Winston’s Mom Does the Links

by | Apr 25, 2022 | Daily Links | 301 comments

Unfortunately, I am up early today on account of a phone call from my attorney.

Swiss says hello.

 

I hope Twitter washed their butthole, looks like Elon Musk is about to rip it open.  Update:  Twitter opened up and accepted Elon’s dick offer.

Globalists!  Whatever its France.

Moar Globalists!

Holy shit, a $15 hamburger?

Nothing scrams Muh Democracy!™ like suing candidates you don’t like until they stop running for office.

Oh shit!

…and finally!

Yes its a fucking Greek tragedy nobody has thrown you out of one.

 

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Winston's Mom

Winston's Mom

Biological mother of Winston.

301 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    • UnCivilServant

      I tried to stop two retail establishments only to find one had relocated to an inconvenient spot I wasn’t going to go to during rush hour, and the other outright vanished.

      • Tres Cool

        Stop them from what ?

      • UnCivilServant

        I tried to stop at two…

      • SDF-7

        So did Winston’s Mom…

      • Tonio

        But, fortunately, Winston’s mom uses Jesse brand lube, so that train of frat boys was no problem…

  2. Rebel Scum

    Links with the kinks.

    • Winston's Mom

      Let’s not get carried away, dear.

  3. Shpip

    Coury is the third judge to rule on complaints lodged by Free Speech for the People, a nonprofit that says its aim is to “fight for free and fair elections, for reliable and secure voting systems, and for the bedrock principle that, in a democracy, all voters must have their votes properly counted.” More recently, the group launched a campaign against officials linked to Jan. 6, seeking to bar them from holding office.

    That’s a rather Orwellian choice of name for that group.

    • UnCivilServant

      “The People” is defined as “those proles who have accepted the Party as their Lord and Saviour” and the key test being that they uncritically repeat the Party’s talking points.

    • Tonio

      As long as it’s the right ballots being counted, and nobody asks questions.

  4. Shpip

    There was a massive explosion this morning at an oil depot inside Russia in Bryansk. The oil refinery-storage facility is reportedly 70 kilometers inside of the Russian border.

    Shades of the opening pages of Red Storm Rising.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Yeah…but Russia has no resources left for anything close to what they pulled off there.

    • Rat on a train

      Send in the Devil’s Cross!

  5. Rebel Scum

    “Congress has not created a civil private right of action to allow a citizen to enforce the Disqualification Clause by having a person declared to be ‘not qualified’ to hold public office,” the judge ruled.

    So the judge in the MTG case will dismiss the case as well, right?

    • Tonio

      The article seems to say that the Arizona case was heard by a state court judge — “Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury ruled.” No Superior Courts at the federal level.

      MTG’s case is before a federal court, and the Judge is Nina Totenberg’s sister.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Only if the AZ case was decided by a judge in Hawaii.

  6. Tonio

    I just hope Elon restores The Bee first.

    • Hyperion

      I think he’s a fan, so I think that will happen quickly.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The Bee being screwed played no small part on getting this kicked off in the first place.

      • The Other Kevin

        I think so too. He gave them a long interview and I think he enjoyed it.

      • Tonio

        Why I mentioned it. Also, they are clearly and openly a parody site.

      • Hyperion

        The left has no sense of humor.

  7. Hyperion

    Winston’s mum kills the dead thread.

  8. Hyperion

    “Holy shit, a $15 hamburger?”

    That’s been a thing at some places around here for quite a while, years. But you can get cheese on it, so…

    • juris imprudent

      That is the worst AIER article I’ve ever read. The whole externalities cost of a burger as defined by a dipshit activist (and not an economist).

      • Hyperion

        With the price of ground beef now, I’m not sure you can make one yourself for $15. Well, that’s an exaggeration, but you cannot pay someone to cook it in a restaurant and pay someone to serve it and make a profit for much less than that.

      • robc

        McDonald’s does.

      • SDF-7

        For some definition of “hamburger”, I suppose.

      • Hyperion

        That’s not beef.

      • Hyperion

        I don’t even read stuff like that anymore, they’re just too stupid.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        At least they included regulatory costs:

        Regulatory compliance with federal standards on feedlot construction costs large, national corporations with an army of technicians and lawyers less per pound than a small cattle rancher trying to sell locally. Since 1987, such regulations have contributed to a 44 percent reduction in the number of farms between 200 to 999 acres, and a doubling of farms with more than 2,000 acres. From 1980 to 2010, the number of beef cattle operations dropped 42 percent, swine livestock operations dropped 91 percent, and dairy operations dropped 81 percent, illustrating a stark consolidation in these markets.

        Government subsidies and regulations have created a vicious cycle. Agricultural subsidies flow to meat producers and the inputs of meat production. Powerful meat producers use their profits to support lobbying organizations that develop regulations to protect them from the competition. These regulations lead to increased profits, which allow big meat manufacturers to hire more lobbyists, and so on.

        Joel Salatin at Polyface Farms gave an interview where he talked about trying to get an FDA license to sell his pastured chicken. Instead of building and maintaining an expensive slaughterhouse, Joel butchered outside and then sold the chicken at his farm shop. The FDA initially would not grant a license because the regulations required an indoor slaughterhouse with all that entailed to keep clean. I don’t require the exact sequence of events, but the FDA caved and granted the license after taking cultures and finding the Polyface Farm outdoor butcher area had less contamination by several orders of magnitude than a typical FDA licensed slaughterhouse.

        Some of my neighbors use grey-market slaughterers. All parties present and no retail resell of meat. I mean this how everyone in the country grew up 50 years ago, but it’s getting rare.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I watched Food, Inc. yesterday for the first time in a decade. Setting aside the “there should be a law” tripe, it was hammering on this exact same issue. What happens when you massively subsidize certain agriculture? You get an abundance of those crops/products.

        Joel Salatin should be a household name in libertarian circles. While we’re all sitting around bitching about subsidies and lobbyists and the like, he said “fuck it” and built a thriving farm business despite FedGov and the various state agencies trying to shut him down on the regular.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        He was a big source of inspiration to us in starting the farm 9 years ago and striving for (if not quite obtaining) the permaculture approach. I’ve got several of his books sitting on the shelf.

        A way to farm humanely, without relying on Big Ag, and without government intrusion or welfare. You’re right that he should be a household name in libertarian circles.

      • dontreadonme

        Totally agree. He paved the way for farming practices I emulate as much as possible. And his libertarian principles are to be admired.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’d be interested in y’all’s takes on getting started in permaculture. I’ve been reading and listening to a lot of permaculturists (Justin Rhodes, Jack Spirko, Joel Salatin, etc.), but the prospect of moving onto a few acres and trying to make the permaculture homesteading thing work still feels quite daunting. With traditional ag, it at least feels like you have a safety net in that you can spray something to tackle the immediate problem. Permaculture seems to be the no-guardrails version.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. This is a whole article, but the Permaculture movement started as something grassroots and then became packaged, sanitized, and marketed. Some of the promoters began feeling greasy to me. I don’t think Joel ever referred to it as permaculture in his earlier interviews, but rather as just doing what felt right and made sense. It just later turned out to be what we know now as permaculture. Stick to that approach. My favorite guests on the Survival Podcast were small homesteaders who never mentioned permaculture but were practicing it in hindsight.

        So don’t let it be daunting. Do what seems fun and exciting to you. Start small and then expand. I had to use 10-10-10 fertilizer pellets in the garden this year and did plastic sheeting instead of cardboard to keep out weeds. Not exactly permaculture. My pastures are full of natural fertilizer (manure) but I’m not getting good grass. In my stubbornness to keep to a natural permaculture state, I overlook the ph. All the fertilizer in the world won’t do anything unless I bring a truck to lime the pastures this Fall. Then maybe I can pull a Salatin and raise my fence posts because I actually contributed to topsoil growth instead of taking it away (personal goal of mine).

        But I also composted down a 900lb cow and 600 lb donkey in a few months rather than burying or burning. So permaculture check there. I’m having bad erosion in places so ordered hundreds of natural bushes from the VA dept of forestry and planted them in a weekend for natural erosion control around my swales. Double check there. My free range chickens kept getting eaten by hawks, so I switched to free range geese, turkeys, and ducks. Don’t worry about things not going to plan because they won’t. Just have fun, try different things, don’t be afraid to do non-permaculture things when needed, and just keep pushing boundaries.

      • Rat on a train

        You receive subsidies because something you consume consumes something that receives subsidies. It takes a rocket surgeon to clarify that for you.

      • rhywun

        My eyes were glazing over from all the Science! but it was going to be my suspicion that something isn’t on the level there.

  9. Rebel Scum

    It’s a meme country anyway.

    U.S. and Ukrainian officials on Sunday discussed the possibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin expanding his invasion from the Donbas region of southeastern Ukraine into the neighboring nation of Moldova — another former Soviet state and non-NATO member in Eastern Europe.

    “I think where they go from here remains to be seen,” deputy national security adviser Jon Finer told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview, referring to Russian forces. “But they are a long way from cities like Odesa” — the Black Sea port city in southern Ukraine — “and certainly from Moldova.”

    Russian forces “have a lot of fighting still to do,” Finer added, “and we think the Ukrainians are going to be very effective in fending them off.”

    Pressed on how the Biden administration’s wartime strategy would change if Russia began making moves toward Moldova, Finer responded that the United States has “shown an ability to be nimble” and “to adjust our assistance and our approach as the Russian war aims have evolved.”

    Putinhitler will never stop.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Uh-oh, that’d mean no more cheap Exclusiv vodca (sic). Not the best but beats the hell out of Smirnoff for less money.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      That would probably be doing Moldova a favor.

      • Chafed

        It’s crazy to think people mean what they say.

    • B.P.

      The rollover patsy is supposed to be on the schedule BEFORE conference play begins.

  10. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “opened up and accepted Elon’s dick”
    Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! indeed…
    Enjoy it while you can folks, the glorious meltdown is likely to be the best part.

    • Tonio

      If you read the comment on the tweet to which Rebel Scum linked below, the reeeing has already started. But it’s not a party and those people aren’t obligated to say goodbye. Exit quietly, and don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Normally, I don’t like when people take this attitude and gloat. However seeing as Twitter and it’s blue check partisans have become the poster children for encouraging censorship, punishing wrong think and smug certitude of the left’s obviously dangerous policy positions. They chose to conduct themselves this way when they thought they were untouchable. While I don’t think giving them a taste of their own medicine is necessarily the best strategy for trying to turn down the heat on our current discourse, I can certainly understand why people people are enjoying the reeeeeeaping.

      • R C Dean

        I have zero problem with people being treated as they have treated others. They will never turn down the heat unless they get burned.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Government subsidies and regulations have created a vicious cycle. Agricultural subsidies flow to meat producers and the inputs of meat production. Powerful meat producers use their profits to support lobbying organizations that develop regulations to protect them from the competition. These regulations lead to increased profits, which allow big meat manufacturers to hire more lobbyists, and so on.

    No shit, Shirley. Focus on that and leave “Muh rainforest!” and that carbon footprints stuff to the EDF and the Sierra Socialists.

  12. The Other Kevin

    “I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.”

    This is promising.

    • Ownbestenemy

      making the algorithms open source

      • Ownbestenemy

        Hit too soon. This is probably the biggest thing that most will fight against. You can’t hide behind ‘its the algorithm!’ if it becomes open source. It also gives the potential to unluck true alternatives that fork off that open sourced algorithm.

      • The Other Kevin

        He is right, that’s the only way to get people to trust in it. Plus the added bonus of opening people’s eyes to what’s been going on behind the scenes.

    • db

      and authenticating all humans.

      I’m out.

    • Mustang

      As if to prove his point, about a quarter of the responses are copypasta from both sides of the discussion.

    • Count Potato

      “i speak for everyone when I say we dont want you to buy twitter. my 8 year old trans daughter and I are scared of all the misinformation that will come from here. plus you havent paid your taxes”

      That has to be a joke, right?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Im guessing razor thin parody…

      • juris imprudent

        Right in the Poe’s law sweetspot.

      • Ownbestenemy

        This one is a little more subtle

        Liam Staub ??????????
        @StaubLiam
        ·
        10m
        I’m shaking right now , my 2 weeks old son just said his first words. He said “Dad is it true Elon Musk is buying twitter and going to end democracy as we know it?” I said “yes son.” I could not lie to him.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Enjoy it while you can folks, the glorious meltdown is likely to be the best part.

    Maybe the dispossessed twatterites can seek refuge in the New York Times Opinion Page comments.

    • Ownbestenemy

      They should have taken the advice and learned to code.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Didn’t help anyone employed by CNN+.

  14. Hyperion

    The Twitter buy also boosted the price of Dogecoin about 15% this morning. Now that it’s up to an obscene $0.15, I only need a few billion more to retire. *hits refresh again on crypto miner balance display*

  15. Hyperion

    @willchamberlain
    ·
    16h
    Every liberal who says that they will leave Twitter if Elon Musk buys it will be back on the platform within a week”

    Damnit. I was hoping they would all move to Canada instead.

    • Nephilium

      They all go to Canada all the time already, to meet up with their SO. Don’t worry, you wouldn’t know xem.

      • Hyperion

        They’re still getting the important part wrong. Anyone can go to Canada, to really prove your point you have to ‘stay’ in Canada, preferably forever.

      • grrizzly

        I cannot go to Canada.

      • Hyperion

        What did you do? Too many scary guns?

      • grrizzly

        Stayed pureblood.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Same here.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have refused to be experimented on.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I cannot leave Canada.

      • slumbrew

        smash-cut to a Beam dressed as Grrizzly and Grrizzly dressed as Beam – this summer’s smash new comedy!

      • Tonio

        We need to establish a system for smuggling liberty loving Canadians to where it’s warmer and slightly less NatSoc. We could call it…

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Pulling the train on the underground railroad?

      • Winston's Mom

        I cannot leave Canada.

        Pussy

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Well, I suppose I could hijack a plane or train or boat or interprovincial/international bus, but that would complicate the remainder of my natural life.

      • grrizzly

        Is it technically possible to leave Canada by taking a private jet?

      • SDF-7

        I suspect it is *technically* possible to leave Canada via a trebuchet… though you may not like the landing and all….

      • Winston's Mom

        I own and operate an illegal brothel in New Jersey. Complicated is putting it politely.

      • Nephilium

        Just paddle across Lake Erie, I would wait until summer though.

    • Winston's Mom

      You know they have Twitter in fucking Canada, right?

    • TARDis

      Too close. Try The Ukraine or Venezuela, MFers. Just go far away.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    I’m still not joining twatter.

  17. Sean

    Does this mean I need a Twitter account now?

    *very confused*

    • Urthona

      I know four people who just started downloading it.

      I wonder if the new users will displace the disgruntled and fake ones.

      • Sean

        Huh. Interesting.

      • Ted S.

        Download? It’s just a web site. 😉

      • Swiss Servator

        The app is not a website.

      • Sean

        Wait, is it a series of tubes?

      • rhywun

        Phone people. *shakes head*

      • MikeS

        ☝???

      • Hyperion

        Shhhhh!!!!, I’m downloading the entire thing. Elon has to pay me $46 billion to get it back…

      • Ted S.

        I use the website on my smartphone.

      • B.P.

        That’s been my question during this whole thing: Apres Musk, won’t twitter be labeled a toxic, Nazi hangout and all of the right-thinking people will just migrate to some other platform, which platform will become the new place where everyone issues and receives their marching orders?

      • Hyperion

        Of course that will happen. But Elon might have plans to counter the effects of that, and I think this will emboden other people to stand up to the left and TMITE.

      • Tonio

        Certain people will try to label it that way, but many people will stay on because it’s effectively the only game in town. Where else they gonna go? Gab, Gettr, etc already have a reputation as hangouts for Nazis who were booted from Twitter.

      • Ownbestenemy

        TruthSocial garble goodly LIBTURD!~

      • Urthona

        Also on Twitter you can curate your own feed. Who you follow. Who follows you.

        Why would anyone leave if you’re outright banning fewer people?

        No they’re just mad they don’t get to punish conservatives.

      • Tonio

        Oh, open lists of who people have banned would be awesome.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        There isn’t anything that does quite what Twitter does. It’s the de facto speech zone for essentially the entirety of the media, politicians, celebrities worldwide, etc. They can’t just migrate somewhere overnight.

        If they want to replicate what they had with Twitter, they’ll need to….

        Build their own.

      • MikeS

        I’m sure that will depend on what Elon means by “authenticate all humans”.

      • Hyperion

        I think he meant allow everyone human to participate, which doesn’t include the bots. Some of the lefty accounts have tons of bot followers.

      • MikeS

        He said he’d get rid of all the bots and authenticate humans. How he plans to authenticate the humans could raise issues if he wants to see ID’s or some other “proof of life” type info.

      • slumbrew

        Submit a pinkie, yakuza-style?

      • Hyperion

        That’s not what he means, by authenticate he means allow access to log into the site. Now if you hear Klaus Schwab or Fauci use the same term, it would probably mean what you just said.

      • MikeS

        by authenticate he means allow access to log into the site

        No shit.

      • Hyperion

        Well, you were the one questioning that.

      • MikeS

        I didn’t question why, I questioned how. How are they going to prove you are a human, and therefor get access to the sight? As simple as a Recaptcha, or go further and tie your account to something unique like a phone number or address, or…?

      • Urthona

        Daily Turing tests

      • R.J.

        Yes, very happy to hear this. Bots are a scourge that make people sound like they have outsized voices. Once the bots are removed, you’ll see a lot of the most obnoxious lefties are nothing but wet paper bags.

      • SDF-7

        I would assume it has to do with the VERIFIED blue checks, which from what I hear (not on Twitter, mind you…) have been only given to those of the correct Hive Mind. Just why anyone would really pay attention to who is “verified” and who isn’t if this is known I couldn’t tell you — but it seems to matter to some folks.

      • Urthona

        Dave Harsanyi is verified and I frequently agree with him.

      • invisible finger

        $10/year for access is a start along with monthly password changes.

      • MikeS

        Even $1/year and limit the number of Twitter accounts per payment account.

    • Hyperion

      I’m waiting a bit to make sure nothing goes wrong at the last minute. I want to arrive just in time for the real pants shitting to be underway. Gnashings of teeth, rending of garments, pouring ashes on heads, lamentations of wiminz, enemies driven before us, music to my ears…

      • SDF-7

        The thought does come to mind: “Could the SEC make up some stupid excuse to cancel this?” I don’t put anything past the FYTW clause of the current crop of bureaucrats, after all.

      • Hyperion

        I’m sure they will try.

    • Tonio

      Apparently, people like you and me will now be allowed to make others feel unsafe by pointing out the idiocy and mendacity of their posts.

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, safe spaces are going to be in short supply. The left and TMITE will now have to make their new mark by providing online safe spaces.

      • SDF-7

        Libertarian Cocktail Party moment at TOS!

      • Hyperion

        They’re probably busy right now penning articles that align with whatever TMITE is saying.

      • juris imprudent

        Taylor Lorenz shits her pants.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    i wonder if Krugabe has his own place in the Hamptons, or if he just mooches off his “friends” who do.

  19. Rebel Scum

    Not the Bee.

    The Evergreen State legislature recently passed a bill banning the word “marijuana” from official state law and documents over concerns that it is “racist.” At the same time, to help increase diversity in the cannabis business, a taxpayer-funded task force has been spending the last two years focusing on helping minorities in Washington state break into the marijuana business.

    “The term ‘marijuana’ itself is pejorative and racist,” Washington state Representative Melanie Morgan (D) said during testimony regarding the piece of legislation officially known as House Bill 1210, which she also sponsored.

    “As recreational marijuana use became more popular, it was negatively associated with Mexican immigrants,” Morgan added. “Even though it seems simple because it’s just one word, the reality is we’re healing the wrongs that were committed against Black and Brown people around cannabis.”

    • R C Dean

      I love the way she goes straight from saying the word is racist, to using it in the the very next sentence.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Can we still call it the demon weed?

      • Rebel Scum

        The Devil’s lettuce?

      • MikeS

        I thought that was cilantro.

      • Mojeaux

        Soapweed.

      • Hyperion

        I think that is soap weed.

      • Hyperion

        The devil is soap? Well, the hipsters would agree.

    • Ted S.

      Call it “marihuana” instead.

    • Count Potato

      Because Spanish words are racist against Mexicans?

  20. grrizzly

    I stopped doing it everyday.
    3️⃣8️⃣
    6️⃣5️⃣

    • kinnath

      you get old; it happens

      • Tonio

        [golf clap]

  21. rhywun

    Globalists!  Whatever its France.

    And unlike ours, he openly brags about it. France is so beat down Macron literally promises to fight for the global agenda over anything to do with France and still wins. OK maybe the other chick is kryptonite but still.

  22. DEG

    Moar Globalists!

    Is the infowards link busted? Or infowars busted? That link goes to a story on infowars about Musk buying twitter.

    • DEG

      Oh. I just needed to scroll down more.

      There’s probably a euphemism in there.

      • DEG

        And the live video on the Italy story is about flouride in water….

        I’m tapping out of infowars for a while.

    • UnCivilServant

      Didn’t infowars declare bankruptsy?

  23. The Late P Brooks

    A more hands-off approach to content moderation has many people concerned the platform will become more of a haven for disinformation and hate speech, something it has worked hard on in recent years to mitigate.

    To be sure, free speech is all well and good, but…

    • Rebel Scum

      To be sure, free speech is all well and good, but…

      …freedom of speech is a threat to our Democracy.

    • slumbrew

      Sorry, I’m the wrong sort of tech nerd.

    • Ownbestenemy

      It is taking your cellphone internet service and just rebroadcasting it. I am guessing tethering to your phone won’t give you the connectivity you are looking for? That device will be only as good as the cell service coverage you are in.

      • Nephilium

        ^this^

        It appears to be a cell service hot spot. You would still need a data plan, and it’ll only be as good as the cell service.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I have no idea. Usually my mobile tethering is fine. I was just looking around for something that may “boost” or concentrate the signal since I’ll need reliable internet for work. If the thing doesn’t do anything, then it doesn’t do anything, and I’ll look for other tools/options.

      • Count Potato

        I’m surprised there aren’t more cellular devices that have antenna connectors.

      • R.J.

        I always wondered as well. An antenna on the roof would go a long way to improving the signal.

      • Dr Mossy Lawn

        It used to be a standard option on all hotspot devices when only one antenna was required. Modern LTE and 5G systems need/want 2-4 antennas for MIMO capabilities. therefore only the enterprise devices have those connections these days. the Cat4 modem in my B20X uses 2 antennas, and yes, if you disconnect one, the speed gets cut in half. I updated to a 5G modem module, and have to run 2 more antenna cables for the best throughput, but even with 2 it has more capability than the original Cat4 modem.

        The same has happened with Wi-FI.. External antennas are scarcer these days because of MIMO.

    • Dr Mossy Lawn

      KK I put this link in sometime last week.. The wineguard is consumer grade. You want real networking equipment. I use Peplink, with my Starlink. They are rock solid.
      https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/gear/pepwave-routers/

      I would look for a Duo if you are going to want internet on the move..

      I use AT&T consumer postpaid phone plans, unlimited Elite traffic. Verizon plans for data only if you know your data limits.

      5gstore.com for my source.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I can’t get Starlink til at least next year, but I’ll check into these options! I have Verizon, but they don’t have unlimited data, so I’m not opposed to switching carriers.

      • Ownbestenemy

        *Checks OBE’s Verizon data plan* They have unlimited unless we were grandfathered in or something.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        When I switched to Verizon a few years ago, they didn’t offer an unlimited plan. Not sure when that was

      • MikeS

        They have unlimited, but they do play games with hotspot data usage depending on the plan.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Just looked at my account, and I do have unlimited. Go figure.

      • Dr Mossy Lawn

        on VZW the unlimited is usually only the “phone” data.. not tethered data.. and they deprioritizie you after X amount.. to a ridiculously slow number… technically unlimited 100kb traffic.
        On AT&T they reduce priority.. but in the countryside the towers are never swamped, so you still get plenty of traffic.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Just checked the Verizon web site, and they have a plan with 50GB of tethering/month at high speed, then lower speeds after 50GB.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Currently I only have 15GB of hotspot data

      • Dr Mossy Lawn

        These devices actually look like “phones” to the network data.. so it doesn’t use a hotspot pool. I would normally pay for another “phone” line and use that sim.. second lines are at a discount.

        Otherwise 100Gb of pure data on VZW is $60. I run about 300GB of data including plenty of 4K UHD streaming.

      • R.J.

        I’ll be interested to see what works for you. I was going to hit up T Mobile for a 5G hotspot as soon as next year. I intend to start traveling about as well. StarLink is great but designed for fixed locations. Seems like a hot spot with cell connection and a good antenna might be better for traveling. You can get a dedicated hot spot that is designed for constant use rather than using your phone. Your phone will start to suffer heat deterioration if you tether a bunch. Ramble ramble….

      • Dr Mossy Lawn

        I would recommend the B20X except it doesn’t have the WIFI-as WAN tethering. I use those at home. We use the WIfi as wan when near Xfinity hotspots, and at other fixed locations that don’t have wired internet.

        I personally have the max BR1 pro 5g set up as our remote office and for the RV. It is a bit of overkill, but I have to test the products out.

        I know there isn’t an official mobile starlink. but it does work, and roaming is now enabled for all users.

        https://www.tuckstruck.net/truck-and-kit/geekery/starlink-for-overlanders/

        Even with Starlink you are going to want a cellular backup and the Peplink network bonding allows you to send key traffic like VPN, Zoom etc. via both network links for redundancy. But, I used that single radio 5G peplink last summer for a week of “remote office” in my friend’s class C. Its connectivity is better than than the campground wifi, and we just streamed video, and did all internet via my AT&T sim. You had backup networking at the office… this is your new office, you need backups.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        So, ‘splain to me like a 4 year old. What do those Peplink routers do? How do they work with either a) campground Wifi or b) cell data? Just trying to get an idea of how they all connect to each other? If I have a solid cell signal, how does the Peplink work with that? How does it enhance connectivity /reliability beyond my just connecting directly to my phone hotspot?

        I clearly have no clue about networking annat.

      • Dr Mossy Lawn

        The peplink routers are multiple network, cellular, wifi, wired. devices.. They will allow you to use any and all of the interfaces via rules to tune the best experience. They also include SDWAN technology that allows you to use all of the available networks together to either boost speed, redundancy, or resiliency.

        They work with the campground by accessing their wifi-network. and then providing all of the devices on your network access.
        They will work with cell data, they have SMA connectors so you can connect them to antennas on your vehicle to get better signal outside the metal cage. You can pop your cell sim into the peplink, you can have it configured with its own sim for data. You *can* wi-fi tether to your phone.
        They will work with starlink when you get it.
        They provide you your own wifi-network for your devices.

        You don’t have to reconfigure your laptop, phone, TV, etc every time you are at a new campground. Some campgrounds only give you 1 device.. the peplink would be that one “device”

        You can tell the system, use WIfi first.. but if that isn’t there, fall back to cellular. Or you can pick the “fastest” connection at the moment.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Thank you!

      • Dr Mossy Lawn

        The DUO devices will connect to 2 cellular carriers at the same time.. and use the best one, or both. This is best for networking on the move.

        The single radio devices support 2 SIMS.. but only 1 at a time.. so if there is no AT&T signal, it will switch to VZW.. but that takes 15-30 seconds for each switch.. That is best for fixed camping, and you try each network and stay with the best one in that location.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        With using the Sim cards, I’m starting to see why a 2nd device on my mobile plan may be a good bet

      • Count Potato

        They work with both, and you can add antennas to both.

    • Mojeaux

      FWIW, the people of #vanlife use their cell phone hotspot with a wireless booster on top of their vans.

    • Madhatter

      We have a 40 ft rv. We belong to FMCA. FMCA has discounts on wifi, insurance, tires etc. Worth checking into it.

  24. Mustang

    Elon buying Twitter has been great for my supply of leftist tears. Not quite as good as Trump’s election, but pretty darn good.

    • Tonio

      My supply was running low. Fill your empty casks.

  25. Rebel Scum

    Beto the faux latino got the faux illness.

    In addition to being fully vaccinated and boosted, I regularly test for COVID-19 while traveling the state for town hall meetings.

    I tested negative yesterday morning before testing positive today.

    I have mild symptoms and will be following public health guidelines.

    • Ownbestenemy

      You would be shocked at the guidelines FedGov employees have to follow…

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      He forgot to give thanks to the vaccine and booster for protecting him from serious symptoms.

    • rhywun

      Every politician’s public announcement of their fealty to the testing and jabbing regime is the sort of thing I will miss when Twitter goes Nazi.

  26. Rebel Scum

    Making all the correct moves to deescalate the situation.

    Two newspapers – one Swedish, the other Finnish – have reported the governments of Sweden and Finland have agreed to submit NATO applications at the same time and that it will happen in the middle of next month.

    Finnish newspaper Iltalehti said that the Swedish government has expressed a wish to Finland that they apply together in the week starting May 22 and Swedish government sources confirmed the information to Sweden’s Expressen tabloid.

    • Tonio

      First comes the NATO application, then the PTT union…

    • Ted S.

      Finland and Sweden have no legitimate interest in not wanting to be subjugated by Russia and only have the governments they have because of US-sponsored coups.

      • grrizzly

        Nobody says that Finns and Russians are one people. Not even me, who is a quarter Finn.
        And yes, joining NATO by Sweden and Finland cannot be interpreted as anything but escalation.

      • Drake

        Everyone needs the sit down somewhere neutral and discuss things.
        Maybe Helsinki?

      • R C Dean

        And yes, joining NATO by Sweden and Finland cannot be interpreted as anything but escalation.

        We’re in a tit for tat cycle with the Russians. Like most such, its hard-to-impossible to say exactly who started it. As far as the Swedes and Finns are concerned, though, Russia looks like its back in the invade-the-neighbors business, so why wouldn’t they want to join NATO?

        Should NATO let them join? Well, Russia looks like its back in the invade-the-neighbors business, so . . . . I can see opportunities here for diplomatic pressure; make it part of a peace deal – if we get a good enough peace deal fast enough, no need to admit them. If we don’t, well . . . .

      • Drake

        I do not see anyone from the U.S. or western Europe even proposing serious peace talks.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Ukraine and Russia tried the “serious” peace talks – didn’t get too far, other than the poisoning negotiators element.

        When everything on the Russian side comes down to Putin’s personal demands – I’m not sure how you can rationally progress in “formal” talks.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It also doesn’t help when the US funded and armed extremists in Ukraine start offing their own negotiators.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        We might have had them if it weren’t for the US State Department. Europe (specifically France and Germany) isn’t wholly on board with this clusterfuck, but is being pressured to stay in line. And to be frank, I think the US intends for this war to cripple Europe so that they remain wholly under US influence.

      • db

        I read something to the effect that some Western European nations (France, Germany, and Spain among others) were stil actively selling war materiel to Russia.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Should NATO let them join?

        We should be terminating NATO as an organization and certainly not expanding membership.

        Not my circus, not my monkeys. If Putin and Russia are that terrifying to Europe, let Europe step up and take care of itself. I see no reason to expend more American blood and treasure playing as law enforcement for the globe.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Rothbard was right. Running around, fighting commies in every hell hole built up a bureaucracy that we will never be rid of.

    • SDF-7

      “When an actor playing Gordon and a superhero love each other very much….”

    • Tundra

      Lol. That’s great!

  27. Tulip

    3 8
    5 6

    • TARDis

      Daily Quordle 91
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      #Worldle #94 1/6 (100%)
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      Hmmm, Waffle apparently resets in the afternoon.

      • Winston's Mom

        What the fuck does this mean?

      • Tundra

        They never have sex.

      • Winston's Mom

        I don’t understand. Never?

      • MikeS

        It is getting a tish out of hand.

      • TARDis

        Hey, I stopped caring. But then I found out there’s a list, and I want to be on it. Wait, not just a list, a spreadsheet! Or what Tundra said. Whatever.

      • MikeS

        Oh, you’re on a list, alright.

        ?

      • TARDis

        There’s a lot of fucking off at work.

      • rhywun

        beep boop

  28. Tundra

    Aaaaand, here we go.

    Just like clockwork.

    Strawberry is a repellent twat.

    • MikeS

      Don’t shoot the messenger.

      Well, I’d like to shoot the messenger IYKWIMAITYD

    • Urthona

      The good news is they are totally incompetent and good luck with all that.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Problem is even with the incompetence, they have propagandist media and drones of outsized followers that will carry the water. They will do the Section 230 reform, it will tank Twitter and then they will sic the SEC on Musk for its destruction.

      • Urthona

        I don’t think they will.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So fucking transparent, just not in the way they are saying they are.

    • MikeS

      “The President is encouraged by those bi-partisan efforts”.

      Smart political gamesmanship there. Turning the tables to play “gothca” on the right when people who were in favor of 230 reform suddenly aren’t anymore.

      • Urthona

        agreed.

        But probably too late. The most popular senator in america right now is Joe Manchin who just saw his polling soar for blocking the Biden agenda.

    • R C Dean

      “requiring more transparency” on social media

      I, for one, wonder what they mean by that.

      • juris imprudent

        Doxxing opponents I would presume.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I assume it doesn’t mean revealing direct coordination between censors and government bureaucrats.

    • rhywun

      I don’t think so. Not when every other outlet is obviously still being censored in favor of Democrats.

      • Urthona

        Agreed. They would be making a strategic error. They still control most things.

      • MikeS

        Yep. They’ll just release the “Twitter is now further right than Gab” talking points to the journo-list and sit back and laugh.

      • Urthona

        I predict that nobody noteworthy even leaves. They’ll whine for two weeks and then move on to the next thing to complain about.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Two weeks? I give it 12 hours until as the meme states, until the next thing to be outraged about. Like sending another 700 million to Ukraine and now NATO.

    • Count Potato

      OFFS!!

    • Drake

      When they lie that often and that big, the truth can’t ever be allowed to reach the masses. That is why they react so crazy to anyone who challenges the narrative.

    • DEG

      Face diaper to open up. Blech.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I think she is too small for even Tres.

      • Ownbestenemy

        When I was in the military, pissed drunk and lights were turned on…sure.

      • Tres Cool

        I need a woman with an ass like a dump-truck and she’s haulin’ 5 tons of fuck.

        Solid would.

        By the time I got through with her, her t’aint would be a t’isnt.

  29. The Hyperbole

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘I can’t wait all night for l0b0t to post’ Edition)
    #90
    Champ(s)
    Not Adahn 18

    Ted S. 19
    whiz 19
    Sean 20
    Name’s BEAM, James BEAM 21
    grrizzly 22
    Tulip 22
    Tundra 22
    MikeS 23
    Rat on a train 25
    kinnath 27
    rhywun 27
    TARDis 29
    The Hyperbole 29

    Chump(s)
    SDF-7 115
    db 118
    Grumbletarian 119
    Ghostpatzer 121

    And I thought yesterday was sad. 18 players, 44.22222222 average, 8/10 TL, four chumps. Get your shit together people.

    • l0b0t

      Sorry, shitty day and getting worse.

      Daily Quordle 91
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      wafflegame.net

  30. Q Continuum

    “The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care 7 (which are actually recommendations) suggested that “fully irreversible” surgeries not be performed on those under 18, except for “masculinizing surgery,” which could be performed as early as 16. More proof? This study on the effects of such surgeries for kids: the youngest participants are 13.”

    https://lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/yes-kids-are-getting-gender-surgeries?s=w

    “Orchidectomy” is not reversible nor masculinizing so they are doubly lying liars. Our culture is gravely ill.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s broken.

    • Count Potato

      They have that ass backwards. Males who get boob jobs are reversible (take out the implants). Females getting “top surgery” is irreversible, as there is no way to put breasts back.

      No medical intervention should be done before 18.

      Further, people have admitted they are doing surgery on girls who do not have gender dysphoria. Where the hell are the feminists on this?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You mean the TERFs like Paglia and Rowling?

        They got unpersoned.

      • Count Potato

        Neither Paglia and Rowling are TERFs. Paglia’s objections are mostly academic, and if recall, she often identified as masculine. Regardless, she doesn’t go around attacking MTF people. Rowling just doesn’t know what she is talking about. I don’t think Paglia got cancelled. She was always an iconoclast opposed by mainstream feminists (her views on rape were a non-starter). Rowling is way too rich and famous to be cancelled.

        Regardless, TERFs are against MTF transgender. They don’t seem to care about FTM or who is accepted in masculine spaces.

        “Where the hell are the feminists on this?” was kind of a rhetorical question. Since the third wave, they never actually cared about women and girls, and they are showing it now. It was always about toppling the culture and punishing men.

    • rhywun

      If all of these things are so “medically necessary” why “chest masculinization” at 15 but phalloplasty has to wait until 18?

  31. trshmnstr the terrible

    So, uh, I’m supposed to go into the office in 2 days, but can’t figure out the fucking covid testing rules. I can’t schedule an appointment because I don’t qualify under the free government testing rules and I don’t have a special voucher for insurance paid testing, even though insurance is paying for it. I can schedule a PCR test if I give them a credit card number, but I don’t want them charging me $140 because they fuck up the insurance. I have no clue if at-home tests are allowed. I guess probably not, given that I wouldn’t have anything to upload besides a picture of the test itself. As a result, I’m combing through the rules looking for some loophole or guidance that lets me in the office.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Just tell them you took an anal swab test and offer it to them for proof. I’ll bet they say “That’s fine. We trust you.”

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Be sure to start reaching for your butt crack as you make the offer.

    • rhywun

      Sorry.

      No way I’m putting up with that.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yup, I’ll do this a few times (we go in office once every other week). This will not be an ongoing thing. It may take a few weeks to finish out the job hunt, but I expect to be at a new company by memorial day.

      • DEG

        Best wishes!

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        I would just go in, and not worry about it. Go with the herd, so to speak. Everyone knows this is done, time to move on, nothing to see here.

        Anyway, good luck with the job search!

  32. Tres Cool

    For the 1st time in 20+ years or so, I purchased a State of Ohio hunting license with the aim (HA!) of taking Tres Ver 2.0 out into the woods, ideally for bunnies or some birds. Looking to set him up with a .410 and/or 10/22. Other than skulking around local gun stores or pawn shops, where can I find those things online? Gunbroker blew me away (hah! again) with it’s “vintage, Damascus-wrapped, only shot once” prices when Im looking for something used.

    • DEG

      Those are all places I’d recommend.

      I’m partial to GunBroker. Keep your eyes on it, new stuff pops up regularly.

      There is also GunsInternational and ArmsList. I don’t like ArmsList much, but I have found stuff on it.

    • Count Potato

      I wouldn’t get him a 410. They tend to string shot, and require much better aim. If he’s not big enough to handle a 12, maybe a 16 or 20?

      • Tres Cool

        He is big enough for the 12 ga. After all thats what I learned on.

      • Count Potato

        Then maybe go for the 12? Let him borrow yours and see how he does? I tried shooting trap once with a 410 side-by-side and couldn’t hit shit. They aren’t beginner’s guns.

  33. hayeksplosives

    Loathesome Olympics:

    Hunter Biden
    Anthony Fauci
    George Soros
    Klaus Schwab

    I’m just unable to rank them. Whichever one Lucifer likes best is probably the most loathesome.

    • TARDis

      They’d make a great band in hell.

      • hayeksplosives

        Oh!

        Who would be Yoko!!!?

        There has to be a Yoko.

      • TARDis

        I’m not familiar with the lore for that level of hell.
        *runs away screaming*

    • rhywun

      I would swap out Hunter for Joseph, myself.

      • TARDis

        He can be the MC. Standing in boiling pot of feces.

      • Enough About Palin

        A little understood, yet relentlessly reviled fetish.

      • TARDis

        Wut? To each his/her/its own I guess.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ??

        Hunter’s just an opportunist dopefiend with a sex addiction.

        Joe is a manipulative piece of shit who is probably the prime reason Hunter is so fucked up.

      • rhywun

        It’s amazing we had to elect Joe to find that out.

        I for one did not pay him or any of his clan the slightest attention before 2020.

      • db

        I remember paying attention to Biden along with the rest of the 1994 “crime bill” that introduced the original “assault weapon” ban and his attempts to look tough on crime by pushing gun control along with Mooby and the rest.

      • Count Potato

        Maybe he can get that crazy Irish doctor to yeet his teets.

      • hayeksplosives

        I remember him leading up the smear campaign against Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings.

        Biden kept hinting around about “natural law”, eventually saying to Thomas, “You know what I’m talking about!” And then the video jump cuts to deadpan Thomas saying “I had no idea what he was talking about.”

      • Count Potato

        Joe wouldn’t be able to remember he’s in hell. It would take the eternal out of eternal torment.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        She’s the dumbass who slept with him. It makes you wonder how effed up was Beau and we just don’t know it because he died and got elevated to emotional cudgel.

    • Mustang

      I’d put Hunter last. He’s a loser but he doesn’t have direct influence like the other three.

      Soros-Schwab tied for 1st for global influence.
      Fauci for 2nd because his impact is (mostly) limited to one nation.
      Hunter last because it’s his connections that are influential. He’d be a nobody of his dad wasn’t well-connected.

      • Tres Cool

        “He’d be a nobody of his dad wasn’t well-connected.”

        See also- George Bush
        Or any Kennedy

        I cant remember what tin-horn mouthpiece I was listening to on talk radio at the time, but he was saying that the best thing about Trump was “breaking-up the Bush/Clinton dynasty for 20+ years prior”. I cant argue. There had always been a Bush or Clinton on a ticket for some office whether president or not.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I’d probably vote for Fauci at #1 because of his followers. Soros at #2 because of how he uses his money. Schwab at #3, because as far as I can tell he’s mostly a figurehead for what the leaders want to do. Hunter at #4 because I can at least understand his kind of corruption.

      • Count Potato

        Cocaine is a helluva drug.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      If I remember my Dante, Lucifer had three mouths, with Brutus and Cassius (“yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look about him…”) in the right and left mouths, with Judas in the center. Now, I am of the opinion that Cassius and Brutus have done their time, so Soros and Schwab should take their places. Hunter should be on the fourth circle, which is greed. Fauci is deeper, worse. He belongs on the level just below that final circle, the Eighth, Fraud.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    re: Loathsome Olympics

    Based on which one I most want to see rotting in a gibbet: Foochy.

    After that: Soros, Schwab, Biden

  35. Peter Lorre, contemplating a Crime

    Always late, wassup peeps?

    • hayeksplosives

      Fuck off, Tulpa!

      I mean, Hi!

      • rhywun

        That’s a pseudonym. We know him.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yeah, I know; I recognize the fractal.

        Just figured I’d serve up a dish of shit anyway!

    • Rat on a train

      M?

    • Q Continuum

      The Year of the Cat.

  36. Tres Cool

    So art imitates life?

    A barrage of assault, racism and rape jokes: my nightmare trip into the metaverse

    I looked, and I couldnt see where they noted the author or his/her name. “While using that profile I’d set to 13 years old, I was able to access all sorts of things I shouldn’t have. I was using an app that says it’s suitable for ages seven plus, but I kept coming across rooms where people were gyrating and twerking and simulating sex.”

    • rhywun

      gyrating and twerking and simulating sex

      Yeah, that stuff needs to be saved for elementary school.