I have a junior college basketball team scheduled this morning, so lets get this over with.
If you cucks didn’t chimp out the first time, your just running your mouth.
Of course there misleading. If your employer pays for your health insurance, your wages did in fact rise.
Whoever the dumbfuck it was that decided not to include energy and food in the CPI was a disinfgenuous cunt that deserves to be shot. Repeatedly.
Ha! Welcome to the party, Eurofags!
This just chuffs me to bits
Trust ChiCom economic data at your peril.
Hey waddaya know! They lost their dentures, gumming up global trade!
So say we all!
How else are they going to help the administration lie about inflation?
The criminal act isn’t that they did this to hide the inflation, but the fact that they went all that way to remove these items from the calculations indicates that they KNEW their policies were going to inevitably lead to massive inflation, and that they needed a way to hide it.
When you game the statistics to hide just how much money you’re printing and you still get giant inflation jumps…
The sad thing is it’s been pointed out that rents, which are a big chunk of official CPI, are probably being artificially held down by the CDC moratorium. Difficult to raise rents when the tenets can just refuse to pay. Some money is better than none. Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me if “real” inflation were worse now than in the 70s.
Is it early ?
No. It’s on time.
But it was kind of early, wouldn’t you say?
I have no clue. I’m at work, so my attention gets split
“Better to be 10 minutes early than 5 minutes late”
Winston’s Mom gets paid either way.
That’s what she said…
Better Late Then Never
Premature linkage?
It’s better than her being late…
Early. Long day. Glad for links!
In retrospect democracy for Afghanistan made about as much sense as a Soviet Afghanistan. Maybe even less. I wonder if the CCP is playing the role of the next country to get overinvolved in Afghanistan. I bet they are.
I think I read something about the CCP building a highway or something into Afghanistan. I wonder how the Pakistanis will react to that.
Wasn’t Afghanistan a (reasonably) peaceful and stable agrarian monarchy for 125 years before the Sovs started fomenting revolution?
If by reasonably peaceful you mean no one gave a shit what went on there and their tribal culture was indistinguishable from 5 centuries earlier?
Yeah.
Yep. That sounds like a decent place to live.
As long as you aren’t a dancing boy maybe. I would think the life expectancy numbers weren’t that great.
Into the late 1960s, they were moderately stable. Then, Socialism, Civil War, Russians intervened, and the rest is misery.
“IT WASN’T REAL SOCIALISM!!”
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/07/afghanistan-in-the-1950s-and-60s/100544/
The picture of the worker standing under the slinged truck is mildly terrifying.
Shake hands with danger!
It’s funny how many places were moderately stable up into the late 60’s-early 70’s, then just nose-dived into the toilet.
Probably has nothing to do with a bunch of Soviet-sponsored Marxist intellectuals getting their claws into the cultural mainstream…
Well in the case of Afghanistan, the Russians (not Soviets) have wanted a warm-water port for 3 maybe 4 centuries, and this was a stepping stone to that.
Most of the middle east was pretty stable up until around ’79, and then the Islamic Revolution took place and all sorts of bad shit happened. Now, you can make claims as to WHY that happened; the Shaw, Soviet invasion, and so on, but it happened.
And literally, women and children were the hardest hit.
Populism and populist terrorism, often funded and aided by the Soviets and fellow travelers, was well underway by then and wasn’t helping either. My wife travelled in the early 70’s to Egypt, Israel, and Jordan to some places I can’t imagine being able to freely visit now. Well, pre covid.
I think a big chunk of that Islamic Revolution came about due to Isreal being settled and going concern by that point. There was no longer any real plan to push it back into the sea, just terrorism by that point. And this in turn caused a massive purity spiral, which was fed by the animosity towards the Shaw, Soviet interventions both military and political, and money due to oil and OPEC.
Shaw=Shah…
Right?
Padishah? Pshaw!
Db gets it.
Pshah. Like Psaki of Pshit.
Sykes-Picot created an untenable situation that was doomed to fail.
In the case of the Eastern Med/Southern Med, the end of WWI fucked them over, but good. A Peace to End All Peace was required reading for a degree in Middle Eastern studies when I was in college (and majoring in Middle Eastern studies)
So a few semi modern cities surrounded by rural people. They got along fine as long as they left each other alone.
But… Leaving each other alone isn’t a concept in communism, our current fucked up form of “democracy”, or the fundamentalist form of Islam that has taken over.
Leaving each other alone isn’t a concept in
communismhumanityBusybodies take all forms & ideologies.
I’d recommend you look for some pictures of Kabul in the 1960s, there were women in western clothes and a thriving retail market. It appeared to be a pretty cosmopolitan, pleasant city. It sucks that visiting Kabul now is hazardous to your health, it would be an interesting destination.
And I’m betting the countryside looked and acted back in the 60s just like it had in the 60s of every preceding century.
That’s one thing I wonder about – tribal culture by itself (not great, but not completely unsafe if you use common sense?) vs tribal culture with an islamic extremist subcontext.
This is also looking back at literature from that period or earlier, the old National Geographic pieces from mid-20th century and other aspects of popular culture from WWII, etc.
I have always likened the mentality in the hinterlands of Afghanistan (e.g. Korengal Valley) to that of people from early 20th Century Apalciacha.
You were already suspect because you were an outsider and if you represented the government, you were an enemy. They saw us and ANA as revenuers trying to mess with their way of life. Islam was a secondary motivation (unless the Taliban was leaning on them).
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/cargo-ship-splits-half-after-running-aground-japanese-port
Bring me my brown pants!
SEA SMITH has some ‘splain’ to do…
He hit it and split it?
Noice!
a portion of the ship’s wood-chip cargo was lost
Where was Preet at the time?
Heh, burial at sea?
Winston’s Mom doing Morning Links, it is Friday the 13th…what could go wrong?
Nothing will go wrong. Today will be a perfect day. Stay blessed.
Well, my niece and her fiance are eloping today, so hopefully not much.
Mercury crosses into Virgo today. Women looking for a little something something will be pleasantly surprised by the quality of rando they can acquire.
Nice, I fucking knew it.
Sounds like Mercury fucking knew it as well.
Chicks dig a Mercury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJJvyPXPssg
Wondering if that JuCo team she has scheduled was just starters or subs too.
I fly to Colorado today.
This is finally moving day.
Lots could go wrong, don’t even ask that question.
Interesting arcanohistorical “fact”:
The whole “Friday the 13th = bad luck” thing came about specifically because of a warning not to travel on Fridays in general, since that day was dedicated to the chief of the valkyries.
I thought it had something to do with the Templars getting jacked up on a Friday the 13th.
65, sunny and perfect. Smoke is almost gone and I can see the mountains.
Anything that goes wrong can be easily fixed. Happy move and safe travels!
I asked the other day but don’t think you saw it. Are you in Denver metro? I couldn’t remember where you moved.
We will be in FTC (I refuse to use FoCo) metro.
Yeah, NW Arvada for now. We’ll have to meet up. Turns out there are a few breweries out here.
I per 7000 residents in Fort Collins.
That rate nationwide would be about 45000 breweries.
The power law doesn’t really work that way, but a few years back I calculated about 1 per 10k is about the “right” number nationwide.
what could go wrong?
I have two words for you: chlamydia.
Whoever the dumbfuck it was that decided not to include energy and food in the CPI was a disinfgenuous cunt that deserves to be shot. Repeatedly.
I finally got off my ass and bought a freezer last night, which will be delivered on Wednesday. Better late than never I guess.
Local butcher will do half a side of beef for $3.29 a pound.
Get a generator too, for when President Harris orders rolling blackouts to save the environment.
Heh, I have one of those and recently replaced my central air as well as half my big appliances. The first was over 15 years old, had a leak which I was told would cost between $3-6K to find & fix, so I just went with a new unit at that point. I lost a washing machine and my dishwasher after a storm cut power and we had some sort of a spike and I just needed to replace them. And while I was seriously pissed I had to lay out a ton of cash, I am now realizing since the dollar is losing value anyway, this might be better than having it sit in a fucking bank.
I’m coming back around to the idea of getting a standby unit for the house. I originally looked into it after Sandy, but soon lost interest.
My mistake was not getting a massive gas tank for the unit. Trust me, when you need it and have it, it will be worth every freaking penny.
“Get a generator too…”
And keep it ready. A few storms ago, I went to fire up the generator only to find a gummed up carb. I bought a replacement carb and made sure I ran it dry. I also cleaned up the original carb. Two is one, one is none.
Aren’t some generators finicky about ethanol gas?
Something about leaving a plaque on the carb needles.
Not modern ones. But ethanol is hydrophilic, so the fuel absorbs water and spoils more quickly, thus gumming up the carbs when it evaporates out of the bowl.
Ethanol is generally a shit fuel.
Yup. Plus it completely jacked up the agricultural sector. Farmers chasing government lucre by growing corn means there they are not growing other crops.
Specifically barley.
The problem is barley has two price points from the same seed base. If you get good plump barley, it brings a high price from the maltsters. If you get a poorer quality, it is used as feed and is low price.
Corn is in the middle and relatively consistent.
Growing barley is a gamble. It can pay off big, but can also lead to low income. And part of the problem is that if you get good barley, due to weather and etc, probably so did all your competition and the price for high quality barley tanks. So you need to get good barley the same year everyone else is getting bad for it to pay off.
Previously, before all the ethanol subsidies and etc, the price of corn was much lower and made taking the gamble worthwhile.
Nah, most gladiators would drink anything you put in front of them. Besides, Roman booze wasn’t terribly good even at the best of times.
Swissy, please report to this thread, narrowed gaze needed.
“Research shows that schools where children and adults are consistently masked are effective in preventing the transmission of COVID-19,” the AAP claimed. “COVID remains a serious threat to children’s health. Universal masking can help make in-person learning safe this fall.”
After dismissing claims that masks do not minimize oxygen intake, the AAP then addressed concerns that masks negatively affect a child’s social development. According to the AAP, children are perfectly capable of learning complex communication like language and non-verbal expressions from masked adults. The AAP cited no evidence to support this highly charged claim and simply stated that “no studies” show it has a negative effect on children.
SCIENCE!
First thing we do, let’s kill all the public health experts.
There is not a single real-world study, or any study using randomized controlled trials, which shows that masks are effective in stopping or even slowing the spread of a respiratory virus.
Its more than that, just apply common sense. A piece of cloth is all you need to stop the spread of a disease and it took until 2020 to figure out this ULTRA effective method?
Not just a piece, double layer cloth masks, the more layers, the harder it is for the virus to get through!
+1 obstacle course for those stupid virii
But icky malls needed special filters in their AC systems.
I followed their link claiming “research shows…masks are effective.”
What if I told you, there is nothing at that link to support the claim.
Par for the course…
I have been told to love the science by all sorts of people that have no fucking idea that there has been a shitton of politicking but very little science going on for over 18 months now.
I mean give me an observational study or something. They just have nothing.
The one lesson we will get is that our “experts”, on both sides of the argument, had very little science for any of the shit they did. Yes the lockdowns started when they freaked out that a bioagent had been released, but within a month they knew the thing was not as fatal as they feared but then used the crisis to peddle the globalist agenda which included getting rid of that Cheeto prez that had been pissing in their cornflakes.
Penn would say “haven’t I taught you anything about misdirection?”
Prepare the fainting couch!
This is what drives me nuts about our breathtakingly stupid age. The claim that something that is a certain way when it clearly is not. It’s one thing when it doesn’t really effect me, it’s possible to ignore. But the crazies have fully taken over and there is no escape, maddening.
The AAP is an explicitly political organization and should be treated with the same or less credence as the NEA.
Thanks for links! https://youtu.be/FSOHO3GwEPg
Migratory pressure continued to build up on the eastern frontiers of the European Union with more than 3,000 illegal entries from Belarus registered at the border to Lithuania in July.
They should be welcomed with open arms; after all, they are refugees from the land of toxic Russian Whiteness.
What you did there…
While it may not be entirely false for the AAP to claim that masks have only a benign effect on a child’s development, the evidence remains inconclusive and cannot be accepted as an undisputed scientific fact given the topic’s ongoing and robust debate.
Fuck that. We’re playing by youtube’s rules, now.
“Robust Debate” That’s the one wherein they screamazm SHUT UP!
OT, but 60 years ago today.
And relevant considering covid-inspired border closures and the Papiere, bitte attitude.
Words to go with Ted’s picture.
I figured everybody would recognize the picture, even if the URL didn’t help.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/conrad-schumann-defects-west-berlin-1961/
That ended sadly.
Anti-Fascist Protection Masks?
I was on a troop ship returning from France when we got the word . We were scared to death we’d turn around and head back. Didn’t matter much, a year later I was back in France.
Whoever the dumbfuck it was that decided not to include energy and food in the CPI was a disinfgenuous cunt that deserves to be shot. Repeatedly.
In the dick.
Winston’s Mom does the links
I hear there is not much she won’t do.
I was expecting these links
Yeah, but here she does it for free.
Marketing cost
Ah the old “we can’t pay you, but you’ll get great exposure”, as it were.
“Let’s get into trouble, baby”
STEVE SMITH GIVE SO MUCH EXPOSURE THAT YOU SUCCUM.
That’s called a Loss Leader.
Oh, you’re paying for it, you just don’t realize it.
In a series of tweets on Thursday, the organization that previously urged people to respect a child’s preferred gender argued that masks have virtually no negative effect on a child’s development, dismissing parental concerns as being either overblown or nonexistent.
“Research shows that schools where children and adults are consistently masked are effective in preventing the transmission of COVID-19,” the AAP claimed. “COVID remains a serious threat to children’s health. Universal masking can help make in-person learning safe this fall.”
Besides the fact that children are not susceptible to this new flu and the fact that the cloth face covering is a petri dish of bacteria (among other things…), sure. The AAP is pro child abuse as far as I am concerned.
Well sure, they aren’t opposed to public schools in the first place.
Which is what makes all of the pro-mask moms interesting. If you cared about the health of your kid, why risk sending them in the first place?
Children are useful virtue signaling tools.
They are totes OK with the mind virus.
Gotta bail, Friends. Have fun!
The claim is not actually accurate.
Because the minimum wage is arbitrary and real wages are determined by an employees terms of employment.
The real minimum wage, now and forever, is $0.
Considering the amount of volunteer labor to many things…
I have never understood why some people don’t get that making the idiotic claim some arbitrary number should be the minimum wage was basically ignoring that any product or service had labor cost as a component and that when that labor cost was more than the value of the final product could afford, you would be looking at a dead business. Then I remember that these people likely agree with Marx’s idiotic claim that all labor is equally valuable and the only thing of real value. These are the people that would make the claim that for the world to be fair (read equitable) a doctor, engineer, airline pilot, or a plumber all should be paid the same and just as much as you paid the turd polisher, and I realize that we are doomed.
“a doctor, engineer, airline pilot, or a plumber”
Funny thing is, the engineer is probably the lowest paid one of that bunch.
Yup.
Good, Engineers aren’t as important, they just gum shit up,
Well, chewing gum engineers do, that’s their job.
I am here to do two things, chew bubble gum and calculate stress tensors and I am all out of gum!
Driving a train is definitely a lower skill than flying a plane.
Yep. I know doctors, engineers, and a plumber. They all make more than I do. The most highly paid, as far as I can tell, are the senior airline pilots.
sorry, meant to say I know all of them. I’m an engineer.
I’ll be the turd polishers surrounding Vacation Naptime Joe make a pretty good living.
Politicians tend to make the best turd polishers….
Best job description ever for Psaki.
OFFS!
Also, I wonder what the real number is. I bet it isn’t “a”.
Now sure does seem like an opportune time to break all ties with the evil CCP (stupid fucking Nixon). Taiwan ROC is the only China that should be recognized or spoken to on a state level. Let Beijing collapse under their own greed, incompetence, and oppression; when the people have had enough, they will clean house and start over.
*the collective cries of a hundred US companies with Chinese outsourced slave labor rise in the distance*
I’m pretty sure there are other
3rd World shitholesdeveloping nations that can manufacture tchotchkes and failure prone electronics while not stealing IP and working overtime to destroy what remains of the West.π
(Well, it is a real number….)
Wake me up when the ith dock worker tests positive.
Well, the ith person has been saved by wearing a mask
It is against this backdrop that another supply-chain snafu is emerging, and unless contained quick, could lead to a dramatic deterioration in global shipping logistics just as optimism was emerging that the historic logjam was set to normalize by early 2022.
Nonsense. All that stuff on store shelves just comes out of a magic hat.
Just like electricity comes out of the walls!
These are the people that cancel our votes….
I followed their link claiming “research shows…masks are effective.”
What if I told you, there is nothing at that link to support the claim.
This comment has been rated misleading and uninformative.
There’s that “robust debate” the article references.
The number of illegal migrants reaching the European Union is up almost 60% in 2021, according to new data released by Frontex.
Not in Hungary, which I suppose makes them evil, bigot, far-right, fascist nazis.
Meanwhile, Belarus has been trying to destabilize Latvia and Lithuania by sending third-world migrants over the border.
Where in the hell is Belarus getting third-world migrants? Mostly Iraqis???
I heard an interview with Latvia’s Defense Minister who suggests that Russia is sending Iraqis to Belarus for them to send to Latvia. As the Defense Minister says, the Belarusian government is good enough at keeping its own citizens locked in to the country, so how are the Iraqis able to get to the Latvian border in the first place?
Dr. Doom will just use them as minions.
China: The Regime’s Managed Economy Is Stagnating
It’s the paper tiger.
I am going to predict we will find out that the times has just made it impossible for China to use accounting tricks to claim their economy was red hot, and that this slight of hand has been going on for more than a couple of decades.
https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2021/08/12/desantis-sets-plan-for-regeneron-and-monoclonal-antibodies-to-fight-covid-19/
That comment section is full of the deranged.
You know who else used toilet paper?
Trick or treaters?
Shitler?
John Wanye?
Clorette dePasto?
+1 obstacle course for those stupid virii
Put enough layers in the way, and they’ll get lost and forget where they were going.
You mean like Biden?
We really have Tropical Storm Fred ?
“Im comin’ Elizabeth !”
No love for Ethel?
Watching Armistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City/More Tales/Further Tales. Laura Linney is fantastic. She’s great in these, great in The Big C, and wonderful in Ozark. More Tales even has the great line (a character is reading his Valentine’s Day resolutions) – “I will never call anyone “Butch” or “Nelly”, unless that is his name.”
I thought “The Big C” was a poem by Gertrude Stein.
Baseball birthdays is a deep list of decent, but nothing special, players:
Fielder Jones, Sid Gordon, Alex Fernandez, Jarrod Washburn, Andre Thornton, Jay Buhner, Mudcat Grant.
Skip to #9 and you get all-name team member Vinegar Bend Mizell.
How about some love for the heroes?
Well, at least the ubiquitous signage singing the praises of our selfless healthcare workers should be disappearing in short order.
This Neo-Cunte does not see to understand that the real problem is that the US went back on its word, violating the original terms of withdrawal negotiated by the Trump admin.
President Joe Biden’s irresponsible and unnecessary decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan is becoming the most predictable travesty of his troubled administration.
As anyone who wasn’t playing partisan politics predicted, the Taliban is retaking Afghanistan in an appalling fashion. The rapidly deteriorating situation is a humanitarian and national security tragedy. …
While many of us predicted this debacle four months ago, Biden administration officials inexplicably did not believe the collapse would occur so quickly. …
Do progressives, libertarians, and isolationists realize that as we demonstrate a lack of will, our enemies are watching? Many yell clichés about “forever wars” but our question is not whether the U.S. will leave a country, but whether it does so responsibly.
I agree with Styx.
Such transphobia I can’t even.
A Neo-Cunte is an asshole?
It’s a slur for an AMAB woman’s vagina.
If people would only listen to me….
I have been saying forever, go in, knock out Taliban quick (which we did), leave. If Taliban comes back, begin bombing again, invade again, knock them back out. Leave. Repeat as necessary. Make it clear that a Taliban government in unacceptable but that we aren’t going to nation build.
We could have removed the Taliban from power 5 times in the last 20 years and a much lower cost and loss of life.
Of course, part of this strategy is to not waste time in Iraq.
Except I don’t give a damn if the Taliban is in power in Afghanistan, as long as they don’t fuck with us. If they do, then they get a punitive expedition to break all their shit and kill all their leaders, followed by a rapid withdrawal. Repeat until they learn the lesson.
Well yeah, but if the specific Taliban leaders are the ones who already fucked with us, then that prerequisite is met. If it is Taliban 2, the new generation, then they can make it clear that they are a different breed who no ill will and we can take a wait and see approach.
Mullah Omar hated bin Laden.
In other words, the US gave up an opportunity get bin Laden early by fracturing the Taliban into factions and making a deal with the one that gave up Osama.
This. The only message we need to send is “you’d better not fuck with us again.”
Yep.
We should have gone street-to-street, house-to-house, door-to-door confiscating every neocon in DC, MD, and VA, dispossessed them of all their property, and shipped them all to Kabul naked. This would have punished all of the relevant parties.
I think we should do the same thing right now for COVID too, just substitute public health experts for neocons and Beijing for Kabul.
No, I think we should stick to the original plan and dump the public health experts in Kabul.
I don’t care what other countries do, so long as they don’t take action against my country. If they do, then a punitive expedition is in order followed by a rapid withdrawal and a warning we will do the same if they fuck with us again.
I know, I know, too little opportunity for grift.
William Tecumseh Sherman is one of the few men who have ever understood the concept of war.
Seems like an appropriate time/place for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMr5XTgeyI
In which you’ll learn that the first person known to be named “Tiffany” was an astrologer.
Also it’s amazing how perfectly he can make a stick figure look like Audrey Hepburn.
“I have a gub”
Woody Allen nods approvingly.
I saw that on the news this morning. Like a Monty Python skit.
Teller: Think about the customer’s what?
At least he wasn’t unarmed.
Suicide mission
The House is scheduled to return the week of August 23 to vote on the budget resolution, with Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer instructing their committee chairs to draft the larger bill — known in the Capitol as reconciliation legislation — by September 15. Their goal is to have both bills enacted by late September or early October. But if the House can’t pass the budget resolution, those plans could collapse.
The new letter also comes two days after Pelosi reiterated to her caucus on a private call that there will be no vote in the House on the bipartisan infrastructure package until the Senate passes its reconciliation bill. That position is in line with the House’s progressive Democrats who have threatened to withhold their support for the infrastructure bill unless the reconciliation proposal is approved by the Senate.
The speaker said on the call she is “not freelancing” on her position on holding back passing the bipartisan bill until reconciliation is done.
“This is the consensus,” she said, according to a source familiar with the call. “The President has said he’s all for the bipartisan approach … bravo! That’s progress, but it ain’t the whole vision.”
“Nobody move, or the nigger gets it.”
This could kill both bills. I knew Nancy was /ourgal/
PLEASE Br’er Fox, please don’t throw me in that there briar patch!
The FEE article was very good and well written, but the author very well may a tween.
He looks 12 in his photo (I realize he is probably 19 and I am just old, but I stand by my statement).
Last Thursday I drove into NH to buy some gas, but did not see DEG or HM. I was disappointed. It was interesting that at least 80% of the floor space of the gas station was dedicated to beer. I’m guessing VT has some weird laws regarding that.
And if anyone wants to see ye olde tyme hippies in their native habitat, passing their traditions onto the next generation, I can recommend going to the food truck roundup at https://www.retreatfarm.org/
Do progressives, libertarians, and isolationists realize that as we demonstrate a lack of will, our enemies are watching?
Damn libertarian peaceniks, always ruining our plans for universal peace and love.
“Children born during the Covid pandemic may have lower IQs because of reduced interactions during lockdowns, a study has claimed.
Researchers from Brown University in Rhode Island found babies born since March 2020 have worse cognitive, verbal and motor skills than children who entered the world before coronavirus.
Mean IQs for children aged three months to three years old dropped from around 100 in the decade before the pandemic to 79 during it.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9890255/Babies-born-Covid-pandemic-lower-IQs-research-says.html
Lockdowns are retarded.
“around 100 in the decade before the pandemic to 79 during it.”
So, about the same drop as the politicians and bureaucrats?
IQ is nonsens anyways
So is biology, human nature, physics, and economics according to the people that get all fucking beastial as soon as you try to discuss IQ.
My understanding is that IQ is a wildly flawed measure. It’s just wildly less wildly flawed than any of the other measures of personal abilities. It’s by far the best correlated to individual achievement or success.
Like any measurement, it depends how you asses and then use it. Do it wrong and imply it has magical powers, and you will get a visit from Steve Smith for that stupidity. But when used correctly, it can be highly valuable. Of course, that is why it pisses of the people that want nebulosity so they can peddle marxist nonsense.
Like evaluating code by SLOC; sure, it’s a measure, a really, really bad one, but dammit, it’s a METRIC!
it’s a measure, a really, really bad one, but dammit, it’s a METRIC!
Well, really, really bad, compared to what? Compared to just any other metric it’s really, really good.
Here’s what I’ll say. Imagine you have some metric that predicts the right answer on a test 40% of the time. That’s pretty awful. But, let’s say the next best metric predicts the right answer 10% of the time. Is it still awful?
Yes, because flat out guessing should get you to 50%.
Only if it’s yes or no or a or b.
Most tests are not true/false.
Metrics are descriptive, not predictive. You need inference to make predictions. But I will assume good faith and suppose you mean something like, “you have a metric and an inferential heuristic based on that metric, and using those two things you can make predictions that have been shown to be accurate 40% of the time”.
Now you optimize processes for that metric. You tie incentives to performance on that metric. Well, by doing this, you change the game. The rules are different now, the correlations are weaker, and your accuracy rate goes down. Maybe you could change the inference rule to wring some more accuracy out of it for a time, but after a while your 40% is now down to 10% or less and you’re no better than the alternative. Moreover, you’ve shot a bunch of other metrics to hell optimizing for this one (like cost, or productivity, or customer satisfaction, or accident rate, or …).
The folly of metrics is premature optimization.
In IT my experience has been that there are no good metrics if they are for management. IT Engineers (a fancy term to encompass junior & senior developers, teach leads, and architects) use that stuff to try to make better code.
Management always comes in with an agenda, finds it in whatever metric they look at – even if that data/metric says exactly the opposite of what they are peddling – and then fucks things up. The defense then is but that’s what the metric/data told me to do…
Fuck that shit. Managers should quit pretending they are doing anything but circle jerk people doing work.
No offense to any management type Glibronies…..
Am management, can confirm.
My ten month old has been hitting most developmental benchmarks early, but we haven’t hidden her out of sight from the world and ask people to take off their masks if they want to hold her. My anecdotal evidence is completely the opposite of the fucking AAP. She lights up and interacts more when people take off their masks.
Crypto is starting its upward march again. I have a feeling this is just inflation taking hold and that we won’t see a true bubble again for another year to year and a half, but my portfolio balance is up almost 50% from a month ago.
As always, I’ll caution people to not be dumbasses when riding the crypto rollercoaster. This is riskier than currency trading. Use gambling money, not retirement funds.
Why do you think the infrastructure bill has a provision to make crypto so onerous to own that only big entities will end up doing the mining, huh?
I know the Philippine gov’t is nuts, but…
At least Metro Manilans can use ECQ time to get fit, right? Wrong, says Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Guillermo Eleazar, as he reminded his officers to strictly enforce the prohibition on outdoor exercise.
“The prohibition on outdoor activities is the decision of our Metro Manila mayors, and it needs to be enforced by your PNP for the welfare of all, especially since there are many confirmed cases among children, including infants, who have caught Covid-19,” said Police General Eleazar in a statement.
My wife’s family says they need permission to leave their homes. You will be jailed if you are caught outside without approval.
The local Asian store is out of pineapple juice. Put the PI back to work.
Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
United States government official
Gov. @GavinNewsom is leading California through unprecedented crises—he’s a key partner in fighting the pandemic and helping build our economy back better. To keep him on the job, registered voters should vote no on the recall election by 9/14 and keep California moving forward.
“Moving forward”, “going off a cliff”. “Tomayto”, “tomahto”.
Wouldn’t it be more effective for Biden to promise More Free Stuff for CA if they keep Gavin?
Wow, what a blatant dog whistle, obviously an insurrectionist call for voter fraud. Oh wait, that said BIDEN, not Trump. Never mind.
registered voters should vote
Battlespace prep for an unprecedented number of “votes” to be counted.
I VISITED ROMANIA SO YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9vpkhhcrU8
well screw you buddy
“(Romania) is a Romance country, swimming in a sea of Slavs and Hungarian spastics.”
Alright, that was good line.
He seems to like Wallachia.
My wife got a pair of boots made by your countrymen. Says they’re pretty good, much better than Chinese ones. Good work, Pie!
I hear they make excellent capes too.
The pricey, hipster, army surplus store in Manhattan has one of those wonderful, early-20th Century, weighted, Parisian gendarmerie cloaks for which I have pining for quite a spell. They want far more than I am willing to pay though.
“What a turn-off: Stephen Colbert LOST 500K viewers when guest Brian Stelter appeared to discuss CNN colleague Chris Cuomo’s silence on governor brother Andrew: Chris continues his Hamptons vacation”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9889339/Stephen-Colbert-loses-500K-viewers-CNN-host-appears-discuss-Chris-Cuomo-scandal.html
Everyone in this story is despicable.
soon legacy media will lose most viewers but they will probably get a bit of the old government money to keep going. Nationalize CNN is what I say
I’m surprised that a) the Colbert show had that many viewers to lose, and b) that it has that many viewers outside the 25-54 demographic.
Well sure. Who wants to watch an asshole interview a potato?
WTF?
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday refused to block a plan by Indiana University to require students and employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Barrett’s action came in response to an emergency request from eight students, and it marked the first time the high court has weighed in on a vaccine mandate. Some corporations, states and cities have adopted vaccine requirements for workers or even to dine indoors, and others are considering doing so.
The students said in court papers that they have “a constitutional right to bodily integrity, autonomy, and of medical treatment choice in the context of a vaccination mandate.” They wanted the high court to issue an order barring the university from enforcing the mandate. Seven of the students qualify for a religious exemption.
College officials across the country have struggled with whether to require vaccinations, with some schools mandating them and others questioning whether they have legal authority to do so. Similar lawsuits against student vaccine requirements have been filed in other states.
The court’s newest justice rejected the plea without even asking the university for a response or getting her colleagues to weigh in. Justices often act on their own in such situations when the legal question isn’t particularly close. Barrett handles emergency matters from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, which includes Indiana.
Nobody said those kids HAD to go to college, right?
Disappointing.
Nobody said drugs had to fall out of their asses, either.
That’s what it comes down to. Are you on your last year? Tough shit, vax or no school for you. Committed to going and too late to go somewhere else? Tough shit. Just don’t want to get it because you’re young and healthy or you’ve already had Covid? You guessed it, tough shit.
It’s totally not coercion to receive a medical intervention though. ACB is pathetic.
She’s adhering to precedence, which may strike you as good or bad, depending on your Constitutional viewpoint.
Is it the precedent that stems from the smallpox vaccine? That disease killed a third of the people that got it.
Dredd Scott was a precedent.
Buck v. Bell is a little more on point.
For a very long time, Con Law hasn’t been concerned much at all with what the Constitution says, but with court cases. There are masses of such cases which are all supportive of an authoritarian and increasingly totalitarian state at odds with the actual Constitution.
The Constitution is a dead letter. At this point, we might be better off without it, because too many people still believe it matters, and it is being used to smear lipstick on the pig of the current illegitimate government.
^^^ this. Conlaw was a farce. I tried arguing from the Federalist papers and the text of the document and got laughed out of the room.
That said, more and more “patriots” are waking up to the post-constitutional era we are in. Mark Levin was talking about this 5 years ago, and I think even he would admit to being surprised how quickly the descent took hold. As the cliche goes: “it moves slowly until it doesn’t”
The public health exception is the new general welfare clause.
Hold on to your shorts.
This all impacts interstate commerce somehow.
This is interesting.
“We are small but we are tough,” a Lithuanian MP has told Breitbart News after Communist China recalled its ambassador from the country and Chinese state media has hinted that the opening of defacto Taiwanese embassy last month could lead to war.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recalled its ambassador to Lithuania on Tuesday in response to the NATO nation opened a Taiwanese Representative Office in the capital city of Vilnius in July. The fact that Lithuania used the term Taiwan as opposed to ‘Chinese Taipei’ angered the authoritarian regime in Beijing.
The Foreign Ministry of the People’s Republic of China accused Lithuania of “brazenly” violating the ‘One China’ policy which demands that other countries ignore that Taiwan is an independent and self-governing country, as the communist country still maintains that the island nation is owned by the Chinese Communist Party.
The CCP thus recalled its envoy to Lithuania, Shen Zhifei and demanded that the European Union nation recall its ambassador to China, Diana Mickevičienė.
They managed to not get eaten by the USSR.
Um…the Lithuanian SSR was part of the CCCP.
And re-formed because of indigestion? Interesting contrast to the rump of Prussia that is still Russian territory.
“could lead to war”
I would be quite interested in seeing how China would get at Lithuania. I suppose if we see full Trans-Siberian Express trains full of the PLA, it could happen. Heck of trip for the PLA Navy to make, however.
They don’t need the PLA to go anywhere to carry out a trade war, nor to have their proxies in the EU work against Lithuania.
Nationalize CNN is what I say
It’s not, already?
I thought it was owned by the globalist cabal?
Ha! Welcome to the party, Eurofags!
1. Screw you lady
2. We are getting enriched
3. Immigration is the true cure for the pandemic
STEVE SMITH WANT TO IMMIGRATE….
AND BY IMMIGRATE MEAN….
1. Screw you lady
It CAN be arranged.
The students said in court papers that they have “a constitutional right to bodily integrity, autonomy, and of medical treatment choice in the context of a vaccination mandate.” They wanted the high court to issue an order barring the university from enforcing the mandate. Seven of the students qualify for a religious exemption.
If we could just convince the uberprogressives that was a devious move to tee up a re-examination of Roe v Wade, the vaxx mandates would disappear in a puff of smoke.
You have the right to not get it but they’ll exclude you from society and commerce and the general culture. Things have taken a very dark turn.
Whoever the dumbfuck it was that decided not to include energy and food in the CPI was a disinfgenuous cunt that deserves to be shot.
Okay. I’m going to be the pedantic little shite here. The CPI includes food and energy. It’s the core CPI that omits them. Core CPI is actually useful for certain purposes. In assessing broad inflation trends for forecasting, for example, it’s filters out prices that do, in fact, fluctuate from period to period. The underlying idea is that, unless price increases are sustained for a while, they won’t tend to flow through to other goods and services. The problem is that a lot of either stupid people or people with agendas try to use it comparably to the CPI. It is not a measure of what consumers actually face in terms of the effect of prices on their overall spending power. Food and energy are things you have to buy. And omitting them from discussions on consumer wellbeing is a lie.
My bet is that the AEIR’s Everyday Price Index is probably omitting the CPI’s “hedonic adjustment”. And that seems right. The hedonic adjustment is intended to adjust for increasing quality of goods and services. For example, your computer is hardly the same good or service as the 386 that someone might have bought in the early 1990s. And buying your computer for even a little more or even less understates the cost savings for the same good or service. I think it’s a very flawed approach. It’s combining technological growth with price trends in a way I don’t think is really honest. And it was pretty transparently implemented with a policy goal (reducing SSI adjustments) in mind, rather than purely scientific rigor.
The problem with the hedonic adjustment is that it overlooks that you can’t buy anything equivalent to a car or a computer from 10 or 15 years ago. So if you want a car, you pay the higher price for a different (sure, better) car, but there’s no alternative, there’s no substitutable good. A midsize car 15 years ago cost $30,000. A midsize car today costs $40,000. The price of a misized car has inflated 25%. I don’t care what bells and whistles you also get for that 25%, that’s what you pay for a midsized car.
On the other hand, using an example from Bryan Caplan, I think, if someone did manufacture a 35 inch CRT TV of 1990s era level, it would sell today for about negative $25, as you would have to pay someone to haul the damn thing off. Even brand new.
Part of the reason no one makes the old thing anymore is that no one would buy it. Its value literally has dropped to negative. So that does imply deflation.
It is not quite the same for the 15 year old midsize car, as we know there is a used market for those. So, in theory, someone would probably buy a new one if it was manufactured, it would just go for $20k so its not worth manufacturing.
But, that still implies deflation.
Interesting. I think we paid $30K, all in, for our 2008 FJ Cruiser. We didn’t leave many options on the table.
A used one with in good condition with over 100K miles gets $15 – 20K right now. I can’t imagine that a new one wouldn’t cost at least $30K.
Bu hedonic is a fawncy word for subjective, so this is a rabbit hole with no end.
Good morning, WM!
My, what a basket of shit news you have brought us today. But thanks for braving the wilds of the web to bring us what we need to know.
Good luck with the JuCo kids and enjoy today’s musical link!
Otters holding hands
The video that played after the one Pie linked was well worth the watch – I Listened To Romanian (Gypsy) Music So You Didn’t Have To
Yeesh, I prefer the Django Reinhardt stuff.
From the Things I Never Thought I’d See desk
Now, however, health officials in Chicago are saying that Lollapalooza does not appear to have been a superspreader event, as some feared it would be.
Out of nearly 400,000 people who attended the festival, just 203 tested positive for the virus, as NBC Chicago reported. The vast majority of people at the event—at least 88 percent—were vaccinated. While the case numbers include breakthrough cases (127 of them), festivalgoers who were unvaccinated were four times as likely to be among those cases.
Yes, it’s possible that those people spread the virus to others after the event, and that testing and self-reporting missed some cases; we also still don’t really know how breakthrough infections connect to long COVID. But this news has to be taken as good, because the numbers from Lollapalooza seem to confirm that the delta variant is not a fundamentally different virus from the one we’ve been enduring since last spring.
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Fine, we can’t call any of this unequivocally good. We’re still in a health crisis. But if you’re feeling scared of delta, and also weary from well over a year of taking precautions, Lollapalooza should serve as a reminder of an important lesson of the pandemic: go revel outside.
Slate, of all sources, tamping down on the fearmongering.
They’re still all for masking, of course, but baby steps.
Please. Like Slate would criticize the decision of a WoC.
Wizard of Coast?
Oh, and isn’t she a LGBTIQQ2S+ non-NOMAP MOGAI?
I don’t suppose they took the next step and said “so quit squealing about Sturgis”. If not, this is just more “BLM rallies are safe, but church services are superspreaders” nonsense.
It’s the singing at the churches what does it!
Many yell clichés about “forever wars” but our question is not whether the U.S. will leave a country, but whether it does so responsibly.
The funny thing I’m noticing is that even conservative commenters on affiliated sites aren’t buying this line. The truth is that, when they had the opportunity to define exit conditions, they refused to do so. It’s always been about forever war.
War is a racket and there’s too much money in war and the nation building that flows from it to ever get honest assessments of what’s going on. All the lives, time, and money we sunk in there and they might be kaput by September.
We’re losing and we hates it! /neo-cons in despair
So at work we’re going to be pulling down most of our public website content on Afghanistan, because the people mentioned in the stories are in danger. It makes me sad for many reasons. But we 100% need to get out of that shithole. It’s time to let another Empire take a crack at it if they want to.
Or maybe the rest of the world could just leave the Afghans alone for a few decades.
Apparently that’s impossible for some reason. Empires have been shooting their shot in the region for a couple 1000 years. Not sure why that area is so irresistible, but there you go.
They have the best Heroin.
IIRC, Mazar-i-Sharif had a local deity (Baba Quay?) who was credited with inventing hashish.
Yeah…the hash culture was waaaay old in the North and Northeast.
It’s the rugs. The street price of an uncut Afghan is crazy.
Uncut Afghan…
Euphemism for heroin or actual penis?
Rugs. They’re incredibly soft and durable. I have one in my room without furniture.
Are they easy on the back?
I think you’re on to something. Back in the late ’80s through the mid ’90s, Conway of Asia (a rug/art store in Carmel, CA) handed out bumper stickers, that were rather ubiquitous at Ft. Ord, reading “Free Afghanistan” and featuring an outline of the country with a superimposed Hammer & Sickle under an International Negative sign.
I wish there were some way the US could take in and protect those people who worked for/assisted/translated/befriended “us.” It’s wrong, IMO, that those people are likely going to be killed, tortured, or at the very least ostracized and made to suffer greatly for that. Of course, they made their choices and should have considered this possible outcome, but the US doesn’t set itself up well for any future endeavors (heaven forbid) when it publicly tosses its friends/collaborators to the wolves.
Yet we continue to blunder our way around the world, making new enemies at every opportunity.
Yep. Look at what China is doing. They’re doing it right (If there is a “right” way to become an empire and subjugate other nations) in that they are sidling up and offering friendly help–which of course is also cover for creating a situation whereby their targets become indebted to them and must offer territorial concessions or military/naval bases, or trade agreements that favot China over other international partners.
Maybe at one point, the US did it “right” or “smart,” but that time is long past, and what other countries (especially non-peer nations) expect from the US is to be bullied and invaded, if the bullying doesn’t work.
We were much much better before Wilson. We’ve been fucking stupid ever since.
I’ll agree with that, however, Wilson was likely a symptom of his time–a time when the US was feeling its power grow, and had had some recent experience with successful and limited wars.
I love to hate on Wilson, as well, but he probably didn’t invent American interventionism, only made it a much more prominent part of our political culture. And boy, did he make some rotten changes.
I’ve been reading George Friedman’s “The Storm Before the Calm,” and he doesn’t even mention Wilson, as far as I remember. Although, Wilson could have easily been the Trump to whatever our next Hoover will be in 2030.
Friedman posits a failed Presidency will end in 2030, similarly to Carter, Hoover, and Grant, going back in a roughly 80 year cycle to the Founding.
Sorry, that’s a bit muddled. I meant to compare Wilson and Trump to Hoover and whoever will be Presidend in 2030.
Wilson kept us out of war! (until he was re-elected then dropped his nuts on europe)
Just like FDR.
FDR served in Wilson’s administration. Should come as no surprise that he was an unabashed devotee of the SOB.
I’m going to continue being a bearish sourpuss about the CCP and their ability to project force (or keep their Rube Goldberg economy going much longer). While their African adventures look great now, I suspect when the host countries default on whatever obligations they have, the PLAN will be able to do very little about it.
I wonder. I don’t know a whole lot about the PLAN, other than that they aren’t yet a true blue water navy. At this point, you’re probably right. They’d have to invest in a lot more naval capacity and infrastructure to really project power globably. And with their economy likely to fail, they may not have the chance to do so before it matters.
The Belt and Road project is already seeing a LOT of pushback internationally from the local populace (and even the governments in some countries). I’m pretty sure they’ve overplayed their hand in a number of countries – and despite Pakistan’s silence on the Uighur situation, China is definitely gonna come down “too hard” if something happens to a mining crew in Afghanistan or somewhere else. Won’t hold up that long.
It will be interesting to see how the game changes when the CCP leadership does. And which leads to a change in the other. A collapse in the economy could precipitate a change in leadership.
ADV China has been pretty clear in their opinion that the only way the CCP will fall is if they lose the traditional “Mandate of Heaven”. Most likely through economic collapse – potentially (but ideally not) through a catastrophe like the Three Gorges Dam collapsing and killing millions of people – which could not be covered up as all the other disasters have been the last few decades.
If you think Afghanistan has a long history of eating foreign adventurers alive, check out Africa.
Re-Education camps, worked in VN.
Befuddlement at MSNBC business channel
Vaccine skepticism and outright anti-vaccination sentiment have become rife since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, coinciding with disinformation and misinformation on social media that can ultimately endanger lives. Clinical trials, peer-reviewed by international medical journals, have shown that vaccination reduces the spread of the virus and contributes to reducing deaths and severe illness.
Medical professionals, such as Dr. Scott Gottlieb, have repeatedly spoken of the benefits of vaccination. Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, also told CNBC last month that people who have previously been infected with the coronavirus would still benefit from receiving Covid vaccines.
French yoga teacher Amel Lamloum told CNBC back in January that she didn’t see the advantages of having the Covid vaccine, given her young age (30) and good health.
Speaking to CNBC again Thursday, Lamloum said she still had not received the vaccine and was even more reluctant to do so now, given what she saw as “blackmail” by the French government to do so.
“I really think society has changed and that there is no justice anymore,” she said, adding that she no longer trusted the government and had prepared herself to adjust how she lived.
“Many, many people will not get the vaccine, for sure, and we will have to live in a side society and we are ready for it, we are ready for everything.”
Why don’t those stupid hicks just take our word for it when we tell them how wonderful and perfect those vaccines are?
The separate but unequal societal structure based on vaccination status is going to effect black people in a hugely disproportionate way ironically enough. Maybe that’ll be something we can use to our advantage eventually but they don’t really mind hypocrisy.
I think that will be the wedge used to break this ridiculous policy being pushed.
It’s not going to happen overnight though.
They really don’t mind hypocrisy at all. Pointing out hypocrisy seems like the worst way to fight them. They just don’t care.
This. Postmodern critical theory primed the pump on that shift.
Its not that they don’t mind it. Its that there is no hypocrisy for them. Hypocrisy is breaking the rules that apply to you while saying you support them. They don’t think these rules apply to them at all. Rules are for the little people. Our Masters aren’t subject to them. And what we call “hypocrisy” is just them demonstrating this fact. They don’t mind showing us our place at all. They relish it. It is an essential part of their worldview and their plans.
They don’t really like black people, so it will be hand-waved away and blamed on the wreckers and kulaks.
“Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner…”
Gottleib is also on the board of Pfizer. Funny how they left that part out.
Kids as Young as Four Can Now Change Gender in Scottish Schools Without Parental Consent
https://www.newsweek.com/kids-young-four-can-now-change-gender-scotland-schools-without-parental-consent-1618942
4 year olds dude
The pedophiles are in charge now.
Now? This is the UK we’re talking about.
Speaking of child abuse.
Why are four year olds in school anyways? Yeah, I know why…
I’m sure that policy isn’t subject to abuse by agenda-driven sociopaths.
When these kids hit their 20s and some of them decide to use the sociopaths’ carcasses as skin suits, I really am not going to have much sympathy for the skin suits.
Yes, Full English Breakfast is great, and it’s what 17.4 million decent, hard-working patriots voted for.
But have you tried Hackepeter? That’s raw, seasoned minced meat on bread.
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1426101906896826371
My sconnie friends used to eat that on New Year’s morning. Except they chopped their raw onions finer.
That’s called Tiger Meat or a Cannibal Sandwich here. Big with the German descended here around Christmas.
Sounds disgusting, looks disgusting…I’ll pass.
A repost for the morning folks, any of you fine people in the Columbus/Dayton area interested in meeting up next weekend, there’s a conversation in the forums about me heading down that way.
I don’t know if this is going to work. Combining a Christopher Guest mockumentary with a concert film and making it semi-autobiographical probably sounded better in the pitch meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ryS0bJ7H0
Oh, and throw in David Byrne and David Lynch aesthetics as well.
Looks really lame.
I think it looks interesting.
I took Lily in for her pre-spay checkup. I had her chipped since I’m pretty sure she’ll figure out a way to escape at some point in her life. What I didn’t know is that the chips have a thermometer incorporated in them these days — no sticking anything up her butt!
a dog cannot consent to be spayed so this is abuse
A dog is property so it matters very little what it can and cannot consent to.
She is my adorable, fluffy, sentient property and I’ll be making her into slippers in about fifteen years.
Fuck Gates and Bob Barker, my pups isn’t chipped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaRRMOC6Rvs
Whoopsie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QJiAK-s5a0&t=50s
Catechism class
On Tuesday, the video platform put Sen. Paul in the penalty box for a week for posting a video in which he said, “Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work. They don’t prevent infection.”
That statement, to put it plainly, is not true. Moreover, it violates YouTube’s policy, which prohibits videos that spread public health misinformation including “claims that masks do not play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission of Covid-19.”
First, masks prevent infection. Dr. John Brooks, chief medical officer of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is one among countless medical experts — infectious disease specialists, epidemiologists — to attest to the efficacy of masks in preventing Covid spread. He told the New York Times in April that “the more people who wear a mask, the more the community is protected and therefore the more you individually benefit. It’s like a herd effect.”
We must unquestioningly accept the Holy Writ as brought down to us and interpreted by the High Priesthood of SCIENCE!
So a YouTube video of any non-medical grade N95 or lesser mask box violates YouTube’s standards? Because most of them have explicit disclaimers to the contrary.
Only because the KKKapitalists want to use tricknology!
Wait a sec, I thought we were poopooing herd effects… is that back on now?
The CDC told my to kill my wife! It was just science!
Begala is a piece of shit bar none. He’s always played himself as the victim of evil right-wingers and used it it to justify the demonization of any that disagreed with him.
That statement, to put it plainly, is not true.
Actually it is patently true.
“So, Dr. Brooks, if these cloth masks are so effective, why do they all have disclaimers on them saying they don’t prevent illness?”
They don’t really like black people, so it will be hand-waved away and blamed on the wreckers and kulaks.
Take up the white socialite’s burden, brothers and sisters. Bring the dark skinned ignorant children into the Light.
https://www.kdrv.com/content/news/Hospital-leaders-join-Josephine-and-Jackson-County-public-health-officials-in-press-conference-575084851.html
My heartless response is, GFY. You’ve had 18 months to prep, but instead got rid of staff and now are letting the governor violate state law against forced vaccination of healthcare workers which will only decrease staff even further.
More from Begala:
My message to Sen. Paul, Mr. Trump and every right wing diva with the vapors of victimhood: Toughen up, buttercup. And while you’re at it, try telling the truth. Wear a mask. Get a vaccine. Love your neighbor.
Toughen up, yourself, you shrieking cowering pussy. The world is an unfriendly, uncaring place. People die every fucking day, and you’re never going to stop that.
Don’t use your paranoiac hypochondria as a weapon against me.
Wear a mask. Get a vaccine. Love your neighbor.
I dare you to try to make me. You might find yourself jabbed with something far more unpleasant than a needle and/or you may succumb to lead poisoning.
Love your neighbor
If you loved your neighbor, you would not fear him and want to control him.
“Fuck off, stop abusing decontextualuzed snippets of my religion, and stop acting like this is a discussion. I will not get the shot. I will not patronize any business mandating masks. I have no interest in being assailed by half-wits trying to convince me that I’m subhuman because I decided not to panic LARP. “
She is my adorable, fluffy, sentient property and I’ll be making her into slippers in about fifteen years.
She’d make a fabulous cape.
I don’t know if she’ll get that big. But it would be a shame having her luxurious coat go into a landfill or medical incinerator. Besides, she likes being on my feet now while she’s alive.
Mandatory all hands Zoom or Teams meeting with regional director this morning. Scheduled for too fucking early to accommodate hourly workers at the start of their shift. Oh darn, it’s before my own normal hours. Guess I’ll miss the bitchfest and “I don’t know, I’ll have to get back to you”. The last year and a half put a damper on the useless team building crap and it hasn’t been missed. But TPTB has decreed that all of that must start again. Really, I think it’s because the VPs are going insane sitting at home staring at their screen and realizing they’re not really needed at all.
https://nationalfile.com/california-leftist-running-for-congress-tweets-that-lockdown-mask-resisters-should-be-shot/
Cox describes himself as a libertarian, but on the leftist side of the spectrum…
He’s definitely on a spectrum.
I say take him at his word and deal with him accordingly.
^^
They’re going at light speed towards putting dissenters to the wall. This is a trial balloon to see how much support such a regime would have.
Solzhenitsyn looms large.
So, you’re saying Reason has endorsed him.
I grow tired of the pedantry and weaseling. We all know damn well he believes “anybody who doesn’t do what I want should get shot.” It’s not even a particularly unique viewpoint, as it seems to be quite in vogue these days. Stop “debunking” and “correcting” and fallacy-splaining and just own the fuck up to it.
“It could NEVER happen here!”
I hope that’s etched in the walls of the trains going to the camps.
And I love this moron with the “I can shoot you cuz self-defense.”
The minute that moron posted that he opened himself up to that same claim of being shot in self-defense – and now it’s legitimate because he claimed the right to shoot someone over the infinitesimally small possibility of being “harmed” by some unknown person across the country who refuses to get vaxxed. While getting shot is an immediate and 100% real harm, not merely some hypothetical statistical possibility.
These people are – once again – illiterate and innumerate. They’re not even sentient, really.
These people are – once again – illiterate and innumerate. They’re not even sentient, really.
Are they stupid or are they evil? I’m leaning towards the latter. You don’t get to the point where shooting people writ large is even something that crosses your mind without a heaping helping of the devil in your heart.
Steve, come see me. Bring your gun.
Yeah, the irresponsible asshole spectrum.
Firearms licensing didn’t work. Going to have to rid of them entirely. .
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-58195419
More people dying with COVID.
Ravaged by disease
In Memphis, a surge in cases has overwhelmed its emergency services, with officials asking residents to avoid using 911 services unless absolutely necessary.
“The delta variant has burned through us with a ferocity that’s hard to describe,” Lifferth wrote. “6 weeks ago there were 200 Covid patients in hospitals in Tennessee. Today there are 2000. A 1000% increase. In 6 weeks. It has overwhelmed tired doctors, nurses and healthcare systems that were already stretched thin.”
There’s no one left to bury the dead.
Just put in another dance on TikTok and you’ll feel right as rain.
I seriously wonder if that’s true. I think it was the NYT that claimed thousands of children had been admitted to hospitals with COVID in Texas in a month. Which is facially ludicrous. They later corrected that claim to hundreds over several months.
Our COVID patient population was around 15/day six weeks ago. Its up to 30 this morning. Does TN really have an increase in COVID patients 5x what we have? I just seriously, seriously doubt it. The best readily available data for hospitalization is deaths – the numbers tend to track pretty closely, although they have gotten somewhat disconnected in recent months.
AZ’s death rate has gone from .0128 to .022 per hundred thousand in the last six weeks (about double, which pretty much tracks our increase in hospitalization). TN has gone from .0523 to .238 per hundred thousand in the last six weeks. That’s a 4x increase, not a 10x increase (as is claimed for hospitalization).
Florida toddler, rolling hot.
What’s the word for something that is both a massive fuck-up and a tragedy?
Lock him up! Lock him up! (I assume the todler is white male, otherwise, you know kids will be kids)
He shot her, he didn’t stab her to death. It’s stabbings that are all just part of growing up.
Ah… remember the simpler times when we were just snarking about the standard teenage knife fights.
I believe that’s what Bloombergians would call karma.
Another gun nut who had 30 guns laying around the house.
If they would have only had 1 gun, no one needs more than 0 guns and they would have had it locked up in a safe. And if it would have been a smart safe and a smart gun. And they would have had to mail in a form asking for the government’s permission to use it and waited for the reply for the required 1 year period to then unlock the safe, then this tragedy would have been avoided.
#SensibleGunControlNow
“American Academy of Pediatrics: Masks Have No Negative Effect on Children”
Let’s interview those kids in 20 years, so they can talk about their severe trauma experience and lung disorders from wearing masks as little kids.
New lava channel right in the middle of the frame. Looks like possible wall breach on the left imminent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHZ9LU4vpf4
I wonder if it would be possible to operate a drone glider nearly indefinitely in the thermal updraft coming off a volcano like that. Depending on the electrical load of the servos and radios, you might be able to power it with some solar cells on the top of the wings and some good LiFePo batteries for shady days and nights.
You’d have to find a way to protect the structure & camera from the heat. Might make it too heavy to sustain flight.
Maybe periodically loft it up high and then circle down out of the plume to cool off.
Reminds me of that flood in Brazil where a water containment pool for a mining operation collapsed and buried 2 towns under mud.
Only this time, with MOAR LAVA!
We’re watching Iceland add to its land mass as we speak. Maybe in a hunnert years they’ll be big enough to invade Afghanistan!
The volcano hasn’t had a significant wall collapse in a couple months IIRC.
(am I the only one here who finds lava to be one of the most beautiful things on Earth?)
Now wondering what kind of lamps might be found in KK’s home.
Nope. I find volcanoes fascinating. I’m kind of a geology fan.
Using the time in the lower right corner of the video, rewind to 13:48:30 to see the new lava channel open in the wall
Tightrope
“To the mayors, school superintendents, educators, local leaders, who are standing up to the governors politicizing mask protection for our kids: thank you,” Biden said Thursday. “Thank God that we have heroes like you, and I stand with you all, and America should as well.”
But even as Biden becomes more aggressive, he has refrained from using all his powers to pressure Americans to get vaccinated. He’s held off, for instance, on proposals to require vaccinations for all air travelers or, for that matter, the federal workforce. The result is a precarious balancing act as Biden works to make life more uncomfortable for the unvaccinated without spurring a backlash in a deeply polarized country that would only undermine his public health goals.
Backlash like a vicious electoral drubbing? It would truly be a shame if the Democrats ended up holding on to about twenty of their darkest blue coastal seats in Congress, in the mid-terms.
Tragic, even.
Man, they really want a Hitler (A TRUE Hitler, not a ‘literal Hitler’ like that limp wristed Trump)
If it is their guy, he is not evah a Hitler… And the real Hitler was bad because he was not a Stalin/Mao/Pol Pot/Kim/Castro/Guevarra/andsoon….
Those were people to swoon about..
Tightrope
as Biden works to make life more uncomfortable for the unvaccinated
I, for one, welcome our new tiered society.
I grow tired of the pedantry and weaseling. We all know damn well he believes “anybody who doesn’t do what I want should get shot.” It’s not even a particularly unique viewpoint, as it seems to be quite in vogue these days. Stop “debunking” and “correcting” and fallacy-splaining and just own the fuck up to it.
But I thought Trump was the dark shadow of authoritarianism, and Biden rescued us.
It really appears to me that there’s going to be no way out of this except killing.
I keep waiting for the Great Awakening, but it ain’t coming.
Gotta stock up on ammo and other essentials and necessaries.
Grim. I agree but it’s terrifying to deal with. I have tried explaining the modern political situation to my parents. My mom also agrees, my dad thinks we all should be committed. People really don’t want to see what is happening.
OR maybe we should be committed.
You and me both, Ozy.
I am deeply, deeply ambivalent about abortion, and I try to avoid any mention of it.
BUT
This incessant drumbeat of “Your refusal to mask/vaxx imposes upon me some infinitesimal risk of sickness or death” makes me ask myself how we as a society (oh, how I hate that formulation) can ignore the grotesque dissonance between that and “I will willingly and knowingly end this life within me because it is an infernal inconvenience to me.”
There is no uncertainty whatsoever.
Our enemies have the ability to embrace cognitive dissonance with no apparent effort.
Precisely why I say that the theory of cognitive dissonance has been proven false.
A toddler in Florida fatally shot a woman during a video call after finding an unsecured handgun, police said Thursday.
NEEDZ MOAR COMMON SENSE TODDLER CONTROL
At least leash laws.
I can’t remember if someone posted this here before, but it’s totally hilarious.
Hah hah hah!
This one is cracking me up
The best one is their STEVE SMITH episode.
The part starting at 8:15 was magical
I posted it before *runs away crying*
It’s worth posting again ?
I love silly overdubs, but I’m a huge Dayjob Orchestra fan. Sometimes I post those at random but I don’t get any bites here. Maybe too random and too many in jokes. The Bad Lip Reading Zuckerberg congressional grilling was also a classic.
“ In Blow To Landlords, D.C. Judge Rules Biden’s Eviction Moratorium Can Remain In Place”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blow-landlords-dc-judge-rules-bidens-eviction-moratorium-can-remain-place
What the actual fuck?
“Not my problem”
It will be when those DC wokesters flee and become YOUR neighbors. Half of them are already in WV.
“Shippers Frantic After China’s Busiest Port Shuts Container Terminal Due To Covid”
Diversity of supply sources is our strength.
Procreating bottlenecks. How do they work?