Sunday morning goyim links

by | Aug 1, 2021 | Daily Links | 158 comments

Eat me!

Look who it is!

That’s right! What can be better than back to back mexicansharpshooter links? Back to back Spud links! Yeah! Right? Anybody? Okay, never mind. Let’s do this.

 

[BIRTHDAYS GO HERE]

 

Yet deaths are a third of what they were last summer. I’m sick of the whole, damned thing.

 

Womp, womp.

 

But how does it handle chicken tendies?

 

Solidifying the “Zombie” class.

 

Can’t imagine why Olympics viewership is tanking.

 

How about they string this out, oh, forever.

 

All right. That’s enough bullshit for a Sunday morning. Dose your coffee and head for the patio.

 

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158 Comments

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Reposted from dead thread.

    They intend to federalize everything. Private property is going to be a thing of the past if they get their way.

    https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/03/details-behind-bidens-30-by-30-u-s-lands-and-oceans-climate-goal/

    Among the many goals in President Biden’s climate change agenda, protecting 30 percent of U.S. lands and ocean territories by 2030 is among the most ambitious. And among the most complex.

    The administration initiative is likely to face political headwinds in a divided government.

    Nevertheless, achieving the “30 by 30” goal could be a critical marker on the road toward a carbon-free future. The reason: Natural landscapes and seascapes are powerful carbon sinks, pulling CO2 from the atmosphere and storing carbon in soil, grasses, shrubs, and trees, coral reefs, sea grasses, and ocean floor sediments.

    “It’s impossible to overstate the importance of protecting more of America’s – and the world’s – natural places,” a group of senior staff members at the Natural Resources Defense Council wrote shortly after President Biden’s announcement.

    “This life support system … plays a vital role in pulling planet-warming carbon out of the atmosphere and sequestering it away,” the NRDC group wrote. “Protecting 30 percent of America’s natural areas will help stabilize the climate, protect biodiversity, and give plants and wildlife a chance to adapt to the warming already baked into our current climate.”

    • Tonio

      Well, they’ve learned that the populace will accept supposedly temporary ‘suspension’ of their rights based on declared emergencies. Now they will use the flimsy, manufactured excuse of climate emergency to nullify yet another set of rights. You get more of what you reward, every single time.

      Crikey but these are depressing times.

      • blackjack

        HAH,HAH! Visual pollution on the Jersey shore!

      • juris imprudent

        Visual pollution? Well bitches, I say you are political pollution, so there!

      • Rat on a train

        When I voted to support this, I didn’t know I would have to see it.

      • Chafed

        That’s some fine legislating Lou.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        There appears to be no limits to their hubris.

    • blackjack

      Just one more morning, I had to wake up with the blues.

      • Aloysious

        Nice. (●’◡’●)

  2. Chafed

    Fuck the covid reporting. I don’t care about “case” numbers. I care about hospitalizations and death. This is just more panic porn.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      “They’re into malakas, Dino.”

  3. LCDR_Fish

    The Metaverse/Real World in Snow Crash is interesting. OTOH most of the movie takes place on the west coast (already dystopian) with virtually no reference to the rest of the country and not much about the rest of the world. Some aspects of the franchise world were negative, there were some positives too – but either way – it’s a very narrow/focused portrayal.

    • LCDR_Fish

      not “movie” (yet), book.

    • rhywun

      I don’t think even he could have predicted the sheer amount of stupid that a real “metaverse” is going to present.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Even though he’s a raging asshole, David Brin does a pretty good job with the idea in “Existence”

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yeah, complete ass, great writer. I hadn’t even heard about that one, now I guess I have to read it.

  4. Ghostpatzer

    “deaths are a third of what they were last summer”. Clearly, we need more death squads. You know how else had death squads?

    • blackjack

      Well, it’s a recent development in congress, so..

    • Rat on a train

      Duterte?

  5. Ghostpatzer

    Er, who else?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Wasps?

      • Rat on a train

        WASPs?

  6. Yusef drives a Kia

    Great Song,
    Carpe Covfefe!

  7. Sean

    Roboeatz in Latvia? I’m gonna say they’re doomed to fail.

    /close enough

    • Ghostpatzer

      Ukraine might be a better choice. After all, they have experience with novel cooking methods.

  8. blackjack

    US fencer accused of sexual misconduct

    Not enough parry and too much thrust?

    • juris imprudent

      I particularly liked the timeliness of the complaints, from 2013-15.

      • Rat on a train

        Their is no statute of limitations on outrage.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Welcome to the pinnacle of athletic achievement

    An outdoor drinking party at the athletes village that broke rules designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 at the Games is being investigated, Tokyo Olympic officials said Sunday.

    Organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said “multiple athletes” and other team officials were drinking alcohol at the park within the village late Friday. Police arrived after the incident, Muto said at a news briefing, without identifying the athletes or any team involved or what action, if any, officers took.

    The 11,000 athletes at the Tokyo Olympics were warned before the Games that drinking alcohol in groups was a breach of the so-called playbook rules intended to limit COVID-19 infections.

    Athletes were told they could drink alone in their rooms at the complex of 21 residential towers next to Tokyo Bay.

    You should have skipped all those grueling practices to goof off and play grabass with members of the opposite sex, like the rest of the kids.

    • rhywun

      Last one who doesn’t catch the coof and get sent home wins all the gold medals.

    • blackjack

      I prefer to be by myself.

    • westernsloper

      Athletes were told they could drink alone in their rooms….

      I’ve been training for that!

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Florida reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state’s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic, according to federal health data released Saturday, as its theme park resorts again started asking visitors to wear masks indoors.

    The state has become the new national epicenter for the virus, accounting for around a fifth of all new cases in the U.S. as the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus continues to spread.

    A case is 24 cans. Get a better metric or fuck off.

    • Urthona

      How long do I have to wait to see if there’s a spike in deaths from this? So far deaths look like they’re at the low point.

      • Nephilium

        We’ve moved past worrying about deaths and hospitalizations. Now we’re worried if someone has a runny nose or a cough. Soon immortality will be ours!

  11. PieInTheSky

    An Italian guy named Marcell Jacobs won gold in the 100 meters at the Olympics. I am unsure if he counts as white because that would be something a white guy winning the 100 meters.

    • blackjack

      Here we go with the Moors thing again.

      • Nephilium

        I thought that was just Sicillians.

    • Urthona

      Pretty sure Italians are white.

      • Don Escaped Texas

        he was born in Texas and is an instant endorsement god: ethnically ambiguous

    • blackjack

      But, will it heat up tomorrow?

    • Ghostpatzer

      She gives me Fever!

  12. Rat on a train

    two weeks

    “We can halt the chain of transmission,” Walensky told “CBS This Morning” on Wednesday. “We can do something if we unify together, if we get people vaccinated who are not yet vaccinated, if we mask in the interim, we can halt this in just a matter of a couple of weeks.”

    • blackjack

      “Lets hold these motherfuckers down and slam the vax right into their necks!”

    • blackjack

      I’m easily imagining a sniper movie, where the government has enlisted snipers to shoot the unvaxxed with tranquilizer guns filled with the secret sauce.

    • PieInTheSky

      3 weeks tops

    • rhywun

      we can halt this in just a matter of a couple of weeks

      OFFS!

      • Nephilium

        Two weeks to flatten the curve!

      • Chafed

        That sounds familiar.

      • Rat on a train

        It sounds better in the original German.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Well that’s just a blatant lie.

      I wonder what it must feel like to destroy the entirety of your credibility in just a couple of minutes.

      • rhywun

        The beauty is that when we inevitably fail to “halt this in just a matter of a couple weeks” it will be proof that we didn’t follow orders and we will need further “encouragement”.

    • EvilSheldon

      Are there really people out there who don’t just feel patronized and disgusted by all these bleating calls for ‘unity’ and ‘community’?

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Facebook will pivot from being a website that is accessed through phones and laptops, Zuckerberg says, to a next generation computing platform where the focus is on a user’s “presence,” and is accessed through VR via Facebook’s Oculus headset, or other Facebook products like Portal. “I think over the next five years or so,” Zuckerberg told the Verge’s Casey Newton, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”

    Have a nice trip.

    • LCDR_Fish

      The Metaverse in Snow Crash was appealing from a bottom up perspective, and in general – transferring the current facebook into that environment is a no-go from me. Worst thing is that you would have no control over blocking hacks, ads, etc – everything would be “curated” to target you, not the other way around.

    • juris imprudent

      Or with any luck, you’ll just be MySpace.

    • blackjack

      Considering his congressional testimony and then his actions in the ’20 elections, I thought he was going to change the name to Twofacedbook?

      • kbolino

        If there are lizardmen walking among us, he’s the first one to check.

        No offense to Mr. Lizard, wherever he may be, but these skinsuits are less convincing than ever before.

  14. Brawndo

    Do people not proof read articles before posting? 2 glaring typos in the first 3 paragraphs in the article about the Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson movie.

    • Rat on a train

      Copy editors are part of the white supremacist patriarchy.

    • Tonio

      Yeah, and the missing birthdays with a placeholder making their absence obvious. We’re short staffed this week and have new people coming up to speed. Please bear with us.

      • Ozymandias

        I don’t think Brawndo meant here, Tonio. I think it was a comment on the linked article’s quality.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    HAH,HAH! Visual pollution on the Jersey shore!

    Muh viewscapes!

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Do people not proof read articles before posting? 2 glaring typos in the first 3 paragraphs in the article about the Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson movie.

    Correct spelling is white supremacy. And teh patriarchal oppression.

  17. Scruffy Nerfherder

    This is a month old and already not aging well. Collins is making a mockery of his career and destroying his reputation,

    https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-generated-from-covid-19-vaccines-differs-from-an-infection/

    A key issue as we move closer to ending the pandemic is determining more precisely how long people exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus, will make neutralizing antibodies against this dangerous coronavirus. Finding the answer is also potentially complicated with new SARS-CoV-2 “variants of concern” appearing around the world that could find ways to evade acquired immunity, increasing the chances of new outbreaks.

    Now, a new NIH-supported study shows that the answer to this question will vary based on how an individual’s antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 were generated: over the course of a naturally acquired infection or from a COVID-19 vaccine. The new evidence shows that protective antibodies generated in response to an mRNA vaccine will target a broader range of SARS-CoV-2 variants carrying “single letter” changes in a key portion of their spike protein compared to antibodies acquired from an infection.

    Line that up with the data coming out of Israel.

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309762

    Nearly 40% of new COVID patients were vaccinated – compared to just 1% who had been infected previously.

    With a total of 835,792 Israelis known to have recovered from the virus, the 72 instances of reinfection amount to 0.0086% of people who were already infected with COVID.

    By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Memory-holed in1,2,3…

      Or not. For some reason I haven’t seen this in any MSM outlets.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    I had the unfortunate experience, yesterday, of overhearing some sad sack moaning about “They talk about ‘freedom’ but what about my freedom to to force them to alter their behavior in submission to my hypochondria?”

    You’ve got it ass backwards, dummy. Exercise your freedom to respond to your perceived threat level by staying away from public places.

  19. Ozymandias

    “The dreaded DELTA Variant now roams among us, stalking the nights, waiting for the moment our defenses are down – i.e. our masks are off – and then the slaughtering begins…”
    Remember when people used to joke about how “we’ll get that when they cure the common cold” – which meant “never”?
    They’ve weaponized the annual flu season to lock us down, steal elections, and destroy what was left of our civil liberties. It’s A-mazing.
    Next up: CLMATE EMERGENCY!!!1!1! Even while the planet cools and it becomes obvious anthropog- ERRRR, CLIMATE CATASTROPHE – is bullshit, it won’t change a fucking thing. They’ll just shrug and say that the destruction of the fossil fuel industry, the people dying from lack of cheap fuel to keep warm, are all just “the price that must be paid” to usher in the new progressive marxist utopia – ERRRR, I mean, to save Mother Gaia.

    • kbolino

      You’ve gotta rotate among the crises to keep them fresh: pandemic, climate, guns, kidnapping, terrorism, bigotry, …. Every once in a while, throw in a new one to see what sticks.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Don’t worry, they’re going to save us.

        *hides under bed covers*

    • Ozymandias

      These people will never stop – that’s what it will take a little while longer for the normies to realize. It’s NEVER going to stop.
      When that realization starts to sink in – when the next fake emergency requires the normies to be locked down harder, to be out of work permanently, while the Woke Corporatist behemoths are the only form of commerce allowed to exist; when the two-tiered justice system becomes too obvious to ignore and the tax rates skyrocket along with inflation – in short, when the Normies reach the “Me and Bobbie McGee” moment, I hope I’m around to see it.
      It’s a terrible thing to wish for, but the Progs won’t stop until people start killing them en masse. I wish I were wrong, but that’s the arc we’re on now. That’s where this train finally stops.

      • blackjack

        I was hoping it would stop before they started forcing people to take drugs they don’t need. Silly me.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It is a rather bright line. I think even they realize it’s a big step to take and are a little concerned about the reaction.

      • Sensei

        OT here is a guy who earns his money. A big no f’ing way day in and day out doing this from me.

        https://youtu.be/Hm2VsybnPbc

      • Drake

        My money is on them causing a general collapse of the economy and society first – then the shooting really gets going. People are soft and greedy.

    • PieInTheSky

      you don’t need civil liberties if you have nothing to hide…

      • Ozymandias

        LOL.
        Pie, I can always count on you to hold character. It’s perfect.

  20. PieInTheSky

    the temperature is too damn high

    • blackjack

      That’s because California has figured out how to grow super weed.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Michigan grows some damned fine indica Buddy!

  21. The Late P Brooks

    So the metaverse will be our adaptation to permanent “health emergency” lockdown?

    Sounds about right.

    • Urthona

      I’m actually pretty confident there are going to be no lockdowns in any of the same states. Or even face masks.

  22. westernsloper

    Facebook will pivot from being a website that is accessed through phones and laptops, Zuckerberg says, to a next generation computing platform where the focus is on a user’s “presence,”

    Ya, no thanks. I don’t want the assholes to know I exist.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Yeah, no thanks. You’d have to be a little bonkers to sign up for a top down controlled virtual reality that tracks everything.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        dumb fucks

  23. The Late P Brooks

    These people will never stop – that’s what it will take a little while longer for the normies to realize. It’s NEVER going to stop.

    They’re doing God’s work.

    It doesn’t matter if you believe in Salvation. Salvation believes in you.

    • Ozymandias

      Man, that CS Lewis quote just continues to prove its value, dunnit?

  24. The Late P Brooks

    It’s a terrible thing to wish for, but the Progs won’t stop until people start killing them en masse. I wish I were wrong, but that’s the arc we’re on now. That’s where this train finally stops.

    When will we see the “SHOCKING!!!!” footage of an Australian policeman literally torn to pieces by a mob?

    I have a dreadful longing…

    • Ozymandias

      Brooksy – I’ll make a prediction (though I may not live to see it), but what will kick off the killing is an incident or an individual that gives the Normies moral permission. That’s what everyone is holding their breath for. In the same way that the American Revolution had a LOT of ‘incidents’ that easily could have justified violence long before it finally ‘went viral’, it took an incident in which the ‘regulars’ decided that they now had permission to fight their masters. In retrospect (looking back from the future), historians will point to the lockdowns, the collapsing of the economy, the FBI-CIA-State Dept. coup against Trump, the 2020 election fraudery, etc. and wonder why it took “X” to finally be the “cause celebre” – but it’s about moral permission – or perhaps moral sanction might be the better term. Whatever that incident is, once the regular joes believe they have the moral sanction of their peers, of a sufficient number of their respected and respectable fellows, then shit is going to get REAL – and a whole lot of pants-wetting pussies are going to find out what real violence looks like, not the protest-LARPing we’ve been witnessing.

  25. PieInTheSky

    Living in Capitalism means that you’re in a constant state of rage because of seeing people suffer on a daily basis. We’re always angry.

    https://twitter.com/Jaybefaunt/status/1421414100077273088

    Capitalism is the reason you’re always tired. And it’s also the thing that makes you feel bad for being tired. And being tired makes you less productive. And capitalism determines your worth by productivity. Basically, capitalism wastes our lives away.

    https://twitter.com/stealyoredbull/status/1421192404284100615

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Is it Tankie Sunday?

  26. westernsloper

    Back to back Spud links!

    Thanks for the links Spud! One is left to wonder if SP finally offed the old man. I mean, you really can’t blame her if she did.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Save us, Big Nanny!

    Why was there an eviction moratorium?
    The CDC put it in place last September to help stop the spread of coronavirus by keeping people in their homes.
    But now that it’s expiring, Emily Benfer, chair of the American Bar Association’s COVID-19 Task Force Committee on Eviction and a research partner with the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, predicted “widespread evictions” to begin very soon during an appearance on CNN on Saturday. The Eviction Lab tracks eviction filings in six states and 31 cities across the country and has documented more than 450,000 eviction filings since the pandemic began. Many of those could soon be acted on.
    She implored landlords to seek help from the government rather than kick out tenants.

    “The message to landlords right now is, truly, the public health largely rests in your hands,” Benfer said. “Because of the link of eviction and the spread of Covid-19, it is critical that you apply for rental assistance and wait to evict because of the long-term hardship and also the immediate threat to Covid-19 surge that this will create.”

    Congress appropriated nearly $50 billion in assistance for both renters and landlords, but only a fraction of that has been spent as states, the federal government and the Treasury Department set up a rental assistance program from scratch. The pace has picked up recently and more than $1.5 billion was paid out in June.
    But talk about bureaucratic red tape will sound like a foreign language to people now facing eviction.
    “Families are panicked,” said Benfer.
    “They don’t know where their children are going to sleep come Monday night. They don’t know how they’ll cover the past-due rent that they’re not likely to pay off in their lifetime. Many of them have applied for rental assistance, but with only $3 billion of the $46 billion paid out, they’re on hold. And so they’re panicked, they’re desperate, they’re in dire straits.”

    Time is running out. Act now. The only realistic solution is for the federal government to take title to all rental properties in the country and administer them in an equitable and efficient manner.

    • Nephilium

      How dare you expect people to pay rent to the rich 1%’er landowners during a PANDEMIC?

      • Animal

        The CDC put it in place last September to help stop the spread of coronavirus by keeping people in their homes.

        Since when does the CDC have this authority?

        (I know, I know, the FYTW rule.)

  28. The Late P Brooks

    It’s always 1868 in Amerikkka

    But for anyone who knows this country’s shameful voting rights history, Biden is following a script that once doomed Black voters and made the rise of Jim Crow possible.
    Biden and Democratic leaders who prioritize infrastructure in part to broaden their appeal to reluctant White supporters are making the same mistake White political allies of Black voters made in the late 19th century. That’s when the more progressive American political party of that era — the Republican Party — abandoned Black voters to focus on an economic agenda that emphasized infrastructure and uniting a country that was bitterly divided by race.
    That blunder gave us a century of Jim Crow segregation, reduced the Republican Party to a “dying institution” ‘in the South and forced countless Black Americans to confront an uncomfortable truth that many are now facing again:
    Our White political allies are rarely willing to match the intensity and cunning of our political opponents.

    I remember distinctly last fall, when the trees around all the polling places were festooned with negroes daft enough to think they would be permitted to cast a vote.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      And here I thought all this talk about forcing vaccines and making life hell for the unvaccinated was abandoning black Americans, who happen to be 65% unvaccinated, mostly by choice.

      But aside from that, John Blake appears to be psychotic.

      • Ozymandias

        Scruffy,
        I’ve been watching the demonization of the unvaxxed with a close eye to see how the Left is going to handle the rather inconvenient fact of black vax/unvax rates. Then it occurred to me that this is just like voting. What the Left/Media will do is exactly what they do with voting. They don’t need high vax rates among blacks to skew the numbers and lie – they need just enough BIPOC to take the vax that they can safely be ignored. IOW, because blacks are only about 15% of the country, and whites are 70+%, the Media/Left political establishment will simply ignore the vast gap of black vax rates – or provide some rhetorical cover – while they continue to use the vax issue against their political enemies as justification for massive political retaliation. That article from yesterday about how the White House Press Sec was mad at both the WaPo and NYT for reporting on the ‘breakthrough’ covid cases in MA is the perfect example. The WH Press Sec was openly telling the Media that they were “doing it wrong” because they weren’t going after the unwashed- er, I mean, the unvaxxed hard enough. They were reporting contra the narrative and it makes it harder to round up and/or go after those dirty anti-vaxxers if the NYT and WaPo are telling people that the vax doesn’t work.

  29. Stillhunter

    We took the kids (age 11, 12, 14) to see jungle cruise last night at our small town theater. First movie I’ve been to in years. But the kids did some good work cleaning up the down trees from the recent storm, so we took them for burgers and a movie.

    I’m not sure what constitutes a good Disney movie to the reviewer in the article, but it looked like a pretty standard Disney movie to me. The banter was funny, lots of special effects, a little tugging at the heartstrings, etc. One thing I found odd was the number of people killed in the movie. Not John Wick level, but didn’t seem very Disney-like.

    • Fatty Bolger

      The ads I’ve seen were pretty bad. Definitely give out a “wait for Redbox/streaming” vibe.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    every Sunday is tankie Sunday

    So say we all.

  31. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I don’t think I’ve mentioned recently how much I hate printer drivers.

    • Nephilium

      The only thing worse is audio drivers.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        ASIO4All

      • blackjack

        Asian drivers.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    what will kick off the killing is an incident or an individual that gives the Normies moral permission. That’s what everyone is holding their breath for.

    You’re right, Ozy, but I don’t have a clear vision of what that would be. The Mandarinate/Cathedral/They will be desperate to maintain their stranglehold on information. For now, we are inundated with anecdotal sob stories about how “if only people had taken this public health catastrophe seriously”.

    What happens if we start to get stories about people (CHILDREN!) who dies as a direct result of lockdowns and rationing of medical care which favored an overhyped pandemic in place of serious illnesses and injuries? Can the outrage machine by redirected?

    What if we start to see stories of egregious abuse of authority (stop laughing) doing clear and incontrovertible damage to real people? Some people are still capable of seeing the omelette for what it is.

    • Ozymandias

      Your guess is as good as (likely better than) mine, but I expect it will be when someone who has a very good moral justification – i.e. a parent who loses a child to some govt overreach – and starts systematically taking it out on politicians. Ask yourself this question and answer honestly: if a loathsome Proggie Senator or 4 got whacked, or some lockdown governor got Lincolned… would you be upset at the “institutional harm” that might result? Or would you secretly be cheering it on? And how long would it take for you to be supportive if there was a massive govt overreaction in response? Like Biden declaring martial law?

  33. creech

    Talked to someone yesterday who talked to an acquaintance who is a school board member. Allegedly, the school board member told him that they realized masks were pretty ineffective against chicom-19 but were much more effective, along with distancing, at preventing the spread of colds. So there was talk among the board members that perhaps kids should be required to wear masks permanently in school to ward off the spread of colds, the catching of which keeps kids sick at home and not learning. Sounds like a plan to keep kids from developing immunity to everything except the foolishness of public schooling.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The presumption that we can artificially develop immunity to everything with the use of vaccines that is superior to how the human immune system naturally evolved is what gets me.

      We are supposed to catch illnesses and recover. Vaccines are for outlier cases and diseases that pose existential threats.

      • Ozymandias

        Somebody posted an Science-tastic article here that claimed that the vax works better than your immune system against this deadly coronavirus!!!!
        We are being herded by morons who aren’t even smart enough to understand most of the underlying principles of their own philosophy. But what they do know is that they need a large enough ‘cover story’ to keep the normies in line. That’s what Twitter (and the bots) and the Media are for. They provide the public perception – by sheer volume of broadcasting – that they control some ‘majority.’ That’s what the election fraud was (and is) really about, too. It’s morons leading useful idiots in an exercise in noisemaking to keep the normies demoralized.

    • R C Dean

      “masks were pretty ineffective against chicom-19 but were much more effective, along with distancing, at preventing the spread of colds.”

      Of course, how a mask can stop one virus but not another is an exercise for the reader.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Just ignore the stolen bases. Everybody else does.

    • westernsloper

      FFS

    • Tulip

      Now they care about learning?

      • Mojeaux

        The whole Zoom learning thing just trashed my kid, and I wanted him to be held back a year to redo all that, but they don’t allow that. You make up credits in the summer. I don’t know how you can expect someone to go on to Algebra 2 when they weren’t able to grasp Algebra 1. Then make him retake Algebra 1in the summer AFTER he’s had Algebra 2. Fortunately, sophomore year is geometry, but they still do some summer school via Zoom, which he couldn’t deal with in the first place. The hell of it is that my son didn’t do much WORSE than any of his peers. They’re calling it the lost year. They are not making it easy to learn.

      • Cy Esquire

        I’m sure he’ll learn the really valuable lesson, you’ve got to learn to figure it out.

      • Mojeaux

        I would like to be able to help him, but I don’t remember allthat stuff and I am a shit teacher. He did use Khan Academy to catch up on Algebra after his blown first semester, but it wasn’t enough. This is a kid who barely touched his books in middle school and got A’s.

        He also reluctantly admitted that high school moves much faster than middle school and he wasn’t prepared for that. I am empathetic because that’s how I felt going from high school to college.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Sorry to hear that.

        From what I remember of being a B math student:

        I liked geometry insofar as it related to everyday life (e.g., buying pavers). I never understood proofs and so far don’t find it a setback. I do find the phrase “QED” useful, but other than that I could have ceased my math education halfway through sophomore geometry.

        I could also tell you how seldom I use trig or calc. Although the origin of the jungle gym is rather interesting.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Also: my college very kindly offered a symbolic logic class for the math requirement, ever since immensely helpful in daily life.

    • Cy Esquire

      It is really starting to bother me that no one is talking about the social implications of everyone walking around with masks on. Nor are they allowing any discussion, let alone research, into what happens to humans long term when you heavily restrict their breathing.

      Not even taking those things into account, even if the Vid was twice as deadly as the governments and media claim it to be, the overreach by every level of government should be front and center at every media outlet. People should be standing up. Doing… SOMETHING.

      And yet, here we are.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Ask yourself this question and answer honestly: if a loathsome Proggie Senator or 4 got whacked, or some lockdown governor got Lincolned… would you be upset at the “institutional harm” that might result?

    Not hardly. I would hope it might serve as a lesson and an encouragement to the survivors.

    • Ozymandias

      I’ll go a step further: if the perp somehow stumbled through my yard and the fuzz came though in hot pursuit, I’m pretty sure I’d point them in the wrong direction.
      “He went that way, officers! Description? He was a black midget with a club-foot wearing a purple feather boa.”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder
      • Ozymandias

        HOLY SHIT!!! I hadn’t seen that Key and Peele.
        Damn, that was perfect.
        Those guys are funny as hell.

  35. Ozymandias

    OT: I just wanted to say that I got a new Mac and loaded up brave with the new Eyepiece – it’s great! Thank you to our resident in-house developer(s).

  36. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I think I may need to put on a hoodie or somethin. Hallelujah for unexpected August cooldown

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Of course, how a mask can stop one virus but not another is an exercise for the reader.

    They are gravity-defying aerosolized molecules which are unstoppable, except when they aren’t.

    All you have to do is clap hard enough.

    • westernsloper

      The? flu?has?been? eradicated?.

      • Cy Esquire

        Meanwhile, the economy is completely fucked & governments are declaring marshal law on their citizens. Karens are running rampant. But hey, at least the rioting has stopped…. or at least they stopped covering it?

  38. The Late P Brooks

    They’re calling it the lost year.

    No kidding.

    It’s not just a year somehow “lost”. It’s a year-plus of active destruction.

  39. Gustave Lytton

    https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2021/08/oregon-school-board-politics-have-never-been-so-polarized-partisan-and-hostile-to-racial-equity.html

    Oregon school board politics have never been so polarized, partisan and hostile to racial equity
    And it probably won’t change anytime soon.

    Openly racist garbage, not even disguised as a news story or editorial. You know why they’re polarized? Because you commies are using schools to indoctrinate kids and at least some parents and voters are pushing back against it. GFY.

    • Cy Esquire

      What? In Oregon? Never! I’m surprised they had time to stop fighting wildfires and type that heartfelt piece of commie trash. Who am i kidding? The author has probably never picked up a shovel in their lives.

    • egould310

      I was doing work in Lake Oswego/Wilsonville last week. Had some good dinners down there.

      Off to Ellensburg, WA for work this week. Some solid food options there, too.

    • rhywun

      I see we’re still hand-waving away the reality that “racial equity” is really “race war”.

      • rhywun

        Or are we still pretending that they didn’t quietly slip “equity” in there and expect everyone to confuse it with “equality”?

  40. Drake

    Infrastructure bill – how about you write flit first, then read aloud before Congress, then vote on it?

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Oregon school board politics have never been so polarized, partisan and hostile to racial equity
    And it probably won’t change anytime soon.

    Golly, Could it be related in some way to the blatant politicization of education in the past few years? An emphasis on bogus “justice” issues instead of fundamental educational concepts like readin, ritin and rithmutix?

  42. blackjack

    I received a 7 page letter from the county board of health. Well, one page was “intentionally left blank” I assume that was the page that contained the common sense and truth. It was in response to my kid testing positive. It lists the things we are required “by law” to do, like self isolating, notifying contacts, etc. It claims a number of health and safety codes are the legal justification for the commandments and claims that they can involuntarily commit him to a healthcare facility if he fails to comply. I figure I just have to build a false wall and hide home in there when they send the special police to come collect him. Unless, of course the neighbors snitch, then it’s all over.

    P.S. the last part is half joking, the letter is very real.

    • rhywun

      notifying contacts

      OFFS they’re still pretending that is something useful?

      Six Degrees of World Lockdown.

      Sorry.

      • blackjack

        Yes. Work made me take an additional ten day quarantine after he came back positive, immediately after my ten day inter-state travel quarantine. I got tested again Friday, hoping I come back positive so I can take another ten.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    It lists the things we are required “by law” to do

    Law, decree, whatever.

    OBEY