Goal!!!!!
Notre Dame outlasted Rutgers and Wright State finally won an NCAA tournament game. And now we begin the marathon that is the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. Enjoy it! Elsewhere, big moves are happening all over the NFL landscape and there’s simply too much for me to keep track of. And in soccer news, Chelski managed to move on in the UCL but I’m not sure they’ll even be allowed to have fans at their matches. Villarreal knocked Juventus out as well and the quarterfinal draw will happen tomorrow just before the links are out, so feel free to discuss in the comments. Also, Liverpool played like ass the first half but put the hammer down after the break to cruise past Arsenal and put serious pressure on Man Shitty at the top of the table. It’s gonna be a tight run in to the EPL season. And that’s sports.
With all the bad stuff happening in the world right now, this might be the worst. Oh well, it was a good run.
“You fucked up. You trusted us.”
Just once I’d like them to be forced to admit responsibility in one of these settlements. Because it might make the people blaming inanimate objects or gun owners in general, think twice about where to point fingers.
Some people are assholes. Also, know your surroundings. And figure out who the insider is who set this theft up. Because that’s the most likely scenario here.
Better late than never. Well, kind of. It’s still shitty when the “late” was deliberate in order to influence an election. Yet here we are.
Idiot.
Are they really this clueless? Or are they deliberately rubbing peoples noses in shit? Because those are the only two explanations I can think of.
He’s free! Now he can go be insane until he gets sent back in.
This is going to be so much fun to watch. Especially since they can’t blame any bogeyman for the inevitable result. Although I suspect they’ll try.
We’re getting there, finally. And they made the right choice on which one to make permanent too! Which is absolutely shocking, seeing as government is involved.
Here you go. So good….you get a second helping. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
I hate DST.
It’s superior to standard time in every way.
Not around here – the morning commuters and kids getting picked up by the school bus in the dark (and their parents) beg to differ.
Exactly. It is totally dependent on one’s location and one’s occupation. When it was tried 50 years ago it was mostly a shitshow.
I don’t even know why we’re talking about this. Everybody knows that punctuality or caring about “what time it is” is white supremacy.
I wish I could operate on what we used to refer as “Afghan Time”.
Living on Tulsa Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV2zv6sVD_o
I really enjoyed growing up there, but I’ve heard it’s gone to shit since I left.
Sorry about that.
It’s a few minutes of inconvenience to get an extra hour of daylight in the evening during one’s leisure time when it can be enjoyed. It’s a small price to pay.
Ummmm, some of us like fishing in the morning. I would much rather have the extra hour of sunlight in the morning.
I’m also sure that this will lead to all sorts of fun writing code to reconcile one country always being off by an hour for some unknown reason. Dealing with timezones already sucks, but sure let’s add more wrinkles.
Also will AZ be permanently off from the rest of the country?
Arizona does not do DST, already too much sun.
It’s FOR THE CHILDREN!!!!
So much. Why people want to waste daylight on the morning, I will never understand…
So you don’t run over children on their way to school?
Start school an hour later. This isn’t difficult.
The opposite can also be said, keep standard time and start an hour earlier.
Or move 30 minutes next time and be done.
Ultimately, I don’t give a shit how they end it, just end it. Humans are adaptable. We’ll find a way to get by.
I don’t care! Pick a time and stick to it. just stop asking me to change the clock settings!
Yes, humans are adaptable, unless we’re talking about a one-hour time change twice a year. Nobody can deal with that.
Just because we can cope doesn’t mean we should be doing the action requiring coping.
unless we’re talking about a one-hour time change twice a year. Nobody can deal with that.
*looks at clock on wall and wonders if it has been sprung forward yet*
*grumbles at grumble*
How much coping does it take to adjust one hour twice a year? Today is Thursday, are people still coping from Sunday? Do these people get horribly jetlagged for days if they fly to an adjacent time zone?
The coping and adapting I was referring to was dealing with a permanent DST. The changing back and forth all the time is fucking ridiculous.
Twice a year is not all the time.
Here are some reason to stop changing back and forth.
Here’s some more.
Yes, Grumbletarian, I’m still fucked up because it threw my sleep schedule into disarray and I have to still make it to work on time and not had the chance to reset. Best case it takes me over a week to adjust. Worst case the cascading issue and off-time napping keeps it in turmoil even longer.
If it takes, at best, 168 hours to recover from the turmoil of losing one hour of sleep once a year (you gain an hour in the fall–is that equally tumultuous?) then that’s a shame. Never travel if you can help it.
Today is Thursday, are people still coping from Sunday?
Yep. The 4 year old is adjusted but the 1 year old isn’t. That means the 4 year old is up and going while I’m still getting ready, and I’m having to wake the 1 year old up to get her ready, which puts her in a shit mood.
It’ll probably take another solid week before we’re back to normal.
The 4 year old is *overadjusted (due to the earlier bedtime). She’s waking up at 6:15 instead of 6:45
If Every clock change came with a vacation, I’d have no trouble adjusting.
I’m so glad you are blessed with resillient sleep.
Grumbletarian has goodsleeper privilege and needs to engage in a ritual of self-abegnation.
Alternate reply: It teaches them to be aware of their surroundings.
Only if my employer agrees to let me start an hour later too. I don’t care what the clock says, what matters is what is expected of me when.
…then doesn’t that cancel the supposed benefits of permanent dst?
I don’t’ give a shit which one we pick, just stop changing.
I don’t’ give a shit which one we pick, just stop changing.
#metoo
I get it, but it would be less work to stay on standard than to stay permanently on DST AND shift schedules by an hour.
Nope.
School is babysitting, and since it’s illegal to leave the rugrats alone or with a non-government-certified caretaker, you MUST cart the kiddies off BEFORE the parents go to work.
Although I suppose you could have lockable pens to store the kids in and give bus drivers the code to open them.
That doesn’t happen anywhere.
6% increase in accidents after DST begs to differ.
Maybe it’s entirely due to change(note thata this deals specifically with springing forward) and not lighting conditions, but I’m not so sure.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200130144410.htm#:~:text=Deadly%20accidents%20spike%206%25%20in%20week%20after%20time%20change,-Date%3A%20January%2030&text=Summary%3A,fatal%20car%20crashes%20that%20week.
You upset everyone’s pattern on the same day and you’re bound to have some chaos. That’s got to be due more to the sudden change than the time of day.
And I was about to post this comic and say “Daylight savings must end or MORE PEOPLE WILL DIE!” In true Remy style.
https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2022/03/14/high-noon-comic/
Fuck it. Drove to Florida, lost and hour and then daylight savings time happened the next day. I have Jeep lag. It’s like jet lag but takes more time in a seat to accomplish.
No more than usual.
How do you think I get my orphan stock?
Glow in the dark / Reflective face-masks are the obvious solution.
SCIENCE!
I’ve never had this particular problem. But my truck has headlights, so if yours doesn’t I can imagine that it would be pretty rough.
If your headlights are as good as daylight, that just means you’re the one blinding me when I’m trying to drive during the shitty gloom caused by DST.
Aren’t we just full of excuses today…
I refuse to let you all get me to stop complaining.
*leads infantry company PT run in the dark to Evil Sheldon’s home*
“He is in there, men.”
The benefit of midnight PT was no cadence calls.
“Then we can make them run faster!”
/Evil Drill Sgt
You really want to loose your infantry company in this embarrassing way?
Of course I am letting them loose on you!
Dug in like a tick
Men is too gender specific for today’s infantry.
Seriously. I never gave a fuck going to school in the dark. What is wrong with you people?
Sleep deprivation is related to all sorts of mood disorders, and health impacts. I think it’s bad for people generally and probably children in particular.
Hubermann has done a million podcasts on the benefits of viewing light in the morning.
I don’t understand. Growing up in a non-DST state, it didn’t matter what time of year it was, I was waking up for school before the sun was up and, except for a few weeks in December/January, the sun was up by the time I was sitting in class. Except for those few weeks, it wasn’t dark-dark, just varying levels of twilight. It’s not like I was forced to get up at 3:30 to catch the bus. I was up at 6 and out the door at 7:15. Going to bed before 11 was all I needed to avoid sleep issues.
Are kids being forced to start out for school at 5:30 these days?
It was fairly dark in the winter mornings, though you often had the benefit of snow reflecting some additional light. In the mornings just after DST, the snow was often gone and this even darker than normal. The shift is of course worse the earlier they keep moving DST and the higher your latitude.
Considering at the solstices I’m going to have either 15 hours of daylight or darkness, the main benefit is that not shifting the clocks means I only have to deal with the sun’s glare in the windshield for half as long.
Some of us don’t waste morning daylight.
I’d much rather have more free time in the morning when I’m bright eyed and bushy tailed than in the evening. After work I just want to sit around and relax.
DST is bigotry against us morning people!
+100
*Votes for EvilSheldon as time emperor
*abuses authority, loots the treasury, runs off to Bimini just ahead of the angry mobs*
Now you are talkin’!
/Shitlord
Banjos was pro-standard just a few days ago.
Seconded. It does nothing but cause headaches.
“Better late than never. Well, kind of. It’s still shitty when the “late” was deliberate in order to influence an election. Yet here we are.”
It’s actually kind of amazing how they got everyone to go along with it. Couldn’t they once use this power for good? Like get people to use their turn signals or something?
Sue them. Doesn’t laptop repair guy have a legitimate case? He suffered real losses for turning that laptop over.He should join Kyle’s lawsuit group.
Or ignoring other people’s turn signals.
“And they made the right choice on which one to make permanent too!”
Well, that’s debatable. Well, you people are libertarians. You can debate anything. I read the whole thing started when Ben Franklin proposed it as a joke to conserve candles.
So old Ben was the Babylon bee, before the bee.
‘no one would be so dumb as to change clocks to save light. Lol’
*Three generations of imbeciles later*
a joke to conserve candles
Puts that quip about “a republic if you can keep it” in another light, doesn’t it?
*narrows gaze*
The face you make while trying to read by candle light.
Well, I wasn’t really going for that, but I’ll take it.
The last time a conservative conserved anything.
I don’t want to have to go to work before sunrise. Ugh.
^this
Even as far south as I am now, the sun is only starting to rise when I take my son to daycare. Which means I have to wake him up in the dark, cue the entirely reasonable: ‘the sun’s not up, it’s time to sleep’
It’s hard to get up / It’s been a long long night ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnBvEScJyPI
FWIW, I don’t think Adams is very bright. He doesn’t seem as mean-spirited as DeBlasio obviously was but time will tell.
“He doesn’t seem as mean-spirited”
He’ll grow into it.
I’m back to the office and loving wearing a mask on the train.
Science!
That’s on Biden.
We are familiar with his work.
Of course New Yorkers voted overwhelmingly for this asshole, so they deserve to get it good and hard.
No Irish tunes? or is that too on-the-nose?
What’s going on with Evan? “Detained” for what??
Happy St. Patrick’s 🙂
Irish adjacent tune:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yg8MuaWMT0
No Irish tunes?
Danny Boy
Nah, ’tis you who’s cryin’.
I imagine we will have Evan’s whole story eventually, rather than live-blogging the adventure.
Thought maybe I’d missed some details.
Yes.
Hopefully he took our advice to shut up except for his lawyer.
I saw straff commented last night. I mailed my friend in Tokyo and she also had no issues. Would seem the deaths are lower than I expected, but it is still a little early to be sure.
4 dead after 7.4-magnitude earthquake hits coast off Japan’s Fukushima prefecture
North of Tokyo and far more rural.
Kaiju hardest hit?
Who of a certain generation didn’t watch Ultraman?
See a game I had for the 3DO in the 1990’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKCdN9bgm8
My favorite new Pinball game played at the convention last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMUA9rnzbnQ
I missed last year. That looks fantastic. I can make room for another machine…
I love Ultraman!
Just trying to keep it…current.
From Sean’s link this am:
“Before receiving word of gunshots, Small said police got several calls about a man wearing a mask trespassing on the rear or properties in the area and one call about a man breaking into a vehicle.”
Guessing the cops did fuck all before they called saying someone was dead. Expected results are foreseeable.
Wonderful…
kraine Awaits Word of Deaths, Survivors After Russia Hits Theater Turned Bomb Shelter
At first I wondered what teenage mutant ninja turtles villain had to do with theater bombings.
I’m sick of the journalists being obsessed with the fact the building was a theater, instead of the innocent people who might have died.
Why would they use a theater as a bomb shelter? It’s not especially sturdy or resistant to damage, it’s not underground, etc. Am I missing something?
I would assume that you’re missing a lot and that’s by design.
I accept no major media reporting at face value right now.
During the cold war they’d put a bomb shelter under any large structure liable to hold a lot of people. It could be that there was such a structure under the theater.
Or they might have just directed people to go there to get them out of the way, with no regard for how resistant the building was to shells.
Or they might have just directed people to go there to get them out of the way, with no regard for how resistant the building was to shells.
Or they might have directed people there and then intentionally bombed it themselves to gain world sympathy. I haven’t seen any evidence so far that Zelensky holds his
peoplepawns in any higher esteem than our ruling class does here. And he’s lied nonstop about the events unfolding (the sacrificial soldiers on the island, the fighter ghost, etc).[waves hands dramatically] ACTing!
Yup, he’s a first class liar and is never held to account for it.
Also, what’s with the overly casual manner of dress? I don’t buy he couldn’t improve his appearance at all.
I don’t particularly blame Z for the constant lying. When you’re facing down a hugely superior military force, it’s important to have a tight propaganda game.
I don’t blame Zelensky either, but it makes me question damn near everything that’s coming out. Especially since it seems like most of the news being reported by the MSM is traced back to the Ukraine government as the source.
That was my first reaction, but apparently there is an actual underground bunker under the theater? The article is a little unclear.
https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1504378026800386051?cxt=HHwWhsC49Yj2z-ApAAAA
Evacuating underway.
Considering the shelter survived the stack, seems they should just clear some debris from the entrance and leave everyone in place. Unless there’s damage to the shelter, which I suppose there may be.
Theaters can have basements. See the movie *The Last Metro* for example.
“Just once I’d like them to be forced to admit responsibility in one of these settlements. Because it might make the people blaming inanimate objects or gun owners in general, think twice about where to point fingers”
Eh, fuck the FBI, but they’re still not responsible for what someone else does.
They got several calls about this kid being dangerous. So did the local cops. And neither so much as investigated him. They’re responsible for their own inaction.
No crime, no reason to investigate – unless you just want them snooping around anytime someone gets a bug up their ass.
The kid had made actionable and specific threats. Those warrant at least a drive by to talk to his parents.
Yeah, unfortunately he had no parents as I recall – no doubt part of his pathology. We’ve already got the example of SWAT-ing, we don’t need pre-crime investigations – it just isn’t how we do it.
Look the people to really hate here are the lawyers who just figured this was an easy paycheck. The parents are just grieving dupes who want someone to blame but would never be willing to throw the switch on the punk that killed their kid.
I should add someone else to hate – the cop who ran away.
If you’re going to accept a job involving righteous violence, cowardice should result in some sort of penalty.
The real people to hate are the cultural gatekeepers who decided that everyone should be completely safe from everything, forever.
So the lawyers, like you said.
Perhaps the most striking finding from the poll is that voters have largely made up their minds. The original split was 68% to 32% in favor of recalling Boudin, and that gap grew only slightly to 71% to 28% when respondents were presented with “reasons to support a recall,” which include crime rates. Conversely, the gap closed only narrowly to 66% to 33% when respondents were given “reasons to oppose a recall,” which include recall organizers’ past support for Republicans such as Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump.
This recall vote is being driven by Nazis, but they don’t even care. What a world, what a world.
LOL that’s the best they can come up with
They did scientifically demonstrate that 5% of those polled were retarded tribalists!
I love that the reasons to support are performance based, and the reasons to oppose are, well, hate-based.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10622637/Demi-Rose-flaunts-perky-posterior-skimpy-one-piece-takes-zip-line-ride.html
In the new world order the correct question should be “Edible”? Shanks need some trimming but we can render that…
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShinyPorn/comments/tfdlar/demi_rose/
probably NSFW
People be fucked right up, Friend.
Taking a page from Biden and The Fed’s “transitory” playbook.
Putin Acknowledges Impact of Sanctions on Russian Economy
Ugh. We are a secondary target because of transportation links. I guess we’ll stand and wave while the primary ones kiss their ass good-bye. It was a pretty good run but if this means the end of Hip-Hop and autotune, I won’t argue with that. I’d rather listen to rhythms on a hollow log.
You’re in Canada. You’re not a target. Nobody cares about the Canadians.
You’d be mightily surprised about that. We have a NORAD base not thirty miles from my front door. We tried to sneak into the restricted area to fish and were met with a platoon of fully-armed soldiers that gave no fucks about “Taking the wrong turn”.
+1 Greenham Common
Festus outs himself as a Sasquatch?
CANADA SMITH?
SORE-Y A-BOOT THIS; CAN YOU PLEASE EXPOSE YOUR BUTTHOLE, EH?
SOREY SMITH?
SASKATCHAWAN SMITH?
Stompin’ Tom sang aboot it, eh – https://youtu.be/QZGN_PEOV4w
“Woke Yale Law students were filmed threatening two guest speakers and staff at a free speech event where a conservative guest successfully defended a Supreme Court decision of a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a gay wedding ceremony.
Police were forced to escort the guest speakers from Yale Law School’s free speech debate after more than 100 students intimidated the conservative panelist by yelling they would ‘literally fight you, b***h’ and caused a riot in the auditorium by blocking the hall’s exits.
The chaos broke out last week at the start of a panel featuring progressive Monica Miller from the American Humanist Association and Kristen Waggoner, a conservative Christian of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) nonprofit.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10622005/Police-called-deal-liberal-protesters-closed-Yale-Law-FREE-SPEECH-debate.html
Law students are opposed to formal argument.
“Shut the fuck up!” they explained.
Roseanne Conner: Let’s see who can yell the loudest. I CAN!! Now shut up.
Yeah, ok.
Typical Yale behavior.
obligatory:
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E19/376792
Remember when people expected teenagers to “know everything already” but did not in fact validate them in their delusions?
Leftist tolerance in action!
As soon as Biden, et al, are done destroying the economy, we can go back to being ruled by the sun dial.
No. Moloch.
About 400 bulletproof vests destined for Ukraine were stolen from a New York City non-profit organization that’s been leading an effort to collect and ship tactical gear to people in the warzone, police said Wednesday.
Some corruption can’t be penetrated.
I’m surprised body armor isn’t illegal to possess in NYC. Unless if this is another case of one law for the connected and another for the peasants, like when the news anchor possessed a 20 or 30 round magazine.
I thought there were several attempts to make possession of them illegal.
We wouldn’t want the plebs having access to something that is strictly defensive.
Don’t light the John signal!
He has been banned. Light away.
Connecticut is (IIRC) the only state that restricts body armor possession by non-cops.
I figured there might be something at a city level in an ultraliberal paradise like NYC. I believe NYC even restricts ownership of pythons and boas larger than 5 feet.
So my 40″ Mojave Rattlesnake is okey-dokey then? Bitchin’!
NYC only allowed garbage disposals and tattooing + the possession of tattoo equipment in the late 1990s.
We should change our clocks 4 times a year.
We should change the clocks about 1 minute a day every day of the year to track changes in sun rise and set.
Agreed but baby steps. Maybe 4 times next year, then 8, 16, 32 and so on.
I think many minute (minoot) changes would be easier to copy with than several changes throughout the year. Really we should just throw out clocks and bring back sundials.
Cope. Not copy…
Sidereal time. That way shift workers get to experience daylight no matter what shift they’re on.
Just once I’d like them to be forced to admit responsibility in one of these settlements.
Taxpayers must take the hit for government incompetence.
Like the guy who slow walked the USA gymnastics investigation – I’d like to see him stripped of his pension.
Or facedown in a ditch.
4 dead after 7.4-magnitude earthquake hits coast off Japan’s Fukushima prefecture
Proof nuclear power is a bad idea.
“They are turning the seafood gay!”
Well what genius came up with a nuclear power plant that requires active cooling or it will melt down?
What could go wrong?
Ah, you miss the complementary flaw in that design – no backup power for the cooling pumps as I recall.
My recollection is that they had diesel generators that were there for backup power. However, nobody planned on them being submerged and/or they ran out fuel. I can’t remember which or both.
They got drownded. Shit hit the fan.
Yeah, who could possibly foresee a tsunami in Japan? The backup should’ve been slightly offsite (and higher ground).
Put them on towers, fer fuck’s sake.
Then they’ll be blown down by wind or hit by lightning.
I think they were down-hill towards the coastline from the plant – so the backup generators were submerge red while the rest of the plant wasn’t.
Even better.
You mean, when a newspaper actually does reporting on a topic and doesn’t just try to whitewash coverage for Joe Biden, it discovers it’s actually true?
Biden has served his purpose. Now he will be deposed. I suspect he’ll be 25th’d after the midterms.
By whom? The Republicans have no reason to do that with their new majorities in both halls of Congress. They’d spend the next two years denying the sexism and racism of their opposition to the chosen* one.
*very literally chosen because she diddn’t even have a single delegate to the Democratic convention to throw to the winner
Especially now that they are wielding their shiny new War boners. It’s not a duopoly as if it ever was. It’s just evil, all the way down. They all hate you and they want you to die.
Or are they deliberately rubbing peoples noses in shit?
Malicious and stupid is a bad combination.
https://twitter.com/nickgillespie/status/1504183014330441746
What?
Finally, a solution to our carbon and energy woes: fleets of thousands of trucks operating in mountainous areas, ferrying water downhill to charge batteries.
I have a better idea – We take greenies and green advocates, compost their bodies and burn the methane produced.
I suggest we chain the greenies to the Wheel of Pain and use that to power our homes.
I mean, if you’re 10, that’s not too bad. Please tell me this was a middle school science project?
^^ this.
Of course, the same mechanism already exists in a much more compact form. It’s called hooking up a generator to a water wheel.
That is far too efficient in comparison.
Ah, but according to their idiotic analysis that will cost twice as much.
No word what the cost of replacing truck parts, road wear and tear, and if course waiting around for three hours for every operator.
“At an electric truck cost of $150,000, that power would cost $600 million. “The same capacity for wind power would cost $1,200 million,” he says.”
I feel like they’re comparing themselves against the highest cost alternative here as well. And still they’re leaving it most the costs in terms of manhours and parts. Also, what happens to this system during low waters? Surely the freebies don’t want the fish to run out of water? So they’ll have to shut down for half the year anyway. It’s so dumb it hurts.
Ever heard of pumped storage generators? They fill a basin at the top of a mountain at night, then turn a generator during peak hours. Kind of wild to me that such a thing is efficient enough to be built. One of my first projects was with Taum Sauk Mountain in Missouri.
Well, you use energy you can’t sell to create high value energy you can use. It makes a lot of sense once you realize the time sensitive nature of energy generation.
I got a nice look at some operations at kinzua dam in Pennsylvania. They had some serious maintenance issues with the pumped storage, not sure if it was or design our poor construction. Usually both.
Load shifting
It’s a perfect complement to nuclear, as those plants like to operate at steady state levels.
The Bath County Pumped Storage Project is a massive thing. I was there when they auctioned off all the equipment used to build it.
I am out of date on current practices, but at one time, France was so dependent on nuclear, that they were load shifting nuke plants. They were able to make it work, despite it generally being a bad idea.
This makes a lot of sense. I absolutely loathe how influential some of the dumbest people are in energy policy.
They’re not looking for solutions. Or, if they think the trucks are a solution, they’re not particularly bright.
Well, this apparently originated out of some Austrian institute, and to be fair, they’ve got a lot of underused mountainage there in Austria.
A retarded version of a hydroelectric dam or a water mill.
Greenies seem to be advocating for Global thermonuclear war as a sort of cleanse. A high colonic to rid the world of these pesky bugs. WTF is wrong with them?
They hate humanity and themselves?
They suffer from some sort of mental disease which prevents them from seeing the beauty of children and the benefits of technology and society.
I wonder if there isn’t a seed of self-loathing of some type that blooms best when we live in prosperity? Kind of like the Calhoun mice experiments, where when given a utopian, the population went into dysfunction and decline? It kinda makes sense from an evolutionary perspective – take away the pressure and you take away what drives us.
Absolutely no question about it. Adversity is necessary in order to thrive.
It could take up to 3 hours to fill the container.
That’s a whopping eight truck runs a day if you operate around the clock! I declare global energy production solved forever.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Perfect. Thanks, Holiness!
Even as a practicing curmudgeon I could enjoy that. Thanks for nothing, PJ, ruined my whole day.
Wholesome AF.
Thanks, Pope-a
Words fail me.
Chris Cuomo Demands at Least $125 Million in Arbitration With CNN
Tucker had a fun bit last night contrasting Fredo’s and Don Lemon’s lovey-dovey routine in 2019 with Fredo shitting all over poor Don today.
Fredo is a racist!
It just highlights how much they constantly lie about everything.
Anybody who believes a word that comes out of the major media outlets is a fool at this point.
Keep your laser handy?
Jussie Smollett was released from jail Wednesday after an appeals court agreed with his lawyers that he should be free pending the appeal of his conviction for lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack.
Some people are more equal than others.
Well, he did post a whopping personal recognition bond. He is an honest man and would never lie. He said he was innocent, what more proof is needed.
America- where the big get bigger while the little guy goes tits up
Walmart said Wednesday it wants to hire more than 50,000 employees by the end of April, as it chases growth in new business categories from online grocery to advertising.
The big-box retailer said the new hires will include personal shoppers, delivery drivers and data scientists, among others.
Walmart, which is already the nation’s largest private employer with about 1.6 million employees, aims to ratchet up its advertising business, expand its third-party marketplace and launch its direct-to-fridge grocery delivery service in additional markets.
Maybe a few of them will be checkout cashiers.
No thanks. I prefer the cashierless checkouts. Unless I’m buying booze, I can get through faster and have better packed bags.
#metoo
Also, no idle chatter.
Actually, I’ll amend my preference. Sam’s Club scan and go. I scan stuff as I pick it off my shelf, pay while Im walking to the exit, and the door attendant scans 3 items to make sure I’m not stealing stuff. Head and shoulders above all alternatives. The only negatives are related to my phone not being a great barcode scanner.
off *the shelf
I chatted with a young man checker outer at Walmart a couple days ago. He was bemoaning the fact he was making only $15 @ hour. I didn’t suggest he find a more lucrative job that would fit his skills. He actually seemed like a bright guy, maybe a little slower on grocery packing but
I guess he had pretty much peaked out. He could go on strike, I guess.
I’m sitting on multiple orders from Amazon that are lost in the ether, and I’m starting to sour on the whole concept of “delivery”.
And delivery is just going to get shittier with inflation and the inability to attract workers.
Fucking USPS has lost a package of mine (not Amazon), and I’m unable to submit a WTF on their website. “An error occurred. Try again later.” Twice now.
Commie rat fuckers.
USPS – another Franklin joke on us?
Growing up in a small town with limited shopping options soured me on the campaign to “shop local”.
The local retailers never gave us rubes much of a break back before Walmart showed up. Now that Walmart is selling the same crap for much less, you try to tug at our heart strings?
Let me say that some of us don’t have such a rosy memory of being forced to pay your inflated prices.
What? Pope Jimbo doesn’t buy local! He doesn’t care about the Mom/Pop tourist shops selling plastic birch bark canoes and wants them to go out of business.
The long-running battle against “falling back” has pitched decidedly in favor of those who enjoy more daylight in the evenings.
It’s about time.
The US clearly has the moral high ground here. Not.
Biden says he believes Putin is a “war criminal”
For decades I have had a thing in my bedroom called a “timer” which will turn the bedroom lights on (and off) at whatever time I choose, so I don’t have to stumble around in the dark (or pretend it’s not time to get up) in the morning.
Maybe some of you should try one.
You old fart. Modern timers go on/off based on zip code,
Back home from the Irish pub. Time to get to work. Round two later in the day.
Federal officials confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the families of most of those killed or wounded in a 2018 Florida high school massacre over the FBI’s failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.
Hmmm… I suspect political motivations here.
How did the Times “authenticate” the laptop? It doesn’t say. Unlike The Post’s reporting, which detailed exactly how we got the files and where they came from, the Times does a hand wave to anonymous sources. No facts have changed since fall 2020. They knew the laptop was real from the start. They just didn’t want to say so.
I’ll continue with my amateur hour Kremlinology. This tells me Biden won’t be the Democrat’s nominee in 2024.
Looking forward to Buttigieg leapfrogging Harris for the nom. Dems are acting like a Millenarian cult this last year but even they can’t be Jonestown enough to put Harris front and center.
Absolutely nothing can surprise me at this juncture. Nothing.
Trump gets the 2024 Democrat nomination?
Wouldn’t surprise me.
That’s what he needs to do. He’ll get enough Repubs re-registering as Dems to make the debates, and the chaos that ensues will be worth it.
That is how you shitlord in Gaelic!
Yup! The time-stamp is proof enough!
No kidding! We need to pin a Order of The Shitlord, 1st Class on DEG.
Whoa… wait a minute.
The timestamp is Central time. I’m in Eastern time. So it was 9 AM my time when I posted that. You still want to pin a Order of The Shitlord, 1st Class on me?
I had planned to get to the pub a little after it opened at 5:30 AM Eastern. Legal alcohol sales start at 6 AM in the Live Free or Die state. Alcohol sales are prohibited in the Live Free or Die state between 1 AM and 6 AM because LIVE FREE OR DIE!!!
Anyways, I was late to the pub. I got there a little after 6 AM Eastern. The place was already pretty busy. There were only two open bar seats when I got there. I took one of them. However, I could start with tall Irish covfefe instead of killing time with water or plan covfefe while waiting for legal alcohol sales to start.
I enjoyed their breakfast buffet, my Irish covfefe, and some Smithwick’s before I left. I do have to work today.
Oh, I think Woke Charmed was on one of the TVs at the pub.
I plan to start round two at Ye Olde Local Brewpub after my last meeting.
Had corned beef, egg and Kerrygold on a green bagel for breakfast.
https://www.facebook.com/220202679335/photos/pb.220202679335.-2207520000../10159522612809336/?type=3&theater
Were the eggs green too?
Did you have them on a boat?
Did you share them with a goat?
I would not share them with a goat.
I could not eat it on a boat.
I did eat in my car
As I was driving, not too far.
How much booze?
None, that diner doesn’t have a liquor license.
“Had corned beef, egg and Kerrygold on a green bagel for breakfast.”
Best I could do this morning was add some Kerrygold to my coffee.
“I enjoyed their breakfast buffet, my Irish covfefe, and some Smithwick’s before I left. I do have to work today…
I plan to start round two at Ye Olde Local Brewpub after my last meeting.”
I’m impressed, and will tip a pint of Guinness in your honor after work tonight.
At the bottom, water from the tank would be released back into the river, and the truck’s battery would be removed to provide electricity to the local grid. Then the truck would return with an empty tank and another battery with just enough juice to get the truck up the hill.
“Why not give them
spoonsbuckets?I especially like their costing speculation that just happens to make the idiotic idea competitive.
It looks like Our Master’s shiny object to distract the rubes for this news cycle is working a treat.
Seriously, when did the clock change get to be such a huge burden on people’s lives?
I know! Those stupid ru…
Hey!
I hate it and I’d be happy if they killed it. Most analysis of it that I have read conclude that it causes more harm than good. For example, there is a legitimate uptick in auto accidents.
I agree, however, that the timing is suspicious.
Anything that increases the chances of the stupid dying sooner is OK in my book. I propose changing the clocks monthly.
And on Tuesdays.
Problem is that is that sleepy stoner is the guy that ran the red light and t-boned your auto.
You both walk away, but now you’ve got to deal with replacing or repairing your auto.
So you are on board with my plan to randomize traffic lights?
Demanding that only one stream of traffic can have a green light at a time is totes Colonial thinking and should be thrown on the trash heap of history.
There’s complaints about mornings being dark for an hour longer forever. That’s what I like second best about this time of year, besides the longer evenings… relaxing twilight drives to work.
Giant kick in the nuts for me. It is just getting light early enough to do some fun stuff before work and all of a sudden it goes back to being dark again?
I’m throwing rocks at you if I see you on one of your relaxing drives.
When I was a Onescore every Fri/Sat night I adjusted my internal times, stayed up late, over consumed some refreshments and Monday morning I was ready to go back to work/school at the prescribed time. Internal clocks are over rated.
More of a nuisance than a burden. Farmers can adjust their own schedules.
Remember to change the batteries in your smoke detectors, electronic gunfights and weaponlights!
Gun *sights*. Duck you, autocorrect.
Hey waitaminute – you live in a state that doesn’t ever change the clock.
Disagree on “correct choice” for which way to go with the time. I really don’t care, but how about we go with what the sun says? If you don’t like when the sun is up, shift your day. This includes schools. With computers, there is no damn reason for strictly “on the hour” time zones anyway. Let each county/parish round to the most accurate minute.
Depends a lot on one’s longitude within the time zone.
Yes, which is why my suggestion yesterday was to split the difference by shifting time zones about 1/2. But I prefer just going to local time.
If you didn’t see my comment yesterday, my suggestion was
Atlantic Standard: The six New England states
Eastern Standard: East of Mississippi
Central Standard: Mississippi to the Continental Divide
Mountain Standard: Rest of lower 48
MT, WY, CO, NM would be the westernmost states in the Central. MN, IA, MO, AR, LA would be easternmost states in the Central. None of the 48 states would be split.
Minneapolis/St. Paul trembles in delight at your plan of using the Mighty Mississippi as your time border.
Not literally the river, Minnesota was entirely west of the dividing line. The fact that you and WI fucked up your border by not making it follow the river is not my problem.
No effing way I want to be shackled to NYC time.
This. China has one time zone. It sucks if you are not in Beijing.
Cities on the western edge of a time zone are, in general, richer and more productive than cities on the eastern edge of a timezone. Advantage to Chicago under my plan.
96 time zones for the win
More than that. Just in the mainland 48 there would be something between 180 and 240 time zones.
Wrong, your time changes based on your GPS location, so every person has their own personal time zone, depending where exactly in earth they’re standing at that moment.
This should also make the lefties happy. Bipoc’s clocks can be shifted an extra 15 minutes in either direction to atone for colonization and the whiteness of time.
I’m stealing this.
I’m not a believer, but I’d find another church if it employed the “Pedaling Pastor”.
Sorry, but I find his belief in the viability of biking for the masses in Minnesoda far more problematic than any of his beliefs in a Christian god.
The guy’s church still isn’t having in person services because of the Rona, which is also another huge strike against this attention monger.
between Christianity and environmental sustainability.
Did someone edit out Judgement Day from Christian canon? It’s all going to end [no spoiler] and your sustainability is where you land in eternity.
With Climate Change, the Lake of Fire levels will be rising and destroying the the homes of the demons who run hell. You think that is going to make them happy and they will go easier on your during your eternal stay there?
That just sounds like more pitchforks for the rest of us. No thankee!
Lake of Fire – Meat Puppets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzYOq8WGUxQ
The admins foreign policy seems confused.
New Iran Deal Lets Russia Cash in on $10 Billion Contract To Build Nuke Sites — Biden admin will waive sanctions so Russia’s top energy firm can build contested Iranian nuke plant, enriching Moscow even as Ukraine sanctions bite
The only confusion might be who’s getting that 10% off the top.
My take is that the outcome of the Ukraine conflict has already been decided and that all of the war rhetoric is exactly that, rhetoric.
It’s still highly irresponsible and just leading the Ukrainians into the slaughter while contributing to a political split in the West that will be exploited for maximum control.
Uh… Yes?
Damn fools should just lay down for their Russian betters!
If they want to fight, that’s their decision to make.
I want my government to stop lying and exploiting them. I also want us to stay out of it other than to provide humanitarian aid to refugees.
God forbid the US government should take steps to avert conflict or seek a resolution before the entirety of Ukraine is demolished.
Didn’t they just launch a missile attack at us last week?
Repost from a previous Lá Fhéile Pádraig, cuz why not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq3MGLFRaTo
PS. Strange language. The throatwarbler mangrove of phonics. ??☘️
If our highest achivement as a society is our acceptance of other people’s gender/pronouns, why can’t we all choose our timezones and compliance with DST?
I demand that EVERYONE now list that information right after their pronouns! If you don’t you are a Trump loving nazi.
Cory Doctrow wrote a novella featuring that: Eastern Standard Tribe
(this was before he started injecting his politics into everything he wrote and became unreadable)
He really is a great writer.
He is a rat-fucking Commie politically, though.
Looking forward to Buttigieg leapfrogging Harris
Ewwwww.
Farmers can adjust their own schedules.
“Cows can’t read clocks. Ask me how I know.”
“Cows can’t read clocks. Ask me how I know.”
Because they don’t laugh at the super tiny font the tattoo artist in TJ had to use in order to ink up your…
Wait.
Oh, you said cLock. Nevermind.
Somewhere in the eastern Caribbean/western Atlantic tryna head off seasickness before it starts. If you look up landlubber in the dictionary, my pic is the illustration.
Anyhoo
https://ibb.co/NsQhQB0
Dramamine or a Scopolamine Transdermal Patch
I’d love to be in the Caribbean right about now.
Taking ginger root pills has helped my wife and kid.
Stick with those if it works. Dramamine takes a while (at least 30 minutes) to work and makes you feel seriously drugged. It is not a pleasant drug.
meclizine / Dramamine II?
Crooked horizon helps with the sympathy. /ducks ?
Niiice.
Keep your eyes on the distant horizon – helps a lot.
Cruise director Julie McCoy has the good stuff. And she likes to party.
“It was a tewwibow storm! Up one wave and down the other! Wocking wocking “
I’m wearing 2 patches. I have ginger chews in my cabin.
Looking at the horizon is good, but that means I definitely can’t read my book. I hope I can acclimate ASAP.
Sleeping last night was a pleasure, though.
I like sleeping on boats. When I was sailing director at a YMCA camp, I used to take my sleeping bag out to one of the sailboats moored in our bay. Best sleep ever and you get to watch shooting stars as you fall to sleep.
Sounds lovely. Is there a VRBO for boats, if the lodger stays docked? Srsly.
Yes.
https://www.vrbo.com/4640057ha?noDates=true&unitId=5396792
Sweet – you can pretend you’re Travis McGee.
Hey-O! Danke.
Bitte.
Yep, I loved when I got the bow cabin on the 25′ Hunter. I put up a cloth funnel and directed the sea breeze directly into it.
I slept in a boat once. Well, under a boat. And the boat was a canoe. And there was a thunderstorm going on. And a bear was looking for my food pack.
*Makes a note for another Allamakee County story*
I slept in a boat several times, with 700 of my newest friends. Always the Atlantic cruise. Try for a top bunk, even if it’s tougher to get in and out of and no bears, Thank You.
Good luck – the close-focus of reading combined with your inner ear being sloshed around is a tough combo.
One of the few times I got really seasick was when we were totally socked in with fog and there wasn’t a horizon for me to focus on.
Jelly.
Common sense spoken like a true Russian asset.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given strict orders from the outset to avoid civilian casualties and extensive property damage, retired US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor told the Grayzone in an extensive interview on Tuesday.
This has slowed the Russians’ advance “to the point where it has given false hope both to the Ukrainians … but seized on by people in the West, to try and convince the world that a defeat is in progress, when in fact the opposite is the case,” Macgregor said.
“The war, for all intents and purposes, has been decided,” the retired colonel said. “The entire operation from day one was focused on the destruction of Ukrainian forces. That’s largely complete.”
The Ukrainian units still active “are completely surrounded, cut off and isolated in various towns and cities,” said Macgregor, including as many as 60,000 on the border with Donetsk, whose supplies are likely running out by now. …
The biggest problem right now is that “in the West, there is no truth. There is wishful thinking and there is this impression of success by the Ukrainians that doesn’t stack up,” the colonel added. “The biggest lie I’ve heard repeated on television is, Russian troops have been told to deliberately murder Ukrainian civilians. That’s absurd, it’s nonsense.”
The DOD knows the deal. With the exception of a few lunatics, the messaging out of the White House and Congress seems to be purely about political narrative.
“The DOD knows the deal.”
That would be a nice change of pace.
O-5 and below know. It’s that filtration from O-6 up that distorts it all.
There was a legitimate complaint that Russian-speaking people in the Ukraine were being abused and murdered. If Russian troops were deliberately murdering civilians, wouldn’t they be murdering many actual Russians?
The western media has this weird assumption that successful military operations have to be really fast like the last time we invaded Iraq. It sure sounds like the Ukrainian has lost all ability to maneuver – in that case, why wouldn’t the Ruskies be slow and deliberate?
You made me read an RT article — now I’m going to be branded a traitor!
Bracken recommended a couple of Macgregor’s podcasts.
I’ll listen when I have time.
Trump should have hired him in the first week.
Bracken or Macgregor?
Or, why not both?
I meant Macgregor, but the case could be made for both.
Seriously. I had a pretty long conversation with Matt Bracken at the SHOT Show, some years back. He’s an extremely sharp dude.
Eh, if the supply issues are true (and they may be) then maybe he’s right. But just encircling a city isn’t the same as defeating the defenders.
Its possible the Russians have learned not to try to take cities with armored columns (see, e.g., Grozny), and are hoping to force a surrender without that.
The guy is just assuming things are going the way the Russians planned them. Yet Putin has fired a bunch of people. Which normally doesn’t happens when things are going according to plan.
I’d be curious to know the source for Putin has given strict orders, etc.
I haven’t read much of the stories and none of them in detail. Is there evidence that Russian forces deliberately targeted the hospital of the theater. I know weapons systems are more sophisticated than they used to be, but I assume “collateral damage” is still possible.
Hearing the militias have purposely dug themselves in near those kinds of civilian targets. Like every other bit of “news”, I assume it might possibly be true.
I can get lost in WhoSampled
https://www.whosampled.com/sample/2530/Beastie-Boys-Looking-Down-the-Barrel-of-a-Gun-Incredible-Bongo-Band-Last-Bongo-in-Belgium/
Last Bongo in Belgium is a terrific song that I would nominate as one of my top 10 guitar solos of all time, just absolutely ripping. You linked that site before and I had a lot of fun going through different tunes on it. This album has been my jam for the past week, I think it may be my fav by these guys. And they close it with one of my favorite Isaac Hayes tunes, and I must say I may even like their version more than the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNKjaR3oeno
Sweet
*cues up album*
Just caught the ‘Hung Up On My Baby’ riff in ‘Behind The Blue Curtain’
Yeah they foreshadow it, just a great flow in that album. I’m obviously a huge instrumental music fan and that one stacks against my favs by Tommy Guerrero who has made some awesome stuff over the last decade or so.
The biggest problem right now is that “in the West, there is no truth. There is wishful thinking and there is this impression of success by the Ukrainians that doesn’t stack up,” the colonel added. “The biggest lie I’ve heard repeated on television is, Russian troops have been told to deliberately murder Ukrainian civilians. That’s absurd, it’s nonsense.”
That should be carved in stone.
I will take this guy’s pronouncements with the same grain of salt I’m taking everyone else’s. I doubt we will know much of the truth any time soon.
More updates from Reopen NH on the NH House session:
These bills passed:
HB 1022, making ivermectin available via a standing order
HB 1044, allowing direct payment medical facilities
HB 1379, repealing the commissioner’s authority to add a vaccine to the school schedule
HB 1439, the no patient left alone act
HB 1455, prohibiting state enforcement of vaccine mandates and data collection
HB 1495, prohibiting the state and its political subdivisions from requiring a private business to have a vaccine mandate
HB 1425, state of emergency reform
And these bad bills were defeated:
HB 1369, a bill to allow performance venues to have vaccine and mask mandates
HB 1409, allowing a minor to receive mental health treatment without parental consent
HB 1481, repealing the medical freedom in immunizations act
Passed bills go to the state Senate.
‘HB 1481, repealing the medical freedom in immunizations act’ on the face sounds good, is it some Patriot act type stuff?
HB 1481’s death is good. It repeals RSA 141-C:1-a which restricts the ability of the state government and subdivisions to require the Covid-19 vaccine. Getting this bill passed last year was a Reopen NH win. Unfortunately, the bill that passed was watered down from the original. The original was much better, but the watered down version isn’t bad.
Tits are reaching maximum velocity on Thot Thursday.
https://archive.ph/BTrf7
Face diapers. Blech.
Last year I finally met Tundra at a tournament in Minnesota. I just got my email from the Alaska coach asking me to play with them again in that tournament in June. I had a great time with that one. Hopefully I’ll meet another Glib or two this time.
I admire your resolve, Kevin. I’m going to keep that tucked away in my hatband in the coming days and months.
I’d be interested in watching a game, Kevin. Let me know when. I’ll buy you a Juicy Lucy!
lucky_nickel @ protonmail dot com
Here’s the official page. Looks like no schedule yet, but there are dates and the location is there. I’ll drop you an email so we are in touch.
https://www.hendricksonfoundation.com/national-hockey-festival/
RE: Netflix, looks like the MBAs have finally taken over completely. The streaming service was making money hand over fist, but now that it faces real competition, they’re gonna crack down on part of what made them popular in the first place. Pinch pennies while dollars fly out the window.
You hate to see it, but at the same time, you love to see it.
“they’re gonna crack down on part of what made them popular in the first place”
Crap security? That may have drawn eyeballs, but not revenue. I don’t blame them.
What matters to auditors and what matters to making a business successful are almost always at odds with each other.
They aren’t selling ads, so eyeballs per se make them no bucks.
They are selling subscriptions, so not allowing free-riders may or may not make them more bucks. Maybe the free riders buy subscriptions, maybe they just go away. And maybe some of their subscribers will drop out if they can’t share their password with their deadbeat friends.
There’s two sides to that. Everyone I know that shares Netflix passwords keeps paying the monthly fee despite watching less and less themselves. So it’s possible the company gets no revenue bump by forcing customers to make a value decision they’ve been ignoring out of convenience.
Quoth Gabe Newell, who almost single-handedly resurrected PC video gaming from the mire of shitty options and piracy, “piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem”.
Piracy is free advertising. When it grows to such an extent that it becomes parasitic, the reason is almost always because you have constrained the legal options so egregiously that the illegal option is far better for the consumer.
Ehh, I don’t know how much the security matters. People want to share streaming accounts and there’s really not a problem with doing so. I think a better approach would be for Netflix to price by the numbers of screens used rather than household. So you can have a plan that will be 1 screen at a time, 4 screens, etc. I thought Netflix actually already did this but are now trying to restrict by household too… basically having their cake and eating it.
The inherent negative feedback loop with a screen limit prevents sharing with too many people. Once the account owner is blocked from watching because their screen limit is reached, they simply reset the password and restrict sharing to a smaller subset.
Not letting people share passwords does seem reasonable though.
You still need to spring for the extra screens so I don’t see the issue.
It’s a reasonable way to manage the slow decline of the company. It boosts investor confidence at the expense of long-term vision.
In other words, prime grade MBA-ism.
I wonder if it’s occurred to them that subscriptions might also be affected by their rampant wokeism infecting just about everything they do.
Perhaps, though that’s happening at every other streaming service, too.
Blah blah blah it’s okay when we do it, bad when you do it
Ivan Frishberg says his job is just smart financial policy. He’s chief sustainability officer at New York-based Amalgamated Bank, which focuses on socially responsible investment. That includes steering investments away from things like fossil fuels that contribute to global warming.
“Banks and asset managers are in many ways modeling capitalism,” he says, “moving money away from things that we know are inherently risky, and to where the market wants it.”
About ten percent of all investments in the world are now in some kind of environmental or socially aligned fund. And big financial firms like BlackRock – under pressure from shareholders – have joined the trend, attracting investors and positive media coverage by touting environmentally responsible strategies.
But last year, when BlackRock CEO Larry Fink wrote a letter advising companies to prepare for a zero carbon world, there were some places where the reaction was not so positive.
Places like Texas.
tl;dr-
NPR weeps at the thought that Texas or other states can push back against ESG disinvestment in fossil fuel industries (or anything else the followers of fashion find distasteful).
Assuming the conclusion, they work backwards from the premise of impending climate doom. Nowhere does he term “fiduciary responsibility” appear.
“Fuck You, pay me!”
The media is factual, but not not truthful.
BlackRock – under pressure from shareholders
Which ones?
The Fed
The tail wags the dog that wags the tail that wags the dog…
CA boycotting states that have gender-specific bathrooms is totes ok tho.
Let them eat public cake.
Pete Buttigieg says one solution to dealing with high gas prices is public transportation.
I expect the public transit agencies in the next month or two to start kvetching about the need for a 50-cents increase in fares because of oil prices. And the inevitable race-baiting that always goes with it.
Cooke is consistently the most readable at NR.
Yes. It’s time for Donald to go away. Play kingmaker, bang silicone enhanced porn stars, whatever… just stay out of the primaries.
^^^
There’s only one reason to oppose Trump again, and it’s the same reason to oppose him as before. Nothing about NeverTrumpers has changed. Their arguments are as weak as ever because they erected an ideological defense mechanism on day one and have stubbornly refused to learn any lessons since then.
He will weaken his opponents without regard to the broader aim, which should be to get a Republican elected in 2024.
And this is why the Republicans are, and will remain, the party that jealously guards the leftward moving border of the Overton window instead of the party that defines the Overton window.
A pretty open admission that this is solely about power, and not about any principles whatsoever. Anyone on Team Red, regardless of their beliefs and plans.
If only. They don’t want power, they want money, access, and most of all, protection. The other side wants us dead but will settle for our submission. Winning with a Romney-esque candidate gives them cultural and increasingly legal cover. It is submitting on day one, a show of the white flag, and a plea for mercy.
How well have the victorious culture warriors been treating their enemies so far?
Actually, I should say, just nominating a Romney-esque candidate does all of this. They don’t have to win the election, and arguably it’s even better if they don’t. But nominating Trump or someone better than Trump shows that the Republicans are willing to break the deal. That they mean to acquire power and use it.
Interesting take. It’s like the repubs are riding on the left’s sociopathic coattails, sustaining on the scraps of the dem’s corruption.
Yes. The Republicans, if they stick to the conventional strategies, are the rearguard of the left. It is the job of the advance guard to move the left side of the Overton window leftward, and it is the job of the GOP establishment to move the right side of the Overton window leftward.
You are exhibiting exactly what bothers me about the common usage of Overton window.
I don’t think its that simple. Politicians aren’t just passive reflections of the culture. They actively work to shape the culture, as well (as do many others). They are an integral part of the ruling class, the Cathedral, whatever you want to call it, that is waging the culture war from the left. I think kbo’s point is that very few seem to be waging the culture war on behalf of normies.
I could quibble about the President not being a lawmaker, but even if I read it as “politician”, you might be right. So what? This is just recapitulating Breitbart’s observation that “politics is downstream of culture” (maybe Lehman got there before Breitbart, I don’t know the timeline). We have a media-run state.
So the best part about Trump then is not his policies, nor his lawmaking power (minimal) per se were he to win election again, but indeed his potency as a cultural symbol. And as EvilSheldon pointed out, Trump achieved nothing lasting in the realm of governmental policy. So he’s not a lawmaker after all. Then the best way to view him holding the Presidency is as an amplification of his cultural influence. Given that Biden doesn’t do anything except sign the executive orders and bills that other people wrote and handed him, this is hardly a change in the functioning of the Presidency-qua-government.
It will take far more than one man to turn this ship around. That much is true. But I still see this as a perfectly valid tactic within the broader strategy.
Until a better opposition party arrives – one that carries more support electorally than Republicans – they ARE the only alternative to Democrats.
That may suck, but it sucks less.
It sucks worse because it gives cover for the enemy. “Oh, what are you gonna do, vote for the other side?” If the other side ran Trump, then hell yes. Of course they never would, nor anyone better than Trump, but it ain’t about party, it’s about objectives.
Moreover, the best thing about Biden is that he demoralizes the enemy because deep down in their hearts they know they chose him. They were fed this shit sandwich and they gladly ate it. A party worth voting for should never foist upon their own voters a similarly demoralizing candidate just because they want to win.
Enemy? You ready to crush some skulls? I’d agree that’s about the only way for some oxygen to make into Democratic brains. But I don’t endorse the method. You want to get down to an electorate that lives by principles – you’re going to be pretty damn lonely.
If you think we’re not at war, culturally and spiritually, then yes I’m sure what I say sounds crazy to you.
I don’t want an electorate that votes according to some abstract set of principles. In fact, I don’t want an electorate at all. But we’re not ready for that yet.
Buy an island.
But I don’t want to engage in human trafficking.
Because Trump failed pathetically at everything he tried as president?
Better to try and fail at achieving what’s worth doing than try and succeed at achieving the enemy’s agenda, which is what the last Republican before him did.
But more than that, Trump is a potent symbol. He didn’t have to be, and had he run a decade earlier wouldn’t have been, but here we are. He has all the right enemies. From the Democrats to the bureaucrats to the teachers to the cultural gatekeepers to the
GroomerLincoln Project, everybody terrible hates him. That doesn’t make him right, but it makes him less wrong than anyone who can’t say the same.And I’d say again, it doesn’t have to be Trump. It just has to be someone at least as good as Trump.
W was carrying out the enemy’s agenda? That’s an interesting perspective. I think you’d have a tough time selling it to either Dems or Repubs.
The Dems don’t like it because W didn’t work fast enough, and the Reps don’t like it because it’s insulting (if accurate). Tell me, having seen the Democrats behavior since W left office, what policy of his, exactly, do you find that they still oppose?
For example,
USA PATRIOT Act, FISA Amendments Act, etc. = Totally great, we need to use it against white supremacists, in fact we should go further
Medicare Part D = Didn’t go far enough, hence the ACA (aka “ObamaCare”), which still doesn’t go far enough
NCLB = Like everything about it except for the testing requirement
Afghanistan and Iraq = “Spreading democracy” is now the only acceptable foreign policy view anyone is allowed to hold in public without being called a Nazi or Putin’s bitch
Ah, so they ADAPTED what he did to their ends.
That’s hardly the same as saying he was enacting their agenda.
I think that’s naive and/or obtuse. I don’t mean any animosity here, but I think you’re missing the point. The Dems are not the prime movers. They are simply the prime movers’ favored winner party. The Reps are not the righteous slayers of demons. They are simply the prime movers’ designated loser party. The fact that GWB’s most notable actions all align with the current cultural zeitgeist is not a coincidence. Maybe GWB didn’t realize he was a stooge, his chummy relationship with the Obamas today notwithstanding, but so what? He’s a midwit extraordinare and his “just like everybody else” schtick was as thin as Barack’s. He’s the idiot son of a very successful political family. He did exactly what he was supposed to do. I don’t hate him, but I am still going to analyze his role for what it was.
Think of it like this: the Democrats are the carrot, and the Republicans are the stick. It is the job of the Democrats to carry forward the positive, bold version of the progressive vision. It is the job of the Republicans to clean up the mess and be the bearers of bad news. Two hands of the same organism. When it is necessary to play bad cop, a Republican is given the task. When it is helpful to play good cop, a Democrat is given the task. There is no single mind calling these shots, but there is a consistent direction.
There are no prime movers, as in a coherent body of people operating to a coordinated strategy. That is your naivete, that this kind of shit isn’t just emergent but driven by malignant forces. Think Adam Smith’s invisible hand – which was purely metaphorical… as though guided by. It’s a perfect statement of the need to humans to find not just a pattern (which may be useful) but to impute to it metaphysical properties.
If you think there aren’t people who can exert more political force than others, then yes I think that’s naive.
Politics is moved by external forces. These forces are not mythical, they are Chthonic (at least, not entirely), they are not beyond our grasping. They are driven by people, some people more than others. These people are the prime movers. They have many acolytes and many assistants, but they act according to their own will. They don’t always agree with each other, but they went to the same schools, were raised in the same neighborhoods, and dine together with some frequency.
they are NOT Chthonic
You flip between political and social a little too freely. The Overton window is cultural, from which you get to political. You seem to see it working in reverse (and I’ll grant there is a feedback, but it isn’t a control mechanism).
There are definitely at least hundreds of them, possibly even thousands, and as time goes on, their number has grown and their individual power has waned. This is a very large oligarchy, and unlike Russian “oligarchs” who answer to Putin, our oligarchs answer to no one but each other. Their influence is subtle rather than brutish, mostly, but it is still there. The masses follow along without much opposition, memory, or deep concern.
You sound like Jane Mayer talking about the Kochs.
You flip between political and social a little too freely.
You can’t separate them cleanly. Why do FBI agents cover up Epstein’s crimes? Bit of the political, bit of the social. Surely he doesn’t want to see his own children treated like that, no?
The Overton window is cultural, from which you get to political. You seem to see it working in reverse
Not at all. The formal government is just the tail end of a system. That system runs the gamut from cultural forces to political forces, and when you drill deeper, the line gets blurrier anyway. The directional arrow generally flows from culture to politics, but that is not an Iron Law of the universe, just a consequence of our governing structure, which is much bigger than just the state.
When I say you flip – you assert a greater political control of the culture than I believe is warranted.
“There’s only one reason to oppose Trump again,”
Really? Only one?
Look, I’m glad he pissed off all the right people, and his administration put some good judges up. But, the man had plenty of opportunity to “drain the swamp” and did nothing. he supported tariffs, supported Saudi Arabia’s atrocities in Yemen. He’s a carnival barker, who has outlived his usefulness.
I guess I shouldn’t care, as there’s almost no chance I’ll vote for a major party candidate for president.
This is also the same C. W. Cooke who tweeted:
Let’s recall the story of K. D. Williamson trying to work for the Atlantic shall we? First, he wants to leave a (ostensibly) conservative publication for (what has become) a batshit insane leftist publication, then his offer gets canceled because his position on abortion is too outré for the latte-sipping audience of that august publication, and then finally instead of calling them all godless degenerates who will burn in hell as any good reactionary would, he continues to slide leftward with them because anything else would be backward.
L is for Loser
You joining LC1789‘s Love-for-Trump club? Trump wasn’t good for Republicans – you don’t have to be a partisan hack to realize that. He didn’t accomplish much of what he said he would – which is reasonable because for one, no one ever does, and for two, a lot of it was incredibly stupid (e.g. his theory of trade). And he didn’t really build Republican success (which is far more attributable to Obama, as Republicans built up a broader base of support across many states). I would dare to posit that a second Trump term may well have been as bad for Republicans as a second Obama term was for Democrats.
You’re absolutely right. Trump was not good for Republicans. Trump was good for Americans. The increasing division between Republicans and Americans makes this clearer as time goes on.
It doesn’t have to be Trump. It just has to be someone who isn’t worse than Trump. There are few Republicans, and as far as I can tell no high-profile Democrats, who would fit that bill. Rand Paul, Ron DeSantis, both maybes. The new governor of VA looks promising but I won’t hold my breath.
The entire establishment has been sliding leftward consistently and without meaningful opposition since TR won the Presidency in 1904 (possibly before). Coolidge’s entire Presidency was undone completely by FDR. The only thing that Reagan did worth a damn was to fire the striking air-traffic controllers, but he never followed up with anything half as aggressive as that. A bold opening move followed by mostly empty words. (And why was he right to fire them? Because they were part of PATCO, which was an AFL-CIO affiliate, and thus an enemy faction). G. W. Bush did everything the liberals wanted, with the occasional “conservative” dressing (“Office of Faith-Based Initiatives” which couldn’t even exclude Muslims despite, you know, the war), and they hated him for it. If you’re going to be hated, why not earn the hate?
The political system is set up to favor the Democrats. The Democrats can’t even take credit for this, as they simply won the equivalent of a coin-toss. Republicans who play like congenial statesmen, when the definition of congenial and statesmen are set by the enemy, are just institutionalized losers.
Trump was good for Americans.
In a very limited sense, yes.
But you aren’t one that has a solution within this system.
Populism is the only mechanism I see which has a chance of leading somewhere better within this system. Trump isn’t the only populist. But the National Review crowd will never go for anyone who is a populist, Trump included. So I don’t care what they think.
There are solutions outside the system but that space is wide open, fraught with even greater peril, and requires a level of concentrated potential political energy not manifestly visible in the populace.
BWAHAHAHA – populism? Are you fucking kidding me?
Not in the slightest. Populism is not the end, it is the means.
Political energy in the population is extremely diffuse. This situation is very favorable for entropy. The enemy is on the side of entropy (as all egalitarians are). Populism is a heat pump; it is a way of concentrating the available political energy. This is the only way inside the system to combat entropy. It may fail, but it is the only mechanism I can see which is not guaranteed to fail.
That means will never get to the end you would have. It is far more likely to deliver you to Caesar.
Caesar was an improvement over the status quo. The Republic was wracked with problems before he came along. It took August to settle things into empire, but it was either empire or desolation (which came much later, when the empire too denegerated).
We’re already on the path. Do we aver the crisis now, or defer resolving it to later? It will come anyway.
A tyrant is an improvement, from the view of an anarchist? Nope, I don’t grok that.
Although, you could be arguing for the Platonic despot, not that I would agree with that.
NPR did a multi-part
yoni massageinterview who was one of the greatest heroes of all time because she a) worked for the State dept, b) was fired by Trump, c) testified against Cheeto Hitler at his impeachment and d) survived being mean-tweeted at by that selfsame Nazi.Being a Foggy Bottoemer she was all in favor of a no-fly zone in Ukraine. When asked how that wouldn’t start WWIII, she said there were really smart people that could figure out a way to implement a NFZ without a single Rooskie plane being shot at, but that was the Pentagon’s responsibility, not hers.
A no fly zone with no shooting.
I’m not even sure what to say to that.
I think it involves suspending stop signs from balloons.
That’s right up there with the Green power engineers!
Sugar hoarding in Russia.
Sugar’s one of those historically interesting things. Mostly because of the degree to which it drove the Atlantic slave trade. Forget North America for a bit – the BIG numbers were the Caribbean and South America, and a LOT of that was sugar-market driven.
They need rationing by the government and/or price controls. Black marketing will not be allowed
No justice, no choo-choo
The Biden administration is taking steps to try to protect U.S. supply chains and keep products flowing to American consumers. Another foreign dispute is poised to underscore just how difficult that task is — and how much is outside U.S. control.
A major Canadian railway worker strike set for Wednesday could cut off a key trade corridor with the U.S. and unleash a fresh wave of price spikes for crude oil and food products already strained by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The potential strike, the result of a labor dispute between 3,000 railway workers and the Canadian Pacific Railway company, is the latest supply chain hurdle facing President Joe Biden’s administration, this time with the country’s largest trading partner. It also puts Biden, a vocal supporter of labor unions, in a tricky spot. Administration officials have been careful not to wade too far into the dispute, wary of appearing to pressure the potential strikers, according to two White House officials.
We should go back to national self-sufficiency, and stop relying on trade with other nations. Maybe the North Koreans have the right idea. Oh, wait- they aren’t self-sufficient, they’re just stupid.
Its a shame we never mastered pipeline technology, and have to transport that oil by train.
And the power’s out…. Woohoo…
Why?
Putin
He had one of his agents slam their Corolla into a telephone pole down the street
What an asshole. Putin gave me Lupus.
Must have been flying down the road to knock a pole over with a Corolla.
The Corolla lost, but the pole suffered a fatal wound.
The Poles are always getting fucked.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack also said the agency was asking producers to provide any information about possible anti-competitive behavior linked to agricultural inputs, including the fertilizer market, which is dominated by just a few large companies.
Cramer said supply chain bottlenecks and other problems have prevented farmers from fully benefiting from the current high commodity prices. He said he hoped suppliers weren’t “taking advantage” of the current situation by price gouging.
“We’d sure hate to see that robbed by any sort of anti-competitive behavior by suppliers, anywhere in the value chain,” Cramer said, adding he hadn’t heard of any specific cases but he appreciated USDA asking producers about it.
Hoarders and wreckers!
Also- the complete lack of info about the source of this “labor dispute” makes me wonder if it isn’t in some way a derivative of the truckers insurrection.
When asked how that wouldn’t start WWIII, she said there were really smart people that could figure out a way to implement a NFZ without a single Rooskie plane being shot at, but that was the Pentagon’s responsibility, not hers.
Somebody should tell that twit the days of USA World Police badge-flashing are done and gone.
Please no fly zone. Please no shoot back zone.
Yeah, we’ve seen what taking your ‘really smart people’ seriously gets us…
Geraghty is pretty good today too.
Progs: DOUBLE-DOWN!!!!
If the House actually passes the end of the time change it will be the best thing that Congress has done anytime in recent memory. I have never really liked the falling back and springing forward thing, but after we had kids I have come to fucking loathe it. I’m firmly in the “pick one damn time and stick with it” camp, although if I got to choose we would split the difference with a half hour.
Boudin was endorsed by the local LP when he ran for DA, and it must be said that he is far closer to standard libertarian preferred policy, especially in relation to drugs and “quality of life” offenses than the vast majority (if not all) DAs in the country. Those have been a disaster here in Ess Eff and California. To be fair his predecessor, Gascon, who is now El Lay’s DA, was almost as much of a disaster.
Would I be too cynical in expecting that he’s in favor of race-aware administration of punishments and selective prosecution of hate crimes?
I don’t think that would be too unfair an assessment, after all he is a proggie. But all the races can join together and take a shit in the street while sucking on a meth pipe and be absolutely certain that they will not be prosecuted in any way for it. He explicitly said so and he has very much followed through on that promise.
I’m under the impression states can determine the time zone they want to use, including whether to shift clocks twice a year. Why is this a federal thing? If its so popular, why haven’t the states already done it?
California voted to stop the time changes a couple years back. Supposedly it then needs to be passed by the legislature and signed by Guv Greaseball. At that point it moves to Congress that has to approve it and then it gets signed in by the President. Evidently because it deals with time that it has to be both a state and a federal decision. I like the idea of the whole country picking one to stick to, especially as it has strong majority support I believe just about everywhere.
This would be so cool, right up to the point when you were devoured.
Huh, I even double-checked that link. https://twitter.com/MorissaSchwartz/status/1504167460156719107
Strong ‘Grizzly Man’ vibe.
right up to the point when you were devoured.
That would be a real catastrophe.
You ain’t lion.
Basically where I’m at.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/tell-me-how-ukraine-ends/
Yes.
And from the comments there the usual audience doesn’t seem appreciative about reading what could really happen.
The spin after this happens is going to be interesting. I imagine it’ll be along the lines of “Well, at least he won’t try that again after all the pain we caused him.” As if Putin and his lackeys missed even one scoop of Baluga.
If we just give them the Mig-29s or (worse) set up a no-fly zone it all be fixed.
And inspire his inner circle to assassinate him. Fool proof plans all around.
The guy is making the mistake assuming things are going as planned by Russia. Running out of fuel is fine because most troops are within 70 miles of Russia. Is he kidding me? That is actually bad.
Everybody thought if Russia invaded Ukraine it would be over in a week or so. A couple of weeks later, it still isn’t over. Assuming fighting continues, will Russia win. Yes, but at the loss of prestige for Russia (and more importantly Putin).
I didn’t assume that. I assumed that geography alone would succeed as far as Russia is concerned. The world will move on and Russia, which had already been one of the most heavily sanctioned countries in the world, and Ukraine will still be sitting right next to Russia. It sucks, but Russia has clearly drawn a red line and is daring the US to one up the escalation. Somebody has got to blink.
“Somebody has got to blink.”
And the biggest problem, from my perspective, is that war hawks in the US (both Rs and Ds) seem to be pushing for policy based on how it’s going to effect their re-election. Putin isn’t a soccer mom, and expecting him to react like a summer mom has the potential to “stupid” us into a war.
I glad you didn’t. But it does annoy me some “experts” seem to think things are going fairly smoothly for Russia when they clearly aren’t. Russia’s military is not performing well. Unlike others, if we ever fought them (and I don’t think Ukraine is worth it plus I don’t want the US to fight them ever), I don’t think it would be easy.
You can think Russia will get what its want without ignoring major issues with their military.
I honestly don’t know what Putin was thinking would be the case. As Raven points out, politics in the US is not in favor of Zelensky. Very supportive right now, but we’ll see how it shakes out in the next six months. We do know Putin will still be in power.
Everybody thought if Russia invaded Ukraine it would be over in a week or so .A couple of weeks later, it still isn’t over. Assuming fighting continues, will Russia win. Yes, but at the loss of prestige for Russia (and more importantly Putin).
The media certainly repeated this propaganda ad nauseum that Russia could Ukraine in a week. It seems like Putin tried a initial strike to see if Ukraine would quickly fold, I haven’t heard any credible opinions that Russia could take Kyiv, let alone all of Ukraine, in a week. The consensus seems to be about one month at the earliest.
Russia is rolling up Ukraine right now. They have certainly made military missteps along the way, but it’s been vastly overhyped.
Pretty damn impressive.
*Wakes up in Mountain Time Zone, checks Glibs.*
Wow, almost 400 comments – Ukraine is really generating debate.
*Skims comments; hmm Daylight Savings*
You never know what is going to get people animated.
One thing that we here have barely nominal control over…
Daylight Savings, pizza styles and toppings thereof, appropriate level of hopping in beer; we have strong opinions about many things.
We could let the phallophile Glibs argue about circumcision.
So in other sports news (not quite from ESPN Ocho), New England Revolution squandered a 3-goal lead in CONCACAF Champions League. Here’s hoping Seattle doesn’t repeat that dubious feat tonight. It should have been three MLS teams in the semi-finals.
I’m watching the only real sport.
https://twitter.com/RapidFire_Pod/status/1504471760703426578
Palate cleanser
You assuming she jumps into bed like she does into sand?
Spikes first?
No kink shaming!
I liked my waterbed.
Thank you. Another.
https://twitter.com/fdelgado101/status/1504129175648567297
Her socks don’t match.
Ive posted this before, but relevant:
https://babylonbee.com/news/motorcycle-that-identifies-as-bicycle-sets-world-cycling-record
Editors, I put an article in for review. (Do we really need to alert you?)
I just read the quite lengthy thread about DST. This may be as hotly debated as deep-dish or pineapple pizza.
Try adjusting your schedule to operate from 2200-0600.
Throw in the hour time change the same week you’re asked to come in an hour early. I wont sleep right for a month.
I’m kind of pissed ay whomeber gote started on this, but:
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And i used all of my Worldle guesses picking all the surrounding countries.
It’s hard to be too ashamed that I don’t know what the shiloutte of Slavbard looks like.
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I said I’d get better!
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Between Globle and Worldle I have gained vast new knowledge of coral atolls in the middle of fucking nowhere.