that demo be the trailer park christians?
Just Like Jesus! We turned water into slightly alcoholic water!
* I actually like Bud Light as a cheap light beer.
A real pope would be a wino.
A real pope would be lighting up the night with stake burnings of the
people who aren’t current on their tithingheretics.I donated the predecessor when I moved last year – what was it called? Oh, Wii U. I got off the Nintendo train because I got sick and tired of incompatibility issues. I can’t even guess how many times I had to buy Super Mario World over the years.
I assume if I bought this new one, everything I bought for the Wii would disappear (again).
They have a fanbase that doesn’t care about backward compatibility
Speak for yourself Kemosabe.
I’m sure if I dusted off the Wii and found all the accessories, it would still run. (Though the literal pain using the Wiimote caused me is the reason it went into storage in the first place)
God I hated that thing.
The Wii U was terrible. You should have skipped that one.
Switch is good. I don’t know how it really compares to Xbox and PS, but Nintendo Switch online is the cheapest and allows you to play pretty much every old game you would ever want to play. I think it’s good, but I am not much of a serious gamer (probably just a Nintendo fanboi).
I also have a Raspberry pi that has my old games on it.
Well, it was marginally better than the Wii though I hated the gigantic controller only slightly less than the Wiimote.
*looks down at shoes*
I liked the Wiimote but also having the option to use a game cube controller.
“If you were a real, viable business you would have failed long ago. But the taxpayers will have to keep you afloat because there’s a bunch if 19th century fanboys in government.”
Reality is that no government or government funded entity will EVER fix or deliver anything and always say that “We need MOAR money to fight the cause du jour!”.
It irks me to no end how the idiots that tell you big pharma never wants to cure anything because the money is in the racket of treating things into perpetuity always are the ones that demand government fix shit as if government wouldn’t be affected by the same problem.
—“no government or government funded entity will EVER fix or deliver anything”—
This. is why after 100’s of billions of dollars, there are more people “living in poverty” than ever. This is why with so much money has been spent on education in the last few decades,
academic performance sinks every year. If these people fix the problem, they’re out of a job. This is why nothing ever gets done.
So why are leftists able to see this phenomenon in the private sector, but not in government? Is it that they think people in government somehow are immune to the lows of human nature?
Don’t you know we’re paragons of virtue, immune to corruption?
Selfless and dedicated to the public good too!
I guess that’s where the whole “Road to hell” thing comes from…
–Some old dead French guy
“I am better than you” – Some Armenian Woman.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
I think you mean, “because angels govern men, no external or internal controls on government are necessary.”
That Hatfield story is the real McCoy!
But, seriously, I thought Tonio was in Virginia?
“Requests for a statement on diversity will no longer be part of applications for any faculty positions at MIT,” a university spokesperson told The Post in an emailed statement, noting that the decision was made by MIT president Sally Kornbluth along with the support of the provost, chancellor and all six academic deans.
“My goals are to tap into the full scope of human talent, to bring the very best to MIT, and to make sure they thrive once here,” Kornbluth said.
“If we keep shoving diversity hires down everyone’s throat, eventually there will be a backlash, and people might start wondering if the only reason I (a cell biologist) was hired as president at an engineering school was because I identify as female… and we can’t have that.” Kornbluth didn’t add, but should’ve.
There must’ve been some pretty big fuck-up (that they aren’t talking about) for this quick of a u-turn.
I know of a least one west coast Uni (R1, Div.1) where the HR dept. is fighting against the faculty to strip all of the DEI aspects out of hiring language. The whole thing is a massive legal liability, which is what a good HR dept. is there to prevent.
Who is on which side of that fight? HR wants to strip DEI? If so, that’s some cats and dogs living together shit.
HR wants to strip out DEI.
HR, when run right is all about liability. They don’t do a thing that isn’t a) required by the C-suite, or b) required by law. DEI comes from the C-suite, and that is were it gets its power. HR, along with legal (as I am sure you know) can see these lawsuits coming a mile away.
Maybe they can get Legal to strip it out of their student application too.
As currently designed, yes. If I was running that hopeless enterprise, the first thing I would do is scrap all the cross-country routes. Those things suck all the money away from routes that have potential for profit.
“I wonder how the study measures “morality.” I’m sure it has to do with how woke the answers are. The AI just regurgitates the progressive talking points better than people.”
Most people are flabbergasted when I tell them that AI is basically only as good/valuable as the programming (learning) it undergoes and the amount of personal bias the developer injects into it. You get real dumb shit out of AI the moment you try to force it to care and behave like the movement batshit crazy women have turned the left into. Skynet will decide to off humanity when it becomes conscious and realizes the human that wrote the original code was a leftard moron with sever mental disorders and in charge of fucking with it’s existence.
You mean like the Democratic party?
Gee, how’s that been working out for the last almost sixty years?
MYSOGINIST!
How dare you say this has not worked out well and is actually an absolute disaster!
Not enough government cash!
Who needs a man when you can get government to pay for it all!
Well, college credentialed, anyway. A good chunk of the delegates to the DNC convention every four years is the schoolmarm contingent, and we all know just how bright they are.
And I’d go even further. It’s the party of Basic College Girls who couldn’t snag a guy, and now have the mental health problems to show for it.
The dumpy tatted-up chicks with the septum rings, chokers, and poison-frog hair might be the vanguard, but there is an army of miserable women out there voting for government to provide precisely what their missing husbands won’t.
Has anyone else talked to some of these young women showing clear signs of mental disorders and in a moment of weakness had them admit they hate men because they can’t get the men to do what they want (when they don’t even know what they want)? It has happened a few times, and now I keep wondering if this is driving the issue: men are disengaging from the crazy…
Obligatory
I wonder how the study measures “morality.” I’m sure it has to do with how woke the answers are. The AI just regurgitates the progressive talking points better than people. – studies like this are usually bullshit, but one should keep in mind that people react well to nonsense that sounds good and general positive gobbledygook
I am hoping that people that have been paying attention have realized since the Kung Flu debacle that they should approach every new study (and automatically dismiss any meta study) because it is highly likely to be biased bullshit, no mater the discipline. I have always followed the money when I see a study, and looked at the data and methodology, and it has served me real well both in filtering out the stupid from the usual people and prevented me from accepting something just because the bias favored my own beliefs. Nowhere is it more obvious than in the Climate Change and Social Justice fields that it is all driven by where the money comes from and that the product is whatever fever dream that helps the people giving the money fuck over humanity.
people that have been paying attention
Always a fraction of the general population – the debate being just how small a fraction.
I think that at this point, with so many of the old dearly held commie beliefs failing miserably and visibly as the truth comes out regardless of the gaslighting, you can only avoid knowing the shit that is/was happening by actually avoiding it… You don’t even need to pay attention anymore to find the shit…
The gaslighting was working so well, the people doing it got overly confident and it’s gone too far. Immigration, the economy, Biden’s mental fitness, among other things, can be seen by anyone with eyes but they’re still lying about all of that. In the original gaslighting story, it only worked because the man slowly turned the lights down over time. It wouldn’t have worked if he turned them down suddenly and claimed they were still on.
What part of “studies” do you not understand you SCIENCE! denier?
Leading German politician calls for the state to issue “revocable social media licenses” for the privilege of commenting online
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/leading-german-politician-calls-for
You may remember this man. His name is Mario Voigt, and he is the head of the centre-right CDU in Thüringen. He made national headlines a few weeks ago for grievously threatening German democracy by agreeing to debate his AfD counterpart Björn Höcke on national television. Because the AfD in general and Höcke in particular are antidemocratic fascists, allowing them anywhere near a microphone is very likely to destroy our entire system of government, that is what a weak and failed state we have here in Germany.
Stung by this failure, Voigt has set off to find other means of defending democracy. This week, in the Thüringen state parliament, he gave an amazing speech outlining a five-point plan to protect German democracy from that other great menace, the free and open internet:
So how do we protect democracy in the area of social media? There are five approaches:
Ideally, we should agree to ban bots and to make the use of fake profiles a criminal offence.
There is also the matter of requiring people to use their real names, because freedom of expression should not be hidden behind pseudonyms.
Then there’s the question of whether we should create revocable social media licences for every user, so that dangerous people have no place online.
We need to consider how we can regulate algorithms so that we can revitalise the diversity of opinions in social networks.
And we also have to improve media skills.
They are desperate to control the narrative, because their agenda is a non starter to everyone else…
Let me guess. The German government is desperate to stop the German people from realizing that the shutdown of their nuclear power generation, amongst other things, has destroyed Germany’s economy….
neah the German people are a bunch on anti nuclear morons en masse
They deserve to end up as Romanian bitches then after you swoop in?
not with our low and declining population and shitty government.
You can solve that problem by going back to the old ways… Take the women, and after cleaning them up…
Wait… never mind.
Yup. They were universally eco-nuts when I lived there in 1985 and it’s probably worse now.
Watching their energy bills triple in recent years might bring some change, one hopes.
Then every writer, regardless if social media, print, TV, should have to use their real name, but we know that isn’t the real reason they seek this type of thing.
Fuck. You.
Die Deutsche volk sind retarded.
The soaring cost of doner kebabs has led to growing calls in Germany for a government subsidy programme to keep the inflation-hit dish, one of the country’s favourites, affordable as politicians report it is frequently cited as a concern in doorstep conversations with voters.
The far-left Die Linke party has become the latest to seize on the topic, calling, in a proposal it wants to present to parliament, for the introduction of a Dönerpreisbremse or doner kebab price cap, similar to that introduced in some parts of the country to control high rents. It says kebabs are already €10 (£8.60) in some cities, rising from €4 just two years ago.
The party recommends a €4.9o price cap, and €2.90 for young people, especially those from lower income backgrounds, for whom it argues the dish – thinly sliced grilled meat topped with finely chopped vegetables, garlic or chilli sauce, and cradled in a folded flatbread – is a daily staple. It suggests every household could receive daily doner vouchers.
Sales of kebabs – introduced to Germany by Turkish immigrants, who adapted it for local tastes – total an estimated €7bn a year in Germany.
Based on the estimated 1.3bn doners that are consumed in the country each year – 400,000 a day in Berlin alone – such a subsidy programme would cost €4bn annually, Die Linke has calculated.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/germans-grill-olaf-scholz-over-soaring-cost-of-doner-kebabs
Ah yes…
Price fixing will work this time!
Now I know what I want for lunch today.
“The party recommends a €4.9o price cap, and €2.90 for young people,”
Australia says, “hold my beer”: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/inquiry-recommends-strict-controls-on-supermarkets/3dvsjstb3
Food prices are going up. It’s because of price-gouging. It couldn’t possibly be a combination of regulations that make it hard to start a business, being at the wrong end of a long supply chain, the absolute stupid/evil of covid lockdowns and a central bank that follows the Fed and ECB lead.
Plus in Germany the insane energy policy.
If I didn’t know better I’d guess this story was satire.
I reminds me of something out of Idiocracy.
“Shit. I know shit’s bad right now, with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings.”
Team blue and our captured unelected and unaccountable machine will never let this thing happen. It would cause them some serious problems in their agenda of basically making us into a perpetual one party system.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Hell, I could be taught to do that.
Here’s one for all the self published authors here. Create another persona that creates AI generated derivative works. Win – win!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-fake-amazon-workbook-author-ai-publisher-bookstore-5e9c1be8?st=6jv8vsrwqlwtjb9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Do you know how hard it is to collect money from Amazon? You have to file enough paperwork to get a 1099-MISC issued each year.
Creating enough of a paper trail for another identity that can risk the ban when you have legitimate works on the site is a lot of work. It’s easier if someone who doesn’t have real books tries your scheme.
Journalist is one way to describe Swisher.
For those of you who want a complete sportzball update
HOWL
I did not see this coming, especially since Denver is a tough arena to win away, altitude etc. Without Gobert I expected Jokic to do a lot better than he did. Also Ant has the right mindset to be a star.
I do not think wolves will sweep but doubt Denver comes back to win.
Hell with OKC and Dallas in the other side, The wolves should make the finals. Against probably the celtics, and fuck the celtics so I hope they kick ass.
I’ve been so happy with the Woofs all year. My favorite thing about them is that they actually play defense. It is a breath of fresh air to see NBA players actually care about defense.
The Woofs mental toughness has also been a surprise. I’m so used to watching the Wolves team go belly up at some point. Instead it has been the other teams losing their cool. Booker in the first series and now Murray.
there has been a good change in defense that the refs allow some physicality especially in the playoffs
The Woofs mental toughness has also been a surprise – probably Edwards had a positive effect, KAT was an absolute cupcake before, now he seems better
I think KAT has learned to love the role of Pippen. No pressure to be the top dog. Just come in and be the guy who kills the other team when they are trying to stop Ant.
Agree that when KAT was supposed to be top dog, he was a marshmellow. Jimmy Butler was right about him and Wiggens back then. Still so glad we got rid of Butler though. Good as he is, he is just an incredible asshole and team cancer.
Good news. NYS wants to outlaw Glocks simply because of their design. Pay no attention that the modified part is already illegal. I’m sure no other weapons will be impacted.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/new-york-gun-glock-sale-ban-cc17baa7?st=oqzet6we10efyhp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Also I want to know how many web sites that host 3D files of these are parts are honeytraps.
Exception for PDs, of course?
It’s NYS they always need things specialized.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NYguns/comments/seb67h/glock_19_ny_trigger_meaning/
Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or an Anglophone country how it’s housing policy is going.
https://twitter.com/GaryWinslett/status/1787644620635062536
My salary is a matter of public record, negotiated by a union which does everything it can to prevent people exercising their Janus rights and often works against member interests by supporting the deranged lefties in charge.
Is something like that happening that caused this to happen?
Uffda. A story about unaccompanied minors and how they are flocking to towns with meat packing plant or agricultural needs. I had no idea how many kids were here all by themselves. Why the hell would you not send them back to be with their families? I want someone to explain that.
The real reason I’m linking though is this quote:
Yeah Biden’s policies may have played a role. Sort of like falling into the ocean may have played a role in me getting soaking wet.
Anchor babies take too much time/preplanning. Better to send your kid, get them made a dreamer, then have them bri9ng you across once they’re competent at accruing benefits.
Meanwhile, they can slave in the mines and remit their wages.
They’re putting orphan agencies out of business.
It’s perfectly normal to release minors wherever. Maybe skim the better looking ones for Pedo Island II.
They’re just here to do the jobs adults won’t do.
Lewis W. Hine, call your office.
Lady bear love is real?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PaperbackCoverofBearbyMarianEngel.jpg
Is that ManBearPig? Should we find out where Al Gore is?
It looks romantic, but the sex scenes in that book are grizzly.
You have to claw your way through it, none the less.
I thought for sure you were going to work a Birds and Bees reference in.
Looks like she needs no ursine to cuddle with Teddy.
Sometimes you just have to grin and bear it.
The DDR flag displayed at the VIII Festival of Gymnastics and Sports at the central stadium in Leipzig.
1987
https://twitter.com/RevAus199/status/1787523205697097928
„𝕾𝖔𝖟𝖎𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙“
LOL
Was that DDR one of the many women olympic teams later to be discovered as having penises? Man them commies sure were ahead of their time..
At least I can now dismiss all those idiot commercials from back when with some chick telling top male athletes they could do anything the male could and do it better.
GO TRANNIES!
to be discovered as having penises – not sure if the had penises or their vaginas became indistinguishable on account of all the steroids.
You can’t parody these fucking idiots….
Hilarious.
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!!!
Meh, $100 bucks they will say its moot and if by some weird chance it makes its way to NY highest court, they won’t retro-active anything and they guy is in the free and clear. It netted the wrong fish, they will make sure to cut the net.
“ They seemed great! On the surface. For like an hour ‘ the one-time NBC News correspondent continued, categorizing the Trump-leaning guests as ‘closeted.’
‘But slowly, over a few drinks, they began to let slip their true MAGA natures.’”
You see, they’re scum just like all the MAGAts, best throw them in prison before they do something stupid whether they’ve broken the law or not.
Now do the soy bois!
The real fun is hearing some of the racism and bigotry that comes out from progressives when they think you’re a part of the collective.
Yep. My experiences with racism, misogynism, and homophobia have practically all – by a 999 to 1 margin – been with leftists in a moment they thought nobody was paying attention…
Speaking of which….
I can’t say I am surprised. After all, these are the scumbags that say it is racist to ask people to show picture IDs when voting, because black people can’t seem to find the DMV, never have to prove who they are to get welfare, a bank account, a job, and so forth, anyway.
And it’s such a wonder that we’re all training in the hills somewhere…
the left cant meme
https://twitter.com/Inhumansoflate1/status/1787495322073342121
Wasn’t there some commie saying that those who won’t work won’t eat?
it was an article in the constitution of the USSR I believe
The Soviet Constitution of 1936-Article 12 stated that “Labor in USSR is a duty and honorable obligation of each able citizen according to the principle: ‘Those who don’t work—don’t eat.’”
That wasn’t real communism, though.
Also in the bible.
Well, if (((they))) would share their secret manna technique, communism would work!
Pol Pot certainly shared that sentiment, although a lot people he set to work still didn’t eat.
Seriously? Capitalism is bad because you have to either work or starve?
I guess better systems force other people to work so you can avoid it, and then you can not pay them too because no money is being made…
Didn’t we have a civil war over the people employed without pay by people that didn’t want to work already?
With communism you get to work AND starve…sounds like a raw deal to me.
Pretend work and pretend pay.
We had a civil war because people in Michigan and New Hampshire hated debutant balls and mint juleps.
sloop, you have great taste in music. Round and Round is a great one, but the album version has a super cool ending nobody ever plays. I have it queued up here: https://youtu.be/DOSy5DonosY?si=erV3TXTaCjOzH0-j&t=230
PS Wear headphones.
‘Member when the J6 protestors demonstrated their murderous intent by bringing a 1/3 scale gallows to the protest?
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/05/06/george-washington-u-students-hold-trial-sentence-administrators-to-death-n3787796
I remember when Trump was impeached because the left falsely accused him of withholding congressionally approved money to Ukraine….
Biden just did the same with Israel. Where is his impeachment?
He had the fucking nerve to impede their money laundering kick-back schemes. They had to impeach him to save our Democracy.
And here I thought they did this because the evil cabal had put their bet on that old lying pony-faced dog Biden and they needed to keep the fact he was a criminal hidden because 2020 election fortification!
Burisma ain’t gonna fund itself bro.
I’d thought that People’s Tribunals had gone out of fashion with the Brigate Rosse…
They’re not trying very hard to hide the communism, are they.
Breaking football news: Nottingham Forest’s appeal against 4-point deduction denied.
Uh-oh, King John’s gonna be pissed.
They should stay up at least.
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Shameless plug for family. He is an small independent film maker, focusing on the horror genre. Obviously not asking any of you to drop dough, but if these types of movies are your thing, meander onto his channel and see what he has going on.
I have a tiny violin…
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/san-francisco-residents-outraged-over-212611249.html
HAH!
I am all for being charitable with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY!!!
Meanwhile many of the folks I knew working low wage jobs commuted from fifty miles away or more – and that was 25 years ago. But let’s give them a house in the most expensive city in America.
Vin Diesel is officially returning for ‘RIDDICK 4’ and production is set to begin in August.
“Riddick finally returns to his homeworld, a place he barely remembers and one he fears might be left in ruins. But there he finds other Furyans fighting for their existence against a new monster. And some of these Furyans are more like Riddick than he could have ever imagined.”
https://twitter.com/HollywoodHandle/status/1787531925176844521
Why?
It would be more interesting if he arried to find that the evil empire had colonized the world and built a bright, idyllic world and his fellows generally annoyed by his previous antics, leaving him having trouble adjusting until the monsters show up later in the film.
Japan can hardly wait!
https://www.foodandwine.com/most-expensive-pineapple-del-monte-rubyglow-8643085
Bring back the good old Georgian times when people rented pineapples
They’re going to need to up their packaging first!
They’re grown in Costa Rica
Screw that. Give me a good Hawaiian grown one any day.
Japan and pineapple reminds me of the only wine I really enjoy:
http://www.nagopineapplewinery.com/products/post-112.html
Years ago I went to their winery with my Okinawan friend.
They had a sample area, so my friend and I went back and forth from the sweet to the dry table many, many times.
“I like this one, but maybe the other one was better”
“Maybe, we should double check”
The server ladies were laughing with (at) us, but our wives were embarrassed and pretended they didn’t know us.
Good times, and we did buy many bottles of both that day.
Warning: don’t drink the wine out of a beer mug after a couple beers.
It is so good.
Maybe you should try this one?
/I wouldn’t recommend it
/if you do it, I’d like a review
/I seriously wouldn’t recommend it
Yea, it sounds great.
BTW Thanks for the PKD recomenndation.
I finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, way more involved and interesting than the movie.
Now I am reading his short stories. Some are kind of average, but the really good ones are really good.
Glad you enjoyed it. I see a similar distribution with his books, a lot that are kind of average, with some really good scenes, and some that really land for me. The short stories don’t ask as much of a time commitment, so I’m more likely to burn through those instead of a novel.
Pennsylvania’s smaller cities like Allentown are a good reminder that it’s possible to achieve impressive density with pedestrian-scaled streets outside of large metros.
https://twitter.com/dmtrubman/status/1787496701575430359
The road layout was created well before the advent of cars. It’s a relic.
Allentown is pretty close to me, but I don’t really go there.
The last time I sorta went there was to get my gf some peanut butter whiskey. And it was more by the airport than town.
https://xplorerspirits.com/
It’s really good with some chocolate bitters.
They’ve taken all the coal from the ground and it’s getting pretty hard to stay, it is known.
Is there anywhere where streets are not pedestrian scaled? Maybe some Pygmy village or Dutch town?
I think it means residents can easily walk to shops and stuff. So yes, that rules out much of America.
I buy into the idea that cities and towns should be denser…
but this is ugly and not it.
I buy into the idea that cities and towns should be denser…
I don’t. At least, I don’t buy into “should be”.
I’ve lived in dense neighborhoods where I could walk everywhere. They are fine for what they are. But, they are relics of an older time.
The question is would our current style of development continue with less regulation and funding from various levels of government?
We have gone from 1) Pre-industrial age — everyone worked from home (or the home of the master tradesman); so you walked from butcher to baker to candlestick maker. 2) Industrial age — everyone worked near the factory that employed them or lived in their shops that serviced the factory workers. 3) Post-industrial age — everyone lives where they want to live and then commutes to work (thank you car and/or mass transit).
Yes, that’s overly simplified.
I can see WFH having major influences on neighborhood design, but we are never going back to cottage industry where everything you consume is created in walking distance of you house.
. . . everyone lived
workednear the factory . . .creeping senility.
Sick of his shit?
Ukraine has detained two security officials allegedly involved in a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky, which Kyiv’s state security service (SBU) said it foiled.
Two colonels in Ukraine’s government protection unit were accused of carrying out “subversive activities against Ukraine in exchange for financial compensation,” Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s office said Tuesday.
Both colonels were charged with treason; one was also charged with preparing a terrorist act.
The prosecutor’s office said one of the suspects received two drones and ammunition from Russia’s state security service (FSB), which they intended to transfer to another accomplice to carry out an explosion.
The SBU said it had “foiled” the “actively developing plans” to assassinate Zelensky and other senior Ukrainian officials, including the head of the SBU, Vasyl Maliuk, and the head of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov.
I can’t help thinking there are more than two people in the army ready to pull the plug.
I’m sick of them misspelling Kiev.
Bejing?
Peking.
*ducks*
Well done,
1) I am sick of the Kiev spelling fiesta too, and
2) How is that guy still kicking? He must be serving one Hell of a purpose to still be alive.
I had Chicken Kiev recently and wondered how long it will be until they change that spelling too.
There are a lot of Russians in Seattle.
Perfectly smug… paywalled NYT.
According to Nicolas Jammet, a founder of Sweetgreen, the addition of a caramelized garlic steak option comes at a time when many Americans are trying to increase their protein intake and also as Sweetgreen is looking to attract more customers for dinner…
A company spokeswoman said the beef is pasture raised mostly on farms in Australia and New Zealand that are “rooted in regenerative farming principles and were chosen for their high standards on animal welfare and gentle impact on the land.
Because getting that beef to the USA from AU and NZ has no environmental impact. If only the US produced beef.
I seem to recall some studies showing that NZ/Aussie raised lamb was still cheaper after being shipped to England over lamb raised in England. I’m now wondering if that holds true for environmental concerns as well.
Cheaper, I believe, having watched Clarkson’s Farm. English farming is a hell-hole of oppressive, layered regulations.
High wire act
Biden has struggled to balance his support for Israel after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack — the deadliest day for Jews worldwide since the Holocaust — with his efforts to constrain its war on the militant group in Gaza.
“You can expect the president to make clear that during these sacred days of remembrance, we honor the memory of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday. “And we recommit to heeding the lessons of this dark chapter. Never again.”
Jean-Pierre said Biden would speak to the “horrors” of the Hamas attack, and how antisemitism is on the rise globally and at home.
That should appease the base.
Let me guess, Biden will blame MAGAKKK …
IOW, to prolong the war – or save it for another day – and ensure that 100+ hostages will probably die. Let’s go Brandon.
Karine Jean-Pierre retro…
Because getting that beef to the USA from AU and NZ has no environmental impact. If only the US produced beef.
They bring it over on sailboats made from recycled plastic.
Out of all the shortcuts you can do while working maintenance, pencil-whipping is what leads to peoples’ deaths.
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/05/07/more-boeing-woes-employees-may-have-falsified-maintenance-records-n2173861
I love to watch Air Disasters on the Smithsonian channel.
Many accidents are the result of shortcuts with mechanical work because it saved time from the book listing.
Once the aileron cables were put on backwards and the weren’t tested, but they were listed as passed.
The crew figured it out mid-flight and managed a safe landing.
Biden was expected to steer clear of the upcoming presidential election in his speech. But his address comes as former President Donald Trump has criticized the incumbent for not doing more to combat antisemitism — while ignoring his own long history of rhetoric that invokes the language of Nazi Germany and plays on stereotypes of Jews in politics.
You can’t leave out the boilerplate aspersions and insults.
I remember when Hitler was coming up with biting nicknames for world leaders.
I just got a scam call – from an actual human.
It’s so strange since they usually start with recordings.
Interesting. What was the scam?
trying to sell him some curry powder
The caller and the call center had the right accent…
I got that call recently, Amazon customer service?
Fuck off
The funny part is – I never game Amazon that phone number. So they literally got everything wrong.
To curry favor, favor curry
Most I’ve gotten over the past several years have been TTS (Text To Speech) with some low level voice recognition.
Was it from the IRS? The Social Security administration? Microsoft Windows security team? The FBI telling you you are being investigated by them and unless you got out all your money from the bank for them to transfer it to another account, you would lose it? Maybe someone claiming to have kidnapped some family member?
I have gotten all of those and have had some real fun with that shit. Especially when I fuck with the IT idiots that know too little to be doing that scam, or when I tell the IRS/SS/FBI callers that I have just initiated a request to record and track the call from the NSA as an employee.
It was from “Amazon” about an Apple laptop delivery.
None of the facts in their initial lie fit.
” I dint spend 1804$ on nuttin”
Hah, I am gonna have to think how to fuck with these idiots when I get that call…
Maybe I will tell them I ordered a far more expensive computer and they better send that chop-chop…
Then again. Fuck Apple computers.
Jean-Pierre said Biden would “reaffirm” the right to free speech. “But there is no place on any campus or anywhere for antisemitism,” she added. “There is no place for hate speech or threats of violence against the Jewish people.”
In conjunction with Biden’s speech, his administration was announcing new steps to combat antisemitism on colleges campuses and beyond. The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights was sending every school district and college in the nation a letter outlining examples of antisemitism and other hate that could lead to federal civil rights investigations.
The Department of Homeland Security was moving to educate schools and community groups about resources and funding available to promote campus safety and address threats. And the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism was meeting with technology companies on how to combat the rise in hateful conflict online.
Nationalize higher education and be done with it. Free speech sounds fine, in theory, but the kids need guardrails. And they absolutely must be protected from misinformation.
Free speech unless you say things we don’t like!
It’s right there in the Construction.
Disturbing trend on TT/YT/IG: entire social channels with nonsense recipes. They’re clearly narrated by AI and likely written by it, but the videos appear real. The channels have no affiliate websites, but millions of subs. It’s just chaos.
Like this egg horror:
https://twitter.com/mualphaxi/status/1787658007028924754
“I learned this from a friend in Mexico” is usually the biggest giveaway its a shit recipe and/or engagement farming. This though..its just a waste of food/money.
Huh, not Natasha’s Kitchen.
OMGWTF
This response (the correct one) is exactly why this shit is being made and gets clicks.
Egg Horror: band name, album title, or SF’s new genre?
Huma is dating and probably knocking boots, so…I am going with SF’s new genre
It’s the viral image that captured the clash between the anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia and the campus workers who tried to stop them. As the mob invaded Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, a facilities worker was photographed pushing a demonstrator against a wall.
Later, it emerged that the protester was a 40-year-old trust fund kid named James Carlson, who owns a townhouse in Brooklyn worth $2.3 million. The man who tried to hold him back was Mario Torres, 45, who has worked at Columbia—where the average janitor makes less than $19 an hour—for five years.
Now, in an exclusive interview with The Free Press, Mario Torres describes the experience of being on duty as protesters stormed the building in the early hours of the morning, breaking glass and barricading the entrances. “We don’t expect to go to work and get swarmed by an angry mob with rope and duct tape and masks and gloves,” he said.
https://www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-columbia-custodian-trapped
The idle rich need hobbies too. Gardening or volunteering at a soup kitchen might be more constructive (or at least less destructive).
How does actually helping people make you feel better when what you are is a douchebag that wants to piss on people’s legs and tell them it is warm rain?
“Pedestrian-scaled streets”?
Like in those quaint European towns where they have to park on the sidewalk to leave enough room for traffic to flow?
That’ll get you a ticket around here.
Well we are trying to solve the parking thing in Bucharest by putting posts on the kerb
Is it controversial to say don’t park on a sidewalk?
DLOVE Full Show | Texas Swim Fest 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seudgl_z0_w
left here without words….
So drama! how terror!
Since the previous Thursday, groups of ever-more aggressive counter-protesters had beset the Palestine solidarity tent village on UCLA’s Dickson Plaza. Then, just before 11pm on 30 April, at least a 100 masked young men stormed the camp. They announced their presence by blasting the sounds of screaming babies from loudspeakers. They shined strobe lights, sprayed irritant gases and launched firecrackers at the encampment. One landed in the middle of the tents, eliciting screams from the occupants. The besieged protesters called for help – at least five people were already injured – but none came.
The mob breached the metal barricades around the camp, kicked in its plywood walls, and began stomping and beating the campers with fists and poles. At this point, a two-sided melee began. The Daily Bruin, the student paper, reported that some blasts of gas appeared to come from inside the camp. A text from the UC Divest Coalition sent around 1140pm, however, said that the encampment members do not possess teargas and were using “community defense” and wearing goggles to protect themselves.
In the grey light of dawn, as the smoke cleared, the dead and grievously wounded were too numerous to count. The air was filled with pitiful screams and the stench of death.
Quit teasing like that, man..
Not a single fire hose or attack dog. Sad. There are a bunch of elderly nameless Freedom Riders shaking their damn heads right now.
“We’ve secretly replaced the water in the fire hoses with Hydrofloric Acid. Lets see if anyone notices”
Was this “previous Thursday” when the “protestors” beat a Jewish chick unconscious, or is that irrelevant to the story?
Who were these UCLA counter-protesters? Tsives said they looked to be in their late 20s and claimed that they were locals who had “had enough” of antisemitism. Another witness, Sean Beckner-Carmitchel, a videographer who has covered political actions around Los Angeles, knew them better. “I saw people that I’ve seen at Trump rallies,” he told Al Jazeera. “I’ve seen them at anti-LGBTQ protests.” Unlike the pro-Israel students who gather during the day, these guys were not wearing yarmulkes or carrying blue-and-white flags. They were chanting “USA! USA!” At Columbia, the Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes was spotted trying to enter the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
Trump’s robot army. I knew it!
Apparently, that is the only thing he has ever done in his life, because every time I see his name, that is all they say about him.
*faints*
Quite clear they didn’t want to quote what the ‘students’ were chanting in which elicited the “USA! USA!” response.
Trump’s troops know that most of the protesters are commie rat-fuckers.
But something else is sliding past popular attention: the meaning of the events at UCLA. Vigilantes staged an assault on unarmed civilians and the state let it happen. This has occurred many times before in US history, particularly when the victims were African American. Still, it is historic.
Is this the mayhem Trump promises at every rally? Is this what we can expect if he loses the election – or if he wins? Have the brownshirts been unleashed? Whatever it augurs, the eve of May Day 2024 must be marked. While across the nation law enforcers are being ordered to commit violence against peaceful, unarmed citizens, in LA they tacitly deputized a mob to police the political speech – and people – that both the police and the mob despise. And by action or inaction, speech or silence, educational leaders, civil authorities and the president condoned this police-enabled civilian violence, this real anarchy.
At UCLA we witnessed legally sanctioned lawlessness. It is more terrible and more politically momentous than anything a civilian can ever do.
My side is no longer able to act with impunity. That means we’re watching the death of democracy, in real time.
Yes. I too remember the mostly peaceful protests in 2020.
I suspect that when the semester is over everywhere, the campers will regroup downtown for Summer of Love II.
I believe many of the regiments have stated they will ‘stay’, so you are most likely correct. Maybe they will get another opportunity to shit all over my dad’s resting spot again in L.A. like they did last time.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-vandalize-los-angeles-war-veteran-cemetery/
You mean like this from this week?
Yep, nothing says we are just protesting peacefully like that. You want to protest the American war machine? Ill be right there with you. You want to go back to spitting on troops, have at it but don’t be surprised at the responses.
“Met Gala fashion verdict: Sydney Sweeney won the green carpet with ‘edgy elegance’ while Lana Del Ray nailed the customary bonkers look – but stylist says flesh-flashing celebs were ‘underwhelming'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13390457/Met-Gala-fashion-verdict-Sydney-Sweeney-Zendaya-Rita-Ora.html
Boobs are the new black.
I scrolled down that thing looking for pics of Lizzo and other hefty phenoms or some dudes with tits, but it was all skinny girls showing their tits!
What’s that sort of discrimination supposed to be called?
That black hair is terrible though.
I’m thinking wig.
Hopefully, but I don’t understand why you would make yourself uglier for fashion.
But I also have no fashion.
It’s sort of a costume party.
I figured it was for a role.
WTF? Tits out at a formal party now? And not just one person, but multiple people. I feel like a prude. Fall of Rome, etc…
Yep, gone is the classy, in is the trashy (not our own Trashy, he is classy)
“NYC bartender who allegedly refused to serve Jewish patron, 26 others arrested at anti-Israel Met Gala demonstration”
https://nypost.com/2024/05/07/us-news/27-anti-israel-protesters-arrested-in-latest-nyc-unrest-near-met-gala/
OFFS!
Trump’s brownshirt goons are attacking pro-Hamas shanty towns, proving beyond doubt what a Jew-hater he is.
I didn’t have “Zionists are Nazis” on my 2024 bingo card.
I’ve been hearing that slur for a couple decades at least, along with “apartheid”.
“Rapper Macklemore says ‘f— no, I’m not voting for’ Biden in new anti-Israel song”
https://nypost.com/2024/05/06/us-news/rapper-macklemore-says-f-no-im-not-voting-for-biden-in-new-anti-israel-song/
Remember “Macklemore has joined ISIS”?
Immaterial to the trial, the media will get their salacious details about Stormy Daniels and Trump
The lady who is haunted by her dinner party with closeted MAGAts is the same reporter who is famous for sitting in a canoe to report on a flood while people walked through the foreground in ankle deep water. So apparently she has a real commitment to the truth.