I hope you all survived the weekend. Today is going to be the worst of the heat. So grab a large cup of water. Nice and full of ice. Keep drinking past when you think you need it. Keep drinking water until your pee is clear.
We’ll get through this, but dammit, it’s horrible. My apartment is East facing, so it doesn’t get the worst of the afternoon heat. But it was still rather unpleasant.
Anyway, the pandemic is still going on, so please wash your hands too, and get vaccinated as soon as you can.
I identify as a long-last fourth cousin of David Goldstein. As such, it is my constitutional right to upper-deck the toilet in his master bath.
Thank GAWAD for Qualified Immunity:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-man-who-intervened-after-ambush-officer-was-fatally-shot-n1272441
Just another reminder: police simply don’t do what you think they do.
In the preceding weekend thread there was discussion of raising minimum wages and accepting some job losses at the training/lower-paid end because “we can afford it.”
In Seattle we all can afford it, except for ‘froggy. Seattle is not representative of America but here, sure, we can raise the minimum wage and largely get away with it. Unless you’re Tom Douglas trying to figure out how to restart a dozen restaurants now that Amazon’s entire company works from home, that is.
But I digress. We make choices and we can afford it, particularly as those choices affect us very little. No argument.
I believe it’s important to keep in mind that by forcing minimum wages upward and acknowledging the losses at the fringes, we need acknowledge that we’re harming minority teen would-be workers in doing so.
This is for you, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, lest you wonder whether job losses might be a “corporate lie”, as did your predecessor, Better. It’s not a lie. It’s very real, and you should spend less time cheerleading it, particularly as you possess a ninth-grade education in everything else in life.
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It’s been estimated that as many as 10% of US combat deaths are due to friendly fire – I read that when Pat Tillman bought it. And apparently as we get more deadly our aim gets worse.
The dirty little secret of the Gulf War is that “friendly fire” accounted for 24 percent of the U.S. dead.
Anyone ever notice that QoS McHillbilly has no trouble when non-targets are killed during drive-by shootings? QoS McHillbilly’s response to the 72 people shot/5 killed in Chicago over the weekend:
I see nothing wrong with this.
Yes, QoS McHillbilly, things sometimes go wrong when weapons are fired. Your aim might not be quite as good when you defend your home from an intruder after your wife is killed in the invasion as it is when your wife is merely screaming from behind the locked bathroom door. Think of it that way, perhaps. You might understand better.
Meanwhile, try to sound less like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit when you post.
Moron @ 3
We can “afford” jobs programs for youth, minority or otherwise. Done it in the past, probably doing some now and can do it again.
gfy.
when Pat Tillman bought it
I’ve read Pat Tillman read Noam Chomsky and thought Iraq was “fucking illegal”?
“Friendly” fire? Just sayin’
“corporate lie”
Corporations are people, HA’s dimfuk.. So said the great white used car salesman of a hope.
What’s next from you? People don’t lie?
Might be cooler in the parking garage, Carl. You could take a lounge charge and cooler down there. Remember, cooler air sinks, warmer air rises. Yesterday my basement gym was 18 degrees cooler than upstairs (79 vs 97). I even worked out.
@1 Doctor Dumbfuck wants LGBQT kids to use the fire hydrant in front of the school. But it’s non-discriminatory. He treats everyone else, including his wife if he has one, like a dog, too.
@2 The “good guy with a gun” is now a guy with cold, dead fingers.
You’re right about the police. They’re volatile. Jumpy. Paranoid. Trigger happy. And you can’t always rely on the color coding. It didn’t work this time.
The incoming dean of ethnic studies at CSULA, about Clarence Thomas:
At least she didn’t hope he dies “early” in a gang shooting. Or by a shank from a fellow prisoner. She wanted him to be comfortable on that premature certain day.
@3 “I believe it’s important to keep in mind that by forcing minimum wages upward and acknowledging the losses at the fringes, we need acknowledge that we’re harming minority teen would-be workers in doing so.”
Just think how many were put out of work by the Emancipation Proclamation. They didn’t seem to mind, though.
Greedy racist incel, I still fail to see how Japanese interment justifies child labor. Please explain the linkages. I’m sure the board would like to know your reasoning.
Shorter greedy racist incel. If you raise the minimum wage it will into rich people’s yacht money
She wanted him to be comfortable on that premature certain day.
And one day you will be comfortable too. In a coffin made of bricks…
of your fookin’ muneee..
Your fookin’ munee will be safe from the teh smelly hippees, safe with you, in the ground.
forever..
People will fight tooth and nail for the privilege of lighting that on fire.
Who the fuck needs that shit? Finally the world is free of a dope endlessly whinging about it.
And the world will be a much better place.
4,
By comparing the work of police departments to global militaries and military contractors you are definitely indicating that you understand what police actually do better than most.
However, I’m not confident that your assurances will give much comfort to all the spouses, parents, children, and siblings of those killed by police “friendly fire”. Nor that “we can afford it”.
Still, kudos for admitting, even if accidentally, that for the most part police are merely an violently bored occupying military force trapped between frustration and fear that we have inexplicably invited into our midst.
@14 He’s not in the “yacht class.” It’s free cooking and dishwashing that he cares about. Most men get that from wives. His problem is that horses can’t cook and don’t wash dishes.
Laugh of the Day
MJT got about 9,600 “likes” by calling AOC a “communist” and telling her to “go back to your country.”
AOC has nearly half a million “likes” and counting for her response, “I’m taller than you.”
Yep.
FLSA put millions of tweens out of work. EGADS! THE HORROR!
All those twelve and thirteen year olds did not just find it harder to get a job sweeping up razor sharp machine shop scrap or climbing inside of giant coking vessels to clean them.
IT BECAME IMPOSSIBLE! OMG!
But guess what? The shorter hours worked and overtime requirements produced job openings. And all of those jobs, new and old alike, were suddenly higher paying. So the losses of income because your 12 year old kid could no longer work a twelve hour day didn’t matter. You still had more money at the end of the month.
And your kid got to stay in school for another six years. Long enough to learn a few basic cognitive and technical skills that enabled them to take even higher paying work. Higher paying work that enabled them to pay even higher taxes to support better schools and roads and fire departments, etc. etc.
Yep. A bunch of seventeen year olds will see their hours cut and probably have no other choice but to stay in school and do the fucking reading assignment. The once about Critical Race Theory that teaches them to go to Whidbey Island for The PURGE. Which means Tara will have to strengthen her bunker and buy more guns. Which will put more money into the local Whidbey Island economy creating jobs to sell her guns and prepper supplies. See! Virtuous cycle!
11,
BizPAC of Palm Beach County, Florida.
Are you sure you aren’t a bot?
And if not, are you okay? Do you smell toast? How’s your peripheral vision? Fun Fact: these guys were some of the first big backers of WINGMAN! Too fucking funny. They’d really like you to forget that, now.
But hey! Looks fantastic on you, Tara.
Here’s one reason why millions of people marching in the street for six months, facing off against repressive police, and occasionally being baited into violence might be worth a few damaged Starbucks:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-391_2c83.pdf
Absent George Floyd and millions of people going into the street Roberts, Kavanaugh and ACB go the other way. And in the wake of George Floyd even Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch would rather review rather than remand. All twelve of The Court see that something has changed in America. Even if Every Republican You Know does not.
@ 14
If you raise the minimum wage it will
into rich people’s yacht moneywiden the wealth gap.ftfy
@22 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck posits that raising wages, especially very low wages, makes workers — especially the poorest workers — poor.
No scientific method to this, just seat-of-the-pants.
Republicans got everything they wanted in the “bipartisan” infrastructure deal. Manchin did, too.
Now McConnell is going to tell President Biden and Joe Manchin to shove it up their asses.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/560533-mcconnell-undecided-on-bipartisan-infrastructure-plan
Biden, of course, is no dummy. He knew this was coming. He also knew he had to go through this charade, in order to get Manchin and Sinema on board for reconciliation by letting McConnell knife them.
22. The greedy racist incel’s logic is not clear. Is this the same logic that Japanese internment camps justify child labor? Cuz I’m still waiting to hear how that works
24,
I suspect you are correct again.
Given the politics of it, Moscow Mitch can either try to claim a “win”, or poison the deal. In my mind if he were heading toward claiming a “win” he would be talking about all the ground Democrats gave up and then move on to talking about all the pavement and jobs, etc.
But saying he’s “undecided” looks to me like a way of politically camouflaging his opposition to “bipartisanship”. But in the end that’s what it is and that’s how American voters will see it.
He simply moves the Senate one step closer to reforming the 60-vote minority rule. Because now Manchin and Sinema will agree to pass all of the infrastructure using reconciliation. But they will have done so because of Republican extreme partisanship in the Senate.
Shorter 22,
“We mustn’t put water on the burning house of my neighbor for fear it may cause the fire to “splash” over into my house.
Sadly, it must be allowed to continue burning.”
It’s just so hard to see where the logic fails in that./s
@3 that’s precious. Bob wants more teenagers asking if you want fries with that.
Dude can’t figure out what my AGI is but he’s still gonna preschool his bullshit of how smart he is.
Gillebrand: Using taxpayer funds to repair failing beachfront high-rise buildings owned by Jews in Miami is infrastructure.
Gillebrand: Using taxpayer funds to repair failing beachfront high-rise buildings owned by Jews in Miami is infrastructure.
Showing your orange stripes there dimfuk..
A team from the country that can do no wrong is deployed at the disaster site. It appears you believe that’s all that’s needed. U.S. taxpayers send billions of dollars to the country that does no wrong each year but eh, who’s counting?
@30 DeSantis won’t, so I guess New York taxpayers have to.
Or just let ’em fall down. With people in ’em. That’s how they do things in DeSantis’ state. And that guy wants to be president.
“One official from the town of Surfside had previously assured the association that their building was ‘in very good shape’ in November 2018, meeting minutes obtained by CNN show — even though he had received the report about structural damage two days earlier.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/28/us/surfside-condo-owners-assessments-invs/index.html
The town building code official, no less. Sure looks like the municipality of Surfside, Florida, is effectively bankrupt.
161 dead x $2.5 million = $402.5 million
I see power outages are beginning to hit the Seattle area. I suspected that might happen, although it’s unclear whether the system is overloaded, or there are other causes.
KOMO News says 13,000 Bellevue customers have been without power since yesterday.
Seattle City Light’s website says nearly 11,000 of their customers are without power, including a large area west of Greenwood Avenue between N. 105th and N. 145th, i.e. the neighborhood north of Carkeek Park. The cause of that outage is being “investigated.” SCL attributed two other big outages in South Seattle to “equipment failure.”
Not much I can say. Too late — for this heat wave — to shop for an air conditioner or fans, or install a home backup generator. Those choo-choos have left the station. But my guess is this isn’t the last heat wave Seattle will experience as we continue to burn fossil fuels and the planet continues to warm up.
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It was out for about an hour here in the Rainer Valley. Just came back on.Right now, LINK is holding up better than MAX in Portland. Seems the OCS on MAX is susceptible to temperature swings, but was asking about in on the Northwest Railfans Facebook Group, and it seems to be the older equipment on the Blue and Red lines.