Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for those who don’t use a car to commute as oil spiked, with CA hitting an average of $4 a gallon.
Pelosi tries to control the monster she helped create. Too late, Nancy, too late.
Meanwhile, Warren is promising a unicorn in every pot. Those responsible enough to pay off their debts feel like suckers.
How can you not love this girl?
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for those who don’t use a car to commute as oil spiked, with CA hitting an average of $4 a gallon. – sounds like a good price to me
Well CA is trying to implement the same taxes you Euros do so people can’t escape to better pastures without using government supported means (and thus government approval).
Easy to do the math in CA, gas $ 4, need 25 gals, hmmm, carry the 1, WOW, can that be right?
I pay 30% more than that and the wages here aint as high
How have you Euros not rebelled? There should be guillotines in the streets and heads on pikes.
no sacrifice is small enough for Mother Gaia
“Used to be we sacrified mites. Of late we’ve been sacrificing bacteria. There’s been debate if it’s possible to sacrifice virii instead.”
so you support free government healthcare i see
We can euthenize the instutions freely, yes.
Is mother Gaia one of the pols living like royalty in Brussels while the serfs get robbed blind?
they work hard for the common good they deserve tax free income and 50 days vacation a year
I am sure every aristocrat has always felt that way. Even the ones that spent their days just chasing down and fucking the help.
An American is a human that thinks 100 years is a long time.
A European is a human that thinks 100 miles is a long distance.
I heard it as “In the US, 50 years is a long time. In the UK 50 miles is a long distance”
Mine’s bigger.
I barely buy a tank of gas per month anymore so I dont pay much attention to the price but remember fairly recently I was paying $1.90
Also just seen on the teevee: “I will give congress 100 days to pass sensible gun control. If they do not act I will take executive action.” – Hillary Clinton 2016
She subsequently gets her ass handed to her by Donald Trump.
“I will give congress 100 days to pass sensible gun control. If they do not act I will take executive action.” – Kamala Harris 2019
They haven’t learned anything. Thank God.
I found it utterly hilarious Kamala decided to go down that road again. Absolutely friggin hilarious.
It will get her a lot of support in the primaries. There are a lot of people in her party that would prefer a world where their shitlording and assaults on people could not result in someone drawing a gun and blowing them the fuck away.
You should just get rid of all your guns just in case
They will keep pushing for it until they get what they want. After all, you can’t go full woke evil SJW on the serfs if they have the means to fight back.
I spend too much on gas. The problem with having a car that is fun to drive aggressively is that it makes it more likely that I will drive it in a non-gas efficient way.
If they do not act I will take executive action.
Already intending on being in violation of multiple constitutional provisions and she hasn’t even come close to taking that oath of office.
Wealth tax, huh? I guess she plans to amend the constitution to allow it?
Who cares about a hundred year old paper put together by slave owning cis hetero white dudes wearing wigs and high heels, huh?
“Living, breathing document!!!”
(That magically morphs into meaning whatever the fuck we happen to want at present.)
And then we get told people that think like that are “constitutional scholars’. Me, I am still old fashioned and believe a constitutional scholar is someone that actually isn’t trying to find shit in the constitution that isn’t there and doing so for political expediency.
And they call Trump a tyrant…
*psh* It’s not like she’s going to survive the primary anyway.
Oh, I know, it’s just incredible how she blatantly promises unconstitutional economy-busting programs in her desperation to buy votes, knowing damn well it’s all empty bullshit.
What scares me more is that there are so many people that think the crowd promising these ponies can actually deliver, or worse, if they do deliver, what the consequences of that will be.
People always wonder how you end up in a shithole like the numerous examples of marxist utopian dystopias we saw in the 20th century, and it is because people choose to ignore reality and the way the world really works in favor of their own pet peeves or the promise of free ponies/unicorns for all.
Nancy also says there is no taint of anti-semitism in the Democratic party (and I’m sure no cannibalism in the Royal Navy).
It is sort of fun watching Pelosi get punked by the crazies in her party.
When I saw that your holiness, I wondered if she was punking us or if she really believes that if she just denies it the stupid plebes will choose to accept her take on events instead of the evidence they have seen so far. Does not bode well for us that these sort of people exist in either the political class or the voting for a living class..
Yup. That is some pro wrestling interview balls to get on the mike and say something that outrageous.
Like you said Alex, she was the person who started the resolution to condemn anti-semitism. Sane people would ask her what she was doing then if there was no taint of antisemitism.
Who are you going to believe? Me or your lyin’ eyes?
Pelosi and Taint are not words I’d like to associate, thanks
Pelosi is a crafty old woman. She knows there is no benefit to her for coming out strong for impeachment early on. If the House does bring articles of impeachment her tardiness will be lost as a footnote in history.
She’s crafty, but I think she is out of her depth here.
She’s like Bobby Knight when he went to Texas Tech. The kids had fundamentally changed and the tactics that he used on previous generations of kids didn’t work anymore.
No one is listening to that crusty old authoritarian fuck. The kids are sure they know how to do things better and they ain’t got no time to listen to anyone.
“No one is listening to that crusty old authoritarian fuck”
Don’t I know it. Kid from Hibbing was singin’ songs about that 60 years ago
Yeah! Now is the time of the fresh, shiny, NEW authoritarian fucks!
Even for thos of us who do, it’s not like we own exploding Teslas. We’ve seen expensive gas before.
What about crazy bunny boiling ex girlfriends that want to key your car because you decided sticking it in crazy was not worth it? Have we seen enough of that as well?
Alex, it’s not my fault you don’t know how to dispose of a bunny boiler properly.
I have a foolproof method for avoiding that.
Does it work after you were tempted to stick in crazy because she was just too hawt to pass?
At some point you figure out it just aint worth it. I make sure the crazies dont even know I am in the world.
Have not gotten to the point where the big brain can override the little brain all the time yet 🙁
Crazy broads are easily the hottest. Just gotta have an exit strategy before you start.
Yeah, usually the good looking women that are not crazy at my age are taken. I assume that when I meet a single woman in the age group I have an interest in, that she is not single because she is just a great catch and nobody good enough has come along (occasionally you can find a recently widowed woman that might be a catch i am told, but have not had that experience, likely cause I will not just troll funerals to be first in line) to grab her. She is single because most guys – including some ex(s) or the guy that got her pregnant – realized she was super high maintenance and ran off.
Since I am not looking for anything permanent (I don’t want to inflict me on anyone for the rest of their lives) I hope that we can come to a mutual agreement to just have a good time (and I am up front about that). More often than not, no matter how crazy she is, we (well, certainly, I) have a good time for as long as it lasts. Indubitably though I find myself a month or so later dealing with someone that suddenly did a 180 and wants to know where the “relationship” is going. At that point I exit stage left.
Some women expect that the previous arrangement should become null and void at their convenience, and object when I call it quits because I no longer think the situation is one that will not go south fast. Heck, I had a hawt redhead tell me she needed commitment because she simply couldn’t keep her workout pace and eating like a bird much longer, for example. Another one told me she felt without commitment she couldn’t turn down sex. They were both really pissed because I pointed out that was my queue to move on. Writing on the wall and all that..
Just stick in the bunny?
-1 exploding puffins
Katelyn Ohashi scores 9.950 in her final floor routine for UCLA at the NCAA Championships
My concern is that one way to read “ohashi” is as “chopsticks”!
thicc?
I always feel like a pervert watching women’s gymnastics. Am I a pervert?
Yes, but it has nothing to do with watching women’s gymnastics.
“That uncle who watches women’s gymnastics while bouncing the popcorn bowl on his lap and humming ‘Thank Heaven for Little Girls’”
Those aren’t chopstick legs.
I noticed that…
Wariashi?
How can you not love this girl?
By the looks of those thighs, I would proceed very carefully either way.
-1 Xenia Onatopp
Did she use “Chopsticks” as the music for her routine?
Drumsticks.
Morning to you too Banjos, and dang it, I’m sad I missed the
weeabooSpirited Away thread. Thanks, Sensei, it was a pleasant and nice read!My pleasure. I also enjoyed straffinrun’s oyaji gag on the title “sentou chikubi”.
In English “bathhouse nipples” which is appropriate given the setting.
Indeed, I relished the puns as well. Reminds me I should look back into rewatching the Monogatari series since maybe just maybe I can understand some of the jokes by now.
I love that series, but it’s truly hardcore.
It came out in anime form right when I started my learning. So it actually makes it interesting to re-watch to see what I can pick up.
I can’t explain it’s success outside Japan.
I…can’t explain either, but I think it’s because all the characters are genuinely interesting and gripping. Just look at best girl, Kaiki Deishuu.
Same here. Thanks, Sense.
It was too late to comment, but Rhywun won that thread by posting the REM link instead of the expected Aerosmith one.
I… didn’t know it was an Aerosmith song. Never particularly liked them.
I can’t believe Youtube makes you sign in to watch a Pink Floyd video.
I knew it first as an REM cover of an Aerosmith song I didn’t know.
Meanwhile, Warren is promising a unicorn in every pot. – I like how 2% wealth tax is presented like nothing much… A stock market dip and that will drop significantly
Collectivist never think that their “quest for justice” will result in bad things, despite the fact that it always – sooner than later – does.
*EDIT FAIRY HELPS YE*
Maybe Edit Faerie halps?
that is difficult to read but good point
Edit Faerie is also a gymnast?
getting pictures like that picture is why I did that screwed up job! NOYCE!
Ooooh, my favorite edit fairy. Kami-sama be praised.
That’s how the income tax was introduced – just the
tiptop 2% paying a small fraction of their income. 20 years later the top rate was over 90% and FDR was thrusting it as deep into the middle class as he could.Yeah, that would seem to be the easy way to beat the constitution: just set marginal rates at, say, 99%.
Lawmakers also acknowledged the Republican-controlled Senate would not convict the president and remove him from office if the House impeached him.
But they will get to say, “Trump was impeached!”.
Payback for Clinton! Cause he was impeached, not for his lying, but playing around with chubby interns!
/progtard
That will make them feel better after Trump is reelected and the Repubs take back the House.
Former L.A. sports reporter Kelli Tennant has filed a lawsuit against Sacramento Kings head coach Luke Walton in which she says he sexually assaulted her, according to TMZ Sports.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2832625-tmz-kings-hc-luke-walton-sued-for-sexual-assault-by-reporter-kelli-tennant
I wanna see a bit of evidence on this one…
The truth will prevail. She fabricated the story.
Video or pics, or it didn’t happen?
Luke Walton already has another job? That was fast.
While my country is falling apart and nobody buys my promises of social justice anymore, I certainly can score points, by sending props to an evil dead fuck on his birthday.
Talk about shitlordery.
RE: Student Debt Suckers.
https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1120448491187261440
The responses will make you want to drive a sharp object through your eye socket, into your brain and wiggle it around until you can’t feel feelings or think thoughts anymore.
Every D candidate seems to be deliberately throw the election. If they were actually trying to do that I dont know how they could do a better job than they are now.
Do not estimate how large the pool of people wanting free shit (and believing the nonsense that someone else will pay for it) is Suthen. And considering how broad the swath of promised free shit is, they might just get enough people to pass the bar.
What’s really fucked, to my mind, anyway, is that they’re encouraging people with student loans to only ever make the minimum payment and to live forever under the burden. Why would you be a sucker and work to pay it off when you can string it out, accruing interest, and hope the Dems someday make good on their promises? And keep voting Dem, of course.
I’m thinking they gotta do something along the lines of cancelling the interest payments on most of the debt. You’ve got irresponsible kids, bankers and govt involved in this clusterfuck. Right now, only the kids are getting fucked. Spread that pain around all those involved somehow.
This, also get them colleges to feel the pain.
How did I forget the biggest scumbags of all, the Universities? Absolutely include them in the pain sharing.
Many people discussing this topic have pointed out that making the schools responsible for some of the debt, even as little as 25%, would quickly and effectively reverse some of the terrible trends today that have driven the student debt crisis. It is by far the most effective single change that would quickly make a difference. For one, schools will no longer allow people getting a lot of money to waste it on degrees that will not pay later. And the fact that they will stop playing the virtue signalling games they do today that screw over so many people that are allowed in without the needed qualifications to actually be able to succeed.
It would also collapse the administrative bureaucracies that have taken over these schools and turned them into places of indoctrination instead of where people go to learn how to think. And that is why we will never get it.
There were loads of useless (sometimes downright harmful) departments when I was in uni 25 years ago. That shit has to get cut and this should be a perfect opportunity to do it.
This is an excellent idea. Students should only be allowed to get useful degrees, with “useful” being defined by a group of bureaucrats.
They could create projections and plan future employment demand, say every five years. What could possibly go wrong?
I would like you to elaborate on how/why you think “bureaucrats” will define what useful degrees are when what will count is the ability to get a job that will allow you to pay the loans back? Or are you implying that we will get a system where graduates are guaranteed jobs by government?
Well, somebody above said “For one, schools will no longer allow people getting a lot of money to waste it on degrees that will not pay later.” How are schools going to do that, other than restricting which majors students can choose? And of course, “schools” don’t make these decisions, panels of administrators within these schools (or within their governing boards) make these decisions. Despite myths to the contrary, universities don’t offer degrees in particular fields because they are woke. They offer them because students want them, in sufficient numbers to justify the cost. Telling students they can’t pursue a degree in X because I don’t think it’s a good choice for them strikes me as decidedly un-libertarian. This, of course is different from telling students that I’m not going to subsidize their choice, which is perfectly OK.
I completely agree that student loan money is being squandered in vast sums. I think, though, that the solution is actually fairly simple: stop treating them differently from other loans. End government guarantees, and let those who cannot repay go bankrupt and let the lenders eat the cost, just like with any other loans. This will force them to do an honest risk assessment. It may also mean that students who intend to major in grievance studies have a harder time getting loans, which again is perfectly OK.
I see that one guy doesn’t understand how to use the apples/oranges comparison.
I hate a lot of things, but Twitter is right near the top of the list.
the replies are somewhat retarded
Every time I hear about forgiving student loans, I think back to my Freshman English course where a classmate boasted that he was taking out a student loan to go on spring break.
I was appalled. That sounded like a horrific financial decision, even to my 18 year old brain with less understanding of compound interest than I have today, but it looks like I’M the sucker since he might have that debt forgiven at my expense.
I will agree to making student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. The banks should have to split the losses with the schools.
As far as forgiveness goes… NO AND FUCK YOU
My next tee shirt.
Joke is on you, Scruffy. As of 2010, YOU ARE THE BANK.
Weird how a woman who spent most of her life in higher ed wants to keep colleges fat and happy.
California could start the debt forgiveness program without fed interference. It would be a great way to get a youth migration of educated young people to move to CA. CA would be a go to state.
They only want the forgiveness thingy if other people are footing the bill. Socialism 101: other people’s money FTW!
Look at the outrage over limiting deduction of state and local taxes. Not at the high tax locales either.
Let’s see if this comment goes in the right place….
One big experiment on the lesson of incentives.
That comment fits just fine into most every thread here.
Good morning all. Banjos, your taxidermy pics never fail to delight me. Thanks.
I view them with equal parts fascination and horror. But they are part of what makes us who we are.
“I view them with equal parts fascination and horror”
I say the same about HM links and SugarFree posts.
One source said it was a “fairly sober discussion,” with members generally expressing a “belief Trump should be impeached, but great fear of what the political consequences would be.” Lawmakers also acknowledged the Republican-controlled Senate would not convict the president and remove him from office if the House impeached him.
If he really is the criminal you think he is then you should do the right thing and impeach. Of course, their only principle is acquiring power.
Exactly this. I’d have more respect for them if they did impeach; at least it would be following their rhetoric and “principles”. If he really is a treasonous, unprecedented threat to the country then they shouldn’t care about the political ramifications.
Of course we all know it’s pointless theater.
“I want to try the Tide Pod challenge but I’m worried about getting sick.” That’s the point of the stunt! You’re worried your partisan, political stunt will be wielded by partisans to hurt you politically? QUELLE SURPRISE!
Has someone who does confectionaries done a variant of the tide pod challenge where they first make a fake tide pod from gummy candy?
Who’s worse, WaPo, NYT or CNN?
I vote WaPo, CNN and NYT in that order.
Funny thing is prior to it’s TDS – the WaPo actually tried to be somewhat critical in how it covered DC. I would have ranked it well above the NYT.
Now the WaPo is just plain nuts.
Well, CNN is the most deranged, but the NYT is the most racist.
Yes.
Swissy won the internets!
I have never had such a hard question in my life.
Yes.
And you get second place!
NPR
Is there a thinking out of the box trophy that we can also issue?
I second this. The amount of stealth propaganda that they ham handedly try to sneak through in just about everything is nuts.
I’ll say not the NYT. Why? On the very low bar that every once in a while they allow a good story to slip through the cracks and be published.
Of course, they don’t stick with it and crusade against the evil of asset forfeiture, but at least it is out there for you to show proggie acquaintances that yes shit like this does exist – even your paper of record says so.
The fact that they get told not to bother with jewelry or computers because the first is hard to actually get good money for while everyone already has gotten the later, is proof to me that this practice must die.
“I can’t tell you how many people have come in and said, ‘Oh, my hijito would never do that,’ ”
I buy that. Or rather, the implication that the parent or grandparent usually does know, at least tacitly. But hey, guess what? If you think she’s an accessory to the crime, charge her. If you think prosecutors can make the aiding charge stick, file it. You’re using forfeiture to get around having to make the case.
I can’t even.
The NYT also does fairly good non-political reportage — the human interest-type stories. That’s where their best work is, but it goes largely unrecognized due to the overwhelming tide of political news and editorials.
MSNBC?
MSNBC doesn’t count for me because I don’t think they were ever considered an unbiased news source.
“You’re Supposed to Cheer, OK?”
Again, they haven’t learned anything. I hope Jeb called to congratulate her.
‘I think we have very good reason to believe that there is an investigation that has been conducted which has produced evidence that tells us that this President and his administration engaged in obstruction of justice,’ Harris said.
‘I believe Congress should take the steps towards impeachment.’
In response to a question posed to her during a CNN town hall, she said: ‘I believe that we need to get rid of this President.
Yea, sure.
*adds popcorn to grocery list*
Get your RDA of vitamin Woke here. Minneapolis light rail trains run on wind power for Earth Day!!!
No, trains didn’t run off and on as the wind blew (or didn’t). They simply purchased “wind credits”.
It would seem to me that a truly viable wind power industry could commit to providing the actual energy in real time.
If you’re going to use wind power to drive a train, put sails on top of the cars.
I understand vitamin and mineral supplements can have up to 80% more than whats on the label so be careful not to ovdrWoke
Well why not? Empty trains driven by empty promises.
Nice.
And paid for by an empty national treasury.
Those trains aren’t empty, They are mobile homeless shelters and their occupancy is a function of wind chill, so wind power makes totes sense.
Yeah, at one time my electric utility company let you “buy” your power from other, more crunchy utilities. They did charge you for delivery (ie, infrastructure) and administrative charges. I don’t know whether this was a cram-down from the state, but wouldn’t be surprised. The utility made a big show of offering that for a couple of billing cycles, then nothing.
I’ve had people actually go door to door trying to get people to switch to ‘green’ sourced power, which charges at a higher rate per kilowatt-hour.
Mind you, I literally have a hydroelectric station less than a mile from my house. Why would I want more expensive wind and solar power?
We have tons of those assholes roaming my neighborhood. To nobody’s surprise, they’re a total scam that preys on senior citizens.
I have a marathon interview scheduled for this afternoon with 5 different VP’s in a financial services company. How should I prepare? Cocaine or meth?
… I don’t know.
I’ve only ever winterviewed with tech people. Tech people are more adderall/meth than anything else.
I think most of them will want to hear stories about all the awesome incredible things I’ve done in the past. I hope the HR lady doesn’t start in on behavioral questions – I find those rage-inducing.
“I have been known to massacre entire HR departments on a whim. The company would see instant productivity spikes until someone made the mistake of hiring replacements.”
I was told a bunch of HR people that made me attend a diversity training class that I should be the head of HR. I would change the policies to make all HR employees respond to anything brought to them by the slackers with “shut the hell up and get your lazy ass back to work you freaking snowflake”. It was not well received.
My goto reply would be: “Sounds great. Put together a proposal that has a slide deck overview of the project, a project work plan and a detailed budget”
No one would ever come back. “Man, I got to do work? That sucks!”
Anyone who did come back with those items would be fired because they obviously had too much time on their hands and too much ambition.
They didn’t hire any new HR replacements. Those were just hobos that set up as squatters in those vacant cubes. No one could tell the difference between Foul Ole Ron’s muttering “buggrit” over a PowerPoint deck on Diversity & Strength in the Corporate Workplace and the presentations of the previous staff.
I bet you that hobo would do a better job at it than some tools with one of those useless “studies” degrees….
I haven’t had an HR-driven interview in a long time. What kind of behavioral questions?
“tell me about a time that… (insert something that’s never happened)… how did you respond.”
Repeat for an hour, then go to the next interview and get asked the exact same questions but you are supposed to use different examples.
Verizon did that to me about 8 years ago. I had a full-time job at the time and had used a vacation day for the interview – then nobody there would have a normal conversation. I walked out pissed and didn’t bother to send any of them thank you notes. Screw that Kafkaesque craphole.
Why would you send them thank you notes? They’re not doing you a favor, it’s a business negotiation – can we make each other money?
One of the reasons you send a thank you note is so you and the actual managers/workers can start a back channel conversation without the interference of HR.
Correct – and it usually indicates that you are interested in the job and were actually listening to what the interviewers were saying.
Is it common in your industry that disinterested people manage to feign interest/attention through the entire interview?
I’m sorry, that sounded snide.
I didn’t mean it that way.
It just doesn’t make sense.
Yes – yes it is. Then, after you get the job, you have to continue to feign interest in the work and respect for your management. That’s were raises and bonuses come from.
I’ve never worked anywhere that gave bonuses, and my current employer doesn’t give raises based upon individual employee performance (I’m sure you’ll be shocked to hear that.)
So like many things, bad management practices here have distorted my expectation of normal.
I also interviewed with Verizon in Basking Ridge.
It was truly bizarre. Although I did note that my phone (on Verizon cell service) did get 5 bars of service everywhere in the campus…
Yep – that’s were it was. A real puzzle-palace.
I think that the last time I had a question like that, a manager at IBM asked me why he shouldn’t hire me and my reply was “Because you have a drinking problem that affects your ability to make good decisions?”
The guy laughed his ass off and was a great boss for several years while I was in college.
(I wasn’t as flippant as it sounds, we had already established a very good rapport in the interview)
Yeah, it’s STAR questions. Total BS.
Situation: Set the scene and give the necessary details of your example.
Task: Describe what your responsibility was in that situation.
Action: Explain exactly what steps you took to address it.
Result: Share what outcomes your actions achieved.
https://www.themuse.com/advice/star-interview-method
My company uses that as well. And poorly written job descriptions and interview questions.
Drink lots of coffee. Lots. Then when you spot the trash cans in their offices, you can mark them as your territory.
SO this is how one gets a job in Arizona…
They need the moisture. It is like Arrakis down there.
Why not both?
Seriously, I knew a guy who mixed them together. Surprisingly he’s still alive.
He did briefly become one with the speed force though.
THAT’s why this timeline is so comic-bookish!
I bet he didn’t have a weight problem.
Coffee and Adderall make for a good occasional buzz. Don’t think I’d want to mix it with cocaine though.
Why not both?
“financial services company”
Peyote. It’s the only way.
Be sure to bring enough for everyone else. Oh, and tuck a Glock into your waistband as well.
Has Gabbard done a town hall yet?
I’m not sure, but even if she did, CNN would probably forget it ever happened.
Yeah, Gabbard did one. Was on CNN on a Sunday night probably 6 weeks ago give or take.
Titty Tuesday gives a reason to live in an otherwise bleak and pointless existence.
https://thechive.com/2019/04/22/hotness-like-this-is-needed-on-a-monday-31-photos/
2 and 5. I thank G-d such beauty exists in this world.
the link says monday
also 5
*High-fives Pie*
There is just not enough popcorn in the world. DeBlasio wants to retrofit every building in NYC and ban skyscrapers, steel and glass buildings.
The further left they go the more they pile on the crazy. I guess this is what happens when you believe in a philosophy that says truth and reality are not objective.
It’s like watching a silly movie.
The old Soviet style concrete block buildings?
I believe the term is ‘Butalist’.
I had an ex who absolutely thought the DC metro stations were beautiful. She is now a professor of urban planning.
ZARDOZ’s most hated form of building!
C.H.U.D.s
That would be my guess. I think the bleakness is a tool for commies, it crushes hope.
I wonder how many of DeBlasio’s cronies have interest in “green” building retrofitting companies? How many lives will be lost through falls, falling debris, etc? How many hours of unnecessary horror must Manhattanites endure for all the lane and street closures this will necessitate? The actions of these people always increase the suckage for everyone.
I thought living in Manhattan was nothing except unnecessary horror?
Anyone remember Grenfell?
Good morning, Banjos!
Easy to mock that song (well, S&G primarily), but damn if it isn’t brilliant.
Tundra,
I saw your question in the afternoon links: The summary is ok, but a little overwrought.. especially when he talks about how much training and documentation his Cessna has.
This sums up the design failure path items:
This does revolve around tryin to to have a single type rating and the cost savings that go with that.
The problem now is that between the 1st crash and the 2nd everyone did differences training on the MCAS and it still didn’t help.
So there seems to be another subtle issue where after disabling the MCAS and with it the electronic trim, that the stick forces are now so high that the manual trim cannot operate. The pilots were stuck with too much downforce, and a descending overspeed aircraft.
It seems that there was no way of re-engaging the electronic trim without also engaging the MCAS, that continued on its failure path. I expect them to add a very manual electronic trim for emergency purposes, or separate out the trim from MCAS.
I also expect that some novel techniques will be developed to handle failures of this class that aren’t in the normal syllabus. Normally trim issues are handled in the vertical plane, but I have seen a technique emerge that banks can also be used to divert pitch forces from placing the aircraft into an altitude that is not desired. Up pitch issues would use inside turning circles to direct part of the up force into turning forces. Conversely down pitch issues could be handled by outside turning circles which would keep the aircraft from descending and gaining energy.
Thanks, Doc. I had my suspicions but wanted a pilot to read it.
It still sounds like Boeing made the process too complex. And the lack of multiple sensor inputs is baffling.
It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Without detailed 737 diagrams and avionics connection logic you can’t really have an opinion, and I think this writer is summarizing.. they certainly have a poor opinion of Boeing’s engineers.
As an example, the avionics service manual for my 4 seat aircraft with all digital instruments is 160 pages, another general platform manual is 200 pages. . That doesn’t include the autopilot which is another 115, and that autopilot is very simple.
We can look at a slightly higher class of airplane that does have a stick shaker and pusher: The Pilatus PC-12NG
https://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/data/tech_pub/PC-12%20PIM%2002211%20R14_.pdf
Section 7-25-5 details the stick shaker/pusher logic. The system has dual AOA probes, and computers. The shaker logic is an “or” symbol.. so if either computer thinks there is a problem, the stick will shake. The push logic is “and” logic… so both computers need to agree to “push” with the understanding that pilots are trained to take action at the first instance of shaking and not wait for the pusher to save them.
It seems odd that similar logic wasn’t really in the MCAS/pusher system. They often have triple redundancy in systems where two votes can override the 3rd.
Sri Lanka: Easter bombings ‘retaliation’ to New Zealand attacks
Okay. I talked about it yesterday – they aren’t going to respond like a Western country. Muslim villages will burn and the relatives of the bombers will have to flee the country to avoid being killed in the street by the military or civilian mobs.
They did that recently in…uh…Bangladesh?
villages will burn and the relatives of the bombers will have to flee the country to avoid being killed in the street by the military or civilian mobs.
Ah, the Sherman.
Civil asset forfeiture (aka: theft) FTW!
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-wish-list-when-deciding-which-assets-to-seize.html
universal child care for every baby zero to five
For the ones that survive, I suppose. But maybe not even them, considering recent moves/votes by Team Blue at the federal and state levels.
Who wouldn’t want to send their kid to the childcare equivalent of the DMV?
Ceaucescu approves.
Leonidas approves.
What the fuck is this?
Kamala Harris open to Bernie Sanders’ call of letting Boston Marathon bomber vote from prison
They really have lost it.
They are getting crazier by the day.
Glenn Greenwald: ” I think Donald Trump broke a lot of people’s brains”
Holy fuck. Keep it up Dems, y’all gonna lose bigly in 2020.
I can’t even imagine how much more crazy they have left to unveil in the run up to the Primary.
I often wonder if I didn’t slip into some absurdist hell without noticing…
I noticed, and I’ve been looking for the portal home, but the thing about this place is that logic doesn’t apply, so it isn’t where I expect to find it.
First you need to get the Necronomicon…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgvXtexdgAM
Damn, I only have Dee’s edition.
Wait, I wasn’t supposed to tell anyone there’s an intact copy of that version.
Can’t wait for this entire field of Dems to fall over each other seeking his endorsement in the primary.
I just don’t get how anyone can vote Democrat or Liberal at this point.
They’re immoral mental cases.
By being an immoral mental case, like a large chunk of our population has become.
Unfortunately a national divorce would only delay the day of reckoning as the intellectual rot exists on both sides.
Yet broach ending infringement & restoring firearms rights to ex-felons would get you looks like you’re the crazy person.
It seems like desperation – they are gradually losing their traditional identity-group based voting blocs, and are betting it all on staunching the bleeding with illegals and felons.
So here is my prediction on the College Reparations Craze.
After getting a lot of flack from people who have paid their college loans back, Warren & Co. will decide that it is only fair that those people will be be repaid and the Feds will send them a check every month until the money they paid back has been returned.
In an unexpected twist though, this leads to more opposition to the plan, not less. Why? Because the current crop of people who can’t pay back their loans will be incensed that all they get is a loan forgiveness, but those other people will actually get cash money back. That just isn’t fair. Those bastards have jobs. They don’t need that money.
Warren & Co. will then announce that those people with college loans in arrears will also get cash back. Again, this will not appease the mob. At this point various groups will demand that they get more money than others because of their victim status. Blacks, gays, trans, etc will all demand some sort of multiplier to their cash payments to atone for the sins of America.
At some point, even Warren will snap and have a Sister Soulja moment where she calls the punks a bunch of deadbeat grifters and -releasing her inner Judge Smails – tells them that they will get nothing and like it.
*The only part I don’t 100% believe is the last one where Warren snaps.
What about the checks for those of us who never had college loans to begin with?
You will be the ones writing them.
Yeah. Those that never took loans, and those that repaid the loans already will be told to foot the bill for the idiots that borrowed upwards of $100K to go pursue their dream and graduated after 7 years with a BA and a degree in one of the various “Studies” leaving them only qualified to do work as a barista.
^This
Your obviously privileged and owe everyone else.
And if you didn’t go to college, obviously you were shirking your Civic duty
What about checks for taxpayers who will pay for this but never went to college?
If you work in a union, you will be eligible for payouts too. If you are some independent shitlord, you are SOL.
If we start seriously moving towards student loan forgiveness, I’m enrolling in law school and taking out massive loans for it. I’ll use that money to buy some houses and drop out of law school. When they forgive the debt and the housing market zooms, I’ll sell those houses.
If I’m gonna get fleeced to pay for a huge giveaway, I’m at least gonna try and recover the loss on the front end. There’s no sense in just sitting there and taking a beating for having been financially responsible in the past.
Law school? Not me, I’m enrolling in Geezer Studies to learn all the ways that my age makes me a victim. I’m sure there will be a Geezer Studies program if student loan forgiveness becomes a thing because there will be a lot of people like Subwoofer and me who decide to abuse the system.
Don’t forget to enroll in a Grievance Studies minor so you can pick up coeds while nodding about the evils of patriarchy.
Here you go.
My prediction is that even if this obvious pandering somehow lands her the job, it will be quietly forgotten after House Dems spend a few months pretending to agonize over how to implement it.
spend a few months pretending to agonize over how to
implement it.blame rethuglicans for blocking their common sense plan.I would love for people to dismiss this on the basis of it being wrong to take money from person A and give it to person B. That isn’t happening. What is going to derail this, and will also derail reparations, is the vast number of “what about” scenarios. Just reading our own comments, you see that we all made life decisions based on student debt. We went to different schools, picked a different major, worked instead of going to school, all sorts of things. This subject is just way too complex to handle with just forgiving existing loans. Here government is once again trying to pick winners and losers, but way too many people are going to turn out to be losers this time, based solely on life choices that they considered to be responsible at the time.
A similar phenomenon is at play in NYC but by gum they will find a way to make somebody pay.
You know, between my wife and I we owe a bazillion dollars in student loans, and even though we’d benefit from forgiveness in the short run I think it’s a horrible, horrible idea. Even assuming that the government has some right to the tax revenue used to pay off student loan debt that money ought to be put to any number of better uses that would be a more equitable, just use of the money stolen from people who made the mistake of earning it. It further subsidizes universities that offer BSs in Transgender Climate Justice, and it encourages lenders to market heavily to teenagers who aren’t necessarily going to make sound financial decisions that could impact them for decades. It’s just bad, bad, bad. You wanna help me pay my ruinous student loans back? Take less money out of my paychecks.
“The College Reparations Craze”
Finally, a well thought out proposal that will meet all the requirements for a solution of this problem. I believe a man of your ability should be the one to design and implement the CRC.
Jimbo for CRC Czar, a cabinet level position. Can you start immediately, something must be done, now.
Thank you for your support Fourscore. My first act as CRC Czar will be to award you a large contract to supply new office furniture for my new digs. Remember money is no object. I fully expect you to bill me tens of thousand dollars for quaint “stump chairs” that will reflect my back woods Minnesoda history.
“I have splinters in my ass and my lower back is killing because this stump has no back support.”
“Ah, you should have ordered the ‘Ergo-stump’ model [insert image of stump with 1×6 nailed to it]. Your contacted price is 4804.37 for the basic Ergo-stump, or 5488.11 for the deluxe model in ‘True Black.’”
“Next you will be bitching that I overpaid for those cool shiny black curtains from Fourscore’s House O’ Fashion”
“Those are plastic garbage bags.”
“And a steal at only $15K”
Those were the upscale lounge chairs, those that double as toilet seats are a little more plush.
What’s better than that Easter Bunny ass-kicking story from yesterday?
Play-by-play
On this day, 25 years ago, the Libertarian Party of New York nominated Howard Stern for governor.
I think that was the first time I heard of the LP. I remember thinking that it sounded like a train wreak.
I went to a convention maybe 20 years ago. I think it was in Lafayette in a hotel convention room. I could smell the pot and patchouli in the hall before I walked in. A lot of body piercings and purple hair. I dont think I stayed more than a few minutes and never spoke to anyone.
Stern is no libertarian.
Neither were any of the people at that convention. They all seemed to have some pet issue but in general they were as happy to talk about what other people should be allowed to do/how to live as anyone else. One guy was even pushing some kind of mandatory national service.
While maybe not the most pure candidate Stern was a good shot because of his celebrity which doubtlessly attracted a number of voters that would normally not vote libertarian.
Maybe but he has no principles. When I heard him complain about porn and asking people to be empathetic about the request to remove the word ‘Redskins’ a couple of years back that’s when I knew. Dude was but about porn stars and exploiting people.
But then he made his money and now he gets to be all moral? Fuck. Off.
Uffda. Wish a journalo could look into this and figure out what is going on.
The FEC web site shows Bernie cutting $444K of checks from his campaign to Verso, the company that published his “best seller” book.
Not as important as the fact that some Roosian dude somewhere colluded with TrumpPutin-Hitler!
That figures. He is laundering his campaign money into his own pocket. Imagine that.
I remember reading a story about how Jesse Jackson kept running for Pres, not because he thought he could win, but for the opportunities it gave him to launder money into his pockets.
His kids would get paid to work on the campaign. He would also dole out jobs like being a driver on the campaign to other supporters. It was just a huge money laundering operation. I actually sort of respected him more for that than anything else he ever did.
It’s pretty SOP for most pols, isnt it? That’s what Gary Johnson did last time. He never had any intention of winning anything, it was just for money.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I’m not going to sit here idly Suthen while you disparage Jill Stein and her recount effort. That was completely about principles and was as pure as the driven snow.
When an ameteur makes cordage from plant fiber in the field, what is a reasonable upper bound on the tensile strength per strand?
Not to be pedantic, but ” tensile strength per strand” isn’t actually a thing. There are piles of engineering tables online for max load v. diameter for natural fiber ropes/cables dating back to the 1700’s you can check out and just reduce by an arbitrary amount for poor workmanship. Remember that knots kill your strength just as much as any lack of expertise. The more severe the knot the worse — an overhand will cut it by something like 90%, while splices are the most strength-saving since they minimize shear forces.
I was probably being inappropriately precise with terminology. I’m rolling feasibility around in my head, because all the demonstration and instruction I’ve seen generates woven/rolled strands of maybe 1/8th-3/16th inch thickness that would need to be woven/braided into a heavier rope for the most effective trap design the character could implement. But the weight put on that rope makes me question the believability that he’d be able to make sufficient material strong enough to handle it.
Yes, good rope was expensive. Sinew is easier to use, but iirc there is some restriction against killing another animal? Also he probably doesn’t have time to prepare it. Could he use dovetailing? Oooh — “stickweed,” a plant who’s sap dries and hardens into gorilla glue.
You do remember correctly with regard to only being able to take one land animal.
The glue I’ve already figured out he has all the parts for is pine resin glue. Haven’t looked at stickweed or its biome.
Sitckweed doesn’t actually exist. I was just using the Anne McAffrey technique of “inventing a natural feature that has the properties I need to advance the plot.”
The name’s already in use, hence my reaction of “I’ll research it more later”.
But there’s no need to invent a glue source, the forest already contains pines and firs. Glue he’s got.
A nice rug would tie the room together
Indiana Jones never had this problem.
Just do what OMWC does and keep your kidnapping victims less than 11 years-old and you’ll be fine. Any old home made rope will keep them bound up. You only have to worry about tensile strength when you try to keep older teens tied up in the back of your van.
You’ve clearly mistaken me for someone else.
I just figured you needed new orphans to work in your salt mine.
I subcontract that kind of work.
to be semi-helpful:
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/manila-rope-strength-d_1512.html is for Manilla, which is kind of a luxury, premium rope fiber.
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/sisal-rope-strength-d_1517.html is for sisal, an acceptable fiber, but a third less strong. your guy probably wouldn’t be able to match that without some sort of fantasy plant. The tables also give you weights/length to tell you how much fiber they’d need to gather.
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You know the funny thing? I have Engineering Toolbox bookmarked.
Thank you.
You know. It’s interesting. The narrative goes something like ‘we progressives are compassionate and empathetic.’
Yet. Their ideas tend to be anything but.
Sanders and Harris entertaining the idea of letting that degenerate murderous Boston marathon bomber vote is an example.
Ok. If they’re so principled and compassionate maybe they should say this to the faces of the families who lost loved ones. Say, to the father who had his son killed and daughter badly injured.
This is the sort of stuff that would move me to grab that low life parasitical commie and shove him against a wall staring down the abyss of his soulless eyes. Same with that idiot Harris.
Yep but their base has been told “This is gonna hurt me more than it is going to hurt you” so many times that they just bend over for the lash.
The lure of shit someone else – especially people you are jealous/envious of or feel unfairly have more than you do – will pay for, always will make a grand majority of people make bad decisions. Even after numerous examples of the promises never being kept and them getting fucked hard, they will go for it, as long as they feel/believe the someone else paying for it, got screwed harder.
It’s the basest of motivations.
I thought Planned Parenthood already provides that for zero-year-olds.
I thought Planned Parenthood’s vacuum would have gotten those zero year-olds going faster than 5.
No more Kate Smith for you!
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/philadelphia-flyers-kate-smith-statue-removed
Best quote from another article from the Mayor of Wildwood (North WW Mayor is following suit) saying he will continue to play her:
“It’s an Irving Berlin patriotic song that has nothing to do with anything other than America,” Troiano told WPHT’s Dom Giordano on Monday. “I can assure you that my conversation with the mayor of North Wildwood, Patrick Rosenello, is, we have no intentions of removing it.”
“That’s not a statement that we don’t understand what’s going on, and we’re ignorant to the history and all that. … We understand the history,” Troiano added. “But the world’s gotten so politically correct and so afraid that they’re going to offend somebody. … The song is greater than anything. So you know what? It’ll continue to play in Wildwood.”
Flyers fans should sing the song in act of defiance.
They really should exhume her body and run in through a woodchipper. I mean, she’s the worst person ever so why wouldn’t you do everything you can to eviscerate her memory?
It’s an Irving Berlin patriotic song that
Yeah, you might not want to bring up the whole Irving Berlin thing, given the lyrics to Puttin on the Ritz.
And for thought crime in TX…
United Airlines employee accused of calling customer racially charged word faces misdemeanor charge: report
If true I have no problems with firing the employee, but I’m at a loss for the charges. Of course I shouldn’t be surprised…
Texas isn’t a monolith of freedom? There are authoritarian streaks, pockets, organizations, and even over-reaching laws there, the same as everywhere else? Who knew? Who dared to know?
Oh, I wasn’t particularly bashing Texas here. Plenty to go around to all states.
You weren’t, but Don was.
Oh, of course not. Sorry if that looks like I was gunning for you.
I’m always gunning for Texas, for the Texas myth. The only thing that was ever true about Texas is that there was so much worthless land that it made for great office parks and that it was too large to police, so you can literally steal the water right out of a neighbor’s tank (that’s what they call a pond) and nothing will come of it.
Otherwise: cruelty, graft, racism, cronyism, and overbearing church ladies, same as any other place.
And with little punctuation: ugly; but do go to the Big Bend if you can. Give the whole mess back to the Comanche or, at least, restore the Republic.
And yet, it functions with a legislature that only meets once every two years, and only for three months at a time.
And they spend most of that time with the local harlotry instead of coming up with ways to fuck over their citizenry.
And with the lack of such fuckovery, it is possible to try out more things, and both fail and succeed spectacularly than in more civilized places.
So what’s your sales pitch for Tennessee? Honestly. I’ve been to Pigeon Forge and Nashville, and I’ve liked both places (Nashville’s too big, but I could handle east Nashville pretty well) but I can’t get a good read on the place. It’s on my short list of places to move, but mainly because it’s nearly equidistant from everywhere I’d want to go in the next twenty years, i.e. Annapolis, New Orleans, Huxley (TX), and Savannah.
“It’s not Texas”?
/just a guess.
Watch some Hickok45 videos. Then watch some Demolition Ranch videos. Then Tell me how TX and TN compare in terms of awesomeness.
literacy rate
In fairness, I hide on my island and in the woods and have nothing to do with the wider state other than inhaling its beauty when cruising through it.
My beef is with uncritical thinking that allows branding to displace fact and history. We notice derp here all the time: pro-Texas derp is absolutely typical. It’s the same sort of nonsense that allows chicken-hawk John Wayne to be a great American . . . no: a great Texan, because Iowa is where all great Texans are born and USC is where they all went to college. It’s all puffery.
Well, he was an ‘actor.’
Full disclosure, my in-laws live about a half-hour northeast of where my great grandfather lived in Texas, and my extended family is mostly from the Birmingham area, so I’ve had some exposure to both, just not as an adult resident. I will say that when I go down to the in-laws I like the remoteness and I associate the place with them, who I love dearly, and that colors my perception for sure. But there definitely seem to be qualities that are charming or endearing or quaint or whatever for two weeks that would grind on my nerves after a month or two. But I can say similar things about Maryland having lived here for thirty-five years.
And when it comes to racism, you haven’t seen it until you’ve been to the DC metro area. It’s virulent, but the biggest difference is it’s equal-opportunity; you’re as likely to see black people being racist as shit (maybe a little more so) as you are white people or anyone else. It’s a manifestation of the generally hostile tone of much of the area.
Don, you seem like a decent enough sort. But familiarity has bred a terrible blind spot for you. Cruelty, graft, racism, cronyism, and overbearing church ladies (in the more liberal states, their particular church is progressivism) are pretty much the universal of all governments.
My current senior senator (moobs) has made his entire career out of banning things that the wrong sorts of people use and enjoy. This is also the state that came up with the Rockefeller drug laws. “Overbearing church ladies” are thick on the ground. And I’ve seen more racism here than in Texas by vast amounts (though admittedly I didn’t live in Vidor or Orange).
Yeah, I’m stuck with the same gang. Ugh!
I’m making that point: Texas isn’t different. The brand that it is special is folly.
I’m a Mississippi native: profoundly seasoned in stupidity and its distributions many years now.
It may be destined to end up in the same omnistate as NY, but it’s not there yet. Whether or not that counts as “special” is up for debate, but saying Houston is as oppressive as NYC is another sort of folly.
In TX , they let you correctly close your em tags without a permit.
I always liked revving up the Texass Marines by pointing out that the one win in Mexico’s battle record was against Texas.
I know it isn’t 100% snopes-level fact, but it would amuse me.
Texans always tend to be the most insufferable braggarts about their state. Second are the Hoosiers.
*Us Minnesodans are way down that list despite the fact that we are obviously the best state with the smartest and best looking people.
Be fair to the Mexicans, Jimbo, They also have battlefield victories over the French.
Credit where it’s due: Houston doesn’t even have zoning to speak of; one guy built a roller-coaster that screams within feet of his neighbor’s bedroom window every two minutes.
I know it isn’t 100% snopes-level: I love reminding them that my congressman died in the Alamo; top that, Tex.
I like to give them shit because they lost a war… against Oklahoma
Which is the only reason I remember the name of Governor “Alfalfa Bill” Murray.
A tank is a man made earthen structure that holds water.
A pond is a naturally occurring body of water.
To call the entire state of Texas ugly only proves that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There a many beautiful places in Texas to my eye and Big Bend is only one of them.
Sometimes I forget, coming from Maryland. Relatively speaking, it really is the wild west when you’re leaving a state that is in the process of banning polystyrene take-out containers.
As a NJ resident I can only dream…
pistoffnick
Thanks for the Stuart Davis recommendation. You are right, he’s a weird dude, but his stuff is quite good!
De Nada. I like his early music a lot.
I like that she starts off with what looks like a variant of the Snoopy dance.
With the recent browser shenanigans caused by the WordPress update, here is a lighter story about squirrels.
Squirrels battle squirrel proof feeders.
Stuff like this from my old hometown newspaper is what keeps me sane. It makes me remember that there are gobs of good rubes living in NW Minnesoda who are fairly polite and don’t give a shit about the Swamp.
Yeah, that’s excellent.
Little fuckers are brilliant.
And they also taste good.
^THIS^
Why I don’t feel much rage about the squirrels in my back yard stealing bird seed. I look upon them as my herd that I take a few meals worth from each fall when they come for my apples.
Now I’m wondering about the recipes using tree rat.
sauce piquante !
Well, that’s if they eat the cayenne-flavored seeds.
Cut squirrel into 5 pieces (legs and saddle).
Roll in flour
Brown pieces in butter
Put squirrels in roaster with 1/4″ of water
Roast (covered) at 350 for 1.5 – 2 hours
*use drippings for gravy
In the water, or above the water?
I’m assuming it’s a braise, like for rabbit. So in. Except use chicken broth or wine or beer or somethign better than water.
In the water.
Except use chicken broth or wine or beer or somethign better than water
Shut your spice whore mouth NA!
In the land of Extra Mild Salsa, you use water. Not some fancy ass flavored liquid.
I’m sure UCS will back my use of water.
This would be a circumstance where I’d advocate a bottle of red. Whatever it is that makes wine taste like rot will cook off in the time frame covered.
hour and a half ?
Old squirrels are tough, and young squirrels aren’t huge, so we’re talking about pieces that aren’t a big as the thickest pork-chop.
Hour and a half?
Seems right off the top of my head. I’m sure I would look in to see how things are going and adjust.
A back leg on a decent squirrel is thicker than a pork chop. Not as big overall.
I’m also guessing about the water. If you wanted an exact measurement, you’d have to come to my house and use your tape measure after I was done eyeballing it.
I have been accused (by my wife) of giving wildly exaggerated measurements of things based on my perception of them.
Tough too. For the last few years, I have had a few epic Blue Jay vs Squirrel battles over the feeder in the back yard. Once a jay swooped in behind a squirrel who was just reaching for the seeds and pecked him on the head so hard the squirrel fell to the ground stunned.
I remember seeing a BBC show on overly complicated anti-squirrel feeders that squirrels eventually learned to beat.
I think my favorite was a fairly simple one that worked well until squirrels started using teamwork to defeat it.
Dust all the seeds in chili powder. If I remember correctly, birds don’t react to capcaicin, but mammals do.
This ^ But use powdered cayenne.
*understands that UCS couldn’t know the difference*
[in 6 months squirrels develop seed cleaning techniques]
That or they take the seeds and clock up your dryer vent with them and cause a house fire to get revenge? Fucking bushy tailed rats…
What’s the environmental halflife for capsaicin? Just storing them overwinter might make them palatable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbDKNj2Mdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQEmtAJcqv8
We have an albino squirrel in our neighborhood. It does not look real.
It’s not. It’s a drug-induced hallucination.
The black squirrels that live in Ottawa are pretty cool.
Kenton TN is full of white squirrels, but they’re not albino.
The most interesting thing I saw at the Bronx Zoo was a jet black squirrel on the loose there.
We have a strain of albinism in our local squirrel populations. You see one every few years. There is one currently running around that my wife has put under her personal protection. She has let it be known that there will be hell to pay if anyone pops him with the pellet gun (because she likes to see him).
As a result all the other squirrels have to dart in an grab an apple and run away before we notice them and try to add them to the bag limit, while Mr. White Squirrel Privilege just saunters around the apple tree eating his fill.
And if a hawk catches the beastie instead of a human with a pellet gun?
Wife will be upset. Then she will somehow convince herself that the hawk just gave the squirrel a ride to the beach or something.
Like the time my dog found a den of baby rabbits in the back yard and was enjoying himself digging them out one by one and tossing them in the air and catching them a few times before eating them.
She made me go out and stop him and then put the remaining baby rabbits into a box. The box was then left outside the fence. The next day all the baby rabbits were gone.
She’s convinced mama rabbit came and got them. She doesn’t believe that the fox that runs around our neighborhood had an awesome night.
Also. Seems like the local hawk has gotten the memo from my wife as well. He is only preying on the dumb normies at our house as well.
That’s cute. Like a Disney movie or something.
The University of Louisville has a large albino squirrel population due to the campus being an isolated forest basically.
You would see one every few minutes.
WKU, on the other hand, has a large white squirrel population that isn’t albino.
WKU and Kenton are only 200 miles apart.
“The fundamental message that consumers should be taking today is that it’s financially insane to buy anything other than a Tesla, ” the CEO of the electric auto maker said after Monday’s robotaxi announcement. “It would be like owning a horse in three years. I mean, fine if you want to own a horse. But you should go into it with that expectation.”
Because a 30-50% reduction in range, 300% increase in refueling times, and an effective doubling of the cost per mile driven is the only sane approach?
Not to mention that Teslas are overpriced and ill fitted pieces of shit that aren’t really much less detrimental to the environment than a regular car.
Panel fitment is similar to GM of the late 90s into early 2000s. Paint quality is, in my opinion, the lowest point. Think Chrysler in the early 2000s level.
Interior fitment is good. No rattles or noises. Some interior trim gaps that in the design that would make the Germans upset, but roughly equivalent to Japanese levels in mainline models.
Where it falls down and you can they’ve taken costs out in the interior is the material quality. It’s not even close to the top end Japanese or German brands.
My impression from my limited exposure is that they look like they’re new, shiny, and cheap. Kind of like a cheap suit; it looks new and crisp, but you can already tell there’s something a little off, and then in three months of wear it looks like shit already.
Part of it is the vinyl seats. It’s high quality, but still plastic despite being called “vegan leather”.
Mind you, Mercedes Benz and its MB-Tex is also nothing to sneeze at, but it doesn’t try to be what it isn’t.
Tesla’s seating and steering wheel wrap just don’t feel luxurious. Too soon to tell for me on durability.
Vinyl?
At least give me cloth. Cloth breathes.
Speculation is that this is the material.
https://www.ultrafabricsinc.com/brands/ultraleather
Or possibly this one which is supposed to “breath”.
https://www.ultrafabricsinc.com/collections/original-1
It lookes like they put small perforations irregularly through the vinyl, which doesn’t really provide the same airflow.
But I’m just pre-judging based upon the image.
The breathability of a textile isn’t just about airflow, capillary action also plays a role.
Leather and vinyl are both uncomfortable in my opinion.
This made me laugh. That is a funny guy.
Preach. A diesel Rabbit got 50MPG almost 40 years ago. Is there a point to any of this?
My Honda CRX got 55mpg in the mid-80s.
There is no point beyond wealth redistribution.
My 1999 Honda Prelude got around 24 MPG until I had to get rid of it several years back, but I enjoyed every one of them. My 2000 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT gets…shit, maybe 18 MPG…but I handicap it 10 MPG because I chirp out after every standing start. It also has, to quote my wife, “the most comfortable seats I’ve ever sat in,” and this is someone who wants a Prius.
Daily driver C1500HD = 14MPG all day in all conditions goofing around, urban and otherwise. Get the CGVW up to eight tons and figure more like 10MPG.
It’s like that Denis Leary routine about quitting smoking adding years to your life, but they’re the shitty years at the end you don’t want anyway. I mean, I don’t want to waste money, but I also want to enjoy driving. I’ll trade fuel efficiency for a La-Z-Boy that can haul a half-cord of wood.
Trucks have gotten damnably expensive. I’ve got a 96 Suburban that I’ll probably keep as a backup short-haul tow vehicle and get a Hyundai Palisade or something like that.
a La-Z-Boy that can haul a half-cord of wood
*shows up days later in truck ads from all the manufacturers*
I drove a Silverado from that era. Your wife is absolutely right. Probably the second most comfortable vehicle I’ve ever had, and the second best highway driver.
I believe my FJ Cruiser gets around 18 – 20 mpg, and Mrs. Dean’s gets around 15ish. Pretty mediocre mileage, and I don’t care.
Man, I wanted an FJ Cruiser bad. We got a Highlander instead, which admittedly has probably been the better choice considering how many road trips we’ve taken in it. Still, when it finally keels over I might try to find a used FJ Cruiser as a replacement.
There’s rumors they are going to reintroduce them. Their problem with the first generation was that they last too damn long – everybody who wanted one pretty much had one, with no need to replace. They were one of the few Toyotas entirely built in Japan and driven off the boat here in the US, and the build quality shows.
Their biggest weakness is long road trips, though. The seats are not the most comfortable; they appear to have been designed for smaller people than Americans (can’t imagine how that happened). I’ve actually thought about replacing them, but settled for a gel cushion.
Another FJ weakness: Seeing out of it. Plenty of blind spots. I like mine, though. It’s a tank.
Yup. I have fisheye mirrors stuck to each of the side mirrors. The backup camera they put on the newer ones is a big help.
Yeah, the deciding factor in getting rid of the ‘lude wasn’t the amount of money and time I needed to put into restoring it. It was the fact that I’m 6’3 and 230 lbs., and I’m getting to an age where I prefer to be able to sit comfortably in an upright position.
second best highway driver
Chevy formula since 1962-ish
* wheelbase
* coils
* trailing link
Which basically became the NASCAR chassis.
We’re shopping and have noticed that the uni-body, four corner independent suspension have little of the margin over truck bodies that they had. We’ll probably end up with the Tahoe/Yukon.
And still would if it weren’t for the plethora of safety mandates out there.
Worst sales pitch ever.
Has there been any real-world testing of theses things in the northern tier of states? Assuming the batteries themselves can take the cold, how much range do you get when the heater is on high fighting off the cold?
I’ve seen some on the road… but only rarely. I assume it was because it took months to recharge the battery.
There is a guy at work here who has a Model 3. It was conspicuously absent from the parking lot during the last blizzard. It is his 3rd or 4th car – so more of an expensive toy.
I have read (Eric Peters maybe?) that battery output is reduced by up to 30 – 40% at anything below -10 degF . Even less if you use the heater.
Get him to trade it in for a real Model 3
I have read the same 30% to 40% range reduction.
If you have it plugged in, for example at your home, you’ll generally get good results to your destination. However, once it sits in parking lot for an hour or so depending on the temperature you will lose range quickly.
For those public places in cold climates that offer 120V for engine heaters you’d be advised to take advantage.
His pitch doesn’t appear to be resonating.
Oh, no one doubts that, Elon.
This link was in the “short bus” article in the links. It’s a graphic of all the “major” candidates from both teams. It might be fun to bookmark it and check in once in a while as the Blue Team list grows and grows.
Weld just looks like exactly what he is – a blue-blooded, old money Boston asshole.
Also, I have no idea who Tim Ryan, Wayne Messam, or John Delaney are.
Same here. And you can add Marianne Williamson and Julian Castro to my “who?” list.
I don’t actually know who Marianne Williamson is, but I did read an article with some asinine comments she made, so I did know she was running for president. Castro has been hyped by the media forever as the Great Brown Hope.
And none of them have a snowball’s chance. The only one I have heard a single good idea from is Andy Yang – ban elected officials and high ranking bureaucrats from working in industries they regulate. He is probably nuts on everything else, but that one thing would sure drain the swamp.
How’s that work once he also nationalizes industry?
“We’re not working in the industry, we’re working for consulting firms.”
universal pre-k, universal college and knock back the student loan debt burden for 95% of our students and still have nearly a trillion dollars left over.”
Sure, Liz.
I saw some of her townhall last night. It was…interesting. She has this annoying, leftist, “policy wonk” aunt thing going on. And she was kinda flamboyant…as if she was addressing children…And in her laundry list of government programs she wants to achieve progtopia there was nary a mention or argument justifying the constitutionality of said programs. But she was sure to make rhetorical appeals to the constitution with platitude after platitude because orange man bad (she couldn’t support anything that is actually in it, like the pesky BoR.). And she seems to be under the impression that the US is a ‘democracy’.
Or maybe instead of paying for all that crap, you could use all that money to pay down the national debt.
How does doing that get her the “I vote for a living” vote?
I couldn’t help but notice “paying down our out of control debt” didn’t make the list of things to do with that extra trillion dollars.
Also, we all know those programs will consume way more money than they collect, and will require more tax revenue (or debt) in the future.
Warren has the arrogance, pedantry, hectoring, self-righteousness, elitism, and condescension of Hillary and Obama all rolled into one.
She is a shoo-in for the Dem nomination.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiff-mueller-report-more-significant-than-watergate-in-every-way
Crazy eyes is challenged over Russia. Acts like it’s always been about obstruction.
Has anyone said what Trump actually did that is obstruction?
He got elected.
They’re trying to gaslight the whole country and they’ll succeed with a large chunk of it.
Is it still considered gaslighting if you really, really want to believe what they’re telling you and actively participate in the con?
Yeah, this is just telling your kids that there really is a Santa Claus.
We should just let everybody on the planet vote in our elections. Any age, any location, as many times as they would like. In fact, the only people who shouldn’t be allowed to vote are white Republikkins. Then finally, justice shall prevail, and America can take her place among the civilized nations.
The only thing I can assume is that Warren is praying to her personal God that, if she does get elected and passes this monstrosity, the Supreme Court would strike it down, giving her more rhetorical material. Because, the wealth tax would be an unmitigated disaster, economically. Demanding that 2% (I know, it’s actually 2% of the holdings of those with over $50MM in net worth, but that’s not a huge, insurmountable, distinction to my point) of the nation’s wealth be made liquid and turned over to the federal government is pretty much a recipe for collapsing asset prices, destroying capital formation and destroying the economy. The rich aren’t sitting on a big pile of gold coins a la Scrooge McDuck (actually, his money bin was only his cash reserve, even in that storyline). Demanding that billions of dollars be liquidated every year is a way to get the financial markets to collapse in a way that would make 1929 look like “a slight dip”.
That is point of it. Socialists dont cause economic disaster by accident.
Misery is the only thing they can deliver to all.
Wealth gives people options. Misery, poverty, hopelessness, and high crime are important tools for totalitarians.
When the choices are shitty government or hell, I guess most people pick shitty government…
Maybe I’m less charitable, but I don’t think the progressives actually think it’s going to cause problems. They really think of it as scientific management. We know that giving money will help. If we have more problems then we will do something more to fix the new problems. They don’t even consider that their policies are the source. Or if they do they say that it’s a sad reality that we have to take further action to mitigate.
It’s like the end of “Atlas Shrugged” – Reardon’s realization that there was not end game in mind; just “Oh, you’ll think of something”
Enough with the hyperbole. Warren isn’t some stupid rube who thinks that the rich have a big pile of gold coins. She knows that they are too smart for that and really have a big roll of $1000 bills they walk around with.
Makes it easier for government to take it?
No, you misunderstand.
The wealth tax will be payable in assets,l including stocks, thus giving the federal government a stake in every public corporation. They then can help manage the businesses into a brighter future using the power of their intentions and grievance studies degrees.
Tard Tuesday: YOU CAN DO IT
“bill clinton was impeached but not removed during his second term and never ran for elected office again.”
You know like all those modern presidents who ran for office after finishing their two terms
More orange man bad and we need to punish him and the people that didn’t vote for our choice – crooked Hillary – at all costs.
Run, Bill, run.
Still flirting with a run for president, the mayor held an Earth Day press conference on Monday to announce his plan to fight climate change with a “Green New Deal” — including a bill designed to eliminate new glass-fronted towers from the city skyline.
“We are going to introduce legislation to ban the classic glass and steel skyscrapers that have contributed so much to global warming,” de Blasio said.
“They have no place in our city or our Earth anymore.”
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The mayor’s Green New Deal — a title borrowed from freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s vague and pricey plan to cut carbon emissions — will hold builders to such sky-high standards that even developers who’ve focused on staying eco-friendly will be punished.
see also
De Blasio’s Green New Deal will ban ‘classic glass and steel skyscrapers’
Last week, the City Council passed a bill to slap strict greenhouse emissions caps on private buildings exceeding 25,000 square feet by forcing them to retrofit pipes, heating systems, lights and other utilities by 2024 or face big fines.
The Bank of America Tower on 42nd Street, for example, is certified LEED platinum, but developer the Durst Organization calculated that it would still face $2.5 million in fines under the new bill when 2024 rolls around.
“The fine will escalate annually from there,” chief development officer Alexander Durst told Crain’s.
What a maroon.
Not this shit again.
Compost the mayor. It’s the only solution at this point.
It will be interesting to see how he intends to enforce it.
At gun point is my guess..
Well, that goes without saying. I’m curious about the earlier stages. Is my building going to feature 66 compost bins on the sidewalk, so the garbage police can track down which ungoodthinker isn’t doing his civic duty?
Nonsense.
You’ll be requried to compost in the apartment, and the garbage police will have the authority to do an inspection at any time to ensure compliance.
I’m sure that will do wonders for the indoor critter population.
Your apartment composter will have to be manufactured with union labor from a city-certified manufacturer. You will be required to register your purchase so that the city can notify you in case of any product recalls or software updates. At the end of the expected lifespan, you will be sent a helpful reminder that it is time to buy a new one.
Kind of the essence of composting, isn’t it?
And, right now, Jeff Bezos is sitting in his office, wiping his brow with his forearm saying “Whew!”.
Well, this totally sucks
A one-of-its-kind flying wing aircraft crashed and burst into flames in the exercise yard of a Southern California prison on Monday, killing at least one person, authorities said.
The Northrop N-9M crashed around midday “under unknown circumstance” at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco shortly after takeoff from nearby Chino Airport, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer.
The pilot was the only person on board the historic aircraft, Kenitzer said.
Bummer. Talk about your rara avis.
in the exercise yard of a Southern California prison
WTF?
Same here. What the hell was the guy doing flying over a prison?
How else are you supposed to drop packages to the inmates inside?
In our locale, the federal prison is located right next to the airport. It all used to be a military base. Since the feds already owned all the land they just built the prison on the base.
Also the majority of plane crashes happen during take-off or landing. Combine that with the close proximity of the prison to the airport….
There are no rules to avoid prisons. It isn’t the easiest thing to recognize unless it is a large campus with very obvious fences. If marked at all it is a small square on the chart, and only if they feel it would make a good visual landmark.
Hmm, checked the map, I think it was just where it went down, not too far from the airport.
He didn’t want any innocent civilians killed in the crash.
He was too far from the state house?
Would you be able to legislate with airport noise nextdoor?
I’ll have a phone and a pen.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/23/gun-control-via-executive-order/
Isn’t that already the law? If you’re selling multiple guns a year, you probably have a FFL, and if you have a FFL, you’re doing background checks?
You expect them to know the law? Attorneys General and senators don’t need to know the law. That’s why they have Aides!
Yes JB, that is already the law of the land. Notice how everything gun grabbers say and do is calculated to deceive. Every one of her talking points is the same.
Background checks – already law of the land
prosecution or civil action against manufacturers – already been struck down by SC
close the loophole – there are no loopholes
I dont even know what the last one means. I know this, cops who are domestic abusers are exempted from those laws. They aren’t going to undo that one.
SCOTUS will hear arguments regarding addition of citizenship question to census today with decision expected by late June. Breitbart actually has a decent overview.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/22/supreme-court-to-hear-census-citizenship-question-case-on-tuesday/
I thought it was already established that they can’t do that.
The fear is that when the citizenship question appears, all the illegals will vanish from the count by not answering.
It is. Its just scaremongering. It will be interesting, if they allow the question, how disproportionate the representation of citizens is from states with high immigrant populations.
They’ll just enact “adjustments” like they do after every census to bump up the numbers in alien-heavy areas.
Citizens in high-immigrant areas will get more representation per citizen. That is, there will be fewer citizens per rep, because the immigrant numbers are higher.
Each House district has around 711,000 people in it. CA has about 5 million non-citizen immigrants. If we apportioned by citizens rather than residents, CA would lose seven seats in the House.
“11 states would be impacted. The big loser would be California, which would see 4 of its 55 electoral votes trimmed away. No other state was impacted by more than one electoral vote. FL, NY and TX would lose one each, while seven states (LA, MO, MT, NC, OH, OK, VA) would gain one.”
Right. I’m saying, that will never happen because the census numbers will be adjusted to add anyone in that they guess didn’t answer. They’ve been doing it for decades.
Do they use the same people who ‘adjust’ temptature readings for climatologists?
Have one person do the job of two? Do you even bureaucrat?
We’re a disfavored agency. Our standard operating instruction is “Do more with less” so they can piss away money on their preferred agencies and vote-buying pet projects instead of on keeping things running.
I don’t see how they can ban the citizenship question without banning 90% of the other questions on the census form.
That would be awesome. Just a headcount.
I got the “long form” in 2000. I think I answered 3 questions.
Enough for census purposes.
A census taker showed up later to fill in some of the missing information. I refused to answer any questions. When he made the assumption that I was white (because he saw me and I am), I slammed the door in his face.
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans, and a nice Chianti.
Because they didn’t dot their I’s. And cross their t’s.
Dammit, I hate then I dot my teas and cross my eyes.
The idea that this question would be struck because of the Administrative Procedure Act is laughable. That Act is routinely ignored by federal agencies, and their actions are never struck down because of it.
We’ll see. I’m not so optimistic.
More stepping on rakes. They may regret bringing this case.
If you step on enough rakes, it gets funny again.