Happy Mardi Gras, or as they say in Key West, Tuesday. I’m going to skip some of the Florida Man indulgences. Maybe just a couple of quarts of sugary liquid and extremely high proof grain alcohol. Y’know, Tuesday. I’ve enjoyed our little throwback link adventures together, but I believe I have tomorrow morning off.
Florida deputies Tase man at gas pump, I think everyone who knows the fire triangle knows what happened next.
Apparently, this school superintendent thought he was a Biden kid.
Jesus, Florida Man. What the fuck?
I think they’re up to 31 retirees in the Dem Congress, but sure, keep pushing to expand The Squad
A little Monster Magnet to start your day
“Florida deputies Tase man at gas pump, I think everyone who knows the fire triangle knows what happened next.”
Do stupid tricks, win stupid prizes!
Coming soon to NJ because of a lack of “professional” supervision!
Pump your own gas? NJ ban on self-service fuel might be going away
There’s still plenty of reason to avoid New Jersey. At least right now I get good enough milage to make it to Maryland on a single tank even if I have to cross Joisey.
Can we PLEASE get lockable handles in NY like the rest of the adult world?
Just wedge your gas cap in the grip like every other New Yorker (except those of us saddled with capless filling systems)
I am always learning something. The natives have their secret wisdom,
Being an NJ resident I’ve no first hand experience – I thought there were either 3D printed parts or cheap injection molded dongles you could use to lock most pumps.
Folks keep them in the car or on a keyring or something like that.
No argument.
NJ is CA without the nice weather and less nature with more corruption.
What’s not to like?
I don’t think I can cross commiefornia on a single tank of gas.
Depends on where you try. 😉
You can come in from Reno on I-80, cut down through Sacramento and make it to the Bay area on one take, I would think. Not that you would want to be anywhere near the Bay area… but there you are.
Now, the *long* way is the bane of my existence on road trips, especially coming back West… you slog through New Mexico then Arizona and think… oh, not too much longer now. And then it is like 2 hours from the Arizona border to even the stupid agricultural inspection station, and then like 8 hours up CA-99 / I-5…. Trying to do San Diego to the Oregon border would definitely three tanks on most cars, I expect.
CA south/north is like TX east-west.
Having done both those trips, the Cali route is a lot nicer. PCH is a gem.
“Muh jobs!”
They need an amendment that only allows people to pump their own gas under the supervision of a certified professional. If for no other reason than to protect the jobs of highly-trained professional pumpers.
What, do they think it’s Oregon?
professional pumpers
Sex workers?
They mean full service.
That was supposed to go away when they decided to crank up the gas tax. We know how that went.
Well the Garden State Parkway tolls were supposed to be used only until the road financing was paid off.
They were never intended for operation and maintenance.
But then how will they get their beaks wet?
NJ pols have beaks like pteradactyls.
The Dulles Toll Road increased tolls to pay for construction of Metrorail’s Silver Line.
The Mass Pike was built with same scam.
Tolls were increased to pay for the Big Dig.
Oregon holds strong.
I’ll believe NJ ends mandated full-serve when I see it.
“We’re still investigating why the flames took place.” – that’s a beautiful piece of police-speak right there.
DO NOT INVOLVE OTHER PEOPLE IN YOUR SUICIDE YOU RUDE FUCK!
But I want attention!
/morons
What did the gun range people do to you?
I get that it’s an easy way to get your hands on a gun, but geeze.
Shameful.
Some dude capped himself at the Knob Creek range after renting a gun there a few years ago. I heard that sucked for the staff.
That happened in NH. Firing Line in Manchester.
We have the occasional suicide by train. The term used in announcements is “trespasser incident”. Beyond the disruption to passengers and freight, I hear it is really hard on the engineers.
We had a teen do the train thing here in town several years back. Mrs. Tree is actually casual friends with his mom. The engineer scrammed it trying to stop in time and derailed like 30 cars right across the main road going into town.
I was on a train from DC to Baltimore that was stopped for a body on the tracks. Apparently someone murdered someone and dumped the body to try to hide the crime, because we stopped short.
Was a three hour wait on the commute to BWI.
I’ve read somewhere that an engineer with a full career – i.e. 40 years or so has a very good chance of hitting a person.
The engineer has an emergency stop button and that all that he or she can do. However, he knows the distance, the speed and if the train is going to stop well in advance of hitting the person.
It really must suck.
… How is “Teams status not updating” a sev 2 incident requiring agency-wide email notification? I mean the messages still get through but the little colored dot doesn’t change color? That is not a sev 2, no matter how amny people’s statuses don’t update.
I’ve had people try to call in priority 1 tickets for a VM PIN reset.
They got a speaking to from several levels of management.
I don’t know how priority works but at my new job I had call and email IT for weeks to get my vm pin reset. It was annoying. But nope still not going to check my voicemail so maybe they were right.
Here, Single user small impact would be a 4. most incidents are a 3. Serious outages are a 2. The only things that gat a sev 1 is “Health and safety” related outages where they will wake everyone at 3am on a weekend if need be.
We have a ‘Sev 0’, which is “we will be out of business if this isn’t resolved quickly”.
I haven’t seen a Sev 0, thankfully. Sev 1s are bad enough (“we’re going to lose tons of clients and money if this isn’t resolved”).
We don’t have an official Sev 0, but I think the only thing that might qualift would be “Someone just deleted the city of Albany, we need to bring what we can back up in Utica”
Huh, just checked the (very good) incident doc – no official ‘Sev 0’. Just a term that’s occasionally thrown about.
Sounds like an Albany Sev 0 would be a Martha Stewart?
When we opened this place, we had “priority inflation” with lots of Sev1s, multiple Sev0s and yes, eventually a Sev-1.
To distinguish which Top Priority Urgent lots was talking about, semiformal nicknames were used. like “Rocket” or “Paul Revere.” I never did figure out what that last one was supposed to mean. But it was important!
They’re big Beastie Boys fans?
VM (not job critical) at our place should be a priority 5. Most requests and the like come in at a 4, single user issues (job critical) come in at a 3. Anything that is business impacting is either a 2 (high priority) or a 1 (critical). For Priority 1 and 2 issues, they need to be called in, and the customer must be on the troubleshooting bridge for the ticket to stay at that priority. If you call it in, say it’s high priority, but can’t be bothered to join a bridge… that tells us that it isn’t really that important.
Flip side of that is people calling in Priority 2 issues only to find out the problem has been ongoing for several months. Yeah… we’re going to downgrade that priority for you.
But nope still not going to check my voicemail so maybe they were right.
My office phone broke around 18 months ago. I still haven’t bothered to ask for a replacement.
I want my toy!
Hell if I know.
I’m trying to figure out why QEMU/KVM not exposing the cpu overtemp MSRs (which it never has and likely never will) suddenly being noticed equates to a gorram test pass blocker, myself… grumble….
Did anyone reply-all to the email creating a chain reaction of reply-all emails telling everyone not to reply-all to agency-wide emails?
I’ve been caught in a few of those storms. My favorite was some of the people responding all just had to be trolling the people sending the ‘stop responding all’ messages to everyone.
The only useful message was from someone teaching everyone how to mute the email thread. Thanks, you’re a hero whoever you are.
The flip side of that is an e-mail chain with several technical parties involved where some people decide to start just sending individual replies instead of reply alls. What was one thread then fractures into dozens.
“You’re not responding to the latest email in this thread” (Which contains totally different recpient lists)
My favorite was some of the people responding all just had to be trolling the people sending the ‘stop responding all’ messages to everyone.
A former boss of mine, when he was still a developer, used to respond to those reply-all storms with, “To unsubscribe, leave your badge at the desk on the way out.”
lol
“Jesus, Florida Man. What the fuck?”
Suicide by rent-a-gun? WTF made these people decide they needed to commit suicide at that young age and then by renting a fucking gun to do it? There is a picture of the dude, and he certainly doesn’t look like a winner, and none of her, but I suspect there is something else going on here with this relationship since he was not able to complete the work…
Kids these days think all deaths require a gun.
Gotta love the cop-spokes-speak “We are investigating why the flames took place…”
Texas is kicking off a primary season that could reshape the contours of the Democratic Party in Congress
I’m sure “moar socialism” is a winning message.
Why do you expect the people that believe when some idea of theirs fails miserably and causes massive harm the answer was to double down and do it even moar and harder would do something different?
Three deputies and a suspect were taken to the hospital with burns Sunday night after a gas pump burst into flames as deputies were taking the suspect down, according to the Osceola County sheriff’s office.
Exactly what sparked those flames is unclear.
You’ll be shocked to find that gasoline is flammable.
I saw a documentary about that.
We live in a fucking society where you have to have labels warning people not to do obviously dangerous and stupid shit no sane person would think should or could be done, so why do you think we won’t have problems like this all over?
Well, obviously if the cops can’t be safe around gasoline, neither can “civilians”. We need an EO banning self service at gas stations.
Exactly what sparked those flames is unclear.
I’ll bet it was climate change!
Nice one.
Deputy Beavis gave a press conference later that day…
The real culprit is big forestry for providing all the oxygen that fueled the fire.
It is also inflammable.
/grabs pair of glasses
/pushes them up
I think you’ll find that gasoline fumes are flammable, not the gasoline itself.
/wanders off in self-important satisfaction
We just need to keep gasoline below -45 for safety.
*ahem*
Regardless of the state, gasoline is gasoline. Liquid, gas or solid.
*Pedant victory dance*
It kinda stops being gasoline when you reach plasma though.
Freedom of Speech does not allow shouting “FIRE” in a crowded gas station. There are some limitations, you know.
“Apparently, this school superintendent thought he was a Biden kid.”
Sounds like a real winner. Not ready to believe everything she’s saying but, just throwing this out there, you might be the bad guy if you are cheating on your wife. And she sucks too.
They’re not even reporting on this story at a local level. I have a kid in that school district and have been hearing rumors for months. Then finally, last month, one of those monthly neighborhood papers did a fairly in depth story that none of the local TV and other print media can’t seem to bring themselves to do.
And it’s more than the affair, this guy was pushed through the process for the top job during a pandemic when a lot of this was getting done behind closed doors. Yet the board is claiming this was an open and fair hiring and that the parents had their say.
Pretty damning. Maybe she faked the emails, but that seems unlikely.
A minute of overwhelming love
Whoops! wrong link
https://twitter.com/BanginTweets_/status/1496927661914050564?cxt=HHwWiMC-7eDxk8YpAAAA
Nice white pills, thanks.
From this morning’s coffee and covid:
“Hahaha! That’s supposed to be a compliment! Not that he looks Churchillian or anything. No. We’re not shooting THAT high, not with Joe. We’ll be happy if he just doesn’t look so sleepy!”
If only he had a hookup for some uppers. Maybe a family member?
“Americans overwhelmingly want Ukrainian independence to survive, but without U.S. troop involvement. If that appears to be happening, even temporarily, Biden will almost certainly get some of the credit, particularly from the Democrats whose support for him has been lagging lately, and from the independents, who turned sour on his presidency some time ago.”
Makes you wonder what the coverage would be like under the Donald.
There’s no way this ends favorably for the US or Ukraine.
One clear winner.
Xi.
To be clear, I don’t think the war is manufactured by the US left. I do think that the US left is playing a dangerous game of escalation in rhetoric with the cynical goal of boosting poll numbers.
?
The left wants unity (behind them) and war usually brings unity, no mystery there at all.
War is a good thing to distract people from an abysmal economic situation caused by callous stupidity and evil acts from leadership…
And the quiet abandonment of a losing position on a pandemic. Oh, and losing on the bigger spending and election ‘reform’. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Usually — but war shortly after a completely botched military operation (Afghanistan) and having your allies all obviously working around you instead of leading anything? I don’t think it will work out like they expect. No one should be rooting for Biden to screw it up — but I dare say lots of us are expecting him to. Just hoping it isn’t a big enough screw up to go nuclear, is all.
I don’t think the war is manufactured by the US left
The past 20 years of Ukrainian history begs to differ. Though, the EU and NATO helped.
“It’s also possible that the ill-disguised and sometimes openly expressed MAGA admiration for Putin could undermine the recent revival of fortunes for Republicans, who at best seem divided and irresolute over what is happening in Ukraine.”
Where do they get this shit?
Journalist 2.0, of course.
To be fair, I’ve heard more than a few right wingers express the sentiment that Putin didn’t lock us in our houses for two years, muzzle our kids, lock up rioters without due process while ignoring other riots, force experimental medicine on us, teach our kids to hate themselves for their skin color and that mutilating their genitals and killing babies are virtues.
I know who my real enemies are, and they’re a lot closer to me than Moscow.
?
Well if you don’ take the position that Putin is an evil moron who was totally outmaneuvered by the genius stateman Joe Biden, that means you are pro-Putin and just as evil as him.
It’s called narrative building. What the media reports is often factual (contains a grain of truth) but rarely truthful (holistically accurate). They tell many lies, but the most common are lies by omission, and lies by implication. Yes, some people have openly taken Putin’s side. Many more are just skeptical of pro-Ukrainian propaganda.
The goal here is to force the majority, who are blue-pilled and still believe what their screens tell them, to cleave off the minority, and then for the “moderate” minority to cleave off the “extreme” minority, and so on until the salami has been sliced as thinly as possible.
But western propaganda is fine.
“I’m concerned about Russian disinformation spreading online, so today I wrote to the CEOs of major tech companies to ask them to restrict the spread of Russian propaganda,” US Senator Mark Warner tweeted on Friday.
Since then YouTube has announced that it has suppressed videos by Russian state media channels so that they’ll be seen by fewer people in accordance with its openly acknowledged policy of algorithmically censoring unauthorized content, as well as de-monetizing all such videos on the platform. Google and Facebook/Instagram parent company Meta both banned Russian state media from running ads and monetizing on their platforms in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Twitter announced a pause on ads in both Russia and Ukraine.
“Glad to see action from tech companies to reign in Russian propaganda and disinformation after my letter to their CEOs yesterday,” Warner tweeted on Saturday. “These are important first steps, but I’ll keep pushing for more.”
No more Yeah Russia or Yakutia videos?
/prepares limited strike
Assuming this doesn’t escalate into a broader war, the West is going to use this to seize even more levers of control over the populace.
The war on dissent was already underway. The war on crypto is here and the war on cash is close.
As if the last two years didn’t already prove that Twitface et al. are just arms of the government media machine.
Interesting…
You’ll note they can still have the fiction of having no military this way while getting the US to pay for everything.
China rattled by calls for Japan to host US nuclear weapons
Maybe its to justify Japan building (and controlling) their own?
If you want to really make China reverse some of its policies, let South Korea and Japan get their own nukes.
I thought the “no military” thing was written into the constitution we made them adopt after WWII.
“We don’t have a military, we have a Gojira Response Team”
Correct. Not too many police forces with current generation fighters and warships, however.
But Japan quickly realized that the advantages of not paying for much of its defense far outweighed the disadvantages of some loss of sovereignty and complaints from the dumb hicks in Okinawa.
Japan has self defense forces, not armed forces. Totes different.
There’s also been movement, in fits and starts, to remove that prohibition from the constitution.
Teens crash a party
Everybody get down!
“Dude when I posted this party on Facebook, I specifically said ‘No Fat Chicks’!”
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Why do you do that to me, Jimbo? How can I be a Grumpy Old Man after that?
Hah!
Those of us who know you Fourscore, know you ain’t got time to be grumpy. Too much wood to be chopped, too many bees to be wrangled.
Because they have something to do with the actions of the government.
FIFA and the European association, UEFA, issued a joint statement on Monday confirming that Russia has been suspended until further notice, ESPN reported.
“Following the initial decisions adopted by the FIFA Council and the UEFA Executive Committee, which envisaged the adoption of additional measures,” the statement read, “FIFA and UEFA have today decided together that all Russian teams, whether national representative teams or club teams, shall be suspended from participation in both FIFA and UEFA competitions until further notice.
At least it is not as retarded as idiots destroying Russian product that they have already paid for.
I guess that’s the clearest indication that Russia is broke. The bribe to FIFA either didn’t clear or wasn’t large enough.
Russia hosted the last World Cup, the money to be made was made.
I need Russia to troll by saying they were going to boycott the world cup…in QATAR…anyway.
The MIC Rejoices
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/02/28/white-house-official-says-us-can-focus-on-two-theaters-as-it-did-in-wwii/
Try to keep it in your pants, Kurt.
It’s old, but for SF and any other lurking librarian-glibs:
Shame! Shame! Shame! (If you’re white.)
“We been telling you and you still don’t listen.”
I’d have a hard time reading this from a librarian and concluding that they deserve to be in charge, that the only reason they’re not in charge is racism.
I didn’t read it all, but it seems a main complaint is their (white) bosses taking credit for their (BIPOC’s) work. Welcome to the party.
The only proper solution is for white libraries to burn books written by BIPOCs as a show of solidarity.
EV start-up Lucid slashes 2022 vehicle production forecast, causing shares to plummet
I’m guessing that’s because of their small size. Perhaps the other OEMs have more flexibility there. What is interesting is that I believe Tesla makes its own glass because suppliers didn’t want to make glass for it and piss off its other OEM customers.
Elon wants to make everything. He hates suppliers. They’ve been making their own seats for this reason. Everybody else buys their seats from a supplier, Johnson Controls, Lear, etc. Tesla makes their own. He usually starts with a small firm that can do what he needs done, then buys them and scales them up for bigger production. My BIL and nephew both work for a robotics firm that is now Tesla owned.
Yup. I recall the seating purchase too.
You’ll appreciate that the Tesla Model 3 runs 3 body control modules for everything in the whole car. Compare that to anything else made today that is comparable. OTH, if you outsource all this stuff everything comes with its own CAN controller.
How many frickin’ modules show up on current 3 Series BMW for example? 15 or 20 would be my guess.
You’d be guessing low. They were over 20 modules by 2007. I think it’s over 30 now, I think the BMW active 3 hybrid is closer to 40 modules. Most individual doors have there own modules now on the fancy stuff.
Approaching 1970s levels of GM reliability!
And I think I’d assume my scanner was broken if only 3 modules populated the screen on a modern car.
I doubt that. I was only in the glass industry for a couple of years (and this was 15 years ago), but start up costs for a new glass plant are HUGE. Fuel costs are HUGE. Tin baths are extremely expensive to operate and maintain. Most new glass plants are built in China or India where environmental laws are lax and coal is cheap.
*ddgoes* AGP supplies Tesla windshields (at least the Model S) https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-plaid-glass-supplier-agp/
“These three candidates showing a strong finish and winning will send the president and the rest of the Democratic Party a very clear message: Progressive policies are popular and the voters don’t want moderation and centrism in this moment,” said Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution. “A good showing on election night is going to send a message that people want fighters in positions of power. And in some ways, I think it might be a message that the administration and Democrats haven’t done enough.”
Yup.
A good showing on election night is going to send a message that people want fighters in positions of power.
And a bad showing would just demonstrate that they were sabotaged by centrists, Republicans, and kulaks.
I dunno. It does seem like the sentiment from the left really is that he’s not progging hard enough. The stuff I’ve read seems to show they don’t like him because he promised all sorts of free shit and isn’t delivering.
That’s certainly what the people that vote for a living would feel like…
Some moderate groups said the relative lack of spending means Tuesday’s elections won’t be a genuine measure of centrist versus liberal power in the party.
Could this lack of spending be because the Democrat (no matter who) is going to get steamrollered in the general election by a republican?
I thought less money influencing elections was a good thing?
They are shocked to find they can only buy part of an electorate, not a majority.
How convenient.
The White House will no longer require people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 to wear face masks on the premises, beginning Tuesday, March 1, a White House official told Fox News.
The lifting of the requirement will come just hours before President Biden is set to deliver his first State of the Union address before Congress.
The White House’s decision follows a similar one from Congress’ Office of the Attending Physician, who said that masks will be optional on the House floor for the president’s speech, likely avoiding the optics of masked lawmakers gathered for the event, two years into the coronavirus pandemic.
SCIENCE!!!!!!
What a coincidence!
The GOP should all wear N95 masks. When asked they should point out that Pelosi is old and particularly at risk from the Rona. Their masks are to protect her.
It might be interesting to see how many still wear a mask even though their mandate has been removed.
Or will the Dem leadership have come down hard on the members to tow the lion?
With all those cameras? I bet none of them wear a mask.
Which should prompt the question: “So you only wore a mask because it was mandated, and not be cause you, personally, thought it was a good idea?” Except, of course, they’ve always blown off mask wearing except for photo ops.
It will be interesting to see who still does. Where I live, there are a few of the “I live in fear” types, but 90% of the time the presence of a mask is a specific tribal signal that says “I Am A Democrat”. And yeah there’s overlap, but you can tell.
My friend who works at a school in the Pittsburgh area said it is still 50/50 in terms of who is and isn’t wearing a mask in school, even with the mandate dropped.
Gas pump Tasering? Fucking reckless.
Also,
No, no it is not.
Putin has no idea who he is messing with.
President Biden arrives back at the White House after spending the weekend in Delaware. Biden did not stop to answer questions from reporters about the conflict in Eastern Europe.
Putin has no defenses against the SOTU. He should prepare to be schooled.
“It has no effect.”
To be fair, Biden doesn’t know who Putin is messing with either.
“To be fair, Biden doesn’t know who Putin is”
“Putin? I like puddin’.”
It’s a wonder that no one takes us seriously.
I swear this VP is something straight out of an SNL skit
Is… Is she insulting the electorate for choosing the ticket she was on? It sure seems like she’s insulting people for being stupid enough to elect her.
If there’s any year for the Dems to capitalize on their successes and get more of themselves elected, THIS IS THE YEAR!
Bulwar-hahahahaha
The Triad? More like “The Troika” amirite?
That’s a win?
And Biden was responsible for all of it somehow.
They did? I missed that. How, exactly, did they go from not having nukes at all, to having nukes, in 4 days?
They’ve only removed the part of their constitution that forbids them from hosting nukes.
They’ve threatened to host Russian nuclear weapons if NATO moves them into Poland or Lithuania.
Which reminds me – is Belarus getting sanctioned? They did allow Russia to launch an invasion from their territory, and I would imagine their economy is relatively fragile.
I’m not certain. As of yet, they haven’t actually committed troops and I think are clear of the sanctions. I believe Russia wants it to stay that way so they can work through them.
Lukashenko has been very vocal about potential escalation though.
Reports of Belarus troops moving into Ukraine as of today.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/03/01/how-putin-turned-belarus-into-a-weapon-against-ukraine/
And there you have it.
Asked Russia to station some there.
Titty Tuesday demand 6.7 inches of pure power.
https://archive.md/NUBmR
Heh.
“I think it might be a message that the administration and Democrats haven’t done enough”
Yeah, *that’s* what the piles of losses mean. You’re not progging hard enough.
People just don’t understand. We need to change our messaging.
People
just don’tunderstand. We need to change our messaging.Totally not a police state.
US Capitol Police will once again erect a fence on Capitol grounds ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday, the department announced Sunday.
The fencing illustrates the heightened security plans as law enforcement in Washington, DC, prepare for possible protests by big rig truckers in the coming days.
In a statement, Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said the decision to install the fence in the inner perimeter of the Capitol grounds was made in conjunction with the US Secret Service.
The event is a National Special Security Event, placing the Secret Service in charge of planning.
“I have also requested support from outside law enforcement agencies as well as the National Guard to assist with our security precautions,” Manger said in the statement.
When the truckers get there, can they weld it shut? And then maybe reinforce it?
*snort*
That made me laugh. Thanks.
How much would you pay to see Pelosi whipped with horse reins?
The truckers need to stop just outside of DC, and make it a protest against the armed camp in DC and the abuse of protestors by the regime.
Victim signaling.
I never considered the term derogatory.
The Department of the Interior is moving forward with removing and replacing a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for decades across the US, the department said Tuesday.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland issued an order declaring “squaw” derogatory in November. The term has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur towards Indigenous women, the department said in a news release at the time.
Haaland, who is the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary, established a 13-member task force to rename more than 600 geographic features that contain the term through that order.
In fact, I find it offensive that you people insist on removing references to the indigenous and minorities from public spaces.
Are you suggesting we have reached Peak Squaw?
Maybe just heap squaw.
The department has already replaced the term with “sq_ _ _” in official communications.
Can you tell me how to get to Sq Valley?
SQL?
It’s Palisades Tahoe now.
Sounds like a Chevy.
Well if squaw has to go, so does “brave” when referring to a male indian. Fucking same thing. Neither is derogatory. It was just a name for Indian women and men.
We have a family recipe that we called squaw corn (bacon mixed in with corn) that I have renamed NAW corn (Native American Woman) just to mess with my progressive sister.
I think all references to Squaw in place names should be replaced by NAW. That way we can have years and years of progressives going over audio tapes with Zapruder like obsession trying to determine if someone said “Sq” or “N”.
Isn’t the masculine “buck”? I want to be correct politically incorrect.
Do we have to change the street names, like Chippewa or Iroquois avenue? Do my grade school (Minnehaha), junior high (Nokomis) and street (Hiawatha) names need to be replaced? I can’t keep up.
Here in Iowa, we renamed Squaw Creek to Ioway Creek (keeping the native American theme).
My (2004) dictionary mentions that it is considered derogatory, although it does suggest that it wasn’t in the far past.
People just don’t understand. We need to change our messaging.
“How do we reach these hicks?”
“The peasants are revolting!”
“You said it; they stink on ice!”
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland issued an order declaring “squaw” derogatory in November.
If you hear the whistle, you might just be the…..
I’d wager it’s like the ‘Redskins’ complaints – the vast majority of native Americans don’t give a shit about the use of squaw. A few grievance hustlers make some noise and loop in the usual suspects and here we are.
I notice that Squaw Valley ski resort has already changed their name.
“So, you’re finally declaring victory in the Indian Wars and erasing the losers?”
/response to the proggies.
To what?
Pls. tell its now “Redskin Valley”.
“Palisades Tahoe (formerly known as Squaw Valley)…”
If they had gone with Redskin Valley, I’d take up skiing.
I’m guessing that’s very recent, as they haven’t even set up URL redirects.
https://tahoe.com/squaw-valley
How many other words need to be scrubbed? Wahine? Latina (get on board with the X ladies)?
The fishing expedition continues.
The Jan. 6 select committee has subpoenaed phone records connected to an employee of Alex Jones, the second time in recent weeks the panel has homed in on a Jones associate as it seeks to pinpoint the pro-Trump broadcaster’s role preceding the Capitol attack.
Court documents filed Sunday evening reveal the panel has subpoenaed records for Annette Shroyer, the mother of Jones employee Owen Shroyer, who was charged last year for his participation in the Jan. 6 breach of Capitol grounds. Annette Shroyer is asking a judge to let her join Jones’ pending lawsuit against the Jan. 6 select committee, claiming the subpoena is an abuse of the committee’s power.
According to a copy of the subpoena filed with the court, Annette Shroyer received notice of the subpoena on Feb. 10, and Verizon indicated it would provide her records to the select committee unless she filed suit by Feb. 28. …
It’s unclear if the select committee has also sought Owen Shroyer’s phone records, or if the subpoena for his mother’s records is an indication that Owen Shroyer remains on a family plan — a scenario that has led to other witness’ family members receiving subpoenas. The select committee declined to comment on the subpoena or Annette Shroyer’s effort to join Jones’ suit.
In the court filing, Jones’ attorney Norman Pattis indicates that Owen Shroyer “will properly assert the Fifth Amendment” against attempts by the Select Committee to obtain his records.
Jones’ role in Jan. 6 events remains somewhat opaque.
Except for the fact that neither Jones or Shroyer entered the building and Jones is on camera specifically trying to deescalate the situation.
I suppose dissent against the regime will not be tolerated.
They are convinced that this Commission will be their deliverance come November.
1) Issue a scathing report about how the Republicans (except for Cheney and Kinzinger) are insurrectionists
2) Use this proof to trigger the 14th amendment to disqualify all Republicans from office or from running for office.
3) Dem landslide!
Yet most Americans in polls think they’re wasting their time.
When all you have is “Orange Man BAD!” to rile your people up, you need moar of that. Even when it is something that will eventually cause you far more pain and loss than it does you any good.
I approve of Monster Magnet at all times.
Moldbug and Alex Jones. Their insanities combine symbiotically and together they form a very stable genius.
Well I know what I’ll be doing for the next 50 minutes.
Anyone watching the speech tonight? Part of me is tempted to watch, but I know it will just get me pissed off so I’ll probably just read about it tomorrow.
I plan to watch the Crowder stream.
I want to be able to go to sleep, so no, I’m not going to aggravate myself that way.
I gotta go to sleep early, but I am looking forward to reading the liveglibbing.
Entertain me!
I’ll wait for the highlights on Twitter.
I’m planning on watching it. I’m sure they’ll be a bunch of people live commenting here.
My TV plan for the evening is the next episode of Arcane. For a nightcap, I’m thinking anejo tequila. Or maybe Irish whiskey. We’ll see.
Don’t recall who recommended it, but I am enjoying it.
I said Arcane was a must-watch.
Spasibo, kamerad. I mean, thanks, buddy.
What episode are you at?
Ep. 4. I got pulled out of it because Mrs. Dean wanted to watch Reacher, and there’s not a lot of shows we both want to watch, so it got priority.
Arcane was the best show I watched all last year. Incredibly well written characters, great understanding of politics (political theory and economic incentives, not the horse and pony show the US calls politics) and direction and design that constantly ooze a style and flavor entirely unique to the show. It’s hard to recommend to everyone just because people tend to not take animation seriously, but everyone should give it a chance. It reminds me of when GoT was firing on all cylinders in the early years and every element just worked. It’s crazy that almost everyone involved seemingly came out of nowhere. There may actually still be hope for American story telling yet. No surprise that all it took was an abandonment of the legacy Hollywood machine.
I will read some of the mockery of it.
As I do for every state of the union.
I’m rewatching Silicon Valley on HBO. Things haven’t changed.
KYX World, a Sneaker-Rental Platform, Raises $3 Million
$169 a month for people who can’t afford sneakers? Are we talking about $20000 sneakers? How is this a value?
It’s like buying a TV thru Rent-a-Center.
It’s for people who don’t think more than a week ahead.
It’s for people who don’t think more than a week ahead.
So you’re staying they have a gigantic market?
Yup.
There’s a reason I’m not a businessman; I can’t predict this kind of stupidity.
You still have too much faith in humanity. Stop it and you’ll make a mint.
Basically this. It’s amazing how many people look at me like I have 3 heads when I say that they key to financial success is to save up for things and pay in cash. It’s like they literally never had that thought cross their mind before.
Shut up and take my money?
The platinum subscription plan, for example, costs $169 monthly to rent two pairs of sneakers
Or I can save up 2.5 months of that payment, wait for my $100 sneakers to go on clearance for $40, and buy 10 pairs.
Oh wait, but I see shoes as a tool, not as a fashion accessory. ?
Hopefully the company puts a sticker or something on the shoes so I can easily identify the subscribers……and make sure to never interact with them under any circumstances. Anyone who would prioritize this kind status seeking behavior is someone I have no use for.
Blows the Winston-whistle.
I probably held that belief for 90% of my life.
Thanks for fucking it up, China.
When you dance with the devil, the devil changes you.
The USSR was defeated because we avoided helping them economically. Then once we did that, we decided to make China an economic behemoth because THAT would somehow soften totalitarian fucks in charge of a nation where through 4000 years of history power was the one ambition or tool for the rulers to rule their own people and then their neighbors.
Wheat exports sez remember me?
I remember eating lunch at the world’s largest McDonalds in Pushkin Square when I thought Russia was going to fully westernize.
I can’t figure out if ultimately we rejected them or they rejected us.
Bit of both. “Shock therapy” economics nearly destroyed Russia. It only worked in former East Germany because the West largely hid the costs. Ossis were still worse off than Wessis on average two decades later, maybe even today as well. This experience soured a lot of people on the “magic” of the West which had lured them away from communism in the first place.
Then, on the flip side, we have the American/European antagonism of post-USSR Russia starting in the mid-90s.
?
West Germany soaked up massive losses during reintegration. Nobody was going to help Russia in the same manner.
With the move towards MMT by most major world powers, we’re all living in economic houses of cards where the true cost of everything is hidden by some form of subsidy or payoff. Nobody has seemed to learn the lessons of the 20th century and the fall of the Soviet Union. The ancient fuckwits that cling to power and failed paradigms despite near constant failure need to go. Unfortunately, all they ever seem to learn is that if you spin your failure properly, you can always turn it into more power that you don’t deserve or know how to effectively wield.
Work is doing a 200% match for donations to “Ukraine.”
I kept my mouth shut when it was announced and did not counteroffer to accept female refugees, with twins given first priority.
accept female refugees
We should be charitable. I do have a spare bedroom just sitting there empty after all.
I suspect my hot Ukrainian refugee and Mrs. Dean would get along famously.
After disposing of my body.
I have enough spare room to host enough refugees to fill my hot tub, so, bring it on.
A sub on a project we’re working set up a Discord server for coordination. Is that a thing now?
They’re clearly a chinese spy trying to make sure all the ideas get to their CCP masters.
Reprimand them for it and require better data security.
Uboat your ass it is a thing!
Discord seems like exactly the wrong thing for managing communications for a project. It would be like spinning up a forum to manage the project.
Best use for Discord: https://discord.com/channels/334850908842229760/944793345044144188
I gotta start growing my hair out again. It will give me one more victim point (because it is totes nappy and unmanageable when long)
I can’t wait to see the “unintended” consequences of this.
*Machinists begin to chuckle*
*winces*
“Waiter, there’s greasy clump of dreadlock in my soup.”
When I was in high school, the wood shop teacher told us all a story about a female student in the early 80s at our school who got her hair caught in a table saw when she leaned over it. It pulled her in and she was killed. True story–he had the newspaper clippings to prove it.
Like I need another reason to be afraid of my table saw.
… though if it catches my hair, my face was already gone.
I’d have guessed she leaned too close to a propane torch and the Aqua Net went up.
What? Too soon?
+1 hairspray flamethrower
YGTBK.
OTOH, no discrimination against skinheads! Take that Twitter!
Oh, you’re funny. The law means whatever the bureaucracy intends it to mean.
I wonder what these taste like.
Happy Mardi Gras, or as they say in Key West, Tuesday.
Maybe I will put some bourbon in my tea. I’m still getting over a cold, but what the hell. It’s Mardi Gras.
They say they later received information that the suspect was at the Wawa gas station refueling.
Deputies arrived shortly after and as they were closing in on the suspect, one of the gas pumps burst into flames.
They’re shitting up a WaWa. Off with their heads!
When she asked him to go to her doctor’s appointment, he refused, the woman claimed. “He started to really try to intimidate me by telling me he was in a position of power, and he continued to accuse me of defaming him and that he would be fired.”
A school superintendent claiming to be in a position of power. I can believe he’d be that stupid to do that.
He then positioned himself so the right side of his head was touching the left side of Chalas’ head, the newspaper reported. He pointed the gun and pulled the trigger. But the gun misfired.
At the indoor ranges I’ve been at, the range safety officers would have put a stop to things right here.
The left is hoping to make a show of force that will provide a jolt of momentum, attention and money for candidates in other states in the coming months. Progressives are on the hunt to grow their numbers in Congress, after a year of legislative showdowns and intense infighting that pitted them against the more centrist Democratic lawmakers such as Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
Progressives might grow their numbers in the Democrat side of Congress, but I don’t see the Democrats holding on to Congress.
This. Some blue districts get bluer, but purple ones shade closer to red.
“At the indoor ranges I’ve been at, the range safety officers would have put a stop to things right here.”
Not the ones around here. The ROs stroll through every half-hour or so to replace target backers and refill staplers, but other than that they’re just keeping an eye on the CCTV.
Blowing your own brains out in public is a shitty thing to do anyway. If you decide to snuff it, do it so that someone else doesn’t have to clean up your mess.
The only way to do it so that no one else has to clean up your mess would be to bury yourself in a grave plot… somehow.
*ponders pre-dug holes in the desert*
Done and done. Wasn’t really planning to use them myself, I mean, not that way, but if needs must . . . .
Jump off a bridge into deep water?
Cover yourself with bacon grease and climb into the tiger pen at the zoo?
(Don’t do this. They’d probably have to put down the tiger.)
Your body will wash up on the shore and someone will have to deal with the putrescent mess.
And Tigers don’t eat everything.
In going throuhg hypotheticals, I’d even discarded self-cremation because it would leave a ‘mess’ in the form of ashes at least.
Light two hibachi’s in your bathroom and climb in the tub, posting a note on the door about the carbon monoxide danger?
Still a body, but not that messy.
Deep in the woods. You will be gone in a year.
Some human bones are too thick to be disposed of by wildlife in the continental US.
Bones aren’t messy.
STEVE SMITH NOT HOOMAN, BUT HAS BONE THAT IS TOO THICK. HOOMANS CALL BONE BACULUM.
Inflatable boat containing yourself, lots of weights, and chain. And a knife.
You may want to set the motor on fire to reduce the oil slick left behind.
The other way is to get rid of the “has to” and pre-contract out your body disposal.
Off yourself on a hog farm.
The farm workers would find you.
Fine, off yourself on a robot hog farm.
Yep. A few hours on the outside.
Six pieces, sixteen pigs
The only public “range” I’m aware of here (2 lanes 10 yards inside a gun store) has no RO. Just CCTV monitors pointing toward the counter jockeys.
We fucked kids up good, now pay us more!
Minneapolis/St. Paul teachers will go on strike March 8th if they don’t get paid more.
Sure we refused to back into the classroom for 2 years, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get more highly paid assistants to help us out now.
Another gem from a potential striker:
I always read these stories about these amazing teachers that spend all their spare time and ALL of their own money changing lives for the better. Why is it that nearly every teacher I’ve met in my adult live is lazy, entitled and not very smart? There seems to be a disconnect somewhere between the ones the media meets and the ones I meet. I wonder why……..??
*Narrator* – He doesn’t actually wonder.
In high school when we were approaching graduation, all my classmates were deciding what to major in. I was alarmed at how many ditzes wanted to go into “education” or “elementary education.”
I can only assume it was that they figured it’d be easy and they’d have summers off.
I don’t think STEM jobs or accounting etc were really options for them.
The not-terribly bright dudes who were college-bound wanted to major in “business” or (worse) business management.
I am in Twin Falls. Soon I will go look at a property here in town, and then I will go to Buhl to look at an old gas station. I like the idea of living in an old gas station, but it looks like it’s right in the middle of town, which I don’t really want. Yesterday I looked at a former dairy processing plant outside of Burley. Very rough, but lots of potential. It even has a silo for me to turn it into a Rapunzel house.
” It even has a silo”
Hold a house-warming party and put this on your list of gifts for guests to bring: https://media.defense.gov/2019/Oct/31/2002205122/-1/-1/0/191031-F-ZZ999-0002.JPG
You’re old enough that an abandoned gas station won’t have time to give you cancer by living there.
I thought the environmental cleanup obligations of old gas stations made them something to be avoided?
It’s a choose your own adventure war
“The first casualty of war is the truth.”
That’s the best advertisement for not believing anything you hear.
Db hit me up about maybe some shenanigans for SOTU.
noted. let’s take it to the forum.
“‘We should string you up by a lamp post right now!’ Moment two men chase Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and his family out of a Las Vegas restaurant”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10562937/Social-video-shows-racist-taunts-Nevada-governor-wife.html
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/video-sisolak-first-lady-face-violent-threats-from-digital-creator-2536725/
Yeah…I mean it is how we should treat politicians and the chooses for picking battles better is getting to be a small list.
Excellent.
Listened to the video. Where was the racist taunts?
“It’s a tough job to keep the families, and we’ve tried our best to keep our families in public schools,” Saida said. “We’ve done everything we can, but the district is not doing anything for us. That’s how I feel.”
*outright prolonged laughter*
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘My teenage kids want to go fight. I say go ahead.’ How the horror of Putin’s war has stirred Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, the most Ukrainian county in the US”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10560907/My-teenage-kids-want-fight-Putins-war-stirred-Ukrainian-county-US.html
I hear there is a guy named Sean who might have some guns.
Someone here posted this yesterday. I have it ready to send to any people I know who suggest military intervention in Ukraine.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3415272-how-to-join-international-legion-to-defend-ukraine-algorithm.html
“Pfizer’s COVID vaccine is just 12% effective in preventing Omicron infection in children aged five to 11, new study reveals – so why ARE health officials pushing parents to get their kids shots?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10561455/The-Pfizer-COVID-19-vaccine-12-effective-against-infection-children-aged-five-11.html
Because of the science, which doesn’t have anything to do with science. It’s like the Ohio State, except it’s actually a state school in Ohio.
That’s in the first few weeks. Data out of NY is showing negative efficacy after about week 6.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/resending-urgent-mrna-shots-raise/comments
Now you know why the FDA doesn’t want the public to see the data.
That’s based on the same study.
Funny how they didn’t take the data out further for the extended results then, isn’t it?
They probably just need a few more boosters. /science
“Finland will today debate joining NATO despite threat from neighbours Russia that they will face ‘military and political consequences'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10564107/Finland-debate-joining-NATO-despite-threat-neighbours-Russia-military-consequences.html
So where does this put her on the hot-crazy matrix?
Isn’t she a cat-lady? As in, dresses up with ears and stuff?
Puts her in the upper-right quadrant.
Ah, apparently those pictures were some 4Chan-style trolling.
It’s a shame when you can’t trust things on the internet anymore.
Sad!
Damnit. Another fantasy shattered upon the unyielding sidewalk of fact-checking.
Great thing about that is Finland won’t need to invoke Article V if the rooskies invade again.
NATO: Want some help?
Vinland: Nah lähimmäinen, we got this.
The spirit of Simo Häyhä looms large.
She’s not a catgirl.
Sadly.
It’d be nice if more politicians were at least entertaining
Next up: Dedicating mass grave sites for Russian soldiers.
Also, buying as many anti-tank and anti-air missiles as they can.
Hmmm… i was debating her location on the matrix when nude Britney Spears photos popped up at the bottom of that article. Now there are two hot/crazy assessments to make!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/britney-spears-strips-completely-naked-26356878
Huh. I’d’ve expected her lifestyle to leave more of a mark at her age. Good Job Britney!
You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can’t take the trailer park out of the girl.
Poor kid. I wish she’d just move to the suburbs and become a Volvo driving soccer mom.
Glad I made it to the halfway point, got better.
WTG, Russia. Just brilliant.
There’s only so much you can threaten nuclear war too.
Rated mostly false: We have doubled our (oil) imports from Russia in the last year
The latest data from the EIA doesn’t back her up. The U.S. increased its Russian oil imports by about 28% last year. That’s a notable increase, but it’s not double.
Bartiromo has more of a point when looking at only crude oil imported from Russia in 2021, which has more than doubled. But Russia accounted for about 3% of overall U.S. crude oil imports in 2021 — a 2 percentage point increase from 2020.
You better Czech yourself before you wreck yourself.
“The Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office considers it necessary to inform citizens that the current situation associated with the Russian Federation’s attack on Ukraine may have implications for their freedom of expression,” warned Czechia’s Attorney-General, Igor Stříž, in an official press release.
“[F]reedom of speech also has its limits in a democratic state governed by the rule of law,” the official asserted, explaining that anyone who “publicly (including at demonstrations, on the Internet or on social networks) agreed (accepted or supported the Russian Federation’s attacks on Ukraine) or expressed support or praised the leaders of the Russian Federation in this regard, they could also face criminal liability under certain conditions”, citing sections of the criminal code making it a crime to approve a criminal offence or deny, question, approve or justify genocide.
That’ll show the Ruskies.
Warner Bros. has pulled #TheBatman from the Russian release calendar. The decision comes amid Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine
World War Woke. The same pop culture references, the same corporate sponsorship, the same simplistic moralism, and the same contradictory application of priciple. They turned cancel culture into a foreign position.
Putin sends his thanks.
Given the SWIFT sanctions, they might not get paid promptly or at all. So they used it as a chance to virtue signal of course.
Good morning, peeps!
Thanks for pinch-hitting, Brett – it was fun to have you back!
I hope you are all doing your part and putting the ‘fat’ back into Fat Tuesday!