by liberal japonicus
Well, what are you waiting for?
"This is the Voice of Moderation. I wouldn't go so far as to say we've actually SEIZED the radio station . . . "
"This is the Voice of Moderation. I wouldn't go so far as to say we've actually SEIZED the radio station . . . "
by liberal japonicus
Well, what are you waiting for?
Well, I don’t think Kane is evil.
What Pro Bono said.
Apart from which, Goldzilla’s U-turn in less than 24 hours on charging 20% of cargo value on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz is only the latest (but one of the most xxx*) faux pas of his entire second term. It’s incomprehensible that 33% of the US public seems oblivious to his incompetent, ignorant and shambolic conduct. Quite apart from the fact that transit through the Strait (International Water by law) was free before his insane war on Iran. Not to mention that yesterday’s “policy” was also another naked example of a protection racket.
*xxx because I can’t think of one word which sufficiently describes it. Egregious, stupid, self-defeating; none of these are good enough.
The man appreciates nothing but flattery and money. How could he possibly make informed, sound decisions on anything else? He’s a f**king lizard.
So that didn’t work out, lol.
Spain was brilliant, so well deserved.
The prediction market is simply another way to get around gambling regulations. They are what they are, gamblers will gamble As fir. Crypto, the market is actually sorting out chains that have a legitimate usage within the financial system and those. That are still trying. There is room for any number of specialized functional block chains and the tokens simply avoid currency exchange costs or inherent delays in other transaction systems. Those meme coins or chains with no legitimate function are simply ponzi schemes where the only good is if you get out first
Hi all!
As fir. Crypto, the market is actually sorting out chains that have a legitimate usage within the financial system and those. That are still trying.
I have yet to see a persuasive case, even a mildly persuasive one, for a legitimate need for Crypto. If you are engaged in illegal activities, it’s quite useful. But beyond that? Legal activities which need it? Crickets.
Is it gambling if you already know the outcome? All betting has the potential to lead to corruption, but prediction markets appear to have taken that potential to another level.
George Santos was dumb enough to get caught betting on himself. (That guys is really something, huh? What if he put his mental energy into something productive?)
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5843371/george-santos-kalshi-insider-trading-investigation
nice work if you can get it.
The “All” chart is spectacular. Get out early, indeed.
Well, if France v Spain had the feeling of a Final, England v Argentina has the feeling of an eternal return. Let’s hope it is another one for the ages.
Recovery proceeds. Pain has shifted to a dull and distant ache and occasional inflammation causing tingling. One week out from my first follow-up with osteo. No idea if the pins are coming out then or waiting a while longer.
Still keenly aware of my great good fortune, having an injury that should prove nothing more than a short-term constraint, and having it fall during a break in my work responsibilities. Dust on the scales here in Disability Pride Month.
For something a bit different, there’s this headline in my local paper
Hegseth announces new policy to test troops for low testosterone (Probably paywalled. Sorry about that.)
I wonder if he’s also planning on also using this in his campaign to rid the military of women. Just apply the same “standard” to both genders, and watch the women “fail to meet the required standard. “
Kegsbreath Mandates Gender-Affirming Care for Military.
Well, that might be useful for a campaign to get him booted out as Secretary of Defense.
And women with too high testosterone will of course be disqualified too, as in sports. They are most probably butch lesbians anyway, the worst kind of women there is (from the toxic male POV).
If he wants high testosterone, he should hire male elephants in the musth. THAT is aggressive and lethal. And war elephants have a very long tradition too unlike war donkeys (so this would also favor the GOP image of the military). Check for His Orangeness and Kegsbreath investing in rodenticides (if any of them has ever heard about the alleged mice phobia of these pachyderms) as a sign that this change is ready to take place. On the other hand: elephants come from Africa (=> blacks in disguise) and India (not much better). But it could be a white elephants only policy (which would make it hideously expensive, which would be seen as a bonus feature). Fully outfitted war elephants would also be VERY impressive in parades (and could be used to stamp protesters on the spot too).
No paywall for me, but I have enough odd plugins installed in my copy of Firefox that I’m not a good test case.
Obligatory.
Kegsbreath Mandates Gender-Affirming Care for Military.
LOL.
This whole “low-T” stuff is so funny. The first time I ever saw the expression was when I was checking in on our old friend Seb Gorka’s twitter some time ago – I think he used it about Talarico. It’s another of those things that is an absolute tell by insecure, inadequate men.
Still keenly aware of my great good fortune, having an injury that should prove nothing more than a short-term constraint…
In hindsight, that’s the category I’d put my two broken ribs in. Well, the bone part at least. Sometime during the first month, when broken ribs on the left side had me overusing my right arm, I managed to bung up my right shoulder. I don’t remember when I first did something to it — late teens, maybe? — but every several years I annoy it again. For a year after the ribs I kept thinking that exercise and stretching had the shoulder back to normal, then something would irritate it again.
There’s no way I’m ever letting an orthopedic doc image that shoulder, I’m sure they would be eager to rebuild it.
This whole “low-T” stuff is so funny.
The only time I ever had my testosterone level tested was when I was diagnosed with low bone density in my mid-40s. That was a reasonable thing to do, as “low-T” is the most common cause for male osteopenia at that age. Won a dollar from the GP that ordered the test: “Wanna bet? I shave this damned beard every morning; ain’t no way I’m short on testosterone.”
So that didn’t work out lol.
And now it’s sixty years of hurt…..
And blame the German time, lol.
My testosterone levels are somewhat low, but my testosterone sensitivity is high. It’s more complicated than MAGA know-nothings suppose.
I think there should be a worldwide testosterone-testing regime so magazines like Forbes and US News & World Report can rank countries by average testosterone levels.
“TOP 50 COUNTRIES BY TESTOSTERONE LEVELS”
Who wouldn’t read that?
Pretty much everything is more complicated than they suppose. Perhaps more precisely, far more complicated than they want the world to be.
The wonderful thing for them about having their people in charge is that official explanations, and official actions, are as simplicized as they have always deamed of. With occasional exceptions, they don’t much care how (ideologically, politically, operationally) things were simplified. Just that they were.
Further proof of how these incredibly inadequate idiots are using “lowT”
Eric Trump, posting on X about the US Navy Blue Angels doing a low-altitude flyover of Pensacola Beach, on seeing the news (ABC) that the Blue Angels leadership is reviewing the circumstances, said this:
“Can’t stand the manufactured outrage by the low-T mainstream media. This was undoubtedly the highlight of these people’s [on the beach] day”
Goodness, now No 10 feels the need to weigh in because of a stupid banner claiming the Falklands for Argentina and Lineker is wondering if Tuchel is a German spy.
This is why I hate English international football. The self-pity, the mythologising, the handwringing, the jingoism, it’s like we’re back in the 80s.
i’m sure it’s a coincidence that a search “fascism and masculinity” on gives you dozens and dozens of books, papers and articles about the connection.
Lineker is wondering if Tuchel is a German spy.
Surely that was a joke?! And on the jingoism, there’s certainly some among the St George’s flag-waving fans. But (I give you self-pitying) the lyrics of Three Lions do make it clear that the England side in the World Cup are more likely to “throw it away, blow it away” than not. It’s a particularly English kind of self-deprecation, most unlike the crowds in the US who chant USA! USA! so cockily (I’m sure you’re not in favour of them either).
England seems to have found a measure of football humility and perspective in the last decade, even if their football media missed that memo. I read lots of scathing analyses of Tuchel’s failings already in the lead-up to the Argentina match. The UK has its own weird version of the Jantelagen. The England team can never be sufficient to the moment no matter what in the eyes of the football media.
The low-t thing does not surprise me. I watched it build at the roots during the Iraq years and the start of the BLM years. The martial arts group I trained with had ties to the SOF community, so I was hearing the mix of militarism and masculinity evangelism first hand. The guro of my training group got caught up in all that alt-right manosphere insecurity bullshit. Biggest reason I resisted getting more involved and eventually left.
I truly don’t understand why it went viral. It always struck me as pathetic and whiny.