Awesome…for KC.
Bama is, unsurprisingly, #1 in the preseason coaches poll. Hockey legend Tony Esposito has passed away. This seems kinda silly and cowardly. (Not sure where you get that the nickname has been coopted by hate groups. More likely, you’re really trying to distance yourself from the religious connections). Messi is in Paris for real now. The Astros get off the slide with a much-needed win. And Patrick Mahomes does some amazing community service. This truly is giving back to the community. And that’s sports.
Had no idea you were this old, dude.
Big birthdays today include: Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, track great Charles Paddock, cartoonist Dik Browne, author Alex Haley, talk show host Mike Douglas, televangelist and grifter Jerry Falwell, pitcher Bill Monbouquette, drummer Mike Hugg, Pakistani pop Pervez Musharraf, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Devo’s Bob 1, wrestling great Hulk Hogan, new wave artist Joe Jackson, outfielder Mike Huff, tv host/comedian/podcaster Joe Rogan, actor Chris Hemsworth, and baseball player Melky Cabrera.
Alright, now it’s time for…the links!
A meeting of the (twisted) minds
Yes! YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! I only hope some TV cameras are there to capture it. Of course, they can always just stay on vacation. And I bet they do, to much fanfare from the left/media. I also would like to see the Travis County judge’s reasoning for saying they couldn’t be compelled to attend a session, when it’s plainly obvious that it’s perfectly legal.
Adios, douchebag. Of course, this means he won’t be held accountable for all the death, destruction, and authoritarian bullshit he carried out. But I’m still glad to see a piece of shit get taken down a peg or two. Hopefully this is the start of sa trend. (Note: it won’t be.)
What a bunch of racists. But never fear…the Chinese knockoffs are probably already out there and they’ve got everybody represented.
::shrug:: Oh well. I do look forward to the meltdown from people bitching about the fact that Google “is worth billions”. Also, if this was unexpected, it shouldn’t have been. Google is a big fan of herding people into urban areas. Why would anyone expect them to do anything but try and push it on their employees?
This is a no-go somewhere in Atlanta
Holy shit, is this ever illegal. I can only imagine the outrage if the principal were white. And it would be completely justified. But I bet it doesn’t happen.
Just in case you thought the GOP were going to stand firm against reckless spending. Nope. They did what they always do: go along to get along. Meanwhile, our money continues to be devalued through inflation. Thanks a lot, assholes.
Maybe this guy should change his name to Climate Change. At least then that would make some claims by environmentalists true.
Oh Jesus. Will these people ever stop bitching? I think we all know the answer to that.
Enjoy a great song that gets less play than it deserves. At least in my opinion.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
But never fear…the Chinese knockoffs are probably already out there and they’ve got everybody represented.
I eagerly await the rollout of Real Doll Barbie.
She loves you long time?
There’s this little place in Flushing…
I thought the one in the top right of that pic was supposed to look SE Asian.
“The ruling means that many of the Democratic lawmakers who returned to Texas but continue to break quorum during the second session could now be at risk for arrest after state House Republicans voted later Tuesday to direct the sergeant-at-arms to compel attendance “under warrant of arrest if necessary.”
Does that mean any of them will be arrested?
Possibly. I wonder if they have to attend their court hearing on the 20th to petition the court to intervene again. If so, the sergeant at arms could send state police to nab them before they enter the courthouse.
I hope so. I would love to see the Texas Rangers frog marching them into the capitol.
Oh woe them! They will sure as hell pretend to be serious vitims then…
The article, datelined today (Aug 11) indicates that arrests could begin “tomorrow” (Aug 12).
How will they get the ones that fled to Portugal to avoid… erm, COVID?
“Of course, this means he won’t be held accountable for all the death, destruction, and authoritarian bullshit he carried out.”
All of that is way worse than what he was accused of doing. Ass grabbing doesn’t kill people or destroy businesses.
Heterocisrapistshitlord!
DEPENDS ON HOW HARD ONE GRAB ASS
-Steve Smith
“Why who’ll anyone expect them to do anything but try and push it on their employees?”
que?
It’s fixed. I blame autocorrect.
Looks the same to me.
OK, changed now.
Do you think that segregationist principal is a one off or are there many out there who would do the same? I’m betting the latter. These people are nuts. I really liked the mother from that story. Too many people just go along to get along.
Because beyond all the DINGERS in the world, holy shit we found a real racism.
I blame the naggers.
I think it’s uncommon, but I do think there are many more educators who think this would make learning easier. Same as segregation by sex, although that’s at least based on reality once kids reach a certain age.
It’s not that rare in college housing.
Prisons frequently segregate by race. And since schools are basically jails for children…
Oh Jesus. Will these people ever stop bitching? I think we all know the answer to that.
Professor Emerita seems blissfully unware of all the Tejanos who fought against Santa Anna. There was nothing racist about the battle of Gonzales or the Texan war of independence.
What a surprise – it’s white leftists who are offended on behalf of people who are not.
Fuck every last one of them.
Nothing is as dangerous as a bored middleclass white liberal that feels the need to virtue signal.
I just barely made it through that article. When I saw the giant note that would be appended to the sign, I nearly threw my phone across the room. Look, if it offends you, change colleges. Or just fuck off. Nobody is forcing you to pay for a college education.
“Authorities in California charged a 47-year-old college lecturer with arson for allegedly setting a fire in Lassen County on Saturday near the Dixie Fire, the still-raging blaze in the northern Sierra Nevada 250 miles northeast of San Francisco, according to the Sacramento Bee, which broke the news.
Gary Stephen Maynard, whom both Sonoma State and Santa Clara University list online as a lecturer, is suspected of starting a series of fires in the area, the Bee reported.”
Arsonists were responsible for some of the wildfires in California last year. Because, you know, climate change activists really care about preserving nature.
I’d venture to say 90% of wildfires are either caused by an “activist” committing arson or negligence on the part of PG&E.
Only who can prevent forest fires?
STEVE SMITH PREVENT FIRE, AND BY PREVENT MEAN RAPE FIREBUGS!
It’s like racism. When demand outstrips supply, people need to step up to help.
+1 fake but accurate
How dare anyone question this peaceful protest against the dangers of climate change. He should be lauded as the hero we need and deserve.
Authorities in California charged a 47-year-old college lecturer with arson for allegedly setting a fire in Lassen County on Saturday near the Dixie Fire, the still-raging blaze in the northern Sierra Nevada 250 miles northeast of San Francisco, according to the Sacramento Bee, which broke the news.
Sacramento Bee? Surprised this wasn’t from the Babylon Bee.
Jake Rosenfeld, a sociology professor at Washington University in St. Louis who researches pay determination, said Google’s pay structure raises alarms about who will feel the impacts most acutely, including families.
“What’s clear is that Google doesn’t have to do this,” Rosenfeld told Reuters. “Google has paid these workers at 100 percent of their prior wage, by definition. So it’s not like they can’t afford to pay their workers who choose to work remotely the same that they are used to receiving.”
Not mentioned: value added.
How much do those people contribute to the bottom line? Why not pay them based on that? I guess that’s not something a sociologist would ever consider.
HOW DARE YOU TIE VALUE TO PAY!
The problem is that inept people feel they are worth a far larger compensation for doing things not found to be of value to the employer. No place is this disconnect as large and prevalent in academia, where these morons feel hate that the private sector rewards people they consider to be dumber and less capable than them with piles of money for things they do, while not giving them their just reward. Even worse, most they harbor resentment that most sane people feel they are already overpaid in academia when they lack what we would call real degrees in the private sector..
I add more value remotely, myself.
Want me happy, undisturbed, and starting on time every day? Or miserable, constantly interrupted, and stuck in traffic and late all the time?
More to the point, I’m using my home, and my electricity, and my broadband, and my climate control, as your office which you don’t have to pay for. And those 2+ hours a day I sit in traffic? Yeah, I’m working those if I can do it from home. If anything, you owe me MORE for working remotely, not demanding I pay for the privilege. If my employer tried this, I’d tell them to shove it.
Got a pleasant surprise last night when our local school board, despite Coonman’s attempts to bully schools into requiring masks, voted to make them optional. My kids were overjoyed when I told them. It was a narrow 4-3 vote, but I’ll take it.
Our board originally voted to make them optional, but caved to the Covidiots yesterday.
The county we just moved away from, Henrico County, did that. Reversed themselves after just 2 days. I feel very validated in our decision to move to Hanover.
YAY!
There’s a bunch of fighting in NH over masking kids in schools.
Some victories at the local school boards and some losses.
A state rep wants a ban on masks on kids at the state level, but the Governor opposes it, claiming “it’s a local issue”.
More likely, you’re really trying to distance yourself from the religious connections lion.
*scratches another one of my zany predictions off the list*
*taps foot impatiently waiting for ammo shipment*
Next up, a similar sounding school gets rid of their literal colonialist name. The Valparaiso Commodores will now be called the Valparaiso Condors.
Sorry, I really messed up that joke.
*wanders off to grab coffee*
I also wasn’t predictive.
Okay, really need coffee. I thought the article was about Vanderbilt not Valpo.
Why would there be a negative connotation regarding a belated counterattack against bloody Muslim conquest?
Because the left hates anything that puts Christianity in a positive light.
The proper joke that I shouldve included was that the Providence Friars are next on the chopping block.
*inhales beautiful wafting coffee steam*
Speaking of Devo… it appears that the DEVOtional is on this year for November.
Yess!!
Neph,
I will look into it I’m very interested.
Get woke, go broke? Subway franchisees want to drop Megan Rapinoe’s new ad amid Olympic controversy
I’m wondering who thought it was a good idea to hire her in the first place. She’s been toxic to a big section of middle America for years now.
Yeah, it seems like the corporate wokesters decided to do it without any input from the franchisees, who are the ones suffering the backlash.
“We don’t need that racist flyover money anyway.”
“Bob, there’s flyover *country*, but I’ve never heard of flyover *money*. We still need to fleece those deplorables.”
I feel like this isn’t the first time Subway has hired some controversial celebrity. Even ignoring the pedo guy, I feel like there’s someone else.
It’s because they stopped offering the seafood sub. Pickles, mayo, mustard, onions, twice the cheese, bacon, lettuce and black olives. I ate that sub for nearly 30 years. Now they don’t serve it No-Mo…
There was something not fishy about their tuna anway.
Euphemism?
And, of course, they don’t show the offending image, because it would turn anyone who sees it into a racist.
Valparaiso University announced Tuesday that it has adopted the Beacons as its new team name, replacing the Crusaders, a term school officials dropped this year after saying it had been embraced by hate groups.
Deus Vult
I have never heard of the Klan using crusades imagery. I thought they hated Catholics.
They do. Because if you’re going to go insular and racist, why not go full bore with it?
You’re correct. But teen edgelords pushing back against the wokeization of America use that imagery, and to lefty academics (sorry for the redundancy), they’re all either Nazis or Kluxxers or both.
Add in some clueless reporting that takes lefty pronouncements at face value, and you get Crusaders = KKK.
OK
They both use cross imagery. Ergo, all Christians are NAZIS!!!!!!
Panicdemic 2.0?
There are no approved vaccines for the Marburg virus, though a range of potential treatments includes blood products, immune therapies and drug therapies.
I’m sure Pfizer, Moderna, et al will get on the case right away, as soon as the available therapies are forbidden.
Jesus! I’m not much for the death penalty but that professor guy should be tied to a random tree in the forest that he tried to ignite.
On February 11, 2021, Valparaiso announced it would retire the “Crusaders” nickname because of the “negative connotation and violence associated with the Crusader imagery”.
It’s much better to be associated with a carrion eater.
The only negative connotation associated with “Crusaders” comes from anti-Western, anti-Christian crusaders.
Asking for myself. How do arsonists get caught? It seems like it would be really hard to catch a firebug unless they bragged about it or something.
“I burned down Clear Lake, CA in 2018 for clout”
They practically always hang around or come back to watch the fruits of their labor…
Brags to someone.
Cops get warrant to search GPS data in phone.
GPS data shows him driving to where fire started and leaving immediately after starting it.
I’m sure I’m missing a step or two, but that would probably do it.
Pretty much. Too stupid to keep his mouth shut and use a faraday bag for his phone.
It seems like we are living in a world that’s increasingly easy to get away with crimes if you just don’t bring a phone.
You don’t just leave yours on your desk when you go out?
They had a GPS tracker on his car per the article. Why they knew to do that is another question entirely. Unless of course we all have GPS trackers on our car. Oh right, we do have GPS trackers on all newer cars. That and a little parallel construction, and you’ve caught your perp.
“It’s Bi Wonder! Batman’s sidekick Robin comes out as bisexual after accepting date with a man he swooped in to save in DC’s latest Urban Legends comic book”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9881247/Batmans-sidekick-Robin-comes-bisexual-DC-Comics-latest-book.html
OFFS!
*yawn*
Are there any actual popular characters who haven’t been written queer in at least one universe?
Considering how fucking impatient these writers are to virtue signal to the people that don’t’ buy their product, I am surprised that every superhero has not gone gay, transgendered, or pedo.
To be honest, as a kid in the late seventies I considered super-hero comics the same homo-eroticism as the wrestling and weightlifting magazines. I hated having to go past the creeps reading that stuff at the newsstand to get a copy of Mad.
Hey little boy, do you want to go to my bat cave and paly the role of Robin?
/snork snork
That sounds like a breach of ethics on the part of Robin. I hope Batman has enough integrity to call the company Ethics Hotline to make an “anonymous” report.
And I thought Robin came out in the late sixties. ??♂️
You mean one of the young men who’s being groomed by a man with a penchant for form fitting suits?
Saw this pop up in my news feed and don’t really care. My guess is that it’s Damian. The creation of Batgirl and Batwoman was specifically done in the earlier times to try to head off jokes about the relationship between Batman and Robin. You can guess how well that worked…
Next you might point out that the original concept for Captain America was a ship captain with a cabin boy side kick?
The early age of sidekicks looks really strange to modern eyes. Look at the sidekicks that Green Arrow burned through, or Supergirl’s flying horse that wanted to sex her, Superman’s super dog, Batman’s bat-hound…
What?
Bestiality is a thing brah…
Supergirl’s horse, Comet.
It’s basically an admission that women want men with large units….
Did anyone ever think Robin was not a Twink? Good grief.
There was at least one female Robin. I think there was a second one as well, but I haven’t been following the Bat that recently in the past couple years.
Carrie Kelly! Is she cannon?
It was the shorts, wasn’t it?
Wait, bisexual? So that means he likes girls too? That seems like a stretch.
The correct answer is “who gives a shit?”
Eh, its comix. The whole kit and kaboodle is homoerotic.
So this is the introduction to the comic cannon that Batman has been grooming and intimate with Robin for decades thus ushering in the first MAP superhero. I wish I was being sarcastic about that prediction. So stunning and brave, much woke, no way this will displease anyone.
One side of the UTSA community, who identified as Mexican American, say they are not offended by the use of “Come and Take It” and feel the action is unnecessary.
Republican astroturfers.
“Texas hospitals erect TENTS to deal with surge in COVID cases as intensive care units are swamped: Austin and Dallas schools defy Gov. Greg Abbott and implement new mask mandates as virus rips through the state”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9881927/Houston-hospital-erecting-TENTS-deal-surge-COVID-cases.html
Why are there so many covid hospitalizations now, in Texas, in August?
Border jumpers.
“Ambulances are being forced to wait outside of Florida hospitals until beds free up for COVID-19 patients as number of hospitalizations triple in the last three weeks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9881381/Ambulances-forced-wait-outside-Florida-hospitals-beds-free-COVID-patients.html
Similar shit here. Seems suspicious.
According to the Democrats, the border jumpers are not spreading covid. Don’t you even science? Stop spreading misinformation!!
Could have something to do with this: Surge in Pediatric Respiratory Cases Appear to Stem from RSV Infections, Not COVID-19
Yep, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard about RSV hitting particularly hard this year.
But that isn’t covid, and would mostly be young children.
Ben Taub Hospital, is currently at 95 percent capacity in its intensive care unit, where 27 per cent of patients have tested positive for the virus, CNN reported.
So, 73% of ICU patients have NOT tested positive for covid. The article never states how many of the ICU patients are there BECAUSE of covid, only that there is a surge in “cases” and that the ICUs are at or near capacity. I have learned to look for this sleight of hand when dealing with the media.
Because the left hates anything that puts Christianity in a positive light.
I was recently on the periphery of a conversation about how stupid and awful conservative religionists are. Sadly amusing, coming from people who revere and worship the government as their lord and savior.
What used to be contained within the circles of only the most noxious internet atheists is now acceptable to say in polite company.
Im’a continue to prepare for living in an openly hostile society before the decade is out.
This stuff makes me want to return to the Church. Again, why am I like this?
Unlike Christianity, marxism has no limiting principles and does not preach mercy.
Or forgiveness or a host of other things.
Brought over from the dead-thread. We are going to see the return of multi-generational families living in the same home very soon. Boomers savings are dwindling, Gen Z want’s them to die in a fire, Gen-X never bothered to get their shit together. If we get a round of stagflation it will be disastrous. We’ll lose everything.
“Gen-X never bothered to get their shit together.”
Many of us would beg to differ.
My shit is together.
High fiber diet?
Maybe that wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. If it actually ends up strengthening the family unit?
Agreed. The leave home and never call phenomena really kicked off with the boomers and dies here with the zoomers. Multgenerational homes will be the norm with gen alpha.
My shit is together. *looks around at friends/customers my age* Oh, nevermind.
Judging by my sister’s neighborhood, it never went away with Asian families. It’s all huge houses (3000+ sqft, many over 4000) and many of her neighbors are Asian (or Indian) multigenerational families – two complete families plus grandparents.
“Advancing Taliban are going door-to-door and forcibly taking girls as young as TWELVE to be sex slave wives for their fighters as they sweep across Afghanistan”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9883367/Taliban-going-door-door-forcibly-marrying-girls-young-TWELVE.html
What a shit culture.
We were this close to making it into a modern functioning democracy!
What’s 2400 years between friends?
I think I heard something somewhere that the local warlords we were allied with recently there would keep young boys as sex slaves.
“Women are for babies, boys are for pleasure.”
That’s one way to perpetuate a fucked up culture.
I guess when you don’t want to admit you have homosexual desires, this logic works…
In Islamic culture, it is far more acceptable (and less dangerous) to be seen alone with a man who is not related to you. Being seen alone with a non-related woman… let’s just say that the adultery punishments apply to both sexes.
It’s sad. I wish it weren’t so. I remember the stories after the Taliban were driven from Kabul in the early days of the war and how liberating it was for women.
Adults, however are supposed to live in the real world and not in the world they imagine. Much as I don’t want to see Afghanistan return to Taliban rule, the plain fact is that such rule is considered desirable by many Afghans. Having Americans die for two decades to prevent it was pure folly.
If only were enlightened like us, they’d have learned to offload the process of grooming 12-year-old girls to Disney.
Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks judge’s order that prevented arrest of quorum-busting Texas Democrats
I thought it was well understood and enforceable across the country that legislators can be compelled to attend sessions to, you know, do their job.
Of course, they can always just stay on vacation.
Extradition does not apply here?
I doubt extradition applies as they’re civil warrants.
It’s a civil warrant not criminal.
Break legs, provide crutches
“Although there have been some COVID-19 recovery initiatives targeted at youth, we need to prioritize a mental health recovery plan that will address the increased severity of mental illness in children and adolescents, and the likely rising demand for mental health services among youth,” Madigan said.
In NJ, since March 2020, 15 Covid deaths in the under-25 age group. 59 suicides in the same group. Maybe scaring the shit out of people has predictable consequences?
Maybe locking up kids is a monumentally stupid idea. When I was that age I cared more about my friends than my family. They are raising the party of the anti-woke.
If that’s the case, then Yay!
Dire
The rapidly escalating surge in COVID-19 infections across the U.S. has caused a shortage of nurses and other front-line staff in virus hot spots that can no longer keep up with the flood of unvaccinated patients and are losing workers to burnout and lucrative out-of-state temporary gigs.
Bodies piled in the streets.
Nurses? Or tik tok dancers?
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns after sexual harassment allegations, investigation
He should be resigning because of his nursing home covid policy.
He should be
resigninghanging from a lamppost because of his nursing home covid policy.FIFY
Women’s issues are more important than a few dead geriatrics.
And women’s issues won’t get other Dem governors in hot water over the same nursing home covid policies, illegal lockdown orders, vaccine mandates, and abuse of citizens civil rights.
I never could stand to watch a rigged game. It’s my inner Tracy Flick. “That’s Not Fair!”
Cuomo only resigned because his (D) pals threw him under the bus. I guess they’re thinking with the shit performance of many of their colleagues, they’d have to toss up a sacrifice.
It became too costly to protect him because he killed indiscriminately…
Had the vast majority of the Q-tips been relatives of team red people, then they would have had a good way to protect him.
I’m not sated, I want Newsom next.
Then someone needs to cook up a sex scandal, because that’s the only way he goes if he doesn’t lose the recall.
I hear they are already “fortifying” that recall as well?
You know that guy has some kind of weird shit in his closet. Just look at him…
55-gallon drums of… hair lube?
I don’t get why he would try to steal Gordan Gecko’s look.
Was he trying to look like a villain from a softcore porno?
He looks like Patrick Bateman to me.
He was tossed under the bus to save Murphy – who also killed thousands of grannies.
^This
Also Wolf. Guaranteed a group of D governors who have this risk talked amongst themselves.
Don’t overlook Whitmer.
re: Google salary adjustments: from contacts I have there, they are already paid based on their geographical area. For instance, an employee doing a particular job, based in Pittsburgh, gets paid less than another doing the same job in Mountain View.
Some questions arise based on folks who have moved to Pittsburgh from Mountain View (office transfer, not just WFH), who are constantly ballooning real estate prices up in this area. They come in with California real estate price expectations, and CA salary experience, and are bidding houses way way up. I think, personally, without evidence, that they are also still being paid more than their counterparts who were hired in to the Pgh. office originally.
the google thing is ridiculous. I understand paying people more if they come in the office, I mean it makes sort of sense. But not city vs suburbs. That being said it may be worth it anyway. Also if someone is a top level coder I am sure he can resist pay cuts or move somewhere else
A lot of companies not happy with the fact their IT people have pointed out the reality that IT people can do their job from the fucking moon if their internet connection was solid and the company had the infrastructure to support remote work, are looking at fucking IT people over by reducing pay. Especially the Silicon Valley types, which were forced to pay people living in shithole West Coast cities a ton of money to even meet basic cost of living requirements. Their argument that cost of living is less in East Bumfuck Tennessee then it is if Woke San Fran while true, gives them an out to force IT people from just wanting to work remotely.
I myself was recently told that if I asked to move somewhere else and work remotely permanently, that they would have to reconsider my pay. They were not happy when I told them I was then going to have to look at working elsewhere…
Isn’t that why they wanted to outsource to India? I mean those dudes were cheap… even if they managed to hire the dumbest ones on the subcontinent who could claim to speak english despite not being intelligable to most americans.
/just my experience after having to clean up after the Mumbai helpdesk at Xerox.
* Fondly remembers four months training four offshore replacements to take over my responsibilities when $employer decided to outsource infrastructure to TCS *
While at Xerox I also supported the ticketing systems we used at the helpdesk, so I had access to the reports.
On average, a US agent would process thirty tickets a day, resolving most of them.
On average, a Mumbai agent would process seven a day, with many not actually being resolved despite them closing the ticket. They even used a bunch of tricks to game the system such as cold-transferring escalations and closing them as transferred calls (instead of passing on relevant data so the US tech had to start from scratch with a now-annoyed customer)
They must have been cheap.
I was part of the outsource – disaster – insource project at ACS before Xerox bought them. An absolute debacle.
Our Bangalore employees are, for the most part, semi-useless. They must be very cheap. The good ones don’t last too long – they leave for more money elsewhere. Plus there seems to be a “tall poppy syndrome”, with initiative severely discouraged by the management there (who just love to empire build). That also drives out the good ones.
Krakow was promising, but they’ve gotten expensive and, generalizing, are a surly bunch who are a pain to work with.
Our Costa Rican employees are aces – we’re trying to move all of our open positions there.
this is why you should outsource your work to Romania
I hear the real estate is affordable, and commuting costs are low, but the requirements for eating an iron-enriched diet balance those out to a degree.
I hear the real estate is affordable- you need to check your hearing the good stuff costs $$$
We still talking about real estate or did the conversation switch to escorts/hookers?
https://www.realestate.com.au/international/ro/bucharest/
That’s quite the staircase.
Those prices are a fraction of real estate around here. ~ $500k USD for 1,000+ sq. ft? It’d be more than double that around here.
Also, I need to make a lot more money:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5-Union-Park-Boston-MA-02118/103861295_zpid/?
(my friend had an apartment across the way from the back of that place – I’ve always coveted it)
why would you want to live in Boston? t is probably full of Celtics fans and shit
Possibly not in that neighborhood.
Back when management types that had come up in the age of “You don’t need to understand software development, just assume your code monkey lie, and tell them to do the work with 30% less money and time” rotated out of their jobs faster than the results of their choices became evident, this was indeed how shit worked. You could claim to save the business a ton of money by hiring 4-8 Indian coders – often with no more than a few weeks training – over one US developer, but in time, the products delivered started causing damage. Granted, generations of managers kept profiting from this model – making terrible decisions that on paper looked like cost efficiencies but had some seriously costly consequences later, when they had already collected their rewards and had been promoted elsewhere – but it was simply unsustainable.
Today I am seeing the reversed trend. Companies are finding that a vast amount of their legacy systems are nothing but unsustainable technical debt, and that every attempt to correct on the cheap only served to kick the can down the road and double or triple the technical debt cost. Now they are finding they are better off hiring employees that know what they are doing rather than just go with the lowest bidder, but I often find that management types resent this reality and harbor some serious anger towards the kids they used to make fun of in high school for being nerds. Especially when they have to pay them real money and admit these people are the ones actually doing the work.
That’s a very nice way of expressing the concept – technical debt in a system.
To add to that great explanation, companies had become blind to the fact that their technical staff had acquired a ton of knowledge about how the industry the company was in actually functioned. That doesn’t go away just because the new tech staff is in another country. And when you hire 8 Indians to do the work of one North American, you’ve actually increased the odds that you have hired a person smart enough to take your concepts and create a competing company. And being in another country you don’t have the same legal protections you would have with domestic employees.
But that is short-sighted management for you. CEO’s and boards are blind to the fact that the management types they hire – and the expensive Big Eight (back in the day) consulting groups they bring in – are mostly interested in padding their resumes and then moving on before the reality of their initiatives become obvious. The stock options they grant to keep people around “long enough” aren’t actually a long enough term to prevent the problem.
Anyone who can truly do their job remotely can be replaced by someone on another continent, if the management is capable of handling it. It’s a risk, for sure. But the real question is how to manage teams that work in diametrically (or nearly) opposed time zones and make sure you’re getting good work product.
There have always been geographical differences in pay. The market rate is what it is, depending on the market.
Now, is WFH going to mean that those differences go away, with a single national market rate? Maybe. But who said that rate was going to be the highest geographical rate?
They’re not going to a single rate. It’s based on metro area. For instance they consider NYC and Mountain View to have the same pay scales. Stamford, CT, and Pittsburgh, PA are on the same level. Everywhere in PA is on the same level.
I just had it confirmed that those moving from mountain view to pittsburgh definitely take a pay cut. I’d think the difference would be if you move, you know about it, and you’re moving to a new area where costs are lower. If you live in Stamford, formerly commuting to NYC, and get the NYC office pay, now you go full remote, and you get paid 14% lower (actual numbers from their internal calculator my contact ran this morning), that’s going to crimp your style, since you’re living in the same area still.
It’s one of those short-term decisions that will hurt them in the long run. Couldn’t happen to a more evil company.
As a former remote employee, one of the things that often gets lost is that if you are out of sight, you are out of mind. And I don’t mean that is the crazy sense. You are the last person thought of, and the first person let go, as I was. When there is a downturn, and there always is, you have a slighter chance of justifying yourself when you cannot show that you are as productive as you can be. Sucks, but there it is.
All my work is online anyway, whether I’m in the office or not. Except for my boss, everyone I work with is in multiple other offices. I haven’t met any of them or have any clue what most of them look like.
But yeah, for a single office I see your point.
The company said its skateboarding doll was meant to represent the Asian American community, but some Twitter users have said that they felt the Barbie doesn’t look Asian.
Needs more squint.
They should add a voicebox and have it say “Me so orney, me love you long time”….?
https://summit.news/2021/08/11/macron-says-showing-police-your-papers-to-visit-a-cafe-is-about-freedom/
Honk honk.
Citizen Macron, it appears they are rousing Madame Guillotine. Is this the wise course?
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
“Papers please” sounded better in its original German.
some Twitter users have said that they felt the Barbie doesn’t look Asian.
Boobs too big?
NTTAWWT
Obligatory.
the ehm face of asian women in tech
Kwaku Agyeman-Manu: Why Ghanaians dey ask Prez Akufo-Addo to sack Health Minister
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-58161380
Dis be after allegations say Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu breach procurement laws for Ghana to procure some 300,000 overpriced Russian Sputnik V vaccines from middleman from UAE.
Ghana tighten restrictions as kontri enter third wave of Covid-19
Why Ghana govment buy unit cost of Sputnik V vaccine for $19 instead $10 global factory price
According to Mr Agyeman-Manu, he ignore de procurement process sake of de emergency situation of de COVID-19 pandemic den need for vaccines.
But Civic Society Organizations for Ghana no dey accept dis excuse to bypass de procurement procedures in de name of emergency.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo don resign afta of harassment report.
Investigation show say Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, provoking efforts to remove am
“Di best way I fit help now na if I step aside and let goment get back to governing,” New York Govnor on Tuesday.
On Monday, one of di 11 women wey accuse New York Governor of sexual harassment don reveal hersef for di first time.
Brittany Commisso, wey be Executive assistant to Governor Andrew Cuomo, go on television wia she ask for justice.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-58138168
“Referencing the infamous flag from the Battle of Gonzales, this is a slogan that embodies both anti-Mexican and pro-slavery sentiments,” Clark writes in the description. “It has carried those white supremacist beliefs from 1835 to today, and in that time has also been widely adopted by anti-government, pro-gun extremists, such as at the January 6th insurrection at the US [Capitol]. Like the Alamo, the Gonzales flag is an open wound for many Mexican Americans, especially Mexican American Texans.”
What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
The Alamo victimized Mexicans? Wasn’t everyone there killed?
…by Mexicans?
According to this white-supremacist revisionist history.
The “infamous” flag?
Fuck. You.
Juan Seguin didn’t exist, apparently.
In the good old days, “falling on your sword” involved an actual sword.
Can we have that back, please?
a blunt sword and fall on it till the job is done
As a shareholder in Games Workshop, I want the company to stay profitable. But I have no way to tell the directors that pissing off the core fanbase is going to tank that profitability long term. Sure, it might not hurt right now, but ill will builds up like a toxin or radiation exposure. The community team itself is doing fine, but the other corporate actions are so clueless and disconnected that I’m pretty sure there’s no one asking “how does this look to our customers” on the teams making those decisions.
write them a strongly worded email?
He should totally tweet at them.
Shareholders and customers are lower tier stakeholders. The directors must focus on the needs of the higher tier stakeholders. The directors don’t want to be shunned on the cocktail circuit.
I’m lowest tier shareholder too – 10 shares 😛
Sell
Never!
I’ve been buying more CDPR stock with the dividends from the GW stock.
Either CDPR will go up in price, or I’ll end up owning the company,
Better get started on learning Polish.
I wonder if we could rename the company Arisaka.
Arisaka Defense makes tacticool goo gaws.
Oh well.
Go to next annual shareholder meeting. You can tell them in person!
Will the UK lockdown be over by then? These are held in Nottingham. (Where the company is Headquartered)
Talk to the Sheriff to give you a pass
How confused does the NHS have to be to reprimand a patient who can’t breathe for coming to the hospital to save their own lives?
This recently happened to a friend of mine who caught Covid-19. With no previous health issues, she is healthy and full of zest. Then, out of nowhere she developed difficulty breathing and found she couldn’t swallow properly. So she did what any sensible person would have done: She called 111, and following their advice, mind you, made the trip to A&E.
You would expect that a 19-year-old rushed into a Bristol A&E with breathing difficulties would be treated with compassion and seen immediately. But you’d be wrong. Not only was my friend subjected to a six hour wait for an ECG scan, but she was also reprimanded for coming in at all, despite the fact she was told to do so and had a positive Covid-19 test. In short, a pantomime of chaos whereby hospital staff were shocked that an ill person had entered their midst.
This seems humiliating. The NHS Covid-19 care pledge states that they have developed processes to “produce rapid clinical procedures during the pandemic.” If this is their idea of rapid procedure, then I’d hate to see them on a slow day. It’s not as if the hospital was overwhelmed with Covid patients either. I checked, there were 7 admissions into the whole of Bristol NHS trust that day.
Meanwhile, she was forced to wear a mask while breathless, which led to her continuously vomiting and, understandably, experiencing intense anxiety. Even as her condition deteriorated, she was not allowed to see a nurse.
https://capx.co/covid-rules-are-trumping-decency-and-common-sense-in-the-nhs-ive-experienced-it/
while the NHS may have a few issues due to evil rightwingers defunding it, it is still the envy of the world, as healthcare systems go.
The NHS is a reprehensible institution that has nothing to do with health care.
He is a useless grifter so of course he will run again.
“His career was either permanently over or almost permanently over, and he chose the path of almost permanently over,” Todd said. “The resignation gives him, you know – we know the way our world works. It’s amazing, the people we’ve seen make political comebacks. You can’t ever rule it out. And I think he realized he could become a pariah in the Democratic Party for sticking it out and fighting or he can – not saying he’s going to generate goodwill, but I promise you there’s a whole bunch of state assembly members that are relieved today.”
“He eventually did something that, maybe over time, will at least give him an opening to not – oh, maybe, be a full pariah in the party in three years, four years, five years,” he continued.
But Drumpfler must be the banished forever.
Can’t he run again and sort of angle it as being a referendum of his leadership? If he takes the right tack and the voters are stupid enough he could make a comeback.
+1 Marion Barry
They hate Cheeto Prez because he came from their ranks, knows how they play the game, and doesn’t allow the cabal to use the usual tactics that are/were used to get rid of politicians that stood in the way of the globalist agenda. That’s all you have to remember to know who is the bad guy in this whole scenario…
No, Cheeto prez was never from their ranks. He always longed to be but was too gauche to be anything more than a jester. They hate him because he realized that, and he beat them with it.
Also from that NPR article:
Miami’s Jackson Memorial Health System, Florida’s largest medical provider, has been losing nurses to staffing agencies, other hospitals and pandemic burnout, Executive Vice President Julie Staub said. The hospital’s CEO says nurses are being lured away to jobs in other states at double and triple the salary.
Staub said system hospitals have started paying retention bonuses to nurses who agree to stay for a set period. To cover shortages, nurses who agree to work extra are getting the typical time-and-a-half for overtime plus $500 per additional 12-hour shift. Even with that, the hospital sometimes still has to turn to agencies to fill openings.
“You are seeing folks chase the dollars,” Staub said. “If they have the flexibility to pick up and go somewhere else and live for a week, months, whatever and make more money, it is a very enticing thing to do. I think every health care system is facing that.”
Sounds like market forces are the real issue, not the plague.
If those hospitals can’t afford to pay a living wage they don’t deserve to be in business.
Jeebus, how depressing the news is.
Cheer up. Get a load of this little firecracker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BYzRmiBwRE
Want some more?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poT7WxkE2Pw
Meow…
what’s going on with that saxophonist?
There is a saxophonist?
You wouldn’t know it to hear the music.
I don’t mean to say the music’s bad, just that the sax is subdued relative to everything else.
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nice
Yesterday I posted a comment on Cuomo’s resignation and further legal consequences–whether or not resignation should foreclose further impeachment action. It was pointed out to me, correctly, that the consequences of impeachment are generally limited to removal from office.
I’d add only that I think, but am not sure, that impeachment usually carries a prohibition from holding future public office? Is that the case?
Ask that D.C. Mayor that went to jail cause “That bitch set me up” how that running for office again works…
Marion Barry was elected to D.C. City Council in 1992, and re-elected as Mayor in 1994, serving until 1999.
At the Federal level, disbarment from holding future office is an option. It’s a separate vote by the Senate only after removing the person from office. Wiki says the Senate has only disbarred three officials from holding future office.
The right to bear arms.
Bears are among nature’s fiercest predators, possessing enough size, strength, and power to tackle most prey. But what if a bear added weapons to its arsenal?
The answer is that walruses could find themselves in real trouble. According to a new report published in the science journal Arctic, polar bears may be using tools to assault walruses. Such behavior was previously thought to be limited to cartoons.
The idea stems from Inuit accounts over the centuries of polar bears making use of rocks and other blunt-force objects to target walruses that may be idling below cliffs. Once thought to be apocryphal, scientists at the University of Alberta, Edmonton have done a thorough review of the accounts and found them to be credible. While rare, it appears polar bears do indeed seek to bludgeon walruses with the closest heavy weapon they can find—either rocks or chunks of ice.
Smarter than the average bear!
either rocks or chunks of ice.
Unpossible. I have it on good authority that there is no more ice in polar regions.
There was a story from a local news outlet the other day about bears breaking into seven cars at a trailhead (or campground or something). The article warned people to remember to lock their car doors.
**Looks innocently skyward, walks away whistling**
Damn Republicans
What’s also out is a slew of corporate tax hikes that Biden wanted to use to pay for the American Jobs Plan but Republicans staunchly opposed.
Biden’s original proposal called for raising the corporate income tax rate to 28%, up from the 21% rate set by Republicans’ 2017 tax cut act, as well as increasing the minimum tax on US corporations to 21% and calculating it on a country-by-country basis to deter companies from sheltering profits in international tax havens.
It also would have levied a 15% minimum tax on the income the largest corporations report to investors, known as book income, as opposed to the income reported to the Internal Revenue Service, and would have made it harder for US companies to acquire or merge with foreign businesses to avoid paying US taxes by claiming to be foreign companies.
All your profit are belong to us.
Those evil kkkorporations are stealing from the government. Why won’t Republicans stop them?
I wonder why they left out the part where they’re going to raise personal payroll taxes to 60%? I wonder why they also left out the part about the 25% VAT tax? What about the mileage tax, the inflation tax, the death tax, the 40% tax on retirement income?
Damn Republicans!
CNN is on the TV by the dumbbells in the gym I started going to again.(It’s been a year and I am SORE)
The headlines are so obviously propaganda I don’t know how anyone takes them seriously.
They seemed very happy about Biden’s “win” getting enough republicans to vote for the two monstrosities.
Bom dia, wokesters!
“Act of righteousness”, “arguably terrorism”. “Tomayto”, “tomahto”.
Minneapolis Democrat Party Chair Devin Hogan wrote a new op-ed praising the arsonists who set fire to the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct.
Hogan: “Like it or not, setting the Third Precinct on fire was a genuine revolutionary moment. An act of pure righteousness to open new worlds of understanding. The people declared themselves ungovernable and unilaterally took their power back. The largest international human rights movement in modern history had begun. The youth of Minneapolis carried all of this. The cops started it.”
He seems nice.
Sweet, now do January 6th.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Thanks for the lynx. It’s nice to see that the world is still stupid.
That song is terrific. Not sure I’ve ever heard it before. I love it when that happens!
Have a great day, y’all!
@Winston, re yesterday’s afternoon links…
Sure. Statistically, sociopaths make up a small percentage of the population; I’ve seen the rate as 1% in several sources. In small tribe populations they’d be pretty rare and obvious. Their presence would be detrimental to tribe survival and eliminating or banishing them necessary. As humans moved from a pastoral to an agricultural lifestyle, to larger populations accumulating in walled cities, there would be more of them and it’d be easier for them to hide in plain sight, able to work in menial jobs, out of the spotlight.
Fast forward to a country like ours, 330 million people would give us 3.3 million sociopaths. Over time they’d not only be able to hide in plain sight, but in our vast land be able to migrate and congregate to seats of power, to fill entire bureaucracies in large cities and… DC.
This social evolution has happened so rapidly that it’s difficult to notice the pattern. And we don’t yet have the tools to deal with this new social system that allows people who were once hunted down to rise and actually rule over the productive and metaphorically hunt *them* down.
I’m not saying that sociopaths haven’t always been able to rise to power here and there throughout history, and some good leaders fell to corruption by power itself rather than their being genetically sociopathic.
Fortunately now they’re revealing who they truly are, having finally reached a comfort level by being surrounded by their like. …surrounded either physically in a bureaucracy or big city, or virtually via social media. We’ve even started naming them, the mildest form being “Karen,” another being “The Swamp.” Hopefully now that we see what happened, we can solve the problem. The first dominoes appear to be falling.
At least this is how I perceive things. /shrugs
“…sociopaths make up a small percentage of the population…”
It is a matter of degree. Sociopathic behavior makes up a larger degree of social behavior than just the stone cold 100% sociopaths engage in.
A very good point.
Oh look, an optimist.
It’s gone much too far for there to ever be any meaningful accountability or correction.
Be a good person, but at the same time watch the world burn because the fire has spread way beyond what you can ever hope to put out by simply living the best life you can I’m accordance with your principals.
Also, just disengage from any discussion where the other person/persons are arguing only with a straw man and not able to even begin to listen to, understand, and engage with your point of view in good faith. Friends? Family? Disengage. Retreat to the monastery of your mind and know yourself. However, any attack on your person or your property, meet it with appropriate force, but take no pleasure in violence. Know you will be smeared as the aggressor and remain calm and stoic in your own defense.
Dag blane PRINCIPLES. Swipey typing is a minefield for that kind of error.
I live right near Valparaiso University. While I see they were trying to head off some religious backlash, I do not look forward to seeing that crappy lighthouse logo all over town.
“Patrick Mahomes does some amazing community service”
But his biggest service off all goes to the Buc’s Defense.
Can anyone recommend some organizations that are working against COVID restrictions? Dave Smith’s latest podcast about “vaccine passports” in NYC made me realize that we really do have to put our foot down on this bullshit. It occurs to me that I haven’t been doing much about it besides occasionally arguing with family members and posting on this site.
No, but it won’t help. The only thing that will stop them is a world wide French Revolution, probably starting with France.
#ChipPostWoodLamp
Welp, so much for back to normal. The wife and I were looking forward to going to a concert next week that was rescheduled from last summer. Just got an email from Ticketmaster that the venue is requiring a COVID vaccine or a negative test. We’re not doing that. So now I get to go fight for my money back. I’m surprised this is in Indiana, although the venue is in Indianapolis so it might as well be Illinois.
The local NPR station was whining about the ongoing 10-day outdoor musikfest was 99% maskless. They cited an unnamed health expert for the claim that we should see a massive uptick in viral infections sometime next week. Ok, these people are permafucked.
I noticed all the WFMZ footage showing many, many unmasked. I thought it was a very good sign.
Yeah, I’ve been down there a few times as it’s directly on my normal walk. I have yet to see a mask on anyone over the age of 40.
Is there a website that follows up with these claims with data? Seems like they always predict that (except at BLM/Antifa riots) and it virtually never plays out that way.
I don’t know. People repeat so many of these claims uncritically, ugh. It’s all so tiresome.
Akira, glad you’re here. I wanted to alert you to these plans for a Miami Valley Glibs meetup. Hope you can make it! https://www.glibertarians.us/community/meetups/august-dayton-area-glib-together/#post-1860
Thanks!! I’ll definitely try.
The Johns Hopkins site is a great way to diffuse a lot of the hysteria with just real? numbers.
In Texas, 90% of ICU beds are in use. Two weeks ago, it was 88%. Total beds are at 79%. Two weeks ago it was 78%.
At the height of the pandemic in 2020, Texas was losing over 300 people a day. Their highest recorded one-day deaths was 700. The 7-day rolling average now is around 56 people per day.
In Ohio, only 6.5% of ICU beds are occupied by Covid patients.
They were permafucked before. It’s just easier to tell now.
Just filled out the online form for a refund, “unfortunately you are outside the window for a refund”. But I can attempt to sell the tickets online. FML.
Not shocking coming from Ticketmaster. What a bunch of clowns. We got lucky and saw Chris Stapleton last Friday. Completely packed, no masks, tailgating, and a fantastic show in Michigan.
My wife wanted a day out so she got us some Raiders v Seachicken’s tickets for their game this Saturday. So far, no requirement other than masks is needed to get in and I am sure once we get to know our seats and people around, those masks go away or become a beer catcher.
Time will tell. She did go all out and got us tickets behind the uprights about 16 rows up. Won’t be able to see anything other than watch the game on the jumbotron.
Why should they resign?
“That said, Cuomo’s announcement and his exit highlights actually a glaring double standard that we have got to discuss. As Republicans who for four years excused Donald Trump tried to join in on the outrage. They even claimed some sort of victory. The truth is that Cuomo’s exit was entirely 100% the product of Democratic pressure. Democrats hold their own to a higher standard of conduct.”
Reid added, “Meanwhile, we still wait for the resignation announcements from alleged teen sex trafficker Matt Gaetz, creepy car guy Madison Cawthorn, and Jim Jordan who allegedly looked the other way as an assistant coach at the sexual predation of a state wrestling coach long before he became an insurrectionist. I’m just saying.”
Ohhh, because you are a dishonest, partisan hack.
Wot?
President Joe Biden’s top aides are pressuring OPEC and its oil-producing allies to boost production in an effort to combat climbing gasoline prices that they see as a threat to the global economic recovery.
Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan criticized the world’s major oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, for what he said were insufficient crude production in the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
“At a critical moment in the global recovery, this is simply not enough,” he said in a statement.
The unusual statement ratcheted up international pressure and comes as the administration tries to contain a range of rising prices and supply bottlenecks across the economy that have fueled inflation concerns.
Biden has made the economic recovery from the recession triggered by the coronavirus pandemic a key priority for his administration.
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The White House on Wednesday also directed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which polices anti-competitive behavior in domestic U.S. markets, to investigate whether illegal practices were contributing to higher U.S. gasoline prices.
“During this summer driving season, there have been divergences between oil prices and the cost of gasoline at the pump,” Biden’s top economic aide, Brian Deese, wrote in a letter to FTC chair Lina Khan.
He encouraged the FTC to “consider using all of its available tools to monitor the U.S. gasoline market and address any illegal conduct.”
Gas prices have spiked since Biden became President? How did that happen?
Price controls! That’s what we need.
Lay off the domestic fracking industry and the problem will take care of itself.
If only we could achieve energy independence.
Whoa whoa whoa – I was assured by the Oatmeal Brains Administration months ago that I’m not actually paying more for gasoline, that it’s all in my head.
The progressive formula in action:
Real problem or invented problem = Give me more power
You could just go back to Trump policies on the issue…
“Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan criticized the world’s major oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, for what he said were insufficient crude production in the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
“At a critical moment in the global recovery, this is simply not enough,” he said in a statement.”
This is rich.
They got the breathing room they needed from American Press to make up whatever they want as to the cause.
1,000-year-old remains in Finland may be non-binary iron age leader
DNA suggests body buried in feminine attire with swords had Klinefelter syndrome, researchers say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/09/1000-year-old-remains-in-finland-may-be-non-binary-viking-researchers-say
“The buried individual seems to have been a highly respected member of their community,” said the study’s lead author, Ulla Moilanen, an archaeologist from the University of Turku. “They were laid in the grave on a soft feather blanket with valuable furs and objects.”
DNA analysis, however, showed the grave held the remains of only one person – and that they had Klinefelter syndrome. Usually, a female has two X chromosomes (XX) and a male has one X and one Y (XY). In Klinefelter syndrome, a male is born with an extra copy of the X chromosome (XXY).
Males with the syndrome, which affects about one in 660 men, are still genetically male and often do not realise they have the extra chromosome, but the condition can cause enlarged breasts, a small penis and testicles, a low sex drive and infertility.
The Finnish researchers warned that the DNA results were based on a small sample and only a relatively small number of genetic sequences could be read, meaning they had to rely to some extent on modelling.
But they said that based on their data, it was likely that the body in the Suontaka grave had the chromosomes XXY. The high-status burial led them to conclude the person may have identified as outside the traditional gender divisions.
I mean there should be science awards for stretching things
The high-status burial led them to conclude the person may have identified as outside the traditional gender divisions.
Judging the past by modern standards.
Or he was buried in a different fashion because of a unique appearance by people who had no inkling of what chromosomes are.
Or he appeared normal and was important for a different reason.
I mean, ‘The Chief’s Favorite Catamite’ could theoretically be a high status position…
Thoughts on google pay:
On the one hand, basic economic theory is pay is related to productivity. So either google has been violating that, or they need to keep pay the same.
On the other hand, remote work is going to lead to more nationalized pay scales, as companies wont have to pay based on target location…so that would tend to lead to what google is doing anyway, although across the board.
On the gripping hand, if you want to work for google, you play by google rules.
I would imagine that having Google/Alphabet on your resume would have some value in and of itself… in some circles.
Except it’s same office differentials. That’s my problem here. Sorry, if you’re in the same office doing the same job, I can’t see why it’s right that commuters get a pay cut versus city residents.
Agreed, and that was the point of my first point, about productivity. How can formerly commuting from different offices, but not wfh suddenly have different productivity?
And I imagine someone is going to build there dream home in Greeneville TN and be forced to take a 79% pay cut? Yeah, makes no sense.
*crosses fingers* Please have the stones to go full federalism and sic the state police on any federal agent that tries to impose Biden’s mask bullshit on the state.
Anchor Wolf Blitzer said, “What do you say to governors like Ron DeSantis that are actually fighting to keep masks out of schools?”
Slavitt said, “It’s time for Governor DeSantis to decides what matters, is it kids and families, or is it politics?”
He continued, “Mask mandates are not just important for the kid being vaccinated, but every kid in the classroom depends on other kids. When school districts try and do the right thing if he overrules them, he’s overruling conservative principals and local control, but more importantly, he’s putting kids at real risk. He has got pediatric hospitals filling up. It is time to put politics aside as Asa Hutchinson did and say he was wrong, and it’s time to move on.”
Blitzer said, “Andy, the president says he’s actually looking into whether he can intervene in Florida and Texas as governors clash with school officials over a mask. Does the Biden administration have a bigger role to play?”
Slavitt said, “Well, look, the president has no choice but to put every possible option on the table. It’s extraordinary to think we have governors in this country that aren’t putting the needs of school kids first. This is something that I think every voter and everybody in the country should be very focused on. Let’s get our kids vaccinated. For kids that aren’t vaccinated or can’t be vaccinated, they should simply be wearing a mask.”
The vax and the mask are both child abuse. The mask is a bacteria infested petri dish and there is zero reason to give a faux vaccine to people not susceptible for a type of illness that, until recently, it was understood that you cannot actually vaccinate for because of several reasons.
looking into whether he can intervene in Florida and Texas
It clearly falls under the commerce clause, or maybe this is under diplomatic authority since it makes us look bad to the Eurocrats.
When it comes to the likelihood of a lab leak, virologists say one thing in their private emails and another thing in public.
https://twitter.com/RealYeyoZa/status/1425162607615430656
It’s just two weeks to flatten the curve, comrade.
“Well, you know, two weeks ago, the president announced we were going to require all federal civilian employees to either be vaccinated or to face rigorous testing, limits on their activities, other restrictions to try to really pressure them to get vaccinated. And as you said, Anderson, yesterday, the secretary of defense, joined by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Milley, said that they were going to mandate vaccines for our troops. We’re obviously working closely with private employers to try to encourage them to do the same thing. We need to put requirements on people to get vaccinated. That’s how we’re going to get this behind us. That’s how we’re going to be able to go back to normal.”
You goalpost moving cuntes keep running with this lie.
They aren’t so much working with employers as they’re leaning on employers to do the dirty work they are unable or unwilling to do. This stinks to high heaven.
Then five minutes later:
“This is the new normal.”
Yeah, fuck them all. Liars.
My choices about my health are none of your fucking business. [smiles]
Google is free to pay it’s people however it wants. And I’m free to look at them even more as a POS company for their policy. Where people are working remotely from should be irrelevant. They’re working remotely or not. Honestly, I wouldn’t shed a tear if someone remaining in the city sued them if they were a crime victim. If Google wants to take control of their employees’ personal lives, they should have legal financial liability for how they direct their employees’ personal lives.
PVB The Label – 4K Fashion Runway Show 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaT-GYVmkyE
Leave. The. Kids. Alone.
Wen said, “Wolf, this is now one of the most dangerous times in the pandemic when it comes to children because we have the more contagious Delta variant, we have surges, and we have so adults many letting down their guard, not wearing masks, not getting vaccinated. That’s contributing to this really dangerous environment for children.”
She continued, “That said, we do know what it takes to get our children back in school safely. We also know that it requires layers. So when we remove a layer, for example, we remove the layer of distancing because we can’t get kids back in school in-person full time if we still keep six feet instancing, but if we remove that layer, then indoor masking becomes even more important universal making. Type of mask also matters, N95 or K95 if the children are able to tolerate that, if not at least a three-ply surgical mask, cloth masks are not enough, improved ventilation and very importantly, testing as well. We should at least be having weekly testing for all the unvaccinated children and staff. Putting all that together is how we can get kids back in school safely.”
It puts the mask on its face. It does what it’s told!
When you actually stop and think about the bullshit they spew, you really start to feel like you’re living in bizarro world. This bitch is still prattling on about “six feet distancing” when we KNOW for an inarguable fact that they pulled that number out of their ass. It has no basis in reality, yet they keep talking about it as though it were some kind of ironclad law.
And since when does an abortionist care so much about children?
Your being Dark Knight Harvey Dent. Stop it before it drives you completely insane. You can’t reason with a sociopath.
You’re. Man I am being pretty homophonic today.
This bitch is still prattling on about “six feet distancing” when we KNOW for an inarguable fact that they pulled that number out of their ass.
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So what you are saying is, repetition legitimizes?
Oh, heavens no! Wherever did you get that idea from?
In stories of politicians digging up dirt on each other the current prime minister of Romania was found two have spent 2 days in a US jail 20 years age for DUI
Or it seems something called OWI fucking Iowa who knows what that is
https://media.hotnews.ro/media_server1/image-2021-08-11-24971592-41-florin-citu-inchisoare-curtea-din-iowa.jpg
operating while intoxicated
I’m fine with it. Who wants a surgeon with the shakes?
I’ve seen the results.
I see y’all have moved on from the other Orban (no relation). That guy was impossible to mention anywhere in the West without someone jumping in with some total non-sequitur signalling about how bad “Orban” is, refering of course to Hungarian Trump.
Anyway the big question is should he resign and is this worse than sexual harassment?
Slavitt said, “It’s time for Governor DeSantis to decides what matters, is it kids and families, or is it politics?”
What w do is humanitarianism. What they do is politics.
DeSantis already decided to side with kids and families over politics.
A friend sent this to me:
60 Minutes on the 1976 Swine Fu vaccine\
It sure seems familiar.
huh
This is the first time I’ve read of GBS being a possible reaction to the J&J SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
The exact cause of Guillain-Barre syndrome isn’t known. The disorder usually appears days or weeks after a respiratory or digestive tract infection. Rarely, recent surgery or vaccination can trigger Guillain-Barre syndrome. Recently, there have been cases reported following infection with the Zika virus. Guillain-Barre syndrome may occur after infection with the COVID-19 virus. It’s also a rare reaction in those who receive the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
The drummer from Offspring got kicked out of the band for refusing the ‘vid vaccination. He had previously had Guillain-Barre syndrome, and his doctor advised against getting the vaccine to lower the risk of another instance.
That is how rabid it has become. “Seek out your medical professional for advice” doesn’t work for these people because they want to know that they forced you do something that you don’t want to do.
That’s one of the most noxious things about this goddamn COVID era – all the self-styled, anti-authoritarian, do-your-own-thing rockstar celebrities being total stooges for the government.
Compliance rocks, maaan! Obeying the government is totally radical, duuuude!
Punk music is all about following the rules put out by the man, they’ve always had our best interest at heart!
You CAN’T be punk
NAZI punks fuck off! (NSFW… pretty obviously).
There’s about as many different punk subcultures as there are rockabilly subcultures. Most are fairly inclusive and welcoming.
Imagine if covid vaccine injuries were reported honestly.
Imagine if anything were reported honestly.
Watching that CDC fuck lie just lets us know…they have always played their medical experimentation fantasies.
You could hear in his voice how nervous he was about being confronted about his decisions. These days, imagine how nervous they’d get if they actually got confronted. It’d be off the charts based on their expectation of being lauded, not confronted.
I am no “anti-vaxxer” and I fully support people getting vaccines that have been properly tested and shown to be safe and effective. What I am against is the use of scare tactics and authoritarian pronouncements requiring people to take vaccines that have not been subjected to appropriate validation and testing processes.
The abuse of people’s favorable impressions of science and medicine in this case will have long lasting and tragic effects on public health.
Exactly. Lumping in people that want honest data on something they will put into their body as being anti-vaxxer is such a gross characterization of what is the truth.
The 60 minutes episode closes with two advertisements about getting the swine flu vaccine, presumably to remind people of just how the campaign was carried out. Just. Wow.
To the CDC and the public health tyrants, it’s a numbers game.
If their calculations show that x number of people will die from the disease and x-1 people will die form the vaccine, well then…. everybody must get the shot.
yep.
The models show …
Ass Wednesday will make you crave ham hocks.
https://archive.is/9amEl
James Van Der Beek and His Family’s Cutest Photos from Their New Texas Life
https://people.com/home/james-van-der-beek-family-photos-relocating-texas
1. No I have no idea why this was recommended to me.
2. All those children look so white and blonde. Is Van Der Beek a nazi? The name fits.
Oh I know why I googled his name when Tim Dillon said in his latest podcast he hopes his kid is paralyzed from falling out of a tree because when he left LA for Texas he complained that you are not allowed to climb a tree in LA.
Jesus. Yeah, the left really hates people who escape from their utopias.
Neah Dillon is a major troll. This is his shtick.
Part of the product placement / advertorial he did as all YouTube people do these days he said he like the product because the CEO is a virtuous pedophile, he is attracted to infants but does not act on it. This makes the placement funnier and less annoying than when Malice does it for example (to me at least).
Look at the first few minutes of this on spotify
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-He3to3YP84
I’ll take your word for it, thanks
Tim Dillon’s left?
I wouldn’t have known. It was just a guess.
he probably leans left economically while making 200k a month opn patreon
I have no idea who this is. But, I made sort of a similar transition myself (different urban origin and different rural destination). I completely understand why the guy’s so happy. It’s not just the money (although the savings are definitely nice). It’s all the BS. I can only imagine it would be an order of magnitude more if I had kids.
You never saw “Varsity Blues”? Or “Dawson’s Creek”?
(admittedly, I’ve never seen the latter)
I’ve heard of both, but I don’t recall seeing either.
Varsity Blues features young Ali Larter in a whipped cream ‘bikini’
She’s super cute but would not make Q’s links if you know what I mean.
Too tatt free?
Let’s say … lacking a bit upstairs.
But I doubt anyone here would kick her out of bed.
don’t trust the b in apartment 23 was reasonably funny as sitcoms go
That’s practically an advertisement for Kreg jigs.
You can’t sneak anything past those wizards at NPR
A lot of workers are getting wage hikes this year as employers compete for scarce labor. But it’s not all good news for workers, or for the economy: Some businesses are raising prices to offset the wage hikes, contributing to surging inflation and eroding some of the benefits from that higher pay.
The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices were 5.4% higher in July than a year ago. That matches the June inflation rate, which was the highest in nearly 13 years. The increase was driven by rising costs for shelter, food, energy and new cars.
Really? And what does this imply about the living wage crap you idjits have been braying about for years?
No shit Sherlock….
Math is hard, let’s go shopping!
They thought of that! That’s why minimum wage should be automatically inflation adjusted*
*except if the rate turns negative, and then it merely remains the same
Most of the recent jump in inflation has been caused by pandemic bottlenecks, like the shortage of chips that limited new car production and caused a big spike in the price of used cars. Used car prices continued to climb in July, but at a much slower rate, and those prices are expected to decline in the months to come.
Rising worker pay could become a bigger factor in higher prices going forward even if it’s not raising alarm bells yet.
Burrito chain Chipotle, for example, boosted its average pay to $15 an hour this summer. But to cover the cost of that pay increase, Chipotle raised prices 3.5% to 4%.
Prices are dependent on the cost of production? Where do they come up with this stuff?
Printing 25% of all dollars ever printed in the last year alone had absolutely nothing to do with inflation.
the left really hates people who escape from their utopias.
Apostasy is the ultimate sin.
“Fell short in Asian representation”
Is that some kind of dick joke?
https://youtu.be/BnP_mZAv8gE
NSFW South Park
Our sample ballots just arrived yesterday for the Newsom recall. I really shouldn’t get my hopes up that he will get tossed. If it doesn’t happen we can look forward to never ending mask mandates and more lockdowns. I predict the new term they will use will be “targeted shutdowns”. I just watched a five minute snippet of an interview of him from yesterday (actually watched three minutes as the urge to throw my laptop got uncontrollable towards the end). Man, he is fucking actually scared. You can see the fear that he may just lose power in his eyes and mannerisms. I know most here will say it’s rigged and there is no way he is losing, and it is hard to argue against that, but that was not the look of a man who is sure of himself. Btw, I learned from Gav that middle class Texans pay more in taxes than middle class Californians. That must be because we have a state income tax here and they don’t in Texas. Very informative he is.
I’m going to need a citation on that tax claim. Because all evidence suggests otherwise.
*I know, governor noisome isn’t going to give such citations.
Property taxes? I dunno.
I don’t doubt there is some way you could massage some numbers to make that utterly ridiculous claim come true. We pay the highest state taxes in the country, and our sales taxes are pretty darn high (in most counties 7-9%). Property taxes are 1.1% plus add ons. He makes a few other blatantly false or misleading claims in the few minute snippet from a non hostile media source. Powerline linked it this morn.
And the fees and regulatory costs that essentially taxes.
Absolutely, and don’t count things like gas taxes and then make sure not to include square footage when calculating property taxes.
I compared my childhood home in California with my current home. I pay a third of the real property taxes on a house that is twice the size on 50% more lot.
Every word out of his mouth is a lie, including “and” and “the”
There are no middle-class Californians; they all moved to Texas.
Man, he is fucking actually scared.
This makes me smile.
A change.org petition launched by UTSA professor emerita Ellen Clark is rallying signatures to “remove [the] offensive slogan steeped in racist history from the UTSA RACE Center.” Clark tells MySA she launched the petition with Sarah Gould,
“Referencing the infamous flag from the Battle of Gonzales, this is a slogan that embodies both anti-Mexican and pro-slavery sentiments,” Clark writes in the description. “It has carried those white supremacist beliefs from 1835 to today, and in that time has also been widely adopted by anti-government, pro-gun extremists, such as at the January 6th insurrection at the US [Capitol]. Like the Alamo, the Gonzales flag is an open wound for many Mexican Americans, especially Mexican American Texans.”
Go fuck yourself.
“UTSA RACE Center”
It’s hard not to loathe these people.
Ellen Clark and Sarah Gould. Well, they sound qualified to speak for Mexican Americans.
Like the Alamo, the Gonzales flag is an open wound for many Mexican Americans, especially Mexican American Texans.”
Those people are victims. They have been trapped in the shithole known as “America” when they could have been citizens of the glorious paradise known as “Mexico”.
Like the Alamo, the Gonzales flag is an open wound for many Mexican Americans, especially Mexican American Texans.
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember reading that Tejanos were actually more likely to have participated in the Texas Revolution than Anglos. Why would it be some sort of an “open wound” for them?
Animal not available for comment.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15840195/woman-eaten-alive-wild-bears/
Don’t look at me, I was right here in Alaska. In spite of what Tina Fey may think, you can’t see Russia from here.
Humble brag?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15780817/girlfriend-refuses-to-have-sex-with-me/
“My wallet’s too small for my fifties, and my diamond shoes are too tight!”
https://old.reddit.com/r/bigdickproblems/
NSFW, obviously….
Wow, I’ve finally found a home online!
8 inches ain’t a big dick brah…
Maybe that’s the radius?
Maybe the issue is that she is 4’8′ tall and has a tight box, which makes anything over 5 inches or shaped like a tuna can, monstrous? I have had a similar situation with many of the females of Asian persuasion that were small built, but some had caves despite the small frames…
Who knows…
He’s pretty much saying, “I’m clumsy and inept in bed, to the point that I hurt my partner during sex”. So yeah, he may be trying for the humblebrag, but he ain’t making it.
A dude once bragged to me that he could eat pussy so well that women would take, like, 30 minutes to orgasm.
https://media.giphy.com/media/r5SxJYcU21Auk/giphy.gif
I think he may be doing it wrong…..
Go on…
* takes notes *
(click the link)
Rolling over her like an interminable wave, the pleasure induced by his oral attentions rose slowly, yet steadily, over time. As magma may take an aeon to rise to the surface before erupting in its glorious heat, her pleasure-lava crept ever upward toward her love caldera. Over the minutes, he inched her along through the traffic of her lustful commute, until finally, after the seemingly unending click-clack, click-clack, click-clack of his tongue brought her closer and closer to the end of the light rail line. As the billboard says, if you lived here, he’d have brought her home by now.
That was like a cross between Mojeaux and AC,
Strange…
Tennessee Williams does soft-core.
Needs some editing, for sure, but I was going for both extreme time frames and the least possibly arousing things. I figure no libertarian is going to find light rail the least bit sexy, and “light rail” is a terrible image when compared to the long established trope of freight trains and tunnnels.
My penis is about eight inches long when it’s erect and five inches thick.
Circumference?
Shaped like a bottle of Gatorade?
Back to oil:
Joe should announce a trillion dollar aid package for Venezuela to resuscitate their oil exploration and extraction capabilities.
That would be awesome for his legacy.
How much does the Kennedy twit get to rake off?
Well, someone has to work so we can pay back those trillions of dollars. I guess that’s me…
I am, in theory, working. I’m getting paid, at any rate.
Wife back in the office today. I’m luxuriating in having the place to myself.
I suppose I should do _some_ work…
https://tenor.com/view/im-on-no-sleep-seinfeld-will-not-sleep-gif-16281621
Sununu vetoes bill ending state handgun background checks
Gov. Chris Sununu picked sides in a controversial battle between leading gun rights groups Tuesday, vetoing legislation he said was “ceding control” of criminal background checks to the federal government.
The legislation (SB 141) would have dismantled the State Police Gun Line office and had all future background checks for handgun purchases conducted through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS).
“This bill would create substantial, unintended negative consequences by ceding control of our state process to the federal government,” Sununu said in his veto message.
So that’s good? Better the state than the feds?
It’s controversial among the state gun groups.
I think the state gun line should go away.
The NH state background check system (as I understand it) is infamous for delays and false positives. The article itself references people waiting weeks for a completed BCI.
The FBI NICS system, if you don’t get a Deny response in three days, then it’s assumed to be Approved.
So in this case, no, better the feds than the state.
I got an audiobook/course about the Black Death from The Great Courses. Pretty interesting so far.
It’s crazy to think that while this disease was spreading all over the continent, the people trusted with protecting public health were recommending countermeasures that were useless at best. Many leaders even engaged in scapegoating and persecution of groups that they thought were responsible for the disease.
I’m so glad that such a thing could never happen in this day and age. We’re truly blessed to live in a time and place with real experts running our public health system – experts who would certainly issue a self-correction if their countermeasures were shown to be ineffective. We should rejoice that should a contagious disease ever start spreading, our public health leaders would come up with a plan based on real evidence (and advanced predictive modelling technology) so that we’d only have to follow their wise recommendations to stop the virus dead in its tracks, just as they said. I truly Fucking Love Science™.
Praise Science!
Say it ain’t so!
These people exist.
https://imgur.com/a/mLgeyM7
He sounds like a nice boy.
Hey, some people would have hidden Anne Frank in their attic, and some people would have called the SS…
Just the kind of guy the commies need in order to institute Real Communism.
That last part is the scariest. He believes he will be the right hand of whatever rises up to reign.
I feel bad for the folks in Canada, but maybe we need a full-on authoritarian regime on our northern border to wake people in the U.S. up.
He’s from the Lower Rainland™. Of course he’s gonna say something like that. It’s what people there do.
Toadys and bootlickers like to think of themselves as made men. They often keep thinking that right up until the bullet enters their brain…
“No, no, it must be a mistake! Just contact Comrade Stalin, he’ll clear this up!”
Land of the free and home of the brave.
And speaking of actual fascists…
YT banned Ron Paul for wrongthink, JFC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lH8E4ZxfIY
Meanwhile, back at the Ministry of Truth
YouTube suspended Sen. Rand Paul’s account on Tuesday for posting a video claiming cloth face masks are ineffective against the coronavirus.
“A badge of honor … leftwing cretins at Youtube banning me for 7 days for a video that quotes 2 peer reviewed articles saying cloth masks don’t work,” Paul, R-Ky., tweeted.
Paul falsely claimed in the removed video, “Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work. They don’t prevent infection,” adding that “cloth masks don’t work.”
A spokesperson for YouTube told NBC News that the video violated company policy on Covid-19 misinformation, which includes “claims that wearing a mask is dangerous or causes negative physical health effects” or that masks don’t play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19.
“We removed content from Senator Paul’s channel for including claims that masks are ineffective in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19, in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies,” the spokesperson said. “This resulted in a first strike on the channel, which means it can’t upload content for a week, per our longstanding three strikes policy.”
Heresy will not be tolerated.
ugh
So then the packaging of those masks that “you get over the counter” that specifically state that they do not prevent infection are lying? I am confused here. Paul was pretty specific to talk about those masks.
Fuck you YouTube.
I think it’s time to de-youtubify. They are evil.
I won’t be able to fully ban them from my life, but I can certainly stop posting links to them.
I’ll ask one question. If a company labels something misinformation and it later proves to be true, is the company guilty of misinformation?
“Truth is what we say it is.”
A spokesperson for YouTube told NBC News that the video violated company policy on Covid-19 misinformation, which includes “claims that wearing a mask is dangerous or causes negative physical health effects” or that masks don’t play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19.
We will lay down our lives in service to the narrative!
Toadys and bootlickers like to think of themselves as made men. They often keep thinking that right up until the bullet enters their brain…
“Hey, this ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and countless public health experts, including epidemiologists, have said since the start of the pandemic that masks protect against the spread of Covid.
Conclusive proof!
Except when they didn’t because they had to lie for the common good.
I love that the great 21st medical intervention that’s going to save us, that one trick, the technique that you can’t speak out against – is a fucking piece of cloth over the face.
Much Science, Many Consensus!
Evidently no one in the history of mankind who dealt with respiratory viruses run amok, not the Greeks, not Renaissance thinkers, NOT even cultures where face-covering was common, EVER CAME UP WITH SUCH A LIFE-SAVING IDEA.
In all of human history, no one ever thought to cover their face in the hopes of limiting the transmission of a respiratory virus. HUH. Amazing.
I’m sure there’s all kinds of science to show that Muslim countries were completely unaffected – both historically and now – from respiratory viruses.
FUCKING. MORONS.
The mask serves two purposes:
1. It shows that something is being done
2. It separates the compliant and the noncompliant
“Google rolls out ‘pay calculator’ explaining work-from-home salary cuts”
This is only step 1. The real wage cuts for work-at-home come when the people working at home live in Mumbai.
Phone go ‘green green’. I ‘pink’ it up. I say ‘yellow’.