So… interesting news. Apparently, OMWC got a batch of counterfeit PPE of substandard quality and may be away for longer than just the weekend. Just depends on how long the trip lasts.
I made the mistake of asking Spud “where are they usually found?” In regards to this headline. I know better than to ask that of a career first responder.
It was a creative try.
Have you tried staking its heart and cutting off its head? I was once locally famous in the IT department of a Florida government agency for a long rant about the uselessness of COBOL after one of the mainframe guys wouldn’t take my name off his distro list of mainframe current events. Something about strapping a rocket engine to a horse-drawn carriage not making it a racecar, if I remember correctly.
Dude, never apologize. You’re Florida Man!
This is one for Mrs. L. She would leave me in an instant for Jon Frusciante. Similarly, if Gat Gadot was interested in me, I would drop her like a hot rock.
Nice flag!
I’ve never seen that before.
whaddup doh’
“”That’s what we see in banana republics,” the judge said. “That’s what we see in countries like we’re experiencing now over in Ukraine. That’s where we’re headed if we don’t do something to stop it. And I don’t know what we do to stop it.””
Oh, fuck off.
“Prosecutors said they received a tip during plea negotiations with Johnson that he intended to publish a memoir. His plea agreement includes an unusual provision that requires him to relinquish compensation from any book, script, song, interview or product bearing his name or likeness, for up to five years.”
Assholes.
Don’t try to keep judges from their holier than thou pontificating, it’s a fool’s errand.
Relinquish compensation to who, exactly? My guess is the government.
But it’s not about the compensation. They don’t want people saying anything that contradicts the government narrative about Jan 6.
Reason I wish I was a billionaire #35,112:
I would pay the dude 99 cents for his memoir. Then I would have him paint me a picture that captures his angst and sense of hopelessness. For that I would pay $5 million in crypto.
So much this. But, at this point, what with Biden seriously underwater, and most people saying that Ukraine wouldn’t be where it is right now, what with the Russians and all that, if we still had the Trump in office, I don’t think that is working out like Nancy girl thought it would.
I had already copied that clip to post… Holy crap. No sense of irony at all!!
Or maybe they are all laughing behind their double layered cloth masks as they gleefully gaslight the world.
compensation
what about us prols who would be greatly edified by reading the thoughts of the greatest minds of our generation?
Is relinquishing all compensation a statutory punishment for the crimes he’s pleading to? No? Then the non-banana republic judge tossed that portion of the plea agreement, right?
“Johnson, a stay-at-home father, is married to a medical doctor and hasn’t had to work for the past 11 years, prosecutors said.”
THAT dude bagged an MD? No way…please tell me she’s a chiropractor or more along the lines of Dr. Jill Biden.
“Johnson and his wife have received death threats, his lawyers said.”
Well yeah. From the US gov’t for starters.
Prosecutors said they received a tip during plea negotiations with Johnson that he intended to publish a memoir.
My Life and Hard Times.
Johnson bragged that he “broke the internet” and was “finally famous,” prosecutors said. They argued that his actions at the Capitol “illustrate his sense of entitlement and privilege.”
Nothing is more terrifying than a Morlock who thinks he’s human.
He probably even thinks Nancy works for him and not the other way around, SMDH.
“COBOL has also become an old (though still quite reliable) clunker in the high-speed world of programming languages and software development.”
See also: AS-400
Cost me a pretty penny to get off that system.
But it would have cost me more to build the integrations to it for future needs.
The few AS/400 guys I know remind me of HP calculator users when it comes to defending how their archaic, antiquated, system, is still the best.
/uses HP-41CX daily
+1 slide rule
Heh. I still have my Dad’s Keuffel & Esser slide rule on my desk.
I can add & subtract with it, but that’s about the extent of time Ive invested into learning to use it.
I still use an RPN calculator on my phone. Somebody stole my HP-42S years ago. To me, that was the perfect calculator model.
I have the memory expansion module for mine….its 8kb
Are you saying she’s got junk in her trunk? That it’s the PAWG of calculators?
Old finance guy.
HP 12C.
I wonder what I did with my 12C? Probably in a box in the basement, somewhere.
Haven’t used it since school, I think.
Wait, no – 17b maybe? Financial calc, but not RPN.
17B V2 will do both RPN and algebraic
The 12 is just simpler, but I used both.
I use my HP-48GX or 48 phone app. daily.
I still have my 48SX, along with a 32S.
I’ve got several of the newer overseas models but they don’t have the same feel.
I have a 32S but I can’t figure out what kind of batteries it needs.
As do I.
It warms my black heart to see so many calculator nerds here.
HP-15C, HP-17B, HP-19BII. Still have the 17B (the 15C and the 19BII went to A Better Place). Batteries are killers, though.
Oh, and when I was a teen, I also bought an HP calculator (specific model # escapes me, but it was around 1974/75) that used the old 7-seg LED display; that thing went through its battery charge like a pig, but I loved it. Belt holster and everything.
NERDZ ROOL!
Nowadays, I use the paid version of RealCalc (I paid ’cause I HATE ADS) on my ‘Droid phone; not sexy, but it does everything I want and I can import .XML files to expand its unit conversion capabilities if’n I want. And of course, as is true of cameras, the best calculator is the one you actually have to hand when you need it.
RPN is the bomb. I cried when my HP 32SII died. So I went on the internet and bought a used one.
The English version of this post hung in my bedroom as a kid.
https://g123-media.sos-ch-gva-2.exo.io/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/cd/1a/cd1ac20c-65f2-401a-8694-65a43fb5303c/hp-pour-les-professionnels-qui-vont-de-lavant-m060100-affiche-ancienne.jpg__960x0_q85_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg
My HP-29S is somewhere in storage right now. I will have it back next weekend.
There are better ones, I am sure, as I bought mine in 1988. However, reverse polish is an absolute requirement for any calculator, including the one I use on my phone.
And I have yet to find a phone RP calculator that works as smoothly as my HP.
28S, typing is hard.
I found an old TI-81 lying around the office years ago and brought it home.
Maybe one of these days I’ll learn how to use it.
You all probably know this already, but the pedant in me can’t resist…postfix notation is called Reverse Polish because it was first developed and advocated for by a group of Polish logicians in the 1920s. I cannot remember any of their names offhand.
I miss my reference piles of green bar tractor feed
pulling up spreadsheets on my cellphone is making me soft
About 15 years ago I was writing a data parser in Python for a government data source. I had the structure but needed some business rules. I asked for documentation. I received COBOL.
I’ve been at my new job for a few years now, but I still put in a few consulting hours a week for my old job, where they write software schools use to track everything. A lot of it is still in COBOL. Think Ferriss Beuller changing his attendance. Not making the effort to replace those COBOL screens was the difference between becoming a big player and just scraping by with a few remaining customers.
high-speed world of programming languages and development?
Doing the same shit over and over again and calling it original? You want a rant sonny, I’ll give you a rant about how nothing has improved since the fucking Mythical Man Month was first published. Every goddam thing done today is just what was done 50 years ago, but with more bloat and inefficiency – oh, and with a whole new set of buzzwords (describing the same old shit) every 4 to 5 years. What a fucking retarded business the whole damn thing is.
Someone was late for their stand-up scrum…
That’s merely the latest bit of stupidity in the business.
I have four of them every day.
Someone doesn’t understand how agile works.
The only good thing I will say about agile is that everything is better than the waterfall model, so that includes agile.
Release early, release often is good. Waterfall is stupid. How you get there is a management problem, and the biggest problem with scrum and other agile concepts is that management doesn’t understand them. Or, worse, does, but refuses to follow it.
On the other hand, a former co-worker of mine (who was big into cross-fit so had no real room to talk) said that he lost all respect for scrum when they started calling things “ceremonies”.
Some people need that sort of nonsense and social recognition. Those people are not on the IT side of the table.
Hahaha – you haven’t seen the govt version of agile, have you? Waterfall makes more sense.
No shop talk on the weekend!
It took considerable argument to convince the German automotive suppliers I worked for that cheaper injection molding tools were the better play. With tools that last a million shots, the delay to release is driven by the need to be perfect and minimize later revision.
Using the cheapest material that would product acceptable product allowed an early move from prototyping to pre-production. Later, with all the money saved from the original material choice, a complete set of upgraded tools can be validated with whatever improvements and correction are needed. With a large tool (for a part between a breadbox and a doghouse), the costs either way were similar, but the freedom, speed, risk, and change management were much easier by simply capitulating in project management to a prompt second-phase revision before the first was ever built.
Doing the same shit over and over again and calling it original?
Do you have a newsletter? This here dinosaur would like to subscribe.
Also, Long live COBOL! When inflation eats up my retirement savings, I’ll still have my mad COBOL skillz to fall back on.
Well, somebody has to keep FedGov’s transfer and Soc Sec systems printing the checks.
“The SIMPSONS release specially commissioned cartoon of Homer, Bart and family holding blue and yellow flags in a ‘show of solidarity’ with Ukraine as show’s executive producer says it’s important to be ‘vigilant about defending freedom'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10554469/The-SIMPSONS-release-specially-commissioned-cartoon-family-holding-Ukraine-flags.html
“SNL gets serious: Show ditches traditional cold open for moving performance of Ukrainian national anthem. Host John Mulaney cracks jokes about rehab and having a baby with Olivia Munn… but makes no mention of the wife he ditched”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10556467/SNL-forgoes-traditional-cold-opening-moving-performance-Ukrainian-national-anthem.html
I don’t remember all this when China took over Hong Kong.
Or Georgia?
Well, there was McCain who was pushing hard for us to get involved in that shitshow.
It is weirdly coordinated response from all over. Offshoot of “Russia! Russia! Russia!”…?
Given that the administration is desperate to change the narrative, do you have any doubt that the DNC is pushing it through their media channels?
Now Russia will be blamed for inflation, gas prices, supply chains, and anything else our administration fucks up.
And only morons will buy it. Unfortunately the world is replete with morons.
Yep, and what Stinky said.
Just as long as Hank Azaria doesn’t voice a Ukrainian character.
But his portrayal of a British Raj was spot on
“The image of Adam Johnson smiling and waving as he carried Pelosi’s podium went viral after the pro-Trump mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Johnson placed the podium in the center of the Capitol Rotunda, posed for pictures and pretended to make a speech, prosecutors said.”
2 months in prison? For moving a fucking podium?
Gee I guess he should’ve just looted a target or something? Maybe kick the shit out of some elderly shop owners? After all, only certain types of social justice are allowed in our ‘free’ country. Oh, and where is the guy who is responsible for the only fatality of the day? Did he spend a single day in jail?
Selective enforcement for the win. People with certain viewpoints can get away with all kinds of shit, people with others can’t.
pretended to make a speech
Mocking the High Priestess of Democracy? He should be crucified!
How long did they hold him before the deal?
He was one of the lucky ones apparently and was out on his own recognizance.
Brett L: just incase no one has mentioned it to you, that description is on point!
We’re the meth dealers trying to disguise themselves as French onion sellers?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=46&v=5v9YgCHJPYw&feature=emb_logo
It’s never too late to buttress the narrative
Two preprint studies posted Saturday offer further evidence that the coronavirus originated in animals and spread to humans in late 2019 at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China.
One of the studies – neither of which has been peer-reviewed or published in a professional journal – used spatial analysis to show that the earliest known Covid-19 cases, diagnosed in December 2019, were centered on the market. The researchers also report that environmental samples that tested positive for the virus, SARS-CoV-2, were strongly associated with live-animal vendors.
The other study says the two major viral lineages were the result of at least two events in which the virus crossed species into humans. The first transmission most likely happened in late November or early December 2019, the researchers say, and the other lineage was probably introduced within weeks of the first event.
Experts have roundly condemned the theory of a laboratory origin for the virus, saying that there’s no proof of such origins or of a leak. Many of the researchers behind the new studies were also participants in a review published last summer that said the pandemic almost certainly originated with an animal, probably at a wildlife market.
They’re EXPERTS, dammit! who are you to question them?
AYFKM?
Oh, it’s CNN.
They’re EXPERTS, dammit! who are you to question them?
If they face no consequences for being wrong, then anything they have to say has no value.
Are these the same “experts” (I can use scare quotes, too) that have connections to Wuhan?
I hope this real.
“Russia claims that Ukraine had agreed to meet its delegation in Belarusian city of Gomel. The move came after Zelensky had a phone call with Lukashenko, RIA reports.
The negotiations will take place in the border area between Ukraine and Belarus, RIA adds, citing a local Belarus news site.”
https://gab.com/disclosetv/posts/107870126808446923
I certainly hope so. The sooner this ends, the better.
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/02/25/russia-ukraine-in-consultations-on-venue-and-time-for-negotiations/
I lost a lot of respect for Malice after the Dave Smith interview when the invasion began. US actions over the last 30 years haven’t helped this situation, but hanging everything bad that happens on us is pretty sad.
The new studies take this area of research “to a new level” and are the strongest evidence yet that the pandemic had animal-related (or zoonotic) origins, Michael Worobey, a professor and head of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona told CNN. Worobey was lead author on the geographical study and co-author on the other paper.
He called the findings “game, set and match” for the theory that the pandemic originated in a lab. “It’s no longer something that makes sense to imagine that this started any other way.”
Worobey likened the pattern of the coronavirus’ initial spread to a firework, with the market at its center. The explosion started in late 2019, but the pattern had changed completely by January or February 2020, the hallmark of a virus “seeping into the local community.”
That lab was blocks away! Our model proves it could not have been the point of origin.
It’s just a really big coincidence that the virus happened to first appear near one of a handful of labs in the entire world that does research on making that very specific kind of virus jump from animal to human.
Yeah, that is such a silly analysis. One dude from the lab grabbing lunch at the market explains their “results” better than an animal source.
Worse, if I read that right, they are claiming two distinct zoonotic transmissions in the same location within 2 weeks.
At that point you are just lying. Two separate wild animals are brought to a market on separate occasions, both happen to be infected with closely related but distinct strains of a novel coronavirus that is infectious to humans?
Who the hell wrote that? That is so completely implausible, it is almost like they are just screwing with you.
I seem to remember that they tested animals in the market and found no trace of the virus. But animals with various viruses from all over southeast Asia that were related to COVID were brought to the Wuhan lab.
Now Russia will be blamed for inflation, gas prices, supply chains, and anything else our administration fucks up.
We cannot allow a vodka martini gap.
Polish made Sobieski is better than the Russian stuff anyway. Cheaper too.
Vodka always tasted like dirty dishwater mixed with rubbing alcohol, to me.
*shrugs*
Still better than gin. Gin tastes like stomach cancer.
Both of you are weird.
I’m on Team Sean on this one.
Gin is just flavored vodka.
No, gin tastes like a Christmas tree
OK, rum then.
I was never a big fan of vodka either. The best vodka in the world (according to vodka “experts”) has no taste whatsoever, and it only gets worse from there. It literally ranges from “god-awful” to “completely neutral”. Other spirits – if you’ve sprung for sufficient quality – are actually something you’d want to taste. I’d much rather go for one of those.
I made it to the end of Reacher. Good thing they didn’t drag it out much more, because I was having some difficulty maintaining my suspension of derisive incredulity.
Good dialog, though.
Started out ok, got progressively worse with each episode.
Not as good as their other big series… But I give them some rope. Many great TV series took some time to get their feet under them.
I actually did a “background noise” rewatch this weekend. I did not even bother with the final boss battle.
I’m not buying the “Russian army is full of inept clowns” thing. Maybe they are meeting more resistance than they expected, but no way Putin would trust something this high profile to anyone other than his best. And as a lot of you said, Russia has no problem putting the hammer down mercilessly, so they’re probably holding back right now.
This is just like Coronavirus coverage, I have no idea what the truth is or who to listen to anymore.
Ukraine is almost 50% bigger than Iraq. Claiming that taking more than 2 days to overwhelm and pacify a country that size is inept, or even unexpected is kinda silly. Plus, the terrain is not flat desert like Iraq. They gotta follow roads and bridges, etc.
There is no way Putin’s generals budgeted 4 days for the invasion and conquest. Pretending that they are in a panic is kinda crazy.
Poland took five weeks
Virginia took a century
Virginia took 4 years, 5 generals, and a whole lot of dead.
They still havent managed to take WV back and its been over 150 years.
Only thing I can think of was hoping the ‘we can take out all your shit’ at any moment would have made Z and his government grovel. They didn’t expect to move into an urban combat environment with large amounts of boots and hardware on the ground.
You could interpret it that way…
Or you could interpret it as a measured approach intended to avoid civilian casualties and minimize overall casualties.
Remember Iraq? All the shock and awe designed to avoid collateral damage? (,There is a solid turn of phrase. Collateral damage)
From TV coverage and even Ukraine propaganda, I would call resistance “light and sporadic”.
Picture US forces against tank columns. Burned out equipment everywhere. You don’t see much of that. Columns of Russian troops walking into the city perimeter behind light trucks. That is a fat target if you are putting up “heavy resistance”.
My wild-ass guess is that both sides are trying hard to minimize loss of life. Because if they weren’t, some much more violent munitions and tactics are available.
Latest theory I’m seeing is Russia’s real goal is raiding some US run bioweapon labs in Ukraine or something. Maybe some relation to origins of covid
Fat chance. If that is all they wanted, they could have just driven over and raided the place. They had tons of troops and vehicles in the country already.
I’d venture to say that wherever you saw that, you avoid said place in the future.
Dailymail coverage
The dailymail is pretty good with coverage. While the Fog of War would lend to the idea that who knows whats really happening, the Ukrainians are fighting Russians, helping their own people get out of the line of fire, and gather After Action Report information.
Elon musk turned on Starlink for Ukrainians to use and report destroyed Russian vehicles, so the tally of Russia vehicle casualties might be fairly accurate. Even the Ukrainians are not trying to count Russian dead. Makes sense since vehicle counting is easier than Russia dead and wounded
It appears that Russian forces are fighting in Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, and Maripul. That would mean Russia has enough troops to conduct those operations and any losses taken so far were not enough to stop them…yet.
Its also a fact that Ukraine is still holding their own against the Russian Army Day 4 going into Day 5.
Being an agorist sitting on a pile of shotgun shells and beanieweanies as Russian tanks roll into your home town isn’t the answer to everything, but it seems like a start
How significant is it if China invites them to swim in their pool?
via twitter, looks like the Kharkiv advance stalled completely – also a failed thunder run with light trucks and some armored carriers lighting up a de-armed monument BRDM. Good times. I’m not too worried about Ukraine at this point. Even the Spetznaz – who appear to be being used as mech/motorized infantry don’t look to be too effective. (also some shots of airstrikes against stalled convoys, etc).
Also…not sure why Germany giving weapons to Ukraine would get Putin’s ire up. Poland has already given them a lot of materiel.
Oh, and now the Ukrainian members of the French Foreign Legion are reportedly being allowed to head to Ukraine with their gear (not sure if confirmed yet or not).
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1497921990455353350 – nuclear update thread
follow-up: https://twitter.com/0knaomi/status/1497933883249238026?cxt=HHwWlIC9gca73ckpAAAA
Not good.
I’m taking it as misinformation at this point or propaganda. But who really knows. Socials has bad the pysops side of war very effective
Russia play stupid games, win stupid prizes. https://twitter.com/pmakela1/status/1497900381799604224?cxt=HHwWgICz4cCdzskpAAAA
(this Finnish guy is a good follow since he tends to reference/translate other stuff).
Really thorough thread of battle damage – appears pretty accurate/current: https://twitter.com/kemal_115/status/1497900357036519425
https://twitter.com/pmakela1/status/1497957419229622282?cxt=HHwWlMC93cKV6MkpAAAA
https://twitter.com/pmakela1/status/1497956125513297923?cxt=HHwWhsC55ZvK58kpAAAA
I’m going to two sites in particular for information right now.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
Provides more daily updates of reporting. Tends to refrain from obvious propoaganda.
https://antiwar.com/
More diplomatic and historical background and commentary
Thanks both you and the LT
Justice sweeps the nation like fire in dry grass
Baristas at a Starbucks (SBUX) cafe in Arizona on Friday became the third store to vote in favor of union representation, the latest in a rising wave of organized labor pushes at multiple locations across U.S. cities.
The Mesa, Arizona cafe is one of dozens inspired by last year’s vote in Buffalo. That location became the first of Starbucks’ workers to vote for union representation, in the face of the coffee giant’s open opposition. After the eligible vote count, 25 workers at the Mesa location voted in favor of the measure, compared to 3 who voted against.
Yet three votes were challenged and two were deemed ineligible, while another was unclear about the workers eligibility.
“I am super excited. This is like enormous for the entire country for all Starbucks workers across the whole. This takes it from, East Coast all the way to West Coast,” Tyler Ralston, a barista at Mesa’s Power and Baseline store.
A modern day Jimmy Hoffa.
The walls are closing in on Big Café.
Idiot kids who never worked in an union environment or for a unionized company.
Yep. When they find out that boomer old man that has been working there for 10 years cause they are bored in retirement gets all the fat bennys we eill hear cries that they are marginalized.
Wait til they either have location seniority or company wide seniority. Or bumping rights. There’s a thousand ways that “fairness for everyone” turns out to fuck a specific person.
Labor unions are giant corporations with leadership salaries in the millions. They make money by bringing workers under their control and charging them dues. They’ve just been amazingly successful at marketing themselves as benevolent organizations to help the poor,downtrodden workers.
Good thread here:
https://twitter.com/TuckerMax/status/1497609615151800323
Meanwhile, this person is an idiot:
https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1497157887398981677
That tuckermax guy is in my head. You guys know I have been borderline obsessed with the media propaganda machine ever since Trump broke the facade… And now it is just ludicrous.
“1. Hero stories popup immediately, that end up not being true.
The 13 guards telling the Russian naval ship to fuck off (turns out they surrendered), the “Ghost of Kyiv” (doesn’t seem to be true), the sunflower seed story, etc…
MOST telling, media runs them uncritically.”
That is just bog standard propaganda.
But
“2. The biggest weird thing to me: no one stopped buying oil/gas from Russia.
Germany said they will keep buying.
US State Dept went so far as to say, EXPLICITLY, that sanctions are designed to NOT stop the flow of gas.
What? Those exports are 30% of the Russian economy.”
Are you guys seeing that mentioned anywhere?
Every mention of sanctions is filled with modifiers… “Harsh”, “severe”, “crippling”…. Never “weak and innefectial” which would be more accurate. Hell, they don’t even mention that the pipeline sanctions are less than the ones Biden unilaterally cancelled a year ago.
I vacillate on this one… Are they cynical and venal in believing everyone will buy any lie they tell? Or do they truly love Big Brother and truly and instantly believe whatever they are told to believe?
We’ve known for a while that the CIA has media handlers and will feed news stories to the major outlets. And the major outlets are desperate for government feeds, both for being the first to report it and for the status that it brings them.
A situation like right now is when we’re most likely to be getting what the government wants us to hear.
As Greenwald and Taibbi have pointed out, it is even worse with ex-spooks actually moving into media to serve as expert analysts. They sure as hell aren’t ever caught criticizing their spooky brethren.
I too enjoyed watching Trump break the media.
any lie they tell
I’m tired of arguing about oil markets and have not further comment on that aspect, but I rise to observe that Team Biden isn’t lying about gas: they truly think they are managing sanctions as well as can be done; whether it works is another matter. Incompetence explains much more about this and most administrations than mendacity.
Team Biden lying or not lying is kinda beside the point.
It is the vast swath of media that instantly and unquestioningly believes the lie of the day and runs with it. Or even if today’s lie is the truth. They make no effort to validate or provide context.
If this were a dictatorship, that would be a useful feature. The ability to unquestioningly believe and repeat and even enhance the story being told by the dictator is an important skill.
But a democracy depends on an informed populace. That is civics 101. We need a skeptical, honest and competent 4th estate to survive. We need this because ultimately it is the people who are calling the shots. And if we are all lead asstray by propaganda, we cannot correct the errors of our leaders.
And if you do that for too long you become Moldova or North Korea or Venezuela.
The ones telling the lies are cynical and venal, the ones believing the lies truly love Big Brother.
Like placing trespassers in solitary confinement? Like treating elected government officials like royalty? Those kinds of banana republics?
Apparently a new chance to right Kelo is coming up next term, so it seems appropriate to add:
Like taking property from a hundred private owners and handing it to one bigger private owner?
Oh how I would love to see Stevens knocked on his ass with the overturning of Kelo. CT to write the majority opinion to top it off.
But stare decisis….
I’m not even sure they rely on legal terms anymore….just come out and say the leviathan is too powerful cause we unshackled its restraints.
?Sunday, Slutty Sunday?
https://archive.md/w4QJ5
The girl in the light blue on the golf cart might be enough to temporarily turn me into an ass man.
I’m telling you the ass is the foundation. When that’s on point pretty much every thing else is as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J34UzHo4G5w
Who the hell wrote that? That is so completely implausible, it is almost like they are just screwing with you.
EXPERTS wrote it. Experts, with highly respected credentials. You are just not capable of understanding higher ratiocination, pleb.
How about he disclose his funding from NIH/CDC and anything laundered through EcoHealth Alliance?
Hayek – I sent you DM in the forum and to your proton. Also, I think that specific Daniel prophecy is more focused on the post-exile, pre-Christ period, including the Maccabee revolt and some Antiochus Epiphanes.
Rhywun – still wish I could play more Fallout 4 – after two 20+ hour runs that stalled out with consistent, unavoidable crashes – on my xbone…. even with the addons removed — not sure if I can avoid that by not doing any base building or other things that might bog down the memory….but who knows. Disappointed at this point and not sure it’s worth restarting unless I could guarantee a smooth playthrough.
*looks around nervously*
I’ve never played Fallout 4. Was that comment for someone else?
He’s a fish, you can’t expect him to keep us all straight to our weird hobbies
Sorry…prob Sean from last thread – icons look the same on my phone or if I’m scrolling too fast. Sorry
Most crashes started in downtown Boston near Freedom Tour stuff…
Console version of the game of the year disc is $20 on Amazon.
*Points to avatar*
Lots of bang for the buck.
[FO4] I’m on PS4 with all dlc, but no mods. It’s been pretty stable, and I’ve got heavy settlement builds in most places.
There was one place in NW (the infirmary) that would reliably crash, but once I cleared the raiders out, it stopped. *shrug*
I’m on PC, and form some reason I don’t seem to suffer from the bethesda bugs most people get. I do mod up the wazoo after the first run though attempt. Usually it starts when I get fed up with slowly crawling from merchant to merchant to liquidate my loot, or just slowly crawl back to my stash after a lucrative venture.
No, I will not drop the junk, especially in FO4 where it’s building materials.
Their model of having the community make their games better is fantastic.
I have 86 active mods and some of them are big hitters and no issues on a PC wither…even base game.
Putin can’t believe this mf’s hat:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMmXV9rWYAISNLM.png
Me neither.
Clearly, it’s the evolved form of the buffalo hat.
Boy, you’ve got a seraph on yo’ head.
Between 2:30 am and now, pressure in my ear dropped so drastically my first thought was something had burst while I was asleep. So far, I can find no evidence of that, so I’m wagering the inflammation dropped and it was able to begin draining while I was laying down again.
Hopefully you are on the mend. Are you up and about? Doing your necessities?
I am up and about. My biggest problems were loss of focus and dizziness which were side effects of pressure in the ear. With that diminished, now I just have the “my ear is still clogged” and inability to hear from that side.
I would go to a doctor ASAP
I have been in communication with my doctor on the matter.
So are there US Bio-labs in the Ukraine? If there are, that’s some serious provocation. Snopes says it’s a conspiracy theory, so now I don’t know what to believe.
I was pretty sure that was nonsense…. Until Snopes said it was a conspiracy theory…..
It would an exceedingly stupid place for the US to put them, so… maybe.
Grain of truth?
Many years ago when I was in bio research, I saw a paper or a story somewhere about old Soviet bioweapons research. They had developed a strain of bacteria to use as a weapon. It produced myelin which would prime the immune system, making people infected with it have an autoimmune disorder that attacked the myelin sheaths around their neurons.. effectively giving them Multiple Schlerosis. But super fast advancing. Paralyzed in a couple of weeks.
The intent was not to kill, but to maim and disable sonthe enemy spent all their time caring for the wounded. The enemy would quickly become debilitated and demoralized.
I think this research was carried out in a Ukraine.
… the preceding post relies on memories from a single reading, 25 years ago. The gist is accurate. But beyond that? Who knows?
Most of the Soviet bioweapon research was carried out on Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea (Kazakhstan). Doesn’t mean they didn’t perform it elsewhere, but that was the main hub of it.
Absolute mad lad visits the Ukrainian border.
Lord Routledge is delivering candy to kids (from Poland) and medical aid to other organizations.
M M M MILES!
RIP Gail Halvorsen.
Interesting video.
Did not age well? Is that the proper phrase?
Captures the sense of denial that most humans have about any impending disaster.
Mocking the High Priestess of Democracy? He should be crucified!
All of the 12/6 insurgency traitors should be crucified at the entrances to the Imperial City, for the edification of any truckers who might be thinking of desecrating the holy city of Washington.
“JUST IN – Germany is going to arm itself: Additional 100 billion for the nation’s defense this year and more than 2% of GDP for defense from 2022 onwards, Chancellor Scholz announces.”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1497883411209461762
Now we’re talking. It wouldn’t be WWIII without Germany.
I did not foresee this new gov’t constitutionally enshrining their NATO defense spending obligation…but 2022.
While shutting down their nuclear generation. Makes sense…
Biting, as usual.
12/61/6
Stupid fingers.
11/8 will be the next day to live in infamy (per the DNC anyway).
I’m not capable of seeing anything other than one-sixth when someone writes that.
“Interview with @M_Millerman on Russias invasion of Ukraine, how the West cripple themselves by failing to understand the Russian perspective, and how the rise of Eurasianism could manifest in the future.”
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1497068802420273155
Very good video.
If LS is in it, you know it’s good
/HAWT!
Just got done with a 5-minute game against a Ukranian opponent on Chess.com. Who plays speed chess in the middle of a war?
#MeToo
had the same thought
I wonder if there is some social signalling going on – you can pick any country you like on your profile.
Same with troops hitting up Tinder of the country they invaded…
Churchill
Probably someone in need of a 5 minute break. Or maybe he’s trying out one of Elon’s satellites.
Did he say he was actually IN the Ukraine?
He identified as Ukranian (Igor P.) in his profile. Might be social signalling as I said above, but he did have a sub-par connection.
Yeah, but how did he play?
He lost to me. ’nuff said.
It’s ok, I’m sure a lot of people on this site imagine having sex with curvy women all the time.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17775983/husband-sex-curvy-woman/
root cause analysis: Norwegian chick
I’m sure SOME of the people on this site imagine having sex
I’m sure SOME of the people on this site imagine having sex
Imagine that
Redlining
More Americans own a home now than in any year following the Great Recession, with the US homeownership rate climbing to 65.5% in 2020, according to NAR. That’s up 1.3% from 2019, the largest annual increase on record.
But Black homeownership, at 43.4%, remains lower than it was a decade ago. And it is nearly 30 percentage points behind the White homeownership rate of 72.1%. Meanwhile, the Hispanic homeownership rate rose to an all-time high, reaching over 50% for the first time, and the Asian homeownership rate is 61.7%.
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“Today, homeownership is the principal source of wealth creation for most American households,” said Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, in a statement. “Unfortunately, NAR’s report confirms that Black Americans are being locked out of homeownership opportunities at an even higher rate than a decade ago.”
Secretary Fudge added: “It is critical that we bridge the racial homeownership gap with intentional solutions that recognize both the persistent history of discrimination and inequity, and the current crisis of housing affordability.”
What are the odds those “intentional solutions” will drive black home ownership below 25% in another decade or two?
I was “locked” out for almost 40 years but I buckled down, moved to an area that had a low cost of living, made sacrafices and worked my ass off. Fuck off. If there is true discrimination then combat that but this is laying the ground work for giving not only wealth, but property in the name of equity.
““Today, homeownership is the principal source of wealth creation for most American households”
umm, who is the dumbfuck who wrote that? Owning a home is a liability, not an asset. Geez, these people are stupid.
Anyway, Klaus says that you veel own nothing and you veel be happy.
I’m going to go with you’re both wrong.
Home Ownership is a sign of financial stability, not a driver of wealth creation, so the initial writer is wrong.
You need a place to live, and unless you end up with a lemon like Moj did, expending the shelter budget on someplace that you own and can later recoup some of that expense from will cost less than renting. I don’t see how you get all the way to liability unless you have a lemon of a house.
Once the kids are out of the house, my husband and I will be moving to an apartment. I have insisted and he has resignedly acquiesced because after all those years of “it’s cheaper than renting!” and “we’re building equity!” I’m not getting on that train again. We spent so much on infrastructure, we could never actually DO anything to the house to make it now worth almost 3x what we paid for it. It needed a new roof. That was when we broke. Here it is in all its rehabbed glory. Some of it we did and they just changed details. The kitchen/dining was what we had planned to do. We had also planned to move the mechanicals, which they did.
Electric heat, ouch!
Here in NJ my taxes are more per month than my mortgage. Fortunately, not much more on the mortgage, but likely a decade on the taxes until I can flee.
Gas with an electric fan system. Electric stove. ?
’65 for ya.
Er, it WAS gas, when we lived there.
Good storage. But what’s going on in the garage?
Maybe the Japanese have the right idea, rebuilding every few decades.
The mechanicals were moved so I don’t know but the garage was huge and the storage space INSANELY huge.
I’m with UCS. I hope my notes don’t hurt any feelings:
Pick a suitable rental: the renter is paying all of the costs, including any debt service that creates equity for the owner. For that rental, there is some equivalent equity play in a property that is essentially equivalent (house, condo, whatever) which has the same costs but for which the same debt service content accrues equity to buyer. The cash flows for both are equivalent; the difference is only in for whom anything ever gets better, renter or buyer.
For the rental there is also administration expense: the person who deposits the rent and enters the transaction into the software and so one; for an equivalent property, the cost of renting must be more than the cost of owning.
The rental only has the advantage of insulating a renter who has little wealth from inevitable maintenance cashflow spikes; the renter ALWAYS is paying for this maintenance in his rent, but like car insurance, the slow bleed of known fees seems better to someone who can’t self-insure and who would just write those checks when they are needed. This is the classic problem that savers avoid: they build a little pile earlier in life and then can make good, long-term decisions based on wealth maximization instead of short-run liquidity needs. But the emotion around this situation blinds many people from making a good decision; of course, the lack of the small pile prevents many from ever making good decisions (see also: car rental, low deductible insurance, appliance insurance, and so on).
The rental has the disadvantage in that no part of the fee ever ends; no mortgage is ever retired. Both buildings decline, both are taxed, both are insured, but the rent never ends. The choice to replace some expenses with one’s labor is not available to the renter: he must pay for the owner to have his brotherinlaw come out and replace some rotten eave…again, renting demands cash flow, eternally, with no reasonable substitutions.
The problem with most of the stories told is that they’re apples to oranges: someone realizes they can’t afford the house they’re in, and they end up in an entirely unrelated rental situation which happens to be affordable. The original choice to buy something affordable had been deemed unattractive, but that original mistake proves nothing about the financial nature of the choices in and of themselves.
I hear what you’re saying and I can understand it intellectually. Yes, our experience was THAT bad. However, I prefer renting (always have) because I have almost never, from the time I was a baby, lived in a house that wasn’t under construction and half-witted DIY (i.e., learning as we went along). I want something finished and that I am not responsible for beside changing the lightbulbs (and we can’t even do that here because the lights are contractor boob lights on the 20′ ceiling). I do not want to have to think about what I want besides hanging curtains and artwork and maybe not even then. The most I’d be willing to do if I absolutely could not live with the wall color is ask to paint or put up starched fabric on the walls.
https://www.thespruce.com/best-removable-wallpaper-4165109
Those are LOVELY. Thank you!
Well, it’s very easy my friend. If I own a home and I have mortgage, and even if it’s paid off and I am paying taxes on it and maintaining it, the net cashflow from that house is going out, in the wrong direction for it to be an asset, it’s a liability.
no sir: the outflows from the house are also in the rental in every regard
or, if you prefer, yes sir: they would be in the equivalent rental as well
You’re skewing the argument. Yes, a rental is aslo a liability, for the renter, it’s an asset for the landlord. A house that you live in and do not rent is a liability no matter who you are.
the tacit subject matter was always ownership versus renting, so
I’m happy to let you win if this is your final position
I OT’d bro, you forget the OT rulez?
If my wife would let me rent the basement out to some nice assets from the local college, it would be an asset then.
Medical students rent some of the house around me. I might note that the rents on these houses are considerably higher than the mortgages would be, higher even than an amount with maintenance added, so says I who have maintained mine here for eight years.
But the banksters will love you if you continue to believe owning a house is an asset. Remember, Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae are just folk, just like you.
what do bankers think about landlords?
They hate them because they are not folk, like Freddy Mae and Fanny Mac and you and I, but greedy captitalist pigs.
I think the advice “buy a house” is kind of like “go to college” – it’s so incomplete that it’s bad advice. Owning a house can be the better financial choice for people who select a home in good condition, plan to stay in the area for a long time, and budget enough money to cover any maintenance expenses that come up.
Just like going to college: If you get a degree that is in very high demand, you should be able to pay off your student loans with no issue and have a great salary the rest of your working life. But taking on six figures of debt to become a Ph.D in Women’s Studies? The wiser choice would have been to flush your money down the toilet.
People don’t really specify any of this when they repeat the mantras of college-attending and house-owning to young people, and those young people end up making haphazard decisions that fuck up their lives.
It’s shocking that after decades of state and city governments encouraging the building and occupancy of public housing within the black community that home ownership is low within the black community.
The “progressive” playbook is basically this:
1. Call attention to some social problem (either a real one or something that they merely classify as such)
2. Complain that nothing is being done about this issue; declare that “we’re the only nation in the world that won’t do anything about this”
3. Implement some hair-brained program that is colossally expensive and riddled with bad incentives; aggressively push the narrative that this program will solve the issue once and for all
4. Years later, when the problem still exists and has possibly gotten worse, ignore the existence of the new program and go back to step 2.
It takes 2 incomes for most households to be able to own a decent house. How’s that family stability going in the Black Community?
Easy solution, pay crack mum more for each crack baby she pops out? Equity!
“Secretary Fudge.” Heh heh.
Only thing we can be certain of it that Fudge is a non-binary queer person of color.
The states that are most affordable for Black households to purchase a home are Maryland, West Virginia, Kansas, Ohio and Indiana, according to an NAR analysis based on income levels and availability of homes. The least affordable states for Black households are Utah, Oregon, California, Nevada and Rhode Island.
Oh.
#whofuckingcares
Wait what?
Two of those states are least affordable for everyone.
How the hell is a house affordable for a black person independent of being affordable for a white person? I am so confused…
Are they comparing median income by race with median home prices? Because that sounds superficially on point.. but does not account for things like “don’t live in Manhattan if you work at Burger King”
there was a federal program that fixed all that; let’s see how it worked out
I thought you were going to link to the 2008 crisis…. Because that is a straight line. From redlining to mark to market accounting in SOX to troubled assets to collapse.
And for some reason the press kept pushing that it was all about people getting “scammed” into taking out bigger loans than they could afford.
I thought you were going to link to the 2008 crisis
#metoo. /former Lehman Brothers contractor
Likewise. ::thinks back to when the credit unions for mere mortals had to spend years bailing out the “big guys” further up the food chain::
How affordable are they for other races?
Very affordable for us. We just had to show our privilege card and we got 42% off list price. The bank practically threw the nice family that lived in our house right out into the street.
I laughed
*cue Eddie Murphy snl sketch*
Well, that family was probably the wrong color, so there, equity works again!
“The U.S. met with China over three months to present intelligence showing Russia’s troop buildup near Ukraine and to urge Beijing to help avert war, U.S. officials said.
Chinese officials rebuffed the U.S. and shared the information with Moscow.”
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1497171785657331714
What were they expecting?
Right now China is calling for de-escalation from both sides and abstained from the voting on the action in the UN.
http://chnun.chinamission.org.cn/eng/hyyfy/202202/t20220226_10645830.htm
If you take the press release at face value, they appear to be quite concerned about it spiraling even further out of control.
“Adults in the room”
What were they expecting?
Same thing they expect with every other country in the world – do what we want.
The real question is why do these idiots expect that?
A consortium of housing groups, including NAR, has created the Black Homeownership Collaborative, which aims to increase Black homeownership by 3 million households by 2030. Recommendations to achieve this include improvements in homeownership counseling and down payment assistance, credit and mortgage products for underserved and excluded populations, and expanding the number of affordable homes.
What could possibly go wrong?
Government as the chief driver of racism?
The Old South rises again?
So, wave a magic wand?
Why hasn’t anyone of thought of this before.
No, it works like this. You go to get a home loan and the bank completely ignores your credit worthiness and ability to pay and goes solely on the color of your skin. There, equity, better than magic wand. This is going to work.
AvGeeks: Mriya is gone.
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1497953549900447750
Saw that report.
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1497948054191853569?s=20&t=WifLlGQfCKiCsV5ORlACJw
This one is hilarious
https://mobile.twitter.com/fleccas/status/1497664478774652928?cxt=HHwWgMCroZL64sgpAAAA
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I want to get a model of it, but all my other models are 1/200, and I can’t find it in that size 🙁
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/817048718/an-225-scale-1200-mriya-antonov-225-on?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details
Sold out but maybe you could special order? ££££££££££
Speaking of Frusciante, his ex is nothing to shake your fist at either.
She’s the bottle-blond playing the sick Fender Jaguar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtfB8MqP1jU
How did you have that in your arsenal?
The production on those vocals is like bad karaoke
An excellent backgrounder on the Ukraine from 6-1/2 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
https://mobile.twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1497951596948430849?cxt=HHwWgoC5rc_C5ckpAAAA
Moscow bank runs.
How it started:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/my-mum-disowned-discovered-onlyfans-26319155
How it’s going:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/glamour-model-regrets-topless-playboy-26340974
https://youtu.be/GfO8VobV5UA
Not a life I’d wish on people, but their choice.
I have no idea what that was all about, but boobies.
Right.