I was shocked at how few electric cars there were on the big island. Every drop of oil must be imported, at great cost and at great difficulty. There was very little solar, anywhere.
That's exactly how I presumed he learned how to do this. Cousin Werewolf has told be about acquiring a similar skill while he was in uniform; this skill is one a warrior must perfect in order to get their rest.
I just need to adopt that mindset. Maybe then I'll be able to sleep for a little while.
I am 16 minutes early for my 7 AM dentist appointment. If you told young me that I'd some day be the person who makes 7 AM dentist appointments, I'd have said you were talking to the wrong girl. So not only do I always claim the 7 AM spot - now I'm early for it.
When I got kicked out of boarding school and had to attend a public HS my first class was at 7 a.m. I told them I did not care to be in a classroom at 7 a.m., thank you, but they scheduled it anyway, and I failed both of them, yada yada yada why I didn't actually graduate from HS.
"being considered for VP"? By who? You think Pres. Biden is going to drop Kamala Harris, one of the most effective VPs we've had, this close to the election, RawStory?
Really?
ffs
ETA: I did not read the article, so I don't really know if she's talking about herself "being considered for VP," or about Noem being considered/dropped.
The last couple of weeks we've had rain on and off and the fields were getting saturated. Friday we got 3 inches and Tornado like winds knocking shit down.
Put those Silicon Valley Mofo’s on Willy Wonka’s bad egg detector.
No understanding of history, the Atlantic slave trade, black codes, Jim Crow, underfunding public education, disenfranchisement, or redlining. Total equality in the US, pure meritocracy.
The tech news reporting is done by the same people they are reporting on, so it biased as well. Many of the start up founders I've met or worked with are pretty egotistical with no reason. It takes some ego to be a start up founder, but now it's a self-perpetuating circle: "I have started 3 companies, therefore I should get all the munnies to start my 4th company!"
1314: The Battle of Bannockburn ends, with the Scottish leader, Robert the Bruce, declared victor. All friends with Edward II in the showers afterward.
1497: John Cabot lands in Newfoundland. It’s the first European landing in the region since the Vikings. Bloody Vikings.
1793: France adopts its first Republican constitution. Um, sure, okay.
1859: France and Sardinia defeat Austria at the Battle of Solferino. The appalling sight after the battle will lead to the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross.
1916: Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract. You go, Mary!
1918: The first airmail service in Canada starts running between Montreal and Toronto. Yay!
1938: Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. It’s estimated that the whole thing weighed 450 metric tons; good thing it broke up in Earth’s atmosphere, or it would have left quite a divot.
1943: US military police try to arrest a Black soldier in the English town of Bamber Bridge for being out of uniform. A racial disturbance breaks out, resulting in 1 dead, 7 injured, and 32 charged with mutiny.
1945: The first Victory Parade takes place in Moscow, USSR, led by Marshal Zhukov riding a white horse and ending with the symbolic degradation of captured Nazi banners.
1947: Kenneth Arnold spots nine objects flying in tandem near Mt. Rainier, Washington. This is the first widely reported UFO sighting.
1948: Those naughty Soviets have blocked land and air access from West Germany to West Berlin. One might even call it a Berlin Blockade.
1949: NBC airs ‘Hopalong Cassidy,’ the first TV western. Yee. Haw.
1957: The US Supreme Court rules in Roth v United States that obscenity is not protected under the First Amendment. Pornographers everywhere say, "Hold my fucking beer."
1973: A still-unsolved arson at the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, kills thirty-two people by fire or smoke inhalation.
2004: New York declares capital punishment unconstitutional. Good for them.
2010: Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister of Australia. Yay!
2012: The last surviving member of a subspecies of Galapagos tortoise, nicknamed ‘Lonesome George,’ dies. He was an estimated 101-102 years old.
2013: Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty and sentenced to 7 years in prison for abuse of power and doing the bunga-bunga with an underage prostitute.
2021: A condominium in Surfside, Florida, partially collapses, killing 98 people.
2022: The US Supreme Court, the fuckers, overturn Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey in their Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. This throws the authority to regulate abortion back to the states, with predictable results.
2023: The Vagner Group mercenary army, under Yevgeny Prigozhin, launches an insurrection against the Russian government.
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Henry Ward Beecher, Gustavus Swift Jr., Ambrose Bierce, Herbert Kitchener, Oswald Veblen, Roy Disney, Phil Harris, Fred Hoyle, Al Molinaro, Carolyn Shoemaker, Jeff Beck, Ellison Onizuka, Robert Reich, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Weller, Mercedes Lackey, Lionel Messi.
Obituaries: Lucrezia Borgia, Edward de Vere, Grover Cleveland, Walther Rathenau, Frank King, Willy Ley, Jackie Gleason, Brian Keith, Vera Atkins, Paul Winchell, Lonesome George, Eli Wallach.
My friends at @UnxeptableD who came up with the slogan "From the River to the Sea, Only Peace Will Set Us Free" are now offering T-shirts on Amazon with this desperately needed sentiment. Amidst polarization & divisiveness, small symbols/gestures give hope
A 300% increase in acts of violence against Jewish people in America last year, so which river? which sea?
The integration of a genocidal slogan popularized by a jihadist group holding American hostages into a call for peace is not actually that appealing to me. But apparently jihadists holding Americans hostages who have a SOP policy & practice of murdering LGBT and committing atrocities during a ceasefire are not The Good Guys, so I understand nothing.
Anything that reduces the every-increasing open hatred and violence against Jewish people in American is good tho', so I hope it works.
And rest assured: those people that you are (rightfully) mad about, they reject that slogan with the "peace" version as much as you do. Because they really do not like "their" idea being brought together with a request for mutual peace.
"River to the Sea" advocates discussion of a future without Israelis nor Jews.
Your Vox article acknowledges that the phrase is widely adjugated as advocating for the slaughter of every person in Israel in multiple jurisdictions. Hamas has long used "River to Sea" to mean the destruction of Israel, murder of every Jew and Arab who was living as an Israeli. Until Oct 7 no one was "confused" about what it meant.
I am glad the left is backing off from celebrating Oct 7th and openly chanting for the slaughter of Israelis and also Jewish people worldwide. Kindly also stop with the genocidal slogans.
Kindly stop with the dog whistles. Jews are being attacked in the street while going to temple. You think this shirt is super cute while there is violence in the street against Jewish Americans, Jews are being refused service at stores, Jewish neighborhoods are targeted with violence on the subway and in their neighborhoods. Please, please just stop.
Argue with a robot and see if your call gets changed asshole.
I had a coach appeal three close plays with a two ump crew. I didn't allow any of them. Then he argued. Then he said the F word. Then I sent him to the parking lot.
To keep the games from lasting four goddam hours. Before they instituted the clock a couple of years ago, practically every batter would step out of the box between every single pitch and adjust every single part of his unform a couple of times. The pitcher would then walk a couple of laps around the mound. Lather rinse repeat for four or more hours.
I'm a huge baseball fan and have been my whole life, and it would be hard to find more of a baseball traditionalist than me. I love the pitch clock. Don't let people tell you it's supposed to be a "leisurely" game. Games didn't used to take four-plus hours to play. That's a recent (last 20-30 years) phenomenon. Games take two-and-a-half to three hours again like they did for more than a hundred years. The pitch clock is great.
Batters aren't catching up with pitchers - foul balls
Pitchers trying to fool batters into not swinging at bad pitches. 3-2 counts higher pitch counts. Starting Pitchers last 5 innings having thrown 100 pitches.
I'm sorry, I just disagree. Pitchers have always tried to fool batters, and I don't necessarily think 3-2 counts are a bad thing; I just don't see this as a function of the clock.
I do agree that starting pitching is in somewhat of a crisis with pitch counts and starters only going five, but that's been building since long before the pitch clock.
We at the Navajo County Republican Committee are calling for @SteveSlatonAZ to immediately withdraw from the Arizona House of Representatives LD-7 race for misrepresenting his military service.
Yet the asshole keeps insisting he is a Vietnam combat vet despite all official records and timelines showing he did not serve in Vietnam at all and did not join the army until after US troops left other than a small contingent protecting US facilities in Vietnam. With no helicopters piloted by US Army officers operating in Vietnam while he was in the army. Records show he was a helicopter mechanic stationed in Korea after the US pulled combat troops out of Vietnam.
How old is the motherfucker? The war ended in '75. I figure I'm a couple years older than him and I've been "no longer working" for 9 years, receiving SS for 8. I am 70.
Apparently, Nigel Farage is campaigning in my local area today.
I know the chances of him knocking on doors is slim to non-existent, but I kind of hope he does show up at my door. Mainly so I can tell him he's a raging fascist, ask him how much Putin is paying him, call him a £ shop Oswald Moseley, and tell him I'd rather take a swim in a pig shot lagoon than vote for Reform UK.
If he does dare show his face, it'll be in a vehicle or surrounded by wooden-tops. He won't risk anything more than an egging, the fucking fascist coward.
Christ, he makes Oswald Mosley look like a sensible and trustworthy chap.
True. He's apparantly doing speech at a local shopping outlet/tourist trap. Not the sort of place I chose to visit, but he'll probably find a willing audience from amongst the blue-rinse brigade.
There's always a core of bitter, stupid people who can't see past the chip on their shoulders.
Speaking of which, it's GE day soon. I really don't know where my vote is going this time. I'm averse to voting for Tory-Lite, Tory Juicy Fruit or their little Green collaborators, but what else is there? The socialists? Lord Binface?
I was shocked at how few electric cars there were on the big island. Every drop of oil must be imported, at great cost and at great difficulty. There was very little solar, anywhere.
paul has finally gotten into bed. I envy him; when he wants to he just goes to SLEEP. Then there's me. awake for days at a stretch.
It's a bit frustrating.
In my military career, I learned to sleep anywhere, anytime. In places where most folks would find problematic.
But as I have gotten older, I eventually lost that particular skill.
Perhaps, at some point, the same will occur with Paul, and relieve your frustration a bit.
That's exactly how I presumed he learned how to do this. Cousin Werewolf has told be about acquiring a similar skill while he was in uniform; this skill is one a warrior must perfect in order to get their rest.
I just need to adopt that mindset. Maybe then I'll be able to sleep for a little while.
I slept in downtown Sarajevo once during the war. For maybe an hour. Something about the sound made my back stiff, which kept me awake.
I am 16 minutes early for my 7 AM dentist appointment. If you told young me that I'd some day be the person who makes 7 AM dentist appointments, I'd have said you were talking to the wrong girl. So not only do I always claim the 7 AM spot - now I'm early for it.
Maybe I'm one of those pod people or something.
Closet case Mormon!
When I got kicked out of boarding school and had to attend a public HS my first class was at 7 a.m. I told them I did not care to be in a classroom at 7 a.m., thank you, but they scheduled it anyway, and I failed both of them, yada yada yada why I didn't actually graduate from HS.
It's good to know yourself and set clear expectations.
If you really were a pod person you’d never tell us —you’d just point and squeal.
That is something a pod person would say to throw us off about being a pod person
*squints*
Also, good luck!
War Between the States
'I've never executed an animal': Gretchen Whitmer talks about being considered for VP
https://www.rawstory.com/gretchen-whitmer-vp/
"being considered for VP"? By who? You think Pres. Biden is going to drop Kamala Harris, one of the most effective VPs we've had, this close to the election, RawStory?
Really?
ffs
ETA: I did not read the article, so I don't really know if she's talking about herself "being considered for VP," or about Noem being considered/dropped.
No one is gonna execute dogs named Kevin and Doug.
lolz
So like I do every morning, I check the weather.
Gonna be hot. Already knew that, but thanks for the heads up.
.....And also rain this morning? What? No one was calling for rain for the next two weeks?
*eyes blue assed sky*
Must be one of them develop in place jerbs cause ain't nothing on the radar either
Isolated showers...
" there may be the possibility that could bring marginally brief showers somewhere in the viewing area."
I shan't complain
If it hits right, it'll keep my ass out of the field today. Also, we could REALLY use it.
The last couple of weeks we've had rain on and off and the fields were getting saturated. Friday we got 3 inches and Tornado like winds knocking shit down.
Fields are flooded. No hay making this week.
By me it HAD rained but it's done.
the weather people say between 8 and 9 here.
I swear there was not a single cloud out the window 4 minutes ago, and now I see a biggun coming from the west
Damn ... this must be Tech Bro Whining Week ... It's good to see push back: most of the tech-bros are the biggest misogynistic bigots in the universe.
𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 ‘𝗗𝗘𝗜’ 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 ‘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆’ 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 — 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴
No, Silicon Valley, a ‘meritocracy’ is not better than DEI, according to the data
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/23/silicon-valley-leaders-are-once-again-declaring-dei-bad-and-meritocracy-good-but-theyre-wrong/
In every meritocracy I've ever seen, the lazy white male who kisses the most ass gets the merit.
Put those Silicon Valley Mofo’s on Willy Wonka’s bad egg detector.
No understanding of history, the Atlantic slave trade, black codes, Jim Crow, underfunding public education, disenfranchisement, or redlining. Total equality in the US, pure meritocracy.
That is because when meritocracy is code for "white guys" there's no actual merit there.
Not necessarily white guys, but more self-entitled guys. Mostly with small peens and big Teslas.
I wish just once someone in the press would notice that DEI does NOT do away with"merit." You're still hiring the best person for the job.
Just means you have to include everyone in your search for cryin out loud. And maybe hire someone who does not look like you.
It’s been over a month since I have saved a quote from the non-comments.
But you said this as well as I have ever heard it articulated.
Note that I will attribute it to “ Jen+ Changing Name”
And have a culturally sensitive workplace where everyone feels included…so terrible! /s
Basically: they don't want to get sued or fired for being self-entitled, misogynistic assholes.
The tech news reporting is done by the same people they are reporting on, so it biased as well. Many of the start up founders I've met or worked with are pretty egotistical with no reason. It takes some ego to be a start up founder, but now it's a self-perpetuating circle: "I have started 3 companies, therefore I should get all the munnies to start my 4th company!"
The VCs are all white guys as well, so ...
Yah, Dood! We shud only hire alphas from Delta Teke.
👆🏼 This right here.
So we should trust the tech-bros on this like we trusted the tech-bros on social media?
𝘠 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 — 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘈𝘪𝘳𝘣𝘯𝘣, 𝘋𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘣𝘰𝘹 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘋𝘢𝘴𝘩 — 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘰 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯. 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵 𝘞𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘈𝘐 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨.
𝗬 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟭𝟰𝟬 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹, 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2024/06/21/little-tech-brings-a-big-flex-to-sacramento-00164369
"If we can't doom humanity from the comfort of our California mansions, we'll do it someplace else!"
𝘀𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁
erm.
Sounds good to me?
The point of what they are hilariously calling AI is that it doesn't require talent....
They are scared of diversity and world-wide teams of engineers who are doing better engineering than they are.
*Dishes complete* beep
I do actually get that message on my phone.......
Oh gee, here they made it sound like AI was its own talent.
I like how they expect us to believe that retaining AI talent is something to be wanted.
See above ... the whiny tech-bros are circling their entitled, misogynistic wagons. They have to protect their bullshit.
Exploiting delivery people is a crappy business model.
𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀. 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀.
Apps raised fees to offset pay increases in New York and Seattle, frustrating customers and workers
https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/delivery-drivers-got-higher-wages-now-theyre-getting-fewer-orders-d2e416c0?st=zp353cyeu6io50w&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Guess the demand isn't there for your product when it's costed properly... Sucks.
Everyone who bitches about having to pay a couple bucks more to have people not making less than minimum wage can eat my entire ass for jerky.
I can't EVEN with that sort of thing, and I am a penny pinching tightwad.
No shit. Cheap fucks.
"eat my entire ass for jerky" ... This is now a permanent Wonkette slogan.
To be really fair, the spawn and I are watching the Fallout
There is ass jerky in that and now it is lodged in my brain that there is ass jerky
Is that ass jerky seasoned?
With the tears of an absolutely not a virgin I think
It is a really fucked up show XD
Today . . . in HISTORY!
6-24
1314: The Battle of Bannockburn ends, with the Scottish leader, Robert the Bruce, declared victor. All friends with Edward II in the showers afterward.
1497: John Cabot lands in Newfoundland. It’s the first European landing in the region since the Vikings. Bloody Vikings.
1793: France adopts its first Republican constitution. Um, sure, okay.
1859: France and Sardinia defeat Austria at the Battle of Solferino. The appalling sight after the battle will lead to the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross.
1916: Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract. You go, Mary!
1918: The first airmail service in Canada starts running between Montreal and Toronto. Yay!
1938: Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. It’s estimated that the whole thing weighed 450 metric tons; good thing it broke up in Earth’s atmosphere, or it would have left quite a divot.
1943: US military police try to arrest a Black soldier in the English town of Bamber Bridge for being out of uniform. A racial disturbance breaks out, resulting in 1 dead, 7 injured, and 32 charged with mutiny.
1945: The first Victory Parade takes place in Moscow, USSR, led by Marshal Zhukov riding a white horse and ending with the symbolic degradation of captured Nazi banners.
1947: Kenneth Arnold spots nine objects flying in tandem near Mt. Rainier, Washington. This is the first widely reported UFO sighting.
1948: Those naughty Soviets have blocked land and air access from West Germany to West Berlin. One might even call it a Berlin Blockade.
1949: NBC airs ‘Hopalong Cassidy,’ the first TV western. Yee. Haw.
1957: The US Supreme Court rules in Roth v United States that obscenity is not protected under the First Amendment. Pornographers everywhere say, "Hold my fucking beer."
1973: A still-unsolved arson at the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, kills thirty-two people by fire or smoke inhalation.
2004: New York declares capital punishment unconstitutional. Good for them.
2010: Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister of Australia. Yay!
2012: The last surviving member of a subspecies of Galapagos tortoise, nicknamed ‘Lonesome George,’ dies. He was an estimated 101-102 years old.
2013: Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty and sentenced to 7 years in prison for abuse of power and doing the bunga-bunga with an underage prostitute.
2021: A condominium in Surfside, Florida, partially collapses, killing 98 people.
2022: The US Supreme Court, the fuckers, overturn Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey in their Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. This throws the authority to regulate abortion back to the states, with predictable results.
2023: The Vagner Group mercenary army, under Yevgeny Prigozhin, launches an insurrection against the Russian government.
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Henry Ward Beecher, Gustavus Swift Jr., Ambrose Bierce, Herbert Kitchener, Oswald Veblen, Roy Disney, Phil Harris, Fred Hoyle, Al Molinaro, Carolyn Shoemaker, Jeff Beck, Ellison Onizuka, Robert Reich, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Weller, Mercedes Lackey, Lionel Messi.
Obituaries: Lucrezia Borgia, Edward de Vere, Grover Cleveland, Walther Rathenau, Frank King, Willy Ley, Jackie Gleason, Brian Keith, Vera Atkins, Paul Winchell, Lonesome George, Eli Wallach.
#Worldle #885 (24.06.2024) 1/6 (100%)
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⭐🚩🔤👫🪙📐
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Those bloody neighbours.
Yeah.
Good morning!
Same to you!
Now that's a cool shirt.
https://x.com/afalkhatib/status/1804758669999099989
My friends at @UnxeptableD who came up with the slogan "From the River to the Sea, Only Peace Will Set Us Free" are now offering T-shirts on Amazon with this desperately needed sentiment. Amidst polarization & divisiveness, small symbols/gestures give hope
https://amazon.com/dp/B0D36RQQ94
A 300% increase in acts of violence against Jewish people in America last year, so which river? which sea?
The integration of a genocidal slogan popularized by a jihadist group holding American hostages into a call for peace is not actually that appealing to me. But apparently jihadists holding Americans hostages who have a SOP policy & practice of murdering LGBT and committing atrocities during a ceasefire are not The Good Guys, so I understand nothing.
Anything that reduces the every-increasing open hatred and violence against Jewish people in American is good tho', so I hope it works.
I understand that point. But I also think that these words have been used for a long time, in this or that form even by "the good guys".
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23972967/river-to-sea-palestine-israel-hamas
And rest assured: those people that you are (rightfully) mad about, they reject that slogan with the "peace" version as much as you do. Because they really do not like "their" idea being brought together with a request for mutual peace.
"River to the Sea" advocates discussion of a future without Israelis nor Jews.
Your Vox article acknowledges that the phrase is widely adjugated as advocating for the slaughter of every person in Israel in multiple jurisdictions. Hamas has long used "River to Sea" to mean the destruction of Israel, murder of every Jew and Arab who was living as an Israeli. Until Oct 7 no one was "confused" about what it meant.
I am glad the left is backing off from celebrating Oct 7th and openly chanting for the slaughter of Israelis and also Jewish people worldwide. Kindly also stop with the genocidal slogans.
Kindly stop with the dog whistles. Jews are being attacked in the street while going to temple. You think this shirt is super cute while there is violence in the street against Jewish Americans, Jews are being refused service at stores, Jewish neighborhoods are targeted with violence on the subway and in their neighborhoods. Please, please just stop.
https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/1805232530456551474
and
https://x.com/TodayisAmerica/status/1804956194982998028
and
hate crimes against Jews in America are up 300%.
You are aligned with the baddies.
Amusing! I had a troll vomit on a comment I didn't post (as Comments Are Not Allowed) six days ago. Woeful lack of timing.
It's boring at the troll farm
IRA trolls get paid for posting shit; they probably don’t care if no one ever reads their drivel.
Irish Republican Army?
"Pro-life," my ass.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/22/us/texas-woman-drown-child-muslim-palestinian/index.html
That's an "I'll do it agin!" mugshot.
Put her on trump's pardon list.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/big-blue-bear
(sighs)
He doesn't need immunity if he can give it to others.
Think about that shit.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/big-blue-bear
USA opened their Copa America campaign by beating Bolivia 2-0 last night, while Uruguay went STOMP STOMP STOMP on Panama.
In brawling - er, hockey, it's Game 7 tonight for the Stanley Cup. Who will win, Edmonton or those fuckwits from Sunrise, FL?
That's it from the sports desk.
In Baseball News, the new pitching clock rules gave the Colorado Rockies a walk-off win against the Washington Nationals.
I'm not sure what is worse, the stupid pitching clock, the crappy uniforms, or the degradation of the umpire quality.
Game officials are taking a beating lately.
Argue with a robot and see if your call gets changed asshole.
I had a coach appeal three close plays with a two ump crew. I didn't allow any of them. Then he argued. Then he said the F word. Then I sent him to the parking lot.
why is there a pitching clock? Are they trying to time the commercials better or something?
Some of the rule, I liked. You'd have pitchers waiting, waiting, waiting, and then the batter would step off, which would reset.
Games were taking longer than Hamlet.
To keep the games from lasting four goddam hours. Before they instituted the clock a couple of years ago, practically every batter would step out of the box between every single pitch and adjust every single part of his unform a couple of times. The pitcher would then walk a couple of laps around the mound. Lather rinse repeat for four or more hours.
I'm a huge baseball fan and have been my whole life, and it would be hard to find more of a baseball traditionalist than me. I love the pitch clock. Don't let people tell you it's supposed to be a "leisurely" game. Games didn't used to take four-plus hours to play. That's a recent (last 20-30 years) phenomenon. Games take two-and-a-half to three hours again like they did for more than a hundred years. The pitch clock is great.
Since you are a fan and I am not, I will defer to your knowledge.
However, 3 hours sounds plenty leisurely to me XD
Heh. Fair enough. Leisurely had become downright sluggish. Let's put it that way.
To speed the game up. But now , endless foul balls and 3-2 counts are killing the game.
I don't see how the clock would cause more foul balls or more 3-2 counts?
Batters aren't catching up with pitchers - foul balls
Pitchers trying to fool batters into not swinging at bad pitches. 3-2 counts higher pitch counts. Starting Pitchers last 5 innings having thrown 100 pitches.
I'm sorry, I just disagree. Pitchers have always tried to fool batters, and I don't necessarily think 3-2 counts are a bad thing; I just don't see this as a function of the clock.
I do agree that starting pitching is in somewhat of a crisis with pitch counts and starters only going five, but that's been building since long before the pitch clock.
yeah that is a dumb to me, and I do not enjoy watching the baseball on the TV and all.
OBVIOUSLY it would lead to endless foul balls. I mean.
Trouble in paradise. Too bad, so sad.
https://x.com/GopNavajo/status/1804995928971227480 ---
We at the Navajo County Republican Committee are calling for @SteveSlatonAZ to immediately withdraw from the Arizona House of Representatives LD-7 race for misrepresenting his military service.
So his lying casts a shadow on the Republican Party?
If only that standard was applied uniformly!
Right? Have they MET their fellow republicans?
Yet the asshole keeps insisting he is a Vietnam combat vet despite all official records and timelines showing he did not serve in Vietnam at all and did not join the army until after US troops left other than a small contingent protecting US facilities in Vietnam. With no helicopters piloted by US Army officers operating in Vietnam while he was in the army. Records show he was a helicopter mechanic stationed in Korea after the US pulled combat troops out of Vietnam.
Oh that explains it then. They all look alike to him
How old is the motherfucker? The war ended in '75. I figure I'm a couple years older than him and I've been "no longer working" for 9 years, receiving SS for 8. I am 70.
You hate to see it.
(no you don't)
Apparently, Nigel Farage is campaigning in my local area today.
I know the chances of him knocking on doors is slim to non-existent, but I kind of hope he does show up at my door. Mainly so I can tell him he's a raging fascist, ask him how much Putin is paying him, call him a £ shop Oswald Moseley, and tell him I'd rather take a swim in a pig shot lagoon than vote for Reform UK.
So, he's getting up on a milk-crate so everyone can hear him lie?
Pretty much.
Have a milkshake handy. Just in case.
I misread that as "complaining in my local area today."
Still works.
If he does dare show his face, it'll be in a vehicle or surrounded by wooden-tops. He won't risk anything more than an egging, the fucking fascist coward.
Christ, he makes Oswald Mosley look like a sensible and trustworthy chap.
True. He's apparantly doing speech at a local shopping outlet/tourist trap. Not the sort of place I chose to visit, but he'll probably find a willing audience from amongst the blue-rinse brigade.
There's always a core of bitter, stupid people who can't see past the chip on their shoulders.
Speaking of which, it's GE day soon. I really don't know where my vote is going this time. I'm averse to voting for Tory-Lite, Tory Juicy Fruit or their little Green collaborators, but what else is there? The socialists? Lord Binface?
My only thought for this GE is to get the Tories out. So I'll be voting tactically.
In my area that is probably going to be a vote for the Lib Dems.
Yeah, there's a push to try and get the Lib Dems into the #2 spot so the Tories won't be able to do squat.
I can't stomach voting for the Lib Dems after their Tory-abetting treachery last GE. Them and their little green lapdogs.
I don't like it either, but I will hold my nose and check that box if it means finally getting rig of Ann-Marie Morris.
I don't think Mosley would walk across the street to piss on Farage.
Like I said, he's a £ shop knock-off of a piece of shit fascist.
How are you at Milkshakes We Like?
I would never waste a milkshake on that piece of shit.
I might raid the cat litter box and throw a bucket of used cat litter at him though.