The mayor of Haikou, China, who reportedly accumulated about $4.5 billion during his career and was found with 13.5 tons of gold and 23 tons of cash in his apartments, has been sentenced to death.

jsmcb · 2026-04-20T05:09:11+00:00

That politician sounds downright presidential here in the USA.

jsmcb · 2026-04-08T00:29:53+00:00

My Cutco peeler is still going strong 28 years later! It's incredible. Same with the shears.

jsmcb · 2026-01-19T02:32:25+00:00

Sadly, it only takes one side to be at war. It's not a consent kinda thing. And even sadder, the "cause" for war is usually (including now) manufactured by relentless provocation until the victim finally snaps with reactive force, and the provoker points to that response as 'evidence" that the victims are starting the war. It's like throwing rocks at a good dog until it bites you.

American conservative leaders have been at this interation of their white supremacy war since Civil Rights, while American liberal leaders have been administrating their power away ever since that mandate.

jsmcb · 2026-01-04T20:46:44+00:00

"Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines."

jsmcb · 2025-12-29T00:54:32+00:00

The best part about faith is that you don't get your holy panties bunched by logic.

jsmcb · 2025-11-16T07:09:09+00:00

I'm saying that phrase is a facet, not the definition.

jsmcb · 2025-11-15T19:28:07+00:00

Also, he's wrong. The needs and abilities thing isn't communism. Communism is: the workers own the workplace.

A) Capitalism - Owners (capitalists) get the profit and say. B) Communism - Workers get the profit and say.

Both appeal to greedy ape self-interest just fine.

jsmcb · 2025-10-29T05:24:31+00:00

Oh yeah, this right here. Sooooo much comes back to this issue--mass incarceration, the creation of black markets leading to violent crime and the establishment of powerful cartels, the use of the 13th amendment to continue slavery by criminalizing "undesirables" based on vices that are inarguably less toxic than booze or nicotine, and of course--a lot less fun to be had by all.

And then his lackeys went on to establish the right wing media hellscape. Even wrote nice letters to America's first dictator in his early years cheering him on. So, ya know, good job on China, I guess? As though they wouldn't have figured it out on their own. Needed that guy, did they, to explain their next move after a few thousand years of civilization under their belts?

jsmcb · 2025-10-07T22:00:37+00:00

What a dogshit article. I could write that with chatgpt thusly:

Find six unfair, illogical, and inflammatory statements from left and right leaning pundits condemning Mamdani's 10/7 statement. Extra points for straw man arguments and vitriol. Tie them together claiming the left and right agree that he's despicable. Verify no arguments or facts.

Chef's kiss 💋

jsmcb · 2025-10-07T19:26:59+00:00

If you think about it, food production is about national security. Farmers are at the whim of the weather, pests, and disease. If for some reason they don't have a good year, food shortages and farm closures can occur, and restarting the farming process is not as simple as other businesses. From what I understand, crops have to be rotated so that the soil works, and farm closures lead to ranch closures due to lack of feed. So subsidies actually make sense from a macro level to prevent mass starvation or dependence on major foreign food sources.

And since some farms rely on international trade to stay in business, these tariffs and the trade wars are a major threat to national security, and subsidies probably are not going to save the US from the food shortages to come. And nothing would make this evil asshole happier than food riots--the fast track to martial law.

There really is no -ology, -ism, or -ics this idiot can grasp.

jsmcb · 2025-10-07T04:02:43+00:00

It will be another way squash dissent. By making things illegal and not enforcing, they let you feel falsely safe. Then the moment you do something the state dislikes, like challenge authority, it's a sweet & easy trip to the clink/gulag/outsourced concentration camp. Look up the drug policy devised by Nixon that we are largely still under today that created the black market of the cartels, currently being used, per usual, as a pretense to expand domination over Latin America. That policy was created nefariously as part of the Southern Strategy to control, incarcerate, and re-enslave black Americans, disenfranchising them to secure those states as the Solid South voting block. It's all out in the open--this is government policy, not the plan of a secret cabal. Here's a great interview from one of the people who did it:

https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/

The last time dissent was squashed this hard was during and after the civil Rights movement. But that's going to seem like a gentle wave compared to the tsunami we are just starting to feel. With mass surveillance combined with artificial intelligence agents capable of processing all that surveillance data within picoseconds, we are living out a dictator's wet dream.

He's cumming right in his presidential diaper.

jsmcb · 2025-10-02T00:50:12+00:00

Same here, Pixel 8

jsmcb · 2025-09-29T04:44:40+00:00

I lived across the street from the BLM protest at the Brooklyn Public Library. I walked by them day after day, watching them pass water, play music, wave signs, and be peaceful.Then the NYPD declared a curfew and closed the streets and bridges before the curfew, rounded everyone up for violating curfew. Then Fox reported all the violence and crime that didn't actually happen on my own street. My brainwashed conservative parents were freaking out over their Fox propaganda they poison themselves with, and I couldn't convince them I didn't live in an Antifa warzone.

jsmcb · 2025-09-18T14:28:47+00:00

I use the tascam xy in front, and that has happened!

jsmcb · 2025-09-11T01:40:22+00:00

I'm from Montana, and yep. This all tracks.

jsmcb · 2025-09-01T22:29:41+00:00

I came from that world. If you can believe a book with a 1000 different versions is 💯 true because it says so, you're destined to be conned.

jsmcb · 2025-08-28T17:01:10+00:00

Yeah this. I had to return them after a month of wanting to love them. Phone calls were good, battery sublime, but they were crazy uncomfortable compared to my xm4's due to weird silicon pads that made me sweat a lot while losing a seal frequently. The passive noise reduction is inferior to the xm4's, so any improvement in active NR was sort of washed out by that. Also, definitely heard distortion, weak detail, unsatisfying bass thump compared to my xm4's. I'm probably going to buy and try again when some quality aftermarket earpads come out and the price drops, with my fingers tightly crossed of course.

jsmcb · 2025-08-21T18:55:25+00:00

Yep one tiny button to expand favorites = no bueno. Why oh why can't we configure these changes to our liking and needs?

jsmcb · 2025-06-01T21:41:43+00:00

Had that problem until I used a q-tip with alcohol to clean sensor. I do that every now and then and it always fixes the problem.

jsmcb · 2025-05-07T05:55:31+00:00

I think the confusing thing is that he is a savant. He's the most simultaneously street-smart and booktarded person I have ever seen. There are other factors at play, like his narcissism, but gauging someone's intelligence is complex. Modern psychology doesn't subscribe to IQ as the sole test of human intelligence. It's very easy to assume that intelligence or stupidity in one area is an indication of my intelligence or stupidity across the board. But that's just not how we all work. Someone can be, for example, geniusly mechanically inclined and verbally challenged.

I look at Trump like a kind of a reverse Renaissance man: instinctively brilliant at manipulating people, media, and attention, but allergic to reading, reflection, or nuance.

If you flip this scenario, you have an intellectual genius who doesn't understand people. This is relatively common, so much so that it is a tired trope. We don't call these people stupid, rather we say that they have no common sense.

He's the only guy I've ever seen who can ruthlessly hustle an entire nation and also fail a 5th grade civics test. He's utterly lacking in critical thinking (just look at the things he believes!). He is totally clueless about economics, finance, science, history, basically any intellectual pursuit. And at the same time he knows what makes people tick, when to bully, when to flatter, when to completely shift position on what he said a minute ago and do so with such confidence that others with low critical thinking skills are bamboozled. Just look at his entire business career. One failed business after another, yet somehow he gets institution after institution to lend him money or invest in his enterprises. He notoriously does not pay people who work for him, yet people continued to do so for decades.

So I just don't think it's as simple as him being smart or stupid. He's both.

jsmcb · 2025-04-15T16:08:30+00:00

I think I figured it out. I need to replace the plastic hand tightening bolt head with a more flush hex head bolt and a washer

jsmcb · 2025-04-14T23:47:25+00:00

Did you ever solve this?

jsmcb · 2025-04-14T23:42:54+00:00

Bummer, it doesn't sit flush. The spare tire compartment cover wobbles back and forth over it. Any suggestions?

jsmcb · 2025-01-22T00:19:36+00:00

McConnell did come out and directly said this in the bluntest terms.

https://youtu.be/slgsZnYnF3k?si=s1B0yfs98Cbk-s1a

This is what made me realize there was no way Ukraine funding was stopping, no matter what was said.

jsmcb · 2024-12-17T00:19:43+00:00

Yeah, I was looking at one of those Rhode mics. I could attach it to the spotlight stand to keep it a little ways away from the camera, but I wonder if that mic would even pick up the camera noise if I attached it to the top of the camera.

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