Is the header image too aggressive? Nah.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Joe Manchin opposes For the People Act in blow to Democrats’ voting rights push
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/06/joe-manchin-opposes-for-the-people-act-democrats-voting-rights
This is a good little read.
I joined the oil rush to an American boomtown. Guess who got rich?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/06/boomtown-oil-williston-north-dakota
Stonks!
Stock futures are flat to kick off the week with the S&P 500 just inches from a record
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/06/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
Sprots!
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce becomes fastest female sprinter alive, runs best 100m since Florence Griffith Joyner
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/wnba/shelly-ann-fraser-pryce-becomes-fastest-female-sprinter-alive-runs-best-100m-since-florence-griffith-joyner/ar-AAKK1zi
Now Fraser-Pryce, who already has two Olympic gold medals in the 100 from 2008 and 2012, appears the be the favorite. The 34-year-old, who came back from having a baby to win the 2019 World Championships, would be the oldest woman to win an individual Olympic sprint title, and the first woman ever to win three Olympic golds in a single track and field discipline.
More bird content!
Los Angeles County prepares to crack down as peacocks — yes, peacocks — ruffle feathers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/06/los-angeles-county-peacocks/?itid=hp-top-table-main
All the best to their growing family.
Have a great day!
welp its noon
missus n daughter are still asleep
i figured they had shit to do on a workday
i was wrong
anyways im about to head off to get me brain poked
pointless activity is better than no activity….no?
oh goddamnit!
i want the nurse what gave me my previous test
she was a gentle creature
fuck me this one hurt
i guess thats karma for skiving off
Farscy I’ve had several of those nose jabby-jabby tests and it’s so amazing how some nurses gently wiggle it up there to scrape damn near my brain and others are just gonna stabby stabby away.
The header image is not aggressive enough on how much I hate Mondays.
shit mate….im not even working and i could kill it
monday sucks
The oil boomtown is not shocking nor surprising. When I was still looking for work (18 months) I was contemplating going to Alberta to join the oil train. Glad I didn’t.
Also 70 hours a week of manual labor = 40 hrs a week of office work?
Uh no. My sore feet and knees say no after a week of 12 hour shifts (for the OT.) I also don’t remember fighting the urge to sleep most of my days off when I was an office flunky.
The article about the boom in Williston, ND, was interesting. As always, the way to make real money in a boom is (with rare exceptions) not really to take part but to provision those who do. One of the most beautiful mansions in Boston’s Back Bay was built by an Ames. The Ames Company produced the shovels preferred by prospectors during the California gold rush of the 1850s. The Trump family got involved in real estate when The Donald’s draft dodging German immigrant grandfather established a bordello during the Alaska gold rush. Andrew Carnegie made his vast fortune not by owning railroads (although he certainly had influence over them) but by providing the steel to build them during their heyday in the 1800s.
Third day of temps in the 90’s F. I’ve been up since 4:30 am. No AC at chez Sedevilc, only time I’d rather be at the office.
Can’t say I’m surprised:
Twitter goes nuts over video: Trump appears to wear his pants backwards at NC event
Eh, Snopes says it’s not true. I was wondering how even Captain Combover could manage that. He’s a moron, but putting your pants on backward and keeping them up would be pretty difficult to manage.
He could be just standing there while someone dresses him! He’s madly kingly bigly rich enough, right?
Well, there was speculation that he was simply having them made with elastic waistbands, like gym shorts. But Snopes analyzed the footage and said they saw a zipper. I do not envy the poor schlub that got tasked with that assignment.
One of my nephews used to wear his pants and especially his shorts backwards. He didn’t understand the function of the zipper.
Or he was a Kris Kros fan? Maybe Trump is too? Going for a different demographic?
https://www.albawaba.com/node/imitating-kriss-kross-was-trump-wearing-his-pants-backwards-1431962
“Kris Kross will make ya, Trump Trump.”
Can’t say I’m surprised, part 2:
“Much of Trump’s speech seemed a fossilized version of the 2020 campaign trail.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-north-carolina-election/2021/06/06/2707c706-c64b-11eb-8c34-f8095f2dc445_story.html
I’m not saying we should eat the rich, but I’m also not not saying it
Jeff Bezos announces he’ll be on first crewed spaceflight of Blue Origin rocket
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/07/jeff-bezos-space-blue-origin/
…I mean part of me kinda wishes he’d stay in orbit…but there is a phenomenon where seeing the planet from space has been known to alter a person’s whole frame of reference…makes you feel small & pretty awestruck plus also puts into perspective the whole deal with the fundamental interconnectedness of things…which might be good for someone like him?
…then again he might spend the whole thing thinking about a novel solution to the travelling salesman problem…hence the kinda wishing bit?
Stupid way to spend your money.
There have been 5 spaceflight disasters resulting in fatalities in my lifetime, and 8 that happened during training or testing (well, I missed one that happened a year before I was born). Total manned space missions is 346. So basically you’ve got a 3.75 percent chance of ending up dead.
For comparison, the chances of ending up in a fatal plane crash are 1 in 188,364. Or a .0037 percent chance of dying. So the chances of dying in spaceflight are 1,000 times greater than dying in a plane crash. As you might expect
I don’t like the odds.
We can hope!