About 8 months ago one of my employees came into possession of a litter of kittens. She brought them to the cafe, and we all swooned.
Unsurprisingly, three of us (myself included) walked away with a kitten. Mine is a sweet little tuxedo boy who was fairly well behaved until l0b0t’s ginormous grumpy cat moved in.
The cat pictured above went home with one of my managers, and it was only a short matter of time before we discovered this cat is not a cat…it’s a changeling.
According to my manager, “She just doesn’t look like a cat from certain angles, it’s so bizarre. She’ll look like a little angel baby and then turns her head 2 degrees and suddenly is a cryptid.”
“What is she trying to get to? What does she see? Are they coming to take her back? I also don’t know what’s around her neck, but I suspect it’s the zipper for her skinsuit.”
My manager is a nursing student still, and moved for the summer to go to clinical. The changeling kitty came to stay with me and Old Man for a spell. On the way home the creature howled for about 20 minutes and then for the remainder of the 2 hour trip just stared at me as if she’s trying to bore a hole through my skull.
If anyone’s got advice about how to handle cryptid kitties, I’m all ears.
Onto zee links…
Nessy is “plausible” but not for a really long time.
Not the answer I was hoping for.
Apparently a Bigfoot festival every year in Ohio. Unfortunately, we missed it this year, but had I known sooner, we would’ve gone. It looks so fun.
Is Moorhead, KY now home to a cryptid?
Shaving cream cryptid has a message for humanity…?
Torties are the best cats.
It is a cute little bugger. I’m disappointed no pics of the cute little tuxedo boy were shared. Our current youngest of 3(! — and I’m a *dog* person!) is a cute tuxedo girl who adopted me by plopping in front of me in a parking lot by our grocery store when she was young enough to fit in my hand, then meowing pitifully and giving me the big sad kitty eyes, followed by the “rub against your ankles” trick.
She knew a sucker when she saw one.
Cats manipulate and train people.
^^
Yep. That one in the second picture is a dead ringer for our Princess Sweetness. She and her (also tortie) sister Leezann could take down an elk.
The one in my avatar is Kali the Destroyer. She is the reason my forearms usually look like a heroin junkie’s.
Your cat is your dealer?!
Don’t tell any one. I get good dealz.
Very sasquatchy links
STEVE NOT SAYING HE RAPES ALIENS….. BUT HE RAPES ALIENS.
“Bigfoot likes bacon.”
Squatchy!
I see what you did there.
Real home of Mr Bigfoot
http://www.homeofbigfoot.com/
Yeah you still have the 100 million year gap and lack of available food to overcome.
“Och, ye dinna think all the sheep are a’scared to stand by the shore of the Loch for no reason, did ya laddie?”
Scotch sheep have learned they need to leave as many avenues of escape open as possible when there are Scotsmen about.
I have three Scottish black face sheep.
They will never approach me, even when i have food. They wait for the milking sheep to eat and for me to leave.
So you are a true Scotsman!?!
What’s with all the pussy?
Cocks are noisy and not cuddly.
And pussy only wants attention on its own terms.
Morehead is in KY. Moorhead is in MN.
So where’s Moorehead?
$20, same as downtown.
Fun fact: Dick Fick used to be the basketball coach at Morehead St.
So anyone selected to the team during his tenure was a Dick Fick Pick?
HIs girlfriend was a Dick Fick Chick Pick.
She was Irish, Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick.
With COVID: Sick Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick
Who used to be a prostitute: Trick Sick Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick
Don’t bring that up or she’ll deliver a Trick Sick Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick Kick
Hollywood can make a Trick Sick Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick Kick Flick
The movie will begin by focusing on her rural upbringing: Sick Hick Trick Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick Kick Flick
The filming location will be known as the Sick Hick Trick Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick Kick Flick Crick
I heard a member of the crew won the lottery while they were there.
No special numbers, just a Sick Hick Trick Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick Kick Flick Crick Quick Pick.
He wanted to go on vacation and needed to update his shots resulting in a Sick Hick Trick Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick Kick Flick Crick Quick Pick Prick.
The nurse who gave him his shots used to do stand up comedy.
She had a Sick Hick Trick Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick Kick Flick Crick Quick Pick Prick Shtick.
She’d honed it through practice, so it was a Slick Sick Hick Trick Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick Kick Flick Crick Quick Pick Prick Shtick.
She didn’t make enough money at the clubs though — so she spun up an Only Fans account and worked on her squats.
Eventually she got it to be a Thicc Slick Sick Hick Trick Dick Fick Mic Chick Pick Kick Flick Crick Quick Pick Prick Shtick.
As Variety wrote many years ago, “Stix Nix Dick Pix”.
Dammit, Ted!
Reuse of words is a violation. Report for punishment.
Other fun fact- I used to perform the EPA compliance testing on their coal boilers.
Bearlie
I lived there during my final years of college. In the “barrio”. I had 3 bicycles stolen. The sugar beet processing plant made the air smell like burnt cookies.
Morning Web Dom, thanks for pulling things together and getting us a start in the morning. Seems like no one wants to work for free anymore.
Well, I don’t want to point fingers, but someone had volunteered for links duty *Spudalicious* but FAILED TO PRODUCE.
TANSTAAFL
What is the price which must be paid?
WebDom sends him Cryptid Cat Butt? Who knows what *that* will look like from some angles…
He probably had his eye on some links, but nothing really sprouted so he nipped them in the bud.
Spud is just a common tater.
But everyone expects him to chip in au gratin.
Nothing half-baked about that compound pun.
You are all chipping away at Swiss’s sanity.
Don’t mash his good will.
Measured by weight, not volume.
Sounds like a bushel of fun.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody
Hard core dead-end-ers weep and wail
Others say the CDC is going too far in relaxing its guidelines.
Allowing students to return to school five days after infection, without proof of a negative COVID-19 test, could lead to outbreaks in schools, said Anne Sosin, a public health researcher at Dartmouth College. That could force entire schools to close temporarily if teachers get sick in large numbers, a dilemma that some schools faced last year.
“All of us want a stable school year, but wishful thinking is not the strategy for getting there,” she said. “If we want a return to normal in our schools, we have to invest in the conditions for that, not just drop everything haphazardly like we’re seeing across the country.”
It’s scary out there.
DO NOT ABANDON THE ONE TRUE FAITH!!!
Love the phrasing there: “a dilemna that some schools faced” — nothing about if it *actually* happend, just the “dilemna” of potentially having teachers sick in large numbers! The vapors!
And of course, no comment that the current variants (like all viruses through time) have evolved to be virulent, but less severe (increasing their chance of spread by not killing or incapacitating their hosts after all) and hence aren’t going to kill all the aforementioned teachers. Or that their tiger rocks (vax shots) are supposedly in play.
Really wish any of their ancestors from 1920 or so after the Spanish Flu was dealt with could observe through a time portal, point and laugh.
Moar shots!!!!!!
ArseTardia is unhappy
I still read them as well, but they are epitome of Top.Men.
I regularly enter hostile territory to see how bad it is. Arse is a great place to encounter scientismists.
On straightforward stuff they are still well worth reading. CPU architecture and stuff like that.
But Beth Mole on anything science related is ridiculous. Between the ‘VID and Climate “Change” I’m surprised we are both alive to be carrying on this conversation.
That’s Doctor Beth Mole!
One thing know from her because she told it to us over and over is that Trump and his administration was awful.
I never got that from any supposedly straightforward “hard” science reporting before.
But now my eyes have been opened.
It takes someone as brave as Doctor Beth Mole to risk her career to tell you such truths.
Oh noes…
Speaking of those who worship at the foot of SCIENCE, is slashdot still around?
They are! And they’re just as predictably stupid as they were before.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/08/11/2124236/cdc-drops-quarantine-distancing-recommendations-for-covid-19#comments
*sigh*
I remember when there were good faith arguments in the comments there. Many… many years ago.
That was pre-Obama
I wonder if CommanderTaco is still around..
It went downhill when he sold out.
You made check what’s been recently published.
The women calling out Apple’s handling of misconduct claims
Some employees say Apple’s HR team puts company reputation ahead of worker welfare.
It’s “news” that HR works and is supposed to protect the company and not the employees.
Allowing students to return to school five days after infection
Which can’t be verified.
could lead to outbreaks in schools
Kids need to be able to spread colds around.
That could force entire schools to close temporarily if teachers get sick in large numbers, a dilemma that some schools faced last year.
Name one.
Unsurprisingly, three of us (myself included) walked away with a kitten.
This is why I cannot visit the SPCA. At least until one of the kittehs passes away.
If anyone’s got advice about how to handle cryptid kitties, I’m all ears.
Are you familiar with 0.22LR?
Kitties!
I just got two baby kittens from operation kindness. One blonde, one traditional tabby. They bonded now and are delightful. Traditional tabby is a clutz and has little pin claws.
Blonde cat already has a theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rNfZxgkH7k
Adopting strays and shelter pets is one of the great acts of goodness.
We may head over there today. We don’t need to get a pet a couple months before likely moving, but the 1 year old would really enjoy giving them some attention.
I’d be pissed too if you brought me home in a bowling ball bag.
Those cat backpacks with the moon window are weird. But I have seen a couple out in the wild and the cats seemed relatively contented, ie not yowling their heads off as you’d expect.
The other kitties who have been in the bag have been happy about it. They can look around and see what’s going on.
It usually helps if you leave out in a room where they can check it out at their leisure. Then it’s not a scary New Thing.
The ground hog (AKA Woodchuck) is a very young one, probably was still living underground with his/her Mama.
If that’s a groundhog, I’ll eat my hat. At least, the coat looks nothing like Ohio groundhogs.
LL Bean?
“A single litter of two to six (usually four) young is produced each season after a gestation period of about 32 days. The young are born blind and hairless”
Penn State
A curious Noblesville resident reached out on social media for help after finding the body of a strange-looking bloated and hairless animal in her backyard.
Deformed pig.
“… a strange-looking bloated and hairless animal in her backyard.”
I was sleeping, and I am insulted!
Apparently a Bigfoot festival every year in Ohio.
Bigfoot is more real than Ohio.
/vanishes in a puff of smoke
I’m going to have to issue you a citation for pollution.
There are certain exemptions. Im happy to direct you here:
https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-3745-19-04
hotboxing again?
Hey ho, way to go…Ohh High Ohh
My current cat is going to be the last one. I generally like cats, but she’s such an annoying cunt that I don’t want anymore after her.
*declares self a dog-person*
I have a marble male and a tuxedo female. Both have their quirks but are generally well behaved and friendly. Plus they (mostly) get along with each other.
Mysterious figure caught on camera in Kentucky, sparks alien rumours
It’s just Tool.
Or Tim Burton at the end of a really bad night.
Huh… what *is* Depp up to after all that trial mess….
Is that how he slims down for another pirate movie?
Speaking of love/hate relationships that I have…
The scariest bit is that they are actually building the data visualizations of influence.
Pimpin’ is dangerous work.
Crazy bitches…
I see his mistake, he didn’t keep his pimp hand strong.
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx3YmD6tCpUunXCUHLj3J7k8dASEBK2b9w
‘If anyone’s got advice about how to handle cryptid kitties, I’m all ears.’
The three S’s?
It’s super hard to 5S cats.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/11/christopher-wray-denounces-unfounded-attacks-on-the-fbi/
That is a special kind of shamelessness.
You don’t get to be FBI boss based on your humility.
Or ability to tell the truth.
Wray’s priority has always been to protect the corrupt machine.
I think he fancies himself to be Judge Dredd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJiYrRcfQo
Beat me to it!
Since when does the FBI respect the rule of law?
Well -founded attacks were not addressed, oddly enough.
Those don’t exist.
Like Elves, or Welshmen
I’m at the point to where any three-letter federal agency that is even arguably* constitutionally dubious needs to be dissolved with prejudice.
*Of course the standard always should have been the other way, in that the constitutionality should have had to be proven in the affirmative.
“All proposed laws must pass muster with a committee of the most rabid anti-authoritarian nutjobs that can be scraped out of the dark corners of the wilderness and dragged screaming to the office. Anyone who wants the job is automatically disqualified from the position.”
I haven’t trusted the FBI since Leonard Peltier.
Someone ought to ask him how his vacation went
There are four people in the office.
All I hear are mouse clicks. Even from two rows away!
No noises of skin flapping and weird grunts? Government employees are not the best fans of p0rn by accident….
No, just someone on a teleconference.
Note – our computers don’t have speakers.
Is that a preventive move? In case someone forgets sound is on when they load their special extra loud p0rn fetish site?
You guys are way smarter than the county.
Half the time in the office I can hear people over there conference calls. The best is when someone two choices down is talking with someone on a call… I get to hear every live about 3-4 times.
Are you typing with boxing gloves on?
Who really thinks this is a good idea?
All it proves is that no one should by their surveillence products.
Just more of you aren’t the customer, you are the product.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/08/11/twitter-announces-plan-to-protect-november-midterm-elections/
Translation – they plan to rig more elections.
We already knew that.
Wake me up when the fraudsters start going to prison en masse.
*snoozes until after next revolution.*
DON’T YOU DARE CALL THIS ELECTION FRAUDING!
Protect, fortify, tomato, tomahto.
#Fortified
The giveaway that it’s a cryptid is in the first pic. The “cat” is looking UP, but its shadow is looking DOWN
who are you who are so wise in the ways of conspiracy photography? Can we be sure Lily is real now?
This guy is probably a jerkoff but the article lacks hard evidence.
A Greenbrier Middle School teacher has been indicted for allegedly exposing himself in a classroom and masturbating in the boys’ bathroom.
Court records obtained by FOX 17 News shows John Nolan Keathley has been indicted by a grand jury on five counts of sexual misconduct.
Between March and May of this year, Keathley is accused of “intentionally engaging in masturbation or self stimulation” inside a classroom in which he’d been assigned. Court documents show he also masturbated inside one of the boys’ bathrooms at Greenbrier Middle.
A grand jury also indicted Keathley for “exposing his penis” and engaging in sexual contact during hours where students were present.
Would it have been better if he was masturbating in the girl’s bathroom?
Only if he identified as a woman.
This is what the teacher’s lounge is for.
Only students may masturbate in student bathrooms. Faculty must use the faculty bathrooms.
Orly?
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
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I know Trump is a Clinton-era Democrat but he ain’t Bill Clinton.
Federal law enforcement officials were allegedly searching for highly classified documents on “nuclear weapons” when they raided former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida earlier this week, according to a report.
The Washington Post claimed in a report that those familiar with the matter did not offer any specific details on whether the alleged documents on nuclear weapons were about weapons that were possessed by the United States or a foreign nation, and they did not disclose what was recovered during the search.
“If that is true, it would suggest that material residing unlawfully at Mar-a-Lago may have been classified at the highest classification level,” said David Laufman, the former chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence section, which investigates leaks of classified information. “If the FBI and the Department of Justice believed there were top secret materials still at Mar-a-Lago, that would lend itself to greater ‘hair-on-fire’ motivation to recover that material as quickly as possible.”
Load of horse shit.
They had to act quickly and probably didn’t have time to do it 100% by the book(if the allegations about not actually allowing the lawyer to read the warrant are true).
How does anyone still trust those people?
Because, TEAM/Big Gov Luv!
C’mon, man. Gov’t agents are complete altruists that are only interest in preserving individual rights and the rule of – uh – you know the thing.
To quote Ordell Robbie, “You can’t trust Melanie. But, you can always trust Melanie to be Melanie.”
Oh give me a fucking break.
Trump was trying to sell nuclear secrets to Iran!
Five bucks says someone will accuse him of providing nuclear secrets to Russia.
Probably an autographed picture of Kim Jong Un with one of his warheads.
So it took two years to “discover” that the former president had possibly taken classified documents? So how was this suddenly discovered? Surveillance, a CI, or was it after the Pelosi trip to Taiwan? Something had to initiate this.
I saw some claim they’ve been talking to the Trump team about it for 18 months. Clearly, it’s critical to get those docs!
I saw a claim that it was an informant.
He should have just kept electronic copies on a server in his house. Then No Reasonable Prosecutor would touch it.
Berenson is a tenacious asshole, but sometimes that’s just the guy you need.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-white-house-privately-demanded
He announced this morning that he intends to sue the Biden administration over this.
I also hear drugs are falling out of his ass.
CPA linked it at 7:49 AM.
He should win huge. They acted to censor based on government request. Money is the least thing he should get.
@Elon, what the heck? We have to wait until November for you to fire sale that place? You’ll take over just as it collapses under lawsuits unfortunately.
He only wants to pay whatever he finds in between his couch cushions.
Given all the kids he has, I wouldn’t want to touch those couch cushions.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thank you Pope Jimbo! Much needed today.
Of Course, the D.C. Zoo Has Its Own Police Force. (So Does the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.)
Not exactly news to us here. And naturally because they need the coolest toys it would appear they needed yet another pistol caliber.
Queue steeking badges montage:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XT8hE7_8BCY
Unfounded attacks on the integrity of the FBI erode respect for the rule of law
Now that’s funny.
Any unfounded attacks would erode respect for the law. Not as much as FBI corruption that is being attacked.
We are preserving Democracy!!! By serving the DNC.
I’ll respect the law when the FBI respects the law.
Reciprocity is one of the most fundamental tenets of social behavior across all of humanity. You don’t get to violate that without consequences.
As soon as everyone realized that the really important thing to be concerned about is [concern of the week], we can stop being distracted by the incessant questions about what exactly was seen by pilots and tracked and recorded on radar a couple of years ago undergoing accelerations that would flatten any biological entity from this planet and rip apart the terrestrial vehicle carrying it.
Swamp gas obviously.
I understand that state-of-the-art air defense radars are particularly sensitive to hypersonic masses of swamp gas.
I’d bet on “Bad code in the controller/signal interpreter” before I jump to “actual object behaving that way”.
Multiple times in different circumstances, with visual confirmation corresponding to the tracking data, from multiple witnesses?
Too much coincidence.
Given the general reliability of eyewitnesses and of computers, I can’t say that the evidence is compelling. I’m not going to rule out the possibility, it’s just that the coincidence is usually not all it’s cracked up to be.
I just have a hard time believing a possible object traversing interstellar space being picked up by our relatively primitive radar systems.
I’d wager they’re the equivalent of xenozoological grad students working with whatever craft their grant money can buy to study the native species of this planet.
I’m going to ruin the mystery here:
It is possible to use multiple interfering lasers (or masers) to create a ball of plasma at distance that will show up on radar.
Since these plasma balls form almost instantaneously in reaction to the superheating caused by the crossing point of the beams, they can be moved as if they have no mass.
It’s a technology developed to confuse enemy radar systems.
Heh, cool. That would explain some of the TFRs and NOTAMs in various areas about high energy laser sources.
Is that when the gators get Florida Man after Taco Bell runs at 2am?
Is you are a fourth dimensional entity moving like this is not a problem.
Not even Trump’s political pardons are safe.
Politicized Justice Goes Beyond Mar-a-LagoTrump gave clemency to Philip Esformes. The department is seeking to retry him.
I honestly thought we had a few more years until we reached true Banana Republic.
Vindictive and petty assholes abound
You are with the baddies and you should go ahead and concede.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on Thursday released her closing ad of the GOP primary, again attacking former President Donald Trump, who won Wyoming with nearly 70 percent of the vote in 2020.
In part, Cheney says in her ad:
The lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is insidious. It preys on those who love their country. It is a door Donald Trump opened to manipulate Americans to abandon their principles, to sacrifice their freedom, to justify violence, to ignore the rulings of our courts and the rule of law.
Nothing in our public life is more important than the preservation of the miracle given to us by God and our founding fathers. Nothing.
It grinds my gears how these cuntes wrap themselves in patriotism while being anti-American shitweasels.
Sounds like an invasive species that’s displacing the American Shitweasel in the nation’s manure piles.
She’ll be gone soon. Only way to save her is convince Democrats to vote for her.
She’s tried to persuade them. But analysts have pointed out there aren’t enough of them. At this point she should come out of the closet as a Democrat.
She could move to another jurisdiction, switch parties.
No way she wins in a blue state. Some ultra-prog will win over her.
Shove it up your ass Liz.
You mean rule of law? Fair elections? No political prisoners?
I mean, she’s not wrong. Without a government to be part of and a bunch of tax cattle to exploit, Liz would be working the checkout line in a Walmart. She needs the swamp way more than the swamp needs her.
Today is D-4.
The lie about weapons of mass destruction, from your dear fuckwad daddy, preyed upon those who love this country. It allowed Bush to manipulate Americans to abandon their principles, to sacrifice their freedom AND THEIR LIVES, to justify violence, to ignore the rulings of our courts and the rule of law.
Shall I continue Liz?
FoxNews is running the pro-Liz Cheney ad featuring Dick Cheney. I saw on the TV today at the gym. Cheney looks kinda like Palpatine in it.
Crank
If you ask Whole Foods’ outgoing CEO about socialism and young workers, he says there’s a revolution happening, and it’s not with pitchforks but with words.
Whole Foods cofounder John Mackey has a history of complex views that he’s shared over time. What Mackey likes: a vegan diet and free-market and libertarian ideals. What he doesn’t like as much: processed and frozen foods, unions, and being silenced.
An Ayn Rand lover who once cut his own salary to $1, Mackey’s dichotomy earned him the title of a “right-wing hippie” in a 2010 New Yorker profile. As a longtime fan of capitalism, he continued his crusade against socialism in the latest podcast from Reason, the long-running libertarian magazine.
“Socialists are taking over,” he said on the podcast. “They’re marching through the institutions. They’re taking everything over. They’re taking over education. It looks like they’ve taken over a lot of corporations. It looks like they’ve taken over the military, and it’s just continuing.”
Mackey stated last year that he’ll retire this coming September, and he told Reason that he’s “muzzled myself ever since 2009,” seeming to refer to a Wall Street Journal op-ed from that year in which he compared the Affordable Care Act to fascism.
And it’s not just the socialists irking Mackey; it’s also the kids these days. “They don’t seem like they want to work,” Mackey told Reason about younger generations in the workplace.
White supremacism has no place in American business.
He gave them a foothold with his whole stakeholder theory.
This. Mackey wanted feel-good capitalism that appealed to his hippie sensibilities.
He can still feel good that he sold overpriced food to these yuppies.
“Trump DENIES claim that FBI raided Mar-a-Lago for classified nuclear documents as new report states ‘dozens’ of boxes with ‘top secret files’ were found near pool storage room and in an office above ballroom”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11105857/The-nuclear-weapons-issue-hoax-Trump-slams-latest-report-classified-documents.html
This thing is going to get dragged out until after the midterms.
Is this shit coming from the DoJ, or 4chan?
Yes.
Heh
Good to see those lessons from Kosh are paying off, Swiss.
Taken by the guy who had absolute authority to declassify anything he wanted at the time. They have to prove that he didn’t mutter “declassified” as they were being moved out of the White House.
That will be the argument – it isn’t declassified until the minions have processed it. And if that takes a century or two, fuck Trump, right?
“New York City could become the first US city to implement a congestion fee for motorists entering its busiest areas.
The Big Apple’s new plan, laid out Wednesday by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, could see drivers charged as much as $23 to enter Manhattan’s central business district.
A study released with the plan projected a reduction in the number of cars entering Manhattan by 15% to 20%, which local officials hope will de-clog streets and boost public-transit ridership.
Local drivers in the city can expect to encounter the $23 fee, while the cost of a round trip by car from areas like Princeton, New Jersey, could be as much as $120.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11103557/NYC-city-implement-congestion-fee-motorists.html
WTF, NYC?
They’re tyring to accellerate the exodus.
So you’re saying it’s anti-semitic.
Seems like a good plan to drive people to move out of the city.
Discouraged isn’t even the strongest word for what I’m feeling right now.
Downtrodden? Defeated?
Anyway. I’ll just go ahead and fuck off.
What? why?
Wut?????
If it is work-related, just blow it the fuck off. Any sane person can’t stay sane when in the bureaucracy.
Chin up
How the life of Stalin is an allegory of the life of Jesus Christ
A thread
https://mobile.twitter.com/rino_innameonly/status/1557223761212223488
I’m not going to expose myself to the levels of toxic stupid required to make that twisted logic pretzel possible.
Where and how do you find the tankie nutbaggery?
Why go looking for the tankie nutbaggery?
Since the oldest members of Gen Z entered the workforce, they’ve become known for not exactly enjoying work, as movements such as #antiwork have arisen, born out of the idea that one’s identity starts outside the place of employment.
The idea that your workplace should be aligned with your personal, private values has gained popularity of late, especially with younger employees. A whopping 80% of Gen Zers want to work for an employer that lines up with what they believe in, according to a Linkedin survey. A job that accords with an employee’s values and interests seems far less important to other generations, clocking in at only 59% of millennials, 49% of Gen Z, and 47% of baby boomers.
Providing value for money in voluntary interactions does not appear to be one of their core private beliefs.
You see that in every generation. Consider that another BS media push to label a group. I have met tons of very effective Gen Z. All is not lost.
The only difference with prior generations is that all of us have to listen to them bitch and moan about it now and the MSM are only too happy to make it happen.
I remember the old saying “work to live don’t live to work”. Different context, but the core was your life and your work are separate worlds.
Providing value for money in voluntary interactions does not appear to be one of their core private beliefs.
Well, look at what they’ve been provided, for free, their whole precious little lives. When would you expect them to learn? You can’t complain about the younger generation without indicting the people that raised them.
That’s why we need retroactive student loan forgiveness, so that those that have paid their loans can be made whole again. It’s only fair.
A post graduation European summer vacation could be included
Spare me. Their problem is not that they don’t revolve their life around their work, it’s that they think they shouldn’t have to work in order to survive.
And they replaced their identities with the CURRENT THING.
Also, that they need work to line up with their identity because they don’t have much of an identity otherwise…
Yet their demands that their “identity” be “celebrated” and be the main thing about their presence inside the place of employment suggests the opposite.
“You ‘celebrate’ your ‘identity’ on your own time. Here, you do your damn job.”
If my workplace was “aligned with my personal, private values” it would outdoors and fun – perhaps hunting, fishing, and some farm work. Several attractive women would be busy making my lunch back at the farmhouse.
Hopefully I’m not just reposting something y’all have all seen before. The Missouri AG writes a letter dressing down the FBI about investigating CCW permits. It seems like it could have been half as long but he threw in a bunch of red meat for the Tucker Carlson viewers.
some leakage
C.D.C. Eases Covid Guidelines, Noting Virus Is ‘Here to Stay’
Because as little as say six months ago, we thought we were going to eradicate it like China’s current bugaboo? Fucking “experts”.
I’m awaiting the FAAs move since they are strictly following CDC recommendations.
I was about to say WOULD until I read her CV.
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/pressroom/fullbios_subjectmatterexperts/bio_GretaMassetti.html
Literally none of her areas of expertise have anything to do with diseases (unless you torture the definition, which they do).
Isn’t she a little on the small side for you?
I don’t understand why this traitorous cunte still occupies a federal office, let alone gets a microphone to wax dishonest.
“It’s sickening where we have arrived. We used to say somebody’s going to get killed. Well, people died on January 6. Today, what is just most intolerable is in the last 48 hours since the FBI searched Donald Trump’s home, you can draw directly from what Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lindsey Graham have all said, the threats against law enforcement, the lies that they told about law enforcement and what this individual posted online before he took up arms against the FBI. It’s a little personal for me because I have two brothers who are law enforcement officers.”
“This party, by the way, you told us for so long that they back the blue and they don’t want to defund the police, the when you talk like this, it doesn’t sound like you are pro-cop. It sounds like you are pro-coup.”
“There’s a correlation when America’s leaders stoke these conspiracy theories that these folks receive as a gospel and think they it is their duty to take up arms. People have been killed. More people are going to get killed until the lies stopped. Starting with the big lie, Donald Trump has pushed after the election and now the new life about the FBI search.”
He’s in office because the people voted him in. You have a beef – take it up with his constituents.
Don’t blame me. I didn’t vote for him. OK, I voted for him the first time around. I didn’t think he’d be as bad as the Dem incumbent he was running against, and I was right. He’s been worse.
Well, people died on January 6.
The government ruled it a good kill.
She was an obvious threat, unarmed and all!
She could have had a nuclear bomb in her backpack. Built from the designs Trump smuggled out of the White House to Mar a Lago. Connect the dots!
I’ll bet Steve has some things to say about people getting killed.
He is a performance artist. Just tune him out; everyone else does.
He should be treated like a brown noise, or note, if you will.
Trained professionals ladies and gentlemen. It only took 2 years to come to this conclusion.
NYPD detective arrested after shooting at thief who was trying to steal his car in 2020: law enforcement sources
Mind you he has just been charged. Should only take another 2 years or so for the trial.
Without the badge, he’d have been in Sing Sing for eighteen months already.
Good morning, WebDom.
We just stayed in a town called Forks in WA state. There was a store there completely packed with cryptid products. They got some of our money (even if they were light on Yeti stuff).
Snoqualmie, WA too!
When I arrived at my mother’s house for vacation she and my step dad were just getting over something and they still felt like shit.
Being that they are COVID true believers who refused to let my wife and I visit last year due to her not being vaccinated, I assumed they tested themselves for COVID.
After a week together, my 49 year old brother got really sick, and had to test for his work.
He has COVID for the second time and is not vaxxed.
Come to find out mom and step dad never tested themselves.
My brother doesn’t care about getting sick, but we are both confused as to why they didn’t test themselves.
She told my brother last year, “If you don’t get vaccinated, I guess you don’t love me”.
He replied, “I’m not getting the shot, take it how you want to”.
Not really sure the point of this story, just an odd anecdote.
I’m assuming they went all in on the “free” tests from the post office.
My sister in law works at a Dr. office, so she gets them there.
She is one of the staunchest anti COVID vaccine people I know.
“If you don’t get vaccinated, I guess you don’t love me”
Oy….
“If you loved me, you wouldn’t be demanding I endanger my health with injected nanoparticles.”
If you loved me you wouldn’t try to emotionally blackmail me.
I mentioned on here a few times that my mom had let COVID break her brain.
“Yes”
I’m sure Ron’s mother is lovely…
but sounds like she loves a good guilt trip.
She has moments, but she has never been a nice person overall.
I’m pureblood and untested. Sometimes you catch a cold. That’s the way it is.
I had to test because I refused to get the clot shots. All the tests came back negative. Probably because the fever I got in March 2020 was the first round of the bug.
I (probably) caught it in November 2019. The pandemic was over before it was announced in January 2020.
I agree, I am just surprised my mom didn’t test herself.
My theory is, she was scared it would ruin vacation.
No one has asked her yet?
She “knows” it wasn’t COVID.
My entire family of 5 had covid right after Thanksgiving and before Christmas. I recovered in time for Christmas and tested a few times to prove I was negative.
My grandparents would not visit with us because we had covid “recently”. They had no problem visiting other family members who never even tested, including my mom who works in a nursing home and did the bare minimum in getting a J&J shot.
Don’t test, don’t tell.
How the Fourscores remain immune. Avoid testing.
Was at the dentist a few days ago, still full blown Covid precautions. Anyway I had to fill out a Covid Questionnaire. At the bottom it said even if one is not vaccinated you will still be treated. Good thing for me.
I had my first appointment with my new Alaska GP the other day. Masking still in place – I wore my UnMask. This is the only place I’ve seen in Alaska asking for masks in a long time. But no questions on vaccines. No questions on ‘vid testing. Just the routine medical history queries.
I did get a brief lecture on my blood pressure. Also have to schedule a tailpipe inspection. Getting old sucks – but it’s better than the alternative.
I apparently lost my UnMask after the one time I used it (flying some months ago). That bums me out.
Exhaust inspection scheduled for Wednesday. Not looking forward to it – apparently they want part 2 of the prep to be consumed 6 hours before the procedure. Which is at 08:30. And, yes, they make it clear that you should wake up to do it if need be.
My PCP okayed poop-in-a-box as an alternative to the poop-er-oo lookie-loo. Way better than spending a day and a half on the throne completely evacuating the steerage section.
Is Angeldust really the best source of medical advice?
I have a family history of colon cancer (Dad, brother, one uncle), so the doc wants to go old-school.
First-timer, so I think they want to do it old school.
I have to get an old school one about every 3 years. Sometimes they schedule an endoscopy at the same time.
I always jokingly ask the doc to not mix the the tubes up. Obligatory scene from Idiocracy:
https://youtu.be/hmUVo0xVAqE?t=9
Was looking for a local place for guests to stay, so they’re spared the indignity of an inflatable mattress;
Local inn is demanding proof of vax.
Good thing you’re so busy you can turn away business. Oh, wait…
Outrageous. They didn’t just forget to update their website?
I didn’t call but, if so, they haven’t updated the site for either property:
https://www.morrisonhousebnb.com/
or the Davis Square Inn site
From their newsletter…
lulz
I’m in the Heart of Derpness here. True believers, all.
They didn’t test because if the test came back positive they would have felt shame.
When my vaxxed and boosted daughter tested positive she said “I thought I was better than that.” She was mostly joking, but I think it reflects the beliefs of a lot of the believers.
As good a theory as any.
Yep, my son vaxxed and boosted and caught it. Miraculously, he survived.
My brother felt horrible in the middle of the night, was a little better by afternoon, felt like shit in the evening and was fine, but a little weak the next day.
My vaxxed and boosted mom and step dad were sick for a week.
Son’s vaxxed and boosted fiancé did not catch it, but the other couple they traveled with, both did.
One-shot wonder myself and neither COVID or cardiomyitis.
My daughter had a fever and a real bad sore throat. My wife had a sore throat, but not as bad. I had a scratchy throat. So my boosted daughter had the worst case. My wife and I didn’t have the booster, but, what’s the line? “Thankfully we were vaccinated, otherwise it would have been much worse.”
We were on vacation when my daughter first showed symptoms. We gave her a test the day before we were supposed to go to Canada and it came back negative. So we smuggled a biological weapon into Canada.
I would love to see some reporter at a WH presser ask Biden directly how he feels about the Trump raid, in the light of “these same people can do it to your family in the future”.
Big cats are monsters and will kill you.
I used to read Drudge, but wow has it fallen off. Here’s the breathless headline:
“FEDS HUNT NUKE DOCS”
This links to an MSN article, that includes these gems:
“Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation.”
Nice, the old “sources familiar with the investigation.” Super credible.
“The people who described some of the material that agents were seeking spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. They did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including whether it involved weapons belonging to the United States or some other nation. Nor did they say if such documents were recovered as part of the search.”
Also nice, accusing without accusing. “The sources did not offer details on whether Trump screwed a mule.”
I forget when he sold it, but it was a bit of a coup by the whoever purchased it. I wouldn’t be surprised if the CIA was involved.
We are seeing the next big hoax built right in front of us.
What I find amazing is that these hoaxes are getting progressively dumber.
I found the alleged/would-be pickup truck bombers from awhile back particularly amusing.
Seriously, FBI/CIA/ et al, I could write you a better false flag scenario than the sjw ‘tards you seem to employ.
The foundation of this one is “Well, they wouldn’t have raided an ex-President’s home without an enormous amount of rock-solid evidence to support the affidavit.” Once again, whatever they do is self-justifying. This is a pretty common pattern in a lot of the anti-Trump hoaxes – claim something so outrageous that you dare people to say that its bullshit, because the only explanations are (a) its bullshit or (b) it must be supported by very good evidence.
They are freaking out because their silly shit isn’t working. They raided his house and the next day his endorsed swamp creatures ran the table.
They keep forgetting that the internet exists.
are getting progressively dumber
The arrow of history!
Well, obviously they wouldn’t bother searching for it if it wasn’t there.
Heaven and Hell
Amazing place. Would visit.
This one is closer and not as crowded.
But it is in Baltimore.
https://www.360cities.net/image/george-peabody-library
They have an extensive collection of HL Mencken’s works.
That is just beautiful.
Anyone up for a road trip? I haven’t been up to Baltimore since the Geppi Museum closed…
It’s an incredible space that far exceeds any other on Hopkins’ campuses. I’ve been there a few times and always visit if I’m passing through.
Where are the people using the Peabody Library? Books are meant to be read.
I think it gets used more for weddings and high-end political gatherings these days.
I wouldn’t even know about the Peabody library, except that people like to get married there.
And fuck Bauhaus style.
I had to look that up.
Agreed, not a style I want to have to put up with.
Bauhaus style?
Nice, not the expected link.
Yes.
Buenos Aires: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/el-ateneo-grand-splendid
Did they convert an opera house?
Theater
Neat-o!
Heaven and Hell.
Blatherskite
“For me, this is an incredible moment,” Markey said. “We are going to ultimately say to the American people: there’s no reason why you have to pay 4 or $5 a gallon for gasoline when you can have an all-electric vehicle that averages 75 cents for your payment for your all-electric vehicle to be able to move you anywhere you want in our state or in our country.”
What the fuck does that even mean?
Loan payments for EVs are only $0.75 per month?
Malarkey Markey.
Apparently, the cost to charge your EV to take you nearly 3,000 miles (the road distance from NYC to LA) is 75 cents. Sign me up!
Well, one obvious thing it means: He’s never looked at the starting price for EVs, and definitely never looked at the rates PG&E charges. Setting aside range / charger ability, etc.
In other words — he’s a grade A certified dumbass. (feel free to throw on any good Red Foreman meme gifs you have laying around…).
What a fucking, fucking moron. $4,000 won’t even cover the cost of replacing the battery in the used vehicle. And those packs are lucky to last five years.
Markey’s got John Denver’s hideaway? Storage tanks full.
Senator Markey is one of the dumber politicians who have won the cursus honorum here in MA. And that’s saying alot.
One of the little known highlight of his time in Congress is how he harried and pursued the carnival and amusement park industries for years. He was convinced that they were covering up an epidemic of rider deaths on roller-coasters. This epidemic only existed in his fevered imagination. The industries found themselves helpless in the face of his blistering ignorance since no evidence they proffered was sufficient to overcome his conviction.
When he won the primary to grab John Kerry’s seat, I thought it was hilarious.
That’s pathologically stupid.
Yet another grifter who has never held a real job in his entire life (graduated law school in ’72, Mass House in ’73, Congress since ’76).
If these cars are such a slam-dunk, why do we need to be bribed to buy them?
“…able to move you anywhere you want in our state or in our country…”
I want to go up a really long, mountainous four-wheel-drive trail.
I didn’t think so.
I enjoyed your cat story. I’m convinced cats come from…somewhere else. All the cats I’ve had have been great pets. Loving and fun…but there’s always something there that makes me wonder. Maybe the one you have is closer to the mother ship than the normal scouts. Keep an eye on it…must be some kind of overseer…
I believe 7 year old Kevin saw this at the drive-in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SEaSW1jtnQ
I saw that as a double feature with Star Wars when I was a child.
I guess I would have been 7 or 8.
I don’t remember much except the glowing collar.
The heyday of Disney right there.
Details schmeetails
The European Union and South Korea have raised concerns about proposed U.S. tax credits for purchases of electric vehicles, saying they may discriminate against foreign-made vehicles and breach World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.
Under the $430 billion climate and energy bill passed by the U.S. Senate on Sunday, Congress would lift the cap on the existing $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicle purchasers but impose restrictions, including barring vehicles not assembled in North America from receiving the credit.
The ban on tax credits for vehicles assembled outside of North America would take effect as soon as President Joe Biden signs the legislation.
The proposed legislation also includes provisions aimed at preventing use of battery components or critical minerals derived from China.
“We think it’s discriminatory, that it is discriminating against foreign producers in relation to U.S. producers,” said European Commission spokesperson Miriam Garcia Ferrer. “Of course this would mean that it would be incompatible with the WTO.”
Remember when Trump was destroying international “free trade”? It was like the worstest thing ever.
ORLY
I thought all that stuff came from China.
Are we now ramping up some sort of mining industry that doesn’t exist here?
China is the primary source because most other places with deposits aren’t willing to put up with the absolutely filthy process of separating the scant quantities found in any deposit from the rest of the deposit.
Except for Cobalt, which is mostly mined by child slaves in the Congo if the internet is to be believed.
Tesla uses Panasonic (Japan) for its cars.
That partnership has been going on for so long that Tesla Gigafactory Nevada is where Panasonic is building batteries for the newer cars.
I don’t think Japan has much in the way of rare earth minerals, where are Panasonic’s mined?
I believe a lot of it comes from South America, but some of the Chinese-produced Teslas use Chinese batteries, not Panasonics.
Panasonic is just gearing up to start extracting lithium from Nevada.
The bill is pretty darned convoluted.
https://electrek.co/2022/07/27/senate-moves-forward-ev-tax-credit-reform-tesla-tsla/amp/
Congress would lift the cap on the existing $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicle purchasers
What does “lift the cap” mean? You can write off the entire cost of the car? Somehow I doubt it but then the meaning is…unclear.
I bet the rest of the story is entirely accurate, though.
I think they are referring to the fact that the current law does not allow the tax credit for cars by manufacturers who have produced over 200,000 EVs.
So Tesla buyers couldn’t get the credit anymore once Tesla had sold 200,000 cars. The new bill will allow Teslas to qualify again. But only if the MSRP is less than $55k, so only for model 3s, basically.
That makes sense, but it sounds more like a cap on producers rather than purchasers.
Are we now ramping up some sort of mining industry that doesn’t exist here?
The EPA will fast-track those applications. The first load of ore should be bound for the smelter some time in early 2062.
Only 20 years after fusion power is developed
Then it’s overdue. When I had an internship at the DOE, the goal was to have fusion by the year 2000.
Fusion power is 20 years away, just like in 1980.
You deal with cryptid kitties with belly scritches. Obviously.
“It’s an animal thing” – Warty Riddick
But only a very specific number of scritches, lest you do one too many and wind up with itchy scratches on your hands.
Eh, I can’t find a good link to just the comic. DDG “Calvin and Hobbes pointy ends”.
http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/
404 on pointy ends though.
“[X] shall be the number of the scritches, and the number of the scritches shall be [X].”
Reports of alleged “alien sightings” or “mysterious creatures” are not uncommon in various parts of the world but the video has left a number of people feeling quite unsettled. The 33-second video shows a pale white creature moving through the streets of the town in an unusual manner.
Looks like a meth-head to me.
Yeah, that bent-over walk is classic.
I want to believe. I really do.
But I don’t.
That’s a heroin crouch. Heroin zombies look and walk exactly like that.
+1 Kensington Avenue in Philly
Yup.
Other planets are sending us their junkies! 😨😱
You mean they’re not sending us their best?!
Maybe on some planets, junkies ARE the best.
“Hey man, these are medical mentats.”
Why was Sam Harris ever a thing?
Who?
And I thought we sent the Rosenbergs to the electric chair.
*… for good reason.
We at least have an answer to why it took the FBI nine hours to search Trump’s mansion in Florida:
It is a large mansion, and the raid team had a lieutenant in charge, so they got lost.
*remembers not finding training area at Fort McCoy*
THAT’S NOT FUNNY!
“According to the Blue Force Tracker, there should be a road here”
Direct quote from our Platoon Commander as we drove through open desert on our way to the Iraq-Syrian border.
“Intermittent Road”
Violent nutjobs swarm honest noble public servants
Hours before a man identified by two law enforcement sources as Ricky Shiffer died in standoff with law enforcement after he allegedly attempted to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati field office on Thursday, Shiffer appeared to post on former President Donald Trump’s social media platform “TRUTH Social” to express his desire to kill federal agents.
The post, which has since been removed by the site’s moderators, appeared shortly after the FBI searched the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence, Monday.
“When they come for you, kill them,” the suspect wrote. “Be an American, not a steer.”
Shiffer was in Washington, D.C., on or around Jan. 6, 2021, though he was not arrested following the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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“There was just an explosion of angry rhetoric across right-wing media, across right-wing social media accounts,” Jessica Reaves, the editorial director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Extremism, told CBS News. “What is most notable to us is the uniformity of the calls for civil war across, quote, unquote, extremist and … ‘mainstream’ platforms and from people on, you know, across the board, in the right wing space.”
Reaves continued, “What we’re seeing today is a volume and a sort of pitch that we’ve not seen … in certainly at least 18 months, maybe more.”
Users on far-right platforms, pro-Trump message boards and Twitter threatened the Florida magistrate and shared what appear to be the judge’s home address and phone numbers and names and photos of possible family members. The threats, first uncovered by the non-profit investigative group Advancing Democracy Inc., were also shared on social media channels of the far-right militia group the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters, another militia group.
In addition, users have seized on reports that when he was practicing law, the judge represented employees of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, feeding into the false QAnon-driven narrative that there is a cabal of pedophiles and Satan-worshippers who run a global sex-trafficking operation.
Why don’t people appreciate the upholders of our social order? How can they believe these preposterous lies?
Kittehs!! Yay!
Here’s my 9 week old. This is the only photo I got of him that wasn’t blurry. He was on a playing and jumping rampage yesterday.
https://i.imgur.com/1XWJJLq.jpg
Katz noted that, “While the incitements and themes of this dangerous discourse do indeed resemble those seen before the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, we have not yet seen it reach the same volume and prevalence.”
But she added, “There are many developments to come and we must not work under the naive assumption that a similar event couldn’t happen again.”
Although GOP lawmakers’ language is more muted, extremism experts note that violent rhetoric mirrors ideas spread on far right platforms with statements painting the U.S. government as a “banana republic” or “police state.”
The threat is too great to ignore. We should lock them all up. out of an abundance of caution.
At a press conference Thursday announcing his department was seeking permission from a federal judge to unseal the search warrant used by federal agents to seize documents from Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the work of FBI agents and those involved in the case.
“The men and women of the FBI and the Justice Department are dedicated, patriotic public servants,” Garland said. “Every day, they protect the American people from violent crime, terrorism, and other threats to their safety, while safeguarding our civil rights. They do so at great personal sacrifice and risk to themselves.”
Selfless defenders of DEMOCRACY!
Isn’t Trump legally allowed to release the contents of the search warrant? Why be coy, at this point?
From what I hear, they didn’t allow any of Trump’s people to even read the warrent, which should be grounds to arrest the entire FBI team for home invasion.
About to board a flight to Portlandia for the weekend. I’m noting that SFO is about 50/50 masked versus free faced. The flight looks 70/30.
I was shocked at how few there were at SEA-TAC last weekend. It is funny watching people coming off the planes and matching the masking with the departure city.
I’ve noticed significant percentage differences even within the Bay Area itself, let alone California. In places in NorCal where you commonly see State of Jefferson flags the amount of wearers starts to get down to the single digits.
Never done more than drive through Logan, but Hocking Hills is a great place to visit. I highly recommend it if you live anywhere near the area, or even if you’re just passing through. Old Man’s Cave and Cedar Falls in the state park is a good place to start for a day trip and hiking, but there are campgrounds and cabins all over the place.