I’ve just barely recovered from Pi Day…
Don’t get stabbed to death by a bunch of Senators who are pretending to be your allies.
Ides of March 2021 Open
by coldwarrior ( 118 Comments › )Filed under Academia, History, Open thread at March 15th, 2021 - 7:00 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Google and Apple have announced to invest Billions of USD to expand their research and developing departments in Bavaria because costs are more than 50% less as in the U.S.A.
The average income of an employee in Bavaria is Euro 45k while the average income in the U.S.A. is about USD 125k
The Washington Post Issues a “Correction” Which Clarifies That Every Claim Made In Their Story Stating that Trump Told the George Secretary of State to “Find the Fraud” Was a Lie
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/393192.php
@ eaglesoars:
Might have thrown the Senate to the Dems? Who manipulated the election more? Russia or the WaPo?
The Tatiana McGrath link on the last thread was a riot. Sort of a rite of passage for new twitter users.
darkwords wrote:
The Georgia Sec State, who released a deceptively edited version of the video.
@ darkwords:
There’s one where she claimed
All animals are naturally vegan. The “food chain” is a myth created by men to justify eating meat.
Someone pointed out that a vegan diet doesn’t provide natural cat health because cats are designed to catch and eat meat. Titiania responded
Nonsense. All my pet cats have been vegan. I tend to get a new one every few months because cats have such a short lifespan sadly.
Here’ the link to the Titiana McGrath thread if anyone missed it.
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1371139531676737537
@ Bunk X:
oh sweet fucking jesus
@ rain of lead:
Whovever is behind that account knows all the leftist talking points and turns them up to 11. It’s satire but not all the readers pick up on it, and that’s where the fun starts.
Happy Birthday to the NZ Army Intelligence Corps on the Ides of March.
Beware the snake in the grass with a sharp knife and felonious intent! And don’t believe cant that extols you’re superior intellect. It did Caesar no end of harm!
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today’s funny shirt…
it says spqr across the top
with the roman fasces
and then it says:
rome : 3
carthage : 0
yep, immageek.
6 ,ore shifts in methtoona and then i get get back to normal.
the $$$$/double bounses was good tho. (holy shit!)
almost made up for the crater from being off with cancer for 6 months.
i forgot to wish everyone a very hapy PI day yesterday.
forgive my belatedness
@ Bunk X:
It’s Andrew Doyle. He’s a comedian and writes for Spiked. A Brit. Dave Rubin had a fun interview with him. About 10 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_qMWTYhVqk
some basic latin:
Romanus euont domus … ???
i had a seizure on that one, i could feel sister maria bringing the wrath!
my german prof at PITT started with the diminutive case…i was apoplectic. he an i were the only ones who got it, sadly.
use the imperative!!!
Oh great. L’il Kim is ghosting Sleepy Joe
BBC: The Biden administration says it has been trying to contact the North Korean government since February but has yet to receive a response
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1371590622713421824
WTF is this?
Irish Americans are at their best when serving selflessly as men and women for others. Not just when battling, as OāCallahan did so well for our country and his stricken ship but anytime they show mercy and care personally for the corporeal and spiritual needs of individuals ā humbly and ecumenically.
The United States may be called upon yet again to fight in the far reaches of the Pacific, this time against Chinese communists. We hope not. But if we must, Irish Americans will be there. And in war or peace, OāCallahan is an example all Americans must emulate.
Just to give you the gist of the excised text, O’Callahan was a priest giving Absolution on D-Day from the Franklin. This crap opinion piece has the Vatican’s grubby finger prints all over it.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/father-joseph-ocallahan-and-the-irish-in-america
@ eaglesoars:
The author of that piece has an interesting bio. Meet Kevin T. Carroll.
https://www.wiggin.com/person/kevin-t-carroll/
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Kevin assists companies in the national security space, including minority and veteran-owned start-ups, counseling them on CFIUS/FIRRMA, cyber and data security, EAR/ITAR, FARA, FCPA, FISA, FMS and OFAC compliance, obtaining them licenses to work with sanctioned entities, and advising on investment agreements.
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Before his most recent government service, Kevin was Deputy General Counsel for a software company with national security clients.
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Kevin also served as a CIA case officer in the MidEast. Lieutenant Colonel (Promotable) Carroll served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and on the Joint Staff; with the 1st Infantry Division in Bosnia; as a liaison in Cuba; and as an intelligence officer for special operations units in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen
cool video
Deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1371055836802387971
@ eaglesoars:
I’m on the waiting list here. It’s supposed to be available in my area mid- to late-2021
@ lobo91:
I have no idea how it works. I used to really despise Elon Musk. It upset me that the batteries for his cars required child miners. It still does. But there is no doubt that this guy is not just a visionary but an EFFECTIVE visionary. He absolutely gets things done.
eaglesoars wrote:
I should have written – It no longer does.
I believe Tesla is now sourcing mainly Australia and China and that’s not hard rock lithium, I THINK it’s brine
eaglesoars wrote:
Nobody with an ounce of self-respect puts that on their bio. That right there points out that he was passed over for promotion and butt-hurt about it.
eaglesoars wrote:
His using a Tesla and driver dummy as ballast for his launch test was a stroke of PR brilliance. That right there started me thinking that he might not be all bad.
AZfederalist wrote:
Nope. That means he was selected, not passed over
Hubby just asked me what was wrong with the dryer.
???
What are you talking about?
You had to unplug the dryer and move it out. You should have asked me, I would have helped you move it out and back in. What was wrong?
I didn’t touch the dryer.
Now we’re sitting here looking at each other.
AZfederalist wrote:
yep. He’s probably still an asshole. But so is Marjorie Taylor Greene and I absolutely adore her.
lobo91 wrote:
Thanks for the correction. I still think it is presumptuous since he left as a LT Colonel, not a full Colonel.
@ AZfederalist:
It can take up to 2 years between selection and actual promotion. He was probably already planning to retire and decided it wasn’t worth waiting that long. It also carries an additional service obligation.
@ eaglesoars:
I’d rather not have known. š
@ Bunk X:
Has anyone told you about Santa yet?
Bunk X wrote:
Nobody in America understands British funny.
You all thought Monty Python was funny.
It was not.
Oh message to my Alcohol Anonymous and Narcotic Anonymous sponsors and support system.
IT IS PARTY TIME HERE!!!!!
eaglesoars wrote:
You talking about the Mexican general who brought everyone chewing gum?
Possum wrote:
Benny Hill was pretty good, except that Boots Randolph shtick got old.
Bunk X wrote:
Benny Hill was not funny.
He was boring.
Possum wrote:
He was after a few bong hits.
Crocodile Dundee was funny.
https://babylonbee.com/news/in-edgy-grammys-performance-fully-clothed-woman-sings-beautiful-song
Babylon Bee hits it out of the park again regarding the Emmys
Possum wrote:
I rests Me Case M’Laud!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkrbfkTHCn8
Dame Edna Everage (AKA) Barry Humpheries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac0CJn0-6tE
Goon Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7XyP4VHcRM
Billy Connelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFU9nHZORIk
Dadās Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqAiDbfhGwk
Best of Dave Allen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbgqtvJOJus
Rowan Atchenson
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=black+adder+season+1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Zm8H6G108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0v3l8Ew34s&list=PLLWBphTHcHs_i7YJT6gWoVZd0D_bgZGAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxbzb8XXiGQ
Yes Prime Minister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOI3SNVAVwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX45hc0aZt0
Fawlty Towers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUUyCjeTV7Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-oH-TELcLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2ACca73gI
Oh Nooo
I forgot
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y2WIOa7CEI
Possum wrote:
but dave allen was.
Possum wrote:
one needs a bit of intellect for python.
and yes, hysterical.
@ coldwarrior:
@ Aussie Infidel:
all star lineup, that!
i need to go hit some golf balls, smoke some cigars, and be an adult.
later yinz!
When Kamala moves into the White House and stops pulling Joeās strings, who do you think she will select as her vice president?
@ lobo91:
the bloopers are great!
There’s a new platform, like twitter, that just launched. It’s ‘run’ by the Epoch Times, if you’re interested. Newsy stuff.
https://jointell.com/
@ right_wing2:
Susan Rice’s name has been thrown around. But TWO women ‘of color’ may seem to be a bit much. They need to identify another rep of an oppressed group. I just don’t know of any Native American trans person with a missing limb in Congress.
@ Aussie Infidel:
My favorite Basil Fawlty scenes
– beating the car with the tree branch
– Mrs Richards (deaf woman)
– Goose stepping out of the dining room
Damn he was limber!
Still takes several minutes to load each page and I have to log in constantly.
@ eaglesoars:
Maybe Warren will come out.
right_wing2 wrote:
Shoot me now.
Bunk X wrote:
Crocodile Dundee was Aussie, not Brit.
All I can think of when I see our Sec of Stateās name is Men in Tights.
āDid you say Abe Lincolnā?ā
No, I said A. Blinken.
You gotta read this. Whyte soi boi gets total burn
https://notthebee.com/article/here-it-is-the-worst-tweet-of-the-day-2
AZfederalist wrote:
Hoges never took himself too seriously. Just a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge …made good !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN3tNYupkoc
See 1:30
He takes the piss out of himself as well as everyone else
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Aussie Infidel wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rC2rfCj3sk
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I really need to watch his new movie where he plays an exaggerated version of himself. It looks really good.
@ lobo91:
Heather is priceless
@ lobo91:
BLM. The mother survived. Horrible story. Should replace George Floyd with this mothers name.
@ lobo91:
Those are pretty good. All commercials should be like this.
@ lobo91:
Sent it to some family members. Will see how woke they are…
@ lobo91:
Good one also. On the Cleared Hot podcast with Andy Stumpf he says when he goes to a new gun range he always looks at the ceiling in the area he shoots. If he sees a hole right above him, another a few inches further to the target, and more tracking to the target then he usually packs his gun and leaves.
Before I retire for the nite…the only thing I’ve seen today that might have legs…Candace Owens is suing CardiB. CardiB and some other skank gave a Grammy performance that was worthy of a brothel. CBS is getting flack for it.
It should be fun.
My house gets put back together tomorrow. The dining room table will no longer be in the kitchen, the hutch in the living room.
It’s going to take two weeks to do the clean up. I’m beyond tired.
Note in the mail from the Dept of Treasury today. My stim check of $600 is on the way via direct deposit. They had a link http://www.irs.gov/eip where you can check the status. It says to be deposited tonight. I “think” the mail was refering to the last check.
@ eaglesoars:
There was a twitter video joke on who did the grammy dance better. Cardi B or a Dog dragging his butt on the carpet?
AZfederalist wrote:
Yeah I know. I wanted to tweak Mr. Possum.
@ coldwarrior:
Saw them at the Hollywood Bowl in the ’80s – The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball. During intermission they came into the audience in their Aussie garb, hurling full cans of Foster’s at the crowd.
Terrible stuff. I don’t think Aussies drink it either.
@ eaglesoars:
I nominate Titiana McGrath.
America’s Cup remains New Zealand’s Cup
Best race was kept for last. The Team of 5 million just out sailed Luna Rossa on every leg.
The Kiwi boat has been made faster every day it set out and the crew and engineers have tweaked and modified every tiny thing to make the boat go faster. Some aerodynamicist last night added a faring to the Jib traveller to lower the drag around the jib clew by a tiny amount. Every night the crew, engineers and aerodynamics were tweaking and refining tiny improvements and the results showed that.
Champagne is flowing on the Waitamata Harbour right now. My only regret is tat we never did see these boats in strong winds sailing right of the edge where only the brave or mad dare to go at 60 knots+
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Great speech by the Italians. Ten the champagne flowed with Team NZ on stage. The Kiwi Fitness Trainer broke the cork of a magnum i his haste to spray the team and fill ‘The Olde Mug’ and pour a libation and drink deep.
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50,000 screaming Kiwi fans still at the Viaduct basin. There will be some SERIOUS PARTYING tonight.
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What are people using for anti virus these days? One of my 20 email accounts got hacked. The one I used on reddit. But the hacker seems pretty smart. Google Chrome security check shows an account called eteroftheweek associated with my banking page on my pc. Fortunately, I only use the mobile phone to do my banking now. The fake banking page was impressive but failed the two factor authentication. But now I see they also got into spotify. That means they were able to suck my browsing history, login, and password. 2 factor was the only thing that blocked them.
I’m going to update https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm My copy is 3 years old. I find this file really helpful if I want to do hard redirects on browser calls but it makes ad pop ups fail. And in google searches any ad with a redirect in it will fail. Which is usually the top few search returns.
I had stopped using the google browser cause…. Went to the AVG free secure one but it didn’t catch any of the bad actors. So am going to revert back to the google one for money stuff. I trust no one. But I’ve made it too complex to keep up with. So if I don’t login for awhile its because I deleted everything and can’t find the right browser/email id/password combo to get back in easily.
going to go back to
1 Norton 360 paid version (still reading reviews on the others)
2. Malwarebytes paid version.
3. https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Things went to crap when I went for all the free versions. I have about 400 different internet sites with logins. Have to update all of them now. bleh!
Uninstalling all this free AVG stuff in a few minutes.
@ Aussie Infidel:
New Zealanders are tough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOU8pPhY_1A
Here is the Final Race for the Olde Mug and the partying afterwards,
Enjoy
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@ darkwords:
Malwarebytes paid version, with Kaspersky’s free rootkit downloaded just for emergencies.
I like this one better.
@ Bunk X:
Made it back. I went with bitdefender. They had a coupon special that worked in paypal. I am a big malwarebytes fan. But the reviewer didn’t give it a high rating. I’ll go look at it again. And get the russian rootkit. š
It looks like the WH is putting out deep fake videos showing Biden interacting with media when he never did. Also, in the comment there’s a reference to a green screen with the top of Biden’s head missing
Who is in charge of the CGI at the White House?
This is 3rd grade level green screen
https://twitter.com/theunitedspot22/status/1372057192283598848
Oh, almost forgot.
Happy Whyte People’s Binge Drinking Day!
eaglesoars wrote:
should be a fun shift in the ER!
@ eaglesoars:
Cultural appropriation!
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/03/17/professors-call-for-abolishing-physics-term-quantum-supremacy-to-fight-racism/
@ right_wing2:
One of these days somebody is going to figure out that if it weren’t for Western Civ the majority of humanity would be living in a planetary shit hole, and if it weren’t for white men, there would be no Western Civ.
This is actually a few hours old
BREAKING: After Pres. Biden said “Putin is a killer” in ABC interview, Russia’s Washington envoy has been called back home to “analyze future ties with Washington”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1372241534712741888
@ right_wing2:
Oh. Written for “Politically Correct American”. That rag departed from real Science decades ago.
@ eaglesoars:
So much for “Smart Diplomacy”. Wonder what the powers that be see in having a tiff with Russia.
@ AZfederalist:
They have Small Penis Syndrome. They won’t do jack about China, so they’ll kick sand in Putin’s face.
@ eaglesoars:
The nice lady behind the counter at the Walmart pharmacy today had a name tag that read Peenus.
@ Bunk X:
oh dear
You’ve probably heard about the shootings in the Atlanta spas/massage parlours. The headlines say Asian women are dead. Actually 8 women were killed, the others were other races so don’t contribute to the narrative. The shooter is some white kid. Who shot the places up because he thinks he’s a sex addict and it was their fault or something.
But no.
Whiteness Is a Pandemic
Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills peopleāwhite people and people who are not white, my mom included. There will be people who die, in 2050, because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850.
A line can and should be drawn from the actions of the white supremacist who walked into three Atlanta-area massage parlors yesterday, and allegedly killed eight peopleāsix of whom were of Asian descentāto the relentless anti-Asian rhetoric pollinating national discourse over the past year. The former president, and the party of the former president, can and should be blamed for this
.
.
White supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it.
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/whiteness-is-a-pandemic-1846494770?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=theroot
Genocide, straight up
@ eaglesoars:
and DO read the comments…….
JUST IN: The United Auto Workers union has informed workers that Ford plans to move a major project worth $900 million from Ohio to its plant in Mexico -WSJ
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1372346766180384769
@ eaglesoars:
I subscribe to the notion that the root of the problem is that Africa created slavery and enlightened Europeans mostly ended it. Thank them.
I follow some Africa First fellows on social media and most of them seem obsessed with racial identity and quite insane to me. Like they have college degrees and phd’s and what not but are still idiots without a sense of humanity.
Why we value their output I don’t know.
@ eaglesoars:
I think I was feed a line of BS by the Bush elite about populism. There exists a large strata of people in this elite level that need to be removed from productive society. Trump revealed it. Election aren’t going to fix the problem as the infestation will infest the elections also.
I must have pandemia. I’ve been making coffee every morning. But I’ve grown too lazy to throw the old grounds out. For 3-4 days, I’ll just add a large tablespoon of new coffee to the pot and re brew it. Like I am working for King Rat or something.
darkwords wrote:
Hardly. Slavery is in the Bible. Sarah’s slave was Hagar, who was impregnated by Abraham and gave birth to Ishmael.
Oh, the irony. This is from Sadiq Kahn, the MUSLIM mayor of London
NEW: Misogyny will now be recorded as a hate crime – a HUGE victory for everyone involved in this cross-party campaign. Itās time for every Londoner to call out sexist & misogynistic attitudes wherever they are found ā in the workplace, school, on the streets or public transport.
https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/1372258572734717954
@ eaglesoars:
They would say Jesus is black and the Bible is a kemet production. And refer to the Ethiopian recorded bible. The lost tribes became the white devils.
IMO I think Jesus may have just been swarthy.
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t see how that works out well. Unless he can reform Islam into an English variant?
Probably also have to quarantine men after 6 PM and shut down pubs everywhere at that hour.
darkwords wrote:
Didn’t the remnants somehow end up in Israel awhile back?
@ eaglesoars:
So Twitter has taken this down because it promotes violence and is racist, right?
/Yeah, who am I kidding.
@ AZfederalist:
*snort*
I don’t see any other source for this, so just FYI
””””’
Myanmar Regime Seizes Bank Accounts of Soros’ Open Society Foundation
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-seizes-bank-accounts-soros-open-society-foundation.html
bedtime. nite
Cluster headache is often said to be the most painful of all headaches; it has been described as āboring,ā āburning,ā ālike a hot poker in the eyeā and as āsuicide headache.ā āCluster pain is described as being at least 10/10 in severity, and typically there is an inability to lie still,ā
Cluster headaches come in cycles (also called cluster periods). Most people who get cluster headaches have one or two cluster periods each year. A cluster period might last 1 month or longer. After a cluster period ends, you may not get another headache for months or even years.
@ eaglesoars:
They are calling this carma on Twitter.
eaglesoars wrote:
From the link:
And he’s a racist.
darkwords wrote:
Great book.
I got that the King was envied and despised, but he saved some of the prisoners from starvation.
@ Possum:
I rarely get headaches. Got a migraine long ago, but that was due to a spinal tap. Cutting wood with a chainsaw in the middle of winter with a migraine is a lot of fun.
I get ocular migraines occasionally. They’re benign, don’t cause pain, and I get a free fireworks show for about 20 minutes. Mine look similar to this, except it’s more like a crescent of flashing tinsel:
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/ocular-migraine-1.gif
Hope you’re not having problems.
Frozen firepit.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/03/blm-riot-in-liege/
@ Possum:
I got cluster headaches when I was in my twenties to early thirties, but then they stopped. Same with my father.
I’ve recently been having some dental issues with back teeth that mimic the maddeningly erratic stabs of pain in the same nerve groups on either side of my head.
My Dad used to get prescribed ergotamine for his, but I think they don’t prescribe it anymore as it’s an LSD precursor.
Studies have shown small doses of psilocybin work.