Good morning my Glibs and and Gliberinas! And a “fuck you” to the assholes still pushing this barbaric day light savings time on this fine day. As someone who was born and raised in Arizona, I never have nor never will understand why we are forced to torture ourselves in this way.
And we now have a humanitarian crisis.
Inaccurate projections that helped drive COVID lockdowns.
I’m still struggling as to why Democrat’s turned on Cuomo. We all knew about the nursing home shit for almost a year and I doubt the sexual harassment shit was not already known in political circles.
At least it has made these celebrities look bad.
Oregon looking to implement reparations.
26 states considering bills to protect women sports against dudes who think they’re chicks.
40% of small business owners are having trouble filling jobs openings.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“And a âfuck youâ to the assholes still pushing this barbaric day light savings time on this fine day. ”
Hear Hear!
We just need to start hyping the rise in deaths due to DST and we can potentially whip the populace up into a panic greater then the ‘vid!
Are you sure people won’t demand a lock down until it passes?
DST isn’t barbaric. Barbarians have enough sense to not do shit like this.
DST is a disease of civilization. Only degenerate ‘civilized’ folk do shit like this.
Just make the day 25 hours, give us more time. It’ll be a stimulus.
I’m going to use that analogy next time I discuss money printing and inflation with somebody.
I propose metric hours composed of 100 minutes per hour.
Bring back the Swatch Beat!
Such a terrible and stupid idea…
We need some sort of therapy to cure decimal fetishization.
-1 Noble savage
Arizona and Indiana pre-2006 confirmed as barbarians.
DST is for people that think Canute was a wimp.
*Looks around*
Have we eradicated the crazy people who think we should have year-round DST?
*High fives team standard time*
I don’t care what time we set, as long as we stop changing the clocks.
DST is a disease of civilization.
You chose a side!
Incorrect.
“Daylight Savings Time” is a synecdoche for the whole worthless system of clock changes.
UCS is correct. Hell, we could go to universal application of GMT and it would be better than what we have now.
My idea is 1) standard time year round
2)slowly increase number of time zones. First every county/parish switches to hour that is closest to their real time. Then we switch to 15 minute time zones. Give it a few years and switch to 5 minute zones. Give it a few years then switch to 1 minute zones. That is good enough, I can deal with 30 secs of error.
Another terrible idea.
People have a hard enough time as it is. When you get even more pointless clock settings, you’re just going to create havoc and cause more problems than you think you’re fixing.
The solar time is IRRELEVENT to the lives of virtually everyone. Being precise to it at the expense of great confusion when dealing with people east or west of them by not that far doesn’t add any benefit.
And then there’s the fact that solar noon wanders throughout the year.
Fix a time with a handful of time zones so you’re not getting noon at dusk, and most people will be fine.
Anything but solar time is anti-science.
Solar time worked great before trains. But with computers, there is no need for time zones any more, so we can go back to local time.
“We’ll meet at three.”
“Which three?”
“I’m not sure I’m free then, what’s that in time 287?”
3 at the location we are meeting at.
And since we are local to each other while chatting, its the same freaking 3. If we are reasonably local, within say an hours drive, we are talking maybe 1-2 minutes difference at most. If further, then conversion is standard practice, just like it was before trains.
You have just made two assumptions that are unsupportable in a networked society – that the people are “reasonably local” or that there is a physical location.
Even with one-hour time zones there’s enough confusion when dealing with people across geographic areas – a very common task.
Add more granularity and you’re asking for trouble.
If you assume the calendar applciations can cover it – most of these transactions do not have shared calendars, and the scheduling is down verbally before an invite gets created. Your system just creates hassle where none is needed and no benefit is gleaned.
That sort of non-argument just shows you know your proposal is a nonstarter for people who have to live in the real world.
Year-Round DST is better. #Changemymind
Agreed. I love late summer evenings when it’s still light out. If you have to pick one time, that’s it, unless you prefer it to be light at 4am and give up barbecues and evening outdoor concerts in return.
Agreed.
“According to state data, COVID hospitalizations in the state peaked roughly a month later, coming in at just under 19,000, or at just 17% of Cuomo’s earlier estimate. Total ICU COVID patients peaked shortly thereafter at 5,225, or at just 13% of the governor’s forecast.”
To be fair, I never would have predicted him having thirty sex accusers.
Some are going to be bandwagon accusers fishing for a settlement.
And the man has been a bully for decades, so we’re not even close to the potential maximum.
All of his celebrity cock suckers should be stripped naked in Central Park and beaten with wiffle ball bats.
And fuck DST.
(rough morning)
Good morning everyone!
*waves*
Did Oregon ever have slavery?
It’s been implemented recently using the california models.
https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/black-history/Pages/context/slavery.aspx
They are never going to quit picking those scabs until we end up with a full-on race war.
So no.
But the settlers brought hate with them! HATE!
Why does Oklahoma have a panhandle?
Oregon has a much better case for reparations to Native tribes than for slavery – at least within the state.
“Proving ancestral slavery”
*Thinks about setting up some sort of online verification system as grift.*
My ancestors were slaves to the Romans – pay me.
Fredo the Elder was only useful to team blue so long as he could be used as a club to beat Trump with. No trump, no longer useful.
I stated weeks ago that the Commie State AG has her sights set on hizzoners office. You just watch.
The sex scandal draws eyes away from the murdering old people scandal, which hurts a lot of other prominent politicians.
Well, yeah.
Yes – Murphy is running for reelection this year and he killed almost as many oldsters.
Iâm still struggling as to why Democratâs turned on Cuomo.
Harris.
Did he grope her boobs, too?
He is a potential rival for 2024. It’s like having dirt on Hillary, except Harris is even more vicious, ruthless, and grasping.
Yeah, she makes my skin crawl.
Partly that, and partly to avoid a nursing home Covid death investigation that could spread to other Democrat governors. They get rid of Cuomo on Metoo bullshit and the rest gets buried.
He also manipulated the data to make NY look better around that time. Who knows if that too happened elsewhere.
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Poor Joe! The only time that it’s a Red Alert Crisis is when he goes boom-boom in his diaper. “Mommy Jill! Mommy Jill! Joey went a stinky!
/clears throat
It’s Doctor Mommy you misogynist.
I stand corrected.
Damn straight. I hate hiring people, and it’s harder now than it’s ever been.
Hard to hire, hard to retain. Lost a fairly decent one last week and her replacement talks a mighty fine game. At least she speaks English and passed the background checks.
Hiring is easy, firing is nearly impossible. Law suits, regulations, unions. That was 30 years ago, I doubt its gotten any easier.
Good employees are cherished.
The standard for “good employee” seems to have been lowered significantly also.
It’s below “shows up on time and does their job”?
You damn well better sing their praises if they do that. They need lots of little head pats. But not too low, lest it turn into a #metoo moment.
It took two years and two FINAL warnings to fire a guy in my department. He’s been gone for about 3 years now, and they almost brought him back as a contractor.
I’m in this weird amorphous zone. I’m not a contractor but somehow they think that I am. How can I be a contractor and still be paying union dues? As you say, good employees are mostly cherished. We’re in a lull right now but six months from now they’ll remember my existence and make things harder for me, right about the same time that my “supervisor” washes out. I’ve been through 7 or 8 of them thus far.
We currently have to compete for labor with other big businesses moving into the Nashville area, but for a long while we were competing with the gubmint’s paying people to stay home.
Are they still paying people to not work?
Yes. Albeit, at a reduced rate.
Shit. The grocery stores and fast food places have had open interview hours for the past nine months. But let’s increase the unemployment benefits again, I’m sure that’ll help draw people in to get jobs.
You speak as if they want people to get jobs.
The party has been taken over by the far left and they want someone more to their liking. So they started the ball rolling by directing the AG to drop her report on the nursing-home fiasco that everyone already knew about, and probably coaxed one or more of the #metoo gals to come forward too. That’s my guess.
And that’s how they also protect other Democrat governors with the same nursing home problem.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9363299/Demi-Rose-shows-ample-assets-tie-dye-bikini-matching-skirt.html
Nope. Wolverhampton-born beauty.
That’s so much plastic she can’t actually walk.
It has been unusually quiet around here….last night and this morning. Are they rounding us up already?
I donno.
I’ve been stressed out of my gourd, so I’ve been erring on the side of not commenting lest I lash out undeservedly.
I picked up a grindy JRPG for the Switch, so I’ve been wasting time and decompressing playing that… until I hit the skill check of a boss fight.
I hate boss fights. It’s where I usually give up and find another game.
Which switch JRPG?
Bravely Default 2. The job system is interesting, I’m still wrapping my head around the way the stats work. One nice thing is if you leave the game running while the system is asleep, there’s a system that gets you random drops of varying worth (for up to 12 hours at a time). The story so far is paint by numbers JRPG with just a few twists so far (at one point you get arrested, and immediately let out instead of needing to fight your way out of the prison without your gear).
The big strategy change in it is a system that allows you to borrow against later turns to take actions now. So while fighting trash mobs, you can just do that to clear them quickly. Against bosses you need to save up your turns and figure out what moves they may auto counter your moves on (some bosses will counter on base attacks, other on magic attacks, others on certain elemental attacks, etc.).
Main areas are pretty plain graphics wise, but the cities are nicely done watercolor style images.
I see.
Thank you.
Sounds like Portland Peaceful Protest 2020
Subversion of a standard JRPG/CRPG trope where the party gets arrested and all of the gear they had accumulated gets taken. Depending on your party/character builds, the no gear portion is either a cake walk or a painful slog. If you don’t find the chest (it’s almost always just one) that holds all of your gear, anything you had accumulated throughout the game up until that point is lost.
Ahem! Some of us have been working!
Still alive and kicking but I can’t focus on this shit every spare moment I have. I have to take a few days off here and there, especially on the weekends. A quick lurk and skim is all I can muster some days before I start to lose my temper.
Im around,
I enjoyed an almost internet free weekend after I was all set to talk to Glibbies on Friday night and after I ate dinner at 6pm, fell asleep. That was my cue for a decompression weekend. It felt like a long weekend and it was nice.
I’ve been putting the phone down and getting outside. I pop in once or twice a day now.
There’s no internet access in Galt’s Gulch.
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott claims election reform bill passed by House could result in Democrats ‘using cocaine to buy votes’ through ballot harvesting
‘It was Barack Obama himself who knew about the dangers of ballot harvesting in the state of Texas,’ Abbott said.
‘Because under his administration, he sent his U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas as well as the FBI to south Texas to arrest and to prosecute people who were involved in ballot harvesting that were using cocaine to buy votes through the ballot harvesting process in the state of Texas.
Ballot harvesting is when a third-party is allowed to drop off a mail-in ballot on behalf of another individual.
Abbott didn’t relay any additional details of the alleged harvesting.
‘It is a way to commit voter fraud and it cannot be allowed,’ he said
Maria Bartiromo, who was interviewing Abbott, called the story ‘absolutely extraordinary.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9361781/Texas-Gov-Greg-Abbott-claims-reform-bill-result-Democrats-using-cocaine-buy-votes.html
Maria both repels and attracts me. She is the bar magnet of hot.
She is from my neighborhood. That’s all I’ve got.
Digits?
I don’t have that.
Anger rising.
The Dems are literally destroying the economy – and lives.
None of the measures they took for the cootie bugs had any measurable effect on the transmission of it.
The measures they took and are taking are maximally destructive to the economy. It is by design. That and the riots are right out of the bolshevik playbook.
You shut your lying mouth!
The mask mandates made a âstatistically signifinicantâ 1.32% difference.
Why the Democrat’s what turned on Cuomo?
Most Democrats did seem to be turned on by Cuomo.
All of Cuomo’s celebrity fans – they’re used to fellating power players.
It’s so delicious. Too bad none of them will get called out on it.
‘So, where are the workers?
At the height of the pandemic, individuals were paid $600 a week by the federal government, giving the average collector a weekly rate of $978 for an extended period of 39 weeks.’
$978 a week to sit on ass.
At the best of times, I’m a $40-50k yr working class asshole. I’ve never received a dime in stimulus since 2006, haven’t been on unemployment for more than a week or two every few years and don’t receive gov.com cheese in any fashion…
It’s fucking infuriating to know that I make less money a week than some(not all) kids who have no experience, no work ethic, and no skills who are perfectly content to milk this shit for all its worth.
Be soothed by the fact that they are foregoing valuable work and life experience for short term gain. You will have hopped three steps ahead while they are still fumbling around trying to find their own dicks. That’s why I liked the new trainee. She wanted to work as many hours as she could. She is doing three jobs and lucky to get 32hrs/wk. Two hrs here, five hrs there seven days a week.
Good for her, seriously.
What may infuriate me the most is knowing that there’s a strong possibility that despite any extra knowledge or experience I may gain I’ll still be barely making more than those pricks once a $15(or is it $22hr now) federal minimum wage law goes into effect.
Makes a man wonder if it’s worth the bother to try anymore.
I feel that.
Makes a man wonder if itâs worth the bother to try anymore.
It’s the chump effect.
My 3 grand daughters graduated college not long ago, all borrowed money. Two worked, saved and had a relatively small debt. One, however, enjoyed her college experience a little more.
In any case, they were all paying their loans back. I “helped” the two cheapskates, paid off their loans. #3, I “helped” X2 so far, I think one more “help” and she should be paid up but in the interim she continues to pay .
Mrs F and I got through with no debt, my son also. It was tough but it was worth the scrimping.
I don’t feel like a chump and impressed on my G-daughters the importance of keeping their word on a contract.
I certainly feel like a chump. Wife and I sacrificed a lot over the past 4 years to get that student debt paid off. There were countless vacations, restaurants, invitations, etc that we skipped. We bought a cheap (relatively) house, lived in a cheap (relatively) area, are currently renting instead of owning a house, we scrimped and saved to aggressively attack my law school loans.
To pay for all or a portion of that to simply be written off for those who didn’t sacrifice but live high on the hog? Yeah, more than a little resentment builds up thinking about that. Makes me think about being a grasshopper rather than being an ant. Why do the right thing when official policy is to bail out the people who do the wrong thing? Why be responsible when you can have your cake and eat it too?
I pity the grasshoppers though; the ants can rebuild. Isn’t that the point of frugality and modesty, to secretly be an ant?
The employees at my work are dyed-in-the-wool teamsters. Ive never seen a more surly, bitchy, group, with nothing but contempt for their employer. All night long I hear the grumblings of how each boss is an asshole that doesnt know anything, how the company is fucking them over, ad nauseum. Yet not one of them, not even the guys with a couple decades behind them, wants to take the extra step to try to run things as they see fit. No way, no how, no ma’am- easier to sit back, barely work, and complain.
‘No way, no how, no maâam- easier to sit back, barely work, and complain.’
The Modern American Dream
Yup. Wonder how they would fare in my shoes. They couldn’t do my job but I could do theirs.
I concur. However, when I look at things from their perspective, its not like they’re “gaming the system” (like some dude buying $300 of crab legs and steaks with and EBT card, then loading it into a new Escalade).
You have FedGov and numerous state agencies saying “take this money!”. Not to mention news outlets reporting around the clock about how much “free” money anyone can get.
Ethically I can fault someone for taking advantage. But practically ? Prolly not.
Meanwhile Ill just go to work, and silently judge the leeches.
My son got laid-off from the body shop he worked at…last April?
Not only did he get more pay (when the $600 kicker was active) he also now qualified for free health insurance. He says he wants to go back to work, but he can’t afford to.
He’s been using the fuck out of the health insurance and free time to get foot surgery knocked out and other shit.
Reminder, lightning can be dangerous.
Gah! Reminds me of the time on the golf course when we took shelter in a huge culvert during a storm and my Buddy pointed out that the interior was coated with tar…
One of my father’s old golfing buddies had wispy blonde hair.
He was putting on the 9th green at Kingsmill when his hair literally stood on end.
Ever seen four grown men scream and run like little girls?
That should have ‘Blinded By The Light” playing in the background
That is some shocking video.
Always wear 2 pieces of jewelry.
We all knew about the nursing home shit for almost a year and I doubt the sexual harassment shit was not already known in political circles.
I think we can assume somebody in the palace decided he poses a threat. To Joe? To Kamaula? Doesn’t matter.
That is how leftists operate. Always have, always will. It doesn’t matter how loyal you are today, the instant you are perceived as a potential future threat to their power it is off to the camps with you.
How they never see it coming is a mystery.
“Just wait until Comrade Biden hears of this!”
I was dropping my daughter off at school today and I saw the Mom coming back to the car next to mine and I thought, “You know, if she needed assistance, I would help her.”
[Yes, a call back to a link from last week]
/deletes about a dozen inappropriate comments
There is no possible response that is appropriate.
But not sure why that is stopping you.
You’ve been here forever, Friend. Damn near every response is appropriate.
That was kind of my point, not sure why Neph felt the need to delete them.
I’d like to remind the both of you that the girlfriend has started posting here as well.
If she doesn’t know you by now…
Obligatory?
Well, with the time change it is necessary to have the headlights on more often.
The one thing that I miss about raising school-aged children. God bless milfs and God bless chilly Spring days!
So, you’re more helpful towards women when there’s a nip in the air?
Indeedy-do!
Especially since yoga pants arrived.
Baseball birthdays: Bobby Bonds, who is way better than #2 HoFer Harold Baines, followed by the Greek God of Walks Kevin Youkilis, and then Arlie Latham.
Pretty good list.
Employers are feeling the crunch, with 24 percent claiming labor quality as their top business problem. Another 51 percent reported few or no qualified applicants for the positions they sought to fill, a statistic made all the more troubling as economists predict millions of new jobs by the end of the year.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Wow! Banjos coming out swinging!
I dig it.
Why is there a picture of Alan Page on the Oregon reparations story?
Good article on how wrong the ‘vid predictions were. Thanks, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington! Great work, there, people.
By the way, the IHME is partially funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Funny how that little fuck turns up so often around this bullshit.
I hope you all have a great day! We’re supposed to get some snow, so we’ve got that going for us…
Isn’t Alan Page the perfect argument for why reparations aren’t necessary?
Unless you think that slavery is why Whizzer White was on the US Supreme Court and Page only made the Minnesota Supremes.
So your Winter ends around June?
-34 in Nunavut this morning!
Reparations are just another way to launder money to politicians.
The “intended recipients” may see a couple hundred dollars a year for a couple of years, then nothing, while the bureau that was created to handle reparations payments will have a large budget and spend a lot of money on flashy ad campaigns with favored agencies.
Meanwhile, they won’t do something like assess a 50% reparations tax on every white person; the money will come from somewhere in the FedGov budget. If there is a “reparations tax”, it likely won’t amount to much. Also, the best way to avoid it is to identify as a non-white race.
Sweet! As I understand it the Irish were not white until fairly recently. The same probably goes for my Slovenian heritage.
English and Germans are the only real white people. They’re the only ones with bad food and no culture. Also, invading everyone all the time.
Ben Franklin denies Germans are white. And he was a pretty smart guy.
Next you’re going to say the Irish and Italians are white. Filthy papists the lot of them!
You really shouldn’t say things like that around Ulstermen.
Angles and Saxons Are Germans.
Also, Franklin is responsible for planting the idea that became DST, so he’s not that bright.
I am some combination of poor, English/German.
*breaks down crying*
Let me give you the number to a psychiatrist, for whenever you develop a strange obsession with Belgium.
I’m mostly Scot with about 1/16 Amerindian. Where the fuck is my slice of the pie? Not only did they clear us from the Highlands, they replaced us with their sheep. I demand sheep-fucking reparations, NOW!
No culture? Harrumph. The “invading everyone” is the culture.
German food isn’t bad, and German-American baking is awesome.
“Race papers, please.” What a pleasant future they’re constructing for America.
Hmmm…I am 1% Finn supposedly…its that non-white or extra-white?
Yes.
The orange is super accurate, and from what I know of family history, have no reason to disbelieve any of the rest.
robc
Remembers Finnish girlfriend, gets twinges in nether regions… Her pubic hair resembled a tiny white rabbit.
Hopefully it was never late for an important date.
Lolol
Elsa was my special friend in High School. She died recently, I felt more sorrow for her than the other classmates who are gone. Only saw her a couple times after school but still…
So, where are the workers?
*cough, cough*
“Skills mismatch.”
*cough, cough*
This is what makes their claims of “good high paying union clean energy jobs” so utterly farcical. People like Whitmer apparently think the Simpsons is a documentary. Any random ignoramus can sit at a console and watch the lights blink, and be handsomely compensated for it. Just as in the previous collapse, when they were going to turn all those out of work mortgage brokers and real estate ladies into road and bridge engineers.
The skills mismatch is just an opportunity to implement a job retraining program. It can be run by the kids of the supporters who gave all that money to their re-election campaigns.
Also I seem to remember in 2009-2014 there was a similar issue with 1-2 years of unemployment bennies causing many to exit the job market so they could play X-box and collect their draw.
That fucking idiot Wyden, darling of Reason in the Bush era, wants to permanently extend covid unemployment. Admits he has no idea how to pay for it but that doesn’t matter.
How can he be as good as he is opposing national surveillance and then pull this stuff out of his ass?
Well, my creperie is truly D-E-D. There was an effort by some of the employees to get the money together to buy it, but yesterday there was a “Coming Soon: Trattoria somethingorother” in the window.
The Falafel joint across the street is also out of business.
The honey shop is still open, and I got some NoDak alfalfa that’s really quite good, along with some Tupelo and Acacia for gifts.
Interviewing two candidates for the lab tech spot, if any of you are them, be sure to give the passphrase during the interview.
Not it.
I don’t think I qualify anyway.
“Hi, I’m Tulpa. Very good to meet you, sir!”
I thought it was “Drugs fell out of my ass.”
Sorry to hear that. It appears the crepe place I bike up to for brunch on occasion made it through; however, one of my fancy cocktail bars (Velvet Tango Room) has been sold to new owners. No idea what changes they’ll be making to it. The website has been down for several months now, which is never a good sign.
Well, that sucks. The VTR was pretty cool when I lived around there. I had a co-worker who had one of the private memberships, although I never really saw the point.
So far the others (Society Lounge, Spotted Owl, and Porco) are all still temporarily closed. The original reports had a planned opening time for the VTR some time this month, and they’re saying there’s no changes planned. We’ll see how that goes.
âComing Soon: Trattoria somethingorotherâ
I don’t know why anyone would want to open a new restaurant when the government can arbitrarily shut down and destroy your business on a whim.
Yet in many cases the most dire projections from experts turned out to be significantly off-base, and the real data ended up far less grim than was initially modeled. Whether that’s because the mitigation measures were so successful or because the modeling was faulty remains unknown and will likely be a topic of study for years.
“Remains unknown”
Stop it. You’re killing me.
The latest news on the Mars Perseverance rover mission:
That’s probably for woke reasons but actually kind of cool. Someday explorers and settlers there will use them. And I think the Navajo live in a place with similarly red, arid and rocky terrain.
Or, will simply ignore the unpronoucable labels, use their own names, and not care what some twenty-first century bureaucrat put on a map they’re not using.
Lake Calhoun?
“Lake Calhoun?”
Ahhh, Dude, the preferred nomenclature is now “Bde Maka Ska” (pronounced buh-DAY’ muh-KAH’-skah)
Someone should form a ska band and call themselves this.
Preferred Nomenclature is not the best name for a band.
Pronounced bi-day? Only in late summer does it live up to its new name
I agree that the naming itself is cool. I roll my eyes at the reason they do it, which is wokeism, most likely.
What, no Islamic names?
Yet.
OBE knows why they’re hitting Cuomo so hard (hint: he’s a scapegoat to protect other asshole govs like Whitmer)
Don’t underestimate the simple fact that everyone who’s ever met him hates him.
The cake-mangling blonde put up with him for a while.
https://www.ocweekly.com/the-origin-of-sandra-lees-kwanzaa-cake-revealed-6625302/
Can it work long term? The nursing home issue seems to be prevalent in several states, and are people in Michigan going to forget Grandma died unnecessarily because look at the shiny squirrel in New York?
Not sure. I definitely can see that it might be a main motivator to divert attention from these other fuckers, but I don’t know how effective it will be in the end.
It will probably work because the average American’s capacity to follow the news cycles is abysmal. The shiny will always win out. Probably even make it moot in the eyes of some courts
I told Big Gay Jeff about Cuomo nearly a year ago. He and I don’t talk about politics anymore. They know but they won’t fess up.
The gambit is because so much of the national news apparatus is based in New York, so the play is that they will be sucked in by New York centered stories. But that would be neglecting the fact that there are still ambitious local news reporters who might want to break a story in their neck of the woods, to say nothing of the alternative news sources.
See also: the downfall of Al Franken.
We know this happened, but still.
Emails show scientists scrubbed early warning of potential lab origin of COVID-19
Whatever you aren’t allowed to discuss or examine is invariably the truth.
“Shut the fuck up!” they explained.
Probably the biggest takeaway from 2020.
‘Scientists’. I keep seeing that word used.
Well, closer to the truth, anyway.
The governor’s offices of those four states did not responded to queries regarding the projections and to what extent they informed policies on shutdowns, stay-at-home orders and other mitigation measures. Scientists at Rutgers and the IHME also failed to respond to queries.
[insert expostulation of shock and disbelief]
My buddy Glassman was cancelled for attacking the IHME.
Do not kid yourself – these folks play for keeps and they absolutely use the Twatter mobs as a method of punishing the recalcitrant, particularly if the person has a large enough following to perhaps fuck with their grift. That’s how it works now.
I don’t know what to do about the vaccine. Get it soon, wait more… In Bucharest there are no vaccines available but I could get it by driving about 120 miles to another area of the country. Or I can wait for Bucharest.
Im going to assume that you’re reasonably healthy. If so, even if you DO get sick, Im pretty sure you have a >99.5% chance of getting over it and moving on with your life.
Ya know- like influenza
My issue is not getting sick it is being able to travel on holiday
Do vaccinated people get that benefit ? Over here the vaccinated don’t get any extra benefits…yet.
Not yet. But it is expected they will.
Drive – use it as an excuse to go visit the family in the countryside.
what family in the countryside?
Isn’t your ancestral home rural?
yes but I am not really in contact with any family left there
If that’s the case, then just get a counterfeit vax card.
Getting a US visa in a consulate would have been easier in the good old days. Just saying.
Which vaccine?
I advise against the mRNA vaccines. Seems risky to inject code into your body that causes it to produce virus proteins. Is there a shutoff switch, or is your body forever making COVID19 virus proteins?
Hydroxychloroquine with zinc is reported to be an effective remedy.
I was actually aiming for the mRNA ones.
Now I have an appointment for moderna. I can cancel that because it is far away and get on a waiting list here in Bucharest.
Hydroxychloroquine with zinc is reported to be an effective remedy. -this is too murky to know for sure. But again it is not just the disease but the potential to travel
I canceled my appointment though I will probably regret it. It was a 3 hour drive each way, once for the first dose once for the second, and I was just not up to it. I hope I get it in Bucharest by June.
Goddamnit I hate making decisions
Couldn’t you just suck the blood of someone who has been vaccinated?
The employees at my work are dyed-in-the-wool teamsters. Ive never seen a more surly, bitchy, group, with nothing but contempt for their employer. All night long I hear the grumblings of how each boss is an asshole that doesnt know anything, how the company is fucking them over, ad nauseum. Yet not one of them, not even the guys with a couple decades behind them, wants to take the extra step to try to run things as they see fit. No way, no how, no maâam- easier to sit back, barely work, and complain.
No kidding. Back in the Great Recession, the UAW could have bought up enough GM stock for a controlling interest, and shown us all how an autonomous workers’ collective is inherently superior to kkkapitalist wage slavery. But they did not, and for the life of me, I know not why.
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/11/15/i-m-mad_custom-9dee1335f063d424050b2edf33bf54c82cc22e14-s800-c85.jpg
It’s been a fantasy of mine, when we’ve faced ne’er-do-well employees stirring the pot about management, to just say ok, ya’ll run it for a month. And have all management vacate the premises. I’m sure we’d come back to a facility running so much better.
*shakes head sadly at smoldering ruins*
While the peaceful protesters of the plant stand proudly atop the wreckage, stinking drunk with power.
DHS chief directs FEMA to assist in âgovernment-wide effortâ to house child migrants, as number surge
Might as well make use of the FEMA camps.
Apparently my SIL thinks I should stop on my way to Houston and get vaccinated. Tulsa is kind of out of my way, but I just wanted to share the link showing that the Osage governemnt is more on top of things than NY’s.
https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/post/osage-nation-opens-covid-19-vaccine-eligibility-anyone-18-or-older#stream/0
Also on NY and coof — apparently the guy in charge of distributing ‘vidshots was calling county officials to see whether or not they were supporting Cuomo. It’s still just in the local news afaik, but maybe they’ll add it to the pressure pile.
Hey, Alaskan Glibs, how’s DST doing up there? Are the stores preparing for midnight shopping?
-30 in Galena yesterday but at least it’s getting lighter, kids are coming back from Fairbanks BB tournament today.
2nd hand info from a teacher (my grand daughter)
Inaccurate projections that helped drive COVID lockdowns.
“Inaccurate”, “lies”. “Tomayto”, “Tomahto”.
Hokay…
Like many others, we are switching to M365. While playing around in word, I discovered that for the right-click copy/paste to work, you need to have the “Office – Enable Copy and Paste” extension installed. Said extension has been blocked by IT.
What in the absolute fuck? Someone seriously explain this to me. What benefit is gained by making right-click features optional?
How are you accessing the applications?
Same reason web pages disable the ability to copy images or other stuff?
Fact checkers pounce
Claims that the latest relief package will cost every American $5,750 are roughly based on dividing the total $1.9 trillion price tag by estimates of the US population, economists told AFP.
Although that is one way of understanding the cost to âthe average American,â the plan wouldnât literally cost everybody the same amount, said Alex Brill, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was a staff economist with the Presidentâs Council of Economic Advisors during the George W Bush administration.
âThatâs not how our system works. We donât have a system where… when we have the bills we just split them evenly like we all went out to dinner or something like that,â Brill said by phone.
It is unknown, however, how the cost will vary from that average between individuals, Brill said. The federal government is borrowing $1.9 trillion to pay for the relief package, but it is still not clear how that debt will be paid back, although taxes will be used to do so, he said.
That’s not how it works. We just print up a giant pile of Monopoly money and shovel it out of the helicopters. It’s not like we have any intention of ever “paying it back”. That doesn’t even make sense. We borrow it from ourselves.
CBO even shrugged their shoulders with it.
I mean that’s true. If you make money you’ll pay more.
Its also true because the 5750 doesnt include compounding interest. The number will be much much higher.
Middle daughter recently got a job at Domino’s. They hired her on the spot despite her complete lack of job experience, and she tells me every day about how many of her co-workers just don’t show up for their shift. I’ve been hearing this type of thing for years. So even without all the pandemic stuff, it’s been hard to hire.
The start to success is showing up.
Used to be if I didn’t show up, I didn’t get paid.
It made perfect sense.
I don’t understand being salaried, despite being on a salary.
Salaried is so they dont have to pay overtime, duh.
This. It’s a way to get 50 hours of work for 40 hours of pay, IME.
Yes
I’m not sure I’m really salaried, because if I work below hours, my pay gets docked like an hourly, but if I work over, I don’t get exra like a slaried. It’s the worst of both worlds.
Once upon a time, the timecards for my sort of position were present or absent checkboxes. Then the union went and ruined it.
I’ve told my kids and younger people in general for years now, that there are three keys to success in the workplace:
1. Always show up a little earlier than the other guy.
2. Always work a little harder than the other guy.
3. Never pass up the chance to learn something new.
Yes, yes, yes! It hasn’t done much for me but seems to work for everyone else.
4. Put a smile on your face.
I’m convinced that I’m a “rising star” in my department simply because I do things without bitching.
You’re right about that. Don’t be a Debbie Downer.
5. Laugh at the boss’s jokes
6. Lose at golf with higher ups.
My daughter doesn’t have the best work ethic, but they often praise her for doing a good job. Plus she stays over whenever they need her to, which we encourage because she’d just come home and play with her phone if she didn’t. She did get in trouble last night for taking a shitty tone with a difficult customer, though.
The turnover on an entry level job like this is mind blowing.
My daughter doesnât have the best work ethic
Few do at that age. It’s a process.
I never show up early and I’ve done ok.
The grocery store I worked at in high school would fire you if you showed up late without calling or if you didn’t show up at all without calling.
I transferred to a different store in the chain when I moved away for college. At that store, they just assumed you’d show up fifteen minutes late. If you didn’t show up, you must be sick or taking the day off. If you didn’t show up for two days in a row, then they assumed you were quitting. They also assumed that if you quit and gave notice, you wouldn’t show up for your last day. One day I was scheduled to work but I wasn’t feeling well. I called to let the store know. The managers were shocked that I called. After I gave my two weeks notice, I showed up for the last day I was scheduled to work. The managers were shocked.
That’s poor management.
That’s why I quit.
It’s the only time I’ve ever quit a job without having another job already lined up.
At least it has made these celebrities look bad.
As if they have the capacity for shame.
The most fervent cultists never feel shame.
Oregon Eyes Giving $123,000 to Black Residents Who Can Prove Ancestral Slavery
And what of everyone else? We are all descendant from slaves and slave owners.
Yep, about three hundred thousand of us are headed to Ross-Shire as we speak. I’m the King of the castle!
There’s as much of a case for Catholic and Asian reparations for historic wrongs in the state, as for blacks.
And for Indians, as JI pointed out above.
Speaking of anti-Catholic bigotry from progressive Democrats:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_v._Society_of_Sisters
That could never happen again…
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB223/Introduced
Although the current push is to have all private schools knuckle under to the state, not just catholic ones.
Hey (((we))) are all descended from slaves, but I rather doubt (((we))) will see a check.
So what is currently the state of Oregon’s budget surplus?
Revenues are up. Income tax revenue is up enough to trigger the kicker refund (which Dems have been eyeing to seize for years). The state has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
well in that case repair away
RADICALIZATION
Before Jan. 6, the run-ins Bruno Cua, 18, had had with police in his small town of Milton, Ga., were mostly of the scofflaw variety.
He blew an air horn in the school parking lot â that ended with a citation for disturbing the peace. He had been on the receiving end of multiple warnings for trespassing â he insisted on cutting through someone else’s land to go fishing. And, according to court documents, his all-terrain vehicle was also a source of consternation: Police kept telling him to stop driving it on roads where it didn’t belong.
“Cua has…exhibited a reluctance to abide by the rules and to follow the directions of law enforcement and other authorities,” wrote U.S. District Court Judge Randolph D. Moss, in a court order last week. “Cua’s criminal history is not spotless, but neither is it substantial.”
In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, according to court documents filed by both the prosecution and the defense, Bruno Cua’s teenage antics were replaced by something more consequential: far-right conspiracies. They say his world began revolving around the misinformation he picked up on websites and Facebook pages. And the falsehoods he discovered profoundly affected him. Anyone who was watching for it could find it in his social media posts.
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The story of Bruno Cua may end up as a testament to the dangers of misinformation. And he isn’t alone. The Justice Department has charged some 300 people so far with storming the Capitol that day, and most of them, to varying degrees, were motivated to do so by the falsehoods they had ingested for months online and on social media.
“One of the interesting things about the current misinformation landscape is that it’s not necessarily uninformed people,” said Sam Jackson, an assistant professor at University at Albany who studies extremist groups. “It’s misinformed people. It’s people who say, ‘I do my own research; I don’t trust the elites.’ And their research is nonsense, it is sophisticated nonsense.”
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While the radicalization of Abdullahi Yusuf and Bruno Cua might have been driven by very different ideologies, the process by which they became extremists was remarkably similar. What they saw and consumed and internalized online gave them a false vision of the world. There was a stolen election to overturn in one case, and innocent Syrians to save in the other.
What makes this different is that in Cua’s case, one of the people who inspired him most was President Donald Trump. “The tree of liberty often has to be watered from the blood of tyrants. And the tree is thirsty,” Cua allegedly wrote on the social media site Parler a day after the insurrection. “The events at the capital [sic] were a reminder that WE THE PEOPLE are in charge of this country and that you work for us. There will be no ‘warning shot’ next time.”
NPR is on the case. Right wing extremism is just like ISIS jihadism.
Who will save America from lies and propaganda which contradict our sacred narrative?
NPR, America’s CBC. God love them.
Sounds more like it was President Jefferson. Not to worry, he’s already getting canceled too.
Fucking ridiculous.
zOMG!1! Lock him up and throw away the key.
New York lawmakers proposed $7B in new taxes on the wealthy
Last person out of New York please turn off the lights.
No need, they’ll already be out from lack of electricity.
Well, they can’t rely on there always being a D majority to shovel Federal dollars at them.
President Biden fired Equal Employment Opportunity Commission general counsel Sharon Fast Gustafson on Friday. Fired for being nominated by the wrong party – you know, the opposite of preventing and remedying discrimination and retaliation.
Healing and Unity Upon You!
It would be funnier if it was Sharon “Fast” Gustafson. needs quotes.
It’s awful damn early for me to start drinking, but I may have to. I’m reading a report to Congress on the evaluation of a system that is astoundingly awful. Any half-way intelligent human being would look at this and conclude this needs to stop and be seriously rethought.
Congress approved money to continue the program as briefed while expressing concern about schedule, feasibility, etc.
Of course this is normal in the reality of DoD, so it really shouldn’t bother me, should it? I think this one is really just rubbing my nose in it.
*bleep*
I’m out of antacid and this damn nexium hasn’t had enough days to take effect.
I need to calm down. I’m too agitated. I’m fretting over things I can’t control, trying to come up with some action I can take. Even though it’s unlikely I will have any trouble because of it, I’m in that escalation cycle of fretting where I get more agitated at failing to come up with an answer for something I needn’t answer.
I need to calm down. Iâm too agitated. Iâm fretting over things I canât control, trying to come up with some action I can take. – I recommend drinking more, although I am not sure the results in my case are as good as advertised.
You need to get laid bruh.
I think this one is really just rubbing my nose in it.
Welcome to the New Normal.
Stop resisting.
Unity and heeling.
“This rhetoric about patriotism is causing me to realize more parallels with these folks and some of the jihadis who understand the world in this very strict good versus evil kind of way,” University at Albany’s Jackson said. “They see themselves on the team of good fighting against the team of evil.”
And it has never been easier to find support to fit a particular narrative. “We, in many ways, are living in this post-truth era where whether it’s a lie or truth doesn’t matter to many people,” said Alexandra Minna Stern, a professor of American culture and politics at University of Michigan. “What matters is that whatever the alternative facts are, so called, they actually resonate and make sense to them.”
What a bunch of Manichean dopes, haha!
Now do “structural racism”.
I assume Hoffer must be forbidden reading for academics.
structural racism at the intersection with gender identity sexual orientation socioeconomic status you mean.
Cool story, bro.
Tell me about the aRmEd InSuRrEcTiOn again.
Alright. I’m out. Have a great one Glibbies!
Transgender athletes in women’s sports: 70 bills across 26 states designed to protect female participants
Only bigots don’t want biological men to dominate women’s sports.
There is a meme or something like that on the internet where you reply to something sarcastic “this, but unironically”
My stance on this issue, which is something some say ironically or trollingly and i am serious is:
Separating sports by gender is backwards. Let everyone compete toghether and may the best man win.
We can also get rid of stupid shit like why are salaries low in the WNBA. Get rid of the WNBA and any women who can go toe to toe with Joel Embiid and Steve Adams and Lebron and Zion etc is welcome in the NBA.
So… the right response would be for someone to draft their rival team’s star’s mother?
Alright Mrs. James, cover LeBron and don’t let him score!
I thought Mrs. James covered Delonte West
I’d wager that, ceteris paribus, (cis)women would be paid less in the joint NBA than they are in the WNBA, and that’s assuming they’d even be kept around, if only as bench-warmers. The biggest problems with throwing the sexes together:
1. Males produce large amounts of testosterone naturally, which is considered a performance-enhancing drug when administered artificially
2. Male fertility is increased by focusing on physical strength while female fertility is decreased by such a focus (sometimes permanently)
In aggregate, cismen, transwomen, and transmen (in that order) will outcompete ciswomen almost always, and ciswomen forced to compete with cismen, transmen, and transwomen will have to choose between their fertility or their athletic careers far more so than today.
I guess constitutional law is not taught anymore.
âThe only reason you would (open carry) is to intimidate,â said Bill Ware, a Spartanburg truck driver who grew up hunting and is a gun owner. âFor those of us in fire self-defense training circles, all youâre doing by open carrying is identifying to the potential attacker who he needs to take out first.â …
Civil rights attorney John Reckenbeil doesnât see this bill surviving a constitutional challenge in court.
âOur decision we base everything on for gun laws is the Heller decision, Justice Scalia wrote before he passed away. And he literally says you donât have the absolute right have any weapon at any time for any purpose,â said John Reckenbeil, a civil rights attorney based out of Greenville County. âSelf-defense is the Second Amendment. So youâre now saying that youâve got an open carry law, youâre going to be brandishing a weapon out in public for everyone to see. Whatâs the purpose of that for self-defense?â
Nice stolen base there. Open carry is brandishing. Ok.
It usually is.
“all youâre doing by open carrying is identifying to the potential attacker who he needs to take out first.”
That is all you are doing. Nothing else. No other psychological factors at play. Fuck off
What if everyone or at least a significant percentage are open carrying?
I would call that a polite town
I would agree. I don’t open carry because I think it would make me more of a target in the very unlikely event I were in the field of fire of a mass shooter, or someone planning to commit a crime who doesn’t care about murder. Who’s the first person you shoot? The guy with the obvious gun, of course.
Meant to add–if everyone is openly armed, though, it’s a different story altogether. It becomes a stronger deterrent.
A serious armed robber isn’t going to be intimidated by your gun. He’s seen guns before. He may well decide to target you specifcally for your gun – guns are expensive and easy to cash in, plus the added bonus of humiliating some loser who thought that his gun made him a hard man.
Open carry might scare off some assorted aggressive panhandlers and opertunistic junkie robbers. You can also scare those types off by standing up straight and making eye contact.
Tennessee is inching closer to Constitutional Carry đ And I just paid for having my background check done for a lifetime permit đ
And I just paid for having my background check done for a lifetime permit ?
If you’re talking about a concealed permit, you’ll need that for reciprocity in some other states so definitely not wasted.
That’s why I have my NH permit even though NH has Constitutional Carry.
Some states that honor out-of-state permits won’t care that your home state has Constitutional Carry. They want to see the permit from your home state.
Good to know! Thanks.
“NBCâs @chucktodd tells Dr. Fauci: âItâs inevitableâ weâll have more pandemics in the future because of âclimate changeâ”
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1371086448611487744
The virus escaped from the lab because it was nice out.
“Its so nice out…I am going to take the virus on a walk!”
Does illness spike in the summer or winter?
Silly man, “climate change” means whatever the fuck they want it to mean on any given day.
I have no doubt there will be pandemics in the future just like there have been in the past, but it’s like there’s a script in their heads that just adds “because of climate change” to any piece of bad news. Murders are up because of climate change. I have indigestion because of climate change. It was hard getting up this morning because of climate change.
Show your work.
I need to calm down. Iâm too agitated. Iâm fretting over things I canât control, trying to come up with some action I can take.
I need to focus my anger and energy into some form of forward momentum. If I figure out how to do that effectively, I’ll be sure to let you know.
Please do. I could use the advice.
Deadlift.
YES
âWeâve got to dissociate political persuasion from whatâs common sense, no-brainer public health things. The history of vaccinology has rescued us from smallpox, from polio, from measles, from all of the other diseases. What is the problem here? This is a vaccine that is going to be l for millions of people. How some groups would not want to do it for reasons that I just donât understand. I donât comprehend what the reasons for that is when you have a vaccine thatâs 94% or 95% effective, and it is very safe. I donât get it.â /Fauci
Well, maybe because people have a healthy distrust of their government. That government that has experimented on people under the guise of medical research, does strike a certain “Ill sit this one out until I have more information” chord.
My SIL is a nurse practitioner, and she’s not going to get it until they force her. Her rationale is this: she’s had two kinds of cancer, so there’s something in her DNA that makes her susceptible to cancer. She can easily imagine a TV commercial in a few years: “Had the Moderna vaccine and develop cancer? Call our law offices!” She listed a few drugs that seemed safe for years, then were pulled in 5 minutes after they found a cancer link. This type of thing takes years to come out.
This is why the risk profile is so different based on age. IMO, old folks should seriously consider getting the vaccine. Why? Because it’s safe in the short to medium term, and if it ends up causing cancer in 20 years, your average 75 year old won’t be around to deal with that problem. Add in the fact that this virus wreaks havoc on people over 65, and it seems like a tradeoff worth considering.
It makes no sense for a 30-something like me to get the shot. The risk for me dying from the virus is nearly nonexistent and if something is wrong with the vaccine in the long term, it fucks me up in my late 40s or early 50s.
So that is the interesting trade off if you are 64 and have comorbidities. The virus could well kill me. I might live long enough for the vaccine to present problems.
Would you rather die quickly with coronavirus or slowly with cancer?
It’s a would you rather Monday…
I can imagine the personal injury solicitations right now, now that you mention it.
I heard the J&J vaccine based on adenovirus is the cancer risk. The other mRNA vaccines will fuck up your body in other ways – and killed my favorite boxer a few days ago.
Yes, yes, mRNA vaccines have been around since the Little Ice Age. We totally know how they work.
“My politics is common-sense no-brainer reality, your politics is knuckle-dragging obstructionist terrorism” say the Cathedral operatives and their blue-pilled followers.
Let’s not forget that the vax companies are protected from any liability.
Qhat could go wrong?
Zombie apocalypse?
Some limited protection from liability is warranted. They can’t say for sure that there are no long term effects and it would be terrible if old people couldn’t get the vaccine because the vax companies didn’t want to get sued 30 years from now for unforeseen problems.
They should be able to make the vaccine available and people should decide for themselves if they think the risk/reward is worth it.
What will make me insane is that the govt is sure to do something stupid to force young people into getting the vaccine. For example, do you want to fly? You must be vaccinated. Of course, no one will be able to go after the public health officials in the govt behind those regulations.
Anyone in their 40s or younger in decent shape should avoid the vaccine. Their risk from the vaccine is higher than from the Rona. In a sane society that is the message that would be communicated from the govt.
That protection from liability should, however, manifest in the jury box of a civil suit not a statute or regulation. The “sympathetic plaintiff, deep-pocketed defendant” syndrome is only exacerbated by legislative/administrative limits on liability, not improved by it. Put another way, jurors should not be handing out other people’s money like candy.
And even beyond that, you havenât provided any real incentives to get the vaccine.
All but the biggest dumbasses know the threat of catching Covid is minimal for the vast majority of people. For most people the diktat countermeasures are far more disruptive to their daily lives, yet even when you get a vaccine, youâre still being instructed to employ the countermeasures.
Stop with the fucking theater and people will line up.
Nice stolen base there. Open carry is brandishing. Ok.
Exactly. Anything which “normalizes” guns and gun ownership (and serves to mitigate the crippling visceral terror some people feel in the very presence of a firearm) must be done away with.
It’s just another Mammary Monday…
https://archive.is/oJZ4S
Damn tattooists ruining good skin.
Bet it is damn good to be a tattooist these days!
No face diapers. Good.
Itâs just another Mammary MondayâŚ
With a light dusting of snow?
“David Hogg’s Pillow Company Looks to Be DOA a Month After Media Hype
Hmmm… So anybody reading that article would be alerted to the fact that Hogg and partner had not even bothered to register the name of their company. Therefore somebody who wanted to could go ahead and register that name, thus depriving Hogg of its use unless he paid (dearly?) for it.
Well, guess what? A subsequent search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database reveals that on February 11, a day after the heads up provided by Newsweek, that “Good Pillow” was indeed registered by a Mr. Robert Holland of North Carolina. Congratulations, Bob! You might be the only person who ends up making money from “Good Pillow.””
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2021/03/13/david-hoggs-pillow-company-looks-be-doa-month-after-media-hype
You mean it was just a scam? No way! Actually, he came right out and said it was a scam. Well, not in so many words, but when you say “we will have a product sometime in the future….give us money” that is a scam.
It was a grift…I actually like that asshole more now (more like like dislike him less but you know what I mean).
I don’t think it was a scam. People on the far left think they are morally and intellectually superior to everyone else. Why would anyone oppose their obviously correct ideas unless they were stupid? I think he really expected it to be a piece of cake to start a business and make money. If one of those intellectually defective Trump-supporting rubes can do it, he should be able to, right?
According to the WaPo headline I just saw, Yellen wants a global minimum tax. Because why wouldn’t she?
I blame the Irish.
What if everyone or at least a significant percentage are open carrying?
It’ll be all O K Corral, all the time. The bodies will be piled high.
Interestingly, the Gunfight at OK Corral was over gun control within the city limits. The putative “good guys” – the Earps – were scumbags, much like the putative “bad guys” (Clantons and McLaurys).
History written by the victors and whatnot.
This type of thing takes years to come out.
Just don’t say the government is conducting an giant medical experiment in real time. That’s paranoid.
It gives them too much credit.
This is just incompetence in action with a minor dose of malice towards the plebes, but mostly incompetence.
Yet in many cases the most dire projections from experts turned out to be significantly off-base, and the real data ended up far less grim than was initially modeled. Whether that’s because the mitigation measures were so successful or because the modeling was faulty remains unknown and will likely be a topic of study for years.
Faulty modelling. And nothing will happen to the folks that got it wrong.
Hence, Democrats have introduced a bill that will grant $123,000 to black Oregonians in an effort toward reparations.
Scam artists are salivating.
But all things considered, the federal governmentâs increase and extension of jobless benefits is likely playing an outsized role in the decision many Americans are making to stay home.
And… water is wet.
I wonder if the bill will have a date of residency built in or can people move there after it passes and apply?
From the article:
A person is eligibleâŚif the person demonstrates that the person: (a) Is descended from an American slave; (b) Has identified as African-American on legal documents for at least 10 years before the date of the applicationâŚ
Also, an individual must be at least 18 and have resided in the state for at least two years by December 31, 2022.
Well for most living folks, that means only one of 16 (great grandparents) or 32 (great great grandparents) had to have been a slave. Buy stock in DNA testing companies. Find that one drop of Negro blood and win $123,000.
History of the Estes Model Rocket company.
Model rockets are cool.
Oh yeah, we’ll be taking a look at that one during lunch. Thanks DEG!
You’re welcome!
My brother and I used to cut out fins from milk cartons, fix them to just the engines and launch them. Releived of the weight of the rocket those little suckers really fly.
I’m surprised milk cartons came with fins đ
/snark
Make segregation great again?
Were there too many people at your graduation?
These days, ceremonies are sometimes small.
Thatâs because theyâre separated by race.
And sexuality.
And income level.
So it goes at New Yorkâs prestigious Columbia University.
For the Class of 2021, the private Ivy League research university will offer (supplemental) virtual graduation ceremonies for each of the following:
American Indian
Asian
âLGBTQIA+â
âLatinxâ
Black
First-generation and/or low income
The school calls the events âMulticultural Graduation Ceremonies.â
“You tokens are not really welcome with the real students. Go have your ceremonies where we don’t have to see them.”
Bunch of neanderthals. Back to the past: I just read that in 1863, blacks visiting their soldier boys at camp had to ride on the outside of the Philly trolleys that went by the camp. Safe spaces and racial identify and all.
Am I alone in not being bothered in the slightest by DST?
Yes.
Huh, it’s an odd and mostly useless superpower but I’ll take it.
There’s two main technical problems with DST:
1. Changing the clocks
2. Confusing computers
The first problem is largely solved because there’s almost always at least 1 clock in every person’s life that automatically fixes itself (e.g. a cell phone) so you don’t even have to be aware of it anymore. And that solution was largely made possible because the second problem was solved by having computers actually operate on UTC* instead of local time, regardless of what they present to you.
Thus the problem is largely reduced to a matter of taste nowadays.
* = There is (at least) one exception to this rule, which is that client versions of Windows running on BIOS-based machines still use local time by default.
The technical issues are less of a problem to me than the wrench to my sleep cycle that messes me up for one or more weeks afterwards.
The real problem of DST is that nobody seems to know why it exists (or alternately, why the change in time happens, since most people don’t even know which time of the year is actually DST vs. standard time anyway). We all do it just because we all do it.
The disruption to sleep is annoying, but you could plan for it. I knew DST was coming for about 2 weeks but still got hit by it.
Maybe if it really doesn’t affect you at all. I don’t see the need to switch the times–it’s really an issue of when everyone thinks it’s ok to start the business/work day. Other than that it is immaterial. I usually feel the disruption in my schedule, but it doesn’t mess with me. “Missing” or “gaining” an hour of sleep is about as minor an event in my life as anything else.
I like the idea of dumping DST. What I don’t get are the yahoos like Rubio who want permanent DST. Why, like db said, it is just quibbling about when you go to work.
Why not just leave time the way it is and if people want, they can start at 9 instead of 8?
That might be part of the reason why I hate the idea of year-round DST. We are taking an awful idea and…making it permanent.
When I move to Ft Collins, I am probably going to work 6:30-3:30 as my normal schedule. That aligns with 8:30-5:30 eastern time, so will work well for meetings and stuff. Just like companies don’t care where you work, they mostly don’t care when you work, as long as you can be scheduled into meetings reasonably well.
Pretty much, I’m up before the sun year long and my sleep pattern is so erratic anyway one hour here or there is irrelevant.
It would not be a hyperbole to say then, that you support standard time.
I got drunk early, and managed to pass out in time to get enough sleep before the alarm went off, so I”m fine.
It should be what it is now year round.
Greenwich Mean Time, aka Zulu Time, across the world. No time zones to worry about. Anyone, any store/workplace, anywhere can set their hours to whatever they want them to be.
I think that is Alan Page in the pic in the reparations story.
And I think that pic is from Minnesoda.
Yes I’m correct!
That is Alan Page at the Minneapolis Central Library
Random:
DST should be all year ’round.
Where is Jarflax?
Daughter whom I previously thought had no work ethic certainly does at Walmart. Also, two of her friends got fired for too many tardies and absences in a quarter, which shocked her because she didn’t think anybody got fired from Walmart. Lastly, there is a 9-minute grace period on tardies, which is about 10 minutes more than I ever got.
With trans and sports, what they need to do is not test testosterone, but screen for XX and XY. They should start putting that on birth certificates. That way, nobody will be in doubt. Go to the obstetrician when you look like a boy but your bc says XX? Fine. You’ll get proper medical care AND nobody else will know you’re a chick. Finally, the ultimate goal of trans should be to be able to pass without saying a word. If trans inform people of their status, THEY are making it about their genitals, not the normies. Now, if you don’t say anything and you can’t pass, then things get awkward. If you look like a woman, I’m going to autonomically think “woman”. If you look like a dude, I’m going to autonomically think “man.” If you look like a dude in a dress, I’m going to be all cringey and embarrassed for you.
If it were because the bulk claiming the status really believed. Actual dysphorics are so rare that they are drowned out by people going “Look at me! Give me attention and special priviledges!”
I am flummoxed by dudes who are plain or mildly unattractive who think they will look BETTER as a woman.
There’s a military history expert on History Channel who transitioned. Not a word was said, but I instantly knew it was a dude in a dress.
My BFF has a theory that if you’re not willing to get bottom surgery, you’re just an attention whore.
Most guys will make an ugly-ass woman because there’s dimorphism in skulls. It’s generally possible to dig up a skull and have a good idea whether it came from a man or a woman (not as definite as pelvises, but reliable enough). And the masculine bone structure is an impediment to making an attractive feminine face over top.
On living guys it seems to be mostly about the fullness of the lips.
I was on a flight with a guy who was trying to transition and not doing too well at it. Long hair, sun dress, attempted falsetto… – let’s just say that the “AIRBORNE” tattoo on his forearm was not the only tell.
Good to hear!
Daphne v. Josephine: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/mediaviewer/rm1828181761
They ALMOST make it, but they have a little uncanny valley going on.
Lastly, there is a 9-minute grace period on tardies, which is about 10 minutes more than I ever got.
When George O’Leary was football coach at GT, he told players “5 minutes early is 10 minutes late” or something like that. And meant it. He had the bus leave the team hotel 5 minutes early once and left two key players behind. Because he was sick of them being late all the time.
Resume antics aside, he was a good coach.
Other ways to get fired from Walmart: work more than 40 hours in a week more than once (the first time, you get a warning). They do not want to pay overtime.
Oh yeah. Forgot about that. My kid did that and worse, she’s a minor and can’t legally work over 32 hours. She was very sternly lectured.
Also, not reporting an injury immediately. She got sternly lectured about that too.
Dollars to donuts that, sometime in the past, Walmart lost a judgment in court or went to settlement over both matters. Your personal concerns are a lot less important to corporate than keeping operations within budget.
I liked working for Walmart (granted it was 10 years ago now) because they were pretty damn honest about their intentions. I left because I could get paid a lot better elsewhere (granted, if I did what I do now for Walmart today, I’d probably be paid well too). But ever since then, every company I’ve worked with has put on a pretty face while concealing a dagger and a “this is just how business is done, kid” attitude.
I worked for Walmart for a few months until they changed my job duties on the fly. I was hired for Thing X specifically because of my skillset, not for Thing Y.
That’s a fair thing to quit over when you’re an established professional. When I worked there, I had no skillset to speak of, so I did whatever they needed me to do.
The real problem of DST is that nobody seems to know why it exists (or alternately, why the change in time happens, since most people donât even know which time of the year is actually DST vs. standard time anyway). We all do it just because we all do it.
The disruption to sleep is annoying, but you could plan for it. I knew DST was coming for about 2 weeks but still got hit by it.
I prefer having sunlight long into the evening. The change is a nuisance.
Me too. Long into the evening works best for me.
Like most Americans, Iâm not sowing crops in the morning daylight.
The union guys who start work at 4-5 AM so they can shoot the shit on company time for three hours before they are accountable to us salaried types are coming in during the dark anyway.
Leave the clocks as they are now. No âfalling backâ this year.
Itâs almost as if you get more of the behavior you incentivize…
Moar random:
Mr Mojeaux was ranting last night about student loan debt forgiveness. He didn’t go to college and my total loan burden was $5,500, which I paid off lickety-split. I worked and got scholarships and had saved money. Also I lived at home.
THEN he went off about COBRA. His job got eliminated about a month ago, because they sent it overseas. He got a new post almost immediately within the company but he and the others were offered a VERY generous severance. Well, last night he was talking about some of those people having COBRA FOR FREE until September, on the company’s dime. Our family’s COBRA outlay would have been $27,000 till the end of the year. Now he’s mad because he wants a matching contribution to his salary for that.
Yeah, so he’s pissed. Me, I’m c’est la vie. No use getting mad.
Our dishwasher crapped out. Fortunately, Mr. Mojeaux won a top of the line dishwasher, but we don’t know when it will get here. We already have the year’s worth of dishwasher pods and installation kit that goes with it. I don’t think even Lazlo won a dishwasher.
That was because Lazlo didn’t win the percent he expected.
True, true. Mr. Mojeaux has not yet won an RV.
I need to watch that again. It has probably been 20-25 years since I have seen it.
I rewatch every couple of years or so. Same with Big Trouble.
RE: trans
https://babylonbee.com/news/surviving-ww2-vet-recounts-harrowing-story-of-the-lack-of-trans-representation-on-d-day
How does he know the Germans didn’t have more than their quota of gay, women and transgendered? Hitler, himself, was rather ambivalent about sex.
Pink triangles.
What will make me insane is that the govt is sure to do something stupid to force young people into getting the vaccine. For example, do you want to fly? You must be vaccinated. Of course, no one will be able to go after the public health officials in the govt behind those regulations.
I think they are already talking about vaccinating school kids.
Fer teh teechurz!