In a delightful turn of events I managed to save $1500 by virtue of the pool supply store having a refurbished motor available instead of buying a brand new motor. All because of a printed circuit board in the ECU which they were unable to find a suitable replacement in the store and replace for about $100.
As long as its not the ECU in the motor I bought, right? Anyways, the pool looks great. My son and I refinished it over Memorial Day and outside of the extra shock I threw in when I needed to purge the gray water in the return lines…listen if this doesn’t work I’m draining it and filling it with dirt.
¡enlaces!
A week passed and the headlines are still Mexicans elected a communist broad. Pay no attention to the political opponents that got killed—wait this was a supporter?
For context, Mexican presidentés have a single six year term, so this sort of backroom deal in the lame duck session is common, otherwise what one makes is unmade by the next presidenté. That assumes the ensuing presidenté has a policy disagreement.
That’s bullshit, Don Brett is not going to like legal cocaine beer.
<Insert banana republic pun here.>
I rather like he went with a stylish dictator jacket for his inauguration.
Has a few months of free market reforms upended over a century’s worth of economic maladministration? The crown news says no. Also a new Milei meme dropped.
Why Rammstein? We have Rammstein at home. The Rammstein at home.
Couldn’t bring myself to read that whole BBC thing. I assume it was all libel?
Its a lot of questionable stats, and an analysis of the Argentine economy likely going into a recession, which might have as much to do with the rest of the world’s economy being “meh” than anything Milei cut from state programs.
The economy hasn’t turned around in 6 months? Obviously a failure.
Inflation is above the rate in the UK? Obviously a failure. No need to compare the current rate to what it was before Milei came to power.
Consumer spending is down? Obviously a failure. Sure it could be that because inflation is lower there’s less incentive to spend before your money becomes worthless, but let’s ignore that.
Yeah, he’s just not going to get a fair hearing out of that bunch. They’re as biased as they come.
People read the links?
Dude.
Well now you’ve done it.
People read the links?
There are people here?
*runs away*
No, there are no other people here. Everyone else ceases to exist when I close my eyes.
That’s normal, right?
That’s normal Slumbrew.
Thank you, figment-Tonio
Schroedinger’s internet posters.
Isn’t it scary enough that I am real – you’d really rather have me as just a voice in your head slumbrew?
I know a solipsist; I wish the person knew me.
(I wish I were joking.)
Schrödinger’s Bear – the only way to tell if he is gay is to open the box.
@Toxeth: A ‘true’ solipsist is a broken person, and arguably doesn’t exist. Social primates *require* family/society for a remarkably long time to survive. Solo *adults* do kinda-sorta exist. Ted Kaczynski had plenty of outside resources, but he was a poser. When others ‘truly’ do it, they’re best ignored. Just as they wish, and everyone wins.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Congrats on the pool. We got ours open about two weeks early this year. Good thing, because it was cloudy and took almost two weeks to clear up. Now that it’s clean and clear the weather has been in the 70’s. But tomorrow there’s a heat wave coming.
If it goes well I will use it this winter to add a cold plunge to my regimen, like the OG right wing nutcases.
Huh? What does printing money have to do with anything? Everyone knows inflation is caused by greedy corporations raising their prices.
First AOC, now Rachel Maddow, have gone off the deep end. I know that AOC is dumb enough to actually believe this, but Maddow is just full of shit.
Linky to the story with the above quote:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-worried-shell-put-one-trumps-massive-camps-im-worried-me
*narrator* She does not, in fact, believe any of that. She would have fled the country with her millions already if she did, just to be safe.
Maddow leaving the country seems like a win.
100% performative propaganda. Same with AOC.
Maddow leaving the country seems like a win.
Maybe. If she flees to Venezuela, unquestionably.
Stop – I can only get so hard.
They keep making the comparison to you know who. But I’ve always felt Trump was closer to Caesar. Of course after the elites get rid of Trump there’s the chance of an Augustus. After the civil war of course. And nobody is going to like that ending.
Maybe he should have been more like Sulla or Pinochet.
All projection, all of the time.
Tell me how the State is not a mafia again?
https://www.fox13news.com/news/new-luxury-airline-dogs-faces-lawsuit-shortly-after-its-first-flight
American Airlines can fly hundreds of people in there. Obviously the “private” jets are greasing the right palms.
Curious if anyone has read this book? If so, is it any good?
Mafia Democracy: How Our Republic Became a Mob Racket by Michael Franzese.
I tend to stay away from political books because they raise my blood pressure
You have greatly piqued my interest. Franzese is certainly an interesting cat. Getting the mob mega bucks in the 80s by skirting cigarette taxes? Uh. That’s a damn hero. The mob being (once again…) more effective and efficient than The State.
IIRC, Franzese himself wasn’t involved in violence, though he was obviously in bed deeeeep with everyone who was. My morality comes to fun internal conflicts when hashing out the particulars.
Whoops. Gas bootlegging, not smokes.
Meh. Same-same.
Harsh.
https://odysee.com/@Velyaminov:a/Dr.-Rashid-Ali-Buttar-Accurately-Predicted-Death-of-CNN-Anchor-Drew-Griffin-During-Interview:a?r=HdXXqA6C9tsPdDRGDaKdBTU95ffwfGL7
Awe man…I was selected for a grand jury stint…in Vegas. Oh well.
Some places pull their jury pool from the voter registration lists. I take it you’re still able to vote in Vegas or at least have someone vote for you.
Yeah haven’t moved anything since we still have the place in Vegas.
NJ pulls multiple places.
Decades ago people used to not register to vote to avoid jury “service”.
“One key factor is that the government has been spending way beyond its means [for decades],” she says. “And that deficit has been financed by the central bank printing money to finance the government spending.”
This sounds oddly familiar.
MS, I’m kinda worried that you might review Busch Light Peach someday.
If you choose to do so, please observe all safety precautions.
I’m scared to try it.
Judas titty fucking Priest
Meh. It’ll be a light beer with a taste of artificial peach. For true awfulness you have to go into the more obscure beers. The girlfriend tried both the Stella Cidre and which ever one (I think it was Bud Light) did the X Apple.
Neither were finished, thank the gods that she only bought singles of each.
Careful now…Cidre wasn’t bad.
I will straight up admit and be proud of the fact that I like sours.
My local makes a delightful Peach-Apricot.
Oh, and lest I forget, Genesee’s Ruby Red Kolsch is good (although not really a Kolsch). One local had it on special ($3/pint IIRC), I had ridden my bike there, and it was hot out. Now it’s a cheap lawnmower beer for summer.
I’m looking around for a blueberry hefeweizen for hot weather drinking.
Proof positive
“The contrast today is just staggering. Apparently, when a Republican is convicted, it’s weaponization. But when a Democrat is convicted — the president’s son, no less — that’s justice. I mean, give me a break. Hunter Biden was found guilty by a jury of his peers, just like Donald Trump, because this is our justice system at work,” McGovern said.
“After the verdict this morning, how can any Republican in their right mind argue that the Biden administration is weaponizing the [Justice Department] to hurt Republicans and to help Democrats? They just convicted the president’s own son,” he added, noting ongoing prosecution of Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.) and Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) on charges related to abusing their offices.
Totally exculpatory.
No matter how many times I see it in full display their mendacity still amazes me.
Purging history will save us
The NAACP in Virginia and five students filed a federal lawsuit against the Shenandoah County school board in response to their vote last month to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders – nearly four years after a decision was made to change them.
”By celebrating the memory of these traitors every time a child walked through the school doors, by embracing the cold wind of intolerance and division and insensitivity, the Shenandoah County School Board has resurrected the ghosts of the Jim Crow era,” NAACP Virginia State Conference President the Rev. Cozy Bailey said at a news conference.
The lawsuit asks the court to require the school board to remove the confederate names and mascots and to declare that the board violated the Constitution by reinstating the school names.
The summoning of evil spirits cannot be tolerated.
to declare that the board violated the Constitution
I’ll bite – what provision of the Constitution? I’m pretty sure there is no MY BUTT HURTZ and therefore I get relief clause.
It’s the implied reverse incorporation clause.
I was just thinking the same….ok give us the clause violated.
Then I thought NAACP. Silly me.
The Juneteenth Amendment. Duh.
@Jaime: Nice.
*Doffs cap*
“Plaintiffs bring this case to redress the creation and maintenance of a discriminatory environment that erodes their right to receive an education and to be free from compelled speech they consider vile,” the suit says. “Requiring Plaintiffs to attend schools named in honor of prominent members of the Confederacy and compelling Plaintiffs to identify as members of the Stonewall Jackson “Generals” violates Plaintiffs’ rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Equal Educational Opportunities Act.”
Mountain View High School, which bore the name Stonewall Jackson, the Confederate general, before it was renamed two years ago, in Quicksburg, Va., June 9, 2022. The school was renamed in response to nationwide racial justice protests.The community has been fighting about it ever since.
Plaintiff Briana Brown, a rising 12th-grader at the Massanutten Regional Governor’s School, based at Mountain View High School, said she was directly impacted by the board’s decision.
“When I found out about the school board’s decision, I felt unwelcome in a place that I go every day to, which should never be the case,” Brown said at the news conference. “… This decision has made me realize that I need to speak out about what I believe in and empower people to use their voices for positive change. I refuse to be afraid any longer.”
Grow the fuck up.
Be free of compelled speech considered vile?
Oh, please, lets open that door. Can I say that having to use Obama’s name is vile? How about RBG? The list can go on…
Product warnings.
No because Obama’s awesome you racist.
Trooth
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1800648272542888324
Democrats Hoping Fetterman’s Car Crash Caused Enough Brain Damage That He’ll Become One Of Them Again
Hiya KK!
Thanks for the Farm link. I’m embarrassed how much I’ve had that on over the last 24.
I hope you and Cujo are well!
Fetterman is sure acting strange. #1, Democrat senators in PA are expected to lay low and avoid any publicity that would let Penna. voters know where they stand, and #2, Fetterman has more than four years to go until re-election and Penna. Democrat senators don’t swing to the center until it is time to start running campaign ads.
Creech is showing he is an old native by using Penna.
I would have been here earlier with pithy comments, but I realized I could make the panties on the main page gal glow red by mousing over them.
That occupied me for quite a bit.
I notice that on this page, Minnesoda is the Left Brain of Milei. All the smart stuff: logic, reason, language skills etc. The NoDaks are the right side of his brain. Don’t expect any great art out of Argentina any time soon.
BRB
Whoa. Mind blown.
You can mouse over (or in the case of my tablet “touch”) any part of her body and intensity the color ya perv.
Iowegians do something right
Q: Why doesn’t Iowa have a professional football team?
A: Because then Minnesota would want one too.
Wait, Iowegians? Do they come from Lowhio?
I believe OG Coke had .1 grams per serving, probably like 8oz. a) NO SHIT it was so fucking popular. Fuckin’ miss that shit. Wish I could (easily) test pure cocaine+Coke to see the original flavor; b) everything is Coke; Evansville is about as far north as that gets and is proper, see also: Q-Tips, Kleenex; c) one of my prouder exploratory moments was buying coke on my own in Medellin. After watching my friend showed me the ropes, it was predictably easy — that was obv some priiiiiimo shit. DAMN.
Coke: Fantastic American invention, from the product, to the logo and artistic ‘creation’ of modern Christmas. It is not in the upper echelon of the Constitution, jazz and baseball, to quote another I (relatively) agree with, but it’s damn close combined with McDs/fast food and mass-production automobiles.
UCS – what type of Japanese model did you pick up (ref: dedthread). Gunpla or something else? I should see about posting pics of my new votann color scheme.
Um. I think [redacted].
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HomerEv slowly backs through the hedges.*One of my favorite trans persons died today.
She wrote the book on VLSI of semiconductors.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648470