A few weeks ago I asked for opinions on a G-Shock for my oldest son. For whatever reason shipping took forever and I got it yesterday. I don’t think I ordered it from Japan, but stranger things happened. I surprised as I was expecting multiple aggravating steps to set the time, but as it turns out you use button A to find the world time function, then toggle to your time zone with button C. An internal motor then turns the hands to the correct time. Kinda cool. Doesn’t matter though, my wife promised him a new phone.
¡Enlaces!
Not Mexico related, but it is within my wheelhouse. I was explicitly told to NEVER “just look up” a Vet…so I only did it a handful of times. You’d look up to see if you can find Steve Rodgers in a VA database, too!
Back to Mexico—the woman raised by communist parents but totally isn’t a communist takes power.
Homeless, abrasive drunks hardest hit.
The fun part about the Mexican Army taking over for a corrupt police department, is Culiacán is a resort town with a lot of ex-pats.
Haitian advocate groups seek vengeance of Trump-Vance for cat eating comments. I can fix this right now: maybe STOP EATING CATS.
The Argentine poverty rate as reported by the Crown News sounds alarming. To their credit they immediately mention the number of civil servants that were recently fired, maybe its enough to put an additional 10% of the population under the poverty line. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Speaking of Argentina…they have their own hate birds: the birds that hate.
Have a tune. Phil is awesome, I don’t care what anyone has to say about that.
Homeless, abrasive drunks hardest hit.
Hey! Not cool, man!
(Also, that was July)
Wait, did I post it in July?
I think maybe because I thought it pretty damn unlucky for them to lose two plants!
Updated today, its why it was on their home page.
Fuck, that looks huge.
Does he wear that on his wrist or hang it around his neck?
All G-Shocks look chunky, but are very light.
Great choice.
I like the blue.
Same. Nice choice.
So if he’s getting a phone, are you just going to keep the watch?
No, I killed my old G-Shock I bought before my first deployment to Iraq.
Speaking of Argentina…they have their own hate birds: the birds that hate.
At least they are pretty.
Its an easily solvable problem if they are delicious.
Hence the problem with our hate birds – they are vile tasting.
Perhaps Argentina would appreciate a shipment of Haitians to control them? Many birds with one stone…
That’s how Argentina has handled the Eared Dove problem in the Cordoba Valley region. If you’ve never hunted doves, I recommend this to your attention.
My grandfather used to hunt doves in his front yard. Its not as irresponsible as it sounds. My grandparents lived in a ranch house though he was not a rancher. What are you supposed to do when there are that many birds in the yard?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjmkeXj9bRI
I was hoping that the bird was going to be penguins.
If it had been about penguins, I could drop some knowledge about them that I recently learned.
I’d tell you all about how penguins feathers are all oily. They have evolved this oil in their feathers to stay warm.
As they say the oily bird gets the warm.
You’ll never change, PJs
I can’t change my opinions on penguins Fourscore. It is a black and white issue.
Have a tune. Phil is awesome, I don’t care what anyone has to say about that.
He is. And this comment is spot on:
lol
Nice track. Band is completely unknown to me.
Oh yeah, that person that illegally leaked Donnie Two Scoops tax returns…which prison did they put them in?
When I was living in Memphis in the ’90s, there were some folks at the local IRS center who got arrested and a bit of jail time for looking up Rush Limbaugh’s and some other celebrities tax returns.
The kicker was that once they had completed their prison terms (it was only a year and at a minimum security prison) their union got them their jobs back. If I remember, their job duties were different (no more access to the db) but they got to keep working toward that govt pension.
Ugh, why is there never a corporate sponsored volunteering opportunity that doesn’t suck.
If this lady uses “youth experiencing homelessness” one more time, I’m going to throw something. Oh, and LGBT+++ and minorities hardest hit, as with everything else in volunteering.
I think we really need to once again use the distinction between homeless, bum, and hobo.
Seriously.
Conflating them is of course deliberate.
But around here it is easy to tell the difference. Actual homeless tend to find a shelter. Bums live outside by choice. The latter outnumber the former by more than 9 to 1.
Can I volunteer with something near me? No. Maybe next year.
Ok, I have to share this “opportunity” that’s available on my company’s volunteering site. 🤣
I hear they’re the hardest kids to place, and they need somebody right meow!
Thousands of the green-yellow-red birds have invaded, driven by deforestation in the surrounding hills, according to biologists.
“Deforestation”. That’s almost like blaming climate change. But almost doesn’t count.
“Deforestation”
synonym for a Brazilian?
Look at satellite photos of the US east of the Rockies lately?
The 19th century saw a huge push for people to deforest NA.
I can’t find the 19th century satellite photos for comparison.
Ok, you did make me laugh.
A plane is on its way to Toronto when a blonde in economy class gets up and moves to the first class section….
Yes, yes they are. They see nothing wrong with it. I am not sure why they are denying it.
Geese have nothing on parrots. They truly are evil shits.
You may collect their feathers without penalty. 🤷🏻♀️
Just in case you didn’t see it (and Pie posted it this morning as well):
Preliminary Milei Report Card – By Astral Codex Ten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MewNfrn_yxs&ab_channel=Showment
It can’t happen here
What do you mean you won’t keep spending at the once in a lifetime super emergency levels? Why wouldn’t we budget it like the money would never end?
Fuck them; they’re GovSec workers.
This man is a goddamn hero.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdenrg7wy5ro?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_campaign_type=owned&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_format=link&at_medium=social&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_id=2FBDEFC2-801C-11EF-BFB2-E56903063D1B&at_link_type=web_link&at_link_origin=BBCNorthAmerica&at_campaign=Social_Flow
But making deadlier viruses is totes cool.
Uh…what about dog breeders?
my wife promised him a new phone.
Can he wear the phone on his wrist?
Yes.
https://www.amazon.com/Trianium-Resistant-Armband-iPhone-Galaxy/dp/B07G3G2CTQ/ref=asc_df_B07G3G2CTQ?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80333120120410&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583932699398793&psc=1
Piker
*my son actually had one of these. In fact, it is probably in a box in my basement right this minute. If I could only find some other Yu-gi-oh player, I’d totes school him.
“We need to start to restore our natural environments,” Lera said. “But until that happens, we have to think of strategies that allow us to live together in the most harmonious way possible in our towns.”
Kestrels. And cats.
They are still pushing that commie shit? Of course they are. Re-wilding and forcing everyone into Khrushchevkas.
When car technology goes wrong …
My wife’s car has sonic sensors to protect against accidentally leaving children or pets in the car. It appears a grasshopper can set off the alarm.
What’s your pet grasshopper’s name?
Kwai Chang Caine approves.
What if I want to intentionally leave a child or pet in the car?
*cough* Bullshit. *cough*
Applies to entire article.
I missed something.
John Kerry? Hillary Clinton? Kamala Harris? Tampon Timmy?
From the al Jazeera article in the lynx. The whole thing is hilarious….
“This week, Jozef delivered what she hopes will be a resounding answer: Her organisation filed criminal charges in Ohio against Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance, for spreading false rumours about Haitian migrants eating pets in the town of Springfield.
Jozef and her lawyers say the Republican politicians’ statements amount to crimes under Ohio state law – violations related to menacing, harassment and making false alarms that have directly disrupted public services.”
So a private nonprofit organization files criminal charges. Against prez/vice prez candidates. For saying stuff.
Also, how have the cat-eating claims been debunked, as the article says about 30 times? It seems like something that’s, at best, unknowable. Did the reporters check all of the pet death certificates in Central Ohio for the past year?
We’re supposed to believe that random Haitians – that Biden’s NGO’s trucked in – are complaining about mean tweets.
The whole article is self-serving horseshit. “I created this drama that feeds my narrative; here, write a story about it.”
I don’t know about those in the more central areas of Ohio, but I’ve noticed that the news coverage up here is much more focused on people talking about what Trump and Vance said versus what’s going on in Springfield. DeWine’s gotten involved as well, since he was born in Springfield.
I have a fantastic idea. Lets let swarms of people into the country whose cultural values directly conflict with our own (especially about good/bad , truth/lie) . What could go wrong? They are just hard working honest people seeking a better life and have all of those doe-eyed children longing for a white savior. Really, what could go wrong?
“Also, how have the cat-eating claims been debunked, as the article says about 30 times?”
There are multiple photos and sworn affidavits about Haitians eating cats in Ohio. Not sure if any are from Springfield specifically.
had to deter anyone else from trying to “change the genetic makeup of the creatures” on the planet.
Seriously? Who comes up with this stuff.
I saw this story a while back. Did they just now get around to sentencing him?
Hello all. In Chicago all last week for work, and my hotel was next door to the Federal Reserve Bank. One afternoon we got off a little early so I was playing archi-tourist and wandered in. The guards said I couldn’t really go any farther than the lobby but there was a little FRB museum if I wanted to walk through it. One exhibit was headlined “Is My Money Real?” and I was like “well y’all are feeling a little defensive, aren’t ya?” Turned out it was instead about counterfeiting and had a little thing you could stick bills under to see if they’re “real”.
Last few days dealing with hurricane stuff. Big pecan tree on the house with 3 limbs stabbed through the roof. Got it stabilized and waterproof till I can get a crane to deal with it. Right East of the eye in South GA, so hellacious winds but relatively little rain. Maybe ’cause it was all going sideways.
Iranian missile thing #1: I think it seems “performative”, meant to be a lot of sound and fury and accomplish nothing on the receiving end. My theory is that, Israel being no dummies, they are closely connected with the Persian version of Valkyrie and whatever happens next is aimed at regime change without any more destruction than necessary.
Iranian missile thing #2: XY#1 (Guard unit has been active nearly a year) just moved into Jordan about a week ago, so yikes. Comms have been pretty OK up to yesterday. Will try to talk to him tomorrow.
Yikes is right. Both for the home damage and the deployment.
I hope both are resolved quickly and as uneventfully as possible.
That watch looks… busy.
Says the guy who doesn’t even own a wrist watch.
Government is the resources we misallocate together
In the wake of Hurricane Helene, western North Carolina is facing what officials are calling “biblical devastation.” Entire communities washed away. A whole region physically and digitally isolated from the rest of the state, with most roads completely impassable. No power or water, and no cell service to contact loved ones or call for help. What we do know is devastating. What we don’t yet know is terrifying. It’s worse than most anyone could have imagined. And it’s times like these that we recognize the value of good government, as local, state and federal agencies work tirelessly to provide a lifeline to flood victims.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Too bad that, instead of creating and maintaining systems that work, those levels of government have been spending all of our money on bike lanes and transit that nobody uses, transitioning to a net-zero economy, etc.
You leave Gov Walz alone! Now ! I mean it!
If K and W lose we get Walz back. If they win everyone loses.
I take it ‘The Editorial Board’ saw the footage of Kamala ‘fuck you’ Harris’s smarmy smirk and silence when asked what the tireless agencies were working relentlessly to provide to the flood victims.
I did see where we allocated 330M bucks to the people in Gaza (Hamas).
But help is out there — and yet there are too many elected officials who want to dismantle the very things that are helping people right now.
One startling example: Project 2025 calls for dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which could have significant implications for important agencies like the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center that fall under NOAA’s umbrella. While Project 2025 does not call for the latter two to be dismantled — only “reviewed” —- experts say that it could limit public access to the forecasts of the NWS and the National Hurricane Center by requiring them to “commercialize their services.” At the same time, Republicans have repeatedly engaged in brinkmanship when it comes to funding the government, and too many seem too willing to force a shutdown in order to extract the spending cuts they desire. Congress still has yet to pass a long-term spending bill for the federal government, instead keeping the lights on through temporary funding measures that fail to address the needs of agencies like FEMA.
Project 2025! Anarchy! Hobbesian chaos!
I forgot to include the 2025 project with my list of absurd lies at the end of the last thread.
Drinking game for tonight.
*adds ambulance to speed-dial*
This is what I do every time friends/family are about to do something stupid :
“I’ll dial 9 and 1…”
I’m planning on watching those guys, if only because Walter Kirn is from Minnesota and hates Walz with the fire of a thousand suns
… because Walz is a phony “regular guy from Minnesota.”
He’s from fucking Nebraska.
He’s the largest piece of shit to ever serve in my state and that’s saying something. I’m with Walter.
Wow Tundra, don’t tell me you’re not afraid of spicy food and don’t kowtow to a strong woman?
Dude, I’ve been married for nearly 33 years. My kowtowing is a fucking art form.
Also, we had terrific SE Asian restaurants so my palate is more sophisticated than TT’s.
The fact that Walz wore blue to the Michigan/Gophers game should be a HUGE scandal.
Or as some wag I saw on X said, “at least wear Cornhusker red”.
How craven can you be? No one would have batted an eye if you had worn Maroon and Gold. They would have respected you for sticking up for the home team. No wonder he got booed.
It is like Herself trying to wear a Yankees cap. Phony bullshit.
Next thing you know, I’ll be calling Walz a carpet bagger.
That…God sort em out
This is nasty. I’m sure there was fine print, but $9k.
Students Paid Thousands for a Caltech Boot Camp. Caltech Didn’t Teach It.
Hundreds of universities have lent their names to online programs, plugging budgets but alienating students who feel misled.
https://archive.fo/Ctwjf
We need to get in on that grift! 9K a person? What can we teach? And using whose university name?
How about we teach DEI (or sexual harrassment) courses? Our customers would be cynical fucks like us.
The courses would be held in nice places like Hawaii or Phoenix. Attendance would not be taken and there would be no tests given at the end of training because that would be sexist/racist/colonizer shit. Nope, you’d be on your own honor to attend.
Also, we’d work with the hotel bar to rename drinks. So you could expense them in. Your bar tab wouldn’t be 8 rum and cokes. It would instead say “Fundamentals of Combatting Colonial influences vols 1-8”.
Papa, you need to start a newsletter!
Fucking idiots. They should dummy up. This is the Streisand Effect stuff.
If you fell for it, so would potential employers. Now with the Times blabbing they will know it is from a diploma mill.
Seriously, I know many, many people who have gotten into the IT world via a boot camp instead of getting a college degree (the Altar Girl and my sister for example). The boot camps can be great or they can be bad. The best things that the good ones do is place their students in jobs after passing the boot camp.
The good ones have connections to local employers and can get their graduates in front of the hiring managers there. I would have been suspicious of any remote boot camp program just because of that. How do they get me connected to potential employers?
I got it by teaching myself and convincing HR to move me there. Long, long years of improvement ensued.
No silver bullet, folx.
A student today addressed me as “Dr. Derpy” because he honestly thought I have a PhD in math. I guess I’m impressing my students.
Me teaching, artist’s depiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC08HY3B8ZE
Nice. I like “Dr. Derpy.”
Is that the store brand Dr Pepper?
Maybe they thought you were like Dr. Jill.
They thought he was the President?
I don’t really pay attention to such things, but I wonder what the total points over/under was for the Lions Seahawks game l;ast night. I’m guessing the over was the right pick.
Considering the final was in at 71? Yeah. The over was the right pick.
Horse semen-drinker vs. couch-humper Zoom?
Yes
I was thinking of giving one of my smarter but rowdier students this question and have him give a lesson on how to solve it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcAnDrWTs_8
Charter School Chronicles 7
Many if not most of my students do not know how to attach a file to an email, select all, copy and paste, or create a Word document. These are 9th and 10th graders who grew up using the internet and having access to the sum of human knowledge.
Kids these days…
[wanders off muttering and looking for a cloud to yell at]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC3kBsRpkZQ
I was asked today to transfer a phone call to someone else. I have no idea how to do that.
On most phone systems, you push the transfer button, call the number you want to send it to, wait for someone to answer, and push the transfer button again (leaving out the waiting for someone to answer is how to cold transfer).
The way most agents I’ve seen try to transfer is to put the call on hold, hang up on the caller, call a random number, and/or conference them together with someone else entirely.
You hold the phone out from your head, state in a loud voice:
“COMPUTER! TRANSFER THIS ASSHOLE TO (X)!”
And then wait in silence.
The Slow Mo Guys go to Kentucky Ballistics and shoot the Fat Mac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpr4a89YzE8
Why do I get a feeling that the Supreme leader of Iran is going to die tonight? And if so, the world tomorrow will be a much different yet much better place
When, exactly, has such a thing ever occurred? The fucking neocons aren’t gonna just put up a mission accomplished banner and retire to a golf course somewhere.
This. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
He’s probably bunkered deep under 50′ of concrete at an undisclosed location. Mossad needs to recruit a volunteer, expendable assassination team to go in and take him out when he’s feeling safe somewhere.
Or just make some explosive buttplugs.
Justice
California has become the fourth state to ban legacy admissions in the college application process, a practice that has long been criticized as favoring white or wealthy students based on their familial alumni connections.
“In California, everyone should be able to get ahead through merit, skill, and hard work,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a Monday statement. “The California Dream shouldn’t be accessible to just a lucky few, which is why we’re opening the door to higher education wide enough for everyone, fairly.”
The decision affects private and nonprofit universities. The University of California system eliminated legacy admission preferences in 1998, according to Newsom’s office.
What does that maundering nonsense have to do with anything?
I dunno, but it’s the exact opposite of the truth as practiced before last year’s SCOTUS term. And as he surely wants to practice again.
All private colleges and universities in California must now submit an annual report to ensure compliance.
Research has shown that legacy applicants are admitted at higher rates, but are not more qualified or academically superior applicants. They are also a less racially diverse population.
Are they LESS qualified? I doubt it.
The war on freedom of association continues.
I don’t have a problem with banning it in public colleges, but private ones should be allowed to do what they want.
indeed
getting rid of public colleges fixes this completely!
A lot of ‘private’ colleges take public money.
Adios, motherfuckers
CNN, one of the most popular news websites in the world, is starting to ask some of its visitors to pay $3.99 a month for access.
On Tuesday, the news organization is laying the first bricks in a so-called paywall that should, over time, help foot the bill for CNN’s journalism around the world.
“Starting today, we are asking users in the United States to pay a small recurring fee for unlimited access to CNN.com’s world-class articles,” Alex MacCallum, CNN’s executive vice president of digital products and services, wrote in an internal memo outlining the plan.
I’ll pay what I think they are worth.
Good luck. Business press is the only modest success I can point to.
NYT has yet to make a go of it. WP the same.
Why not? It worked like gangbusters for CNN+!
Keep building on that success.
MacCallum and her boss Mark Thompson, the chairman and chief executive of CNN, are both veterans of The New York Times, which is widely envied in the news business for its success in converting online readers and gamers into paying subscribers.
Yes, yes, of course. Be just like NYT. That’s a sure path to success.
Still, many readers and viewers don’t connect the dots between personally paying for news and helping to sustain the industry as a whole. Piechota said “unfortunately, based on surveys, most consumers across the world are not aware of the financial challenges faced by the commercial news media.”
“But when they hear about the industry’s critical financial situation,” he said, “their willingness to pay for journalism is the highest, studies showed.”
Who will compensate me for distilling afew drops of factual information from the vast ocean of opinion, propaganda and outright lies?
Can’t they just get Soros to kick in a few mil a year?
They arent?
Today in what country am I in?
Packed train, Chinese speaker to my left and two Chinese women having quite the conversation to my right.
Later, old Japanese guy speaking on the phone. Only about the fourth time in 20 plus years on the train I’ve heard Japanese.
I do not enjoy listening to Chinese. And I say this as somebody with many Chinese speaking friends.
Funny thing is one of my Japanese friends disliked English the same way until she decided she wanted to be able to converse in it.
The northern accent grates on my ears. Fucking pirate accent.
Do you know if you are hearing Cantonese or Mandarin?
They are very different sounding.
Mandarin.
I work with native speakers of both as well as Taiwanese.
The Taiwanese speakers speak Mandarin as well and so does the Cantonese speaker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL5x60lpGIE&ab_channel=rickybflay
Apparently not Sensei.
This is the way.
Just keep forfeiting, ladies. Well done.
Agreed. This is how you stop the nonsense.
People loved being played like this, right? I mean, come on.
If I have learned anything from documentaries like One of the Guys or She’s the Man it is that situations like that always turn into True Love.
Walter Kirin’s speech.
Short but excellent.
For those who know Soviet history and the Russian language
I would get for my daughter if I could get from a reputable site.