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Buunk:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Besides doubling down on ignintz, she sourced this brilliance:
https://tudorscribe.medium.com/do-you-work-longer-hours-than-a-medieval-peasant-17a9efe92a20
from her piece:
In fact, Schor found that during periods of particularly high wages, such as 14th-century England, peasants might put in no more than 150 days a year. “All told, holiday leisure time in medieval England took up probably about one-third of the year,” she wrote in her book.
She neglects to mention that those high wages were the result of a labor shortage brought on by the plague.
Her idea of ‘leisure’ is not ours. They simply didn’t labor for their land’s owner but for themselves instead. If you think you can process an entire harvest in 8 hours a day for half the year, you’ve never grown even a garden. The harvest has to be put up, the crops put up, the fiber spun into flax /wool, woven into cloth, cloth sewn into clothes, and on and on. Try doing it with the equivalent of candlelight. Their ‘holidays’ consisted of spending half the day in church, not sitting around in pubs getting shit faced. Their sleep patterns were different too, but that’s another story (they didn’t sleep a straight 8 hrs a nite, they got up in the middle and then slept a few more hours before dawn). Animals have a bad habit of giving birth in the middle of the night too.
@ eaglesoars:
From my comment downstairs:
The comments in that tweet are appallingly full of stupid. According to many, all of us but the few wealthy are serfs and slaves to the wealthy and living in poverty. I don’t think these people realize what no-kidding, don’t know where your next meal is coming from because the crops failed poverty really is. They should spend some time in a real third world country for some education. However, there was this gem:
eaglesoars wrote:
Had to get up to check & stoke the fire so your thatched hut doesn’t burn down and/or you don’t freeze to death in your sleep.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
not really. There were usually quite a few people in the household and they all slept together. More likely they all had to pee at the same time!
@ eaglesoars:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
And they lived so well most were dead in their 40’s to 50’s. You were an elder if you saw 60. The middle ages were grand. The only reason you got so much time off was so you could spend time working on your own household stuff for survival. Your own crops didn’t count toward your “work” which was the farming you did for your landowner. The ignorance of these people is deadly. They are literally too stupid to live.
California fucks up again.
California introduced new regulations for the trucking industry that will make the supply chain issues much worse. They will also hurt industry workers.
California issued sweeping environmental regulations to reduce fossil fuel emissions throughout the state. It will cripple the trucking industry, although California officials don’t see it that way.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) issued a set of revised regulations called the Air Resources Board Truck and Bus Regulation, which required trucking companies in the state to upgrade their trucks with 2010 or newer engines by Jan. 1, 2023. The provision will add additional pressure to the supply chain crisis and cause many small trucking businesses to close or significantly reduce their workforce, industry leaders told the DCNF.
“We in the industry know that if you think there was a supply chain problem over the last year, wait until you take this many trucks out of the marketplace that are not replaceable,” Joe Rajkovacz, director of governmental affairs and communications at the Western States Trucking Association, told the DCNF. “You can be talking about something we as a country have never seen before.”
The rule will take roughly 80,000 commercial trucks, or roughly 17% of the trucking fleet, off the road, adding significant pressure to the supply chain crisis, Rajkovacz said.
When does this become interference with the interstate commerce clause?
oops, linky!
https://www.independentsentinel.com/cali-has-new-trucking-regulations-to-help-make-matters-worse/
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
And that was mostly men. Women who bore children died A LOT earlier.
“Hie thee to the convent” was not necessarily an unwelcome order.
eaglesoars wrote:
It has occurred to me that we need to ‘unhook’ our dependency on California just as we do our dependency on China.
@ eaglesoars:
When we get an administration that doesn’t support this destruction of the US economy. We don’t have that administration right now. They are cheering on Commiefornia’s support of The Cause.
@ AZfederalist:
I’m thinking somebody must have standing to sue. I just don’t know enough about the law to think who it might be.
Trucker orgs certainly come to mind. But what about orgs that produce what truckers transport?
clueless.
eaglesoars wrote:
States?
eaglesoars wrote:
Years ago.
Meanwhile there’s another California-Is-So-Fktup story that I missed. The elections are already kinda stinky, but this stinker is supposed to fix it in Orange County.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/steal-remote-scanners-track-orange-county-ballots-drop-boxes-not-just-collect-daily/
Something I find interesting but to everyone else it is boring.
I do not know how produce is labeled in the rest of the USA but here in Texas things tend to be labeled in English and Spanish.
Recently I have noticed a trend to label items in English and French. I looked in my cupboards and quite a few items the alternate language is French.
Had not noticed it until tonight as I am fluent in French ( five years study ) so whichever way a can or package was facing on the shelf I kind of automatically knew what it was.
What made me realise the predominance of French over the usual Spanish was when I went into the kitchen to get a couple of potatoes out of a sack that got delivered yesterday..
” Pommes de terre russet biologiques ”
I thought, I just learned another French word. Biologiques means organic. ( organic were all Amazon had in stock, I am not an organic freak )
That is when it struck me! If there had not been a word on the sack I did not know I would have not really noticed the alternate language on the sack was French.
And, YES I did then look where the potatoes were grown, not Canada but the USA.
Sorry for the boring post, LMAO but I have French ziplock backs too!
@ Possum:
I thought pommes were apples, and a pomegranate is an apple grenade.
Pomme is apple. Terre is earth as in terra firma as in the ground.
Pomme de terre is apple of the ground.
pomegranate keeps a small child amused for hours if you give them one and a toothpick.
@ Possum:
”Pommes de terre russet biologiques” sounds like reddish-brown lawn plops of canine origin.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Going to be served, baked with a crispy skin and topped with butter, sharp cheddar and tuna.
🙂
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Ahhh The myth of the noble savage raises its ugly head yet again. Life is / was short, brutish and cruel. Even these days in the New Guinea Highlands men are lucky to reach 40 years of age. If you reach 60 you are truly old. You look old and your body is totally shot and full of joint problems and physical damage.
Women are ‘worked out’ by the time they are 30! By the time women have berthed half a dozen children and done 90% of all of the hard physical work, they just were too exhausted to go on. When the suicide rate among women less than 40 years old is 35% you know there is something seriously wrong with the culture.
Child mortality to the age of 5 is as high as 25%, mostly from Beri Beri (starvation) disease and accidents.
Ahhh the costs of living in a primitive ‘paradise.’
@ Possum:
Never thought of making a tuna tater. Stuffed skins with cheddar sounds pretty good, too.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
English food is nasty.
Or so they say…
Possum wrote:
They also say that everything I like causes tumors in rats.
@ eaglesoars:
I recommend:
The History of Work by Lucassen
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Last week there was a piece about a study somebody did about some primitive society somewhere. They had to track how their time was spent. About 30% of their waking time was noted as ‘doing nothing’
AHHHH!!! LEISURE!!! We should get to do nothing too!
Yeah, their clothes are made of bark and leaves, no dental care, no shoes, etc etc etc. They are illiterate, uncurious.
But the ‘purity’….
So the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation has come up with a clever way to get everyone vaxed.
Do it while they’re sedated and don’t know what’s happening.
When you go into the hospital you sign a doc authorizing ‘all necessary medical procedures’…..
uh huh
https://twitter.com/bonomi_a/status/1515850469695844352
From the White House. The headline. Notice anything odd?
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases Agency Equity Action Plans to Advance Equity and Racial Justice Across the Federal Government
When did any administration refer to itself using the VP’s name? Was it ever the Obama-Biden admin? The Trump-Pence admin.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/14/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-releases-agency-equity-action-plans-to-advance-equity-and-racial-justice-across-the-federal-government/
@ eaglesoars:
I think they do crap like that just to troll
coldwarrior wrote:
I suspect Kamala has bitched enough about being disrespected (the Biden staff doesn’t stand when she enters the room) that this is some attempt to placate her, i.e., shut her up
@ lobo91:
They’re terrified of this guy. As they should be.
Well isn’t THIS interesting. Jeff Bezo’s maternal grandfather has an intriguing CV. Uranium. Pittsburgh. DARPA
https://d-statenews.com/2022/04/17/bezos-grandfather-helped-found-darpa-before-that-though-l-p-gise-was-a-high-level-director-at-the-aec/
L.P. Gise’s tenure at the AEC overlaps with the formation of a company near Pittsburgh that would, by 1965, “lose” enough weapon’s grade uranium to make six nuclear bombs.
oh yuck
Residents of the northeastern United States are preparing for a strong and potentially disruptive storm that could deliver up to a foot of snow, heavy rain and fierce winds through Tuesday, AccuWeather meteorologists say.
Despite the calendar showing a mid-April date, heavy, accumulating snow is most likely to fall across interior portions of the Northeast by Tuesday, and the snow is likely to cause travel disruptions, particularly in the mountains from Pennsylvania to New England.
Winter weather advisories stretched from West Virginia to parts of New England on Monday morning while winter storm warnings were in place from northeastern Pennsylvania through much of interior New York.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/noreaster-set-to-bring-spring-snow-to-northeastern-us/1174570
Our neighbor in Virginia is staying with us tonite on her way further south. She left her house at 8:15 am. She msgd me a few hours later. She’ll be late. She hit snow. For an hour.
AZfederalist wrote:
There is an attack on American values going on. Directly from BLM and indirectly from the muddle brained who imbibe pieces of poisoned propaganda. Looks like it is going take a hard right to correct. A lot of intellectuals are throwing in the towel to mass surveillance.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
The only way to take a vacation would have been to join the army. 20 miles was to far for most people to travel.
eaglesoars wrote:
California needs to pause on their good deeds. Everyone will be better off then.
eaglesoars wrote:
And some of those convents offered basically a prison cell to women. Where all they did was worship god with no contact with the real world.
@ eaglesoars:
I drove through it north to south.
Ridiculous
The Easter Bunny has to rescue Biden.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/18/easter-bunny-interrupts-joe-biden-while-talking-about-afghanistan/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’m reading Guns, Germs, and Steel the author Jared Diamond leads off with the the notion that the people of New Guinea are smarter than Caucasians. It would appear he has Stockholm syndrome to primitive cultures. And indeed he applauds himself that he can annotate the centuries long white racism that had sullied he world. He also pre loads his book with the idea that only a person of his unique talents and experience can write like this. It would be futile to access other disciplines of knowledge outside of his.
This is a well respected book. Not finished. But I find the author disappointing and lacking historical wisdom. It would sit next to Adam Schiffs short biography of achievements in any library.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I have all the ingredients. Just missing the French name for the dish.
Pommme de Roquefort?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/tommy-robinson-posts-video-exposing-threats-stalking-grooming-gangs-including-threat-kidnap-rape-children/
He’s over the target
I actually saw a Possum and Raccoon meme on twitter the day. Someone had dressed one of each up in a child’s ballet tutu and was asking people to vote who had done it better. The possum seemed to have the expression WTF?
coldwarrior wrote:
Good point. Instead of metoo lets look at #yougroomer. All these cultures getting a free pass on child abuse. And progressives embrace it. The point being made that progressives are going to be ok with child grooming.
@ coldwarrior:
Robison additionally detailed how he received a phone call from his panicked children telling him to come home because there was someone in their garden with a torch. When he arrived, he grabbed the man and began to strangle him — demanding to know why he was there.
The man told Robinson that he had been given the address by Hope Not Hate.
** and the authorities there side against him. At a high level of government.
@ darkwords:
That’ll get the perp a 12g slug injection here.
@ darkwords:
Keep reading. It’s worth it.
@ darkwords:
Possums eat ticks. So they get a pass.
More nuts and bolts
https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/why-twitters-poison-pill-probably-wont-work
Mask Enforcement Report: I’m officially mask-free.
Walked through the facility this morning, met with the Onkydoc, went downstairs to to get pumped up and left. Although staff was masked up, no one said a word about my naked mug.
eaglesoars wrote:
According to the article, Israel found it.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
happens all the time!
darkwords wrote:
Thon en Conserve avec du Fromage dans des Peaux Brunes Brûlées
coldwarrior wrote:
darkwords wrote:
Mr. Possum will likely deny that beer was involved.
coldwarrior wrote:
Slugs and snails too. We had a bad infestation until the possums showed up and cleaned them out.
coldwarrior wrote:
He’s the Julian Assange of the UK. You know this doesn’t happen unless the cops are in on it. In Rotherham – I think that was the name of the town – when it all blew up the cops gave the excuse that they didn’t want to be called ‘racist’. The Queen should have given a speech about it.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
what a coinky-dink!
darkwords wrote:
He’s an idiot, always has been. Right up there with Jeffrey Sacks.
eaglesoars wrote:
It certainly was Rotherham and the grooming thing dragged on for years because the Chief Constable refused to charge anyone because to do that would have … quote … made her a racist ….unquote. The heat cops were suppressed by the local socialist council as well and were totally de-fanged and couldn’t even charge or hold grooming gangs of muslim men who preyed in young Caucasian girls. Many cops just voted with their feet which made the situation even worse. So called Asian (AKA Muslim) gangs groomed thousands of young girls over the years, until there was a council and upper echelon of the local Police force, clean-out.
The Queen didn’t say a thing, as she too was terrified of being called a racist by the Marxist council and Progressive Left 9 AKA Socialist radical left) Police administration.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I’m not sure what I am prepping there but will serve it with that name.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Progressives are more than ok with this. They have no traditional boundaries they respect. They are going to want kids from conservative families groomed. Conservatives need to pile on this grooming narrative and make the cockroaches scatter. Anyone that labels themselves a progressive approves of this by default.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Chris has been transferred to Campbelltown Hospital overnight and had his CT scam at zero-dark-thirty this morning. They will drain fluid that has been giving a LOT of pain. He’s currently chock- full of Morphine and feeling drowsy but pain free . Waiting for an Ambulance to eventually take to Liverpool Base Hospital where his Oncologist practices. The total lack of medical transport was disgusting as was the duck shoving by the so called professionals. I have the feeling that Chris has been relegated to the too hard basket, but nobody had the balls to just call it.
His surgeon got his secretary to do his ‘dirty work’ for him. Gutless bastard!
Georg Cantor. 19th Century mathematician. Created a statement about infinity.
2 to the exponent of Aleph sub 0 = Aleph sub 1.
He would work on it all spring and summer and in the fall come down with a case of acute depression and had to excuse himself to a mental health spa for 6 months. Then would try again pushing a bit forward but ending up institutionalized again,
19th Century German mathematics was a cutthroat world.
darkwords wrote:
Alas these Progressives (AKA) Socialist radicals) inhabit every tier of society and run ‘support groups’ known as a Protection Racket, for each other. No matter what obvious evil they perpetrate there is always some corrupt-ocrat covering for them. None of them EVER goes to jail let alone even be held responsible for their wickedness.
The respected Pythagorean system of mathematics was done in by themselves when they realized that the square root of 2 was an irrational number. At least one murder occurred because of the result of this discovery.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
If he is willing the med admin needs to put their best forward. In my thoughts. Along with the rest of us going through stuff like this.
At a critical time the patient needs the docs to work their best.
@ Aussie Infidel:
he would have been handled better here, even though our system is completely messed up.
his case would have probably been transferred immediately to either shadyside or AGH in the city where the ‘big boys’ practice.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
duck shoving?
coldwarrior wrote:
duck shoving
@ Aussie Infidel:
Not quite following that, but it doesn’t sound good.
Hope things get sorted out.
coldwarrior wrote:
A botanical and organisational term. Ever seen ducks pushing someone ahead of them to clear the way and keep themselves less exposed.
“Duck Shoving”
Pushing some other poor schmuck ahead to take the grief for you!
Very big in large organisations where the lesser types are sacrificed so the the Big Boys get away with murder by throwing their underlings under the bus in their stead!
lobo91 wrote:
AKA
This bitch may not have caused harm to a patient except for some additional bruising and the odd haematoma but no actual long term harm to the patient. The bitch still has no place in Medicine and certainly should be kept well away from other human beings!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
He suggested that but was rebuffed by the claim that no Ambulances were available . When Chris’ wife volunteered to take him to Liverpool Base Hospital in her car she was told that he’d had a large injection of Morphine that he needed constant monitoring.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I think she was showing off for her peer group. And maybe a passive ok from the academic instructors. Aka those work Yale law students protesting.
She is not alone at Wake Forest. And the rot goes into the staffing.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Not good at all I fear. Chris appears to be dying. I just hope that he gets to go in a gentle way as possible. At least the Morphine will dry him out a bit. He’s due to have his fluid build-up drained about now.
darkwords wrote:
The Wake Forest College ‘fish’ rots from the head!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Sincere condolences…
darkwords wrote:
I wonder about the blood-shed’ when they attempted to find the Root of Minus One!
🙂
After the slaughter I assume that they decided to make peace and call it ‘ i ‘
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Thanks Bunk/
Appreciated.
He’s all squared away and ready for the big trip!
🙂
Your prayers appreciated.
darkwords wrote:
There was an Islamic gang of Lebanese grooming young Aussie girls 12-14 years old. The gangsters’ MOTHERS approved of their activities and encouraged their sons to ‘prey upon’ so called ‘Skippy bitches’.
One got 30 to life and his brothers got 50 to life with the ringleader getting locked away for the term of his natural life, in SuperMax Prison.
@ Aussie Infidel:
The concept of the square root of negative 1 was brilliant. I loved that non-number and its equation busting properties.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I love…
e
Pi
and
i
But I really love i because it’s so useful
🙂
Without … i …… there would no electronics industry!
Interesting that many on the Right and Left are getting the significance of the mask mandate on public transport being deemed unlawful wrong.
The judge did not overturn the masking mandate as such, she deemed the PROCESS that implemented it as unlawful.
That judge may be PRO masks on aircraft for all we know.
She adjudicated on the mechanism used to put it in place.
Tonight supper is a pineapple and ham pizza.
I like fruit with meat.
Pork chops and apple sauce.
Chicken with cranberry sauce.
Steak and mushrooms ( mushrooms are a fruit )
Shrimp and avocado ( avocado is a fruit )
Any Cuban dish served with fried plantains ( plantains are a fruit )
Chinese or Thai stir fry with red and green peppers ( peppers are a fruit )
Supreme pizza with pepperoni, sausage, ground beef, olives and tomato sauce ( olives and tomatoes are both fruits )
I also like to garnish my meals with flowers!
Broccoli and cauliflower to name a few of my favorite flowers.
I love eating fruit and flowers.
Does that mean I am gay? .
@ Possum:
Or I am really a woman trapped in the body of a man?
https://www.the-sun.com/news/5145258/first-pics-of-sunk-mosvka-sinking-in-flames/
@ Aussie Infidel:
Phi happens.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Russia/ A Black hat?
Ukraine a White hat?
Maybe they are just both grey hats and the world is being ‘Gas lighted’ … Again
How many more tens of millions will die in this next war/
https://remnant-tv.com/video/559/putin-s-war-biden-soros-and-the-ghost-of-john-mccain?channelName=RemnantTV
How come I can’t tune into RT television and then look at Western TV and figure out who is telling the most lies based on what I discover?
As Air Marshal ‘Bomber Harris’ said… If Britain had not won WWII then it would have been me hanging off a meat hook for crimes against humanity.
Sure Russia is perpetrating crimes in Ukraine. Just look at the Wagner Group of Mercenaries fighting for Putin, BUT also look at Ukrainian atrocities carried out by the legalised thugs of the Azov Battalion. Bring balance into your perspective. Weigh up both sides and then attempt to decide what ‘shade of grey’ each side is.
Please don’t swallow cheap propaganda pushed by BOTH sides.
Think!
For yourself and your families and decide whether ‘this is the hill that you and your families are prepared to die on . Enough of the war-porn. Think about all of those nukes on both sides and the folks who are trying to convince you to use them.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Actually I think by the looks of it that the Moscow has been run aground to stop her sinking. You can probably find her by using Google who have lifted all of the ‘dithering’ off the real time shots of ALL Russian bases and ships… because Google can!
coldwarrior wrote:
For some reason Chris is spending the night in A&E (AKA ER) in Campbelltown hospital. Perhaps they still can’t find a fit to work Ambulance driver ! 🙂
At least he’s in an Oncology ward with folks who supposedly know their stuff. I STILL want to know why Chris has NOT been drained of his fluid.
Sheesh!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Peritoneal dialysis is usually done at the bedside. But, you need a doc and rn who know how to do it.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup.
Knowing that I can’t understand leaving Chris suffering for 18 hours before giving him a significant Morphine dose to mitigate his severe pain, and a further 30+ hours and counting before carrying out a Peritoneal dialysis… which he is STILL awaiting.
Just drain the poor little bugger and send him home. This is getting to be past incompetent and is getting into the cruel stage!
@ coldwarrior:
Chris is in an Oncology ward of a medium sized hospital in an outer suburb of 150,000 people on the outskirts of a city of 5 1/2 million! One would assume that someone… anyone… has the skill set to carry out this procedure.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Really
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/ukraine-claims-russian-phase-2-begun/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
‘scuse me but I DISTINCTLY recall hoping they both lose. And I also recall talking about the Azov Brigade and how I saw video of them burning people alive the last time around.
I have no illusions about any of these thugs. There are no grey hats, they’re all black
the mouse pissed off the wrong cat
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/19/watch-ron-desantis-announces-florida-lawmakers-will-consider-terminating-special-districts-including-disneys-reedy-creek-improvement-district/
REad this and tell me if there isn’t more going on here than is being told
Michelle Obama’s brother and his wife sue $24,000-a-year Milwaukee school for kicking their nine and 11-year-old ‘model student’ children out when they complained that virtual lessons ‘used racist stereotypes and word plantation’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10731539/Michelle-Obamas-brother-wife-sue-childrens-school-racial-economic-bias.html
nice timing!
Spain likely to cut electricity to France, says report
COMMENTS
Spain has informed the European Commission that a joint price reduction plan with Portugal may entail restricting energy sales to France, El Pais reported.
Madrid is its northern neighbor’s largest single supplier of imported electricity, and the potential restriction comes as the entire EU grapples with soaring energy costs.
Spain and Portugal agreed in late March to cap the price of gas used in electricity generation to the equivalent of 30 euros per megawatt/hour ($32.50).
https://freepresskashmir.news/2022/04/19/spain-likely-to-cut-electricity-to-france-says-report/
@ eaglesoars:
So they’re suing over something that happened before their kids were born, much less went to school there?
https://fox2now.com/news/politics/biden-has-told-obama-hes-running-again/
@ eaglesoars:
The dreaded ‘P’ word.
Underground Railroad was an important part of freeing people from dehumanizing conditions. Both the escaping slaves and those who helped the had serious stones. If teaching it isn’t handled right though (like with any subject) I can see problems. And since we’re talking schools, I wouldn’t bet against them. Mostly emphasize the bravery, determination and risks.
The first 5 minutes of this are hilarious:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/full-embargo-russian-oil-would-send-brent-185bbl-jpmorgan
get out yinz’s wallets to support the ukies.
@ coldwarrior:
If Russia had any sense they would now cut off the supply of natural gas to Europe. Turn off Nord Stream One and the pipelines that run through the Ukraine to the EU.
Turning off the gas in February would have been an humanitarian catastrophe because gas is needed for heating and generating electricity and millions of civilians would have frozen to death.
Now the weather is warmer in Europe nobody is going to freeze to death, but life will become difficult.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m guessing one kid misbehaved. At the PT conference the dad misbehaved. And the dad has had racial misinformation delivered to him all his life by the bucketful. And he lacks any real thinking and parenting skills.
right_wing2 wrote:
I wonder what his drug cocktail is? I should stock up.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Unless you are an electrical engineer, then you call it “j”. It was thought that using “i” would be a confusing thing because “i” is also the symbol for current in electrical engineering literature.
coldwarrior wrote:
If true the war has shifted to urban guerilla warfare. And it looks like there is something to a Muslim hatred of the AZOV battalion. The Chechens wanted to go kill these dudes. Lot of global south support for them on Islamic twitter.
And to top it off the ruskies are destroying the Raytheon gear as it enters the country. I guess that is better than leaving it behind for a Taliban parade.
coldwarrior wrote:
Sounds like it. About time the corporatist Disney loses its special privileges. Every time the mouse copyright was set to expire, Con-gress would pass a new law extending the copyright dates; I think we are now up to 75 years after the death of the work’s creator. … and just coincidentally, those changes to the law would happen just as the mouse was about to lose his copyright
lobo91 wrote:
Oookay, so they re-enacted the Underground Railroad and demonstrated the hazards and fears that escaping slaves dealt with. Sounds like education to me, not advocating a return to those times.
/Gads people are just stupid. Stupid and evil
right_wing2 wrote:
…and ignore the fact that 90% of the U.S. population couldn’t afford slaves.
…and ignore the fact that most plantations were small impoverished plots and nothing like Tara of Gone With The Wind.
…and ignore that fact that most freed slaves chose to stay with their former masters.
…and ignore the fact that no country in the history of the world abolished slavery in the amount of time it took the United States of America.
AZfederalist wrote:
He’s not stupid. He’s pissed off his kids got booted because he’s a royal pain in the ass and the school got tired of his bullshit. The last time I checked he was a basketball coach at some college. $50k a year for private school comes from where? Scholarship?
eaglesoars wrote:
In the military I met a lot of good black NOC’s. In my govt job I met a lot of affirmative action babies. Extremely annoying people who saw racism behind every shadow.
I was though training one black intern. He waw a really good guy. I found out one of our supervisors was riding him hard for no good reason. Realized he was an actual racist. He was super annoying also. I didn’t file a complaint though. Once you did that at my work then the complaint filer became the problem. It was a very liberal and progressive org.
We’re in Norway.
https://news.usni.org/2022/04/18/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-april-18-2022
There’s a turd in our yard. Too big for cat poop, possum scat or a raccoon’s business.
Coyote must have jumped the wall.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
We train in Norway all the time. I did arctic warfare school there.
they’ll probably go down to setermoen for training.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/19/flow-of-fentanyl-into-american-communities-quadruples-under-biden/
get ’em addicted and render them useless. thanks, dems
https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2022/04/19/nigerian-terrorists-conduct-easter-sunday-massacre/
biafrans? inflation? horrible foreign policy? what’s next, war in the congo?
i didnt like the 70’s last time around. why do we have to do this ride again?
coldwarrior wrote:
Aah. So they’re not there for the lutefisk.
LibsOfTiktok greatest hits.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/04/19/here-are-19-reasons-why-the-left-wants-to-destroy-the-libs-of-tiktok-twitter-account-n1591009
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I’d like to see that bitch Taylor Lorenz taken down. Hard.
eaglesoars wrote:
Ditto. Destructive attention whore got people stalking the CHILDREN and other relatives of the LOTT owner yet she claims to be the victim.
DARVO in action.
Double down, you crazy old bag.
https://neonnettle.com/news/18869-warren-democrats-facing-midterm-bloodbath-if-they-fail-to-deliver-radical-agenda
@ right_wing2:
There is one thing in there I’d agree with, but I doubt will pass:
@ eaglesoars:
lolthread
https://twitter.com/MostlyPeacefull/status/1516436161815728131
Frank Gaffney on Bannon: via his Blackrock funds, Larry Fink is investing people’s money in the CCP. I don’t understand the mechanism so I can’t explain it to you.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
oh man…..
@ eaglesoars:
And after they’re finished with HER, WaPo should be next. They printed everything, including info on LoTT’s real estate license. Tell me there’s no malice there. I don’t know whose byline it was, tho, as I haven’t read that rag in years.
Darren Beatty has the skinny on the doxing of LoTT
The German gov’t funds the group that developed the software used to dox her.
Libs of TikTok Doxing Uncovers Secret Hacker-Government Mercenary Alliance Behind Regime’s War on MAGA Americans
https://www.revolver.news/2022/04/libsoftiktok-dox-uncovers-secret-hacker-government-alliance-attacking-americans/
Long read but detailed.
@ eaglesoars:
It wouldn’t surprise me if the connection between government and these hacker groups went even deeper. I could totally see the NSA doing the cyber equivalent of the “parallel construction” scam the DOJ frequently uses, where they illegally obtain evidence and then work backwards to figure out a way that they can pretend to have obtained it legally.
It would be much simpler for “hackers” to dox someone after the NSA tells them who they are.
dear lord
Ex Kremlin official and Gazprombank vice president is found dead ‘with gun in his hand’ in his luxury Moscow apartment beside bodies of his wife and daughter, 13
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10731251/Ex-Kremlin-official-Gazprombank-vice-president-dead-gun-hand.html
@ lobo91:
oh yeah
This is hilarious. Check out the new exec editor of the NYT
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/04/20/cringe-stop-what-youre-doing-and-check-out-this-photo-of-the-new-executive-editor-of-the-nyt-that-he-took-on-purpose/
These people aren’t too full of themselves or anything
@ lobo91:
100% agree
Who could have seen this coming?
I saw this earlier today. Someone please have her committed:
German expat in Shanghai. Someone who speaks English is designated to call him to tell him they will be picking him up that night to take him to the camp.
Uh, nope.
“Tell your boss I think he sucks. Your system sucks too”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTlPNAe1hPE
@ eaglesoars:
See how much nicer the communists are than the Nazis? The Nazis never called anyone in advance to let them know they were taking them to the camps.
lobo91 wrote:
well, there should be a lawsuit in there somewhere
lobo91 wrote:
on this, i can agree with that moron.
LOL I fell asleep. A day or so I posted a list of foods that I like and eat.
It was going to be about the foods I HATED and refused to eat when I was a child.
The point was going to be about the current trend of giving puberty blockers to pre-pubescent children.
My tastes and love of food changed as I became older. I would be annoyed if when I was young my parents made a decision that for the rest of my life I could never eat tomatoes, mushrooms, butter, pineapples, broccoli or tripe because at age six I hated them.
( OK in later life no fucking way am I eating tripe. Nope, not eating it. There are two kinds, cow stomach and cow udder. That shit is nasty! )
Now in 2022 if I was age six and I told my parents I did not like having a penis and wanted to be a girl. No problem, snip, and off comes the offending appendage. ( not exactly that harsh but due to puberty blockers I would end up with a micro-penis )
All forms of ” gender reassignment ” should not be undertaken until AFTER puberty. Let the NATURAL hormones dictate what the mind thinks the person’s body is.
eaglesoars wrote:
Puts a different perspective on it. An aggregate of bad actors coordinated by non profits driven by their non traditional sexual identities.
I wonder though if Lorenz wants the negative attention. Some people live for that. Her editor seems to be doubling down on the message.
If Elon buys twitter he can restrict the API to paid accounts.
eaglesoars wrote:
Its going to come to blows once conservatives are elected back into power. The shadowy left won’t be able to take it. I need to get my defense measures up.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I was waiting for Elephant but Ferengi was good.
eaglesoars wrote:
swim the sharks, yinz end up with the fishes.
its like watching the nyc mafia wars all over agin
The trend I go with is the jessekellydc one. All these grooming CRT advocates are communist or communist adjacent. DeSantis or HeavyD as Kelly calls him is the only one taking it to them right now.
@ Possum:
i have to agree with the sage possum on this one
darkwords wrote:
HA!
yeah, that wont end well.
Heh. Larry Correia
I keep seeing lefties calling Ron DeSantis DeathSantis like it is some kinda gotcha insult.
Are you kidding? That’s fucking METAL.
You give yourself a nickname like that you’re a try hard. If your enemies give you that, it’s gold.
These people suck at everything.</i
https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/status/1516873990752522241
Florida Senate votes 23-16 to end Disney’s special tax privilege
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/desantis-threatens-disneys-special-status-in-florida/
the mouse pissed off the wrong cat
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/04/20/disney-is-the-worst-performing-dow-jones-stock-of-the-past-year-plummeting-more-than-30-percent/
@ coldwarrior:
@ coldwarrior:
It will be an interesting shareholder meeting…
Notice that they aren’t appealing because there’s any need for people to wear masks. It’s so they can “protect the CDC’s authority.”
The Capitol is being evac’d, plane intrusion.
false alarm
way to go…
UPDATE: It appears the Capitol evacuation was prompted by the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights’ parachute demonstration into the Washington Nationals’ baseball stadium; US Capitol police were caught off-guard
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1516918515025985540
everything these people come up with is unconstitutional
BREAKING REPORT: Rhode Island Dems Submit Bill To DOUBLE STATE INCOME TAX For Parents Of Unvaccinated Minors…
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1516797263137460225
eaglesoars wrote:
morons.
@ eaglesoars:
tell me, why cant all of the congressasses and senatanuses work from home?
@ eaglesoars:
ok ok ok …waitaminute…..
the capital cops thought this was an airborne attack????
coldwarrior wrote:
yes
I lot of Congress critters ARE working from home. I think half the offices are locked
coldwarrior wrote:
The FAA ‘forgot’ to inform them.
@ eaglesoars:
right.
so the moron capitol police thought that they were under invasion from airborne troops….
yeah
Possum wrote:
There are types of intelligent personalities that have a jones for abusing kids. Parents need to group up and say no.
eaglesoars wrote:
Sort of shows their Pelosi mindset. Fear is everywhere.
two girls, responsible for 3 runs tonight at softball.
5-2 was the score.
its fun to watch
darkwords wrote:
morons.
lobo91 wrote:
Any authority they had ended when the mask mandates ended. I beleive that they are delegated executive power from the executive branch but only in an emergency. The rest of the time they are just in an advisory situation. At least that is how public health worked on my local level. And in 30 years of flues and etc emergency powers were never granted to local public health. Waste of resources. Earthquakes, 9/11, and snow never generated emergency power. Snowfall came the closest if the snow plows weren’t quick. The emergency manual had a page detailing how to lock gas stations down and how to communicate to people that they couldn’t’ travel until the snow melted.
coldwarrior wrote:
Your girls? for some reason I still think they are Pre-k. But if they can score runs then no problem.
‘I’m a Former Marine Training Ukrainians—The Russians Are Worse Than ISIS’
He doesn’t go into detail but it’s an interesting read
https://www.newsweek.com/im-former-us-marine-training-ukrainians-russians-worse-isis-1699415
coldwarrior wrote:
the twins?
@ darkwords:
@ eaglesoars:
1 twin and puti.
They make same age group by 3 days this year.
The other twin is violin. And doing very well
@ darkwords:
The puti obsconded with of my Brooks bros cardigans.
She’s tall. A Heartbreaker.
coldwarrior wrote:
I stole Dad’s sweaters every chance I got. He didn’t appreciate it when I returned them smelling of Shalimar (yeah, it was a thing back then)
TA DA!
First look inside The Bark, an indoor-outdoor dog park and beer garden
https://www.knoxnews.com/videos/money/business/2022/04/21/bark-indoor-outdoor-dog-park-and-beer-garden-fourth-and-gill/7372565001/
@ eaglesoars:
What’s the drinking age for dogs in TN?
@ lobo91:
In people years it’s 3. Unless they’re military in which case they’re always welcome
coldwarrior wrote:
Time flies. I’m glad the kids are having a good life through this progressive disaster. I think hoodie absconding is the way young women count coup these days. “I’m cold” Next thing you know your favorite jacket is gone.
eaglesoars wrote:
Built for St Bernard’s.
you’re still scum…
Top Prosecutor Drops Out of Whitmer Kidnapping Case
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/04/20/top-prosecutor-drops-out-of-whitmer-kidnapping-case/
bed. nite.
one more from the “It’s about time” column
From Arizona to New Hampshire, 26 governors form strike force to secure U.S.-Mexico border
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/ducey-25-other-governors-form-strike-force-secure-us-mexico-border
Well I am extremely annoyed!
Florida Health Department are reading this place and stealing my ideas.
Dated yesterday.
https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2022/04/20220420-gender-dysphoria-press-release.pr.html
darkwords wrote:
it WAS my favorite brooks bros cardigan. i had to hide the others.
oddly, i think i only own one hoodie…never wear it, just don’t like them.
@ Possum:
why is the left choosing this hill to die upon?
this grooming stuff is sick.
@ Possum:
I’m a little surprised that it’s only 80%.
@ coldwarrior:
I do not understand why in 2022 there is this perceived increase in pre-pubescent children unhappy with their bodies and wanting to change from female to male or male to female.
A female body does not prevent you from doing anything in life nowadays.
I could understand young girls wanting to be boys in the 1960’s. So they could be astronauts, fighter pilots, police men, fire fighters, the list is endless.
Today your biological sex is not a barrier.
@ right_wing2:
The other 20% probably killed themselves.
right_wing2 wrote:
The other 20% commit suicide. I’m surprised that stat was left out of that whatever it is
Possum wrote:
oh hai! didn’t see you there…….
@ Possum:
@ eaglesoars:
40% become suicidal
they left that out as well
coldwarrior wrote:
If they lose this, they lose it all. This has tentacles into every aspect of western civilization, i.e., the family, the absolute root. They have to break everything before they can build it back better.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/twitter-jumps-after-musk-files-13d-signaling-tender-funding-secured
The game is afoot
@ coldwarrior:
Let’s see what the SEC has up its sleeve now…………
With the Twitter board having created a poison pill strategy to block Elon Musk from buying the entire company, it appeared that Musk might end up being stymied. However, Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis may be riding to the effort with a shareholder’s suit accusing the board of directors of breaching its fiduciary duty. However, even if the board is forced to bow down, it’s possible that America’s national security apparatus may step in to block the sale.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/is_desantis_going_to_be_the_one_who_finally_breaks_twitter.html
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-elon-musk-raises-bid-for-twitter-to-46-billion/
Destroying democracy to save it? Court advances effort to block GOP candidates from ballots
As the country braces for the midterm elections, the left seems to be rallying behind three D’s: Democracy, Disinformation and Disqualification. The latter effort just received a huge boost from a judge in Georgia who has allowed a challenge to knock Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) off the ballot as an insurrectionist. Nothing says “democracy” like preventing others from voting.
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Judge Amy Totenberg ruled that critics could potentially strip Greene from the ballot due to her public comments before and after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in Congress. Totenberg ruled that Greene’s critics could bring a challenge under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, known as the “Disqualification Clause.” This is the same clause cited by some liberal members of Congress and legal experts as a way to bar dozens of Republicans, including former President Trump, from office for allegedly engaging in insurrection against the United States or giving aid and comfort to its enemies.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3275409-destroying-democracy-to-save-it-court-advances-effort-to-block-gop-candidates-from-ballots/
Obama judge. Nina Totenberg’s sister
@ eaglesoars:
That would be the same Congress that has the power to expel Greene from office, yet has not done so.
If they don’t have grounds to remove her, I can’t see them trying to bar her from reelection.
Today is the 2775th anniversary of the founding of Rome (via Ben Harnwell)
It’s also Queen Elizabeth II’s b-day (via me)
My teenage daughter has decided that she is “trans”. So have all her friends. Not some of them. Not most of them. Every. Single. One.
She had never heard of trans, and had no signs of gender dysphoria, until she was moved to a new, cool trans-friendly school by her unsuspecting, politically liberal parents. There she met a group of geeky (or dare I say nerdy?), smart, slightly (but not very) gender nonconforming, artsy kids. As I understand it, they all discovered “trans” together. The old “cis” friends were swiftly discarded in favour of this exciting new peer group.
Exploring “trans stuff” online with friends is a source of great interest and excitement—a real social event. What’s not to love about 245 gender identities, complete with their own unique flags? Then there are those cool neo-pronouns. Forcing your out-of-touch old parents to refer to you as “ze” or “ey” (how do you pronounce that again??) in the name of “inclusivity” is just too delicious to resist. The manga, the cute avatars in computer games, the blue or pink hair—all part of the fun as well. Mocking the outgroup (in this case so-called “cis” people in general and the dreaded TERFs in particular) is also good for a laugh—especially if they happen to be your parents as well.
https://pitt.substack.com/p/trans-a-dangerous-youth-subculture?r=hi01k&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
A month ago, I was sent a Tweetstorm written by a woman who had worked as a “reproductive health assistant” at Planned Parenthood for about 18 months prior to March 2020. If you assumed that the employee had abortion on her mind, then your knowledge of Planned Parenthood is outdated. Planned Parenthood is now one of the largest providers in the United States of cross-sex hormones like testosterone to females seeking medical gender transition.
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The Planned Parenthood clinic where she worked was located in a small town of roughly 30,000. Abortions were the clinic’s “bread and butter,” something this employee fully supports. But, she noted, “trans identifying kids are cash cows, and they are kept on the hook for the foreseeable future in terms of follow-up appointments, bloodwork, meetings, etc., whereas abortions are (hopefully) a one-and-done situation.”
How significant is this revenue stream? I’ve never been able to obtain numbers on that, though the Planned Parenthood website for Central and Western New York states that: “Nationally, Planned Parenthood is the second largest provider of Gender Affirming Hormone Care.” It seems reasonable to conclude that hormone treatments—pricey as they are—now contribute materially to Planned Parenthood’s bottom line.
https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/inside-planned-parenthoods-gender?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web&s=r
@ eaglesoars:
Read the comments on the Planned Parenthood article
This guy recognizes ‘trans’ as a border personality disorder, interesting stuff. He connects Cluster B disorders to what we see in the social justice lunatics. So, yes, the radical left are mentally ill
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF_kJax21k2zVlc3tJn-22Q
Bannon is talking to Robby Starbucks who moved to Tennessee (along with Megan Ortegas) to run for office. And they both got promptly kicked off the ballot by the local GOP. I forget what rule the GOP invoked but whatever. Starbucks (who is a bomb thrower) is going to war.
Everybody is completely missing what’s going on here. In the Great Migration that’s going on, Tennessee is exploding with new people. Knoxville is getting overwhelmed, and Nashville, where Starbucks and Ortega moved to, is near breaking.
The longtime locals are resentful and fearful. Housing is now unaffordable because of the increase in demand, traffic is terrible, etc. You know the drill.
This isn’t about the GOP ‘establishment’ trying “to protect it’s preferred candidate”. It’s about people who have spent their lives, sometimes generations, trying to protect their home from an overwhelming invasion by strangers.
The new rules state that the candidate must have voted in the district they’re running in for the last 3 election cycles. In other words, you have to have been here long enough to ‘get what’s going on’. I think that’s reasonable. This is an anti-carpetbagger thing.
@ eaglesoars:
I agree in concept, but I don’t think it’s right to change the rules a couple of months prior to the primaries. It should go into effect for the 2024 cycle.
lobo91 wrote:
when it may be too late.
@ lobo91:
yeah, charge people to watch something they refused to watch for free. Wonder why you fail.
errands. later.
In other streaming news, the Bosch spinoff/continuation drops May 6 on Amazon:
Mystery as multi-millionaire Russian gas executive is found hanged and his wife and daughter, 18, hacked to death in their Spanish villa days after ex Gazprombank official and his family were discovered dead in Moscow flat
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10739821/Russian-gas-exec-hanged-wife-daughter-hacked-death-Spanish-villa.html
@ eaglesoars:
Sounds like some of these Russian oligarchs need better security details than the ex-Spetsnaz types they typically hire.
eaglesoars wrote:
Needs a different label. Their type of trans is temporary until their mind starts to work. The real trans is full of suicidal ideation. Kids can go through this type of hysteria when adults aren’t setting boundaries. Watch the adults just accept this as normal behavior.
eaglesoars wrote:
Option 1: He did it and is a narcissistic coward who can’t kill himself first before he kills anyone else. Too many men like that.
Option 2: Putin reached out to him. I would say the same fate will visit the anti Russian hacker who have did damage to Russia.
lobo91 wrote:
Poor Chris Wallace. Maybe Trump will hire him.
lobo91 wrote:
NO changes in an election year was the motto in the election department I worked with. Do it all in the off year. Then test them out.
My area has a 6 month residency before I can run for a local office.
eaglesoars wrote:
OK for the Saudis to hold but not Musk.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/lefty-protesters-screech-like-demons-florida-house-votes-favor-strip-disneys-self-governing-status-video/
wtf is WRONG with these people????
coldwarrior wrote:
Pooh flinging monkeys are one step up the evolutionary ladder from this group.
@ coldwarrior:
It’s fascinating to watch anti-corporation leftists protest in favor of one of the biggest corporations there is.
lobo91 wrote:
Who are the allies of this anti American woke group? BLM? Pedophiles? CRT hawkers? In any protest you could swing a dead chicken and hit all three. These are the shock troops of the WEF as represented by Gates and Soros and Trudeau.
There are a considerable number of voting Democrats who are ok with all this. It’s being presented to them as a boundless compassion. A compassion without a church. One that thrives on fears instead of love as a real church would advocate.
darkwords wrote:
Hacking up his child would indicate an emotional investment hired hit men don’t usually exhibit. They just get the job done and get out
@ eaglesoars:
Unless the job was to send a message…
eaglesoars wrote:
Hmm, we’ll have to see what happens in the near future. What is it they say? “Once is an accident, twice a coincidence, three times and it’s enemy action”.
eaglesoars wrote:
If we had that rule, Mark I’m going to buy a gun Kelly wouldn’t be our Senator. The absolute definition of a carpetbagger. Gabby wasn’t much better after she got married to Mr. Opportunist, Tucson was just this “quaint little district she represented in Congress”
darkwords wrote:
Not sure what standing they would have to block this. Twitter is hardly a matter of national security and any concerns over how Musk “might change the platform” would be prior restraint.
coldwarrior wrote:
I think your question is answered by literal reading of the headline. 🙂
AZfederalist wrote:
Back to addressing Lobo’s objection about fairness, I was thinking about it and…fair to whom? Politicians? The legislators are responding to the concerns of their constituents. As they should. As quickly as they reasonably can. So – even tho we are certainly part of the influx that is causing the housing distortion* – culturally/politically we moved to a place that was already in line with us, we didn’t come here to change anything.
* Also, I refused to get into a bidding war for a house (it was already starting 2 years ago) and I was able to enforce it. I had cash. Asking price or I walk.
about 5 hrs ago
BREAKING: Russia’s largest chemical plant — the Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant in the city of Kineshma — burned to the ground in the SECOND mystery fire today.
What’s your guess — sheer coincidence or Ukrainian sabotage?
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1517197199351943168
@ eaglesoars:
Definitely not liking the prices I’m seeing out there even though I can afford it; bad for existing locals being priced out. Still going up crazy where I’m at too. Soon I hope…
/galt
I just got an email saying that Starlink is finally available here. I have 7 days to confirm or cancel my order.
Been on the waiting list for about 18 months now
CynicalConservative wrote:
nope. I hate to say this but the only way this gets fixed is a recession and the Fed is not prepared to defend the dollar. They’re under orders to promote crypto and they’re serfs.
@ lobo91:
W00T!!
@ eaglesoars:
More of I hope to be out there soon regardless vs. anything changing in the fundamentals of the market and pricing.
/galt
CynicalConservative wrote:
where is ‘there’?
@ eaglesoars:
Somewhere in NE Tenn.
/galt
ok, I’m convinced
Tucker reporting another ‘accident’ at a food processing plant a few minutes ago. I have noticed but deliberately not connected dots but now I am. This was a plane crash (the 2nd I think) and I’m not buying it anymore
more later(Bongino noted it earlier today)
CynicalConservative wrote:
AH!! If you’re interested (not pushing) have CW give you my email. No offense if not. You’ll like it here.
eaglesoars wrote:
Wait for the third one …
@ eaglesoars:
I will take you up on that now. Last time we chatted 4-6 months ago we were ready to pull up stakes and buy something sight-unseen just to get out of here. With travel opening back up and the general stupid abating (for now) we have a bit more flexibility. The PNW is lovely but I can’t abide the cultural cesspool it’s become.
/galt
@ CynicalConservative:
YAAYYY!!
Coachella is a scam and a mediocre one at that. Losers
https://www.insider.com/coachella-real-life-photos-what-its-actually-like-disappointing-2022-4#there-are-very-few-tables-and-seating-areas-so-people-typically-end-up-eating-on-the-ground-12
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve never understood why anyone would want to go to a festival in Indio, CA. It’s near Death Valley.
At least they have the blues festivals in places you might want to visit.
Here’s a well written background on the M16/5.56 ball powder/stick powder problems during the 60’s:-
The AR 15 rifle and cartridge were formally adopted in 1964, designated the XM16E1 (common name M16) rifle and 5.56 Ball M193 cartridge. Velocity for the 55 grain bullet from the 20” barrel of the M16 was rated at a true 3200fps. The rifle was used in small numbers up until 1965 when both the war and production of the M16 rose dramatically.
From the very outset of its adoption, the M16 was plagued with troubles. Stoner had designed the original AR 15 with a very slow barrel twist rate of 1:14 which was literally a doubled edged sword. By using a slow twist barrel, the 55 grain bullet was only just stable in flight, producing a small degree of yaw. On impact, the bullet would immediately tumble and render a wide, incapacitating wound. This was initially considered a brilliant design premise but some rifles produced too much yaw and were very inaccurate at longer ranges. McNamara ordered that the twist rate be changed to 1:12 before final adoption of the rifle in 1964. This cured longer range accuracy problems but completely destroyed the stopping power of the 55 grain bullet which now poked needle holes through its victims. Nobody questioned the potential consequences of this move and ignorant of the facts, Ordnance brass continued to believe and promote the M193 as a highly effective cartridge.
Major troubles next appeared in 1965 when the M16 rifle was adopted on masse by the thousands of U.S soldiers entering Vietnam. Up to 50% of the rifles were jamming in the field and hundreds of U.S troops were killed while desperately trying to clear jammed chambers. Troops were further demoralized when neither the military brass or Colt would look into the problem seriously. Instead, troops were accused of not cleaning their rifles properly which had lead to powder fouling. The powder fouling was sighted as the reason why cases were not being extracted from the rifle’s chamber.
After continued complaints, both the Ordnance department and Colt representatives eventually began to look at the problem although still with a measure of apathy. The M16 then underwent some design alterations however, the cause of the jamming problem had still not been identified. A new model M16A1 now featured a chrome lined chamber and bore in an effort to produce smoother feeding. Other alterations were made to the M16, but without any true knowledge of the underlying problem, these added unnecessary weight to the rifle which was now only a shade lighter than the M14.
It was several years before the underlying cause of the M16’s jamming problem was properly indentified. Ordnance staff discovered that Stoner and ammunition manufacturers had initially tested the AR 15 using extruded (stick) powder but when the Vietnam conflict exploded, ammunition manufacturers adopted the more readily available ball powder. The ball powder produced a longer peak chamber pressure with dire effects. Normally upon firing, the cartridge should expand to seal the chamber (obturation), then contract and then be extracted. With ball powder, the case was still obturated due to the longer peak pressure. The ejector would then fail to extract the case, tearing through the case rim, leaving the obturated case behind.
In 1970, the U.S government announced its standardization of the M16A1 rifle and cartridge to NATO allies. The news was received with a degree of resentment, especially for those countries who had committed precious resources to the T44 cartridge and rifles. Nevertheless, as finances allowed, all NATO pact members eventually adopted the 5.56mm cartridge. Most countries adopted the M16A1 rifle while a few worked with their own rifle designs.
During the 1980’s, the 5.56mm cartridge was officially standardized as a NATO cartridge. A remaining weakness of the M193 load was is extremely poor penetration through heavy clothing at ranges of 500 yards and beyond. The Belgium military provided a solution with their 62 grain bullet design. The Belgium load became the standard NATO ball, designated the 5.56 NATO. Muzzle velocity is 3025fps from a 20” barrel. The M16 rifle then underwent a further upgrade to a 1:7 barrel twist rate to utilize the new load. The new model rifle was designated the M16A2.
Today, the M16 rifle design remains in service world wide. The current model is designated the M16A4 and features a Picatinny scope rail with most M16 rifles now wearing a scope. Several countries have however moved away from the M16 rifle, some towards more radical designs, notably Great Britain who utilize the SA80 along with Australia and New Zealand who currently use the Steyr AUG rifle.
The 62 grain load is still used by all NATO members however its shortcomings are a continual source of frustration to soldiers engaged in combat. Nevertheless, current allied military strategy does not require a great deal from infantry weapons. The standard operating procedure (SOP) used in the war against terrorism is somewhat simple and predictable. Allies are required to locate terrorists, surround the target and provide suppressive fire while awaiting either an air strike or artillery support. The 5.56 NATO is adequate for this role and also excels during house to house combat, at point blank ranges.
In other words….the 5.56 is crap….we know….you know it…..but the military industrial complex likes it.
Long range?…..We don’ need your steenkin’ long range!
🙂
This’ll be the first time the US has gone outside the continent to buy a standard weapon.
Colt M16 was a one off…..prior to that, Springfield Armory produced all the US rifles.
Funny that the US troops in Afganistan were given “special issue” M14’s (7.62×51) so they could over-match ranges with the AK (7.62/39) opposition, as the Taliban were launching attacks between 300-900 metres, knowing full well the 5.56 was only effective out to 300 metres……but info not released to the press as it would denigrate the M16/M4 in the eyes of the US public.
I was a little surprised that given all the info on the various bullets, that the US didn’t go for the 6.5mm Grendel lead core round instead of the 6.8mm.
The 6.5 uses low drag rounds and over-matches the 7.62 in range and velocity, whereas the 6.8’s range, surprisingly, isn’t much better than a 5.56…..ergo, with 6.8mm, although having a greater stopping power than the 5.56…..you’re not really solving the problem of having a “one-size-fits-all” round…..like the 6.5mm.
In other words, they’re still going to need 7.62!
But heck…..what does Aussie Infidel know?…..probably as much as the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, who also recommended the 6.5mm over the 6.8.
🙂
darkwords wrote:
Planned Parenthood is truly evil. I’ve just started reading Benno Müller-Hill’s Murderous Science [Germany 1933-45] where many of the Mk.1 models of Fauci, Baric, Daszak et al set the bar as low as it can go.
Among many, two names spring to mind – Dr Otmar von Verschuer and his infamous doctoral student and partner in crime Dr Josef Mengele.
If you can ignore the inane clowning from the BabylonBee interviewers (esp in opening minutes) you will find Abigail Shrier gets down to some serious discussion over her 63 minutes.
https://babylonbee.com/podcast/basic/152 🙂
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C6YTHGg0fA
@ Aussie Infidel:
why do you always show up when I’m going to bed?
I’m going to bed.
eaglesoars wrote:
Looked at the pictures. Checked my sympathy meter; it’s registering zero. Negative for the Branch Covidians in masks
eaglesoars wrote:
Still here Eagles?
Nah
Didn’t think so!
…and more.
Interesting but not surprising poll results on a number of topics [.pdf download]:
https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/3ixnq9227y/econTabReport.pdf#page=224
eaglesoars wrote:
done.
now time for golf.
FORE!!!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-says-some-nato-members-want-prolonged-ukraine-war-order-weaken-russia
our ‘leaders’
now, imagine what they really want for you!
Good morning!
I will have you know it is National Beagle Day. They’re horrid dogs, I have no idea why they have their own day, they listen to no one, are total slobs, never shut up and if you get w/in 2 feet of them will insist on pets and kisses. An outrage.
Thx CW, have fun on the course (and careful with the shoulder thing)
So Kevin McCarthy gets caught in a lie by a leaked tape of a phone call.
Who leaked the tape?
Well, I don’t know but Liz Cheney is getting the blame.
Too funny.
more leaks
‘I’ve had it’: More McCarthy audio bashing Trump revealed
https://thehill.com/news/house/3459914-ive-had-it-with-this-guy-more-mccarthy-audio-bashing-trump-revealed/
@ eaglesoars:
that’s game
set
match.
he’s done
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
i dare say, when trump wins in 2024…ugly is gonna happen
@ CynicalConservative:
Look at beaver, crawford, mercer,
and Lawrence Co. In PA
The rain will make yinz feel at home.
@ eaglesoars:
Family owned many beagles.
They are…well…the monkeys of the dog world.
eaglesoars wrote:
This is the first time in years that there is no constant and unending 5/10 pain in that shoulder. The radical neck from cancer surgery just piled on, they nicked the nerve that goes there. Still can’t feel heat.
The shoulder pain was constant and became normal. I haven’t taken 800 motrin in 2 weeks.
The surgical report is hysterical. I was a mess.
11 years rugby, 10 years throwing fastballs, 5 years slinging packages, army, etc…
It’s weird not having pain.
Ordered my Starlink equipment today. Should be interesting. Worst case, I should get about 25x my current download speed.
It’s an interesting setup. The dish points north from here, which surprised me. I’m used to satellite TV dishes, which orient south. And it points up at about a 75 degree angle.
The dish actually orients itself once you plug it in. One cable runs from the dish to the router, and that’s it.
coldwarrior wrote:
PERFECT!!
coldwarrior wrote:
I bet your sleep is a lot better too.
@ lobo91:
very cook. did you have to cut a hole in your roof?
coldwarrior wrote:
Weird in this case is good weird. I’m sure you’ll get used to it REALLY fast!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
There are a variety of ways to mount the dish. It’s similar to the DirecTV or Dish Network dishes, but heavier because of the motors and stuff inside.
I’m planning to bolt it to the roof of my carport.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Chris got home last night and had 10 hours straight sleep. They have drained 3 litres so far. Draining the rest (5 more litres) Tuesday and then the Chemo begins. The pain therapy program is sorted and he’s pain free and loving it.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Weird is living with four cats.
Being pain free is not weird, it is like having a month vacation in some tropical island.
With no fucking cats…
lobo91 wrote:
Very clever dish!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
This is what the current model looks like:
Possum wrote:
HEH!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
5 litres!!??
VERY stylish!
Alexa, define ‘get a clue’
Exxon Mobil just banned LGBT/BLM flags from company grounds, citing the need “to maintain neutrality.” The move—likely a reaction to the anti-Disney backlash in Florida—is mostly symbolic. But as I write in @NRO , it’s another sign that the tide is shifting
https://twitter.com/njhochman/status/1517645424739368961
eaglesoars wrote:
that was meant for lobo and his starlink dish
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Good to hear. Prayers.
Possum wrote:
Where are your cute cat tiktok videos? Unless you got all the blue collar cats?
@ Aussie Infidel:
Actually as somewhat a nerd and geeky kind of person I would be interested to see one of these dishes in action.
Does it work like a mobile phone while moving where the phone switches cell phone towers as you drive away from one and get closer to another.
Is this a reverse thing where the receiver is stationary and the equivalent of a cell phone tower is moving?
This is Starlink 10896: Hey Lobo Dish, I am going to be out of range in 2.45 minutes but Starlink 12645 is going to be with you at 2.56 degrees west of me.
Lobo Dish: OK Starlink 10896 thanks, see you on the flip side!
* whirring sound as Lobo Dish moves slightly *
Starlink 12645: Hi Lobo dish, I got ya!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yah pain is funny. When we’re younger we just tough our way through it. When older, yah I’ll take that medication pill so I can sleep without pain.
@ darkwords:
Latest posts involved lots of bright red arterial blood and bandages….
Due to a food delivery cat count went from four to five temporarily…
@ Possum:
To my knowledge, the satellites are in geosynchronous orbit (meaning they’re stationary with respect to ground stations). That’s generally how all communications satellites work.
The dish has to be oriented toward whichever satellite has the strongest signal at that given location. When you install a TV dish, the instructions give you a general direction and angle to point it, and then you use a signal strength meter on-screen as part of the setup process to fine tune it. It takes two people, since one has to be outside with the dish.
The Starlink dish scans the sky automatically to find the best signal.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Hope his side effects are at least as tolerable as mine.
The first couple of treatments were shockers: the sudden brick wall of lethargy / brain squeeze is amazing.
and another one….
Former @McDonalds ‘s CEO @edrensi says it’s not a CEO’s job to pick and choose charities and social goals for their company. Instead of getting wrapped up in Wokeism and CRT, CEOs should focus on turning a profit.
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1517655776311005189
@ lobo91:
Nope, the starlink satellites are in a very low earth orbit and they are zooming around all over the place. Because they are so low the internet time lag is small.
The Hughes Internet satellites from 20 years ago were in Geo sync orbit at about 22,500 miles up. So you send to one = 22,500 miles. They ask ground station for your web page is another 22,500 miles. Ground station sends your web page to satellite another 22,500 miles and the satellite sends it to you. Yep 22,500 miles.
90,000 miles not allowing for any other delays. Speed of light is 186,000 mph so every tome you request data using a geosync satellite you ain’t getting it in less than half a second.
You are probably old enough to remember making a Transatlantic phone call in the 70’s. You had to wait for a circuit to be available. It was like a normal call. Then they routed them by satellite and the delay was laughable. You had to wait after speaking before the other person replied.
Then came trans Atlantic cable and phone calls became normal.
As an example, watch a live news broadcast where the studio is talking to a reporter in the field. Notice the delay from when the person in the studio asks a question and the remote reporter replies.
Just received the local voters pamplet. 74 pages of bios and policy opinions. Read the first half today. I’ve never read one completely before. 40 people across all parties running for governor. IF they say equity I cross them out regardless of who they are. The GoP put up a couple of people for local offices that I would swear came out of a comedy movie. Well hopefully they are wiser than I am.
Possum wrote:
I imagine the satellite is geocircumsised.
@ Possum:
Makes sense. The nice thing about it is I don’t need to know how it works 🙂
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Made in Israel?
I assembled a wheel chair yesterday. Neighbor lady came home from a short hospital stint with a broken wrist and cracked kneecap. Her sunglasses tore open her forehead too.
She tripped over a lawn sprinkler.
Possum wrote:
Oy.
How the fuck did this guy get past the Secret Service?
Today, Joe Biden shook hands with Gaige Grosskreutz, the felon who nearly murdered Kyle Rittenhouse and lied to the police about carrying an illegal firearm:
https://twitter.com/MichaelRGallas/status/1517569486852829184
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
owwwwwww……..
@ eaglesoars:
And here come the leftylappers.
I would wish a friend of mine a pleasant and restful weekend except for one thing.
Can’t find my phone.
On a totally unrelated topic I did laundry today….
Local Harley shop has parking lot parties some weekends with a live band. Hendrix’ version of “All Along the Watchtower” is booming.
@ eaglesoars:
I guess it’s the Easter Bunny’s day off
Earlier this week the project designers discussed the design of an 8’x 8′ janitor’s closet and where to put the mop sink. Took about ten minutes of conference call time.
This morning they realized that if you put a decorative wire mesh grille on the front of a parking structure (in L.A. gang territory) that vandals can climb up nine feet and get in.
Yet another technological advance that is not really an advance.
Connecting your source of music via BluTeeth to your car sound system with the ten thousand watt sound system is really cool!
Upsets my cats, rattles my windows but hey, rent is cheap here in da hood.
Pro tip….
If you are streaming shit South American music from your phone to your car sound system please set your phone to ” do not disturb ”
Nothing sounds worse than half way through an awesome Hispanic rap you get an incoming call and your fucking stupid ring tone is blasted out!
I love weekends here…
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
440 volts at the eight feet level fixes that problem.
However not allowed in California as it would endanger giraffes.
@ Possum:
This year’s mockingbirds are doing ringtones and the neighbor’s squeaky attic ventilator for courtship calls.
Possum wrote:
They argue against my advice so I stopped giving it to them. One guy (the Project Architect) asked me for the building code definition of square footage.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
You should have told him in Europe everything is metric.
And BIGGER!
( an obscure reference to penis size. Centimeters )
Listening to Bongino while I was running errands today. Talked about his time in the Secret Service in the Obama WH
He went OFF on Obama. Fraud. Loser. Liar. Worst staffing he’d ever seen, young, inexperienced and BEYOND arrogant. Bongino was doing advance work – Indonesia I think – and the WH rep was a true little shit. He insinuated himself into every meeting, treated people like crap, etc. The Indonesian security services gave him a hard time. Bongino tried to get them to cut the kid a break, because he did, after all, represent POTUS. So he took one guy aside and said, “Look, he is the POTUS rep we have to at least try to work with him.” The Indonesian guy said “The power around here comes with the people who have the guns. He doesn’t have the guns. You have the guns. We listen to you.”
Bongino sez “OK!! There’s THAT problem solved!”
Then he told about how the entire Obama WH DESPISED Joe Biden, especially Obama. “Nobody on this planet despises Joe Biden more than Barak Obama”.
One of Bongino’s more entertaining episodes.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I hope to god you told him it’s 11 inches on all 3 sides.
@ eaglesoars:
27.94 cm sounds a lot bigger.
Joe Biden:
“In the US military every vehicle is going to be climate friendly.”
https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1517568215399997440
So instead of mid-flight re-fueling they’re going to do mid-flight re-charging?
Possum wrote:
make it 5 sides, it’s even bigger
darkwords wrote:
Thanks dark words. Much appreciated.Just awaiting a SKYPE call from him as we speak!
🙂
American inches to the rest of the world centimeters.
You can do approximations and that is ok for short distances.
But the approximations and that error kind of multiply.
Try fitting German made metric flooring into a 300ft long hog barn.
America really needs to go metric.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep, and on the days when there is no wind and it is cloudy both sides in a war can make friends and play soccer.
Kind of like the Christmas truce December 1914 when all the troops got a day off.
eaglesoars wrote:
Opps. You just exposed the USSS ‘ hidden agenda Eagles.
🙂
The Lee Harvey Oswald gambit!
🙂
Possum wrote:
You bet your bippy it needs to do that mate.
🙂
Converting aircraft fuel loads for VERY long trans-Pacific flights use US gallons converted to pounds converted to Kg at various stages of the fuelling process. Fraught with the potential for a SNAFU ending up with ‘getting your feet wet’ and having to swim 5,000 miles home., or should I say 8,000 Km home !
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
HEH !
I’m going to steal that quip and use it next time I’m having coffee with my Israeli mate!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
And the culture is not destroyed. I believe you can still order a pint of beer in the UK.
To add to your post, a pint in the UK is 20 fluid ounces, In the USA it is 16 ounces. That is why you never fuel an aircraft in gallons.
LMAO and the famous expedition to Mars which was a joint USA and Europe venture.
USA in inches, Europe in centimeters.
I was quite surprised it actually managed to arrive on Mars. Although it arrived really fast!
( the Martians were surprised too when it hit. They said ” what the fuck was that! ” Obviously in Martian… )
I just blew tea out my nose
Regular people: Go woke, Go Broke
DeSantis and Florida Republicans: Go woke… **blows viking battle horn** and we shall burn your entire village to the ground and sing a song of victory so that any potential enemies in our future shall learn from your folly.
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1517583786296369153
I didn’t get to keep up w/the hearing my favorite whack job, Marjorie Taylor Greene was subjected to today. Apparently, she just OWNED the prosecutor who was stupid enough to try to portray the term ‘1776’ as an ‘insurrectionist’ code word.
“1776 is on our state seal.”
KABOOMSKI!!
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1517570593977249793
The end of an era:
I was unaware. Which is probably a good thing. I think.
Exceptionalism Sagging? American Penises Are Only 59th Biggest In World
American exceptionalism has led US citizens to believe they’re inherently different than the rest of the world. They presume they’re the best in everything, but this has proven not to be the case over time. The latest example is penis size. This might be traumatizing for some American males, but the US ranks near the bottom of the list in average penis size.
According to The Sun, citing a new study, Americans have an average erect penis size of 5.35 inches and is shorter than their Ecuadorian, Haitians, French, Germany, Australian, Spanish, and even Indian counterparts. Not too far off from Japanese males at 5.34 inches.
Online pharmacy From Mars developed a new poll from 86 nations and found the US ranked 59th. The largest were Ecuadorians, coming in at a staggering 6.93-inch average erect length. The smallest was Cambodians at just 3.95 inches.
I have no idea what this Online pharmacy From Mars even is….
Possum wrote:
That another story. The required clearance of a Schindler 3500 MRL elevator hoistway is 8′-8″ x 6′-11 1/16″.
eaglesoars wrote:
A 50 something licensed Architect who doesn’t know that answer is an embarrassment to himself and an amazement to me. The square footage of a building, as defined by every building code in the universe, is “usable area under roof.”
Possum wrote:
…and shut down everything while we retool.
eaglesoars wrote:
A lot of the biggest dicks are in DC.
EXCLUSIVE: Food shortages magnified by string of destroyed food processing facilities
https://westernstandardonline.com/2022/04/exclusive-food-shortages-magnified-by-string-of-destroyed-food-processing-facilities/
it’s not just in the U.S. either. At least 16 I think
@ eaglesoars:
Nothing suspicious about that.
///
Shoulda planned better for our retirement. I’ve always wanted to go on a ‘private’ cruise to exotic places.
Paul Allen’s superyacht Octopus is now available for charter. 26 guests max. Antarctica!
$2.2 million.
Per.
Week.
https://www.superyachttimes.com/yacht-news/onboard-yacht-octopus-interior-pictures
dang
via Naomi Wolf on Bannon (and I didn’t catch some of it because Psycho Puppy was scolding the squirrels)
The solution for the Pfizer vax was made by companies in Germany and Belgium. The company in Germany has some kind of relationship with a CCP company in China.
For TWO YEARS the FDA inspected the packaging plants (PPfizer) in Kansas and Massachusetts and cited them for mold; cited Pfizer for not conduction quality control; found botulism in some samples and on and on and on.
Pfizer’s docs – the ones they wanted held back for 75 years – show their adverse event numbers oversampled females (males develop myocarditis doncha know), combined numbers for recovered/recovering and show a fatality rate of over 3%.
so there’s that.
Good thing I talked Hubby out of getting his Pfizer booster.
We got the Pfizer. Mrs got the boost, I won’t.
@ right_wing2:
I got all three Moderna shots.
eaglesoars wrote:
When politicians hoard food and manipulate the supplies.
lobo91 wrote:
Too many lawyer and political golens. Time to clean house.
https://www.reuters.com/article/nigeria-tech-phones-idINL5N2WA06Z
Nigeria locks out 73 million phones as part of a digital ID program.
Elon Musk gets a tweet shadow banned for comparing an overweight Bill Gates to Twitters pregnant man emoji.
@ darkwords:
lol. I saw that one.
@ lobo91:
Thanks for posting that. Best I get is 15 MB down and 2 MB up. I am definitely going to look into this even though the earliest they say it will get to Tucson is the end of 2022 / early 2023
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s more than mostly symbolic; that’s a tidal change. Company from which I retired hoisted the LGBQWERTY flag every June over company and division headquarters. It actively advocated and pushed LGBQWERTY causes and employee resource groups. Other companies that I am aware of have done the same thing. This is huge, somebody may actually be realizing that maybe becoming involved in issues of morality might just be a bad idea financially.
I don’t know what it means – if anything – but all the stuff that falls into my realtor.com search engine are the result of price DROPS. Perhaps mortgage rates going up.
Possum wrote:
In the 80’s, I worked on receiver systems that did the kind of thing I suspect StarLink does — it basically is a received signal strength finder that scans for signal, sorts the signals, then orients to the strongest signal. What I worked on had way different application, but principle seems the same
eaglesoars wrote:
Sounds like more than a few boards and CEO’s are being informed of their fiduciary duty and that the company is not their plaything to attempt to implement whatever brand of social justice happens to be the fad of the day.
AZfederalist wrote:
I hope you’re right. Not just because it’s a bad business decision but to show these freaks – and that’s what they are – do not have the leverage they think they do and they can go right back into the shadows where they belong politically.
I am sorry to say that. I don’t mean to debase or question their fundamental humanity – but there is no normalizing this. I’ve had quite a few homosexual friends over the years but the friendships never were about what any of us found ourselves sexually attracted to. It was a footnote. However, I can’t think of one gay friend I’ve ever had that would not pull out a knife, a gun, anything, to defend the innocence of children. Not one. No grooming, no nothing.
AZfederalist wrote:
With the crappy DSL here, I get about 4-5 MB down and .75 up. May as well be dialup.
And they only charge $65 a month for it
Possum wrote:
People use that as the shining example of why the metric system should be adopted. Same results could have occurred if it was all done in metric. Except one team took and communicated measurements from their system in CGS, another did it in MKS, and yet a third did it in kilometers. Measurement inconsistency is not just a result of imperial vs. metric.
/… and yes, I’ve seen those kinds of errors in coding and communications occur
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve always said that there’s a difference between homosexual and gay.
Gay is a lifestyle choice. There is nothing inherent in being attracted to the same sex that causes people to wear leather or sequins, adopt a ridiculous lisping voice, or have sex with multiple anonymous people.
eaglesoars wrote:
The histrionics from the left on that tweet are awe-inspiring. Having the vapors over “free speech” etc. … and then they try to get everyone who disagrees with their viewpoints canceled. Hypocrites. DeSantis isn’t saying that Disney can’t say or support whoever or whatever they want, only that some of the special privileges they’ve been given over the years are no longer going to be kept in place if they are going to use those privileges to promote an agenda.
@ AZfederalist:
I signed up and paid my $99 deposit in March of 2021. At that time, they said it would be available here in mid-late 2021. A few months later, I got an email saying that it had changed to 2023.
Then I got an email on Thursday saying that it was available now, and if I didn’t pay the balance within 7 days, they would refund my deposit and cancel my place in line.
@ AZfederalist:
Georgia should have done the same thing after MLB moved the All Star game last year over the election nonsense.
Why should states give massive tax breaks to businesses that turn around and use their platform to attack them?
darkwords wrote:
You can’t tell me that he didn’t do that on purpose. He’s going to use that to bolster his argument about how Twitter is arbitrary and capricious in its censoring of people
@ eaglesoars:
And for once the white American males must thank their African American brothers.
Without the assistance of the black population the USA would be ranked below Cambodia.
Possum wrote:
I’m not touching that with a barge pole.
Oh! Look! How laundry was done in rural areas in the 1800s!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijDrt___zRs
Historic Exhausting Chores.
A Couples morning routine in 1775
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJFHks8-z0
I love this stuff
@ Possum:
Can’t exactly remember the joke but it goes along the lines of during the cold war and in order to demoralise the Soviets the US army placed an order for condoms with a Russian company.
Specification was 12 inches long and three inches in diameter. The Russian company duly obliged and fulfilled the order and sent them to the USA.
In boxes labeled ” small “
Possum wrote:
Oh well done!
@ lobo91:
That hurts MY ears.
I’m seeing some stuff that Elon is demanding twitter reinstate Trump but I don’t see any source. FWIW
off to bed. nite.
darkwords wrote:
Chris is a slow learner for a smart guy!
I keep telling him to listen to his wife but typical male he just tries to tough it out. Silly boy!
🙂
Possum wrote:
Or fuel in pounds when it should be in Kg. Nasty to reach about the half way point in a Trans-Pacific flight with dry tanks!
Oh and I forgot for calculating fuel density due to the temperature of the fuel, was originally in degrees F and had to be in Degrees C. All of this in the haly dark of a cockpit and under time pressure to make your departure time slot with ATC or you go to the back of the queue.
🙂
AZfederalist wrote:
Hmmmm
Perhaps you’re correct but I assumed that it was also a matter of every Starlink knowing exactly where the other Starlink satellites were at any particular moment and those in range of each specific receiver. Hence the need to mathematically ‘adjust’ the timing to correct for quantuum effects in both position and timing much as happens on GPS satellites. Otherwise you get quantuum ‘drifting’ and the whole system breaks down very quickly.
AZfederalist wrote:
Actually it sounds as if Boards, Chairmen and CEO are being captured by ‘woke’ employees and held to ransom by activeits. The management are often just the meat in the sandwich if they have been lazy. Or trapped by demonstrating their social credit chops to ‘wokesters’.
Either way they deserve what’s coming to them!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
If you have a home security system be sure it’ll communicate through satellite. I’m pretty sure ADT isn’t compatible with satellite internet.
@ lobo91: Another example of how, when the Left sees the Jan 6th riot as an “insurrection,” while dismissing ( if not ignoring outright) all of the 540 acts of coordinated violence, property damage, injuries, and death, that were perpetrated throughout the summer of 2020. **Those** came closer to constituting an “insurrection,” while Jan 6 was a riot at the most.
I’m not sure there are dots to be connected among the food processing plant fires. One was due to a plane crash and one was doing something with potato chips. But what do I know? Anyhoo, I thought this was interesting in a FWIW way. If it is coordinated, it does make one’s nose twitch even harder. Did you wonder why Union Pacific told fertilizer companies they couldn’t have the rail cars it needed? Well, well, well
The partial halting of grain and fertilizer deliveries by Union Pacific railroad, which is largely owned by Blackrock and Vanguard investment funds.
https://starvation.news/2022-04-22-pattern-of-fires-striking-food-facilities-across-the-usa-suggests-arson.html
Howard Kurtz is interviewing Piers Morgan about his interview w/Trump and has not challenged him on his deceptive editing
More on Union Pacific restricting fertilizer shipments
https://www.theepochtimes.com/union-pacific-railroad-announces-delays-cutbacks-in-fertilizer-shipments_4411512.html
In a statement to The Epoch Times, Union Pacific said it is working to help its customers in light of national supply issues.
“Union Pacific is committed to proactively supporting our customers, and we are working with them to address the impact of several disruptive events,” it read.
The company said it removed rail cars to ease congestion and added 100 additional locomotives to its fleet.
In addition, Union Pacific relocated 80 crew members to support high-demand areas and is training 450 new employees “in a tight labor market, with more in the pipeline to graduate this summer.”
more at the link
eaglesoars wrote:
and not one of our brave politicians will ever mention this.
new thread.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/04/24/french-election-2022-today-and-open/
AZfederalist wrote:
Alienating half or more of your customer base is not a good business model.