This editing format is new to me, so if I screw it up, I apologize.
Anyway, the NHL Conference Finals are set after Edmonton completely dominated most of the game last night and then let it get interesting and barely hanging on. They’ll play Dallas in what should be a hell of an entertaining series. And Scottie Scheffler’s arraignment in Louisville has been postponed. I can’t believe they haven’t dropped the charges yet. Although I would imagine they’re trying to get him to sign a release of civil action before doing so. And that’s it for sports.
Judges aren’t supposed to get mad like this. Not ones that know how that can prejudice a jury. But he’s been a shitbag the whole trial, so why break character now?
I’ll believe it when the Vatican starts putting billions toward the efforts to curb it. Until then, it sounds like he’s just doing his commie thing.
He ain’t lying. This is as predictable as the Summer Of Love 2020. It’s all manufactured outrage by people who just want to be in on The Current Thing.
Never fly Frontier, Spirit, or Virgin. Not if you can help it, anyway.
This is just lovely. I have nothing to add that won’t sound like a call to just start shooting people. So I won’t add anything.
They think they came up with something new? This is nothing but Edward 40-Hands, but it’s easier to bail out. Pussies.
This advice is coming from the NSA. So you should obviously do the exact opposite of that they’re telling you.
Of course it’s a shitshow. I don’t think anybody wants aid delivered, least of all Hamas.
Here’s a lovely track. Gonna be tough to choose the second track. I’ll go with the low-hanging fruit. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
I’ll stop there.
You expect me to drive to Mexico City and Guadalajara?
Why you want me to get killed by the cartels, UCS?
What part of “I’ll stop there” says anything about you going to other unstable countries?
If you’re going to Mexico City and Guadalajara you must have a death wish, so sure, why not drive. If you don’t get killed there, you can always come back via Juarez.
Those two places are safe, so long as you go to the right parts of the city.
I would trust some places along the coasts (still avoiding quite a few) and pretty much nothing else down there.
Mexico City; the Oakland of Mexico.
Mexico City is great. Guadalajara is probably fine too. Just stay off the road at night.
Most of Mexico is just as safe as most of the US – so generally quite safe as long as you’re not a habitual criminal.
High speed rail to Hawaii!
Hyperloop! What’s a few millimeters of continental drift per year?
I’ll believe it when the Vatican starts putting billions toward the efforts to curb it.
We are all sinners and must repent, except the church
Oh they are sinners as well, but since they’re stronger than you they can take on more sin.
I’m waiting for someone to take the idea of the Yen Buddhists and run with it:
Watch it bub! Cleansing cash from sin/evil spirits has been the fortuneteller’s gig for a long time and trying to muscle into it might just expose you to the curse of the churi
Funny how that works with this guy, isn’t it?
I wish Benedict would have had a longer run. This new guy is a commie assclown.
When our old church started sprouting that kind of nonsense, we went looking for a new church.
Youth have a particular arrogance which is amusing when it’s pointed at people I don’t like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZfkVvcyrQc
Barely more coherent than Biden.
All countries are reliant on fossil fuels, and will remain so until technologies that haven’t been perfected or even discovered yet take over.
Remember, the Church was fully functional when society was poor and in chaos – they really have no problem with our suffering.
As we are now going forward with Puppy Rainbow Fart Power, I am sure that someone as out of touch as Biden or Pope Francis is on the right track!
This guy is giving all us popes a bad name.
Next time I do links, maybe I’ll figure out how to add photos.
We have every confidence
Lower your expectations.
Choose the photo block.
I thought photoshop blocks had been banned?
This is just lovely.
I blame those gallon jugs of alcohol the yutes drink these days
In my days in DoD we used to joke that NSA really wanted communications devices to not communicate to assure they were really secure.
There’s an old BOFH running joke about the only secure network being one with only one system on it.
And that system is off.
We had annual counter espionage training in the Army. I once asked why no annual communications security training. I was told to shut up.
And shutting up would keep communications secure, yes… 😉
Remember how “libertarian” lawpeople declared that Kavanaugh getting angry at false rape accusations proved he didn’t have a judicial temperament? Things were so much more innocent then.
So you’re saying those “skateboarding is not a crime” stickers were lying?
Never fly Frontier, Spirit, or Virgin.
But Frontier did the right thing and tossed this woman from the flight.
Frontier and Spirit use Airbuses instead of Boeing.
Also, with 3 kids it’s usually at least $500 cheaper than any other airline.
Flying sucks on every airline, at least Spirit and Frontier are honest about it.
I’d bet if they used those seats that suspended-underneath rollercoasters have that they could fit more passengers.
They are already working on it. DDG “stand up airline seats”
My solution would be containerization. Instead of buying a seat, you’d buy a pod or “container” and you’d get into it and be loaded in the plane.
Just like containers revolutionized shipping, my airline containers would change flying.
Get in your pod, don’t worry about neighbors. If you want snacks or drinks bring them yourself. You could buy the pod where you lay down, or one where you are sitting, whatever you want.
Just put some wings on this thing
Forgot to add because they do charge for basically everything, fatties must purchase two seats.
I flew Spirit once. Once!
It isn’t the planes or the crews of Spirit that are so bad, it is the people who fly Spirit who make it bad. In a nutshell the plane is full of people who have never flown and have no idea how to act. So it is always a shit show loading and unloading.
I’ve never been on any airline where I thought to myself “it’s nice that most everyone on this flight is considerate and knows what to do.”
I don’t fly that much but I’ve never really had any similar problems.
American maybe the most, JetBlue a couple times… everyone was typically well-behaved.
But yeah… never had the opportunity to fly one of the cheapo airlines.
I’m not saying that they were inconsiderate. Just that they didn’t know what to do and things took extra long.
I’m a flying snob, I admit it.
My #1 gripe is the 5′ 100lb business gal who has a massive carry on. Always needs help getting it up into the overhead. Check the bag or get a bag you can handle!
My rule for carryon wouldn’t be based so much on the size of the carry on as your ability to lift it up in a controlled manner. Forget that dumb size thing that they use (sometimes) to see if your carry on is too big. I’d have a shelf near the gate and you’d have to pick up your bag and put it on the shelf three times. Can’t do it? Check it.
“My #1 gripe is the 5′ 100lb business gal who has a massive carry on. Always needs help getting it up into the overhead”
A little old lady I know says, “There are lots of big strong men that like to help”
See, I’ll help the little old ladies. But the young ‘uns with comically oversized “carry-ons”, yer on yer own.
My ideal airline would ban all carry-ons except for the personal item that slides under the seat in front of you. I am not opposed though to this test of overhead strength in order to use the bins.
I used to fly to China a lot, and the PRC has evidently informed every Chinese woman, young and old, that tall Westerners are happy to help them with the overhead bag thing. It happened a couple of times on every trip; they were perfectly open about asking. I didn’t really mind (and we got to fly Business Class which wasn’t bad and had higher bins, I think).
Best one was a young mom with a baby and the grandma. No English, but sign-languaged the whole thing. And at one point, after 1 or 2 iterations, granny got up and tapped me on the shoulder so young mom could show me that she was needing to pump, and mimed using her double-barreled manual breast pump so I could tell what she wanted me to find in her bag.
It’s a belief the flight attendant is there to serve you. My guess she got asked for verbal confirmation for exit row duties and woman was just as snarky
Had a layover in Charlotte when the 1st flight to DFW was cancelled due to weather, so the second (my flight) got all sorts of effed up. I had an exit row and the lady beside me was from first class on the 1st flight. She bitched and complained, called the stewardess several times asking about “her meal” since she was originally 1st class. Finally, when time came for exit row confirmation she blurts out, “I didn’t sign up for THAT!” Stewardess smiles, says follow me and indicated going forward. She smugly assumed she was going to where she belonged in first class, but then the stewardess stops and asks a tall Army man to go to her seat and she puts her in the middle of a economy row. Dude sits down and says to me, “wow, that was so nice if her to change seats with me.” I laughed and laughed.
I don’t mind Frontier. They have direct flights from Trenton to Charleston and Charlotte. Vastly better than flying out of Newark.
Meh, if you are flying with no luggage it is cheaper and you don’t want to sit on each other’s laps…sure. I’ll take it for 45min / 1 hour hops.
We did the math last time we went to Vegas and it was $20 more for Delta than if we flew Spirit.
Also…Airbus has just as many issues as Boeing
I googled it so it must be true: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-airlines/20916
Depend on your airport. Delta has a unique strategy here in Minneapolis to compete with Sun Country.
Basically a bait and switch scheme.
I’ve used both for direct flights that were incredibly cheap. No problems.
True, but it would be nice if the bloated administrations at every college would nut up and stop letting outside agitators whip up frenzied handfuls of students into terrorizing entire campuses. The vast majority of students do NOT want this shit.
Since when does it matter what the students want?
Mornin’ all. Aight, 830-530 shift starting now! Me likey this change.
An unholy alliance between “the children are our future” and “the customer is always right.”
Any thoughts on this Mr. Dean?
So was citizen’s initiatives, and proggies HATE that these days.
It can never be “progressive” enough for some people.
OT – Thought of R C when I saw this.
Hospital to Union: Pay Up or You’re Stuck With Us in Your Health Plan
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/new-york-presbyterian-hospital-payment-union-3b2100f5?st=55dmw818mq3s91c&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I hate everyone here, but that more than just the insurance companies who normally get most of the hate.
He strikes me as a bit of a preening ass. “Our system must be awesome, since I sit at the top of it.”
I had to chuckle when he made sure we knew his ruling class bona fides by pointing out that his wife is a legislator.
I think they got the abortion decision right on the merits. I also think the AZ Supreme Court is firmly in the hands of Dominant Culture people. I don’t think any of them are so indispensable that anyone would miss them for a minute if they were, in fact, voted off the court.
a preening ass
Picked up that vibe myself, which was why I was curious if he might be at all deserving of the respect he has for himself.
It’s not enough to expel the misogynist form the NFL, the lingering taint of his patriarchal misogyny must be cleansed by replacing him with a kicker of womanness!
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article288545627.html
I wonder why the words, “rampant idiocy” ran through my mind as I wasted time reading the Star’s article…
I am sure many teams would love for KC to drop a kicker with the second best career field goal percentage and a 62-yard range because of wrongthink.
In the comments someone responds to the question “has a woman ever kicked a 50 yard field goal?” With sputtering outrage and the excuse that “Canadian football is measured in meters!”
The answer is no. Metric or otherwise.
OFFS!
Kaepernick’s antics on the field at game time = totally fine
A Catholic giving a speech espousing Catholic principles at a Catholic college = totes over the line
As usual, Bee knocked it out of the park on this one: https://babylonbee.com/news/harrison-butker-does-not-reflect-our-values-says-league-of-woman-beaters
BY PETER HAMM
This guy is totally getting laid.
Let’s say that KC listens to this clown and hires a gal to kick for them. She kicks off and the returner breaks one out and she’s the only one between him and the end zone.
Does he trample her and leave her hurt on the ground? Or does he realize his entire career would be ruined for demonstrating the absurdity of females playing in the NFL and take a dive?
Women gets QB hurry!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hv32jhG8gSA?app=desktop
I think it would go something like this.
Megan Rapinoe is available isn’t she? She can strike a great blow for equality!
I do not want to ever see that name and “blow” in the same sentence again.
I had to deal with friends who assured me that the parody going around (“… when women had more babies than thoughts”) was real.
I read a transcript and… it’s a nothing-burger of a Catholic guy saying Catholic things at a Catholic college graduation – some disapproving mention of ‘pride’ (teh gheys, I assume) and the apparently damming thought that raising a family may be more fulfilling than chasing a career.
https://www.ncregister.com/news/harrison-butker-speech-at-benedictine
One of the contract gigs I had, I ended up sitting in the marketing department of a mega-corp. The turnover was insane there. You’d see gals come in for their first post-college job. After a bit, they’d announce they were getting married and spend months planning their wedding on company time (I had to listen to all their phone calls).
A good chunk of them dropped out after getting married.
The next milestone was having a kid. After that kid came a lot of them would decide that staying at home and being a mom was a better deal than going back to work in a marketing dept. I bet half of them that didn’t come back didn’t tell mega-corp until the last week or two of their maternity leave. So mega-corp had kept their spot open for them and now had to backfill.
I’m not saying any of that is bad. My wife stayed home and raised our kids. I’ve been lucky enough to have gotten jobs that allowed us to let her do that. I think it is great that our kids had her home with them every day.
My point is that lots of women think being a mom is great and more power to them. Too bad that they all feel like they can’t quite come out and say that in public without worrying about being shamed by other women.
Yep. I went and read the transcript. Nothing in it struck me as that far out of line for a practicing Catholic. I think the hate is more for him calling out Biden and Pelosi as lapsed Catholics (there was a line about Biden being so out of touch that he did the Sign of the Cross at an abortion rally).
I think the hate is more for him calling out Biden and Pelosi as lapsed Catholics (there was a line about Biden being so out of touch that he did the Sign of the Cross at an abortion rally).
But all the talk has been about the hateful things he said about women, like loving his own wife.
I think I recall the word “perverse” or one of its variants being thrown out there in connection with one or more of the alphabet soup letters. That really pisses off all the usual people.
“I’m not saying any of that is bad.”
Planning your wedding on company time is bad.
Not planning to return, but not telling your employer and cashing checks until the end of the statutorily mandated maternity period is bad.
There, I said it.
Handwaving Freakoutery on SubStack had a look at this kerfuffle.
https://hwfo.substack.com/p/i-watched-the-harrison-butker-speech
RC is right. I have listened to my wife, an HR director, bitch about all the women who have worked for her over the years who did exactly what Jimbo is saying, but have to bite her tongue keeping her personal opinions firewalled from her professional opinions lest it spill out at the office.
being shamed by other women
In one sense I can empathize with those other women – they bought the lie about how glorious work life is. But, like taking on college debt – this was your choice and now you live with the consequences. When it turns out work life is soul destroying, and you have to deceive yourself that it isn’t, seeing a happy home-maker is a painful reminder.
On the other hand, no men in this world are half as vicious in socially shaming someone as are nearly all women. Feminism has taken that unpleasant aspect to inordinate heights.
Interesting writeup of Dershowitz’s thoughts on the subject… like the Mae West quote particularly:
I can easily imagine that happening in the courts of these small scale tyrants with delusions of grandeur across the land, frankly. Too much leeway in my opinion for “contempt” charges and arbitrary orders.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Old dude goes into another old dude’s house, shoots second old dude’s old lady in the head. Second old dude pulls out a knife and goes to work on the old dude gunman, leaving first dude in old dude pieces and “very much deceased.”
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article288543143.html
Florida senior citizen, ladies and Glibs.
Not mentioned: any prior experience on the husband’s part that might have impacted the “going to work.” Lots of retired mob in Florida.
He could have been a butcher.
I do have to wonder, what the hell is a garden knife?
Hori hori knife, I assume
That looks like it would be blunt force trauma as much as it cuts. Really ups the suffering the guy inflicted; good on ‘im.
Make sure to scroll down for the “Read Next” headlines.
Whew.
When the cops talk about someone “going to work” with a knife, there’s a lot of subtext in that statement. In this case, it implies blood on all four walls plus the ceiling, and the whole “cut to pieces” comment was intended to be taken literally. Like, multiple body bags seriously.
Nice work, old timer!
I may have misread Louisville’s DA and PD. They appear to be going full asshole on this deal.
https://x.com/toetaggintambo/status/1792707676499284204?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
The whole incident sounds like a case of asshole cop.
One cop recognizes Scheffler and waves him through the roadblock. Another cop jumps in front of his car and going full ‘respect mah authority!’ and arrests him for following first cop’s instructions. Witnesses and reporters there when it happened saying exactly that.
I’d think they’d want to make this quietly go away.
Agreed. With that many witnesses, why pursue this?
Nope, this is double up the pot to make Scheffler fold quietly.
They’re charging him with a felony. They’ll need to dial that way back for a deal. He made enough money last weekend to litigate this through a trial.
👍🏻Both make me grin.
Never fly Frontier, Spirit, or Virgin.
Virgin America has been gone for years but they were never an Ultra Low Cost Carrier. I flew them several times and possibly the best first class domestic only cabin. The other side of the curtain wasn’t too bad either.
Their vibe was a bit over the top for my tastes.
https://youtu.be/z1A5BtqsaPM
Just in case you need a reason to not vote for Trump, and this class of Republican clowns.
Of course with conservatives on SCOTUS that shit would get slapped down.
Yeah, how did that work out with the CFPB case?
I think, as a libertarian (‘natch) that Googol should be broken up due to it’s constant law-breaking business practices, massive misuse of customer/product data, and anti-competitive actions. So, Vance is rightish, but for the wrong reasons.
Consumer fraud for collecting and misusing our data. The problem is under SC precedent we have no privacy interest in our data via 3rd party doctrine. Their arguable figleaf is we consented at every step and did so because it was convenient for us. The truth is they hid their agenda for a very long time.
Oh, I am well aware of the current precedent, but my opinions do not always align with the court, no matter the majority makeup.
I’m glad somebody is standing up for Google/Alphabet in their hour of peril. It would be terrible if one of the world’s largest and most influential companies had to face the jabbering of a politician all by its lonesome.
I detest Google/FB, but I can still with some effort put myself beyond their reach; the govt – not so much.
Congratulations! You have won the Glibertariat sarcasm award for 5/21/2024. An impressive feat, considering it is early morning.
You can collect your reward at Golden Corral, simply by walking inside and saying “I won! Where’s my free dinner!”
Because once you get to a certain financial level, you forfeit your constitutional rights.
Google is deeply in cahoots with the government, so I don’t care at all if somebody in opposition to the current government threatens to mess with them.
Actual courthouse drawing of Judge Merchan admonishing Robert Costello.
I love this picture. “HOW DARE YOU MAKE A MOCKERY OF MY KANGAROO COURT!!”
Those courtroom drawings remind me of when I was a kid in Catholic school. When we did Stations of the Cross we had booklets with that same illustration style.
That is great.
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Is it wrong to have a romantic type based on race? Yes – it’s a form of racism we rarely speak about
https://x.com/CHASS_Aus/status/1790152550672486528
Wronglust? Badhorny?
Dude, you need to have a Browner for the right ladies.
Lustcrime.
So we can only date within our own race? I think there’s a term for that.
Only if you waste too much of your life on pigeonholing people and setting them against each other.
There are whole categories on pornhub based on this.
If it’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.
Well the slow walked this until Sherrod Brown said enough. Funny that Lizzie was A-OK…
FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg to Resign
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/fdic-chairman-martin-gruenberg-resignation-ab7fed5f?st=tmv4bwplnzqehx8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Naturally he’s staying until he is replaced.
I found a rattlesnake on the beach in SoCal yesterday. One more reason to dislike the beach.
go to the pool instead
Pool on the 85th floor has a glass bottom
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1792898649904549902
The opportunities for mooning are endless…
nope nope nope
We need Thai longtail canoe drag racing in America ASAP
This looks incredible.
https://x.com/APompliano/status/1792888534321230254
I’m going with motorcycle Roman chariot racing
Add machinegun dueling for a new triathlon.
That spinning propeller flying around when they catch air really adds a special something to it.
Best community note ever?
https://x.com/jacobin/status/1792423758256361895
The NAACP received a good one yesterday on Michael Brown.
Here we are
That’s amazing. lmao
🔥🔥🔥
🙂
Jacobin’s picture choice whilst discussing starvation wages is worth a chuckle as well.
Hell it doesn’t even need the note – just the picture is the perfect boomerang to their words. The note is just sweet, sweet irony dripped all over it.
Be safe today, Iowa and other Midwest Glibs!
Looks like we get it tomorrow
“Tragic moment teen rapper Rylo Huncho, 17, accidentally shoots himself dead while filming video for social media after pointing gun at his head and pulling trigger
Rylo Huncho was seen on video posted to his Instagram story showing off a handgun, waving the barrel while displaying its built-in green laser sight and flashlight.
He then took control of the grip, appeared to shut off the safety and pointed the gun to his head before saying ‘f*** y’all n****s’ and pulling the trigger.
He immediately left the view of the camera as the phone fell to the floor in the wake of the blast.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13441007/Tragic-moment-teen-rapper-Rylo-Huncho-accidentally-shoots-dead-TikTok.html
Not intentional, but “accidentally” ?
the US should teach trigger discipline in schools.
Sounds like he Budd Dwyered himself
If he didn’t, he was too stupid to live and did the world a favor.
Never has the slang usage dope been more apropos.
Couldn’t even afford a Glock.
17 years old huh? In VA, with a handgun.
SLD: “Shall not be Infringed.”
Does it get any better for DC? Combining agricultural AND Green subsidies. Win – Win!
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/climate-environment/biden-climate-subsidies-free-solar-panels-farmers-048c6c39?st=jyotsa6ynm67rca&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This is how solar becomes “cheaper” than NG or coal.
And people are dumb enough to (at least pretend) to fall for it.
Glibber, pleaze! You didn’t even work racism into your grift!
One day our farmers will be as subsidized and coddled as the French agricultural sector.
Is that 120% or 85%?
“A Colorado youngster faces up to 60 years in prison for killing an innocent family of five by setting fire to the wrong home — in a barbaric revenge plot over his stolen iPhone.
Kevin Bui, now 20, pleaded guilty last week to igniting the late-night blaze in a Denver neighborhood in August 2020 after using the “Find my iPhone” app to track his stolen phone to the general area.
Bui, who was 16 years old at the time, was portrayed by prosecutors as the ringleader of three friends who plotted the inferno that incinerated the Senegalese family — including two baby girls…..
Police fingered the trio as suspects after obtaining a search warrant to get Google to hand over IP addresses that had searched the home’s address within 15 days of the fire.”
https://nypost.com/2024/05/21/us-news/colorado-teen-pleads-guilty-to-setting-fire-to-wrong-home-over-stolen-iphone-killing-family-of-five/
That sounds like an odd warrant.
Effing Circular Error Probable, how does it work?
Not anymore, that’s like a geo-fence with cell phones.
“…by setting fire to the wrong home…”
Judge: Let this be a lesson to youth everywhere to always set the right house on fire.
What an awful tragedy.
Some of my colleagues are using Canva and it angers me because I hate their stupid ass commercials
Also “Quicklinks” is not a word 🙄
I am working on a project right now to help us integrate with Canva.
The original two devs I worked with were pretty good. We got a POC knocked out with a minimum of fuss. Not a lot of meetings and both sides were flexible.
Next phase though has the original two devs swapped out with two devs from a Indian body shop. We’ll see how that goes.
It will buff out.
Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots
https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1792680674060832829
No.
Why waste my computing power on shit I want to do, when it could be used by a third party instead?
On the bright side, if their half-assed implementation of file backup is any indication, it probably won’t work right anyway.
Some contrary bastard will find the registry key and figure out how to turn it off and/or will write a script (and y’all know how much I love my utilities).
It’s been years since I turned off the Win10 update nagging. Never EVER had a nag.
Mojeaux:
I thought of you when I saw this story hit my feed:
A Windows XP machine’s life expectancy in 2024 seems to be about 10 minutes before even just an idle net connection renders it a trojan-riddled zombie PC
Well, I don’t HAVE XP. It just LOOKS like XP.
Win11 already has a workaround if you want to keep your taskbar on the right/left. But right is right and left is wrong.
Watch your ass, Poland
Trump’s account posted a 30-second video to his Truth Social platform on Monday afternoon that asked, “what happens after Donald Trump wins?” and “what’s next for America?”
The background is made up of hypothetical newspaper front pages with headlines including “BORDER IS CLOSED — 15 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS DEPORTED” and “ECONOMY BOOMS.” Twice in the clip, slightly blurred text appears beneath the headlines that reads: “Industrial strength significantly increased … driven by the creation of a unified Reich.”
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“America, stop scrolling and pay attention. Donald Trump is not playing games; he is telling America exactly what he intends to do if he regains power: rule as a dictator over a ‘unified reich,'” James Singer, spokesman for President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, said in a statement Monday night.
“Parroting ‘Mein Kampf’ while you warn of a bloodbath if you lose is the type of unhinged behavior you get from a guy who knows that democracy continues to reject his extreme vision of chaos, division, and violence,” Singer said.
Trump’s campaign dismissed the allegation and said the former president — who is on trial in New York — was not aware the word appeared in the video.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the President was in court,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump campaign spokeswoman, said in a statement.
It’s like a bad ’30s movie in here.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the President was in court,” – this is not something that should happen though
Oh great, another hoax. Let’s see:
Trump orchestrated an insurrection on January 6
Trump told people to drink bleach
Trump called white supremacists “fine people”
Trump called for a “bloodbath” if he loses
Trump wants to be a dictator
All so easily disproven, yet every mainstream news person and every Democrat (including Biden) repeat these lies over and over until people just accept they’re true. They don’t need to fake too many ballots when they use this type of fortification.
Meanwhile Biden left his basement to brag that all illegals would get free health care and that he will “end fossil fuels”.
He’s over-achieving on the first (they’re getting free everything) and making good progress on the second.
I very much doubt that Trump will achieve the installation of a Fourth Reich – I dunno, I just have a feeling.
I saw a Harvard-Harris poll this AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJKMXX_PbRc and Trump is six points ahead. Assuming that this is true, the Biden admin should be shitting themselves* and all of their surrogates are going to go full-bore in attack mode. So, no surprise at how ham handed this is, nor what they think should be a winning argument.
*learning from their master.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/middleeast/iran-president-helicopter-crash-sanctions-intl/index.html
remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots
What could possibly go wrong?
Just from a practical point of view, where and how does that get stored?
The Cloud a big fluffy one
The cloud, where else?
He does say it is [allegedly] all done locally – you know because your processor has plenty of spare cycles.
Last night Scott Adams put out a video on Twitter, and I commented on it. Within the hour the actual Scott Adams liked my comment. We’re practically BFF’s now. With this and the two likes from Peter Hook, I’m well on my way to being an influencer.
you should start a energy drink brand
Professional sled hockey by day, thought leader by night!
If TOK wants to be an influencer, he is going to have to buy a new sexier wardrobe. Needs to show more cleavage. And Lulumon tights.
After 10 years, I am proud to see the second staircase at Surbiton Station officially opened!
It is fantastic to see constituents and commuters using the staircase and the benefits it is already having on improving congestion. Thank you to everyone that has made this possible!
https://x.com/EdwardJDavey/status/1791499379091603524
looks glorious
Government in action…
A staircase? BAH! BAH I SAY!
First restroom redo complete at Cleveland Hopkins airport; 12 more to go
1. What’s up with the creepy dud in shorts?
2. Why did the dangerhair win a medal for a staircase? That seems like an extremely ordinary set of stairs to me.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the President was in court,” – this is not something that should happen though
Apparently everything should be microscopically inspected, frame by frame, because the other side will. This sounds like an intentional plant.
a campaign should not repost videos made by ran dos without inspection.
Trump being trolled is rather droll.
One day our farmers will be as subsidized and coddled as the French agricultural sector.
Don’t forget unionized.
White House spokesman Andrew Bates said the Biden administration couldn’t comment on the post specifically but added in a statement: “It is abhorrent, sickening, and disgraceful for anyone to promote content associated with Germany’s Nazi government under Adolf Hitler.”
I’m not saying he’s a card carrying member of the Nazi Party, but…
When nature calls, don’t answer
A grizzly bear attacked and seriously injured a man in western Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, prompting closure of a mountain there Monday.
The grizzly was one of two that surprised the 35-year-old man from Massachusetts on Sunday afternoon on Signal Mountain. Rescuers flew the injured man by helicopter to an ambulance that drove him to a nearby hospital.
He was expected to recover, park officials said in a statement, declining to identify him.
That will be quite a story to tell at the water cooler.
How exactly does one close a mountain?
Put up signs and yellow plastic strips?
Toggle the setting to “off.”
Grizzly bears in the 48 contiguous states are protected as a threatened species, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Last month, the U.S. National Park Service announced it was launching a campaign to capture grizzly bears in Yellowstone Park for research purposes. The agency urged the public to steer clear of areas with traps, which would be clearly marked
Gain of function research?
for research purposes
If the gay community doesn’t rise up against holding bears against their will, for “research”, who will?
According to the NYDEC, 1300 bears (black, not grizzly) were harvested in 2023 in NY.
Natural wonders, pt 2
A 70-year-old Alaska man who was attempting to take photos of two newborn moose calves was attacked and killed by their mother, authorities said Monday.
The man killed Sunday was identified as Dale Chorman of Homer, said Austin McDaniel, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
The female moose had recently given birth to the calves in Homer.
“As they were walking through the brush looking for the moose, that’s when the cow moose attacked Dale,” McDaniel said.
The attack happened as the two were running away, he said. The second man, who has not been publicly identified, was uninjured.
“I just have to outrun YOU.”
My
sisterfriend wasbitstomped into jelly by a moose once.What fascinated me was that Iditarod musher who killed the moose attacking his team with a .357 revolver. The internet had convinced me that it’s require something more powerful to do the job.
Use the tools you have…
Remember the story of the lady who killed a world record bear with a .22 rifle held together with tape?
Yeah, well, the internet will convince you that you need at least a .500 3-1/4″ Nitro Express for a white-tail.
Well he is frome Homer,
Doh!
Apple being Apple.
M4 iPad Pros with 8GB of RAM may actually have 12GB — teardowns reveal possible Apple hijinks
https://www.tomshardware.com/tablets/ipads/m4-ipad-pros-with-8gb-of-ram-may-actually-have-12gb-teardowns-reveal-possible-apple-hijinks
M4 iPad Pros with 8GB of RAM may actually have 12GB — teardowns reveal possible Apple hijinks
Do they sell a subscription to unlock the extra RAM?
To advertisers and government agencies. “Run you spyware without being noticed!”
Don’t drink the water
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an enforcement alert Monday urging water utility systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation’s drinking water from cyberattacks.
According to the EPA, recent federal inspections revealed that 70 percent of U.S. water systems inspected do not fully comply with requirements in the Safe Drinking Water Act. The agency added that some systems have “critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities, such as default passwords that have not been updated and single logins that can easily be compromised.”
You’ll catch a virus!
“A Texas woman fired at least eight gunshots through a McDonald’s drive-thru window in San Antonio after the workers allegedly forgot to give her hash browns and biscuits.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/video-texas-woman-shoots-up-mcdonalds-missing-hash/
It’s not like she asked to speak to the manager.
1. I didn’t know San Antionio was part of the Sugarverse.
2. Honey, you don’t need any more biscuits or hashbrowns.
Angry Karen… probably 47.
Kevin Morley, manager of federal relations with the American Water Works Association, told AP that overhauling a utility system is often arduous and expensive, saying that community water systems are going to need substantial federal funding to develop resources to combat cyberattacks.
Never saw that coming.
Here is a crazy idea. How about not put everything on the internet?
What, you mean connecting my refrigerator to the WiFi so it can phone home is a Bad Idea™?
Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/your-washing-machine-could-be-sending-37-gb-of-data-a-day
When the dust settled it was possible it was a router reporting issue. Naturally few outlets followed up…
Sorry. All of that infrastructure money was spent on green energy companies that went bankrupt.
“A Frontier Airlines passenger was arrested after refusing to deplane following an argument with flight attendants over exit row instructions, shocking footage shows.”
Oh goody. I’m flying Frontier on Friday and will be sitting in the exit row. Also, from the video…
“That’s not legal. I’m getting my attorney on the phone.”
Yeah, okay lady.
So, I think Monocle is working halfway.
I see the LINK | BOLD | STRIKETHROUGH | ITALICS | BLOCKQUOTE bar, but there is no bar at the bottom where I can skip to the next unread comment. I assume this will either be fixed or not be fixed.
I have a tweak to the Tampermonkey script that happily still works – it lets you press “Alt+1” to cycle through unread comments.
Find this line
→ var unread_button = $(“<a>”, {id: buttons[2], title: buttonTitle[2]});
and change it to read
→ var unread_button = $(“<a>”, {id: buttons[2], title: buttonTitle[2], accesskey: “1”});
Hmmm… I miss the ability to hide threads with no new comments and it occurs to me I could possibly add a similar tweak for that….
Ummmm…
*sigh* Boldly go, I guess.
I haven’t had time to truly dig and UI isn’t my thing, but the buttons are sorta there, just inaccessible; it needs some TLC by Trashy or, perhaps, me when someone gets some cycles (or anyone else who wants to dive in – https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/-/blob/Eyepiece/monocle.user.js?ref_type=heads).
I’d also like to wait until WebDom is done with any tweeks.
Still getting internal server errors.
Why won’t you people listen?
The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica — nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise — is the world’s widest glacier and roughly the size of Florida. It’s also Antarctica’s most vulnerable and unstable glacier, in large part because the land on which it sits slopes downward, allowing ocean waters to eat away at its ice.
Thwaites, which already contributes 4% to global sea level rise, holds enough ice to raise sea levels by more than 2 feet. But because it also acts as a natural dam to the surrounding ice in West Antarctica, scientists have estimated its complete collapse could ultimately lead to around 10 feet of sea level rise — a catastrophe for the world’s coastal communities.
Many studies have pointed to the immense vulnerabilities of Thwaites. Global warming, driven by humans burning fossil fuels, has left it hanging on “by its fingernails,” according to a 2022 study.
This latest research adds a new and alarming factor into projections of its fate
And if that won’t scare you into submission, we’ll revise our model upward again.
I was watching a ten-year-old episode of Aerial America on the Smithsonian channel. The narrator said there would be no more glaciers in Glacier National Park by 2020.
Never mind that we have been oscillating between periods of lots of ice and periods of no ice for at least an eon before the first lump of coal was set alight.
The oceans are about 139,000,000 square miles. That glacier is 74,000 square miles. So the oceans are about 1900x larger than that glacier. To raise ocean levels by two feet, wouldn’t the glacier need to be 3800 feet thick, or about 3/4 of a mile? Checking wiki, it is about that thick at its thickest area.
Too bad we’re in an interglacial warming period, I guess.
How many wheelbarrows of ice cubes would it take to raise sea level a foot? How high would that pile be?