Monday Afternoon Generic Links

by | Jul 25, 2022 | Daily Links | 248 comments

A well stocked pantry makes for a happy home.

Just too much going on in meatspace for much of a preview and links and such. So I am jamming in some generic links and getting back to it.

  • We’re going to need a bigger boat!
  • I am surprised this doesn’t happen more often.
  • I am skeptical this is not being used as a catchall.
  • Swiss News.

Reminder – My comment section is open from minute one. For others, please try to give 30 minutes before adding new links.

About The Author

Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

248 Comments

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    So first?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Ha!

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Long COVID sufferers are experiencing a broader array of symptoms than previously thought, including hair loss and sexual dysfunction, as well as fatigue, breathing difficulties and brain fog, according to new research.

    Funny how Long COVID was debunked earlier and then experienced a renaissance after the vaccines were introduced.

    • Rat on a train

      Long COVID also effects voting.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        That’s OK. We’ll just submit preprinted ballots for those suffering from Long Covid. To do otherwise would just disenfranchise those poor sufferers.

      • Lackadaisical

        The brain fog will do that.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The scientists found the most common symptoms included loss of sense of smell, shortness of breath, chest pain and fever, a news release said. Other symptoms included amnesia, apraxia (the inability to perform familiar movements or commands), bowel incontinence, erectile dysfunction, hallucinations and limb swelling.

      Huh, kind of like the spike protein causes vascular damage across multiple systems. What else has spike protein?

      • Fourscore

        Porkypines?

    • Nephilium

      Well, apparently I’ve had long COVID for over 10 years if it’s the reason I lost my hair.

    • The Other Kevin

      When I was young, there was a virus from China that was going around. It also caused fatigue, loss of motivation, and brain fog. They called it Dragon Ass.

      • Fourscore

        No cure either…

      • Fatty Bolger

        Sounds like brain cloud. The only known cure is to jump into a volcano.

    • Lackadaisical

      Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a combination (vaccinated+covid infection) causing some of these symptoms.

      My wife and I definitely lost hair after getting the vid. She has experienced significant cognitive effects as well.

      • grrizzly

        Wow. That’s quite serious and very different from my experience and the people I know.

      • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

        Sounds like MonkeyPox!

      • Count Potato

        Sorry, to hear that.

  3. Rat on a train

    Why isn’t Swiss News in Swiss?

    • Swiss Servator

      If I have trouble with the dialect, I presume almost everyone here would be puzzled by it as well. (I know, they write in Hoch Deutsch…)

      • Ted S.

        My German cousins, native speakers all, have trouble with Schwyzerdutsch.

        The proper term for it is, I believe, Kauderwelsch.

      • grrizzly

        Aren’t the Swiss supposed to automatically switch to standard German when they talk to somebody from outside their valley or canton?

    • Tonio

      Next you’re going to ask how much wood could a woodchuck chuck.

  4. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Long Covid causes a plethora of nonspecific symptoms and an unquenchable urge to file for disability.

    • Gender Traitor

      It’s the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome of the ’20s!

      • Chafed

        Damn your nimble fingers!

    • Chafed

      It’s the new Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

      • juris imprudent

        I would’ve said that but I was too tired.

  5. Count Potato

    “The research also identified key demographic groups and behaviors that seem to suggest which people are at increased risk of developing long COVID, including women, younger people, and individuals of Black, mixed or other ethnic groups.”

    Minorities and women hardest hit?

    • Count Potato

      “Also, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, smokers, and people who are overweight or obese, as well as individuals with a wide range of pre-existing health conditions, were associated with persistent post-COVID infection symptoms.”

      Health is wealth. Poor people are less healthy. So are smokers, people who are overweight or obese, and individuals with pre-existing health conditions. They are more likely to have sequelae or longer recovery times from any disease. This isn’t anything unique to covid.

  6. Pat

    I am skeptical this is not being used as a catchall.

    The diagnostic criteria has a tremendous amount of overlap with another medical condition called “getting old”, which is also the strongest correlated variable with COVID death and severe illness. Also since when is “brain fog” a medical diagnosis? They used to make fun of that kind of thing. (In case robc returns from the morning links, Joe vs. the Volcano was a tolerable Tom Hanks flick)

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      “I have a brain cloud”

    • Q Continuum

      The primary cause of “libido loss” is trying to fuck someone you’re not attracted to.

    • juris imprudent

      Joe vs. the Volcano was a tolerable Tom Hanks flick

      Damned with the faintest of praise.

    • Mustang

      I’ve been seeing various doctors for some ongoing stuff for years and I’ve literally used the words “brain fog” to describe some of it and I was always written off for stress or mental health (which is probably true). Now suddenly it’s a symptom of COVID and perfectly acceptable to say and be taken seriously. I’ve had docs seriously ask if I think COVID might be causing stuff I’ve had since 2014. I have zero faith in the medical establishment.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        COVID, it’s so hot right now.

        /billing coder

      • Mojeaux

        brain fog

        Maybe you’re pregnant.

      • Mustang

        If I am I’ve been pregnant longer than Brochettaward has been promising this miraculous First.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        When my sister was in college the doctor tried to tell her she might be pregnant. She had to explain to him that there was an important part of that process that hasn’t happened.

        She had mono.

      • UnCivilServant

        Congratulations, it’s a swarm of bouncing baby virii.

  7. Q Continuum

    The only cure for Long Covid is unlimited mail-in ballots with no ID or signature requirement.

    For the children.

    • Chafed

      Not pics of fit women in bikinis?

  8. Sean

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      • Sean

        Neat!

        What color did you get?

      • Timeloose

        Gold,

        I thought I should get a tone the opposite of my daily watch (silver). The watch is such a change form the clunky, heavy, giant, watches everyone started wearing over the past 20 years. Other than some arm hair pulling from the band, it is very light and comfortable.

      • Pat

        What’s your DD?

        (sorry if I’ve asked before, I’ve been away for a while and forgotten a few usernames; I’m a watch junkie)

      • Timeloose

        I have a 2013 or so Japan only Casio Edifice EQB. I wanted a solar, compass, and world time in a nice reliable package. It also has the G-Shock mvmt to prevent me from breaking it. I broke a lot of watches in my day.

      • Pat

        Nice!

        Is it still going on the original battery? With some of the solar Casios of that vintage, I heard tell that the batteries they shipped with went TU quickly and Casio gave the battery supplier what for (long since resolved).

      • Tundra

        My G-Shock solar is still on the original battery. Purchased in August 2011.

        Amazing watch.

      • Timeloose

        No battery issues to date. Worked really well and looks good.

      • Pat

        I like it. That’s a fairly beefy boy at 44mm though. Stark contrast with your new pick up.

        I’m down to only a couple of quartz pieces nowadays. No solar for me though. I have too many watches and don’t go enough places to wear them regularly, so it would probably sit in my watch case seeing very little light and sitting on a low charge for lengthy stretches of time, which helps bring about the premature death of the battery (or capacitor, as the case may be).

      • Timeloose

        I keep the box open to keep it charged.

    • Swiss Servator

      *Hits ‘fire’ button rapidly*

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Should be Hemorrhoids and Centenarian!

  9. Count Potato

    ” For others, please try to give 30 minutes before adding new links.”

    I thought that was only for non-links posts?

    • Tonio

      Me, too. Oops.

      • Count Potato

        Well, I thought the “rule” was anything goes on links posts, except no cheesecake before 30 minutes, and no OT on non-link posts until after 30 minutes.

        Then again, getting a bunch of libertarians to agree on anything is herding cats.

      • slumbrew

        You’re not my supervisor!

      • The Other Kevin

        We can sit and discuss it over a nice bitter IPA and a deep dish pineapple pizza. But first I have to attend my nephew’s circumcision.

      • Mustang

        “bitter IPA and a deep dish pineapple pizza.”

        Get help.

      • Tonio

        ^This is how you troll, TOK. Outstanding.

      • Nephilium

        /plans on drinking an IPA tonight just because.

      • Tundra

        Awesome. One of the best commercials ever filmed.

  10. Q Continuum

    “Swiss rush to buy wood as gas crisis looms”

    Restricting and/or eliminating fossil fuels will force people to use clean energy!

    *goes back to burning wood slathered in cow shit for heat*

    • The Other Kevin

      It’s almost like people are unwilling to die in order to support someone else’s global agenda.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Shocker

      • juris imprudent

        Gert Fröbe pouts.

    • JasonAZ

      Well, wood is a renewable energy source. Just saying.

      • Count Potato

        Renewable every morning?

  11. UnCivilServant

    We’re going to need a bigger boat!

    That whale appropriated white whale supremacy!

  12. Tundra

    I am skeptical this is not being used as a catchall.

    It’s the 2022 version of fibromyalgia.

  13. Q Continuum

    “The research also identified key demographic groups and behaviors that seem to suggest which people are at increased risk of developing long COVID, including women, younger people, and individuals of Black, mixed or other ethnic groups.”

    World ends, etc. etc. etc.

  14. Count Potato

    “For those that didn’t know, @Scott_Wiener proposed a law in California that removes parental rights in all 50 states.

    California will take your kid, put them into their foster system, and allow them to receive a double mastectomy.”

    https://twitter.com/JeremyRedfernFL/status/1551411451964915712

    LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE

    • Grumbletarian

      I’m sure that law will do wonders for CA’s tourism industry.

      • Grumbletarian

        From Golden State to Gelding State.

      • Fourscore

        Implants optional regardless of how one identifies.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Beach Boys replaced by blur

    • Tonio

      Well, only for those “present in” California. But that allows any nutjob parent to transport their kid to California and claim refugee status for that kid on grounds that the kid is trans.

      • Tonio

        I suspect this will also come with a provision directing state law enforcement agencies to not cooperate with out-of-state kidnapping/runaway claims when the kid claims to be trans.

        And what about the feds? Will the Biden administration ignore the Federal Kidnapping Act?

      • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

        The real question is: what if the kid is named Scott, and has Dredd locks?

      • Count Potato

        I’m generally against laws, and restricting doctors from doing what they think is best best, but this situation has gotten so out of hand, especially in regards to prepubescent FTM, that I’m in favor of prohibiting medical transitioning for minors. There are cases of MTF who transitioned very early and are happy with it, but it’s a tiny minority withing a tiny minority.

      • Pat

        I find it somewhat ironic that several states have “conversion therapy” bans in place disallowing licensed therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists from using talk therapy and psychoanalysis to try to psych their patients into being attracted to the opposite sex instead of the same sex, but will allow a physician to prescribe HRT for a 6 year old boy because he prefers to play with Barbie dolls instead of GI Joe.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Long COVID sufferers are experiencing a broader array of symptoms than previously thought, including hair loss and sexual dysfunction, as well as fatigue, breathing difficulties and brain fog, according to new research.

    The British study, published Monday in Nature Medicine, found that patients with previous infection from SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus reported 62 symptoms much more frequently 12 weeks after initial infection than did people with no history of COVID-19.

    Witches are passe.

  16. Shpip

    The protest was called by a faction of the youth wing of President Felix Tshisekedi’s UDPS ruling party, which said in a statement that it was demanding the immediate withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeepers over what it described as their ineffectiveness.

    I mean, “ineffective” is one of the first adjectives typically used to describe UN peacekeeping forces, right up there with “counterproductive” and “rapey.”

    • Q Continuum

      “Evil” works too.

    • Swiss Servator

      Don’t forget “cholera spreading”!

    • Fourscore

      First we get peace, then we’ll try peacekeeping.

  17. Pat

    I am surprised this doesn’t happen more often.

    It probably would, if not for this.

  18. Mojeaux

    Speaking of Richard Dreyfuss, I don’t know if watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind and documenting diagnosis codes for injuries is worth 5 extra bonus points. The noise in this movie is giving me a headache. Also, their house is unbearably messy.

    • UnCivilServant

      Is that movie still as much of a slow burner as I remember?

      • Mojeaux

        Yes. *longsuffering sigh*

    • Pat

      If they wanted to really throw you a challenge they’d ask you to document ICD-10 codes for one of the mythology episodes of X-Files.

      “Let’s see, let’s see… a virus of unknown origin that appears to be extraterrestrial and causes brain cancer, except in alien-human genetic chimeras, for whom it turns their blood green and makes them impervious to any type of physical damage except a stiletto blade inserted at the base of the neck…”

      • Mojeaux

        Oy! Keep it to yourself, lest it go out into the universe!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Long ago one of the PDs I applied for used an episode of COPS as part of the screening tests. What did they do wrong and why?

    • The Other Kevin

      +1 Talking Heads

  19. Timeloose

    I can definitely see some “Long Covid” jokes coming from SF in this weeks Joemala.

    • Q Continuum

      Gonna make sure my girl tests positive for Long Covid tonight… giggity.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Long John Covid. Someone put a pubic hair on the vax needle.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nurse: “So why are you here?”

      Patient: “I think I’ve got a long COVID.”

      Nurse: “Well let’s take a look, shall we?”

  20. Count Potato

    “The Senate returns to Washington Monday and will take a procedural vote Monday night on the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act – or CHIPS Act – which aims to help the U.S. be more competitive against China.”

    How cute.

    “After the House passed a bill last week to codify same-sex marriage rights – with the help of 47 House Republicans – the Senate is expected to take up the legislation.

    Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat who is gay, has been leading the charge to get 10 Republicans to join Democrats to ensure the bill can survive an expected GOP-led filibuster threat.”

    The Democrats could have done that during Obama’s first term.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11046589/Congress-scrambles-votes-August-recess.html

    • Pat

      CHIPS Act

      Will Erik Estrada be there for the signing?

      After the House passed a bill last week to codify same-sex marriage rights

      I’m not a lawyer and haven’t had a tremendous amount of free time to study the rulings and specifics of the Dobbs decision, but as I understand it, wasn’t the decision made based on the issue not being a federal matter in the first place? If they think Obergefell is going to be overturned on the same grounds, wouldn’t you need a constitutional amendment to codify gay marriage federally?

      • Count Potato

        IDK

        My point was that the Democrats just virtue-signaled and twiddled their thumbs on gay marriage, otherwise it would have been legal in states like Maryland and Illinois long before Obergefell.

      • Fatty Bolger

        It’s

      • Fatty Bolger

        Oops, not sure how I just posted that.

        Anyway… It’s not quite the same. Unlike abortion, nobody questions whether or not marriage is a fundamental right. So the court just said that fundamental rights have to be applied equally. If straight people can get married, so can gay people, because the practice is fundamentally identical except for the gender of the participants.

      • Count Potato

        It’s also a matter of reliance. Gay people who are already married rely upon the ruling for many aspects of their lives.

      • Pat

        The full faith and credit clause should have (and likely would have, given a few more years) rendered that a moot point, but the lgbtqwerty activists wanted immediate gratification, and the court as constituted at the time couldn’t entertain that line of reasoning lest it blow up the state-by-state gun permit regime.

      • Pat

        That’s one difference, but there are others as well, and the legal reasoning for both gay marriage and abortion were fairly uniquely acrobatic. I don’t see Obergefell being overturned on the same grounds as Roe, but if it were, I don’t think a federal remedy short of an amendment would be an effective way to address it. But like I said, I may not be 100% on point on the Dobbs reasoning.

    • Tonio

      As a libertarian I feel that marriage should be something the couple does within their community of faith or culture, and the government should have nothing to do with that.

      It is up to the individual states to recognize and register domestic partnerships, and those could be entered into by persons not in romantic relationships.

      Before state-sanctioned gay marriages, gay people married in their own churches; those unions were not generally recognized by courts, employers, hospitals (for visitation), etc.

      • Mojeaux

        “Marriage” or non-business partnerships should be done by contract.

      • robc

        Agreed. And it may not just be a contract with two members. So if you have a church marriage, the church may have a say in how it dissolves.

      • robc

        Also, vows are an oral contract, so be fucking careful what you say.

      • Mojeaux

        I’m thinking about the tax implications of a partnership, which may or may not require registration with the state.

        So an oral contract wouldn’t be provable to the IRS, for example.

      • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

        Yes, because no one has ever gotten a prenup, or written out vows beforehand…

      • robc

        But while the prenup may be, the vows aren’t legally binding. That is why no-fault divorce exists.

      • Tonio

        Apparently, pre-nups are hard to enforce, too.

      • Q Continuum

        “oral contract”

        hawt

      • Mojeaux

        My church has a special religious dissolution of a marriage, but there is nothing legal about it.

      • Count Potato

        “As a libertarian I feel that marriage should be something the couple does within their community of faith or culture, and the government should have nothing to do with that.”

        That was never going to happen.

      • robc

        One member of the OK house pushed it when it was obvious gay marriage was going to become the law of the land.

      • Pat

        IIRC, the writers at that site that some of us used to visit had apoplectic fits about that proposal because reducing the state’s role in marriage for the wrong reasons was icky or something.

      • Tonio

        I wonder when the state (writ large) got involved in the marriage business? My understanding is it used to be only the churches, at least in Europe, and that the government merely recognized those as opposed to the state issuing licenses and collecting fees.

      • Mojeaux

        In some medieval periods, all anybody needed was to say something about marrying this other person. They had to be of age, both willing (i.e., no coercion), and not related. You may or may not wish to register it with the church.

      • Nephilium

        I would guess it’s when they started passing laws that referenced marriage (such as tax laws), and codifying common law marriages.

      • Pat

        I wonder when the state (writ large) got involved in the marriage business?

        From what I recall, it began gradually in the 14th century in England and Wales as a form of public-private partnership where the local parishes would publish their marriage announcements and register the publication with the local government. The way we do marriage today wasn’t really a thing until the 18th century.

      • Count Potato

        The very first laws ever written — in Sumerian cuneiform — were about marriage.

      • Rat on a train

        Probably during the Wars of the Reformation when states were exerting their authority over the church.

      • Raven Nation

        Interestingly, the Puritans were the opposite. As part of their rejection of all things Catholic, they rejected marriage as a sacrament. So, it was a civil contract to be performed by a magistrate not a minister.

      • Pat

        My curiosity piqued, I did a little looking. I was kinda almost correct. It seems that:

        A requirement for banns of marriage was introduced to England and Wales by the Church in 1215. This required a public announcement of a forthcoming marriage, in the couple’s parish church, for three Sundays prior to the wedding and gave an opportunity for any objections to the marriage to be voiced (for example, that one of the parties was already married or that the couple was related within a prohibited degree), but a failure to call banns did not affect the validity of the marriage.

        Marriage licences were introduced in the 14th century, to allow the usual notice period under banns to be waived, on payment of a fee (see Droit du seigneur and merchet) and accompanied by a sworn declaration, that there was no canonical impediment to the marriage.

        And furthermore:

        Marriages in the West were originally contracts between the families of two partners, with the Catholic Church and the state staying out of it. In 1215, the Catholic Church decreed that partners had to publicly post banns, or notices of an impending marriage in a local parish, to cut down on the frequency of invalid marriages (the Church eliminated that requirement in the 1980s). Still, until the 1500s, the Church accepted a couple’s word that they had exchanged marriage vows, with no witnesses or corroborating evidence needed.

        […]

        In the last several hundred years, the state has played a greater role in marriage. For instance, Massachusetts began requiring marriage licenses in 1639, and by the 19th-century marriage licenses were common in the United States.

      • Animal

        Where does prima nocta come in?

      • Count Potato

        “Massachusetts began requiring marriage licenses”

        The ancient Sumerians thought that was wicked retarded.

      • Mojeaux

        At its core, marriage is about property and consolidating power.

      • Count Potato

        It’s also about exchanging a depreciating asset for an annuity.

  21. robc

    I wrote up an article. A trip report on Cheyenne Frontier Days.

    It is in the system, I will officially submit tomorrow after standard 24 hour marination time.

    • Tonio

      Thank you! We’re short on content this week.

      Readers, expect a lot of travelogue articles. It’s vacation season so that’s what folks are turning in.

      • Pat

        Having dabbled in writing political articles in college and now standing firm in the conviction that I have absolutely nothing to say on any given topic that hasn’t already been said with more eloquence and profundity by a clearer thinking and more intelligent mind, probably more than 1,000 years ago, I have never submitted anything for publication here. However, if you’re short on content, my recent experience trying to hunt down an affordable phone that runs Lineage OS and will work on AT&T’s network with their new Nazi regime of whitelisting only certain phone models after the 3G shutdown combined with my general hatred of Big Tech, surveillance capitalism, and the surveillance state has had me a bit rage-y. I could maybe throw together something about escaping the botnet if it would interest anyone. It would basically just be me ranting about all the alternative services, software, and hardware that I prefer over the mainstream botnet.

      • Tundra

        Yes, please.

  22. Certified Public Asshat

    Reporter: Is it safe to say that, based off your comments, you're suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight?Gaetz: Yes. pic.twitter.com/HfqPkriiJC— No Cap Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 25, 2022

    Based AF.

    • Pat

      The absolute mad lad.

    • The Hyperbole

      Meh, I’ve always found that particular “gotcha” kinda weak. Jokes need an element of truth in them to be funny, and the “Uggos that want abortions couldn’t get knocked up anyways” doesn’t pass that test. Men are pigs and there isn’t a woman ugly enough that she couldn’t get knocked up.

      • The Hyperbole

        Just because you wouldn’t doesn’t mean no one is. Dollars to donuts someone is fucking that. Hell I’d wager 10 to 1 that she has at least one kid.

      • Tundra

        It’s not the point!

        He said that the chicks at the pro-choice rallies are overweight and unattractive. He made no mention of their been-fucked-or-not status.

        Just laugh and enjoy someone refusing to apologize.

      • The Hyperbole

        My bad, I didn’t watch that particular video, I assumed it was from his TPUSA speech where he did do the “they’re ugly and no one would fuck them anyway” bit.

      • Tres Cool

        *ahem*

        Do you have her contact info ?
        /asking for a friend

    • Mustang

      Meh. Kind of a stupid thing to say. I wouldn’t like it if a Dem did it, not a Republican. I’m fine with going after the opposition and even being somewhat belittling to their actual arguments, but comments like these don’t do anything to move discourse forward and probably hurt more than help.

  23. Shpip

    So I had a cool time this weekend taking my nephew to Kennedy Space Center to see a SpaceX launch. Part of the attraction at KSC is the chance to hear from an astronaut about his/her experiences (and you’ll never believe who NASA has lined up this week).

    Anyway, at the end of the presentation is a short Q & A, and I asked the presenter (a veteran of two flights to the International Space Station) “What did you learn when you got to the ISS that you wish they had told you beforehand?” I was not expecting the answer I got.

    “Well, it turns out that milk comes out of its colloidal suspension in microgravity,” he explained. Going on further, he said “I was able to get a little sleep after we docked and unloaded, and I woke up early for my first shift and warmed up some coffee but couldn’t find any milk to go in it. I called out to the guy whose shift was just ending. “Yevgeni,” I said, “I can’t find any milk for my coffee.”

    Yevgeni comes floating down to the galley, sticks his hand in a small cubbyhole, pulls out a little container, and hands it to me. He tells me “In space, no one can — here use cream.”

    • Tundra

      You really milked that joke.

      • Animal

        I hear they thought about taking butter, bet decided it wasn’t worth the whisk.

  24. Tundra

    I can only imagine what the 51 who joined last year are like.

    Good luck, Chicago

    • The Other Kevin

      Biden only became cool because he was running against Trump. Before that nobody who didn’t follow politics knew who the hell he was. If he hadn’t run he’d have retired quietly by now.

  25. Q Continuum

    “Americans of all stripes are coming to believe that the constitutionally-sanctioned processes of governance can no longer limit autocratic power plays. The public is disabused of the notion that any particular policy will actually be consistently enforced or have any staying power. We share ever less reason to expect any political grievance to be resolved by electoral means.”

    https://americanmind.org/salvo/womp-wonk/

    Me no likey what comes after.

    • Rat on a train

      No set of rules will prevent autocracy if the people want autocracy.

  26. rhywun

    No link to a TV news blurb but this was just seen and made me go wut:

    NJ apparently has a new suicide law. A review of the demographics having taken advantage of it concluded that it was not “equitable”.

    • Count Potato

      What?

    • Q Continuum

      So they have to start murdering whatever victimhood demo doesn’t commit suicide frequently enough?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        i assume those who are chosen to be murdered would have some sort of defect. You know for the improvement of the species.

      • rhywun

        The chirpy newshead didn’t give an opinion but yes it was mostly older white men. And yes, they almost certainly mean that not enough non-whiteys are “aware of their options” or some shit.

      • Pat

        To be fair, assisted suicide in the states where it is legal is becoming something of a privilege for the at least modestly wealthy because the anti-death penalty activists have succeeded in making it all but impossible to import secobarbital and pentobarbital to the United States, and consequently a lethal dose costs around $10,000 whereas it was about $200 back when Oregon first legalized assisted suicide in the late ’90s. Maybe we’ll have to start subsidizing assisted suicide for minorities.

      • rhywun

        To be also fair, this is an issue I am torn on.

      • Pat

        Assisted suicide in general, or just who pays for it?

        I’m 100% pro assisted suicide myself. My single vote contributed in some small way to legalizing it in Washington State. My parents were both in favor as well, and my mom in particular wished to make use of it when her time came (unfortunately it came too suddenly and we weren’t able to do things that way). It’s the way I want to go when my time comes if it’s feasible. I’m sympathetic to the arguments about physicians and family members pressuring people into it, and I’m further troubled by the incongruity of my stance on the issue with the religion I’m supposed to be practicing. But just like with most other regulatory issues, I firmly believe that the consequences of prohibition are worse. For me it’s no different than the “opioid epidemic”. I don’t think it’s worth the trade off of preventing people who need large quantities of pain medication to deal with debilitating illnesses to make it only marginally more difficult for some street junkie to get a fix. Similarly, I don’t think it’s worth the trade off of denying a peaceful death to the terminally ill (or anyone else, for that matter) if they so desire to make it marginally more difficult for suicidal people to kill themselves or to make it marginally more difficult for familial vultures to speed up the death of a loved one to get access to their money a little faster. The old Thomas Jefferson quip: “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”

      • The Hyperbole

        This, a good friend of mine ate a bullet earlier this year, he had his reasons but as you say that shouldn’t matter, reasons or not what burns my ass about his choice of departure is that his wife had to discover that mess and some other people had to clean it up, had he had the option of just taking some pills and being done with it all so much the better.

      • Pat

        Sorry to hear about your friend, that’s tragic. Not necessarily something I would have factored into the topic either, but yeah, it’s definitely easier on loved ones not having to see something like that. Obviously they would have been grieved either way, but that certainly doesn’t help at all.

      • Mojeaux

        He had other options that weren’t as messy, including pills.

      • Pat

        It’s substantially more difficult (and more painful) to kill yourself with the sort of pills that can still be legally obtained than most people realize. Barbiturates are the first choice in every place where assisted suicide is allowed. If you’re going to DIY, injecting a large dose of heroin or fentanyl is a better bet than pills, although that’s not foolproof either, and while the person who finds you won’t have to deal with the same kind of mess you would with a firearm, they’re still probably going to find you in a pile of your own sick.

      • The Hyperbole

        Yes he could have tried to overdose himself but that’s not as certain as a bullet through the noggin. If suicide wasn’t so taboo there would be easy ways out for people that are just sick of it, and sure it might lead to some people offing themselves early but who am I to make that decision for someone else.

      • Mojeaux

        Suicide is a complex issue, especially if you have a faith that deals with it harshly. My religion doesn’t touch it, saying it’s for God to judge because we don’t know that person’s state of mind.

        All that I mean to say is I understand why someone might and am empathetic. I may or may not think it’s selfish, but it’s not my call. But making your loved ones clean up the mess is just cruel.

    • Urthona

      um… no

    • Lord Humungus

      I’ll have to check with the wife first.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ask her for a professional referral too.

      • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

        Why, do you think lawyers can act in the place of a professional whore, kinda like they do with real estate agents?

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      She fired into the ceiling. Sounds more like attempted suicide by cop.

      • Urthona

        She apparently had a rap sheet for attempted bank robbery and they dropped the charges against her.

        lol Dallas

      • rhywun

        You can’t even suicide by cop any more, if this charming fellow is any indication.

      • Pat

        She fired into the ceiling.

        Woman Moment.

      • Urthona

        If the ceiling had been packing, this would’ve been over even more quickly.

      • R.J.

        Well said.

    • Gender Traitor

      Alleged to be the shooter or alleged to be female?

      • Pat

        Questions that shouldn’t have to be asked, but do.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Love Field? I guess she’s not free to murder around the country.

      • Urthona

        No longer the case with Love that they can only go one state over.

      • Raven Nation

        *golf clap*

  27. Lord Humungus

    My departed FiL used to buy generic beer.

    Of course when he was over at Chez Humungus, my craft beer and expensive hard liquor would mysteriously disappear.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Bidenomics

    President Joe Biden and White House officials are continuing to downplay recession fears, even as they brace for a highly anticipated report that could show the economy shrinking for a second consecutive quarter.

    “We’re not going to be in a recession, in my view,” Biden told reporters on Monday. “The employment rate is still one of the lowest we’ve had in history. It’s in the 3.6 (percent) area. We still find ourselves, the people, investing.”
    “My hope is we go from this rapid growth to a steady growth. And so, we’ll see some coming down. But I don’t think we’re going to — God willing — I don’t think we’re going to see a recession,” he continued.

    It all depends on what the definition of “is” is.

    • creech

      So he will blame it on God if a recession occurs?

  29. Tres Cool

    Im late to the game since I just woke up. But- “Protesters blocked roads in the city with rocks and pebbles…”

    Arent rocks & pebbles a road there?

    • Sean

      🙄

      • Ted S.

        I’m sure media are tying themselves in knots trying to square the circle of Pacific Islanders as a minority and the Pacific community being the ones not in love with the G+++++++ virtue signaling.

    • Pat

      I’m sure the majority of football fans will immediately grok that a bunch of multicolored stripes on the sleeves of a jersey represent increasing global temperatures and it will consume their every thought and utterance during and after each match.

  30. Rat on a train

    Why all semi-automatic weapons must be banned on a national basis

    There is no mention in the Second Amendment about an individual right to own and bear arms.

    Reading is difficult.

    All semi-automatic weapons, both rifles and handguns, must be banned on a national basis. It is self-evident that these weapons are not needed for either personal protection or for hunting.

    That is why the police use revolvers exclusively.

    The Constitution expressly allows Congress the right and authority to dictate the jurisdiction of the federal courts. To make sure the will of a majority of U.S. citizens are implemented, Congress could remove from the jurisdiction of the federal courts the ability to rule on the constitutionality of a ban of semi-automatic weapons (similar to the removal of jurisdiction over habeas corpus during the Civil War).

    Well, Article 1 Section 9 allows suspending habeas corpus during a rebellion. I realize the FYTW clause allows suspending any part of the Constitution when Democrats wish.

    Bob Reid has been a practicing attorney for over 46 years and has been a resident of Tallahassee since 1989. Reid’s practice has involved, among other matters, both state and federal constitutional issues.

    I assume he loses often.

    • Sean

      Derpity derp derp.

    • Pat

      That is why the police use revolvers exclusively.

      You know as well as I do that this retarded fucking clown thinks “semi-automatic” means “fully automatic belt-fed machine gun” just like nearly every other gun-grabbing sack of ass. 10 to 1 he’s written articles in the past on why the AR-15 is a uniquely deadly high-powered “weapon of war” that should be banned because nobody needs one to hunt with, but thinks a .30-06 Remington 783 is a harmless sportsman’s rifle because it’s made of wood and has to be manually recocked.

      • R.J.

        What a sack of shit that guy is. When the Hell did you last see a cop with a revolver? Not to mention the rest of his retarded arguments. Fuck him too. This is the day of Fuck Them.
        P.S. Days of non-stop driving make me salty.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Sadly there’s a number of judges with invisible ink copies of the constitution.

    • Grumbletarian

      There is no mention in the Second Amendment about an individual right to own and bear arms. The purpose of the Second Amendment was to placate those former colonies (and soon to be States), who feared the potential of a federal government acting like the King they just overthrew. The bulk of the military that fought the Revolutionary War was state militias (the modern equivalent of which is the National Guard) acting under the command of federal forces.

      This is not dissimilar from the current structure of our military forces.

      You see, the government was giving the state governments the right to bear arms, and you can tell because the Amendment says the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

  31. Mojeaux

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That was meh.

      • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

        Solaris is the supreme alien flick (not the shitty Clooney one, the Russian one.)

      • R.J.

        Link!

      • R.J.

        Excellent! I shall watch this tonight when I get to the outskirts of Durango.

      • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

        Heh. I hope you are traveling alone.

      • Pat

        Solaris is the supreme alien flick

        So-so OS though, in my experience.

        2001: A Space Odyssey is both my supreme alien flick and favorite flick of all time. I could write a dissertation on it. I usually take pains to make sure I read the book before watching the movie if it’s an adaptation, but since the book and screenplay were written simultaneously I watched the movie first. Now I refuse to read the book because I suspect the additional exposition would ruin some of the meaning of the movie for me.

      • The Hyperbole

        How have I not heard of this. watching tonight don’t care what it cost or what services I have to subscribe to.

      • R.J.

        It’s free!

    • Pat

      Like every Spielberg flick, it is highly overrated. But that’s not to say it wasn’t good.

    • Animal

      Athletic? Athletic?? That thing looks like a giant pink toad. It’s about as athletic as a deep-fried Twinkie.

    • rhywun

      she/him

      lol nice parody

    • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

      Heh, I scrolled down, and there was a video of a baby hippo.

      • TARDis

        That made my day.

        I feel more like this kid.

    • Rat on a train

      anti-work … pro-communist
      You repeat yourself.
      Also pro-communist but must own property?