THIS ONE IS SEA SMITH FAULT.
SEA SMITH WANT HELP TOO! HE SEE COUSIN STEVE SMITH DO MORNING LINKS, CALL GLIBS, SAY “SEA SMITH TURN!” GLIBERTARIANS.COM LAND HOOMANS NO ARGUE. THEM ALL RUN AWAY FROM SHORE. SO LINKS ALL SEA SMITH’S! MAYBE HAVE LINK PARTY WITH SEA FRIENDS…
NINGEN
SIGMUND
BUT FIRST, LINKS FOR LAND HOOMANS:
- THEM NO EXTINCT! SEA SMITH HIDE SOME FROM SOUP MAKING CRAZY LAND HOOMANS.
- SEA SMITH WANT SEE CRAZY RUSSIA INTERNET. ONLY BE HACKERS, SCAMS, ADS FOR HOOMAN WIMMENZ?
- WHO SAY “”Without respect of the law, there is neither peaceful coexistence nor democracy, but insecurity, arbitrariness and ultimately, the collapse of the moral and civic principles of society”? … A KING SAY IT! YOU KING, SILLY HOOMAN, WHAT “DEMOCRACY”?
- HERE GOOD WORKOUT FOR ATHLETE.
COME IN, WATER FINE!
No way I’m comin’ in the water. SEA SMITH COME IN THE WATER.
BUT..BUT, IT FINE!
And what are you doing up so early?
Does one switch timezone or something from Chicago to Pheonix? Or just weather and taxes?
Right now, one time zone. OMWC is up at 6am.
Wait until summer, when it is broad daylight at 5 am. We’ll probably get blackout blinds for the bedrooms this year.
>>blackout
problematic
Not really problematic, it only blocks the white.
Cellular blackout shades plus curtains. Those shades are also good thermal insulators.
^^^ My wife got those for the bedroom when I worked graves. Never bothered me before but wifey wanted to help out. They are almost too good. Need to leave them open an inch or so at the bottom otherwise you’ll wake up in a sensory deprivation experience and think it’s the middle of the night.
When we built our house 2 years ago, we put in blackout blinds. BEST THING EVER.
Nicetown brand blackout drapes on amazon. The olive ones I got reflect a lil light around the top edge, but the black ones…..yeah, what Gustave said about sensory deprivation. If it wasn’t for morning streaming in through the bedroom door, I wouldn’t know.
I’d like to be under the SEA
In an octopus’s pussy in the shade
He’d let SEA in, knows where SEA’S been
In his octopus’s pussy in the shade
I’ll have whatever straffin smoked for breakfast this morning.
Your fetish is showing, otaku.
Where do you think sea salt comes from?
We’ve had a pretty cryptic week of morning links.
I guess an oceanic cryptid *would* consider golf a sport.
SEA SMITH SHOW YOU ONE IN HOLE
GIVE YOU LONG IRON
You went with an iron? That shot clearly called for a wood.
From the looks of that one, it’s not happy being photographed either.
something something Mitch Mcconnell
I still don’t see the resemblance. He looks more like a muppet to me.
We don’t want him.
https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/19bx_RwHgsQZ62-dAOZ4cNBOfr0=/415×0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/VJHULYAW7VMDI5AXO7CNBLZ7SY.jpg
Google image search McConnell turtle and you’ll see a bunch of good comparisons, real and cartoon, highlighting his turtle es.
Yesterday was McConnell’s birthday. I know this because it was my wife’s and she was pissed when she discovered it was Mitch’s too.
Also Kurt Cobain
All he needs is Love.
Turtles are weird and cool.
SEA SMITH WANT SEE CRAZY RUSSIA INTERNET. ONLY BE HACKERS, SCAMS, ADS FOR HOOMAN WIMMENZ? – Romania already has it’s own internet, better then yours, but we are keeping it secret
You’ve modified the TCP for Carrier pigeon protocol to use Bats?
Your internet brings all the slavs to the yard?
just the hot women, not all of them
You realize that is simply an invitation for SEA SMITH to end up in the Black Sea, don’t you?
VAMPIRE SQUID SMITH may not like that, unlike most SMITHS he does not like to share… and by share etc…
I was thinking the same thing. They dont have it already? Seems foolish.
Daly, 52, withdrew from last week’s Chubb Classic after four holes.
He’s healthy in my book if he can do that.
I’m still marveling at the irony of Daly in the Chubb Classic.
Perfect fit…so to speak.
He looks about as healthy as I expected.
I’m wonder what the 4 plumpers look like.
Thicc and Thiccer
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6728921/BRITs-2019-Demi-Rose-Kaz-Crossley-coordinate-latex-Beats-Dre-afterparty.html
I really need to stop doing this. I started it as a joke to anticipate the inevitable but this is like the 7th time I did this. Last time. No more.
Sure, every addict thinks they can quit any time…
The other girl actually looks like a human.
And did anyone notice the soulless demon at the bottom of the link? There’s underboob.
Also
Jordyn Woods ‘moves out’ of Kylie Jenner’s home and heads to her mom’s house amid Tristan Thompson cheating scandal
usually the dude who cheats needs to move out…
It’s only just begun. You got honey trapped by the Rose. It’s over, Pie. Just accept your fate.
He’s starting to spend more time with her than us. We’re gonna lose him.
He will be consumed by that giant bottom, forever living his life being sat on.
You really don’t know what giant booties look like, sir.
I have been victimized by them several times. I know… I know. ::runs off with an erection::
We’re gonna have to pour one out for the old boy.
Who is this person? I have no idea why she keeps being featured in public. What does she do? Why is she famous?
I don’t know, I don’t recognize the name
Fat ass
Fake ass. She is a billboard for some plastic surgeon.
She’s famous for being famous. And thicc.
And someone here keeps obsessively linking to her pics, instead of being, like, whatever.
I heard she allegedly off course little more than a call girl (NTTAWWT) and then she got in the Mail and the Mail could not stop, just like me
And Count Potato.
Have you ever heard of Cindy Crawford? They do the same thing.
How absolutely DARE you sir!
Swap thicc for mole?
Used to be starlets rubbed out a living on casting couches. Today they are celebrities and their pictures appear daily. It confuses me a bit.
Still whores, but with many more clients, each contributing a tiny slice.
Massively Parallel Microwhoring.
SEA SMITH THURSDAY MORNING LINKS
It’s too early for sea rape.
SEA SMITH EARLY RISER, AND BY “RISER” MEAN….
does Sea Smith need to “rise”? I thought he was more tentacle based?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod#Locomotion_and_buoyancy
“While most cephalopods float (i.e. are neutrally buoyant or nearly so; in fact most cephalopods are about 2–3% denser than seawater), they achieve this in different ways. Some, such as Nautilus, allow gas to diffuse into the gap between the mantle and the shell; others allow purer water to ooze from their kidneys, forcing out denser salt water from the body cavity; others, like some fish, accumulate oils in the liver; and some octopuses have a gelatinous body with lighter chlorine ions replacing sulfate in the body chemistry.”
Oh, so that’s what the octopus smell is.
I guess I’ll never find out. 3 days of fish and relatives is enough
NOT FOR SEA SMITH IT NOT!
I see that SEA SMITH has been able to pay off the media:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bloop-mystery-not-solved-sort-of
THEM KNOW, PRINT TRVTH, GET VISIT FROM SMITH COUSINS. BY VISIT, MEAN…
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6727115/BRITs-2019-Demi-Rose-pours-incredible-curves-sheer-sapphire-fishtail-gown.html
To late buddy
You posted the wrong link.
Nonsense my link has 50% extra thicc
Aw, blin! That Russian Internet doesn’t sound like it has enough cheeki breeki, vodka, or mail-order brides.
Address complaint webmaster. Him here:
That’s too Russian. Just needs reckless carrying of improbably heavy weapondry and a jury-rigged automobile that looks like it shouldn’t be able to drive. (With a dash cam)
borscht
I was looking for the pictures of food art, but I only came up with beet soup.
Looks like a pure droog, good guy. Would drink vodka and eat some Pelmeni with him.
The science of binge drinking: 7 Tips to get wasted without wasting your gains
https://mennohenselmans.com/science-binge-drinking
*takes notes*
In case anyone is wondering, Menno generally is legit if a bit bombastic. Interesting stuff.
“…without wasting your grains.”
I’m sticking with my misread.
Smollett is rightly arrested for a felony and and Don Lemon is upset. ///RepublicansPOUNCE
Lemon’s segment came in response to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office’s decision to charge Smollett late on Wednesday with felony disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report.
“Sean Hannity is going to eat Jussie Smollett’s lunch every single second,” Lemon fretted. “Tucker Carlson is going to eat Jussie Smollett’s lunch every single second. The President of the United States is going to eat his lunch.”
Well, Don, perhaps this is a learning experience. Don’t perpetuate false-narratives and don’t believe everything that confirms your retarded and ill-informed biases.
Smollett should serve a term equivalent to the punishment for what he was willing to accuse some anonymous schmuck of doing.
^This.
And while I’m glad to see him charged with a felony, I’d have preferred to see him charged with conspiracy which is what the real crime is, here.
Let’s just hope this isn’t a deliberately-flawed show prosecution such as they do to cops accused of civil rights violations.
It’s a show prosecution. Smollett has hired a former local TV anchor to do damage control for him.
I’m guessing he will enjoy prison more than I would.
“Server Not Found”
And the left is incapable of learning. The ansewer to every setback is “prog harder”.
“pounce”
Pounce with glee. Sounds like a lame Fox drama.
I dunno. I’d watch a show called “Pouncing Cougars.” Especially if it were made by HBO.
But Ser Pounce is dead.
I found a photo of him turning himself in
LOL
“20th Century Fox, which released a statement hours before he was charged to say it was standing by him, is now reportedly suspending the actor.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6729221/Jussie-Smollett-arrested-faked-racist-attack-lied-police-it.html
“We were standing by him. At the moment, he needs time to handle his criminal defense. So we removed the concern of making filming.”
The should keep him on Empire. Just change his name to Alaric.
They could have his character die offscreen from some really embarrassing cause.
More likely they’d have his caracter beaten to death by red hats.
Didn’t ABC turn Roseanne into a drug dealer? Yeah. I don’t think that’s going to happen.
I don’t know how you don’t have his death be suicide by hanging. I mean, c’mon.
If you really wanted to be mean, insinuate that he Carradined himself.
Once again I say unto you, “Go screw yourself, Don Lemon you race-baiting jerk.”
This asshole was prepared to accuse two random nobodies of a vicious assault until police revealed they were on to his con. But, sure, the problem is that people Don Lemon doesn’t like will call him an asshole for being an asshole.
That’s what I find to be the worst part. *If* some random person who happened to be in the area at the time had been arrested as a suspect, he likely would have maintained his accusation all the while knowing he staged the “attack”. He is a total pos.
They’re gonna eat Smollett’s lunch, but Don’s actually mad because they’re gonna drink his milkshake.
Hannity and Carlson may eat his lunch, but who will toss his salad?
He’s a Tosser not a Tossee. I think Jussie will be getting used to the taste of grape jelly
Not Daddy’s little girl anymore
If by travesty, he means his own daughter, that might help explain why she’s a psychopath.
Ouch.
Yeah, being shunned by her own family is not going to play well with the public.
And it’s going to be hard to ignore something said by her own father.
She’s toast.
You over estimate the attention span of primary voters.
Bigly.
“Squares.”
/average Dem response
TW: Jonathan Chair, who squirms and wiggles on the headline bait
Trump Calls the Democratic Party Socialist. He’s Lying.
So at least he admits socialism and communism is bad. I would say most of the far left pols who bandy about the term socialist and democratic socialist are too dumb to even know what that means. Their really more like common thieves promising free shit to millinneals.
He’s Lying.
Only if words don’t mean anything. There are literal, self-described socialists running for president on the Democrat side and their “free shit” mantra has never been stronger.
He routinely heaps praise on the most brutal dictators
It’s called blowing smoke to get them to do what you want.
Not only that, one of the people running for Pres as a Dem was elected to congress as a socialist.
Chait is a moron. I’m not going to bother reading the entire article simply because he doesn’t contribute anything of intellectual value to the discussion.
They aren’t socialists yet by some strange coincidence all of their policies are identical to socialist policies.
Don’t dare call them commies even if they would remake the USSR in America today if they could.
They’d get it right this time, really!
These half-assed smokescreens are infuriating. The worst one is the “democratic” qualifier they’ve taken to placing before “socialism”, as if that makes some sort of meaningful distinction.
^ This.
Democracy is not a moral good in and of itself.
What are you talking about? They wouldn’t be anything like the USSR was. For one thing, the Gulags would be out in the west, not in the east.
Has he never heard of the Ibsen play? Or seen the Steve McQueen movie version?
There are socialists IN the party now. It may not be ‘socialist’ but if you don’t push back it will be. The party has been been pulling left and it’s obvious to any observer can see.
They fool themselves into thinking by saying they’re ‘democratic’ socialist’ and ‘Scandinavia’ it’s okay.
It’s not.
That shit AOC pulled with Amazon? That likely wouldn’t happen in Scandinavia.
Exactly right. It’s moved hard left, and appears to be going further left rather than coming back to center.
Also, everyone ignores that Scanidnavia are free-market welfare states with a homogeneous population, not socialist hell-holes (yet!)
And they have low corporate tax rates. Where they get you is on personal income tax. You get into the higher brackets really fast. The rich may pay high rates, but so does the middle class.
From what I’ve read, AOC had nothing to do with the Amazon thing but will happily take credit.
^This
The rot is the ‘activist’ wing that controls the local Dems, and thereby, the city. She is certainly part of it but she didn’t play any active role in this decision.
True but she influenced it.
And then she steps back and says, ‘I dindtdonuffin!’
The fact she commented a lot about it given her current popularity is good enough.
‘He’s lying’
4002 lies!
You know who else cloaked their bullshit in morality?
If a veil counts as a cloak, John Rawls.
Excuse me sir, you seem to have dropped this.. oh. oh I see. Its a microphone. You dropped… yes you dropped a microphone. Well then, very good. Carry on.
Bernie?
Jimmy Swaggart?
Everyone, ever?
Cardinal McCarrick?
Fundamentally Oral bill?
Klingons?
Almost every Pope?
Pouring some thots out for our homie, Q, who seems to have gone MIA in this department yesterday.
** bagpipes wail funeral dirge **
https://thechive.com/2019/02/20/glasses-and-girls-go-together-like-salt-and-pepper-30-photos/
11 is giving Swiss Servator the narrowed gaze 😉
8, 21, 24. Oh yes.
Most of these women are too skinny to be in my wheelhouse, but I agree with you about 21 — has that nerdy thicc look.
1
https://i.imgur.com/UiutQys.jpg
Would
I prefer this one simply because the color palette is absolutely perfect.
https://i.redd.it/2erqvi9jnqm01.jpg
Yeah, that’s nice. And perky:)
I will take your word for it.
Child sex dolls may become illegal in Kentucky if this Senate bill passes
“That’s a disgusting thing, and we should make it against the law”
+ Lima beans and beets.
A prosecutor requesting a Senator write legislation?
Fucking classic
Somebody wants to run for higher office and has found the perfect moral panic upon which to build his career.
“…features, that resemble…”
No way that that will be abused.
Thank that guy if the real doll comes with a rug.
That part may be tossed out as overly broad, but as we all know the process is the punishment.
Well there goes my plan to combine a fleshlight with a Miss Potato-Head.
Why would anyone want a sex doll made out of china?
Orchestrating false beliefs about gender discrimination
https://medium.com/@jsmp/orchestrating-false-beliefs-about-gender-discrimination-a25a48e1d02
One of the annoying things about the modern world is that, while discrimination on some level obviously exists, I find it hard to believe even when it may be true.
When my alarm went off, NPR was running the “WHITE SUPREMACIST STOCKPILE OF WEAPONS A THOUSAND ROUNDS OF SEMIAUTOMATIC BULLETS!!!!” story. When I got out of the shower, they ran it again. On the drive to work, they ran it two more times. It’s nice to know what the news cycle is going to be about. They also had… some sort of story? About the Jussie Smolett case. They said there had been some sort of strange turn in it, but they didn’t have any confirmation about it and were waiting before they were going to report on any details.
I kind of wish I had the coaching gig responsible for teaching NPR newsreaders to emote deep concern and seriousness.
Only a thousand rounds? Poor bastard has an ammo shortage.
Yeah, that’s like 2 or 3 trips to the range.
Unfortunately, my local public range requires that I only shoot ammo purchased form them, which is about a 100% markup. The closest range I’ve found without a multi-year/decade waiting list is almost an hour drive away.
It also sucks because they only carry a couple of brands of carry ammo so I can’t test the kind I want (Underwood) to confirm that the accuracy is going to be the same. Though I strongly suspect at the ranges I’d be using it are too close to really make any difference.
That would suck. Whereabouts?
Upstate NY, Saratoga Springs. There is a gun club directly across the street from me, but its waiting list is 14 years long. There is one about 20 min away that is very active in practical pistol shooting that might have openings in October.
*crosses fingers*
I’d sponsor you to join my range, but the membership is at capacity, so they’re not even stacking up a waiting list. Still, I can have guests accompany me.
Not everyone is getting the big bucks from the government…
You could always move to the US and make more than me in the private sector.
I would strongly suggest Texas – stay out of IL, NY, CA and NJ.
There is no semiconductor industry in Texas, sadly. Also it is too hot. You can’t drink wine and scotch in that weather.
I don’t know who told you that, but that is a complete lie,
/former Motorola/Freescale/NXP employee
To be specific, the “no Semiconductor industry” part. Ever heard of Texas Instruments?
It is too hot. That’s true. But you can totally drink wine in that weather. Usually whites or sangria.
Ever heard of Texas Instruments? – no. Are they a large company?
TI only invented the integrated circuit. Not an important company.
S&P100 company with 30k employees.
not ringing any bells sorry.
Bell was a different company. They invented the Transistor.
Do you not have calculators in Romania?
(Obviously RPN ones are superior)
Has Pie ever seen a graphing calculator?
(Obviously RPN ones are superior)
“Upsidedown Romanian Notation is better.”
-Pie
I seem to sense that Pie might be trolling at this point.
LOL
It’s not known as the SIlicon Valley of the South for nothing,
No shit. Half of the telecom manufacturers (back when they manufacturered most of their own stuff in house and not in China) were headquartered or had significant offices in Richardson TX it seemed like.
Austin is basically Silicon Valley. And a great city to live in.
+ eleventybillion
“There is no semiconductor industry in Texas, sadly.”
I count 155 semiconductor companies here in the greater Austin metro area alone. Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas are all significantly more populous than Austin, and Fort Worth (which is arguably part of the Dallas metro sprawl) is almost as large.
Someone who knows very little about Texas told you there wasn’t that industry here.
https://www.yellowpages.com/austin-tx/semiconductor-companies?page=6
It does get hot here in summer. Fortunately, air conditioning has been invented.
Good thing they weren’t fully Semi-Automatic bullets. 1000 rounds is a lot? Guess I should cut back on my stock.
They were cop killer bullets for sure.
fully Semi-Automatic bullets.
laser-guided death-bullets
*places order*
“fully Semi-Automatic bullets.”
The people who want to judicially abrogate the 2A would mostly not know how retarded that phrase is, in several ways. Partially semi-automatic? Bullets that know in advance which guns they will be loaded into? Thinking semi-automatic means a machine gun that can fire on full auto?
Self awareness isn’t their strong suit.
I think I have a couple of .22lr bricks on a shelf in the garage. Probably time to order more.
Do semiautomatic bullets sort of shoot themselves?
They’re made for Indiana Guns on walkabout.
Sweden-Hungary relations turn frosty as diplomatic row escalates
For the sake of the Swedish people, the Swedish government needs to abdicate in favor of Hungarian rule for a while.
Then again, a woman with more than 4 children will probably have a lower income due to all the career breaks. So this is a feminist move to end the gap…
I remember that the Swedish ambassador to the EU…I think that is right…was a woman who was in favor of ME immigration to her country. When asked about the rape epidemic that was occurring in Sweden she said that Swedish women would just have to get used to being raped. No big deal.
The ruling class in Sweden should all be hanged.
STEVE SMITH APPROVE. WILL DO VACATION IN SWEDEN.
Sweden, what in the absolute hell.
Yeh, let Hungary be more like Sweden and the mess they have over there.
Yeh, real smart.
It’s arrogant for a politician in one country to comment on another. So a country is not interested in the mass migration policy of the EU is ‘Nazi’? They’re gone full preposterous with the analogy.
Sweden. So woke.
I have no idea to what degree on how much to trust Gatestone but….Sweden:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13651/sweden-isis-pensioners
Orban is seen as a tyrant by the establishment in Europe but until he does stuff like that, Sweden is the one that’s acting like ‘1930s’.
I hate when I read about some fool preaching about what people should/shouldn’t do in some other country. Until you can speak/read/write their language and have lived at least 5 to 10 years in that country your opinion about them is Bullshit.
You don’t go tell your neighbors how to arrange their backyard or what furniture they need in their living room, do you?
Hungary doesn’t believe it needs migrants for its own sake. Horrors!
You don’t go tell your neighbors how to arrange their backyard or what furniture they need in their living room, do you?
[raises eyebrow]
And they probably don’t understand being told to fuck off then either.
I use that statement specifically because a buddy of mine was once told, by his neighbor (the female/wife) how he should organize his backyard – to which he replied “If you ain’t sucking my dick I don’t have to listen to you”.
Apparently you haven’t met my SIL
You don’t go tell your neighbors how to arrange their backyard or what furniture they need in their living room, do you?
No HOA where you live, hmm?
Remind me again the role of Sweden in defeating fascism during WWII.
Forced Nazis to pay for iron ore with hard currency that Nazis might have used elsewhere to bribe FDR and Stalin to let them up gently?
They profited off it.
They probably didn’t teach that part in school.
Raoul Wallenberg, but it was a lonely mission.
My father spent some time in Sweeden. Every once in a while he would get the gruff Swede who would remind them that they were a Neutral country as opposed to the warlike United States. My father would always reply “I’m sure the Norwegians appreciate it.”
Hey now! They transshipped red cross packages to the POWs. Also they sent investigators to report on (read as cover up) Katyn Forest.
whoops!
Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building, safety manager says
Huh, it’s almost as if the standards are poor reflectiosn of reality.
Good thing I hate to travel.
The Trump administration is going to kill us all!
Misplaced FBI jihadi honeypot?
Nah, expecting a Mrs C election and the uranium would magically disappear.
Libertarians approve! Maybe one of the orphans will survive and become a better stock for future orphans.
This was going on for a couple of decades? Why, that almost implies governmental malfeasance isn’t just a phenomenon of the Trump administration!
his was going on for a couple of decades? Why, that almost implies governmental malfeasance isn’t just a phenomenon of the Trump administration!
You MAGA cultists are all alike. You deny the obvious truth that Orangemanbad is so bad that his badness reaches back into the past and out into the future causing illness, war, poverty, oppression, rape and above all Thoughtcrime!
Hell, you can almost imagine what damage will happen during 2020 if he is re-elected!
Greedy corporate pig dogs. If the National Parks were run by the government we wouldn’t have these….oh, wait.
>millisieverts per hour or per year
I stopped reading here. Can anyone translate this to a unit we actually can understand (ie the Banana Equivalent)
8 sieverts (8,000 millisieverts or millirems) absorbed in one sitting will inevitably cause death even with treatment. I sievert will make you very sick, and might still kill you.
Kids sitting in close promixity to those buckets could get doses of 0.28 sieverts to 0.80 sieverts per hour. Ten hours at the latter level is the “you are dead no matter what you do” dose.
Morning Glibs!
https://www.cato.org/blog/jones-act-lobby-hits-panic-button
I’ll be surprised if the Jones Act gets repealed or even amended. The lobby has some seriously strong ties into DC.
Plus, you know, Trump is the president.
Yeah, not much hope for any reforms of the Jones Act without a President Rand Paul or Mike Lee.
Plus the states most screwed over by it is only Hawaii and Alaska.
Even our cheap Ramen noodles bypass us to California and then are shipped back.
Is it early, or was everything the king said rambling nonsense?
Trump isn’t king yet.
Not king. God-Emperor.
Didn’t really bring to mind a sandworm symbiote.
“On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight
Videos of children showing their exposed buttocks, underwear and genitals are racking up millions of views on YouTube – with the site displaying advertising from major cosmetics and car brands alongside the content.
Comments beneath scores of videos appear to show paedophiles sharing timestamps for parts of the videos where exposed genitals can be seen, or when a child does the splits or lifts up their top to show their nipples. Some of the children in the videos, most of whom are girls, appear to be as young as five. Many of the videos have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of views, with hundreds of comments.
The videos are also being monetised by YouTube, including pre-roll adverts from Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Fortnite, Grammarly, L’Oreal, Maybelline, Metro: Exodus, Peloton and SingleMuslims.com. Banner advertising for Google and the World Business Forum also appeared alongside some of the videos. As well as providing YouTube with our research, we contacted the advertisers to alert them to the issue.
But with a blank YouTube account, and a couple of quick searches, hundreds of videos that are seemingly popular with paedophiles are surfaced by YouTube’s recommendation system. Worse still, YouTube doesn’t just recommend you watch more videos of children innocently playing, its algorithm specifically suggests videos that are seemingly popular with other paedophiles, most of which have hundreds of thousands of views and dozens of disturbing comments. Many include pre-roll advertising.”
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-pedophile-videos-advertising
Is it time to have a moral panic?
Is it ever NOT time?
^This.
Sounds like the anti sex doll guy from AZ could jump on this bandwagon, too.
Um, I think that was KY.
Yes. Dammit. Thanks.
Pro Tip: The abbreviation for Idaho is also a brand of lube.
Arizona still only on ice tea.
Although AZ Lube has some marketing potential.
As long as the children aren’t wearing MAGA hats or espousing non-left political views.
“SingleMuslims [dot] com”
Those guys are searching for brides.
I wasn’t aware that you were allowed to appear naked on YouTube.
Only Hot people aren’t allowed. Other people can cause it isn’t generally classified as Porn.
just type in “nsfw” on the youtube search (or so someone told me).
I am skeptical. More than a little bit.
The Cultural Reichstag Fires
Now imagine if the Left were in total control. There would be no mitigating force to push back against the hoaxes and the government would wholly support the false interpretation of events.
Just heard in the office:
Americans are born Slaves. There is no opportunity in the US. There is much more opportunity in Romania.
Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
^^ What UCS said.
Apparently the living standard in general is much worse in the US than Romania.
By what metric?
When’s the last time you visited? It’d be easier to take you on a tour of Glib haunts than send a representative number of us there to assess the standards of living in Romania.
How do you convert metric SOL units to US SOL units?
Multiply tax and NHS values by -1, and subtract mandated leave from time off.
The US is 6th in the world in median income, ppp (purchasing power parity). I looked up median instead of average for obvious reasons. I didn’t see Romania on the top 30 list, but I guess they must have been in the top 5.
The only list I could find Romania on was average monthly wage:
USA: $4893
Romania: $819
I guess he thinks wikipedia is US propaganda. Which might be true, actually.
Do you work in 1861?
All educated Americans are apparently immigrants.
And the guy is so certain of himself.
Oh, you were quoting him above. Still, visit anyway.
Can’t afford to due to standard of living differences.
That’s the best, You can use your high income to live like a king when you visit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0lHseKMLkA
Okay, that was Brataslava, but close enough.
[Ducks from Pie throwing stuff at me]
I loved Eurotrip back in the day
Come, join us slumming around these United States. Be amazed by our lack of trains! Be terrified that we don’t all have health insurance! Gawk at our fat poor people! Stare at the closing Sears and K-Mart stores!
No Trains? How would I get around? Assuming I go to Chicago and want to go to Seattle from there to see the views in the big empty bit in-between so no flying.
There’s this newfangled 19th century technology called the ‘Automobile’. Though it can take a few days to get from Chicago to Seattle.
Actually, a friend of mine took the train from Chicago to Seattle a few years back. It is fine if you don’t care when you arrive, it can be 24 hours late at times.
Rent a car. Maybe $40 a day. Just be sure to plan for the 10 to 12 days for driving between and the stops to check out the good parts.
You would have to drive, like a ‘Merican. Of course, Chicago to Seattle is just over 2,000 miles (~3,300 km) or about as far as Madrid is from Bucharest. Besides, you’d be passing up a bunch of good breweries.
If you drive you don’t fully enjoy the nothingness. Also you cannot drink while driving.
Planes come with windows nowadays. Even Romanians don’t fly in the cargo hold.
Note to self: Pie is not from Wisconsin.
Be sure to bring clutching-pearls for when you see all the firearms available for (nearly) unrestricted purchase.
In New York or LA, where is most likely that I visit if I do come?
Why would you want to visit the most un-american cities?
I mean all Romanians who first go to the US go to New York. It is like standard. I am weird in that I would like to get to Maine and eat Maine Lobster somewhere near the ocean.
And wear MAGA hat so you won’be be beaten and bleached every 1,000 metres along your journey.
Thanks creech. See quality advice is what I need not sarcasm/.
You should know you’ll get both when you come here.
I actually thought the NY/LA thing was a joke on your part. Yeah, don’t go there. The Maine thing is a good idea. Or try Charleston, or Salem MA, or the lava caves at El Malpais, or the mountains above Taos or something.
I’ll take you for pizza in Brooklyn
A friend of mine was working/living in Cyprus. Local friends of his were going to the US (first time) because a sister was marrying some guy in America – some place in the south. Before they went they were complaining about the kinds of backwards, non-intellectual people they expected to have to put up with. After they returned they couldn’t shut up about how wonderful and welcoming every American they met had been.
|I am weird in that I would like to get to Maine and eat Maine
Sadly I no longer live there or I’d show you around. It wouldn’t take but a minute!
My town has excellent diner food, french fries, and meatballs.
Really, we should put this together. There should be enough wiling Glibs to put Pie up for the night, show him the sights, introduce him to the local culture. Then after a day or two he can drive to his next appointment.
I would participate if I didn’t live in Japan. (and he can drop by here too anyway – but it doesn’t match what I’m trying to organize here).
Yeah, come visit MN. Shoot for a date in late January or early December.
Come for the cold, stay because your legs are frozen.
I think my visit is planned for Mosquito season.
Or even March this year. I’ll have the road to the cabin plowed and he can look at snow. Actually, Mr Pie, if you came to visit sometime between April and November you would be welcome to stay here, not a lot of anything to see except Americana but we could go fishing.
UCS, the invitation extends to you as well. We have a lot of mosquitoes, with a deer fly bonus and a wood tick kicker, some with Lyme Disease. All in all, a perfect place to visit.
I’m slated to be in the region the first few days of June. I think I have June 2nd penciled in as the day I was meeting the Pope for lunch at the Hardware store.
If you are headed west to Fargo it’s a little out of your way but not much. Good place to RON.
My avatar shows the resting place
Morons always are.
Americans are born Slaves.
Americans are the Anti-Rousseau
There is no opportunity in the US. There is much more opportunity in Romania.
To be fair i haven’t personally been to both countries and couldn’t say one way or the other. I don’t want to discount his lived experience.
This post inspired me to wander around Bucharest via Google street view. All looks pretty “normal”, except virtually no pick up trucks.
I did finally manage to find one: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4212329,26.1306648,3a,75y,206.55h,61.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOSaCj667-U2_3p4za-f57g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
ah the mighty dacia
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/20/kamala-harris-father-pot-1176805
LeL
Her father is just a patriarchal shitlord. So unwoke. /progs
So…..last night Zion’s shoe disintegrated, Duke got bitchslapped by Carolina, and ESPN managed to show a live glimpse of a player’s dick on television. A banner night of sports entertainment!
Meanwhile, NBCSN was showing a real sport.
Of course Obama is a Duke fan.
That was predictable.
Brain fried.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/20/roger-waters-says-theres-no-dictatorship-venezuela/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UXircX3VdM
Pink Floyd is overrated trash. There I said it. Fight me.
Your opinions are bad and you should feel bad.
What Breet said.
Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a wonderful album
As is The Division Bell.
Not according to this guy.
Hardly anyone knows their early work, so that’s kinda cheating. And at the end, pretentiousness overwhelmed creativity.
Isn’t that a Phil Woods album?
Partial agreement here.
Best way to get people out of your house at a party? Put on PInk Floyd.
“…you can even take them (useful idiots) to Siberia and show them the gulags and they still will not believe it. They will only believe it when the military boot is crushing their balls. Not before.” – Yuri Bezmenov
Roger Waters also bought a stake in helping an American attorney attempt to scam Chevron for literal billions. Waters can fuck off back to Legoland.
*shocked face*
The FBI’s top lawyer in 2016 thought Hillary Clinton and her team should have immediately realized they were mishandling “highly classified” information based on the obviously sensitive nature of the emails’ contents sent through her private server. And he believed she should have been prosecuted until “pretty late” in the investigation, according to a transcript of his closed-door testimony before congressional committees last October.
Former FBI general counsel James Baker said high-level officials at the bureau were “arguing about” whether to bring charges against Clinton, “I think, up until the end” — and he initially thought Clinton’s behavior was “alarming” and “appalling.”
Pursuant to the “statutes that we were considering at the time,” Baker told lawmakers, it was “the nature and scope of the classified information that, to me, initially, when I looked at it, I thought these folks should know that this stuff is classified, that it was alarming what they were talking about, especially some of the most highly classified stuff.”
Fox News has confirmed portions of the congressional transcript of Baker’s remarks. Baker’s testimony was considered credible by those in the room.
Clinton, in a televised interview on July 3, 2016, claimed that she had “never received nor sent any material that was marked classified” using her personal email system. She later said she regretted using the setup after it emerged that her private servers contained classified materials from Special Access Programs, or SAP — considered some of the most closely held U.S. government secrets.
The revelations from Baker follow a December letter by former House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy and former House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, who said the decision not to prosecute Clinton was not unanimous.
I’m curious as to why he changed his mind. He’s quite clear that he did change his mind and makes it sound like he is still on board with the final decision to not prosecute. I want to know what bit of evidence or legal defense was brought up to make it clear that any reasonable prosecutor would not file charges?
He received a visit from some of Hillary’s friends who warned him about violent armed criminals in the area who were robbing then killing people but not taking anything from their victims.
but not taking anything
Except their virginity.
This is where Benghazi came from. Hillary’s loose handling of sensitive information was being broadcast to foreign operatives who quickly figured when/where they could deploy assets to take out some of our operatives – including an ambassador – probably for nothing more than a diplomatic “fuck you”,
I wonder how well “At this point, what difference does it make” works at the judgment bar of God.
Basically, I translated that as “Yeah, I fcuked up and they are all still dead. What do you think you are going to do about it?”
A dozen counts of depraved inddiference homicide?
Yeah, basically “I know they’re dead. There was one point where, for a couple fractions of a second, I considered caring about it. Can I go now?”
Why would they give a shit about classified material coming across the servers? The whole reason for doing so was to keep her emails under her control and not physically subject to normal record keeping laws. It succeeded.
“Elizabeth Warren Claims Two Men In Colonial Outfits Assaulted Her With Smallpox-Infested Blankets”
https://babylonbee.com/news/elizabeth-warren-claims-two-men-in-colonial-outfits-assaulted-her-with-smallpox-infested-blankets
I think that one is a miss. It amuses me, but it is too obvious parody. I like the ones that could be real.
It got a laugh, the Babylon Bee did its job.
I thought its job was to get real media to report on their stories.
Unfortunately for the Bee, the “ones that could be real” usually are real.
SMALLPOX-INFESTED BLANKETS ARE NOTHING TO JOKE ABOUT!w
LOL – “and then stuck a feather in her hair and called her “macaroni””
Lol.
Holy shit. It’s probably a one joke headline (didn’t read), but what a joke.
Better than I thought it would be actually:
Warren claimed she was simply on her evening walk with her favorite peyote blend when
Greta Thunberg tells EU: your climate targets need doubling
Swede, 16, says EU cannot just ‘wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/21/greta-thunberg-tells-eu-your-greenhouse-gas-targets-are-too-low
Well I was sort of skeptical about this but now that Greta says so I am thoroughly convinced.
Once Greta grows up, she might gain some wisdom and figure out that she was spewing bunk as a teenager.
I encourage them to do so. Please do. The sooner the environmentalists kill themselves off, the better.
The problem is those assholes want to drag the rest of us down with them.
I can’t find the story right now, but in the last few days an Australian-based coal mining company announced it was cutting back production as a response to share-holders’ demands to focus on clean energy production.
Didn’t I read it was either Victoria or SA pushing their own Engergiewende that’s going tits-up?
Ah, here it is.
You’re 16. Shut up.
Clearly they should lower the voting age.
We can lower the voting age to “Pays net taxes”
And the drinking, firearms, driving, insurance coverage and credit card ages too?
Hell, they let me enlist into the Marines on my 17th birthday. Old enough to die should be old enough for the rest of that.
A strong argument can be made that the judgement required to willingly charge a machine gun is NOT the judgement required to decide whether machine guns should be charged.
Pay cash instead.
Officially, the military can enlist you at the age of 17, with a parent/guardian’s permission, but you are not deployable to a combat zone until you reach your 18th birthday.
Don’t any of these parents ever tell their kids to know their place?
I do that with my child all the time.
Actually i read her mom is an activist and the woke 16 year old think is a set up.
Where is it, dammit, I know my shocked face is around here somewhere.
Meh. I’m holding out for UMPTEENELEVENTY!!!!11!!!11!!!1gG service.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1098581869233344512
Queue the following headlines:
Why 4G is killing the Planet.
Inventor of 4G was Grandson of former Slave Owner
Krugman: 4G or FairG? Why AOC may have a better plan than Trump
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I agree, and all Americas, rich or poor should have access to these high internet speeds. There is no reason why only the wealthy should get access.
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At the same time though, you killed off net neutrality meaning that large corporations can control internet speeds for the rest of us. Maybe you should think twice about that one.
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Instead of spending $8 billion on a Fake National Emergency, how about focusing on using that type of money on rebuilding some of our outdated technological infrastructure?
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Progression is what is needed.
Thats why we need to embrace progressive politicians, not Conservatives who think 1950 was America’s hayday.”
I presume, like say, AOC?
Actually, Brian. Conservatives have always been the TRUE progressives.
I’ll just leave this here.
Those Krassenstein brothers always get the first response to any Trump post, it’s rigged. They were also accused of running a Ponzi scheme at some point in their past.
Dr. Eugene Gu has a sad
Who the fuck are these people, anyway? It’s like people like Ana Navarro – where the fuck did they come from? They should all be writing thank yous to Trump because no one would have ever heard of them if he weren’t in office.
I’m unconvinced that they are in fact two separate people. The one with the cool guy aviators strikes me as the fantastical alter ego a nerd would dream up after getting an atomic wedgie.
“watching Jussie Smollett lie to our faces for 8 minutes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxB-ChiusQ4
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1098568754164842499
“Male Feminist goes on a Date”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0I5rAxPSiY
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1098285384490983424
Stop it with the boot on forehead
I know, one can only get so erect, amirite?
I sense the “inceldom” stirring more inside that soul.
Two things should be re-iterated over and over and over again.
1. Smollet was about to let two randos take the blame for something he KNEW was a lie.
2. That while he was complaining about being victimized, he had huge amounts of the Chicago PD resources dedicated to his case, while murders went unsolved because the media decided to make it a national story.
He managed to make people root for the Chicago PD. That’s really hard to do!
I didn’t think it was possible but there it is.
Not just two randos, two pals.
“It’s the media, stupid”
I caught a couple of minutes of The Today Show (NBC) discussion of the Smollette case. They had a round table (no A players – not gonna touch that, I suppose) discussing the case.
The two african-american panelists talked about how excited everyone was when it happened, twitter was abuzz, everyone was posting reminiscences of Jussie and things that had happened… posting this and that about what it means. And then when it started to change “I was just like, this can’t be happening. I still hope that somehow…. something happened…. and…”
Then we got a brief moment of semi-sanity from MTV retread Carson Daly who said that the lesson for the media was that it isn’t “our job to root for an outcome. It is our job to get the facts. Too many people wanted a certain outcome and just dove right in because it fit what they wanted to believe”..
This was immediately ignored as we move on to how horrible it is. Second white dude jumps in to say that …..
And here’s what drove me to post, even though the cheerleading for the lie was worthy in its own right…
So white dude jumps in and says that the real tragedy here is that it takes attention away from the acts of hatred and bigotry that are happening every day in this country.
And the discussion proceeded on that front from there forward. This is America today. If you are LGBTQAI or black or Hispanic or a woman, you face these sorts of attacks on a daily basis. And it is a shame that this will distract attention from that.
Good lord, people.
Carson Daly is still on television???
Outfitted with his new cyber-liver, Daly may live 3 even 4 more years.
If these attacks are so routine and frequent, why do so many people feel the need to fake them?
Matthew Shepard is interred in Washington National Cathedral. The legislation passed with his name on it is still on the books. And Wikipedia still portrays his attack and death as being a hate crime.
I’m trying to think of recent news where a hate crime was actually proven to have occured. You have the extremely rare cases like the POS Charleston shooter and the Jewish church shooter. But I can’t recall a single instance of someone being charged with a hate crime tying to an assault or vandalism.
The “BLM’ Kidnapping (not BLM related) where the four livestreamed their abuse of the mentally handicapped guy was charged as a hate crime, I believe. But on the fact that he was mentally handicapped rather than the real reason (he was white, the perpetrators were not).
I think there’s been some legit cases of synagogues and/or Jewish graves being defaced.
Not sure, but maybe that church in Texas that got shot up? Don’t recall the motivation.
A few, but it’s really, really rare, and when the perps are caught, it’s often (usually) not the right kind of people.
how excited everyone was when it happened
These people are so invested in their faux narrative that they want people to be assaulted.
I am not exaggerating…. she was in a reverie reminiscing about how great it was being among like-minded folk talking about this heinous crime…. the idea that it might have all been based on a lie??? too much to take.
Not sure what’s more disturbing, SEA SMITH for breakfast, or SugarFree dropping a new H&H at lunch yesterday.
Well… I’m too close to the Hudson river.
The new household rules: ditch your toilet brush and wash much, much more
How many towels does one person need? Should you change your sheets each week? And do you really have to clean the toilet with nothing but your rubber gloves? Experts on 10 modern domestic dilemmas
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/21/new-household-rules-ditch-toilet-brush-wash-much-more
While I realize I do not wash things as often as would be ideal, washing sheets and towels more often than once a week seems a bit much. To be honest I wash em about every 3 weeks and if I got that down to every two weeks it would be more than enough.
Also I think I will keep my toilet brush.
No toilet brush? Germans hit hardest.
No shit.
My towels go into the wash if they touch the floor. This is a somewhat irregular metric. And why in the hell would you get rid of a perfectly finctional toilet brush? I’d have to get on my hands and knees to scrub the bowl without the handle giving extra reach.
Extended SMITH family does not understand “toilet brush” or “clean sheets.”
Or “Toilet” or “sheets”.
Is it best to shower in the morning or evening?
In the morning, MacKenzie says.
<In the evening, Crombie says.
Worst rules ever.
At some point before you start to stink.
Hey i Shower once a week, whether i need to or not.
Me too. That’s when I change my underwear too.
If you leave them on, you can wash them in the shower.
/Time saver
I imagine someone like Lachowski not showering after work.
He’d shatter from the thermal stresses.
I wash my undies when they start moving around on their own.
Life hack: launder your toilet brush with your towels and sheets.
There are disposable toilet brushes (I learned reading the back label of my toilet bowl cleaner last night). I would consider that. No fucking way I’m sticking my hand in there.
I am not exposing myself to more shit because one cleaner was irrationally germophobic. If you worry so much about the germs on the brush, get a small bucket of lysol and dunk it in there when you’re done scrubbing.
When I was a kid (probably 4ish or so) I got in trouble at my grandparents house. My punishment was to clean the toilet. I was emphatic that I wouldn’t touch that thing. My aunt was acting sympathetic and asked to see my hands. She promptly shoved them in the bowel. She stood up and started walking away saying, “well since your hands are already dirty . . . “
She promptly shoved them in the bowel.
I see what you did there.
The guardian, that’s who we should take advice from.
*eyeroll*
Yeah, that whole “let’s not use a toilet brush, let’s just let the shite stay stuck to the toilet bowl, or else scrub it out by hand using rubber gloves” is not happening at Chez Prolefeed.
Titties to distract you from the pointless decades standing between you and the sweet release of death.
http://archive.is/ugY9a
8. All of my yes, all of it. 3, 9, 16, 18, 38, 46, as well if I’m not already dead by then.
There are worse ways to become severely dehydrated.
Can’t look now bc I’m at work, but I’ll guess 4, 7, 21.
4. Her phone is plugged in to the charger.
7. Tatoos and some sort of broccoli salad.
21. Naïve Pacifist.
Hope that helps tide you over.
Was worried about you, bro.
Took a brief hiatus as I think it was getting saturated.
Gotta dry off regularly.
An alternative glamour shot
Lots of hot women, but 5 was my fav:
https://archive.is/ugY9a/9c93f190ae3569c3ac8110c37a174a453d80f004
32 had the best booty:
https://archive.is/ugY9a/6692e1a3a639f6291fdff8cbfdd408e57dd7979d
27 made up with quantity what it was very slightly lacking in quality:
https://archive.is/ugY9a/cf9f147fc96d07f58fc7dcc17c5d3131a30e24eb
Nearly half of US female scientists leave full-time science after first child
Study reveals proportion of people leaving full-time careers in science after the birth of their first child.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00611-1
It’s just terrible that Women generally make decisions that we don’t like. It must be stopped. But we should promote people deciding to have abortions.
No, no, no. All women’s every decision must be respected. Clearly the answer is to offer women such outsized pay packages for science careers that women either decide not to leave their career or more women go into the field.
Obvi. I’ve seen it in action.
The way I see it, they’re making a biologically rational decision. The next generation is far more important than some discovery that will, statistically, offer nothing to the world.
Corollary: It’s fairly well established that IQ and fecundity are inversely related.
Claim: Abnormally high intelligence is an evolutionarily maladaptive quality.
Fight me.
Why should I fight you?
I’ll just remind you that the most successful animals on the planet are either the abnormally intelligent apes making these arguments, some varieites of insect, or those animals which best cohabitate with those abnormally intelligent apes.
True. My contention is that there’s an optimum level of intelligence and higher than that is selected against.
You are thinking of adaptations of the individual, not adaptations of the tribe (or gene, if you must, but you shouldn’t.) Mean IQ of a WEIRD human is 40 points toward 100 of the average of both parents. But variation is pretty large. If two high IQ parents (avg IQ 120) have 5 kids*, most will be around 100 IQ is, but likely one will have an IQ of at least 115 (and quite possibly higher than 120). That means we are looking at 1 engineer or scientist, and 4 bright but not astounding offspring.
But all 4 have the same genetic donation from their parents.
Which is more adaptive to the tribe? 4 kids having 5 kids + 1 non-procreating engineer who works their whole life, or all 5 kids having 4 kids each.
Remember, all 20 3rd generation kids have basically the same genetic donation from their grandparents, no matter which path you go down. The ideal family structure is a fern, not a tree. I seem to recall you come from an Jewish background, right? This is exactly the family structure seen in orthodox families. The orthodox family has a bunch of kids. The kids who go more liberal have fewer kids and die out. The orthodox kids have enough to replace a whole generation. And the cycle repeats.
*Assortive mating has been getting much stronger on IQ, and less strong on social status / attractiveness in the last 75 years in the US.
I sometimes wonder, if/when some alien species observes the situation on earth, whether they will focus on humans or more on canines/felines – yeah, hominids have all these advantages over the rest of the fauna here but how/why did dogs and cats understand (more than all the other similarly disadvantaged species) that they should cast their fate with these two-legged animals?
Opportunity. Dogs got fed from the table, cats gained access to our rodents.
UCS mentions insects, and a lot of those more-successful bugs are also dependent on human “interaction”. Locust swarms fed by agriculture, roaches across the restaurants of the world, ants in your recycling bin.
Where were houseflies before the invention of houses?
They didn’t exist, those were Homelessflies.
Fresh corpses and fruit drops. Stay Classy, Flies.
And such lovely things as the Granary Weevil.
IQ doesn’t mean much – it measures, poorly, some aspects of intelligence.
Abnormally high intelligence has made humans one of the most successful species on the planet, but we may be bumping up against the limits of it increasing overall, because tradeoffs: aspyness, heads that can’t fit thru birth canals, using that intelligence to choose to pursue happiness rather than fecundity, etc.
So, let me guess, their conclusion is that you have to have almost twice as many women enter science as men, so that the numbers will even out when half of the women leave?
Don’t be silly.
Women why try to drop out of the sciences because babies should be whipped back to the lab by the police of vice and virtue.
That’s….problematic.
No worries. We’ll make sure the mutaween have the right number of female employees as well.
The final 24 hours Bernie haul:
10 Is it best to shower in the morning or evening?
Bernie Sanders raises nearly $6 million in 24 hours after 2020 launch, campaign says
Sanders raised $5,925,771 from 223,047 individual contributors across all 50 states in the campaign’s first 24 hours, and more than $6 million from 225,000 individuals in total since the launch. And Sanders’ campaign also noted that the average contribution was $27, “mirroring [Sanders’] 2016 campaign’s average donation,” a symbolic reflection of the Vermont senator’s grassroots support that was key to his anti-establishment bid against Hillary Clinton.
All these people living paycheck to paycheck and they still find $27 to give to an old man’s political career?
Copy/paste fail.
*hangs head in shame*
Nobody needs 27 different times to shower.
I just really want to know which time of the day is better, and Pie’s article did not answer it for me.
In the morning, and both before and after every Tinder hookup.
2:34pm, On The Dot.
At this rate, he already has enough for his 5th home. Very nice, keep up the good work, fellow citizens.
But they’re not the classiest of homes.
“First of all, Mitt Romney is not Rich”
+1 apples and milk
Apropos of Nothing: Anyone else visit Hacker News? Anyone else remember when it was a borderline libertarian place full of interesting technical discussions between knowledgeable people? Boy those were Halcyon days.
Once upon a time I had a subscription to 2600.
PHREAKERS UNITE!
/tosses Scruffy a blue box
*scoffs at blue box, pulls out Cap’n Crunch whistle*
Is that why Stephenson wrote a five hundred word disquisition on Randy Waterhouse’s Cap’n Crunch ritual? A sly nod to John Draper?
Too bad Cap’n Crunch was a scummy guy (based on all the reports I read).
Yeah, definitely a weirdo who likes to cover for his pedophilic nature with bullshit New Age explanations
Was it anything like 2600?
Hell, I remember when /. had a libertarian bend in the comments.
A bend Sinister?
I remember when /. had a libertarian bend in the comments
What a disappointment that place is.
I’m not familiar with 2600.
It’s weird, and a testament to the indoctrination of higher ed, that the tech community has become so progressive when it’s historically been made up of anti-authoritarian outcasts.
Yes, a little. Yes, a lot. Yes, they are.
Basically this is the only place left on the internet I spend any real time.
Reddit is a dumpster fire. (Especially with the latest purity purge in the tabletop RPG community)
/. hasn’t been good since I’ve been in tech
Hacker News has turned to shit
It’s a bummer going to these places and seeing the idiocy spilled across the screen. Some pecker head on Hacker News tried to claim the EU is as good or better on free speech than the US. Fuck me man. Time to burn it all down.
‘I can’t even look at the cover’: the most disturbing books
From hiding from a copy of The Exorcist to being unnerved by the likes of Shirley Jackson, Stephen King and Iain Banks, here are your most alarming reading experiences
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2019/feb/21/i-cant-even-look-at-the-cover-the-most-disturbing-books
“Read that book when you’re dying – it’s really good.”
That needs to be a cover blurb.
Never jud…fuck it, why try.
The Three-Body Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin is at or near the top of my list of most fascinating yet disturbing reads ever.
It has an extremely (commie? Chinese?) mindset.
“Humanity is evil and need to be ruled by Top Men” is an idea that gets discredited at the beginning of the book, leaving “Humanity is Evil and needs to be Ruled by Aliens” and “Humanity is Evil and Neeeds to be Destroyed” as the only other options. “Humanity is not Evil” and “Humanity does not Need to be Ruled” are never considered.
All these people living paycheck to paycheck and they still find $27 to give to an old man’s political career?
Now look to see if there is a corresponding drop in lottery ticket sales. Or maybe avocado toast.
For a mere forty cents a day, less than the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help an aging Bolshevik buy his fourth vacation house.
I had a similar conversation with my Wife. She was telling me that after leaving a Doc apt for our daughter the clerk/receptionist was super apologetic because our bill was $50 not $25 because she had made an error the last time we were there. She then asked if we wanted to pay in parts or in full. I get there are some poor people out there, but while $50 is not nothing, I find it harder to believe that you can’t scrounge up $50 elsewhere in your budget. Call me an out of touch shitlord, but i see the crap people spend money on (Netflix, Take out) and think why should i have to subsidize your medical bills when you don’t even make an effort to live within your means.
Don’t think of it as subsidizing their medical bills, think of it as subsidizing their Netflix, takeout, etc.
And arguably all of those people would have been better off spending $27 on lottery tickets (even factoring in where the proceeds end up).
Yeah, and if you bet on Bernie and win, all you get is a block of cheese and a struggle session.
YOU GOT CHEESE?!
He calls it cheese, it’s actually a denutrientated paste scraped off the machinery and pressed into bricks.
…denutrientated…
*scribbles furiously in dictionary margin*
Nearly half of US female scientists leave full-time science after first child
Study reveals proportion of people leaving full-time careers in science after the birth of their first child.
And “we” need to do what, about this, exactly?
Gives me an idea. Start a party called “You got a Mouse in your Pocket? Party”. The Main platform is to point out anytime someone lazily collectivizes an argument.
Stop throwing away valuable education resources on women?
OK, that’s good!
A Citizen Suing the Department of Justice Needs More than Just a Winning Legal Argument
As I fight on with my computer intrusion lawsuit against the U.S. government, it seems to intersect more clearly with current events every day. And it points to an even larger story.
How widespread is improper government surveillance of journalists, politicians and other U.S. citizens in the name of the fight against terrorism? A few of us found out we were targeted only because we were lucky enough to be alerted by inside sources or other unique ways. How many others were targeted, monitored and watched by government officials but still have no idea it happened?
The Case
In late January, an appeals court heard oral arguments in my federal lawsuit, now entering its fourth year. A panel of three judges will determine what happens next. Here are several possible outcomes:
The judges side with us. They determine that former Attorney General Eric Holder is not entitled to immunity from lawsuits such as mine. They decide that we had adequate time in discovery to learn the identities of the “John Doe” federal agents who conducted the remote computer intrusions and surveillance. The case returns to U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia where we resume our longstanding attempts to get the Department of Justice to properly respond to document subpoenas, which they have so far failed to do.
The judges side with the Department of Justice. They determine that Holder and other federal officials enjoy immunity from my lawsuit. The judges also decide that the relatively few weeks that we were given the opportunity for discovery was enough time, even though the Department of Justice fought each subpoena and provided no information, documents or interviews. We then approach the U.S. Supreme Court and ask for a review. This requires preparing a special legal petition. We would also prepare summaries for anyone who wishes to offer an amicus curiae or “friend of the court” brief. Though not a party to the case, such an individual or interested group would help by offering expertise to the court on the issue at hand and its importance to the public.
The judges side with us on some issues and side with the Department of Justice on some issues. Each party then decides whether to appeal and/or proceed in District Court.
Regardless of the outcome, this effort will continue to be very expensive. Well, expensive for me and my family. Not so much for the Justice Department, which gets to use an endless supply of your tax money to fight the lawsuit and obstruct discovery.
Would.
QI and AI need to be burned down tot he roots, ripped out, mixed with salt, encased in cement, and dropped in a river. Even if such a thing was part of our legal tradition (it isn’t), 1983 got rid of it. Instead, the SC thinks 1983 strengthened it.
Headline I just saw:
“Pope’s Credibility is at Risk”
No shit? When did that happen?
I think some time before the Borgias.
Start a party called “You got a Mouse in your Pocket? Party”.
I like that. The slogan can be, “Somebody” Oughtta Do Something? You’re somebody. Get busy, or STFU.
The only flaw is the party splits after every vote to adopt a platform.
Xeno’s Party
Actually, a friend of mine took the train from Chicago to Seattle a few years back. It is fine if you don’t care when you arrive, it can be 24 hours late at times.
Just needs moar Mussolini.
The Whtie-supremacists are memeing from inside the campus!
A printed out picture of Pepe the Frog posted next to a flier warning against “fascist dog whistles” prompted a California college to contact local police, put the school on “heightened alert,” and send out a letter to the community warning about the potential threat posed by white supremacists.
The image of the Alt-Right meme was found on February 6 posted on the door of a Folsom Lake College faculty member in between fliers listing “fascist dog whistles,” social justice events, and promoting the “always antifascist” Democratic Socialists of America, Campus Reform reports.
In an emailed letter to the campus community titled “Hate Has No Home On Our Campus,” FLC President Whitney Yamamura, Academic Senate President Paula Haug, Classified Senate President Lindsey Campbell, and Student Senate President Cameron Sanders explained the reason the college felt compelled to take action over the image.
“[Pepe] has been commonly co-opted by white supremacists and others as a symbol of bigotry,” reads the letter. “While we do not immediately know the intentions of the person(s) who posted the picture, we are treating this incident with the highest level of seriousness and have already conducted a sweep of all Folsom Lake College campuses to look for other instances of these materials.”
The letter goes on to encourage students to report any other evidence of “hateful or bigoted” messaging, but also stresses the college’s commitment to supporting free speech.
“We believe that we can create an environment free of hateful language or symbols while still supporting the rights afforded to us in the First Amendment,” the letter reads. “Folsom Lake College has always been, and must continue to be, a place for collegial and mature conversation about complex issues. As a college, we are committed to providing a safe and inclusive learning and working environment, as demonstrated from our ongoing professional development workshops and trainings related to equity and inclusion.”
Actually you can’t.
“Inclusive” being a rather, ummm, flexible term.
“We must be inclusive by excluding the undesirables.”
“We must be tolerant by being intolerant of the undesirables.”
Yeah, you pretty much have to pick “censor the undesirables” or “free speech”.
You sure as hell can’t do it using arbitrary standards such as “hatefulness”, at any rate. And I doubt there’s a reasonable standard that isn’t already covered by laws against making threats.
Indignant children who want to rule over their peers.
You have to hand it to the weaponized autists of 4-Chan. They have rope-a-doped an impressive number of the most pompous institutions of our society.
The Pepe bit kills me. Talk about trolling morons.
Nice mugshot.
It can mean only one thing…meme contest!
I see the scratch on his face healed nicely
“Not the face! Not the face!”
Is it me or does he even look snarky in his mugshot?
I hope he likes toilet wine.
From the pictures, he has two expressions – snarky, mouth closed; stupid, toothy grin.
Black is the new orange?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxCdh1Ps48
The union will not abide scabs.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201902211072612639-sweden-sex-robots-feminism/
Honestly, I hope they manage to pass the idiotic ban. And I hope the law is written so that it also applies to dildos and vibrators. Let Sweden serve as an object lesson.
You don’t think there will be a carve out for dildos?
“Object lesson.” Nice.
“They’re demanding legislation targeting technology that “reproduces ideas about exploiting women’s bodies”.”
Sooo, a ban on computers that can access the internet and thus porn?
Good luck with that.
technology that “reproduces ideas about exploiting women’s bodies’
They hate DNA?
Clearly.
“Blown away” huh
https://sputniknews.com/science/201812151070724037-sex-doll-harmony-sensory-upgrades/
“They also drew parallels with pornography, whose consumption, they claimed, leads to sexist attitudes and actual violence.”
Feminists have been saying that for decades, without any evidence to back it up.
Anyway, if they think sex dolls can replace women, they must have a very low opinion of women.
All of this is another attempt to control the undesirables. There can’t be that many men choosing a $10,000 doll over a woman. They are choosing a $10,000 doll over having no woman.
Or a pricy doll over having women who are crazy or just a pain in the keister, because the other women avoid them.
Some people will pay more for that.
I dont get it. why would anyone want to stick their dick in an inanimate object? I know there are plenty who do, more power to them I guess. But why? And that photo…that thing…that is the least inspiring looking sex doll.
To each their own.
And does this ban include male sex dolls? Or just females?
I can see “fleshlights” (aka “pocket p*ssies” for you oldsters) which is the inverse of a dildo. But those dolls creep me the fuck out.
Politics is just The Kardashians for people who think they are smarter than everyone else.
Fight me.
The letter goes on to encourage students to report any other evidence of “hateful or bigoted” messaging, but also stresses the college’s commitment to supporting free speech.
Once the Commissariat for Truth and Justice has eradicated the wrongthinkers, harmony will prevail. Only the truth will be spoken (on pain of death). All will be as it should.
“Folsom Lake College has always been, and must continue to be, a place for collegial and mature conversation about complex issues. As a college, we are committed to providing a safe and inclusive learning and working environment, as demonstrated from our ongoing professional development workshops and trainings related to equity and inclusion.”
*hysterical laughter*
I see the Pepe flyers
They stuck em on the door
And the college’s hysterics
Jaws done hit the floor
But I’m stuck at Folsom College
And time keeps dragging on
But that grievance train keeps rollin’
Now I gotta atone
*Slow Clap*
[joins applause]
Putting the government in charge of everything will save us so much money.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/marines-150-million-rifle-what-heckler-koch-m27-so-expensive-45087
I thought the M27 was replacing the SAW, not the M4?
Both
https://www.military.com/kitup/2019/02/20/gun-maker-calls-marines-crayon-eaters-viral-facebook-post.html
Interesting. Guess the “one shot, one kill” mantra from boot camp is going away then.
Apparently Roger Stone is in deep(er) doo doo. He posted some sort of an image of the judge which may or may not depict her in the sights of a sniper rifle (I haven’t seen it), and said mean things about her and her “impartiality” in the case. This is being trumpeted as a direct threat of murder to the judge, and people are saying she will revoke his bail and have him locked up.
a) what a dumb fuck
b) what a tyrannical cunt
Shoulda used a woodchiper…
…or a special place in hell.
I saw it. It’s Preet-level bullshit.
Yep. I saw it. I dont see any crosshairs. There is some sort of a circle with a cross in it but it is small and not on the judge. It is just in the background. The charge is horseshit.
No comment
We’ve also had this crosshairs debate long ago. IIRC Palin used crosshairs in one of her ads and the left went ballistic. Then it was discovered that some female dem (Clinton, Giffords) had used them previously.
Also, the Woodchipper Incident does set a precedent.
Palin used crosshairs in one of her ads and the left went ballistic
well played
“JUST IN: Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson: Jussie Smollett “paid $3,500 to stage this attack…The stunt was orchestrated by Smollett because he was dissatisfied with his salary.”
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1098604840358420480
https://abcnews.go.com/US/jussie-smollett-custody-chicago-police-allegedly-lying-attack/story?id=61208295
TW: autoplay
“SMOLLETT USED A CHECK”
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1098608179720663040
What a dumbass.
Maybe he was hoping to write it off on his taxes for job expenses…
He’s so screwed.
You’d think they would have learned since the days of Jerry Springer.
That special moment as a defense attorney when the prosecutions first discovery production shows you that:
1. Your client is an epic moron
2. That press conference you gave yesterday about how your client is an innocent victim is going to be the punchline of jokes by every person you meet for the next year.
Honestly, I have no idea why any lawyer would go into criminal defense. I knew one who quit doing that and quit doing divorces as well. I asked him why – “I am tired of picking bricks up off of my living room floor.”
But what about the glazier?!
*channeling Johnny Rotten 1978* Ah-ha-ha….ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
He wasn’t being paid for his brain.
I wonder what he put in the memo line.
Smollett: U mad, bro?
he was dissatisfied with his salary
And now he has exorbitant legal fees. What a jackass.
Tyler Cowen is still capable of making sense, now and then
Many of the biggest critics of the Amazon deal are on the progressive left — the same crowd that tends to favor an industrial policy for America. Why, then, is industrial policy so bad for New York City? There are also critics from the libertarian right. For them the question might be, Why isn’t what’s good for Singapore good for New York City? Often cited as a model in many other discussions of economic policy, Singapore has offered differential tax and development incentives for most of its history, with great success.
One final note: There isn’t a tax system in the world in which all individuals or companies pay the same rates. Once you factor in depreciation, expensing provisions, definitions of profit, and much more, tax systems are never fully neutral or transparent. New York’s offer to Amazon was probably more straightforward than many other features of local tax systems.
What matters is the net tax companies pay, not just their published tax rate. When a large company is going to make a significant investment in an urban area, it is hoping for support in terms of infrastructure maintenance or improvement, and indeed it invests on that basis. The reality is that municipalities often have difficulty fulfilling their obligations anyway. (This also holds true, unfortunately, for even basic promises to ordinary citizens. Ridden the New York City subway lately?)
I still think New York made an error in offering Amazon tax breaks, if only because it looked bad. That led to the canceling of the deal, and negative publicity for both the company and New York City. But if you think the deal was uniquely outrageous, you need to look more closely at how governments actually operate.
“Many of the biggest critics of the Amazon deal are on the progressive left — the same crowd that tends to favor an industrial policy for America. Why, then, is industrial policy so bad for New York City? ” Excellent question, but that’s different because reasons. Also, Amazon was unwilling to surrender internal management decisions to the mob.
He doesn’t address the dog in the manger aspects of the anti-Amazon crowd, though. Those people would have opposed the deal no matter what. The “subsidies” were just a convenient talking point.
TDS and the reflexive hate of big business always reminds me of this song.
From what I’ve read, the biggest complaints about the Amazon deal was that it would cause gentrification. Yeah – people were actually bitching that their neighborhood would IMPROVE.
NOTHING stays the same. Either your neighborhood improves, or it falls apart. In many cases even improvements do little more than keep pace.
And that’s really what Amazon was going to do. The office building Amazon was going to move into is currently occupied by Citigroup but they are moving out in 2020. Hard to see how replacing one employer with another of similar size would have an exaggerated effect. Guess we’ll see in a few years when one large employer isn’t replaced with much of anything.
“Yeah – people were actually bitching that their neighborhood would IMPROVE.”
From everything I have heard lately they have nothing to worry about.
Soon we will all realize the movie Escape from New York was a documentary.
For them the question might be, Why isn’t what’s good for Singapore good for New York City?
Well, I’m not so sure that critics on the liibertarian riight are that eager to model things where you can get jailed for chewing gum.
That said, almost nothing I’ve read on the deal makes any sense. The city isn’t saving a damned thing through Amazon scuttling the deal. Even a 50% tax rate on a business that doesn’t exist yields the same revenue as a 0% rate on a business that does – nothing. I’ve even read one critic noting that Alexandria offered Amazon less in tax subsidies than New York. That’s probably true. But, any sane analysis would tell you why in a few minutes. New York’s tax and regulatory climate are so abysmal that large tax subsidies were necessary to be competitive with other locations.
Alexandria is probably also less likely to nickel-and-dime Amazon to death with quotas, union bullshit, and other prog demands.
See, below, “mob of parasites and grifters”.
Absolutely. That became clear the moment I heard they were demanding jobs for the nearby public housing residents.
Amazon took the standard deal NYC offers to anyone to dupe them into relocating there. What they wouldn’t tolerate was the mob of parasites and grifters that descended on them, because NYC. Interesting that Bezos proggy tendencies stop when it comes to his own wallet.
Live by the government, die by the government. Any guesses on how long until COTA files bankruptcy
https://racer.com/2019/02/20/cota-denied-20-million-in-state-funding-for-2018-f1-race/
Fun with numbers
The National Rifle Association is mounting another round of information warfare, this time against a proposal in the House of Representatives to require background checks on all gun sales. As the talking points fly, it’s worth recalling the growing body of evidence that finds close correlation between more rigorous gun laws and greater public safety.
One of the more recent studies in this vein comes from researchers associated with Stanford University, who tested the relationship between state gun laws and firearm-related fatalities among children and teens. Firearm-related mortality is the second-leading cause of pediatric death in the United States.
The variation among states is wide. Hawaii had 0.45 such deaths per 100,000. Alaska had 7.55 per 100,000 — more than 16 times higher. Hawaii has some of the strongest gun laws in the nation, including widespread registration of guns, while Alaska has some of the flimsiest.
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Gun violence is complex, and understanding it requires much more research. For example, the New England states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont all have relatively weak gun laws but still have lower rates of gun death than states with similar laws, suggesting other factors are involved. But the weight of evidence on gun violence increasingly confirms the common-sense conclusion: More guns plus less regulation equals more needless deaths.
What do they do with Illinois and Maryland? Toss them out, as “anomalous” and nonindicative?
They use them as proof that bans are needed across the board, since clearly those guns are crossing the border and shooting up peacful inner-city gang members.
Cherry-pickers gonna pick cherries.
And of course, there is the subjectivity of what counts as “strict” or “flimsy” gun laws. Nothing tendentious about those labels.
Of course. The conclusion has already been determined. Data which does not fit must be rejected.
Also note that they use “gun deaths”, which includes suicides. Gun control will not prevent those deaths, they will just use other means if guns are not available.
“Firearm-related mortality is the second-leading cause of pediatric death in the United States.”
Only if you count 14-17 year old gang bangers. Take them out and more kids drown from falling over head first into 5 gallon buckets (no shit, they do).
And more people get beaten to death by bare fists than get shot to death with rifles.
I thought drowning was more prevalent than gunshot victims even counting the Gang violence.
Also Gun violence is really only a big issue in the Biggest cities in the US.
Yes, and only in certain parts of those cities. Unless you look at the shithole named New Orleans.
All of which are liberal bastions. The way forward is clear. Liberals cause gun violence, therefore in order to prevent gun violence, liberals must be banned.
Data and freedom are still not related, unless you count how many millions in, say, the past century, were disarmed and then later rounded up and annihilated.
Anyway: no one on either side is persuaded by anything (fine), and it won’t pass the Senate (good), so it’s a waste of money and breath to even discuss it. I hate the predictable socon statists that populate the Republican Party in the South, but you can bet I’ll hold my nose and pull the hammer for them so long as the Senate is the best defense against certain bad ideas.
close correlation between more rigorous gun laws and greater public safety.
Wrong.
And irrelevant in the context of the Constitution. Almost all existing firearms and other weapons regulation is illegal.
According to a Wednesday story in The Austin American-Statesman newspaper, Gov. Greg Abbott’s office rejected COTA’s annual application for reimbursement following the 2018 F1 race. Officials in the governor’s office said track representatives failed to meet the deadline for submitting a required human trafficking prevention plan as part of their reimbursement request.
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
“Chase Bank De-Platforms Conservative Performance Artist Martina Markota
Two weeks after Chase Bank announced that it would no longer do business with Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio, Conservative performance artist and Rebel Media personality Martina Markota has become the latest conservative media figure to be targeted by the bank which has made no secret of its support for liberal causes (see its decision to cut ties with the gun industry).
When she contacted the bank to try and figure out why the account had been shut down, Markota said they refused to give her a reason. She believes that the decision was politically motivated due to her support for President Trump.
If political motivations were in fact behind her de-platforming, that would make Markota the latest in a string of conservatives including Alex Jones, Laura Loomer and Jordan Peterson who have been financially targeted for their political views by what are still perceived as unbiased, apolitical organizations, when in reality financial isolation and boycotts is precisely how outspoken, ideologically opposing voices get silenced.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-20/chase-bank-de-platforms-conservative-performance-artist-martina-markota
https://twitter.com/MartinaMarkota/status/1098255753553629184
*SLD about Free association
Don’t Banks have some strict regulations limiting their rights to Free Association? INAL and INA Finance Guy, so i don’t know about it but since all Trump Supporters are White Nazis i think they could come back at the bank and hit them with discrimination.
Well, I’m not so sure that critics on the liibertarian riight are that eager to model things where you can get jailed for chewing gum.
Or get caned for dropping the wrapper on the sidewalk.
Well, my orphans are in charge of gum wrapper disposal, so if anyone is going to get caned, its them. My only objection would be that I should be the one caning them, not some flabby pubsec who probably can’t be arsed to put his back into it.
“Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I’m Back” is a criminally under appreciated album by Sly and the Family Stone. I got it on vinyl a few weeks back. This is my favorite of the many good tracks on it. The bass player is just laying it down.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qV_JOD9cs4M
“VIDEO: John Oliver Billboard Hijacked in Los Angeles, Hit With ‘Orange Man Bad’ NPC Meme Street Art”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/video-john-oliver-billboard-hijacked-in-los-angeles-hit-with-orange-man-bad-npc-meme-street-art/
LOLOLOLOL
I tried to watch John Oliver’s show on HBO and couldn’t take it after five minutes. It’s low hanging comedy with a smug British accent with clapping seals in the audience.
The tragedy of Stephen Colbert is that he’s actually funny. Loved his work on Strangers with Candy, Harvey Birdman, and the Daily Show (at the beginning) but somewhere along the line he sold out and became a partisan hack.
Believe it or not, Samantha Bee was pretty funny at the beginning of her run on The Daily Show too. Maybe it’s something in the water there.
I don’t believe it.
Agreed on Bee. I was looking forward to her late night effort but gave up in seconds and never went back. Her husband can be oddly funny as well. Colbert was a scream on Comedy, but, again, his CBS effort is all about confrontation and the funny part never made the jump. You can be funny even gunning for me and my politics, but the wheels came off both these folks.
Oliver can be funny, but I don’t always have the energy to coast through the smug parts to get to the funny parts. I’ve got too many skins on the wall at this point to be attracted to exposé, especially essays written by people who don’t know anything about how things work; his coverage of outrages is fine, and everyone is fair game, but his assumption that government will fix things before market forces will is tiresome: I rather doubt he’s flying back for the queen’s health service every chance he gets.
Humor is like news: it’s hard to find anything to enjoy anymore because the writers are just useless puppies. I’m not going to find many political allies who are popular, so I do the best I can: enjoy the thoughtful snippets on, say, NPR or HBO, and I just shake my head sadly and turn it off when it gets too stupid. I don’t walk away because something isn’t A+ aligned to me all the time; for example, Alec Baldwin’s Trump on SNL is a scream; I sharpen knives while it’s on in the background and just turn it off when the funny is over.
The genius of Monty Python is that they made a conscious decision to leave contemporary politics out of the show. So the shows hold up decades later, and the guys are revered. Now whenever one of them DOES make contemporary political comments – John Cleese for example, they come off like lazy hacks.
One of the interesting things about watching Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn was seeing who the real comedians were. The hacks always passed up laughs in order to stick to their politics (Sarah Silverman in particular comes to mind). The real comedians always went for the laughs.
If political motivations were in fact behind her de-platforming, that would make Markota the latest in a string of conservatives including Alex Jones, Laura Loomer and Jordan Peterson who have been financially targeted for their political views by what are still perceived as unbiased, apolitical organizations, when in reality financial isolation and boycotts is precisely how outspoken, ideologically opposing voices get silenced.”
Too bad there isn’t some sort of rule about treating some people differently than others.
From the Things I Don’t Like Mean the World is Ending desk:
Look around the Western world. Which country’s politics seem the most shambolic? In the past, your eyes might have headed instinctively toward southern Europe. The politicians in Athens, Madrid and Rome are certainly trying hard, but if you want dysfunctionality, there are only two places to go: Washington and London.
America’s government was shut for a long stretch of this year — and now President Donald Trump is stuck in a row with Congress over whether there is a national emergency on the southern border of the United States. Britain’s government is meandering toward Brexit with all the discipline of a drunk on an icy road. If nothing changes, the United Kingdom will topple out of the European Union in five weeks.
Is this the end of “the Anglosphere”? For nearly four decades, America and Britain have touted the benefits of open markets, globalization and personal freedom.
Whycome them no like muh world government fantasyland?
Seriously? “Personal freedom” for the English? I hate to break it to you, Shirley, but that ship sailed, hit a reef, and sank quite some time ago, while you (apparently) weren’t looking.
And-
It wasn’t until 2016, however, that the Anglosphere fell to pieces. First came Brexit, which has silenced Britain almost completely. It is not just the unseemly, all-consuming chaos that it has unleashed. The sense of Britain as a liberal, outward-looking country has been reversed. Even if a few Brexiteers want to create a free-trading Singapore on the Thames, the movement is dominated by Little Englanders scared of Johnny Foreigner.
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The election of Donald Trump has proved a bigger blow.
Boo fucking hoo.
ps- Managed Trade is not, and never has been, “open markets”.
“Why can’t you ignorant rubes embrace my globalist fantasies?!!!!”
Believe it or not, Samantha Bee was pretty funny at the beginning of her run on The Daily Show too.
No.
She was. That was back when the Daily Show made fun of everyone. They even did a pretty good dig on Democrats and their media restrictions at their convention one year. Now she and the Daily Show are leftists/sjw hacks.
I think even Jon Stewart is sad to see what it became (even before he left the show). He basically turned into what he lambasted Tucker Carlson for all those years ago on Crossfire.
Yeah, I’ve noticed Stewart has been less outspoken politically recently. I think he legitimately enjoyed having Donald Rumsfeld, et al, come to his show and be intrviewed.