Good morning, January’s almost over. Who’s ready to spend hours of unpaid labor to ensure they’re complying with a mountain of “laws” written by oligarchs with no input from those held captive to this pile of bullshit, all to take fake money out of circulation to act as the only brake on runaway inflation from the degenerates doing all the printing?
This makes more sense to, a simple man with no schemes to control others or cheat my way to wealth.
Abs and quadz.
Posing practice.
Triptych 1.
Triptych 2.
This pillow fight is going to end in some serious injuries.
I can do this for maybe 0.0002 seconds.
And now for the last 2 days of January.
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Checking Your Mom's Drawers for Hope&Change since March 2009 
Pfleh. I swear someone snuck an extra week or two into this January.
Why is the inner city such a cesspool?
Why do men run around impregnating many but fathering none?
Why do women allow themselves to be used and abused and live in a hopeless squalor?
Why do people engage in gangbanging and turf wars and a short life of violence and zero accomplishments?
Answer: Because they like it.
I came to this conclusion last night. Because they like it. If they hated living this way, if it violated their inner selves and made no sense to their values, they wouldn’t do it.
They like it, but we also subsidize it. They are able to live that way because we pay for it.
awww, twitter wants me to follow the CDC account.
That’s cute.
I’d follow CDC like Nerdrotic watches Marvel movies.
Evidently we like it too because we subsidize it.
… at gunpoint.
Nobody is holding a gun to people’s head to vote or not vote.
Yet.
The subsidy is extracted under threat of fines and imprisonment, and the threat of lethal force is all that ultimately backs those.
It’s not really funded through taxes, though, except perhaps as a bookkeeping matter. It’s mostly funded through the stealth tax of inflation at this point.
That is obvious, but the people who enacted the laws those fines and punishments are tools to enforce were elected.
We elected them.
I didn’t vote for any of them, and I don’t think you did either, but “we” elected them.
I woke up from a dream about being some kind of super spy with totally jacked up muscles and i was walking around my neighborhood with no shirt on for (I assume) totally legitimate reasons.
Then I had to go to a concert venue and got in a confrontation with this total bitch. After I woke I realized it was more of an “am I the asshole?” kind of situation.
I told Mrs S this dream, and she told me her dream involved this incredibly beautiful music, and when she woke up, she realized her brain was capable of creating beautiful music. Somehow, her saying that made my brain come up with a fugue subject. Fortunately I keep my bass in the bedroom so I grabbed it, worked out the notes, and now I have the beginning of a fugue.
The ballot population was strongly in favor.
I told Mrs S this dream, and she told me her dream involved this incredibly beautiful music, and when she woke up, she realized her brain was capable of creating beautiful music.
I’ve totally had that dream. If only there were a way to hold on to what the subconscious conceives.
I got my chick brooder box built yesterday. 8’x4’x2′ frame. The vinyl is still laid out flat, but I’ve got another month or so before the chicks come to get it into the box and get a lid made.
Hotbride has a dead battery. It was dead suddenly on Friday. I went home mid afternoon and jumped it and let it run for an hour or so charging. Then Saturday morning it was dead again. So I put the charger on it all Saturday and Saturday night, then disconnected it yesterday morning to see if it would hold a charge.
It’s dead, Jim.
It’s too fucking cold to go buy a battery and put it in myself, so I’m sending her to the shop so they can do it.
I prefer to call it “my time is more valuable”. You might call it laziness.
My hot neighbor has chickens. I think she has about six.
Last fall she told me she was getting a rooster. She assured me it would be the kind that doesn’t crow.
I said, “Brandi, first time he wakes me up — I can see the pen through the scope on my .22 out the bedroom window.” (Yeah, her name’s Brandi, but she isn’t a stripper or anything.)
She laughed. So far she hasn’t gotten one.
Are there roosters that don’t crow?
I mean, if there are, maybe she got one and I just don’t know about it because it doesn’t crow.
I’ve designed some beautiful homes in my dreams.
I’m unaware of such a thing. Maybe “doesn’t crow often” but “never” seems unlikely.
I’ve got 30 chicks due to ship Feb 28. Have to be ready to house them all by then. Box needs lining, and I need an extra waterer and a feeding tray. Might want an extra heat lamp, but I have to do some testing first.
Teh Intarwebs claim the breed known as “silkie” don’t crow often, and solitary roosters often don’t crow at all. Cannot vouch because Intarwebs and actually working because that cold or whatever finally fucked off.
Mine crows about 18′ from my window, and I barely notice anymore. I’m an early riser though.
Solitary roosters do crow, so that’s bullshit. It’s not constant or anything, but it happens.
hot neighbors with chickens, just got hotter. Gotta love self sufficiency!
twitter: touching back story on Finnish Frozen trans skater
Living the dream!
anyone else cold? 5 degrees yesterday, 0 today. brrr!
21F here, supposed to be single digits tomorrow.
Always awkward using the words “touching” and “back” in a story about a trans
Guys at the post office were talking about a cold spell coming but I haven’t checked the forecast yet. If it’s true I’ll need to find my long pants.
RE lumpy’s point.
Yeah, seems totally correct. I’d also add that there is a complete ignorance of how the world works. They literally have no idea how to do things that might change their lives and make assumptions that it’s all corrupt. And in many cases they’re totally correct, but not all.
And it’s not racial, it’s socioeconomic.
At least my opinion.
There’s some parable about capturing wild pigs by feeding them consistently in a spot and then building a fence around them.
The American inner city is 3 generations removed now from the original captives. All instinct toward independent living is gone, and they now just push on the fences demanding more kibble.
And it’s not racial, it’s socioeconomic.
This is true,
Northern Michigan is full of people who are the product of generational welfare.They basically do drugs, grift, and poach deer.
They have the same lack of social skills and same chip on their shoulders as their ghetto counterparts.
They have no education because the public schools up there are just as fucked as they are in Flint or Detroit. And because it’s several generations deep, the parents and grandparents are just as hopeless.
The indian reservations are the worst.
Mid forties here today. I think we’re going to have a winter with virtually no snow (just a few trace flurries that didn’t last). Freezing rain and sleet, but not snow. I haven’t had to touch my snow shovels.
Made a crockpot of kielbasa and sauerkraut yesterday, which should last for multiple meals this coming week. A residue of growing up in western PA with lots of Polish friends and neighbors.
Never has roosters that didn’t crow. I suppose there may be a way to surgically accomplish that, but it seems cruel. It’s easier to just acclimate to the noise, like the year I lived next to the Chevron refinery and got so used to the trains going by that didn’t notice even when it shook the house.
Car batteries don’t last like they used to. I think they get acid added before they ship, so they start to degrade as soon as they get loaded on those container ships, instead of shipping dry. And then months in transit. Used to be that batteries shipped dry and the end seller added the acid. Modern cars can be very sensitive to weak batteries because of the onboard electronics.
I’ve given up on worrying about urban feral populations. Not under my control or influence. The only solution is personal, to avoid cities, avoid crowds, avoid people. There are plenty of no-go zones in US cities.
This is true,
Northern Michigan is full of people who are the product of generational welfare.They basically do drugs, grift, and poach deer.
They have the same lack of social skills and same chip on their shoulders as their ghetto counterparts.
They have no education because the public schools up there are just as fucked as they are in Flint or Detroit. And because it’s several generations deep, the parents and grandparents are just as hopeless.
The indian reservations are the worst.
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I read hillbilly elegy recently. The theme of the book, which wasn’t written very well, is that the hillbillies make terrible decisions, much of them very short term.
It comes down to this: I don’t believe I have a future, so fuck it today.
Batteries don’t last nearly as long as they used to. When the first cold snap hit here, I had to replace the batteries in 3 trucks. 2 batteries each, and batteries cost a whole lot more than they used to.
Finally warming up here. We had a couple of days in the single digits last week.
So, Sobek woke up in a fugue state, how’s that working for you? 😉
everyone shut up about batteries not lasting. I’ve had a string of good luck lately.
and batteries cost a whole lot more than they used to
Amen to that.
The one for my wife’s car is $239 at Autozone. I mean, how many amps does it take to start a fucking four cylinder Kia Soul?
The guys at the gas station like my wife so they sold her the battery and charged $25 to diagnose it and swap it out.
I was going to say “put it in”, but you fucking perverts…
Just be glad your batteries aren’t someplace crazy, like under the passenger side seating.
Still salty about my fun and games last autumn.
It comes down to this: I don’t believe I have a future, so fuck it today.
I’ve been there. Part of me is still there.
battery for my stratus was inside the driver side front quarterpanel.
Dodge Viper battery is behind the back wheel.
I’ve been there. Part of me is still there.
It’s hard to ever really leave there, entirely, isn’t it?
There is surely a rural segment of the population that mirrors the feral urban one.
My theory is that whenever the economy makes massive shifts, it leaves behind human residue of the people that couldn’t or didn’t make the shift. Appalachia has the coal mining. Michigan UP has the copper miners. Much of rural America has the agricultural shift from the early 1900’s. The Rust Belt, same. The PNW, the logging and paper industry, same. Anyone who has ever lost a job surely understands the trauma that comes with that.
The major difference that I see between rural and urban is that most times, the rural poor doesn’t blame anyone and everyone with a different skin tone for their problems. Which tends to make them inherently less dangerous to some of us.
It is. I can distract myself, but it lurks, changes shape, refines its rhetoric, waits for bad moments.
The major difference that I see between rural and urban is that most times, the rural poor doesn’t blame anyone and everyone with a different skin tone for their problems. Which tends to make them inherently less dangerous to some of us.
I can walk through Marcellus, MI at night without fear.
You won’t catch me in Benton Harbor going less than 55 mph.
I can walk through Marcellus, MI at night without fear.
True, but put a black person behind the wheel and he’d be well advised to go the same 55mph.
I don’t know anything about Marcellus so I don’t mean to judge, but in Kaleva, Mesick, or Copemish he’d have a fifty fifty chance of making it out unscathed.
I don’t know anything about any of those towns, but I guarantee you that anyone is better off walking through Midland than Saginaw, any time of the day. No matter what your skin tone.
Marcellus is Rust Belt. Very white demographics, but a lot of poverty and some drug issues. Property crimes dominate, not much violence. The black guy is probably safe there most of the time, but the cops will assume he’s there for crime.
“It comes down to this: I don’t believe I have a future, so fuck it today.”
That describes my reservations perfectly.
Despair is on my standard list of sins when I drag myself to Confession. Has been for a few years now. It’s on the same list as Envy: sins so shitty that there isn’t even any pleasure involved.
If only you knew someone with a battery store, Hotspur
I should stop in. My flashlight is dimming.
RE Tyre
We should defund the police and the criminals
AoS comments say 3/5 of the cops were full-time members of the Vice Lords. The beatdown was gang-related/personal.
If only you knew someone with a battery store, Hotspur
Carin, I know. Don’t tell Pay.
Lincoln Park is a haul, and I just didn’t have the time today.
That’s what PG said the other night as first blush thoughts
I get ya, Leon. It’s what clued me in to the fact no mortal pills would cure my problems. I’m learning. It’s slow. I still have plenty of down periods. But I’m learning.
spent 11.50 on 36 eggs, felt ripped off. Now hearing others are over $6 a dozen. Lucked out!
My car informs me that there is something wrong with the “Auxiliary Battery”. I had to look it up – seems there’s another battery that separately powers…other things. The article was vague. Anyway, nothing critical but something to get fixed the next time I go to the shop for stuff. I’m due for transmission service, oil change and have a broken running light. It’s a Mercedes so THAT’s going to be an expen$ive day.
Dammit. Missed the opportunity to use “eggspen$ive”.
My Tacoma just got its third battery. Not bad for a 2007 model!
We use egg whites in addition to eggs and those, not surprisingly, have shot up too. $4.55 for a quart container today.
Finally looked at the weather forecast. Friday low of -5 and Saturday low of -18.
Snow suit weather – not a joke.
Oh man I remember snowsuits. They were awesome! Made a little kid invincible in the snow. Until you had to pee.
up to 10 here
+1 Lizard at work today, scurried out of the back door threshold. Been in the 50s after getting frosty at night, poor little fella.
You’ll be a leetle more grown up sounding if you call them “snowmobile suits”. Just sayin.
Somewhere there is a snapshot of my little brother hung up on the picket fence by his snowsuit taken by his big brother who was charged with watching him while mom and dad were working.
Many years later when I visited him at his frat at UMaine where he was the president he announced my presence at dinner and let the Delta Tau Delta brothers know that I was the guy who hung him up on the fence.
Until you had to pee.
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Paula just got a unitard for swimming/biking/running triathlons and wore it Saturday for her swim class. She was dressed and ready to leave and I heard her crying out in anguish as she stopped to pee before her drive because she had to take most of her clothes off just to pee.
Let me just say, I won’t be donning a unitard in the foreseeable future
Jimbro, one of the things my GF and I will randomly exclaim out of the blue is “DAMMMN, WHY I GOTTA WEAR A BODYSUIT!!??” which is something she heard shouted from inside a public bathroom stall once, more than twenty years ago.
OT:
Rebecca’s second surgery is scheduled for tomorrow morning, weather permitting. It is hoped that this surgery will give Rebecca’s hip joint a better chance of success. We feel very good about this surgery, and are hopeful about the ultimate outcome.
In the meantime, everyone is “frozen in” tonight – I hear there is a nurses’ (slumber) party planned up on the 4th floor!
tinyurl.com/RebeccaSameSongSecondVerse
(Link goes to Rebecca’s Caring Bridge page)
We got a truck full of Easter candy today. Except none of the candy says Easter. We have candy that is good for egg hunts. Spring mix. Springtime mix. Bunnies best chocolate. Chocolate bunnies. Crazy.
TiFW, praying for Rebecca.
Are they changing the liner or the whole acetabulum? Any talk of a constrained liner? What approach did they use?
My grocery store is still in Valentine’s Day mode. They had faux Sumo oranges (Dekopon Mandarins) for $1.97 EACH!
Copper thieves will save us from EVs.
God tells the best jokes.
The mouth is the wrong shape and xenomorphs have no visible eyes. Still, that’s awesome.
https://9gag.com/gag/a1P1Aob
Copper thieves will save us from EVs.
More like, you might be able to have more EVs but that will require more law and order. CHOOSE, LEFTIST SCUM.
I guarantee you they will just opt for cameras on charging stations while furloughing cops that might review the evidence.
People are reporting that commercial feed is counterproductive crap.
https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/making-your-own-chicken-feed/
Dean essentially remained philosophical.