It would appear they finally copped to what we already knew. We’re reliving the 1970’s. Except I can’t buy a muscle car, because I don’t want to pay the gas hog tax, and that Charlottesville guy ruined it for everyone.
This is my review of Geaghan Brother Brewing Smiling Irish Bastard:
Earlier this week the Dept. of Labor released CPI data for October 2021 indicating a 6.2% rise relative to October 2020. The cynic in me immediately went to conspiracy mode and pointed out that is only the rate of inflation they are willing to acknowledge.
The fun part of this whole thing is how the narrative went from
- There is no inflation =>
- There is some inflation but it is just transitory =>
- WE ARE NOT GOING BACK TO STAGFLATION
“I read about it in Time Magazine”
Where they really get insulting was this article in Time Magazine that blames consumers for the current state of affairs:
But the supply chain is also broken because of the sheer volume of stuff that Americans are buying, especially online. To keep up with demand for two-day shipping, companies like Amazon and Walmart have built warehouses around the country, and are importing even more containers of goods to fill them. These warehouses are getting a lot more action now that even the most reluctant online shopper was pushed to embrace e-commerce during the pandemic to comply with shelter in place orders.
“Americans have become singularly impatient consumers, unlike their peers in much of the rest of the world,” says Jock O’Connell, international trade advisor at Beacon Economics. “We have much more inventory in this country than we would need if Jeff Bezos hadn’t convinced us we could have our stuff delivered tomorrow.”
There was also this hot take from a garden gnome pretending to know what he is talking about. (TW: Robert Reich) If in doubt blame capitalism, or at the very least capitalists. At least they no longer inundate everyone with obvious propaganda videos anymore like this one here from 1933 extolling the virtues of inflation. Its cool, they just saw the cost of living deviated the opposite direction of the Dollar’s purchasing power and flooded the market with money so that it evens out. Everyone wins!
The only reasonable response is mockery because if they were winning, the propaganda would not be necessary.
How did I get beer from Maine? I went there in July and smuggled it. Really nice part of the country but everyone there had that new LGBTQ+ flag in their yard. This is pretty standard American Pale Ale. That’s not exactly a bad thing but it is a bit of a throwback to a much simpler time…2005. Is it as good as say, Dead Guy Ale? No, but its good in its own right. 6.0% abv; 45 IBU. Geaghan Brother Brewing Smiling Irish Bastard: 3.6/5
They have changed the formula for calculating price inflation. There’s a site that uses the old formulae. The results are eye-popping and much more in line with, what’s the phrase? Oh, yeah, peoples “lived experience”.
Using the 1990 standard, its nearly 10%. Using the 1980 standard, its nearly 15%. Somewhere I saw, but can’t find, the 1970s standard, which put it more like 18%.
The unemployment chart on that site is equally depressing, and feels more accurate too.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
That’s probably the single strongest evidence i’ve ever seen for the lack of a recovery after ’08. All of the “improvement” appears to be long-term discouraged people (the delta between U6 and the blue line).
It’s the FedGov version of shrinking the size of a bag of Doritos and pretending we won’t notice.
Oh yeah, but that’s all like, conspiracy man.
Jesus H. Koresh! I’m old enough to remember the 1980`s inflation. I’m skeptical we could financially survive the interest rate needed to break inflation.
Cartainly the Feds can’t tolerate that kind of yield on their securities.
Exactly
Just got into a discussion with an acquaintance about Krugman, and deficit spending. Apparently Krugnuts cites Japan as a country where deficits haven’t mattered. I cited their piss poor economic performance since ’95 (the same time their deficits increased) as evidence that he’s full of shit.
It makes sense when you understand that he wants piss-poor economic performance here too.
The lack of awareness/logic/reasoning amongst my contemporaries is daunting. It’s like there’s a bread crumb trail of false premises through events that lead them to the next talking point (“living wage!”). They never go back to the source and question whether the foundation is solid. You can’t even talk to them about it because they don’t argue in good faith and they don’t want to do the mental work it takes to pick apart each bread crumb and find the bad premise. It’s an intellectual exercise in “to do thing X, I first have to do thing A, but before I can do that, I have to do thing R, but before I can do that, I have to do thing L” and so on. It’s hard work, and it can’t be done in soundbites.
They never go back to the source and question whether the foundation is solid.
This, to me, screams “demoralization”. Demoralized people create webs of connected beliefs, none of which provide a foundation.
I can’t understand it. When I have a big project, say, my ebook formatting, if a client comes to me and says, “Somebody else did it, but it doesn’t work. Can you fix it?” I don’t even bother to look at the source. I just start from scratch with the original work the client wants formatted. But occasionally … fixing it may cost me less time. So I go back to the source and figure out what the person or software was trying to do and fix them.
I’m project-oriented, and finding the rock-bottom is part of my workflow process. Digging to the bottom of this mess called the USA is a neverending task, so I can see why people don’t want to do it. It doesn’t start with the Civil War, but that’s as far back as my process has taken me.
Well, and then you have to sift through the information that’s presented and figure out their biases and what historians are flat lying about.
If your only source of information is CNN because you’re busy with your life, it’s not even going to occur to you to examine the premises.
What’s missing from the “busy with your life” person is the humility that comes with not examining the premises. In the past, there was a stigma attached to being an ignorant loudmouth. No longer.
We had an ignorant loudmouth in our family (that weird uncle everybody has). He never learned why he was shunned by the family. I don’t know if no one told him (my dad probably tried), but he would not have listened. Unfortunately, his ideas were fueled by Limbaugh and 9/10 he totally misunderstood what Limbaugh was trying to say.
So. I’m not sure people actually know they’re ignorant loudmouths.
I try not to be one. I try to listen when my ideas are challenged, which is why I have changed my mind on the war on drugs, war in general, and the death penalty.
My weird uncle is a legit, doesn’t even try to hide it, commie. His son is a woeful disappointment to him because he started a dog walking business and made enough money to buy a luxury car while in high school.
My uncle is a lifelong stoner day trader. His wife died in a car accident that could easily have killed my dad. I once caught him staring at my girlfriend’s tits, before he realized I was with her.
My weird uncle is a half-psychotic lunatic.
Hope you and cousin are friendly, trashy.
In the past, there was a stigma attached to being an ignorant loudmouth.
That’s because people that actually knew you and interacted with you face to face.
Now it’s all just social media and if not entirely anonymous, utterly impersonal.
When in doubt go with Peterson and Stossel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3368WAl0qM
The “mainstream” (read: Leftist) leitmotif is built on ignorance, resentment and hate. When you abandon truth and reason, you lose the capacity for critical thought and the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
Yes, I listen to Peterson quite frequently. He is very grounding. It’d be more frequent if I could get rid of all those fucking ads YouTube puts in his vids, which is probably not getting a cut of.
Use the Brave browser to get rid of ads. With the exception of “in-video” ads done by the video creator, I never see ads.
You don’t have to use it for everything, but it’s definitely good for YT vids.
Yes, I do when I’m on my computer. When I’m using my phone while I clean or do other housewifely things, the ads are unbearable.
Other housewifey things equals “making a sandwich for my man”. It’s OK to say the words here, this is a safe space.
There is no fucking way I’d make my man a sandwich.
I would, however, bake him chocolate chip cookies.
I keep the adblock browser on my android phone for YouTube viewing.
Every now and again, the youtube beast breaks the seals and I start getting ads again. But not usually.
I used Opera to get to YouTube (instead of using the app), and it’s ad-free.
Only temporary. Like old age. Goes away at some point.
When you borrow money on a credit card to pay the interest on your loans, you have a problem. One day the bank might want to see the principal going down.
I like cows.
The suburbs like cows but the cows don’t like suburbs, too many BBQs.
All of the schools I went to since the second grade — elementary, middle, intermedia and high – were across the street from cows.
I may have had a semi-rural upbringing.
*Grumbled profanities.*
I finally got caught up on my sleep and started on the crap I need to get done, and the crap I need to get done is winning.
I hate Taig. Not for anything about their product, but how they pack them to ship. I haven’t gotten to breaking down the plywood reinforced cardboard boxes to figure out a way to dispose of them, since I’m still picking up the thousand individual sheets of crumpled paper padding packed into the boxes, and getting those smoothed out, folded, and packed into a bag.
My goal is simple – put up one of the shelving units I have in boxes. To do that I have to get the taig packing material out of the space the shelves are supposed to occupy. And I should also have laundry running while I’m at it, but I forgot to put some on.
I hate saturdays.
I haven’t gotten to breaking down the plywood reinforced cardboard boxes to figure out a way to dispose of them, since I’m still picking up the thousand individual sheets of crumpled paper padding packed into the boxes, and getting those smoothed out, folded, and packed into a bag.
Sounds like they’re all wood products. Kerosene and a match will clean that right up.
Not an option.
Have you seen the price of Kerosene these days?
Sounds like prime scenery/terrain making material to me. Take a break from painting little dudes and spend some time making an ork village?
While the cluttered condition of my house is likely a symptom of my overall depressive state rather than a cause, it isn’t helping any. I can’t afford to keep ignoring the mess, so I don’t have the time. to make scenery – or anywhere to store it. I need my shelves up so I can organize the good stuff and resuce the camouflage it gives to the junk that can go to the curb.
9:00 tomorrow at Kayaderosseras. BLAM!
Just show up? I found the rules, but couldn’t turn up the administrativa.
Yup. No advanced registration.
If you being the ammo, I’ll let you use my gamer gun. I also have more respectable one, but only have one shotgun case to transport them.
I’d offer the use of my 9mm AR, but it’s set up southpaw.
The only ammo I have is .22lr. (Not counting .30cal rifle ammunition that is unsafe for the parameters) I could run out and hunt for ammo, but I was hoping to run with the 10/22.
Of course. Just reminding that this is a “run as many guns as you want to, pay for each one” event.
This one I’m going PCC and shotgun. If it’s underpopulated, I’ll bring the 1911 too. I’ll save the Shadow 2 for “real” SCSA.
“The only ammo I have is .22lr. (Not counting .30cal rifle ammunition”
Saddest thing I’ll read today.
I got the shelves up. I got the unprinted paper packing materials folded and bagged. I got the loose boxes broken down and put in a big amazon box. I got the heavy cross slide vice on the bottom of the shelves as an anchor.
I haven’t gotten the newsprint packaging packed up yet, but I need a break. Thankfully it wasn’t my arm. I did manage to drop the shelves on it, and the bruise may be ugly, but the bone feels fine.
*grumble* Why does my arm hurt worse now? 🙁
*Lights Ted S. signal*
That was the first thing I noticed when I saw the post title.
OFFS
Stupid ugly Americans. When will we learn?!
You will not only accept the bread lines, you will like them, prole!
You’ve got your apples from a can business all lined up and ready to launch, don’t you?
Apples? You decadent capitalist pig! Nobody needs 23 different kinds of canned fruit. You will accept the blended fruit byproduct in a can, and you will be happy!
My kitchen counters are black granite (with some veins of other colors in there too—very pretty). It uses black caulk where the countertop abuts the matching black splash.
That sounds lovely. I wouldn’t want white caulk in a place like that.
Ugh. Misthread.
This belongs below in the conversation about black caulk.
https://imgur.com/a/ECst0jh
Always with the racist granite and caulk.
I really like the way the black granite goes with the stain color on the cabinets.
Thank you!
I’m quite fond of the kitchen. Lots of counter space and cabinet space.
That looks nice.
Thank you. I like the black appliances more than I expected to. The microwave is linked to the cooktop in such a way that you can turn the exhaust fan on the microwave and it sucks the exhaust up and out through the roof. It’s a convection microwave, but I haven’t used it for that yet.
convection microwave
I’ve never heard of that before.
*runs off to DDG*
The microwave is linked to the cooktop in such a way that you can turn the exhaust fan on the microwave and it sucks the exhaust up and out through the roof.
I have a similar set-up.
I find it weird that some people’s stove exhaust fans don’t vent outside.
DEG, as nutty as it sounds, some housing codes don’t allow for actual venting outside because of the danger of removing breathable air from the home and leading to carbon monoxide poisoning or other forms of oxygen-poor asphyxiation.
Seems like a vanishingly low-risk way to die, but “if it can save even one life…”
That is insane.
My house has a vent in the basement for make-up air. It’s intended for the boiler but works for other things.
I was told that make-up air is what they blow into women’s bathrooms.
some housing codes don’t allow for actual venting outside because of the danger of removing breathable air from the home and leading to carbon monoxide poisoning or other forms of oxygen-poor asphyxiation.
In such houses, where does the bathroom vent?
DEG,”DEG, as nutty as it sounds, some housing codes don’t allow for actual venting outside because of the danger of removing breathable air from the home and leading to carbon monoxide poisoning or other forms of oxygen-poor asphyxiation.”
That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, probably giving more people cancer by not letting the air form cooking vent properly.
Also, as an Indian food aficionado, no. Just no.
Nothing like some big black caulk.
Super jealous of your kitchen, both the countertops and the cabinets. I have the (I think) original 1970 cabinets in my house that are falling apart, and for how much cooking the wife and I do, the kitchen is woefully undersized.
Heh.
Back during the early days of the Lil Rona Insanity, when all grocery stores in NH limited capacity, I saw a post on r/NewHampshire (yes, yes, I know, reddit is for porn, but sometimes I like going into the fever swamp) the bread lines to get into the grocery stores. A whole lot of comments poking fun at folks that wouldn’t wait in bread lines and would instead find a store without them.
A whole lot of comments poking fun at folks that wouldn’t wait in bread lines and would instead find a store without them.
?? How does that work? “Haha, you decided to not waste your time waiting in line. Loser!”
It helps to remember it is reddit.
The comments were along the lines of, “SELF-CENTERED FOOLS NOT DOING WHAT WE HAVE TO TO STOP THIS VIRUS!!!1111!!! WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!!!!!!11!1!1”
OK, I guess more comments insulting those people than making fun of them.
NOT DOING WHAT WE HAVE TO TO STOP THIS VIRUS
Ah, the “you’re not virtue signaling the right way” crowd.
Yep, that’s the talking point now.
Americans Need to Learn to Live More Like Europeans
As always, I want to see the government-sector workers constrained first.
Government employees should live onsite in dorms.
The onsite enclaves would only esacerbate the detatchment from the general populace. Instead of further concentrating administrative centers and making it easier to ignore the people, any jobs that can’t be eliminated should be moved as close as possible to the people upon whom their programs are inflicted.
Maybe some nice dachas.
Ted’S gets it.
Why do you hate our selfless public servants?
Why don’t you hate them?
I’m not even going to click that.
With the exception of the last part about “European souls” is any of that wrong?
Nope. Of course, I’m sure the conclusions of the article are weapons-grade idiocy because nobody can talk about consumerism without weaving in their hobby horses of how they think you should spend your money, but the quoted part is more or less correct (minus the european part).
On the other side, every time someone tries to talk about consumerism in a group of conservatives or libertarians there’s always the question of “whycome u hate capitalism?”
I have a theory that if we still had a gold standard we wouldn’t be consuming so much because the money supply wouldn’t be so inflated.
I point to the low interest rates, as well. Why not buy a brand new car on an installment plan when the loan is at 1.9%? Why not get a home equity loan to pay for a vacation when it’s at 2.5%? It’s better than waiting and saving up while earning 0.01% in a bank to buy those things.
It does completely leaves out the planned early obsolescence by manufacturers.
I still have polos from Old Navy I bought 20 years ago that are in great condition. Now the shirts the clothes they sell are very thin and won’t last more than a couple years.
The dishwasher that came with my house lasted ~30 years. We’ve had to buy 2 in the past 8 years. Same deal with the fridge. The brand new fridge died at year 5. And same deal with the washing machine. I think the new one last four years.
I wouldn’t say there’s much difference in consumer tastes over the past 20 years. The Old Navy brand wasn’t exactly considered luxury then and certainly isn’t now. If you’re not dropping $25k on a Sub Zero or Viking fridge, your average homebuyer today is still looking at at the same class of appliances now as they were 20-30 years ago. But at some point the appliances stopped being built to last decades and it feels like many of us are just now realizing it over the past several years.
Ugh, that wasn’t exactly conveyed well with all of my typos. Hope the point still comes through somewhat.
cars are another example. The last X number of repairs I’ve had to do on our cars have all been electronic issues. Some component has a control module that’s on the fritz, and now you have to replace the entire component. There’s a $250 water pump sitting in my office waiting to be installed because a 13 cent microcontroller burned out on the current one.
Almost all of my outerwear is from Duluth Trading these days. Costs more, but great quality, worth every penny. I have t-shirts that are 5-6 years old and good as new. I have yet to wear out a pair of their jeans, although a couple of pairs have gained some “character.” Also: Room for The Boys.
Great stuff.
Every once in a while I realize I have t-shirts that are 20 years old.
Women’s clothing is made like tissue paper, and they’re pushing the men’s clothes the same way.
At least part of it can’t be wrong. It’s an opinion screed,
not a set of facts. “overspend” is an opinion.
“feeds the empty part of our souls” is pretty much
meaningless blather. At best it’s circular.
??
Serious journalisming.
What is wrong is that she thinks she is qualified to tell others how to live. It is none of her business. She can fuck right off.
I have RA. I am not going to be going for a bike ride, long or short. All of these ‘you should walk’ or ‘you should bike ride’ are youngish morons without physical ailments…yet. If they end up getting their way I hope the day after they contract some physically disabling illness, find themselves in agony and are housebound. Fuck those assholes.
Oh, go fuck yourself.
What kind of communist twat is going on about our souls? Did the Pope write this?
A more honest take would be that European souls’ alternative methods to shut out the darkness are to drink alcohol and eat chocolate. But that’s rather less romantic.
Chocolate really works though!
I dig long dark bike rides AFTER consuming alcohol and chocolate.
I have nothing against chocolate (in fact, I made home-made hot chocolate for breakfast just this morning), I was just pointing out that Europeans also comfort themselves with consumerism, albeit perhaps a more fleeting variety than us Americans.
Europeans also don’t think antiperspirant is necessary, wear the same shirt days in a row, and think air conditioning is a luxury even in the heat of summer.
No thanks.
Also, what kind of idiots think Jerry Lewis is funny or that David Hasselhoff is a star?
Agreed. Also Johnny Walker and cigars are essentials. Funny, I have a friend (The Tall Thin Spaniard) who moved here to marry a girl I know. When he got here, he used to call me ‘The Repooblican.’ After two years, that guy red pilled like he was born into it. I think the Catalan issues made him change his mind about government, and consumerism.
*gives 15yo me the side-eye*
DO NOT SHIT ON THE HOF!
I love you so much, Chafed.
Time: Jeff Bezos spoiled Americans with his ‘get stuff in a day’ nonsense. Harrumph!
Bloomberg: Hold my beer — when it gets here in two months.
Live with shortages of everything except arrogance and pretentiousness? Pay outrageous prices for everything y ou need to live?
CWAA.
What planet does this person come from? In a pre online shopping world, there was much more inventory squirreled away or stranded in bricks and mortar stores or regional warehouses that there is today. Does this idiot not understand the cost of carrying inventory? It wasn’t manufactured and shipped on demand as consumers placed orders.
Groceries are one of the first places consumes notice price hikes, and just skipping or postponing grocery shopping (as one might do for new clothes or electronics) is not really an option.
Groceries can’t be stockpiled in big inventories; grocers need to be in tune with consumer needs, as do their suppliers and food packers, the truck drivers, the farmers, etc. fortunately the invisible hand is pretty good at that. Until Covid shutdowns come along and upset the works; now no one wants to risk ordering too much in case they are stuck with an unmovable product somewhere along the chain. Food supply inflation won’t go away until the government butts out of the lockdown/restriction business and stops paying people to stay home.
The idea that Amazon warehouse hoarding is what’s wrong with food and gas prices now is beyond ludicrous.
now no one wants to risk ordering too much in case they are stuck with an unmovable product somewhere along the chain.
I’m with you on the others, but I don’t know about this one. I think grocery stores are trying to order as much product as they can, but there are severe shortages. I read Kroger is trying to build more cushion into the amount of product they keep available, and other chains are desperately reaching out to as many suppliers as possible, even tiny regional ones, to get product.
Costco still has limits on several products and their business model is to sell as much volume as possible. I’ve been throwing my one allowed pack of canned tuna into pretty much every order over the past year.
There’s never been a real risk to just-in-time shipping before.
Not on this scale. There’s been isolated or limited ones in the past to reinforce old hands’ view to keep extras on hand/tucked away and for wet behind the ears bright boys to figure out how much savings they can wring out by JIT. My company is still, in 2021, going ahead with a JIT project for critical parts because they’re certain either a regional stocking location or vendor will be able to deliver 100% when promised using fixed SLAs. ?♂️
I just got back from grocery shopping.
Mostly bare shelves in the pasta section.
Does this idiot not understand the cost of carrying inventory?
Heh. There’s a reason I didn’t quote the Reich column,
Bless you MS.
I try.
That inventory wouldn’t be necessary in the first place if you hadn’t put people under mass house arrest.
Cows produce milk. You know what else produces milk?
https://archive.md/LLTeY
Silicone Saturday.
Silicone produces milk??
Maybe he meant “caulk”
Me, standing at the front door yelling at my husband as he’s about to get in the car to go to the hardware store:
DON’T FORGET THE BLACK CAULK!
Black caulk? What the hell kind of bathroom fixtures do you have?
I once sent my wife a picture of my caulk. She doesn’t think I’m as funny as I do.
Pfffftt. I was laying down black-and-white tile and needed to caulk a threshold.
I hate hate hate subway tile with dark/black caulk.
Don’t forget the Irish city, per the local pronunciation.
They don’t drop the ‘r’ though, do they?
I’ve never been to Ireland.
AFAICR from I Went Down. Paging KSue…
They drop the H.
There’s a joke about two Irish lumberjacks who go to the States to make money, but come home a failure because, as they say, all the jobs called for tree fellers.
bllddlbddlbsspssth /shakes head
Double take, sorry.
Huh, Limey. Surprising.
Might not be worth it anymore.
corks
That’s directly from Curb… is it not? Maybe it was something else.
Um, no? It really happened. I wasn’t thinking and flushed bright red when my husband started laughing.
It is a well-known fact, comrade Mojeaux, that even if you have not seen it, and had no knowledge of it, that you are a shameless plagiarizer and must be put in the stocks summarily.
Paging Creosote Achilles…
Husband is putting the TV up on the wall and needs a spacer between the bolt and the TV. The mount came with 4, but he needs 2 more. So I told him to go to Home Depot and get a big fat nut.
Crown Royal induced my nut.
Now I have a 14 year-old.
Libertarian ladies bringing the heat!
GT from the top rope!
It is a good one.
The Dirndl lass is best.
As always.
Coconuts?
Wow. Baylor Bears vs Oklahoma Sooners is a low-scoring affair so far. And not because it’s a defensive grind like the Ravens/Dolphins game Thursday.
No, this looks more like a case of the offenses sucking.
would appear they finally copped to what we already knew. We’re reliving the 1970’s. Except I can’t buy a muscle car, because I don’t want to pay the gas hog tax, and that Charlottesville guy ruined it for everyone.
Interesting starting the sentence in the middle. I bought a Mustang without concern about the gas or the Charlottesville guy. If I had more money, I’d consider buying some a Hellcat because why the fuck not?
The cynic in me immediately went to conspiracy mode and pointed out that is only the rate of inflation they are willing to acknowledge.
I’ve been on the Dark Side of the government underreporting inflation for a long time.
Where they really get insulting was this article in Time Magazine that blames consumers for the current state of affairs:
Time Magazine can go fuck themselves.
How did I get beer from Maine? I went there in July and smuggled it.
🙂
Really nice part of the country but everyone there had that new LGBTQ+ flag in their yard.
Let me guess, you were in Portlandia?
This is pretty standard American Pale Ale. That’s not exactly a bad thing but it is a bit of a throwback to a much simpler time…2005. Is it as good as say, Dead Guy Ale? No, but its good in its own right. 6.0% abv; 45 IBU. Geaghan Brother Brewing Smiling Irish Bastard: 3.6/5
Looks worth a try.
“I bought a Mustang”
Huh, whazzat now?
Oh. Nevermind.
Interesting starting the sentence in the middle. I bought a Mustang without concern about the gas or the Charlottesville guy. If I had more money, I’d consider buying some a Hellcat because why the fuck not?
Thanks. Fixed.
The Charlottesville guy ruined the Challenger. The fact that I might have to drive three kids in the back seat is what ruined the Mustang for me. Then again, I could ditch them all and wait for this thing to come out cause why the fuck not?
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-shows/los-angeles-auto-show/a29848295/karma-sc2-concept-pictures-specs-hp-info/
I had a Challenger. Drove it all over the South from TX to FL. I loved it. And don’t let some random dick ruin enjoyment of a car. Those Challengers make you feel like king of the road. You don’t need more than the 6 cylinder to enjoy. The big ones, they are amazing but yiu will never get to use that power besides a drag strip. Lije yiu I have a kid (and now a Girl Scout troop) so I traded for a Durango. If I tet an opportunity in tge future I would get a Challenger again.
I was making a joke.
I very nearly bought a Challenger. My boss while I was at the VA had the Scat Pack but I decided to buy a Grand Cherokee instead, because the weekend prior I drove out to the desert with my brother to target shoot. It occurred to me I would never take that car out there.
Good Lord. Tonio needs to ban me for those cell phone mis-types.
I assumed you were day-drinking, because I’m day-drinking.
Correct
@Penguin, I loaded up Opera browser on my phone and hit up YouTube from there. No ads. Thanks!
I went to the (Blue) LGS to pick up some chamber flags for tomorrow in case people didn’t have them. They were unboxing an FN SCAR. Goddamn I really hate cops sometimes.
I’m headed over to Sisters house for Thanksgiving today, odd but a long story, so how about some Pie?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/KAhNwQS3VSxgvM2Z7
I need to work on my artsy crust thing,
Eating my Publix fried chicken in the parking lot in my dad’s hipster fuck EV waiting for my brother to finish his shopping. That’s my afternoon.
I’m contemplating getting an 8 piece cold fried chicken pack from Smith’s..:have to get dressed and leave the house tho….
I was going to go clean up leaves today, but I’ve decided that since the wind is picking up and it is kinda late in the afternoon, I will do it tomorrow morning.
Did the year’s final cleanup of the dog park this morning. Heading to the range now to see if the PCC actually runs and to preset the steel for tomorrow morning.
Enjoy the hailstorm that’s headed your way.
At least it was brief.
The storm is supposed to move through my part of NH overnight.
And the 20 degree drop behind it. ?
Yikes!
That was different. Hail is usually reserved for August.
Yeah, thunderstorms in November?! Must be global warming.
THE END IS NIGH
Whitey doesn’t deserve monoclonal antibodies
#equity
Grocery shopping today – Wegmans mask wearing was high and all employees were masked up. Trader Joe’s just a couple miles away had less and most employees were not masked. *shrug*
I bought 9+ lbs of meat. ?
I did not see much in the way of shortages, but we didn’t roam through all of Wegmans.
https://wjla.com/news/coronavirus/dowell-elementary-calvert-county-public-school-maryland-covid-19-vaccine-mix-up-child
Wrong 6 year old jabbed.
FTA:
Not a word about what the parents felt about the situation. I smell a lawsuit. Or at least, I’d be on the phone to a lawyer pronto.
WTF is going on over there in Loudoun County?!
WTF is going on over there in Loudoun County?!
Peak government efficiency. It is a suburb of the capital, after all.
Revenge of the school board, no doubt.
That was the first thing I thought.
Next year we’ll be marveling at how quaint it was when parents were allowed to opt-out their child.
Ok, round 1 complete (saving the tyvex for rd 2).
https://twitter.com/FishLikesFlicks/status/1459612304262246403?t=ypSbVdq9cf0pQRWEfi65qg&s=19
Gonna spray some more bleach solution and let it sit overnight. Ice is melting real slow…may be frozen/rusted through the back panel….
I think I got as much as I could in the floorboards with my scrub brush. Gonna pick up some green weenies tomorrow and give it another go.
Leaving a dehumidifier/rid-x pack out too.
Good call. I was about to comment that you should do that. Also a fan on the ice will break it down faster. Get air moving on it
fan and space heater – seeing some warming now.
(I did use the tyvex, but I think I can use it again tomorrow.)
It looks 100x better! Good job.
Thanks. Suthen was right about bleach solution. Not sure about longterm status though – don’t really want to put in a home warranty thing if I don’t need to – we’ll see how this defrosting works.
Off for a day of racing. Winds are light so it’ll be slow and technical. Enjoy your day!
https://mobile.twitter.com/DempMcgee/status/1459567944799858694
Lol, wut?
Maybe he learned his technique from Barry O?
Covid vaccine holdouts are caving to mandates — then scrambling to ‘undo’ their shots
Several stories on this. I guess the idea is to once again demonize and suggest that anyone with any concerns about the vaccine is completely irrational. I’m assuming it must be trending on Journolist 2.0.
I feel dumber for having read that.
I’m really curious how many folk who believe in “healing crystals” have gotten vaccinated because of the “science” or if they fall into this camp.
“holdouts”
Go fuck yourself.
Wow. Sooners really shit the bed today.
Sorry for a drive-by, but I wanted to follow up on the 5th Circuit decision to reply to Gustave’s points about state vax mandates. Like it or not, the (Progressive’s wet dream) Jacobson decision continues to exert influence. While I believe it is no longer good law in light of the subsequent 115 years of legal history (and I’m not a voice crying in the wind on that one), the fact is that Jacobson itself destroys any claim by Biden of being able to have a FEDERALLY mandated vaccine. That is unquestionably a GOOD THING. Of greater import (to my mind) than the 5th leaning on Jacobson is the 5th also utterly pissed on the government’s DOOM! PANIC! DEATH! arguments. That may be the most significant aspect of it for me. I don’t know if anyone has read the petitioner’s brief, the OSHA response, and the reply, but all of the govt filings have leaned hard on the “ZOMG, PEOPLE ARE DYING!!!” and judges have been generally spineless in the deference to agencies on this issue. In this case, however, the 5th took that head on and basically said, “Yeah, we’ve been hearing you scream ‘EMERGENCY!’ for two years now. That means it ain’t an emergency.” That is a HUGE legal development, IMO.
Same for several of the other pieces of that decision, which basically slapped down a lot of the steam from the government about this pandemic. I would be surprised if the Biden Admin appeals it to the Supreme Court because to do so would risk a SCOTUS repeat of the Alaska Realty decision (that’s the CDC rent moratorium slap-down). The 5th leaned hard on that decision.
Perhaps most importantly of all is that the reasoning of the 5th’s decision – leaning on the CDC case – means that there isn’t a chance in hell that the Procurement Act justification is going to survive on the contractor mandate. If the OSHA statute doesn’t provide justification for a vaccine mandate, the Procurement Act sure as fuck isn’t going to, either.
So I stand by what I commented on here a week or two ago. The EOs will go away and what will be left is the military mandate until one of the cases handling it finally gets in front of a sane judge who will read with an open mind. And this whole thing is going to be (yet another) GIANT “L” for Biden’s Admin. Whatever else can be said about these cases, that is undoubtedly a win for the citizenry, regardless of any reliance on that shitty Jacobson decision.
Is anything pending before the courts on the Procurement Act justification?
Thank you, Ozy, for keeping us safe.
srsly, obvy
You’re doing God’s work, Ozzy
Too much negativity even for me!
Here, everyone: have some funkaliciousness.
Nice song. I bet everyone is doing something else besides worrying. I am having an Aroma de Cuba Robusta cigar and some Johnny Walker Black in the back yard. It was way more expensive than last visit to get both of those things. F*ck poopy Joe, I am going to enjoy myself. Making home made pizza tonight too. Tonight Svengoolie has ‘The Indestructible Man’ on. It’s a good night. Beautiful weather in OKLATX too.
Making home made pizza tonight
Hand stretched? and if so what state do you shoot for shape-wise?
Right now I have a tiny pizza stone I use on the grill. So little 12” pizzas that I hand stretch. Dough has been rising for two hours. I start cooking in two more. I Have to wait until this cigar wears off a little. It was a major buzz.
And it’s round.
We just prepped 4 nice big strips for tomorrow. 4.7 lbs of beef.
*Points to avatar*
@Suthen
I’m gonna try the hot pepper vinegar thing. I got some apple vinegar and my oil/vinegar bottles arrived today.
God bless our essential workers.
#2 son came home from school this weekend to get his car inspected at one of New Jersey’s state-of-the-art inspection facilities. Passed inspection (yay!) then went to get a haircut. Phone rings.
Son: “I’ve got some bad news”
Me: “Accident? What happened?”
Son: “Check engine light is on”
The jabronie (state employee) who performed the inspection apparently failed to secure some component of the emission system which is now leaking. We have the highest taxes in the nation, but at least we are getting great ROI.
Ah, value-added!!
Reminds me of taking my Tesla for its state-required “smog check” in California.
Oddly, here in NV, it varies by county. So no smog checks in Nye, where I live, but they are required in Clark, where Vegas is.
Just got good news, the jabronie screwed the gas cap in backwards. Tim will not need to take my car to Scranton. /recites 5 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys
Huh.
I can get decent automotive work, but the place where I used to get my hair cut has closed down and vanished, with its space being taken over by a different business. The mortgage underwriters wouldn’t style my locks.
There will be a little hose missing a cap, usually at the front of the engine. That was left off after the test. Annoying.
Murphy nearly bragged about those taxes and still won. I’m sorry your son is bearing the brunt of government incompetence.
He was right about one thing – NJ may not be the place for me. Stuck at the moment, but will get out as soon as it is feasible.
The reason I pay the money for my local guy to do it.
Miracle of miracles, no inspection of any kind on EVs.
Covid claims 3 more victims in Nebraska
Hey! No fraternizing with the snow leopards!!
Why did they even check?
According to the left they weren’t vaccinated therefore they deserved to die for putting grandma at risk.
I am having trouble picturing how one could screw the gas cap in backwards. I must be misunderstanding something.
You’re right, stick the cap in might be a better description, threading doesn’t work that way.
Nah. I can’t get my comments to go to the right places
I keep having to log back in all the time (using Brave browser).
I give up.
LOL, I was referring to threading on the gas cap. I’ll never figure out this posting thing.
I knew you meant the gas cap thing. My question on the gas cap was misplaced (coincidentally “misthreaded”).
“Nah” was what autocorrect changed “Gah!” to.
Ah, technology!
Monocle/Eyepiece caused me all sorts of trouble in Brave.
Planning to get blasted tonight, you peeps doing a zoom so I can have some fun?