Happy Friday ever’body. I hope your weekends are all extra-spectacular. I’m going to prison tomorrow! Just to visit. One of my in-laws is an outlaw, and its time to go see him again. The best part about visiting prison is being reminded just how much it sucks to stand in line and wait on The Man — who often resemble the kids in high school who were too dim to follow the rules, or really get into trouble. Anyhow, my wife and I are leaving the kids with Grandma and Grandpa all day! So its like the ultimate Florida Man date!
Its gonna be really hard to remake A Face in the Crowd without small-town radio. Oh wait, we’ll just have him be a podcaster.
It seems like The City of the Future is always crumbling in the now.
On the one hand, its tough to grow the job rolls when everyone who wants a job has one, on the other hand, I wonder how Tucker is gonna spin this for Trump.
Props to the Navy for avoiding this collision. I know that hasn’t been a guarantee for them, lately.
Some of these guys can play their instruments.
When I want to take the pulse of rural America, I turn to….ummm…..The Guardian
Anyone else remember the Clark County affair?
Damn, thanks. Actual foreign interference in a US election by a foreign media org. You’d think there’d have been more outrage.
COLLUSION!!!!!!
I’ve never heard that story before.
#meneither
Another reason for me to not click a Guardian link
Versus CNN? NBC? CBS? even Fox?
“Listening tours.”
The author is every bit the Southwest newage female you would expect her to be.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/minneapolis-police-officer-sentenced-fatal-shooting-justine-ruszczyk/story?id=63547748
Ex-Minneapolis police officer sentenced to 12.5 years for fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond
12 and a half years, huh? Seems, I don’t know, a tad light to me.
It’s exactly what a non-cop would’ve gotten in that posBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry I couldn’t say it with a straight face.
I mean, can you really blame him, though? If he hadn’t shot a 40-year-old Australian life coach walking up to his partner’s open window to report a crime then people would say he was racist.
Seriously, though, his defense attorney has a point about the police culture fostering violent paranoia. It doesn’t excuse dude even a little bit, because unless you’re an imbecile or a sociopath what he did makes absolutely no sense, but I can see people who are already vile or unbalanced (or both) being attracted to that culture and having their worst instincts rewarded by it.
probably stiff for third degree, which is all the jury would go for
I’m shocked that that’s the best they could get. I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the jury room.
Sentencing guidelines were 11-15 years, FWIW.
Well, I’m not too sure how well a Muslin cop will be received in the general population. Interesting though.
The radio reported this morning that his defense argued that he should be sentenced to report to jail every year on the date of the event and the date of the victim’s birthday, or something like that. Two days a year.
It’s a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see how it plays out for them
Saw that. Thought it was The Onion or something.
I thought it was two weeks a year, covering those dates.
If I was the judge, I would have added a couple of years to his sentence just for suggesting it.
Noor also requested that his sentence “provide for meetings between Noor and Ruszczyk’s loved ones”.
The balls. If I was her husband and I was in court when that was said, I probably would have stood up and said I’d be happy to meet him out in the parking lot right fucking now.
But Noor’s defense attorneys asked the judge to give him probation, provide for meetings between Noor and Ruszczyk’s loved ones, and for Noor to turn himself in at the workhouse for a week on the dates of Ruszczyk’s birth and her death every year for as long as he’s on probation.
Wow, someone should have put that in Morning Links. Ahem.
Or you can just add it to you morning link vomit tomorrow.
I don’t recycle my links. At least intentionally.
I can’t stand the sexual tension between you two anymore.
You should be receiving something either today or tomorrow in a repurposed Amazon box.
It’s not a bomb.
Enjoy Harry, Lacks’.
He fucked up. He murdered a pretty woman.
Pretty much, she was as about as sympathetic a victim as you can get.
Shortly after she died a video hit the internet of her rescuing some ducklings. So yeah, about as sympathetic as you can get.
Cue the outcry from the Somali and Muslim communities, who will argue that if he’d been a white male, he’d have been acquitted.
I believe there’s already been a link not long ago to such an op-ed.
If he’d been a white male, he wouldn’t have been hired by the police force.
Oh, they’ve been doing that full-throated for quite some time already. Yesterday at a rally, his father was quoted saying he just wanted justice for his son. SMDH
So the death penalty? 😉
sorry for going off topic so fast. my brain is mush this afternoon.
Its gonna be really hard to remake A Face in the Crowd without small-town radio. Oh wait, we’ll just have him be a podcaster.
Make him an Instagram SJW.
But apparently low power radio is flourishing.
If memory serves, Lonesome becomes a conservative suck-up to a populist goober
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So its like the ultimate Florida Man date!
Really the penultimate Florida Man date. To bump it up a notch to ultimate you two would have to sneak off to the conjugal visit room and do some bath salts while making the officer outside hold your beer.
…and holds the leash of your pet gator.
Leash, pfft. He’s well trained on verbal commands.
Leash?
This website is still acing weird. I made comment, and saw it posted, and pan fried wylie’s comment wasn’t visible. Then it shows up later, even though it was posted 5 minutes earlier according to the time stamps.
I was sure someone was going to beat me to it in the span between refreshing and typing the comment.
Dodgeball isn’t just problematic, it’s an unethical tool of ‘oppression’
“As we consider the potential of physical education to empower students by engaging them in critical and democratic practices, we conclude that the hidden curriculum offered by dodgeball is antithetical to this project, even when it reflects the choices of the strongest and most agile students,” it reads.
This “hidden curriculum” in dodgeball is far more nefarious than your average gym class runaround. Dodgeball is “miseducative” because it “reinforces the five faces of oppression,” as defined by the late Iris Marion Young, a social and political theorist at the University of Chicago.
As Butler’s abstract describes it, those “faces” are “marginalization, powerlessness, and helplessness of those perceived as weaker individuals through the exercise of violence and dominance by those who are considered more powerful.” Young’s list of these fundamental types of oppression also includes exploitation and cultural domination.
I’m going to refuse to click on that and tell myself it’s from a satire website. It’s for my own sanity’s sake.
It’s a shame you can’t drink.
Iris Young obviously got his ass kicked in PE
My thought exactly.
When we played dodgeball in gym, the kids who didn’t want to play would try to get hit right away so they could go sit out and not participate. It really wasn’t the end of the world.
Bombardment!
Or they’d stand back against wall, basically out of the field of play.
Exactly. Kids that did want to play were often the athletic kids that wanted to ensure dominance over themselves.
Yep, maybe I was a rube, but I went after the kids I thought were assholes (they were generally athletic). Plus that is good strategy anyway.
I always loved dodgeball because it was the closest you could come to a gang fight without anyone getting in trouble or hurt too badly. And in my experience the less athletic kids could get their own back if they just worked on strategic positioning and catching the ball. A great big fatty isn’t Matrixing out of the way of one of those things, but if he catches it all of a sudden you’ve got a bitter-ass chubster with a ball and a grudge who wants some payback. Shit is like Carrie, son.
Somebody needs a swirly.
Dodging things that are thrown at you is an important skill for everyone, especially in this age of Progressive SJW Twitter warlords hurling milkshakes and God-knows-what at you. Really, they just don’t want people to develop the crucial catch-and-throw counter, because otherwise there’d be a bunch of neckbeards and Otherkin running around covered in running hair dye and Frosty.
I’ve always been of the opinion that if you throw something at me, I get to try to kick your ass. If you egg a politician or throw milkshakes at a speaker, you’ve started the fight.
Yeah, I wouldn’t throw a milkshake at LH’s audio gear.
Yeah, I agree with the caveat that I’m willing to make distinctions between like a kid throwing a snowball and a drunk redneck throwing a beer bottle, say.
I’m gonna beat that kid down so that he doesn’t grow up to be a drunk redneck throwing beer bottles.
/street justice
Hell, there was a dodgeball tournament at the punk music fest I was at.
did they call it dodge-mosh?
Negative. It was Anarchy Dodgeball. There was usually a circle pit going in front of the stage though. I only heard of one injury from that, someone dislocated their shoulder. It was one of the most policed pits I’ve ever been in, which was nice.
Guess where these quotations are from: “Dodgeball simulates war, man. It encourages the strong to victimize the weak. It hurts people’s feelings.” and “You know, they soften us up with lead-based paints for the toys. Next thing you know, gate’s open, the hordes come in. … The transition from throwing balls to fragmentation grenades is seamless.”
trio of education theorists
Sounds like three assholes with utterly useless degrees to me
Three utterly useless assholes with degrees.
*makes jerking motion with one hand, sounds a raspberry*
That really is the only reasonable response.
Really working that pump action today….
DODGE SWISS!
Always another soap dispenser that need refilling.
CLICK CLICK BOOM MOTHAFUCKAH
“reinforces the five faces of oppression,”
I thought it was the Five D’s of Dodgeball?!
Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge.
That’s a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it works out for ‘em.
“As Butler’s abstract describes it, those “faces” are “marginalization, powerlessness, and helplessness of those perceived as weaker individuals”
Well yeah, you first had to get rid of the dead weight losers, no?
What’s next, no more captains because it hurts the feelings of being picked last?*
I was always captain or picked in the top 2.
“Ha, ha! You get Willie!”
I’m Willie…
Don’t worry. Even Les Nessman made a key catch.
On the one hand, its tough to grow the job rolls when everyone who wants a job has one, on the other hand, I wonder how Tucker is gonna spin this for Trump.
I mean, CNBC already wrote the script for him. FTA:
mother. fucking. weather forecast said it wasn’t going to rain for another hour. MUH EXPECTATIONS!
A couple days late, but remember some history. Unfortunately, it happened before I was born, so I couldn’t attend.
“Worst ballpark promotion ever?” Disco Demolition Night would like a word with you.
Vasectomy Night
That’s actually awesome.
My balls are fine Ted, thanks for asking.
“As part of Father’s Day Weekend, Veeck, the president of the Class A Charleston (S.C.) RiverDogs, was planning to have a drawing for a free vasectomy.”
Seems similar to the experience I had at a Costa Rican futbol game.
This is my favorite line from the article.
Little known fact – one player experienced all three on-field riots at baseball games in the ’70s, Rusty Torres. They were 10 Cent Beer Night, Disco Demolition Night, and the last game of the Washington Senators in 1971, when fans tore the stadium and field up for souvenirs before the game even ended.
That 10 cent beer night was no laughing matter. I am surprised there were not double digit fatalities.
His Wikipedia page also makes you think of Jesus Quintana from the Big Lebowski. Eight year olds, dude.
Gary, IN was supposed to be the city of the future. My MIL has a pamphlet from Gary’s 50th anniversary (which was in 1950-something) that had an artist concept of Gary 50 years into the future. It had a skyline full of skyscrapers. Somebody sure got that one wrong.
Were there Zeppelins or flying cars or monorails?
Why would Led Zeppelin visit Gary, IN?
If the future was socialism, Gary, IN got it pretty much right.
The skyline of smokestacks on Cline Avenue looks pretty cool though. At least something is being produced besides paperwork.
Probably. I remember it looking like something from a Worlds Fair.
Obligatory…
https://youtu.be/z39WxjSW75A
Women Aren’t The Only People Who Get Abortions
“I felt very, very much alone,” Gutiérrez told HuffPost. “I didn’t have any frame of reference for what an abortion would be like, period. Not to mention what an abortion would be like as a nonbinary person.”
Although Gutiérrez went to Planned Parenthood, they were constantly misgendered and there was no option for preferred pronouns or name on the intake form.
“I got called ‘Miss’ and ‘Ma’am’ all the time,” they said. “And [the staff] was super sweet to me, but I was too terrified to really sit down and have a conversation and say, ‘Hey, my pronouns are this and my identity is this, could you stop doing that?’ I was too busy going, ‘Holy shit, I’m in a clinic and I don’t know what to expect.’” (Planned Parenthood now offers preferred pronouns and gender identity options on their intake forms.)
That experience left Gutiérrez feeling violated, shameful and, later, angry. “I feel like I always have to justify my existence and explain why I need to be treated like a human being,” they said.
Congratulations men, we can now have an opinion on this subject.
Why do I find it unsurprising that someone who is that self obsessed and mentally ill is getting an abortion?
The anti abortion crowd should hire them.
It’s a better outcome that someone that self-obsessed and mentally ill would have an abortion.
Yeah absolutely this. Best argument the pro-choice crowd could make here is “Do you really want to force THIS person to be a parent?”
Adoption ends in option.
I just made that up.
that’s pretty good
so it’s like Ab/Adsorbtion?
You can’t spell “Absorbtion” without “Abortion”!
Or, if you’re me, you just can’t spell Absorption
No dude, we’re supposed to celebrate all aspects of that train wreck. Don’t you know how to woke?
One word:
Adoption.
On more word: Genetics
One more word… Lithium.
Five more words if a pregnant woman is on lithium, especially around week 8:
“Ebstein anomaly of the heart”
Why couldn’t they be given two abortions?
[golf clap]
These poor snowflakes think they’re going to take over the world one day, and yet they curl up into a little ball of someone mis-pronouns them.
No, Huffpo, women really are the only people who get abortions. I promise. Now you can spend the time and energy you’ve been spending trying to pretend that a person with a vagina is a man because she decided to go by “Karl” on something more useful and fulfilling.
Yeah, I want to know why the left keeps whining about women only being paid 78 cents on the dollar, when anyone can just identify as a man and immediately get a 22% raise. That’s how it works, right?
That is effing brilliant. Unfortunately, I’ve already awarded the coveted GC for this thread.
This isn’t Sanders’ America (yet): there’s more than one type of applause you can award! The golf clap may be out of stock, but there’s still the slow clap, the standing ovation, the polite applause, and many more to choose from.
Now I want to know, does he think we need more than 1 or 2 genders?
You guys…
I disagree. There is a sperm donor out there somewhere that is a party to that abortion, however they have no right to get an abortion or not.
Well, they can’t get one in the sense that the medical procedure can’t be performed on them. That’s not where the baby is, is what I’m saying.
In reading the headline I thought there might a slight window that the article was about the anguish some guys feel when their wives/girlfriends elect to get an abortion. The window closed quickly.
#metoo
Arcosanti was the inspiration for “Oath of Fealty”.
It hasn’t been 30 minutes, but folks here have been following this.
Ex-Minneapolis officer Mohamed Noor sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison
http://www.startribune.com/ex-minneapolis-officer-mohamed-noor-sentenced-to-12-and-a-half-years-in-prison/510959572/
This cop shot an unarmed woman in her pajamas in the safest neighborhood in Minneapolis. He family sued the city which settled for $20 Million.
And of course the family of a guy who beat his girlfriend so bad she needed an ambulance to take her to the hospital, fought the EMTs, and then wrestled with cops taking one to the ground and trying to unholster the cop’s gun and of course got shot to death says it’s no different and they should get $20 million too. And of course racism.
It’s Friday, and anarchy runs rampant through the links!
I hope they take part of that 20M and take out a contract on that piece of shit. Get him shanked in the shower. With a glass shank. That breaks off in his kidney.
Your typical prison shank is a razorblade, as in one of the really thin blades from a disposable razor cartridge, melted onto the barrel of a ballpoint pen. A proper shanking that results in death requires several people stabbing someone for a minute or more.
They really, really control access to anything which can be used as a weapon, especially metal. Suspect they have gone glass-free wrt beverage containers. They went to concrete bunks in some places to prevent people turning cot/mattress springs into weapons.
Go ahead, smash my dream.
I’ve heard this is actually a thing:
https://lifehacker.com/make-a-blade-out-of-discarded-cigarette-filters-1783373298
Keep the dream alive Suthen.
Most correctional institutions have long been tobacco-free for both inmates and (on-duty) staff. Lighters were a nightmare for the CO’s. Inmates would try to start fires, etc.
Tonio is our resident prison survival guide guru.
Wait… Tonio is Scruffy!
It’s TRUE! You’re all Tulpa!
Sorry, bro.
The office daily mail pouch, which we were all expected to review, used to contain a number of very interesting DOJ publications including one from BOP. I learned a lot about their efforts to improve safety for inmates, staff and visitors.
I’ve never been inside a jail or prison despite a number of oppos to visit FCI Petersburg. I was tempted, but always declined because I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to resist asking to see the Marion Barry Visitation Room.
Unless of course you mean that one time where I had to pickup my then-girlfriend from a county jail after she got arrested for DUI and bailed herself out the next morning.
This cop shot an unarmed woman in her pajamas
What the cop was doing wearing her pajamas we’ll never know.
Say the magic woid and the duck will fly down….
Nah. He’ll just shill for Lizzie instead.
As I said yesterday evening, he wants a candidate with Lizzie’s economics who’s also a socon, which is my worst nightmare.
“he wants a candidate with Lizzie’s economics”
WTF?
“The economy is actually not bad for most people. We can’t have that! We must do something to start a slow, grinding contraction of the economy that will lead to a catastrophic collapse.
Looks Lizzy Warren’s got what we need!”
Sounds like Tucker’s last incredulous stroke face performance may have been an actual stroke.
He’s really lost me as of late.
its tough to grow the job rolls when everyone who wants a job has one
My internet is out, so I can’t look it up, but it seems to me that we should be paying attention to the labor participation rate at this point. Unemployment is low, wages are up, so participation should be increasing.
We’re going to have to stop paying them to not work for that to happen.
If the man (or whatever) makes enough, the woman (or whatever) can stay home with the kids.
With a strong labor market, labor participation **can** go down.
Although, in general, I think it is the better stat.
Not necessarily. A very large generation is reaching retirement and death age.
OK, the internet is back up. Here’s the chart for 25-54 years old. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01300060
Interestingly the rate declined for nearly all of Obama’s presidency and only turned back up in 2016.
Trump made me get a job! Corrupt motherfucker!
I looked at labor participation in depth about six months ago. The fastest growing non-participating sectors are men over 75 and women over 60. All ethnicities are at historic lows for men 28-50. Most of the LFPR decline is aging. So unemployment rate is a fine model for labor participation among working age adults right now.
At or near historic lows.
Makes total sense, but thanks for actually looking at the numbers and confirming my intuition.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/north-texas-cops-caught-sharing-racist-facebook-posts/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Web%20Social&utm_content=northtexaspolice
The suicide watch one is funny.
Yeah, a lot of that is black humor. I don’t like cops one bit but people on a site that share rapesquatch jokes on a regular basis probably shouldn’t throw stones.
STEVE SMITH THROW BOULDERS AT HIKERS, THEN RAPE GREASY SPOT
AND BY THROW STONES MEANS
WHO JOKE? IS ACCURATE!
The thug photo one is fairly true too. Can’t have any of that.
I mean, I’m not sure this says good things about me but among maybe half of my friends that’s pretty much what they use modern communications for; edgy shit-talking and irony. And the ex-military guys all love a good shooting Arab Muslims meme, it seems.
No, not all of us do.
I rather disliked the killing I had to do.
I’m sorry you experienced that. Your distaste for the necessary is admirable.
If all DAs and soldiers were like Swiss, we’d be in a kinder and more peaceful world, with far fewer humans in cages and flag-draped coffins.
Thanks for better expressing what I was trying to figure out how to write.
I was not shocked and I laughed at a few. That would normally make me a bad person, but I’m already white, male, and straight, so I don’t think I can get any worse.
facebook pic vs media pic
Heh…
https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/19-democratic-presidential-candidates-set-to-take-the-stage-in-cedar-rapids-sunday
19 Democratic presidential candidates set to take the stage in Cedar Rapids Sunday
Fuck me.
It’s too bloody soon for these fuckers to come here.
Thankfully there’s only time for each of them to talk for 40 seconds.
I don’t think I’ll be watching unless it has Hunger Games / Battle Royale rules.
Or the Joker technique:
Break a pool cue, throw it on the floor, and tell them the one that comes out of the debate gets the nomination.
We just need 4 more candidates.
But nobody needs…heeeyyyy…
5. It’s up to 24 now
Meh, that won’t last until the convention. You’ve got maybe five serious candidates, at least two of whom would happily accept the veep slot. You’ve got another tier of candidates who are running for the exposure. And another who are just running to try to influence the platform at the convention (my delegates will vote for you if you promise).
You know, I’ve got an idea for the next Saw movie…
It may be time to watch the Cedar Rapids movie again in honor of this event.
The movie wasn’t half-bad, and it does feature Anne Heche looking pretty good while completely nekkid.
Repeating from this morning because I’m still convinced Swiss ordered the code red.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/video/4099910-man-who-hit-and-killed-a-family-of-geese-says-his-brakes-were-malfunctioning/
That’s an easily falsifiable claim. He should have said he was having vision problems. “I just couldn’t see not driving over those geese.”
English car, blame the electrical system. ABS failed.
Own it, Oscar.
“Yeah, I killed the hate birds. I was just doing what everyone to do. Fucking hate birds. Put me in front of a jury, and they’ll give me a goddam medal, and you know it.”
He should have said he was having vision problems.
He should have plead self-defense. I’d vote to acquit.
Who the hell cares? That’s like running over an anthill – nothing of any value was damaged (except maybe his car) – and the local population of those pests didn’t drop by 1%.
I was behind a farmer in a pick-up who sped up to take out of whole line of those corn-eating flying rats. I laughed my ass off as feathers flew in all directions.
Fuck, at one of the offices I worked at, they had a pond, which then meant we had the fucking hate birds. The hate birds do have some low animal cunning on how to most piss people off. If you slowed your car down (or worse, stopped for them), they would take their damned sweet time waddling across the street in front of you. If you didn’t even touch your brakes, they would move much faster.
So just like driving in Philadelphia
My office complex is loaded with ponds and lakes and parking lots. Plenty of ducks and swans but no hatebirds.
They landscaped it with enough trees and every section of grass has a steep enough slope that the preferred take off and landing grounds for hatebirds don’t exist there. The golf course a mile away has dozens of them.
Also the parking lots have no islands which they like to use for nesting.
I go jogging by the river sometimes, and there are always geese pooping all over the path and hissing at me as I pass by. They’ve moved out of the way every time, but I’m always prepared for the possibility that one of them will attack and I’ll have to karate chop it’s neck or something.
The driver was revealed today to be Bernie Sanders. Witnesses say he accelerated and swerved in order to hit the geese, while yelling, “No one needs 23 ganders!”
23 different ganders. It’d be acceptable if the flock were all clones.
Sanders’ Ganders?
definitely better than Bernie’s Hatebirds
Who…me?!
*whistles tunelessly*
Are we supposed to care about Canada geese now? Did I miss their apology for downing Captain Sully’s plane?
Looks like an act of war against Canada.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7116577/Demi-Rose-flaunts-pert-derri-black-thong-receives-cellulite-treatment.html
Fat.
Count Potato really wants to be the new John.
Swiss speaking truth to cellulite.
Why would anyone want bespoke cellulite?
Smoother cycling.
My main aversion is the dailymail.co.uk.
Ambivalent towards Demi. I’ve done much worse.
She’s actually pretty sexy for my tastes, but for fuck’s sake, link to someone else already.
*psst* don’t tell anybody, but Demi Rose is actually Count Potato in drag
Hey Scruffy and Festus and everybody who helped last weekend. Thanks for your help on the leaf blower! Turns out that last weekend’s attempt at cleaning out the jets was successful , and it’s mostly back to normal (air filter is soaked in fuel, so I had to give it a bit extra throttle to start). In my haste to beat the thunderstorms last weekend, I installed the bottom plate of the carb upside down. It fired right up and throttled up fine when I flipped it back the right way.
This is their top story:
“Shameful moment Florida TV anchor, 28, makes fun of white officer’s baldness and boasts about her master’s degree as she is arrested for drunk driving
Embarrassing moment Florida TV anchor, 28, makes fun of white officer’s baldness and boasts about her master’s degree as she is arrested for drunk driving while claiming it’s racially motivated”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7103717/Black-anchorwoman-mocks-police-arrested-DUI-claims-racially-motivation.html
“the Office of the State Attorney — the same agency that’s prosecuting New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft for prostitution — declined to prosecute her”
Some animals are more equal than others.
I’ve never visited their home page before – what a garbage-fire.
Pulled over for ye olde tail light violation. *eyeroll*
Obvious cut n paste descriptions (“odor of impurities of alcohol”? Seriously?).
No breathalyzer or blood test.
Yeah, I would have dropped the charges, too.
How, exactly, is Uber supposed to enforce that policy?
To be fair, that guy is extremely funny looking.
Just scrolled to the bottom for this gem:
The anchorwoman was in the car with her fiancee Colleen (pictured) at the time of her arrest
Its pretty remarkable how quickly gay marriage got normalized.
But if it were a straight marriage they’d have a half-irish half-black kid who is too drunk to sell drugs.
Not to mention miscegenation. I can’t keep up any more.
“‘Uber took my daughter past the point of no return’: Florida girl, 12, committed suicide by ordering a car from the ride service app and driving 20 miles to an Orlando parking garage where she jumped off the roof
Benita ‘BB’ Diamond was 12-years-old when one night in January 2019, she ordered an Uber car, made her way to a parking garage in Orlando and jumped from the roof to her death.
Now, Benita’s parents, Lisha Chen and Ronald Diamond, are threatening legal action against Uber and demanding that all ride-sharing services strictly enforce policies barring drivers from transporting unaccompanied minors.
Benita’s family, accompanied by their attorney, Laura Douglas, and surrounded by blown-up portraits of their late daughter, staged a press conference in the Orlando suburb of Lake Nona to issue a call to action.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7116767/Girl-12-used-Uber-commit-suicide-travelling-jump-building.html
But what if they use a van?
Sad for them, but had she ridden her bike, would they have blamed the bike manufacturer? Or the city for building the sidewalks?
Yes.
You know darn well the city is likely immune. However, the parking garage owner on the other hand…
Parents of dead children are not the most rational creatures on the planet.
This. I blame them less than I blame whoever is shoving a microphone in front of their faces.
They had a press conference.
Next, some little girl will die because she COULDN’T take an Uber to get home, and then those parents will sue.
I see you’ve played this game before.
There goes her customer rating.
LOL ?⚡️
★★★★★
In all seriousness that is a rather young age for suicide.
It is a rather young age for a successful suicide attempt. Statistically, males tend to be more successful at suicide, choosing methods such as shooting and hanging; females tend to be less successful and choose methods such as cutting or drug/alcohol overdoses which can be remediated if they, or someone else, calls 911. Statistically.
I had a friend of a friend who tried to off herself 3 months go (and was ultimately successful after a week on life support).
She chained weights to her ankles and jumped in the pool. I’d much rather have a bullet to the head.
yeah… drowning is vanishingly low on my “ways to die” list. Would prefer a big chase and a bottle of nitrous /duh
I mean…. imagine changing your mind… whoops.
There was a scene in the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World where one of the junior officers, who was picked on a lot by others of the crew, walks to the edge of the ship one evening, turns to several people on the deck (who weren’t his tormentors and who can see that he’s carrying a cannonball) and says to them “You’ve all been very kind to me” or somesuch, and then he jumps over the side.
I figure with the extra weight, he’d descend so rapidly that he might get to a crush depth before he drowned. In any event, he certainly made sure that after the first couple of seconds that he couldn’t change his mind.
Well, if you want to leave no evidence, deep-sea drowning is pretty much one of the only ways to do it.
Though you could always use some sort of timer to scuttle your boat and take enough drugs to be unconscious/dead before the drowning occurred.
Now, Benita’s parents, Lisha Chen and Ronald Diamond, are threatening legal action against Uber and demanding that all ride-sharing services strictly enforce policies barring drivers from transporting unaccompanied minors.
The article says that Uber already has such a policy. I don’t see how you could strictly enforce it, since it’s not like policies are magic and it’s not like there’s an Uber exec breathing down the neck of every contractor at every moment. So I don’t see how this will accomplish anything.
It’s not intended to accomplish anything except line the pockets of Lisha Chen, Ronald Diamond, and their lawyers.
One might question why a twelve year old felt compelled to kill herself.
Age of Trump and all that.
“One might question why a twelve year old felt compelled to kill herself.”
^This^
There is more to this story
Yup. And if I was Uber’s lawyer, we would go into her family life in great detail during discovery, hopefully until the parents dropped the case.
“Your honor, we need to determine the allocation of liability, and thus responsibility, for this tragic event. A jury is entitled to weigh all the evidence that might cast light on how this came to pass. Now, if the plaintiffs want to argue that someone who commits a wrongful act is solely responsible for the consequences of that act [insert usual citations here], we will agree wholeheartedly and move to dismiss.”
One might question why a twelve year old felt compelled to kill herself.
One might also question whether the parents of a twelve year old who ordered and got into an Uber was properly supervised by her parents, or whether they are guilty of child neglect.
Aaargh.
One might also question whether
the parents ofa twelve year old who ordered and got into an Uber was properly supervised by her parents, or whether they are guilty of child neglect.One might question why a twelve year old felt compelled to kill herself.
I would definitely inquire on the home life.
The dictionary must be changed in order to be more woke
OFFS!
I’ve arrived in New York, but not back at my house yet. I’m going to visit non-glib people while I’m passing through.
I have remembered why I love having a washer and dryer in my house, since I had miscalculated and needed to at least wash a few shirts to make it through the tail end of the trip.
Anyway, I’m surprised how many of you put up with me in real life, and it was wonderful to meet everyone I did.
Yikes – stay safe!
Snark or mock indignation? … choices, choices.
I’m pleased to learn you didn’t end up in a pit with one of the Glibs planning to wear your skin as a suit.
Progress!
Related, a surprisingly good song.
I’m sure they took one look at me and went “Ugh, I don’t want to look like that” and gave up on the plan.
Next Trip. See You Soon, UCS!
Which corner of the world are you in?
So what is Steve Smith really like?
Like most state workers in IT.
/really does know a Steve Smith.
a Steve Smith
There’s more than one?
*locks self in office*
Please remain seated.
STEVE SMITH FIND HOLE TO RAPE NO MATTER WHAT POSITION YOU IN
It was nice to meet you, too.
What did you think of flyover country?
I don’t do much flying, however much that will disappoint your employers.
Glad you’re almost home. It was fun to meet you. I hope you drive 1500 miles and say “hi” again, soon.
Won’t be for a while, I have to save up vacation days again, save up money again, and so on.
Glad to have made this Cleveland visit better then your last one (I hope…)
It was less expensive, and no one lost my car keys on me.
I think I speak for some of the others (probably all) when I say it was a pleasure to meet you in person. Meeting other glibs and sharing a little of their personal life
puts a real life perspective on what we do every day to try to get along with one another in this world.
You are welcome to come back any time, UCS, preferably around the Honey Harvest when the bees really get pissed.. Thanks for visiting…
Thank you and you’re welcome.
It was great to have you. Next time you come up, we’ll get poutine!
You are only a half hour away from my normal haunts (outside of rush hour), so it’s easier to drop in on you than on MikeS
What’s 3000 round-trip miles among friends, UCS?
an oil change and 6-7 tanks of gas.
We were talking about poutine. He apparently has become a bit of a connoisseur of the dish.
No joke, the best I’ve found comes from this place downtown here.
Although Montreal had the best gelato I’ve yet eaten.
We’ll have to see, because the Carnivore set a pretty high bar.
Haven’t had them, but the fries at Ravenous are extremely close to perfect. I usually put short rib on them, but they also have Montreal Smoked Meat. Gravy will of course be a personal matter as to which you like best.
By “them” I mean I haven’t had Carnivore. Obviously I’ve had the poutine at Ravenous.
Well, I’m not surprised, the place that made the carnivore only had a single location – in Thunder Bay.
Well damn. I would have suggested Banter instead of allowing him to pick Melt.
These car tech gadgets are getting a little too involved. The gas light came on my screen and it asked if I wanted to see nearby gas stations.
Jesus, what’s next? Michelle coming out with an angry look telling me to eat my turnips? Barry telling me a lie of the day?
“Our seat technology reveals you are getting a fever. Please stop a nearby pharmacy for some Tylenol.’
“You seem tense, Rufus….would you like a hand job, Rufus?….Rufus?”
Some of those don’t sound so bad.
I’m not getting into a car that gives Rufus hand jobs.
Why? It cleans up.
This is why you don’t want cloth seats. Leather is much easier to clean.
Just make sure the auto pilot doesn’t deflate.
https://youtu.be/_WQfZYacEAw
That’s what Winston’s mom is for.
Just don’t by the Subaru Steve Smith Edition.
“Subaru Steve Smith Edition.”
I don’t even want to know what the seat fabric is.
Human skin
Lesbian fur?
Better
INT. Car. Rufus driving along whistling to the theme of ‘Greatest American Hero’. Michelle’s angered scolding comes on. Rufus lets out Homer scream. Crashes car.
“Some of those don’t sound so bad.”
A hand job means something different to puppets.
But we don’t know that Rufus is a puppet. He presents himself as a puppet, but he also presents himself as “Monocled” when his avatar most distinctly is not. Who knows what to believe.
HE IDENTIFIES AS A PUPPET AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS, SHITLORD!!!11!!
I may not even have a cock too!
How does the car know?
I’m starting to feel bad for the car. This is all so confusing.
What if it just tickled your nuts a little?
Tee-hee!
/adjusts Richie Rich bow tie.
My car lights up with a yellow gas can as soon as I hit a quarter tank / 50 mile range. It’s a little annoying – 25 miles I could understand, but 50?
Wait, a quarter of your tank is only 50 miles?
No wonder you have to keep raiding settlements for fuel.
I average 15 to 16mpg. And this with a V6! The engine hit’s it’s best power band (and sound) on top of the RPMs, so I’m revvin’ the engine high a lot.
*in the city
When you live from day to day?
Being a contrarian is one thing, but putting that ear worm in my head is just unforgivable.
Hell, the Mini gives me a warning at the 80 mile range.
Beautiful song man.
Not sure if linked already, but Town Jury Doesn’t like Gown codescention.
I guess my $45 will go towards fending off the college’s appeals.
Reverse nut-punch – thank you.
I’ve been on a Invicta video kick lately. Sometimes it’s nice to steer away from the big battles and famous historical events and learn new things about the day to day battles of surviving in antiquity.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4-l_EbXE3LU
Kings & Generals.
I’m not responsible if you forget to take the wife out for dinner because you got hooked on the channel.
Or am I?
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.
YESSS!!!!
*fist pump*
That’s how you Iron Law, people.
Oh, yeah. I stumbled upon them about a year ago. Great stuff. They just released the Boudica/Watling Street battle.
Good news, everyone! Vox and the union have reached an agreement! You’re no longer a scab when you go to a Vox media site!
Well, that’s unfortunate.
Oh, well.
I thought today’s right-leaning scab linking was hilarious.
Good. I can go back to ignoring them.
For the first time ever…
You can golf and ski at Mammoth at the same time.
Nice. I think many years ago there was a ski and sail day at Squaw and Tahoe on the 4th of July.
Technically not at the same time, ie simultaneously, but certainly sequentially on the same day.
I’m going to prove you wrong or Sonny Bono trying.
+1 Michael Schumacher
+1 Michael LeMoyne Kennedy
You’re going to threaten to expose drug and weapon dealers and get clubbed to death?
You’re no longer a scab when you go to a Vox media site!
Well, that takes all the fun out of it.
Maybe we should have a Glibs’ strike so we can continue crossing the picket lines. Any volunteers for union boss? It’s an easy job.
Come to think of it, I haven’t seen STEVE SMITH or SEA SMITH post anything in a while, maybe there’s already a strike going on.
STEVE SMITH WANT BETTER 401K MATCHING
They’re still licking their wounds after the failed Cryptids Coup a few months ago. They’ll return. They always do.
(Pssst, meetup at the JsubD Memorial at Midnight. The password is “Postrel.”)
I’m having visions of the writers coming out from behind their barricades singing The Internationale and basking in the feeling that they just took down the Romanov Dynasty.
I wish them all a happy bankruptcy free of finger-pointing.
I’m going to prison tomorrow! Just to visit.
I knew a guy who got busted for counterfeiting $20 bills. Not an especially bright guy. He wound up in a federal minimum security prison in California, right next door to Edwards Air Force Base. He was kind of a celebrity there, since he was one of the few people not in for dope dealing.
I went to visit him, once, when I was out there visiting my brother. It was a very weird experience.
What was your brother in for?
kinnath:
Looks like mead is going mainstream.
Well, there goes the mead market.
That large beverage conglom [hisses] does make good product when they so choose. My problem is how they treated the *real* Budweiser brewery.
Devil’s Backbone was acquired. I will never argue with the technical abilities of the brewers, I just chose to spend my money elsewhere.
Maybe we should have a Glibs’ strike so we can continue crossing the picket lines. Any volunteers for union boss? It’s an easy job.
Based on my experience as a scab, the picketers all stand around on the sidewalk, shooting the shit and drinking Miller tall boys out of brown paper bags. Not exactly grueling.
So it’s like their regular jobs then.
Based on my experience as a scab, the picketers
Are these the ones that picked the scabs?
There’s an old joke about “Sandpaper Sally” and picked scabs I’ll save for later night posting, when some of the more delicate folks here have already gone to bed.
I went in the backyard to chuck the frisbee around; trying to get the dog interested. Breeze was such that I could tell my next door neighbor was tokin’ away. I still can’t believe it’s legal here. At least that’s one thing that I can say positive about this state.
However EF found that getting seeds and/or plants is difficult – can only be sales from licensed grower to grower. Having a grower sell a plant to me would be technically illegal. So it’s _almost_ like they’re trying to keep production to a minimum and/or force people to buy from a select group. Which will, of course, create a black market.
One person who I spoke to this past weekend who is in a jurisdiction that is currently in the process of legalizing and makes his living that product, expects that his income will go up once legalization comes. Less threat of arrest and such, which will lower the black market prices.
How can you tell state approve grown weed from black market? Seems impossible
Black market weed arrives on time, under budget and higher quality. The state weed requires another round of tax hikes, subsidies and studies into why the black market still exists.
well played
‘Which will, of course, create a black market.’
Already happing. My ‘guy’ grows his own for fun by buying seeds from the back door of a dispensary. It’s been going on for years.
U.S.S. Nevada
Dodgeball is Tool of OPPRESSION
~~~EDIT Fairy flits by~~~
So is HTML.
That’s why I don’t even try…to fight the patriarchy…yeah, let’s go with that.
https://youtu.be/dzV-Xli-dLM
She doesn’t understand dodgeball. That is easy to fix.
A quick game of dodge bowling ball should get her up to speed.
At our “team building” event, most people left early. That left us with four lanes and three guys. I’ve never seen people bowl themselves out of breath by constantly throwing balls downlane before.
Much appreciated. I’ll post my own sexy pic.
A Tinkerbell/Princess Leia mashup? I’m so . . . actually, I’m not confused at all right now.
Looked more like a Tinkerbell/Winston’s mom mashup.
Canada’s “garbage ship”: The dirty truth Trudeau won’t tell
Hmm, EFL adopts “Rooney Rule”: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48555148
There’s an interesting twist here: BBC notes there are four BAME managers in the top four divisions of English football. However, one of them is Portuguese and one Tunisian. So, the rule doesn’t seem to guarantee that English minorities will be hired.
It doesn’t have to do with stamping on your opponent’s private parts?
OFFS.
PS. The “spy” rule is bullshit too. You want privacy? Train indoors and lock the door.
I was wondering what a pasty-white yob from Liverpool had to do with this….
https://twitter.com/VSPINK/status/1135916793183100931
Is that a gay dog?
“YT coworker legit just came up and put both her hands in my Afro ? like I’m too high rn to give a fuck besides tweet the experience.”
Happens to me all the time.
No idea what VSPINK is but the eating-their-own in the comments is slightly amusing.
Victoria’s Secret “Pink” label is aimed towards college age/younger gals.
Yes! Spit in the face of anyone who supports you. That’s a winning strategy.
I expect nothing less from Twitter. You’d think companies would have figured out by now who are the only sorts of people that respond to this stuff.
That’s what struck me, those comments are vicious.
Re: the navy clip….discretion is the better part of valor. Unfortunately you can’t tell from the clips/pics posted, but they were supposed to be recovering their helo which would have been indicated by shapes on the mast as well as a flag (Hotel….I should still remember) – indicating “restricted maneuvering” for legal purposes. If that was true, Russkies were definitely in the wrong.
It might be. There’s an Action Pistol Tournament at the club across the street from me. I’m planning on spectating.
Action. Seven rounds at a time.
http://www.kayaderossfishgame.org/action-pistol-stages.html
The second stage is dump three mags of six as fast as you can.
I have a 110 rd mag for my 10/22 on the way. ?