Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a wonderful day it always is!
Devin Nunes to become CEO of Trump’s media group
Biden Justice Department sues Texas over redistricting maps
Economists See Year End Surge in Inflation
Congress drops proposal to require women to register for the draft
Senate set to vote on bill barring Biden vaccine mandate, likely to pass with Manchin support
Michigan School Officials Could Be Charged in Oxford School Shooting
Transgender UPenn swimmer smashes two US women’s records
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Swim Weiner doggie, SWIM!
Gah! Now I want to take the day off and go home and play with my dog.
Of course, I feel like that almost every day, but still.
I wasn’t sure whether you were talking about the illo, or the UPenn story.
Touché my friend!
We had Dachshunds when we were kids, vicious little beasts. I remember when one took a flying leap out of the mustang when we were driving across the Delta just to get a squirrel or something. Scarred the heck out of my parents.
A day that will live in infamy
My aunt had one. The family was at a restaurant when it was a puppy and couldn’t leave it in the car. We passed the puppy around under the table when the server came to get our orders.
I once saw a Rottweiler give a Dachshund attitude, only to have the wiener slip under him and go straight for his balls. That poor Rottweiler never again was the same and ran off every time he saw a wiener dog…
I’ve told the story before of my FiL’s dog, “Little-Bit”.
Fat little bastard who had a wear spot on the tip of his dick because it drug on the ground.
He ruled the yard, killing squirrels, rabbits and ground-hogs that made the mistake of entering his domain. Then he’d stand over the corpse and eventually eat it, but he was a holy terror about it.
He’d go after you if you tried to mess with his kill.
Little motherfucker bit me on the tip of the finger when I went to pet him in the car. DO NOT REACH THRU THE WINDOW. It was like someone caught me with a pair of pliers.
Our dachshund was a sweetie for the most part – she was a wirehaired and they generally have more pleasant personalities than the shorthaired – but in her youth, she was a killing machine. She particularly went after birds and somehow caught them sometimes. She would bring them to the back door and be so excited about it, little tail wagging at warp speed.
Our minnie was so sweet to humans but fearless with ‘enemy combatants’. A neighbor’s huge akita nearly tore the neck off our sheperd mix. The next day our dachsie got out of the house and launched at the akita like a laser guided missile. We saw the akita running away with our dog hanging from it’s neck like a furry pendant, locked on in a death bite. Eventually she bounded back home as proud as could be without a scratch. After that, the akita would run into its house any time we let the minnie outside.
“Devin Nunes to become CEO of Trump’s media group”
Losing this guy from the Intel Committee worries me considering how corrupt Schiff and that lot are.
Since stripping members of committee assignments and impeaching presidents is SOP now, I’m really hoping that 2023 sees a congressional bloodbath.
There is a lot of really bad things they can do before the election to specifically fortify it. Do not doubt for a second that the intel community is part of the fortification effort, cause they are corrupt as shit and beholden to the democrats since Obama fundamentally changed them and Trump came in and stepped on their dicks and exposed them.
This is exactly what should happen, but the republicans, being pussies, won’t do.
Morning, Banjos.
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That’s what I used to call my early wood in a prior life.
I’m sure Sloopy has some thoughts on that topic, but we’ll leave the happy couple alone on that front.
Pickin’ and a grinnin’?
Texas: has five majority-minority districts.
DOJ: THAT’S DIFFERENT!
NPR is claiming that they needed to create two new minority only districts if they were being “fair.”
There’s at least three lawsuits I’m aware of regarding the Ohio redistricting maps. Most of the complaints is that the dastardly Republicans (who have a veto proof majority in the state house and senate) ignored requests from Democrats to build in more Democratic districts.
Switch the parties and you have the same story in Illinois.
Look what happened to California.
“Totally independent and non-partisan commission”
TOS has a similar story about Maryland.
https://reason.com/2021/12/06/maryland-democrats-hate-gerrymandering-so-much-theyre-trying-to-eliminate-the-states-lone-republican-district/
Maryland also.
Ah, but the ACLU (of Ohio) is one of the groups filing suite in Ohio. Looks like the oral arguments are scheduled for tomorrow.
whaddup doh
The COVID-19 Beer test?
I’m sure Garland will get right on it when NY draws its map that also explicitly dilutes the voting power of minorities.
Never mind, wrong minorities.
I’m a little bit amazed how there can be de jure second-class states.
Well, there are de jure second-class citizens so why not.
I thought I heard on the radio that Comrade DeBlasio’s decree didn’t apply to remote workers.
I haven’t heard that.
Besides, he hasn’t even written it yet. He was gasbagging on some radio show.
MSNBC! Totally better than tweeting out a policy change like OMB did!
“Congress drops proposal to require women to register for the draft”
Damn that patriarchy.
Especially when a guy then swims against a bunch of chicks and sets new records…
Hell yeah. Give xhe a rifle and stick it on the front lines. For equality, ya know.
Either we draft all 57 genders, or none.
This.
For true equality we need as many lady soldiers as gent soldiers. If it’s necessary to draft them, so be it. Fair is fair, in love and war. No exemptions.
The vaccine mandate also has to pass the House, where it is unlikely to even get a floor vote. It is also subject to presidential veto.
Which makes zero sense. If the Executive is pushing an order (not a law) based on an interpretation of a regulation (which is power delegated from the Legislative to an agency) and the Legislative says “No, that’s not how we wanted that delegated”, the Executive shouldn’t get an override in this case. Too much power to that branch.
Of course, the Legislative should just defund the Executive entirely when they pull this crap — but we know that’s never going to happen. Plus these days, I’d bet the Treasury would spin some stupid logic about borrowing from the Fed without Congress anyway. Excuse me while I go yell at some clouds for a while… about as useful, I know.
The scumbags are hoping it gives private entities that want to comply with the wokeness enough cover to force this mandate on their people before the whole legal angle is resolved. Many entities are quite ready to pretend this is legal and rush the process, even if it is totally clear they will fail in court eventually.
That’s exactly what’s happening at my employer.
The wife and I are disagreeing on how things will turn out.
My wife predicts that eventually the company will tire of the expense and end the weekly COVID testing and sanity will return.
I predict that eventually the company will move to billing employees for the tests. Our HR director strikes me very much as a Branch Covidian.
I sent a letter a while back that got circulated around the senior leadership that was simply a list of questions. I carefully chose the questions so that honest answers would force them to confront that, absent the government ordering them to implement the OSHA ’emergency’ regulation, there was no rational reason to do this crazy stuff.
I figure maybe 20% – 40% of the senior leadership quietly agrees with me, so it’s not yet hopeless.
It’s my hope that the wife is right and I am wrong about how it’s going to turn out. That happens a lot, so fingers crossed. 🙂
I hope so too, but my personal bet is on your path. All HR has to lead our CEO and spineless senior “leadership” is show how their preferred method is the least cost or reduced risk option. So daily screenings, attestation, vax requirement, and healthcare surcharge for unvaxed continue.
Can you add your letter to the resources in the forum?
Obviously redacted to avoid doxxing yourself to these reprobates.
‘In the Congressman’s retirement letter to constituents, Nunes described it as being “presented with a new opportunity to fight for the most important issues I believe in.”‘
When you realize Congress is a futile battleground.
Eh. He’s a swamp creature just like the rest of them. He’s looking for better pay. Just because he’s not a foaming at the mouth Leftoid doesn’t mean that his beak won’t get wet.
Reminds of my wife’s gaga over Troy Gowdy.
The senior level military is kaput!
Since no insurrection has happened, there was never any need to deploy the guard.
Inter-locking circular logic – impressive.
? Should I have been more specific that there was no insurrection on the 6th, and thus there was no need to deal with an insurrection on the 6th? I will concede that they may have been non-insurrection related reasons to deploy, but the article was harping on a few tourists wandering the capital building.
Comment was directed at your characterization, not you. It allowed for Jan. 6 to be both an insurrection and not an insurrection and for the two narratives not to intersect (and be self-confirming, thus circular).
His former boss is now the House Sgt at Arms? Just a tad incestuous.
I’m a little bit amazed how there can be de jure second-class states.
It’s not fair that California and New York only get two Senators. Wyoming and North Dakota trample all over them.
You’re right, New York and California are overrepresented in the House and should give up a senator each.
One good thing about FB is it allows a peek into other ideological bubbles. My lefty coworkers unironically (unironicly? sans irony?) post memes saying exact that.
Turns out the most ridiculous satire we can come up with is already desired policy somewhere on the left.
Poe’s Law FTW!
Standard not-a-transphobe disclaimer, but only biological women should be counted for record keeping purposes.
That’s an interesting compromise. And will be absolutely rejected.
The Olympics already did.
Could easily change the category to “Biological Females”
The compromise eventually will be no segregated sports. And that will be seen as…good?
Jello Wrestling hardest hit
I’m more of a mud-wrasslin’ afficianado myself.
Jello? OK, but they better not strip Ox of his mud wrestling titles
Well played.
The trans-mania has gone too far. At this point, the only rational thing to do is desegregate the sports. And when Susie the Soccer mom starts hearing about how real women can’t get athletic scholarships in a few years, they will roll back the excesses. When a mania gets out of hand (ie, defund the police) then the best medicine is give them what they ask for good and hard.
…and the innocents that get trampled, ah fuck ’em, eh?
They’ll just mandate the teams have (at least) the correct gender breakdown. Just like title 9 means you MUST have at least as much funding for girls sports, if its more for girls, that is fine, but not more for boys, that is unfair.
My highest throughput tool has a non-critical failure. It an encoder failure, but the location of said encoder…
This tool is four independent modules that were built separately then dropped into a chassis. And then a FFU placed on top of the chassis.
Said encoder is on one of the corners of a module that is now in the center of the tool.
Since that motor isn’t necessary for the tool to function, I’d just disabled it and removed it form the .ini file. However, it does also remove function that prevents the operator from fucking up a run if they’re careless. Two tech have been sufficiently careless that I have been instructed to figure out a way of getting at said encoder and actually removing/repairing/replacing it.
Today is gonna suck. I’ve called in someone on overtime to have an extra set of hands, but this is still gonna be a swearfest.
set up a counter so we know how profane a day it was.
At least it’s German-built so I only need metric tools.
And as gottawful as German equipment is, it’s easier to deal with than Swiss made. Demented wanna-be clockmakers with a chip on their shoulder, the lot of them.
I thought the german method was to make tools that were only used on that one piece of equipment and nowhere else and sized/shaped them so no substitutes would work normally.
Or in the case of autos, Germans like to take one component and affix it with 7 differently-sized fasteners.
*whistles innocently*
My biggest experiences with German tech (BMW motorcycles and Audi cars) concluded with the thought that while the engineering is well thought through, it is designed for a closed system. In other words, it didn’t work well in the actual world of trying to get shit done. Everything had to be done in the proper, proscribed manner, with no shortcut or workaround or rethinking allowed.
“It verks in ze lab. I zee no reason you have issues.”
This is Germany; there are procedures to go through. I like procedures.
Biden-Putin summit: what are the odds Biden calls him an upstart, and war is declared?
Pretty low. I think Putin if nothing else is very good at realpolitik — he knows he’s talking to a puppet and will just ignore him while doing what he wants.
?
Putin is evil, but not stupid.
As opposed to Biden, who is evil and stupid.
Hail Freedonia!!!
If women don’t have to register for the draft, identifying as a woman should exclude you, especially with the new woke military.
* gets popcorn ready *
+1 Bitter Klinger
* thunderous applause *
Oh, very nice.
“Dammit, I’m trans and I want to be (drafted)(not drafted)”
Please check one
*puts on dress and fills out new selective service form*
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/12/download-16.jpg?w=640&ssl=1
Nice, never thought of that angle. I can’t see how they reason out of that, but reason never stopped them before.
Today in propaganda:
The NBC Today Show has a feel-good puff piece about Wisconsin’s dancing grannies recovering and getting back to what they do best! The money quote? “After an out of control SUV injured several at a holiday parade.”
That’s a lot of propaganda for one sentence.
NPR has a court analyst in Chicago for the jussie Smollett trial. Their analyst was very impressed at how closely everyone in the courtroom paid attention to Smollett’s many hours of testimony. The take home? This trial comes down to weather the jury believes the Nigerian brothers or Empire television star and actor Jussie Smollett. Money quote: “There is no hard evidence that he faked this attack.”. So it all comes down to who you believe, be famous TV star or these two immigrant bodybuilders.
Bonus propaganda from NBC’s Today Show. Covering the Smollett trial, their legal analyst told us that legal analysts all agree that if convicted he will not face any jail time since this is his first defense and nobody was injured in the attack.
So, trying to frame things so that the take-home is not that Democrats are involved in stoking racism through hoaxes, but that if he is punished for his crime it is because racism.
The shamelessness would be breathtaking if it weren’t so predictable.
It sure seemed to be in control. Just a coincidence that it was piloted by a member of a militant anti-white / anti-Christian group.
What I didn’t mention? As the reporter was saying that the SUV was out of control, they were playing aerial footage of the SUV swerving to hit particular people.
Apparently part of the formula is to make the propaganda so blatant that it invokes a powerful cognitive dissonance, requiring the invocation of the love of big brother to maintain doublethink.
You should ask some Russians from the Soviet era to describe this phenomenon for ya. It seems the state made it a point of providing ludicrous and truly unbelievable explanations or stories for things that everybody would see through, immediately, just to watch everyone be forced to pretend they all not only believed the bullshit but to then have them compliment the people that peddled the bullshit for being so insightful.
I keep this Theodore Dalrymple quote handy:
Trans women are women… Trans women are women…
Those injured in the incident should sue NBC like the Sandy Hook families are suing Alex Jones.
Apparently Smollett was having sexytimes with one of the brothers.
I think Twitter and YouTube are too effective at countering establishment propaganda so they will become increasingly censored as time goes on.
One of the most amazing examples I have ever seen in my life of the mind of the far left.
Not only is Smollett making this claim, his legal team makes it on his behalf, and the entirety of the left repeats it uncritically.
The brothers attacked him because they are homophobic because he was hooking up with one of the brothers. You really have to tie your brain into all sorts of logical knots to be able to repeat that without busting out laughing. And yet? NPR certainly framed it as entirely credible. So did NBC’s today show. I haven’t watched CNN or MSNBC to see if they crack a smile as they say it, but somehow I think I know the answer.
See my comment about tyrannical totalitarian systems and how they tell people clearly bullshit stories to then have the people all go along with it as if it was the gospel, just above.
Dave Chappelle will have a field day with this shit.
He already did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZXoErL2124
Oooh, and Tracy Morgan weighs in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAPdOBjo94w
Yeah – the French actor. Now he gets to revisit it.
Not as crazy as it sounds, they’re from Africa, right?
Even if true, it doesn’t explain how they had transformed into maga-hat wearing white guys he’d never seen before in his testimony to police.
How do the square the circle of Smollett claiming that he was attacked by white supremacists?
Even if we grant him that the brothers did attack him without his knowledge, how did he a) not recognize him and b) think they were some Dixie crackers out for revenge?
Sit down and shut up! That’s why.
The new Twitter boss has promised to better edit out inconvenient facts.
So, trying to frame things so that the take-home is not that Democrats are involved in stoking racism through hoaxes, but that if he is punished for his crime it is because racism.
CRT core tenets:
1) racism is systemic, pervasive, perpetual, and normalized
2) the oppressive white majority must be challenged whenever and wherever possible
3) appeals to objectivity are thin facades over racism
4) racism can only be understood through the lived experience of oppressed people of color
Their definition of racism is so fucked up that smollett being held accountable for a hoax is racism, simply because holding black people accountable for their actions is a manifestation of the racist system. These people are insane, and their religion is the destruction of western civilization. “I am Marx, destroyer of civilizations”
Most of the shit the left peddles these days is about protecting stupid and evil people from consequences. It’s not accidental that they always blame someone else for their own disfunction and stupidity, because being held accountable would send all of them off to the farm.
The left has been peddling that for over 100 years. They’ve pretty much ran out of stupidity that isn’t protected, the lowest hanging fruit they have left is the batshit insane.
1a) It’s OK when we do it
They define it away in their insanity. Discrimination is anti-racist when it “promotes equity”. Discrimination is racism when it “perpetuates inequity”. Oh, and this is a Hegelian dialectic, so there’s no neutral middle. Every thought, action, and dynamic is either anti-racist or it’s racist.
These people are insane Marxists.
Case in point: The Burning Man org is going woke (big surprise for a bunch of San Frannies, right?). The anti-racism material they want everyone to consume is from none other than Angela Davis.
Most of them don’t have a clue who Angela Davis is or what she has done. They just know she has cred.
They probably have no idea she was/is an apologist for the worst of the Soviet Union’s crimes against humanity. A modern version of her would be excusing the genocide of the Uyghurs for the CCP.
Yeah, given how fucking old I am relative to most, that is no doubt true. I pointed out that was about like using David Duke as a point of reference for white people/the larger culture.
The problem with that analogy is that most of the left only considers it Asian on Asian crime, and not genocide as that involves White PeePole and colonialism.
Hegel is a blight upon philosophy and logical thought.
The logical end of that approach is going to be actual racists doing actual racist things. At some point people just get fed up and argue with bullets instead of words.
It’s almost like that’s the point, or something.
Why is it that only whackado fringe libertarians can see this? They are being more blatant than a circle of middle school kids chanting “Fight! Fight! Fight!”…. And nobody notices?
Fish and water. When your only exposure to these issues are a flawed public school history lesson in 6th grade and the mainstream narrative (whether through TMITE or TMITE-aligned SMITE) , it’s impossible to recognize the agenda.
Why can only libertarians see it? For the same reasons that everyone was whistling dixie up to WWII.
“There is no hard evidence that he faked this attack.”
Other than the video of them practicing.
What are your odds on him walking? I give him OJ bets because the Media needs an anti-Rittenhouse.
I tell you who does appear to have walked…. The prosecutor who did a favor for Michelle Obama and future VP Harris. She clearly spiked the case as a political favor. Amazing that nobody was interested in enough to find out what kind of favors changed hands on that one.
That would paint the powerbrokers in a negative light, and we can’t have any of that polluting the minds of the serfs…
They were rehearsing for a scene in Empire for which no script is available, bigot.
sin,
TMITE
I did not know they had video from the bathhouse.
Today Show clip
https://twitter.com/MIF_Maria1/status/1468211006509916167
I’m not sure Smollett should do some jail time even if convicted.
Make him pay for the police resources that were squandered on this BS, sure. Of course if I was his lawyer, I might challenge those costs because they were excessive.
“Look, my client expected the normal police response to a report of being beaten in Chicago: one bored desk sergeant taking a report over the phone. Nothing more.”
The dummy thought that this would simply be a matter of PR. He never expected the police to actually do anything.
I actually believe the real criminals are the propagandists working for the Democrat party across the national media. They instantly pick this up and loudly trumpeted it as proof that all Republicans are violent racists who will wait around at 2:00 in the morning in Sub-Zero weather looking for gay black television stars to assault. It was universally used to push a narrative that all white people and all Republicans are irredeemably racist. It was every bit as vile as the blood libel. It had the identical intent, even if we have not seen the result yet.
Those people are the ones who turned this from some idiot trying to get attention into a serious threat to public safety and the body politic.
Completely agree.
Usually agree with your posts, but you’re wrong to think we’re not seeing the result, how about Waukesha?
General anti-white attitudes among the wokists? The efficacy of calling Republicans ‘racist’? These are all outgrowths of a narrative spun by the media that you correctly identified.
I might challenge those costs because they were excessive.
They were excessive because extra resources were dumped into the investigation because ZOMG HATE CRIME. Make that lying mofo pay for his actions.
Sure. But how was Jussie to know that the Chicago cops would actually do their jobs and investigate?
Dozens of people get shot every weekend in Chicago and the cops could give a shit less about it. Poor Jussie thought that was the reaction from the cops that his little prank would receive.
CNN’s Don Lemon avoids mentioning court testimony that he tipped Jussie Smollett off about police
“After an out of control SUV injured several at a holiday parade.”
I should be surprised that they are still running with this. TMITE.
There is no hard evidence that he faked this attack.
Except for the hard evidence…
However, it does also remove function that prevents the operator from fucking up a run if they’re careless.
“I can’t do that, Dave.”
*Did I do that right? I have never been able to stay awake through that movie.
“I’m sorry Dave – I’m afraid I can’t do that” if I recall correctly. The evolving chimp scene at the beginning usually knocks me out as well, so I may also be wrong. Hence you’re spared an “Ack-shually” there.. 😉
The chimp scene and the space stuff afterwards always held my attention but after that, who knows. Boring movie is spacy and boring.
Could someone please turn off the sidebar?
Well, I’ve been as repulsive as I typically am.
?????
If he was hotter, the sidebar would be turned on. :don’t-explain-the-joke-but-oh-well:
I only did because you weren’t whining about it or complaining like we usually hear…
And what a wonderful day it always is!
Meh.
And as gottawful as German equipment is, it’s easier to deal with than Swiss made. Demented wanna-be clockmakers with a chip on their shoulder, the lot of them.
As I used to say about racecars: designed by somebody who knew he was never going to have to work on it.
Mornin’ Banjos! Great tune! I’ll one-up you in these trying times – https://youtu.be/m38EdJeM6dU
Oh come on, you can’t one-up The Damned.
Dude is a politician now. Top that, smart ass!
Joey “Shithead” Keithley.
A “green” party. I am shocked.
The lawsuit alleges the districts drawn by Texas lawmakers violate the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting strength of minority voters.
And since Dems think they own poc’s this cannot stand. (as if skin pigment should be a consideration for congressional districts.)
Separate but equal
Goldilocks redistricting except with the Red Queen presiding.
Calvinball
I’m eagerly awaiting the about face from the Dems when some of those border districts start electing pro-border control hispanics.
Didn’t a lot of them either flip for Trump or nearly flip for Trump? I’m sure that after four more years of Biden’s Iron Curtain, they will succumb to false consciousness (or whatever they are accused of when they vote wrong) and elect wrong thinkers.
They might be so mad that they don’t even vote for their native son Beto for governor.
Beano.
Could easily change the category to “Biological Females”
It was good enough for Avery Brundage.
Congressman Devin Nunes is leaving Congress for the CEO position of former President Donald Trump’s upcoming anti-Big Tech media company.
CNN/MSDNC/etc needed something else to hyperventilate about.
While it would be gratifying to see school officials charged in the Oxford shooting, the end result will be that every teacher and administrator in the country will go into full ass-covering mode and start reporting any act of sullenness or defiance committed by a student. For certain values of student, anyway.
Good. Maybe it’ll make government schools such a hostile environment that people start pulling their kids out in droves.
/looks over the past 18 months.
You mean if they haven’t already?
Same as the shot, so many people are beholden to the most financially lucrative path forward because their finances are a mess. We have many friends in the “we’d send them to private school if we could afford it” camp.
It is all about your priorities, though I’m sure many don’t realize how wasting money on starbucks means their kids get indoctrinated and demoralized at school, put on antidepressants, ‘transition’, etc.
“Jussie Smollett reveals CNN’s Don Lemon warned him via text in 2019 that cops didn’t believe his account of attack: Host is accused of unethical behavior just days after Chris Cuomo was fired for helping his brother fight sex-pest claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10282383/Jussie-Smollett-reveals-CNN-host-Don-Lemon-warned-text-cops-didnt-believe-account.html
“Hamptons bartender who is suing Don Lemon for sexual assault brands CNN ‘a predator-protecting machine, rife with perverts’ and reveals he was offered $500,000 to settle”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10282861/Hamptons-bartender-accused-Don-Lemon-sexual-assault-brand-CNN-predator-protecting-machine.html
This is an eggplant.
Well, they have until Friday evening to get Potatohead to pen another missive shoving Lemon under the bus.
Why is Don Lemon being given a hard time for telling some worker bee to smell his taint? Don Lemon is IMPORTANT and that bee should feel honored to get taint smells!
/libtards
CNN is full of unethical hacks? Say it ain’t so.
Don Lemon sure seems to have a thing for the white guys.
Do black gay guys get as mad when a fellow traveler goes white? When I lived in Memphis OJ’s biggest sin (amongst the black women) was that he married a white woman. They could forgive a little killing, but not marrying a sister was a bridge too far.
You’d think they’d realize that the black sisterhood dodged a bullet — LOL, what am I saying?
You cut to the heart of the matter on that one.
funny
https://twitter.com/johnbcrist/status/1467968214609113088?s=20
When did they get Danny Ricciardo as a reporter?
Uncanny.
Jeep Maker Stellantis Bets on Software to Boost Revenue
1. Auto manufacturers don’t understand how to develop complex software in house.
2. Subscriptions and software locked features have been a holy grail for manufacturers forever. Only manufacturer I know that is really successful with this is Tesla.
John Deere beat Tesla to that business model by years.
That’s the repair side.
This is on the feature and monthly service side.
Stellaris needs to get their shit together on the software side. They’re still pushing regular updates to our car to fix various bugs and disabled functionality.
Cars aren’t phone apps. You can’t release some half-baked beta as production code and expect people to just wait around for the rest of the functionality to come along whenever your devs decide to tackle technical debt for a sprint.
I found a company that still makes and sells new carburated engines without computers.
Their primary market is boats, but they have a line for cars.
Are they allowed to build carbureted cars en masse these days?
Donno. This company only makes engines.
Ah, gotcha.
Researching for EMP purposes?
Actually, yes.
That question is what prompted the search to begin with.
Link?
https://www.quicksilver-products.com/automotive/motorsports/automotive/circle-track-engines/
Thanks! I’m pretty sure you can also buy carbureted crate engines from Summit racing and the like.
The problem with Stellaris is that, while it’s a great game, it’s gotten too bogged down in DLC. They really just need to start work on a sequel at this point.
I’m still waiting for the ability to import my Crusader Kings game into Stellaris.
For that I might just pick up Star Dynasties.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1194590/Star_Dynasties/
My last job was with a big software/manufacturer that was heavily into the automotive industry.
I sat on a work group that was tasked with coming up with a plan for the end-all, be-all software package for a car. I was a heretic because I said it was a fool’s errand. If a car manufacturer was smart, they’d just work on a panel with as many ports as possible so that people could plug their phones into it. Let the phone host the apps and control other hardware in the car.
I told them that the ideal platform would be to focus on security to make sure that important stuff couldn’t be hacked and expose everything else to 3rd party developers. They would be much more successful at creating apps that people really wanted. (I also mentioned focusing on privacy but that was a non-starter).
No one listened because they were sure that they could create a system that was so compelling that all manufacturers would be begging to install it.
One of the problems with IoT stuff like that is that the older big companies think they can control all the aspects of the platform and capture all the revenue. They are always doomed because they will develop one or two apps that no one wants and then the whole project slowly withers and dies.
They are always doomed because they will develop one or two apps that no one wants and then the whole project slowly withers and dies.
You mean my Ford cloud-based maintenance system that they shitcanned a couple years ago but still pops up a reminder to run the scan every 3 months isn’t coming back??!?
In seriousness, I’ve very much soured on modern cars after our last 3 experiences. They are buggy from the start, the systems don’t age well either from a “state of the art” perspective or from a physical operation perspective, they are expensive to repair or replace, and the benefits are superficial.
Just look at the easiest and most logical app that you could want in a car, GPS/maps.
My wife’s in dash GPS is hopelessly out of date. They want us to pay for an update. (or at least they used to, haven’t checked in years). Yeah, I want to pay for the privilege of using a clunky app that was only being updated every six months or so.
Or I could just use one of the hundreds of other free apps out there like Waze or Google Maps that not only is always up to date, but will alert you to speed traps or congestion.
Yeah, I’m going to have to think long and hard about that.
Or I could plunk my garmin on the dash in front of the steering wheel where it’s more convenient for a quick glance, get free updates, and am used to its failings and foibles.
I’ve been happy with my wireless charging phone mount in my older car. It puts the phone where I would have put a nav system, and it charges the phone while I use the maps app that I like (HereWeGo)
I put my GPS in front of the steering wheel because I noticed on one of my first road trips that putting it near the center line led to my neck hurting after a few days from turning my head to look at it to verify which turn it was talking about (or the distance). It also ended up reducing the time my eyes were off the road while getting rid of that neck strain.
Android Auto / Apple whatever looks to be the right solution – let my phone use that big display and do the heavy lifting.
I’m not giving my damn phone access to my car. That’s downright dangerous.
The answer is reduced computerization of car systems.
I don’t have either of those systems – does it “have access to your car” or is it just using the big display?
From past experience with phone apps, they’ll want rights to everything even if all they do is display an animated gif.
The answer is a a late 1990’s era fuel injected truck like a Tahoe or Suburban. The ECU is simple and reliable.
Put in your own stereo system with Apple Carplay or Android Auto. It won’t have access to any of the vehicle info.
I have not been able to get that to work in our Subaru CrosTrek.
My truck requires a physical connection. Android Auto works really well, though.
I’ve never gotten it past the handshake phase.
I spend $10/month for connectivity for my Tesla. WIth it I get streaming music of decent quality and variety. It also includes web access and live traffic from Google.
Even if you don’t subscribe, Tesla still provides you with updated maps online from Google.
I’m aware on no other manufacturer that provides this level of connectivity for so little money.
Got the hook into ya, good and proper.
(no idea if they’ll eventually jack that price up)
If you are really cheap you can hotspot your phone into the car. The car’s preferred connection is WiFi.
This is insightful and it is a pervasive phenomenon .
I used to work at a financial services company. The president wanted to build a business to business site for our partners in the insurance industry. This is right around the year 2000. He wants to have insurance agents from all over the country logging in to our portal to handle their business with us. The business they would be doing would be a small number of one-off transactions, but they would be lucrative, netting them several thousand dollars each.
His idea was to build an online calendar system and contact management system that they would use for all of their leads and appointments. I told him he was beyond insane for thinking any insurance agent would put his contacts into a third-party portal like that. But he was convinced that we could leverage our CRM technology to make our portal indispensable in the insurance industry and come to dominate.
So I had a couple of guys slap some stuff together. Not the dumbest thing I ever did, but it sure is close. And no, not one single contact or appointment ever got entered into the portal.
I’ve spent my career in financial services including insurance. They don’t get consumer (or agent/advisor) facing software.
However, to be fair, part of that is the regulatory environment they are forced to operate within,
We’re transitioning IP management databases right now, and the big selling point for most vendors is that you (and everybody in the invention workflow) can do everything here! There’s just a small learning curve, and then you can build beautiful dashboards and automation and the like and you never have to leave the app!
Of course, I raised my hand each time and asked “do you expect an inventor who interacts with the IP department once every 6 months to remember where everything is and remember to log into your system to get the info they need?”
“ummm uhhhh”
“let me ask the question a slightly different way. how well does your system handle email-based workflows?”
“Well, I guess we could code something up….”
Maybe if you set up your platform like SalesForce?
Not that SF is good, but it makes a shit ton of money because it allows thousands of hacks to make good $$$ as consultants who modify dashboards and other stuff. So they are out there promoting the shit out of your platform.
Again, you have to have the foresight to give up part of the revenue stream. You need those consultants out there pretending that your platform is worth a shit and all they need to do is pay them a few thousand dollars to tweak it.
SalesForce is the whipped cream on top of the pile of dogshit some of our systems are…
From a technical perspective SF is a steaming pile of garbage.
From a business perspective I have nothing but mad props for them.
They have adapted the business model of crack dealers and run with it. “Hey baby, you don’t want to have to go through the hassle of involving your
doctor and getting a prescriptionIT department and getting a project approved. Just give us $29/mo and you can start using SF for your departmental reporting”.The department will send all their data to SF and get some actual reports without a lot of hassle. Then – because it was successful – someone important wants to build on it. At that point, they realize that a) SF has their data and isn’t going to give it back and b) the IT dept doesn’t want to touch it because they don’t want to build on SF. So consultants are called in and more reports are built. The consultants also upsell on a few more things and at that point, there is no going back.
SF now gets to charge you for letting you have access to your data for the rest of time.
Economists now expect a lot more inflation going into the end of the year than they did a few months ago, a survey from the National Association of Business Economists showed Monday.
C’mon, man. Inflation is a far-right myth.
Women have been allowed to serve in combat since 2015, prompting calls to include women in the draft.
Women should not be allowed to serve in combat (at least in the front line “in the shit” capacity, unless they can meet the same physical standards as male soldiers…). There. I said it.
Yup. Unless you are strong enough to drag someone back you have no interest in the front line. Full stop.
Not just one time feats of strength either. They need to be able to grind it out same as the men.
When I was in Okinawa we had a WM in our squadron that won all sorts of IronWoman contests. She could keep up with most of the guys when we were on morning runs or other PT stuff. However if we had to do a 20 mile hump (our CO made us do one every quarter just to keep us honest), she’d complete it but would be laid up for a week after recovering. The rest of us were back in the shop the next day.
So yeah, the standards should include the ability to go out in the field and stay there the entire time as well as just being able to drag 200 lb 50 yards.
You probably went to boot at SD, so you never saw the female training platoons that always had a bunch of stragglers in running shoes behind every formation.
A whole lot of men get broken down physically after a few years in the infantry. I know this because several of them lat-moved into ATC after their first enlistment. Just off the top of my head I can think of four SNCOS in radar who started off as infantrymen before getting injuries.
Women should only be allowed to serve where the wearing of cute clothes and makeup is not detrimental to the mission.
I think there is a woman swimmer who might qualify.
“What about Hunter? Biden admin releases report highlighting money laundering in the art industry – while president’s son’s paintings sell for up to $500K to mystery buyers”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10281677/Ethics-official-points-Hunter-gallery-sales-White-House-report-tags-corruption-art-world.html
“Hunter’s artistic license! Psaki says President’s son doesn’t have to reveal who he finally sold his Chinese investment to or how much he made – and REFUSES to say whether she now accepts his scandalous laptop is real”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10282493/Psaki-says-Hunter-doesnt-say-sold-Chinese-holding-made.html
I just want to remind the peanuts in the peanut gallery that we live in a world where the president of the United States of America openly bragged about his corruption in foreign affairs as vice president, getting caught red-handed accepting bribes through his son Hunter to the tune of over 8 million dollars.
His further corruption is documented through co-conspirators and emails.
And since they were successful in wrapping themselves in the protection of the propaganda machine, now they don’t even bother hiding it. The president of the United States of America has an open money laundering pipeline through his son’s fake art career, where his amateurish paintings garner more than smaller works from Renaissance Masters.
I suppose it shouldn’t come across as news, seeing that the Clintons were accepting $100 million pledges for their non-charity charitable foundation while Hillary was in the Senate and as she was the presumptive president to be.
I really don’t think people see just how deeply screwed we are.
And just this morning the propaganda machine on all the news networks was telling me how Russia is getting out of control and how Biden is showing his strength by telling Putin to stop it. He might even put sanctions in place!
What a bunch of Kabuki theater.
Are you saying my original Hunter painting might not keep its value? That sucks! I need to recoup some of the money I lost
investinggiving to the Clinton FoundationYes, yes. But what about that Trump phone call to Ukraine? That’s the real story.
“Biden Justice Department sues Texas over redistricting maps”
Maybe it’s time to rethink the appointments clause
Maybe it’s time for lamp-posts and wood-chippers.
This is way bigger than the attention it is getting. More than any single appointment in my entire life, Merrick Garland has demonstrated exactly how disastrous his appointment to the supreme Court would have been. This guy is far and away the most political attorney general in the history of the United States. And that is a history that includes freaking Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions and Holder and Lynch.
NBC’s Today Show featured a clip of him announcing this action. It was the spiniest of spin master statements. It was 100% politics and 0% legal. They did not even pretend they were simply enforcing the law.
Yup, seriously dodged a bullet there. Thank God for the Turtle, and for Trump, whatever their other sins.
The bigger they are, the harder you fall.
https://archive.md/lzf0Z
Titty Tuesday.
I had to bring in my car to the dealer to get my front headlight replaced. I hate modern cars sometimes. A headlight, smdh
HID adaptive headlights are awesome. Small trade off, imo.
The little bulb in my microwave burned out.
After looking up what needs to be done to replace it, I’m fine without it.
Me, contemplating appliance repairs of any sort…
I swapped out the belt in the dryer a couple years back. The girlfriend’s first reaction to the broken dryer was, “We get to buy a new washer/dryer?”
Took three trips to find the correct belt, and just a couple of vulgarities as I got the belt in place. Dryer is still working.
I replaced a broken coupler and worn out dogs in our washer last(?) year & it’s good as new.
My wife was totally unimpressed.
I recently had to replace the heating element in my dryer. Never again. I don’t care if it’s a blown fuse, the next problem that piece of junk has is the last one.
I hear you….I managed to get our last washer to limp along another year, then I was ready to shoot holes in the thing rather than try one more fix. @#$%ing LG appliances.
I see your POS LG and raise you a Bosch front load washer. Bearings were clearly going, so I thought I’d get the repair kit. Surprise! The bearings are part of a sealed system that includes THE FUCKING DRUM!
The part was more expensive than a new fucking washer.
Next time I’m buying the most basic Speed Queen top load.
basic Speed Queen top load
That’s a very specific fetish.
That’s a very specific fetish.
Cleanliness, Godliness, etc.
See comment #41.
The Senate is set to vote this week on a resolution to nullify President Biden’s vaccine mandate for private companies
I was under the impression that the courts already nullified the pretend president’s “mandate”.
Political points ain’t gonna score themselves.
At least it’s a cheap ploy *against* tyranny for once.
Only for some states, and some of the mandates. Those are also temporary injunctions, as the cases haven’t gone to trial yet (not a lawyer, but somewhat invested in these stories).
Oxford High School officials may be charged for ignoring warning signs leading up to the deadly mass shooting allegedly committed by 15-year-old Ethan Crumbly, Oakland County, Michigan, prosecutor Karen McDonald told NBC.
Just charge everyone with insufficient melanin with terrorism and get it over with.
McDonald has already charged Crumbley’s parents with involuntary manslaughter because “they ought to have known that their son was emotionally disturbed and ought to have prevented him from taking a handgun to school”
Why stop with the parents? I’m sure the grandparents are culpable as well. And I am sure we are going to charge Darrell Brook’s family with similar crimes as well. They should have known he was disturbed and potentially violent, after all.
The Attorney general was a master class. The evidence she cited was that they bought a gun for their son. Oh, and she posted on social media that she bought a gun for her son.
That’s it. The beginning and the end of the evidence against them.
She even stated that the parents went home and looked for the gun and immediately called police when they couldn’t find it. She somehow seemed to think that this made them look more guilty or something.
The parents have been charged with homicide (not terrorism), and I have a problem with that. IANAL, but it seems that involuntary manslaughter should be the worst possible charge for the parents in this case, but I’d rather see criminal negligence.
Unlike parents, teachers (etc) have an explicit duty to report, and they totally failed to do that. Criminal negligence charges are appropriate here, plus whatever the charge is for violating their mandate to report.
Agreed. I just had to do “safe sport” training, and it mentions “mandatory reporters”. This means that teachers and coaches and others like that have a legal obligation to report any suspected abuse. I would imagine there is the same thing for violence.
wut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16929136/mum-21-babies-met-rich-husband-stripper/
Is it OK if I judge this “mum” because that seems really stupid.
Without reading article, I’m going to guess IVF gone horribly right.
*checks article*
I’m only partially right…
I approve of this.
Too many people that have money feel inclined to do stupid shit…
What could go wrong here…
Fury as transgender UPenn swimmer, 22, who used to compete as a man smashes TWO US women’s records in weekend competition and finishes one race 38 seconds ahead of her nearest rival
*shocked face*
But technically the women’s records still stand since this individual is not a woman.
Uh, Trans women are women!
How many times do they have to say it!?!!
My Samsung phone, which I have never liked, has stopped doing its wifi hotspot thing. This is a problem. I think I might go to Best Buy in Idaho Falls and see about getting a pay-as-you-go standalone hotspot. Or maybe I’ll just get a new Moto and see if I like it better. Doing a factory reset on my phone is scary. If I’m going to start over, I might as well do it with a less aggravating phone.
I hardly even use the phone as anything but a phone. But I need the flexibility of the hotspot capability.
When that happened to me, it was because my provider decided to sell a separate mobile hotspot add-on. Y’know, because it totally makes a difference whether your phone is the one transacting the data or if it’s forwarding to another device.
To be clear, it was an add-on subscription, not a device.
It’s always about paying more money or making you buy a new unit for more money.
Our company is moving in the same direction and I think it’s a mistake created by the fact that we’re over a decade away from the last true recession.
When you become reliant on monthly payments from your subscription customers to keep your books balanced, hard times hit especially hard.
It turns into an especially pernicious spiral when essentials are on subscription. Oh, your IT infrastructure is subscription based? I guess you’re not making payroll this month. Oh, not only do you have a car payment, but also a car subscription? I guess ramen is a good dinner for the entire month.
She probably used 10W40 as lube.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/porn-star-slept-1000-men-25605934
And BTW: that’s only 30 seconds per guy so I’m guessing only a small percentage finished.
Apparently she got confused when they told her McDonald’s was only serving hot cherry pie with cream.
Life tops Chuck Palahniuk.
Cool link, bro.
/kicks rock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_(Palahniuk_novel)
if she did 3 guys at a time…
7 if she jerks off 4 guys at a time
Are you assuming prehensile toes?
Y’all forgot about dem tiddies
You’re going to have a difficult time getting there with the first three guys in the way.
Use midgits?
slumbrew got it
Smart, that cuts Mean Jerk Time (MJT) in half. Assuming you get your D2F buckets sized correctly.
She was reportedly competing against two other women that day and beat her closest competitor by 21 men by the time the final whistle went.
Man, imagine being one of the women who lost that competition.
I don’t want to hear a single word about staffing shortages.
WORCESTER (CBS) – About 200 UMass Memorial Health employees are out of a job because they missed the health care system’s COVID vaccination deadline.
UMass Memorial announced the mandate over the summer with a deadline to get vaccinated or receive an exemption by November 1.
UMass Memorial has about 15,000 employees.
So a little over 1%.
I don;t blame the staff for not even playing the exemption game.
30 seconds per guy so I’m guessing only a small percentage finished.
Puts “one pump chump” in a whole new light.
*didn’t RTFA
RTFA
Should have emphasized the F in that
It is on Facebook, but here is some very cool music. The drummer is a little different looking so I’m not going to shame him by pointing out his obvious physical deformities.
I had to bring in my car to the dealer to get my front headlight replaced.
Because they have to pull the front bumper and the radiator off to get to them, probably. And the airbags. And then they have to initialize and update the software and synch the lights. Best leave it to the pros.
Olfactory hallucinations again today!. This time the smoke smell, unlike the other day after talking with Seo Young ….who’s a jaw-droppingly hot coworker. She ‘sparked’ one where I smelled fucking fantastic cologne. Made me feel loose, proud, and lucky. I wish I always smelled like that! She is utterly, distractingly gorgeous. I love the two days a week I get to see her. She was added to my Spank Bank the moment I saw her. I am fairly convinced that feeling like a teenage boy around her is a direct result of how the ‘smell’ has only happened (once) after getting fluttery feelings after talking to her, and why that sensation/experience was the only olfactory one that I’ve had that was utterly different than the same-same ones that I usually get.
I also got a sense today of being high with that smoke smell today. Just something a bit weird. Worth writing down. Wasn’t unpleasant. Bordered on fun. Very strange. It came in waves over about an hour. It’s not happening now but was about thirty minutes ago. It happened right before I had my scheduled, online therapist session. We talked about it and neither she nor my neurologist are concerned by these (what I strongly hypothesize are indeed) hallucinations. Just an interesting thing to get used to. I want that cologne one to come back…I will get to see Seo Young tomorrow…I wonder if anything will occur. Interesting either way!
I also got tested (neg) on Monday. I don’t have morning classes at my side-gig the rest of the week…but I do have to get re-tested again on Friday. Very strange. Predictably so. At least makes my mornings easier and I get to sleep in the entire week and don’t have to go on my hour-long commute at ~8:40am four times a week.
Question: Let’s take away North America: What other glibs are ex-pats/live in/are from a foreign country? Me in Korea, Straff in Japan, PieintheSky in Romania, Limey in England/UK—am I missing out? Forgive me fine folk if I left you out! It’s a great thing about having legit brain damage! I’ve got all sorts of reasons to be forgetful! Not my intention! Apologies in advance if I don’t know/don’t remember!
I seem to recall we had an Aussie, but I haven’t seen a post in a while.
We’ve got a number of Canuckistanis.
A few Californians… (waggles eyebrows)
And no Nigerian princes because of our spam filters!
MR. Mandias:
I have offer for you, I have found accounts totalling $7.000 million US dolars! I need help to transfer funds out of the bank. If you provide routing information, I will provide you 15 (fifteen) percentage of the moneys!
God Bless!
Nigerian Prime Minister Ilium.
Mr. Ilium,
Just a friendly reminder, unlicensed money laundering is a crime. To approve this transaction, you will need to deliver the necessary percentages in unmarked gold up front. Once we have confirmed reciept, we can permit your agreement with Mr Mandias continue as outlined. Drop off is at the usual spot.
You know who.
Congress drops
proposal to require women toregistering for the draftOne can dream.
Let’s go fishing.
The deal between a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and former President Donald Trump’s new social media company is being investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators, according to a report filed with the SEC that was first reported by the New York Times.
According to the document from Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) — the SPAC that intends to merge with Trump’s new media venture, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (TMTG) — the SEC has requested documents about meetings of the SPAC’s board of directors, “policies and procedures relating to trading,” identification of certain investors, and copies of communication between DWAC and TMTG.
– The SPAC backing Trump’s new social media venture disclosed in a SEC filing that it’s under investigation.
– Regulators have requested information from the company, but there’s no indication of wrongdoing yet.
– The SPAC has seen investment from 2 Republicans in Congress, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
They’ll get Drumpfler this time.
Now do every other sketchy SPAC.
I thought sketchy was the “S” in SPAC?
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (TMTG)
He really missed a chance there, he was so close to having it named TMITE.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1468067369876484097
People were asking how the corporate media is coordinated.
“White House and admin… try to reshape economic coverage.”
This is arrogance on a whole new level. They just need to convince the unwashed masses that that gas prices and grocery bills aren’t as high as they appear to be. Or that high prices are actually great!
Note that the news is never that they are trying to solve the problem, but that they are trying to shape the news or find a someone else to blame for the problem…
And just this morning the propaganda machine on all the news networks was telling me how Russia is getting out of control and how Biden is showing his strength by telling Putin to stop it. He might even put sanctions in place!
What a bunch of Kabuki theater.
It’s time to declare war on the great global kleptocracy. They’re cutting in on our operations.
Democrats trying to decide on method of sepukku in PA senate race.
With three competing to be the wokist, that sneaky moderate may just sneak through.
https://twitter.com/yorhahashira/status/1467368036365651973
LOL
Hah, good for her.
Signing out for now. Be blessed my Glibbies! Festus loves you in a non STEVE SMITH way! Be kind to each other and we’ll speak another time.
Night Festus
Curious. ///NotReally
Americans are quickly losing trust and confidence in the U.S. military, according to the staggering results of a recent survey conducted by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.
The survey found that the number of Americans who said they have a lot of confidence and trust in the military has dropped from 70% to 45% in just the past three years, and that includes a steep 11 percentage point drop since February, a Reagan Institute news release says.
Fuck
That means war is incoming.
Keep your eyes on Ukraine then. There’s trouble abrewin.
Britain and France couldn’t secure Polish sovereignty, ain’t no way us and NATO are guaranteeing Ukrainian.
Joe Biden will solve the problem just like he solved rising gas prices, supply chain crunches, and Covid!
How the fuck did I type that with a straight face?
One-handed?
Here, someone thinks this is credible. Oh GLORIOUS foreign policy establishment!
Oh boy.
Taiwan first.
Oxford High School officials may be charged for ignoring warning signs leading up to the deadly mass shooting allegedly committed by 15-year-old Ethan Crumbly, Oakland County, Michigan, prosecutor Karen McDonald told NBC.
Every time something like this happens, people come crawling out of the woodwork to jump in front of a camera and say, “I allus knowed the boy warn’t raht. It wuz just a matter of time afore he kilt somebuddy.”
So they have now decided to weaponize this phenomenon?
What could possibly go wrong?
“One reason DC lifted the mask mandate is so all the pictures of Democrats at holiday events wouldn’t show violations. But it still looks pretty terrible for a governor to impose a literally permanent mask mandate back in Oregon while she (sensibly) goes maskless in DC.”
https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1467880296100110341
No, it actually is terrible.
Scroll down and our next gov is doing the same.
Happening in the UK too:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mp-who-claims-she-feels-unsafe-around-maskless-pictured-partying-maskless
It’s just what those scum do. No accountability incoming though.
Venal, petty, pieces of shit.
Remember when people had shame? That was nice…
Good morning, Banjos!
I don’t think I would work for Two-Scoops. But I assume Nunes figured he’d lose next year, so maybe it’s smart to get ahead of it.
Transgender UPenn swimmer smashes two US women’s records
SIck.
I’ll leave you with a song…
Also sick. But in a good way!
“Senate set to vote on bill barring Biden vaccine mandate, likely to pass with Manchin support”
Alternate headline: pointless posturing by the Senate. Even if it could pass the house, Biden would still veto it.
That is the point – “Senile Joe is defying the desires of the American people!!!!”
It’s important to demonstrate resistance to the mandate right now.
Don’t have to tell me. I’m quitting and relocating as a result. I would have preferred to force them to fire me, but the new job couldn’t wait until they finally decide to implement it. Should have been fired/exempted a month ago, but nothing is happening for another month minimum I think.
This is where we are.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/06/critical-race-trove-from-california-district-tells-students-how-to-use-witchcraft-on-people-who-say-all-lives-matter/
Toil trouble woker and woke
Make that racist have a stroke
Government schooling is child abuse.
A curse? Like Blackadder?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyF7YmHYhYc
“Hello fellow white-nationalists.”
A group of white supremacists stormed through downtown Washington, D.C. on Saturday evening, bearing American flags and mildly menacing plastic shields while marching to the beat of a snare drum down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. But after chanting aggressively about their plans to “reclaim America,” their intended show of force stalled spectacularly when they lost their ride.
While the group had marched through the city with threatening chants about their plan to “reclaim America,” by the end of the night it was not even clear how they intended to reclaim their U-Haul.
The rally by more than 100 members of the “Patriot Front” group, held just blocks from the White House, sparked fear among many bystanders and immediately attracted the attention of law enforcement, who shadowed the group to forestall any conflict. …
As Patriot Front’s leader Thomas Rousseau spoke beside the Capitol reflecting pool, bystanders booed. Asked about the reason for the march, Rousseau said, “Our demonstrations are an exhibition of our unified capability to organize, to show our strength—not as brawlers or public nuisances, but as men capable of illustrating a message and seeking an America that more closely resembles the interests of its true people.”
That certainly does not read like it was written by an sjw fbi agent…
That was a frame up op if I’ve ever seen one.
How many of them were wearing khakis?
Appears all of them.
OFFS!
+1 Nazi Truck road trip to Washington.
A little too on the nose.
And I missed it by [_____________] much.
Always comes down to that bastard Rousseau.
Jumpin’ Jiminy! These cats make George Lincoln Rockwell and his American Nazi Party looks dignified and erudite.
https://youtu.be/8WyFoB7TCfc
So when does Manchin declare his candidacy for President?
My guess is that after 2022 elections, he will become a non-factor in the Senate again because the GOP will have a majority. After getting a taste of being a Big Timer, no way he can go back to being just another Senator.
Also, looking at the field, why wouldn’t he think he could win the nomination? Sure the activists would hate his guts, but their hate might actually make enough moderates go to the polls to vote for him. And it isn’t like Manchin would have to split the moderate vote with anyone else.
I’d love to see yet another Bernie run go down in flames.
Bernie doesn’t run to win, Bernie runs to fund new homes.
A day which will live in infamy.
Huh?
I know right. Ackshually it’s “A date that will live in infamy.”
Ancient history – like before time began.
December 7, 1941 is specific to the day.
Response to Taurus horoscope: “Taurus: 6 of Cups – Merchants return courtesy. Smell the flowers.”
Seo Yeong certainly got me to smell the flowers with that auditory hallucination. Was delightful. The suspense is terrible! I hope it’ll last….
Hey Evan, or anyone else who likes somewhat obscure rock. I heard this track yesterday from a South Korean artist that was described on the show as “The Godfather of South Korean Rock”. It is some great psychedelic rock stuff. Love the guitar riff.
https://repsych.bandcamp.com/album/shin-joong-hyun-yup-juns-1974-korean-blues-psych-rock
Never heard of ’em. Kickass, especially for ’74 Korea. The bassist kills it. Fun wiki:
“”The Beauty” was banned on 9 July 1975, one of 45 songs banned that day by the Park dictatorship under the censorship provisions of the Yusin Constitution, and remained illegal until it was unbanned on 18 August 1987 just after the National Liberation Day celebrations. (Park-Chun Hee can go fuck himself. Well, he was assassinated. His daughter, Park Geun Hye later became President. And imprisoned. Bit of fantastic Korean tradition. They give a shit. Only one president has not been imprisoned/executed since South Korea became a place.) “The Beauty” was believed to have become a target for censorship not just due to the political troubles of the band itself and because of the dictatorship’s general suspicion of youth culture, but because one line of the lyrics was a popular target for parodies among fans, by replacing “see” (보고, bogo) with other words:
한번보고 두번보고 자꾸만 보고싶네
I want to see [her] once, see [her] twice, keep on seeing [her]
— Shin Jung Hyun & Yup Juns, Shin Jung Hyun & Yup Juns Vol. 1, “The Beauty”
Specifically, one parody replaced bogo with the light verb hago (하고), which could be interpreted as merely obscene (“I want to do [her] once”, etc.),[9] or could be given a political slant by interpreting it as “I want to be [president] once, be [president] twice, keep on being [president]”, a reference to the 1972 removal of presidential term limits in the earlier constitution which allowed Park to continue into his second decade as president.[7]”
They were banned for smoking/selling weed. Shin Jung-hyeon was forcibly committed to a mental asylum.
Wow, that’s a back story. I actually really like most of the tracks on that album. Wonder if the dude still plays (or is still alive)?
Sanity?
Overall, news of the variant’s transmissibility and virulence could be good news, with the understanding that certainty is weeks away, say experts.
“It would be a great thing if, in fact, omicron crowded out delta. If omicron was a less pathogenic virus, that would be very good news for the human race,” said Greene.
It also makes sense for the virus to evolve in the direction of being less dangerous, said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
“It’s never to the advantage of the virus to kill you,” he said. “All viruses want to be the common cold, just give you the sniffles while you go around infecting others.”
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We still have experiments to conduct.
Careful, I have heard the mere utterance of the old ways will have you locked in virtual chains
“But go ahead and shut down society anyway. You can never be too safe.”
“certainty is weeks away, say experts.”
Only 350 weeks away.
I need a vacation, but I can’t take one.
I almost lost my temper during a discussion of “short term remediation” of an issue that will be fixed if we just stay the course with the plans to replace the system. All of these “short-term” solutions require pulling staff off the replacement, delaying that implementation, to do something that involves a lot of work, no real gain, and as I said, slows down permanant remediation of the problem.
Thing is, everyone is pushing something so that they’re not sucked into the next 60-80 hour weekend, despite the fact that this was the first such incident the system had in a decade. So everyone’s more focused on “How do I get this off MY desk the fastest” instead of “What is the sensible solution”
You do not need a vacation no one does. You need to be independently wealthy not work and focus on hobbies. Me too.
Preach brother.
I have $110Trillion.
The only problem is they’re Zimbabwe dollars, and no one takes them at parity.
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
… the Project Manager doesn’t even understand the scope of the project. We’re at the phase where we have hardware on the loading dock and we’re explaining the basic premise to the guy.
Co-workers’ habits that give me a facial tic: Late each year, I have to send out a couple of forms to all employees for them to complete and return. Last week I sent out Form #1. Yesterday I sent out Form #2 and included a reminder about Form #1. One employee replied, “I sent you my Form #1 last week. Did you get it?”
We have 88 employees. Tonight I’m going to have nightmares about every one of them sending me that same question.
Wanna trade problems? just for a change of pace, I don’t really think I could do that long-term.
Are the folks causing you grief your superiors or your subordinates? I’ve carefully avoided becoming a supervisor, but at least that allows you to fall back on “Because I said so” if necessary.
My managers, upper management, and the management of parallel units.
My subordinates have been fantastic.
You shouls make sure they use reply to all so they all have your problem
“Please take me off this mailing list. Thanks”
A former boss of mine, back before he went into management, used to reply-all to those “Please take me off this mailing list” mails with, “It’s simple. Just leave your badge at the desk on your way out.”
I find Reply-All Storms to be amusing. I don’t participate, but it’s a chuckle-worthy diversion.
I’m getting ready to macro some replies to our tier 1 agents.
Tier 1: “Someone’s having an issue logging in.”
Me: “Did you get the error message?”
Tier 1: “No. I’ll call them back for that.”
There’s 4 standard error messages, all of which identify exactly where the issue is (user error for two of them, password/username error, or device error).
Ah, you can play them like a piano!
Pravda
Been that way since the managed to get that nobody Obama elected?
Hey, I got a box from Poland full of heads, legs and torsos…
There’s also bits in here I didn’t order. Oh, they’re in a bag marked ‘Freebies’. Looks like cut-off pieces from castings where some of the bitz were good but others failed QA.
Yes, I phrased that first line to be taken out of context of miniatures.
I think everyone got the context. Nerd.
Unexpectedly
US labor market productivity tanked in the third quarter. Paychecks grew and the number of hours worked jumped, but workers’ output increased only at a moderate pace.
Revisions to the data that were initially published a month ago show that the productivity drop was even worse than feared, falling 5.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis. That’s the steepest decline in the quarterly rate since the second quarter of 1960 when productivity fell 6.1%.
The initial read on the data had shown the worst drop since 1981.
Unit labor costs, meanwhile, climbed at an annual rate of 9.6% in the third quarter, reflecting a 3% increase in hourly compensation and a 5.2% decrease in productivity.
The rapid jobs recovery is leading to more hours worked, and the competition for workers is pushing up wages. But output isn’t rising as quickly.
Undoubtedly the fault of luddite anti-vaxx footdraggers.
Wearing a mask adds 20% to productivity
Wait are we still doing masks?
You wear it in the parking lot, then remove when you get into a conference room full of people.
Nope.
How about a little Son Volt?
No
It’s not for you. Just ‘Mericans.
And possibly the Canucks.
Although this is probably more to their taste.
Discrimination! Othering! Hate!!!
Amazing story. There is a something like a 4 part series on it somewhere on the internet which is where I read about it.
How Pearl Harbor forced the world’s first around-the-world commercial flight
the History Guy, an amazing tale eh? they just couldn’t stop, and found a way home, what an adventure.
That’s an interesting read.
Thanks, I am spreading it around.
Yeah, I read that 4-parter as well. An amazing story.
Such a shame this is a subscriber exclusive. I really wanted to read the rest…
As Jersey dawdles, New York City lures customers with COVID safety | Moran
New York City is already more aggressive than New Jersey when it comes to COVID-19 passports, requiring proof of the jab to get into most public places, including restaurants and museums and Broadway plays.
If you’ve been across the Hudson and played by their rules, then perhaps you know the warm and fuzzy feeling of sitting down to a meal without worrying so much about this microscopic scourge finding a home in your lungs.
U W0t M8?
If anything I’d say that would drive NYC customers to Joisey.
I wouldn’t take that bet.
Significant majorities approve of the authoritarianism; I doubt it’s any different in Jersey.
Yeah, I don’t think that is how it works.
More likely, those who are motivated to get the clotshot are permanently paranoid and those who won’t get it are comfortable and wat to go out and spend money.
The shield of faith protects him.
Yeah, the first thing I think of when I think of “COVID Safety” is NYC.
Nothing like closing the barn door TWO YEARS after the horses escaped.
Earlier this year I was listening to the radio and a local TV guy doing an interview pointed out that the Ariana Grande concert was sold out, but the Rolling Stones concert wasn’t because the Grande concert had Rona restrictions and the Stones didn’t.
Of course, the Grande concert was the upcoming weekend and the Stones concert was three months away. Guess what? The Stones concert not only filled up, but was a hot ticket that the scalpers made $$$ on.
Guess people weren’t really worried about catching the Rona from Keith Richards.
I think the Rona is worried about catching something from Keith.
I know I would be.
I wouldn’t worry. Keith is a walking sterilization vessel. His drug/alcohol content is well above that needed for the purpose.
Did the Grande concert also have fewer spots to accommodate social distancing, leading to a lower target for a “sell-out”?
Not sure. I was just stunned that anyone would say something that stupid and the radio person interviewing him (who is a Big Time Rona alarmist) was all in on that.
The two of them talked like the Stones would never sell out because of their death wish for their fans.
My guess is that lots and lots of concerts don’t sell out right away anymore because people are too worried that Rona Panic will cause the concert to get canceled and who knows how much money (if any) you will get back.
If you’ve been across the Hudson and played by their rules, then perhaps you know the warm and fuzzy feeling of sitting down to a meal without worrying so much about this microscopic scourge finding a home in your lungs.
Credulous simpletons, unite!
Who doesn’t think “warm and fuzzy” when some goon demands your papers before you can sit down to a meal?!
https://twitter.com/HumanRights4UK/status/1466810938120712200
I hate Twitter, but the Auschwitz survivor describing the incrementalist is worth two minutes of time.
It only gets more horrific from there. The part about Jews not being allowed to sing alongside other Germans/Aryans – “Form your own singing group.”
Sound familiar? But no one here in this country can hear this song yet. That could never happen here.
(And I know, I know – there are some who have pointed out Milgram’s experiment was bulllshit. People totally aren’t like that here in the US.)
I need to take another run at my copy of I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941. It was a bit dry but it’s feeling more timely.
Portraits and flags are magic.
A Black man’s criminal conviction was overturned in Tennessee after an appeals court said the jury, which deliberated in a room adorned with a Confederate flag and a portrait of Jefferson Davis, had been “exposed” to “improper influence.”
In a 31-page decision issued Friday, the state’s criminal court of appeals ordered a new trial for the man, Tim Gilbert.
The court also ruled that during Gilbert’s trial, prosecutors improperly admitted a statement from a key witness.
Gilbert was arrested after a family dispute on Christmas Eve three years ago in Murfreesboro, southeast of Nashville, according to the decision. A grand jury indicted him the following April on charges of reckless endangerment, unlawful possession of a firearm and resisting arrest, and he was convicted in a jury trial last year. …
Inside the room were the flag, portraits of Confederate leaders and a framed letter from the U.D.C.’s national leader. Gilbert’s lawyers argued that having a room “festooned with Confederate memorabilia and maintained by the U.D.C. implied that the court ‘subscribes to the confederate principles’ and that to many, ‘the confederacy and racism go hand in hand,'” the decision says.
“’The symbols on that wall do nothing but embolden’ jurors to act on racial animus,” his lawyers argued, according to the decision.
Prosecutors argued that Gilbert had waived the matter because he failed to raise it before the jury was seated, the decision says. They also contended that the room couldn’t have tainted the jury because Gilbert had been acquitted in a previous case heard in the same court.
The stupidity of the decision aside, who puts up portraits of Jefferson Fucking Davis in their deliberation rooms?
I’m not surprised.
Lots of places in South still have shit like that hanging on walls. Not so much because the Klan is still running things, but because the people running the courthouse are too lazy to actively change shit. Combine that with the fact that most people in that room couldn’t give a shit and old pictures just keep hanging on walls forever.
Combine that with the fact that most people in that room couldn’t give a shit
Yeah, I wonder how many recognized Davis.
Probably true.
Personally, I’ve come to hate both sides of that atrocity. But I have little patience for those who idolize shitbags like Davis.
which is maintained by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the decision says. The judge who wrote the decision, James Curwood Witt Jr., noted that it wasn’t clear how the private group came to “possess” the room nearly a century ago
This is how you continue to make “confederation” – and everything that implies – a dirty word.
Well played, the left.
He might as well be a Republican
Tesla CEO Elon Musk assailed a $2 trillion social and climate spending bill, saying he’s in favor of scrapping the entire package.
“Honestly, I would just can this whole bill. Don’t pass it,” Musk said at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council, which he appeared at virtually. “That’s my recommendation.”
He swung at a specific provision within the legislation that would authorize a tax credit up to $12,500 for Americans if they bought an electric vehicle assembled by unionized workers with batteries constructed in the US.
“I am literally saying get rid of all subsidies,” he said.
Congressional Democrats are aiming to put the bill on President Joe Biden’s desk sometime before the end of the year. The sprawling measure contains the bulk of his economic agenda.
Why does Elon Musk hate poor people?
He’s definitely not a Republican.
The House-approved legislation would set up universal pre-K for three- and four-year-olds and renew monthly cash payments to the vast majority of American families for another year. It would expand Medicare to cover hearing services, enact four weeks of paid family and medical leave, and fight the climate emergency. Democrats want to pay for it with tax hikes on the rich and large corporations.
Musk, who said he generally believes that the government should “get out of the way,” has already criticized and mocked Democrats for their legislation, sometimes using vulgar terms. He stepped up his attacks as they assembled a new tax proposal targeting billionaires. That’s fallen out of the bill due to centrist opposition.
The Tesla chief executive also criticized the widening budget deficit, or the gap between what the government spends and ultimately collects in tax revenue every year. He called it “insane” and said that “zeroing out” all of the billionaires still wouldn’t fix the deficit.
That’s easy for a billionaire to say.
He’s far more honest than those he criticises,
Stick Your Vaccine Mandates Up Your Arse.
Excellent. Mockery is a powerful weapon.