DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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The term “middle class” is thrown around all the time—especially during an election year—but what does it really mean? And more importantly, are you part of it? While definitions can vary, being middle class is closely tied to the idea of the “American dream,” the notion that with hard work and sound financial management, you should be able to afford a home, raise a family, and eventually enjoy a comfortable retirement. Emphasis on the “dream.”

If that identity is important to you (and I can’t see why it would), we have the technology.

The Guardian.

No, they didn’t. Public schools don’t have the power to ‘ban’ books, which remain freely available to anyone with the money to buy them.

What they did do was remove said books from the school libraries and quit using them in classrooms, invariably because they pushed a degenerate Woke political and cultural agenda that normal people would consider, well, a degenerate Woke political and cultural agenda.

The Guardian, of course, Voice of the Crust, loves to use the word ‘ban’ illegitimately because it is their side’s ox being gored, and they believe that their readers are too stupid to realize what is going on. (Judging from what I can see of their readership, sad to say, they are probably correct.)

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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California has passed two new bills protecting actors and performers against AI, in a potentially precedent-setting moment for tech legislation across the country.

While these largely overlap with the AI safeguards that SAG-AFTRA passed last year, the new laws not only bolster those existing protections but extend them to everyone in California — not just to people working in front of a camera in Hollywood, as IndieWire notes.

Together, the bills, which were passed by Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, make it illegal to use an AI-generated digital replica of an actor’s likeness or voice — or technically, any Californian’s — without their explicit consent.

No, they weren’t passed by Newsom, they were passed by the state legislature and signed by Newsom. But I can understand how ‘journalists’ can confuse the two.

Will the movie/TV business leave California as a result? Let’s stay tuned.

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The plan was born in 1997 when Princeton researchers Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs approached Costa Rican orange juice manufacturer Del Oro with a unique opportunity.

If Del Oro agreed to donate part of its land bordering the Guanacaste Conservation Area to the national park, the company would be allowed to dump its discarded orange peel at no cost on degraded land in the park.

The juice company agreed to the deal, and some 12,000 tonnes of waste orange peel carried by a convoy of 1,000 truckloads was unceremoniously dumped on virtually lifeless soils at the site.

The deluge of nutrient-rich organic waste had an almost instantaneous effect on the fertility of the land.

“[W]ithin about six months the orange peels had been converted from orange peels into this thick black loamy soil,” Treuer told Scientific American.

Win-win, right? Well, not exactly.

Despite this promising start, the conservation experiment wasn’t to last, after a rival juice manufacturer called TicoFruit sued Del Oro, alleging that its competitor had “defiled a national park”.

Costa Rica’s Supreme Court sided with TicoFruit, and the ambitious experiment was forced to end, which saw the site largely forgotten about for the next 15 years.

Reminding us, once again, that government screws up everything it touches.

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I first saw this term on Hacker News. It made me vomit, and of course the defenders gave the usual accusations and evasions:

You must be in favor of traffic violence.
Language evolves; get over it.

But no, we already had “traffic accidents,” so “traffic violence” is just an excuse for grifters to grift.

The first one doesn’t even deserve a response. But let’s consider the “language evolves!” defense.

This excrescence is, of course, modeled on the success of the trope ‘Gun Violence’, invented by the Woke to remove agency from the people who actually use the guns and place the blame on the guns themselves.

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Locked display cases, the theft-prevention measure that makes shopping less grab-and-go and more wait-and-see, aim to prevent shoplifting, but a new survey suggests that particular solution might be worse than the problem.

Worse for whom? If people won’t buy stuff in locked cases, how are the retail stores worse off than if they steal stuff?

Upon discovering that an item they want to buy is in a locked case, less than one in three shoppers (32%) get a store employee to unlock the case, according to a reader survey from Consumer World, a consumer advocacy website. For 55% of respondents, it’s a lost sale, because when a product is locked up, they try to buy it elsewhere. The remaining 13% try to find an alternative product in the same store that is not locked up.

Good luck trying to buy it elsewhere in high-crime areas, from places who are probably also putting stuff in locked cases. Look, ‘locked cases’ are used for high-value easily grabbed-and-gone stuff, and changing the store doesn’t change the nature of the product. ‘Finding an alternative product’ means a product not as amenable to snatch-and-run, and the store still makes a sale.

BBC.

The union representing thousands of striking Boeing workers has hit out at what the aircraft manufacturing giant called its “best and final” pay offer, which proposed a 30% rise over four years.
The new offer also included the reinstatement of a performance bonus and improved retirement benefits.
However, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) said the offer was not negotiated with the union and that “it was thrown at us without any discussion” – a claim Boeing denies.

There’s no pleasing some people.

Newsweek.

And who could blame them? A Grievance Studies major hardly prepares one for the real world.

The survey revealed that one in six businesses said they were hesitant to hire recent college graduates over concerns about how prepared they are for the work as well as their communication skills and professionalism.

And a whopping six in 10 employers had already fired college graduates who were hired in 2024. One in seven said they might refrain from hiring new college grads next year as well.

Newsweek, of course, has no good advice to offer on fixing the problem, other than the usual hand-wringing about how hiring companies need to cut the kids some slack and do more training.

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In the latest expression of China’s rapidly growing and modernizing naval power, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) recently, and for the first time, put three aircraft carriers to sea simultaneously. Of the three carriers involved in these activities, the Liaoning and the Shandong are by now well established with the Chinese fleet, while the Fujian, the country’s first domestically produced carrier, is still preparing for operational service. Ultimately, it’s expected to lead to more Chinese-made flattops as the PLAN continues to expand its naval aviation capabilities.

Publicly available data, collated below by journalist Ian Ellis, indicates that, as of last week, the Liaoning and its carrier group were operating in the Philippine Sea, with the Shandong and its carrier group just off Hainan Island. Meanwhile, the Fujian had already left Jiangnan shipyard in Shanghai for another round of sea trials, with satellite imagery confirming that the three carriers were all sailing as of September 18. The carrier groups for the first two flattops each include at least four destroyers as well as a combat support vessel or frigate, very likely also accompanied by a hunter-killer submarine.

No indication of a flag bridge or a Primary Flight Control area on the one in the picture.

The late great Holly Lisle:

None of us is ever as good as we can get. We can always learn more; we can always do better.

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Vice President Kamala Harris says her running mate, Tim Walz, is going to help her “unify this country.” As governor of Minnesota, however, Walz explicitly divided people, holding training sessions for teachers and military veterans that were segregated by race, the Washington Free Beacon found.

In 2022, for example, Walz’s Department of Education held restorative justice “trainings and sessions” for teachers and other school officials. Participants were explicitly divided by race, with the agency establishing a “People of Color Affinity Community” for “people who personally identify as Black People, Indigenous People and People of Color.” The agency advised “White Allies” to “attend other circle trainings.”

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Many of us are probably aware of the outrageous actions of our federal law enforcement agencies against our citizens. There was the raid on the home of Roger Stone in 2021 in the early hours of the morning—it’s worth noting that Stone was an associate of Donald Trump. No one could reasonably explain why the raid of 30 armed men needed to arrive so early. Then there’s the 6:30 am raid of the home of pro-life activist Mark Houck when he was swarmed and arrested by two dozen armed agents; he was accused of pushing a pro-abortion activist at an abortion clinic who was harassing his 12-year-old son. His attorney had suggested that he voluntarily surrender, but the FBI refused. Four months later he was found not guilty.

But it seems that the government is prepared to murder people when events don’t go their way:

The Hill.

Whatever your opinion of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., he’s the first national candidate to platform the issue of chronic disease in America. To address this crisis, for children and adults alike, our response should be bipartisan.

As former members of the expert committee that oversees the science for the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, we can tell you that these chronic diseases are primarily driven by poor diet, and our guidelines are part of the problem.

At 7:30 a.m. tomorrow, millions of schoolchildren will be filling their cafeteria trays with orange juice, sugary cereals?and donuts. Administrators encourage the kids to fill up, contending the meal will fuel their day.

This isn’t dystopian fiction — it’s breakfast in 2024 America, brought to you by the guidelines published every five years?by the departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture.

Moral: Government screws up everything it touches.

Solution: Don’t let the government stick its nose into everything.

Just kidding! Actual solution: Enter into a knock-down-drag-out political fight over who gets to determine what actual content the government’s regulations reflect.

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The conservative Patriots for Europe (PfE) group in the European Parliament has nominated Elon Musk for a major EU human rights prize.

The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded by the EU Parliament to people who have made a significant contribution to the protection of human rights and freedom of expression.

“His commitment to free speech, transparency, and fighting against censorship aligns with the values of freedom and human rights,” the group wrote on X.

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‘Culture’ is an unavoidably imprecise and slippery word, sometimes used to mean creative work of some kind – art, film, music – and sometimes something (even) broader. Here I’m using it mostly in the sense of the habits of behaviour and thought that we unconsciously acquire from our society or community. Culture is everything you don’t have to think about (until you do).

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Roy argues that culture in the sense we have understood it is being inexorably eroded. It’s not, as some of his countrymen believe, that one culture is being replaced by another – say, Christianity by Islam. It’s that all culture is being hollowed out by technology, data, globalisation, bureaucracy, and consumerist individualism. Local cultures, in the sense of finely patterned, shared sensibilities, automatically absorbed and deeply felt, are no match for these bulldozing, ‘deculturating’ forces.

We still need shared norms of behaviour in order to function as societies, however. So in place of implicit culture, he says, we have introduced explicit “norms”: rules of behaviour and speech which aren’t felt or intuited but articulated, coded for, and argued over endlessly. Without instinctive standards for behaviour we have to thrash everything out, from the correct use of pronouns to how to behave on public transport or dress for work. “Culture war” implies some kind of profound division between people, but in truth, suggests Roy, our differences are shallow and petty and all the more bad-tempered for it. Scrape away culture and what you’re left with is negotiation. Everything is politics.

UK Independent.

Luke Ings was handed a controversial imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence for robbery and a fight in McDonalds aged just 17.

The jail terms were scrapped in 2012 amid human rights concerns, but not retrospectively – leaving almost 3,000 people languishing in prison with no release date.

His devastated mother Samantha, 57, said Luke, now 36, is trapped with “monsters” inside maximum security HMP Wakefield, which is home to some of Britain’s most serious criminals, having spent his entire adult life inside.

Britain, of course, doesn’t have the Constitutional protections available in the U.S.

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The university’s president, Darryll J. Pines, who studies aerospace engineering, was accused of copying significant portions of a paper in 2002.

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As Rabobank’s Michael Every adds, “US businesses could miss the key Black Friday/Cyber Monday peak sales period. Port trade is around $2.12trn, and 72% would grind to a halt, a one-day strike reportedly taking six days to recover from, a one-week strike in October creating bottlenecks until mid-November, not factoring in Red Sea disruptions caused by the not-terrorist Houthis.”

If goods are then forced to shift to the US West Coast ports, Rabobank speculates that Asia-US freight rates could leap to $20,000, far above the peak seen in the last supply-chain crisis. That would mean firms with low margins might opt not to import at all, creating empty shelves.

A strike called by–wait for it–labor unions, the Democrat base.

Democrats don’t care how many people get hurt, so long as it profits them.

“There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.” — Calvin Coolidge

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As traditional delivery methods contribute to urban traffic congestion and pollution, cargo bikes – a staple of bike-friendly countries like Denmark and the Netherlands – are becoming a common sight in cities across Europe as a sustainable and efficient alternative to vans.
These larger, typically electric bikes with separate carriers can transport a wide range of loads, from small parcels to larger items, making them ideal for urban deliveries.
In Europe, it is estimated that up to 50 per cent of motorised trips involving the transport of goods in cities could be made by cargo bikes and bicycles, according to a recent study.

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Already, just 2 years in operation, 270 panels (5%) of the Muttsee project need to be replaced, and that at an exorbitant cost. Just check out the Axpo promotion video and take a look at the equipment needed to build the project. The helicopters, cranes, rigging and this caliber of personnel aren’t cheap.

The meaning of ‘renewable energy’ is that the equipment needs to be renewed year after year after year after….

Newsbusters.

Adding to the stakes of who wins in November, the big issue in 2025 will be the expiration of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, aka the Trump tax cuts. A look back at the media’s performance seven years ago, as the tax reform package moved through Congress, shows the liberal media’s raging hostility to lower tax rates — and the wrongheadedness of their predictions that lower rates wouldn’t boost economic prosperity.

The Hill.

Harris, the Deep State candidate, appreciates their support.

When I first read the headline, I thought it said ‘highly rank’, and I thought to myself, ‘Yeah, that’s about right’.

Politico.

‘Loophole’, in prog-speak, means ‘something the law allows that I think ought to be illegal’. This is why mail-in ballots, which favor the Left, are never described as a ‘loophole.’

Leading the way is the nonprofit Congressional Institute, which is run by veteran Republican staffers and funded by $3 million in annual dues from private interest groups.

Notice that the objection is not to the ‘loophole’, but to Republicans getting some sort of advantage from the ‘loophole’.

In prog-speak, ‘private interest groups’ are always non-Left and therefore Bad, while Left ‘private interest groups’ are always ‘watchdogs’ or ‘public interest groups’ and therefore Good.

CNN.

What do they know that you don’t?

Time to leave.

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As tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have shot up to new highs, Israeli soldiers anticipating being deployed to the north are increasingly turning for help to the civilian donation efforts that have kept them stocked in Gaza.

Adi Vaxman, who heads the U.S.-based donation effort called Operation Israel, fields requests from individual soldiers and says demand has spiked in tandem with security developments involving Hezbollah.

“With the situation up north, the demand has tripled in the last few days,” Vaxman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last week. She said the total requests by soldiers in September are on pace to reach double the roughly 15,000 requests from August.

Nothing illustrates the essential inferiority of dependence on the government than efforts such as these. There used to be a site, the link for which I long ago lost, where you could go online and pay for a pizza to be delivered to Israeli soldiers.

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is considered the crown jewel of “public” broadcasting. All global journalism in English seeks to mimic it. That’s not a good thing, since it is rife with leftist bias, and on the Israel-Hamas war, it can be difficult to distinguish from Al-Jazeera.

At FoxNews.com, lawyer Trevor Asserson explained his research into anti-Israel bias, and how the BBC “flunks Journalism 101.” Like PBS and NPR in America, the BBC is legally obliged to produce impartial news. For this, it is rewarded with $5 billion a year by British taxpayers. (PBS and NPR surely envy that.)

Asserson and a team of about 20 lawyers and 20 data scientists used artificial intelligence to analyze nine million words from the BBC on TV, radio, podcasts, and social media, starting on October 7, 2023 — when Hamas slaughtered innocent Israeli citizens and others (including Americans). At the MRC, we wouldn’t trust software to substitute for human reading, but knowing the BBC’s patterns, we doubt a different result.

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The degradation of liberal education in America is anything but a niche public-policy concern.

Like all rights-protecting democracies – and especially as a 21st-century great power with globe-spanning interests – the United States requires a host of highly-trained individuals to keep its government functioning, military operating, economy churning, and civil society thriving. Essential men and women perform manual labor, offer basic services, and run small businesses. In addition, the nation needs physicists, chemists, and biologists; lawyers, doctors, and business executives; teachers, software engineers, and architects; journalists and civil servants; military officers, politicians, diplomats, judges, and religious leaders; and many more.

To acquire the professional skills necessary to fill key roles in America’s advanced industrial society, individuals must typically obtain a four-year college degree. Prestigious undergraduate programs, which incubate America’s highly credentialed elites, purport to offer the requisite professional training – or requisite introduction to professional training – within the framework of liberal education.

Newsbusters.

Amanpour & Co. covered Israel’s bravura anti-terrorist tactic of rerigging and then mass-detonating communication gear (pages and walkie-talkies) used by the Iran-based terrorist group Hezbollah, killing and maiming thousands of terrorists. Israel was acting in response to Hezbollah firing rockets from its base in Lebanon since Hamas carried out its invasion and civilian rape and massacre October 7.

But Christiane Amanpour and her CNN reporter in the field petulantly framed the humiliating attack on Hezbollah’s operatives from the terrorist group’s perspective, with a particular focus on the Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s leader since 1992, Friday morning on PBS.

Like something out of ‘Springtime for Hitler’.

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I’ll bet there’s a hell of a story behind that.

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The Biden White House held its first cabinet meeting in a year, and for some bizarre reason that no one can fathom, Joe Biden’s wife was chairing it.

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A group of around thirty North African culture-enrichers disembarked on the beach at the resort town of Nerja in Andalucía last Thursday. Unlike their 8th-century predecessors, they didn’t travel by felucca: this time they arrived on an inflatable speedboat.

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In sum, the real driver here is political and ideological alignment, not individual behaviors influencing policy support. The authors, caught in their academic bubble, overlook the obvious: people who buy into the climate crisis narrative will support all the policies and behaviors at once—not as a result of any behavioral spillover, but because they see it all as part of the same belief system.

Gothamist.

Time to leave.

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While it is popular to think that there are no real biological reasons for why women generally didn’t fight in history, that is not the case. In reality, differences between men and women are quite significant, and are a result of basic biological factors such as genes / chromosomes and sex hormones. Even the same genes may express themselves differently due to impact of sex hormones. Both men and women produce the sex hormones (testosterone, oestradiol and progesterone), but their quantity can vary by several orders of magnitude depending on sex and menopausal status. So can their effects: while testosterone in men may inhibit muscle degradation pathways, this effect was not observed in women. These differences have major implications for womens’ ability to perform in combat – and especially in the melee. So here I will look at the why female warriors were so rare, and finally at some historical evidence of warrior women that did exist.

And while argument could be made that fantasy does not need to keep with reality, fact is that most fantasy settings simply have normal humans living in them with some minor supernatural or simply fantasy elements surrounding them. In One Piece, where superpowers gained through Devil Fruits as well as sheer willpower (Haki) dominate combat, it is not unrealistic to have women fight as well (and it should be noted that One Piece is still realistic in that women are generally weaker than men in the setting). Same goes for other supernatural settings relying on magical combat, such as Fairy Tail, Codex Alera and similar. After all, physical limitations matter far less for people who can levitate objects with their minds. But in a historical or low-magic setting such as Lord of the Rings or A Song of Ice and Fire, female warriors are – and should be – exceptionally rare.

Women were not crafted by evolution for war, as men are. Robert Heinlein was fond of saying, “Women are what we fight for, not what we fight with.” Putting women in combat is like shooting your enemies with golden bullets–sure, you can do that, but why would you want to?

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“I was told that they discovered her father was white,” the musician said in a recent interview.

The consequences of ‘black’ being an ethnic tribal identity rather than, you know, a color.

No wonder the population growth rate is less than replacement.

CNN.

Self-service kiosks at McDonald’s and other fast-food chains have loomed as job killers since they were first rolled out 25 years ago. But nobody predicted what actually happened.

In one of the earliest mentions of kiosks in fast-food settings in 1999, now-defunct trade industry publication Business Information said that McDonald’s was working to “develop an electronic order-taking system that may eventually replace some of its human equivalents.”

Instead, touchscreen kiosks have added extra work for kitchen staff and pushed customers to order more food than they do at the cash register. The kiosks show the unintended consequences of technology in fast-food and retail settings, including self-checkout. Chains are now experimenting with artificial intelligence at drive-thru lanes, and the experience with kiosks holds lessons for them.

Today, instead of replacing workers, companies deploy kiosks to transfer labor to other tasks like handing off pickup orders, help increase sales, easily adjust prices and speed up service. (Many chains, including Subway, Chick-fil-A and Starbucks, don’t use them much or at all.)

Kiosks “guarantee that the upsell opportunities” like a milkshake or fries are suggested to customers when they order, Shake Shack CEO Robert Lynch said on an earnings call last month. “Sometimes that is not always a priority for employees when you’ve got 40 people in line. You’re trying to get through it as quick as possible.” Kiosks also shift employees from behind the cash register to maintaining the dining area, delivering food to customers or working in the kitchen, he said.

The whole ‘automation as job killer’ is a popular trope in the Narrative Media, most of whom are ignorant (sometimes willfully so) of how businesses actually operate. Shallow-minded people typically mistake the map for the territory and think of a ‘job’ as a thing that can be created, killed, shipped overseas, brought back from overseas, or I suppose thrown overboad like a cargo container.

A ‘job’ is merely a convenient expression for ‘a person performing a service’. If a machine can perform that service, then is it still a ‘job’? Not for those who think of ‘jobs’ as something pertaining to ‘workers’, who must be defended by the Forces of Progress and Enlightenment.

There are services that people can perform better than machines, and there are services that machines can perform as well as people. When machines can perform a service adequately at lower cost than hiring a person to do that job, then the machine is substituted for the person, which process is characterized by the convenient expression ‘automation’. But the service remains; it is merely performed by a machine rather than a  person–the ‘job’ itself remains, just performed by a different operator. Whether a ‘job’ can be ‘automated’ depends on the state of technology, and as technology gets better, more and more ‘jobs’ can be ‘automated’ successfully. But no ‘jobs’ are harmed by this process; each step remains and needs to be accomplished unless the process itself is changed.

Labor unions throughout history have been built on this mistake-the-map-for-the-territory brain fart. They act to protect the ‘jobs’ of their members even when those ‘jobs’ are merely make-work and actually damage the business process of which they are supposedly a part. History teaches us that areas of activity in which unions come to predominate become increasingly inefficient and incompetent. In a business that needs to deal with competitors and attract customers, unionized companies eventually lose customers to competitors who are more efficient or more competent (or both) and, if they don’t fix things, die. The auto industry is the poster child for this natural evolutionary process.

In areas where customers are not free to go elsewhere, as with government, unionization merely makes everybody suffer from the effects of inefficiency and incompetence, which is why, in the Good Old Days government employees weren’t allowed to unionize. (Democrats eventually got that changed, with results as you see them.)

Automation makes goods and services less expensive, or higher quality, or both. Anybody who knows anything about business knows this–but that excludes most ‘journalists’, which is how we get articles like the one referenced in this post.

Babylon Bee.

Satire–Read it quickly before it becomes true.

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Poor people steal bread because they are hungry.

Rich kids steal snacks and candy because they are bored.

Time to leave.

Gothamist.

The underpass near Cherry Street and Stewart Avenue in Brooklyn where police say 6 men were injured by gunfire.

Time to leave.

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Waiting for apologies from climate eco-Nazis … waiting … waiting….

UPDATE: Glacier National Park replacing signs that predicted glaciers would gone by 2020

… waiting … waiting … waiting….

ZMan:

Soldiers grumble about the commanding officers all the time. This is normal and probably healthy, but it is a different thing than trashing the reputation of your company to customers or starting a website to air the company’s dirty laundry.
That comes to mind reading this post in the New York Times by the Republican governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine. This guy has taken to the pages of a publication that regularly slanders his party and his colleagues, in order to help them trash the standard bearer of his party in the coming election. The only thing he did not do is endorse Kamala Harris and call Trump a Nazi.
The reason he is doing this is the same reason the bad salesman trashes his company in front of a client, or the bad employee complains about his boss. That bad salesman wants the client to think he is a good guy, not like his company. The whiny employee wants everyone to think the problem is the boss and not her. DeWine. like all Republicans, wants you to know he is not like his party.

UnHerd.

arely 24 hours after an armed man was found within several hundred yards of Donald Trump on his golf course in Florida, my local newspaper ran a piece with the following headline: “Would-be assassin soured on Trump: Who did he want as presidential and VP candidates?”

Great question. What, for that matter, did the wannabe killer, Ryan Routh think of the impending match-up on Monday Night Football? What were his thoughts on electric vehicles, school choice, weight loss drugs and parenting?

More prestigious outlets hardly showed more attachment to what remains of proper American journalism. The New York Times seemed more caught up in proudly displaying the fact that it had interviewed Routh a year earlier about his experiences trying to recruit fighters in Ukraine. By the time darkness had fallen, on the very day Trump was, maybe, almost killed, you had to make your way through the coverage of the Emmy Awards, to find any mention of the assassination attempt.

If someone had tried to shoot Biden or Harris (and who could blame them?) it would have been Jan. 6 all over again, wall-to-wall news coverage 24/7 until we all had long white beards (even the women).

Gothamist.

Federal law enforcement officials served a subpoena to the director of the New York City’s Office of Asylum Seeker Operations on Friday, adding yet another twist to the ongoing investigations into Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.

The building where the director’s parents live also got a visit from law enforcement, according to surveillance footage provided to Gothamist.

The office Molly Schaeffer leads was launched in March 2023 as part of Adams’ response to the influx of migrants to the city. When the office was established, Adams said it would focus on the city’s ongoing efforts to provide “resettlement and legal services,” along with a new “24/7 arrival center for asylum-seekers.”

One of these days a government employee is going to be seized by an Attack of Honesty and call their workplace the Office of Handing Out Your Money to People Who Don’t Deserve it.

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We’ll show you how archivists package (or “house”) the most common types of physical documents for long-term storage. That is, we’ll talk boxes and files. And we’ll benefit from the experience of special contributors from the United Kingdom to compare how archivists in Canada and the UK commonly do their packaging.

Much of what we know about times past is because some people saved stuff that most of us would have thrown out. Just sayin’.

(No, I didn’t know that Archivist Barbie was a thing. Ya larn suthin new everday.)

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ICE Detains Illegal Migrant Accused Of Raping Pre-Teen In Nantucket…More Than A Month After He Walked On Bail
Each day it becomes increasingly clearer that the migrant crime the left side of the aisle wants us to believe is a figment of our imagination…isn’t.

The latest example came from, of all places, Nantucket, where 28 year old illegal migrant Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo was accused of raping a pre-teen child this past July after entering the U.S. from El Salvador.

There once was a girl in Nantucket….
It did not end well.