Thursday Afternoon Links, Now with Moar Linkitude

by | Oct 14, 2021 | Daily Links | 265 comments

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HERO KID SHOOTS HOME INTRUDER: “He started crying like a little baby.”

 

 

LIMEYS FINALLY HAD ENOUGH: Motorists pull Insulate Britain activists off highway they were blocking. IB suspends ‘civil resistance’ campaign. And who is Insulate Britain, you ask? Far-right, nationalist group? Pro-vax group calling for New Zealand-style isolation? No, ‘climate activists,’ who are an affiliate of those zanies at Extinction Rebellion.

 

 

 

INCENTIVES, HOW DO THEY WORK: City of San Francisco decriminalizes shoplifting, surprised when retailers close up shop.

 

 

FLORIDA MAN: Shoots down law enforcement drone. Can’t say we really blame him given this.

 

 

 

 

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265 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “No, ‘climate activists,’ who are an affiliate of those zanies at Extinction Rebellion.”

    Still a great name though.

  2. Count Potato

    “Can’t say we really blame him given this.”

    Hasn’t anyone seen RoboCop?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      WOOF

      YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO COMPLY

      WOOF GRRRR

      YOU HAVE FIVE….

    • Gadfly

      I was just going to say that makes the better comparison. That thing even looks more like the ED-209 than the T-800.

    • Count Potato

      54%? Yikes!

      • kinnath

        Mid-American Energy (service in Iowa) says 46% to 96% higher this winter.

        I am not with Mid-American, but I expect Alliant is seeing the same futures pricing that Mid-American is.

        So yeah, Fuck Joe Biden!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s “Let’s Go Brandon!”

        Sheesh…

      • Rat on a train

        The LGB community is touchy.

      • kinnath

        As my mother always says: I call a spade a spade.

      • UnCivilServant

        *tries to dig with a playing card*

    • Ghostpatzer

      Ouch. Gotta lower my thermostat to 69, I guess. Doing my bit for the planet.

      • Fourscore

        I looked at the thermometer in the living room at noon, 69, it felt cold but Mrs F had a sweater on and was busy working. I like it a little warmer. I’m gonna start a fire in the little basement stove, warm up my office/living room.

      • Ghostpatzer

        I have a wood-burning fireplace which does a great job heating the air above the chimney. Other than being pretty it is otherwise useless.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        #metoo

      • R C Dean

        Retrofit a wood stove, and your heating woes will be over. Since you have a chimney, you’ve got the hard/expensive part. Probably need a new pad for the woodstove, and they may need to run a stainless flue up the chimney. So, its not cheap, but its very doable.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Thanks, RC. I need to figure out if it will be worth it, since I plan to leave within 5 years.

      • Bobarian LMD

        A Buck Stove insert works wonders and blends right into the fireplace. Had one in back when I was a bachelor living with other young officers.

        We avoided freezing to death via pizza boxes.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Nice

  3. kinnath

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senator-sinema-rejects-vote-big-biden-package-before-infrastructure-source-2021-10-14/

    WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a key moderate, told fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives this week that she will not vote for a multitrillion-dollar package that is a top priority for President Joe Biden before Congress approves a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, according to a source briefed on the meeting.

    Love them boots.

    • Lackadaisical

      She’s always wearing those, its like she knows my kryptonite. Though, not seeing them featured in the article.

    • Lord Humungus

      You know who else liked a good set of boots.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Sgt. Slaughter?

      • kinnath

        Uh, see my link.

      • MikeS

        Don’t tell me what to do!

      • Rat on a train

        Puss?

  4. Rebel Scum

    “He started crying like a little baby.”

    “I hope you learned your lesson.”

    That kid is a straight shooter.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Apparently ’twas the twelfth shot which found its’ mark. Kid will make a good cop.

      • R.J.

        Kid needs to get recompensed for the cost if ammo.

      • db

        “I continued to fire until I no longer feared for my life.”

      • hayeksplosives

        I reckon he was a bit nervous. Pretty good for an 11 year old.

        Now he can concentrate on his accuracy.

  5. Count Potato

    “California law dictates that theft of less than $950 in goods is penalized as a nonviolent misdemeanor.”

    But if it’s over $600 it gets reported to the IRS?

    • juris imprudent

      How else does the Big Guy get his 10%?

    • rhywun

      “Penalized”… “completely ignored”… same difference, right?

  6. Lackadaisical

    @OBE, my friend will probably wait, in order to get additional time. He works in a life safety critical role, and the department is already really busy, but who knows what will come down from on high.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yeah I was torn. I put it in and it also protects from any upward pressure to get vaccinated now. They know my intentions.

    • Rat on a train

      With the mandate deadlines now declared, I risk losing one of my good developers if an exemption isn’t granted.

  7. Rebel Scum

    Robotics firm equips ‘robo dog’ with night-vision SNIPER RIFLE

    Tell me it is named “Johnny 5”.

    • Surly Knott

      PleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePlease

    • MikeS

      More like Johnny 666

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Johnny 5 is alive.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      No disassemble!

  8. The Late P Brooks

    So yeah, Fuck Joe Biden!

    He just wants you to pay your fair share.

  9. Ghostpatzer

    That Extinction Rebellion protestor looks ready to perpetuate the species. I am confused.

    • juris imprudent

      She does not engage in reproductive sex.

      • Ghostpatzer

        NOOOO!! You just lit the SF signal! *assumes fetal position, whimpers*

      • Lackadaisical

        Back door only.

      • R C Dean

        There is another option.

      • Drake

        Looks like she’s equipped with all the options.

      • Gadfly

        There are several other options.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Limey roadblock:

    Needs moar tire irons.

  11. Sean

    So yall saw 2 blade runners, a westworld show and movie , 10 terminator movies 2 Battlestar Galactica shows, irobot and still thought this was a good ideal smh we doomed

    No mention of Screamers? I am disappoint.

  12. Rebel Scum

    “Wow. I have never had to think before.”

    Campus Reform reporter Ophelie Jacobson talked to students at the University of Florida on game day about diversity quotas. She first asked students if they support diversity quotas in hiring decisions and in college admissions processes. Most of the students said yes. …

    Jacobson then showed students what the Florida Gators’ offensive lineup would look like if the team implemented diversity quotas based on student population demographics. Students didn’t think it would be fair to implement the quota for the team.

    • rhywun

      “THAT’S DIFFERENT!”

    • l0b0t

      Well, it’s certainly made clear that FAMU/FSU has hotter student bodies and better tailgating.

  13. Count Potato

    “Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says court changed rules so justices speak one at a time because the women were interrupted at twice the rate of the men

    ‘Most of the time women say things and they are not heard in the same way as men who might say the identical thing,’ Sotomayor said during a talk with the New York University school of law on diversity and inclusion.

    Sotomayor said that the rules were changed permanently after data from one study which found that during arguments for the 2015 term, females were interrupted during oral arguments 141 times while males, only 73. Females interrupted others during oral arguments 37 times, while males interrupted others 177 times.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10092659/Liberal-Supreme-Court-Justice-Sonia-Sotomayor-says-court-changed-rules-oral-arguments.html

    • Plisade

      There’s a strong argument to be made for spirited debate, at least in my world of conducting and participating in management meetings. The most important prerequisite to such is that there’s a high level of trust in the group – trust that there are no hard feelings afterward, you’re respected in spite of differing opinions…

      Trying to think about what this means for SC Justices, and what this would mean if a member of my staff requested such a meeting rule. I think that member would be laughed out of the room, and I’d consider firing it. It’s actually part of our review process to critique management on their assertiveness and courage to speak up.

    • Gadfly

      That study is meaningless unless they also measured speaking time. Long-winded people deserve to be interrupted. Brevity is the soul of wit.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Blah, blah, blah. Try saying something worth listening to, honey.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Roberts and sotomayer are commies shitbirds. If they are for something, its probably bad for everyone else.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Mack Sennett approves.

    • Sean

      Heh.

  14. UnCivilServant

    Funny thing about the model I’ve been painting. The pauldrons are supposed to have a red base color, but there are so many details heaped upon details that there’s almost no room for any of the red.

  15. kinnath

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/14/fda-panel-unanimously-recommends-moderna-covid-booster-shots-for-at-risk-adults.html

    A key Food and Drug Administration advisory committee unanimously recommended Thursday giving booster shots of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine to people age 65 and older and other vulnerable Americans, a crucial step before the U.S. can start administering third shots to some of the more than 69 million people who originally received that vaccine.

    The nonbinding decision by the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee would bring guidelines for Moderna in line with third shots of Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine. Those shots were authorized less than a month ago to a wide array of Americans, including the elderly, adults with underlying medical conditions and those who work or live in high-risk settings like health and grocery workers.

    • kinnath

      Will need to deal with this next spring.

    • grrizzly

      And this is the evidence the FDA used to authorize the Moderna booster.

      moderna is looking to get “booster shots” for their covid vaccine approved by the FDA.

      so far, it’s not going terribly well. medpage today (a wonky and non partisan medical rag) was not pulling punches. (HERE) “meh” is a technical term of art in medicine, but i suspect you get the drift.

      this “trial” was poorly designed, poorly run, rigged in 10 different ways to show efficacy, and it STILL DIDN’T WORK.

      it’s full of lots of nasty little tricks.

  16. Rebel Scum

    YouTube is assho. Change my mind.

    YouTube suspended Steven Crowder’s channel for one week on Wednesday, claiming the conservative pundit and comedian violated the platform’s rules against hate speech.

    YouTube’s counsel sent an email to Crowder’s attorney, William Richmond, informing him of the strike against Crowder’s account and explaining that a September 30 video uploaded to Crowder’s channel “targets the transgender community in an offensive manner,” according to a copy of the email. YouTube has blocked Crowder from posting videos to his main and auxiliary accounts for one week.

    • Lord Humungus

      Remember the days when the internet was an explosion of free speech, citizen journalists and commentators? Pepperidge Farm remembers!

      • Ghostpatzer

        Usenet will rise from the ashes!

      • UnCivilServant

        Usenet had one serious shortcoming – every node copied everything to itself every synch.

      • Mojeaux

        From your fingers to God’s ears. I ❤️ Usenet.

      • Sensei

        It’s still my preferred source for entertainment “content”.

      • Count Potato

        What do you use for a client?

      • Sensei

        Newsleecher.

      • Animal

        I miss Usenet.

    • R.J.

      That’s why I refuse to link to them for the most part. Untrustworthy service.

    • rhywun

      He should just change all references from transgender to Jew and repost it.

    • Count Potato

      “YouTube told The Daily Wire in a statement: “We removed content from and issued a strike to the StevenCrowder channel for violating our hate speech policy, through repeated targeting of the LGBTQ+ community. Hate speech is not allowed on YouTube, and in some cases, we remove content or issue other penalties–such as a strike–when a creator repeatedly targets, insults and abuses a protected group based on attributes such as sexual orientation or gender identity and expression across multiple uploads.”

      So FYTW?

  17. The Late P Brooks

    New York Post headline:

    Alaska lawmaker banned from airline over mask mandate gets COVID-19

    Take that, heretic! May the fires of Hell consume thee!

    • Lord Humungus

      OH noes! I’m sure he is on death’s door; telling everyone that he knows that he wishes he had been vaxxed 15 times over. Repent! Repent!

  18. Ghostpatzer

    The SF proggies might be OK with evil retail outlets closing due to theft, they’re getting everything from Amazon anyway. I wonder if they’ll be OK when their online purchases are no longer arriving because there are no more stores left to rob.

    • Drake

      Wait till they figure out that a few bent nails will stop an Amazon van.

  19. Yusef drives a Kia

    I was just uploading pics for a new article and wondered what all the wierd pictures were, now I know….

  20. Lord Humungus

    Well that was one of the nastiest colds I’ve ever had: it took four days of exhaustion before the main symptoms hit: a throat that felt like broken glass and snot. It was a total of 9 or 10 days before I got enough strength back to workout and do the other things I need to do.

    I never had a fever, reduction of breath volume (which is awesome thanks to my fitness), or a loss of taste.

    I blame COVID – not the disease – but the social distancing aspect which probably made my immune system weaker.

    • R.J.

      Glad you feel better. Interesting to hear about your experience. Seems everyone has a different one.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Glad you’re feeling better. Spot on about social distancing, there are a lot of nasty bugs circulating now. Extinction Rebellion is happy, I am sure.

    • Tundra

      I’m glad you are feeling better. You hammering the zinc, D3/K2 and all the other immunity things?

    • Ownbestenemy

      I blame COVID – not the disease – but the social distancing aspect which probably made my immune system weaker.

      So we had another datapoint and that was a hockey game. Same damn thing, 4-5 days after the event: groggy, head fog type feeling, mild ‘cold symptoms’ for half a day and then fine.

      Seriously blame the whole social distancing factor and not being constantly exposed to various pathogens on a weekly/monthly basis for that.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        We’ve been taking multivites plus C/D/Zinc during our road trip for that reason. Didn’t want to come down with something halfway through the trip because our immune systems were out of practice. I’m the kind of person who gets a cold (or allergies that morph into a cold) most every time I travel, but not this trip! *knocks on wood for the last 2 days*

  21. Tundra

    London should hire the cowboy Border Agents. Can’t you see them ropin’ the losers and draggin’ them off the highway?

    • R.J.

      Yes. Yes I can.
      *closes door for privacy

    • cavalier973

      Some see

      Some see when shown

      Some never see

      ~some historic smart guy, probably Da Vinci or Newton or Gandalf

    • Ownbestenemy

      Gotta make a dollar I guess. Who buys this shit?

    • rhywun

      Better safe than sorry.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Once we get this camel in the tent, they’ll never want it to leave

    Progressive House Democrats have put down their marker in the debate over how to cut costs from President Joe Biden’s sprawling economic plan.

    Top Congressional Progressive Caucus members on Wednesday urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to keep all of the proposed programs in the package intact. Instead, they proposed cutting the duration of the programs in order to reduce spending. Top Democrats are deciding whether to make policies last for fewer years or scrap programs entirely in order to slash the plan’s price tag to appease centrists.

    ——-

    The representatives added that they believe setting up temporary programs will “establish a track record of success that will pave the way for a longterm extension of benefits.”

    “Track record of success”

    Umm hmmm.

    • Lord Humungus

      Like all those other great programs that lifted millions of people out of poverty. ::eye roll::

      • TARDis

        Poverty in this country is pretty good (for now) compared to poverty in many other nations.

      • Urthona

        We use a “relative poverty” metric meaning it will never really go down in any significant way unless things are very very bad.

        In terms of absolute poverty. we have little to none. Unless voluntary.

        The value of welfare alone here is much higher than what workers in most countries make.

      • Ghostpatzer

        We’ve been fighting the Wars on Poverty and Drugs for over 50 years. Victory is just around the corner.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead.

      • C. Anacreon

        Actually, we won long ago. There’s no one surviving on a dollar a day or subsistence farming in this country. Problem is, the poverty level is a moving target, so no matter how good it gets, they’ll set an arbitrary spot on the bell curve, and anyone below that is “impoverished”.

        There’s too many government-funded occupations that rely on plenty of folks being “in poverty” for poverty to ever go away.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      “Track record of success”

      Well it would have succeeded if not for the wreckers, Kulaks, and saboteurs.

      We just need more money.

    • R C Dean

      Oh, FFS. Could there be a more stupidly transparent ploy.

      “Look, it doesn’t cost $5.5TT over 10 years, it costs only $2.75TT over 5 years!”

      Yeah, and then it will all disappear and not be re-upped.

      • R C Dean

        Are they also promising to sunset the tax increases in 5 years?

        I didn’t think so.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    While Democrats have not agreed to a final price tag, it could end up at around $2 trillion or less, down from $3.5 trillion. Party leaders aim to win over centrist Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., who could sink the proposal on their own as Democrats try to pass it without Republican votes.

    Austerity. Crumbs. A pittance.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      If I had that much spending available I would have monuments to my glory that would make the Pharaohs blush.

    • rhywun

      They should be required to read the entire thing out loud and broadcast it to the public on every channel, and on every streaming service in place of its regular content.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      it could end up at around $2 trillion or less, down from $3.5 trillion.

      I saved us $1.5 trillion! /my wife at the outlet store

  24. Tundra

    Wut

    • cavalier973

      When science used to be fun

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Holy Shit! that was mind blowing, Humans be wierd,

    • kinnath

      Saw that video in psych class in the early 80s.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Screw you brain!

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Making the world a better place

    Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday tore into President Biden’s move to re-enter the U.N. Human Rights Council – which has been dogged by controversy over the human rights abusers among its members, and which Haley branded a “cesspool.”

    “If President Biden truly cared about human rights, he would keep us far away from the cesspool that is the UN Human Rights Council,” Haley said in a statement to Fox News.

    ——-

    Biden had promised that the U.S. would rejoin the Council if he was elected to the White House, and that his administration would “work to ensure that body truly lives up to its values.”

    \Maybe he’ll name Hunter to be Special Envoy.

    • TARDis

      On July 28, 2017, The Atlantic announced that billionaire investor and philanthropist overpriced whore and anti-American globalist Laurene Powell Jobs (the widow of former Apple Inc. chairman and CEO Steve Jobs) had acquired majority ownership through her Emerson Collective organization

      Don’t give a damn what the Atlantic has to say.

    • mock-star

      That was a pretty good interview. Mann handled it with grace and ease.

  26. hayeksplosives

    Heh.

    I’ve been looking at the Wikipedia page for Pahrump, my new “town”.

    A wealthy Las Vegas casino owner, Ted Binion, buried a large treasure of silver in a secret underground vault in Pahrump. In 1998, Binion died under suspicious circumstances, and one of the parties accused of murdering Binion was apprehended while digging up the vault in Pahrump. A book about the Binion murder trial (and Las Vegas poker) is Positively Fifth Street by James McManus.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I heard about some bizarre murders there recently, Blowtorches, blind folds and walking off a cliff, by force, Pack some heat,

      • Ownbestenemy

        Everyone there packs heat. Besides…that particular murder was to the North East of Vegas and nowhere near Pahrump.

        Sheriff’s officials said in a video statement early last month that Pate, 27, and Dent, 36, had lured him to her home because they believed he hurt the woman’s child

        Sounds justified to me.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Misinformation! they said Pahrump, TMITE?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Nope I found the other Cathedral Canyon in Nevada…apparently we have two It was on the outskirts just out of town and over the hump.

        You sir, are correct.

      • hayeksplosives

        “Pack some heat.”

        Roger, Wilco.

        Probably have to get a NV driver’s license first though. They don’t want to get stung by some California undercover anti-ammo operation.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Reading what happened…sounds like meth was certainly involved and a woman that for whatever reason fingered that dude as someon who hurt her kid. Rednecks united and did what meth heads will do.

      • hayeksplosives

        I’m planning to activate the home security system when I get there.

        I think the best plan is to be open and meet the neighbors to establish myself as “OK” so that they have my back.

        Shouldn’t be too hard.

        I just called the local Enterprise Car Rental in Pahrump to get wheels for my spouse until he buys a car (his Ford finally rusted through last week), and I heard a rooster crowing in the background.

        I have a feeling that I’m gonna love this little non-town. 🙂

      • Ownbestenemy

        I have two techs that live out there. They absolutely love it.

      • Animal

        Little non-towns are awesome.

      • Not Adahn

        Dobermans.

    • R C Dean

      Sounds like the vault wasn’t so secret after all.

      • hayeksplosives

        Right??! Like murders for hire: those are almost always caught through brags or snitches.

  27. robc

    I have heard of this but never watched it, but this one came up. I am not sure if his other episodes are this entertaining, but this one is great:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jozdlXQW_eA

    Also, is this RC Dean?

    • R C Dean

      Pshaw. Not nearly handsome enough.

  28. grrizzly

    It will be a private business decision.

    Hesse becomes the first federal state in Germany to allow supermarkets to bar unvaccinated persons from entry

    • Ownbestenemy

      Best reply…

      Burn all the unvaccinated books next that will teach them

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Krauts, they sure do love them some rules.

    • Sensei

      They’ve got practice for these kinds of things. Perhaps NYS can take lessons.

      • Sensei

        I’m reading this right as this is playing.

        https://youtu.be/Cq5kz2LNjA8

        Typical Hatsune Miku tune, all pop and techno with the most bleak lyrics. Perfectly appropriate.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “Free market bitches!” /CompletelyMissingThePointInColonge

    • ignoreLander

      Sophie.
      @soulsaoirse
      ·
      3h
      you want food,get vaccinated.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am sure that will end well.

      • Sensei

        Or wear the armband.

      • rhywun

        ^ this is where we’re headed, folks.

        And yet.

        I mentioned it the other day but here in NYC the vid panic is obviously over because literally all the vid propaganda on TV has turned into flu propaganda since about a week ago.

    • The Hyperbole

      Unless “allow” means something different in Kraut, I don’t see the problem.

      • Ozymandias

        Of course you don’t.

      • Ownbestenemy

        You see no issue at all with that?

      • The Hyperbole

        That the state is allowing businesses to make their own policies? Other than this isn’t just considered the norm and they have to make an official announcement about it, no. I see no issue.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Article 26a
        The natural basis of human life is under protection by the state and the municipalities.

        Except for this one…this one instance, we are leaving it up to the companies to determine if you need to just die. Don’t look at us! It was that business that did it!

        Article 27
        The social and economical order is based on the recognition of the dignity and the personality of man.

        Well…only some that we have decided are not worthy of that recognition.

      • The Hyperbole

        I may be misunderstanding your position so forgive me if I’m wrong, but you seem to be saying that if the state doesn’t force people to do business with the unvaxxed than no one will willingly do so, thus the state must force businesses to cater to the unvaxxed. Isn’t that getting into “bake the cake” territory?

      • Ownbestenemy

        It’s true..where do we find the balance? However, missing out on a pretty picture with your dream cake isn’t the same as I can’t go buy food.

      • Mojeaux

        Once again, I see your point and agree, but Rhywun (blow) also has a point I was struggling to articulate.

      • Mojeaux

        below*

        (although the typo made me snicker)

      • The Hyperbole

        The balance is found when we* let each business do as they want. Markets, individual choice, greed, etc will do the balancing, I use to think this was libertarianism/free market economics 101, but maybe it is I whom is wrong.

        *the royal ‘we’ the editorial ‘we’

      • Mojeaux

        I will depart here. You aren’t taking into account that this is NOT a free market.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Additionally all these supposed “free market” businesses take govt bailouts and other taxpayer monies to avoid moral hazard.

        They also full support accommodation laws..this denial of service is different because reasons…

      • Not Adahn

        Just to be clear, you’re cool with citizens using fake vaxports to bypass the restrictions, right?

      • The Hyperbole

        If you can fool the business owner, sure. I mean, I personally would feel dirty resorting to such extremes just to eat lunch at a place that really would rather not serve me, but everyone gets to do their own moral calculations and act accordingly.

      • rhywun

        Seems to me that the state is using backdoor shenanigans to get their preferred policy installed universally because they know that the majority of customers will demand it and no store will consider not implementing it.

      • The Hyperbole

        Bullshit, their are stores that cater to all kinds of tiny sub cultures, if not expressly forbidden by the state, someone is going to sell food to the unwashed morans that wont accept the science.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That’s how you sell your argument!

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Its fascism. Businesses would never implement customer restrictions on their own because its a stupid business decision to lose customers for sniffles. The govt cant get Americans to accept a nation vax mandates, so they are muscling businesses to do the dirty work.

        If businesses can deny customers access for no vax, then customers can sue the business any adverse medical effects they get from being forced to get the vax just to buy groceries.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Georgia has a state law that removes any business liability with regard to catching CoVID.

        So georgia businesses dont require masks nor the genomtherapy.

      • grrizzly

        More context.

        In Hesse, all retailers, including the supermarket, can now decide for themselves whether to implement the 3G rule (vaccinated, tested, recovered) or the 2G rule [vaccinated, recovered]– so far there have been no access restrictions in supermarkets to give everyone the option of basic services grant.

        The Hessian State Chancellery confirms to BILD that the “2G option model” also applies to the food retail sector.

        Called: Supermarkets are now also allowed to lock out those who have not been vaccinated and only allow those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered to buy food. In extreme cases, unvaccinated people would have to see how they can get food, send friends or relatives to go shopping – or get vaccinated at all.

        Apparently, the state government itself knows how dramatic the effects of a 2G regime would be on supermarkets – and hopes that the stores will not implement this.

      • MikeS

        Yeah, here I go again…I think I’m with Hype here. Don’t we all believe that businesses have the right to make these decisions?

      • kinnath

        Don’t we all believe that businesses have the right to make these decisions?

        Yes.

        But we don’t live in that world.

        We live in a world of public accommodation.

        A legitimate solution is for the store to ask for vaccination documents or scan for temperature. Excluding people that are sick is fine.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Many of these stores have pharmacies and small clinics. You literally go there when you are sick. Excluding sick people is retarded if that is part of your business.

        Everyone on earth needs to be exposed to COVID. Its just one of those biological weapons that is defeated by exposure and surviving it.

      • grrizzly

        The government forces the businesses to pick either one form of restrictions (3G, see above) or the other form (2G). If a business does neither then I believe stricter social distancing measures have to be imposed in a store. So, perhaps, there are 3 ways of proceeding. All are restrictive and imposed by the government. And then libertarians praise the right of business owners to “make” a decision. They are fucking blackmailed.

      • MikeS

        Sure. As Mo’ notes above, this is not a truly free market. It’s bad faith to argue they are making a decision of their own when in reality they are allowed to make one of three decisions.

    • Rebel Scum

      And what does Kassel have to say about that?

      • Gender Traitor

        In other words, what is the Kassel doctrine?

    • J. Frank Parnell

      I remember when hessians were cool.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      All Germany needed to get back to its Nazi roots was time.

      The unvaxxed will have to wear yellow stars and are only allowed one piece of luggage when they are resettled in the East.

  29. KSuellington

    Ghostpatzer said:

    “The SF proggies might be OK with evil retail outlets closing due to theft, they’re getting everything from Amazon anyway. I wonder if they’ll be OK when their online purchases are no longer arriving because there are no more stores left to rob.”

    I deal with this all the time. Just yesterday thieves crowbarred open a front door to a building to steal packages. The proggie tenant that was my contact there couldn’t understand the link between the non enforcement of theft and more theft. “Well this sort of thing is happening all over the country, she said. “Yes ma’am it is. But we here in SF are leading the country in property crimes. It’s not a mystery why. Incentives matter.” “Well, I guess we will just have to agree to disagree.”

    Btw, our DA was endorsed by the Libertarian Party.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So she said you have to agree to disagree without actually having a hypothesis of why?

      • hayeksplosives

        “Agree to disagree” has transformed from “live and let live/ you do you” into “I can’t win with logic so I will stop the conversation before my brain hurts.”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        So much this,

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am going to have to say we need to agree to disagree on this.

      • hayeksplosives

        Does that count as “ begging the question”?

      • KSuellington

        The conversation was more than that and I could see that my logical interjections were causing some discomfort with proggie dogma so I was happy to agree to that and not mention anything more

      • KSuellington

        The conversation was more than that and I could see that my logical interjections were causing her some discomfort with proggie dogma so I was happy to agree to that and not mention anything more and just repair the door.

      • Mojeaux

        “Agree to disagree” = “I don’t understand what you said.”

      • KSuellington

        I’ve done a fair bit of researching on crime and at the beginning of the lockdowns I made the prediction that we would see vastly increased crime in this country. The last year was the highest recorded single year increase in violent crime. Tearing up the social fabric tends to do that. I mentioned that to her earlier in the conversation and she didn’t like that. So when I also mentioned the DA and how we have incentivized crime here she really didn’t want to hear any more from me. I happily finished the door in silence.

      • Mojeaux

        TBF, I don’t think anybody likes having their worldview challenged. Well, I don’t anyway. It takes a lot of time and a lot of repetition of events to get me to change my mind because at some point I’ve subsumed my intellectual reasons into feelings and can no longer articulate my rationale for believing a thing.

        For instance, if some time in the future, it is shown that the vax was prescient and good and wonderful and all that (just for argument’s sake!) I would have a hard time letting go of my current thoughts and feelings about it.

      • Not Adahn

        Any polite way of saying “drop the subject” is A-OK n my book.

      • KSuellington

        Absolutely Mo, yes most people are like that. I personally am not as I really love debate. But it is crucial like NA said to pick up on when to exit such a conversation as many people don’t really want their beliefs questioned.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Lefties still want taxpayers to cover their idiot life choices that never work.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Btw, our DA was endorsed by the Libertarian Party

      This guy?

      https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco.html

      Holy shit.

      Though Boudin had experienced great privilege, he had also suffered and seen human suffering, and his endorsements came from not just local political players but national public intellectuals like Angela Davis, Bernie Sanders, and Ibram X. Kendi.

      Boudin typically begins with his parents, who joined the militant organization known as the Weather Underground in the 1960s to fight against American apartheid and the war in Vietnam. In 1981, when Boudin was 14 months old, they left him with a babysitter to serve as unarmed getaway drivers while members of another revolutionary group robbed a Brink’s armored car in Nanuet, New York. Remembered as one of the watershed excesses of countercultural radicalism, the heist left two police officers and a guard dead. Neither of Boudin’s parents fired a shot. His mother pleaded guilty, his father did not, but both were convicted of murder and sent to prison. Boudin was adopted by two other members of the Weather Underground, the education reformer Bill Ayers and the clinical-law professor Bernardine Dohrn. He spent his childhood in a world of radical-left ideological purity, shuttled between the comfortable life of his adoptive family and the prisons where he visited his biological parents.

      Jesus. I thought my childhood was fucked up, I should count my blessings. How did this guy get elected DA? Seriously?

      BTW, I am 10 minutes from Nanuet. The natives have not forgotten this incident.

      • rhywun

        How did this guy get elected DA?

        By putting a “(D)” after his name?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I didn’t know the LP had endorsed that commie asshat Boudin.

      That’s a new low.

      • KSuellington

        Yup it is Boudin. He won by getting more second and third place votes (we have ranked choice and he didn’t win the most first votes). I was still an LP member and so received their endorsements at that time. After that and the GayJo/Weld fiasco I dropped the LP and registered independent.

      • KSuellington

        And I will add that Boudin just narrowly missed a recall election that was funded by conservatives (yes they exist here). He is now facing a recall by progressives. Even they have realized that it aínt cool to just let criminals have open season. I think this next one may succeed. I stand to lose business if so, but I very much want his ass gone.

      • TARDis

        The skinsuit is pretty well rotten at this point.

      • rhywun

        It beggars belief.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        The LP is run by disgruntled Democrats, anarchists, Commies in hiding, LINOs, and wackadoos. The average person who advocates libertarian principles tend to be good folks.

        Same with the GOP being run by RINO, exdemocrats, commies in hiding, neocons, and spineless politicians. The average Republican tends to good people.

  30. l0b0t

    HEY, KK! 36′ gas pusher from Coachman, on a 2006 Ford chassis, 50K miles and 400 hours on the generator, and a bathtub; a steal at $39,995.

    https://youtu.be/-mOja8CtGrM

  31. ElspethFlashman

    Any interest in me writing a short article on my Ireland vacation?

    • UnCivilServant

      Travelogues are welcome.

      Besides, around here I think the default answer to interest in a topic is “probably”

    • TARDis

      Yes. Make me jealous.
      *looks forlornly at passport*

    • R.J.

      Agreed. Material always seems to be needed.
      Hell, they let me write…

    • Animal

      Yes! We plan to spend a week-ten days in Ireland at some point in the near future and would appreciate pointers (besides the obvious “Guinness is good for you.”)

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^^ And….are you vaxx’d? Cause wife and I wanna go and need to know if we need to succumb.

      • KSuellington

        Yes to Elspeth on the story and if you need some more info Animal I have been there five times as my family is from there and mostly stayed (aside from my dad).

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Yes please,

    • Sean

      ??

  32. Sensei

    Foreign direct investment.

    “ In 2019 (the latest data available), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) ranked 196 countries in terms of cumulative inward FDI as a share of GDP. Japan came in dead last—just behind North Korea.”

    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/japan/2021-10-13/why-nobody-invests-japan?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=www-foreignaffairs-com.cdn.ampproject.org&utm_campaign=amp_kickers&_gl=1*755kpg*_ga*WGZwMGl1RFNfZjhZdGJvaS1YN1J4R29mcHA3aVpHSXNrYzBrYUhuajllRENoX1pBLWRTb3NQYnBEUjk1X3lORA..

    • Gustave Lytton

      OT- saw your classes update late. Good luck! I had the one on one a week or two when I was studying Mandarin. It was stressful but was more beneficial than most weeks.

      • Sensei

        Thanks. In my decade of studies I’ve had lots of one on one classes as other students were absent. This is my first time with it being both the norm and with me controlling to a certain degree what we cover.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Language personal trainer!

      • Sensei

        Pretty much.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Does Japan even encourage foreign investment? I always thought they wanted to keep foreign owners out.

      • Sensei

        They pay it lip service, but in practice actively try to prevent it.

  33. Ownbestenemy

    Typical OBE sibling after-dinner conversation (add slurring speech where needed) “Screw you older brother, you have done nothing except live in your academic bubble!” “Yeah will little brother, you have worked for the government that you hate for 15+ years” “Im a self made woman, single mom that worked my ass off to get my degree and the job I have”….I love you bro, I love you too — hey sis, what do you have for food around here?

    • UnCivilServant

      I don’t talk to my sisters anymore.

      I don’t think the drama is worth it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        If you notice, she is actually the sane, normal one in the story that is just doing what she needs to regardless of the politics around her. Kinda my hero.

      • UnCivilServant

        I couldn’t tell who was saying what in the story. I can’t even tell how many people are speaking. I’m glad you still talk to your family.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        My Sister is the reason i live in MI, one of my greatest friends, I’m glad to have her,

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Surprise, surprise, surprise.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        HEH,
        “Back Home in Indianaaaaaaa”

    • Rebel Scum

      Now he is in a world of shit.

  34. Ownbestenemy

    If Sanjay actually believed that, he should have said it to refute Rogan or at least challenge him. I am smelling a sweet deal for his book sales.

    CNN’s @DonLemon
    : “It is not a lie to say that [Ivermectin] is used as a horse de-wormer. I think that’s important. And it is not approved for Covid.”

    @drsanjaygupta
    : “Correct … If you look at the data, there is no evidence that it really works [against Covid].”

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      It’s not a lie, but it’s extremely misleading in this context. What an asshole.

      • whiz

        It is a lie. There are many studies that show it works, i.e., lessens mortality, etc.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        COVID has kill zero people. The SAS-COVID virus can cause complication maladies that kill people.

        Ivermectin treats some of those complication maladies.

      • MikeS

        Isn’t this just like saying AIDS has killed zero people?

    • R.J.

      Woo! I will have to watch that.

  35. hayeksplosives

    I thought I’d seen all the Norm Macdonald on Letterman bits, but this was new to me.

    https://youtu.be/bRf-D-eP9t8

    Oh Norm. You are a legend.

    • l0b0t

      Brilliant… “The Statler Brothers were here!”

      • hayeksplosives

        “That’s the beauty of it; I can.”

        Lol

      • MikeS

        “Nothing….they’re all muttering criminally insane things to each other.”

        ALOL

    • Tundra

      Poor hosts can never keep up.

      Thanks! I’d never seen that either.

  36. Yusef drives a Kia

    Finales are kinda hard, a lot of elements need resolution, but you need to stay coherent, I suck at this,

    • R.J.

      You got this. Maybe step away for a few days and come back, re-read everything. You can’t force focus.

    • Not Adahn

      It was all a dream.

      • Gender Traitor

        When I took a short story writing class a couple of years ago, we were expressly, specifically forbidden from using that as a plot resolution.

      • UnCivilServant

        Even if you set it up on page 1 that the main character was asleep and the real problem being that they can’t wake up?

      • Gender Traitor

        Dammit! Now I wish I’d written a story with that plot, just to see if I could get away with it.

        I guess I’ll have to take the class again.

      • Not Adahn

        What about snowglobe-inspired autistic ruminations?

      • kinnath

        Inception

  37. Gustave Lytton

    I’m pretty sure at least one of the writers for American Horror Story lurks here. Another plot element ripped from Glibs.

    • UnCivilServant

      What was the plot element?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Horrors happening in the White House tunnels was the second. The first was who can get pregnant.

    • R.J.

      A sentient talking hat?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Astrids perky boobs…..

      • Not Adahn

        They’re real, and they’re magnificent.

  38. commodious spittoon

    Society isn’t collapsing, you just fail to see the grand vision being realized right before your eyes.

    • commodious spittoon

      Also, I love that DSA types are trying to dunk on capitalism by pointing out the manifest, manifold failures of government interventions into markets. I mean, they could make a point about woke CEOs betraying their employees and investors by pushing unpopular tropes in their advertising and product lines, that’s a much more salient complaint about modern capitalism… but somehow I doubt they will.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        If there is no moral hazard, then its not capitalism.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      My storied future is dark, but it’s from Ozy’s tale we will arise!

    • commodious spittoon

      All our gmo efforts going into boosting plant productivity… when we should be engineering sports playing animals. smdh

    • Rat on a train

      She can be the first of many replacements for the USWNT.