US deaths hit lowest level in 10 months
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have tumbled to an average of around 600 per day — the lowest level in 10 months — with the number of lives lost dropping to single digits in well over half the states and hitting zero on some days.
Confirmed infections, meanwhile, have fallen to about 38,000 day on average, their lowest mark since mid-September. While that is still cause for concern, they have plummeted 85% from a peak of more than a quarter-million cases per day in early January.
The last time deaths were this low was early July, nearly a year ago. COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. topped out in mid-January at an average of more than 3,400 a day, just a month into the biggest vaccination drive in the nation’s history.
Kansas reported no new deaths from Friday through Monday. In Massachusetts, the Boston Herald put a huge zero on Wednesday’s front page under the headline “First time in nearly a year state has no new coronavirus deaths.”
And from the Public Health and the Karens did a mighty “REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” rise.
Gal Godot Still Incapable of Acknowledging the Existence of Palestinians
Mounting violence between Israelis and Palestinians has left hundreds—mostly Palestinian—injured and 56 killed, including 14 children in Gaza. This comes at a moment of an almost palpable seachange in the discourse surrounding Israeli state violence and Palestinian resistance. The popular concept of a perpetually victimized Israel is in stark contrast to the graphic images that have come out of the region in the last week: Palestinians getting roughed up by Israeli police for opposing forced evictions and Israeli cops bombarding a mosque with stun grenades as worshipers prayed.
But Gal Gadot hasn’t received the memo. Or, more likely, she has, but doesn’t really give a shit.
No real substantive argument about Israeli policy or anything just the fashionable opinion of the woke left and ganging up on a pretty actress who is Jewish and just didn’t do enough performative kowtowing.
Jezebel isn’t anti-Jew, they just some have some Jew Hesitancy.
Hey! [jumps up and down] Hey! Pay attention to this! Hey! There’s no gas shortage or any inflation!
The Jan. 6 Insurrection Takes Down Liz Cheney
House Republicans on Wednesday morning fired their No. 3 leader, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, for her persistence in pushing back against former President Donald Trump’s continued claim that the 2020 election had been stolen from him, a lie that sparked a violent riot aimed at disrupting congressional certification of the presidential election results on Jan. 6. Her devotion to that cause had made her, in her colleagues’ eyes, a distraction, and an impediment to their return to power.
Cheney, as conference chair, runs the weekly conference meeting whose sole item of business that day was her removal. She told members that she had “tremendous affection and admiration for many of you in this room,” but argued that “we cannot let the former president drag us backward and make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy. Down that path lies our destruction, and potentially the destruction of our country.”
Artist Maya Lin plants 49 dead trees in Manhattan to raise climate change awareness
Brave.
The Passionate, Lightly Rabid Subculture of Jen Psaki Superfans
Psaki nation is in mourning. Last week, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said she will likely leave her post by next year to spend more time with her family, including her two young children. “I don’t want to miss moments. I don’t want to miss things, and I’m very mindful of that as well,” Psaki told CNN’s David Axelrod. The White House Press Secretary gig is notorious for burnout, and Psaki made it clear from the jump that she didn’t intend to hold on to the post for very long, telling the New York Times in January, “I think there frankly needs to be diverse spaces and voices as communicators. Women, certainly, but beyond that.”
Despite the predictability of it all, Psaki’s biggest supporters are voicing what might best be described as grief, an outpouring that’s representative of an emergent online subculture: Jen Psaki superfans.
These are the online subset of Democratic Party loyalists acting as resident Twitter cheerleaders for all things President Biden, including Psaki. Their mission is simple: Gas up the major players of the Biden White House and snarl at its enemies, whether they’re Republican politicians or right-wing journalists. With Biden busy behind the scenes (and refraining from tweeting out every little thought, unlike his predecessor) and Vice President Kamala Harris focused on meeting world leaders and walking a lot, Psaki—the most front-facing representative of Biden’s administration—has become a natural figure to latch onto, in the most extreme cases inspiring memes, fevered tweets, and even a small but surely growing bit of Psaki fanfiction.
The lack of self-reflection of this is like a lulz buffet. Do they not remember Obama? Do they no remember RGB? Or the bloody cult of I’M WITH HER? I hurt myself laughing. I hurt. Die, shitknuckles.
The generous and handsome Gustave Lytton found my theme music.
Midweek Glibs Zoom Meetup link
12:00 AM Thursday, Greenwich Mean Time
WHYCOME I DON’T HAVE NO BLINK TAG ON HERE?
What’s the point of trees in Manhattan? They can’t outcompete the buildings.
I mean there are many many trees there.
I believe Manhattan still has old forest.
Great, now I’m thirsty for an Old Forester Manhattan.
Dunno… I thought Manhattan was only good for bunnies but Brooklyn was for the trees.
Dammit.
Brooklyn is much more suited to growing of trees.
Was waiting for that.
What’s wrong with Brooklyn?
What’s theis brookyn reference? I’m not getting something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn_(novel)
Thank you.
I hadn’t heard the title in so long I’d forgotten it.
They give it a good try. I used to live down this street.
Sheesh, apparently I’m particularly unfunny today.
Fuck those trees!
MOAR EPILEPSY
“efforts to unravel our democracy”
From a fucking Republican. Yeah, she needed to go.
Her replacement isn’t any better. But Cheney is such a spoiled elitist, she doesn’t know when to just shut-up. Maybe the people of Wyoming will elect somebody from Wyoming next year.
It is astonishing that anti-Trumpism has caused the Left to defend the daughter of a guy they used to call Darth Vader.
And it isn’t like they decided to defend her because she rebelled against everything her dad stood for. Her apple is right there under her dad’s tree (probably so she can duck behind the trunk when he starts shooting).
Nope they love her simply for being anti-Trump.
No more astonishing than the right attacking her for the same reasons, she had A+ ratings from Pro-Gun, Pro-Life, Pro-business groups, Hell she voted with Trump 93% of the time. She’s a down the line conservative but she didn’t like Trump and called him out on the big lie, so fuck her.
They simply hate her for being anti-Trump.
Calling a mini-riot an insurrection and trying to impeach a president isn’t something you want in your leadership as a party.
You want to be a crazy outlier like Bernie Sanders go ahead. Just don’t try to be in a leadership role where you are supposed to be representing the party as a whole.
Exactly. This is pretty obvious and logical party business.It’s almost as though she wanted a way out. Or she is just really that stupid.
“brought the dead trees from the New Jersey Pine Barrens, where rising sea levels have killed stretches of the forest’s Atlantic Cedars with saltwater inundation. Lin told Reuters that her installation, Ghost Forest, is based on the real-world “ghost forests” created due to climate change, and “[noted] that more than 50% of Atlantic Cedars on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard have been lost.” ”
Oh, bullshit.
““Throughout the world, climate change is causing vast tracts of forested lands to die off.” She describes seeing ghost forests in southwestern Colorado, where trees that are already “overstressed from these rising temperatures” have been killed by “insects whose populations are thriving in these warmer temperatures,””
Oh, bullshit.
The insects are neo-colonialist oppressors.
People believe what the want to believe.
So you’re saying that the forests are still thick? (Or at least the shrubbery is half-thick… demi, if you will….).
Huge….tracts of forest.
If by “dying out” she means “getting 15% lusher over the past 100 years”
What units do you use to measure lushness? Is there like an “AbFab Scale” or something?
BAC?
Number of DUIs?
Where to Father Jack levels.
You measure it in Percies, named after Percy Faith.
Bullshit indeed. The world as whole and the US in particular continues increase tree coverage.
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-global-forest-loss-years-offset.html
Out here in western PA, it’s illegal to transport dead wood (possibly live trees as well) across the state line into Ohio, and vice versa, due to the Emerald Ash Borer. I wonder if NY and NJ have similar prohibitions?
It’s art, you knuckly-dragging barbarian; not mere vulgar commerce.
I spent lots of time in the pine gardens (Fort Dix and Lakehurst Naval Air Station). Crap sandy soil, swamps, etc… So there are always lots of dead trees. Hence the name.
Ahh, no.
Plus similar to CA our pines are supposed to burn occasionally, but because of development they can’t do that.
Not just nearby development, also a dysfunctional state system that prevents logging.
And even if any of it were true, who gives a $@%?
She doesn’t care about those trees. She just thinks she can use their supposed plight to control you, under the disproven (and unfalsifiable) hypothesis that MAN killed those trees.
You are mistaken Sugarfree. There are almost no new deaths from COVID because everyone has already died.
Confirmed infections
PCR positive =/= infection.
Oh shush you
“Jen Psaki superfans”
*gags uncontrollably*
Those are the most repugnant words I’ve read today.
She does have 2 kiddos, so counting them, plural, carry the one, yep, super, fans
2 kiddos theoretically means that someone had to boink that at least twice. Let that sink in.
Her politics suck, but she’s hardly un-bangable (apologies to the non-existent female Glibs for the crudeness).
Yeah, she’s not fugly…. I guess I’m realizing I’m at an age where “sticking it in crazy” isn’t worth it anymore. Her blatant, nonstop lying in support of authoritarian BS serves as a kind of “anti-Viagra” .
“… a small but surely growing bit of Psaki fanfiction”
Crap, they’re on to us.
That psucks.
I read that as infection.
Psaki Infection on tour for their new album, Circle Back.
This is 100% the talking points of every media outlet I’ve heard. Lizzie is being banished because she won’t engage in The Big Lie. Her voting to impeach the leader of the party and spreading The Other Big Lie that OMB was responsible for the murder of Heroic Brave Eternal Patriot Hero Sicknick has nothing to do with it. Nope, nothing at all.
Looks like the Frenchies are inspiring the American revolution this time around
https://flagofficers4america.com/
Is T-ara still a thing? What is the average lifespan of a Kpop group?
Depends on if they rotate out the cast members. Potentially forever if South Korea’s birthrate of attention whores is maintained.
They made the most adorable racist video EVAH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLfRdyqxXJk
The tipis are only slightly better than those of the Nihonjin tribe.
said tipis
The one girl who has an arrow nocked has it predictably on the wrong side of the bow, and it keeps falling away from the bow. Much comical flailing.
But Gal Gadot hasn’t received the memo. Or, more likely, she has, but doesn’t really give a shit.
I don’t see the relevance of her opinion.
Israel deserves to live as a free and safe nation, Our neighbors deserve the same. I pray for the victims and their families, I pray for this unimaginable hostility to end. I pray for our leaders to find the solution so we could live side by side in peace. I pray for better days.
Seems to acknowledge them to me. And I saw that Omar mouthed off on the current situation. Someone apparently doesn’t appreciate the concept of “retaliatory strike”.
Short version: Gal Gadot is pretty. She appears to be a nice person and extremely likeable. Therefore the wildebeests at Jezebel hate her.
Allow me to shorten that for you: Gal Gadot is pretty. Therefore the wildebeests at Jezebel hate her.
Gal Gadot is. Therefore the wildebeests at Jezebel hate her.
Gal there Jezebel hate.
Jezebel hate
?
Distilled to the core truth.
That’s the greatest understatement since Mark Antony described the Battle of Actium as “a bit of a cock-up.”
“Gal Gadot would cause me to have an involuntary boner in public like I was in middle school again” isn’t as concise.
But has the advantage of being accurate.
I haven’t seen WW ’84 yet, but at some time will probably watch. My son–in-law is something of an amateur film critic and a DC comics fan, and said it wasn’t very good and recommended I not bother, but I replied that “Gal Gadot could make a movie of herself reclining on a couch in a bikini reading the Manhattan phone book for two hours and I’d pay extra to see it on IMAX.”
It’s not good. Reclining on a couch in a bikini reading the Manhattan phone book for two hours might be better.
Wonder Woman ’93 — Gal Godot works at a Taco Bell instead?
What the Hell is that, a Lo Mein taco?
I was going to say the same thing.
Ah but would pay to see her read Jezebel articles? That’s the real test of adoration for her.
I’m not seeing it. Let check her make-up free photos. Above average certainly, but involuntary boner? She kind of has a thinner Morena Baccarin vibe though.
Cut/Paste from rando internet statement:
Let’s have a no make-up month for women. All money saved can be given to women’s charities.
I nominate:
Average Girls Need Free Drinks Too
The Vanity Project
Funny. I don’t think Mrs. Animal has used or even owned any makeup in the thirty years I’ve known her. She almost never uses perfume, either.
I’m reminded of the old Command Sergeant Major and the Colonel in side-by-side chairs at the post barber shop. When his haircut and shave were done, the barber asked the Colonel if he wanted any after-shave. “No,” the Colonel snapped. “I won’t go home to my wife smelling like a French whorehouse.”
In the next chair, the CSM was also just finishing up. When asked the same question, he replied, “Sure, go ahead. My wife doesn’t know what a French whorehouse smells like.”
That’s great. Never heard that one.
That doesn’t make sense, what the Colonel said implies that he knows what a French whorehouse smells like not that his wife does.
Funny. I don’t think Mrs. Animal has used or even owned any makeup in the thirty years I’ve known her. She almost never uses perfume, either.
That’s awesome. I’ve never understood the whole get dolled up to go out thing. I mean for a married woman. “Who are you getting dolled up for?”
Also, I think I’ve heard that joke from a light colonel who was a friend to my parents in Germany.
I mean for a married woman. “Who are you getting dolled up for?”
Themselves. Single most reliable indicator that sex is coming that night, because it means she feels pretty.
Yeah — as a former member of the IDF (conscription and all), I wouldn’t be at all surprised (or care) if she had a less than glowing opinion of the Palestinians.
But then again, I don’t expect someone who’s career is based on pretending to be other people to have deep political guidance, unlike the crazies.
Dunno where I saw it but:
“If the Palestinians got rid their weapons, there would be peace. If the Israelis got rid of their weapons they would be slaughtered”.
I saw that many years ago. Nothing has changed.
One of the articles I saw today showed a nice lady protestor in NYC yesterday with that “From the River to the Sea” slogan.
Yeah, they want “peace”.
““From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” chants echo across the street from the Israeli consulate”
https://twitter.com/elaadeliahu/status/1392260819040231428
You don’t see the relevance of her opinion? Without the guidance and wisdom of celebrities, how would we know what to think?
Does anyone just listen to K-Pop, or do they just watch the videos?
A depressing number of teens and overweight Millennial women do actually listen to it.
In my Headcanon, Gilmore is the guy at 1:09
‘Throughout the world, climate change is causing vast tracts of forested lands to die off.” She describes seeing ghost forests in southwestern Colorado, where trees that are already “overstressed from these rising temperatures” have been killed by “insects whose populations are thriving in these warmer temperatures,” another of the causes behind this form of deforestation.’
Sure, sure. Meanwhile:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
The Earth is getting greener and evolution continues unabated. It’s almost like we’re still exiting an Ice Age or something.
Last week, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said she will likely leave her post by next year to spend more time with her family, including her two young children.
“Will likely leave” sounds like she’s going to circle back on whether or not she will leave.
Rats leave a sinking ship, but not until they have eaten their fill. Jen’s keeping her options open in case they can keep Joe’s brain from leaking out his ears until the mid-terms.
Too Local News Lazy Edition Part One: NH Senate Committee waters down HB 187. The Senate President also states he thinks Sununu didn’t overstep his authority.
The first sign of a House-Senate split over whether to curb the emergency powers of Gov. Chris Sununu or future governors emerged Wednesday.
A State Senate committee voted unanimously to recommend stripping out of a House-passed bill (HB 187) a new provision to give the Legislature the authority to block an emergency order from the commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services, the largest and lead agency responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee also voted to take from the bill giving the Joint Legislative Committee on Oversight of Health and Human Services the power by a two-thirds vote to recommend rescinding such an order.
Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, said John Williams, HHS’ director of legislative affairs, had asked for these changes.
“That’s my proposal, that we go along with the department’s request on this,” said Bradley who also chairs the committee that took this action.
Bradley said a direct legislative intervention into this process was not warranted.
“In my own view, there just has to be an ability to respond to these emergencies, and I don’t believe Governor Sununu has overstepped his authority,” Bradley said.
“HHS’ director of legislative affairs”
That’s the problem right there, that bureaucrats are allowed to hire other bureaucrats to lobby the legislature. The mewlings of government employees should never be more valued than the needs of the people.
Forty-nine dead trees have just been planted in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. What looks at first like a pretty serious landscaping accident is actually an art installation by Maya Lin that’s been created in order to highlight the effects of climate change.
You could have done something useful and planted live trees. (never mind that the tree relationship is stupid since we have apparently had a greening of the earth over that last century.)
How much CO2 was generated trucking those dead trees in from New Jersey and digging the holes?
None. Union jobs don’t hurt the planet, just like BLM rallies don’t spread the coof.
49 dead trees? Is that like one for every state in the Union, or one for every century the Constitution has been around?
She’ll be in her cold, cold grave before she recognizes Missurah!
Too Local News Lazy Edition Part Two: NH Senate committee hearings on two bills reining in the governor’s emergency powers
Many religious leaders from across the state urged a state Senate committee Tuesday to change state law and determine that houses of worship are essential and should be kept open during states of emergency.
Nate Pickowicz, pastor with Harvest Bible Church in Loudon, said it wasn’t fair that, in response to COVID-19, churches were closed for several months in the spring of 2020 even though grocery, hardware and liquor stores were kept open.
“We were the ones who were discriminated against during the shutdown,” Pickowicz told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
But the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire said this House-passed bill (HB 542) would permit private businesses to knowingly violate the state’s anti-discrimination laws.
Gilles Bissonnette said the legislation was similar to laws passed in Indiana and Arizona that touched off corporate boycotts in both states.
“This bill can allow businesses to use these principles to exempt themselves from our discrimination laws,” Bissonnette warned.
Lightly rabid.
Just scrolling over that link sent a frisson down my spine.
Is that like a thrill going up your leg?
has become a natural figure to latch onto
I’m just wondering if the carpets match the drapes.
It’s all hardwood floors these days.
[golf clap]
I’m just wondering why people gives a shit about the Press Secretary, any Press Secretary. Their job is to lie to the public, that’s it. Even pretty blonde girl from former presidency was full of shit more often than not.
Yeah, slinging bullshit is their job.
Even pretty blonde girl from former presidency was full of shit more often than not
Sure, but she was snarky with those commie reporters and that’s the important thing.
You joke, but it was the first time somebody treated TMITE as the hostile entity that it was.
You think you’re being sarcastic, but you’re not.
I know exactly what I’m doing.
Democrats have a sociopathic needs to impoverish you.
White House reporter eagerly asks Energy Secretary Granholm how these gas shortages due to the Colonial pipeline will help the administration push people toward accepting renewable energy.
I, for one, look forward to the rolling blackouts and being unable to travel.
Still amazed that they are closing another pipeline today. You’d think they’d put it off fir a month just for.optics.
Because interconnected electrical grids and the various other retarded alternatives are unfuckinghackable. Kiss my ass ladies.
Exactly.
Seems to me that this shows oil and gas are still pretty important and we cannot just switch them off over night. I guess you could also draw the opposite conclusion.
Even the Aussies don’t like Sarah Silverman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ-bO2GFJdg
49 dead trees. I kill more than that each year. They are weeds here.
Racist.
People who chose to live in a concrete jungle where they’ve done their level best to pave over nature are supposed to be outraged because 49 trees in another state died?
I’ve planted more trees than that in my yard. Live trees, not dead ones.
Suthenboy whistles, laughs, sneers and raises the price of lumber
It’s pretty cool to walk through a forest of trees you planted 30 years ago.
I’ve cut down a lot of trees, but I have planted way more. Probably not as many as Suthen, though.
Who says Biden isn’t setting records?
Gas Station Outages Soar as Crisis Spreads
Budget Deficit Rises to Record High
Record vaccine injuries and deaths according to VAERS.
https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/86105/cdc-vaers-database-paints-a-different-picture-on-covid-shots
It’s all hardwood floors these days.
So you can slide down the hall in your socks?
Vaccinated columnist ready to—slowly—rejoin the world
I wouldn’t mind if they continued to cower in their homes. Leave the real world for the sane.
It scares me that I haven’t encountered any of the real loons yet. Ive encountered plenty of lunacy from the people who aren’t cowering in their beds.
They don’t want to cower in their homes. They want to boss you around.
It’s almost like they aren’t aware of how many times the goalposts on that have been moved.
“Two weeks to flatten the curve – in 2030.”
But I also think that businesses, colleges, entertainment venues and sports stadiums have the right to require vaccinations for people to gain entry to their spaces.
Of course they do. But they have no right to freeload off the government for it. Let those businesses, colleges, and entertainment venues develop, fund, and maintain their own ‘proof of vaccination’ system or invest in a free market option.
“No shoes, no shirt, no service” is back in style for those that follow the company line.
I cant wait for the news cycle when the Colorado Bigot Baker denies a gay person that is unvaccinated their cake.
Part of me thinks that columnists like that are putting on an act. They don’t want to be one of the first to deviate from the party line, especially when so many icky people have been deviants.
CGP Grey is a total TOP MAN true believer.
But even he realizes how terrible public schools are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FBwZtuJtMw
I wouldn’t mind if they continued to cower in their homes. Leave the real world for the sane.
#METOO
The bar was a much more pleasanter place when the doomsday cultists were all hiding under their beds.
“Times Square gunman who shot three innocent tourists is arrested at Florida McDonald’s ‘after his car RAN OUT OF GAS due to Colonial Pipeline fuel shortage”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9571867/Times-Square-gunman-arrested-Florida-four-days-shot-wounded-three-people.html
wow
Falling Down 2: Florida Man
“Dawson’s Creek vet Busy Philipps reveals her child Birdie, 12, is ‘femme-presenting nonbinary’… after sharing they ‘came out as gay’ at age 10”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9571609/Dawsons-Creek-vet-Busy-Philipps-reveals-child-Birdie-femme-presenting-nonbinary.html
OFFS!
Par for the course.
I wonder if this has been an albatross around xer neck for a long time.
Gun down some people in Times Square, and NYPD can’t catch you, even after four days.
Are you saying that being a Dawson’s Creek alum makes you likely to gun people down in Times Square?
I thought that was just anyone who tried binge watching it….
Sure they can.
She must not have been too busy with work if they refer to her from a show that ended in 2003. I used to watch it with the Mrs., and I had to look up what character she played.
She’s so repulsive. I can’t imagine why anyone ever hired her to act in anything but as the itch medicine for a dog’s asshole in a commercial.
This is all I have to say about that.
About the only thing worse than listening to people’s silly orders at Starbucks is listening to their gender identities. “I’m a vente macho Latinx with a shot of pumpkin spice”.
“Covid could cause erectile dysfunction: Study finds coronavirus in the penises of two men SIX MONTHS after they recovered and doctor says it did ‘pretty severe’ damage to sexual performance”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9570097/Coronavirus-Covid-cause-erectile-dysfunction-months-later-study-claims.html
yikes!
Hey, let’s ask the government for money to jam swabs up guys’ penises looking for covid!
/researchers
Study of two men.
SIX MONTHS
It’s only a small study. Everyone else will be okay.
Hey my study was bigger before covid
*nods*
And where is the vaccine for that?
I heard the damage to your sex drive is worst if the COVID kills you.
Make your dick big and strong with the vaccine.
I should have been in marketing.
Pfizer missed an opportunity to mix the vaccine with Viagra.
They did once mix Viagra with Rogaine. The result?
Don King.
Hung Flu
✌?rosanna arquette
@RoArquette
Democrats vs nazi party that’s where we are at in America
Because Trump Republicans support running roughshod over individual rights, demonization of people by race and a merger of corporations and the state?
And the Nazis are armed better! That’s why they let the Dems run roughshod over them at every opportunity and do nothing more than grumble about, as Nazis are wont to do.
The moderates are the true Democrats?
lolwut
He doesn’t tweet, so he must be doing important things.
Busy drooling behind the scenes.
Busy putting away some Werther’s.
I don’t see what cats are supposed to do about corrupt politicians.
For the sixth consecutive year, Chicago has been named the rattiest city in America according to Orkin.
To combat this issue, the Tree House Humane Society has placed over 1,000 feral cats onto Chicago streets since 2012. …
Liss said the cats generally do not eat a lot of rats, although the cats will kill some rats in the beginning when they arrive in a new location.
After they get acquainted to the space though, much less effort is required on the cat’s behalf.
“They are actually deterring them with their pheromones. That’s enough to keep the rats away,” Liss said.
Oh, never mind.
“They are actually deterring them with their pheromones. That’s enough to keep the rats away,” Liss said.
Cat piss will keep anything away, except the most craziest of cat ladies.
Then who gets rid of the feral cats? Those poor things are little better than pests themselves.
That was gonna be my joke.
I look forward to what they’re releasing next to get rid of the feral cats.
Bobcats. Then cougars to kill the bobcats. Then tigers to kill the cougars.
I strongly believe we need alligators at some point.
Where can they get a bulk discount on elephants?
Dire wolves, I hope.
Pythons?
Reavers.
Tigers.
Cat hunting season. Licenses, guns, poaching, urban camo. Drug sales will drop. Opportunities across the board.
8 year old kid to his friend “My momma gonna get me a cat skin cap”
Sometimes you slay pussy.
To understand why animal lover Barry Green calls himself a ‘hands-on environmentalist’ you only need to see him get hold of a feral cat.
Mr Green traps, shoots and skins feral cats then turns their pelts into stubby holders, golf club covers and purses.
He wears a homemade cat skin hat and jacket and has turned feline fur into slippers, a coat for his dog and a bag for a table tennis bat.
The 67-year-old lives on Kangaroo Island, off the South Australian coast, and has been waging war on the feral cats that plunder the local native wildlife for more than 20 years.
I luckily missed both the feral cats and this guy when I visited Kangaroo Island.
The picture does not disappoint in the slightest.
I believe that they spay/neuter them before release. Feline infectious lukemia takes it’s toll since it’s hard to keep a colony vaccinated. As to cars. And hawks. And owls. Etc.
And then a mutation happens and it’s cat coronaviruses jumping into humans and pandemics all over again.
The cats would never be so sloppy as to let it accidentally get out of the lab.
They’ll freeze to death in the winter.
Just string him up and be done with it.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Judge Peter Cahill ruled in favor of prosecutors seeking a harsher jail sentence for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, agreeing that Chauvin “abused his authority” during Floyd’s arrest and showed “particular cruelty” when he knelt on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes.
The ruling, made Tuesday, was in response to a request from Minneapolis prosecutors that Chauvin be given a harsher prison sentence than the 12 1/2-year term recommended under Minneapolis state sentencing guidelines.
Clearly St. Fentanyl Floyd must be avenged.
Why have State sentencing guidelines if the prosecution and judge can say…ya we don’t care about those.
Guidelines are advisory? If the legislature wants to adopt different maximums, they are free to set those. I doubt the judge is sentencing Chauvin beyond the statutory maximums.
For those adults who don’t think they need a vaccination to keep safe, there’s another reason to get it. If you want life to get back to normal, where you can head into any bar or stadium without masks and social distancing, get the shot. If enough people do that, we as a country can put an end to COVID and remove the need for all the safeguards and protocols.
STOP RESISTING
Let’s see…been to several bars and Fremont Street (which is a cesspool of fun) and nothing. I didnt die. Imagine that.
Oh yeah forgot to add…that person is lying because the official word is it will never end.
It will end when the last human on earth gets the prick.
I traveled to another state, went to bar crawls, shared tables with strangers, I suppose I’m just one of those ‘vid zombies just continuing to walk around.
You monster! How many grandparents did you kill by doing that!?
Well, mine were already dead, so I had to get my limit somewhere else.
Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.li/frgC5
I’m not usually an ass man but #3… damn.
I need some crypto help.
/derp
Buy low, sell high.
When people say ‘SSL’, they really mean ‘TLS’ these days.
They shouldn’t have changed the name, just gone to v4 on up.
If you want brave women, I give you the corpse of Minnesoda’s brave Somali light rail conductor while wearing a hijab!. Suck on that Psaki!
I’m not fully up on the Intersectional Scoring Rules, but she has to be way up there? About the only thing she missed out on were being a lesbian and in a wheelchair.
C’mon man! This story needs more comments.
You misogynists are hating on a woman who was able to operate a light rail train while wearing a hijab!!!!!
Sorry. She was disqualified since she was not killed by a wipepo.
“she moved there in order for her kids to learn the religion, the culture”
Mission accomplished?
I was on a call last night with folks from Japan. I mentioned in passing that I’d be traveling later this week and couldn’t be on a different call. They were surprised that we’re “allowed” to move around the US now. I didn’t want to discuss it so I brushed it off. One of them asked me if I had the vaccine. Again, none of their business, but I made a noncommittal noise like “mmmmmm,” which they took as an affirmative. They followed it up with “have you had both doses?” I said a second dose is in the future (could be considered strictly true).
I have no objection to taking a vaccine; I just don’t think I need it right now, and I don’t plan to get it until enough data have been collected to show that the benefit to me is greater than the risk, whatever that might be.
Again, none of their damn business, and I’m sick of people who want to keep talking about this crap. I’m done with it. Your world is not my world. What’s news to you is unimportant to me. Please let me be.
That ship sailed as soon as people started posting pictures of their food on social media.
Well, I don’t use social media, so I’m insulated from at least that part.
I’ve never opened a Facebook account. I’ve never ‘tweeted’, etc.. I never saw the attraction. I don’t know why more people just walk away. If one is concerned about Big Tech, etc. … just walk away.
It’s what I have done, largely. Haven’t been on facebook since 2013, opened a twitter account under an anonymous handle but never used it, I just don’t care. I can’t believe how many people get exercised about this crap. It means so little.
What? Who else would be put in charge of the Glibs Twitter account?
Again, none of their damn business, and I’m sick of people who want to keep talking about this crap. I’m done with it. Your world is not my world. What’s news to you is unimportant to me. Please let me be.
Amen! And that goes for all the complete strangers (vendors) on LinkedIn who think that “have you gotten your vaccine?” is a good way to start a conversation.
What?
[trashy], hope the vaccination process is going fine at your area. have you got one?
-vendor #1 from India, whom I’ve never spoken to or messaged
Dear [trashy], Hope the vaccination process is going well at your end.
Have you got one?
-vendor #2 from India, whom I’ve never spoken to or messaged
Huh. Maybe there is some cultural thing that doesn’t translate but yeah, that’s gonna be a ‘nope’ from me if you open with that.
LOL
I haven’t gotten that one yet.
Your world is not my world. What’s news to you is unimportant to me. Please let me be.
The left is trying awfully hard to make their world be my world.
Left, Right, it’s all bullshit. I’m not buying what they’re selling, so they can just keep their asses moving down the street.
My niece told me that even though things are supposed to be locked down in Kobe a lot of stuff is still open on the sly.
It reminded me that I don’t know shit about Japan. Even though we think of them as consummate rule followers, there are a lot of things where the break the rules. But even those situations have rules.
For example, there is no gambling at a pachinko parlor. Except you can take the dumb stuffed animal you won down the ally behind the pachinko parlor and sell it to some guy for cash. But the guy selling it is behind a window that has a curtain on it so neither of you can see each other. It was weird when my brother-in-law brought me there.
*Pachinko is stupider than soccer if you can believe such a thing. My BIL was disappointed that I didn’t love pachinko.
That’s interesting. I’m assuming that certain types of stuffed animals have certain denominations, and the same ones end up a “prizes” back at the parlor a few minutes to a day after you exchange them.
Exactly. Inveterate gamblers like my BIL all know the drill. When he walked out of the pachinko palace with a giant stuffed elephant the first time he brought me, I thought he had lost his mind.
And you are right, I’m sure that stuffed elephant was back in the parlor in about 5 minutes.
Of course pachinko is stupider than soccer, since soccer isn’t stupid.
Baseball is stupider than soccer, too.
A friend of mine who lives in Austria said that they need to do a COVID test to be allowed to go to a barber shop. And people are expected to do tests before they visit each other. Foreign countries are crazy in their own ways.
You can always lie. If people are sticking their noses in your business you don’t owe them the truth. Don’t let them use your principles against you.
I am a bad liar. I prefer to use the truth judiciously.
Or avoid saying anything if that’s possible.
Tell them that your doctor said you can’t be vaccinated until after your penis reduction surgery.
In the late 80’s, my father would have his secretary tell unsolicited callers he was out of the office getting experimental treatments for AIDs.
I think part of it is just curiosity. I have similar conversations with my friends as we compare our country’s approaches.
That said these are my friends and not coworkers. So I agree with why you were annoyed.
Yeah, it’s nothing personal against these people in particular. I’m just tired of the whole COVID deal. But they’re not my friends, they’re my colleagues, and I’d prefer not to discuss certain things with them. I guess from their perspective, it may be just water cooler talk, since it’s the big giant news all the time, but for me it’s as if they were talking about Survivor in the early ’00s–annoying and I just want to get away.
“The Merriam-Webster dictionary has changed their definition of ‘anti-vaxxer’ to include
‘people who oppose laws that mandate vaccination’.
Welcome to 1984. This is The Ministry of Truth.”
https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1392372369822556160
False voices are the currency of the era.
“choices”
dammit
So good? The braless and the sandwich sound great but I don’t know what the rest of that means.
All good.
Was it PB&J?
https://archive.li/uFoQK/8833eff814f448edf7aec06b7c9fcae368f2193d.jpg
I’ll add some fluffernutter to that. It is a New England regional delicacy, after all.
I suppose that is both bra-less and bringing a sandwich… point(s) to Q.
I hope somebody ate that sandwich. I hate food waste.
/Kid who grew up eating spoiled food.
Lends a whole new meaning to the idea of “licking the bowl clean.”
My wife was incredulous, until she experienced it for herself when we visited my mother many years ago.
Based.
Speaking of dead Minnesodans…..
Jim Klobuchar died at 93.
He was a legendary local columnist who wrote a daily column about Minnesoda. He was very liberal, but also sort of funny and non-threatening so everyone liked him. I’m sorry to hear of his passing. The reason I’m passing this along to you guys is because of this:
I’ve said it before, but if he had been Jim Klobuchar the mechanic, we’d never have heard of Amy Klobuchar. She’d be a moderately successful lawyer working in some local firm. When she was first running for seats in politics she really leveraged name recognition to stick out.
https://twitter.com/american_ka/status/1392564616459431937
OFFS!
What’s Hamas’ position on queers I wonder. Not that I don’t think the Palestinians deserve some sympathy here but they’re cheering people that’d be liable to chuck them off a tall building.
The one thing that still amazes me about politics, is that each party seems to have a random basket of positions on things that have zero logical consistency. Yet they pretend as if it all makes sense.
True, but postmodernism and intersectionality have taken it to a whole new level.
Yep! It’s indecipherable to a logical thinker.
Well that banner looks big enough to act as a parachute for the one twink when they throw him off the roof of a building. That one husky lesbian is going to need a much bigger banner though.
People unclear on the concept.
Husky angry lesbian womyn studies major that uses “natural” deodorant, some variety of woodland elf–possibly short a chromosome–, twink that doesn’t realize his whole personality is stolen from sassy black women, and a girl with no taste in pants that describes herself as bi but only sleeps with guys who steal from her–likes to be choked, “but, not, like, choked-choked.”
Poetry.
Usually when people say they want to spend more time with their family, they are covering up for serious conflicts with their bosses and colleagues, not a fear of ghosts in the workplace.
Remember back when any staffers leaving the White House were subject to “Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship” headlines?
yeah, good one!
Wow.
California governor says mask mandate to end after June 15
Good. His fear of getting recalled is going to help all of us.
I wouldn’t put it past him or his staffers hoping for mountains of deaths after June 15 so they can stand on top of them and wag their fingers at everyone.
He is just following the science. They never said which science, so I am guessing his is following the political science at this point.
Ain’t that the truth.
You can’t handle the Science!
SCIENCE!!!!
Why do I feel like Rona “Long Haulers” could all be cured by simply removing financial and emotional incentives? Too fatigued to work? Well thanks for playing but we are going to replace you and no you can’t get any disability money. And none of your friends will commiserate with how your life is now hell because you claim to have breathing issues.
the mystery of who suffers post-COVID syndromes, but also the types of symptoms they endure.
The same sort of women who used to get fibromyalgia?
The same sort of women who would claim fibro, sure. Our second daughter has something like it; she’s always had chronic pain in her upper back and shoulders, and yet somehow manages not only to wrangle her three kids, all kindergarten age and younger, but also to work full-time in a day care in the baby room, dealing with everyone else’s kids. She actually loves the job; it’s a small town so she knows everyone, she’s using her strongest occupational skills as a full-time surrogate Mama, and she just plain enjoys babies.
She’s a double Desert Storm baby, so don’t know if that has anything to do with it. But she has as an example her own Mom, who was told she would be in a wheelchair by the time our youngest went to kindergarten; that kid is twenty-five now. She’s not in a wheelchair.
Sometimes there’s just no substitute for stubbornness.
I would also have accepted “Women who used to get vertigo”.
I read a study where they compared folks with long hauler symptoms and a control group without them, and then gave them antibody tests and there was no correlation between antibody positive tests and “long hauler” symptoms.
In a transparent attempt to keep our “pox on both houses” rating high, I give you Wisconsin Right Wing Stupidity!
So an absolutely meaningless gesture that will waste money and time merely for politicians to pander to a certain demographic.
USA! USA!
Yes, but this will keep them busy so they aren’t focusing on something where they can cause actual damage.
Not that I’m a fan at all, but this keeps them busy on something useless.
Bring back the boom box and cassette tapes and the problem is solved.
Which country’s national anthem? Play Canada’s or Mexico’s or even Commie China’s. Image the outrage at “Deutschland Uber Alles.”
IIRC, Germany stripped that last song down to the third verse, so that verse is now the entire anthem.
IRRC the original meaning of that phrase was in support of a united Germany over Prussia and all the squabbling little principalities and bishoprics that existed before 1871. It acquired the connotation that everybody knows about today only later with the rise of you-know-who.
Here’s the modern, mostly-peaceful lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P46fpud7gyU
Looks like DeWine sees that he may be in trouble… DeWine: Ohio COVID-19 health orders will be lifted by June 2. The only exception is health orders related to nursing homes.
Uffda. King Walz set July 1st as his magic date. Given that he’s followed the lead of other govs every step of the way, there is a significant chance that he might move up his dates.
Yay!?
More DeWine:
The party of fiscal responsibility.
/fuck
That’s a joke, right?
I’m gonna get like 10,000 vaccinations to increase my chances.
Try not to be jealous of my spike proteins.
Why don’t they just hand out scratch-off Lotto tickets with the shots?
Here in Texas we have been open for months and just had a 73,000 attended sporting event last weekend.
And if that wasn’t awesome enough, all the obese grandpas and grandmas are now dead.
Just saw the stats for Chester County, PA. Less than 2/10th of 1% of the pop. died. Of those, 58.5% were in long term care facilities.
Today Greasy Newscum just announced that the mask mandate here will likely end on June 15 along with all the other restrictions.
I usually have a sense of humor about everything but 4-6% of my income dropping in a month and the government hand waving like it’s just no biggee is a bit much.
It is a bit much to moan about how reductions in unemployment payments is a drop in your “income”.
Just kidding! We all know that it really was one of your kids turning 18 and the loss of child support.
Yes. That’s totally what it is.
Just keep ridin’ that alimony pony.
I’ll cut you all.
That would put you in a pickle.
The traffic to his OnlyFans went down.
Well I was a little paranoid this morning since I knew I needed gas before errands this weekend, but even though a few local places ran out last night, it looks like they all restocked today. Course, average price locally is 2.85-2.95 today compared to 2.65 or 2.55 last week. Could be worse.
most gas around here is 3.50-4.00 Why NV decided to follow Cali gas regs I have no clue.
I was just in NV. I thought AZ gas prices were bad. Jeebus.
*sigh*
I bought two DIMMs and both of them were DOA.
Seriously.
Newegg?
Yes.
But so were the working ones. I haven’t had to do an RMA in ages.
That’s a drag.
I had also planed to replace the thermal paste on the CPU, but couldn’t figure out how to take the heat sink off. I recalled how hard it was to get on and decided to just install the memory – and that didn’t work.
I’ve never heard of anyone replacing thermal paste before.
I’m getting uneven core temperatures that are also too high.
It’s probably the dilithium crystals.
Reverse the polarities.
*sigh*
It’s an off the shelf intel processor. I’m trying to get the idle temps down.
Check the thermostat.
Are you sure the heatsink is properly attached and making even contact with the CPU.
Pull it off and make sure the thermal compound is even across the lid of the CPU.
That said the stock intel cooler is fairly idiot proof, but if you don’t fully click each one down it won’t clamp properly. Took me a few tries to figure it out.
This euphemism is way too complicated.
I don’t know if it even came with a stock cooler. This one cost $60. I can’t figure out how to get it off.
“I can’t figure out how to get it off.”
That’s what she said.
*hate you all.*
It really sounds like the heat sink isn’t properly contacting the CPU.
Assuming the fan(s) on the heat is working.
Is it Lupus?
It’s not lupus
My CPU cooler is a water block held on with twisted galvanized utility wire I bought at Home Depot. Not kidding.
Woe unto you, when all men shall lavish you with prizes and Pulitzers! for so did their fathers to Duranty.
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/05/school-of-journalism-or-ministry-of-propaganda/
That’s an impressive list of award-giving organizations that have completely tarnished their reputations.
The Green Knight actually looks pretty cool but I bet it’s really annoying how he keeps going on and on about his carbon free steed.
Jezebel isn’t anti-Jew, they just some have some Jew Hesitancy.
So OMWC tried to submit an article there?
And way to go Gustave! SF theme music is great!
Gal Gadot is pretty enough for Marvel, but DC is OK, I suppose.
Gal Gadot is pretty enough for Marvel, but DC is OK, I suppose.
We have a rule that for dinner, we must eat out in the dining area, even if alone cause of work day/times etc. Last night one teen got off near 10pm and grabbed his food and disappeared to the room. He is all pissy cause I called him out on it “I got home at 10 and I was tired!” Oh boo fucking who cares. He is also the teen that has had bugs in his room so…there is that.
I hate teens and two 16 year olds are absolutely dicks.
Ooof. Yeah, I grew up in a “you must eat at the table” household and approve of that wholeheartedly.
For various reasons in our small place we often end up on the couch but it quietly kills me.
? https://fox5sandiego.com/news/tech/how-to-apply-for-50-off-your-monthly-internet-bill/ Have a guess how.
Quit your job at shoprite and work from home?
LOL “Approved to receive benefits under the free and reduced-price school lunch program or the school breakfast program, including through the USDA Community Eligibility Provision, in the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year;”
I am sure that the USDA and/or local school districts/state govs opened this up to anyone willing to sign up with the pandemic…so everyone should be eligible.
Stop making people fill out paperwork and just direct them to the treasury.
I have to go back here so forgive the OT:
I was replying to Black Jack’s comment. I did not state in my comment that the vaccine will kill you or that the 4000 recorded deaths are “scary” when taken as a truth, (I can do some simple math in spite of what you may think) I was saying that those deaths are evidence that the vaccine could kill you. Even if it may be a small chance. A Kit Kat can kill you too if you swallow it wrong. But you skipped over the part where the Harvard Medical School study determined the VAERS reporting system catches 1% of adverse effects. The only truth we know in all of this is the data is shit because it comes from the government. They were pushing deaths and cases with fraudulent data, and they very well could be hiding deaths and cases of the vaccinated because well, the CDC is the government arm of big Pharma. I am also of the mind get the vaccine, don’t get the vaccine it is your body your choice and do what you want. As far as I know this site is still made up of mostly individualists who like to discuss certain bull shit and don’t really care what you do. But please do not accuse me of saying something I did not. I was stating facts.
That came across way more assholy than I intended. Kinnath is one of my fav glibs and I didn’t mean to sound like a dick but I don’t like being accused of being a scare monger.
Maybe try not scare-mongering then.
GFYS
truce
Do you even internet, bro? That’s just not how it’s done. You’re supposed to escalate – try an ad hominem.
Fuck you commie rat fucker!
Wouldn’t that make you a commie rat?
Your Mother Was A Hamster, And Your Father Smelt Of Elderberries
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“A Kit Kat can kill you too if you swallow it wrong”
You know who else swallows wrong?
The Bridgekeeper?