Hey guys, I’m off to cheer on The Other Kevin if I can make it across Tampa Bay in time. Here’s some probably stale links.
If history is any indication, this guy just needs 8 US marines and about 500 mercenaries. US citizen leading military advance against Tripoli.
Looks like Assange’s days are numbered.
Donald Trump, suuuper-genius. Donny, we’ve got record employment, people are already booming on easy money. Let’s not do anything to make the rocket burn hotter.
Here’s a feel-good story about the IRS getting its ass handed to it by the lawyers and accountants who protect the richest people’s money.
There was much talk of chainsaws in the morning links.
GO [insert team name here]!
Seriously though, good luck to the other Kevin.
Links are stale before you copy the URL, so don’t worry about it.
Go, TOK!
So what you’re saying is Zombie Presley O’Bannion will take Tripoli?
Gillette is woker than a guy who chased a handful of amphetamines with a gallon NoDoz-laced coffee
I’m not sure what I find dumber, the ad, or the need of everyone in the comments to talk about whether or not it’s healthy to be fat. No, it’s not healthy to be very fat. It’s also not healthy to smoke, or drink too much caffeine, or any of a number of other irrelevant things. The ad is unlikely to sell any razors, which should be the only thing that matters.
Is that an ad for a razor or a riding mower?
Clearly, it’s an ad for swimwear. Or sunscreen.
I thought it was an ad for a tent-maker.
We’re gonna need a bigger tent.
Another reason I’ll be replacing my Gillette stuff.
…with another brand.
Meh. I’ll buy them if they’re on sale and happen to fit my razor handle. I’m no Galahad.
That’s a lot of acreage to shave. If they really want to help her slay the day, maybe release a double wide razor?
Maybe a self propelled razor? Kind of like a Roomba?
I’m not for “robot rights”, but think of the robots!
“beep boop need to circumnavigate left meat flap, not enough charge left in battery”
“What is my purpose?”
“You shave fat chicks.”
“Oh. My. God.”
Is that a razor twice as wide as normal or a razor the size of a double wide trailer? I’m leaning towards the latter.
So we should embrace this woman’s unhealthiness. Shouldn’t she also be smoking a Kool and have an extra-sugar Mountain Dew in her hand to encourage everyone to be as unhealthy as possible? (Perhaps a discarded bag of potato chips spilled on the floor to make the point?)
re: The Battle of Derna – thanks for that. My “American Revolution and Early National Period” class barely reached Patrick Henry’s speech. So much to revisit.
If you’re ever in Boston, you can visit Derne Street and see a nice plaque about William Eaton
“He supported Moammar Gadhafi in his 1969 coup, then found himself in Langley, Virginia in the 90s where he gained US citizenship, before returning to overthrow Gadhafi in the 2011 conflict.”
Langley huh?
Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen.
It’s a nice neighborhood, don’t judge.
Sorry. Nice knowing you, Julian.
“The INA papers are a collection of documents leaked to an Ecuadorian legislator which have implicated President Lenin Moreno in a corruption scandal.”
Yeah, he’s toast
Lenin? Really?
What do you have against Lenin Toast?
Is that like Princess Toast? Only with olive drab sprinkles?
Nice how the British are going to arrest him even though Sweden dropped all charges and there’s nothing to actually arrest him for.
Resisting Arrest.
They can get him on an ASBO. It is antisocial to tell the tax cattle that they are being enslaved by their betters
Being a wanker?
Obstruction!
“Why a U.S. Citizen Wants to Overthrow a U.S.-backed government in Libya” takes two fewer words and says the same thing without the smarmy condescension.
Well, it takes 1 fewer contraction, anyway.
How about this?
U.S. Citizen Plots Overthrow of U.S.-Backed Government in Libya
I’ve always wondered how this asinine headline format was conceived and found its way into journalistic style guides. I think it’s because it might make certain types of people feel like they’re receiving some sort of important briefing, but I’m not totally sure. To me it’s fucking infuriating. Oh, you’re going to tell me why? Like in the body of the article directly below? No shit?
True.
It’s funny you frame it that way, because the author talks like he’s getting briefings from Ukrainian intelligence.
It’s because CNN and the like are hiring all their writers from BuzzFeed now.
You know who I feel sorry for? It’s whoever does the layout for these websites, because that job has to be horrendous. Can you imagine trying to arrange fifteen or so of these headlines on one page without having it look completely stupid?
I think you are adding a requirement that the sites do not impose on their layout guy.
Click-bait. The title you suggest is a nice self-contained fact, it doesn’t goad the reader into assuming there is more that needs to be read about. It doesn’t work on everyone, but it must work on enough people to be worth adopting.
If that was the case, there’s no reason to leave it on the headline after the link has already been clicked. All it does there is signal to the reader what kind of gargantuan jerkoff the author of the article is.
All it does there is signal to the reader what kind of gargantuan jerkoff the author of the article is.
Which very well may be the revenge of the webpage-layout person you were pitying in your previous comment.
I’m glad to be alerted. I thought there was a maze or anagrams beneath the headline.
Just another instance of the endumbening of the MSM.
They’ve lost all cromulence at this point.
“Mr Trump said: “I think they should drop rates and get rid of quantitative tightening. You would see a rocket ship.””
Not going to happen. I think they’re thankful to have the little bit of breathing room they now have.
This is one area where Trump may be saved by an inability to get what he wants. The economy needs a slight tightening to get on a firmer foundation. It’s going to crash again somebody, but a slow burn is better than a rocket.
Easing, tightening it’s all pissing in the wind. Social Security and Medicare are going to crash the whole thing in the next couple decades no matter what we do.
A chainsaw song.
I think it’s actually a dirtbike, but whatevs.
Did Hormel secretly reduce the amount of salt in SPAM? It’s been a while since I had any, and this one didn’t taste right – not enough salt.
No. They secretly reduced the ratio of pork to filler. You’re actually eating canned wombat.
USC’s account has obviously been hacked.
Sad day for the University of Southern California.
But it’s everyone else who incorrectly accuses me of being pro-bland.
Dammit!
Admitting to eating SPAM doesn’t exactly countermand the narrative.
University of Southern California
Everyone thinks it only means So Cal. They all forget University of South Carolina.
Go Cocks!
But which would you more expect to be hacked?
?
Spam is the bland inbred relative of pork. *stares woodenly at UCS
I didn’t mention, it’s the bacon spam variant, but that should not be worse than normal, right?
*barfs
What the hell’s wrong with you?
A lot.
Yeah, you eat your eggs overdone.
Everything that comes in a can or a box has had a lot of the salt taken out in recent years.
They have a lower sodium one I buy for my uncle, did you grab that one by mistake?
No, I checked the can.
If any of you want to have fun playing Punch The Tard, there’s a moron on Twitter trying to explain to me that the Declaration of Independence is part of the constitution.
Well, it probably should have been.
But then we’d have people arguing that it means the constitution is only enforcable against King George and doesn’t constrain the Feds.
That is, tragically, a fair point.
Doesn’t seem like much restrains them now.
I’d be arguing that almost all of the bill of particulars apply to the current FedGov even more clearly than against George III. A decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that we reissue that bill, and a decent respect for ourselves requires that we do it soon.
At best you could argue Section 1 of the 14th Amendment captured at least part of the spirit of the DoI.
I got some time to kill, so I jumped in.
I almost snarked at you, but I figure a tard would not get sarcasm and fun between friends.
I say all the more reason TO snark!
“Punch The Tard”
Is that what you’re calling it these days?
“The IRS’ new approach to taking on the superwealthy has been stymied. The wealthy’s lobbyists immediately pushed to defang the new team. And soon after the group was formed, Republicans in Congress began slashing the agency’s budget. As a result, the team didn’t receive the resources it was promised. Thousands of IRS employees left from every corner of the agency, especially ones with expertise in complex audits, the kinds of specialists the agency hoped would staff the new elite unit. The agency had planned to assign 242 examiners to the group by 2012, according to a report by the IRS’ inspector general. But by 2014, it had only 96 auditors. By last year, the number had fallen to 58.”
How about you defund the rest of the agency.
I wonder why Republicans might be skeptical about handing over blank checks to the IRS. I’m sure the name “Lerner” has nothing to do with it.
Not to worry, they’ll forget about it and cozy back up to the bureaucracy soon enough.
So much this. Somebody was bitching about that the other day, and I suggested that payback was indeed, a bitch.
Can you imagine that shit going down with corporation? Lerner refusing to testify, all those drives destroyed, no backups (lol sure). That’s Enron/Arthur Andersen level shit. And what happened? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
My idea is to fund the agency based on the revenue it generates from audits. Though only money from auditing government employees whether they were elected, appointed, or fired. Both current and former. And celebrities who use their platform to engage in politics. When auditing people from those two groups the agent gets to keep a cut of whatever he or she finds as underpayments.
Oh, you mean like OSHA
Why do they need to be “taken on”?
I remember The Lumberjack song:)
Are you OK?
#MeToo. I’m immature and thought it was fantastic.
I will write about two Incidents.
Incident # 1:
I did my federal income tax back in February. For the first time in over 20 years, I got a refund. It was only $500, but hey, IT”S MY MONEY!
Anyway, I put the bank routing info on my 1040 and when I did I thought, my handwriting is pretty bad on that line, so I bet they just eventually send a check. Well last week I got a check.
Yesterday, I received a letter from the IRS. Just seeing them on the return address is pretty scary. I mean, maybe it’s a letter saying I’m getting audited.
So I opened the letter. It said that for some reason the routing info didn’t work , so my refund would be sent to me via mail and that I should expect a check in three to four weeks. So yeah, I want these fuckers running my healthcare.
$500? That’s peanuts. /Pelosi
Isn’t it twice the legal campaign donation limit?
But… but… but this time it will work.
It was TL;DR but the takeaway I got from a cursory skim was that there is dead-simple way to put a stop to the “ultra-wealthy gaming the system” but it would remove the IRS’s ability to pick winners and losers so let’s not even think about mentioning it.
FIFY
Here’s a feel-good story about the IRS getting its ass handed to it by the lawyers and accountants who protect the richest people’s money
– this is why we need higher tax rates. /prog
To continue one of the themes of the last thread.
“instead of imparting knowledge about the rudiments of pedagogy or how to develop curriculum content and plan for high school classes, the faculty and leadership declare that their essential mission is to combat the colonialism, misogyny and homophobia that is endemic in American society. The logic here is that if teachers are immersed in social justice ideology they will then impart these ideas to young people at all levels of K-12 and post-secondary education. This lofty aim explains why the program focuses so heavily on training students in the discourse of far-left identity politics and why it demands total intellectual acquiescence.”
https://quillette.com/2019/04/05/what-they-dont-teach-you-at-the-university-of-washingtons-ed-school/
A friend of mine is going through this right now. The education department at UMBC has mandated Social Justice pedagogy, and Ladson-Billings is required reading in every upper-level class. I went through a couple education classes before I was disabused of the notion of completing the program (I liked teaching, I did not like the “education” dept) a few years before him and it wasn’t like that. But I saw the purge that allowed it to happen. The wrongthinkers* were driven out, and now there is no opposition.
* = In one of my classes, we watched Stossel and student-taught at a charter school
I took two ed classes at UMBC, and I learned that my pre-college impressions of my teachers as stupid were not incorrect. There were two good things about the classes: first, my roommate (also a chem-physics major) and I had our pickings of a crop of decent-looking and rather gullible girls. This was in stark contrast to physics classes. Second, at the end of the semester, we got to grade ourselves. As we saw the morons around us giving themselves Bs and Cs, my roomie and I looked at each other, shrugged, and penned in As. Which we both ended up getting.
My experience was a little different, but consisted of watching people do half the work I did and get the same grade. Then when the department played weird games with advising (past a certain point in the program, there was only 1 person who could advise you, and she didn’t respond to emails and couldn’t be bothered to make time to advise you) I was like fuck it, I can do something else with my life.
I took a couple ED classes, but they were theater education taught by one of the theater profs that I liked. Actually a very good experience and tools that I used when I helped out my nieces elementary school drama club.
I did my student teaching in a TX high school football power house. When I got finished I realized I wasn’t interested but went ahead and got credentialed. I went to business and it was the right decision for me. The kids were great, except for the sociopaths, but the administration was something I wasn’t able to deal with.
I considered going into teaching during one of my many changes of major during college. My older brother did it for awhile and hoo-boy the stories. I didn’t really understand all the implications at the time but some spidey-sense told me not to pursue that particular dream and boy I’m glad I listened to it.
One of my acquaintances got his Ph.D in Education and the guy is incredibly nice but he’s steeped into the whole microaggressions bullshit. Seriously, his whole fucking thesis was about microaggressions in public schools.
I’m currently reading Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe by Anne Applebaum and one of the chapters went into detail about how the communists infiltrated youth groups and crushed the dissenters and even the neutral in the education establishment. Education was no longer a tool to impart knowledge or learn a skill. It was a tool to indoctrinate and make them loyal servants to the party.
The weird part is, there is no Communist Party to do coordinate it all today. No Mao, no Stalin, no subsidized Fifth Column. It’s an uncoordinated mess but it’s still happening. It’s little consolation that it’s moving slower than the Cultural Revolution, but not by much.
I think communist and their cronies in the public sector unions are very much involved. It’s more guerilla warfare than conventional hierarchical attack.
It’s not as uncoordinated as it seems from afar.
Yeah, this isn’t evolving on it’s own volition. This is a planned insurgancy.
Who is the planner, though? And don’t say Soros because while he spends lots of money, he is at best a very distant influence on much of this crap (his influence on foreign politics may be more potent).
I don’t think it’s one person. Communist, Acedemics, Public Sector Unions. They’re pushing curriculum in one direction. It’s just a matter of the movement all moving in the same direction. As I stated above, it’s more guerrilla warfare than hierarchically direction from a few people above. They can feed off of what each other are doing. It’s a cult with it’s own theology. Anyone can be a minister if they stay within dogma.
Communists, Academics
But you repeat yourself.
That having been said, academia and the public sector have been left-leaning to communist for a long time. Student activism used to be a youthful affectation. But now ideas that were seen as needing to be contained to the university are becoming tacitly accepted in the mainstream.
The person was Stalin. They infiltrated and coopted the academic and media establishment for decades. Their converts didn’t go away when the Soviet Union collapsed, they just kept doing what they had been without a foreign link.
Who is the planner, though?
There is no planner, it’s a “natural conspiracy”. Like-minded and like-willed people will often behave similarly and in a seemingly organized matter without having to be organized by some higher power. It’s just a bunch of different and semi-independent people striving towards the same or similar goals.
Like Glibs articles?
Like Glibs articles?
Perhaps. But I always assumed there must be some elder god behind the scenes. How else to explain the cryptid infestation?
I was told that’s impossible. People can only accomplish a common goal when the government is in charge of the work.
That’s scary. None of this is going to end well.
It’s possible, although I hardly have my hopes up, that the students will rebel against the ridiculous left-wing bias the next crop of teachers will have. But that won’t happen until high school, it if even does.
The parents have to start pushing back too. If I make enough money, my kids are all going to the Catholic school down the street, but if not, I’ll do my damnest to counteract all of that bullshit.
Yeah, that’s where it has to come from. Unfortunately, a lot of parents send their kids to get that piece of paper and don’t care much how they get it.
Too many parents send their children to school and never once checking in on what they are learning or who is teaching them. I don’t want to be one of those helicopter parents, but you better believe that I’ll do whatever I can reinforce the concepts of personal responsibility, respect for yourself and others, integrity, and individuality. And if I catch wind that some dickhole administrator or teacher are trying to teach my kids the opposite, I will create a shit storm.
Helicopter parents are protecting their kids from reality. Involved parents are protecting their kids from fantasy.
I send my kid to the independent Episcopal school down the street. They have a social justice teacher. I express my displeasure.
There was a time when I thought public education served a useful purpose. I mean, I got a pretty good education way back when. Some shit started to creep in when my kids were in school, and it has become atrocious for my grandkids.
Time to burn it down.
I went to school from 1994 to 2006. While most of my teachers were left-of-center, they still taught the subjects they were supposed to teach. The only teacher I genuinely disliked was my third-grade teacher and in retrospect that’s because she was a bitch and I was a little shit. But anyway, my ninth grade English teacher needed to only take a small step to the left to be a communist, and yet she had us read Anthem and encouraged us to submit essays to the Ayn Rand Institute. It feels like I grew up in a totally different era than today, but it hasn’t been that long.
I was in public school from 1989 till 2003 and the teachers at my elementary and junior high were for the most part great. But when I got to high school and went to CPS, the quality of education decreased and I could probably say that out of the numerous teachers I had in high school, maybe three deserved every bit of their paycheck and then some.
It’s funny you should say that, because this was my exact experience as well. K through 8 was mostly fine, but everything went to complete shit in high school. I think this has been the same for a lot of people for decades now. I’ve been casually batting around an idea of abolishing the existing system covering 9 through 12 and replacing it with something akin to a pre-university system with tuition, scholarships, grants and whatnot, though I haven’t really had time to give it more considered thought. I also think that specialized focus should be applied much earlier on, so such a system could be tuned to this purpose as well.
My middle school US History teacher was an out and out socialist, but he did a damn good job teaching. He actually believed that the Constitution was a good thing and could present both sides of an argument. I’m not sure that teachers today can do that.
Yeah, I didn’t grow up with it but it was there when my kids were in school, not this bad though. The had the Anti-corporation environmentalism early on and a heavy pro-LGBT environment in High School. Not this anti-white shit though.
I lucked out in a way. Everything was still about the ozone hole and the rainforests. Global warming was barely a blip on the radar until An Inconvenient Truth and even then people still considered it an issue not the issue.
Burn it down
By which I mean, the education professionals have declared open war on anyone to the right of AOC.
We should be seeking to defund every last one of their institutions. They’re playing for keeps, so should we.
They’ve also erected enough barriers and appointed themselves gatekeepers such that you pretty much have to go through them to become a (public school) teacher now. Expect it to get worse.
I skipped college and went to work.
*shrugs*
Swing and a miss. Again. And again. And again…
Incident # 2:
Last week I’m at Target buying candy. I get to the registers, which are set up with two registers per checkout line. People line up ahead of the registers and when one of them opens up, whoever is next in line walks to that register. For reference, Marshall’s is kind of that as well. Well I’m at the front of the line with several people behind me and the far register is about to open up. At that point, a black guy in a wheelchair pulls up behind me and says I need to get through.
I figure he must be leaving without making a purchase, so I say OK.
Well he goes the the register that was about to open up and starts putting items on the conveyor belt. A minute later the second register opens up and I make my purchase, which doesn’t take long because it’s just a bag of candy. So as I walk by the guy, still at the far register, I said to him very quietly and without looking at him, “Next time don’t cut in line.” I mean shit, they already get the best parking spots. And as I walk away he hollers, “Who are you talking too? I turned around and in a very stern voice reply, “I’m talking to you!” Of course he starts yelling that he’s going to kick my ass (yeah, right) and other shit as I continue walking.
Was I and asshole here? Is there some social contract I am unaware of that says people in wheelchairs get to cut to the front of the line? And what are the odds that he sees this as an act of racism on my part?
No
No
100 to 1
Technically, since you’re a Glibertarian, of course you’re an asshole. But this particular incident isn’t the reason why.
Well… that is true
The only vaguely useful thing I can think to say is, your Target doesn’t have self-checkout?
They are getting better and better! The ones at Home Depot rock!
Everywhere that has put them in since about 2012 has been great. The early ones were hit or miss, though.
*drops gloves*
Self check-outs are for poors. If I want to enact my own labor I’ll buy it from Amazon.
You’re a product, albeit a good one, not a consumer, don’t get uppity
I’d watch what I say, Jarflax, lest he start using his magic and cast some spell on you. Like baconus-disappearus, making all your bacon disappear (and not the right way).
I’m faster than the checkers. *beepbeepbeepbeepbeep!*
And you don’t have to take your earbuds out and pretend to care what the lane jockey says.
Actually, I suppose I have something relevant. I was 22 at the time, but I was taking the bus back to UMBC from the charter school (see comments above) in Baltimore City. Usually, there was no problem, and the buses were surprisingly clean (the DC Metro was already going to shit, so these buses looked great by comparison). The bus was standing room only, but the driver was still letting people on. I get on, the driver’s telling people to move back, nobody does, I say “excuse me” and start pushing my way through. One of the people who refused to move back pitched a fit, said “you should say ‘excuse me’!” and I replied “I did!”
But in retrospect, I felt like I shouldn’t have needed to say excuse me in the first place. The driver said move, move your ass dammit.
You can have issues at self-checkouts as well, my Kroger has 6 in two rows of 3, back where one would wait for an open machine they put a display dead center so you have to stand to one side or the other, most people respect the first come first serve rule but some people apparently believe if you stand to the right of the display you are waiting for a machine on the right and will take an opening on the left ahead of you. which is why I do my shopping at 6 am so I won’t have to kill a fool.
Our local grocery stores are no longer open at 6AM. 7AM to 11PM, I think.
That’s why I make a habit of going to the twenty-four hour stores. That way I don’t have to remember when these places decide to close. I don’t care if there are closer locations, I’m not at work, I’m not going to be watching the clock.
The self checkout at Kroger and 4 way stop signs are the intellectual challenges of a lifetime for the locals where I live.
I’m convinced that half the population is frustrated wanna-be traffic cops. If no one is behind me or would otherwise be inconvenienced I really enjoy the standoffs I have with people who have the right of way but want to wave me through. I sit and stare and try to telepathically convey “It’s your turn asshole, just go.”
Seriously, they cause more problems trying to be cool than if they just stuck to the conventions.
I tell those nice folks that want me to bypass them ’cause I only have a couple items that their time is far more valuable than mine. Big smile, ’cause they already believe that anyway.
Since I am allergic to confrontations with strangers that are guaranteed to make my blood boil, I tend to keep my trap shut in situations like that.
I do too, but this I felt really deserved addressing.
If a grown-ass man doesn’t have any manners, telling him so isn’t going to be very productive. I understand your need to get it off your chest – believe me – but it doesn’t work for either party, at least in my experience.
This is what a horse whip is for.
You know what you have to do next time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4VaY7xCmRE
No. You are not an asshole.
An asshole would have grabbed the handles of his wheelchair, pushed him away from the checkout and dumped his ass in the floor, then said, “That’s for cuttting in line you fucking gimp.”
Not an asshole. Just racist.
Some years back I was at a small concert. Afterwards, the opening artist was sitting at a table selling and signing his CD’s. There’s a small line and I’m in it, with 1 person in front of me and maybe a dozen behind me.
Up comes a guy pushing his 13-ish year old daughter in a wheel chair. He, without a word, rolls her past the entire line and slides in front of me. As he’s doing it I give him a half confused, half incredulous look. He completely ignores me. Then I hear the girl say “dad” and I glance at her and she has the most horrified, embarrassed look on her face. For the daughters sake, I just let it go.
I think about that girl once in a while and wonder if that embarrassment stayed with her and she is now a polite woman, or if her dad was successful in instilling a sense of entitlement in her.
I’ll bet she remembers this and is determined not be a jackass like her father.
He’s in a wheelchair
He’s angry at the world
It’s a no-win situation
Wasn’t there a thing where rich people hired people in wheelchairs so they could in line at Disney?
There was. Disney policy allowed those with handicaps to go to the front of the lines for the rides. They got rid of that program several years back specifically because of the handicapped people hiring themselves out.
Holy fuck.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1114218894439342081
There’s nothing wrong with opened a bar, or a chain of bars; or opening a grocery store or chain of grocery stores; or a factory supplying things people want and employing those neighbors who don’t want to do more than rote repitition at their day job.
“The world needs ditchdiggers, too!”
Burn that strawman, BURN IT!
I actually don’t see what’s wrong the statement.
It’s not so much the statement as the delivery.
She’s addressing a non-existent complaint.
Meh, there are people who’s only retort to her is “You’re a fucking bartender, you don’t know anything.” She’s just zeroing in on the wrong part of the complaint.
I think is called weak-manning. It’s not strawmanning because some real person is making the argument. But it’s picking the weakest argument and focusing only on that.
I think the issue isn’t that she was a former bartender but that she pontificates on matters that are way out of her depth with the refusal to learn or seek out the opposing view. And mix that in with arrogance and a sense of entitlement, she becomes bothersome.
Meh. In principle, I agree. However, how many of Ms. Ocasio Cortez’s supporters would find this just hilarious.
I’d also add her entire platform lies on the deranged premise that she’s better equipped than the governed to decide how best to dispose of their lives and fortunes. That makes her resume and record of achievement fair game for the discussion in evaluating her clams. It’s one thing for someone without a prestigious pedigree to express skepticism of the notion of TOP MEN. It’s another for them to declare themselves TOP MEN.
There’s nothing wrong with those jobs. Just don’t expect to be able to support your family with those jobs alone.
A good bartender, in the right job, pulls down plenty of money to support a family.
No shit, I’m considered a cheap-ass at my local hang out because I don’t tip a dollar every time someone reaches into a cooler and hands me a beer.
OK, a bartender maybe. But the person folding clothes at a retail shop, probably not. That’s a job for a high school kid.
In the early ’90s I was waiting tables in a midrange Houston steakhouse. My last year I averaged $17.50/hr.
Such insecurity.
how or why the IRS thought that debt restructuring (generous as though it was) constituted forgiveness is beyond me
but even then, the banks knew if they didn’t do it, they wouldn’t get shit when the company tanked.
Here’s an article on the situation in Yemen, written by an Obama-admin Mid-East policy adviser. Surprisingly, he does not have a clear recollection of how the decision was made to get the US involved.
Animal…thanks for calling out my buzzed used of diffuse vs. defuse last night. I have yet to hear back from the teacher and probably won’t and end up getting my kid sent to the office.
The only good is the teacher actually reached out to me and inquired rather than call in the gestapo to put my kid down for insubordination.
Ok so last night my wife got so cranked up about the immigration issue that she was screaming at the tv
I had to turn tucker off and put on hallmark
Then I made the mistake of saying in effect “When they start paying their own freight I’ll care. Until then they can keep their fucking mouth shut and do as they are told. Otherwise they can stick a chainsaw up thier ass, how about that?” Regarding what the rest of the world thinks of us
“Now see that’s why you never win arguments, you say shit like that. You are always right and you make better arguments than anybody(I’m not so sure about that) but you say shit like put a chainsaw up thier ass and you never win them over.”
Apparently I need to learn to be a little more diplomatic. Maybe not a chainsaw. A rusty knife?
Suggest a STEVE SMITH. They won’t know it’s worse than a chainsaw.
Woodchipper.
I mean, what were you THINKING?
“Fuck off Slaver” is such a beautiful expression and appropriate for most political discussions but admittedly it’s converted few of my aquaintences to my way of thinking.
Mao said something like, “Power comes from a big ass chainsaw” or at least something like that. The fear that AOC puts in people is not determined by her position, she uses her mouth as projecting a chain saw.
I think it was Scarface who said that.
You need to use a snotty British oxbridge accent, or speak like Bill Buckley, and you might get away with it.
It’s a shame about Assange. Most of those screaming for his head aren’t worthy of changing his bedpan but it looks like they’re going to get the last laugh.
He fought the law and the law won.
At the end of the day government’s exist to grind lady liberties face in the dirt.
/Sheds tear for vanished frontiers
There’s always Antarctica or maybe wherever the hell McAfee’s gone to evade the law.
It would be great if McAfee took Assange in and gave him a new shiny computer hooked up to satellite service.
Wise words from the bee-keeper!
So I have learned something about my company’s on call philosophy that I disagree with. If you are on call, that doesn’t just cover emergencies that come up during your on call window, but every change that gets scheduled that people don’t want to handle themselves if no one else is on. I’m currently supposed to be available for a change until midnight Sunday, and then do a full environment reboot at 0700 on Sunday morning. Is this standard? To me, on call is supposed to be for emergencies.
On call is not for scheduled changes. Scheduled changes belong to the group, and they have to assign someone from their staff to handle it, not fob it off on the person there for emergencies.
As them this simple question.
If bigcustomer$bigcustomer$ calls at 7:05 with a significant problem should I tell them I’m too busy to help them?
That’s good.
I’m no expert, but that sounds like bullshit. To me, on-call is for unscheduled issues that can’t wait until regular working hours.
Thanks all. If I ever get a one on one with my boss, I’m going to be asking about this. There’s a difference between being on call for emergencies, and being the dumping ground for changes over the weekend. To me, any scheduled change based on an incident you were working is a change you’re responsible for doing (unless there’s someone on their standard shift to hand it over to).
Tarran, the answer to that will be to point out the secondary and tertiary on call.
Sounds odd. Every off-hours change I did at my company was planned in advance. It doesn’t get scheduled until someone agrees to do it at a specified time. None of this “don’t want to handle themselves” business.
So Assange will end up back in Sweden on a #metoo charge?
Sweden dropped the charges I think. The Brits (and supposedly the US too) want him on some kind of trumped up bullshit.
Enjoying a Par 7.2 from La Quinta Brewing Company.
Tonight, I eat at Time and Temperature Innovation Kitchen. I don’t want to get too buzzed; it’ll ruin the experience.
Yay?
That looks to be an awesome evening.
IT people – When the interviewer asks you about how you achieved high availability for an application, what do you think they’re asking?
Because I’m trying to figure out the answers some of my interviewees gave for that topic.
“high availability”
When they ask you that, just say anything and include ‘The Cloud’, ‘Big Data’, and ‘Scalability’ in it. Don’t worry, they don’t have a fucking clue what the correct answer to that question is.
*scratches Hyperion off list of candidates*
Alternate reply:
Give me a massive absurdly powerful server cluster and a billion dollar marketing budget and I’ll get you so much availability, you’ll cream your britches?
“So why did you even apply for this job?”
Because I thought the people who were going to interview me know something about IT and we weren’t just going to play bullshit bingo?
It’s a starting point.
Which people managed to fail.
I’m embarassed to put the basic questions on the set – until I’m talking to the people who can’t even get past that.
Redundancy, continuity of business, Hot/cold. Load balancing.
So, a generic starter term, and then we can get to details, local load balancing, wide load balancing, Anycast, VIPs.. etc.
Yes, that is exactly where it was supposed to have started. So why did several of these candidates not talk about any of that?
Because they are Hyperion’s sock puppets.
My puppets are legion.
And good looking.
Are we talking Queen Saturday good looking, or Janice good looking?
Did they go right into networking?… those are all application oriented methods. Where a networking op would talk about spanning tree, trunking, routing convergence, OSPF, BGP, equal cost routing. Things like that.
Could be they are desktop dev’s? one browser, one web server.. app done. Scaling is for ops.
I hope he’s not looking for one of those wunderkind “jack of all trades” that every job position seems to demand.
No. We just want someone who can do the same job as the people who are already on-staff (Like me, and the one consultant we already have)
Afraid not.
One went into a spiel about on-call procedures, the other talked about user notification of outages.
Since we are hiring an application infrastructure position, the network guys got weeded out by the job posting.
In that case, I would agree with Mossy and expect your question to elicit a response about load balancing and such.
It would depend on the specific application, as well as the business needs and the costs for full redundancy. For some level of high availability it involves having multiple data centers in different geographic locations, for others, it’s having a DR contract with a local DR company and being able to shift people there.
Out of three glibs I got two good answers. Out of three candidates I got one good answer.
Shame we don’t pay enough to hire glibs.
I put it on AWS and let them worry about that shit. 😉
*crosses Fatty Bolger off list of candidates*
Thank you for your interest. We’ll let you know when a decision is made.
Won’t hire me ’cause I’m a hobbit, right? I see how it is. You’ll be hearing from the EEOC, mate.
They just stopped by.
I got a high-five.
“High” five, huh? Oh, I get it, ’cause I’m a short little hobbit, right? I’m tweeting this out and it’s going to go viral on your ass. Prepare to reap the whirlwind, shitlord.
You didn’t realize that the EEOC is an Urok-dominated organization?
And I’d love to have a paid vacation.
That’s…that’s a uterus!
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kamin/ct-biz-ohare-global-terminal-escalators-kamin-0406-story.html
Chicago screwing up a public works project is just another day.
Reminds me of something…just not sure if i can put my finger on it…or its on the tip of my tongue.
The ADA strikes again.
Read the whole thing. That crappy airport has a problem with making the able bodied go up and down escalators. I’ve flown through O’Hare a dozen or so times. It is one of my least favorite airports. The architect appears intent on repeating well known mistakes.
Fair enough. If they can design it better then by all means go ahead. I don’t want to hear that it’s gonna add a few hundred million dollars to the price-tag, though.
Degenerates
Someone posted something related to this, I think yesterday. May have been Q. This is disgusting and these people need rounded up as woodchipper feed.
Whole lotta ‘allegedly’s in that article. Plus if you don’t want your kid going to ‘Drag queen story time day’ that’s an easy fix, no need to woodchipper people to protect your chilluns.
Maybe I’m willing to protect other people’s chilluns in some cases? These are little kids, I say we woodchipper the sick-o pervs. You don’t have to watch if you don’t want to.
Ain’t up to you to decide what other people’s kid need protection from, especially if it is from a man dressed as a woman reading a story to them.
Just stay away and take your kids somewhere else. I don’t get this story at all. No way I would take young children to this.
No kidding
Who would even go to that, kids or no kids
Nothing inherent about a drag queen that means they can’t be entertaining. Worked for Little Richard.
I would allow my children to watch Monty Python and RU Paul’s Drag Race. It’s obvious what’s going on. The drag queens reading at the library strikes me as unnecessary and inappropriate for kids. Unless those are costumes related to the story or some sort of celebration it’s just a way rubbing a lifestyle choice in someone else’s face. They can all live how they want. I don’t care. But don’t tell me it’s common and ordinary. It isn’t and I’m not lying to my kids.
My point is the parents who would actually take their children to this. It’s child abuse, just like encouraging and actually allowing young children to do sex changes. These people need eliminated from the gene pool. We prosecute teen agers who are actually functionally adults for sexting each other and put them on a registry, but yet they allow and even condone the sexual exploitation of little pre-pubsecent children? Woodchippers.
These people need eliminated from the gene pool.
Well given the effect of sex change treatments on fertility your wish is likely to be granted.
That and the suicide rate.
OFFS. They are nothing of the sort, unless they’ve changed in the last couple decades. For starters, they are conflating drag with transgender. Most drag queens are not transgender. Second, the group was always about “camp” and staging fun events like bed races, not being “anti-Catholic”. I won’t even address the “living by a sexually licentious standard” canard.
There may be something to the specific accusation in the article, but there’s an awful lot of FUD going on.
Democrats are like Hollywood. Same old movies over and over.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-in-lengthy-list-of-radical-proposals-calls-for-us-to-pursue-agenda-of-reparations
Her first.
So I’ll owe Oprah and JayZ money? Nope, I ain’t payin.
But you don’t understand. You have privilege and they don’t. So pay up or you’re racist.
It’s not about Paying
It’s about punishing
It’s about destroying Western culture and civilization and everything that has any value at all.
There is a war coming and I don’t think the Socialist scum will win. Unfortunately I doubt very much that the enlightenment liberal tradition will survive. No good thing lasts.
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
It’s about destroying.
It’s pretty much the same up here. Complacent Government and radical courts run by late Gen-Xers and Boomers. We’re fucked.
“I ain’t payin”
They’re not asking.
Good lord
The only thing out of her mouth are just insane gibberish
Who voted for this loon?
The Bronx.
She’s a living, breathing Bronx Cheer.
And yet she’s eagerly embraced and even lionized by the democrat party and such esteemed organizations as the NYT.
She fits right in.
I would love to see someone do a Go Fund Me for Reparations and see how many Democrats contribute.
The same number that remit extra money to the IRS every year. Zero.
No matter who the Democratic presidential candidate is, Trump will run against AOC. It will be a successful strategy. Team Blue will once again wonder how they lost.
They won’t wonder. They’ll be certain it’s racism.
You win.
Given how much play the Democrats are giving Stacey Abrams (saw today that Warren was calling her the ‘legit governor of Georgia” or something like that) , I don’t think they’ll even admit they lost.
It’s the typical democrat playbook. Since you’re a leftist, admitting you’re wrong, ever, is a no no. Abrams is a great democrat candidate being that she’s fat and ugly. And that is somehow someone else’s fault.
With a chip on her shoulder, to boot.
Probably not. Let them wail long and loud. I think it alienates everyone outside their base.
Interview ended up being four on one for a bit under an hour, which is a first for me. Didn’t choke. I feel pretty good about it, really.
I have one coming up and management is looking for answers in the STAR format…who speaks like that?
Actually its quite natural, that was the lament of another candidate that just thinks they exist should get them the position.
Assholes?
Oh God. I just read the first line from google. WTF is that? I can’t even.
It sounds as stupid as legal interviewers expecting answers in IRAC form.
Management schools need curriculum. Since actual management is largely about leadership and understanding those you work with, and those are skills that are best developed through experience, management schools instead create new terminology instead. If you really parse what STAR and other buzzwords mean they simply describe storytelling. Tell us about something you have done at your job. Well you are going to explain the setting for your story, that is the S ituation, you are then going to explain what you were asked to do, that is the T ask, then obviously you will tell what you did, and how it worked out. A ction and R esult. Why did it need an acronym? Why is it a ‘format’? Because Management PhDs need work.
Thats the gist. Just answer in a story but they need an acronym for it.
I have a better idea.
You want to start with the B-school types? Really? I thought everyone wanted to start with us lawyers.
More of an aspirational thing, like maybe they should aspire to go hang themselves.
Paging straffinrun.
Explain, please?
I don’t get it either. It’s a masturbatory aid that contains food?
Duh. How else would you do it?!?
Wait…what?…
That will show up in SugarFree’s next story.
I like to play this game too, but I think what is always going on with the “Japan is so odd” articles is that if you cherry pick products from a modern economy you can prove that the society is “odd”. We after all have a candy called Toxic Waste. Kids play with dozens of oddly named slimes. Up thread is an article about a library having it’s storytime hosted by drag queens. I’m sure you can all think of dozens of others. Hell people even put pineapple on pizza, and some don’t eat meat.
WH Press Corps has a sad
But I don’t wanna play with Brian!
They told Assange to stop peeing on the toilet seat but he just wouldn’t listen.
Well, he’s a guy, so…
A real man has target discipline unless he is fore-skinned and then all bets are off. *looks ruefully in the mirror after wiping the commode*
Perfect way to end the week.
Should have been a pov video of Charlize giving you an eye-contact hummer.
Dunno man, single for a decade? That’s a red flag.
Maybe she don’t want a baby, just a docile baby-maker.
She’s anti gun. That’s a hard pass.
She can’t do maths.
That’s from 2012.
I could do without some of the snuff bits.
Yeah there were some Faces of death type clips there. I find it hard to laugh at that.
A couple rough ones, sure, but… it’s Ludacris.
Maybe a sideboob palate cleanser?
Nicely done
*slowclap*
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Did you make it Brett? So far so bad. We lost 8-1 yesterday and 3-0 today. I have our only goal. Tomorrow we play at 8:30am back at Wesley Chapel yo begin bracket play.
Hey hey! You put the biscuit in the basket! You tickled the twine! Even if your team sucks this tourney you have that memory going forward. You were saying that you were having some difficulty in that regard so Huzzah!
Yeah our whole team has trouble scoring this year. It was a nice goal, the puck drifted into the slot and I was in the right spot and buried it.
Congrats on the goal. Condolances on the loss.
I picked up the game rather late but my hand-eye was always good from other sports. Hockey is a different animal, that’s for certain. Shoulda been a goalie!
Sorry, no. I got an emergency call to pick up the kids because wife was stuck at work. Maybe I’ll haul the kids out since they’re up that early. Sorry to miss you.
Understandable! I’ll post on here tomorrow if we win and move on.
Surprisingly heavy snowfall here. Quite pretty.
Where are you? I lost my password to Google-Glib…
If I recall, less than a half hour away from me in the capital district of New York.
That’s a pinky-out way to describe the rust belt.
Better the rust belt than the pustule that is Albany.
So that makes Rochester the carbuncle? (Our cable provider decided it was a good idea to stream all of the American affiliates from Rochester some years ago. It was enlightening and insane because you guys are a continent away.)
You mean like network television? 8, 10, 13? Where are you?
Prince George, BC
Oh wow, yeah that is a ways away. Those are three of the four (later, five) channels I grew up with.
Oi! I’m way more then half an hour away from the capital district of New York, and it’s hard to get more Rust Belt then here.
SaRAToga County, NY, perfect for a well-dressed RAT.
Surprisingly heavy snowfall here
Says the Astrologist.
Allanis Morrisette gets her nib-on!
Since when does the sky have anything to do with the weather?
It’s all car tailpipes and cow farts!
I won’t rest until we have personal transportation powered by cow-farts! *see last post, there are photos of oxen with saddles*
We bought some furniture at the end of February. Today we got a handwritten thank you card from the salesman. Is that a thing now? Never had that happen before for furniture.
Was it Amish ? Otherwise, the guy would’ve sent an email….
*Sing-song voice* Sean’s got a booooy-friend!
Leather, powered reclining LR set. Definitely not Amish.
Hmm, leather power… Yep, he’s into you, Dude!
?
“Heeey, Sean. Do you want to see MY leather collection?”
No one like a leathery potato
Classy.
Ewww, barf, hurl…
What the fuck is he doing over there? Don’t you guys have the Mann Act? Smarmy fucking meddler.
“Trump unveils first section of new ‘anti-climb’ border wall and says ‘our country is full’ as he boasts 2 miles of 30-foot barriers and plans 400 more – after activists float giant diapered ‘baby Trump’ balloon in protest”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6890739/Trump-ramps-attacks-Democrats-ahead-border-visit.html
Oh no, not a giant balloon.
“Oh please don’ throw me in that briar patch B’rer Fox…”
‘our country is full’
Time to implement a “One Child’ policy then, the abortionist should be pleased.
Naw, we’re going with post birth abortions via helicopter rides for communists.
Is it Chile in here or is it just me?
Many things are fungible. People are not. I’m ok with selectivity. Now all we need is someone in Congress to actually draft a bill that contains reasonable criteria… Sorry can’t stop laughing long enough to type it.
Did they ship that balloon over from London?
Maybe I have dengue fever? I’m pretty sure it isn’t jungle fever because there was a cute black chick at the supermarket and I didn’t feel the least bit interested.
Better go to the ER.
Just dragging my ass to the market was an effort. Although I thought I should go get my errands done today in case I feel worse tomorrow.
Well, at least we know at this point it’s not a heart attack. Maybe walking pneumonia?
My breathing seems fine. I auscultated my lungs — all clear. I’m not coughing. Taking a deep breath hurts, but I’m thinking that’s because my chest hurts.
Maybe you are sprouting an eye?
“Guys, I know this is an unpopular Christian opinion, but I love leggings. Wear them daily. I literally cannot imagine my life without them, especially in pregnancy. Honestly my mind cannot wrap around the idea that they’re not pants. I am sorry to all I’ve disappointed.”
https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1114175523381547016
I’m no theologian, but I’m pretty sure Jesus never mentioned them one way or the other.
They were not mentioned.
I think modesty in dress in Judea circa 30 AD meant your bits didn’t hang out of your drape. People get worried about odd things, but in some ways that worry is what supports the more important standards so…