Me, right about now, trying to line up some Bourbon County variants.
So, my personal, work and other lives have been put into a blender and set on “chopped”. So, I may be even crankier than I usually am…for a while. But, you know, nobody has shot at me, dropped mortar rounds on me, or pushed me into a minefield…so it ain’t that bad. Mostly.
So, you get some links that are only partly crabby and grumpy!
- See enough K Pop chicks, and…boom.
- The world makes sense when you realize we are all just parts of SugarFree’s fever dream.
- Not everyone is an asshole. Good on this guy.
- Hey….do me a favor, eh? Answer this. What? OK, hit translate on your browser. What do you mean you don’t know any?! Bah.
Music? Meh. This is old, and the song is …ordinary, but the video is a classic. Well, to me it is!
Comments are all yours, you reprobates!
What about us non-reprobate commenters?
What about us double-secret reprobates?
You go on probation.
And how about us miscreants?
“us non-reprobate commenters”
They are mythical
Lies!
I think if you claim to be a non-reprobate, you definitely are one.
I don’t think it works that way.
That’s exactly what a reprobate would say!
Not a reprobate eh? Must be a bitter clinger or deplorable then.
I’m preprobate, as are all current Glibs, as far as I know, and I hope we all remain so for a good long time!
I like that song.
Maybe I’m an ordinary guy, living in an ordinary world.
So much for that Korean women’s movement that decided to shut men out if their lives.
Or, did life find a way?
Life found a way. Eventually enough of the non-breeders die off and the ratio improves.
Well I saw korean women on the interwebs saying that movment was mostly made ub by americaneze wimmen
The first thing I thought when I heard about Lysistrata I thought “Right. And you will never drink again, count on it?”
wut
Gender inequality in the workplace ate my homework.
A lot of prehistoric thinking in their calculation: how the hell are they so sure that the birthing persons were women?
Me, right about now, trying to line up some Bourbon County variants.
I do not like high abv beers. Anything over 6%. For high alkyhol i prefer wine. But i am at this place where there are not many good options for my taste and decided to try the following which they had on tap and honestly pretty good. But still not worth the 9.7%
https://www.orielbeer.com/product/ryes-dark-whisper/
In American:
“We are looking for the top law firms in Switzerland 2025
For the ninth time, BILANZ, together with Statista, is searching for the top law firms in Switzerland.”
These law firms are proving adroit at hide and seek, once again being difficult to locate.
Are they looking in the correct place? Perhaps they’re in some hidden mountain bunker.
This should have been the music link.
Nice.
Chopin would have been so proud.
The rooster only crowed twice…
There’s no denying that
As someone who grew up with chickens, that video just makes me wonder how many times that rooster has crapped on them.
Impressive combination of obvious wealth and a rooster on your kid’s head in the conservatory. Probably not a combo that has been played before.
Only a chickenhead would like that.
Hillary will be 81 by the time election day in 2028 rolls around.
81 is nothing really
Oh, 81 is something, let me tell you. Anyone that says age doesn’t matter has never been four score.
Not when you’re using the proper dark magic.
The cloaca of hate has no age.
That horrible monster will never be president.
I think Hillary is confused, in 4 years she’ll be a crone not a crown.
But she’ll always be a clown and not funny.
Ich kenne keine Anwalt Sterninnen.
Morning y’all. It was 535 when I wrote this: 6-whenever shift begins! Yesterday til 1 or so, at 1.5x. Then Sat and Mon off, but not Sun morning. Then to evening shifts w a 3day weekend. Should be interesting here the day after Thanksgiving. I’m guessing mighty light but who knows. Yesterday was not nuts. It is happily slow now… And snow!
Take care and kick ass, y’all.
Black Friday Sale on blood plasma?
Do drug dealers celebrate Black Friday with a sale?
/Curious in Podunkville
One dude got $80. Ya get $100 your first time. Damn good for two hours (including drive) of your time.
I may try to write for them. Such a great example of the market bringing folk together where everyone wins. Can’t be said for hospitals. Plenty of ‘losers ‘
Also! K-Pop gals: Think Soviet or Chinese gymnasts being trained since birth, half taken away and completely controlled by the Industry. Incredible pressure and obvious Casting Couch. HUGE problem w suicides. Even more than the crazy rates Koreans already have. (But they don’t have guns!! How can that be?!.. in a country where this poor teacher has an apt in the 18th floor w ‘access’ to the roof. Unfathomable!!!
Officials have pointed to a jump in marriages after the COVID-19 pandemic as the key driver in the recent birth rate boost.
“What would marriage have to do with the birth rate?” — Americans, probably
Only at Salon…
Really, people are doing better and just didn’t realize it? And despite doing better they face worse prospects? I’d ask how stupid you have to be to write that, but all I need for an answer is the source.
Never mind the “anti-incumbency” trend because you don’t tell me how that played out in Congress, do you? On the other hand, not one word about the misogynist and racist voters (regardless of party affiliation), so maybe that is progress?
lol
OMG I can’t take any more.
Any votes being counted now are presumtively fabricated and invalid.
They just keep doubling down on the things that lost them the election. “The economy is great! The border is secure! But actually illegal migrants are great and they feed you! Biden is sharp as a tack! Kamala is brat!” If only they could shut down all alternative news sources and social media, then people would finally stop believing their own eyes.
That whole article is spectacular.
“We need to ask why people almost everywhere rejected incumbents, regardless of ideology.”
I’ll save them the trouble: People got tired of the leftist shit.
No, it’s because the voters are stupid. The author wrote a lot of paragraphs explaining that.
“80% of swing voters who chose Trump believed Harris held positions she didn’t campaign on in 2024.”
Only because she didn’t campaign on any of the positions she has gone on record as supporting.
You have to elect her to find out what she stands for!
positions she didn’t campaign on in 2024
Positions she HAD campaigned on previously, and wouldn’t directly disavow to win votes (because she would also lose votes for moving away from those positions).
The premise seems to be that a candidate can be all things to all people – at least in order to win election, then go back to being a very narrowly supported one.
Kommiela tried to fool Pennsylvanians into believing she wasn’t any longer against fracking.
Foolish consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but apparently enough voters are sharp enough to understand when they are being pandered to.
Nothing in the article about the gender continuum and transitioning the non aborted in the womb concerns of the great religious unwashed.
And the only mention on immigration is that is a net positive for social security. Zero mention on crime.
Yeah, I’m not surprised they still have no idea why they lost.
Well, it is all those stocks and bonds that they will get as soon as they land that email job!
I made a batch of Alton Brown’s eggnog on Halloween, and I’m saving it for Christmas.
Last night, I felt like having eggnog, so I did some math and made a single serving with 2 eggs.
It was so good, I might do it again tonight.
Egg Nog lasts 2 months?
My guess is that it contains so much alcohol that it has sterilized the mix.
It gets better with age.
When I had surgery a few years ago, we didn’t drink the 2020 batch until 2022 and it was great.
So good.
https://www.wfmz.com/sports/quakertown-football-rallies-to-extend-win-streak-over-pennridge-to-four-games/article_25f0c120-ade1-11ef-99a4-4323e4d244f2.html
We won again.
*waves sparkler around*
Anyone know a good source of royalty-free music and sound effects? I have spots in my current project that need something other than silence and I don’t have enough voiceover content to cover.
YouTube, but you probably have to have a channel to access it.
Not an option.
Can any of the various AI engines generate background music?
I have no idea.
And I don’t know if the model would be trained on content which was willingly contributed.
What sort of background music are you seeking?
‘The Clintons will share reflections on the noble and important work of public service – from securing peace, prosperity, and progress during the Clinton administration to uplifting millions of people through the work of the Clinton Foundation,’ a press release announcing the event stated.
How special.
Countries don’t bomb themselves.
Yes they do!
Happy post Thanksgiving. Ours was great with family just being together. Next leg of our trip is to Vegas to check in on the teens who couldn’t make it.
Ours was just nice and uneventful. We went to my in-laws, who are all Republicans, and not a single person brought up politics. The food was great, as was the company.
The kids came over and we had a perfect time. We did discuss the role of the Fed in fucking up everything, but that was the extent of the politics. Amazing how being on their own and watching their money disappear hones their interest lol.
I ate way too much.
We were at a lovely party up in Portland, brought two pot pies that came from a local farm, and they were very well received. And I met a nice fellow who had some stories about growing up in Minneapolis that Tundra will love to hear.
All in all, a nice night.
Happy Black Friday everyone. I have been tasked with coming up with a special for our gym, for Small Business Saturday. Last year we offered a free month to get people started before the new year, but we only had a few new customers from that.
Free cookies.
75% off 5 coaching sessions. Don’t do free – no skin in the game means no-show.
Correct.
Safe at last
A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Parliament on Friday in a world-first law.
The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) for systemic failures to prevent children younger than 16 from holding accounts.
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“Platforms now have a social responsibility to ensure the safety of our kids is a priority for them,” Albanese told reporters.
The platforms have one year to work out how they could implement the ban before penalties are enforced.
All you need is magic words on paper to solve your problems.
I always enjoy typing (a random) age into many alcohol producer web sites.
I’m sure that’s highly effective preventing children from drinking.
Most of them now just ask if you’re over 21.
I don’t think kids should be on social media. We didn’t let our kids have phones until they were well into high school. And even then, two out of the three immediately got into trouble and had their phones taken away.
But I can’t imagine how they could enforce a law like this. At my last job, we wrote software for schools. and while troubleshooting a problem we thought was on our end, we discovered the kids were using a proxy server in Germany to get around a firewall.
Yes, it is almost like the drinking age, and of course that is not perfect either.
I keep mistakenly thinking that the west has become very authoritarian but the truth is we were never not authoritarian. The libertarian moment is in the future…and always will be.
This is a masterpiece that just hit my email. Do you think I should either pay it or call?
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_0169.tiff
That broken English is very convincing.
TOK
I know, right. I realized they hard coded my email so I deleted. Not that I was super concerned.
So no need for anybody to click. It was an awesome Geek Squad scam bill.
Maybe to be careful, you should purchase a security program through PayPal …
I wondered why I got a 404.
I’m impressed with their dedication including generating a unique email address within the image.
TIFF file too. I assume other formats are more likely to not pass spam filters, perhaps? Seems odd however.
Got one of those earlier this week.
Do-over
A recount of the votes cast in Sunday’s first round of presidential elections in Romania has been ordered by the country’s top court following allegations that social media platform TikTok gave “preferential treatment” to the surprise winner, Calin Georgescu.
The Constitutional Court also rejected claims filed by two of the losing candidates who accused Georgescu of illegal campaign financing.
Georgescu, a radical with no party of his own, campaigned mainly on TikTok.
The platform has categorically denied it favoured the far-right, pro-Russia candidate.
Georgescu won 23% of the vote, with 19% for the runner up, Elena Lasconi, of the opposition Save Romania Union.
We’ll keep counting votes until we get the numbers we want. Democracy demands nothing less.
California has experience. Give them a call.
Ouch. True. But ouch.
Georgescu, himself, has pushed back against criticism that he used the social media platform illegally to gain an electoral advantage.
The 62-year-old has more than 330,000 followers – up from 30,000 just over a fortnight ago – and more than 4m likes.
“The budget of this campaign was zero… I had a very small team – a maximum of 10 people, no more. But we had millions of people behind [us],” he told the BBC.
“I’m not different – the Romanian people are different. Romanian people need freedom. Real democracy means spirituality. God. Our land. Our property. Our soul. Our family.”
He added that state institutions were trying to deny the people’s choice.
Terrifying.
And those state institutions are trying their damnedest to prove him right.
Reason thinks Trump’s election signals an anti-libertarian moment.
https://x.com/reason/status/1862474357085544534?s=19
I can’t even with these people. Can you even? Because I can’t even.
It’s an interesting thought experiment. If you took 100 libertarian positions how many would Harris overlap versus Trump.
So hypothetically, Harris 20% and Trump 30% with 5% the same between them.
I’d say Trump would be marginally higher.
Imagine the stress they must be going through thinking about the shrinking cocktail party circuit.
Back in the day, Reason went apeshit over Nixon and price controls. And a lot of libertarian-leaning Republicans made the argument that Nixon was better than whomever the Dems would run in 1972 and therefore libertarians should roll over and enjoy it. Looks like some things never change.
Did they release a “Libertarian case for Momala” article yet?
Trump’s 2nd term is so far shaping up to be the most libertarian friendly of any President in my lifetime, which brings us back to the mid 70’s. I’m absolutely prepared to be disappointed, but if on a handful of issues he can be good on, he will easily win that prize in my mind. Harris would have been a total fucking disaster in all respects, so it’s not a high bar to clear.
If only there was a device you could install in commercial fleet vehicles to know their locations.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/28/us-news/mta-mulling-using-drones-to-track-nyc-buses-sparking-outrage-from-union-suspicious/
I assume this debacle involves a union and a contract.
Naw, they just want to use their congestion pricing windfall to hire more people to operate the drones and buy fancy toys.
I remember, back when I worked for Oscar, a union truck driver taking the farther away cheap toll bridge to Jersey but turning in receipts from the nearby expensive bridge (which, apparently, were bought in bulk from a crooked toll collector). Suspicious, management trailed him, took pictures of him on the cheap bridge, etc. Tried to fire him but Teamsters took the position that, yes, it was the truck assigned to him that day but the photos didn’t show the driver’s face, so the evidence was only circumstantial and he couldn’t be fired.
In that circumstance, you are justified in shooting the Teamster rep and driver in the head and throwing them into the river.
Amateur, WMATA had maintenance workers falsify safety reports. They were fired. The union got them reinstated because they were never trained not to falsify reports.
In that case, flamethrowers are the appropriate response.
Leave the charred remains as a warning to the next lot.
Union goon says “the MTA should be investigated for spending waste.”
*falls off chair*
Question: is there a cartel behind these avian flu outbreaks?
Great value extra large eggs are almost $5 per dozen.
Is there a suspicious group of producers who don’t seem to lose their stock to the flu?
Same here. I think we got a dozen for 3.50. The regular and the organic free-range were the same price, so we got the organic ones.
Not sure that it matters, but we got a avian flu warning from a small farm instate.
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@UCS: Is this useful to you?
https://www.metafilter.com/205310/From-Awooga-to-Whistling-Wind
It could very well be.
I’ll have to listen closer when I get home from work.
It looks like the contributer to the internet archive was https://freesound.org which may have more.
Thank you so much.
Amazing how higher reasoning stops when you panic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1h2l52p/oc_girl_forgets_to_pull_up_parking_brake_car_goes/
I’m amazed she didn’t get crushed.
I somehow pulled my left pectoralis. It feels like I’m dying.
That is an odd and awkward muscle to injure in such a way – what were you doing at the time?
@UCS, I bent over to comb my hair (long story, I do it upside down) and had a sharp, sudden pain and it’s gotten pretty bad.
@GT, sort of. I went to bed and woke up alive, so I’ve ruled out a heart attack. This is my usual method of ruling out heart attacks.
It’s gone tits up?
Ouch, feel better!
Usually, it’s the right one because I get horrendously painful heartburn.
I know you had mentioned something about an Ulcer? (Or am I mixing up someone else), but for a span of a decade I had recurring heartburn and acide reflux which turned out to be a symptom of gall bladder problems. I’d watch for pressure sensitivity near the bottom of the ribcage on the right.
Yes, I had to have surgery to remove my ulcers and now am on lifelong omeprazole for it. Occasionally, it’s not enough.
I trust you’ve ruled out other causes of pain in that area? 😟
There apparently are unscrupulous people on the internet. The FBI wants you to know.
Well, the Internet told me there are unscrupulous people at the FBI. So there!
Arent those the guys that have the world’s largest collection of child porn? I suppose they would know.
Speaking of concerning things…
https://www.vox.com/trump-administration/388627/fbi-background-checks-trump-gaetz-hegseth-nominees-senate-congress-transition
How will the country weather the next Trump storm?
LOL as if the FBI isn’t “checking” them already.
If you build it they will come
Not to brag, but Rivian’s credit score is probably better than yours. The California-based EV manufacturer was just conditionally approved for a $6.6 billion loan from the United States Department of Energy. The loan comes from the DOE’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program, which was created as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
The huge sum of money would allow the automaker to complete construction on a previously announced manufacturing facility in Georgia. Originally announced in late 2021, the new facility will create 7500 jobs by 2030 and expand production by 400,000 cars annually. At the time, the company estimated the project would cost $5 billion and begin production in 2024. Short on cash, Rivian was forced to pause the project and change plans for the upcoming R2 SUV.
The headline reads, “Rivian EARNS 6 billion dollar loan.”
Earned it. Right.
+1 Solyndra
WTF does that mean? In case you thought auto journalism wasn’t hard hitting enough.
Nobody’s going to loand me 6 Billion anytime soon, but I’m also not going to be bankrupt in five year like Rivian will be.
Yes, obviously a hugely successful company.
They are EV industry leaders in the field of being “Not Tesla”
No justice, no shopping
Amazon workers and some allies are planning a worldwide strike during one of the company’s biggest weekends, from Black Friday to Cyber Monday.
The strike, called “Make Amazon Pay,” is organized by UNI Global Union and Progressive International. It will begin Friday and run through Monday, typically very busy times for online commerce with the abundance of sales.
The strike seeks to hold the huge company accountable for what organizers describe as labor abuses, “environmental degradation and threats to democracy.”
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UNI Globe Union General Secretary Christy Hoffman said Amazon’s “relentless pursuit of profit” comes at a cost of its human workers, the economy and democracy.
You’d be scratching in the dirt for bugs if there were no profit.
I somehow pulled my left pectoralis.
That’s what you get for arm tackling. Wrap up.
Post-feast Friday Funbags.
https://archive.is/8qCAK
Nothing like shitposting theology on X for three days straight and then getting blocked by the person who started it. LOL Also, got one book sale and one telling me I write porn (although, well, he’s not wrong, although I don’t really see it that way because PLOT and FEELINGS).
Dear Santa …
Now it’s personal
As Elon Musk has embraced Donald Trump and various far-right conspiracy theories, he has left behind an aghast cohort of Tesla owners who suddenly feel embarrassed by their own cars. Many of them are now publicly displaying their dismay at Musk on their vehicles.
Sales of anti-Musk stickers have boomed since the world’s richest man declared his support for Trump and helped propel him to victory in the US presidential election, as owners of Teslas, the car brand headed by Musk, try to distance themselves from the South African-born multibillionaire.
“Sales have really spiked. The day after the election was the biggest day ever,” said Matt Hiller, a Hawaii-based aquarium worker who sells a range of stickers online that denounce Musk. “People saw a billionaire supervillain buy his way into the administration and it rubbed them the wrong way.”
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Musk, who has an estimated wealth of $314bn, was once considered an environmental hero and technology pioneer by many US liberals after turning Tesla into the most valuable car company in the world while warning that “climate change is the biggest threat that humanity faces this century, except for AI”.
But his reputation among electric vehicle-buying liberals curdled as he used X to trumpet far-right conspiracies, fulminated about the “woke mind virus” and enthusiastically promoted Trump, even appearing at the president-elect’s rallies and funding campaign operations for him in key battleground states.
They should all buy Fords.
I read that.
I want to find some reverse version for my Tesla. Some variation of “I bought this with money Elon stole from taxpayers, but when you all supported the theft”.
Alyssa Milano swapped out her Tesla for a VW EV because of Elon’s white supremacy.
Soo… she knows nothing of history?
Twitter edumacated her.
Musk is now intimately involved in Trump’s incoming administration, heading a new “Department of Government Efficiency” that plans mass layoffs of US government workers. Some Tesla owners have been left horrified. “I thought Elon was progressing our country, but he’s turned out to be kind of an evil person. It’s scary for someone with that sort of money to be so close to a politician,” said Mika Houston, a gymnastics teacher in Las Vegas who has had a Tesla Model 3 for the past three years.
“I still love my car, but I think about whether I’m endorsing that sort of behavior when I drive it. I’m embarrassed driving this car around after the election, thinking about the man behind it,” said Houston, who has bought an “Anti Elon Tesla Club” magnet for her car and is mulling whether to sell it.
Sell it. Don’t sell it. Just please STFU.
Magnet? So when the winds changes she can remove it?
Only the best DEI captains need apply.
Crashed NZ navy ship was left on autopilot, inquiry finds
Ahem. “best” is ableist language.
It’s “the Most DEI Captains”, thank you very much.