Did this bird really just say “Meep, meep”?!
Boss went on vacation starting today – I assumed a slack week. Hahahahahaha! Hair on fire since 730 AM. So links are quick, without cleverness (so, sort of normal) and you lot will have to come up with music.
Ummm…. I think I remember something about the Seine and the Paris sewer system and catacombs. I really don’t think I’d try swimming in it.
Sorry your expected day of leisure got stressful, Swiss. Sometimes your best plans just leave you crushed.
Will the LA River be clean enough by 2028?
With the tent cities springing up all over California? “Signs indicate: No.”
The French are really shitty.
With multiple beaches closed for bacterial levels right now?
Lol no
Ah yes — the “We’ll bring prices down by injecting free government money into the market! That always works!” trick. Yay.
Mass deportations to drive demand back down leaps to mind first.
Spend billions to fix a problem they created. Must be nice to not be accountable.
Your daily reminder that foreseeable consequences are not “unintended”.
Has Biden tried twitching his nose yet? Seems like it could work.
Look, fat — there were times when I would give Darren his best ideas for an ad campaign before going off to Paris with Endora to avoid my evil twin sister. No joke!
Having completely understood that, I’m feeling old. >.>
How tiresome. When you are old you have seen this movie so many times….
I suppose Hollywood and politics aren’t much different, what with all re-runs all of the time.
It is one thing for young people to fall for it, but the old ones? Midwits that slept through it the first 100x.
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Everyday is a kick in the balls when we still have large Governments.
“Treasury announces new plan to boost affordable housing supply”
I wonder why we suddenly need this boost. It’s a mystery.
At least somebody finally thought to throw piles of cash at the problem.
It’s an approach our government rarely takes, but when it does it always seems to work.
Since these are Swiss links I’ll add to them immediately. Bonus is they are insurance related. Although public insurance and enraging on many levels.
Social Security to drop obsolete jobs used to deny disability benefits
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/social-security-to-jettison-obsolete-jobs-used-to-deny-disability-benefits/ar-BB1oMlIq?item=flightsprg-tipsubsc-v1a?season=2024/
The agency has long relied on a vast publication known as the Dictionary of Occupational Titles for this assessment — but many of its 12,700 entries on skilled and unskilled jobs were last updated in 1977. That database has landed on the high-risk list of government programs compiled by the Government Accountability Office, which highlights programs and operations that are vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse or mismanagement, or in need of transformation.
The Department of Labor, which originally compiled the index, abandoned it 33 years ago in a sign of the economy’s shift from blue-collar manufacturing to information and services. But Social Security’s vocational experts routinely cited about 137 unskilled, sedentary jobs from the list, including reptile farmer, banking pin adjuster and barrel assembler, to deny benefit claims. The roles mostly moved overseas long ago or have been replaced by machines…
In 2012, Social Security hired the Bureau of Labor Statistics to come up with an updated list of modern-day occupations and their characteristics. The project has cost about $300 million in continuing annual payments of $30 million. While the data is public, the agency still is not using it.
Buggy whip waxers hardest hit.
Better than I thought when I first saw the headline, though — I read it as “We finally admit we never actually deny disability benefits, so we’re firing the poor peons we hired for that department”.
I wouldn’t call barrel assembly particularly sedentary.
https://www.independentstavecompany.com/
My brother used to be a cooper. Rough work.
I know a few reptile farmers (actually reptile breeders) who make very good money at it.
If I get to inflict music on y’all… have a pretty little earworm! Mwa-ha-ha-ha!
Another song about masturbation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjrD5ixx3bU
C’mon, man!
https://youtu.be/wv-34w8kGPM
https://youtu.be/rbJG0oRpaBM?si=MgH9F5eMyWd53k0v
It’s difficult to have a worse 15 minutes than this MMA fighter out of the Czech Republic, who lost a fight and had his marriage proposal denied in front of 20,000 screaming fans.
Poontang is for winners.
He could come here “undocumented”!
https://thehill.com/homenews/4736534-trump-proposes-migrant-fighting-league/
*clicks link*
Oh…that is not a looker.
BRUTAL.
Proposing in public is already ridiculous. But doing it when there are serious relationship issues going on…
Proposing in public is already ridiculous.
What does everyone think about choreographing the proposal for social media?
Not as bad as this Iranian MMA guy who was (rightly) beaten by the audience before being straight up banned but still not a good day.
https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/ring-girl-too-provocative-Iranian-mma-fighter-kicks-her-beaten-by-the-audience/
Yeah…he deserved it. These cultures with their “Look what you made me do!” attitude, fuck them.
Here’s a band making big in Ireland this year. Lots of fun.
Have another round!!!
https://youtu.be/YhEqhq38Etk
Congrats on the cute new pup.
Thanks! He is a handful but great.
Plan for affordable housing: Loosen up zoning laws and code requirements…done and done. Doesn’t take a genius to know their plan won’t work so what’s the real angle?
Spend money!
Create more government renters. Dependent on government and entitled to the benefits. Destroy private rentals and SFHs(*).
*this is what advocates like CommieTowns really want with so called zoning repeals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE
Maybe slow down the flood of (illegal) immigrants who need affordable housing?
Just don’t build in a fire zone in the west or in the hurricane zone from South Padre Island to the Outer Banks.
Graft and money laundering. A reduction in ‘affordable housing’ is just the cherry on top for them.
Music choice is obvious
https://youtu.be/15gT9HByEN4
I didn’t want to go obvious — but if I had, I was thinking this one.
Nice. I don’t think I’d heard that one before.
https://youtu.be/b3UOe5LF_bw?si=cZqnFC6j4lnVKjTm
Now I’m going to have to go watch Columbo again, dangnabbit.
Figure explaining the role of government in the real estate market:
https://i.sstatic.net/kAry5.jpg
“Error 101” is probably the most accurate description I can think of for anyone in the government trying to explain the housing market. God save us all from the stupidity of this new “affordable housing” plan.
link works for me
kinnath was just trying to impress upon you the gravity of the situation, R.J.
Weird, I see it fine – but I default to opening links in a Private Tab in most cases. Maybe a cached cookies / tracking thing?
Maybe. I am using Brave, so maybe it rejects me.
It wasn’t that clever. Don’t worry about it.
Access denied?
The Treasury Department announced on Monday that it will give $100 million over the next three years to
invest inwaste on a new program focused on increasing the supply to help build more affordable housing around the country.Fixed it for ’em.
I’m sure this will be every bit as successful as those EV chargers.
So, $100M for three tents on the national mall?
I can add something interesting I just stumbled upon. Benny Hill is currently not available for streaming. Not even for streaming purchase. Last time it was release was by A&E, on DVD. The cost of that set used is around $350.
So what’s with that? Surely, the BBC is not ashamed of one of their most famous comedians….
Or are they?
There’s lots of shows like that, and even more that never even got a DVD release. I feel that when there’s no legal way to purchase a copy of something, than the copyright should be no longer enforceable until there’s a legal release (if they want to keep people from buying it, they can price it way too high).
Agreed. Did you live through the days when the only way to get some shows was to buy somebody’s sketchy home-made DVD version at a convention? That was the 1900’s and early 00’s. I bet that is shut down now by all the copyright trolls.
RJ:
Yes I did. Keep circulating the tapes, and remember that the Star Wars Holiday Special really doesn’t end with fighting off the frizzies.
Holy crap, I have that DVD set. I knew there was a good reason to hang on to it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/226204061525
Example.
It’s $355 on Amazon too.
Same with My Hero.
ITV (Thames).
YouTube suggests BH clips to me; e.g., The Strolling Ones.
Mankato Minnesota is about to face God’s wrath.
https://www.fox9.com/weather/rapidan-dam-imminent-failure-condition-minnesota.amp
Oh no! I have an online friend that lives there. 🙁
Terrible news. Although the dam is south of Mankato, isn’t it?
In the big floods of ’93, I remember watching the dam at Milford Lake (Kansas) being opened to 65% (65K GPM) for the first time in order to lower the reservoir,
There was a parking lot a half mile down from the dam that basically fell into the river when the flow undercut the lot.
Send in the Jolly Green Giant!
They changed that article quite a bit from the first version, which pretty much preached doom and evacuation.
Looks like it’s not so bad 👍
No Christie, don’t touch that button!
War Thunder somehow released official art with the debris cloud of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster as background
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/war-thunder-somehow-released-official-art-with-the-debris-cloud-of-the-challenger-space-shuttle-disaster-as-background/
Personally, I’m more triggered by the use of “gaijin” in the company name.
They thought it would be a teachable moment but it blew up in their faces.
(sigh… I’m so going to Hell for that one…)
Well, we will just have to keep an eye on you then.
It’s NASA…
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/science/spacewalk-astronauts-canceled-iss-space-station-scn/index.html
Don’t it make your brown eyes blew?
Hope you all had a good weekend. Mrs. TOK played the roller derby outside under a pavilion on a 90 degree day. But her team won and she got Most Valuable Blocker. Sunday we had 10 roller girls over for a pool party. Because of this I missed hockey practice. I regret nothing.
My son in law returned from his first 5 days out to sea. Sounds like a boring trip, he just did his same job but for longer hours. I think he goes out for a month next time. But with the Navy you never know.
Local teams here play in the mall next door to Target. 🤪
Gotta play wherever you have space. Our team plays three home games. One is in an old civic center that used to have roller derby in the old days, one is in the pavilion a few towns over (that was Saturday), and in September under the pavilion in our town. The outdoor ones are usually well attended.
Boneless ribeye steak for dinner…
Have to cook it before I “Save” it for too long and it goes to waste. Apparently “Today” isn’t a good enough occassion in my mind.
Cows aren’t going extinct. Eat it.
Done.
Salt and pepper helps.
Already applied.
It does indeed
I’ve got a tri-tip brining for a smoke tomorrow. “Tri-tip Tuesday” had a nice ring to it.
I’ve decided to grill more during the week. Just because.
Try-just-the-tip Tuesdays sounds better.
I fear, though, that Mrs. Holiness would become a vegetarian if this caught on.
Meanwhile, the hot thing over on the Twitter is a CNN host interviewing a Trump PR person. PR person brings up the Russia lies told by Jake Tapper (also of CNN, who will moderate Thursday’s debate). CNN host is shocked (shocked!) at the attack on her colleague, and cuts of the interview.
https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1805236681391661138
CNN host has in the past been happy about the attack on Rand Paul.
That’s a way for a game to play out.
Food for thought: do men still run the joint?
A new meta-analysis by Michael Schaerer and colleagues finds that discrimination against female applicants for historically male-dominated jobs has significantly declined and is no longer observable.
Progress!! Western firms now see women as equally capable. However, let me add two caveats:
We cannot generalise more broadly, for their sample is overwhelmingly Western.
Even if women are just as likely to be recruited, this does not prove that they are equally influential, or that they receive equal fraternal support.
“No longer observable” is an interesting way of putting “the discrimination against men is plainly obvious and they’re proud of it and shut up”.
“more broadly”. Sounds problematic.
I saw n article about Yellin’s plan earlier. My response at the time was, “They ought to be able to build for or five tiny houses for that. Look how well the car charging station project is doing.”
Wait they could put one of those car chargers on every house they build!
That would be perfect. The poors wouldn’t have to travel to steal copper!
They just opened an apartment building across the street to 40 individuals “in danger of experiencing homelessness” or some shit and it lasted exactly one week before the first arson.
I’m drowning in all the compassion from the “affordable housing”. 🙄
Oh, bravo.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that most of the stuff the government does to promote more affordable housing just increases the cost of housing. For example, in CA there’s are requirement that developers set aside a certain number of homes as “affordable”. That creates more hoops for the developer to jump through increasing costs, causing delays and restricting the supply of new homes. It also means that the homes that do get built will be larger and more expensive to cover the difference.
Heck, it’s not even clear to me that the mortgage deduction decreases the cost of home ownership. The seller is capturing a lot of that gain in the form of higher home prices.
It increases the cost of housing for everyone, it keeps the poor poor, and it drives out the middle class. What’s not to love?
The same playbook is followed everywhere, and it is a complete failure everywhere unless you are a grifter.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that most of the stuff the government does to promote more affordable housing just increases the cost of housing. For example, in CA there’s are requirement that developers set aside a certain number of homes as “affordable”.
Bozeman has something similar. A bunch of years ago there was a big fight between the developers and the city because the developers wanted to use cheaper finishes and appliances in the “affordable” units. Not putting granite counters in the lower [price units is racist.
+1 poor door
Apparently Paris has no place they can host Olympic Surfing.
So it’s being held in Tahiti.
Olympic Surfing? How do you get standardized waves?
FlowRider?
The 1996 Olympics staged the kayak competitions on the same river where Deliverance was set (and filmed).
But hosting those in Paris? That would be in Seine!
Blah blah blah
Is generative AI a tool for creative empowerment and efficiency—or a threat to creative professions? OpenAI CTO Mira Murati isn’t worried about such potential negative impacts, suggesting during a talk this month that if AI does kill some creative jobs, those jobs were perhaps always replaceable.
“I think it’s really going to be a collaborative tool, especially in the creative spaces,” Murati told Dartmouth University Trustee Jeffrey Blackburn during a conversation about AI hosted at the university’s engineering department.
“Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn’t have been there in the first place,” the CTO said of AI’s role in the workplace. “I really believe that using it as a tool for education, [and] creativity, will expand our intelligence.”
Come back when you have a useful definition of “creative”.
Oakland’s mayor blames radical right wing forces for the raid on her home last week. Radical right wing. In Oakland.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/06/24/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-speaks-for-first-time-since-fbi-raid-at-her-house/
The right wingers I know in California wield less collective power than an LED lightbulb.
I was inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt pending further information, because the FBI was involved, but now I’m pretty certain she’s guilty as sin.
Yeah, sounds like she crossed someone higher in the party.
It’s just another Mammary Monday.
https://archive.is/Du0ft
Oakland’s mayor blames radical right wing forces for the raid on her home last week. Radical right wing. In Oakland.
The vast right wing conspiracy strikes again.
The Treasury Department announced on Monday that it will give $100 million over the next three years to invest in a new program focused on increasing the supply to help build more affordable housing around the country.
Only $100 million? How can you get a proper grift on with that penny ante shit?
*Steals joke from upstream
They only plan to build one house.
I didn’t read the comments before commenting. It’s a fault of mine.
That’s about 500 homes, built by Habitat for Humanity, or about 100 homes built by grifting contractors. That’s really going to put a dent in the under supply of affordable housing? In reality, it is zero homes because “its a program focused” on jobs for community activists, social workers, political science pencil pushers, and bleeding hearts who will vote D because “something compassionate is being done.”
They will recreate Falling Water, in the South Bronx with twice the leaks.
Silly questions
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in that decision that when “an individual poses a credible threat to the physical safety of an intimate partner, that individual may — consistent with the Second Amendment — be banned from possessing firearms while the order is in effect.”
Because Hunter Biden never acted violently or misused his gun, his attorneys argued on Monday, his Second Amendment right to bear arms ought to remain intact.
“Here, the jury did not find Mr. Biden ever terrorized anyone with a gun in public , or anywhere else, or used it dangerously in any way,” attorneys for Biden wrote. “That requires Mr. Biden’s acquittal.”
We can’t be bothered with proving people pose a meaningful threat. That’s too much like work.
Nice photo accompanying the article: Doktor Grandma, Hunter, and Mrs Hunter, who looks like she wishes she could be somewhere far, far away.
Florida Man (in this case, me) will be frantic on the remote tonight, as someone decided to schedule Game 7 of the Stanley Cup and the ultimate game of the College World Series on the same evening.
Dude. Embrace your inner Elvis, get a second TV, and die on the shitter.
You are a Florida Man, act like it!
We have four televisions in the house, but I’m only “allowed” (ahem) to take the one out of the guest bedroom into the living room and watch 2-3 games at once on New Year’s Bowl Day or the first day of March Madness.
I don’t typically try to cross her, since The Bosslady is good with a knife.
Yes, I understand. I currently am under a close eye, as I broke one of the sacred ceramics the other day.
I’ll be flipping between hawkey and fútbol.
Ladies and gentlemen, the new Associate White House Communications Director:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-latest-dei-hire-deletes-past-anti-white-and-anti-police-tweets
I guess they want to repeat the fiasco that followed their hiring that DOE guy.
They are saying something to the country when they do this, and they have done it a number of times. Guess what they are saying…
Make Weimar Great Again!
Give them some credit. You have to really try hard to find a freak like that to fill a role that a competent person would normally hold.
They’d do much better to send a recruiter to a random midwest town and just hire the local bank branches’ assistant manager for that position.
LOL I just saw that episode in a waiting room this afternoon.
But yeah, I read about this yesterday and thought, they just can’t help themselves. It’s just a giant Fuck You to America when they pull this shit.
And of course I’m talking about the racist and pro-crime tweets, not the kink. 🤨
That guy’s hair and glasses are a crime.
Ooooh, Jesus Christ…
And, once again, mustaches will be off limits for straight men.
JFC another sign that the seventies are back.
Will he steal more luggage than the other dude in a dress?
the new Associate White House Communications Director
Good golly.
We won the war against running with scissors and this is what it got us.
Wow.
“ Assange To Be Freed: DoJ Agrees ‘Time Served’ Plea Deal With WikiLeaks Founder”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/assange-be-freed-doj-agrees-time-served-plea-deal-wikileaks-founder
I’d like to see him fight it but I don’t blame him in the slightest and he’d be a fool not to take this deal.
Arrived in SW VA and I have a hole in the ground, hopefully with water in it. I’ll see the driller in the morning. Find out how deep and how much flow.