December 1, 20213 yr On 11/24/2021 at 2:11 PM, DrPhilly said: So Sweden got its first ever female Prime Minister today. She lasted seven hours and then resigned. Not kidding So after she resigned, another vote was taken and she was re-elected Prime Minister. So one vote wasn't good enough, they had to do it again? I really don't understand Swedish politics.
December 1, 20213 yr Author 2 minutes ago, toolg said: So after she resigned, another vote was taken and she was re-elected Prime Minister. So one vote wasn't good enough, they had to do it again? I really don't understand Swedish politics. Yes, votes in the parliament not a general election. The next general election is in the fall of next year and since the previous Prime Minister resigned his post a new govt needed to form in the interim. Swedish politics is based block coalitions and the solution from the results of the 2016 election has been one founded on very flimsy and tenuous principles. Those finally broke and we ended up in the situation we are in today. The reasons for everything and for her subsequent resignation only to be voted in again a few days later are complex enough that I'd need to write four or five fairly lengthy paragraphs. I can do that if you want to understand the details. Let me know. The bottom line is that when she was first voted in the coalition had two parties in the formal govt and directly thereafter one of those parties left due to issues with the newly passed budget. That meant she wasn't elected on stable grounds and her only option based on precedence was to resign and allow a new govt to form. She did so and was brought back up under a new single party govt (her party) and again she was cleared by a vote in the parliament. Lots of maneuvers from several parties were occurring in real time which led to the mess. Note: There were four main contributing parties to this mess and all of them are led by women. Nah, I'm not being sexist
December 1, 20213 yr 3 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: The reasons for everything and for her subsequent resignation only to be voted in again a few days later are complex enough that I'd need to write four or five fairly lengthy paragraphs. I can do that if you want to understand the details. Let me know. The bottom line is that when she was first voted in the coalition had two parties in the formal govt and directly thereafter one of those parties left due to issues with the newly passed budget. That meant she wasn't elected on stable grounds and her only option based on precedence was to resign and allow a new govt to form. She did so and was brought back up under a new single party govt (her party) and again she was cleared by a vote in the parliament. Lots of maneuvers from several parties were occurring in real time which led to the mess. Note: There were four main contributing parties to this mess and all of them are led by women. Nah, I'm not being sexist Say no more. Women can't make up their mind.
December 3, 20213 yr BWAHAHAHAHA IN 2014 Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a rec letter to get his son into college at Georgetown
December 3, 20213 yr 11 hours ago, OCEaglefan said: BWAHAHAHAHA IN 2014 Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a rec letter to get his son into college at Georgetown @Kz! Bombshell!
December 7, 20213 yr Switzerland Approves Assisted ‘Suicide Capsule’ https://news.yahoo.com/switzerland-approves-assisted-suicide-capsule-140255771.html Quote The pod can be activated from inside and can give the person intending to die various options for where they want to be for their final moments. "The machine can be towed anywhere for the death,” he said. "It can be in an idyllic outdoor setting or in the premises of an assisted-suicide organization, for example.” DaFuq?
December 9, 20213 yr Author Quote A Typical Friday in Oregon, as Imagined by My East Coast Friends by Gracie Beaver-Kairis I wake up in my log cabin. The first thing I do is pop outside to forage for some breakfast mushrooms. Once I’ve got a good handful, I roast them over the seven-foot-tall bong that doubles as my stove. It’s going to be a great day! I slip out of my tie-dye pajamas and put on my Timberland hiking boots, cargo pants, beanie, and most professional rain slicker. I pour myself a cup of coffee—the beans were hand-roasted in Portland and cost $26 per ounce—and take it to go in my Hydro Flask, which is covered in recycle symbol stickers. I stuff the utility pockets of my pants with homemade granola, take a final puff of weed off the stove, climb into my Subaru, and drive off through the burning forest to work. It’s hard to leave my rescued pitbull-pug mix, Marcus Mariota, but I know he’ll keep himself occupied with the handwoven hemp dog toys I got at the Saturday Market. I live and work in Portland, the only habitable city in the entire state. Portland is located somewhere in the middle of Oregon. It’s also our state capital, houses the University of Oregon’s nationally recognized football program, and has a population of anywhere from thirty thousand to two million people. From my office, I can see Canada and California at the same time. I work for a company that makes beer taste like pine needles that have been soaking in a vat of apple cider vinegar for thirty years. Our logo is a Sasquatch wearing a trucker hat. I make $40,000 per year, but fortunately, Portland is super affordable probably. On my lunch break, my coworkers and I swap stories about the biggest blisters we ever got while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. My coworker Sunshine is kind enough to share her bag of organic bark mulch with me, as I accidentally left my alfalfa sprout and tempeh wrap at home. I feed my pocket granola to some feral beavers in the parking lot. After a long, hard day of ruining beer, I decide to go out for a night on the town. I run home to change into my sexiest North Face rain-slicking shift dress, dress beanie, and high-heeled Timberland boots. In addition to all of my surroundings being on fire, there is now a torrential downpour. I pat Marcus Mariota on the head and stoke my ever-burning weed fire to make sure it never goes out. Since I’ve already done enough damage to the environment today, I ditch my Subaru for my fixed-gear bike. I wave hey to Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein when I get to my favorite bar, Crunchy’s. We grab a rancid pine-needle IPA and I tell them about an ex-coworker who admitted he didn’t like hiking, so the rest of the office beat him to death with our CamelBak water bottles. We laugh until we cry, compliment each other’s beanies, and t My favorite local band is playing Crunchy’s tonight: Ceci N’est Pas Une Hipsters. They’re a four-piece, harmonica/accordion ska band whose lead singer is a thirty-year-old white guy with dreadlocks named AJ. Most of their songs are about hating everyone from California, but they have a soulful ballad about being in a polyamorous relationship with three smokin’ hot female Bigfoots that brings a tear to my eye every time. After they finish their set, the audience throws celebratory pocket granola at them. I head over to the merch table to buy a beanie. Unfortunately, at this point, my dress hiking boots are really killing me, so I stay for only four more IPAs before it’s time to pedal home. I’m ready to relax on the couch with Marcus Mariota. Maybe I’ll even feed him some of the dried sweet potato and vegan venison treats I keep for special occasions. (To clarify, they’re my treats; Marcus Mariota just gets some when he’s been a good boy.) Tomorrow will be a long day: A seven-hour hike, then a four-hour kayak, then my evening hot yoga class, followed by my manifestation drum circle. (We will get Bernie Sanders to move here once we figure out the right crystal combination!) After one last long inhale on my bong/stove, it’s time for bed. I just hope I don’t have that nightmare about having to pay sales tax again. Posted by a FB friend who lives in Portland.
December 9, 20213 yr On 12/7/2021 at 3:07 PM, Toastrel said: Switzerland Approves Assisted ‘Suicide Capsule’ https://news.yahoo.com/switzerland-approves-assisted-suicide-capsule-140255771.html DaFuq? Its basically a modern iron maiden
December 9, 20213 yr 1 hour ago, DaEagles4Life said: This is pretty sad Yea pretty sad on what they think a quarter is.
December 9, 20213 yr 12 hours ago, DrPhilly said: Posted by a FB friend who lives in Portland. Pretty good. Sounds almost like paradise. Forgot to mention they have that strange law where it's illegal to pump your own gas, like in New Jersey.
December 24, 20213 yr I feel like this belongs under conflicting views...you either love it or hate it:
January 6, 20223 yr Author https://v.redd.it/1tskr3vvck981/DASH_240.mp4?source=fallback Now that's a bit of luck
January 6, 20223 yr Author 3 hours ago, paco said: Not clicking on that. Posted by Dr. Philly Smart man
January 10, 20223 yr Quote San Francisco Skyscraper Tilting 3 Inches Per Year as Race to Fix Underway Monitoring data shows that 10 inches of that tilt and about 2 inches of settlement occurred during work on the so-called fix last year The engineer responsible for the troubled fix of the Millennium Tower acknowledged Thursday that the building is continuing to tilt about 3 inches a year since work began. He also revealed that his team did not provide any instructions to the fix contractor on ways to prevent the tower’s sinking and tilting from getting worse from drilling and digging around two sides of the foundation. City Supervisor Aaron Peskin appeared Thursday weary of holding multiple hearings over the last five years about the fate of the sinking and leaning tower, which is now tilting some 26 inches north and west at the corner of Fremont and Mission streets. Monitoring data shows that 10 inches of that tilt and about 2 inches of settlement occurred during work on the so-called fix last year. "We start this new year 2022 as we ended last year and many other years, with the Millennium Tower continuing to sink and tilt,” a clearly exasperated Peskin said before introducing fix engineer Ron Hamburger at the hearing. In his remarks, Hamburger acknowledged for the first time that his team did not provide any initial guidance to Shimmick Construction, the fix contractor, on ways to limit the impact of the drilling and digging to install steel support piles. "The procedures for installing piles were basically the contractor’s prerogative,” Hamburger told city supervisors. "We did not tell them how to install piles. We specified that we needed piles of a given diameter and strength. And he basically did those as a design build to install the piles in which he determined the methods by which he would install them.” Peskin turned to city officials, who assured him that was standard practice for such projects. "This is a 50-plus story building, very heavy, in the heart of downtown San Francisco,” Peskin countered. "I don’t think there’s a lot of room here for on-the-job learning.” Hamburger separately revealed that the building continues to tilt at the rate of three inches per year. "The building does continue to settle at a rate of about one half inch per year and to tilt at a rate of about three inches per year,” he said. "It is doing this whether we are conducting work at the site or not. The building remains safe, but although the building remains safe, we believe the project needs to resume construction and complete this construction quickly.” At the current rate, the tower’s lean could reach the functional 40-inch maximum – the point Hamburger says the elevators and plumbing may not continue to operate – in just a few years without the fix. Installing 18 steel piles to bedrock now is the best way to stop the tilting and possibly reverse some of it, he told supervisors. "It’s in everyone’s interest that this project is completed as quickly as possible,” he concluded.
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