Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing and beautiful day it always is!
Arizona audit report due for public release September 24th.
New Durham indictment exposes second leg of Hillary’s dirty political trick.
Biden fails to convince Manchin to vote for 3.5t monstrosity.
Oil supply losses from Hurricane Ida reach 30 million barrels.
Impotent signaling is much funnier than virtue signaling.
No need to worry, it’ll most likely be struck down by the courts before it’ll be enforced anyway.
New York outlaws selling gas-powered new vehicles by 2035.
Washington Football Team to host pride night out.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Arizona audit report due for public release September 24th.”
My bet is that no matter what it says, the people fortifying elections will thumb their noses at it and double down on fortifying elections. The fucking plebes should just let the ineptocracy do what it wants already.
I’m sure the media is already ramping up the Dem talking points about how the audit is illegitimate and wrong and you just believe us you deplorable science deniers.
C’mon, you’re taking the findings of a company called “cyber ninjas” seriously? Legitimate cybersecurity companies have names like “Fire Eye” and “Cloud Flare.”
Crowdstrike always sounded like a government plan for dissident control to me.
Election quality control is an attack on Democracy.
Friday release. Either it’s something big that they want an excuse to bury in the weekend, or it’s a complete nothingburger that they want an excuse to bury in the weekend.
ineptocracy
Ahem, I think the word you are looking for is kakistocracy
A quote from that wiki deserves highlighting, as it seems as pertinent to our time as when it was written (19th c.) and is probably evergreen:
“For the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools” is an all too often accurate description of representative government.
I stand corrected, your holiness…
Don’t beat yourself up. After all I have a college of cardinals working for me. Sure they are bird brains, but occasionally they come up with some useful info.
One of your flock is making a mess in my backyard. Don’t they teach them anything in that college?
One of your flock is making a mess in my backyard. Don’t they teach them anything in that college?
Maybe it was two of your flock.
Hmmmm. NY already requires you to pay NY sales tax on vehicles bought out-of-state. I wonder if they can get away with maintaining that on an item that isn’t/can’t be sold in state.
Tee Hee. I crack myself up.
Normally they’d tag you at registration time.NJ has no sales tax on electric vehicles. Which is ridiculous.
One of the few good things the state has done in the past decade or so was get rid of safety inspections on vehicles. We are still a CARB state unfortunately so we have to have emissions checked every other year, but that only consists of checking OBD for no codes and I believe all but one or two monitors set.
Remarkably enough this means electric vehicles are exempt from any kind of inspection in NJ. I’m truly shocked.
ISWYDT and you may just be, after all.
*narrows gaze*
One of the few good things the state has done in the past decade or so was get rid of safety inspections on vehicles
Seriously?
I remember when car inspections in Jersey were a shit-show. We used to laugh at them from PA about the fucked up inspection system there.
Yeah, PA has car inspections but back in those days it was easy to find a mechanic that would just sell you a sticker.
Yeah, now PA looks to be the PITA there. You’ve got your two stickers on the window – one for safety and one for emissions.
In NJ prior to the safety inspection repeal you could pay for a private inspection and essentially just get a sticker. So it wasn’t as bad as it was pre 90s.
We always had two stickers on the car, but only if you were in a county that had “poor air quality”.
I’ve heard the list of counties has expanded since I left.
And… in order to prevent what I used to do… you now have to take the car for inspection to a mechanic in the county the car is registered in. See… if you do what I did you might go to a mechanic that doesn’t run the emissions test and you might not get a fancy emissions sticker. Just don’t get stopped…
***Boggles***
Man, I love Alaska.
This all triggered a memory.
When I moved to NH, I tried to find mechanics that did the same thing the PA mechanics did, i.e. sell you the sticker and falsify records.
No dice. No one knew such a mechanic. In fact, I got more than a few, “But that’s ILLEGAL!” responses.
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I have two stickers. One for state safety inspection, one for county waste. No emissions test required here. That’s for the enlightened people in NoVA. I don’t know if that would be a third sticker.
This whole thing is mystifying to me, like state run liquor stores or no liquor sales on certain days. Here once you buy a car (as long as you pay the registration) the state has no say so. (You’re also required to have liability insurance, but that only comes into play if you get pulled over) (Also you have to wear your seatbelt) (Also you have to drive under the speed limit) (Also, etc)
I’m a bit sympathetic as automobiles are a legitimate example of an economic externality.
There was talk in NH of doing away with annual car inspections.
That was a bit too radical for The Live Free or Die state.
You’re also required to have liability insurance, but that only comes into play if you get pulled over
I think we have to provide proof at titling. I don’t recall being asked for registration.
Yeah… let me know how that works out for you. I mean, you already changed the team name to mollify people who don’t consume your product. Maybe your outreach will replace some of the fans you alienated with those antics (and by generally sucking for the last thirty years).
“People of color” are not traditional football fans?
Do they even filter before opening their yaps?
Well, those aren’t real people of color, I mean how many wear tags with their pronouns on them and own pussy hats?
Anyone with an extremely high tolerance for bullshit need a sinecure?
Updating the plan every 3 years is like 3 months of real work every 3 years. Seems like a perfect gov job.
Five year plans are so twentieth century.
“Durham indictment exposes second leg of Hillary Clinton”
I got that far and decided to postpone breakfast
Wait until Durham gets to her cloaca.
I thought it was an ersatz prepuce ?
My brain has been sufficiently damaged by reading SugarFree that I’m not sure what’s canon.
I hated when a breakfast gets tainted like that.
Psuedo-penis.
How about when they discover her third leg?
That’s a pustule. Or a tentacle. Take your pick.
Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo took aim at those Americans who have not yet been vaccinated, saying that they were “stupid” and deserved to be “left behind.”
I guess I’ll have to sit in the back of the bus.
Did they explain it from a risk/benefit analysis regarding an experimental and novel mRNA vaccine with known and potentially serious side effects versus a disease with a 99.98% survival rate?
Don’t worry about where you’ll sit on the bus, here’s a free high speed train ticket.
you must redeem within a year
I took my chances, rolled the dice and it came up boxcars.
Id like to ask Lemon if Im a nasty un-vaxxed, am I only 3/5ths of a person
I pointed out to a lefty the other day that the 3/5th compromise was implemented to limit the political power of the slave states… I think he shorted out or had a stack overflow error.
They really don’t get that point at all.
Which is reflective of their depth of thought on most topics.
I have experienced this a dozens of times. Explaining to the idiots that tell you the constitution was racist because it counted slaves (but for some reason they ignore, not free blacks, mind you) that this move was a compromise many forefathers reached while holding their nose, so they could prevent the slave states from always having higher census numbers, and thus representation in congress, as a means to use that body to have a chance to ban slavery short circuited them. Most of them will juts ignore this, because they WANT to believe the whole pro-slavery racism thing.
I comment that I would have preferred slaves were not included for apportionment. I know, racist.
I agree, but if we didn’t have Virginia on board for the Revolution we would still be calling cookies, biscuits.
No. I like biscuits and gravy.
Pretending to dramatically walk out of your basement – not stupid.
Gutfeld was tearing apart that loser (literally) last night. It was righteous.
Anti-vaxxers are not allowed on the bus.
NYFFG Hochul gave an interview after the injunction where she was mad. She deliberately did not allow a religious exemption, because she knows that there are no legitimate religious objections. All real religions “from the Pope on down” are demanding that their
stupid sheepadherents get vaccinated.Whycome you stupid rednecks don’t abandon your primitive superstitions and believe in Science and his holy prophet Fauci?
“My body, my choice” is so passé.
These lying cockstains don’t have a single shred of credibility left, but we should totally believe them on the “vaccine”.
The several writers at the Post who thought she might bring back some semblance of sanity to the state government have been noticeably quiet lately.
Jesus, she’s a stupid bitch.
Living in NYS, I’m finding myself despairing of what the short term future homes. Can’t even go to stores without feeling sick to my stomach. Some of it is looking at kids being forced to wear masks and fearing human contact. Some of it is watching the new caste system develop, with working poor forced to serve the wealthy while hiding their faces.
Yet I fo nothing. I wear the slave cloth when required. I remain polite to those who deserve no politeness. I bow down and accept my station, because I can’t think of a other way to support my family.
Shit isn’t going away. The people have not resend up. The bastards can now destroy with impunity. No Ameriban pickup trucks are going to drive over the horizon to fight this shit. Some of the lobsters in the pot might complain that the water is getting hotter, but most are happy to have their soak.
Fuck it. Too nice a day outside to dwell on it. I think I’m going to play some golf while I still can.
Had a meeting with our realtor last night. Seems like plenty of city folks are still want suburban houses without leaving the oppression of NY / NJ. Next month well will probably engage our escape plan.
(Plan may include renting for a while in NJ or PA until we get fired)
Hell, that appears to be more about Hasidic Jews than anybody else.
That seems to be a recurring thing up here.
All real religions “from the Pope on down” are demanding that their
stupid sheepadherents get vaccinated.I said no such thing! And I’d ask you not to disparage my
stupid sheeployal tithers.If I am going to claim a religious exemption based on being an adherent of your religion, I do need to ask what is the formal name of the religion? Jimboism? Dowhatyouwantism? Fuckitallism?
We will tell you after we cash the first 3 months of tithing checks.
You won’t believe this, but there are some people out there who aren’t sincere about their beliefs.
because she knows that there are no legitimate religious objections
The Amish could not be reached for comment.
Everyone knows my daily vitamin does not work unless you take yours.
she knows that there are no legitimate religious objections
*points to 30 page and growing list of legitimate religious objections sitting on his desktop*
Fuck. Right. Off.
Arizona audit report due for public release September 24th.
Sure.
In painstaking detail, Durham laid out in the indictment Thursday how Democrat superlawyer Michael Sussmann used Clinton campaign funds to construct a now-debunked memo and other evidence alleging that computer communications between a server at the Alfa Bank in Russia and the Trump Tower in New York might be a secret backdoor communication system for Trump and Vladimir Putin to hijack the 2016 election.
And nothing else happened.
Was that wrong? You mean I shouldn’t have done that?
He’s going to have to beg ignorance on this one. Nobody told him that was unacceptable.
Democrat superlawyer Michael Sussmann didn’t kill himself.
When did “superlawyer” become an unironic term?
It did?
If this progresses further I do not even the corporate press will be able to ignore it.
For a Visa to Leave Afghanistan, Please Go to a U.S. Embassy in a Neighboring Country
That is why I carry an AMEX.
Serious NAP violation here.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/17/nyc-hostess-at-carmines-attacked-by-texas-tourists-over-covid-vax-question/
I expect more of this. It’s going to get ugly.
The question remains as to why if you’re so anti-vax and from Texas would you even consider going to NYC right now.
Outside agitators? I don’t need ’60s nostalgia.
It never says they weren’t vaccinated. Maybe the hostess has a problem with mavros in her place?
Never go to a restaurant named after a character on Laverne and Shirley.
What?
dunno. We are anti-vax and from Texas and cancelled the NY portion of the trip we’re about to take.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9999987/Drunk-Karen-attacks-unmasked-restaurant-worker-cleaning-spray-demands-vaccine-card.html
This is a pretty fucking absurd headline don’t you think? Three feral Texan women attack NYC. Wild.
I got to the part where they name the perps, and pointedly realized that was a huge detail was left out of the story….
I made my comment before that too. In all truth I imagined the perp as a blonde white woman. Must be my internalized racism. Whoops.
The usual dnc operatives with bylines have gone a very long way to pretend that the people refusing vaccines are horses of toothless honkey Drumpf supporters, but the two largest populations avoiding the Kung Flu shot are black Americans and PhD holders. Unfortunately for team blue ,which has been peddling the concept that overeducated white liberals (PhDs) and marginalized ex slaves (black Americans) are above sin, they can’t attack them directly, and thus, do this whole Kabuki dance to confound the issue.
Every once in a while the mask drops however, as we saw with the attacks on Minaj started by the CCP/CCN hag, and you realize that these people are fucking outright evil and will not tolerate anyone that doesn’t bend the knee (like the black face of white supremacy guy in Cali was doing fighting their saint).
The Minaj thing is delicious.
Oh it is… there really is not enough popcorn. Her talking about shoving marbles up her ass was hystaerical.
That isn’t a misspelling of ‘hysterical’, that is in the original Laconic Greek.
I’m going to be lying in my extended care bed shouting racial epithets.
“The unnamed woman?”
People gonna get stabbed.
12 years or older? WTF?
It’s intentional. They flew out tens of thousands of random Afghans “refugees” to be dumped in swing states while abandoning the ones with passports.
Is there still a chance I can place a bet on “ALL of them were assholes”?
Sure they Texans shouldn’t have put a beating on the hostess, but I’ll bet that the hostess was full of herself and her new found power as Rona Commissar.
Just like all the flight attendants getting mad because people are pushing back against them and the their shiny new Deputy Rona Sheriff stars.
Sound like rural Texas redneck white supremacists to me.
While the two left the meeting having made little progress, and are still some $2 trillion apart, the conversation was friendly and they agreed to keep talking.
Well, isn’t that lovely.
What is $2 trillion among politicians?
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking real collapse…
Manchin brought pudding cups.
“Why it matters: Defying a president from his own party — face-to-face — is the strongest indication yet Manchin is serious about cutting specific programs and limiting the price tag of any potential bill to $1.5 trillion. His insistence could blow up the deal for progressives and others.”
LoL! Two politicians arguing over how much of other peoples money they’re going to give to their donor’s companies.
Chomsky’s theories on manufacturing dissent and controlled opposition seem to apply quite well here.
While other politicians have temper tantrums. Forget the specifics – this is all you need to know about how far-gone this country is.
Washington Football Team to host pride night out.
The Washington Rainbowskins will be a thing.
I would buy season tickets and donate them if they would reclaim Redskins as the name and use a redskin potato as the emblem.
Only groups allowed to have pride will be allowed to attend?
More sensitive: Rainbow-foreskins.
Fine. As long as they’re tattooed on.
Serious question – Why did the “tooth farmers” of WV elect a Dem?
I mean, we’re as Tory blue as can be up here in the freeze-land.
Tradition, and the Dems of WV are a couple of decades behind the rest of the Dems in the country. The party in WV just hasn’t gone over the cliff yet.
Yet.
Brings home the bacon.
Union tradition.
I see that. One man in five has a good Union job. Two more want that future employment and the remainder are sucking at the government’s teat. Makes perfect sense.
It’s a strange perversion of the supposedly rugged individualist image of the primarily Scots-Irish immigrant population there.
It’s easy to fall into when every one of your friends does the same. I’ve lived it.
Fookin’ dole bludgers!
“The people who aided and abetted Trump are stupid because they believe his big lie. The people who are not getting vaccines who are believing the lies on the internet, instead of science, it’s time to start shaming them what else— or leave them behind. Because they are keeping the majority of Americans behind,” Lemon said.
Right. Don’t let the unvaxxed sit at the counter or use the same water fountain. They are unclean and inferior.
He has no idea that a lot of black people are reluctant to get vaccinated, does he? Talk about an oreo cookie.
He doesn’t care. He’s just paid to spout bullshit. He’s a two dollar whore.
Don’t insult cheap whores. They at least provide a service.
CNN’s Don Lemon urges shunning, segregation of unvaccinated Americans
A gay black man pushing for prejudices against a certain group of people. A little ironic I’d say.
Ironic? It’s what he and his ilk have been praying for since they got stuffed in a locker. This has been nothing but payback. Look what happened with Florida and the meds. Fuck them.
Irony is lost on the left.
Question: We talk about the “news cycle” and it’s rapid evolution and ability to be manipulated to hide unfavorable news under a torrent of minor stories blown up into major crises.
When did the news cycle begin to accelerate? I know some cite the formation of CNN. Was there a perceptible news cycle prior to that? Did it experience similar rapid decreases in wavelength on the mass adoption of television? Radio? The “Yellow Journalism” era?
Has anyone done studies on detecting this kind of activity historically?
I believe the acceleration was due to the 24 hour news channel, news radio, and talk radio. They needed shit to report/comment on to keep viewers watching. Before that, you would have just morning, afternoon, and evening news broadcasts in most locations; as well as newspapers (usually split between morning and afternoon editions). Going further back, you would have papers running multiple editions a day,
I grew up with the morning paper and evening news. That was pretty much it unless a major story broke.
CNN definitely ushered in the “we will report before we know much”. Internet news pushed that further. Prior to that there was “we interrupt this program” for major stories. Now with social media, stories can be pushed instead of waiting for you query. Bias was always there. Now it is more overt. We have explanatory journalism if not outright advocacy journalism.
Though people tend to focus on the libel aspect more, this is literally what NYT v. Sullivan is about. The Times rushed to print material that was factually inaccurate. The Court sided with them. While legal standards aren’t and need not be the only standards, one may note that the British press, while it is full of its own dysfunctions, tends to be a little more scrupulous in its reporting, since it doesn’t enjoy this same level of protection from consequences.
Probably since the printing press. The cycle was longer and the effect was more localized, but you could get pamphlets out in a hurry. I would like to see how big of an effect pamphleteering had on whipping up revolutionary fervor for the American revolution. Not insignificant, I’d imagine.
That reminds me, I have a copy of “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution” sitting unread on my coffee table. I think it may touch on that subject.
*Thomas Paine glares at OBJ*
He is what made me think about it but I would be curious to see that broken out in quantifiable terms.
Now to go find a none Marxist social scientist to have a crack at it………………
Non-Marxist… I am all hot dog fingers this morning.
Does anyone even have the attention span for anything more than a hastily written, factually dubious headline?
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration is likely to face difficulty enforcing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and may have to rely on publicly shaming companies, a tactic popularized during the Obama era.
Unenforceable edict is unenforceable. Go fuck yourself.
A few tech jobs will be opening up here. Once the reqs are released, I’ll put them on the forum. I’ll split the recruitment bonus with you.
For Pie and any metric system deviants
Why waste time & money doing this? Just fly to Mexico City, then take a ride up to the US border. When you cross and hopefully get caught so the government can spend money relocating you, tell them “Allah Akbar” or I want honkey slave bitchez, and you are a shoe in for citizenship from this administration.
For temperature I agree.
OTH, working with millimeters is so much easier than fractions of a inch.
And when I first started on Wall St. stocks were still priced in fractions.
The metric system was invented so people with small dicks could use bigger numbers than those in the English system to impress chicks..
/Fight me bro!
It’s the reason I despise working with prices in Japanese Yen.
I’ve mentioned before the Japanese language has a 10k grouping for numbers and it’s particularly painful to remember to use it as you have to both change languages and the way you group numbers in your head.
For example 1M is 100 “man” (100 x 10,000).
It’s like the use of “crore” in India. I get a bunch of spam propaganda e-mails from the Indian government (I have no idea how I got on their list) but they use crore all the time. So when they want to talk about a hundred million something or other they just say “10 crore.” It’s hard to figure out at first.
Interesting, in Korean, it is Man or Mon (e.g. 10,000 Won, Mon Won)
It is almost like there is a linguistic relationship there.
I wouldn’t point that out to a Korean though, what with the Japanese doing that whole trying to erase their culture thing
They both borrowed numbers from China.
I figured.
You may find a nonzero amount of argument there.
The metric system was invented so people with small dicks could use bigger numbers than those in the English system to impress chicks.
Pah. My penis is 1.61086927105 x 10^-17 of a light-year. Bow before me.
I agree. Part of the first week of practically every freshman and sophomore level class in engineering undergrad had a section on significant figures and unit conversions. For anything scientific Kelvin/Celsius is the way to go. For human things Fahrenheit is nice. I’m still partial to pounds for force because Newtons just seem too small.
I disagree. I roll lbmols and degrees Rankine all the time.
In the machining world at least, inches are heavily decimalized. To the point where now I find it hard to guess the intentions of any product designer after the 90’s when trying to reverse engineer a part.
Milliradians or MOA?
MOA offers finer adjustments. 1/10 mil > 1/4 MOA
Both of those are unitless. MOA is superior.
Last I checked a radian and a minute are both units of angle.
I guess. My precoffee brain was thinking of angles as dimensionless but they do have a dimension, the angle. Forget it.
Radians are dimensionless measures of angle.
Dimensionless, but not unitless.
Ow. I’m going to go sit in timeout.
In other words, an angle can be represented as a slope, which is a ratio of distance(x) / distance(y), so the distance units cancel out. The angle itself is dimensionless, but radians and degrees, minutes, seconds are units that describe the magnitude of the angle, which is still a dimensionless quantity.
Yeah, so?
Depends on what I’m doing, but I find that milrads line up better with real-world conditions.
The metric system has been well and truly debunked:
https://www.glibertarians2017.link/2017/09/22/why-i-hate-the-metric-system-and-you-should-too-an-uninformed-rant-based-on-no-research-whatsoever/
Meh, the standardization of the prefixes and their meaning is the advantage to it.
I have a pet peeve about using “ounce” in three different ways, and don’t get me started on some people’s insistence on using units like Dynes that are redundant and lead to errors.
It’s a pseudoscientific coat of paint on a crappy (decimal) system. The most common errors I see are slipped decimal places.
Order of magnitude errors are an EE cardinal sin because if you commit them, you won’t get anything right, ever.
Maybe that’s why I don’t worry about them too much, it’s been drummed out of me for a very long time.
I was always worried about significant digits instead.
Abill signed into law last week by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul effectively outlaws the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in less than 14 years.
Good luck.
If they were serious, they’d just outlaw gasoline.
Narrator: They’re not serious.
They are careening toward the cliff in The Banana Splits car.
Washington Football Team to host pride night out.
I’m not sure handing out rainbow colored paper bags with eye holes in them counts as “Pride”.
No eye holes. Just mouth holes.
Buttholes. They’ve been jobbed enough.
So they can verify masks?
No mouth holes, just glory holes.
What people don’t understand about Doctor Who is that the Crack in the Universe that vexed Matt Smith’s Doctor was really an interuniversal glory hole.
But with a mask over it, unless you’re actively eating $16 nachos or drinking a $22 beer.
What are all the lesbians going to do with that?
Lesbians aren’t favored in the queer world anymore.
The ones that suck girldick are the only “real” lesbians.
Gay men have been on the outs. The feminist/intersectionalist movement does not look too kindly on me that don’t want anything to do with women.
Gay men seem to be safe for some reason. It’s the lesbians who are transphobes.
It’s because transbians only want to fuck ciswomyn. This is not hypocritical because transfolx are always perfect.
The Washington Football Team is hosting a “pride night out” for Thursday Night Football. According to TMZ, reserved tickets for pride night attendees start at $28.
Pride in what? It can’t be the team heritage.
“We had tried reaching out in the past but eventually made the decision that we would not engage until the name was changed,” said Brent Minor, founder and executive director of Team DC. “We don’t want these community nights just to be a monetary transaction. We want to build bridges and encourage inclusion.”
No one cares who anyone likes to fuck anymore. Be gone with your sexualized virtue signaling horseshit.
We lost our core fans, so we’ll need to turn FedEx into a gay bar.
Eh, with a good business plan and a streaming service, you could make some decent money that way.
No one cares who anyone likes to fuck anymore.
How DARE you ignore my fabulousness! You will embrace and celebrate me you philistine.
Boeing’s two employees tossed under the FedGov bus. My issue is the company itself knew. These just weren’t two employees who went rogue.
Former Boeing Pilot Expected to Face Prosecution in 737 MAX Probe
It’s likely they were pressured unofficially to cover up issues. Plausible deniability at the highest levels, prosecution for the underlings. It’s always best to report and document.
Re: General Milley
I work in a place like this. Orders down from some unnamable person on high that directly effects public safety. Then if anything happens, it’s always some guy on the grounds fault.
Underling get’s fired, bonuses continue to get paid.
It’s a good reminder that our culture of non-accountability isn’t limited to govt.
This is obscene.
I hope they get good lawyers that put everyone thru some hellacious discovery.
If so, I see a lot of engineers and managers answering questions during discovery.
Don’t lose your temper.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe lashes out and attacks Virginia sheriff after sheriff asks about McAuliffe’s embrace of defund the police movement.
Maybe he is pissed that the vast majority of localities in the state have declared themselves sovereign and independent of his desired 2A / A1S13 tyranny.
Good
Attacking media is one thing, attacking local sheriffs generally doesn’t fly.
Are we get the state of, ‘Not Quite as West Virginia. out of this?
I give you a week’s worth of derp in a single-serving; you have been warned.
It has it all – the fantasy that society and the economy are simply things to be managed via expert decisions, the conceit that none of us know what would really make us happy (but the experts do) and the absolute ignorance of economics as fundamentally about trade-offs.
A socialist’s wet dream. I also like how beef is specifically called out.
Never mentioned are the very predictable disasters that occur when central planning is implemented.
An economy that can only be described by non-Euclidian geometry in i-dimensional space.
It’s a bunch of marxist cuntes reverse engineering the whole “save Gaia” project by articulating it should contain all the things they find icky. Tell this asshats he gets no iPhone or iPad cause they are wastful things, or demand something they find near & dear (soy lattes for example) and see what you get from em then…
As per usual, they just rename their failed philosophies and murder words in an attempt to fool you into thinking it’s something new and exciting.
This may as well be Soylent Green.
Health care and education are extremely bloated, why would they get expanded?
I mean, other than the obvious reason, that they’re more useful for controlling the population.
I agree that we need to throttle back on a lot of consumption, but voluntarily and not state-enforced. I really would rather have a washing machine that lasts a lifetime rather than becomes obsolete in a few years and breaks down. I really do wish people would toss their phones in the trash and spend more time with each other. I try to plan my purchases that way, but when the entire industry goes that direction, it’s not really possible.
There’s a lot of places where conservatives and libertarians who want stronger community ties overlap with these psychotic leftists. We just differ in methods.
A culture of conservation is worthwhile. It’s about being prepared and using good resource management in a distributed environment.
What they’re talking about is resource control and top down allocation.
Including planning the human population, top down. I on the other hand will help them in their population control endeavors by putting lead into their cranial cavities first.
No doubt. All I’m saying is that whenever someone posts something like this and talks about a return to the stone age, I think it’s more useful to talk about where the connections are. I’ve had more agreeable conversations with leftists when I start with a point of agreement rather than go to the nuclear option right off the bat. Do those impressions last? It depends on how long that person stays in my life. My card-carrying communist brother has slowly moved to a more centrist Democrat position over the years, in large part because he now lives in a more rural, conservative area and witnesses the conservation efforts there compared to his circle of leftist friends.
I’d like to see the state consume less.
I just Google stalked him.
Dude graduated on the 5 year plan from Yale in 2017 with a degree in French.
Enough said.
He looks like he’s 14.
“degrowth” = Feudalism
Your tax dollars… hard at work:
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1037741009/yes-were-calling-it-hispanic-heritage-month-and-we-know-it-makes-some-of-you-cri
American Airlines is assho.
A mother has alleged that an American Airlines flight attendant kicked her and her son off of a flight because the two-year-old could not wear a mask properly during an asthma attack.
The kid might suffocate, but at least it won’t be covid.
The mask theater has caused the first update in airline safety announcements I’ve heard in a long time. Now, in the case of an oxygen mask deployment, make sure to remove your mask before putting the mask on, and then assist those nearby who need help with their masks.
OMG.
Of all the terrible rage inducing tales of cruelty and injustice over Covid crackdowns….
that is one of them.
(Must…control…fist..of…death)
OK, everybody give the nice lady with the nuke some space…
Why?
The airline industry would have mostly died off in 2020 if not for massive bailouts. I’m pretty sure they’re still getting subsidies. I look forward to their demise, and that of Boeing as well.
Looking at flying to Myrtle Beach in a few weeks. Tickets are $22 each way. That’s far less than the gas to drive there.
I took a trip down to Atlanta a few weeks ago. It was pretty a much a full day’s drive each way. I had a horrible case of food poisoning on the way back, too. Still wouldn’t have flown. I’m not wearing a fucking mask and getting treated like a piece of livestock by an overpaid wannabe kapo.
That having been said, it also would’ve been more expensive to fly.
Still wouldn’t have flown. I’m not wearing a fucking mask and getting treated like a piece of livestock by an overpaid wannabe kapo.
#metoo
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Those are first class seats too, not steerage. In the past, there was a bit more allowance for the pointy nose cabin.
Still is. Can confirm.
I had seen this post on Instagram last night about how AOC had said on her live stream that when she says rich, she doesn’t mean herself.
I think it was like I mean the people with millions upon millions or even billions of dollars. and that people (her) making 170k a year aren’t rich.
My one response would be that, her policy would be taxing “the rich” but the rich is supposedly making 50 grand a year.
Moral consistency is a bug, not a feature.
I also see a distinction between a person who owns a plumbing business and makes $500k a year, and a well-connected politician who makes $170k in salary but lives a lavish lifestyle on other people’s money.
As well as probably many deals happening, maybe not as blatant as this but, if you say this I’ll give you this or if you vote on this bill I’ll give you a bunch of money.
A fricking $1,100 iPhone…
I just spent $450 on a new smartphone as the screen my 4+ year old smartphone was starting to die and it pained me to do so.
I have a Samsung Note 9. I ditched a Apple SE for it. I’ll never go back. I think you can still get the note 9’s for $250.
I’m annoyed that my new flip phone has to be charged more than once a week.
Baseball birthdays: HoFer Orlando Cepeda, Dan Haren, Jose Ramirez*, Ezra Sutton, Marcus Semien*, Frank Schulte, John Franco, Sam Streeter.
* indicates active players who premiered in 2013.
Ramirez is 28, if he could put up another 3-4 years like this year, and he may join Cepeda in the future.
I guess my white pill is that I really believe that nobody wants this dystopia we are becoming mired in. It gives me hope that we will come through this.
“Biden fails to convince Manchin to vote for 3.5t monstrosity.”
I guess destroying the energy industry doesn’t go over so well with a state whose economy is heavily based on coal.
People in Manchin’s state already have had plenty of experience with how valuable promises from team blue asshole politicians are when it comes to their livelihood, and they are keeping Manchin cause they know he knows his cushy job depends on him cock blocking other assholes.
He’s infinitely more useful than a GOPer for this battle.
West Virginia should be the leader in nuclear energy. Who says no!?
Good morning!
How about a lovely story of the Progs tearing each other apart?
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/ex-everytown-employee-working-there-was-like-being-in-an-abusive-relationship/
Huh. Someone who works with proggie nonprofits is also drawn to abusive and dysfunctional personal relationships? *begins rummaging around looking for shocked face*
My shocked face is at the cobbler’s for repair.
“Huh. Someone who works with proggie nonprofits is also drawn to abusive and dysfunctional personal relationships?”
‘You’re not really here for the hunting, are you?’
https://www.pornhub.com/video/search?search=moms+demand+action
Obviously NSFW.
Yanno, if EfGS just had a few more levels of management, and some more meetings to coordinate them, they’d probably be more effective.
Paddy-cake paddy-cake baker’s man, show me some titties as fast as you can.
https://archive.li/l5NEf
Friday Funbags.
Nothing to see here.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health has continued to funnel millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund scientific research in conjunction with Communist China since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, including to military-controlled organizations, The National Pulse can reveal.
Over half of the grants sent since early 2020 came from Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) database reveals that 13 grants have been sent to the country which has stonewalled investigations into the origins of COVID-19. China has also undertaken a global propaganda campaign to blame the U.S. for the virus, while America continues to send cash.
I really do understand the political dynamics of funneling money into states/districts – it creates jobs the politicians (unnecessarily) get credit for. But what politician is carrying this water – for no local benefit?
Clearly the CCP can cut bigger checks than local cronies.
I guess it’s a sign that the commies still need our help?
Seriously, WTF are we giving China any money?
Because they have Fauci and Collins’ balls in a vise.
If they stop the money flow, how long till the Chinese leak out out some unfortunate details about Wuhan?
Squeeze ’em until they pop says I.
I’m just spitballing here, because I have not made an exhaustive study of the patents that Fauci and friends hold (although if someone else has enacted that labor, I’d love to hear about it), but: my understanding is that even researching Coronavirus depends on licensing technology from various patents, same for manufacturing coronavirus “vaccines”. These patents are held by Facui and others in a circle of public health bureaucrats, government and academic researchers. The Chinese are not scrupulous about licensing IP, but I think they are pretty familiar with how kickbacks work. So Fauci sends money to China knowing that they will spend part of it on licensing fees that go into his, and his friend’s, pockets.
Also, Facui and his crowd seem to have a pathological compulsion to conduct gain of function research, and they can’t do that in the US. I don’t know what the payoff for this is, if it’s like a dick measuring contest (“look at how lethal MY virus is!”) or a “I can do it so I must do it” thing. Or, since they’ve been tinkering around with coronavirus vaccines for years, maybe the goal was to hold up some ginned-up super virus as rationalization for continued work/eventual approval of a vaccine, which also pays off Facui,. et al., in more patent licensing fees and investments in pharma.
I will now go get a new tin foil hat, apparently my current one has deteriorated.
2020 will forever be known as the year Occam’s Razor became an official conspiracy theory.
Scott Gottlieb has been extremely critical of how parochial and provincial the CDC is. The reason tests weren’t available early on was because the CDC was obsessed with protecting its intellectual property and hamstrung the effort.
“I think we have to stop coddling people, when it comes to this and the vaccine thing.”
“Tens of thousands became infected – and I can think of no other word that can describe the condition – by an anti-Tutsi psychosis; they were convinced through newspapers, radio and the frequent public speeches of Habyarimana’s closest supporters that the Tutsis were going to turn them into beasts of the field once again[…]the ruling party, produced a set of Ten Commandments that dictated how Hutus should treat their Tutsi neighbours. Among other things it described as ‘traitors’ any Hutus who married, befriended or employed Tutsis; all Tutsis were dishonest and, they were to be excluded from business and from positions of influence in education; crucially the Commandments – given wide circulation in Rwanda – urged Hutus to ‘stop having mercy on the Batutsi’.”
http://rwandanstories.org/origins/cheap_tricks.html
I just made the biggest financial transaction of my life (withdrawing nearly the entire balance of an investment account) and it STILL says it will take another 2-3 business days.
Why?!? They’ve stalled by several “business days” at every step along the way!! Are they moving funds by pony express and telegram?
I can only imagine that someone is making a few bucks along the way but these mutha fuckas are going to cost me my dream house with the pointless delays.
We live in the computer age. It’s MY MONEY. Give it to ME NOW!
/rant
The FBI has to finish combing through your life to make sure you’re using their money appropriately.
So MOAR GUNZ doesn’t count??
I thought this was America!!
(Laughs hysterically while rocking back and forth in a corner)
You just singlehandedly knocked down the first domino of the final collapse.
Should we send her a muffin basket as appreciation?
#notketo
Sorry, db (and the rest of you with dominos in the setup).
I have zero faith in the fiat currency anymore so I am translating what I have on paper (thanks, Elon!) into the title on land and a house. Maybe they will eventually come for that too but I think when/if we get to that extreme, a lot of scales will have fallen from a lot of eyes, and it ain’t just gonna be me against the grabbers.
The delays usually have to do with the financial entities looking for the best time to make the transactions to favor themselves. They make a fortune in interests & fees by playing with the monies in transfer….
Funny you should mention that
I can’t get past “ Pferd gegen” without giggling.
OK, that is funny right there.
I heard a radio story the other day that the banking system is using outdated networks for transactions, and this is causing all sorts of delays in transactions. But, the guy talking about it was pushing Crypto and saying that’s why we need Crypto, because the transactions are faster. I so I took what he said with a grain of salt.
Bitcoin solves this, I think.
Like I said, the guy was shelling Crypto, which could solve this, if it is even a real thing. I know not if it is.
I worked for an investment bank many years ago. I can guarantee that your money was swept into an overnight bond fund to make them a few bucks while they stall.
Thanks.
That’s pretty much what I figured. Some institution is charging a few percent somewhere along the way (and heck, it’s Friday so maybe they can charge moar for payday funds!!) just to give some other institution the glee of “owning” MY money for another couple of days.
Meanwhile I can’t make a cash offer on the house I want until I can prove I have the dang cash in hand. Which I don’t yet because of these asswipes.
“Please, sir. May I have my own money, if it’s not too much of a bother?”
I’ve seen in both 401k withdrawals and estates where companies will delay the withdrawal, if the market goes up they keep the difference. If the market goes down, oops we forgot to pull it out.
Pretty sure that’s what is happening.
They are probably pissed that I had too much control of my “self directed brokerage” portion (which was a third of my portfolio due to diligent investing and luck on my part) and was able to sell TSLA at its recent peak price instantly.
They couldn’t take their cut of that sweet lucre as I saw it happen in real time.
(Btw, as soon as the California house sells—-and I own only a fraction of it but still…—-I am buying TSLA again. I fully believe it’s going to hit $3k a share by 2025. It’s way more than a car company.)
TSLA is heavily subsidized by .GOV. When it finally tanks, it’s going to be quite epic.
That’s a misperception that a day or two of research could solve for you.
But you certainly don’t have to. Free county!!
Yet in every espionage/crime thriller ever written, millions get transferred to secret offshore accounts in seconds.
What institution is this? Not that it really matters, they all suck on some level.
Hewitt.
British ass-hats. Used to be with Fidelity (❤️) but brits bought the company so … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ah interesting, and yes shoutout to Fidelity. I don’t even have a bank account anymore, I just use a Fidelity cash management account.
I’m a big fan of Vanguard. They’ve always been good to me.
Most of the rest of my investments are with Vanguard. Very reliable, very light annual fees. Do recommend.
When you owe money – the transaction is instant
When you want your money – 2-10 business days, excluding holidays, lunch breaks and the occasional “oh..didn’t see that file that I needed to process”
Very interesting.
China’s Biggest Movie Star Was Erased From the Internet, and the Mystery Is Why
She’s been completely unpersoned, but nobody can explain why. So it would appear it was done simply as an example to other stars to make sure to stay in line. It’s very Soviet.
The content of the article aside, that page sets a new low in media formatting.
The Dark Lord will return.
For many, Biden was elected for one thing and one thing only: to walk our nation — our democracy — back from the cliff edge where former President Donald Trump and his cronies had led it, and where below waited fascism, demagoguery and totalitarianism. Simply put, Biden’s mandate was to ensure that Trump would never, ever, occupy the White House again — and ideally leave the political stage for good.
Yet we’re not even a year into his first term and Biden’s approval rating has dipped to 42%, thanks to political fumbles that are also creating an opening for a 2024 Trump run. Indeed, GOP insiders have noted that Trump has been signaling that he is more likely than not to run again in the next election.
Last fall, the two of us breathed a huge sigh of relief alongside millions of other Americans when voters delivered a resounding 306 to 232 electoral vote victory for Biden over Trump. With record turnout and a margin of more than seven million votes, the Biden win was a decisive rebuke to Trump — personally and politically. Although Biden won a number of swing states by the narrowest of margins, he did so with a coalition that included not only some Republicans disaffected with Trump but more than half of independent voters, according to exit polls. When Biden delivered his victory speech on November 7, 2020, he spoke about being for “we the people,” and how he had run to “restore the soul” of the nation and unify the country.
But somehow since that moment, the Biden administration seems to have forgotten its mandate. Through a series of self-inflicted wounds, miscalculations and gaffes, the Biden administration is “priming the pump” for a Trump presidency, part deux.
It’s amazing what malicious incompetence will do to public opinion.
breathed a huge sigh of relief alongside millions of other Americans
I don’t remember doing that. What happened was breathtaking, I’ll give it that.
“The Dark Lord” never left. He’s still nestled in that special deep space that these people carved out of their minds and lovingly lined with anxiety for him.
^^^ THIS
Whew, thank God Biden took us away from the threat of fascism, demagoguery and totalitarianism.
It all begins to make a bit more sense when you translate the terms into what they seem to actually mean.
fascism, demagogues, populism, totalitarianism, etc. = a single person makes the decisions and gets held personally responsible for the outcomes
democracy, experts, science, progressivism, etc. = a diffuse group of people make the decisions and none of them get held responsible for the outcomes
It’s not about Trump and never really was. A fact he himself only kind of understands.
Always teetering on the cliff edge of fascism…yet fascism, by its definition, has advanced steadily, thanks to both parties, for decades now.
Good on Manchin. I’d like to think he’s principled, but more likely he’s smart enough to not hitch his wagon to that shit show. Just getting this one bill isn’t going to make up for all of Joe’s fuck ups, nor will it prevent more in the future.
Or, he just doesn’t like Biden.
No one does.
I know this is delusional and something nobody in the political class would ever consider for a moment, but it really would be nice to hear a legitimately pro-science suggestion about the jab that went something like this:
“COVID has the potential to be a real problem for a lot of people. And it is communicable. So, it’s not something to treat lightly. Fortunately, we’ve developed a vaccine that we think is pretty effective at treating it. It’s not perfect. But, it really does seem to help. But, not everyone’s circumstances are the same. So, please, talk to your physician about one of the COVID vaccines. We’ve distributed a lot of information to doctors so that they’ll understand both the virus and the vaccine. He or she will be able to talk to you about your particular circumstances, the risks and the benefits of the vaccine and help you decide if getting the vaccine is right for you. “
Agree 100%, but the health care apparatus in this country has done everything it possibly can over the last twenty- to twenty-five years to impersonalize (is that a word) the doctor-patient relationship. All of this insurance-oriented medical care has made doctors interchangeable and patients interchangeable. The system doesn’t encourage one-to-one relationships and so there is little trust and far less respect, in both directions, than there used to be as late as the mid 1990s.
I guess I’ve gotten lucky. The doctor I have down here at least seems to at least be able to look at his charts and get some idea of my history. So, he asks about the injury I got earlier and whether I want to do anything about my smoking.
It’s not called the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act” for nothing.
Ha!
Heretic! Burn the witch!
It would be nice.
Also would be nice if they added a few paragraphs on therapeutics and things you can do without getting the vaccine.
“Regardless of whether you get the vaccine or not there are things you can do to to help protect yourself. Eat healthy and exercise. Obesity is bad when it comes to this disease. Take supplements like vitamin D and zinc. They seem to help and they do no harm at worst. Finally, if you begin to get symptoms talk to your doctor immediately about some of the treatments that have proven effective when started early”
Well, yeah, exactly. That’s a good, scientific way to give sound advice to the public. And, honestly, I really think that sort of honest leveling with the public would probably generate a lot more trust.
I really think they misinterpreted the leveling off of vaccination rates. I think back a couple of months, say, mid-June. Nobody was necessarily against the vaccine. I think they were shooting for a cool headline number and, when they failed to make it, started harping on all those “stupid, ignorant, awful people who won’t do what they’re told”. But, I don’t think that was the problem at that point. I think they just failed to accurately estimate how long it would take. And I think it was the “You must get vaxxed immediately, you stupid awful dummie!!” attitude that turned a lot of people against the jab. Because they discovered they could use it as a wedge issue. They could make it a sign of submission and loyalty, rather than a simple health tool.
It would have been nice if they put even 10% of the effort they’ve put into masks and vax’es into getting people to change their diet and exercise.
But that would be fat shaming. Which is bad, bad, bad.
Vax shaming or mask shaming, though, is totes righteous.
“It would have been nice if they put even 10% of the effort they’ve put into masks and vax’es into getting people to change their diet and exercise.”
When you have created a culture where it is now mandatory to see obesity as beautiful, and those that won’t comply are punished, it kind of will make you look stupid to have to walk that back, wouldn’t it?
Ron Johnson and Rand Paul have said crazy anti-vaxxer extremist stuff like that.
That kind of honesty from Day One would have made all the difference. I’m going to add my current soap-box speech. The narrative always was, and still is, that this is a deadly disease and everyone who gets it will end up in the hospital. I recently heard a commercial on Pandora for vaccines, and it said “If you are not vaccinated you have a high chance of ending up in the hospital if you get covid.” That is a 100% lie. Meanwhile you have people like me, who get a stuffy nose and think this doesn’t feel at all deadly therefore it’s not covid, so we just go about our lives infecting people. What I NEEDED to hear was, “People can have severe symptoms, but for some people symptoms can be very mild, so if you feel sick at all take a home test, and if it’s positive, stay home for 10 days.”
Sadly, this kind of thorough and balanced discussion is under attack. I was just thinking about this the other day with regards to sex changes and how any discussion of negative effects or contraindications of sex changes are being lambasted as “transphobic”.
With any medical treatment at all (whether it’s a vaccine, a sex change, or taking an aspirin) you must have a totally open dialogue with your doctor about what this treatment does, how effective it usually is, and what the side effects are. This is being chipped away by authoritarians who feel that they know the answer to these questions for every single person.
Conquering Europe by other means.
Addressing the European Parliament in Brussels, the EU Commission chief said that in the wake of President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the bloc should look towards the formation of a “European Defence Union”.
“In the last weeks, there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate – and I believe it will be part of the solution,” von der Leyen said.
“But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past… What has held us back until now is not just a shortfall of capacity – it is the lack of political will.
“And if we develop this political will, there is a lot that we can do at EU level.”
Truly, they need a triumph of the will.
And a slogan, maybe like Unity is Strength!
I’d love to be a fly on the wall in those EU meetings.
Imagine them trying to figure out a nice way to say that Germany should pay for this new fancy military group, but in no way will it ever be allowed to give orders to it.
Give the French command of the world’s most expensive surrender mechanism?
Wouldn’t putting the Turks in charge be a better way of remediating Europe’s long history of white rule?
Hold on their chief.
The Greeks think they should be in charge because of past problems with military culture.
Yeah…I bet the Poles would have a few choice words about that.
From the Silver Lining Dept:
I don’t think it is as fun to be a apparatchik as it used to be. Another school board member has resigned from a suburban school district. That makes 4.
The story doesn’t say that he was a flaming proggie, but he was a teacher and he is still going to “fully support” two tax levies that are coming up for a vote, so I think it is safe to assume he’s on the the left side of the aisle.
Reading between the lines, I think some parents in Stillwater are actually paying attention and holding the school board to account.
“I didn’t become a politician to listen to these asshole constituents!”
Yup. I’ll also bet big $$$ that he has a list of people who will get theirs.
I like to think of myself as a reasonable and rational person who is willing to listen and discuss viewpoints
Bless your heart.
“holding the school board to account”
God forbid…
To add to the frustration and stress, I’m now coming up on a full 24 hours of not being able to work because the company I work for decided to start maintenance in the middle of the day yesterday. Current prediction is that the connections won’t be up until Monday.
Based on previous predictions, I’m guessing I’ll still be done through at least Wednesday of next week.
Are you getting paid?
I am, but it doesn’t change the deadlines for projects and work that needs to be completed today. As it stands, we’ve been given nothing that we are allowed to tell the client.
Unless your company has decided to start having meetings every half hour to discuss why maintenance isn’t complete yet (and include ALL the people working on the maintenance tasks in those meetings), I have no sympathy for you.
And those meeting all have to be independent meetings scheduled by different managers/executives for them to fully count.
If you aren’t in that stage yet, I don’t think your company is really serious.
Derranged lunatic spin is the best spin.
What a load of horseshit.
That is insane.
You could write all day and not be able to fully catalog all the problems with his rant. It would be a tough task to find something in there that wasn’t wrong.
Just lost my footing again. Smashed my ear on the chair. Fuck this shit with a red hot dagger! I can’t even get diagnosed because Covid. Could stop drinking but that ain’t happening. ( I’m not that drunk, by the by, and this happens at work when I over-extend myself).
I am so sorry for your situation Festus.
Covid has brought out the worst in the Authoritarians and frightened people.
Can you just hitch a ride down to Bellingham and get looked at there? You can’t continue this way.
(er, there is an immigration problem, the details of which I am ignorant)
Ankle roll out?
I’ve not yet reached 40 and I’m already starting to feel old. Injuries I’d forgotten about suddenly reminding me of places my body has had to heal before. I try not to imagine how my 50’s and 60’s might feel.
‘imagine how my 50’s and 60’s might feel”
Better’n your 70s and 80s, guaranteed
.
*pours another drink*
*raises glass*
If I make it that far, may it not be boring!
I almost tripped into a nosedive at work last night. Some nights this nerve damage in feet fucks with me bad. After all the diagnosing was done I did break down and get a handi-cap parking permit that I only use at work, since otherwise I’d have to park at the top of a hill and walk down it in the night.
Take care of yourself Friend. Like was suggested the other day, I’d be willing to send some Amerobux your way if that can get you into a private clinic.
Sorry.
How outspoken do I dare be? Monday nite, I have to present the case – at a township meeting – to place a small monument (already paid for with funds I raised privately) on public property to a Rev War militia colonel who lived nearby. I’ve heard that opponents of this memorial have, as one objection, that said colonel may have been a slave-holder in colonial times. This is a fact – he manumitted a slave in his will (before Penna. outlawed slavery) but it isn’t clear if he, as a Quaker, had purchased the slave in order to free him. In any case, the colonel’s son, also a militia patriot, was a member of an early abolitionist group. Maybe I should gloss over this expected objection, or should I point out that said objection comes from people who seem to have no objection to the local high school having been named for someone who was an outspoken communist at the same time Uncle Joe Stalin was killing a couple million Ukrainians? I’m tending towards a-bombing any comments made that this colonel is undeserving of memorialization because he may have once held “wrong think” about slavery. What say you?
Just have the rebuttal ready, but just present him as someone worthy.
That’s about what I was thinking too. Hopefully, the person making this objection (on their facebook page) won’t have the guts to bring it up at a public meeting.
Take the high road.
I’d frame it so that the expectation was that he made the purchase to free the man.
Directly challenge the person objecting that if a memorial were to be raised in their honor, what imperfections in their life would sidetrack the effort?
Nice! Imagine what could be said about people at their funeral eulogies if “raising imperfections” wasn’t a dick move?
Go for it!
Depends upon how unpersoned you wish to be. Tread lightly or stomp like a giant. Your choice, Friend.
A few days ago there was a big mystery because 4 Minnesodans turned up shot to death in a SUV in a corn field in central Wisconsin and no one had any clue what happened.
Turns out Lex Luthor was not the murderer.
They still haven’t figured out the exact motive, but I’d be willing to bet that thug flies into town to hook up with girl and finds out she has new boyfriend and he decides to kill her, the boyfriend and the friends they were hanging out with.
He might have gotten away with it to if he hadn’t a) left his ID in the murder car, b) been seen by witnesses with the victims, c) been caught on tape at a gas station filling up murder car and d) borrowed the murder car from a friend.
Other than that it was the perfect crime.
Bunch of geniuses there…
I got nuthin.
Good behavior is white-supremacy.
Paul Gottfried made the point on Tom Woods the other day that this is not communism, this is cultural radicalism. It’s the most extreme leftist movement to have ever existed. Tearing down the norms of all behavior and destroying all meaning is the objective. They just believe that what will come after is somehow magically better.
They’re useful idiots. The Maoists at the top know exactly what comes after.
Pol Pot raises his hand…
Good point
It’s not an accident that competence and success are being labeled as tools of white supremacy by members of the kakistocracy (thanks for the term your holiness)….
This is why I won’t get the jab. It would be good behavior, and I wouldn’t want people to think I’m a white supremacist.
I’m sure medical status is in the rental agreement somewhere.
Santiago A. Alvarez, 80, who mostly owns properties in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, told his employees and new tenants they must be able to show proof of vaccination by August 15. Those who already live in the building must get vaccinated if they wish to renew their leases.
“We have to be concerned about our tenants and our employees. All of these are private properties. We’re just trying to keep people safe and healthy. It’s going to cost us money, but we’re very firm on that,” Alvarez told Florida’s Sun-Sentinel after 15 of his tenants died in the pandemic.
Really, it’s in the undervaxed’s best interest that they be housed somewhere with really excellent ventilation. Maybe with plentiful green space and without the need for long commutes?
Australia is working on exactly these types of facilities.
Camp Untermen… I mean Quarantine Facilities.
Not sure if my letter to the governor’s office did this, but suddenly the ACL Fest concert promoters have dropped the vaccine passport requirement. Or maybe someone on staff ran it by legal.
Course, now they’re doubling down and requiring all 80,000 attendees per day to produce a negative COVID test within 72 hours. Which will ramp up the hysteria levels because all that testing will cause a huge spike in cases, which will likely be blamed on the Rethuglikkkans.
And the resale value of our tickets has plummeted because of this bullshit.
It’s like people in government have weird incentives that make them do stupid things.
Chuseok, Korean Thanksgiving fully started for me at 5pm today (10:45pm now)! I’ve got 5 days off. Next day of work is my Thurs morning.
Thinking about going to the beach with possible new-maybe-more-than-friends lady and if I don’t, I’ll def go up to Seoul for some nice food out with her on Monday. We’re still talking it over. I am very happy that I mostly free from having to interact with people in my daily life. I hate the constant masks, but at least I don’t really have to talk to anyone about it. I get to live in my own little Ex-Pat bubble. My boss gave me a Chuseok gift, which is standard, but I was very impressed. Usually they are like olive oil and SPAM, which is actually a pretty respectful gift here. But she gave me delicatessen meats! Like…pretty fancy ones, at least for Korean standards.
Eight-or-so years in Korea; two in Singapore; and about 8 months in Thailand before The Incident. I have zero idea of how to be an adult in the US. Which is strange. But this is the biggest holiday of the year and it’s great to get five days off. We had summer vacation earlier but this is wholly national. Hopefully train tickets and things can be got if we decide to wander away.
Fun bit for ROBC and other baseball fans: I ‘m in Daejeon now and in Korea in ’13 when (substandard pitcher_ Dana Eveland was pitching in the KBO.
I played a show at an ex-pat bar and Dana came up and complimented me. We talked ball! Cubs fan and I asked about Braun–they played together. “He was SUCH an ASSHOLE and EVERYONE hated him.” It was an epic and hilarious rant. Described him as an utterly selfish/self-absorbed person who didn’t give a shit about any of his teammates. Players ignored him as talking to him would only lead to trouble. He was damn good at ball but was a shitty person. Just learned to tune out their gifted co-worker’s assholery.
It was amazing to talk shop with an MLB-er. I also got out my memorabilia cigar box the other day where I keep my ticket stubs, souvenirs, baseball tickets, all sorts of shit. I found my signed cards from Mark Grace, Tony Gwynn, and NOLAN RYAN! I take that box with me wherever I live. Lots of funky stuff in there. Always nice to have a place to keep treasured things. I’m a global migrant with no family of my own (nor do I want kids…after teaching them 8 hours a day the last thing I ever want is to go HOME to one of them, even if they are mine…), and I like it’s distinct Ev-ness.
Didn’t mean for such a long post. Watching QI with Stephen Fry right now and it’s long been one of my favorite shows. Such intelligent and humorous fun.
Stephen Fry is one of the most quintessentially British men alive.
I lurrrrve him.
I’m assuming they stuff the turkey with rice, or maybe ddukbokki?
Noooooope. Boring as fuck. And that’s from someone who thinks that turkey is boring as fuck. The gravy with potatoes is far better than the bird itself.
Songpyeon (송편) a Korean traditional rice cake. This I had to copy pasta cuz it’s meaningless: “Another popular Korean traditional food that people eat during Chuseok is hangwa. It is an artistic food decorated with natural colors and textured with patterns. Hang is made with rice flour, honey, fruit, and roots. People use edible natural ingredients to express various colors, flavours, and tastes.” GOOD JOB KOREA! Ya use “edible” ingredients! Christ.
Um….OK. They do bulgogi well and do eat it for Chuseok frequently. Just grilled pork/beef. Can be absolutely great. I’m assuming that’s cuz they want something that’s actually delicious and filling. Also super important is their rice wine: shin do ju– 신도주
Hands-down, Korean food is my least favorite in the world. Kimchi sucks, and even if one likes it, they have it at EVERY. SINGLE. MEAL. When one of their astronauts went up they asked him what he missed. He said he missed kimchi more than he missed his wife. It led to them figuring out a freeze-dried version of it. Yikes.
Mexican is my favorite. Love Italian, French, some British stuff, American food is almost universally great, Japanese is fantastic, Thai is slightly better than Vietnamese, Singapore has the best food per capita than anywhere else in the world (they’ve earned that reputation), and Germans get some stuff damn right. Korean lunch can be decent. Mandu dumplings and kimbap are just fine but not what I seek out too often, though I do have frozen mandu on hand. Their bbq is fun. But Korean breakfast is almost always rice+kimchi for folk. Just…baffling to me. I’ve been back here for six months and I’ve only eaten out at a Korean place once, and even then it was just fried chicken. It just doesn’t go well with me. Gochujang, their red pepper paste (always on kimchi and pretty much EVERYTHING) is just too overbearing. I think I might be one of them ‘super tasters.’ With that red pepper paste, I can’t tell cabbage apart from chicken. It just all tastes like the sauce. I…actively avoid it.
Pope Jimbo’s wife probably feels my comments and some deep anger is simmering towards me…
I used to watch a couple of Canadian hipsters on their “Eat Your Kimchi.” Youtube channel. Don’t know how much of it was exaggerated for clicks.
A long winded food rant and I’m in agreement with all of it, certainly on the broad strokes of each and the unappeal of kimchi/Korean food.
Two theories here, both of which I think are perfectly valid:
1. Cultural differences. Koreans require/love kimchi. It’s just an inherently important part of their roots. It is Korean and it’s theirs. Must always be.
2. Didn’t get freedom from Japan until ’45. August 15, ’45 is their national Independence Day. Crippling subjugation followed along with the Korean War. (The Koreans HATE the Japanese. Even my youngest kids.) Thanks to the Soviets, North Korea was ‘wealthier’ than the South until ’79. They are hard-as-fuck-working people (also with the highest or second highest alcohol use/abuse in the world) and have only recently gotten out of abject poverty. And now they are booming as the 11th biggest economy in the world. But their culture/roots are so ingrained that they have zero desire to stray away from it. They love fast food and pizza/pasta/etc, and I do get that frequently, but I think them being the most homogeneous country in the world means that to stray away (too far) from what makes them Korean would be to start rooting for the other team. This actually helps them along quite well. I consider SoKo to be a city-state. It’s the size of Indiana but with 55M instead of 5.5M. And they are 95% Korean. It’s one of the reasons that they culturally are All-In on the PanPanic. Do as the elders command.
It’s like asking me to root against the Cubs. It just ain’t gonna ever happen. The only time I will is in the World Series. NL over AL every single time, because the DH is an atrocity that is farcical heresy. I’d rather root for the Cardinals than the AL team.
I’m currently reading his book Mythos, which is a retelling of Greek mythology. Very enjoyable so far.
+1 on Mythos.
It looks like he made about $4MM over his MLB career. Not bad for a negative WAR player (-1.5 career).
Not at all bad. He was certainly good enough to BE there, and that’s saying a helluva lot, even if he wasn’t ever much. But I saw him when he was pitching for Daejeon’s Hanwha Eagles (who…fucking suck). I don’t think I ever saw him pitch. KBO teams can only have two foreigners on each team. That’s the limit. He was with a Dominican player at the bar, but I only saw him and didn’t speak to him. Don’t know his name. They were with their Korean handler who helped them out.
It really was just so special for a lifelong baseball fan (and played for 10-13 or so years as a kid) for him to just come up and really enjoy my band and my drumming. Very cool memory. He fucking bought me a drink! I’ll take that all day, every day.
You’re in good company there.
That is sadly true. I will say that I can say that my ineptitude would be for completely different reasons, at least. I’ve lived in Asia since 2009, barring hip surgeries/vacations and The Incident. I am glad that I don’t have to be surrounded by Americans. I would probably avoid them all or they’d start fights if I opened my mouth and spoke my mind.
This is made much worse by the reality that my bro/SiL are HARDCORE hook-line-and-sinker Team Bluers. I have to bite my tongue constantly when I’m around them. To speak openly would mean that I don’t get to spend time with my nephews. I…do my best to mute myself and react as little as possible to their blatant and proud tribal affiliations.
I’ve pondered this lately. We lambast Lefties for living in an ideological bubble, but is it possible that we’ve maintained that bubble for them by holding our tongues in the interest of civility? I know we all have to make sacrifices in the interest of civility, but where does this end? How do we win the battle of ideas of Lefties are emboldened to trumpet their authoritarian views anywhere and everywhere but we are staying silent?
(and I’m not chastising you for your decision to refrain from political discussion around them, I’m just ruminating here)
My rule these days is: If they don’t want to talk about politics, I won’t either. But if they’re spouting factoids that are solidly proven to be false, I’m going to speak up (just like they’d speak up if I said there was a tracking device in the vaccine). And if they insinuate that people like me should be silenced for having the “wrong” opinions or banned from receiving medical care because I chose not to get the vax, I’m going to defend my position and let them know where they stand morally. If that means there’s an unpleasant decision at Thanksgiving or Christmas, so be it.
I’m right there with you on when to bring up politics Akira.
Well said, that is pretty much where I am WRT politics. I’d rather not discuss, but if you insist…
My SIL is a lefty, my older sister is a conservative until it comes to her pet issues, but has always preened as a lefty because the rest of the family is to the right and she has a need to be ‘different’. I’m open, in a civil way, about my stances. I don’t engage unless they start it. My SIL has actually come around to at least respecting my opinions, because I usually bring up points she never considered. If you’re willing to take the kids off their hands, most parents will let you visit with the kids, because everyone gets sick of the monsters they created.
There are fewer and fewer reasons to be an adult. that’s by design. The kakistocracy wants you to be unable to care for yourself so they can stay on top regardless of how inept, corrupt, and downright evil they are…
New proposed CO districts were released yesterday,
The first proposal, my district was Larimer, Boulder, and Gilpin Counties. Gilpin pushed it back to the right a little, making it more of a lean D district. Now it is Larimer, Boulder, and the ski counties, making it a safe D district. The new map basically makes all the incumbents reasonably safe. And keeps them separated.
There are 3 safe R districts, 3 safe D districts, a lean D district and a tossup district (the new 8th).
And looking in more detail, my part of Larimer County would be in the 4th district actually, To make them both safe, they moved a GOP heavy part of Larimer to the GOP district.
It turns out the “Independent” commission cares a lot about what the current congressman want.
*shocked surprise*
Loveland, Timnath, Wellington, and Windsor and all part of D4 in the latest proposal. Along with 2200 unincorporated people. The first 3 are entirely in Larimer County, Windsor is mostly in Weld County, but extends into Larimer. In the previous version, only Windsor(plus a tiny number of unincorporated) was in D4, IIRC.
Shocked there’s still a Gilpin County in Colorado. Don’t you un-woke rubes know that Gov. Gilpin’s brother was the U.S. Attorney General who backed the re-enslavement of the ship Amistad African American escapees?
Mornin’
A representative with the state Senate confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the review of the 2020 election, which included a recount of roughly 2.1 million ballots cast in the county and a forensic inspection of voting machines used in the general election, would be released on Sept. 24.
Let’s see this report and see if it is a somethingburger or a nothing burger. After the Windham, NH audit which was played up to show fraud in NH and actually showed no shenanigans or fraud, I’m skeptical.
Why it matters: Defying a president from his own party — face-to-face — is the strongest indication yet Manchin is serious about cutting specific programs and limiting the price tag of any potential bill to $1.5 trillion. His insistence could blow up the deal for progressives and others.
This is interesting.
Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo took aim at those Americans who have not yet been vaccinated, saying that they were “stupid” and deserved to be “left behind.” Lemon previously said unvaccinated people don’t deserve to participate in society.
Go fuck yourselves.
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration is likely to face difficulty enforcing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and may have to rely on publicly shaming companies, a tactic popularized during the Obama era.
I think we will see this OSHA rule will be bluster.
bill signed into law last week by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul effectively outlaws the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in less than 14 years.
The law, Senate Bill S2758 and Assembly Bill A4302, sets a goal that 100% of all passenger cars, trucks and off-road vehicles will be zero-emission. The goal is 2045 for larger vehicles, such as medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses.
Go fuck yourselves.
In NH, we’re fighting two Federal grants related to pushing and propagandizing the Lil Rona vaccine.
I haven’t seen news stories about it. The information has come through Reopen NH channels.
Both, for reasons I don’t fully understand, have to go through votes by the Executive Council and a vote by a legislative committee. As a side note, the NH legislature is not in session, but committees and legislators are meeting to hash out stuff like bills for the next session.
Yesterday, the Executive Council voted on both grants. They killed both. However, one of councilors wanted a reconsideration of the one grant, which the council voted for. The grant is “laid on the table”, which means it can be considered later unless the legislative committee kills it.
The legislative committee is meeting now.
According to the Reopen NH channels, this grant, the one still alive, has in it strings. Among them are that if the state takes the money, the state must comply with any new directive from the CDC regarding the vaccine. So, if the Feds want the state to go door to door forcing people to get vaccinated, the state has to help out if it takes the money.
I don’t know if other states have received these grants. I’ve been a busy with work, looking for new work, and getting ready for a trip to PA, so I haven’t dug into the grants.
Elon being Elon
LOL
That guy…
It is kind of a creepy photo. They look like spines and ribs of an alien species
It is the dark side 🙂
That tweet blows.
Well, that was gale force criticism.
He was just shooting the breeze.
Seen at the gym: Someone curling in power racks.
Urgh.
If they didn’t want you curling in the power racks, they shouldn’t have put so many mirrors there.
Do they provide you with the brooms and or the stone though?
Lol.
Thanks for the giggle on this gloomy morning.
What say you: Hang-cleans on the power-rack? They are slightly curl adjacent.
Depends on the availability of bumper plates and floor space. But definitely higher up the food chain than curls.
Seconded.
How strange that Cuomo would go out of his way to say that.
Oddly specific.
Poison dissent by associating it with a lunatic strawman.
Disinformation 101
Yep: I can tell you one thing, I am not a lizard person (thereby all people who criticize me are kooks and all criticism is reduced to that level). It’s a tried and true shit tactic and a pretty good tell that you’re being BSsed.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Fredo the Greater is, demonstrably, not concerned with protesting ladies.
Lol, I mean besides, an app on your phone that allows you into buildings based on vaccination status by scanning a QR code would be much more possible. That could track you in theory, but that’s not happening either.
“Are there people in the Republican Party who think we’re sucking the blood out of kids?” – Creepy Joe
Not until you mentioned it…
What are the rural NY-ers going to do when it becomes clear that cold weather saps the shit out of their batteries?
Anecdotally here in Minnesoda EV owners will admit that when it gets real cold the range of their cars is cut nearly in half. But I’m sure it will be fine when the NY’ers figure that out as their car runs out of juice out in the country when it is real cold.
It’s almost like people should have the freedom to choose…
“people should have the freedom to choose those things which experts have agreed is best for them.”
/technocrat
It reminds me of the “Moon over Parador” movie set in a fictional South American country in which they were very proud and patriotic about the upcoming re-election of the dictator.
The two factions demonstrating in the streets had either the dictator’s official portrait in Red tint or the very same portrait in Blue.
They were all very passionate about it.
When I first saw the movie I guffawed at the banana republic. Now…
You can work around those cold weather issues, but it’s not like “turning a key a go”.
And given the distances in rural areas it’s a real issue.
In NY no one drives. Because there’s too much traffic.
+1 Lawrence Peter Berra
And Kathy is from western NY.
Narrator: She still doesn’t give a shit about rural NY.
Kovid Karens strike again.
Shannon Heroux is a fun-loving mom on Instagram who posts about her child, hiking, and her family. She’s also deaf. The deaf community has suffered a great deal during COVID restrictions as one of their main ways of understanding the world around them, lip-reading, has been taken away with mass masking. Heroux posted her first videos on TikTok after she says she reached a breaking point with the discrimination she has suffered for almost two years.
“I am at my breaking point in this pandemic,” she said. Heroux is an Uber driver and went into her favorite Dunkin’ Donuts store to get an iced tea in Encino, California. When she tried to order her drink, she asked the employee to take down her mask so she could read her lips, informing her that she is deaf. Heroux says she wears a cochlear implant but did not have it on that day and could hear nothing. Instead of giving reasonable accommodations to Heroux, like pulling down her mask or writing down her words, the staff member continued talking behind her mask while Heroux heard nothing.
“I was so confused,” Heroux said. “She called the manager… I could tell by his face and body language that he was going off and kept [gesturing to his face] and I kept saying ‘I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you!’” she said. “He refused to write anything down… we were six feet apart through the plexiglass,” she said. “What more do you want? We’ve struggled so much through this pandemic,” Heroux said, referring to deaf people. “He didn’t believe me,” she said sobbing. “He didn’t believe that I was deaf because I speak so well. It’s a blessing and a curse.”
Poor girl. Also would.
“Imamamai bakingpoin innis pannemic,” she said.
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The Gen. Milley apologies continue to roll in. I can just image the reaction to a phone call such as this: “Hello, Erwin? It’s Ike. How’s the family? Yeah, Mamie’s fine back there in the states, as long as she doesn’t find out about the piece of fluff who is ‘driving’ me around, hee hee. Look, I called you because Winnie and Rosie are getting a little crazy about wanting us to invade France. Yeah, yeah, that asshole Georgie thinks his tanks will run all over your panzers. Anyway, I’ll try to put the screws to their plans but will give you a heads up about where and when we are coming if they order me to invade. Good. Good. Talk to you soon. And say ‘hi’ to your party leader.”
Good grief.
Hysterical and horrifying at once. Nicely done. Requires just enough mental effort on the part of the reader to be rewarding. 🙂
History! I hardly knew you….
Word.
Watching liberal media stars spend 5 years trying to thread the needle between “we are so grateful to the unelected but noble Generals thwarting Trump” and “only insane conspiracy nuts believe the US has a Deep State” has been quite dizzying.
Goor morning, Banjos!
I love that song.
That is all.
One of my friends had some discussion about Universal Basic Income and he wrote this little doozy:
“I was talking with X this weekend about my belief that everyone has depression/generalized anxiety but it’s just so widespread that most people think it’s normal – and part of my point was about how deeply unnatural industrial capitalism is relative to the overwhelming majority of human experience, where the idea of working all year with no seasonal ebbs and flows was totally foreign for almost everyone for basically the inception of our species until like 150 years ago (and that’s before you get into the levels of abstraction we’re incapable of viscerally internalizing between our work and both the creation of something of value and the relationship between the value we create and the return we actually get for it).
One thought that came to mind is the role the randomness and indifference with which the capital-holding class approaches choices that destroy the lives of thousands (or even millions) of people, and to a lot of people the capitalists are basically like meteorological forces used to be – and in that sense it makes sense that the poorest and most powerless people worship the rich in the same way that agrarian people prayed to hopefully protect themselves from droughts, floods, etc.”
cont:
“The problem is one of teaching people that these aren’t forces of nature – these are people who are no better (and almost universally FAR worse) than the people whose lives they routinely destroy with complete indifference. We reached the point long ago where we could afford to make sure we could live without the fear of losing your home, or your healthcare, or your children’s access to quality education, or your access to food and clean water – and it needs to be clear that there’s nothing pragmatic about choosing to continue to subject ourselves to those threats. The choice is solely one of values, and we’re routinely stating that we value the rich more than we value ourselves.”
So… top men in charge. Yep, they’ll be so much better than those filthy wealthy people!
The background on this guy: He comes from old money and was actually the one who led me into libertarianism. But a couple of years ago he became disillusioned with libertarianism because he felt as though it didn’t address the inequalities in our system and also having a healthy dose of shame of being born into wealth.
The disconnect with those kind of guys is usually with a misunderstanding of hard currency versus fiat currency.
They become so focused on the effects of our current crony capitalist system that they cannot see that it is the very existence of the Fed that causes the problems.
Um, what?
Also, no. generalized anxiety isn’t about being nervous or worrying about things. It’s random attacks where you feel like you’re having a heart attack. Literally having all the symptoms of a heart attack. Chest pains, numbness in the arm, inability to breathe. It’s ‘generalized’ because there is no clear trigger. There may be some known triggers, but it can happen randomly because we don’t really know shit about it. This has gotten even worse than people claiming they have OCD because they like to wear pressed clothing.
A lot of people these days find it cool to boast about having a mental illness. In my amateur psychological opinion, they probably choose one that roughly corresponds to some aspect of their behavior, and it gives them an excuse to avoid correcting that behavior. This way, they can settle in to the comforting thought that their behavior isn’t the problem, it’s because of anxiety, OCD, depression, or whatever other disorder they read about on Wikipedia five minutes ago (just to emphasize, I’m sympathetic to people who actually have diagnoses of these things and hope they find some therapy that helps them live a better life. I’m talking about the edgy teenagers who read about this shit online, do a self-diagnosis, and brag about it all over social media).
And best of all, that gives them an excuse to avoid confronting their own actions/behaviors! It’s all because of the illness, so they don’t have to reflect on their actions – instead, everyone else needs to be more sensitive and accommodating to their condition.
Naturally, this is totally inconducive to actually improving your mental health. People like this are usually miserable.
“And best of all, that gives them an excuse to avoid confronting their own actions/behaviors! It’s all because of the illness, so they don’t have to reflect on their actions – instead, everyone else needs to be more sensitive and accommodating to their condition.”
Ding ding ding, we found a winner. The concept of accountability is so foreign in today’s culture.
So some mental illnesses are contagious, such as bulimia, gender fluidity, credentialism, etc?
What capitalism has done is make people extremely wealthy and with tons of leisure time to post bullshit like this on Facebook
how deeply unnatural industrial capitalism is relative to the overwhelming majority of human experience
Poverty and tyranny are the norm. Liberty and prosperity are unnatural. Some people are pushing for us to return to the natural state.
Two things come to mind.
First, where is this industrial capitalism to be found? Spend a year, a decade, or hell, your whole adult life, working in a factory, then you can talk about “industrial capitalism”. Service work and office work are not “industrial capitalism”, though they probably wouldn’t exist without it.
Which leads to the second problem, “we reached the point ago where we could afford to [have our cake and eat it too].” So you want to do away with industrial capitalism but you still want to reap its fruits? You don’t have “access to quality education” and all those other things without the surplus value produced by the effective exploitation of natural resources, labor, and other capital under industrial capitalism. Clean water, nutritious food, ample shelter, and all the rest are only made possible by people toiling in factories and doing other dirty jobs behind the scenes.
Luxury communism will always be the perverse fantasy of the spoiled scions of the degenerate late generations of once-great families. They’re like house negroes looking at their masters’ lives with envy and whistling past the field negroes who toil away and make the lifestyle possible to begin with.
You may not like your service work or office job, but nobody’s stopping you from picking up a hoe and tilling a field, or picking up an axe and felling some timber, or learning to weld and plying your trade, etc. If you don’t do the former, you will have to do the latter. The world does not owe you simply for the fact of your existence.
nobody’s stopping you from picking up a hoe and tilling a field, or picking up an axe and felling some timber, or learning to weld and plying your trade, etc.
the government?
At least, no matter who is complaining these days I can say, ‘Don’t blame me, I voted for Kanye.’
Gordon Ramsay Cooks the Perfect Apple Berry French Toast in Michigan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFSkbsyasu8
The UP isn’t Michigan, Da Yoopers will tell ya dis.
Canada’s Chief Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam and Andrew Dice Clay should go on the road promoting the safety and effectiveness of covid vaccines. Kind of a science / comedy show.
Fuck me.
Some material we are waiting for (foam) went from 9/3 delivery, to 9/16, to 9/27 and now to 10/11.
But hey, everything’s fine.
OMG the logistics chain on everything from high tech to mundane shit is KILLING us on our contracts right now.
But no problem; we’ll just press the pause button on the economy off and on as we like and nothing bad will happen, right?
Gotta flatten that curve harderer!
These politicians seriously think the economy is like a game of SimCity.
My wife just heard from her hairdresser that PA commie liquor stores are limiting customers to two bottles of booze, because of shortages. Glibs hardest hit!
Yes.
I overheard a coworker complaining about that this morning. I thought she was crazy. But then the NPR confirmed it. The supply chain issues are fucking everywhere. This is crazy.
I tried to buy two generic (for a Ford) automotive bolts for my Mustang last weekend. I had to drive an hour down to a dealer that had them in stock, even though I’m surrounded by Ford dealers. Shit sucks.