Just one alignment here, but it’s portentous: Mars-Mercury-Venus with the Sun in opposition. Mars and Venus are simultaneously opposing planets (War/Peace, Violence/Love, etc) as well as complementary (Male/Female). When you have them facing off across Mercury (change) you’ve got a recipe for something big, sudden and/or unexpected. Good or bad? Well… that’s where the sun in opposition comes in saying “sucks to be you.” Wear a helmet.
Now having said that, the best tactics for dealing with this are as follows:
- Patience, directness and labor will be your allies. Allies are important. Strategery double-dealing and various Xanatos gambits are not recommended. (Mercury and Venus in Taurus).
- Secrets will be used against you. Keep your skeleton closets locked up tight, maintain your payoffs and/or threats to keep people from talking (Mars in Cancer).
- Precision, subtlety and “proper channels” are not to be relied upon (Jupiter (retrograde) and the moon in Sagittarius).
- Plan, don’t rely on improvisation (Saturn (retrograde) in Capricorn).
The cards also indicate a week full of happy horseshit. The first six cards drawn were all reversed, and the leadoff one literally means “Bad Luck.”
Taurus: The Wheel of Fortune, reversed – Increase, superfluity
Cancer: Knight of Wands, reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord
Leo: The Moon, reversed – Instability, inconstancy, silence. Lesser degrees of deception and error.
Virgo: 7 of Swords, reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling
Libra: Page of Swords, reversed – A situation for which you are unprepared, a weaselly bastard working against you, possible sickness.
Scorpio: 5 of Coins, reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, prolifigacy
Sagittarius: Ace of Swords – Triumph, excessiveness in everything, great force in love or hate
Capricorn: The Tower – Misery, distress, ruin, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception. The frogurt is also cursed.
Aquarius: Death, reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy
Gemini: The High Priestess – Secrets, mystery, science, a woman you are interested in, silence, tenacity
Pisces: Ace of Cups – True heart, joy, contentment, felicity, nourishment, fertility
Aries: The Hanged Man, reversed – Selfishness, crowds, politics
Virgo: 7 of Swords, reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.
IOW another Glib Sunday.
I second that
“Maybe You Should Take the Week Off”
Damn. I timed my vacation wrong.
The cards also indicate a week full of happy horseshit
So a normal week?
Since this relates to predictions, it’s not too far OT.
Article from the Atlantic on how “experts” are terrible at making predictions in their area of expertise. Ehrlich is, of course, the prime example, but the author doesn’t mention that Ehrlich hasn’t learned anything and is still pushing the same crap. Instead, he give him false credit.
The words “climate” and “weather” do not appear in the article.
https://tiny.iavian.net/sywm
“Rupture, division, interruption, discord”
Does this mean I don’t have the winning mega millions ticket?
I dunno, winning the lottery has been known to cause some discord and division.
So he should clearly give the winning ticket to
methe Glibertarian Foundation.I only won ten dollars. In fact, I think it’s a net loss.
“Libra: Page of Swords, reversed – A situation for which you are unprepared, a weaselly bastard working against you, possible sickness.”
This is the third bad week in a row. I’m starting to take this shit personal.
Wear a helmet.
I expected a clip of Gary Busey.
At least I’m not Cancer or Scorpio!
(Not the first time I’ve been thankful for those small mercies.)
But it’s the age…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhbxI5eVnM4
Groovy, man.
I crossed mine with Web MD, it says I have Lyme’s disease.
That’s complete bunk.
It’s obviously cancer.
That wood tick me off……
Oh, deer. Here we go again.
Into the weeds we go.
And Swiss is away this weekend!
I was picking ticks off last night, so I hope to not join you in that prognosis. It sucked last time I had it.
Speaking of prophesies – I thought this was cute.
https://twitter.com/Galackdickus1/status/1123496028286726144
Seconded.
Okay car Glibs, I need help figuring out an issue.
My car stereo has a USB port inside the center console. Typically I only listen to mp3s on a usb stick in that port. But just this year (and not previous summers) whenever the car is parked in a warm spot, the car will not recognize that anything is plugged into the usb port, even after reseating the drive, etc. Sometimes, if I turn the car off several times completely, it might realize there is something there, but not always.
No, the thermostat does not appear to be the culpret.
When it’s not detecting the item plugged in does it still provide power?
No clue, these are flash drives, and if they’re not being read, they don’t light up.
Did you clean your filter?
On the car? Replaced several last oil change.
We had the same problem on our van, Son pulled it out , cleaned the contacts on the molex connector and now it works
*sigh* I suppose I should learn how to access the guts of the center console at some point.
It’s still under warranty, but the dealership did a software reset, and my schedule doesn’t leave space to get back there before my vacation, when I really need that working. (Eight hours on the road requires something playing)
Nothing more frustrating than combining thousands of dollars worth of good engineering and expensive parts (most of the car) with shitty, cheap connectors.
I have forbidden the selection of any electronics connectors on my team’s projects without my explicit go-ahead.
Harwin all the way, baby!
Fun thing is, I just went out there to see if I could get the console open and clean the electrical connections – the damn thin’gs screwed down with a “not really torx but not a standard screw type either” screw.
I suspect Hyundai used the Korean equivalent of Lucas (“Why do the British drink warm beer?” “Because Lucas made refrigerators too.”).
When the weather is hot and humid, I have all sorts of little problems with the car. Rough shifting being the most noticeable. But, when the weather isn’t hot and humid, everything works just fine. I’ve stopped taking the car to the shop to have them look at it.
My car has a USB post like UCS’ and I have a USB stick for music. The car has always read the USB stick. I’ve never had problems with the car reading the stick. The problem I’ve had, which has always occurred regardless of weather, is the music randomizer is the world’s worst music randomizer. Certain songs come up for too often for the randomizer to be using a well-design random number generator.
Wow… I did a good job proofreading that post.
I’m talking about my Hyundai Genesis.
I’ll go mow the lawn now.
We’ve cleverly avoided these kinds of issues with a USB port in our Hyundai Sonata, by having a 2010 model which doesn’t have one. *sigh*
My rental this weekend is a Hyundai Kona, which has zero issues.
a “not really torx but not a standard screw type either” screw.
Worth every penny
@HS
Bendix connectors FTW
Did you check to see if the car is plugged in?
It doesn’t have a cord or an A/C adapter.
I’ve got a couple of jump drives that have lights that go on whenever they get power, or you could plug in a charger or something to check and see if it’s still providing power.
It’s cancer.
Does it matter if the sun is shining directly on the port?
I’d spray it out with electronic cleaner.
Not bad. Hoppy nose, only 35 IBU.
https://untappd.com/b/sockeye-brewing-horsethief-hazy-ipa/3190618
Question for the bicyclists
I have a Specialized Allez Double road bike. I have been using it for commuting (3 miles RT) for the past year, but there is no guarantee that when we finally buy a place in a year or so that tcommuting will continue. In fact, it is unlikely we can afford to buy a place here.
This spring my wife and I have been taking short trips to bars downtown with the kids in a burley and weehoo. My wife has a hybrid bike.
We live near a rails to trails spot and think the kids could handle a longer ride. The trail is mainly packed dirt or paved. We also would like to take the bikes when traveling, which means the trail conditions could vary.
So my questions are
1. Do I sell the road bike and replace it with
a. hybrid
b. a lightweight mountain bike and use slicks when I commute again in the summer
2. Get gravel tires for the road bike
You left out option 3: get yourself a hybrid as well (assuming you have the storage space). The towpath trail by me is mainly crushed limestone, and while I’ve seen people riding road bikes on it, I wouldn’t want to.
Yea there is that option. I hate to have 2 bikes but I would be a little sad to sell the road bike
The hybrid is going to have a more upright posture, so less efficient pedaling.
The MTB is going to be more durable for towing and front suspension really evens out the ride. Those knobbly tires do have awesome braking power. You can always switch out the tires seasonally. I recommend 29″ tires, those roll over anything. Trek Marlin series is good entry level. Once you go disc brakes you’ll never go back.
You can always switch out the tires on the road bike, but sounds like the MTB would be better for what you plan.
Weehoo looks neat. I always love seeing kids on those and in bike trailers.
The three year old lives riding along. The poor 11 month old merely tolerates it
Hoping the younger one learns to enjoy it, maybe once that kid is old enough for the weehoo.
I highly recommend the Strider pedal-less bikes every kid I’ve known or heard about who has started with those has had a super easy time transitioning to pedaling on their own. So much better than training wheels.
Don’t sell your road bike. Every transaction is a beating: the way to avoid transactional friction is fewer transactions; sell the bike and you’ll always find you went through a ton of trouble for little utility.
Find some junker, WMT special, or whatever that you ride for just a bit, so who cars what it is.
Or buy something that one of the kids can grow into.
Given that he has a 3yo and an 11mo old it will be a good 12 years before the eldest approaches needing an adult frame bike.
“Every transaction is a beating: the way to avoid transactional friction is fewer transactions; ”
I thought I was supposed to make it up in volume.
I can get a bit too buy-and-hold sometimes, to a fault maybe. I’m probably fixated on quality and maintenance over lots of trips to WMT; my experience is that cheap equipment is very expensive and that hanging on to good stuff is the best plan.
FWIW, my road bike is a 1986 Trek 330 Elance pretty much identical to this one. One of the rims survived until last year; the front derailleur is original. My cost per mile is under $0.01, and I’ve finished the Hotter-N-Hell 100 five times on the old beast, most attempts being in my forties.
OT: Who could possibly have predicted?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90351649/sad-survey-60-of-male-managers-are-uncomfortable-working-around-women
^^^THIS.
Heh I misread that as “male teenagers”.
To be fair, no one could see that coming.
Q said this is the old thread:
For all the flaws of the “living constitution” they do raise the interesting question of what good are “natural rights” if no one believes in them? If the masses, the politicians, the intellectuals, the legal professors, the lawyers and the judges do not believe in a certain right what good is it?
This also raises a big question about Natural Rights: what are they, when did we agree on them and why should we? And aren’t we too dependent on the judiciary to enforce theses rights? Politicians appoint them (if they are not elected that is) and they need legal training somewhere.
Also doesn’t this raise a key flaw in liberalism: we should reject all the stodgy traditions of the past but our values should be accepted for all eternity? Whatever social and economic changes in the future we should still stick to some old values because why?
And wasn’t the libertarian belief in the open internet highly predicated on the assumption that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg all agree with them?
I mean Thomas Paine argued against tradition but he nevertheless tried to write France’s Constitution. And Thomas Jefferson tried to address this with his “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” quote which nevertheless is highly predicated that these “patriots” will be fighting for values Jefferson approves of.
I should also point out the Communists picked up from the liberals the worship of “progress” and hatred of “reactionaries” and the justification for repression of said “reactionaries.” And classical liberals engaged in *Insert current year* constantly.
The entirety of individual rights depends on the populace’s knowledge of them and willingness to defend them.
So in that respect the progs are winning…
1) Raise the populace to be ignorant (or opposed) of individual rights
2) Disarm them
yup
Problem is the assumption was that the public school system would do taht and all the intellectuals, academics. lawyers, artists, businessmen, etc. would defend it forever.
Sorry: The public school system would raise the populace to support individual rights and that the groups I mention would support them forever.
Also if we should get rid of hidebound tradition then what happens when people think individual rights are a hidebound tradition?
I think someone wrote an article about that.
“what good are natural rights if no one believes in them?” – Not believing in them does not make them cease to exist. Operate on the principle that they don’t exist and things go south real fast. Not believing in gravity doesn’t mean you can jump off of a cliff and fly. Not believing in shortages and supply and demand principles won’t make everyone prosperous.
“Natural Rights: what are they,…” Every person’s mind, body and conscience are exclusively their own property and all that logically follows from that. That is what they are. We should agree on them because the alternative is slavery, misery and poverty for the bulk of humanity.
We should stick with the ones that work, the ones that produce happiness most efficiently.
I agree but I guess my point is more that these lines of reasoning are bit traditionalist: These old values work and we should keep them because they work and the alternatives are bad. I’m not sure how that can used in tandem with all the blabbering about Progress, Diversity , Creative Destruction, change and liberation, etc.
Sockeye salmon fish and chips and two pints. This day is officially written off.
I’m chilling a bottle of Gruet Brut for lunch. Which I’m having alone. So, good thing I only have mindless projects planned for the afternoon. Although some of them involve power tools. (Get your minds out of the gutter, Glibs. I mean the circular saw.)
I am with you on this. I myself like to do shots before I fire up the sawzall.
Make sure you’re using an OSHA approved shot glass.
Shots of what? /taking notes
Tdap
Oh, I’m current. Damn.
Bourbon. At least two. It really loosens up the wrist and thumb so you don’t tire out holding down the safety.
Oh, so after I drink the bottle of Gruet, do 2 shots (minimum) of Knob Creek before getting the saw out. Got it.
Edited to add: This is exactly why Glibertarians.com is such a vital resource. You can’t get this kind of expert, tried-and-true advice just anywhere!
Pour two fingers of Knob Creek into a tumbler. It may be the last time you use those two fingers.
Glibertarians.com: “The insurance investigation will be epic!”
I’m just
killing timewriting a bunch of e-mails to send before heading up to a local brewery to meet a friend of mine (and his family) for dinner.Prime rib in the smoker
Just cooked some of this:
https://oscarsadksmokehouse.com/product/sliced-beef-bacon/
It’s much more like bacon than I expected sliced brisket to be. The flavor is good, very meaty. The texture just isn’t quite right — the fat in brisket apparently doesn’t have whatever connective tissue is in pork belly that makes it crumbly when cooked.
Interesting. The beef bacon at my local store is smoked beef plate. It’s actually really good.
If only he had voted for Herself. Boo hoo hoo. https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-voter-immigration-family-separation-georgia-20190519-htmlstory.html
Cognitive dissonance sucks.
Under the Obama administration, ICE granted renewable work permits to many law-abiding immigrants who had been in the country at least five years.
Except for their initial and continuing lawbreaking…
Unbelievable to him, there was no McDonald’s or Walmart.
And the LA Dog Trainer could have gotten away with too if it wasn’t for that pesky google maps. Both are about 15 miles away, and there appears to be Walmart supermarkets slightly closer. He should come visit me. Both of those are at least 15 miles away from where I live.
A marriage to a US citizen is one of the very few ways an illegal immigrant can make his or her status legalized. I wonder why they couldn’t do it here. Is it because the woman was caught twice illegally crossing the border? That’s what the article implies.
According to NOLO, adjustment of status is dependent on admissibility. If someone is guilty of improper entry, they are not admissible unless they get a waiver.
Scorpio: 5 of Coins, reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, prolifigacyfuck a duck
Ack. I fucked and picked strikethrough instead of italics. The prophecy is true!
Fucked *up*. Jesus I haven’t even been drinking. I’m going to dig a hole now.
“Comic which stars Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a superhero gets cease-and-desist letter because she ‘looks too much like Wonder Woman’
She may be a hero to some Democrats, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been told she is no Wonder Woman when it comes to comic books.
DC Comics, the creator of the iconic cartoon character. has issued a cease-and-desist to a small comic book company barring it from selling covers of the freshman Democrat in a costume that looks remarkably similar to that of Wonder Woman.
Devil’s Due Comics created is running a comic about AOC called ‘Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force: New Party Who Dis?'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7046815/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortezs-superhero-alter-ego-shut-DC-Comics.html
The costume seems pretty generic to me.
Every time I think they’ve hit the bottom of the stupid barrel, I’m wrong.
That C&D letter effectively cost them zero to write. I’m sure that there are young lawyers (or more likely legal secretaries or paralegals) at DC and Marvel whose only job is to churn forth endless garbage C&D letters to stymie competition.
I have no idea who this is.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7046111/Victoria-Justice-sets-pulses-racing-bandeau-microscopic-shorts.html
She’s a graduate of Dan Schneider’s Academy of Pedophilic Foot Fetish Modeling.
Dan’s the man. He knows how to get them to work it.
I they consider those “microscopic,” I weep for the future of British science.
If, not I
“Florida woman accused of threatening mass shooting at elementary school ”
https://nypost.com/2019/05/17/florida-woman-accused-of-threatening-mass-shooting-at-elementary-school/
http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/woman-accused-of-threatening-to-shoot-everyone-at-tampa-elementary-school
We need common sense eyeliner control.
Gah!
Run away! Run away!
Girl power!
LOL
IANAL but what are the odds this was just juvenile bluster? That’s a felony now?
She should have studied a little harder.
Juvenile Bluster? What has he got to do with this?
I know at least one of you would.
Not with those choppers.
“Her Facebook page says she studied hair coloring at a cosmetology school.”
*Looks at mug shot*
Well. Look at that.
“Calvin Klein faces backlash for ad showing Bella Hadid kissing female robot”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1130099055235878912
“Calvin Klein apologized on social media Friday after it was criticized for a video advertisement showing model Bella Hadid kissing a female robot named Lil Miquela.
The 30-second video drew backlash because Hadid identifies as heterosexual, with many critics saying LGBT models could have been used for the video.”
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/444398-calvin-klein-apologizes-after-backlash-over-video-of-bella
Lol, eating themselves alive
“a female robot”
Um, no.
Sure, Jan.
“Calvin Klein apologized…”
And that is where they fucked up. I have no sympathy for them. Dumbasses.
Tards gotta tard.
San Francisco North.
https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-trash-crisis
I love Idaho.
https://www.grabthehandle.com/
Sounds gay.
Only if you’re grabbing somebody else’s handle.
Idaho has known to be gay for almost 30 years.
“large wood planks of succulent meat”
Random thought. Supernatural is putting more effort into a logical conclusion to the series than GOT.
Sagitarrius: great force in love or hate. So I should get lucky this week? Or settle an old score? hmmm
Can you combine the two?
https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/18/after-six-months-of-protests-france-s-yellow-vests-lose-momentum
French people giving up. Huh.
Well they are yellow.
https://reason.com/2019/05/19/donald-trump-responds-to-justin-amash-never-a-fan-total-lightweight-loser/
And this is different from the Republicans in the 1860s how?
Ah the delusions that the MSM actually like Orthodox Christians or will care about Amash beyond him being a stick to beat to Republicans with.
Also we need youth and cultural diversity but we should all agree with old man Gillespie and his very old economic ideology.
“xenophobia”
They keep saying this, but I have yet to see solid evidence.
“unchecked executive power”
So… pretty much like every president for the last 100 years?
“His relative youth (he’s 39), his ethnicity (he’s of Palestinian and Syrian descent), and his religion (he’s an Orthodox Christian) place him squarely at the forefront of a country whose leaders will be younger and more culturally diverse”
Reason has officially become Democratic Underground.
Why have they changes all resulted in massive statism? And why should this change not include an embrace of socialism?
We need to oveturn the corrupt old order except for the economic system…just cause apparently. Very convincing rebuttal.
Oops no link:
https://reason.com/2019/05/14/all-that-is-solid-dissolves-into-amazon-and-thats-a-good-thing/#comments
If only we could elect a President willing to make a stand for capitalism, and vow that America will never be a socialist country.
The PGA (golf) is turning interesting. The leader coming today had a 7 shot lead. Now it is down to 1.
The pressure is getting to Koepka.
I think DJ just coughed up a furball.
It’s not as close as it seems: Koepka has three holes in hand.
NewWife recently walked his final (winning) round with him as score-bearer here at our FedEx StJude Classic. No doubt she keenly observed that his physique is several orders of magnitude above mine. Weirdly, she had been Crane’s score-bearer on Sunday when he won as well.
“Today’s youth deserve inclusive masturbation education
May is National Masturbation Month, and we’re celebrating with Feeling Yourself, a series exploring the finer points of self-pleasure.
For a kid, there are few things more awkward than sitting in a sex ed class and learning about masturbation. For a queer or transgender kid, the experience can be simultaneously uncomfortable and painful.
That’s because, as some sex educators argue, sex education often fails to address masturbation in an inclusive way. In fact, it may not even be discussed at all. Less than half of American high schools and only one fifth of middle schools teach all 16 sex ed topics from the Center for Disease Control’s recommended list. Masturbation isn’t even on that list, much less inclusive masturbation education.
Masturbation education, when it exists, can be heteronormative and trans-exclusionary”
https://mashable.com/article/inclusive-masturbation-education/
I can see where trying to jerk off a vagina or finger banging a penis could cause problems.
Thats not a vagina, it is a female penis.
(am I doing this right?)
This is what you get when you create a school with the assumption that parents won’t do their damn job.
Meh this is just a bunch of pedo teachers who want to hear 12 year olds talk about masterbation. Educatuon has nothing to do with it.
No curriculum was involved, but thank you, Miss McGillicutty, wherever you are.
“Woman reportedly stabbed boyfriend because he didn’t get her birthday gift”
https://nypost.com/2019/05/17/woman-reportedly-stabs-boyfriend-because-he-didnt-get-her-birthday-gift/
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1129929941615894529
I can never find a card worthy of NewWife.
Go figure: during my brief but above-average tenure as a bachelor, every year I ended up getting dumped just in time to not get some girl a Christmas gift.
She has a “live-in beau” after two months. Something tells me this woman has poor impulse-control.
Here’s what get me about that story. I often read these stories about people doing psycho shit in their 50s and 60s and I wonder how they made it that long without a life in prison sentence. You would think people like that would have been locked up for life by the time they hit 30.
Yeah!! Pennsylvania!!
Suck it, Florida.
“Want to Dismantle Capitalism? Abolish the Family
Feminist theorist Sophie Lewis’s new book looks at how rethinking pregnancy and the idea of family as forms of labor is central to emancipatory politics.
Arguably the most infamous demand of The Communist Manifesto is the “abolition of the family.” The family, Marx and Engels noted, was where patriarchy and capitalism worked in tandem to produce willing, alienated workers, where women became little more than “instruments of production” for the men who lorded over them. Radical queer politics in the 1960s and ’70s added to their critique of the bourgeois family when activists challenged the heteronormativity of familial relations. That demand, however, has since almost completely vanished from the leftist imaginary.
Sophie Lewis, a feminist theorist and geographer, takes up this forgotten struggle in her work. Her new book, Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso, 2019) specifically links family abolition to a radical reconceptualization of pregnancy itself. The act of carrying a child to term, she insists, is work—labor that has long been exploited and overlooked by the academy—and so is mothering.
By thinking through the logic of commercial surrogacy arrangements, Lewis lays bare the ways motherhood has been weaponized as an ideological construct. She gives us an account of the material conditions—the biological and societal violence—that gestators, or people who are carrying fetuses, have to bear. Her book shows us that the ostensibly feminist objection to surrogacy arrangements underwrites the ossified and alienated familial relations that make capitalism possible. Last month I sat down with her over a cup of tea at The Nation’s offices and talked about why rethinking gestation is central to an emancipatory politics, how we can use surrogacy to subvert oppression, and what kinship beyond possession, beyond capitalism, beyond patriarchy could look like.
Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity. ”
https://twitter.com/AmirSariaslan/status/1130172009898553344
http://archive.is/VpDfO
LOL never change
The ongoing saga of late night visitors
I went to my partner’s property, crossing the road next to his driveway was the smallest fawn I’ve ever seen, just a few days or even hours old, we could see his mama in the brush, the little guy found Mom and kind of ran a few steps into the brush.
His bees were in good shape. I bought a super duper 25 miles fence charger (for about 100 feet of fence.) On the way home it began to snow, mixed with the rain but now its only a light rain. I need to hook the charger up and find a kid dumb enough to pee on it. Hope that solves the problem but it looks like its too late unless I can get more bees. Tomorrow I’ll call the bee company to see if they still have any bees.
My hives were pretty much destroyed for the second time last night, I have enough accessories but need bees. The Honey Harvest will still go on, however.
Good luck!
Justin Amash: hero or genius?
Both? Neither?