Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, waive to that co-worker, and enjoy another beautiful day and the links!
Biden Admin Has Sold Nearly 6 Million Barrels Of Strategic Oil Reserves To China
‘Especially Perilous’: Europe Encouraged To Ration Gas Supplies Ahead Of Winter
D.C. Mayor Complains About Being Flooded With Busses of Illegals From Arizona and Texas
Biden drastically slows prosecution of illegal immigrants during record border surge
22-Year-Old Who Killed Indiana Mass Shooter Was Armed Because of ‘Constitutional Carry’
Feds misquoted SCOTUS to require states to let boys in girls’ restrooms, judge says
Federal prosecutors drop charges against Colbert team members arrested at Capitol
History in Kentucky as GOP voters overtake Dems
Sacramento’s homeless population soars by 67% in three years
Dude In His Underwear Caught Sneaking Through Background Of CNBC Live Shot While Dogs Barking
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day. Side note, some days it’s really difficult to pick out a song because a bad song is stuck in my head. Fucking Lady Gaga.
“Biden Admin Has Sold Nearly 6 Million Barrels Of Strategic Oil Reserves To China”
What was the percentage given to the big guy?
At least 10%, I’m sure. Like the Clintons — the Biden (and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Obama admin as well) relations with China keep me thinking “treason”….
Yeah, Clinton sold US ballistic missiles and miniaturized nukes to China for a measly $2 million in campaign donations from the CCP and military. The usual suspects that control dumb people’s that think they get news’ beliefs hid that and protected him cause he was one of them. The same is being done for Biden. The difference was that when Clinton did his shit China’s CCP needed at least 3 decades to come close to making their slave nation a serious military opponent. Biden is now doing it when China’s CCP has achieved that goal of making China’s military dangerous.
And the sad reality of where we are is that today treason is when the people not selling us out call out the people doing the selling out. Telling the sheep they are being sold out is considered treasonous by the crooks for exposing the sellout.
20%, same as downtown.
“‘Especially Perilous’: Europe Encouraged To Ration Gas Supplies Ahead Of Winter”
Q: What did environmentalists and greenies use before they had to use candles?..
A: Electricity!
“Just two weeks to stop the spread!” is leaping to mind here. Sure they’ve engineered a situation to have an energy crisis — but damned convenient that it is encouraging the “own nothing, eat bugs, return to the Middle Ages” behaviors, isn’t it?
I seriously doubt they have a sufficient storage capacity for that natural gas to stock it up now and distribute it later.
I doubt they plan to store anything, just force people to use less and freeze.
It sure as hell looks like the German government has decided that it would be cruel/ineffective to slowly subject their serfs to a period of accepting their quality of life is going to drop off a cliff so the globalist elite can keep their shit while the rest of the world’s people are returned to serfhood, and have gone with the “rip the band-aid off fast” approach.
That “two weeks to stop the spread” analogy is good. Look how long they kept that up, look how long it took us to raise any speed limit anywhere above 55mph.
[Birol] also told governments in the EU to “encourage behavioral changes” among their citizens to reduce energy consumption.
Social engineering, just like the US energy crisis of the 1970s which brought us the national 55mph maximum speed limit.
I keep seeing articles in my feed about Wales lowering speed limits although they are selling that in the name of “safety.”
They always peddle their criminal shit off as doing it because they care…
Yes, they care…
They care about staying on top and keeping the rest of us in our place while they fuck us over…
Tonio, ever get that email?
” keep seeing articles in my feed about Wales lowering speed limits ”
How fast can they swim, anyway?
Not from you.
I see a submission from MikeS in my inbox.
tonio (at) this URL?
Yes. Just sent you a message from there so you can see if reply works.
I didn’t get it. Which is the problem. I just sent you another.
20mph is more idle than drive.
And the stories about the EU getting ready to push for speed monitoring in all cars.
That’s a lead-in to cars can only be owed by responsible people, which means the elite… Public transportation, when it is available, for you fucking serfs!
“Own” cars? Surely you jest.
Party members will be permitted to check-out cars for brief trips
Inner party will have assigned cars with drivers. Outer party will be allowed to check out cars for approved trips.
Da, Tavarish…
Speed? It will be full GPS monitoring of where you go.
Look, they just need the GPS data to be sure they’re calculating the speed right. They would never use that data or share it with anyone.
Why can’t you just trust them?
Similarly they need GPS when they switch to a vehicle miles tax to ensure they are only taxing you for use of public, in-state roads. Using an odometer reading would unfairly tax you for non-qualifying miles.
I’ll dutifully report all my milage on taxable and untaxable roads. Just trust me, my numbers are correct.
Bob Poole has a stiffy.
At least they never have to worry about what cable they need to charge their phones!
I guess that won’t be much of a help when there is no electricity coming out of the holes in the wall though.
What? You’re kidding, right, right? How can I make coffee with cold water? What? I won’t have any water?
Your current social credit score allows you to travel at 20 miles per hour. Up to one hour every other day. We also noticed you recently registered as a libertarian and posted hate speech, which may affect your social credit score in the future.
Morning, Banjos.
Ditto… morning, Banjos. Like the flapper pic on the main page.
Clara Bow? Cute dress, at any rate.
” District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser isn’t thrilled with the buses of illegal aliens being sent to her non-state from Arizona and Texas. ”
I’m not either. They should be sent back to their home country.
Till that day, DC is a perfectly cromulent substitute.
D.C. Mayor Complains About Being Flooded With Busses of Illegals From Arizona and Texas
So she wants border enforcement?
As with all rules — for *her* borders, not for the rest of those icky people like you….
The only way to get the people living in gated communities, with armed guards, and being chauffeured around that are doing things that destroy the lives of the common man, is to bring the problem they foist on us to their doorsteps.
Yes, but she can’t say it.
“Feds misquoted SCOTUS to require states to let boys in girls’ restrooms, judge says”
They are destroying our economy and country on purpose, and distracting the masses while using the distraction as a cudgel to attack anyone in the way, with this shit.
I used to believe it was simply ineptitude. Now the evidence makes it impossible to refute that it is just evil and by design.
We are in a place that resembles the crew of the Titanic, after they confirmed they ran the ship into an iceberg and it is going to sink regardless of what is done, organizing a whole bunch of deck games and a putting a shitty band playing horrible music into action, to keep the passengers distracted and angry, all so the crew can loot the the ship’s valuables, load them into the rafts they plan to use only to save themselves and the connected few, and take off while the passengers sink with the ship.
Will anyone go to jail for this? Lose their job? Will local school districts be able to recover the funds they spent complying with the federal mandates? Not that the latter is an ideal situation since that would just soak national taxpayers.
I hope to live to see the complete elimination of the US DoEd.
I guess with the de facto open borders policy and cannabis legalization — TOS has gotten all the weed and Mexicans they can handle. Given what we’ve seen of Hunter (or I suppose all the teachers lately, they have ass sex covered to. They must be happy as clams right about now — Libertarian Moment(tm)!
DC reports largest monkeypox outbreak per capita in US
Give it time. If we don’t do anything we will all be dead by the end of the year. We need mask mandates now.
Probably spread by one of those orgies Congress gets invited to.
Nuh uh!
NY has the worst monkeypox! Hochul was whining about not having enough MonkeyPoxVax on hand! (Even though Saratoga County was issued 300 doses of MPV with zero cases).
Also NPR had a monkeypox patient on to tell us how it was so horrible, and if he was a voice actor playing the role of “stereotypical GenZ bottom twink” he couldn’t have been more theatrical.
Well since the monkey pox is supposedly transmitted by men having sex with each other, it seems like that crazy theory that DC is full of orgies has been proven out.
My default position now is that the crazier the conspiracy theory, the more likely it is that it will be proven true within a month.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n609XaagVJo
The eligibility for vaccination tells you it is effectively an STD:
It’s almost as if using a condom would stop the spread. But I’m not a scientician.
there is a community that tends to engage in high-risk activities and transmit diseases that don’t circulate in the general population.
I doubt they will change behaviour, let them suffer the consequences and leave the rest of us out of it.
Yes, there are planned gay events that authorities want cancelled because they generally involve lots of casual sexual encounters, but the organizers of those events are going ahead anyway. It’s on their heads.
“The civil liberties group previously challenged the department’s 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter that portrayed itself as guidance while “dramatically revis[ing] how colleges and universities nationwide adjudicated claims of sexual misconduct,” he said.”
In that case, the schools wanted to do it, and the letter allowed them move in unison.
“Schools can make simple changes to their policies while the lawsuit plays out, George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf — dubbed by CNN the “father of potty parity” for his advocacy ofmore women’s restrooms — wrote in his Monday email newsletter.
After his law school converted a male restroom to an “all-gender” restroom, men didn’t seem to mind biological and transgender women “viewing their backs” while urinating, or fear “being sexually assaulted” by them.”
But I’m sure some of them still took a peak at their junk.
Only if they’re willing to risk being treated as an apex predator.
How many women use that restroom? Men generally don’t have a problem sharing facilities with women.
If there is a legitimate reason for separate facilities, competitions, and all, enforce separation. If not, get rid of it.
Let’s just ask women if they would prefer separate facilities, etc. If they say “yes”, that’s good enough for me.
Which women are you going to ask?
Not the ones with dicks…
We first need to find a biologist.
“Assume a biologist”
<— Biologist
I am not a biologist, but I play doctor with the ladies….
How many gynecologists are gay men?
There’s a mountain of evidence showing there’s no harm to anyone by using gender neutral bathrooms.
All the bathrooms in my house are gender neutral.
I don’t know if it a regulation, but why do some businesses have separate, single-user, gendered restrooms? Is the women’s restroom nicer?
Single user gendered bathrooms are stupid and should be ignored.
IIRC, the separate bathrooms for men and women is a custom that originally started in a moral panic ginned up for the purposes of making it harder for women to work. The idea was to make hiring women more expensive so that businesses would be disinclined to hire them. The proponents were the original progressives. Initially, the progressives were worried about women taking jobs away from white protestant men and neglecting their duty to propagate the species by staying home to have and to raise more babies. That’s why they promoted a minimum wage that only applied to women and demanded sex segregation in bathrooms.
The later became adopted because it created a de-facto purdah space in public where women could do women-only things. In some ways, I suspect that the regulations backfired; I expect that it made businesses more friendly to female workers, and if I’m correct, it actually reduced the wages they demand (people demand more money to work in a less pleasant place all other things being equal).
The women’s bathrooms usually don’t have puddles of pee on the floor from guys with bad aim. And most women are happy to have their own bathrooms without that.
Naw, the puddles in women’s rooms are on the seats – from women ‘hovering’ instead of sitting on the filthy toilets.
No! There is harm to me! Back when there were men’s rooms everywhere, I always had a place to pee. Now every place that has converted all restrooms to gender neutral has a massive fucking line of women for each restroom and I have to wait in line to pee.
THIS WILL NOT STAND
I can pee outside if we lax the sex offender laws.
He speaks the truth.
Not while there is a sink available….
(Yes, a real life experience triggered this. Back in the early 80s there was a bar on Rosemary Street that had cheap beer and two hole bathrooms. The line was so deep, the door to the men’s room stayed open. And one sink became a makeshift urinal…. in full view of the last 1/3 of the bar.
I tried… couldn’t go. Had to pretend I was finished and went outside to find a bush.)
I remember Army barracks that had common latrines. Each wing had a latrine that was for the gender that matched the occupants. There were no differences other than the sign on the door. Women’s latrines still had a line of urinals along one wall.
Women can have penises too, so that makes sense.
peak … mountain …
I was expecting a narrowed gaze, not serious responses.
Sometimes the end is anti-climbatic.
You expect us to scale that particular cliff of observation?
Well? Are you going to leave us hanging?
But I’m sure some of them still took a peak at their junk.
If the gals were peeking at my junk, they better not complain about any peaking they see.
No, not *peek* — they only looked at the top percentage of men. Hitting the high notes as it were, swooning over their craggy features.
(Thanks to Grumbletarian btw who also tried to run with this gag…)
I would not be OK with gender neutral and no doors. Dang, son. I don’t even have much love for the sports stadium trough.
But without stadium troughs we would never have this gem.
*cringes*
Good morning, Banjos!
That makes the story even better.
The Clash is always a good way to start the day.
Funny how the “if it saves just one life” crowd is nowhere to be seen when Constitutional carry saves lives.
Facts which do not fit the narrative will be ignored.
“Federal prosecutors drop charges against Colbert team members arrested at Capitol”
One of the signs of a system that is broken and will eventually have the people turn against the enforcers is when it is blatantly obvious that the legal system is not just corrupt, but used as a weapon by those that are busy fucking over everyone. Nothing will make people decide society needs to burn more than watching the system that is supposed to be blind allowing one side to commit crimes and use the system as cover, while the other is falsely accused of crimes and the system then is used to punish them.
Holder says “contempt of Congress”, hahahaha?
Funny how they can get their charges dropped quickly, yet some protesters from 2021 are still being held in jail like political prisoners. I guess it really is (D)ifferent.
whaddup doh’
The Biden administration sold nearly six million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) since July 2021 to a Chinese state-run energy firm, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Department of Energy (DOE) data.
They have to strategically bring the country down, after all.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is calling for widespread energy rationing across Europe due to the continent’s ongoing fuel crisis the agency predicts will be exacerbated by the coming winter months.
Just as long as we are building back better.
D.C. Mayor Complains About Being Flooded With Busses of Illegals From Arizona and Texas
They need the illegal votes in Texas, not DC.
Love that tune! Great choice to start the day, Banjos!
The liberal elite order has realized the prosperity of the last 80 years of the “Pax Americana” – courtesy of the US military, and primarily the US Navy – has reached the point where it has become unsustainable as a demographic timebomb affecting all but a handful of countries on the planet has made their imminent economic collapse, due to the collapse of their populations. inevitable. The nations that will be hardest hit will be the those that have socialist systems which simply can’t be sustained as their population is rapidly aging while replacement has completely fallen below sustainable. The good old days are going to come to an end once socialist economies collapse and the global order that allowed free trade comes apart. And the global élite are desperately trying to avoid the obvious consequences of a world that not only fragments as most of its nations implode economically, but where factions are going to end up back to warring with each other comes back to become the norm (as with was for millennia), by forcing us to transition back to a feudal system where the population just accepts that their standard of living will collapse (but not that of the elites).
Wasn’t that the Bilderbergers too? Maybe even Rothschilds?
There are quite a few agreements one can cite as resulting in the “Pax American”, and the two you mention sure can be cited, but the one that really paved the way was ,a href=”https://www.thebalance.com/bretton-woods-system-and-1944-agreement-3306133″ target=”_new”>Bretton Woods System and 1944 Agreement that created a global monetary system backed by US promised security.
Link fail…
HEPL edit Fairy!
I was just on an international call with some of our R&D and commercial people. The ones in Europe had an…interesting…obsession with the use of our products in “Biomethane” production.
How much storage capacity does Europe have? Is saving now even going to have an effect at all come December?
The 22-year-old man who shot and killed the would-be mass shooter at the Indiana Greenwood Park Mall was armed because of “constitutional carry.”
He didn’t even give the cops time to set up a perimeter.
Like I said yesterday, he didn’t even use hand sanitizer before shooting.
As usual…the Bee sticks the knife in and twists
https://babylonbee.com/news/uvalde-police-criticize-indiana-mall-armed-citizen-for-not-waiting-around-outside-for-an-hour
The Saudis laughed Joe out of town when he begged them to pump more gas. Maybe they’re onboard for the war with Iran the Israel and the U.S. are planning.
Or maybe they decide to join BRICS along with Turkey and Egypt.
LOL 🙄
The EU dangled membership in front of the Turks for years. This is their revenge.
I assume Turkey’s application to BRICS will be filed immediately after their notice of withdrawl from NATO.
‘Especially Perilous’: Europe Encouraged To Ration Gas Supplies Ahead Of Winter
I TOLD YOU PEOPLE I AINT TURNING OF MY AC IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER
We worry about the part where they stop asking, friend Pie.
EAT THE BUGS! SAVE THE PLANET!!!!!
Then you will not be allowed to turn either your AC anymore, and for good measure, we will also prevent you from turning on your heat in winter…
/government elites
It looks like Sunday will be a scorcher. Don’t you sleep in your vault during the heat of the day?
AC, refrigerator, or computer. Pick one.
FIFY
AC + 2 refrigerators + multiple computers + …
You have exceeded your energy ration. Your utilities will be terminated and you will not be permitted to purchase additional food or fuel until the next ration cycle.
You’re not my doctor!
Of course they aren’t asking you to turn off your AC, Pie.
Nope, they will turn it off for you. They are here to help
Federal prosecutors have declined to prosecute members of a production team associated with Stephen Colbert’s late-night comedy show who were arrested last month on Capitol Hill.
The biggest crime is calling what they do “comedy”.
They were let in so no crime …
OK, this made me laugh.
It made me laugh too. Then I thought about the fact that you know there are at least 12 govt drones meeting in some conference room today to discuss this super important issue.
It will take them at least a month to come up with a plan to have Google remove that marker. And I’m sure some overtime will be charged to the taxpayers.
“Sacramento’s homeless population soars by 67% in three years ”
People that refuse to accept the consequences of dumb decisions that ignore reality hardest hit!
The homeless problem has no real pretty solution. Society avoided this by locking people that simply couldn’t be part of it because of mental issues up. One can easily argue about the inhumanity of that solution, but it is the only solution. No amount of money or free shit can fix the main problems that lead people to end up becoming homeless bums.
Society avoided this by locking people that simply couldn’t be part of it because of mental issues up. One can easily argue about the inhumanity of that solution, but it is the only solution. No amount of money or free shit can fix the main problems that lead people to end up becoming homeless bums.
Free market had a pretty good answer. Flophouses where you can rent a bed, get a bowl of soup, and inject your drug of choice very inexpensively. Not a solution that prevents all homelessness, but it mitigates a sizeable part of the problems we’re seeing now on the streets of urban cities. Flophouses had their own problems of courses, but the point is that all this is off the public streets and still allowing people to make their own life choices.
There’s no need to forcibly lock people up. These kind of people would willingly self isolate if that option hadn’t been taken from them by the State. Especially if combined with allowing property owners to make loitering unpleasant. Carrot and stick.
Exactly right.
For once, the “gentrification!” meme applies – that is the reason there are no more flophouses.
Weather is not climate
More than 1,000 people have been killed in Spain and Portugal due to heat-related causes in recent weeks. Temperatures around the continent are expected to shatter all-time records Monday and Tuesday, and the death rate is expected to rise sharply. With luck, it won’t mirror the toll of 70,000 who were killed during a heat wave in Europe in 2003.
With the extreme heat that scientists have shown is linked to climate change, wildfires have erupted on the continent. In a pine forest left parched due the rapid evaporation caused by high temperatures, nearly 1,700 firefighters in France have been battling an enormous blaze near Bordeaux.
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Wildfires, made more frequent due to rising global temperatures, have also erupted in Spain and Portugal, forcing thousands from their homes. As shocking as the effects of climate change have been to witness in recent years, scientists continue to warn that they will worsen as long as humans continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) study published last year found that Europe was warming faster than many other parts of the globe due to fluctuations in the jet stream caused by rising temperatures.
In fact, Europe has already exceeded the 1.5°C threshold for catastrophic climate change set forth by the IPCC, having warmed by 2.2°C since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
And when they’re freezing their asses off this winter because there’s no Russian natural gas in the pipeline, they’ll blame global warming.
Brooks, didn’t you realize that fossil fuels extracted from and sold by authoritarian dictatorships (eg: Russia, Iran) don’t cause global warming? It’s only if they’re extracted from Western countries that they’re hazardous! Get educated man!
“More than 1,000 people have been killed in Spain and Portugal due to heat-related causes in recent weeks.”
Sounds like they need more electricity and A/C, not less. What happened to “if it saves just one life”?
“ In fact, Europe has already exceeded the 1.5°C threshold for catastrophic climate change set forth by the IPCC, having warmed by 2.2°C since the start of the Industrial Revolution.”
Europe has warmed since the end of the Little Ice Age? Hold the presses!
“Have been killed”
Wait, so people are murdering them because it’s hot?
Gaia done it!
for now Romania look to fortunately peak at 36 real degrees
So, just above freezing.
With all their undead, how else would you keep your morgues?
97 is a news worthy heatwave?
Yeah.
I mean, I grew up with mid-90s for 8-9 months of the year.
I live where high 90s is solid for about 2 months, and triple digits happen.
97 is not a heat wave unless you’re in Antarctica.
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We stopped caring what you limey cuntes think in 1776.
Prince Harry at the United Nations: “We are witnessing a global assault on democracy and freedom.”
Curiously, you globalists cuntes are the culprits.
I’m being lectured about freedom and democracy by a fucking British Prince?
One that still holds a grudge that the colonies got away and gone even more uppity, it seems…
Yet curiously he, like his great-great-uncle, couldn’t resist one of our commoner womenfolk.
A crazy as fuck one again too…
He has a divine right to tell us what to do.
Technically correct, the best kind of course
We also have the divine right to tell him to shove it.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
You wouldn’t seriously expect the Biden administration to sell gas from the strategic reserves to profiteering capitalists Exxon or Shell, would you?
Not unless the kickback is much, much, higher than the ones from the CCP?
Exxon and Shell aren’t smart enough to pay Hunter consulting fees
The socialist case for Trad Architecture
Conservatives don’t have a monopoly on beauty
https://unherd.com/2022/07/the-socialist-case-for-trad-architecture/
Ask a conservative why Britain’s cities and towns often look so ugly, and you’ll likely be told that it’s intentional: the result of post-war utopianism and the establishment’s inexplicable embrace of modernist architecture. For the traditionalist magus, Roger Scruton, such a development was “the greatest crime against beauty the world has yet seen”. In this account, it is the fanatical architect, zealous planner, and toadyish politician who are to blame for the handsome streets of yesteryear giving way to atomised ruin. The malaise may be aesthetic, but its roots are moral.
What is needed instead is a Marxist, materialist account of why the built environment changed as it did. History, after all, is not forged purely by ideas.
What does a materialist analysis tell us? Firstly, that conservative concepts of beauty are incongruent with a devotion to the free market, something which Marx identified 150 years ago. Capitalism, driven by a relentless quest for profit, requires constant spatial transformation. This means we have the buildings we do because, for the most part, somebody somewhere is making a buck. This is difficult to grasp for many on the Right because they have elevated profit into a kind of ethical value (although this wasn’t always the case).
etc
Disclaimer: Did not read article.
Brutalism is satanic.
These ladies constitutionally carry their weapons on Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.ph/HFzTh
Why Scotland sacrificed its wilderness
Skye’s rugged charm has been tamed for tourism
https://unherd.com/2022/07/why-scotland-sacrificed-its-wilderness/
As Cheryl pointed out, lots of farmers have just given up completely on their marginal crofting operations and turned to tourism.
On Skye, the truth is that a crofter with three camping pods — on what was once fine corncrake habitat — can make more in a month out of people than they ever made in a year out of cattle.
well this explains it
Those people must be made to sacrifice for the good of the collective. It’s like when someone decides to develop their property. Allowing the land to be developed ruins the scenery for those that enjoyed the scenery of the undeveloped land.
Look at that!
And Pelosi is on her way to Taiwan.
“JUST IN – China demands the United States to immediately cancel its latest arms sale to Taiwan.”
Or what?
Also, I thought Taiwan didn’t exist.
I’m sure there’s a lesson here somewhere…
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19175997/sex-first-date-ended-it/
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Reverse booty call…
Yep. Every time I’ve ended a relationship, ‘Too much too soon’ has been the reason.
Usually you know you are dealing with danger when after what is clearly a quick booty call they start talking about “what’s our future”…..
Stage 5 clinger. Step 2 – I’m pregnant.
It’s tough out there for hos.
I was lucky I did not catch the heatwave on my holiday 37 degrees in Netherlands means no sleep. Or I would have had to pay for a hotel with AC if I could find one for a acceptable price.
Here in ‘merica, we just say hotel.
Lulz. I was thinking that.
I recently stayed at a motel that rations electricity. I couldn’t get the card to work and was too exhausted to ask (twice) the front desk for help. So a damp washcloth on head it was. Otherwise it wasn’t a bad place.
I’ve never heard of such a thing.
I hadn’t either. Glendale, CA. 🤷♀️
When I was in Dublin, I don’t think it was a rationing thing, but the hotel room power would be disabled unless there was a room key in a slot. This annoyed me, as I usually carry a battery pack with me. It charges the phones up quickly, but takes hours to recharge itself. The room key interlock meant that I couldn’t (as I usually do), leave the battery pack charging in the room during the day.
I am surprised how many places in Europe still have no AC and we keep getting told how these people burning their ass off in the heat are happier or live better lives than some trailer parker which still has AC…
Some may not have AC because it is rarely needed. I recall living in coastal SoCal. We had air conditioning but only used it a few days per year. We opened windows and let the onshore breeze in for most of the hot months. Poorer households likely determined the cost to install wasn’t warranted. Here in Virginia I use AC for months.
But if that week you need it comes it is a bitch
We were thankful for AC the few days we needed it. People who didn’t went to the beach, pools or some place that did have AC.
When I went to the Philippines, staying in a hotel was a step up from staying with relatives. The relatives were nice enough to give us the one room that had air conditioning. The rest of the house was hot. Cold bucket bathing was unpleasant. I’m spoiled by American standards.
“With blatant lies like these about the inflation crippling America, why would anyone believe Biden’s White House about anything? A blistering takedown”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11025383/With-blatant-lies-inflation-believe-Bidens-White-House-asks-ANDY-PUZDER.html
Big meat?
Don’t drag me into this – I had nothing to do with it.
Heh heh. Are you experiencing…
Some inflation?
“Sesame Street’s Rosita is branded racist and could be SUED by civil rights attorney Ben Crump for ‘ignoring’ two black girls at Philadelphia parade – but wasn’t she just refusing to carry them?
A mom, who goes by __jodiii__ on Instagram, said her daughters were ‘blatantly told no’ when they tried to confront Rosita, a bilingual Muppet character from Mexico, at the Sesame Place amusement park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11026295/Sesame-Streets-Rosita-slammed-racist-actor-accused-ignoring-black-girls-parade.html
You can never be woke enough.
I think I see the issue…
What? Ben Crump is busy in Minneapolis leading protests about the totes unfair killing of a deranged gunman who was shooting through the walls of his neighbors apartment.
With injustice like that, how can he focus on muppet racism?
*holds up fist in solidarity*
One of the greatest songs ever… perfect for its time.
And now? We must all believe that greenness defines everything there is about him, and must govern every thought we have about him.
ONLINE OUTRAGE! zOMG!!
The real information here is just how many openly racist celebrities there are in America.
Because you have to be a complete racist to believe that so.e teenage kid in a Muppet costume working at a Sesame Street theme park said no to 2 kids because they are totally racist and hate black people. No rational person believes this. If you think this happened, you are completely blinded by your own racial attitudes.
Mom probably went to college.
Just got confirmation that I’m in for 1/4 of a beef. $4.57 / lb
is that a royale with beef?
Probably along these lines: https://papermoonloveslucy.tumblr.com/post/135502879398/the-freezer
Not far off!
“One beef, please!”
About $700-800?
That is the price I have seen.
Only 200?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/i-went-naked-clubbing-ended-27458872
If the people on nudist beaches are usually not the people you want to see nude, does the same apply to clubs?
from the links
Fashion fans baffled by advert for hat as model goes completely naked
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/fashion-beauty/fashion-fans-baffled-advert-hat-27432087
yes much baffled
OnlyFans mum whose kids were kicked off sports teams ecstatic as she lands FHM cover
EXCLUSIVE: Mum Sara Blake Cheek was upset when her kids were kicked off their sports teams due to the fact she’s an OnlyFans model. However, she’s hit back at haters by landing the cover of FHM
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/fashion-beauty/onlyfans-mum-whose-kids-were-27429230
Wait a minute FHM still exists?
I bet the reaction came from other moms worried their husbands would all suddenly become assistant coaches just so they could spend time with the onlyfan hot mommy…
And we all know a good wife’s job is to make her husband’s life miserable as fuck…
I’m really confused by the kicking off the team stuff. Last I checked, there isn’t a “your mom’s not a whore” requirement to play. Methinks there’s something more to the story.
Maybe a lot of her clientele came from the other team member’s dad (or mom) pool?
If I had to guess it was something like this:
“My kids are being bullied because of my career! Do something!”
“Sorry, you’re a camwhore, what did you expect from high school kids?”
“do something!”
“you can either deal with it or remove your kids from the teams”
“ugh, you’re kicking my kids off the teams because of my career?”
“*sigh* yes, sure, whatever you say”
I am far more inclined to think one of the busy body moms demanded they be gone so her husband, whom she makes do all the kids sport shit, doesn’t get any ideas…
You can believe that about the mom. I have just as much reason to believe that the coach decided that the kids’ presences “caused a situation” or were “disruptive” or “not conducive to team unity” or “a distraction.”
As someone that coached, I am going to stick to my guns here Kids will be kids, and you as the coach have to keep them focused on the sport/game anyway, because there is always something distracting them.
From what I can tell from the article, she is a better photographer than the FHM photographer.
Dang, those are some pretty unflattering photos.
Only 200
The rest were cocks. They are just like penises only bigger.
[insert rookie numbers meme here]
Tell me again about this climate crisis.
How dare you!
Charles Dickens walks in a bar and orders a martini.
The bartender asks “olive or twist?”
booooooo
Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Hi Rene, would you like a drink?”
Descartes says, “Oh, I think not.” And promptly disappears.
Boo.
There was a martini bar in Willoughby that was named Olivor Twist. They also had a wine bar there that for it’s tagline mentioned the cross street… Vine St.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkAiWtdIlY4
How have I reached the age I have and never heard that joke before?
You’ve probably just reached the age where you forgot you already heard it.
A priest, a minister and a rabbit walk into a blood bank to donate blood. The rabbit said, “I think I’m Type -O.”
Lincoln Life Insurance paid out 163% more for deaths of working people ages 18-64 in 2021 – Total claims/benefits up $6 billion.
Meanwhile in the Democratic People’s Republic of Canuckistan…
Returning Canadian citizens subjected to abuse & belligerence by Public Health (PHAC) officer at Toronto’s Pearson Airport after refusal to use ArriveCAN and disclose private medical information.
https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1548742603788648448
Yeah, that’s not my idea of hot either.
*Kif sigh*
She was slurping the pasquetti and some guys got excited about that….
If you had erectile dysfunction, what would get you hotter than a chick slurping on a limp noodle?
Your wisdom always leaves me pondering about your keen intellect, your holiness…
The most generous thought I can give her is that she (and whomever liked her video) has a major oral fixation or something. She should try a popsicle next or something…
I identify as hot.
My senior year of HS (1986-87) government class, we all registered to vote. The teacher advised us to register Democrat as there was no point to being a Republican in KY, as there was never a contested GOP primary and the winner of the D primary won the state-wide races by large margin.
It was true for at least a decade plus after that point. The 1987 governor election was that way. I have no idea who the GOP nominated, but the D primary was a 5 or so way race, won by Wallace Wilkinson, who then became Governor. He was an unusual individual. That election led to a run-off requirement in KY primaries, although it is a 40% standard, not a 50%. I don’t think he broke 30% in the primary.
Indeed, the speed at which climate change is unfolding has caught some experts by surprise. In 2020, for instance, the Met Office produced a hypothetical map of what summertime heat wave temperatures might look like in 2050. That reality, however, was nearly matched this week.
It never occurs to these so-called investigative journalists to consider the possibility that the “experts” are simply and comprehensively wrong.
How could you nazi this coming?
One of Germany’s ruling coalition parties has said that forced masking should be brought back this winter to help fight the flu.
Germany’s ostensibly liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), a globalist, pro-business member of Germany’s ruling coalition government, has said that it wants to see forced masking brought back this winter to help fight the flu. …
“We are concerned — and the doctors say so too — that we will have a severe influenza season, i.e. flu season,” the publication reports FDP bigwig Christian Dürr as saying.
“It may be even more relevant this winter than the Corona situation, which fortunately is under control,” he went on to say.
Covid is just the flu. Change my mind.
The masks will also help their faces warm this winter.
You can take Germany away from the Nazis, but you can’t take Nazism away from the Germans.
I don’t think that’s how it works…
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/model-believes-shes-last-virgin-27478623?int_source=nba
Why are you not letting her identify as what she wants?
Hidden in that article about title IX guidance on transgender treatment,:
U Penn has nominated Leah Thompson as NCAA woman of the year.
Can we just stop with this?
Caitlyn Jenner is Time’s Woman of the Year. Dave Chapell handled that one immediately, saying if he was a woman, he would be pissed: “Caitlyn Jenner was voted Woman of the Year, her first year as a woman. Ain’t that something?… Never even had a period, ain’t that something?”
The Biden administration had to one up that one. Not only does he appoint Rachel Levine as head of HHS to get the woke points for appointing a transgender woman, but he has to name her as a 4 star General. Out of the blue, not even having done something for the honor… just “Hey look, the higher ranking civilian general of all time!!”
So we gotta name her Woman of the Year.
Now remember, we had transitioned to “person of the year”, but woman of the year it is.
How brave do these people need to feel? Do 25% of all women of the year need to be former men? Can only men achieve greatness in their eyes?
It is so weird. How many female student athletes does Penn have? And nobody is more deserving than Thompson? They don’t have even one of those obnoxiously perfect straight A students who volunteer curing childhood cancer among starving African kids while simultaneously being the nicest, most beloved teammate and part time professional model… all while leading their team to the conference championship? Nothing that competes with “I have only been a woman for 2 years now and I am the fastest woman swimmer in the country”?
How has the Nobel committee missed this trend? Surely Levine should be up for the Nobel prize for Medicine… right?
Not one of the chick athletes at Penn stood up and said “fuck this”. Hard to find a fuck to give for them.
Exactly…
I suspect an implication that anyone who stood up against the policy would be removed from the swim program, and thus lose scholarships.
Removed from the team? In this environment?
Kicked out of school and blackballed as a trans-phobe is more likely. These folks play for keeps.
No athletic scholarships at Ivies.
Since when is U of Penn an Ivy?
Since the founding of the Ivy league.
Well that lowers my opinion of the school even further. I had more respect for it when I thought it was a state school.
But that just tells me that the social pressure to not disrupt the narrative is even worse, and rocking the boat has even greater implications for long term ramifications.
UNCivil are you confusing UPenn with Penn State?
Of course I was.
All those universities look alike.
“All those universities look alike.”
Liberal shitholes?
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/ivy-league-schools
I thought there was the one female swimmer who spoke up and refused to swim against Leah, wasn’t there?
Elisjsha Dicken
It could have gone either way. It worked out well, but with that name, killing his parents was an option.
I won’t lie, when I saw the name before the picture I thought he might be black. Which would’ve been even more entertaining.
#metoo
Common sense backpack control
The Dallas school district announced Monday that it will require students to carry clear or mesh backpacks to class, joining other Texas districts in implementing new security measures following the Uvalde school massacre.
The new rules apply to 6th-12th grade students at Dallas Independent School District — the second-largest public school district in Texas — and will take effect when the upcoming 2022-2023 school year begins in August. Other types of bags will no longer be allowed, according to the school district.
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The decision was made based on feedback from students and parents, as well as recommendations from a safety task force at the district, the district said.
The backpack requirements in Dallas follow fresh scrutiny of safety measures after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers inside Robb Elementary in Uvalde on May 24, the second-deadliest shooting at a K-12 school in the US.
Finally, someone is Doing Something.
“Safety measures”
In other news, theft of valuables at school continue to rise.
The Dallas school district announced Monday that it will require students to carry clear or mesh backpacks to class, joining other Texas districts in implementing new security measures following the Uvalde school massacre
I’m having trouble finding that distinguishing line between public school and prison.
And of course indoctrination camps. Speaking of which, Tuttle Twins is having a sale on an early American History curriculum for elementary-aged homeschoolers if anyone is interested. I just preordered it for our kids.
I think in public school, they don’t do cavity searches for non-drug contraband.
When are they going to force the children to wear see-through attire? It’ll make everyone safer, right?
Justice Long Dong Silver concurs with this opinion.
That is absurd. see-through clothes would take away the right of some creepy vice principal to strip search teen age girls looking for aspirin.
No worries. Regular cavity searches will be de rigueur.
I caught part of the report was critical that Uvalde didn’t have high enough of a fence around it. They really do want schools to resemble prisons.
Another thing that occurred to me was how slow it took to evacuate the school and kids had to be slowly pulled out of the windows from other classrooms. How exactly would a fire evacuation work at that school?
I don’t get that. If police were in the hall outside the room where the shooter was, how would it not be the right thing to do to just, I don’t know, have the children evacuated through the hall and regular doors?
A friend of mine bought an armor plate for his son’s backpack years ago, just in case. Clear backpacks will accomplish nothing other than to get kids carrying extra defense around with them in trouble with the petty authorities.
I have an armor plate for my laptop bag that I use whenever I have to go into the office. It’s heavy to lug around, but gives me something in places where I can’t carry.
Better require the clothing to be transparent too.
Teachers from around the country perk up!
Last night I saw this interesting tidbit about Michael Caine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Caine#Military_career
The best cure for those that think marxism is a good or viable thing, is to see the system, and especially the system’s government members, in action.
Anyone not disabused should get a one way helicopter trip.
Central banks and climate policies: Unpleasant trade-offs are likely
Donato Masciandaro, Riccardo Russo 18 July 2022
Central banks in developed countries have launched cautious investigations into whether, how, and to what extent they should intervene in climate policy. This column shows that central banks would face trade-offs if they were to start tackling climate change, as the instruments overlap with those already used in their monetary and macroprudential mandates. Using a using a principal–agent setting, the authors argue that central banks’ effectiveness in addressing climate change will depend on capture risk and calibration risk.
https://voxeu.org/article/central-banks-and-climate-policies
left him with the sense that their governments did not care about their citizens
Huh.
Democrats dismayed that their theatrics are not having desired results.
Oh there is a threat to democracy alright…
Voters: “That’s it? That’s all they got?”
Hey, the Democrats said he was the best Republican, so who am I to disagree? And yes, I am pulling for him to win to rub it in their fucking snotty faces.
I’m torn on Mastriano for personal history-geek reasons: Yes, a win that would rub it in the right faces would be good. But I think his actions in (IMHO) mal-identifying the site of Sgt. York’s MOH action have been sufficiently reprehensible for me to hope he loses. I’m a much bigger fan of the Nolan/Birdwell scholarship.
Is that more or less relevant than me being anti-Trump because of him destroying the USFL?
A little more, I think. Because there’s a viable/true alternative for Mastriano’s York argument – the Nolan/Birdwell position. The nominal alternative to USFL is the NFL, which also sucks. Granted, it sucked less back during the time in question, so you do have a point. NCAA-as-alternative is also a good case, except for their recent shenanigans.
He wasn’t my choice, not that I had a choice since I’m not a registered Repub.
Remember the Dems were also pulling for Trump in 2016 because they thought he’d be a complete joke and be beaten by Hillary easily.
Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
A friend of mine voted for Obama in the Texas primary to vote against Hillary in 2012.
*2008
I voted for Tulsi in the 2020 primary.
Same thing, right?
Somthing something I would stuff her ballot box full…
btw – the current Dem talking point is that Tulsi is a Putin puppet.
They see red-under-the-bed everywhere.
Astounding. Commies seeing commies everywhere. I never saw this coming years ago.
“btw – the current Dem talking point is that Tulsi is a Putin puppet.”
Anyone that points out Hillary Clinton is an evil criminal is accused of being a Putin stooge…
Wrong kind of commie – which is also a long time leftie tradition.
Anyone knows much about blades? I recently acquired a WW2 Gunto that my grandfather brought back from the Philippines. I believe it is a Type 98.
If the Type 98 is made like traditional blades – the maker’s mark will be under the handle.
Drive the pin out and the handle should be able to come free from the blade.
I am not confident in my ability to disassemble and reassemble blades. Watching Forged in Fire is not enough.
They skip steps in the broadcast.
Nope, but I tried to sharpen my grandfather’s old bayonet. Thing was crazy hard compared to other tools I’ve sharpened.
That should fix the problem.
“We have to pass prescription drugs. We have to pass the healthcare subsidies. We have to get that done. But we shouldn’t walk away from climate. We want the White House, and they’re saying they’re going to do that, to use executive action to deal with the climate crisis, to use, potentially, the Defense Production Act, stopping any additional drilling on public lands in our country. I would actually declare a climate emergency. But to also not give up on the congressional process because this other reconciliation bill still sits there as a vehicle, that, with a Democrat-only solution, we could put it on the president’s desk.”
Now I dream of a veto proof majority repealing the Defense Production Act due to this precedent of abuse (bonus points if they can finagle a way to make it clear you can’t legislate with a pen and a phone either)… ah, bliss…. too bad harsh reality and the Stupid Party will always be there to crush said dreams.
A school district in Greenville, about 50 miles northeast of Dallas, announced in early June a shift to clear backpacks and that it would implement additional security measures for the upcoming year, which include keeping classroom doors locked at all times and limiting access points into its schools.
“This common-sense measure is becoming more common at both school and public events,” the Greenville district website noted.
I wonder what the fire marshal thinks about that.
They only chain the doors on the sewing classroom.
clear backpacks…common-sense measure
Seems nonsensical to me.
I’m sure there will be just so stories in the years to come. Not just to theft but embarrassment of some contents with no privacy.
“keeping classroom doors locked at all times”
They really need to be more clear when reporting this. The doors should be locked to prevent entry from the outside, but have a crash-bar to exit from the inside. It’s pretty common for safety/security to have limited points of entry but many options for escaping.
There are also regular door knobs that require a key to open from the outside but remain unlocked from the inside.
I need a ruling on this story.
Is she a naïve person who really believes her hype? Or is she a tedious shrew who managed to write a column without going over the edge and hectoring us?
They have a mobile grocery store.
The rest is a grift.
They offer groceries at a 40% discount.
So either this is a lie, or they are charging for donated goods. Because grocery stores operate on 5% margins traditionally, and no way can a food bus have lower cost per customer.
So….. grift.
Strictly grifting.
I lost count of how many lies she told in the first couple paragraphs.
What a load of shit. There is no fucking way it takes two bus rides to get to the store. Further, one of my neighbors owned a couple of C-stores in Minneapolis. Guess what types of food they stopped carrying because they ended up throwing most of it away.
This is one of my absolute pet peeves. No one in Minnesota (or pretty much anywhere in the US) is going hungry. There is plenty of food. Meanwhile, these earnest white libs are in the process of murdering poor people around the globe with their fucking green utopia.
I hate them all.
It’s time to start shoving broccoli down the throats of the “marginalized”. For their own good.
I’m not saying that her organization isn’t full on grifter territory. But is she in on it?
For example, years ago my crazy aunt got into aroma therapy hugely. It could do everything. She actually got a job as an aroma therapist.
Talking to her, it became clear that some shyster had convinced a few crazy women to work for minimum wage being the therapists, while he collected the money. He even managed to get them to pay for their “training”.
My aunt never even doubted for a minute that she was engaged in some noble cause to bring this new wonderful treatment to the unwashed.
(This is the same aunt who told me at Thanksgiving dinner 1999 that she had just signed up for some classes to learn how to code to help with Y2K)
That description pretty much says it all – there’s one born every minute.
There is no fucking way it takes two bus rides to get to the store.
Sure it can. Public transit rarely goes directly from where you are to where you want to go like cars. I had to transfer regularly when I took public transit to work. Even a direct route can be painfully slow. I could walk a half mile to a bus stop that would drop me off near a grocery store. I estimate it would take at least an hour for such a trip instead of 10 minutes by car.
Sounds about right, at least everywhere I’ve lived.
A good solution is to get a job and a car.
Or move somewhere you don’t need one. That isn’t cheap, either.
But in the end, if you have to take two buses to get to a grocery store, maybe it’s time to start questioning some of your life choices.
I feel personally attacked.
Yep. Not that long ago, about 9 years I was taking a bus with two little ones and dragging groceries. I knew why I was in that situation and I corrected it.
a/k/a It sucks being poor.
The solution is don’t be poor.
An inkling of a suspicion
The latest inflation numbers, particularly in key swing states that could determine control of the Senate, brought into focus the deepening political problems for President Joe Biden and his party, and explain why vulnerable Democrats have publicly rung the alarm about the issue. Democrats desperate to retain control of Congress are now pleading with the administration and their party leadership to help them more forcefully combat rising prices — and, in the process, hang on to their seats.
Kelly told CNN that the Biden administration needs “to be looking for more opportunities to do things to lower costs.”
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Inflation has become the top political issue for Americans, worrying nervous Democrats who know that there is no quick fix in Washington to create greater supply and less demand for products. Vulnerable Democrats say inflation has dominated conversations both back at home and in Washington, where the party is internally wrestling over potential solutions with a little more than 110 days until the November election.
“This is a grocery and gas election,” Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told CNN. “(The Biden administration) had these goofballs talking about inflation was gonna be transitory, and then it was Putin’s fault, and now it’s Republicans’ fault. They just need to look at themselves in the mirror. And you know what, in November, this is why they’re going to lose.”
For months, Democrats have unleashed a number of reasons why costs have gone up. They’ve blamed Russian President Vladmir Putin for invading Ukraine and sparking increases in food and energy prices, the pandemic for disrupting supply chains, and oil companies for allegedly taking advantage of consumers, despite protests from some prominent economists.
On Wednesday, the Biden administration gave a new defense: the latest inflation record was “out-of-date” because gas prices have decreased over the past few weeks
What’s a few bucks here and there? Just write another check.
I mean the jury is still out inflation may be transitory yet.
The Great Depression didn’t last forever.
An atom bomb is transitory.
https://twitter.com/txiokatu/status/1549219717377933313
Das funny rite dehr.
Can’t believe they’re whitewashing Casca.
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1549113156638806017
I need a ruling on this story.
Based on the first two paragraphs, which was all I could withstand: imbecilic nonsense.
50 years ago in Temple, TX, classrooms doors could not be locked (while occupied) due to fire regs. No windows in 2nd floor classrooms, was truly a prison, with Resource Officers (Rent-a-Cop) monitoring entrances and the student parking lot.
Can’t be too careful
In my highschool there was a fence in the back which we climbed to get out. It was chain-link like fence and about 4 meters tall so dangerous. At some point a teacher put motor oil on it to discourage climbing and then a few boys got upset for getting oil on their clothes and just tore a hole in it.
Reading more about the Indiana shooter. 22 years old and fired 10 rounds. Good thing the pro criminal lobby is trying to restrict both firearms to younger adults and high magazine capacity.
Still amazed, pistol at 40 yards and put the gunman down with no friendlies. And pushed his girlfriend out of the way prior to engaging the shooter.
That plus the 25 year old pizza guy running into the burning house. It’s been a good week for heroic hoosiers.
Dayum. Grandpa done good.
My thoughts as well.
I wonder what he was shooting.
Don’t trust these evil fuckers, and make sure to continue to verify they complied…
Best to further and explicitly politicize the court I guess.
Rep. @RashidaTlaib: “We’re going to stand here with the folks that […] believe in what we’re trying to do, which is expand the court. […] Right now, six unhinged, unelected Supreme Court Justice[s] [are] literally telling women they have no control over their bodies.”
That is literally disinformation.
The Supreme Court – how does it work?
It gives the decision we want or we destroy it.
The Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has emerged as the clear winner of the city’s June 7 primary in the weeks since ballot counting began
https://twitter.com/CityJournal/status/1549197332163485699
Weeks since ballot counting began…. LOL
HEY!
Don’t laugh at them!…
It takes some serious effort to go produce all them ballots…
I thought you were being snide, but they have legalized ballot harvesting and unmonitored drop boxes…. Okay then.
She should just wrap it around her head.
And they will accuse you of being the insensitive one for pointing out people like this suffer from a serious mental disorder…
She has her scrubs on, she’s on her way to work and wants to be safe. Science and all.
Ok I have a CO2 meter review video coming up but quick summary:
Every no-name Aliexpress CO2 meter under $100 sucks.
If they say they are NDIR they are probably lying.
The @AranetIoT
is expensive but worth it.
The @TheatreCaps
Mini CO2 monitor is an acceptable alternative.
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1549320730571337730
it does not matter if it works if some weird city regulation requests one you get a cheap one and install it
City regulation? In America we call that a whatever.
I had to install gas sensors in my kitchen. I doubt they do much. But hey at least I have a gas stove not that electric crap.
Gas Stove is best Stove.
Sadly my current kitchen doesn’t have a gas line running to the kitchen so I have to make do with an electric stove. Running one would require busting up the concrete floor?? Or a strange loop through the ceiling/wall.
I don’t have access to gas in my new locale. I got an induction range last week, it’s honestly better than gas imo, and I previously ran pipe in my first house to put in a gas stove.
if some weird city regulation requests one you
get a cheap one and install itstart looking to move out of the cityI have a carbon Monoxide alarm because that stuff is toxic, but carbon Dioxide is something your body is very good at detecting excesses of already. No need to meter.
Evolutionary, why do our bodies monitor blood carbon dioxide but not oxygen?
Excess oxygen is less of a hazard? I just know that the physiological key the body goes off of is blood CO2, and not the absense of oxygen. It’s part of the reason nitrogen asphyxiation is such a hazard, you expel the CO2 as normal but aren’t picking up more O2 and don’t notice the problem before passing out.
Why? Beats me.
Everyone hates self-checkout but it’s spreading anyway because capitalism. (Our local market, which we generally love, just added 8 more of these.😠)
https://twitter.com/drvolts/status/1549083357832564736
I like self checkout myself. But this is not the first such article I read this year. seems to be an coordinated attack on the concept
Ignoring the privacy issue of bio-metric passports, as an EU citizen I can save a lot of time in airports going to the self passport check things and not waiting in line
I like that they have generally expanded self checkout to more than an express lane, so that you can do a full cart.
If I have a full cart, it’s faster to have a professional cashier scan them.
Self-checkout only makes sense if I am only buying one or two items.
It depends on line length, doesnt it?
If I have a full cart and there is an open cashier, I will do that.
But if I am 4 deep in line and self checkout is open, I do that.
Also, you have to consider the time-value of limited human interaction.
Plus the fun value because my daughter likes scanning items.
You have far oversimplified the equation.
Line? Human interaction?
What time of day are you going to the grocery store? I’ve been shopping at 6am when they first open. I used to shop at 3am, but the overnight hours got lockdowned.
In my single days, I shopped that way too.
There are no professionals. The idiot hired last week moves slower, wants to yak instead of work, and puts the milk carton sideways underneath the rest of the groceries.
Better buy some grocery scanning gloves.
You must live in an area with jobs.
The cashiers here have been around for a while.
My calculation is self-checkout is a no brainer up until about 10 or 12 items.
Above that, I have to consider the relative wait times vs number of items.
True facts.
Two self-checkouts fit in the same space as one cashier lane. Unless the cashier is twice as fast, self-checkout is a clear winner.
Have you watched the process? The self checkout has a delay of at least twice the regular checkout per item scanned to prevent the general public from double-scanning an item. the idiot-proofing features cause more built-in delays than just that. The self-checkouts are Sloooooow.
It varies around here. The self-checkout at Rite-Aid is great. The one at the supermarket is terrible because they want to weigh your bags and shit and if you don’t do it exactly right it just makes the whole system break down. Luckily, I usually have a full cart at the supermarket and the clerks are pretty good.
Here the sensors have some give. They’ll generally light up if you take a full bag off the bagging area, or don’t put something in it. Other then that, you can scan something in your cart with a hand scanner, and it won’t cause an issue. I’ve actually been helped once by the scales on the old system, I grabbed a bottle of something that turned out to have been underfilled. There was enough missing that it wouldn’t go through without an issue.
The self checkout has a delay of at least twice the regular checkout per item scanned to prevent the general public from double-scanning an item.
Use the bar code scanner gun (if equipped). One trigger pull, one scan. No unreasonable limits on speed.
Self checkout was slow 2 generations of machine ago. Current gen self checkout machines are just as fast as the full service checkouts.
I have never once seen that provided. They only just stopped requiring the weighing of the bags as you go along.
If I have a full cart, it’s faster to have a professional cashier scan them.
It is often quite faster if you don’t mind the canned corn ending up on top of the bread.
I can still move faster and pack the bags better than the average cashier. I used to do paper bags mostly, so the plastic slows me down.
Scan & Go is superior in every way. I just pack as I purchase and walk out the door.
I like them – great for one-two items. It kinda sucks for buying alcohol though – light flashes… and then you wait… and wait… for someone to come over.
Good ones will let you continue scanning other items while you wait. I stayed doing the alcohol first and finishing my scanning up until they show.
I like them. But I won’t let my personal preferences deny hard working Americans their high paying union cashier jobs.
There’s been several stories popping up in my newsfeed about how you
maywill definitely get arrested for shoplifting if you use the self-checkout. I guess I’ve been using my white privilege all this time as I prefer self-checkout. I don’t have to chat, I can organize what I’m buying into bags that make sense and make it easier to put things away when I get home.This is a real benefit. I do try to put my stuff on the conveyer belt in the correct order, but the cashier will usually get it wrong anyway.
On self- checkout:
My workplace has cone from having eight cashiers at the cafeteria, to two. Also, the twelve self-checkouts accept neither cash nor credit cards. You can have the price deducted from your paycheck (which makes my company store alarm start screaming) or pre-pay into an account. Logically, since there’s no credit being extended, the company store tactic can’t apply. They have used this setup to add an additional benefit that only goes to on-site workers: 50% discount. Now lunch here is cheaper than bringing it from home.
Everyone hates self-checkout
*scans article*
Doesn’t support assertion.
*scans again*
Doesn’t support assertion.
Anyway, self checkout is great. Yes, occasionally there is an issue, but most of the time I breeze through. Sams Club does scan as you go which is even better. They still do the annoying check at the end though.
Yes, sometimes there are failures with live cashiers, too.
I prefer to have the cashier.
Clearly, we have a difference of opinion. Which means someone is wrong. The democratic way to resolve this is to outlaw one or the other, right?
Psychics and Tarot Readers Are Under Siege By Instagram Scammers and Online Fatigue
An already beleaguered workforce confronts a legion of impersonators and a platform they say isn’t doing enough to stop them.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zb88/psychics-and-tarot-readers-are-under-siege-by-instagram-scammers-and-online-fatigue
Impersonation is becoming one of the hottest issues in the world of mystical labor, because it’s simply so pervasive; one tarot reader told Motherboard they’ve been impersonated at least 15 times. The scammers typically copy all of their target’s photos and captions, create a new Instagram account that mirrors theirs as much as possible, and then start following and messaging people who follow the target. The impersonators—who often address the follower as “beloved” or “dear”—say they felt irresistibly compelled to reach out, that they need to urgently tell them something from their spirit guides, and offer to give the follower a reading, always for a price.
lol. I mean it’s a living
As soon as you hear that someone has a message from the spirit world, but they need you to pay a COD fee to for them to do so, assume you are being scammed…
The conduit to the spirit realm is fuelled by cash. I can’t connect without prepayment.
I can cleanse your stacks of cash from the bad luck that inhabits ii. However, if you peek at your money before the process is complete, it will transform into blank paper.
It’s a SUEANCE!
Ethics prevent psychics from gambling or other speculative activities.
PARTY OF SCIENCE!!!
This story gets phrased as if the people making this demand matter. It’s the rightie’s equivalent of “alt-right twitter nobody threatens school board!”
though looking at the recent past people like this often end up mattering in academia. The woke tide does not seem to slow.
Meh. It’s a “gender activist” grad student.
think Is I was thinking recently how they did not fully purge this part and how old skeletons have sex. Like I was thinking you still find history articles about warm periods in the past
Self promoting quack wants to be loved
The most famous scientist in America is facing retirement.
After more than five decades of federal service under seven presidents, Anthony Fauci says he’s leaving by the end of President Joe Biden’s term. In a wide-ranging interview with POLITICO, he spoke of his legacy, the hard truths about the country’s pandemic response and his desire to calm the politicization wracking the country.
“We’re in a pattern now. If somebody says, ‘You’ll leave when we don’t have Covid anymore,’ then I will be 105. I think we’re going to be living with this,” Biden’s chief medical adviser said when asked whether he is staying in his role out of a sense of obligation.
He’s not. But his assessment, that we’ll live with Covid-19 for many years to come, is a startling admission from the longtime infectious disease expert who said the country could flatten the curve and achieve herd immunity, first through social distancing and then vaccination.
The ever-mutating, highly contagious coronavirus, which no country has conquered, upended those plans. With his career winding down, Fauci wants to help repair the national bonds that the pandemic shredded, and tamp down the partisan polarization that has turned him, and science itself, into a lightning rod. He’s even finding his commonalities with former President Donald Trump, his nemesis in the pandemic’s first year.
Politics is a national health emergency. We should quarantine all Republicans. Rule by edict is the way to go.
I would have respected that cunte more if he had just come out and said this wasn’t about any sort of science but about politics and power….
You mean he was wrong? SCIENCE was wrong???
Why is Fuaci mentioned in a story about a scientist?
Down with TJ.
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate reportedly went woke, with visitors saying the displays and tour guides insult his legacy. …
Dr. Carol Swain, a former professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt, suggested on “Fox & Friends First” that the estate’s woke shift is likely a result of The 1619 Project, which critics have described as “history told through the lens of critical race theory.”
“We had a great nation. It is being destroyed now by people who hate America,” Swain said. “Nothing constructive and positive will come from this effort.”
Down with JM.
The globalist billionaire who funded the woke transformation of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello paid for a similar overhaul of James Madison’s house — where the author of the US Constitution has been shoved into a supporting role, while slavery and racism take center stage. …
“I was kind of thinking we’d be hearing more about the Constitution,” one baffled dad said when The Post visited the president’s home this week. “But everything here is really about slavery.”
Down with your monuments to slavery, which clearly only happened in the US with only white people owning black people. History is that black and white, after all.
He’s a private equity billionaire trying to buy his way out of progressive hell.
Or perhaps the problem lies elsewhere.
The Laz people are Kartvelians living in Northern Turkey. Closely related to Georgians, they have the largest noses in the world.
https://twitter.com/Tocharus/status/1549209313851219968
Probably Neandertal genes.
Evil.
The more letters are in a a school’s acronym, the shittier the school.
Sorry NEO A&M (Miami).
https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/18/bootygate-and-reality/
dat ass
I thought AOC made the point that all republicans want to bang her…
Hate Fuck?
She might have a secret thing for that…
She’s physically attractive up until the point that she opens her mouth.
OK, she’s better looking than Eleanor Roosevelt or Bella Abzug (if you remember those two) but, come on, your local station weathergirls are probably hawter than AOC.
She’s a ‘politics 8’.
I wouldn’t kick her out of bed… but she’s also “not my type”. I tend towards the Scando gals.
Hmmmmm.
Perhaps
Sean, I was thinking of Sheena who used to be on NBC Ch. 10
You’re not wrong.
Needed more pictures. The jury is still out imo.
The teacher Ms. Nicholas is watching students fight and has no intention of breaking it up!
https://twitter.com/dolce65023071/status/1548749689650028547
chicks cant fight
Bitchez be crazy, yo..
You try to break up that fight, and you might be ganged up on by the fighters and even the crowd…
Doesn’t every real fight end up on the ground?
Often. Not always.
this take down.
Mr. Nicholas is probably thinking if he steps in, one or more of the combatants will later allege he grabbed her tits.
A kajillion years ago I was outside a bar that was next door to a gay coffee shop.
Out from the coffee shop pops a very attractive brunette in a low cut dress… and right behind her is a “tough” dyke. Ah – a lipstick lesbian and her “friend”.
The dyke sees me checking out her girlfriend and gives me the stink eye. I just started laughing out loud. I am 6’2″ and back then weighed in at 200 weight-lifter pounds; not many women I fear no matter how much flannel they wear.
Now that’s what I don’t understand. If you’re attracted to women, why would you go for one that looks like a man?
Knock-down, drag-out brawls among the school equestrian team are something I could stand to see a little more of…
Friendly fire…
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-shoots-su-34-bomber-luhansk-ukraine-claims-1725524
Friendly fire sucks…
That having been said, how likely is it we will find out – like we have with so many stories that came from the Ukrainians – that this is not true? The Russians own the air right now over Ukraine, so I am unsure why a SAM unit would feel compelled to attack any aircraft without identifying it first. It could still have happen, but verification is required to accept it..
More here.
https://eurasiantimes.com/russia-hunts-down-its-most-advanced-fighter-bomber-ukrainian-reports/
Agree, the problem is both sides. Ukrainian propaganda and if this was a Russian accident they will cover it up.
Don’t believe anything from either side and don’t believe anything from the US or the EU vis a vis the Ukraine while you’re at it. The dis and mis information is off the charts.
If the Ukies did it, wouldn’t they be bragging about it, and asking Biden for billions more so they could keep doing it?
PLZ GIVE THAAD NOW.
For students who feel uncomfortable wearing a mask, SDUSD President Sharon Whitehurst-Payne suggests not returning to school at all.
A barefaced(!) giant Fuck You to the people she works for.
The current variant isn’t worthy of mask mandates even if one thinks they should be a thing. What a bitch.
Having just got the coof a couple weeks ago, I agree.
It was an annoying cold.
Weird, I have the same solution, except we also cut the family a check and reduce the school budget accordingly.
And the Trex boards we need to finish the deck didn’t show up today. Maybe next week 🙁
This is all confusing to the dogs – greyhound peed on the bathtub mat last night.
My vendor wheeled in one of those big Pelican toolboxes with a Wiha logo on it. I think we’re paying him too much.
Nah. I always felt better about hiring carpenters that showed up with Festool stuff.
The issue now is whether anyone is listening anymore.
Some rejected his recommendations to get vaccinated, mask up or limit social events from the start, Fauci admits. But now even cautious Americans deferential to experts are tired.
“It’s becoming more and more difficult to get people to listen, because even the people who are compliant want this behind them,” Fauci said. That doesn’t mean giving up, he insists. “What I try to convince them [of], with my communication method, is we’re not asking you to dramatically alter your lifestyle. We’re not asking you to really interfere with what you do with your life. We’re just asking you to consider some simple, doable mitigation methods.”
Maybe people are finally taking a good look around them and realizing they were duped by you and the rest of the public health authoritarian mafia.
Yeah because Zoom meeting with my neighbors is fucking normal.
Nice pivot to a softer tone after going full authoritarian. You asked of each of that…to alter lifestyle and human nature you fuck kitty.
we’re not asking you to dramatically alter your lifestyle
You are. And you didn’t ask.
Double-vaccinated, double-boosted and paxlovid because you still caught the bug. Why would anyone doubt your expert opinion?
It would have been worse!
“…we’re not asking you to dramatically alter your lifestyle. We’re not asking you to really interfere with what you do with your life.”
Yes, you are, and the fact that you don’t seem to realize this is half the reason I’m not listening to you.
“Some people hear transitory and they’re gonna think weeks and months. Others hear transitory, particularly probably economists who are used to the broader ups and downs of cycles and think longer periods, and I think the lack of specificity about the cadence that was implied by that word, temporal cadence implied by that word, led to a level of ambiguity that wasn’t serving the debate very well.”
https://nypost.com/2022/07/18/chief-economist-jared-bernstein-admits-theres-nothing-transitory-about-inflation/
Verbal diarrhea detected.
Well, if you think about it, the Mesozoic was transitory, too. And it turned out OK, right?🦕🦖
In the long run we all die /some economist poorly paraphrased
That’s a lot of words to say ‘sorry we’re always wrong and don’t even deserve the moniker ‘the dismal science”
Epic lib trolling?
Lol love it
Sadly, it’s too late. 750k when I moved here in 1979. 7+ mil now.
“Yep I’ll only get one case honey.” @BussinWTB
(via:nattyheightsbeer/ig)
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1549407396941922305
looks like shit beer though
Looked like PBR so yes, shit beer. Still better than Budweiser though.
That’s an utterly fantastic store name/logo.
Some higher power trying to tell you what you are doing might not be the right thing??
A gathering of white people on colonized land watching a wave approaching that has the power to take them out and not moving until it is too late, is the perfect metaphor for climate change
https://twitter.com/lifesupremacist/status/1549064032522383360
Yeah, looks like some of them even got their feet wet.
Hmm, one might think this person has animosity for another race.
GLANDS!
Masks help you learn French.
I’m calling bullshit but whatever helps that lady live her life…go for it
She’s very stable.
Oui Oui.
My high school French teacher was just out of college. She had a cute butt that wiggled when she wrote on the chalkboard.
I didn’t learn much French in that class but I was one of three men (well boys) in it, so it was easy on the eyes.
Better Off Dead — The international language of LOVE! – https://youtu.be/p_R4w8OQvZc
So, French is easier to understand when muffled and muddled?
And here I thought the Science was Settled that reading lips was very important in learning a language.
Masks work
Quantify that.
John Cleese Talks To The Babylon Bee
damn guy got old
Yeah … 🙁
Why Nikon and Canon have given up on DSLRs
Paul Simon – Kodachrome
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all?
I think I’ll request that song (again) at the reunion Saturday night.
Asked about what has changed in more than two years since that conversation, Fauci is focused on how to reinvigorate trust in the science that led his decisions.
“I don’t think they can say anything about the science,” he said about Republicans in Congress calling for probes into his leadership and the Covid-19 response. “If that’s what you want to investigate, be my guest. My telling somebody that it’s important to follow fundamental good public health practices … what are you going to investigate about that?”
They could always investigate the accuracy and effectiveness of your “mitigation” policies, I suppose. If they were really desperate for something to do, they could make an honest effort to see if the alleged benefits outweighed the costs.
I don’t think they can say anything about the science
Maybe, but we can sure talk about self-delusion and hubris to no end.
fundamental good public health practices
Like increasing social isolation, stress, and poverty? Those good public health practices?
And mandating clot shots!
“I don’t think they can say anything about the science,”
They can say PLENTY about “the science”. For example:
Why has Fauci et al dismissed completely out of hand existing therapeutics in favor of brand-new, poorly, tested, experimental pharmaceuticals?
Why is RCT favored over decades of actual use? (The volume of data alone would put RCT at a disadvantage)
Building on that, now that we have volumes of data about the side effects of these experimental medications, it looks like the RCT’s were poorly designed and possibly fraudulent.
I’ll keep the post short. But science is ABOUT QUESTIONING THE SCIENCE.
First thing we do, let’s kill all the homos
CNN political commentator Margaret Hoover accused Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Monday of “pandering to the bigots” after the senator said states should decide laws on marriage equality.
Hoover pointed out on CNN’s “New Day” that the Texas Republican Party adopted a platform this year that refers to being gay as abnormal and that conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said he wanted to revisit the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage in 2015.
“Let’s just be reminded that Ted Cruz is pandering not just to the base of the Republican Party but to the worst kind of bigotry in the Republican Party,” Hoover argued. “All of this is circular inanity and pandering to the bigots.”
That’s obviously what Cruz was saying, right?
“Normal” is for squares.
Take the worst possible interpretation whether said or not, rinse and repeat as circumstances demand
Listen unless our minority view holds sway over the ENTIRE COUNTRY – Democracy is dead! Dead do you hear me!
Heatwave spontaneous combustion.
A neighborhood is on fire amid record heat in England.
The blaze broke out Tuesday in Dartford, about 15 miles southeast of London. Crews were working to extinguish the flames, according to an update posted by Kent Fire and Rescue.
The U.K. is seeing its hottest temperatures ever on record today. The mercury hit 40.2 degrees Celsius, or about 104 degrees Fahrenheit, at 12:50 p.m. local time at London’s Heathrow Airport. In addition to London, multiple other locations also topped the U.K.’s previous national record set in July 2019. …
At least four people drowned in the United Kingdom while swimming in lakes, rivers or reservoirs to get relief from the heat, according to the AP.
People drowned because global warming made them swim to cool down. Seems legit.
If only people stopped leaving magnifying glasses lying around!
Why I can’t wear my glasses outside. They are so thick I may suffer retinal burns.
/Stays inside, turns AC down another degree, just for safety
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all
That song came out when I was in high school. I just heard it recently, for the first time in ages. I was at some store.