In a show of solidarity with our Morning Links, or because I am still exhausted, here are some crappy links
It is hard to imagine a bigger shitshow than this impeachment.
One wonders how John Roberts will engineer Penaltax II
Damn, someone tried to shoot up FSB headquarters in Moscow. Good thing they were killed, because I wouldn’t want to be the target of a very hostile interrogation.
Wow, that’s some serious dedication to your wife, right there.
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I’m always tired
For you.
Thanks.
So is Lily Von Schtupp.
It’s twue.
+15 schnitzengreuben
She has good reason to be:) I’d have worn that out.
*applause*
…here are some crappy links
Not the best sales pitch ever, but I clicked each of them. I gotta give a nod to Frozen 3. Great plot and pacing. I would have liked to know just how exactly Iceman died, but otherwise a very – ahem – solid story.
Sounds cool.
Did it take a week to thaw him like Carbone?
Sounds like the note Beavis and Butthead wrote to get out of gym.
+ Epstein’s Mom
Great. I now have the soundtrack to Cats stuck in my head.
Luckily for me, I don’t know any of those tunes. My mind just goes here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BQxY4-1I4lo
Here.
Hipster. 😉
If the Senate holds an impeachment trial, I hope someone will finally ask Schumer what he meant when he said, “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you”.
The truth will out!
Hope not literally true.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/meghan-mccain-tulsi-balls-of-steel
Heh, Meg admits she just wants to fuck people over, just like dear old dad.
Balls of steel for punting? That’s stupid even from the spawn of that shallow gene pool.
Eh…it was pretty ballsy. You’re running for president in a party gripped with psychosis and you vote “present” because you don’t even think we should be arming Ukraine. More principled than voting “no” on arming Ukraine and then acting outraged and voting “yes” on impeachment, because the president won’t disperse the weapons that you voted “no” on to begin with.
Did you read her explanation? It was the exact opposite of ballsy.
Look, I’m impressed with her on certain issues, but this was weak.
Of course I read it, I’m on her mailing list. I see your point as she tries to straddle the fence on both sides, but at the same time she does have a point regarding the argument that “removal of a sitting President must not be the culmination of a partisan process, fueled by tribal animosities that have so gravely divided our country.”
I think you’re right that straddling the fence doesn’t require “balls of steel”. That’s probably an exaggeration.
“I think you’re right that straddling the fence doesn’t require “balls of steel”.”
When I was in eighth grade, I was tightrope-walking along the top of an outdoor hockey-rink fence. Unfortunately for me, I slipped, resulting in me straddling the fence and I can assure you, balls of steel would have come in really, really handy.
I have felt your pain. It was about a 6 inch round pipe but nonetheless and I was a little younger but still…
Maybe they’re attached to her N-Joy wand?
That’s Tulsi’s, this is Meghan’s
“1.5kW motor, 6.5′ shaft, 1″ head”
G-spots are a funny thing. Some women love the stimulation while others do not. Odd that.
meghan has a force of nature bust so yes i would.
Boo this man
Actually, you were sent to Congress to represent the voters in your district. No one is asking for you guys to Lead.
I told a friend recently that she had a set of ovaries, and cupped my hands 8 inches higher than where a guy usually would.
There are too many unanswered questions in the corpsicle article. Did the guy climb into the freezer by himself, or did his wife drag him into there? Also, was the letter in a ziploc bag? How was it attached? Riveted to an earlobe?
I would have linked to this, but i thought it would be deemed “too local”. I don’t recognize the houses in the pictures, though they look like some apartments nearby.
So how was it attached? Staples? Rolled into a tube and inserted somewhere?
Even the local journalists are shit. I don’t know.
He had a terminal illness and was being treated at the VA yet he continues to “live” for years after and nobody inquires into this?
Depends witch ‘terminal’ illness. MS is considered terminal by the VA and you could live a long life depending on what symptoms you get.
He probably got put on one of those shadow wait lists and forgotten.
Or more likely, he was still on the wait-list….
Yeah, why would they report him? He was one of the “good” patients.
He didn’t complain about long wait times. All they had to do was keep sending the checks and they could count on him as a satisfied customer.
Dissenting Judge Carolyn Dineen King said her colleagues were prolonging “uncertainty over the future of the healthcare sector.” King said she would have found the mandate constitutional, although unenforceable, and left the rest of the law alone.
I said a lot of my piece this morning, but this is literally the opposite of what Roberts said when he crafted Penaltax. This is wanting to have your cake and eat it.
“I just want the right political result”
…and so much for the savings clause being left out.
You want to have a real eye opener? If you have it, find a paystub from 2008 or earlier — or your health plan — and you’ll be gobsmacked by what your coverage used to cost, and what your copays (if any) and deductible (if any) were. Obamacare completely destroyed insurance coverage quality and price for the 85% or so of us who had coverage prior to the law. And the great majority of the people getting new coverage after Obamacare passed were only because of expanded Medicaid criteria.
IOW, the entire positive results of the law could have been accomplished by just expanding Medicaid eligibility and leaving everyone else the fuck alone. But no, they couldn’t do that. They needed to change what ‘must’ be covered and rescue you from that horrible coverage you were perfectly happy with.
Now try the same experiment with a prog friend. I’m sure their first response on seeing the difference in coverage and cost just twelve years later will be ‘it was all worth it so that some folks could finally get health care.” Just keep listening to what the media wants you to believe, friend.
There’s a commercial playing non stop in Michigan with some lady claiming Donald Trump is the reason her insurance is so expensive.
In 2008 I had an employer paid HMO that cost next to nothing, covered everything (in network with referrals), and had miniscule co-payments.
Mr. Mojeaux takes care of the bills and has since I spontaneously combusted in 2007. Anyway, I didn’t have to think about it.
When filling out the bankruptcy paperwork, I had to ask him how much our insurance premiums were a month. $900.
I died. Just died.
I know I used to pay around 120 a month for family coverage with $20 co-pays in-network. I now pay about 300 a month with $45 co-pays, and compared to a lot of people I know, I’m one of the lucky ones.
I was working for a steel mill then, and the cost for my insurance as a single guy was…..$0
Adding Tres Version 2.0 to make it a family plan cost me $30/month
The provider was Humana, and being reasonably healthy, I didnt test the limits. But it covered what I needed.
ex Mrs TresCool was a public school teacher for a bit, and had the union “Cadillac Plan”. Nearly everything was 100% covered, with miniscule co-pays.
That was some really good ish.
I’ve got a Cadillac plan and the copays and deductibles are no longer minuscule.
I had a small group plan when Obamacare was implemented. My premiums increased 67% in one year. I blew my top when I saw that bill. I shopped around. All the plans had tremendous increases. But I guess it was worth it because our deductibles were hugely increased and the network of available doctors shrank. So it’s a win all around.
Dissenting Judge Carolyn Dineen King said her colleagues were prolonging “uncertainty over the future of the healthcare sector.”
Utterly irrelevant to the legal questions she is supposed to be deciding.
King said she would have found the mandate constitutional, although unenforceable, and left the rest of the law alone.
What the fuck does Constitutional, but unenforcable, even mean?
And of course she would have left the rest of the law alone, because she found it Constitutional.
Sad, that people as stupid as her are federal appellate judges.
Emanations and penumbras, yo.
“Deplorables, emanations and penumbras, oh my!”
“Wow, that’s some serious dedication to your wife, right there.”
I can’t imagine what a bizarre meeting that was to get such a letter notarized.
Dude: Yes, I want you to notarize my suicide note clearing my wife of blame
Notary: Cool, let me just get my stamp
Dude: Please hurry, I have a busy day ahead of me
Notary: OK. So do you have anything planned for the holidays?
Dude: Uh…suicide. Did you even read the note?
Notary: Just trying to make small talk, sir
She says she didn’t read the thing…
So i do want to look her up cause i’ve got some more stuff to get notarized.
Notaries just notarize the signature.
^ This. There are two notarial acts, an acknowledgement in which the notary is signing saying that they observed the signing of the document and confirm that it was signed by the person named, and a jurat, where the notary is saying that they observed the signing of the document and confirm that it was signed by the person named, and additionally that the signer swore that the contents of the document were true. In the first case the notary has no business reading the document and nothing to say about the truth and falsehood of the contents, and in the second case the only difference is that the notary is aware that the person signing has sworn that the contents are true.
I’m a Notary Public. I don’t recall the rules saying I have to read the document. I just look at their ID and then watch them sign at the X. Some documents I notarize are hundreds of legalese and while I can understand it, I’m not reading that shit.
…of pages…
By the way, Notary Public, I wish you Notary Sojac!
Just so this all makes sense to people who didn’t grow up reading Smokey Stover in the Sunday funnies:
“Notary Sojac.” Anyone old enough to remember the Smokey Stover comic strip (1950s to 1970s) saw this tucked in a corner of most or all episodes. Supposedly it means “Merry Christmas” in some Celtic language, approximated for English pronunciation.
I do remember. That’s really riding the nostalgia train…
I wasn’t suggesting Notary’s have to read things. The way the article decribes it makes the document sound like it was one piece of paper, and it was just kinda funny to me to think about notarizing a document absolving someone of your death.
Which by the way is a document i would never, ever sign.
I’ve notarized all sorts of crazy shit.
I just read the stuff out of curiosity, but yeah, I just certified the person signing was in fact the person signing.
Notary: Why does your wife wearing a jacket on such a hot day?
Dude: um, she just likes being warm I guess
Notary: And why is her hand jammed into the pocket? And is standing right behind you?
Dude: Her hand is cold?
Notoray: Are you blinking at me in morse code?
In a show of solidarity…
I hear that solidarity is all the rage these days with the yutes. Do you perchance own a leather jacket?
+1 Leather Jacket of Flaying
LOL. It explains so much.
Hey, I want to thank everybody for participating in my article. I actually didn’t think it would get much traction, but I am grateful that you enjoyed it.
You don’t know us by now?
Let me rephrase: Went so long without going OT and stayed mostly on.
She will never ever ever know us.
Knew before I clicked.
Just read it when I got home a little before 3. Some of that is familiar to me, not with writing, but with other stuff. good read.
Thank you!
“Hey, I want to thank everybody for participating in my article. I actually didn’t think it would get much traction, but I am grateful that you enjoyed it.”
I have not seen this article. Would you mind posting a link… even if I might be critical?
Oh, just hit the button to back to the previous article. It posted here at the 11:00 a.m. slot.
Mojeaux,
I read a good portion of “the story” for which you provided a link in the earlier post.
I think that you provide readers with what you want them to understand while allowing them to interpret the remainder. Again, I only had the time to read part of your work. If I have time to read the whole story I hope to be surprised at your ending.
Thank you! I really hope you enjoy it. 🙂
I missed the article while it was live, but I enjoyed reading it. Out of curiosity, which one is book 2 that led to the disaster with the agent?
Bryce and Giselle. 😉
Can confirm its fan favorite status
Angst on steroids, man. A hot wounded alpha. A kick-ass marshmallow sub. What’s not to love?
I don’t see the appeal.
Well, no, I wouldn’t think so. But the agent who had a problem with it was a romance agent. She should’ve known better.
So, I heard Harry Potter is CANCELED.
We could only be so fortunate. If you hate HP, it would keep it from being the go-to metaphor for everything. If you love HP, it would purge the obnoxious fans that ruin everything and you could enjoy it in peace.
What if I’m casually indifferent to it?
Then you probably DGAF about JRK and her cancellation status.
Well, I vehemently oppose “cancel culture” so in that sense I care.
Oh, Iowahawk
Perfect. Just Perfect.
Gosh i hate the mainstream generation.
I don’t even hate Harry Potter. I thought the Movies were good. But fuck, i hate the Harry Potter allusions, metaphors and references.
I was late 20s when they came out. I enjoyed them. But by the time book 7 came out, I wasn’t interested. My kids were not interested.
My daughter liked Laura Ingalls Wilder (yay!). My son liked Hitchhiker’s Guide, which I read to him long after he could read for himself, just because I liked reading to my little boy.
Harry Potter, though? Totally no interest whatsoever. None of their friends were into it, either. At all.
For reference, my daughter is 16.5 and son is 14. I guess they’re just too young? Missed the zeitgeist?
For further reference, my daughter’s cohort is into Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Jimi Hendrix, and (shocking) Motley Crue, so it’s not like they don’t know the old ways.
Wait… There were Harry Potter Books?
“For further reference, my daughter’s cohort is into Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Jimi Hendrix, and (shocking) Motley Crue, so it’s not like they don’t know the old ways”
When I was a teen, classic rock was big too and this was a good thirty years after John Bonham died. Some music, I guess, is just timeless.
Yeah, I’m thinking about the classical music that is still played today, from the mid-1700s to the early 1900s (kinda died after Orff). Then came the classic rock in the late 60s and early 70s.
It occurred to me that Led Zeppelin is no less fantastical than Carmina Burana, and Beethoven is just as bombastic.
So what happened between Orff and Zeppelin? Treacly pop and cinema standards. Nice music, enjoyable, lovely, but not great. What makes Zeppelin great?
No idea.
Bonham.
Between Orff and Zeppelin is Not Boomer.
That’s interesting. Do you mean to say that the Greatest and Silent generations did little of greatness?
No; I’m thinking that the Boomers have had cultural hegemony long enough that their cultural touchstones are treated as things that are supposed to be touchstones for everybody. Like how every scandal gets compared to Watergate (I hate hate hate the fucking -gate suffix) or how every war gets compared to Vietnam. Or how so many political battles are portrayed as being like the 60s civil rights struggle. Only in this case it’s with music.
Oh, that’s very interesting. I like it.
You were a teen in 2010? Bonham died in 1980.
You were a teen in 2010, Mr. “I know when John Bonham died off the top of my head and watch me do math real quick”
No, I was 34.
Don’t ask me why I know random shit like that. I just do. I don’t even want to remember such useless things. It’s a curse, really.
“For further reference, my daughter’s cohort is into Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Jimi Hendrix, and (shocking) Motley Crue, so it’s not like they don’t know the old ways.”
When I was a teen, classic rock was big with at my school and this was a good thirty years after John Bonham died. Some music, I guess, is just timeless.
I hope your daughter knows that Led Zeppelin I is their best album, otherwise you should judge her
I actually don’t know what she listens to. I didn’t get a Walkman until I was 16 or so, so for me, it was radio and so my parents knew what I listened to and I knew what they listened to. What I had was whatever the radio played. My parents played their records (classical and Streisand/Springfield/Mathis, cinema standards, etc) so I knew that music, too.
Now I don’t know what role radio actually plays in anybody’s life, so I don’t know what role it plays in my kids’. I don’t play my music for my kids except in the car and even then I gravitate toward R&B and soul while I’m driving. My husband plays the classic rock station, which plays all 1 Boston song on repeat, it seems.
I know my kids are conversant with Zeppelin and Rush and Pink Floyd. They have access to my entire music library. My son loves the Moody Blues but he seems to have very eclectic taste. I can’t possibly predict what’s going to catch his ear.
Rush is our secret *signal* to each other. She is slowly being indoctrinated.
“Rush is our secret *signal* to each other.”
No. Just no.
To Rush or the bad dad-pun?
You mean Physical Graffiti. Or Symbols. Or Houses of the Holy.
I’m judging.
It’s sacrilege to rank Physical Graffiti above Led Zeppelin I.
^^This guy gets it.
I was 9 when the first book came out, and I never cared for the series. Maybe your kids simply have different tastes. Especially if your son enjoyed the Hitchhiker’s series, he just may not enjoy “young adult” fiction.
My daughter (9) loves Harry Potter. My son (11) watches the movies but has never been interested in the books. She reads a lot of stuff, while his reading interests are much more limited. Much like his old man, he’s not huge into fiction, pretty much just reads Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dog Man series, and in nonfiction he likes the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales and Guts n’ Glory history series.
For reference, my daughter is 16.5 and son is 14. I guess they’re just too young?
16.5 is not to young for me.
I thought that was OMWC’s schtick?
Or do you just need slave labor? I assure you, you will get none out of her.
For reference, my daughter is 16.5 and son is 14. I guess they’re just too young? Missed the zeitgeist?
Probably part zeitgiest and part social circle. I know some kids that age who’ve read the books, so they still have some popularity, but the millennials are probably the only ones for whom it’s universally known, since they were in the target demo when it hit.
I don’t even hate Harry Potter. I thought the Movies were good. But fuck, i hate the Harry Potter allusions, metaphors and references.
Yeah… I was square on in the middle of the Harry Potter generation. I read books 2 and 3, and watched a few of the movies. Never really captured my interest like it did my peers.
Not that it’s bad storytelling, but it didn’t really engage me.
The ideological HP obsession is about as annoying to me as people who see Star Wars or Star Trek or any other light Sci fi/fantasy as some brilliant allegory.
You can’t tell what is, or what is not, a culturally significant work, until generations have passed. ’cause being significant to people for a long time is what makes it culturally significant. If people in 2100 reference Harry Potter frequently then it made the cut.
Yeah, I was a kid while Harry Potter was coming out and really enjoyed it. But I see people making crazy, statist interpretations of it all the time, which is weird because I got almost the completely opposite message.
Good Lord.
That dude does so much in so few words.
The original Vox headline is also hilarious.
From the Vox article, this tweet:
When I’m dead I want JK Rowling to lower my coffin into the ground so she can let me down one last time
Cleveland Browns fans hardest hit.
So, I should return the Potter stuff my daughter wanted for Christmas. YES!!!
Get her a Houellebecq book instead
Who doesn’t like to read about masturbation on every third page?
It’s not just masturbation. Sometimes it’s anal sex too.
He really shouldn’t make his daughter a Houellebecq girl.
Can we get a Swiss over here!?
*narrows gaze*
Bu then, wouldn’t that make her a Houellebecq girl?
/narrow gaze x2.
I’m biting my tongue and you know why.
I sometimes mention him just to hear you recite the joke. It’s my way of saying “where is the good doctor?”
See, when I think of Dr. Houellebecq I think of the bad guy from the George C. Scott movie The Hospital.
Rowling’s isn’t the most sympathetic character. She’s done her share of the same sort of thing.
The mobs she has cultivated have now devoured her. She gets as much sympathy as Robspierre
“She’s a witch! Burn her!”
(savor the irony)
McConnell decried the effort, for which no Republicans voted, as “the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history.” It taps into long-standing complaints by Republicans that the impeachment has trampled over minority rights in the House, and that Democrats were pursuing an outcome they have preordained before Trump was even sworn into office.
After McConnell spoke, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer shot back by dismissing the Republican claim that the impeachment was purely partisan as only Democrats voted for it.
“Forgive me, House Democrats cannot be held responsible for the cravenness of the House Republican Caucus and their blind fealty to the president,” he said.
Fucking children. They should be taken out back and thrashed with a razor strop, the whole lot of them.
They already feel bad enough. So sad, so solemn, such heavy hearts. It was forced on them.
https://youtu.be/dHnxu8JjShQ
Not everyone was sad.
God, they are retarded.
The funny thing is she deleted the tweet. Democracy something something.
And some were downright giddy
https://mobile.twitter.com/livepddave1/status/1207551773491118080?ref_url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.foxnews.com%2fpolitics%2ftrump-tlaib-video-excited-impeachment
more Iowahawk:
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
This is a somber and historic clown pie fight
Sad like a New Orleans jazz funeral procession.
“Forgive me, House Democrats cannot be held responsible for the cravenness of the House Republican Caucus and their blind fealty to the president,”
Like that doesn’t even make sense in the context of the Democrats being accused of being highly partisan and shutting republicans out from making a case.
I think it’s the political version of “I know you are, but what am I?”
I believe Schumer was still in the House when Clinton was impeached and was one of the Democrats that petulantly walked out in protest.
After the Christmas break, the night before the Senate goes back into session, McConnell should announce that because of the urgency of the case, impeachment will be the first thing the Senate takes up in the morning at 8 am.
I think that would be cool.
While the move could be a way of trying to draw some concessions from McConnell, it also stirred speculation that it could be a play to stop a potentially damaging Senate trial altogether, in which the Republican-dominated chamber could call witnesses such as former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
Such a scenario, however unlikely, would also leave Trump with an awkward status quo in which he is impeached, but cannot claim exoneration in a Senate trial — where he would be widely expected to win acquittal. However, it also risks dragging impeachment out deep into 2020, just as some polls indicate the public is souring on the process.
“What do you need witnesses for? Just say, “GUILTY!” and chop off his head. Why are you making it so hard?”
However, it also risks dragging impeachment out deep into 2020, just as some polls indicate the public is souring on the process.
I will say that Pelosi is a smart political cookie. You don’t become speaker of the house being a dolt. But it does seem somewhere down the line she lost the initiative and has been making “Best-Worst” strategic moves. i.e this is the best of a bad situation for her. Because dragging the process out longer is kinda dangerous play IMO.
I think she got worn down by her own membership. For a couple of years she tried to continue blathering about impeachment while preventing it from actually happening, but by the time this Ukraine shit happened, she kind of gave up and let it happen. I suspect she feared being deposed as speaker by her own Jacobins.
I suspect she was wasted when she gave the OK.
Agreed. She could feel her grip on the Tiger’s tail slipping and she hoped this would distract the yahoos long enough that she could get past the 2020 elections without being deposed.
I think the donks made a mistake with this. They could have just kept repeating Russian/Ukraine and gone with that. Now that they impeached with no crimes, they are boned. There is no way senate convicts, so they lose there. Senate could actually call witnesses which could really be a mess for them, so they lose there. If they keep playing the delay game, they lose again because the Rs will just say their case sucks so bad, the Ds are unwilling to move forward.
Now that they impeached with no crimes, they are boned.
The Senate Republicans all but gave her an out. Telling her they’d summarily reject it still gives her a win. She gets to use it as “bad Republicans covered up for Bad Orange Man” rallying cry. Why she’s pushing her luck is beyond me.
If they go with a trial, I think the Repubs should adopt the exact rules that were unanimously adopted for Clinton’s impeachment trial. How can Pelosi credibly object to those?
Let the Dems call witnesses. Then let those witnesses get cross-examined. When this happened in a rigged committee, the Dems lost. In a more open hearing, how can they not lose bigger?
And, of course, Trump gets to call witnesses, too.
Like the Dems would be bothered by charges of hypocrisy when they objected to Clinton Impeachment rules. And why should they be? They will tell some lie about it and the MSM will do their very best to ensure that only the approved version of the story is aired (“Clinton Impeachment rules have been debunked”).
The Flavoraide drinkers are a lost cause.
This is about the other 60 – 70% of the country.
I think they should be scrupulously fair, and conduct this like an actual trial. While continually pointing out every glaring flaw, lie, omission, and call Biden, Schiff and the whistleblower as witnesses. Then if the lies continue perjury charges should be filed. The House doesn’t seem to recognize that once the trial starts the Senate gets all the powers of a court.
I would be more vicious and adopt the house rules for this impeachment with amendments to adjustment for what the Dems actually did to pass this mess.
Let Pelosi defend her own rules against her.
McConnell is really the one holding all the cards here. Pelosi can only tell her Jacobins she’s holding out for a fixed trial for so long. And every day she delays is a day that it looks like she really is afraid to send the impeachment articles on to the Senate. McConnell, on the other hand, can let the articles rot in the House forever.
And the truth of the matter is that the degree of risk for the Democrats from a trial grows exponentially for the Democrats if Biden does well in the early primaries.
She’s got a rallying cry of “the mean old Republicans covered up for Bad Orange Man” out of this. She should count that as a win and move on. But, I really think she’s afraid to do that at this point.
Such a scenario, however unlikely, would also leave Trump with an awkward status quo in which he is impeached, but cannot claim exoneration in a Senate trial
The Senate could still hold hearings and vote on a resolution, you know. They don’t have to have the magic paper delivered on a satin pillow to take action.
I’ve come around to thinking the Senate should dismiss for failure to state a claim (the article of impeachment don’t meet the Constitutional standard), and possibly for failure to produce evidence that could meet a “clear and convincing” standard.
Batteries? Lundgren has previously shown up here in the same hat and more flattering glasses.
Batteries!
Wrong engineering Lundgren
Better engineering through chemistry!
Science journalisiming is no more congruent to reality than political.
Some folks just hedge too much when they write. From the IBM press-release: “Current tests show that less than five minutes are required for the battery – configured for high power – to reach an 80 percent state of charge.”
Right.
This is one of the very few things that I can speak intelligently to, since my current job directly applies here (and also because we acquired three IBM fabs along with all their personnel so I know how things are done there)
Those tests they did are not on an actual battery. The battery doesn’t exist, not even on components that could one day be assembled into one. They are testing model structures that will in all likelihood not even resemble those in the finished product. It’s just like when a computer chip is rated to last x number of years, it obviously hasn’t been tested for anywhere near that amount of time. You use a surprisingly few data points and a lot of math. However as good as these models are, they become much less reliable the closer you get to production.
A huge tell is the “can be extracted from seawater” bit. Literally everything terrestrial can be extracted from seawater.
Well, water is the universal solvent, and this planet is covered in way too much of that destructive chemical.
Dihydrous monoxide!
I stand with the Penn & Teller Earth day petition to ban such because the people surveyed were environmentalists and know better.
Huh, that makes a lot of sense. I was thinking of it less in the “this is only in theoretical models” sense and more in the “we have a rough prototype” sense. Thank you for the deeper context on that.
Honesty makes me chime in:
“Only” isn’t exactly the right word. They are testing actual physical stuff, and that physical stuff is directly related to the physics/chemistry that they believe will be/could be used in the finished product.
But it’s nowhere near a rough prototype phase.
When they get closer to that, you’ll hear “test vehicle” used. Or actually, you probably won’t since it will be boring old development news at that point.
Fun fact: You know how in software, you’ve got “alpha” and “beta” testing before customer release of software? In micro electronics, you’ve got four stages of “pre-alpha,” then alpha, beta, gamma, and delta testing, at which point you have a physical product you might be able to sell, but “full production” isn’t until five steps later.
Looking to buy a relatively inexpensive pickup, and most of the options are F-150s or Silverado/Sierras. I will not buy a used Dodge after having two Dodge transmissions disintegrate on me. Most of what I’m looking at are model years 2005-09 with mileages in the low 100s.
Anyone have any thoughts or recommendations?
Try dealers that specialize in no frills work trucks. You may be able to get something nicer and newer for the cost of a glitzed up version.
There’s a really good little dealership out in the country here that sells mostly pickups. They have an excellent reputation. They have some work trucks, but many of those are the F-250/350 or 2500 variety, and I didn’t think I’d need anything that heavy-duty. Mostly this is for the ability to do home/yard projects, things like that. I have nothing that requires towing.
Also I do need a crew cab to tote the youngins around.
Have you considered one of the smaller ones. Nissan Frontier could possibly suit the bill and they are pretty simple and cheap.
What I really wish is that Ford had made the old compact Ranger with a four door cab. That would have been perfect.
I haven’t seen any Frontiers for sale so far. Might be an option, but my current Nissan car has been developing problems lately (one of the reasons I’m on the lookout for something new) so I’m a bit gun-shy about Nissans at the moment.
Does your current Nissan have a CVT? Because those suck and the truck won’t have it.
Yes it does, but I actually haven’t had a problem with the CVT…..yet. 108K miles now so I’m getting afraid of it.
The problems I’m having are a bunch of little things. The power locks no longer work on two of the doors. There’s some kind of wiring problem with the back left turn signal – I’ve taken it in twice to get fixed, and both times it goes out again after a week or two. Things like that.
Well, you don’t appear to like GM, but I still have my 2002 Sonoma, which I purchased new.
I prefer the S-10’s wheels, but not enough to, you know, actually pay for them.
Just tie them down in the back.
Any diesels around?
Our best cars have come from Enterprise. I’m sure they have a truck fleet division.
From my limited all things car avoid the 5.4L Triton V8
https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/alqgpy/the_car_wizard_gives_his_take_on_why_the_ford_54l/
Is that the one that shoots spark plugs?
I do know on one iteration of Ford V8s that antiseize was too expensive and the plugs like to remain in the head.
Lol. That’s definitely not unique to the blue oval.
I want to say that the later 5.4L had either valve problems, or head bolt issues. The Wizard doesnt like any flavor of Ford, but he’s easier on the early versions of that engine.
Too small oil passages. They clog and starve the top end.
thats it!
Thats what makes getting a used one a gamble. If the owner didnt keep up on oil changes, and some sludge got in there…
For what purpose? Towing, hauling, it makes me look cool in my cowboy hat?
Hauling mostly. We have a boatload of home projects we want to do over the next couple of years.
Also have wanted a 4X4 for a while for inclement weather. We were going to get it on my wife’s car, but we got a great deal on a CX-9 that was exactly what she wanted other than being FWD.
Stay away from f150s in that year range. Trust me on this. *2006 F150 owner, Its literally in the shop as often as not.
One wonders how John Roberts will engineer Penaltax II
He may not get the chance. I haven’t done the math, but there may be 5 votes to overturn without him.
If he is the swing vote again, I predict he will do something like: the “tax” is still on the books. Just because its for zero dollars today, doesn’t mean it won’t be for more than zero dollars in the future.
The real action may be around severability. The bill was intentionally written without the standard severability language allowing the courts to invalidate as little of the statute as possible. I vaguely recall legislative history that this was done on the premise that the whole program is so interdependent that none of it can be severed (which is bullshit – the Medicaid expansion can easily stand alone). The lapdog judges will turn themselves inside out to save as much of OCare as they can. The problem is that the entire statute failed as an exercise of the Commerce Clause powers last time, and was only saved by the penaltax. I’m not seeing how you can say “nope, there’s no tax” and save any of the statutes, but I bet they try, and I bet they do it (unless there are 5 votes to ditch the whole thing, of course).
“but there may be 5 votes to overturn without him”
Who would be the fifth? I got Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas. Am I missing someone? No one on the Left of the court is going to snuff out their Messiah’s signature legislative achievement
This won’t make it to the Supremes for at least another year or three. I don’t expect Bader-Ginsburg to last that long.
But then you are assuming that Trump will install her replacement, which I think is a 50-50 shot
Fair enough. I think he’s got a better shot than that, but its early days.
On the issue of severability is an interesting one, because the Fed Gov has changed it’s position. I.e when the law was being challenged, the Obama Admin argued that it was not severable, and posed a lot of arguments for why (you have to have the healthy buy more insurance than they need to make the system work other wise only the sick will buy). This was probably an effort to sway the court from calling it unconstitutional because the legislation was “popular”. But Roberts is painted into a corner here, and i agree that his one way out would be to say that a Tax with not revenue collection mechanism is still a tax. Will he do this? :shrug: i don’t know.
I can imagine a much bigger shitshow than this impeachment. Such as both chambers of Congress being controlled by the same party, and when someone from another party wins the presidency, immediately impeaching and then convicting them as soon as they take office. Pretty much a coup d’etat scenario.
Meh. Sure they’ll have a majority in the senate but they won’t get 2/3rds.
I want nothing but impeachments, forever. Keeps them from doing other stuff.
The more vicious, partisan, and self-directed Congress is, the faster our current institutions collapse. And I think a faster collapse is better than a slow one. Our current institutions are zombies. They are dead, done, finito. Best to put them out of our misery sooner rather than later.
You think they will be replaced with something better?
When was the last time either party had 2/3rds majority in the senate?
1967
https://www.infoplease.com/us/government/legislative-branch/composition-of-congress-by-political-party-1855-2017
They won’t have a majority in the Senate. In fact you’ll probably see at least one Democrat vote with the Republicans. I think the odds of a majority voting to impeach are very very very low
I’m 85% sure Mitt votes to convict.
He has 4 years to re-election, this will be old news by then and so it doesn’t matter for those purposes.
That’s possible, but at the same time, despite how disliked Trump is in Utah, such a vote is going to leave a bad taste in voters’ mouths. He has four years, but this is a vote that would be thrown back in his face and would ensure that he gets primaried.
He has four years, but this is a vote that would be thrown back in his face and would ensure that he gets primaried.
It most definitely will hang over his head if he does. I don’t know anything about the Utah GOP so I can’t say whether a challenge would be successful, but he’d definitely get challenged over it. The smart play for him is to pull a Tulsi and vote present, claiming that he saw improprieties that deserved a rebuke but that did not rise to the level of impeachment.
For everyone who wonders why there are NeverTrumper Republicans, recognize these same people thought John McCain and Mitt Romney would make great Republican presidents.
JB was playing along with Prole’s “what if one party had a majority in both houses” hypothetical, not reality as it is now.
When then I need reading comprehension
And spelling
Best case scenario for Democrats would be Gardner, Collins, Murkowski, and Romney vote for impeachment.
Collins and Gardiner are certain to lose if they vote for it, because they’ll gain nothing from progressive voters who will still vote against them in the election. Murkowski could go either way, because her family is such in institution in Alaska, but it would still be a tough sell. Romney could vote with the Dems, but Utah is still Utah and so he knows he can’t stray too far from mainstream Republican opinion. At best they pick-up two.
On the other side you have Manchin, who is almost guaranteed to vote with Republicans. Tester from Montana who might decide to vote with Democrats, because his election is so far away, but then he knows that his term is over after that as his Republican opponent will hammer him (he barely won his last race). And then Doug Jones, who is basically a sitting duck anyways, he’ll probably stay with the Democrats, because he knows he’s toast. Sinema from Arizona is the real wild card. I don’t know what she’s thinking, but she’s probably the real wild card.
In no scenario do I see impeachment getting a majority vote and that’s why Schumer wants to drag out the trial in the Senate hoping that they can pressure enough Republican senators to cross the aisle, but it’s a really really really tough sell.
Murkowski could go either way, because her family is such in institution in Alaska, but it would still be a tough sell.
I don’t think she goes for impeachment, simply because she’s already lost a primary (but then went on to win the general as a write-in), so it’s probably more of a risk and inconvenience than it would be worth. I’m saying she abstains at most (as I think is the case with Romney as well).
Voting “present” pisses me off. It shouldn’t be an option.
Because it has precisely the same effect as voting “no”. Any Congresshole who votes “present” should have their vote recorded as “no”.
“But that’s not what I said!”
“Maybe not, but its what you did.”
The trial and vote should be held in the week leading up to the Iowa Caucuses. Let’s see Warren put the needs of the country ahead of her own. (same with Klobuchar and Booker).
Then pull the same petty shit on them that the Dems did and postpone the vote at the last second. Reschedule it for the NH primaries date.
https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-ar-15-boating-15-stripped-lower-receiver.html
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If they start selling ones with Big Igloos on them i might just buy one.
Another exhibit of why gun nuts are better than hoplophobes
You know what is worse than Illinois Nazis? Minnesoda Cucks.
College Republican students at Minnesoda liberal arts college swatted and immediately roll over.
And at the bottom of the story:
Fucking pussies! 1) Northfield is in some pretty decent hunting country, why don’t they have a shotgun or a .22? 2) So you get swatted by some punks and the cops tear your room up and your response is to say “I’m sorry, I’ll try to be quieter”?
How much you want to bet these conservative students have “Blue Lives Matter” flags in their dorms. Lick that boot, bitches
They are playing up the “emotional harm” for the inevitable lawsuit….cha ching!
TCF is also very good at selectively quoting to maximize emotional engagement with their content and increase its spread.
When I saw “TCF” I first thought you were referring to “Terminal Colonic Flatulence”.
Or, as the Terminal Colonic Flatulence research charity slogan goes, “TCF. It’s nothing to sniff at.”
I’m upset this made me laugh.
TCF is great…for a hastily prepared hot take that utilizes HEADLINES THAT GET CLICKS!!!!
Yeah I have a love/hate (but mostly hate) relationship with them. I think they surface stories that would otherwise get buried, but they have a clear agenda and shape their stories within an inch of misrepresenting them to fit that agenda, which makes them an unreliable source.
…they have a clear agenda and shape their stories within an inch of misrepresenting them to fit that agenda, which makes them an unreliable source.
So…journalists?
I mean, everyone’s a postmodernist now, so sure. Some sources are better than others. Usually general news sites you get a feel for what weird ideological blind-spots they have (WaPo on Donald Trump for instance) and you take authorial perspective into account and read around it. TCF’s entire thing is their blind-spot, so they’re mostly useful to know that an event happened and go scrabbling through local news to see what the context for the story is that isn’t presented in their hot take of it.
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to critique your take, just using it as a spring-board to hit some low-hanging fruit. There definitely are differences in reliability among the journalistic class and publications, and it is frustrating when an outlet that does good investigating (or at least publicizing) is a bit too tilted to be passed on, or even relied on.
After the talk of westerns earlier, I had to take a look. Apparently “A Fistful of Dollars” and “A Few Dollars More” are on Prime until the end of the year. Wonder what that will do to my recommendations?
You might also like: A Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars More
Aaaaand a video about A Fist Full of Dollars just popped into my youtube recommendations, they’re watching…
*golf clap*
Wonder what that will do to my recommendations
You’re gonna see a lot of “Once Upon a Time in the West” and “Death Rides a Horse”
I just saw a news clip showing the feel-oh-so-good story of cops pulling over random people to give away christmas-y stuff.
Thought experiment- without cause or ‘reasonable suspicion’ to pull a motorist over (cause you think you’re Santa Claus) what would happen in the person floored it and ran?
Assuming the cop didnt have a reason to perform a stop in the 1st place.
Santa would use his .50 Cal on the sum bitch!
Sup Tres!
HEY YUFUS!
Yo, Yusef
I know money’s tight. I also Mrs. Adama was looking for a firearm that she could use proficiently.
https://palmettostatearmory.com/smith-wesson-m-p-380-shield-ez-380-acp-pistol-w-range-ready-kit-13114.html
Did they show the clip where Santa Cop pulls over someone who was driving just fine, noticed that he had a bit of alcohol on his breath and then let him go with just a wink?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
If I was enough of a sociopath to be a cop, I’d be 100% into this. Give away a few cheap gifts to establish your good intentions and then go on a rampage where you pull over anyone you feel like. If you get lucky and catch them riding dirty, bonus points for you!
From the trending files:
https://www.barrons.com/articles/costco-is-the-most-woke-company-out-there-51566464401?mod=barpkt19
“Earlier this week, the heads of 181 major companies decided that maximizing shareholder value was no longer the main purpose of the modern corporation.
The redefined role—announced at a time when many people are worried about a recession and their portfolios—is promoting an economy that serves all Americans.
The new principles were memorialized in a Business Roundtable statement that could be called “woke capitalism.” If the rollout is handled properly, it might even convince some millennials—and members of the U.S. Congress—that corporations aren’t all evil.”
The tenor of the article makes it seem Barron’s thinks this is a good thing.
The redefined role—announced at a time when many people are worried about a recession and their portfolios—is promoting an economy that serves all Americans.
The class action lawyers who bring securities lawsuits can branch out into breach of fiduciary duty. And that would be a good thing – even parasites and bottom feeders have a role to play in a healthy ecosystem.
Bullshit.
“Dear Shareholder,
In lieu of a dividend this year, we will be donating our profits to social justice advocacy organizations. We’re sure you share our dedication to serving all Americans over maximizing shareholder value. Happy Holidays!”
‘Oh! How nice! Good for you! Doing what’s right!’
/immediately sells shares.
And this is why I sell all of my employee stock shares upon receipt.
Aaaand apparently this was put out back in August. Thanks web browser trending feature.
There are already corporations specifically that are supposed to consider the greater good over even shareholder value. They’re called B Corps, or Benefit Corporations. If you want to invest in one of those, feel free. Otherwise this feels like a breach of fiduciary duty on the part of the Board.
Honestly, I think we are missing our chance here. Now is the time to get the youngsters to turn viciously on the 17th Amendment. Maybe even get them riled up enough to get that repealed.
We should start spreading the word that if Senators weren’t elected by the voters, they wouldn’t be scared to vote their conscience. At least 40 GOP Senators would vote for impeachment if they were still being selected like the old day by the States. No secret ballot would be needed.
The problem now is that those GOPers know that the rubes in flyover country wouldn’t re-elect them if they voted to impeach.
The 16th and 17th Amendments were the worst things to happen to this country in the 20th Century (outside of the World Wars).
Agreed. I anticipate the next generation of glibs pining for the good ol’days when we had the electoral college and no electronic direct democracy or mandatory voting.
It’s just so crazy that it might work!!
My micro electronica studio, first time in over a year,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/URJAYdNGuwr7jpS68
I think it’s cute…
Very nice! So happy to see you are in a home. How’s Wendy?
Ok, hopefully they don’t have to send her to Vegas, waiting for the phone, I thought, what could I set up easy with tools at hand, it work alright
Sweet. Glad to see you are settling in.
Oh yay!
If you bring a computer into the system, take a look at VCV Rack.
Does anyone get impeached in the new Star Wars movie?
Roundhead Johnson.
The Cavaliers will deal with him.
I heard somebody gets a lightsaber in the peach.
Not in the peach!!!! (Risky For Work)
I thought it was supposed to be female friendly?!
He didn’t say it was switched on.
All that power stealing.
Kitten murder is the worst kind.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/18/luka-magnotta-doc-dont-f-k-with-cats-too-disturbing-for-netflix-viewers/
There was some scumbag from Chile on YouTube who had video(s?) of him hurting and killing a cat.
This Guy?
That’s the one. Helicopter ride can’t come soon enough.
OFFS.
Strange I never heard of this story. This piece of shit tests my resistance to the death penalty.
Ok, so according to this C-Net article, the free Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrade still works in some cases. With end of support coming next month, and some issues my Win 7 installation has been having with .Net framework that I’ve been unable to fix, I’ve been thinking about upgrading.
Question: What happens if I go through the whole thing and I’m not one of the people this works for? Will it revert to Win 7? Will I be locked out of everything on my PC?
Ostensibly, it saves the entire Win 7 installation and you can revert. Having taken that route once when the system “up”graded without my permission, I can assure you Win 7 was partially crippled after being restored.
A Guy Faulkes pops up on your screen and starts laughing at you in the voice of Andy Rooney.
Do a full backup of your system, then try to run the upgrade. If it doesn’t work you can wipe the drives and reinstall 7 and restore your backups. Puts you back at square 1, but that’s a lot better than a bricked PC with all your data gone.
I don’t have another drive to back up on.
I’ve got about 50 of the damn things lying around, you want one?
So expect this from our News Betters: if the Senate goes as expected in regards to impeachment, those Senators only represent 7% of the country’s population and that is wrong and why we need to reform the Senate
That is a WaPo analysis that I cant be bothered to link cause its paywalled
If you had put WaPo analyst at the beginning, I wouldn’t have needed to read the rest and I would have more live brain cells.
They probably just want to abolish it. I mean, no amount of “reforming” it is going to turn it into another House, which is what they want. Notwithstanding the fact that the 17th Amendment got them halfway there.
Sounds like an argument to break up the country. For democracy.
My parents are deeply involved in the United Methodist Church. After the UMC voted against ordaining gay-married clergy, my mom said she didn’t think that the African delegates should be able to vote in matters of US UMC policy. I entioned “Yet you think that California should be able to vote on laws governing Texas.”
I had been trying to get her to stop talking to me about politics for decades that argument succeeded.
I’m heading to the Daytona Beach area Saturday. Any Glibertarians in the area?
Just cause it’s stuck in my head:
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
Electric Six is the last thing left to justify Detroit.
No love for Jack White?
No love for The Hentchmen ?
For that matter, what about Royce Da 5’9″?
The Hentchmen are still around? They were one of my faves.
I’m going to watch Lone Survivor again, with dinner, it was pretty good the first time I watched, see if it holds up,
Afghani war flick
TALL CANS!
Fair warning friend — if Yusef sees you’ve stolen his avatar pic, he’s going to tie you to a big-ass kite and fly you somewhere unpleasant.
Only cause he can’t afford a helicopter. And he’s a DIY kinda dude. Makes it more personal.
Hitting the sauce early — after a dinner of sirloin, potatoes and bourbon, I feel compelled to share what little wisdom I possess:
Kerrygold is an excellent butter. But this is even better. It’s available in grocery store around here now. Prior to that, I had to special order it through my cheesemonger. I’ve pretty much cut out starches in my diet, but I was given potatoes in my veggie bag and with that butter, salt and pepper I think I know what heaven is supposed to be like.
Should be available at my local wegmans. Noted.
Well, they have a store finder app that can help you.
I’ve been eating a lot more veggies, so I’ve also been eating a lot more butter. I liked Green Giant frozen packs, but ‘lightly sauced’? Why bother?A tablespoon of butter goes a long way to making them palatable, even enjoyable.
Scrambled eggs + butter >>> scrambled eggs.
I’ll keep an eye out.
The North Wales wegmans has several items from them, if you’re ever down my way.
I drive right by it on my way to Trader Joes.
Let’s get a drink together after the holidays.
Look for President’s butter from France, as well. Cultured butter>regular butter.
“Monkey Dungeon”. Band name or album title?
Va. authorities find a ‘monkey dungeon’ in a zoo that passed USDA inspection just the day before.
Eggzackly how does “agriculture” relate to “monkeys?” Or do I really not want to know?
Sex discrimination is wrong, except when it’s right.
So I used to work with a company that would get hit with daily fines from the local EPA office for ‘air pollution violations’.
Said company just paid them (it was an auto manufacturer with deep pockets) because what they were getting fined was paltry compared to the money the plant was making. I theorized that after so long, it became a symbiotic relationship- the local EPA knew they would get that money, the company knew they would keep paying it, and it actually became a revenue stream for that county. I wonder if Jerry Brown considered that. Or maybe he did, and he wanted that cas$h.
See: the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
All it does now is shake down some of the wealthiest companies in America and feed those billions into the maw of state government.
A sitting US President is impeached for only the third time in the history of the republic. You would think that the resulting political uncertainty would send the markets tumbling. Instead all three major indexes closed at record highs. Tells you a good chunk of what you need to know about what the drivers of the economy think of the farce on Capitol Hill.