EMT 3-12-22

"Meh"

- Mediocrates

Posted by: krakatoa at 06:00 AM

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1 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2022 06:01 AM (2JoB8)

2 First

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 06:01 AM (Blu0h)

3 Good Morning Morons. Today is March 12, 2022. On this day in 1912 The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) were founded in the United States.

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2022 06:02 AM (mZwKe)

4 Biden claims 'inflation is largely the fault of Putin,' not Democratic spending

Inflation was already running rampant before Putin invaded. Once again Biden is lying.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8w8j45

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2022 06:02 AM (mZwKe)

5 Posted, called nood, now onto content.

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2022 06:02 AM (2JoB8)

6 LOL, krak !

G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 06:03 AM (c1v4f)

7 Biden says Democrats in 'strongest position' in months; new poll suggests that's wishful thinking

https://tinyurl.com/2s3hzeds

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2022 06:03 AM (mZwKe)

8 You got me Skip

. I never tried that untill recently. I figured if I did, that would happen lol.

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 06:03 AM (Blu0h)

9 Powerline funnies

https://tinyurl.com/2p95yyja

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 12, 2022 06:03 AM (rz+/y)

10 Don't forget, this Sunday we get to Spring Forward 1 hour.

https://tinyurl.com/3z3f267x

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2022 06:03 AM (mZwKe)

11 Good Morning Morons. Today is March 12, 2022. On this day in 1912 The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) were founded in the United States.

Posted by: Vic

Later that afternoon...gangs of pushy girls set up card tables in front of stores selling mediocre cookies for big bucks.

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:03 AM (vd8XM)

12
Psaki tells TikTok influencers Russia 'hacked our election' in 2016 to put Trump in over Scankles. That crap has already been discredited many times as BS.

Just another Biden lie.

https://tinyurl.com/2p97nwnk

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2022 06:04 AM (mZwKe)

13 RAMIREZ

https://tinyurl.com/2wd7x3db

And that's it for today. Nothing out there but Putin and Russia.

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2022 06:05 AM (mZwKe)

14 Just another Biden lie.

But, it's been told enough times to be The Truth.

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:05 AM (vd8XM)

15 Thank you Vic

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:05 AM (vd8XM)

16 Forgot about mail yesterday. Just check. State refund came. I don't like refunds.

Posted by: Infidel at March 12, 2022 06:07 AM (ou23q)

17 I just paid my Taxes yesterday. I got raped this year. And the IRS has royally screwed up their site.

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2022 06:08 AM (mZwKe)

18 Psaki is the spokeswoman from Michael Clayton If you haven't seen it, it is dead on. I don't know what a tick tock influencer is, is that better than a Starbucks Barrista?

If they are focusing on tick tock influencers, they are in a world of hurt

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 06:09 AM (Blu0h)

19
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 12, 2022 06:10 AM (DUIap)

20 Putin didn't cancel any pipelines in the U.S.
Putin didn't cancel any drilling permits in the U.S.

Posted by: Fenderbender at March 12, 2022 06:10 AM (r72iY)

21 Morning peeps. Yesterday at 2PM my wife and I were on the deck sunning ourselves. By 5PM yesterday there were snow flurries. This morning there's 3" of snow, it's 18 degrees with a wind chill of 7. Springtime in the Bluegrass. This is fine...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2022 06:10 AM (BFigT)

22 I was a girl scout for many years. Brownie through Senior. Back when the cookies were still pretty edible.

Thin mints make you thin, right?

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 12, 2022 06:11 AM (Z/jzm)

23 Quint. We have a WH with a demented, mean old man as president and a staff of children. With that you get tik tok influencers and not much else. I'm guessing those influencers help write policy.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 06:11 AM (2NHgQ)

24 >>And the IRS has royally screwed up their site.
Posted by: Vic

Really? That sucks. I havent even started mine yet

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 12, 2022 06:12 AM (Z/jzm)

25 12 Psaki tells TikTok influencers Russia 'hacked our election' in 2016 to put Trump in over Scankles. That crap has already been discredited many times as BS.
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Everything that comes out of her mouth is propaganda. Listening to her is so over the top that whatever she says I just automatically think the opposite. Can you imagine having dinner with her? I'm pretty sure it would be like a KGB interrogation with the odds of getting stabbed in the face 50/50.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 06:12 AM (PVI4b)

26 When you massively increase the money supply while you simultaneously pursue policies that create massive disruptions, dislocations, FUD and scarcity, your going to get inflation, in a big way.

But there are no mean tweets and THE ADULTS are back in charge, sure their policies are going to murder us all but again, no mean tweets.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 12, 2022 06:12 AM (3zgHJ)

27 Vic- I never do online taxes. I've had to pay a CPA the last few years because I inherited part of a business from Dad. Got raped on 2020 taxes because they imputed $27k in income from that business. I didn't receive a penny of income. I think that is why they are so wacked this year. I renounced all ownership and now have a refund. Shit is way too complicated for my pea brain. I had always done my own taxes prior to that.

Posted by: Infidel at March 12, 2022 06:13 AM (ou23q)

28 Oh, Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 12, 2022 06:13 AM (Z/jzm)

29 Forgot about mail yesterday. Just check. State refund came. I don't like refunds.
Posted by: Infidel at March 12, 2022

***
I keep mine as low as I can. No reason to let The Sate use my money without paying me interest.

I'm waiting for my Fed and state refunds -- just enough for me to have the top strip of my windshield tinted in time for the vicious summer, which will be here this month or next.

In other news, Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat just crept over to me at the couch, sprawled on his side, and purred as I petted him. He hasn't come over to me like that in a while. I know he's hungry -- he cleaned his bowl last night. Time to feed him again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 06:13 AM (c6xtn)

30 thanks for the news, Vic; and for the funnies, Blutarski !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 06:14 AM (c1v4f)

31 A large CME is coming our way on Sunday afternoon/evening.

It's not supposed to wipe out any satellites but.....

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:14 AM (vd8XM)

32 Been raining here all night.

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2022 06:14 AM (mZwKe)

33 Martini Farmer. It's 34 here in the Bitterroot and will be sunny and 58 degrees this afternoon. Family says don't move to MT the winters are horrendous, those family members will be seeing snow today. Of course with this thaw, our second in about a month, mud season will commence.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 06:15 AM (2NHgQ)

34 24 >>And the IRS has royally screwed up their site.
Posted by: Vic

Really? That sucks. I havent even started mine yet
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

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I gave up trying to fill out taxes years ago. I just use a CPA. Taxes are one of those things where you hire a professional to do the work, sort of like using a hitman.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 06:15 AM (PVI4b)

35 Morning, Horde

Posted by: fluffy at March 12, 2022 06:15 AM (UnQlg)

36 Don't forget, this Sunday we get to Spring Forward 1 hour.

https://tinyurl.com/3z3f267x
Posted by: Vic

No.
MST forever!
Yea AZ.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 06:16 AM (DYQgS)

37 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:16 AM (yrol0)

38 yeah, I was downloading & printing tax forms during the week and the irs website did not seem very well organized ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 06:16 AM (c1v4f)

39 35 going to 58 down here by NASA

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:17 AM (yrol0)

40 I was a girl scout for many years. Brownie through Senior. Back when the cookies were still pretty edible.

Thin mints make you thin, right?
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Yes, they do!
Especially when you would freeze them, and then eat them in the summer.

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:17 AM (vd8XM)

41 https://tinyurl.com/yckmscpu
Powerline week in pictures, your Saturday funny papers

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2022 06:17 AM (2JoB8)

42 >>> Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat just crept over to me at the couch, sprawled on his side, and purred as I petted him.

Good kitteh!

Posted by: fluffy at March 12, 2022 06:18 AM (UnQlg)

43 Putin didn't cancel any pipelines in the U.S.
Putin didn't cancel any drilling permits in the U.S.

Putin didn't threaten US domestic producers with additional plans to seize any profits.

Putin didn't add ESG regulation that forced domestic producers to defend against Environmental Justice lawsuits from the neo luddites.

Putin didn't coerce banks into halting lending to US domestic producers.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:18 AM (lD3vL)

44 lol, neverenoughcaffeine, that's our forecast for Monday

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 06:18 AM (c1v4f)

45 Good morning morons and thanks for VNN

I've got news. Mayor Breed appointed three parents as Replacement members of the school board. I owe her a h/t

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2022 06:19 AM (EZebt)

46 27 Vic- I never do online taxes. I've had to pay a CPA the last few years because I inherited part of a business from Dad. Got raped on 2020 taxes because they imputed $27k in income from that business. I didn't receive a penny of income. I think that is why they are so wacked this year. I renounced all ownership and now have a refund. Shit is way too complicated for my pea brain. I had always done my own taxes prior to that.

Posted by: Infidel at March 12, 2022 06:13 AM (ou23q)

I use H&R Block

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2022 06:19 AM (mZwKe)

47 23 here. Tired of winter.

Posted by: Infidel at March 12, 2022 06:20 AM (ou23q)

48 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 12, 2022 06:21 AM (arJlL)

49 JT tells me we are getting a shot of winter today.

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2022 06:22 AM (2JoB8)

50 Oh, and good morning all.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 06:22 AM (DYQgS)

51 Hiya Vic !

Thanks for the VNN !

Posted by: JT at March 12, 2022 06:22 AM (arJlL)

52 I gave up trying to fill out taxes years ago. I just use a CPA. Taxes are one of those things where you hire a professional to do the work, sort of like using a hitman.
Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022

***
Next year, with my SS payments atop my work income, I'm pretty sure I'm going to need tax help.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 06:23 AM (c6xtn)

53 A balmy 9 degrees here in No Ill.

Up to 23 degrees....Suns out Guns out baby!

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:23 AM (vd8XM)

54 I've got news. Mayor Breed appointed three parents as Replacement members of the school board. I owe her a h/t
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Let me guess who they are: The first is experiencing homelessness and is a drug addict whose kids are living in foster homes, The second is an alphabet person that has four dogs and decided to mix things up by adopting a kid, and the last is a gang banger and decided to have a kid so he or she could be raised to be a lookout.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 06:24 AM (PVI4b)

55 Give Chekhov some scritches for me

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2022 06:25 AM (EZebt)

56 Georgia passed a law last year to go to permanent DST but still changes the clocks. Why?

The Uniform Time Act was adopted in 1966, basically, to stop states from doing their own Daylight Saving Time schedules.

The trick with the Uniform Time Act is states don't have to observe Daylight Saving Time - and two states, Arizona and Hawaii, don't, instead staying on the permanent "fall back" timeline.

But you can't go in the opposite direction - staying permanently on Daylight Saving Time an hour ahead - without Congress' blessing.

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2022 06:26 AM (vrz2I)

57 This laws gonna put an end to all that, gonna put people in a much different position to be able to determine their own, their own judgments about when to sell their cattle, when they should gonna change things!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:26 AM (yrol0)

58 So the States have to do whatever Congress tells them regarding the time.

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2022 06:27 AM (vrz2I)

59 JT tells me we are getting a shot of winter today.
Posted by: Skip

You dint already know that ?

I thought you stayed on top of da wedder ?

Posted by: JT at March 12, 2022 06:27 AM (arJlL)

60 Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat just crept over to me at the couch, sprawled on his side, and purred as I petted him.

Good kitteh!
Posted by: fluffy at March 12, 2022

***
I've been leaving the bedroom drapes open for afternoon sunlight for him, and Miss Linda says he has been lying in the sun off and on. I'll have a tough decision to make when the weather heats up -- I don't want too much late pm sun coming in and making the A/C run longer. If he continues to improve (for certain values of "improve"), I guess I'll have to let him have the sunlight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 06:27 AM (c6xtn)

61 Texas Rangers on Friday morning raided the office of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and executed a search warrant related to an $11 million vaccine outreach contract awarded to one of the judges political cronies, KHOU 11 News reported.

Fuck Hildago

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:28 AM (yrol0)

62 Don't forget, this Sunday we get to Spring Forward 1 hour.

https://tinyurl.com/3z3f267x
Posted by: Vic

No.
MST forever!
Yea AZ.

Since we all work remote, one coworker moved to the other state that doesn't observe DST. Starting Monday he will need to get up and be presentable before 5AM to attend daily meetings.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:28 AM (lD3vL)

63 Nikki Halley supporting Nancy Mace in South Carolina.

I don't trust either of them

https://tinyurl.com/2p8dhk76

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 12, 2022 06:28 AM (3D/fK)

64 We have our taxes done professionally. Two homes in different states, investments, etc. It's not terribly complicated but the income from the investments is tricky. We owe bigly this year.

I wish I was in Congress so this wouldn't be an issue.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2022 06:28 AM (BFigT)

65 Texas Rangers on Friday morning raided the office of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo

See? That's what happens when you don't pay baseball players enough. They go to looting!

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:29 AM (vd8XM)

66 Democrats didnt cause this problem. Vladimir Putin did, said Biden. Make no mistake, inflation is largely the fault of Putin.

Im sick of this stuff! The American people think the reason for inflation is government spending more money. Simply not true! Biden shouted.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:30 AM (yrol0)

67 Texas Rangers on Friday morning raided the office of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and executed a search warrant related to an $11 million vaccine outreach contract awarded to one of the judges political cronies, KHOU 11 News reported.

That illegal alien doesn't disappoint bringing in her native culture's corruption.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:31 AM (lD3vL)

68 DST blows. Leave the clocks alone.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 12, 2022 06:31 AM (89T5c)

69 Next year, with my SS payments atop my work income, I'm pretty sure I'm going to need tax help. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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The peace of mind I get from having my taxes done by a professional is worth every penny I spend on that. Once you graduate from the 1040EZ things can get complicated in a hurry, have some income, own a house, have some investments and soon your tax form is 10 to 20 pages long. And I don't have a complicated financial life, every year I'm like, really?

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 06:32 AM (PVI4b)

70 DST blows. Leave the clocks alone.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

In the olden days, they complained that the DST changes would help so kids weren't coming home from school in the dark.
Except now when they go to school it's even darker.

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:33 AM (vd8XM)

71 Hey y'all. Got danged cold in the Great Dismal Swamp. Snow flurries have started.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at March 12, 2022 06:33 AM (Adlwz)

72 Rampaging CAMEL attacks and kills two men, aged 42 and 67, at Tennessee petting zoo

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:34 AM (yrol0)

73 "Texas Rangers on Friday morning raided the office of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo"

Every time I've seen Walker Texas Ranger do a raid he beats the crap out of everybody there. I hope they did that.

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2022 06:34 AM (vrz2I)

74 Yep, will have to have a cpa next year too. I have a simple life, but I am going to have to start collecting UI soon. I don't like biden world.

Posted by: Infidel at March 12, 2022 06:34 AM (ou23q)

75 >>In the olden days, they complained that the DST changes would help so kids weren't coming home from school in the dark.
Except now when they go to school it's even darker.
Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:33 AM (vd8XM)

When I was a kid that never made sense to me. So we save energy by not turning on lights in the evening, but we need to in the morning?

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 12, 2022 06:35 AM (Z/jzm)

76 Rampaging CAMEL attacks and kills two men, aged 42 and 67, at Tennessee petting zoo
Posted by: rhennigantx

Where were they petting the camel?

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:35 AM (vd8XM)

77 The Uniform Time Act was adopted in 1966, basically, to stop states from doing their own Daylight Saving Time schedules.

The trick with the Uniform Time Act is states don't have to observe Daylight Saving Time - and two states, Arizona and Hawaii, don't, instead staying on the permanent "fall back" timeline.

But you can't go in the opposite direction - staying permanently on Daylight Saving Time an hour ahead - without Congress' blessing.

Given that it is an immutable law of Nature that the federal government can't pass any law that benefits mankind or allows human flourishing - this ends the debate on what time system to adopt Daylight or Standard when the people of a State become collectively sane and deny politicians their institutionalized abuse in altering their circadian rhythms.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:36 AM (lD3vL)

78 We have to leave around noon to head to the Trump Rally, up in Florence today.

Lows in the 20's tonight, so it's gonna be cold.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 12, 2022 06:36 AM (3D/fK)

79 When I was a kid that never made sense to me. So we save energy by not turning on lights in the evening, but we need to in the morning?
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

As a kid, the summer DST was great. Especially when I was supposed to be home when the street lights came on.

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:36 AM (vd8XM)

80 Yep. We use an accountant and will continue to do so even though are taxes will be very simple this year. It will be our first full year in our new state, 2021 was 1/4, 3/4 and the sale of a house. 2020 we still had mom as a dependent and both of these situation made taxes tricky. Our goal is to owe the feds zero and pay the feds zero. Our accountant helps by reviewing our account throughout the year. Hubby gives here very detailed info to help.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 06:38 AM (2NHgQ)

81 In the olden days, they complained that the DST changes would help so kids weren't coming home from school in the dark.

Which makes even less sense because kids normally don't attend school during most of Day Light Savings time.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:38 AM (lD3vL)

82 We have to leave around noon to head to the Trump Rally, up in Florence today.

Lows in the 20's tonight, so it's gonna be cold.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

If it were a Biden rally, it would be the perfect excuse to bring lit torches

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:38 AM (vd8XM)

83 Morning Mouth Breathers

Posted by: weirdflunky at March 12, 2022 06:39 AM (cknjq)

84 The good news about DST.
For at least one morning I'll sleep past 4 AM.

Maybe

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:39 AM (vd8XM)

85 >>We have to leave around noon to head to the Trump Rally, up in Florence today.

Lows in the 20's tonight, so it's gonna be cold.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 12, 2022 06:36 AM (3D/fK)

Have fun!!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 12, 2022 06:39 AM (Z/jzm)

86 Lost, I will have to wait until Mrs. F. finds out, she is very on top of all that and who's who.

I think its important the school board be run by parents with kids in school.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2022 06:39 AM (EZebt)

87 Every time I've seen Walker Texas Ranger do a raid he beats the crap out of everybody there. I hope they did that.
Posted by: fd at March 12, 2022 06:34 AM (vrz2I)

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:40 AM (yrol0)

88 around here the Amish stay on Standard Time all year 'round.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 06:40 AM (c1v4f)

89 Where were they petting the camel?
Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:35 AM (vd8XM)

heavy I think

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:40 AM (yrol0)

90 No, I cannot spell this morning and my grammar sucks. Why do you ask? Our not are and probably need to use a couple more s's. More coffee.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 06:40 AM (2NHgQ)

91 around here the Amish stay on Standard Time all year 'round.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

The cows know how to tell time, dammit

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:40 AM (vd8XM)

92 very cool, VIA ! Enjoy !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 06:41 AM (c1v4f)

93 Good news JT, it's not going to snow soon, it's raining and 46 degrees

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 12, 2022 06:41 AM (2JoB8)

94 When we had cats, they loved DST Sunday....woo hoo! We're getting fed on time!

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:42 AM (vd8XM)

95 78 We have to leave around noon to head to the Trump Rally, up in Florence today. Lows in the 20's tonight, so it's gonna be cold.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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I love going to Trump rallies but I don't think I would stand out in 20 degree weather even for the president. Wear lots of layers, some boots, mittens, hat and pray you don't follow over cuz you'll never get up.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 06:42 AM (PVI4b)

96 When I was a kid that never made sense to me.

It only makes sense to adults that some people have the power to alter time and space and force those choices on innocent people.

To fully democratize yet avoid chaos, if I was WEF chairman, I would make a world decree that all clocks are set to UTC. Instead of having store hours, meeting times or events scheduled to various dynamic regional time offsets, just reference the time in common UTC.

So when someone says that a meeting is scheduled for 1600, everyone in a geographically dispersed company isn't asking "Whose time zone"?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:42 AM (lD3vL)

97 exactly, Bruce, "time for milking" doesn't change one bit, nor does "work from can to can't".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 06:43 AM (c1v4f)

98 Wear lots of layers, some boots, mittens, hat and pray you don't fall over cuz you'll never get up.
Posted by: LostInSpace

I can't get up!!

...Randy from A Christmas Story...

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:43 AM (vd8XM)

99
Texas Rangers on Friday morning raided the office of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and executed a search warrant related to an $11 million vaccine outreach contract awarded to one of the judges political cronies, KHOU 11 News reported.

Fuck Hildago

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:28 AM

there'd be less felonious mopery going on if Marvin Zindler was still around...

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 12, 2022 06:44 AM (DUIap)

100 Ew Elon's Grimey ex is shacking up with...

Bradley Manning??

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2022 06:44 AM (vrz2I)

101 If it were a Biden rally, it would be the perfect excuse to bring lit torches

Or a wilderness survival kit since no one on earth would be attending.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:44 AM (lD3vL)

102 It only makes sense to adults that some people have the power to alter time and space and force those choices on innocent people.

Easy, just buy an electric car.

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:45 AM (vd8XM)

103 What a bunch of weirdos.

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2022 06:46 AM (vrz2I)

104 The cows know how to tell time, dammit
Posted by: Bruce

Cows also know how to code they just choose not too. Speaking of cows, how in the hell did evolution come up with that body type. Worst runners on the planet.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 06:46 AM (PVI4b)

105 Worst runners on the planet.
Posted by: LostInSpace

That's why we don't drink cheetah milk

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:47 AM (vd8XM)

106 Living in a higher altitude takes a bit of adjustment. Baked 5 dozen cc cookies last evening for a church function and about half look iffy. We're at just about 3500 feet elevation so I'm thinking I need to use the higher elevation recipe. Go to look for it on the chip bag and cannot find it. However there's a whole lot of useless crap and warnings printed on the extra large bag of chips. Choking for small children, a healthy snack with a glass of lowfat milk. Jeebus they're cookies not polonium. High alt recipe was in the seam, I eventually found it.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 06:47 AM (2NHgQ)

107 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 12, 2022 06:47 AM (ju2Fy)

108 Worst runners on the planet.
Posted by: LostInSpace

That's why we don't drink cheetah milk
Posted by: Bruce

Well, aside from the teeth and claws

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:48 AM (vd8XM)

109 Just stop being poor!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 12, 2022 06:48 AM (3D/fK)

110 Cows also know how to code they just choose not too. Speaking of cows, how in the hell did evolution come up with that body type. Worst runners on the planet.

Why would you want your food to outrun you?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:48 AM (lD3vL)

111 Since we all work remote, one coworker moved to the other state that doesn't observe DST. Starting Monday he will need to get up and be presentable before 5AM to attend daily meetings.
Posted by: Reuben

Long ago I worked with Europe and India on the same project.
I had to be into work very early to work with Europe and then very late to work with India.
Your guy should set the hours he'll *always* be available.
And if by moving to HI he as to get up early... tough nuggies.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 06:48 AM (DYQgS)

112 We are fucked!

Yet reports of myocarditis and pericarditis are so prevalent now that just in the first eight weeks of 2022, were already at 47% of the total VAERS submissions for 2021. There were 24,177 reports of pericarditis/myocarditis submitted to VAERS in 2021. In 2022, just through Feb. 25, there were 11,289 reports, which is nearly half of last years total.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:49 AM (yrol0)

113 neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 06:47

IIRC, you add a couple Tbls of flour?

Posted by: Infidel at March 12, 2022 06:49 AM (ou23q)

114 Baked 5 dozen cc cookies last evening for a church function and about half look iffy.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

My dad would have said, "no problem, just give me a pot of coffee"

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:49 AM (vd8XM)

115 Living in a higher altitude takes a bit of adjustment. Baked 5 dozen cc cookies last evening for a church function and about half look iffy. We're at just about 3500 feet elevation so I'm thinking I need to use the higher elevation recipe.

You don't cook to elevation, you cook to barometer.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:49 AM (lD3vL)

116 We're as far west as you can get and still be in EST. No matter what, if go to any of the towns/cities west of us, we're always off by an hour. This time of the year particularly sucks. Make an appointment to see the doctor you have to ask, at least twice, "your time or my time?" Cuz you're either going to miss the appointment by an hour or be an hour early. Never on time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2022 06:50 AM (BFigT)

117 Well folks back to the table to hit the brown and wait for my weekly call.

Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2022 06:50 AM (mZwKe)

118 Speaking of cows, how in the hell did evolution come up with that body type. Worst runners on the planet.
Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022

***
They're relatively easy prey, so they gather in herds. Reduces the odds that any individual will be picked off by wolves.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 06:50 AM (c6xtn)

119 21% pay increase for Congress in Omnibus!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:51 AM (yrol0)

120 101 If it were a Biden rally, it would be the perfect excuse to bring lit torches

Or a wilderness survival kit since no one on earth would be attending.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

My understanding is you drive to and park for Biden rallies where you leave your car running when it's cold because of climate change or something like that.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 06:51 AM (PVI4b)

121 There were 24,177 reports of pericarditis/myocarditis submitted to VAERS in 2021. In 2022, just through Feb. 25, there were 11,289 reports, which is nearly half of last years total.

Just buy an electric car.

[Checking notes]

Its all Putin's fault.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:51 AM (lD3vL)

122 21% pay increase for Congress in Omnibus!
Posted by: rhennigantx

Mo' Money for insider trading

WooHoo!!

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:51 AM (vd8XM)

123 Infidel, no. Next batch I will try their recipe which adds flour, a bit of water and reduces the sugar. I should have known this would happen since I had to adjust my bread recipe. Leavening works quicker at higher alt and flour is much dryer.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 06:52 AM (2NHgQ)

124 So when someone says that a meeting is scheduled for 1600, everyone in a geographically dispersed company isn't asking "Whose time zone"?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:42 AM (lD3vL)

every day when I get up, I have several missed calls / Teams notifications from cow-orkers in Europe, India, and Asia; and e-mails telling me about "the meeting I missed" (at 3:00 AM my time)

yet, if I set up a meeting for 9:30 AM EST, my colleagues in europe will decline because it's "after working hours"

wankers

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 12, 2022 06:52 AM (DUIap)

125 "21% pay increase for Congress in Omnibus!"

I am so happy for them.

/sarc

*spits*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 06:53 AM (c1v4f)

126 Reuben don't get too technical on me. Baking uses elevation recipes, may be barometer but elevation is what you get.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 06:53 AM (2NHgQ)

127 118 Speaking of cows, how in the hell did evolution come up with that body type. Worst runners on the planet.
Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022

***
They're relatively easy prey, so they gather in herds. Reduces the odds that any individual will be picked off by wolves.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 06:50 AM (c6xtn)

Interesting that both African style Auroch and Indian style Brahma were both domesticated. Maybe 10k years ago or more.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:53 AM (yrol0)

128 Cheetah milk? Hate it when coffee comes outta my nose. Jeebus.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at March 12, 2022 06:53 AM (LNzIa)

129 21% pay increase for Congress in Omnibus!
Posted by: rhennigantx

Is it a salary bump for them or funds to run their offices? Either way it's outrageous.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 12, 2022 06:54 AM (rz+/y)

130 yet, if I set up a meeting for 9:30 AM EST, my colleagues in europe will decline because it's "after working hours"

wankers
Posted by: AltonJackson

Call it a breakfast/lunch/dinner meeting.
Everyone loves a breakfast/lunch/dinner meeting

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:54 AM (vd8XM)

131 My understanding is you drive to and park for Biden rallies where you leave your car running when it's cold because of climate change or something like that.

Its not Climate Change, its for DIE (diversity, inclusion, equity) you leave it running because some of the Diversity feels excluded because they are too stupid to ~~steal~~ informally redistribute cars without the keys in the vehicle and the vehicle actually running.

Its about fairness.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 06:55 AM (lD3vL)

132 I worked on the West Coast for about a decade. There was this one idiot in the HQ back in Reston, VA who insisted on having a "team telecon" at 0700hrs EST.

After being chastised about never attending I mentioned it would be 0400hrs PST and I'd be in bed.

He changed it to 0800hrs EST. Still never attended.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2022 06:55 AM (BFigT)

133 That's ok I got my SS raise as well. 5.7% if I'm remembering correctly. Of course inflation is at 7.5. I'm sure next year I'll get 21% plus as well.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 06:55 AM (2NHgQ)

134 > Where were they petting the camel?

Better still, what the fuck was a camel doing at a "petting zoo" in the first place? They are just about the most foul-tempered animals on earth, outside of hippos.

What else did they have in their "petting zoo"? A great white shark?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 12, 2022 06:55 AM (bW8dp)

135 So Psaki is still stuck on Russia hacked the 2016 election? What does that even mean, they changed the vote tally? Nobody knows, just more BS stupidity for the stupid

Damn, Psaki and the rest of the regime lies so easily and shamelessly why would I believe anything they say about Ukraine?

Posted by: Ripley at March 12, 2022 06:56 AM (PTDkx)

136 Girl Scout cookies were very reasonably priced up until the last 15 yrs. If there ever was an organization that needed a make-over it the GSA. I win the big lottery it will be on my bucket list.

Posted by: sidney at March 12, 2022 06:56 AM (7/kmB)

137 >> ....Of course inflation is at 7.5. I'm sure next year I'll get 21% plus as well.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 06:55 AM (2NHgQ)

I'm sure we all will be.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 12, 2022 06:57 AM (Z/jzm)

138 The NEverTrumper are getting moar crazier!

But while Trump would be one of just a few Republicans who might actually struggle to beat Biden in a theoretical matchup, there are certainly ways for the GOP to improve its odds, beyond simply not nominating Trump. Indeed, there is one candidate who would almost certainly attract independent, moderate and even Democratic voters perhaps enough of them to win something approaching a landslide, if current conditions hold.

Mittens

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:57 AM (yrol0)

139 Still never attended.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

HA!!

I hated meetings. I used to have one at 10 AM should my boss and the QC boss ingredients that were at or near shelf life and show them how it would be used up well before the dates. About 6 people in the meeting.

At the end, it was me and a lab tech in my office with a cuppa running thru the print out in 5 minutes and then shooting the shit for another 15

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:58 AM (vd8XM)

140 "Everyone loves a breakfast/lunch/dinner meeting

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:54 AM (vd8XM) "

years ago, worked with a guy who loved lunch meetings so much, he would bring to the conference room all the supplies to make and consume a couple of sardine & onion sammiches.

always admired that ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 06:58 AM (c1v4f)

141 134 > Where were they petting the camel?

Better still, what the fuck was a camel doing at a "petting zoo" in the first place? They are just about the most foul-tempered animals on earth, outside of hippos.

What else did they have in their "petting zoo"? A great white shark?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 12, 2022 06:55 AM (bW8dp)

Uncle Joes Heavy Petting Zoo

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 06:58 AM (yrol0)

142 What else did they have in their "petting zoo"? A great white shark?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

With lasers!

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 06:58 AM (vd8XM)

143 "Can't afford gas? Buy a $70,000 electric car. But not one of those icky Teslas, because that guy has crimethink."

"Also: can't afford bread? Have you tried eating cake?"

Posted by: Shorter Jen Pisskanki at March 12, 2022 06:59 AM (bW8dp)

144 Reuben don't get too technical on me. Baking uses elevation recipes, may be barometer but elevation is what you get.

Pardon me, please. I am a geek. My EDC clock bracelets for the past twenty years have been ABC (altimeter, barometer, compass) enabled. And right outside my den on the wall is one of those old fashioned barometer, thermometer, hydrometer dial collections. And on the kitchen window is a weather station.

Even as a geek, I prefer watching barometer changes as a primary means to make short term weather forecasts.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:00 AM (lD3vL)

145 Breakfast time!!!

Good news, I can haz breakfast earlier tomorrow!!!!

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 07:00 AM (vd8XM)

146
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

My reaction as well.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 07:00 AM (DYQgS)

147 Damn, Psaki and the rest of the regime lies so easily and shamelessly why would I believe anything they say about Ukraine?
---
I have been using a mix of Western, Russian, and Ukrainian media. The auto translation built into the Edge browser is remarkably good now. This exercise makes painfully obvious how much propaganda is flying around and how few facts we really have. As for our government I don't believe a word that comes out of that pack of liars; Plus they seem hell-bent at times on triggering a world war.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 07:01 AM (PVI4b)

148 I think we Americans are about to find out what happens when you can no longer borrow money. And you can't pay back what you already owe.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at March 12, 2022 07:01 AM (LNzIa)

149 Better still, what the fuck was a camel doing at a "petting zoo" in the first place? They are just about the most foul-tempered animals on earth, outside of hippos.

Well you know why camels are called "Ships of the Desert".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:02 AM (lD3vL)

150 If everybody does start buying electric cars that will eventually drive the price of gas way down, maybe around a dollar, so it will be far cheaper to drive your gas powered car. Unless the govt taxes the shit out of it to keep prices high. Which they will.

Posted by: Ripley at March 12, 2022 07:03 AM (PTDkx)

151 Well you know why camels are called "Ships of the Desert".
Posted by: Reuben Hick

Because Assholes of the Desert wasn't considered polite talk?

Posted by: Bruce at March 12, 2022 07:04 AM (vd8XM)

152 136, I always thought the GS was a front for big cookie. The entire existence revolves around those sales. Then again, it is a good lesson I suppose

It made me sad when Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts started selling popcorn, peanut brittle and such. They didn't have to do that back in the day. They stood for something and people supported it. Again, it is said to see Boy Scouts Hocking popcorn and such. At least people was GS cookies.

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 07:05 AM (Blu0h)

153 Well you know why camels are called "Ships of the Desert".
Posted by: Reuben Hick

Because Assholes of the Desert wasn't considered polite talk?
Posted by: Bruce

Because they are full of Arab semen/seamen.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:05 AM (lD3vL)

154 Just stop being poor!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 12, 2022 06:48 AM (3D/fK)
====

Minimum wage goes up on July 1. Currently it is $16.36. I expect a 7% increase.

I am worried about employees who make $18-$20 being able to afford to drive their 80 mile daily round trip to their homes in the distant east Bay.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2022 07:06 AM (EZebt)

155 I went to a guy's shop yesterday and he had a 2 cylinder Maytag washing machine gas engine from the 30s on the bench. It has a petal the housewife would use to kick start it. Pretty cool.

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2022 07:06 AM (vrz2I)

156 Pedal not petal.

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2022 07:06 AM (vrz2I)

157 150 If everybody does start buying electric cars that will eventually drive the price of gas way down, maybe around a dollar, so it will be far cheaper to drive your gas powered car. Unless the govt taxes the shit out of it to keep prices high. Which they will. Posted by: Ripley

Long before electric cars become the dominant type the whole energy grid will collapse and this goes up by a factor of 10 or 20 times if windmills and solar panels are powering the grid. At that point everything goes Mad Max, The price of gasoline will be the least of our problems. Buy more guns ammo, horses, or camels if you live in warm climate just don't pet them.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 07:07 AM (PVI4b)

158 >>> This exercise makes painfully obvious how much propaganda is flying around and how few facts we really have.

Ukraine has destroyed more Russian armored vehicles than the Wehrmacht did in all of WWII.

Posted by: fluffy at March 12, 2022 07:08 AM (UnQlg)

159 "I have been using a mix of Western, Russian, and Ukrainian media. The auto translation built into the Edge browser is remarkably good now. This exercise makes painfully obvious how much propaganda is flying around and how few facts we really have.
Posted by: LostInSpace"

Oddly, I have decide the best way to stay informed about what is going on over there is being three days behind on the news stories to give all the blatant lies time to be discredited. Then try and filter through the rest of the lies for a few nuggets of truth.

Posted by: Ripley at March 12, 2022 07:08 AM (PTDkx)

160 Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser stressed the citys focus on crime, but mentioned the assailant probably didnt intend to kill anybody.

As you know, there is no more important issue for us right now than dealing with people who are committing crimes in our city, she said. We saw one person who probably didnt intend to kill anybody, but did and devastated a family.

FUCK YOU PEASANTS

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 07:09 AM (yrol0)

161 Joe Biden lies a lot and often, it must be a family trait.

Posted by: Killerdog at March 12, 2022 07:09 AM (xD34v)

162 girl scouts, boy scouts, nra, now the arrl, at some point every organization gets captured by the fundraisers.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 07:09 AM (c1v4f)

163 I am worried about employees who make $18-$20 being able to afford to drive their 80 mile daily round trip to their homes in the distant east Bay. Posted by: San Franpsycho

Every retail store and restaurant in San Francisco is about to become self-serve. Sort of like what Walgreens is experiencing right now but without guns being a mandatory part of the transaction.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 07:09 AM (PVI4b)

164 Keep hearing that our betters are thinking of pausing the gas tax. Such a great idea and then institute a few more giveaways to constituents that will never, ever vote pub. That will help the deficit. But no, let's not restart drilling and fracking because you need to appease the greens who will never, ever vote for pubs. WTH do they keep appeasing the people that will always vote for them? Rhetorical I know. I'm not really that stupid.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 07:10 AM (2NHgQ)

165 I am worried about employees who make $18-$20 being able to afford to drive their 80 mile daily round trip to their homes in the distant east Bay.

I call it the "Ski Resort Problem". Interlopers and the idle rich have bought up the properties that aren't in environmentally protected areas causing housing to be unavailable to the bus boys, lift operators, instructors, and shop keepers.

At what point from the communal trailer parks in the valley is the commute no longer worth it?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:10 AM (lD3vL)

166 Leftism /Marxism is taking over, Gulags will start soon

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 12, 2022 07:10 AM (2JoB8)

167 The temperature has dropped 30 degrees here overnight on the Gulf Coast and the wind is howling out of the NNE. I see deadfalls in my yard.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 12, 2022 07:10 AM (yQpMk)

168 "We saw one person who probably didnt intend to kill anybody, but did and devastated a family."

Is she talking about Putin?

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2022 07:10 AM (vrz2I)

169 154, they should just leave. Even if you make 100k, I would say the same thing.

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 07:11 AM (Blu0h)

170 @150

>>If everybody does start buying electric cars that will eventually drive the price of gas way down, maybe around a dollar.

Not necessarily, with lower demand, producers will scale back production to support a particular price target or range, if demand drops to a point where it is not economically feasible to produce oil, then oil will no longer be produced at all or in such limited supplies that it will necessarily cause price increase in whatever niche markets exist.

Or alternatively...

TANSTAAFL.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 12, 2022 07:11 AM (3zgHJ)

171 HOSTIN: What it is they constantly question the qualifications of black women, and thats why people are saying that shes unprepared.

GRISHAM: Oh, I disagree. I think shes a very accomplished woman.

HOSTIN: You can disagree, but thats the truth of it. So, this is based in racism. This is based in misogyny.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 07:11 AM (yrol0)

172 girl scouts, boy scouts, nra, now the arrl

Unionized pirates?

Posted by: fluffy at March 12, 2022 07:11 AM (UnQlg)

173 wow, fd, that was a thing ? guess it makes sense for that era.
around here the Amish convert old wringer washers to gas power, it's kind of a small industry ... on the other hand, some of the radicals use air motors so you can run the gas-engine compressor outside and run the washer inside.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 07:13 AM (c1v4f)

174 Basically, they get a full-grown camel, take out the insides and stuff it with a few sheep or lambs which are in turn stuffed with about 20 chickens full of fish. This calorie atomic bomb has to be boiled then cooked over a pit of burning charcoal until the camel meat is brown and crispy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 07:13 AM (yrol0)

175 Just read last nights thread on Mitch McConnell. He and many others are the reason we NEED to push for term limits!

Posted by: sidney at March 12, 2022 07:14 AM (7/kmB)

176 We had to raise starting wages by about $2 an hour over the past two years to get people into the mill. Starting wage is $18/hour. This has worked pretty well, but employees are already starting to feel the crunch. Many, most, commute 25 to 60 miles because we're the best paying jobs fin the area. Nasty cycle is already starting to show itself.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at March 12, 2022 07:14 AM (LNzIa)

177 Keep hearing that our betters are thinking of pausing the gas tax. Such a great idea and then institute a few more giveaways to constituents that will never, ever vote pub. That will help the deficit. But no, let's not restart drilling and fracking because you need to appease the greens who will never, ever vote for pubs.

(sigh)
Anyone who is 29 here has seen this show many times. All politicians lie. This is hardwired into their pea brains. All politicians are utterly corrupt and are routinely bought and sold. This is physics, its inevitable, its written in the stars and in the Bible.

So when you see them talking trash about suspending fuel taxes or when Fauxahontas is screeching about "obscene profits" that is for your consumption. By making these claims they have put themselves into the position of fulfilling their Great Words into something tangible - which means that their staffers are in heavy negotiations with energy producers, pipe-line operators, bankers, et al to quietly amp up domestic production.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:15 AM (lD3vL)

178 "This exercise makes painfully obvious how much propaganda is flying around and how few facts we really have. As for our government I don't believe a word that comes out of that pack of liars; Plus they seem hell-bent at times on triggering a world war.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 07:01 AM (PVI4b) "

well, a good world war would move the great reset program forward hella quickly, wouldn't it ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 07:15 AM (c1v4f)

179 Damn, Psaki and the rest of the regime lies so easily and shamelessly why would I believe anything they say about Ukraine?
Posted by: Ripley

They tell obvious lies and the government media will not only NOT question the obvious lies, but will provide cover for the obvious lies.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 12, 2022 07:15 AM (rz+/y)

180 I have been using a mix of Western, Russian, and Ukrainian media. ...
Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 07:01 AM (PVI4b)
===

Being able to access and use foreign and foreign-language media is a huge advantage. It helps highlight the bias in U.S. media.

I used to read foreign papers all the time, back when they existed. There was a newstand in Rockefeller Center that carried many. I read El Pais the Spanish paper often. Pravda.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2022 07:16 AM (EZebt)

181 176 We had to raise starting wages by about $2 an hour over the past two years to get people into the mill. Starting wage is $18/hour. This has worked pretty well, but employees are already starting to feel the crunch. Many, most, commute 25 to 60 miles because we're the best paying jobs fin the area. Nasty cycle is already starting to show itself.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at March 12, 2022 07:14 AM (LNzIa)

All inflation is Big Govt. There is no such thing as wage price spiral.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 07:16 AM (yrol0)

182 Not necessarily, with lower demand, producers will scale back production to support a particular price target or range, if demand drops to a point where it is not economically feasible to produce oil, then oil will no longer be produced at all or in such limited supplies that it will necessarily cause price increase in whatever niche markets exist.

True, lots of American producer would go out of business. However the Saudis (and some other OPEC countries )would still be able to make a profit, but not very much They would still be pumping and selling ery cheaply. People might have to even start having jobs over there.

Posted by: Ripley at March 12, 2022 07:16 AM (PTDkx)

183 "wow, fd, that was a thing"

I was surprised too. It's a cute little thing, horizontally opposed 2 cylinder hit and miss type engine, maybe 20" across plug to plug.

Posted by: fd at March 12, 2022 07:17 AM (vrz2I)

184 Fire going well so nothing to do but keep feeding it and rotation of pot for another hour or more

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 12, 2022 07:17 AM (2JoB8)

185 lol, fluffy !
no, national ham radio organization, arrl.org

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 07:18 AM (c1v4f)

186 So when you see them talking trash about suspending fuel taxes or when Fauxahontas is screeching about "obscene profits" that is for your consumption. By making these claims they have put themselves into the position of fulfilling their Great Words into something tangible - which means that their staffers are in heavy negotiations with energy producers, pipe-line operators, bankers, et al to quietly amp up domestic production.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:15 AM (lD3vL)

I think just the opposite. I think they have no issues with you sitting home, with no gas, and in the dark. You then are more likely to need a handout from your neighborly taxpayer!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 07:18 AM (yrol0)

187 The temperature has dropped 30 degrees here overnight on the Gulf Coast and the wind is howling out of the NNE. I see deadfalls in my yard.

Damned Putin.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:18 AM (lD3vL)

188 Wow, this a bold, NO F**KS to give move..

Alec Baldwin is blaming the women he shot to death for her death.

I think this is maneuver is called, "Pulling a Cheney."

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 12, 2022 07:19 AM (3zgHJ)

189 Hmm. I started watching Ukraine on Fire on Rumble a few days ago, but now I can't find it...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2022 07:19 AM (EZebt)

190 Reuben, I hope you are correct. I just do not see joetatoe and his regime ramping up production domestically. Maybe the foreign suppliers but not domestically which is what we need.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 12, 2022 07:19 AM (2NHgQ)

191 Found it

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2022 07:20 AM (EZebt)

192 I think just the opposite. I think they have no issues with you sitting home, with no gas, and in the dark. You then are more likely to need a handout from your neighborly taxpayer!
Posted by: rhennigantx

See previous "Ski Resort Problem". When the hired help doesn't clean up after you and no one is available to make sure that the sauna and hot tub are working - then the politicians will act because their patrons are now suffering.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:21 AM (lD3vL)

193 188 Wow, this a bold, NO F**KS to give move. Alec Baldwin is blaming the women he shot to death for her death. I think this is maneuver is called, "Pulling a Cheney."
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Baldwin is so lothsome I keep hoping the Santa Fe county DA charges him with premeditated first-degree murder. And since that will never happen I keep hoping he gets charged with manslaughter and as he's being hauled off to jail he yells I am not suicidal.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 07:22 AM (PVI4b)

194 Good news JT, it's not going to snow soon, it's raining and 46 degrees
Posted by: Skip's Phone

Raining pretty good here; above freezing, don't feel like 46.

Temps are supposed to PLUNGE later this AM.

Posted by: JT at March 12, 2022 07:23 AM (arJlL)

195 Yes, I get that. Wage price spiral is an effect, not a cause. The point was that inflationary pressure on guel prices is going to either cost us employees who can't afford the commute or will force us to increase wages to keep them. Consumers will ultimately pay for it.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at March 12, 2022 07:24 AM (LNzIa)

196 I just do not see joetatoe and his regime ramping up production domestically. Maybe the foreign suppliers but not domestically which is what we need.

POTATUS was never in control. UAE and Saudi Arabia aren't even taking his calls. Europeans are frustrated in dealing with the severe mental retardation and social awkwardness of the visiting Veep Throat.

The only ones talking to him are dictators and terrorists just because they want to screw with him and see what outrageous things they can finagle.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:24 AM (lD3vL)

197 Raining good here, hard to keep fire going

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 12, 2022 07:25 AM (2JoB8)

198 I see Chile, probably the least screwed up country in South America , has elected a millennial socialist as president. He is going to work to undo the Pinochet era constitution and redistribute wealth because there is i too much income disparity or something . I'm sure it will work out fine.

It's like people just don't/won't learn.

Posted by: Ripley at March 12, 2022 07:26 AM (PTDkx)

199 Just read last nights thread on Mitch McConnell. He and many others are the reason we NEED to push for term limits!

McConnell runs the Senate, when Republicans hold the majority like it's 1822, not 2022. I believe he's more familiar with that era than this one.

Really. He uses all the parliamentary tricks from 200 years ago thinking nothing's changed since then. The old fuck doesn't understand that the Democrats have morphed into a wildly left of center, socialist/communist death cult.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2022 07:26 AM (BFigT)

200 That powerline picture of the box of cables made me laugh.

I went through my box recently and threw out old phone and coax cables.

I kept the CAT-5. With most everything being wireless these days, I will probably keep them another 10 years before tossing them.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 12, 2022 07:28 AM (lKAqb)

201 Yes, I get that. Wage price spiral is an effect, not a cause. The point was that inflationary pressure on guel prices is going to either cost us employees who can't afford the commute or will force us to increase wages to keep them. Consumers will ultimately pay for it.

This will force, to some degree, a re-evaluation in labor and its best use. If you have a questionably profitable organization, outfits that have a better business model will outbid you for labor that has shared skillsets.

Problem is, that this becomes far more regionalized. That great opportunity that was sixty miles away doesn't look as good as the lower quality gig that is six blocks away.

I expect to see a revitalization in DIY culture.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:30 AM (lD3vL)

202 195 Yes, I get that. Wage price spiral is an effect, not a cause. The point was that inflationary pressure on guel prices is going to either cost us employees who can't afford the commute or will force us to increase wages to keep them. Consumers will ultimately pay for it. Posted by: Erik In Texas

We have two options the way I see things. The Biden administration comes up with a new covid variant that shuts down the entire country and the federal government just keeps printing more money. Wage and fuel challenges get solved since everybody's stuck at home getting drunk and committing domestic violence on each other.

Or we have a world war which requires a draft. Pretty much full employment and the gas price problem is solved. Of course the second option has certain downsides which include nuclear radiation.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 07:30 AM (PVI4b)

203 Problem is, that this becomes far more regionalized. That great opportunity that was sixty miles away doesn't look as good as the lower quality gig that is six blocks away.

I expect to see a revitalization in DIY culture.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:30 AM (lD3vL)

The real minimum wage is near zero when technology appears. MacDonalds could force everyone to the app and then needs no order takers or cash.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 07:32 AM (yrol0)

204 I kept the CAT-5. With most everything being wireless these days, I will probably keep them another 10 years before tossing them.

I may make that a question for Pixy. The wisdom in wiring up the house with CAT-5/6 or installing WAPs all around the place.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:32 AM (lD3vL)

205 21% pay increase for Congress in Omnibus!
Posted by: rhennigantx

Is it a salary bump for them or funds to run their offices? Either way it's outrageous.
Posted by: Blutarski,

But members of congress are so poor, they have to sleep on a couch in their office!! How can you expect them to pay for their token house in their district, the beach house, the ski house in Vail and a townhouse in Georgetown?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 07:34 AM (R8uWY)

206 "The wisdom in wiring up the house with CAT-5/6 or installing WAPs all around the place."

Oh my, I hope no one wires up or installs my pussy anywhere.

Posted by: Mrs Slocumb at March 12, 2022 07:35 AM (vrz2I)

207 The Playboy mansion had WAPs all over the place.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 07:35 AM (R8uWY)

208 The real minimum wage is near zero when technology appears. MacDonalds could force everyone to the app and then needs no order takers or cash.

I'm still not buying a hamburger for $12 and spending $6 in fuel to get there and back.

I'll load up the freezer and grill my own and save considerable money while reassuring myself that this is a more healthful direction.

People have LOTS of time to do the things that have been obviated through cheap labor/energy. So less time watching worthless TV, social media or video games because more time will be involved in doing those things that were previously farmed out.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:35 AM (lD3vL)

209 I took a graduate course on South American history and dropped it after the first day. There is not much to learn about it. This leader getting whacked, and this other leader gets whacked. Sure a lot of misery, and some good literature, but not much else

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 07:35 AM (Blu0h)

210 I have a Netgear Orbi. It takes care of my 5500sf house with no problems with just the main router and 1 satellite.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 07:36 AM (R8uWY)

211 The Playboy mansion had WAPs all over the place.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

[looking at clock] Yep the perverts are now awake.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:36 AM (lD3vL)

212 209 I took a graduate course on South American history and dropped it after the first day. There is not much to learn about it. This leader getting whacked, and this other leader gets whacked. Sure a lot of misery, and some good literature, but not much else
Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 07:35 AM (Blu0h)

Congratulations. You just described the last 1500 years of Europe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 07:37 AM (6FeV1)

213 All of the former McDs cashiers will be delivering for door dash.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 07:37 AM (R8uWY)

214
Have we left the "more wheels or more doors" hurling of claims behind?

Raining here, with a promise of rain and snow later, but the snow won't stick. gKids were here overnight.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 12, 2022 07:38 AM (pNxlR)

215 It's like people just don't/won't learn.
Posted by: Ripley at March 12, 2022 07:26 AM (PTDkx)

Step 1: Ban helicopters

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 07:38 AM (6FeV1)

216 McConnell runs the Senate, when Republicans hold the majority like it's 1822, not 2022. I believe he's more familiar with that era than this one.

Really. He uses all the parliamentary tricks from 200 years ago thinking nothing's changed since then. The old fuck doesn't understand that the Democrats have morphed into a wildly left of center, socialist/communist death cult.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

The country club Republicans in the Senate don't understand that that the country has essentially experienced a hostile takeover by the Marxist-Facsit Uniparty bastards and if left unchecked will pretty much start killing everybody they hate at some point. We need a Senate leader that is willing to go all barbarian on them until the country returns back to some semblance of normal. McConnell is a skilled politician and that is exactly the problem, he sure seems to be more interested in being invited to cocktail hours where he gets awards for being a statesman. He needs to go.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 07:39 AM (PVI4b)

217 @204

>>I may make that a question for Pixy. The wisdom in wiring up the house with CAT-5/6 or installing WAPs all around the place.

Well, it really depends on what you're doing with your network and what your needs are for uptime, bandwidth and reliability.

My entire house is wired with CAT6A to a centralized patchbay, router and firewall in a small rack enclosure in my utility room with a mesh WIFI6 network to handle remote locations on my property and for roaming networking.

This is relatively inexpensive if you do all the work yourself

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 12, 2022 07:40 AM (3zgHJ)

218 Congratulations. You just described the last 1500 years of Europe.

Putin is a Highlander?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:40 AM (lD3vL)

219 Ukraine has destroyed more armor than the Germans in WW2? Guess Kursk isn't in their history reference.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 12, 2022 07:40 AM (oWBc3)

220 Anything with wheels has roughly the same number of doors. Anything with doors likely does not have wheels. Unless you're counting gears as wheels, then doors wins by an order of magnitude or more.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 07:40 AM (6FeV1)

221
Sure a lot of misery, and some good literature, but not much else
Posted by: Quint

You failed to appreciate the many fine points of Aero Pinochet?!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 12, 2022 07:40 AM (pNxlR)

222 So Jen Psaki said yesterday the Trump election was illegitimate and only occurred because Russia hacked state vote totals. So there's that.

But gutentag anyway insurrectionists!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2022 07:42 AM (Rty+z)

223 Personally... I'll always have at least one computer hardwired into my home network. Just like I'll always have a corded phone.

Just in case. Nowdays this seems almost a requirement.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2022 07:43 AM (BFigT)

224 Wheels. Duh. Pretty obvious.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2022 07:43 AM (Rty+z)

225 Are the rollers in an industrial setting (assembly line etc) wheels?

lots of "wheels" for packages to roll on

Posted by: weirdflunky at March 12, 2022 07:43 AM (cknjq)

226 So Jen Psaki said yesterday the Trump election was illegitimate and only occurred because Russia hacked state vote totals. So there's that.

But gutentag anyway insurrectionists!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2022 07:42 AM (Rty+z)

Which election?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 07:44 AM (6FeV1)

227 lots of "wheels" for packages to roll on
Posted by: weirdflunky at March 12, 2022 07:43 AM (cknjq)

But every single one of those packages has two doors (top and bottom open opening)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 07:44 AM (6FeV1)

228
Unless you're counting gears as wheels, then doors wins by an order of magnitude or more.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Trapdoor Spiders

* mike drop *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 12, 2022 07:45 AM (pNxlR)

229 I only use a few CAT-5. From the fiber optic "mother ship" to a lan repeater, then from there to the Set Top Box for the TV six feet away and the desktop computer 6 inches away. Everything else is wireless.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 12, 2022 07:46 AM (lKAqb)

230 Doors and windows algo works for cars, not bikes, lawn mowers, tractors (most), etc. It's wheels in a landslide.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 12, 2022 07:46 AM (oWBc3)

231 219 I doubt that, there were thousands of tanks at Kursk

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 12, 2022 07:46 AM (D0RZ+)

232 226, 2016. She seems bitter. A nut too, but bitter.

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 07:46 AM (o/Es3)

233 Anything with wheels has roughly the same number of doors. Anything with doors likely does not have wheels. Unless you're counting gears as wheels, then doors wins by an order of magnitude or more.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 07:40 AM (6FeV1)
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Is this debate still going on? Next you'll be telling us the pros and cons of longbows v. crossbows!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 12, 2022 07:46 AM (K5n5d)

234 >>> I have a Netgear Orbi. It takes care of my 5500sf house with no problems with just the main router and 1 satellite.

You have a house so large that you need a satellite to get 5 bars?

Posted by: fluffy at March 12, 2022 07:47 AM (UnQlg)

235 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 12, 2022 07:46 AM (K5n5d)

Let's do Ginger and Mary Ann instead.

Posted by: weirdflunky at March 12, 2022 07:48 AM (cknjq)

236 Well, it really depends on what you're doing with your network and what your needs are for uptime, bandwidth and reliability.

Nearly 3000sqft ranch style brick. I have a 1500sqft metal shop 50'away. Also have a nice place to work with a notebook computer on the lake dock 150' away.

Periodic bursts of high bandwidth activity with a gigabit ISP.
Want to install security cameras but not sure to go with PoE or coaxial. (no way will I do wireless cameras). Only internal cameras will be covering non-living space (e.g. garage, shop) otherwise running 5k cameras and a pair of ALPR cameras near the street.

Was thinking about going with the Ubiquity prosumer wireless where possible, but it isn't that hard to run dual CAT-5/6 down the walls. I have commercial 24 port router/switches, and dedicated UPS backed-up IG electrical outlets in all rooms that house sensitive electronics.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:48 AM (lD3vL)

237 Are we defining "door" as "opening with a cover on it intended for a human to go completely through" or just "opening with a cover on it"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 07:48 AM (6FeV1)

238 Which election?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 07:44 AM (6FeV1)
-------------

Haha! Would have been a perfect follow up!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2022 07:48 AM (EPNZf)

239
So Jen Psaki said yesterday the Trump election was illegitimate and only occurred because Russia hacked state vote totals. So there's that.

Is there not one person in that gaggle of presstitutes that will stand up and say, "Oh, stuff it, you lying hack."

If Russia was so all powerful, how come they're struggling to put down the Ukrainians?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 12, 2022 07:48 AM (pNxlR)

240 Show Me The Data @txsalth2o; Mar 10, 2022
Kamala Harris is everything the left said Sarah Palin would be.

SJ @RoadTripnIndian; Mar 10
Biden is everything the left & media said Trump would be.
America is back baby when adults are in-charge !

Posted by: Kraft Foods at March 12, 2022 07:48 AM (UHVv4)

241 >>> Ukraine has destroyed more armor than the Germans in WW2?

That is what social media seems to be telling us.

Apply skepticism and sarc tags to taste.

Posted by: fluffy at March 12, 2022 07:48 AM (UnQlg)

242 All of the former McDs cashiers will be delivering for door dash.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

The cost of delivery will be quite high if they all have to drive EV...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 07:49 AM (h/FuS)

243 212 209 I took a graduate course on South American history and dropped it after the first day. There is not much to learn about it. This leader getting whacked, and this other leader gets whacked. Sure a lot of misery, and some good literature, but not much else
Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 07:35 AM (Blu0h)

Congratulations. You just described the last 1500 years of Europe.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 07:37 AM (6FeV1)

Peterson on benevolent communism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXBjVau1w7Y

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 07:49 AM (yrol0)

244 Any good news this morning? Did Putin stop killing people yet? Has Harris finally stopped the war?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2022 07:49 AM (EPNZf)

245 Winds were gusty so bailed out for now anyway.
Still have one cup of iron coffee

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2022 07:50 AM (2JoB8)

246 Mornin' Horde

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 12, 2022 07:50 AM (a4EWo)

247 223 Personally... I'll always have at least one computer hardwired into my home network. Just like I'll always have a corded phone. Just in case. Nowdays this seems almost a requirement.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

---
Once upon a time I ran wires around because the Wi-Fi didn't have the band width support uses like streaming. These days I've have a hundred megabits (DSL and I don't have to deal with the gangsters at Comcast) coming to the house and my gateway / router pumps that out pretty efficiently; My net speed at my various devices is about 75 megabits per second which is plenty fast for my uses. Still having redundant systems for something as important as communications and computer connectivity makes lots of sense. I still have a box of ethernet wires and related basic network gear just in case.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 07:51 AM (PVI4b)

248 Hiya Debs !

Posted by: JT at March 12, 2022 07:52 AM (arJlL)

249 >>> Has Harris finally stopped the war?

Soldiers on both sides did the confused German shepherd head tilt and asked "Who bitch this is?"

Posted by: fluffy at March 12, 2022 07:52 AM (UnQlg)

250 Biden blamed stupid Americans for not understanding the sheer brilliance of his policies, along with Democrat politicians other than him for poor explanations. So, to summarize, it is pretty much a PR problem and everyone else's fault.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2022 07:53 AM (EPNZf)

251 The General Ho is covering by herself the East Flank and the North Flank so the Easten Flank is covered well.

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2022 07:54 AM (2JoB8)

252 A cardboard box opening is not a door, unless a hobo lives there. It's pedantic, but if an opening in anything is a door, then a gear is a wheel.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 12, 2022 07:54 AM (oWBc3)

253 243, with Western Europe there is a great story to be told, in the end, it matters. Even with Russia there is a great story.

I am not bashing South America, I am sure the history of Honduras and Paraguay are fascinating. It just didn't click with me at that point and time.

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 07:55 AM (o/Es3)

254 Morning all! It's 7 degrees out. Brrrr!! Don't expect much of a crowd at the craft fair until after noon. Another long boring day I'm afraid. Am reconsidering signing up for next year.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 12, 2022 07:55 AM (nxdel)

255 Good morning. Latest I slept in a long time. I was up at my usual time, took my usual pills on schedule, gave the aching knees a Ben Gay rubdown and went back to bed. Skimming through the comments, I was reminded DST starts tonight, which really screws with me. Now, here's stupid. I know a guy who strongly believes that tomorrow is the day his ship comes in playing the slots. Believes the time change fucks with the random number generators. This guy is congress or cabinet material.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 12, 2022 07:55 AM (lz5hY)

256 242 All of the former McDs cashiers will be delivering for door dash. Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
---
I have been reading reports that people are bailing out of being Uber drivers and related delivery services due to the cost of fuel. They simply don't get paid enough to offset the cost. I also suspect if they do start getting paid sufficiently to pay for fuel that it will make their services so expensive that people can't afford to use them. It's double-edged sword here. Shifting hard into a green energy universe is only going to drive those costs up more with the added bonus of everything becomes unreliable.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 07:55 AM (PVI4b)

257 I only use a few CAT-5. From the fiber optic "mother ship" to a lan repeater, then from there to the Set Top Box for the TV six feet away and the desktop computer 6 inches away. Everything else is wireless.

Even though pretty much all serialized communication is encrypted there is this thing about wire over wireless. The tablets, phones and Kindles will need the wireless, but the stationary stuff feels like it wants no degradation due to distance, walls or microwave ovens. 2.4G and now 5G is pretty crowded.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:55 AM (lD3vL)

258 Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 12, 2022 07:55 AM (R/m4+)

259 Yes, re. Baldwin:

||Alec Baldwin claimed that he was following Halyna Hutchins' directions when he pointed what turned out to be a gun loaded with live rounds at her on the set of the movie 'Rust' and pulled the trigger, killing the cinematographer, according to a new court document.

The actor made this allegation in an arbitration demand that his lawyers filed on Friday against his fellow producers. The document also maintains that Baldwin's contract protected him from financial responsibility related to Hutchins' death.

Baldwin has been named as a defendant in multiple lawsuits that have been filed in connection with the fatal shooting.||

Posted by: Kraft Foods at March 12, 2022 07:56 AM (UHVv4)

260 Was damn near impossible to get an Uber in less than 15-20 minutes for a short trip in Houston this week. Used to have 8-10 cars stacked up in the area I stay in when in the city. Thanks Joe.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 12, 2022 07:57 AM (oWBc3)

261 Welcome to the '70s...

Just tried to get gas at Walmart gas station. Pump refused to dispense.

Another lady had same problem. Heard dismay in her voice as she exclaimed that station had no unleaded gas.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 12, 2022 07:58 AM (bfoch)

262 When asked what the Democrats would do to lower prices, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries responded

that issue hasnt come up.

FUCK YOU PEASANTS

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 07:58 AM (yrol0)

263 It's double-edged sword here. Shifting hard into a green energy universe is only going to drive those costs up more with the added bonus of everything becomes unreliable.

That is a rule of economics. Governments routinely throw negative disruptions into the economy. These disruptions cause chaos and thus degrades efficiency.

If the Greens weren't about chaos and communism and were really about the environment through efficient use of the best technology, then they would take the exact opposite course they are taking now and pledge to leave the markets alone for at least two decades. No lawsuits, no edicts, no mandates, no government picking of winners and losers. No "Name That Fuel".

It would take years to amortize technology and processes that create true efficiency and savings.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 07:59 AM (lD3vL)

264 New Nic Cage movie looks hilarious. Nic Cage playing a fictionalized version of himself.

https://bit.ly/3I401fl

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 07:59 AM (Do5/p)

265 The government drones will deliver our monthly allotment of protein paste and carbohydrate tablets.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:00 AM (R8uWY)

266 265 The government drones will deliver our monthly allotment of protein paste and carbohydrate tablets.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:00 AM (R8uWY)

something green is people

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 08:01 AM (yrol0)

267 260 Neighbor lady has a super duper medicare supplemental plan. Pays through the nose for it, but I have to admit she gets quite a bit for it. One benny is Uber or Lyft for doctor appointments, and she said it's taking longer and longer to get one.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 12, 2022 08:01 AM (lz5hY)

268 Alec Baldwin claimed that he was following Halyna Hutchins' directions when he pointed what turned out to be a gun loaded with live rounds at her on the set of the movie 'Rust' and pulled the trigger, killing the cinematographer, according to a new court document.

Even if she asked you to do that, you should have the fucking sense to say "NO!" You are holding the gun. You pulled the trigger.
Not to mention, he seems to be changing his story about how the gun fired, and is blaming the victim.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:02 AM (R8uWY)

269 When asked what the Democrats would do to lower prices, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries responded

that issue hasnt come up.

The follow up question should have been "So what issues are more important that takes precedence over the Number One Issue throughout the world?"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 08:02 AM (lD3vL)

270 @236

>>but it isn't that hard to run dual CAT-5/6 down the walls.

I work in Broadcast Systems integrations so I'm always going to be biased towards structured cabling infrastructure and solutions.

Wired POE cameras is the only way to go.

Sounds like you know what you have to do, I would recommend Belden 10GX52 or similar Commscope for your structured cabling.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 12, 2022 08:02 AM (3zgHJ)

271 Been all but 5mo since Alec Baldwin shot Halyna, crickets on investigation

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2022 08:05 AM (2JoB8)

272 At this point I think it will be a miracle if the treacherous homunculi running our country (into the ground) don't get us into WWIII.

Are any sane, mature, non-Woke leaders left in the West?

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2022 08:06 AM (H8QX8)

273 Even if she asked you to do that, you should have the fucking sense to say "NO!" You are holding the gun. You pulled the trigger.
Not to mention, he seems to be changing his story about how the gun fired, and is blaming the victim.

If it only had those identifying taggets that by force of law would be required to be mixed into the gun powder, and similar identifying strikers mandated into every gun would we actually know who murdered Halyna Hutchins.

Has anyone yet mentioned that Halyna Hutchins was Ukrainian? Does that make Baldwin a murderous minion of Putin?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 08:06 AM (lD3vL)

274 I have been reading reports that people are bailing out of being Uber drivers and related delivery services due to the cost of fuel. They simply don't get paid enough to offset the cost. I also suspect if they do start getting paid sufficiently to pay for fuel that it will make their services so expensive that people can't afford to use them. It's double-edged sword here. Shifting hard into a green energy universe is only going to drive those costs up more with the added bonus of everything becomes unreliable.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 07:55 AM

Been watching the Showtime series "Super Pumped" about the story of Uber. How they had to fight the taxi unions and politicians beholden to those unions in each city in which they wanted to expand.

https://imdb.to/3t7fFm8

Also interesting to see -- if the depiction of Travis Kalanick by Joseph Gordon-Levitt is accurate -- how all these CEOs like Zuckerberg and Bezos and Gates, etc are all the same type of asshole and all seem to be copies of one another. I guess that is the type of personality that is needed to get a startup to succeed, but still annoying to see.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 08:07 AM (Do5/p)

275 It would take years to amortize technology and processes that create true efficiency and savings.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

It is a big nudge. You can't widely adopt electric cars until there is charging infrastructure, and they won't build charging infrastructure until electric cars are widely adopted. And car manufacturers won't invest in making more models until there is interest. So the government is forcing the issue by making fuel unaffordable. Tesla was taking a huge risk by doing it the free(ish) market way. Just build the dang cars and stoke interest. Improve the technology. We are about 5 years from having more practical everyday cars for everyone. The government is early with the push, but the left knows a blowout is coming in Nov, so they are pushing as hard as they can wherever they can.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:07 AM (R8uWY)

276 #259 Off, Flying Spider Eating sock.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 12, 2022 08:07 AM (UHVv4)

277 @272

>>Are any sane, mature, non-Woke leaders left in the West?

Poland, Hungary and that may be it.

Also they are busy trying to foment a color revolution in Hungary and I can't imagine The Junta is happy with Poland dunking their nuts in their WWIII Op.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 12, 2022 08:07 AM (3zgHJ)

278 I am still aught to believe there was no instruction of standing here pointing there and the gun decided who to shoot, more the early report a hot headed Alec was threatening with a gun he thought at most had a blank and purposely pointed and pulled the trigger.

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2022 08:08 AM (2JoB8)

279 263 If the Greens weren't about chaos and communism and were really about the environment through efficient use of the best technology, then they would take the exact opposite course they are taking now. Posted by: Reuben

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I agree with this completely. My observations and experiences with technology are that economies will pick the most efficient path if not mucked around with. The greens are about enforcing a totalitarian rule on society and could give a damn about the environment; green energy is the vector by which they will try to collapse the economy to their advantage.

Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 08:09 AM (PVI4b)

280 Also interesting to see -- if the depiction of Travis Kalanick by Joseph Gordon-Levitt is accurate -- how all these CEOs like Zuckerberg and Bezos and Gates, etc are all the same type of asshole and all seem to be copies of one another.

Meant to include Jordan Belfort in this group, as Travis Kalanick seems to be a copy of Jordan Belfort from "The Wolf of Wall Street".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 08:10 AM (Do5/p)

281 LMAO!! I just saw the video of Kamlama ding dong when asked about gas prices. WTAF?? She looks at the Polish president when asked the question like hey can ya help me out? Again? Then gives a completely nonsensical answer. She's so in over her head it's scary.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 12, 2022 08:10 AM (nxdel)

282 Soylent Green takes place in 2022 you know.

Posted by: One Dog Night at March 12, 2022 08:10 AM (z2xUm)

283 @281

>>She's so in over her head it's scary.

But she's an ADULT and the ADULTS are back in charge ADULTING and sh*t.

In fact, they are going to do so much ADULTING that they may murder us all with the super smart ADULTING.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 12, 2022 08:12 AM (3zgHJ)

284 Been all but 5mo since Alec Baldwin shot Halyna, crickets on investigation
Posted by: Skip

Are they waiting for the civil trials to complete ? Are the rules for discovery different in civil trials ?

Posted by: JT at March 12, 2022 08:14 AM (arJlL)

285 Fire going well so nothing to do but keep feeding it and rotation of pot for another hour or more
Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 12, 2022

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You rotate your pot? What do you smoke in between?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 08:14 AM (c6xtn)

286 And car manufacturers won't invest in making more models until there is interest. So the government is forcing the issue by making fuel unaffordable.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:07 AM

Nope. The government has been forcing the issue for years with legislation and regulations and fines associated with car companies not meeting ridiculously high targets for greenhouse gas emmissions and fuel economy. Such that we (I work in auto industry) have no choice but to go complete electrification in order to even have a chance to meet these ridiculous targets on the ridiculous timelines.

In 2025, the fines kick in. If greenhouse gas emissions are not met, then the company cannot sell cars. Period. If fuel economy targets are not met, there is a certain $ amount applied to each 0.1mpg away from target.

Customer/public want has nothing to do with what the auto industry is doing. Everything is driven by government regulations/fines, which were put in place by environazis. I'm looking to get out of auto industry, because it is going to collapse.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 08:15 AM (Do5/p)

287 Where do flying death spiders fall on the animal continuum of fart clams and jive turkeys?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:16 AM (R8uWY)

288 Headline: "62 Mile High Club: NASA to study sex in space"

So The Paolo is going to be an astronaut ?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 08:16 AM (lD3vL)

289 Psaki tells TikTok influencers Russia 'hacked our election' in 2016 to put Trump in over Scankles. That crap has already been discredited many times as BS.

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This really is as egregious and irresponsible as it gets. Shocking, even coming from these miserable liars.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2022 08:17 AM (sVtYq)

290 279 263 If the Greens weren't about chaos and communism and were really about the environment through efficient use of the best technology, then they would take the exact opposite course they are taking now. Posted by: Reuben

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I agree with this completely. My observations and experiences with technology are that economies will pick the most efficient path if not mucked around with. The greens are about enforcing a totalitarian rule on society and could give a damn about the environment; green energy is the vector by which they will try to collapse the economy to their advantage.
Posted by: LostInSpace at March 12, 2022 08:09 AM (PVI4b)

The entire "Green Dream" is so idiotic and self destructive that it's clearly being dictated by a group that has some other, darker motive for their actions. Which is why it is almost mandatory to note that anyone who claims to be a "true believer" in the green movement is an emotional, irrational, easily led idiot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2022 08:18 AM (evAgx)

291 > She's so in over her head it's scary.

She's fine. The media will make sure of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2022 08:19 AM (BFigT)

292 Customer/public want has nothing to do with what the auto industry is doing. Everything is driven by government regulations/fines, which were put in place by environazis. I'm looking to get out of auto industry, because it is going to collapse.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

I guess it is kind of silly to ask this question now: Exactly where is their Constitutional authority to do this?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 08:19 AM (lD3vL)

293 I'm looking to get out of auto industry, because it is going to collapse.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Necessarily collapse. You can't force people back to the cities if they still have the freedom of automobiles.
I knew the fuel standards were bad, I didn't know the shit was that bad. A few years ago, I would have said that there was no way the gov would go through with it. Now?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:19 AM (R8uWY)

294 So the Congress gave itself and all the rest of the vermin in their employ a 21% raise. I cannot adequately verbalize the depth of my disgust with these scum. Social Security got 5.8%, most employees getting 8-10% but they just reached into our pockets and took out what they wanted. Give you more of my taxes? F**k off, F**k your mother, F**k yourself. I hope that money buys you all a trip to hell.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at March 12, 2022 08:20 AM (cRbt7)

295 Are any sane, mature, non-Woke leaders left in the West?

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I can't think of a single one, OA. I really can't.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2022 08:20 AM (sVtYq)

296 The entire "Green Dream" is so idiotic and self destructive that it's clearly being dictated by a group that has some other, darker motive for their actions.

*Laughs in Chinese*

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:20 AM (R8uWY)

297 When the Berlin Wall came down, all the Commies went "Green." That's why they are called "watermelons." Green on the outside and red in the center.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 12, 2022 08:20 AM (lKAqb)

298 So the Congress gave itself and all the rest of the vermin in their employ a 21% raise.

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Wait...WHAT?!?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2022 08:21 AM (sVtYq)

299 I guess it is kind of silly to ask this question now: Exactly where is their Constitutional authority to do this?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 08:19 AM (lD3vL)

BWAHAHAHA

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 12, 2022 08:21 AM (89T5c)

300 > She's so in over her head it's scary.

You actually mean she's over a head right?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 08:21 AM (h/FuS)

301 I'd happy settle for sane and immature.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 08:21 AM (w+Ah/)

302 Why won't somebody make a mini pickup like they had in the 70's?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 12, 2022 08:22 AM (z2xUm)

303 The ONT was lit!

My eyes are still tearing with laughter. What a meme collection.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 12, 2022 08:22 AM (rR491)

304 the Congress gave itself and all the rest of the vermin in their employ a 21% raise.

Who voted yes? Remember their name.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:22 AM (R8uWY)

305 The follow up question should have been "So what issues are more important that takes precedence over the Number One Issue throughout the world?"
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 08:02 AM (lD3vL)"

oh come on you know the answer - RAYCISS!!!!

and the number two most important issue is that anyone who says they're a woman is one. of course.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2022 08:22 AM (evAgx)

306 > She's so in over her head it's scary.

You actually mean she's over a head right?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 08:21 AM (h/FuS)
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She just likes head! Stop criticizing her life choices.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 12, 2022 08:23 AM (rR491)

307 Why won't somebody make a mini pickup like they had in the 70's?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 12, 2022 08:22 AM (z2xUm)

There is a fella around here who drives one of those real tiny Jap van things with a flat bed.

Hilarious.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 12, 2022 08:23 AM (R/m4+)

308 Who voted yes? Remember their name.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:22 AM (R8uWY)

You could literally launch an entire political party on this issue alone.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 08:24 AM (w+Ah/)

309 297, yes. Rush discussed that. It still rings true today. The commie trick failed so they use being a freebie to take down capitalism and Western Civilization. But they out kicked the coverage and being a Commie is no big deal in some circles

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 08:24 AM (o/Es3)

310 Why won't somebody make a mini pickup like they had in the 70's?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 12, 2022 08:22 AM (z2xUm)
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Travis McGee had a nice mini-pickup truck, which he named Miss Agnes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 12, 2022 08:25 AM (rR491)

311 Dont forget

like a snake

Spring Back

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 08:26 AM (yrol0)

312 301 I'd happy settle for sane and immature.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2022 08:21 AM (w+Ah/)

how may I help you ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 12, 2022 08:26 AM (us2H3)

313 👏

Well done. I actually read and understood the content.

Posted by: Mean Tweets at March 12, 2022 08:26 AM (iaGlA)

314 Are we completely done with murder hornets? I feel like murder hornets never really got their full fifteen minutes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 12, 2022 08:27 AM (rR491)

315 You actually mean she's over a head right?

Well that's common knowledge lol!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 12, 2022 08:28 AM (nxdel)

316 307 There's a couple of those mini mini trucks tooling around the Fort Smith area. One is a Suzuki and the other , judging by the badge, is a Mitsubishi. Kinda look like fun.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 12, 2022 08:28 AM (lz5hY)

317 I hadn't thought about Uber services collapsing; now think of all the ramifications will be for those who use uber to get to jobs in most cities, etc. This alone will bring about a mass jump in unemployment, and this is just one small effect of the inflation/energy shortage catastrophe. I remember living through bad inflation in 79' - 80': it's like a huge economic shotgun, tearing out huge and seemingly unrelated chunks of the economy constantly.

btw - when you TV "economist" say that recession is coming - they mean Depression, and they know it, and anyone who looks at what's happening today knows it. There are ways to fight it; but not under this President. Not under this administration. They have to fall before there is any hope at all for this country to pull through.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2022 08:28 AM (evAgx)

318 I don't understand WeirdDave's Venn Diagram meme from the ONT with the knives, butterfly, butter and a fly.

*Forest Gump voice* "Some say I'm not a smart woman..."

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2022 08:28 AM (sVtYq)

319 Are we completely done with murder hornets? I feel like murder hornets never really got their full fifteen minutes.

I feel the same way about Haley Reinhart!

Posted by: Mean Tweets at March 12, 2022 08:29 AM (iaGlA)

320 Lurking mode deactivated

Morning all. Anyone have the senate roll call vote on the budget bill? Did a quick search and cant find it. Thanks

Lurking mode reactivated

Posted by: RedDish at March 12, 2022 08:29 AM (AjwWO)

321 "I guess it is kind of silly to ask this question now: Exactly where is their Constitutional authority to do this?"
-Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 12, 2022 08:19 AM (lD3vL)

*HAH!* The Constitution, to anyone in leadership is like showing a local ordinance to the diversity import that's robbing you and leaving no witnesses.
-"Sir? You simply cannot do that. Says, right here."

The Constitution is a piece of paper on the hoof of some scab-riddled skank coming out of a D.C. restroom after finishing her obligations with The Honorable Representative Fuckstain from 13th District of South Whatever.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 12, 2022 08:29 AM (Ckg4U)

322 I knew the fuel standards were bad, I didn't know the shit was that bad. A few years ago, I would have said that there was no way the gov would go through with it. Now?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:19 AM

Yep, it's another reason that they needed to get rid of Trump. He intended to relax the ridiculous CAFE standards. At minimum, he was going to extend the timeline, as 2025 is impossible to meet with some of these targets. The targets for decades had been increasing by a reasonable percentage. But under Obama, they jacked them up to ridiculous amounts.

I work for a company whose previous CEO had the correct stance that we were not going to build any more electric vehicles than were necessary to meet the stupid government regulations. Because he rightly stated they did not make money for the company. The customer didn't want them and they were net losses. So we had no long-term EV plan in place 10 years ago.

Unfortunately, he died a few years back, the election got rigged and Biden Admin got rid of Trump's easing of CAFE standards, and now my company is on an impossible accelerated timeline to switch from ICE to HEVs and BEVs.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 08:29 AM (Do5/p)

323 I don't understand WeirdDave's Venn Diagram meme from the ONT with the knives, butterfly, butter and a fly.

Posted by: Lady in Black

The common name for the knife in the middle is...
A butterfly knife.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 08:30 AM (h/FuS)

324 Even Toyota which started it seems in the small truck market is making bigger than full size trucks.

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2022 08:30 AM (2JoB8)

325 Customer/public want has nothing to do with what the auto industry is doing.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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I just want a car that isn't reporting on me every few minutes. I really don't need to have some server someplace watching every system in my car. Just lets agree I won't track you and you won't track me. Emkay?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 12, 2022 08:30 AM (rR491)

326 320 Lurking mode deactivated

Morning all. Anyone have the senate roll call vote on the budget bill? Did a quick search and cant find it. Thanks

Lurking mode reactivated
Posted by: RedDish at March 12, 2022 08:29 AM (AjwWO)

31 (R) voted against

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 08:30 AM (yrol0)

327 With all the economic pain people are currently feeling, not to mention the apocalypse that's just around the corner, I want it known far and wide this wholesale rotten scumbags in DC gave themselves a 21% raise. You talk about anger. There will be anger.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2022 08:31 AM (sVtYq)

328 Thanks rhennifantx, I was looking for names. Besides McConnell of course.

Posted by: RedDish at March 12, 2022 08:32 AM (AjwWO)

329 Did the 2 trillion dollar tax cuts along with that deficit increase given by Trump to our elitrd(so that they could trickle down on us) contribute to inflation?

Posted by: Kurt at March 12, 2022 08:32 AM (1+eyC)

330 The common name for the knife in the middle is...
A butterfly knife.

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Ah, ok. *scribbles notes in Knife Types book*

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2022 08:32 AM (sVtYq)

331 324 I bought a 73 Toyota Hi Lux new. Tough, dependable little truck. Now you see Toyotas as big as F250s, and just as expensive.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 12, 2022 08:32 AM (lz5hY)

332 LiB - in the center is what is called a "butterfly knife" ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 08:33 AM (c1v4f)

333 I like big trucks and I can not lie

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 08:33 AM (o/Es3)

334 "For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge self-control; and to self control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness, and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure , they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:

Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2022 08:33 AM (LjX+p)

335 The US waste more cash every month than the GDP of Ukraine

Posted by: REDACTED at March 12, 2022 08:33 AM (us2H3)

336
Why won't somebody make a mini pickup like they had in the 70's?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 12, 2022 08:22 AM

I think that's the market that Ford is going after with the Maverick, only slightly larger

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 12, 2022 08:34 AM (DUIap)

337 Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2022 08:28 AM (sVtYq)

You got butter and and a fly. Butterfly.
You got butter and a knife. Butterknife
You got fly and knife. Fly knife
You got butter, a fly, and a knife. Butterfly knife.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:34 AM (R8uWY)

338 Wind is blowing and it's snowing

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2022 08:35 AM (2JoB8)

339 perfect day for making charcoal !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 12, 2022 08:35 AM (c1v4f)

340 The only small affordable pickup truck being produced is the Ford Maverick, its base is 19k but with necessary add-on is around 25k, but that is if you can find them, supply is limited to non-existent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 12, 2022 08:36 AM (3zgHJ)

341 Fall forward, spring back?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:36 AM (R8uWY)

342 Wind is blowing and it's snowing
Posted by: Skip

Glad you paused your charcoal coffee grill now, aren't you!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 08:36 AM (h/FuS)

343 A guy on the internet who bought a Chinese electric pickup truck and had it shipped to the US. Cheap, but cost a bundle to have it shipped. Looks like it will rust out in a year, but hey, its small and cheap to operate.
Its our future....

Posted by: Colin at March 12, 2022 08:36 AM (RMfpC)

344 Psaki tells TikTok influencers Russia 'hacked our election' in 2016 to put Trump in over Scankles. That crap has already been discredited many times as BS.
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This really is as egregious and irresponsible as it gets. Shocking, even coming from these miserable liars.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2022 08:17 AM

They have done this with everything over the past decade or two. Use every institution of information dissemination to spread "the narrative" about any and every issue. Hollywood, TV, radio, sports "journalists", media, social media, sports athletes, and now TikTok "influencers". Everyone is now in the employ of the government to spread the narrative.

It's downright scary and creepy. Started with "global warming", then they moved to COVID and now they're doing it with Russia-Ukraine. Break between songs on my Classic Rock radio station here in Detroit they talked about donating to Ukraine. Ukraine affects us not at all, but the narrative messaging is freaking everywhere.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 08:36 AM (Do5/p)

345 Taxes

Finally got that one crossed off my to-do list last weekend. Thanks, TurboTax!

Posted by: Guy Smiley - I am here. Standing...here. at March 12, 2022 08:37 AM (HsAzN)

346 About the potential Uber collapse...

There are millions of hipsters who never learned how to drive and/or don't have a vehicle of their own. This presents several problems, and a couple opportunities.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2022 08:37 AM (BFigT)

347 Fall forward, spring back?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

lol, screw them all up!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 08:37 AM (h/FuS)

348 @343

>>A guy on the internet who bought a Chinese electric pickup truck and had it shipped to the US. Cheap, but cost a bundle to have it shipped. Looks like it will rust out in a year, but hey, its small and cheap to operate.

If I was that guy I would Fluid Film every square inch of that truck, it'll last a lot longer.

In fact don't quite understand why more people don't wool wax their vehicles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 12, 2022 08:38 AM (3zgHJ)

349 The government is protecting the TikTokers from russian misinformation by feeding them American misinformation. I can't possibly be lying to you, because I am pointing out the other side's lies!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:38 AM (R8uWY)

350 You talk about anger. There will be anger.

There won't be shit because most people don't even know about it and when you try to inform them they ignore you. If you do try to inform as say through FB no one sees the post. How do I know? Happens to me every damn time I put ANYTHING political up, which is very seldom. I have many conservative friends and don't even get a like because they AREN'T SEEING IT! Facebook needs to be destroyed.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 12, 2022 08:39 AM (nxdel)

351 - Mediocrates

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Who was Socrates' middle son?

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 12, 2022 08:39 AM (yVPr3)

352 the Congress gave itself and all the rest of the vermin in their employ a 21% raise.

Now we're getting closer to the real rate of inflation.

Posted by: t-bird at March 12, 2022 08:39 AM (pbStR)

353
There are millions of hipsters who never learned how to drive and/or don't have a vehicle of their own. This presents several problems, and a couple opportunities.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

So they'll drive just like all the southern border jumpers?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 08:39 AM (h/FuS)

354 And that messaging is all planned. This is all to brainwash the public. Flood the country with the messaging so everywhere you turn people are talking about a certain narrative. Then even if some people question the narrative, the majority of people will want to agree with the narrative, because "everyone thinks this about X, so it must be true, so I'll agree with everyone".

This is our future for every single issue going forward, because the Left controls every single institution of information dissemination, including schools and colleges/universities where they control kids, teens and young adults.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 08:39 AM (Do5/p)

355 Democrats are just weird people. Judge Amy Clark Meacham in Texas is stopping the state from investigating child abuse, because the state treats injections of puberty blockers as child abuse. As of course it should.

Anyway, seems like this is their hill to die on in the modern Democrat party, changing little kids genders.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 12, 2022 08:39 AM (EQzxp)

356 345 Taxes

Finally got that one crossed off my to-do list last weekend. Thanks, TurboTax!

Posted by: Guy Smiley - I am here. Standing...here. at March 12, 2022 08:37 AM (HsAzN)

I had a mutual sell off a bunch of stock and they have still not completed all the accounting.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 08:39 AM (yrol0)

357 Posted by: Lady in Black

I didn't get it either.

Posted by: Infidel at March 12, 2022 08:39 AM (ou23q)

358 Avast!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 12, 2022 08:41 AM (Dc2NZ)

359 Used to have a neighbor with a mini-minivan, a Toyota HiAce from Japan. Driver's side on the right. Weird yet cool vehicle.

Posted by: Guy Smiley - I am here. Standing...here. at March 12, 2022 08:41 AM (HsAzN)

360 I like the older models of the Chevy 2500HD

heavy duty and more compact

I have 2005 and I load it down like nutz

3K of washed stone, no problem

1K of snow plow, np

Posted by: REDACTED at March 12, 2022 08:42 AM (us2H3)

361 This is our future for every single issue going forward, because the Left controls every single institution of information dissemination, including schools and colleges/universities where they control kids, teens and young adults.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 08:39 AM (Do5/p)

The communism of schools began about 150 years ago. There was no way parent and small school taught children would ever accept Marxism as independence was the key right of humans. Same was a key part of Christianity to be free to choose.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2022 08:43 AM (yrol0)

362 They included their Congressional raise in the new Omnibus of 1.6 Trillion. It wasn't a stand alone because they knew it would enrage the population.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at March 12, 2022 08:43 AM (cRbt7)

363 "Fall forward, spring back?"

I've heard it both ways.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 12, 2022 08:43 AM (3D/fK)

364 Mediocrates

I knew his sister, Impurates.

She got around.

Posted by: Guy Smiley - I am here. Standing...here. at March 12, 2022 08:43 AM (HsAzN)

365 Social media is not just decidedly anti-Trump, they are anti-liberty. They peddle the most egregious lies of the government class, to an increasingly ignorant and accepting audience of dimwits. They accept as truth whatever they are told, and they are not educated enough, or too apathetic, to determine its legitimacy. It's why the government and their liege have dumbed down the education system. It's created an entire class of ignorant zombie boobs all to willing to follow their diktats without any intellectual intervention. That's how you get "81 million" people voting for this foreseeable, preventable disaster. Ergo, the number one item on Republicans agenda should be school choice. But alas, they're too busy "visiting the border" as our friends and neighbors children die at the hands of the cartels/China's fentanyl and spouting platitudes about inflation as their members vote for another $1.5 trillion boondoggle that enriches their donors and steals from us.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2022 08:44 AM (LjX+p)

366 343 A guy on the internet who bought a Chinese electric pickup truck and had it shipped to the US. Cheap, but cost a bundle to have it shipped. Looks like it will rust out in a year, but hey, its small and cheap to operate.
Its our future....

Posted by: Colin at March 12, 2022 08:36 AM (RMfpC)

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"It took me hours to charge, and then it was empty 15 minutes later."

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 12, 2022 08:44 AM (yVPr3)

367 Any people from Arkansas here? I am doing a word search on place names and people and things associated with that state. One of the words is "duck". Is AR known for duck hunting or there are big farms there that raise duck?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2022 08:45 AM (U7hCZ)

368 Too windy for a fire, snow falling isn't a problem.

Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2022 08:46 AM (2JoB8)

369 355 Democrats are just weird people. Judge Amy Clark Meacham in Texas is stopping the state from investigating child abuse, because the state treats injections of puberty blockers as child abuse. As of course it should.

Anyway, seems like this is their hill to die on in the modern Democrat party, changing little kids genders.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 12, 2022 08:39 AM (EQzxp)

for a bit more rational explanation of why Amy Clark Meacham did this - she's a Texas District Court Judge up for re-election this November for the 201st District Civil Court, based in Austin. She is doing whatever she can to ensure that the LGBT crowd in Austin - and there are a lot of them - shows up and votes heavily for her. That's her constituency. That's who she represents; not us, or anyone like us.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2022 08:46 AM (evAgx)

370 Here it is: 21%

https://tinyurl.com/4eapdn4y

Posted by: Stellastwocents at March 12, 2022 08:46 AM (cRbt7)

371 I just want a car that isn't reporting on me every few minutes. I really don't need to have some server someplace watching every system in my car. Just lets agree I won't track you and you won't track me. Emkay?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 12, 2022 08:30 AM

The automobile is one of the most amazing inventions of the last 100 years to contribute to the freedom of the individual to travel. Simply amazing to step back and realize what we all take for granted with the use of an automobile, the infrastructure in place of roads and interstates, the simplicity of refueling in a very small amount of time with refueling stations all over the country. 100 years ago, people were not regularly traveling outside their own cities or states. Now people regularly travel across the country for jobs, vacations, family visits, etc.

Automobiles and affordable ownership for everyone opened up a bigger world for everyone in the world.

And of course the Left wants to either take that away, or use it to track our movements and control us. Maddening.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 08:46 AM (Do5/p)

372 357 butterfly knives were all the rage in the late eighties. It was mostly about making a show of it. Just one more reminder of how it was a different world just a few decades ago.

I am glad I grew up in that world, and not this one

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 08:48 AM (o/Es3)

373 > So they'll drive just like all the southern border jumpers?

Many hipsters who never learned to drive won't take it upon themselves. A couple I know through my kids/grandkids are actually afraid to drive. They can't grasp the concept. They have no idea how a car works. Letting these imbeciles behind the wheel of anything would be a disaster.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2022 08:48 AM (BFigT)

374 367 Not much duck hunting that I know of in West AR. I imagine it's big over in the delta with all the rice farming. I think the Mississippi is a flyway for ducks.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 12, 2022 08:48 AM (lz5hY)

375 Meachum's ruling [That Abbott made his directive for CPS to investigate trans therapy for minors as child abuse without a legislative or administrative rule in place, thus overstepping his authority] came the same day that dozens of major companies - including Apple, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Meta and Microsoft - criticized the Texas directive in a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:49 AM (R8uWY)

376 Time to feed him again.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 06:13 AM (c6xtn)

Good to hear that Wolfus, hang in there Chekov!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ The easy graft is always up front! ~ at March 12, 2022 08:49 AM (hOUT3)

377 Thanks, Bill in Arkansas.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2022 08:51 AM (U7hCZ)

378 Why did Ford reuse the Maverick name for a pickup? It was a car in the 60's-70's along with the Mercury Comet. I took a look and they are 4 doors with a tiny bed that would be useless for work hauling anything. You could haul 4x8 sheets of plywood in the old ones.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 12, 2022 08:51 AM (z2xUm)

379 The aggravating part about being involved in designing EVs is that it would be really fun and exciting if we were not forced to meet this ridiculous timeline of having to succeed with something within 3 years or the company could potentially go belly-up. The technology is fascinating to learn about, the different ways that our competitors have executed some of these strategies for the systems is interesting and it would be great to have the time to setup our vehicle Architecture to support creating an ideal system.

Instead, we're under such a time crunch that we have to work with the Architecutre that was setup for an ICE system, have to use off-the-shelf powertrains that are being used by our competitors (who have better Architecture to handle the size of this stuff) and are basically trying to force 1000lbs of shit into a 500lb box. What should be an exciting time of innovation and creativity is just non-stop stress and aggravation.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 08:51 AM (Do5/p)

380 My nephew tried driving at 18, but never went past a couple of lessons, too scared. But he will sit his ass in his room and play GTA all fucking day.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:52 AM (R8uWY)

381 375 Meachum's ruling [That Abbott made his directive for CPS to investigate trans therapy for minors as child abuse without a legislative or administrative rule in place, thus overstepping his authority]

Note the one-way ratchet; whenever a Leftist like Biden or Obama does something based on their executive authority, they are "Bravely Fighting the Special Interests!" and what not. Whenever a Republican does the same thing, they are "overstepping their authority".

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2022 08:52 AM (evAgx)

382 I had never heard of the Toltec Mounds in Arkansas either. You can learn things from doing word searches.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2022 08:52 AM (U7hCZ)

383 Letting these imbeciles behind the wheel of anything would be a disaster.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Yup, had a young lady in Nursing school who asked me to teach her how to ride motorcycles. I asked her if she could ride a bicycle and she replied she was horrible on a bicycle. I told her if she rode a motorcycle she'd die and refused to teach her...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 08:52 AM (h/FuS)

384 It will be great when the government can OTA update our car to limit the speed to 25mph because of an unpaid traffic ticket. Or disable charging because we have a warrant. Or unpaid taxes.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:54 AM (R8uWY)

385 Travis McGee had a nice mini-pickup truck, which he named Miss Agnes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 12, 2022

***
You're right about the name. But it was a Rolls-Royce pickup truck! Somebody, Trav tells us, had married a pickup bed to the Rolls body, and painted the result a wild electric blue. It was the exact shade of the hair on one of his grad-school teachers -- hence his name for it. It would "cruise all day at 80 in a ghastly silence."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 08:54 AM (c6xtn)

386 And of course the Left wants to either take that away, or use it to track our movements and control us. Maddening.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 08:46 AM (Do5/p)

John D Rockefeller might have been a robber baron, but he essentially developed and bequeathed us what eventually became a national distribution network, where throughout the continental US a driver was never more than 50 miles from a reliable gasoline provider.
So it is obviously time to destroy that!
I just love ~~progress~~ regress!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ The easy graft is always up front! ~ at March 12, 2022 08:55 AM (hOUT3)

387 382 Fen, you will find a lot of French words and names in your Arkansas research. The Voyageurs traveled through here a lot. We have Vache Gras creek winding through this area (Big Cow, supposedly the Voyageur shot a buffalo near it).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 12, 2022 08:55 AM (lz5hY)

388 My nephew tried driving at 18, but never went past a couple of lessons, too scared. But he will sit his ass in his room and play GTA all fucking day.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:52 AM

That American spirit of wanting to be free and and independent and travel seems to be gone from younger generation?

I wanted to learn to drive immediately as a teen, because I wanted to be able to go places. Road trips were awesome when I was young. Traveled all over in my 20s. Drove back and forth from Purdue to Indiana U to date my girlfriend in college, drove to my internships in Evansville, IN one summer and KC, MO the next summer.

Being able to drive is freedom and independece to me. I can't understand how anyone would not want to learn how to drive.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 08:55 AM (Do5/p)

389 Next time you're driving and see something idiotic going on look at the driver. Odd are it's a hipster in a small, older compact with a bunch of USB cables strung all over the place, a phone in one hand, a bunch of shit hanging from the rearview mirror and at least several dents, a broken light and/or missing mirror or hubcap.

That one had a lesson or two. Imagine the ones who never have or are afraid to drive.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2022 08:56 AM (BFigT)

390 Why did Ford reuse the Maverick name for a pickup? It was a car in the 60's-70's along with the Mercury Comet.

It was also one of the bigger pieces of shit that Fix Or Repair Daily inflicted on the public. Comets were relatively classy.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 12, 2022 08:57 AM (y7DUB)

391 I had never heard of the Toltec Mounds in Arkansas either. You can learn things from doing word searches.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Ms. Toltec's bewbs ?

Posted by: JT at March 12, 2022 08:57 AM (arJlL)

392 Time to feed him again.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 06:13 AM (c6xtn)

Good to hear that Wolfus, hang in there Chekov!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ The easy graft is always up front! ~ at March 12, 2022

***
I just gave him his meds: gabapentin paste on his ear, and a shot of Adequan in his flank. He has no trouble with those.

He was going to the Bridge about 2 weeks ago -- though I was wondering (here, and aloud) whether I'd made the right decision. Then he began to eat and move more. Almost as if he knew. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 08:57 AM (c6xtn)

393 That's such an odd thing to me-young people who don't want to learn to drive. That used to be such a rite of passage. What are they going to do? Depend on others to take them everywhere or use Uber?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2022 08:58 AM (YuGGP)

394 It was the exact shade of the hair on one of his grad-school teachers -- hence his name for it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Travis must have lived in Apache Junction AZ, there are many ladies with that shade of hair here.
(Mostly in the Winter and they drive (poorly) in big trucks with license plates from snow areas!)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 12, 2022 08:58 AM (h/FuS)

395 My neighbor had an orange Maverick Grabber. I ran into it one day on my bike while checking out a pretty girl to hard.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 12, 2022 08:59 AM (z2xUm)

396 Why did Ford reuse the Maverick name for a pickup? It was a car in the 60's-70's along with the Mercury Comet.

It was also one of the bigger pieces of shit that Fix Or Repair Daily inflicted on the public. Comets were relatively classy.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 12, 2022

***
Hey! A Maverick was my first car in '76: a Klingon-green 4-door, the more upscale model with the bigger 6-cyl. and A/C. I'd find it tinny and unpleasant to drive today, I know. But I was very pleased to have it, and learned a lot about maintenance as I took care of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 08:59 AM (c6xtn)

397 My old man bought an orange Maverick once upon a time, used. It had a manual shift on the steering column and was difficult to get into reverse. You really had to put your shoulder into it. What a PITA that car was, and it was a fine day when we finally junked it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 12, 2022 08:59 AM (B8k/D)

398 382 I had never heard of the Toltec Mounds in Arkansas either. You can learn things from doing word searches.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2022 08:52 AM (U7hCZ)

Fascinating site, I've been there! Name is aggravating, since the Toltecs had nothing to do with it, but the early settlers didn't know a lot about prehistory. It's one of the largest sites dating from the mound building cultures that thrived up and down the Mississippi River valley in the old days.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2022 08:59 AM (evAgx)

399
It will be great when the government can OTA update our car to limit the speed to 25mph because of an unpaid traffic ticket. Or disable charging because we have a warrant. Or unpaid taxes.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 12, 2022 08:54 AM

had this conversation with a 20-something cow-orker; they were all jazzed about autonomous cars. I said "what if you get in the autonomous car to go to work and the car checks and sees you have an unpaid ticket or something and it locks the doors and delivers you to the police station?"

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 12, 2022 09:00 AM (DUIap)

400 John D Rockefeller might have been a robber baron, but he essentially developed and bequeathed us what eventually became a national distribution network, where throughout the continental US a driver was never more than 50 miles from a reliable gasoline provider.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ The easy graft is always up front! ~ at March 12, 2022 08:55 AM

I was thinking about that this past week. Related to all the episodes I have seen of Modern Marvels, the early seasons where they talked about oil and gasoline and asphalt and airlines and the railroads and the highways and bridges and dams etc. Businessmen from about 1900s-1970s were of course about making money, but they were doing it by improving the lives of people.

Now, it seems since the 1990s-2000s or so, businessmen are about decreasing freedom, and increasing control of people. Or using things that were originally thought to improve lives of people -- personal computers, internet, social media -- to now control people, control information dissemination, etc.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 09:00 AM (Do5/p)

401 "what if you get in the autonomous car to go to work and the car checks and sees you have an unpaid ticket or something and it locks the doors and delivers you to the police station?"
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 12, 2022 09:00 AM (DUIap)
============
You have just described the fascist fantasy

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 12, 2022 09:01 AM (B8k/D)

402 Oh, as regards Travis McGee's Rolls pickup, he told us in the Sixties that she was not quite old enough to vote. So it was probably a mid-Thirties model, a Silver something-or-other. The vehicle turns up in a number of the novels. In The Long Lavender Look, around 1970, he's in an accident with it, an accident that leads into the main adventure. But he does get it repaired.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 09:03 AM (c6xtn)

403 Noodus coffee-orum

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 12, 2022 09:03 AM (c6xtn)

404 The minister of John D Rockefeller owned my house, probably the original owner.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 12, 2022 09:03 AM (y7DUB)

405 I had an orange, accented with streaks of rust, Maverick for a "mill car" back in Ohio. Best car I ever had as far as starting even in crap weather. Other than that, it was just a couple hundred buck bomb so wife's car wouldn't get messed up.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 12, 2022 09:04 AM (lz5hY)

406 had this conversation with a 20-something cow-orker; they were all jazzed about autonomous cars. I said "what if you get in the autonomous car to go to work and the car checks and sees you have an unpaid ticket or something and it locks the doors and delivers you to the police station?"

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 12, 2022 09:00 AM

That happened to Will Smith in "I, Robot", right? Where the autonomous vehicle locked him in and was driving him somewhere. People really need to pay more attention to movies and TV and such. It is becoming more obvious that these fictional situations are actually the non-fictional dreams of these lunatics for the future of our society. I, Robot, Minority Report, Total Recall, etc. And stuff like Maze Runner series and Hunger Games series. All about elites controlling the masses.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2022 09:04 AM (Do5/p)

407 It was also one of the bigger pieces of shit that Fix Or Repair Daily inflicted on the public. Comets were relatively classy.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 12, 2022

***

I always thought it was
Found
On
Road
Dead...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 12, 2022 09:05 AM (flINI)

408 At eighteen I was driving across the country. Sure I was better than most but it was no big deal. No one in my high school, male or female would allow themselves to not have a license but by 16. They would have had to be in traction to prevent it

These days you see thirty year old males driving cars with stickers that say, "New driver, be patient". In my day, no kid would embarrass himself that way. Today it is a point of pride

Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 09:05 AM (o/Es3)

409 I was thinking about that this past week. Related to all the episodes I have seen of Modern Marvels, the early seasons where they talked about oil and gasoline and asphalt and airlines and the railroads and the highways and bridges and dams etc. Businessmen from about 1900s-1970s were of course about making money, but they were doing it by improving the lives of people."

Exactly - look at the history of Mulholland in Southern Cal, for example. The movie "Chinatown" is very loosely (and not very factually) based on Mulholland and the things he was up to at the time; but he's the man who more than anyone else created the economic engine of SoCal. Which leftists have now taken over and are destroying.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2022 09:05 AM (evAgx)

410 These days you see thirty year old males driving cars with stickers that say, "New driver, be patient". In my day, no kid would embarrass himself that way. Today it is a point of pride
Posted by: Quint at March 12, 2022 09:05 AM (o/Es3)

My god, when I was 17, I was Hell on Wheels.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2022 09:07 AM (evAgx)

411 No.
MST forever!
Yea AZ.

Unless you are part of the Soverign Navajo Nation. But true if you are part of the equally sovereign Hopi people.

Posted by: Dara at March 12, 2022 09:08 AM (Hf5HC)

412 >>Comets were relatively classy.

I high school my buddy bought a Comet from the surplus Post Office auction. Classy is not the first word that comes to mind but we did have a ton of fun with that car. 3 on the tree and a sewing machine for a motor but it was easy to fix and cheap to run.

He stole a model of the Hulk from his younger brother and we super glued to the hood as a hood ornament.

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