SOMETHING NOT RIGHT.
STEVE SMITH, CERTIFIED CASCADIA INVEST ADVIZOR!
STEVE HEAR BAD THING HAPPEN WITH MUNNIEZ TODAY. STOCKS MARKET GO DOWN LOTSLY. HIM HERE HALP FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS!
- LISTEN WINSTON’S MOM – SHE SMART ON MUNNIEZ. ALSO, BUY WHAT POLITICIAN BUY.
- GRAB ALL PINE NEEDLE AND MAPLE LEAFS ONE CAN! THEM NOT RISK IN STOCKSES MARKETS. OFFICIAL MUNNY OF CASCADIA!
FREE CASCADIA!
NOW ASK COUSIN SEA SMITH WHAT THINK.
IT TOO LATE BUY WHALE OIL?
SEA SMITH NO WORRY! HIM INVEST ALL MUNNIEZ IN SEAWEED. HE HEAR WEED VERY POPULAR WITH LAND HOOMANS. NO CAN MISS! SEA SMITH GO CHECK LATEST!
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HEY?! NO SEE SEAWEED. NO OTHER WEED EITHER?! MAYBE HAVE STICK WITH RAPESEED INVESTMENT. IT SMITH FAMILY TRADITION.
COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
ZARDOZ FLIES AHEAD OF THE MARKET.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ HAS ONLY ONE INVESTMENT TO ADVISE THE CHOSEN ONES ON.
GRAIN SLAVERY FUTURES!
THINK ABOUT IT. THE ETERNALS OF THE VORTEX WILL ALWAYS NEED THEIR GREEN BREAD, SO DEMAND IS STEADY.
THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS CAN KEEP THE GRAIN SLAVE RANKS FILLED. IT IS A CAN’T MISS, CHOSEN ONES!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
I need to mow the lawn today.
The weather station says 92 degrees and the dew point is 81.
What a miserable fucking day it is out there.
See — this is where the Grain Slavery futures and their threshing would come in handy. You might even get some green bread out of it.
You, too, can join the Brutal Exterminators!
Same, and I’m not looking forward to it. Haven’t been able to get a yard guy since the hurricane so now I must suffer in the heat and mosquitos.
I really like my Ego mower, it’s great. However, it’s really only great when the yard is maintained. It can’t handle this jungle I have after a solid week+ of rain
It took years for the wife to convince me to get a yard guy, and now that is the best $80 a month I can think of.
I assume Mrs. Zwak wants a pool boy too?
Maybe I should be more worried about the markets and the economy (as opposed to being worried about being virtually alone with the Smiths…..), but for some reason I’m not. I suppose the ’08 Recession inured me to it a bit — I’ve been under the impression the economy has been in a bubble for some time (several sectors), fed by the Fed’s fellatio and all… so a market correction seems natural.
Far enough out from retirement or needing to sell a house (I may move… but I would need probably a couple of years to save up for getting the crap consolidated and getting the work done to make it marketable that I’m not figuring the house would be on the market anyway) that I’m pretty much thinking I can wait out the cycle. As long as I don’t lose my job (which, granted… could happen… I’m older and the industry isn’t kind to older people in downturns, after all…. We shall see what we shall see.
TL;DR — I just can’t get worked up about it much because it so, so obviously was coming.
And now it will psych us all out by bouncing right back so that Kamalamadingdong can be elected…. And as STEVE does to the hikers, so shall it be with DC and the rest of the country…
That is called Bidenomics!
https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1820478375154319370
The PH and chart replies are gold.
HAIL ZARDOZ!
And STEVE SMITH too.
Good little ditty.
Cracky’s back!
I don’t even think in terms of “conspiracy theories” anymore. Just assume everything is exactly as it looks and you’ll be 90% right.
“Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023”
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How many times do you think “Fuck you I should be the one to keep it safe!!!” was said by someone?
Dark Cracky whispered in their dreams….
Dark Cracky will kindle all the dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy…
Dr. Seuss beat him to it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fxqV2COiHJg
By destroy you mean dispose of it in the proper manner?
Just because the “magnificent seven” are getting a haircut by the dreaded profit takers doesn’t mean my stocks (or yours) are necessarily in the shitter.
Are Banks Sweeping Dud Property Loans Under the Rug?
Yes. Yes they are.
– “Banking regulators have said they are aware there is a problem, while also assuring the public that this won’t be another 2008”
Great. It’s another 2008 coming.
It seems to me that like the military — banking regulators are always fighting the last war (as it were). Only it is worse because the oceans of regulations they add after each incident contributes to the next one. Argentinian chainsaws come to mind about now…
Not 2008, probably going to be a lot worse.
Burn the heretics
Many young progressives who were hesitant to usher in another Joe Biden presidency now appear eager to cast their ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris — and they’re turning against fellow leftists online who aren’t on the same page.
In the days since Biden dropped his re-election campaign, progressive circles appeared to celebrate the news and rally behind Harris. But some left-leaning social media users were quick to criticize progressives’ willingness to vote for “a cop,” and some pro-Palestinian voters argued that Harris’ foreign policy would be just as intolerable as Biden’s.
Soon, however, a slew of TikToks and X posts lambasted the narrative that Harris is on par with former President Donald Trump, listing out numerous ways that they believe a Trump presidency would be worse for marginalized communities at home and abroad. Many also criticized anti-Harris leftists’ seeming inability to come up with a better solution, accusing them of performative activism.
New Jersey-based musician Charley Furey, 28, said he has been fearful about how a second Trump presidency might affect LGBTQ+ rights. He said he wept in relief when Biden — who was too moderate for his tastes — announced that he would step aside, because for the first time in a long time, he felt hopeful that a Democratic nominee could beat Trump.
War of the drama queens.
Putting the “idiot” in “useful idiots”, certainly…. It isn’t like there was actually 4 years of OMB to track what really happened with “LGBTQ+ rights” or anything….
And Harris being a problem for the “pro-Palestinian” crowd is a laugh.
I’ll never forget this. Back in 2016 there was a gay woman we knew from roller derby. When Trump won she got on Facebook and said she was literally shaking in fear because she was gay and now because Trump people do something violent to her. Thankfully we lost touch with her (she was a pain in the ass in various ways) but as far as I know she was never attacked by a MAGA mob.
These people are brainwashed into fear and you’ll never talk them out of it.
Who can blame them after what happened to Jussie Smollet? MAGA mobs everywhere…. mass hysteria!
She did live in Chicago, which is MAGA Country, so maybe she was just lucky.
I think everyone knows the pro-palis will not be satisfied short of death camps, ovens and carpet bombing of Israel. They are a gnats pecker away from coming out and saying that explicitly.
Never again huh? Go ahead, vote leftist and see what happens.
My friend who is a server recently told me about all of these awful stories of discrimination and violence that she heard from diners at catered events during Pride Week. I basically said “You know, just because a stranger seems pretty friendly and tips you well doesn’t mean that they’re not completely full of shit.”
Gdragon – giving another meaning to “just the tip”.
NJ will be just fine in the Harris electoral vote. It’s nice he thinks his vote counts.
The market is getting treated like a lost hiker in Cascadia.
I go away for a couple days, and y’all derail the economy.
Sad!
[golf clap]
There are bull markets, there are bear markets, and then there are STEVE SMITH markets.
It’s gonna go up in the end?
Hi-you!
Fucking autocorrect. Hi-yo!
“Certain leftists want a 100% morally pure option that doesn’t realistically exist in our political system right now. I wish it did but it doesn’t,” said Furey, who also shared his frustration on TikTok. “And it annoys me that rather than use their vote to make a difference in what ways they can, they throw their hands up and say screw the system. It’s a cop-out and completely against what we on the left should stand for.”
Progressives have previously expressed disenchantment with the president’s support for Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, his climate policies and his efforts to ban TikTok, among other concerns. They’ve similarly criticized Harris in the past for her criminal justice policies as California attorney general and, more recently, for her seeming complicity with Biden’s stance on Israel.
Not to mention the likelihood of your Maoist ideal candidate getting slaughtered in all 50 states.
No True Communist has ever run! The Ideal Communist
ManPerxn would sweep all before Xir!Only the Dragon Riders of Perxn!
Wynn noted that most on the left will likely never find a “perfect candidate” in a major presidential nominee.
“Unfortunately, American presidential elections are largely decided by Midwestern swing-state voters and not by socialists on Twitter,” she said. “So that’s why you see candidates tending to say things that don’t feel appealing to socialist Twitter.”
“Unfortunately, not all voters are as dumb as I am.”
That’s surprisingly perceptive.
Did some off road Jeeping and horseback riding today.
Wheee!
you kids and your euphemisms…
We also made some glass suncatchers.
Gf made a bracelet.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/XvTQvXf_QJmvnHw_oBsN0w.svojZHeF6jBkdYQ136BQ8N
Sounds like a great day!
Where are y’all vacationing?
https://www.greenbrier.com/
Complete with underground nuclear war bunker!
Do you know something you’re not sharing with us?
Maybe…
Oh, dinner reservations before the …err…nm.
Gotta go!
What a great place!
I would be all over the fishing and falconry!
Enjoy, dude!
Biden meeting with national security team amid anticipated Iran attack on Israel
https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/biden-meeting-national-security-team-amid-anticipated-iran-attack-israel
They better hurry, only an hour left before his work day ends.
I would love to be a fly on the wall. Every 4 star in the room must be frustrated by his lack of cognition.
You think Biden gets invited to any meetings and is involved in any decision making? That’s adorable.
I don’t know. They’ll be throwing around $billions in tax dollars like it’s confetti. After a while I’d getting pretty pissed.
SugarFree’s next post has written itself.
These cryptid maps always leave the great Piasa Bird off for some reason
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasa
Hey are you a local river rat?
Yep. Between the rivers in one of Illinois’s weirdest counties, Calhoun.
Ha! I live in Alton. Calhoun has great peaches, morels and WEED.
SEA SMITH BE RIGHT UP ST. LAWRENCE TO INVEST IN YOUR COMMUNITY…. AND BY INVEST, MEAN….
Damn. Dad makes 10 year old walk to school after being kicked off the bus for bullying.
https://youtube.com/shorts/LDDTgtC4lNI?si=UqGxt7eMgKs80djZ
I hope it works. Sometimes wonderful families just get unlucky on the offspring lottery.
Anyone else hate the style of big-ass open captioning right in the middle of the frame?
Yeah, but in this case it’s not like it’s blocking much action.
Yes. Not a fan of it.
My 401k is now unburdened from what has been.
Well it was irrationally going up before. Now it’s irrationally going down.
Actually hasn’t been too bad. Just a small dip.
Will be interesting to see if that’s all there is to it
Now you can imagine a future without it
Butthurt crap like this could cost him the election and reminds me of why I wished DeSantis did better in the primary. He contains multitudes — and a sizable portion of them seem to be vindictive idiots.
Yup. Pure idiocy.
But Republicans chose him. Again. Of course.
He seemed to be making really good strategic choices the last few months. This is just dumb. Democrats can’t win on any issue besides abortion (and he defused that one). He’s got a winning hand, double down on it.
Yup. It’s what he does.
He is once again revealing his lack of discipline. If he loses, it will be because of stuff like this.
Mrs. Creech voted for Trump twice. Now says she would vote for Shapiro if he was the prez candidate. Trump has to be losing votes on net every time he acts the bully.
Steve Smith would forget thisIllinois monster
I still remember when notorious bird-hater Roger Clemens threw a broken bat at him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwrodxghrw
Stop criticizing XYs who beat up XXs for sport in the Olympics, you bigot.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/08/05/for-female-athletes-of-color-scrutiny-around-gender-rules-and-identity-is-part-of-a-long-trend/
It still gets me that of all sports this happened in boxing. Where people can get seriously injured or killed. I wonder why this isn’t happening in women’s gymnastics?
I’d be happy to let all these XY competitors participate in the women’s competitive shooting sessions…..
Because guys would quit the first time they split the beam.
On the other hand, there was this guy: https://youtu.be/EO_BnsrWMnI?si=f248w5brBKsFZ27e
I am sometimes astounded at how much horseshit can be packed into so few words.
I’m still not clear about this person’s sex. I have heard everything from “that’s a man, baby! “ to the person was a true XXY.
Ditto but much like England, we’re seeing that people are fed up with certain aspects of current year and are pouncing back. Even if the “facts” don’t precisely line up in their favor.
The IBA is adamant it’s a dude.
It seems to me they could clear things up by saying what their chromosomes are. If XX, then no problem. If XY, disqualify. If XXY or some such, then it’s not be so clear, and could be one of those “teachable moments” our betters like so much. Instead it’s “Shut up, bigot.”
https://twitter.com/xxclusionary/status/1820453705793118597?t=gaVavEn1c_2K2zMn4EKRkw&s=19
The fact that nobody is saying anything other than the people saying “XY” tells you something. If xe was a genetic abnormality, we’d have heard about it by now, I’m pretty sure.
Dear Steve Smith: What are “Liks”?
OMG. Don’t make me say it.
Why are you the only person who bit?
I don’t know. I shall practice restraint for now.
Seems like somethin’ playful after the hawk-tuah. Me likey.
Far right extremism
A Virginia man has been charged with making death threats against Vice President Kamala Harris and appeared in federal court on Monday.
According to court records, Frank Lucio Carillo made several threats against Harris, President Joe Biden, FBI Director Christopher Wray, several Arizona officials, and others on the right-wing social media platform Gettr.
In response to a subpoena, the FBI found 4,359 posts from Carillo “targeting various public officials,” including Harris.
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Federal agents retrieved two firearms from his home, including a pistol he bought in 2023 and a rifle purchased this year.
A hearing to determine whether Carillo will remain behind bars while awaiting a resolution in his case has been set for Thursday.
He fits the profile. Crucify him.
“Gettr”? Is that like Grindr for MAGAs?
Insurrection in Bangladesh
More effective than voting.
Fuck you, Ford.
Patent application for the F-150 Stasi edition.
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processor in a first vehicle, from a first vehicle speed detection system of the first vehicle, a speed measurement associated with a second vehicle; determining, by the processor, based on evaluating the speed measurement, that a speed of the second vehicle exceeds a first threshold speed; receiving, by the processor, from an image capture system of the first vehicle, an image comprising the second vehicle; determining, by the processor, based on evaluating the image, at least a first identifying feature of the second vehicle; and generating, by the processor, a record comprising the speed measurement, the image comprising the second vehicle, and the first identifying feature of the second vehicle.
nothing burger
cop car with camera and radar catches someone speeding and the invention generates and image with the other car, an identifying feature (license plate), and speed measurement in one image.
Keep reading. It gives the cop access to your car’s electronics. To display on your infotainment system that you are speeding, according to the cop, but once that door is cracked open . . . .
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first vehicle is a first law-enforcement vehicle and wherein the method further comprises: displaying, by the processor, on a display screen of an infotainment system of the first vehicle, a notification that includes at least one of the speed measurement associated with the second vehicle, the image comprising the second vehicle, or the first identifying feature of the second vehicle.
A dependent claim. It protects the concept. Which is worthless without an industry standard receiver, transmitter, and protocols.
But yes. Fuck them for even thinking about it.
I have been experimenting with trolling Boomercons on the major national conservative-leaning newspaper’s site. It is remarkable how locked into a binary worldview they are.
Uffda. The poor potheads can’t catch a break
So the potheads got to clear up their record (which is good), but with the clean record, they can’t jump the line to get one of the state licenses to sell pot. Not sure why there is any “social equity” points being given to potheads, but it makes me laugh.
Step 1: Expunge the records of potheads.
Step 2: Give convicted potheads the licenses for pot stores.
Err, nobody saw the problem with this? What were they, stoned?
Nope, just dumb as stoners.
King Walz’s first Pot Commissioner had to withdraw because she was selling pot illegally.
Actually, the stoners have a pretty good grip on drug laws.
PAGING OMWC!!!
Our beloved Coach is now on the actual MSM
https://x.com/3YearLetterman/status/1820587435551555855
Tucker Puts the Cybertruck to the Ultimate Test (Full Review)
Actually, Tucker’s pals in Maine put the CT to the test. Oddly charming and a pretty even handed review. I like this new Tucker.
Woah. Pretty much employed! Octapharma Plasma called me and we’re having an interview tomorrow. I went in today to check the route and ended up chatting to her. On the phone she said she was “impressed by my resume,” and it returned in person. Unless something odd with tests or history gets in the way, it seems ensured this will be my next job. My first full-time job in America…that actually has a schedule. (And even it changes every two weeks.)
I fit in quite well there. Folk donating plasma for money for a business selling a needed product to desirous customers. Morally, I’m thrilled. Unlike other possibilities that would have me biting my tongue a bit (me guesses). The folk are My Kind of folk. I’ll get along great with them. Mostly poor, I’m guessin’ college kids as well, and just demographics that I ‘get along’ with. My nature; experience teaching foreigners in Strange-Strange Lands; covering Miami County’s characters in the newspaper; travels abroad.. ..add in my time in AA; detox; and my (fairly minimal) time in, and knowledge of the Underworld… wow. I Get these folk. I get along with them, rather.
Looks like $19-$19.5/hour, with four 10-hour shifts a week. Full-time, not a contract. She pretty much said after learning the rules and shit, “You’ll” start in a few weeks. I am not sure how, but damn I find ways to snake my way into cracks that suit me. This does FAR better than a hospital or an elderly-etc clinic. I am quite excited.
Ancillary positive: DAMN, these folk are gonna have Stories. I did think of the explosion of writing/story ideas that would come up and in each day. (I (so far) only write non-fiction.))
“She pretty much said after learning the rules and shit, “You’ll” start in a few weeks.”
Not to rain on your parade, but that is a pretty common type of thing to say to everybody being interviewed – it’s conversational way of saying “Whoever gets the job will X”. It’s not a job offer until it’s in writing. It’s great to be in the interview pool – that’s the hardest part, IMO, but you’ve still got to bring it to the hoop.
I’m with ya. Nothin’s in writing. The folk working there I briefly chatted with happily surprised to see a phlebotomist. Hrm.
We shall see how tomorrow goes, but my read of the room was exceptionally promising. She did pretty much say I’ll be “starting in a couple of weeks, or so.” Friendly chatter, and I still have to get my blood and background checked, etc. So that *is* a known unknown. We’ll see!
Ya addressed the ‘workin’ in two weeks bit,’ my bad. It was the feel of the place. Not a hospital, quite small, bad neighborhood, just my read of her, especially on the phone with her earlier today, made it sound quite sincere. I could (yet again) be naive ’bout it.
Fuck yes. Good job, Evan! I hope you continue to crush!
I thought you couldn’t have guns in the UK unless you’re a hunter. I don’t think that looks like a hunting rifle. https://x.com/radiogenoa/status/1820563644545192366?s=61&t=h5BOKTRU9mc6OIfm7REElw
Do we really know that’s a Muslim immigrant in the UK?
Looks like he never loaded it before.
Is that plastic? It’s moving as if there’s no weight to it.
The way his finger was on the trigger as he tried to jam the magazine in does make me agree that this won’t end well.
Murder is illegal there, so the gun won’t do him any good.
“This is not a dream… not a dream. We are using your brain’s electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year two, zero, two, nine. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation.
(I dreamt I had a dream last night A dream as real as me A dream within a dream It was a funny little dream)
If it wasn’t for Minnesoda gubment workers, none of you would have honey crisp apples!