I'm still a little skeeved out about the attempt to clean up the Seine enough for water events. And kinda pissed off about the "bouquiniste" stalls being displaced.
They're also removing the poor and the immigrants so the Games tourists can have a full Amélie Poulain experience.
And all the Parisians are planning their holidays to be well away during the Olympics - either because they want to avoid the Crazy season, or so they can rent their place at 3-4x usual prices, or because the transportation infrastructure will be so clogged that they won't be able to go to work anyway.
Side note: I can deal with the lack of memes and pics, though I do miss em from time to time. We got notes, not too hard to click. I can deal with the lack of formatting, cause I can just go back to the old message board /way of emphasizing a thing/.
But I really do not like when you get a good conversation going and have a fun back and forth and then subby is all....continue in another thread XD
edit: Mind, I am not one of those pining for the good old days of discus fuckery where instead of just shooting you off into another thread, it would just stop working completely.
And if that second one gets long, it drops to a third subthread.
Ah well, beats how I see emptywheel's comments. They get narrower and narrower as they get squished against the right screen edge, and end up being one or two characters wide.
Here in Florida's GOP primary yesterday, Trump only managed 81% of the vote.
Yesterday I saw a wapo article with colorful map, showing all the states where Biden is in BIG TROUBLE because he didn't get more than 90% of the vote.
.
If we didn't have double standards, we'd have no standards at all.
Sometimes. Sometimes not. The thing about crypto is they've been sold on the idea that the blockchain makes everything work perfectly, so they're lax on other pretty basic online security measures.
Besides, the scam for those who convince others to buy crypto is more basic than that, most of the time. It's just getting others to buy in and drive up the price so you can sell. Which is why even most people talking up crypto online are left with nothing - they were already too late to join in the scam when they bought in, they just don't realize it yet.
Again, perhaps sometimes, but you are giving too many crypto bros way more credit than they deserve. Many of them really do believe the blockchain is the magic solution to just about everything.
But also, I spent entirely too much of my life seeing conspiracies in every corner, reading shit like Jim Marrs and saying ridiculous things like 'if even half of this is true,' and voting Republican. All of those things are related, so I make an effort to avoid all of it. Most of the time it's just people being stupid, greedy, or just working too fast and not thinking things through.
And in the crypto scam, the the rich assholes who got the ball rolling have already made their money and moved on to AI, so at this point it's just the scammed trying to scam others, often without even realizing that's what they're doing.
1602: The Dutch East India Company is founded. Let unbridled rapacious capitalism run rampant!
1760: A fire breaks out in Boston, Massachusetts Colony, destroying 349 buildings and a couple ships in the harbor. Sounds like one hell of a post-Saint Patrick’s Day party.
1890: Wanting to run the German Empire’s foreign policy himself, Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Chancellor Bismarck. What could possibly go wrong?
1916: Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity. If he was so smart, why is calling someone “Einstein” considered an insult?
1922: The converted collier USS ‘Langley’ is commissioned as the first US aircraft carrier.
1942: After getting out of the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur declares “I shall return.” Way in the back of the audience, some weisenheimer heckled, “So will a bad check!”
1964: The European Space Research Organization (ESRO) is founded. It’s the precursor to the European Space Agency.
1985: Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail sled dog race.
1987: The FDA approves AZT, the first anti-AIDS drug.
1995: The Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult carries out a nerve gas attack in the Tokyo, Japan subway system, using homemade sarin. It kills 13 and injures over 6200. Its leader was hanged in 2018, and serves him right.
2000: Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (a/k/a H. Rap Brown) is captured after killing one Georgia sheriff’s deputy and wounding another.
2010: The Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland erupts. It lasts three months and disrupts air travel in Europe from all the ash it throws up into the atmosphere.
2015: A solar eclipse, an equinox, and a ‘supermoon’ all occur on the same day. Nothing untoward happens.
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Ovid, Henrik Ibsen, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, B.F. Skinner, Ozzie Nelson, Michael Redgrave, Vera Lynn, Yigael Yadin, Carl Reiner, Fred Rogers, Hal Linden, Ted Bessell, Jerry Reed, John de Lancie, Bobby Orr, William Hurt, Spike Lee, Holly Hunter, Kathy Ireland.
Obituaries: Ferdinand Foch, Giuseppe Zangara, Chet Huntley, Juliana of Orange-Nassau, Kenny Rogers.
Swings and roundabouts with the Icelandic volcano. We got an extra four days holiday in Kenya, but had no money for hotels.
We stayed with a friend of the missus, but they had a lot of mosquitoes nearby. They proceeded to feast on me before we got the first flight back to blighty from Jomo Kenyatta.
I love to point out that it erupted just a week or so after Bobby Jindal went before the public with his SOTU Rebuttal and talked about wasteful spending on "Volcano Monitoring".
I always felt that the Dutch and certainly later the other trading companies were more about spreading feudalism under the guise of capitalism, myself.
But then....it's funny how the two are so closely aligned. Almost as if unfettered capitalism was really just feudalism under a guise.
heh that is another fun thing Wodehouse touches on a lot. More than one character he has remark how hard it is to get good menials in America, because they are all so damned independent and don't do the subservient thing very well, so his rich characters import butlers from England all the time.
I picked up a free anthology on the kindle whilst between books, so been reading a lot of him lately XD
Don't feel like spamming the thread by doing another post, so will just reply to this one: why am I up so early? I do not know. I could not get back to sleep though. I was beat from work and went to bed early, but that does not do much good if my body decides to count hours and give me the same amount of sleep as usual, by waking my ass up earlier.
I come home from work and they are all ZOMG YOU ARE HERE!!! and act all happy to see me.
At first I was touched. But now I realize /they equate me with food. For I feed them when I wake up, and they get fed again about an hour after I come home.
(sighs) MSNBC decided to air a clip of noted British twatwaffle Nigel 'Frogmouth' Farage lobbing softballs at The Homunculus, presumably right after giving the presumptive nominee a warm wet blowie. During the 'interview,' The Homunculus stated that NATO was more important to Europe than it was to the US, and repeated the bullshit that if member states don't pony up, he won't help the alliance.
1. An investigation has begun after a report that hospital staff (presumably) have tried to access the Princess of Wales' private medical records. Probably to leak them to the tabloid press in exchange for money.
2. Hong Kong's legislature have passed a 'national security law' that further stifles the right to protest.
3. The Sudanese Civil War is facing a famine as well as the deaths, killings and rapes.
4. Famine is also stalking the Gaza Strip like some giant stalking thing.
5. The Homunculus has six more days to pony up the bond that could prevent his properties from being seized. So far, no one stupid enough has stepped up to help him.
Laurent Michaud is my latex salesman.
I'm still a little skeeved out about the attempt to clean up the Seine enough for water events. And kinda pissed off about the "bouquiniste" stalls being displaced.
They're also removing the poor and the immigrants so the Games tourists can have a full Amélie Poulain experience.
And all the Parisians are planning their holidays to be well away during the Olympics - either because they want to avoid the Crazy season, or so they can rent their place at 3-4x usual prices, or because the transportation infrastructure will be so clogged that they won't be able to go to work anyway.
Ugh.
Side note: I can deal with the lack of memes and pics, though I do miss em from time to time. We got notes, not too hard to click. I can deal with the lack of formatting, cause I can just go back to the old message board /way of emphasizing a thing/.
But I really do not like when you get a good conversation going and have a fun back and forth and then subby is all....continue in another thread XD
I do not know why, it irks
/it sucketh/
edit: Mind, I am not one of those pining for the good old days of discus fuckery where instead of just shooting you off into another thread, it would just stop working completely.
And if that second one gets long, it drops to a third subthread.
Ah well, beats how I see emptywheel's comments. They get narrower and narrower as they get squished against the right screen edge, and end up being one or two characters wide.
Fu
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lol yeah I do wish they would just, idk, after the third reply or something, just stop indenting.
I mean, there is a line, we can figure out which comment belongs to what reply
I trust that Peter Navarro slept well last night and is waking up to a tasty breakfast.
Peanut butter and jelly on toast.
If not, he can be comforted with thoughts of how Man God Large Hands would go to prison for him.
Three hots and a cot.
the fucking welfare queen
We should demand that he get no TV or Gym or what not in there because prison should not be a camp or some such
Bet he's got some social media post somewhere stating just that
He is no doubt counting on us being "soft on crime"
Here in Florida's GOP primary yesterday, Trump only managed 81% of the vote.
Yesterday I saw a wapo article with colorful map, showing all the states where Biden is in BIG TROUBLE because he didn't get more than 90% of the vote.
.
If we didn't have double standards, we'd have no standards at all.
republicans are graded on a curve and Democrats are graded on a deep hole.
Nikki was consistently taking 30% for a whiles there and yet, Biden not getting 13% was the real story.
The tides again I'm afraid
Yeah, turns out Florida was his best showing yesterday
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Florida Trump +67
Kansas Trump +59
Ohio Trump +65
Illinois Trump +66
Arizona Trump +59
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But I imagine the rubes will fall in line for the general.
Vote, Vote, Vote like a baby stoat!
/oblig
𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗬!!
Joke's on them. That is how we like it
The rubes will, but I am still hoping the ones in that 30% of hers just stay home, while at the same time, hoping ours do not.
Olbermann's short take
ANTISEMITE TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN; POLL: BIDEN GAINS 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNbk78xKVgw
He does crank it to 11!
The same asshole playbook as the US. Change a NATIONWIDE policy for 100 citizens. SMDH
𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘏𝘚 — 𝘧𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 100 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘉𝘊 — 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴.
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯’𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘏𝘚 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰, 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 16 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸.
𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝘀. 𝗨𝗦 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/politics/article/england-is-limiting-gender-transitions-for-19286267.php
Can't put ScamCoins™ under the mattress ... (fairly technical article, but basically stupid engineering produces insecure crypto "wallets')
𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/19/crypto_wallet_providers_urged_to/
If I didn't have morals or ethics, I could have been a brazillionaire.
who do the press think the criminals draining the millions are?
It's the same fuckers who convinced people to invest, I'd bet on it.
Sometimes. Sometimes not. The thing about crypto is they've been sold on the idea that the blockchain makes everything work perfectly, so they're lax on other pretty basic online security measures.
Besides, the scam for those who convince others to buy crypto is more basic than that, most of the time. It's just getting others to buy in and drive up the price so you can sell. Which is why even most people talking up crypto online are left with nothing - they were already too late to join in the scam when they bought in, they just don't realize it yet.
"everything work perfectly" like all technology since the beginning of time..
fool me once...
It would be irresponsible not to speculate that they are lax on security measures accidentally on purpose.
Again, perhaps sometimes, but you are giving too many crypto bros way more credit than they deserve. Many of them really do believe the blockchain is the magic solution to just about everything.
I am forever seeing the nefarious even if it does not exist. Gives me something to do.
Your conclusion that they are just egomaniacs, and stupid ones at that, is more apt. But my way's more fun and x-filesy.
Except that one where they made the assassination of King not about racism, fuck that episode.
"just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you"
😱
:)
I do not recall that episode.
But also, I spent entirely too much of my life seeing conspiracies in every corner, reading shit like Jim Marrs and saying ridiculous things like 'if even half of this is true,' and voting Republican. All of those things are related, so I make an effort to avoid all of it. Most of the time it's just people being stupid, greedy, or just working too fast and not thinking things through.
And in the crypto scam, the the rich assholes who got the ball rolling have already made their money and moved on to AI, so at this point it's just the scammed trying to scam others, often without even realizing that's what they're doing.
Jen's an armchair Q?
Who's up for waffles with a wine sauce?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcRUS8MtIJo
The right Dutch Wafer!
Pass.
same. Make it maple. Light for preference though a dark is ok too
Since they changed the maple grading system, I get so confused. I think my preference is what's now called "Amber".
Doesn't matter much here in Florida, though... the choices are "probably maple" and "probably not maple"
"Probably not maple" is corn syrup. Hard pass.
My nana used to call all syrup "Kay-ro" just like that.
Took me many years to learn that a: it was a name brand and b: the word is syrup, not "kay-ro"
Ha! I almost used Karo as a generic term. And your nana said it correctly.
I might take a swing at the waffle recipe he describes. My Belgian waffle maker's been crying out to me lately.
We are handling them a polluted, fascist-filled world. What's to love?
𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀
America’s top doctor says governments’ failure to better regulate social media is ‘insane’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/20/young-people-becoming-less-happy-than-older-generations-research-shows
To my mind, happiness is a very transient quality. Contentment lasts longer.
I'm the same! I figure trying to be happy is setting yourself up, while trying to be content is an actually obtainable thing.
I always look askance at the entire "happy" question.
Also, is the doc there saying that the youngs are too aware of the crapfest and that is why they are unhappy?
Good point. They're not as unhappy as they are pissed off?
If ignorance is bliss, than awareness is discontentment?
I'd accept that, based on empirical evidence.
NO coffees this morning, gotta get some blood labs drawn.
Pfooey.
Less blood means less dilution, mainline!
I was told it's OK black, and take it that way when I'm fasting. Lavazza Gran Selezione!
I did that once, and the doc didn't like the results and made me do them again.
So I'll suffer. 😇
"you're not the boss of me!"
"You literally hired me to look after your health. Like, you pay me to do this"
"Oh, shit, yeah...."
Me too, and I hate black coffee.
Drink deeply of the Black Draught of Evil afterward.
The best part of waking up, is demons in my cup!
I love the smell of a demonic possession in the morning
We lost power halfway through the pot brewing yesterday. Talk about demonic possession.
Tepid coffee is the worst! Hot or iced are fine with me, but not room temp.
Freaking brain.
grak!
I do not hot caffeine myself, but I do know the displeasure of waking to find I forgot to put a soda in the fridge for the morning sugarnation.
I imagine a broken pot would be similar
It will be doubly good when you're done.
Indeed. ms.tek and I are gonna go out for breakfast after.
Now I want waffles!
awwwww
We're just such bloomin' romantics ;)
dawwwwww <3
Hubby is a romantic. I have all the romantic capability of a fossil myself, but I do appreciate it when it happens
An example of our romance:
"I'm goin' out for breakfast. Ya wanna come?"
it's like poetry. 😇
should sneak some in, give the labby a thrill.
OMG THIS BLOOD IS RACING!!!!
You have bad, bad, bad ideas. That's why I like you.
It is a gift. What I do is consider what the most reasonable course of action is, and then do the exact opposite.
Today . . . in HISTORY!
1602: The Dutch East India Company is founded. Let unbridled rapacious capitalism run rampant!
1760: A fire breaks out in Boston, Massachusetts Colony, destroying 349 buildings and a couple ships in the harbor. Sounds like one hell of a post-Saint Patrick’s Day party.
1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’
1890: Wanting to run the German Empire’s foreign policy himself, Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Chancellor Bismarck. What could possibly go wrong?
1916: Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity. If he was so smart, why is calling someone “Einstein” considered an insult?
1922: The converted collier USS ‘Langley’ is commissioned as the first US aircraft carrier.
1942: After getting out of the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur declares “I shall return.” Way in the back of the audience, some weisenheimer heckled, “So will a bad check!”
1964: The European Space Research Organization (ESRO) is founded. It’s the precursor to the European Space Agency.
1985: Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail sled dog race.
1987: The FDA approves AZT, the first anti-AIDS drug.
1995: The Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult carries out a nerve gas attack in the Tokyo, Japan subway system, using homemade sarin. It kills 13 and injures over 6200. Its leader was hanged in 2018, and serves him right.
2000: Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (a/k/a H. Rap Brown) is captured after killing one Georgia sheriff’s deputy and wounding another.
2010: The Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland erupts. It lasts three months and disrupts air travel in Europe from all the ash it throws up into the atmosphere.
2015: A solar eclipse, an equinox, and a ‘supermoon’ all occur on the same day. Nothing untoward happens.
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Ovid, Henrik Ibsen, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, B.F. Skinner, Ozzie Nelson, Michael Redgrave, Vera Lynn, Yigael Yadin, Carl Reiner, Fred Rogers, Hal Linden, Ted Bessell, Jerry Reed, John de Lancie, Bobby Orr, William Hurt, Spike Lee, Holly Hunter, Kathy Ireland.
Obituaries: Ferdinand Foch, Giuseppe Zangara, Chet Huntley, Juliana of Orange-Nassau, Kenny Rogers.
And now, the national anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOkdccLCmJk
Swings and roundabouts with the Icelandic volcano. We got an extra four days holiday in Kenya, but had no money for hotels.
We stayed with a friend of the missus, but they had a lot of mosquitoes nearby. They proceeded to feast on me before we got the first flight back to blighty from Jomo Kenyatta.
No malaria yet, touch cinchona bark.
Speaking of the Icelandic volcano.
I love to point out that it erupted just a week or so after Bobby Jindal went before the public with his SOTU Rebuttal and talked about wasteful spending on "Volcano Monitoring".
LOL
I had forgotten that.
I always felt that the Dutch and certainly later the other trading companies were more about spreading feudalism under the guise of capitalism, myself.
But then....it's funny how the two are so closely aligned. Almost as if unfettered capitalism was really just feudalism under a guise.
I'm with you. Capitalism is just restrained feudalism.
our AP would probably ask me if I was just now figuring this out XD
Or establishing feudalism to facilitate capitalism.
Could be either way, though I suspect, and this may be the cynic in me, that one establishes capitalism to facilitate feudalism.
edit: But as Wodehouse would say (or rather, have some butler's wife say), that sounds socialist!
Mudsill Theory, which holds that there always will be and always must be a menial underclass, has been termed "Marxism for the Master Class."
heh that is another fun thing Wodehouse touches on a lot. More than one character he has remark how hard it is to get good menials in America, because they are all so damned independent and don't do the subservient thing very well, so his rich characters import butlers from England all the time.
I picked up a free anthology on the kindle whilst between books, so been reading a lot of him lately XD
Goddamn, I love an Evan article in the morning
Don't feel like spamming the thread by doing another post, so will just reply to this one: why am I up so early? I do not know. I could not get back to sleep though. I was beat from work and went to bed early, but that does not do much good if my body decides to count hours and give me the same amount of sleep as usual, by waking my ass up earlier.
Early? It's not early, it's nearly 0600, you layabout!
I am usually just getting up at 600. Feed the cats, get the caffeine, settle in for a half hour of wonk at 0630 before getting ready for work.
Today it was a quarter to 5.
Cats still demanded food, though. They be like that. "Oh yay, the food lady is up!"
it's good to feel wanted ;)
I come home from work and they are all ZOMG YOU ARE HERE!!! and act all happy to see me.
At first I was touched. But now I realize /they equate me with food. For I feed them when I wake up, and they get fed again about an hour after I come home.
So all I have to do is become an Olympic athlete and I can haz free condoms? AND go to France?!
NYC has an unlubricated France?
Frances are already pretty slippery...
Slippery when french ^.^
(sighs) MSNBC decided to air a clip of noted British twatwaffle Nigel 'Frogmouth' Farage lobbing softballs at The Homunculus, presumably right after giving the presumptive nominee a warm wet blowie. During the 'interview,' The Homunculus stated that NATO was more important to Europe than it was to the US, and repeated the bullshit that if member states don't pony up, he won't help the alliance.
Yeah, well that guy is not only a well-known liar, he's stupid as a bag of sand.
Both of them are.
Didn't the US start NATO?
It was incremental; the US started talking about it in 1948, but the Korean War finally caused a collective defense agency to be established in 1951.
Reporting that would disrupt too many well-entrenched narratives.
Some NOOZ, courtesy of the Beeb Beeb Ceeb:
1. An investigation has begun after a report that hospital staff (presumably) have tried to access the Princess of Wales' private medical records. Probably to leak them to the tabloid press in exchange for money.
2. Hong Kong's legislature have passed a 'national security law' that further stifles the right to protest.
3. The Sudanese Civil War is facing a famine as well as the deaths, killings and rapes.
4. Famine is also stalking the Gaza Strip like some giant stalking thing.
5. The Homunculus has six more days to pony up the bond that could prevent his properties from being seized. So far, no one stupid enough has stepped up to help him.
I suspect a tabloid put the staff member up to it.
And you're probably not wrong.