Tendencies for explication will subordinate to fragility. That is, your cat’s beam is cloistered with pine-cones. Could someone sublime the aristocratic linen?
Happy birthday, Jack Chick!; Happy birthday, Don Adams!; Happy birthday, Christopher Hitchens!; Happy birthday, Dong Dong!
Does news gambol dejectedly? Do bears spell the archer?
Circuitous Klondike is blessedly indicated.
Check back tomorrow and I will set up the book.
The pen is on the table of the goat of my father.
Passenger comfort will be despicably incorporated.
Pelagic tragedy results from scattered herons.
The watermark urgently decides to estivate.
Clowns may photosynthesize, but only under duress.
It’s ban pretty clear that your coffee lacks zest appeal.
My fingertips have been eaten by wolverines.
Sometimes when it bounces, a digital zero becomes reality.
Old Guy Music steps firmly into a positron.
*OMWC lighting the Russian bot signal*
Ersatz Brothers, the REAL one, has zest appeal!
More coffins, Warden?
It’s ban pretty clear that your coffee lacks zest appeal.
i carry my own beans and a stainless steel freedom press with me wherever I go for this very reason.
I honestly don’t know what the Slow Rollers and Black Smoke Matters guys hope to accomplish. Deliveries are still being made, groceries are still on the shelves, and John Q Public could not give two shits about the plight of the people making that happen. This is a reality we have to wrap our heads around.
That said, there are several bills making their way through committee to exempt wide swathes of the industry from the ELD mandate – cattle haulers and other agricultural sector carriers, anyone involved in moving food, and one bill to exempt any company with less than 10 trucks.
I continue to vote with my feet and not truck. It’s all I can do.
I specifically put that link in for your comment. You did not disappoint.
The whole thing reminded me of a far less effective version of the French truckers’ strikes.
Herding cats is always a hopeless enterprise.
FWIW, a similar action took (is taking?) place in Canada with a bunch of guys from the oil field sector in Alberta, driving their rigs to Ottawa to protests a wide variety of issues, most pressingly Shiny Pony and his inaction on getting any more pipelines built.
Of course the media likened them to The Yellow Vests, so they were ignored and the very real issues buried.
“The trucking industry is the most heavily regulated industry in the world,” a driver . . . who has no idea what he’s talking about said.
He’s wrong, but it certainly feels that way when you spend most of your waking life in a rolling prison.
Or sleeping with a regulation mandated CPAP…
I wonder if the people who complained about BLM blocking traffic will complain about this as well. In fairness there seem to be a few, but not nearly the uproar. Granted this doesn’t have quite the potential for disaster as pedestrians blocking an interstate, but close enough for a case study.
It certainly seems that way most of the time.
There’s a distinct number of euphemisms in these links – how many? I haven’t had my coffee yet.
>>Communist Youth League students to ‘spread civilisation’ in countryside and ‘promote technology’
coming soon to America where the enlightened coasters come to the midwest; visiting tractor pullz to spread the good news about socialism.
Only the very most committed communist would deign to attend a tractor pull.
Got home from a business trip today, after spending some time with Don Escaped Texas last night. He was a perfect Southern gentleman, and didn’t mock my Yankee ways at all. – Nephillium
Yankees are where all the great beer comes from; what’s to mock?
The guy really does know (and can hold) his brew.
Hey, did you guys hear yesterday, Palpatine is coming back!
>>to build a progressive global order
yikes. Exactly what would get me to buy a gun.
lots n lots
Bernie, hero of the Fifth International. Rise up, you have nothing to lose but your chains!
Free speech makes for strange bedfellow.
Their work isn’t always good, but it’s kind of funny. NewWife is addicted, and I get it: novel perspectives and constantly irony. The YouTube rules are cramping their style a bit, but: it’s private property.
Agile Cyborg took over the links?
I’m thinking that Agile is somewhere way out here which may explain his absence since The Great Exodus.
I thought the same thing.
“NEW VIDEO: Reacting to @TeenVogue ‘s awful video denying the existence of biological sex. These people are like biology flat earthers. ?”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1116053285931180032
“GENDER DOESN’T EXIST, BIGOT.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSHBLtmx7Eo
From the comments:
Reed Rothschild is Right
@ReedTRothschild
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Apr 10
I chalk this all up the overwhelming success of the LGBTQ movement over the last 20 years. All the old boxes have been checked, so wackier and wackier demands are made to keep the oppression narrative intact.
Tox
@ToxOfOz
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Apr 10
Activism is a job and nobody wants to be unemployed with no marketable skills.
Hey, did you guys hear yesterday, Palpatine is coming back!
Parody is dead. All Sanders needs to do is borrow a pantsuit from Hillary. I can’t wait for the heroic photos of him on the reviewing stand as the missile launchers roll past.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1116482011642904576
“Defending Ped0philes to Own The Libs™”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMH2s5faliI
“western society actually IS more moral than the Japanese bc when we rape kids we have the decency to do it in church”
https://twitter.com/rumeruwu/status/1115826587931435009
The aim is to bring to the rural areas the talents of those who would otherwise be attracted to life in the big cities, according to a CYL document quoted in the state-run Global Times daily on Thursday.
“We need young people to use science and technology to help the countryside innovate its traditional development models,” Zhang Linbin, deputy head of a township in central Hunan Province, told the Global Times.
I have seen a few articles here saying much the same thing, only it is cloaked in some mumbo jumbo about “diversification” of university research and economic development programs. We (wheeeee!) need to spread our federal
research and development seed moneymagic pixie dust around in the hinterlands, to bring enlightenment, and Democrat voters, to the flyover wastes. When those rubes in Iowa and Missouri and New Mexico get an appreciation for the trickledown effect of magic fedbux, the scales will fall from their eyes, and they’ll gain a proper reverence for Washingtonian programs and priorities.Cost of doing business
Facebook more than doubled the money it spent on top executive Mark Zuckerberg’s security in 2018 to $22.6m, a regulatory filing has showed.
Zuckerberg drew a base salary of $1 for the past three years, and his “other” compensation was listed at $22.6m, most of which was for his personal security.
Nearly $20m went toward security for Zuckerberg and his family, up from about $9 million the year prior. Zuckerberg also received $2.6m for personal use of private jets, which the company said was part of his overall security program.
I wouldn’y piss on him if he was on fire, but I find it hard to believe he is really in that sort of constant peril. “Security detail” sounds more sophisticated than “team of babysitters”.
I believe it likely has to do with the agreement he has with native Hawaiian people to access their ancestral sites that like across his land on Kauai. Lots of tech and personnel to make sure they stay out of his way, and aren’t seen by his family and guests.
Would any of you recognize him if he walked into the local Waffle House or Starbucks if he didn’t have an entourage? Except for Trump and a few others, I don’t think I’d recognize any “celebrities” if they passed on the street or were sitting in the Mall food court or local brew pub.
Even if I recognized them (unlikely) I wouldn’t care or pay attention.
He’s got kids. All of the current billionaires spend fortunes on security for their kids, with some good reason.
“Austria considers making internet users REGISTER with their providers to prevent people hiding behind anonymity to post hate speech”
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1116900010166243330
“Austria says it is considering a law to make it mandatory for big internet platforms to register their users and deprive those behind hate posts of anonymity.
‘Unfortunately there have been an increasing number of clear violations, denigrations and humiliations online in the past under the cover of anonymity. That’s why we need a framework for more responsibility online,’ Chancellor Sebastian Kurz wrote on Twitter.
The new law would take effect in 2020 and would make it mandatory for platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to register their users, said Gernot Bluemel, minister in charge of EU affairs, art, culture and media.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6914991/Austria-considers-making-internet-users-REGISTER-providers-prevent-anonymous-hate-speech.html
It’s not like someone from Austria who wants to register people could end badly.
First the boomerang registry and renewing the patent on the bloomin onion, now this?
Well, they DID start WWI.
Not quite halfway through the event, a man in the front row stood up and interrupted.
“Bill, this is boring!” he yelled. As he tried asking his question — “Why don’t you talk about — ” Hillary immediately began talking over him, saying that the “important political conversations” they were trying to have could be difficult, especially when interrupted by such “agent provocateurs.”
Oh, the misogyny!
“Georgia girl, six, dies after her four-year-old brother accidentally shoots her in the head in the family’s car after taking a gun from the console when their mom got out to see why the vehicle wouldn’t start”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6916831/Girl-six-dies-brother-four-accidentally-shoots-head-familys-car.html
Straffinrun said something yesterday night that needs to be corrected. Wikileaks had nothing to do with Abu Grahib. The famous pictures came out in 2004. Wikileak didn’t start until 2006.
“‘Her life is in danger’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren lead furious backlash against Trump for his ‘explicit attack’ on Ilhan Omar by tweeting clip of her ‘some people did something’ remark alongside 9/11 video”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6916609/Ilhan-Omar-suggests-George-W-Bush-accused-downplaying-9-11-Muslim.html
“.@AOC thinks the public shouldn’t see photos of September 11 because they are “triggering”
https://twitter.com/MattBatzel/status/1116460454161911815
It;s only “some people” doing the backlash. What’s the big deal?
It’s just some people doing something, you know, like slavery and the holocaust.
Has anybody else seen the redesign of TOS? Hit-n-Run is now “Latest” and requires a login to even see comments.
Well that sucks. My work blocks this website and I go to the TOS while I’m at work. I try to ignore the bad articles and usually just go to the comments. Having to log in will cut that down a lot.
But this site is certified family friendly
Not family friendly enough.
Actually this site probably doesn’t get enough hits for them to look at it on without prompting and falls into one the blanket prohibited categories.
I see the comments without having to log in.
The existential crisis of legitimate news
In “World Without Mind: the Existential Threat of Big Tech,” published in 2017, Franklin Foer, the former editor-in-chief of The New Republic, writes about “a mad, shameless chase to gain clicks through Facebook” and “a relentless effort to game Google’s algorithms.” Newspapers and magazines have long sought to command large readerships, but these efforts used to be primarily the province of circulation departments; newsrooms were insulated from these pressures, with little sense of what readers actually read. Nowadays, at both legacy news organizations and those that were born online, audience metrics are everywhere. At the Times, everyone in the newsroom has access to an internal, custom-built analytics tool that shows how many people are reading each story, where those people are coming from, what devices they are using, how the stories are being promoted, and so on. Additional, commercially built audience tools, such as Chartbeat and Google Analytics, are also widely available. As the editor of newyorker.com, I keep a browser tab open to Parse.ly, an application that shows me, in real time, various readership numbers for the stories on our Web site.
Even at news organizations committed to insuring that editorial values—and not commercial interests—determine coverage, it can be difficult for editors to decide how much attention should be paid to these metrics. In “Breaking News: the Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters,” Alan Rusbridger, the former editor-in-chief of the Guardian, recounts the gradual introduction of metrics into his newspaper’s decision-making processes. The goal, he writes, is to have “a data-informed newsroom, not a data-led one.” But it’s hard to know when the former crosses over into being the latter.
Another navel-gazer about how social media is destroying society. And putting noble ink stained
wretchesthought leaders off their pedestals and into the poorhouse. What a tragic turn of events.“news organizations committed to insuring that editorial values—and not commercial interests—determine coverage”
It’s hard to imagine such a mythical creature.
Shouldn’t that be “ensuring”?
Has anybody else seen the redesign of TOS? Hit-n-Run is now “Latest” and requires a login to even see comments.
I haven’t looked at it in close to a year, I suspect.
“Figueroa, an ironworker, had to stand to the side, holding his taco, until a sympathetic cashier helped him find another customer willing to pay for his meal with a card in exchange for cash.”
THE HORROR
In theory, a subscription-based model should be a dramatic improvement, substituting for the relentless pursuit of page views the superior goal of producing journalism that can’t be found anywhere else and is worth paying for. Foer asserts that subscription-based reader revenue is the only viable path for a media outlet seeking to maintain its editorial identity. There is a reassuring freedom in his imagined business model: instead of chasing legions of visitors who land on your site from a Google search on some trending topic and never return, a publication might focus on its true fans. “Media need to scale back their ambitions, to return to their niches, to reclaim the loyalty of core audiences,” Foer writes. “To rescue themselves, media will need to charge readers, and readers will need to pay.”
Get back to me when the content is worth the subscription price. I can derive only so much entertainment value from Krugabe’s rambling idiocy and “Republikkkinz Sux” diatribes. As for the New Yorker, I don’t care what happens in that overcrowded shithole. Not enough to pay for it, anyway.
The only actual publication I read anymore with any regularity is American Rifleman and that’s mostly just the cool stuff on new guns. The political stuff and constant shilling for money is just tedious.
WSJ has been doing a (mostly) subscription model for quite a while and seem to be doing OK. Maybe because they offer something other than full-blown TDS.
I’m a subscriber and you are right. They explained what they did and why when they erected (drink) their pay wall. They in essence said they provide quality reporting and can only keep doing it if people pay for it. They are one of the few newspapers not experiencing massive subscription declines.
“Rich White Girl From Manchester By The Sea Forces Mount Holyoke/Smith College Police Chief To Be Fired For Liking Trump And NRA Tweets On Christmas”
https://turtleboysports.com/rich-white-girl-from-manchester-by-the-sea-forces-mount-holyoke-smith-college-police-chief-to-be-fired-for-liking-trump-and-nra-tweets-on-christmas/
https://twitter.com/iheartmindy/status/1116770370629947392
SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOLT ONS
https://thechive.com/2019/04/12/hotness-is-the-best-way-to-go-into-the-weekend-31-photos/
Silicone Saturday sez “come for the fake tits, stay for the fake personality”.
12 and 13 are currently cast in my mental porno.
4 looks like she’s at Lake Como, so we’ll go with that (though those bolt-ons look positively painful).
“New Hampshire teen forced to cover up Trump shirt, remove MAGA hat on school’s ‘patriotic day’
A New Hampshire teenager said she felt ashamed and embarrassed when her high school principal reportedly told her she needed to cover up the “Make America Great Again” T-shirt and hat she wore for a patriotic celebration.
Ciretta Mackenzie, a freshman at Epping High School, told Boston 25 she had to borrow a friend’s sweatshirt and took off the hat after being reprimanded for wearing the “MAGA” gear on Monday – which was “America Pride Day” at school.
“It’s just a shirt, and it only says ‘Trump: Make America Great Again.’ It doesn’t say anything like ‘build a wall,’ so I don’t get how it could be offensive, how it could be disrespectful,” Mackenzie told the news station.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-hampshire-teen-forced-to-cover-up-maga-hat-on-schools-patriotic-day.amp
Seriously, Fox? 3 different videos auto-playing at once? GTFO.
I know, right? They wouldn’t even play on my computer, and I have a fast machine on a fast connection.
It looks to be a public school.
Son is taking constitutional law this semester and enthralled with it, but I keep pointing out that 80% of the squabbles about access and rights would simply go away if the government got out of the businesses it’s in. Private school => private conduct, private transaction.
Why do you hate children Don?
I am sure the treatment would have been the same had she opted for an Obama campaign t-shirt.
Also, first amendment, bitch. That is all.
“The Daily Caller’s Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) calls pro-Assange journalist Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) calls her a “harlot” and says she’s eating “Putin’s cock.” Attacks her weight in 2 AM back-and-forth.”
https://twitter.com/culttture/status/1116945807859691520
Didn’t Tucker recently defend Assange?
“Still better than eating Putin’s cock bacon for breakfast, you hapless harlot. By the way, maybe cut down. You’re blowing up.”
https://twitter.com/GPIngersoll/status/1116926291616387074
He seems nice.
Ms. Fairbanks has since switch to adhomminy for breakfast.
Christ, what an asshole
It’s been rather amusing watching shills from both sides get orgasmic about Assange getting clipped.
“When you see professional media figures decreeing “Julian Assange is not a journalist,” compare how much corruption & criminality by the world’s most powerful factions they’ve exposed in their work to how much Assange has exposed. That contrast will tell you all you need to know.
Also, the question “is X a ‘journalist’?” – as though it’s a credentialed, licensed status like being a doctor or lawyer – is deceitful. The First Amendment’s press freedom protects *an activity* available to everyone – not just a designated priesthood called “journalists.””
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1116817814541733888
That contrast will tell you all you need to know.
Largely, yes: believe your own eyes. And yes: an individual right.
But in the main isn’t “journalism” following a libertarian ideal? There’s no license, all levels of product, experience, and education are available: read what you like, excoriate whom you please. Private groups opine on ideals, individuals fall short, and the public votes with their eyes.
“Journalism” the ideal, the practice, the product is just a smear of notions. . . as would be almost every “profession” in the libertarian ideal. In the end, we actually hope for this beautiful mess, this market, where every definition is open to constant redefining, renewal, and critique. . . and improvement!
The other big attack I see is: Assange was an asshole so we shouldn’t feel bad for him.
Yeah, I read somewhere the judge called him a narcissist at his bail (?) hearing.
In 2017, the cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach published the book “The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone.” Their book, which is about the perils of superficial knowledge, offers as good an explanation as any of how our social-media-based news ecosystem is leading to undesirable outcomes in our democracy. People vastly overestimate what they know, and their unjustifiably strong opinions are reinforced by other people who are similarly ill-informed, creating self-reinforcing communities of misinformation:
When group members don’t know much but share a position, members of the group can reinforce one another’s sense of understanding, leading everyone to feel like their position is justified and their mission is clear, even when there is no real expertise to give it solid support. Everyone sees everyone else as justifying their view so that opinion rests on a mirage.
That same year, my colleague Elizabeth Kolbert cited Sloman and Fernbach’s work in a piece called “Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds.” “If your position on, say, the Affordable Care Act is baseless and I rely on it, then my opinion is also baseless,” she explains. “When I talk to Tom and he decides he agrees with me, his opinion is also baseless, but now that the three of us concur we feel that much more smug about our views. If we all now dismiss as unconvincing any information that contradicts our opinion, you get, well, the Trump Administration.”
Wow. I never saw that coming. Maybe they should just focus on becoming self aware, and leave the heavy philosophical lifting to somebody else.
It’s hilarious how close they come to hitting on a truth, then dive straight into the ground by going “like Trump!”. Motes, etc.
I’ve listened to a couple of interviews with Annie Duke and she talks a lot about this whole problem with facts & group think. She has a much better take on this than the above, where she talks about forcing people to think in bets (i.e. probability). She also talks about ways to deal with confirmation bias in our thought process.
IANAMathematician so she could be wrong on a bunch of stuff but her approach is interesting and challenging.
You can try to model human behavior with game theory in the aggregate, but emotionalism often stymies understanding of individual behavior. It’s like suicide bombers; you can model and try to explain the conditions overall that would drive someone to do it, but you can be sure that the dude who blows himself up in a crowded market is not, on his own, doing a lot of introspective cost/benefit analysis of his decision.
Yeah, she talks about emotionalism and suggests ways we can develop our relationships to counter some of the effects. Again, I’ve only heard a couple of brief interviews but what I found interesting was she (I think) essentially argues we don’t really think rationally or objectively and, rather than trying to do so, we need to recognize that we don’t and set up checks in our own lives to counter that to some extent.
Here’s a link to her book.
Exactly. I game theory everything, but when the other guy does full his inside straight, I don’t flinch. I play it smart, but the two sigma stuff necessarily happens five percent of the time: shrug those off and know that you’ll win more in the long run.
The progressive/mommy model is to manage/fix/prevent everything, but if they understood bureaucracy and decreasing returns they’d understand that tolerating some unpleasantness is the only sane and affordable posture.
No. Even if they understood, they’d still want to manage it their way, thinking that their way will work. You’re talking about control freaks here who don’t think real socialism has been tried.
I certainly follow you; we agree
begs the question somewhat of what understood, manage, and think mean
Don’t play poker with her.
If we all now dismiss as unconvincing any information that contradicts our opinion
Actually you get a modern leftist.
“Without question, it is more difficult today to come out as a conservative than it is to come out as gay. Conservatives today are treated with the same social stigma as gays were in the 80’s. Sunday on the #CandaceOwensShow, @robsmithonline and I discuss!!”
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1113861700892143617
“they will never accept you. they will never think off you as anything but an obedient nigger. you will never be one of them. they see you as a trained animal that does the right tricks. one can only pray you never realize because, if you do, what’s left of your soul will crack.”
https://twitter.com/GeoffThorne/status/1116908418306936832
Stay classy, blue checkmarks.
Have I mentioned I like Candace Owens? ///hotness
“Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today.
@IlhanMN’s life is in danger.
For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.
We must speak out.
“First they came…””
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1116848329776934912
“You are so bright you make the sun jealous. Only you could figure out a way to use the Holocaust to defend an anti-semite who doesn’t even believe in the Holocaust.
Reminds me of your Green New Deal that takes 10 years to establish despite “the world ending in 12 years.”
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1116915343224557569
rekt
“Just so we are clear on basic notions of reality: When someone calls out a public official for things they said, it is not endangering their life or inciting violence. Claiming otherwise is just an attempt to silence your critics.”
https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1116896225876377600
Words are violence man, words are violence…
Using their logic, they’d better reconsider the hate they spew against anyone who doesn’t toe the leftist line.
That’s different becuz notzeez.
Donald Trump was saying all Muslims are to blame and especially Omar, it had nothing to do with her comments minimizing the event.
I’ve listened to a couple of interviews with Annie Duke and she talks a lot about this whole problem with facts & group think. She has a much better take on this than the above, where she talks about forcing people to think in bets (i.e. probability). She also talks about ways to deal with confirmation bias in our thought process.
There is no reason to pretend the “Lock her up! / Build the wall!” mob are in any way superior to the liberal chinscratchers on this. They are at least as prone to groupthink as the other side.
There’s just something especially rankling about the haughty, supercilious disdain of the progressives. “Oh, those poor pig-ignorant savages. If only they could see the world as we do.”
“What’s the matter with Kansas?”
Totally same mentality as Obama. Whenever his visions were rejected or greeted with skepticism he always “blamed”!himself for not communicating adequately in a way that people could understand.
Such an arrogant fuck.
No, dude, it’s not that we don’t buy the way you’re presenting, it’s that we don’t buy your ideas.
This. It’s not that the deplorables are smarter or more clever, it’s just not as ingrained in their cultural identity to feel smarter than you by default.
There is no reason to pretend the “Lock her up! / Build the wall!” mob are in any way superior to the liberal chinscratchers on this
On anything.
I appreciate the conservative bent amongst some here; I was certainly raised that way, and the right-thinking, controlling, taxing types are terrible. But right-think and black lists are not remotely limited to progs, and I find the record of good conservative Americans to be full of revolting milestones. At this point, the smug factor on both sides and their media water-toters is much the same.
Then there’s taste: I prefer progs. I listen to NPR and watch PBS news and generally run with left-of-center types (as it happens) because they’re more interesting artistically and socially. I’m a born hillbilly, and my people are so ignorant and uninspiring: I don’t need any more of that. I need new ideas and experience; you can’t keep me down on the farm. And when those folks and resources get things wrong, ignore history and economics, I notice and look past it to the useful bits in the same way that a libertarian might vote for a guy who believes in tariffs.
Populist crap? enough to go around, I’d say. But there’s more to life than watching FoxNews, driving trucks, dipping snuff, and dropping the n word all day. My ax is plenty sharp, so I’ve pretty much learned all I’m going to learn from conservatives at this point.
I’m an erstwhile academic that prefers the company of drunks, whores and degenerates (but enough about glibertarians.com …); pop culture, and most other forms of culture for that matter, I find self-indulgent, boring and pedantic.
The punchline of the whole song and dance is “get off my lawn!” I don’t care about anything anyone else does, as long as it doesn’t interfere with me or use the force of the state to influence the world around me.
I don’t care about anything anyone else does, as long as it doesn’t interfere with me or use the force of the state to influence the world around me.
Fucking A
The people you describe are to conservatives what the people who get mocked/hated here are to the political left (whatever it might be called now). There are people who live down to stereotypes in every walk of life, the trick is to recognize that while they may be real they aren’t the whole story.
Yea, I drink beer with a bunch of mostly conservative men who have plenty to talk about on arts, culture, history, politics, etc. They don’t fit the “dumb hillbilly” narrative at all. I think that may be more of a regional thing than political. I know there are plenty of devoted rust-belt Democrats who work in factories, drive pickup trucks, and even shoot guns.
I think part of the issue is that the media gives as little exposure as possible to intelligent, erudite conservatives (and of course, libertarians get almost no coverage at all).
Libertarians get this treatment hard. The media, when it deigns to acknowledge their existence, will find the craziest embodiment of libertarian ethos (hedonist, narcissist, idiot) and hold that person up as representative of the whole.
In politics, I am reminded of Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is crap. People are not angels, and if you scratch anyone hard enough, you can find something to confirm your biases.
Yep. There’s no way in hell that the mainstream media would ever put a sensible, intelligent, highly educated, suit-and-tie guy like Tom Woods on one of their segments.
Was it you who said that he didn’t eat at Chick-fil-A? Why? Blending in with progs?
“Andrew Yang unveils plans to campaign remotely using a 3D hologram
Yang plans to send a hologram to campaign in key battleground states
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has unveiled a 3D hologram that he intends to use to remotely campaign in key battlegrounds states. According to The Hill, Yang revealed the hologram during a segment on TMZ Live on Wednesday. He said that it would allow him to be in two or even three places at a time.
Yang also hopes to use the technology to drive home his message about the power of disruptive technologies and the need to change with them. In an interview with the Carroll Times Herald, Yang said that the hologram is “tied into the message of the campaign around the fact that it is 2019, and soon it will be 2020, and things are changing, and we can’t just keep doing the same things over and over again and expect it to achieve the results we need.” Yang has made headlines for his proposal to introduce universal basic income if he becomes president.”
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/12/18307776/3d-hologram-andrew-yang-democratic-candidate-battleground-states-primary-elections-2020
We live in the most hilarious timeline.
Can a hologram sniff your hair and touch your shoulder?
/Biden
Help me, Obi Wan. You’re my only hope.
I would laugh if he did that as a gag
He does have a sense of humor.
I’m sure this will work way better than those CNN ‘townhalls’
He’s just doing this so he doesn’t have to set foot in those icky flyover states.
Again, I’ve only heard a couple of brief interviews but what I found interesting was she (I think) essentially argues we don’t really think rationally or objectively and, rather than trying to do so, we need to recognize that we don’t and set up checks in our own lives to counter that to some extent.
What? “Homo economicus” is a myth?
Does anybody really teach that “rational actor” stuff seriously (other than as, you know, an obviously flawed illustrative tool)? I keep seeing articles refuting the entire academic discipline of economics, based on the shocking revelation that people are not uniformly rational and dispassionate actors, making decisions based on fastidious economic analysis which can be consistently replicated.
No,no one does. Home economicus is mostly a strawman used to distort the argument that free marketers make. Hayek was even explicit that people are not hyper rational, always making the best decisions. It was that the system of free markets generates an outcome much better than any rational mind could come up with.
In the interviews I’ve heard, she doesn’t talk about economics.
It’s also that people frequently behave as if they were doing the calculations, which is what leads to the market outcome. Of course, in many situations, they don’t. People typically over or under react to small probability, large consequence events.
Terrible joke from my Irish coworker:
Q: How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
A: Zero
Oof. That’s excellent.
Lol
Dark humor is like food….
Nice.
A link to a article about some old lady’s music.
She can play.
Badass!
SHe’s amazing! I wonder if she ever jammed with Carol Kaye
Church burner is not a right wing, white supremacist. I expect this story to disappear by Monday.
Why? Its not like the DemOp media hasn’t proven itself fully capable of pushing a thoroughly discredited narrative for months or even years.
Not when there’s a “black metal” moral panic to fuel.
Police are bad at dealing with the otherly enabled
Ethan Saylor’s death highlighted the lack of training many law enforcement officers have when it comes to people with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Instead, much of their training revolves around how to gain and maintain control of a situation. Police training programs nationwide spend, on average, 168 hours teaching officers about use of force, weapons and defensive tactics, according to the most recent statistics from the Justice Department. That compares with only 10 hours spent on mental illness, for example. For that report, the government did not track the training time devoted to intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Police training often creates the mindset: “I am the boss. You do what I tell you to do,” says Seth Stoughton, a former police officer and now a University of South Carolina law professor who studies police regulation. “And if someone doesn’t do what I tell them to do, it is indicative of a potential threat.”
Experts say people with intellectual disabilities may have trouble processing those orders. They may struggle to follow directions or manage emotions.
“It’s not always noncompliance. It’s not always resistance. Sometimes it’s inability,” Stoughton explains. “The officer very often will perceive that inability as a refusal.”
Maybe we could try not criminalizing anything and everything which makes somebody, somewhere, feel uncomfortable. Then the cops wouldn’t get involved.
The are not so hot with the normally-abled too.
And maybe cops should be trained that the US is supposed to be a free country so they shouldn’t expect people who are acting peacefully and unsuspecting of being in violation of any particular retarded law or are otherwise innocent to be immediately and completely subordinate to citizens that are hired to enforce the law.
Being peaceful and not breaking laws is just how drug smugglers are taught to act. It’s all very suspicious.
“I pulled you over because you were going just under the speed limit”
Spawn 1, the archetype of clean-cut young men, got pulled over in Nebraska last weekend for six over. In the middle of nowhere.
Before he left, I told him that he probably would. At the time my wife accused me of being ‘so cynical’.
No ticket, of course. Just a fishing expedition.
I was pulled over in Oregon and the statie basically told me “we’re not looking for people like you”.
Yeah, or maybe we should criminalize the cops killing innocent people just to show them who’s boss?
The next Star Wars has a stupid title and will be a worse movie, which will be a feat considering the limb by limb abortion of SW that was TFA and TLJ.
“The Saga comes to an end”
Prior to 2015 I never thought I’d be glad to see those words re: Star Wars. This latest trilogy has made me yearn for prequel-quality SW movies. Prequel-quality. That’s not a very high bar to cross, but Disney can’t even manage that.
But, if you ask Disney, we should be grateful they bought the franchise and saved it from what they claim Lucas wanted to do next: a three-movie trilogy where the main characters shrink down to microscopic size and explore the concept of midiclorians by interacting with them directly.
I’m a strict original trilogist (if that’s a word). I liked the first three, but as far as I’m concerned, the rest of them don’t exist.
The spin-offs have been good. Solo and Rouge One were far superior to any of the main sequence movies released since RotJ.
“The Saga comes to an end”
Woo-hoo!
I enjoy the joke that explains believers in each set of trilogies as Jewish, Christian, and Muslim (the “original story”, the “correct ending”, etc.)- with Clone Wars adherents being the LDS group.
Nick makes case for open borders.
https://reason.com/2019/04/12/steve-bannons-economic-nationalism-is-th/
Hopefully webover improves the user experience.
Does it fire Shika?
WTF is that supposed to mean? I know from years of propaganda in my school days that “discrimination” is literally worse than Hitler, but it does mean more than just crimethought.
Curiously missing from that bill is any discussion of the government not using private information. An oversight, I’m sure.
Mostly price discrimination probably. That’s the only discrimination companies are going to really do.
See also HUDs suit against Facebook because it let’s banks advertise in specific ways which breaks the Fair Housing Act. I’m not sure why they are going after the platform rather than the actual advertisers…
I think the Establishment is itching to grab some control over the flow of information online, specifically on social media because of the sheer velocity with which information can spread. I’d imagine that this lawsuit is an attempt at a backdoor to regulate the content on social media. Ditto with the “fake news” and “foreign manipulation” bullshit.
Walmart Wednesdays
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chaos-walmart-woman-karate-son-exposes-dog-steals-food
“McAfee School of Badass: Now Open”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4NK_gQXpO4
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1117061156114448384
McAfee for prez.
I’m torn on this issue but I really wish this “underbanked” lingo would die in a fire. What is it with the left and their always making up pretentious words and phrases to describe whichever sad sacks they’re using to prop up their causes?
Related I was thinking and about inflation and how the argument goes that it helps the less well off because it decreases the value of held debt. People who say that haven’t ever really thought about it because banks don’t give loans to the worst off. But you know who does take big loans?
it helps the less well off because it decreases the value of held debt.
You mean, in addition to helping them by reducing their purchasing power and whatever assets they actually have?
Maybe we need an Orwell’s Contemporary Dictionary in our Resources tab where words are defined in terms of their pernicious goals and happily ignorant bents. Example:
gentrification (noun): a derogatory re-characterization of an owner’s improving the value of his property to attract better returns as an attack on people who actually have no right to use his property
underbanked (noun): a description of the state of being that inevitably results from the enactment of stricter controls on financial institutions, especially those which denigrate and penalize arrangements outside of the narrowly defined mainstream, but which must be characterized as a market injustice to avoid examination of the well intentioned policies favored by the well heeled
Prohibits companies from using individuals’ personal information in discriminatory ways
“Blind people deserve motorcycles, too.”
“The GOP attacks on Ilhan Omar follow the typical Republican rhetorical playbook:
1. Incite violence against opponents
2. Violence occurs against opponents
3. Feign outrage when held accountable”
https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/1117072230108864512
“The only actual political violence that has occurred was when a Bernie Sanders campaign worker tried to mass assassinate Republican Congress members, and there was zero interest in dealing with Sanders political rhetoric, from Dems, from media & from this enormous tool here.
The people who say republicans are killing everybody and are chasing people out of restaurants are suddenly very concerned with civility. It’s so laughably transparent and it should be laughed at for the joke it is.
Omar’s comments will be in the news cycle longer than that mass shooting by a Bernie Bro was.”
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1117076206757847044
Feigned violence being a bike lock to the noggin.
That’s the inverse of reality.
Incite violence against opponents
Juxtaposing her actual quote with an actual photo of what she was referring to is inciting violence. Sure, bub.
I was surprised they didn’t do her full quote:
“Some people” *show pictures of 9/11 terrorists*
“Did something” *show picture of twin towers burning*
So about Trumps recent comments about Wikileaks and Assange. They obviously fly in the face of things he said previously, particularly while campaigning. Could this be part of a broader strategy* to distance himself from the issue and then give Assange immunity in exchange for info/testimony or am I giving the man too much slack?
*I mean, He knows he is often full of shit. People know he is often full of shit. And he knows people know he is often full of shit.
May be full of shit, but Wikileaks has never published fake leaks like other MSM outlets.
Eyes up BuzzFeed…
Twice you fools! Twice!!!
The one that got them noticed first, the killing by the US military of some journalists and their bodyguards in Iraq, was at best misleading.
Oh, look! A bunch of men out of uniform and with guns running toward a firefight with US troops! Nothing to see here, let’s just wave them on by to join the party.
Yeah, that one was horseshit, straight up.
Out of context, presented out of context, mislabeled? Fine. I’ll grant you that, but has he presented “anonymous” sources and later we find out the leak was based on complete lies? I’m not holding people to a high bar when they release information that later is shown not to be completely made up. We can figure out what spin he may have put on it if we have the info, but we don’t can’t if we don’t have the info in the first place.
I hope it’s part of a broader strategy but I doubt it. He’ll be brought to the US, given a kangaroo court trial, and dropped in the clink for quite a while. Maybe Trump will commute his sentence when he can get away with it politically (on his way out of the door) but who knows? I’d like to see him pardoned but I seriously doubt that’ll happen.
Assange just needs to start identifying as Julia.
Well, maybe that only works once, and with a different President.
What’s the criminal charge against him in the US?
How is he subject to US jurisidiction when he is not a US citizen and hasn’t done anything on US soil?
What case can they bring without disclosing classified information?
US law transcends borders apparently.
Its like they want to help the argument that everybody in the world should vote in US elections. If they are subject to our laws without ever setting foot here, it really seems only fair.
Huh, interesting point…
The charge is conspiracy. It will be an interesting test case, for while Assange as a Swedish citizen owed no loyalty to the U.S. and had no duty to protect U.S. classified information, by conspiring with Manning he took overt action against the U.S. and in effect became an enemy of the United States. Since the intrusion physically happened in the U.S. thanks to his co-conspirator, I believe that gives the U.S. jurisdiction. Oddly, it doesn’t help that Assange isn’t an agent of a foreign power, since that means there is no government backing him or willing to defend him (especially since Ecuador has a new government that Assange embarassed).
The government will set out to prove that Assange not only talked with Manning but encouraged Manning to engage in violations of U.S. computer security and compromise classified information. What we are seeing here is the fruit of Obama issuing few if any genuine pardons; Manning’s sentence was commuted but the crimes are still on the books.
The government will set out to prove that Assange not only talked with Manning but encouraged Manning to engage in violations of U.S. computer security and compromise classified information.
That has been my question for the last few days: What does “encourage” mean? What MSM outlet wouldn’t say to a leaker that they’d love to have anything else the leaker may have?
According to a press release from the U.S. District Attorney, Assange gave explicit instructions to Manning. Not just vague “give me what you can find” but details on how to break computer systems and requests for specific information knowing that it was classified.
N.B. this is what the prosecution claims, not necessarily what happened. It is also possible that this could be as simple as “try this list of common passwords” and “I heard about [some event] and would like to know what you can find on it”.
That’s the crux right there. I don’t trust the US DA’s version of events and want to see solid proof of that. If true, that would be an active participant. They US govt has incentive to portray a vague statement enabling Manning. My guess is we’ll probably never know. If he did provide effective tools to hacking DoD computers, well, too bad. He’s screwed. What I’ve seen is that he said something like, “I’m always thirsty for more.”
This article gives a pretty good summation of the charges:
https://truthout.org/articles/assanges-indictment-treats-journalism-as-a-crime/
Thanks and there it is again: The indictment alleges Assange helped Manning attempt to crack a password to make it harder to identify Manning as the source of the classified information.
What exactly does that mean?
He knows he is often full of shit. People know he is often full of shit. And he knows people know he is often full of shit.
But he said dumb stuff about George Washington when he went to Mount Vernon!
But you know who does take big loans?
What’s the old saying?
“A bank will only lend you money if you can prove you don’t need it.”
I’ve had that discussion with my banker on more than one occasion.
Yep. I told mine once that if things were so tight at the bank I’d be happy to spot them a few bucks.
I found it funnier than he did.
Once upon a time, someone, with the help of an insider at the bank, kited a few of my company checks. The unnamed bank had to reimburse my account for the amount stolen.
They then proceeded to tell me all about a new method of handling payments electronically that was more secure. When I said “Great”, they presented me with a proposal that included a $200/month charge for the service.
My question to the three salesmen sitting in my office was “Since it was your screwup that led to the losses, why would I pay you money for the privilege of helping you make your system more secure?”
They literally said “We don’t have an answer for that” and got up and left.
Fannie and Freddie beg to differ.
Imagine a situation where a white ethnostater is running for president against a left ethnostater. A future we may well get to enjoy.
Are you talking about Israel?
I’m talking about in group vs. outgroup preference. Basically, I’m talking about politics the world over.
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1112852447670620160
What she doesn’t get is that all of that is possible because of capitalism and freedom of speech.
So pretty. So dumb. So sad.
The thing is she’s not dumb outside of politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzx8KHjQD6c
Not in the least. Thanks ?
If you’re better known for being a public ditz than for doing what you do your career can’t be going so well (the Kardashians and other professional public ditzes excepted).
Tendencies for explication will subordinate to fragility. That is, your cat’s beam is cloistered with pine-cones. Could someone sublime the aristocratic linen?
Wut? Or alternately, I will have what OMWC is smoking.
“Decided to redo this as a thread. Pay attention to how tight the messaging is in defense of Ilhan Omar and how precise and consistent the wording is from media, politics, academia, etc. Also I’m not searching for these. I’ll just add ones that pop into my TL.”
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1117080464320290822
Saw a funny that said the Crusades were just some people doing something.
So, it seems the defense of Omar is that her words were “twisted” or “taken out of context”. So tiresome. How much garbage has to come out of her mouth and her Twitter account before someone on the left grows a pair and admits she is a problem?
You are going to DIE!
Given the climate zone differences where corn is grown, I am not sure I am buying this. But fucckit, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!
And if the corn yield falls, then we don’t need to produce ethanol for gasoline anymore, so more can be used to make food.
That’s just crazy talk.
That entire article is one stupid fallacious statement after another. There are not enough GIFs of Picard facepalming in the entire world.
With climate “science” like this, is it any wonder there’s so many “deniers”?
A four-degree increase — which is where our current trajectory will take us
How no real increase in global temps in, what, fifteen years? is a trajectory to a four degree increase is, of course, an exercise for the reader.
A drop in yield in Iowa, Nebraska, etc. will almost certainly be offset by yield gains in NoDak, Montana, etc. Not to mention the Canadian prairie provinces…and Russia(!). Also, agriscience advances are constantly increasing crop yields anyway.
“Why We Should All Use They/Them Pronouns
Using gendered identifiers, even if we get to choose our own, can reinforce bias and discrimination”
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/why-we-should-all-use-they-them-pronouns/
https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1116460970107383809
“scientific”
At least the xe/xer people realized we needed a new (singular) pronoun, but they came up with an awkward solution. Was there a neuter gender and pronoun in Old English? If so, it can’t be less wieldy than xe (how do you even pronounce that?).
Was there a neuter gender and pronoun in Old English?
No, because our ancestors were apparently smarter and saner than we are.
I don’t know if I’d start throwing around smart or sane in the context of grammatical gender. Latin had masculine, feminine, and neuter gender but that didn’t always correlate with sex. The word eunuchus (means exactly what you would think) is masculine, for example.
I think the pseudo-pronoun “xe” is totally appropriate. The people it represents are as confused about their identities as the rest of us are confused about how to pronounce it.
A being who can instantly call up literally any documented piece of human knowledge being portrayed as feminine. Yes, that’s clearly so harmful to women.
We should all walk around with bags over our heads and not speak. This will lead to a utopia free of bias and discrimination.
As much as I enjoyed going to the range and having an instructor, I like going by myself 10x more. I feel like I just got a massage, I’m so fucking mellow.
Now that’s how you euphemism, people.
Famke Janssen gif
I’m-a need 3 boxes of ammo next time.
The dudes next to me were shooting a variety of long guns. At first I thought the bigger boomies would startle me, but it was fine. I have good ear protection, I guess.
I love the smell of gun powder in the morning.
The smell of freedom!
Fun!
I often double up – ear plugs and muffs, when there are big boomers next to me.
THat’s my standard gear, even when it’s just me and the teach on the range. I have sensitive ears.
For you:
Stratolaunch first flight!
:-O
Not a bad idea. Some calibers like 50 BMG produce enough sound power that even if you double-up with plugs and muffs you can sustain serious damage if your mouth is open when you press the trigger. The pressure wave can travel down your throat and out through your ears.
The United States is the world’s largest producer of corn, which in turn is the planet’s most widely grown crop.
I’ll pile on: we could take corn currently being diverted to making low grade motor fuel and use it for food. Just spitballin’.