Caption contest in the comments
I’ll be subscribing. (h/t jesse.in.mb)
This time, the disparate impact is a feature, not a bug, I guess.
I still play this occasionally; nice to see it’s expanding.
And this has been running in the background for me for the last several weeks.
Next they’ll ban fried chicken.
And collards, which are delicious, mind you.
Don’t forget the watermelon – the real stuff, not the tasteless seedless crap.
It’s kind of difficult to make a health argument against a green vegetable. Maybe claim is gateway to harder stuff like cornbread or macaroni and cheese.
Collards are best with a sizable hunk of fatback. That’s the in right there.
Neckbone.
If they ain’t cooked in animal fat they ain’t collards, so yep.
I use a smoked cottage butt, onions, garlic, and of course- bacon grease.
And since I use a pressure cooker, the ‘safety fluid’ is chicken broth.
TRY MY GREENS!
Yeah, that sounds good.
Except peas. Peas and cauli are the exceptions that test the rule(s).
Give peas a chance.
Whirled peas.
A grandparent of mine hated peas. How can you dislike peas, one of the few green things toddlers will eat?
You could call any vegetable.
Call it by name!
The chances are good, the vegetable will respond to you.
Unless it’s Biden. Then he’ll leave it up to his redheaded wrecking ball.
“With these actions, the FDA will help significantly reduce youth initiation, increase the chances of smoking cessation among current smokers, and address health disparities experienced by communities of color, low-income populations, and LGBTQ+ individuals, all of whom are far more likely to use these tobacco products.”
“Darkies, poors and homos can’t make the ‘right’ decisions so we have to make them for them.”
Or you know… someone will (if there already isn’t one) come out with some drop/spray/addition you put in/on the cigarette to make it taste like a menthol again.
There was one in the mid-70s. Dinky Dau (sp?) targeted mainly (exclusively?) at weed smokers. I was a menthol smoker and liked the DD with my pot. My friends not so much ;-\ Admittedly, it was easy to overdo it.
Wouldn’t take much seems like, just spray the exterior. That’s a good idea but as you say it probably already exists.
LGBTQ+ individuals?
Yeah, I don’t know where that came from. Doesn’t fit with my observations over the years.
We used to just call that group “Drama Club” when I was in school.
I’m still waiting for the evidence that the ciggie companies are “targeting” – in the almost complete absence of adverts or promos for decades – these unfortunates, rather than them choosing these products, oh I dunno, through word of mouth.
They are pretty much saying they are banning menthols because they are used by poor people, gay people, and colored people, aren’t they.
“You show me a fat, white, woman, with a couple of mixed kids, and Ill show you a pack of Newports oe Salems within her arm’s reach.”
Fall Guys?
Dear god, I’d forgotten about that candy-colored nightmare. How can I forget about it again?
It’s the weekend, may I suggest alcohol?
That’s your solution to everything.
The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems!
Work is the curse of the drinking man !
That solvent of such potent solvency that even the insolvent may be resolved.
For that, I solute you, sir!
On the other hand, you get some eye candy.
I was sorta expecting Candy Eyes
? Cuz I’m your unknown stuntman ?
Damn you both, Teds.
Today, in anti-Asian hate crime
President Joe Biden will restrict travel from India starting Tuesday on the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as India battles a deadly second wave of coronavirus infections.
The policy will not apply to American citizens, lawful permanent residents or other exempted individuals, according to a White House official. People in those categories will still have to test negative prior to travel, quarantine if unvaccinated and retest as negative upon entering the U.S., as is required for all international travelers.
“The policy will be implemented in light of extraordinarily high COVID-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating in the India,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.
He probably thinks they get crazy on the fire water.
Wasn’t it racist a year ago when Trump shut down travel from China?
That was different, because shutup you bigot.
That’s different!
I just had it suggested to me that I might need to travel to the Philippines for work in the coming months. A few years ago, I’d have been all about it, and I’d love to visit there, but until things get back to normal, I’ll stay right here thanks. I don’t need to subject myself to any more COVID overreaction bullshit, thanks. With my luck there’d be a political situation that requires a new outbreak and a border closure to redirect the public’s attention right while I was away.
Or maybe just a hot war with the Chinese Navy.
That’s high on my “to avoid” list as well.
Same here, except the UK.
Fuck that, I’m not going anywhere.
+1 Subic Bay girls
This person is a liar:
Rep. Anna V. Eskamani Hammer
@AnnaForFlorida
FL’s Georgia-style voter suppression bill passed & now heads to Governor’s desk. It makes it harder to vote by mail, prohibits groups from passing out water to voters & tries to limit ballot boxes.
I’m sad but proud of the Democratic Caucus for fighting so hard. Keep fighting.
This person is a moron:
Going for Victory handVictory hand
@RockinNole
Replying to @AnnaForFlorida and @Thirst4truth8
If the voters Rights act passes in Congress then that will negate all that right
Was there some epidemic of people passing out from dehydration while waiting in line to vote that I just completely missed?
I mean, I’ve voted in person a bunch of times and never once suffered dehydration, nor has anybody offered me water, but maybe that’s just my hydration privilege talking.
To be fair, there’s a lot of people who won’t vote if they think nobody is going to give them water when they wait in line, or something.
I have noticed that a lot of people are obsessed with water. They must have it at hand at all times.
I never got it.
If someone handed me a bottle of anything in the voting line, I’d assume they were trying to poison me.
Apparently, yes, in Georgia. I can’t see what the deal is with the water. If you wanted to play into the hands of the people claiming voter suppression, BS like that is the best way to do so. And seriously, how can you prohibit giving water to voters waiting in line, and not people waiting in line for other things?
how can you prohibit giving water to voters waiting in line
Many states have laws prohibiting giving anything of value to people waiting to vote. I have no problem with such prohibitions.
It is well known that the downtrodden minorities cannot afford water containers to bring along when go to polling places. But they can afford so many poisonous menthol cigarettes that such tobacco products must be prohibited, for the sake of the downtrodden minorities’ health.
Huh. I seem to remember playing some Gameboy Advance games on my TV through a gizmo that attached in some manner to my GameCube.
The GameCube is long gone but I still have a collection of Gameboy cartridges in a moving bin somewhere.
My GameCube is the only console still hooked up. Double Dash may not be the best MarioKart, but i play it anyway.
That was called an RF (for radio frequency) modulator to make it so that your game played on (usually) Channel 3. TVs back in the analog days did not have a straight video input as modern TVs do; they started having them about the same time VCRs became common, even though most VCRs had built-in RF modulators.
Nothing to fear but fear itself?
Biden talked of crises being opportunities, and he is working hard to see how many more trillions of dollars of government spending he can squeeze out of the Covid emergency. A Washington Post headline captured the administration’s presumptions: “Biden’s big bet: That he can remake economy with no bad side effects” such as “less incentive to work.” But the extension of bonus payments for unemployment recipients is already whipsawing the labor market as employers find no applicants. There are plenty of warning signs that inflation could be readying to rocket. It is unclear if Biden’s team assumes that federal debt can be piled up forever with no consequence or merely with no catastrophes until after the next election.
Government’s response to kneejerk hysteria will be the death of us.
3 days and no one even looked at our job ad on Indeed.
Could be reading to rocket?
Go buy some gas, groceries, and ammo.
Wood.
Isn’t the Chinese symbol for crisis made up of the symbols for danger and opportunity? Connect the dots, people!
You’re Right!
Thanks JFK for another fuckup
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word_for_%22crisis%22
Related
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times
I have no idea what to believe about covid in India but I am highly skeptical. I was on the subcontinent many years ago. The news reported an outbreak of dysentery and cholera that killed a bunch of people in a nearby town. I was surprised and asked some of the locals. They just shrugged and said “happens all the time, no big deal”.
My partner’s colleague in India just caught COVID. He has some fever, got himself an oxygen monitor. He’s young, should be fine.
I also wonder if Covid just finally hit a caste that people pay attention to.
Keeping in mind with the Gellman effect, here’s some more local reporting on India COVID.
India
Two deaths per million people a day? That’s it?
Odds are the Indian government recently passed a law giving and extra pile of cash to anyone COVID diagnosis the health care system cooks up.
You know, just like the USA.
It does align very conveniently with the ongoing Indian and South African push to seize the patents the pharma companies filed on their covid vaccines and treatments.
“Marilyn Manson is sued by Game of Thrones actress who claims he drugged, tortured and raped her during years of abuse when he also ‘cut her body with a Nazi knife during sex'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9530583/Marilyn-Manson-sued-Game-Thrones-actress-Esme-Bianco-claims-abuse.html
I can totally believe Marilyn Manson would be into kinky shit, but I can’t believe that she would have stayed around for years if it was non-consensual.
Right? When you get involved with a dude like that, expect a wild ride.
Let’s keep talking about Heinlein!
I have not read the alternate version of “The Number of the Beast.” In fact, I forgot it existed until I was reminded in the earlier thread.
I only read one. Don’t know which one it was, or that there were two.
I did read both versions of Stranger In A Strange Land.
I think I only read the alternate version… A college room-mate got a special version which seems it had stuff not included in the standard release?
The number of the beast? Yes, I have it right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo
I was expecting this.
Damn your fingers. I was about to link that.
If we’re going to bring up Heinlein again, can we please note that one mentioned book (that’s one of my favorites) is titled Job: a Comedy of Justice, not “Job: A Comedy of Errors“?
Agh. Link broke. Edit fairy? Oh, edit fairy?
[Flutters by, fixes dog’s-breakfast of HTML, blows kisses.]
You da man, Tonio.
Oops. I thought db had the title right and just copied him in my rush to type something up while juggling stuff at work.
Dammit!!! Someone noticed!
Paperback version is $768.56!!!!!!!!
I was looking to replace a lost copy of The Past Through Tomorrow and it’s $85.24. What is driving the price of books to the moon?
Also, disliked “The Number of the Beast” the first time. Re-read it a while back and hated it so much that I gave my copy away. Between the constant bitching of the four principals and Lazarus Long screwing everyone’s wife I had had enough.
Look for Mass Market paperback instead of the default paperback.
Thanks. I still have my copy but was looking for some missing favorites and ran across those entries.
Scrolling thru Amazon I saw several titles that I had forgotten about. Many, many were between the juveniles and his later Lazarus Long stuff.
Hit post too soon.
Stuff like Podkayne, Fifth Column, and Glory Road. Love, love, love Glory Road.
“Friends of witnesses who took the stand to help convict Derek Chauvin have raised nearly $750k for them on GoFundMe for ‘trauma healing’ and to ‘get their lives back on track'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9521649/Fundraisers-witnesses-took-stand-help-convict-Derek-Chauvin-raise-nearly-750k.html
OFFS!!
Nice racket.
Speaking of price shocks (It’s not inflation!), I was looking at shipping container prices yesterday. The price of a good-condition 20′ shipping container appears to have jumped by a third or more, in less than a year.
I confess, I was shocked.
I thought those prices were artificially depressed in the last few years because so little traffic was shipping back across the Pacific from North America that it was cheaper to sell them here than to ship them back for another go-around.
This.
Hoarding cycle. Everybody is afraid of shortages right now.
The feds are printing $ trillions while every level of government took a sledgehammer to supply chains.
Breaking the Chains
“Man, 23, is sentenced to 4 years in prison and fined $12 MILLION for helping to set fire to Minneapolis police station during George Floyd protest”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9526925/Man-sentenced-4-years-prison-fined-12-MILLION-helping-set-fire-police-station.html
So why this one guy?
He’s white?
Antifa is pretty much all lily-white.
He looks like a guy with $12mil.
He can’t be the real Justin Bieber?
Re: Menthol cigarette ban: Wasn’t one of the very high profile police killings in the last few years a direct result of cigarette prohibition?
The New York one. They have sky high cigarette taxes that create a black market and the selling of loosies.
Was he selling menthols in particular? I can’t recall.
I didn’t see it in either of the two previous posts’ comments, so:
RIP Mark McCain
A McCain who will be missed?
Nooooooo!
I’ll skip Cindy’s Birthday in favor of a cover
https://youtu.be/MdQLLRko6o4
Are you trying to get shot? Because that’s how you get shot.
A University of Minnesota student government member requested that classmates make life “hell” for police officers on campus.
“Make their lives hell. Annoy the s— out of them,” said Lauren Meyers — the Chief Financial Officer of the Minnesota Student Association Executive Board — during a video conference. “Like, use up their resources, make their officers show up to something.” …
“On April 14th, MSA’s Executive Board convened for an hour long internal brainstorming session around events happening in Brooklyn Center, where individual members were sharing their opinions,” read a statement provided to Campus Reform by MSA President Amy Ma. “The role of MSA is to advocate for students on campus, including on community safety and policing issues.”
“Comments made by one individual included phrases like ‘make their lives hell,’ ‘annoy the shit out of them,’ and ‘use up their resources. Make their officers show up to something,’” continued the statement. “There have been allegations made about the individual advocating for illegal actions, but the individual never once said anything about false emergency calls.”
“The comments made were not an official organizational position, and MSA has never advocated for false emergency calls,” Ma said.
The revolution requires martyrs.
White girl power ✊?
I want to know everything about this. Why? Why Dark Dice? Has Goldblum ever even played an RPG before? What Balmer’s level going to be? What spells can he cast? Can I even imagine a world where someone is going to ask Jeff goddamned Goldblum to make a saving throw? I cannot, and yet here we are. Here we are.
I’m curious what edition. D&D, 1st edition AD&D, or 2nd edition AD&D?
From the last thread: Creosote asked about an alternative version of “Number of the Beast”. I didn’t know such a thing existed. For db about “Farnham’s Freehold”, it had some good ideas but Heinlein came off as overly preachy.
5e. Combat wheelchairs, “x cards” and listing your pronouns on your character sheet. And if your character is trans, it can’t be killed.
And if your character is trans, it can’t be killed.
It can be, but first you have to caste a re-transition spell.
[golf clap] for Not Adahn.
It can be, but first you have to caste a re-transition spell.
Indian characters, only.
I’d say you’d have to resurrect, then re-transition.
I tapped out at “5e”.
I was in an Arcanis campaign using the 5e rules. It was my only exposure to post-2nd edition rules. I was… unimpressed.
I agree on the preachiness of “Farnham” and also cringed a bit at the depiction of the invaders and the whole castration thing.
But I still enjoyed it. The traitorous son-in-law was overdone, and really hateful.
SC governor says local Covid restrictions unreasonable
Gov. Henry McMaster said government-mandated mask wearing and other COVID-19 restrictions need to end in South Carolina, and he’s willing to do “whatever’s necessary” to put a stop to them if local officials don’t do so themselves.
“It’s time to start getting back to normal. I’d ask the cities and counties if they have restrictions out there, to wrap it up,” he told reporters April 28 outside the Governor’s Mansion.
“I think some of them are being unreasonable, and if they need some help in removing those restrictions, I’ll be glad to help them,” he added.
Whether to mask up should also be a choice — not a requirement — in schools, he said, now that all employees have had the opportunity to get vaccinated on their own or through clinics that every district arranged with a local health care provider after workers became eligible March 8.
“…he told reporters April 28 outside the Governor’s Mansion.”
For some reason, those words grate on me. Who the fuck is you to get a free mansion ?
The Governor?
Here’s a tidbit I learned during the Covid insanity.
I thought there was no governor’s mansion in New Hampshire. I am wrong.
Somewhat related.
Serious libertarians are outraged that DeSantis wants to ban vaccine passports. They were not outraged when businesses were shut down last year.
‘A bakery should be able to allow only vaccinated people come in and demand that they bake a cake.’
Maybe I’d give half a shit about the private businesses’ right to require vaccination if we weren’t living in a fascist country. I don’t trust that those vaccine requirements wouldn’t be made under duress.
There is nothing like a stupid person that think s/he is smart.
Joy Behar says Tim Scott doesn’t understand what systemic racism means
You see, the country may not be racist but there is “systemic” racism…which is different…somehow…
‘ Uncle Tim doesn’t know what it’s like to be a black man in America’.
That woman is pure filth.
https://youtu.be/TruRh9bJEpo
LOL
https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1387759804253360133
LOL
They’re struggling with hate speech moderation because they’re making the definition of hate speech dependent on the identity of the speaker.
I hope they choke on the problem and die.
Also because hate speech is an absurd anti-intellectual concept altogether.
The same goes for ‘Hate Crimes’ the fact that someone has or did display animus towards a particular demographic should not be at all relevant beyond demonstrating motive.
Joy Behar says Tim Scott doesn’t understand what systemic racism means
And that Thomas guy- what the hell makes him think he knows anything about how the law should work?
“You might not know her name, but you’ve probably seen a her face.
Zoë Roth, the star of “Disaster Girl,” (which definitely ranks in the unofficial meme hall of fame) sold the meme as an NFT for 180 ether this month (~half a million).”
https://twitter.com/mariecfazio/status/1387810413690097671
Wow.
Because I’m on a conference call, I scrolled down the feed (don’t bother; its a lefty media circle jerk), but this caught my eye:
No one should be allowed to say systemic racism is a problem without saying which system is racist.
Systemic just means “of or relating to a system”.I’d say there’s nothing particularly racist about any of our systems and systemic racism is not a thing that actually exists.
The one I get most often is the data that suggests black people get harsher sentences for drug crimes. I’ve not yet seen that debunked. Although this does not inherently mean the system itself is racist.
I only skimmed the comments, but saw a fair amount of “blah blah blah rich people spending their money on useless crap.” I’d normally ask “why the hell do you care? They’re spending their own money.” But I also know the answer will be some variation on “but gummint should take their money and give it to me!”
Fuck, people are continually disappointing. Except for you folks. The Glibs are responsible for what little faith I have left in mankind.
It’s Friday which means there will be a Zoom kicked off at 20:00 Eastern. Normal link will work, but I’m on mobile now. So I’ll drop it here as a reply when I get back to a real keyboard.
[Edit Fairy swishes by, carps about having to work overtime, fixes shit.]
Here you go, buddy.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81197592540?pwd=ZTJlS2tYODM1TFBpbmo4czlJWlJDZz09#success
Thanks. But I didn’t know it needed to # success like that. 🙂
Took the hybrid bike into the bike shop. They charged me much less then the time the spent getting the metal shard that had worked its way ~2mm through my tire to give me a nice pinprick in the tube every time I road it. Also adjusted the rear derailleur and brakes for no charge (which took less time then getting the metal shard out).
There’s a reason they’re my go to bike shop.
Apropos of nothing except a sunny day after a couple of dreary ones, I present this morning’s earbud on my way in to work (here sung by George’s Aunt Rosie): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OS6jUlDbWBw
(earBUG)
Earwig?
Or that thing from the Wrath of Kahn?
Just got my jab five minutes ago
My God is the medical establishment run by morons
You don’t say.
That should make you feel good about the vaccine.
Oh? Do tell.
Hey! I resemble that remark!
And you let them jab you anyway?
Problem solver
From John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, American presidents have taken aim at corporate America’s tax-avoidance schemes before — and mostly missed.
Now, President Joe Biden is training the government’s sights again on the loopholes, shelters and international havens that have long allowed multinational companies to dodge taxes in ways that ordinary households cannot.
The idea is twofold: First, to help pay for Biden’s trillions in proposed spending — for everything from roads and bridges and green energy to internet access, job training, preschool and sick leave. And second, to shift more of the federal tax load onto companies and narrow America’s vast income inequality. Affluent investors reap the biggest windfalls when after-tax corporate profits accelerate.
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The president wants to stop companies from stashing profits in countries with low tax rates. To do so, he’s proposed a 21% minimum tax on multinationals’ foreign earnings and is urging other countries to follow suit. His plan would also rescind what the administration sees as international loopholes in Trump’s 2017 tax legislation.
To strengthen its ability to root out tax cheating, the administration has proposed adding $80 billion to the IRS budget over a decade to bolster the agency’s underfunded enforcement team. As part of his effort to reduce America’s wealth gap, he’s also proposed raising the tax rate on long-term capital gains for Americans who earn over $1 million a year.
Many analysts see Biden’s corporate tax plan as a gamechanger — if Congress embraces it.
“Dude, it’s a goose, and it lays golden eggs.”
“Awesome. Let’s kill it and eat it.”
Penn Wharton’s analysts estimate that a 21% minimum global tax and other international provisions of Biden’s tax plan would raise $987 billion from 2022 through 2031 — nearly half as much as Biden’s overall corporate tax plan would produce. Biden would collect an additional $892 billion from the centerpiece of his plan: an increase in the overall corporate tax rate to 28% from the 21% Trump slashed it to in 2017, the Penn Wharton analysis finds.
“It’s a terrific plan,” said Matthew Gardner, senior fellow at the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “We cannot have a sustainable corporate tax system until we solve this problem of companies shifting their intangible assets around. This plan should stop that dead.”
Who do they think they are? They’re stealing from the government.
Trump’s alma mater? ?
And mine.
I question the story though.
First of all, Wharton does not have an economics program. It’s a business school. Economics is in the college of arts and sciences.
Second, those people are not the school, but graduates who wound up in a far left leaning think that. ITEP is located near Penn and takes its graduates but it is not
Penn.
Third, I actually took economics at Penn and my professor would’ve called this a load of bulllshit.
*think tank
https://twitter.com/80snewsscreens/status/1374695647153098759
Who says white guys can’t rap?
Nobody’s said that since the Beastie Boys – but there sure are some people who say to themselves “rapping seems easy, let me put my rapping self on TV.”
Rapping does require skill and talent, so does armpit farting the melody of the ‘Chicken Dance.’ Just because it requires aptitude does not mean it is worthwhile.
Huh-huh, armpit farts.
In defense of Biden’s tax plan, his Treasury Department says it would target “excess″ corporate profits — unnaturally high earnings that can result from a company’s near-monopoly power. Such companies already have so much cash available for investment that higher taxes wouldn’t dissuade them from, say, building a plant or hiring more workers, Treasury and some academic economists contend.
Government bureaucrat: “If they’ve got money, they have to spend it, no matter what. That’s what we do.”
Isn’t Amazon intentionally not earning big profits?
OFFS
Yes; what the shit is that?
When the government gives you too much of an advantage?
a company’s near-monopoly power
I could have sworn we have an entire federal agency whose job it is to prevent that.
Just one?!
If there’s one thing constant across the Federal Government, it’s that each program that fails has at least two other programs dedicated to the same cause that have also failed, and that none of them will be removed or reformed, but new programs will be added to compensate.
Are they trying to revive the windfall profits tax?
My dad named his boat The Unearned Increment because he paid for it with investment income.
Isn’t Amazon intentionally not earning big profits?
For years they have plowed it all back into chasing market share.
Joe Manchin has announced that he does not support DC statehood, effectively killing it with or without filibuster.
Positive note.
Everything he announces his opposition to that is not gun control improves the chances of his trading a yes vote on gun control for some really big kickbacks.
oh you. So cynical.
But hopefully not right.
I fervently hope I’m not right here, too. Hopefully I’m as wrong as I was about a Heinlein title, which was pretty embarrassing.
It is a bull market for cynicism.
If he votes for DC statehood he’s voting to make himself irrelevant and subject to political retaliation for his swing-vote shenanigans.
Caption contest in the comments
“Jane’s Addiction has really let themselves go.”
And…Im off to bed, kids. Hold the noise down.
Stop! Ain’t nobody leaving… a comment.
I got caught commenting once, when I was five.
Well it’s just a… simple tract.
It’s going to take me three days to get over y’all’s shitty puns.
Well, that’s obvious.
SCIENCE!
Traveling this summer? Don’t forget your mask.
The Transportation Security Administration on Friday extended a federal requirement that travelers on buses, trains, commercial flights and at airports wear face masks. The requirement was set to expire on May 11 and will now be in effect through Sept. 13.
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Airlines have required passengers wear masks for much of the past year as Covid-19 continued to spread but labor unions have pushed the Biden administration for a federal mask mandate to back up cabin crews tasked with enforcing the rules. Carriers have banned more than 2,000 passengers for failing to follow mask requirements.
Airlines for America, an industry group that represents most large U.S. carriers, applauded the extension of the mask requirement and said that the “federal face covering mandate has significantly strengthened our flight crews’ ability to enforce these requirements onboard.”
The Federal Aviation Administration in January unveiled a “zero tolerance” policy for unruly travelers after a spike in incidents, many of them involving in travelers who refused to wear masks.
“Mask compliance is key to confidence in air travel as we climb towards recovery, which includes international travel,” Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, the labor union that represents cabin crews at United, Spirit and more than a dozen airlines, said in a statement after the decision.
“We also have a responsibility to make sure aviation isn’t contributing to the spread of the virus or any variants. We applaud Administrator Pekoske and the Biden Administration for taking action that ensures we can build back better,” Nelson said.
Look for the union label.
Masking in the Mat-Su Borough appears (based on my scientific, wild-ass guess) to be less than 25%.
OMG, that sounds like paradise. No “Karening,” either, right?
Isnt that arbitrarily extending Biden’s EO on masks?
100 days, not forever.
Two weeks to flatten the curve.
Catching up on old SF paperbacks as I posted yesterday with “Lathe of Heaven”. Just started “Budrys’ Inferno” today. Not too bad so far – but before picking this up I don’t think I’d ever seen this author’s name…much less read anything.
I seem to recall that LeGuin was involved in some seriously weird and offputting stuff. Can’t recall details, except I think it involved child sexual abuse. Going off a very old and foggy memory, could be completely wrong.
I think that was Marion Zimmer Bradley. There were a few big articles posted at TOS a few years ago (maybe just in links from someone here).
Just got a photo from the oldest offspring. Her daughter is on a tour of the U of IA campus, where she starts this fall on a full-ride, tuition, room and board academic scholarship for the pre-med program.
That’s not the amazing part. The amazing part is that I’m old enough to have a grandchild going to college.
College.
When the hell did that happen? (Get off my lawn!)
Maybe they were hoping dislocating a 73-year-old woman’s shoulder would rekindle the spark in their romance:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9529567/Colorado-cops-cheered-watching-footage-73-year-old-woman-romantic-relationship.html
1,000 pardons, that’s not where I meant to post that!
OK, *here* is what I meant to post in response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03rzUoyq9K0
My 3 grand daughters are finished with the Bachelors degree, look towards the next step. Youngest is 25 and your neighbor, Animal
Congrats to your GD, your D and of course to the Animal family
I’d consider myself fairly informed, but I’d never heard of the Lag B’Omer before…although from some minor research, its origin is apparently “post-Biblical” which probably explains some things. Still thought I would have heard about it somewhere.
Is this called something else in the US?
Never heard of it but 44’s a lot of dead folks. RIP.
About half of U.S. adults are at least partially vaccinated, according to federal data. Airline executives have reported higher bookings since vaccines have rolled out and more tourist attractions reopen.
Those bookings should be cancelled.
About half of U.S. adults are at least partially vaccinated,
Even if there’s only a 1% serious long term side effect rate for these shots, that’s a million Americans with long term side effects. We had better hope these shots are safe in the long term.
MY nightmare scenario (and it actually does keep me awake at night) is that 1% of the population ends up with ALS- or MS-like symptoms from these shots. On a planet with 8 billion souls, that’s eighty million people who’ll get MS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease who otherwise wouldn’t have. If you think the ‘Vid’s straining global medical resources, have I got an “interesting times” scenario for you . . .
Are they trying to revive the windfall profits tax?
“That’s one for you, nineteen for me.
Should five per cent appear too small, be thankful I don’t take it all.”
Nothing more hilarious than socialists whining about high taxes.
Maybe they were hoping dislocating a 73-year-old woman’s shoulder would rekindle the spark in their romance:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9529567/Colorado-cops-cheered-watching-footage-73-year-old-woman-romantic-relationship.html
Nothing more hilarious than socialists whining about high taxes.
“But I’m no grubby shopkeeper. I’m an ARTISTE!”
Ruh-roh! What’s this about a google-vs-roku tiff?
Will my youtube channel have been disappeared when I look later?
Little toy robot helicopter drone on Mars flies longer and harder than before.
Next: NASA to see if the wee, plucky craft can perform recon ops in support of rover.
Note that this was a technology demonstration program and that just getting off the ground, achieving controlled flight, and landing safely were the big mission objectives. But NASA has learned to undersell and over-deliver
Excellent.
Please tell me it has the cutest little chaingun you ever saw.
You know, just in case.
No, but they were able to get some adorable .275″ rockets on there.
Those of us who follow NASA’s (robotic) Mars Exploration Program have noted the large number of “dust devil” videos the rovers relay back to earth. While surface-level atmospheric observations are important, these videos are effectively looking for movement in the camera’s field of view. Thus we can look for little green men without saying we’re looking for little green men.
[Closes face shield on “Captain Video” space helmet, raises Buck Rogers raygun to defensive position.]
Is that the one dude that dresses like a chick?
Srsly? You couldn’t link to this?
Turn in your Glibs card, sir!
Dresses like? Is, you bigot (never you mind the Y chromosome though).
Freedom of speech was a mistake.
“Medicine is hard, which is more than I can say about Ken.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/04/30/transportation-mask-mandate/
Masks required through 9/13 now.
Fucking TSA.
Aaaaaaand…you have to have your mask on even between bites of food or sips of water
“Man Kicked Off Plane For Not Wearing Mask In Between Bites Of Food”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/man-kicked-plane-not-wearing-mask-between-bites-food
Glad I don’t fly…
Infra dig. Just go without.
And that’s idiotic, recirculated air with the same pathogens in them for hours and it matters for the five minutes you’re eating? Get the fuck outta here!
“If only you yokels would mask up and get vaccinated, we wouldn’t have to keep extending this.”
I do not participate in that particular religious practice.
Which year? Because I know it won’t be the current one.
September, 2113, unless you’re lottery lucky you won’t have to worry about it though.
Yep, I actually took it as something positive: the public transit mask mandate is apparently not permanent yet.
I hope my minimally-compliant (and more importantly, hopefully breathable) one arrives before I have to start commuting again.
/checks dates of Viva
Fuck… that’ll hit us on the way out at least.
I am trying to decide if the term “fully vaccinated” (especially for a type of virus that mutates constantly…) is as or more retarded than “full semi-automatic”.
None of them are “fully vaccinated.”
They haven’t gotten their booster shot yet, due before the end of this year.
Then they’ll need next year’s variant booster, then the next years, and the next.
“Americans bought a record number of firearms last year. An estimated 5 million people bought their first-ever gun. Black Americans saw the highest increase in new gun owners of any demographic, with gun ownership in the group up by 58.2%.”
https://twitter.com/naaganational/status/1388161281270718464
“The National African American Gun Assoc. exists to gather & cultivate a nationwide community of informed, trained, and skilled African American firearms owners.”
Are white people allowed to say NAAGA?
Oohhh— the answer we were looking for was ‘naggers.’
Are white people allowed to say NAAGA?
Are white people allowed to join?! The NRA should be partnering with and dumping money into expanding organizations like this.
NAAGA please
Just don’t fuck it up, watch your pronunciation and whatnot, and you’ll be fine. Maybe don’t try to say it after a couple of drinks…
Reply to Count.
“‘SNL’ cast won’t be forced to appear with controversial host Elon Musk”
https://pagesix.com/2021/04/30/snl-cast-wont-be-forced-to-appear-with-host-elon-musk/
Let’s hook up Belushi and Farley’s funny corpses to a turbine and we’ll save the planet. Man, fuck SNL!
LOLFFS
Bigoted much, some Miley Cyrus fans?
I thought Teslas were environmentally friendly. I just can’t keep up anymore.
I can. He’s a wrongthinker. That’s all this is. All the other handwaving is bullshit.
As it turns out, she is not a fan of African-Americans.
Must not like Dave Matthews either.
Not liking Dave Matthews is a perfectly fine opinion to hold.
SNL isn’t cancelled yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKbqD_-efz8
Phil Hartman replies – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4msmIRF3s
@Yusef, I saw a piece on my local n00z about the largest disc golf tournament in the world, relatively close to my area (Emporia, KS).
I’m watching yesterday’s round right now. Very difficult course, but Emporia is a disc golf mecca.
I did not know that!
Well all. It was nice knowing all of you nice folks, this was the scene in downtown Cleveland last night. The girlfriend and I are headed downtown (not to the main event, but around the area) tomorrow. I’m sure we’ll be dead of the ‘vid by Sunday morning.
Too many face diapers.
I am weak and pathetic. I ordered a pizza. I have entered delicious self loathing.
*polishes off pizza slice*
What now?
Ugh… Don’t feel so bad; I just ate 2 Big Macs and a large French fries.
I had a Rueben and fries for a late lunch along with 4-5 Stroh and now I’m considering some fried chicken and Miller High Life, Glibfat strong!
We’re walking down to get pizza tonight, too. Good pizza. It takes 40 minutes to an hour till it’s ready, though. Thank god there’s a good bar next door so We can get cocktails while we wait.
Back when SNL was not just funny, but eerily prescient. https://youtu.be/NnItR9vTeRs
Nice thing about going to the gym on a Friday afternoon – no waits for any of the benches ;p
Trying to figure out why weight is staying so steady when this is the first time (the past 2 months) I’ve been able to work out regularly 4-5 days a week with no issues at all. Hoping it’s just the fat to muscle transition…but who knows. I’m pretty certain my diet has been improving overall – and has been staying pretty dang consistent in terms of calories – lower in some bits even though I sometimes do a little extra on the weekends when I break my routine.