The Lost Company 2
Captain Obvious
āSorry, Captain, but we are hopelessly lost.ā
āNo, we arenāt, Sergeant. Weāre in Europe.ā
I got the trees, can you tell? it was so much fun placing them and trying to randomize them, it just got nicer and nicer.
But then I noticed the trees were a little too green, so I got some Hauser Dark Green and dry brushed the trees a bit.
The Germans achieved a total surprise attack on the morning of 16 December 1944, due to a combination of Allied overconfidence, preoccupation with Allied offensive plans, and poor aerial reconnaissance. American forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties of any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany’s armored forces, and they were largely unable to replace them.
The U.S. forces however, got lost, ran out of gas, mostly due to Montyās adventures in Belgium, and someone back home forgot that Europe has winters, and men get cold.Ā
Hereās a short gallery.
Until next time: Open thread!
NĆ¼sse!
I have zero patience and ability to deal with that level of detail. Well done.
1/300th scale, 1/4″ men, never again (maybe)
And thanks Ted!
For those who didn’t get the reference, I had this scene in mind.
Ahh, and so it was, Colonel Cink told me so…….
I only can soldering.
SMDs by soldering iron is pretty tedious as well……..
SMD is for robots. I avoid it as much as possible.
the first time I did one, I had know clue about hot air, or even what SMD meant, fun times with irons…..
I remember when they first came out some guys were trying to use blow dryers.
You just need a reflow oven. theyāre portable. Or a nearby little Cesarās
Soldering beats soldiering.
I don’t see a single pine cone. ?
I did laugh…….
“Koch Brothers Team Up With George Soros, Patreon and Airbnb to Fight Online Extremism
The Koch Brothers are teaming up with tech companies, universities and other fellow billionaires to combat online extremism.
On July 17, the After Charlottesville Project will host its second summit in San Francisco, California. Founded in the aftermath of the deadly 2017 white supremacist attacks in Virginia, the conference brings together political and business leaders to discuss solutions for curbing political terrorism. While last yearās gathering in Missouri involved grassroots and city response initiatives, the focus of this yearās summit will involve the āprivate tech sectorā and ābest practices on the fight against hate and extremism online,ā according to the eventās press release.
Representatives for the Charles Koch Institute and the Anti-Defamation League will join executives from tech companies which currently include Eventbrite, Mozilla, Pinterest, Patreon and Airbnb.
āNow more than ever is the time to create communities that value diversity, inclusivity and positive change,ā Michael Signer, the former mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia and the founder and chair of the Communities Overcoming Extremism Project, said in a statement. āWeāre excited to assemble with these forward-thinking tech leaders to explore what positive outcomes we can gain from an event full of powerful conversations.ā
This past year, tech companies have cracked down on online extremism, often with mixed success. Last week, Vox reporter Carlos Maza accused Googleās YouTube of enabling harassment on its platform by allowing conservative media star Steven Crowder to insult him as a ālispy queerā to his 3.8 million followers. The campaign resulted in YouTube deciding to demonetize Crowderās YouTube videos, though many progressive activists believed the company should have removed his page altogether.
The After Charlottesville Project is sponsored by Comcast NBCUniversal, the Kresge Foundation and the Soros Fund Charitable Foundation.”
https://observer.com/2019/06/koch-brothers-george-soros-patreon-airbnb-fight-online-extremism/
So much for the Koch brothers, woodchipper time………
/only an ironic statement, not to be taken seriously…
*pulls the emergency stop on the chipper *
Dammit! Thanks for the warning!
Fuck you Kochs.
Also why is that the businesses libertarians rejoiced at end up always deciding to crush them?
Interesting how liberals always end up being repressive in the end. We need to eliminate all the reactionaries in order to have a truly free society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
:
I was speaking of how liberal always end up using this reasoning to justify repression.
Well, it’s just the reasonable thing to do, what’s wrong with YOU?
/Proggie response
I always knew they weren’t against McCarthyism per se. They just didn’t like it applied to their commie friends.
Doing good ain’t got no end!
Interesting that the Kochs and Amash are effectively switching teams at the same time. Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Reminds of Just Say’n …erm saying that the greatest enemy of liberals are liberals themselves. Judging by the last 150 or so years this is 100% correct.
The fact that Herbert Spencer’s protegee was none other than Beatrice Webb says it all really…
Too much nonsense to unpack. Other than… gather enough blatant lies, obfucations, and billionaires both nefarious and naively credulous – and you get another ratchet away from liberty.
I hope they’re all proud of themselves.
It is the oldest ratchet of them all. In order to be free we have to eliminate those who do not support freedom. And since there will always be dissenters we will need to keep doing this forever. And those who wish to crush dissent will just support censorship and no other anti-freedom measures, right?
Even the original premise is based on the “Charlottesville White Supremacist Attacks”. Attacks? I remember a silly march where protesters greatly outnumbered the nazis, something of a rumble started by the anti-nazis on day 2, and then one terrible but isolated incident of a person hit by a car driven by a nazi, which may have been more panic than intentional. So, at best, one attack. But now, I guess history will show a coordinated set of brutal attacks by n enormous mob of supremacists, and only Pinterest can save us?
And Kochs, really, after years of everyone on the Left thinking you’re Satan, now you believe they’ll suddenly embrace you as the good guys?
SHHHH! Talk like that will stop the Koch checks that keep my Organic Troll Farm profitable!
Glad they didn’t point out that Maza was calling himself that before Crowder did. Well, at least, the “queer” part. I would find it difficult to believe that Maza never copped to the “lispy” part, considering how he labeled himself.
“Yesterday, the Arizona Daily Star published an op-ed by Pima County public defender Joel Feinman criticizing county attorneys for blocking criminal justice reform Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk called to complain, so the Daily Star deleted the op-ed”
https://twitter.com/megoconnor13/status/1138830547495428102
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-daily-star-caves-pressure-from-prosecutor-deletes-op-ed-11311098
https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1138599134317821957
What the fuck?
“This is not activism. This is BDSM.”
https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1138793921843212288
Holy fuck psychos.
Get to go back home tomorrow after a rough week of support (I didn’t even get a chance for a brewery visit). Then home for a week, and travel again.
/waves tiny flag
We just got to Socal after a week in San Jose, 8 hour drive has me beat down, and a messed up jobsite that took 4 extra days to fix, but it’s done,,
Hope things are going well for you man. At least my rough times are generally in an air conditioned office.
I’m usually in a Chipotle with sweet A/C nowadays, except for this last one, clusterfuck! but thanks for asking, the company and I have decided to put me on the road for a while across the Western States, Motels, per diem, etc. I can rack up some big hours and save cash for a house.
https://twitter.com/CarpeDonktum/status/1138904585882525696
honk honk!
That’s pretty good. I guess not 100% of Twitter is evil.
So those oil tankers. Oh dear A war with Iran is the last thing we need right now…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2019/06/13/ohio-jury-hits-oberlin-college-with-ferocious-and-illegal-punitive-damages/amp/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2019/06/12/the-11-million-dollar-libel-verdict-against-oberlin-college-is-a-threat-to-colleges-nationwide/#2a9864ba534b
Waaah, we cant defame people without consequence.
Your team lost. Sorry not sorry.
(that was addressed to the author of the article)
I ran across a saying at another site that pretty well sums up my feelings: lolgf
LOL girlfriend?
Umm… no? That would be a different sort of site, I think.
Sarah Mclachlan singing the Canadian National Anthem sounded exactly how you think it would.
Whiny and overwrought?
Drunken yodeling.
Too many A’s in her name.
Fuckin’ A!
Eh.
OK–this is how glibbing is done. Kudos to you both.
āHey Yusuf! Short cans up!ā
as long as it’s a can of Cobraaaaaaa……..
Sup DNT,
Cool pix with the article.
“āMen In Blackā Star Tessa Thompson Suggests A Woker Name: āHumans In Blackā”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/48339/men-black-star-tessa-thompson-suggests-woker-name-paul-bois
I don’t have listen to your humansplaining.
“Humans in Clothing of Color” – c’mon, go for broke, girl.
I would have said “Men in African-American”.
Still would.
With a vengeance.
“Men In Black” is supposed to be menacing.
From last post on Hong Kong:
I remember the heady days of 1997 when many people thought that Hong Kong would weaken the ChiComs and that Tiananmen Square was just the beginning. Oops.
Also what does this say about Western Imperialism? And yes I know that Hong Kong is pretty unique compared to most British Colonies…
“Western” companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook are more than happy tell sell the ChiComs the chains for their new slaves.
āThe Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.ā
“Free trade” with China was supposed to be transformative too.
It was.
That’s why they went apeshit in 1989.
Fair enough. It would be nice if people weren’t using the same argument for decades after that. China wasn’t even on my radar in 1989 – all the arguments I’m referring to came after.
Like everything, we have to separate John and Jane Wang from the Chinese government. All things being equal, though, free trade is more effective than sanctions in that when their bellies are full, they have the luxury to be disgruntled at their leadership and ambitious for more – whereas, when they are hungry, the government can always blame the gringo.
Time will tell. I hope you’re right. So far, the Party’s delicate balancing act of keeping power and smothering dissent has been wildly successful. I have a book or two in my reading list that dig deeper into the idea that it’s all ready to come tumbling down – need to make time.
Except the assumption is that would have spoken up by now rather than sheepishly letting Xi suppress Hong Kong and remove term limits.
How quickly we dismiss the advances they have made though. Change isn’t an upward line of progress, it’s fits and starts. There is no doubt that trade with China has brought more rights to the average Chinese citizen. Now may be a time of waning, but if trade does continues there shall be another waxing.
I don’t see what the Vietnamese have to do with anything.
Always fun to see someone being creative. Go Yusef!
Thanks Tulip!
I’ll give her points for honesty.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/denver-council-member-wins-with-promise-to-impose-communism-by-any-means-necessary/
And that my friends, is why I moved away from Denver.
Doom. Like, for real.
WTF?
4 in 10 Americans think socialism means puppies and rainbows. Even when folks like Miss CdeBaca (?!) tell them to their face what they are going to do to them.
Why are libertarians still stuck in the 19th Century? We saw how classical liberalism collapsed so why did we think that 1990s neoliberalism would not result in a return of socialism?
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_24/April_1884/The_Coming_Slavery
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_24/February_1884/The_New_Toryism
Spencer saw what happening in 1884…
Yeah–can anyone explain the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of that pronunciation.
/fuck, I still haven’t figured out ‘Latinx’
The origin of her name.
Thank you, Rhywun. I actually did laugh rather loudly at that.
/plans RickRoll for future post
I’m guessing they used some sort of quota sampling, be it proportional or nonproportional. As the sample is a non-probability sample, there is no way to calculate a confidence interval or the margin of error, or anything else that would allow us to comment on the generalizability of the sample to the greater population.
Well if it pushes the Overton Window left then that is all that matters…
If censorship is the last tool of tyrants, statistical illiteracy is the first.
If you believe the poll, then there is a demand. The question is if they have money to pay for the supply. Anyone for a for-profit startup to handle moving and travel to relocate “women between the ages of 18 and 54” living in the United States to that 45-story slumscraper in Venezuela?
See this the sort of stuff I am concerned about. Big urban areas are voting for open communists. This is literally the opposite of everything that classical liberals and libertarians said would happen.
I, along with everyone else, get that. What is your prescription? I recognize it too, but I think it’s hopeless. I think it’s just the natural state of government/humanity. Liberty is an aberration.
I honestly don’t know. That’s what I’ve been trying to figure out for the last while
My you are an optimist.
*Preps for Doomsday* /jk
Urban areas have been veering towards communism for > 100 years. I don’t know who’s been denying the obvious.
Rothbard, McCloskey, Jeff Tucker, Reason, Cato, etc…
The whole assumption that was urban areas being modern and high-tech and connected to global finance and trade and filled with immigrants, bohemians, homosexuals, ethnic restaurants, etc. and being cosmopolitan and being away from small town parochialism and hating Socons would obviously be libertarian.
That sounds like a Reason/Jeff Tucker/cosmotarian thing, not a libertarian or classical liberal thing per se.
In the New Toryism (which I linked up above) Spencer says something similar:
How’s that “having top men make your assumptions for you” working out?
I have known this was coming for decades. It ain’t hard. When ever you put a hall monitor badge on someone, they find more and more violations. Every complaint we have now was already present at least back to 80’s when I started noticing. They’re just worse now.
Well I never really believed those assumptions as I bring them up only to critique them and wonder why no one else seems to have realized it. I mean the warning signs have been around for a long time…
By ” no one else seems to have realized it” I am not saying that no one here realizes something similar but it seems most of the libertarian writers for the last 20 years that I have read have not realized it.
Ok, but I don’t see how country mice are so different than city mice.
I mean, which U.S. state has sent representatives to Congress from the DemocraticāFarmerāLabor Party for 75 years plus?
The issue is more that libertarians do not seem to have realized this despite plenty of evidence over the last century or so and that city mice might be even worse than city mice.
ermā¦ *city mice might be even worse than country mice.*
And yet, what do Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman, Paul Gottfried, Burton Bulmert, Walter Block, and Ayn Rand (in an honorary sense) have all in common?
Other than the obvious.
The problem is that despite this Brooklyn isn’t a bastion of libertarianism in New York City Council, the New York Legislature or Congress.
I mean despite Manchesterism Manchester isn’t exactly a modern libertarian bastion.
And I live in a city too. And all the people around me aren’t very libertarian.
Is there a bastion of libertarianism? That’s the point. It’s a bit essentialist for my tastes to boil chosen political/economic philosophy down to geography. By virtue of a greater population, you’re going to see cities have more socialists/communists, but NYC has also produced more libertarian luminaries than, say, East Cowtail, Iowa, for the same reason. In the U.S. context, along the same lines as your reasoning, I could make my case that rural populations seem inclined to socialism by pointing to the long and well-documented history of Mid-Western agrarian socialist movements, like the Greenback Party, Free Silver, Farmer-Labor Party, etc.. But I would wager that when looked proportionally, the percentage of libertarian/free market types versus the communitarian/command economy types would look similar to their urban counterparts.
I live in progland USA. There’s plenty of people who just live their lives and don’t get involved with politics. Most of them are way more freedom oriented than is reported. They just don’t care about politics. Hell, even if you count those who vote, we have a massive number of people here who are pro-liberty, they just don’t win on election day.
Personally my issue is that I think back in the 18th and 19th Century quite a few liberal writers got the mistaken assumption that urban areas would have a much larger proportions of liberals than rural areas or at least these larger proportions would be large enough to turn urban areas into liberal bastions and those liberal ideas would remain the same forever. Herbert Spencer did say write of something similar though he clearly realized that “liberalism” was transforming into something he hated.
Libertarian writers should know better but they don’t seem to because I guess it would contradictory their Whiggish theories of history and cosmo ideas.
I wouldn’t at all be surprised if that is the case…
I think the real issue is that those urbanites you speak of aren’t in the corporate, media, political or activist sphere since those are the ones driving the current zeitgeist. The fact that only those who want political power are the ones are who care is another issue.
As a resident of an unfashionable part of Brooklyn I know first-hand how many of us are not getting represented. Cuomo and Deblasio’s “[insert non-leftist position here] has no place in New York” bromides are loathsome demagoguery. Short of some sort of mandatory voting scheme that I would never support, I don’t how you get a truly accurate vote.
That’s kind of what I think of as the “wishful thinking” side of libertarianism. They tend to think that the benefits of liberty are so amazingly obvious that everybody will see it, given half a chance. You know, if you have free trade, everybody will see how awesome it is, and there will be no more wars, that kind of stuff.
The thing that really annoys me is that it was pretty obvious a 100 years ago that this approach was seriously flawed.
The fact that David Lloyd-George was an arch-Free Trader should have shown that this was wishful thinking.
Not to mention that much of the libertarian hatred of Trump is clearly based on his protectionist views since NAFTA was supposed to be the End of History.
Meh, we got like 5 of them on our city council and they do whatever they want. Sucks, but not the end of the world.
Meh, we got like 5 of them on our city council and they do whatever they want. Sucks, but not the end of the world.
Are you talking about Denver? Because that is about half of Denver City Council.
Los Angeles.
That is a third of LA city Council…
It’s hard to overstate the retardation of the L.A. city council. They are actively trying to turn us into a third world shithole.
too late, L.A. proper is, and the surrounding cities are right behind…….
Especially Manhattan Beach. I mean, look at the people who live there….
At any given time, google up the L.A. city council. They are just fucking dumb as rocks. They tax housing to fight homelessness for fuck’s sake. They are on a “road diet” kick. That means purposely blocking traffic lanes to slow down cars, IN LOS ANGELES!!! They can’t get any dumber (then, they always do.)
I wish they had followed through with Camelot.
I’m not sure what you are referring to here?
This, I think.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2002/06/13/the-road-to-camelot
“nevermind, it’s a silly place”
rekt
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/06/oberlin-college-hit-with-maximum-punitive-damages-capped-at-22-million-by-law-in-gibsons-bakery-case/
Good. Hope they have to raise tuition.
Hey Yusef:
Are you still living in a motel? Did you make this while living there?
Things ok otherwise?
Yes we are, yes I did, and things are OK, but traveling all the time sucks, thanks for asking, now gimme a Sweet Ginger Girl to lust after!
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/big-boobed-girls-11.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=499
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/4d19fa7a9f9bb10de0ef586cb196711a.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1b/c0/67/1bc0674901679a1cd5ef7c26bb013294.jpg
good, better, but She purty, TY Q!
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/1243180-11.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
Nice work.
HEY YUFUS!
Got me some tall cans! Sup Tres!
FUCKIN HIT THAT SHIT!
“The use of explosives in [Sweden] is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police.”
https://twitter.com/Quillette/status/1139276380301135891
That’s some graph.
Common sense Grenade Control!!!!!!
I read that as [expletives] at 1st
The tall cans are working.
Fuck that Shit all to God Damned Hell, Motherfucker!
And…. Christ on a jesus and Mary fucking Chain!
and, Pussy,
/Carlin
BREAKING: Everyone Has Completely Lost Their Mind
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1138937622460620800
https://quillette.com/2019/06/07/instagrams-diversity-wars-revisited/
Only if you Twitter……..
just walk away, to much pain………….
I can’t even with any of that. Utter madness. Funny how you look into this stuff and the root of it, every time, is “social media”.
I remember 10 years ago that social media was going to save us all from statism…
Yeah, it turns out most people are dicks. You really don’t want to know what they think.
Never ever apologize, especially when youāve done nothing wrong but you think an apology will make them call off the dogs. Iām sorry but thatās just the way it is.
Most important lesson I’ve learned over the last 3 years right here.
Yup. On the other hand, it wasn’t the pond that killed Narcissus.
I mean, technically it was all the handiwork of Nemesis, but you know what I mean.
I think there are two lessons here that nobody will learn.
First, just like the movie WarGames, the only way to win at social justice is not to play. You cannot even concede the terms of the debate, because the minute you acknowledge that there is such a thing as “white privilege” you have tacitly agreed to abandon ideas such as free will, human equality, the inherent dignity of the individual, logic, culpability, reason, you name it. You have agreed to play in a horribly bigoted sandbox of collective guilt and arbitrary punishment where justice has no meaning and concepts like fairness and justice are turned inside out. Again, there is no positive outcome from engaging in this madness.
The second is that social media isn’t an Enlightenment salon. Social media provides an outlet where people can say whatever they want absent any sort of immediate, traditional social repercussions or the innumerable hurdles and gateways normal human society establishes to prevent the verbal diarrhea of a twelve-year-old delinquent who got into the liquor cabinet from being given the same weight as the thoughtful discourse offered by an authority on a topic interested in furthering discussion or even the honest debate presented by a serious person in search of greater understanding. Social media isn’t what happens when you let everyone have a voice, it’s what happens when you let everyone think their opinion is worth something.
This needs to be expanded into an entire article.
I’ve been thinking of some ideas to pitch. Maybe this is the topic.
^Seconded. Especially considering how easy it is to unwittingly fail that first lesson.
Worse, social media has some sort of feedback mechanism that leads to ever-greater craziness such as the linked article. I shudder to think how much worse it’s going to get. I mean, for those who participate. Present company excepted š
The feedback mechanism is why you get the results you get. In this weird, artificial social environment people are rewarded for the kind of behavior that typically goes out of fashion some time around high school graduation. That’s not the problem, though. The problem is that social media has become such a big part of people’s lives that your status in that terrible, antisocial world carries through to the real world in a number of ways. For one, your social media status translates into real-world power, if mercifully limited still. For another thing, and I know this sounds like cane-shaking curmudgeonism, I think people become used to the sort of crass, consequence-free, casual hostility that social media at least fails to discourage if not promotes, and they apply those standards to person-to-person interactions. Hell, I think the argument can be made that if you look at most cable news what you’re seeing is the kind of inane stories that originated as a way for people to keep their names at the top of everyone’s timelines. In other words, it’s not the quality of the information so much as the frequency.
Yeah, the MSM is absolutely rotten now with content-free click-bait that was clearly practiced on social media first. It was inevitable, really.
The other part of this is the addiction that people have to getting “likes” on their posts. They start developing a following and then start catering to that following in order to get more like-minded people to “like” them. Then they start developing an orthodoxy within their following that is enforced by the “community”. Then, if they violate that orthodoxy, the “community” sacrifices them on whatever altar created around it. Free thought disappears. It’s sick cycle.
You will have to openly reject the SJW’s arguments and they will not like that…
Are you suggesting that we need gatekeepers back?
I’m definitely not arguing in favor of gatekeepers in the form of individuals or institutions that monitor content or license creators, if that’s what you mean. I don’t think this is a political or structural problem so much as a cultural problem, and as such it requires cultural solutions. I don’t know what how you get there, but I think I know what it looks like when you’re done. I think a healthy respect for authority tempered by a strong belief in the necessity of skepticism is important. Admiring people for challenging authority simply for its own sake is as silly as blindly following authority. Less infatuation with radicalism, rebellion, and extremism for their own sake’s would be a good start. I’m not necessarily arguing for social conservatism, but I am arguing against the sort of mindless rebellion of the Cultural Revolution that seems to be in vogue with the kids these days.
*When I say authority, I don’t necessarily mean it in the sense of structural authority so much as authority based in expertise, study, and experience.
Well, be prepared to have a bunch of mouth-breathing, precocious 16 year olds screech “Boomer” at you.
Boomer complaining about Mindless Rebellion? Oh the irony…
And before you say anything I have plenty of shit to say about the Boomer’s parents and their kids…
Hey, man, I was born in ’78. I’m the tail end of Gen X.
“For their own sake” maybe, but rebellion is almost always good. These people didn’t do a lot of rebelling against team blue, if I remember correctly. TDS is not rebelling. Rebelling is more like ignoring unjust laws and doing whats right not what’s legal. When I was a kid, rebelling was common and cool. It’s all but disappeared now. Hell even comedies were rebellious back then, now they just tow lions around.
That’s rebellion rather than nihilism, which is what I think a lot of this stuff really is.
Oh the irony. Rebelling is common? So rebellious. And bemoaning how Teh Yutes aren’t doing the same things you did as a kid…
There’s plenty of things one can rebel against. I’m specifically talking about government. Not so much societal mores or parents. It seemed that people commonly knew the government was full of shit. they did what they wanted and mocked politicians for being crooked and power mad. Doesn’t really seem “ironic” to me. If everyone rebels against a fashion trend, maybe, but not if they rebel against an inept and evil force wielding entity trying to prevent them from doing what comes naturally.
I think what you’re talking about in terms of rebellion stems from idealism, which I think is a tremendously positive thing.
When I was a kid in the 70s/80s, Congress was a laughingstock. Hell, even into the 90s.
I find the idea of “everyone used to rebel!” ironic since doing the same thing as everyone else is not rebellious. And rebelling is supposed to be not doing whatever your parents did when they were young.
The last great and successful social rebellion in this country was the “Disco Sucks” movement of the late 70s. Plus, it gave us punk and New Wave, for which I will always be grateful.
Yeah, a lot of disco sucked, but not all of it.
/considers playing some Giorgio Moroder
Hell, I’ll take Paul Jabara.
Well, some of his discography.
Well, I just jumped into Wikipedia to find out more on this. Never heard of it.
This is great.
Excellent work, Yusef! I like how you did the snow and terrain especially.
Thanks, I was pleased, the trees are store bought, my hand built trees are better but it still looks neato,
Oh yeah, it still looks great. Much love for the Battle of the Bulge.
Well, now we’re talking!
Found out there is a sequel to The Lost Skeleton of Cadavara. Thought it would be worth the $2 to rent it. Man was I wrong.
Ummm…I understood the part about flushing $2 down the crapper.
Oh, is that what you think of my Patreon?! *runs away crying*
There’s that CPRM magic!
BTW, the shirts are doing that ‘UPS-to-USPS’ crap, but are in my area. They could be here tomorrow, but, were listed by UPS as being here Saturday.
Bastards.
Sweet, let me know how they are. If the quality is poor I shall lash my orphans…more.
And, if you availed yourself to the short films on my other page, you’d get where I was coming from on this post.
Oh, I have–I was actually looking to see if you were in either, as I don’t recognize the name(s).
The shirts will almost certainly be top-notch. See, they use Gil-
Ooohhhh….you ARE a crafty one. You’ll just have to wait until I’m finished to see the article’s rough draft.
There is only so much you can do with making something deliberately terrible for laughs until it becomes just plain terrible.
I’m just hoping for another It Came From Hollywood. Not exactly sure who should be in it, though.
That wasn’t the problem. The problem was they tried to make it funny by writing jokes rather than by writing satire. I prefer the jokeless comedy.
Er what? *insert jibe at whatever comedian is unpopular on the internet*
Okay I think you mean that the older movie was funny because it was trying to be as much as a real terrible b-movie as possible for laughs. While the sequel is trying to be an actual comedy and you thought it failed.
I guess I was still sorta correct since there is only so much you can do with “a real terrible b-movie as possible for laughs” so they decided to do something different and failed in your mind.
Also a low budget inexperienced filmmaker trying to imitate a low budget inexperience filmmaker is a lot easier than trying to be a real comedic movie. The former plays to your strengths whereas trying to a be real movie requires being a real movie. Not to mention the terrible b-movie aesthetic don’t really work when trying to be a real movie since rather than be a charming throwback it is well incompetence.
I prefer comedy gags that land punches while not actually making a joke. Take Airplane for instance. This scene holds up to this day. But the pilot part much more so than the Kareem jokes. I prefer comedies where the Kareem jokes don’t exist and it’s all pilot jokes. If that helps you understand.
Hey, Yufus, what do you know about the change over to flammable refrigerants that is going on? Hat tip to Gustave.
Our last hvac training was centered on that. They went into how it’s accompanied by reductions in total refrigerant volume, which makes it more safe. Blah blah blah. We’re using r134 for the next forseeable-forever.
Congrats to the Raptors and the Blues for winning their franchise’s first championship. It’s always good to see the underdog victorious when I don’t have a vested interest in the teams.
As an aside for you younger folk who may have recently started throwing Curry’s name around as one of the best ever. They showed a stat right before Curry missed that three displaying he was 0/7 in his career from three in the playoffs when there’s 0:20 left in the game. That miss made him 0/8. He ain’t shit under pressure. Certainly not Jordan, Bird, Kobe, or even Lebron. Hell, he ain’t even Reggie Miller when it’s clutch time.
Huh, a squirrel ate my post.
I am not into BB and was unaware that this happened, but… I do hate GSW so cool.
Gun Shot Wounds are a good thing to hate.
Here’s what Reggie has to say about it.
To those wondering about “CdeBaca” from upthread: having grown up in NM, this is actually a relatively common surname in the four corners (especially Northern NM and Southern CO). It’s pronounced “See-Da-Baca” and is a shortening from “Cabeza de Baca” (cow head). It’s a holdover from the original Hispanos (y’know them Spain Spanish White Hispanics genocidal maniacs).
http://archive.li/P0oXa
NSFW.
https://tinyurl.com/y6q4pl6h
NSFW.
Your newsletter. I would like to subscribe to it.
Well, thank you for that. 18 years in LE, and I’ve encountered a lot of ‘Hispanic’ names, but, never that one.
Turning your name into something unpronounceable is not any kind of normal linguistic process I’ve ever come across. I suspect she enjoys having to train people how to pronounce it.
You don’t know enough people of Polish ancestry then.
Dude, I spent 8 years in Buffalo. Even without my linguistics background the basics of Polish would have seeped in anyway.
Ok, so phonetically spell Przybylski, mr. smarty.
Something like “P-zhuh-bil-ski”.
EHHHHHHHHH! Schubilskee, try again nest round.
Whatever you say, Mr. Przybylski.
Heh, my name is even easier than that, and people still fuck up the pronunciation.
::nods in solidarity::
People can really fuck up the most simple of names….
My name has six common letters in an unsurprising arrangement, derives from English, and people still fuck it up 50% of the time.
I see right through you, Hurwyn.
Not only with the last name, but I have one of those first names that can be shortened, and I personally go by the shortened one, spelled differently than the common short form. I don’t give a fuck, as long as I know the money is going into the right bank account and I know you’re talking to me.
Heh well-played.
And yet, People still call me ‘Bob’.
I hate people who do that after I’ve corrected them once.
Is that so, bob?
I’ve never liked strangers using the short form of my given name (which is actually my middle name). I’ve considered just getting over it and rolling with it. Or even using my first name, which I like even less.
For a while before I was on proper meds, I compulsively lied about my name. People would introduce themselves and I’d say ‘Hi, I’m Todd’ or ‘Hi I’m Jeff.’ I don’t know why, I mean it started out as a joke, but then it became compulsive.
Heh–my grandmother did this. It was my father’s name. And, it wasn’t his mother.
/RIP the both of ya
I don’t see him being wrong about her, though.
We have a woman where I work named Crde. Maybe Cr’de. I don’t know how it’s meant to be pronounced.
“Heeey……you!”
Hey you!!!
SAD. Expecting this.
I think it’s pronounced ‘Cravin the D’ (probably the dirtiest joke I’ve made here, I’m usually pretty tame, for this crowd any how)
But, not the dirtiest you’ve been….
That reminds me of the time I found out fog machines set off sprinkler systems… *trails off, a story I’m still not ready to tell* (making it sound cooler than it was)
(This being NM I expect it’s Cr(???) d'(???) but how you’re meant to fill in the blanks I have no idea.)
Why is Martha Stewart doing the post-game interviews?
Someone is paying her to?
It’s a good thing.
Heroes and Villains.
Peace out Glibs, been up way too long, too many miles, Enjoy!
Stay alive old man. No motel needs to have to deal with you dying in the room. Not unless the maid makes $15 an hour!
Nestled in that article about knitters with BPD there was a small but important shift of the goalposts. It was the first time I’ve seen “BIPOC” (black and indigenous people of color). It’s official; Asians are white.
I don’t know how many times I’ll be able to repeat this before getting banned by the powers that be, but “Beyond the Edge of the Map” is available to pre-order, and the paperback will be along soon.
I’ll post a link in the Mourning Lynx.
*Sends Positive Vibes* Cuz money is short.
I don’t see it on Amazon?
*reads fine print*
It can take 24 hours to be properly associated with my author page, etc.
So Here is a direct link
Oh! I think I met that guy!
*swoons*
Done.
Beyond the Edge of the Map (The Mapmaker Chronicles Book 4) by A. L. Tait
Don’t be silly.
If it were book 4 of something, I’d be shilling 1-3 too.
Shadowboy Book 4, hmmmm?
Well, yes, that’s Available too
And coming soon brain time travel stuff!
I haven’t even started writing that yet.
I already have that.
I’m not counting the short stories š
The new one is on your main page now, BTW.
Okay, well, here’s the start of “Shadow Five” (not the real title)
For the record, “New ERA” is not the main villains, but the opening scene is supposed to quickly bring readers up to speed on the narrator’s general heroing ability before slipping into the main plot.
Kewl
Idle question – do you see the identities of the people who buy your stuff? Doesn’t matter to me, just curious.
No. I get agregate statistics – number of units sold in what marketplace. No information on who my customers are.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Was at work so I couldnāt watch game 6 until now So, Klay went out, too? Toronto fans can be happy to win it all, but that Warrior team was not even a shell of the last few Warrior teams. The Raptors beat The Wobblers.
But Weebles don’t Wobble!
As long as they fall down.
Did you get it wrong on purpose like me, or are you more sinister?!
Look, with a single phillips head screwdriver, you can make the weeble stay down.
/someone who took the weights out
God, they were loads of fun. Miss my Weebles ::sniff::
Yes.
They do when you pop their Achilles.
+1 Carl Spangler
In the end it don’t matter. This is the game… I honestly did not expect the raptors to get past the bucks so in the end they did made the finals and won.
Normally, Iād agree. But, Iāve never seen a team get that rekt by injuries in a finals. Considering the difference btw a great team and an ok team is two players, it makes a big difference when you lose everybody but Steph and Green.
See, that’s the thing. I do believe Jordan in his PRIME, could have beat any team with schlubs filling the other slots, these other ‘GOATS’, not as believable.
The Bulls didnāt win it when Jordan was playing baseball. Steph was the best player on a loaded team before KD arrived. KD was the best player after he joined. No Klay, no KD, Iguodala hurt, Cousins hurt, Etc. No one should be comparing Steph to Jordan. Thatād be crazy unfair.
But done that they have. I hate sports writers.
āSteph isnāt a great as Jordan!ā Well, uh, yeah.
I vaguely remember him in some car (or tire?) commercial.
But I still see Shaq in ten times as many commercials. D’oh!
Gotta love Shaq teaming up with the cartoon military car insurance salesman. How the mighty have fallen, though I’m sure he’s sobbing all the way to the bank.
Icy hot!
Yeah–basketball (college and pro), actor, cop, and, (now) spokesman.
He’s been living the life
I think steph was more impactful to the team even after KD joined
The Warriors with KD were better than without him. Including Steph.
And the warriors with Steph are better than without him. So?
I clumsily was agreeing with you.
Well when golden state won first against Cleveland I remember both Love and Irving had injuries…
True. KD and Klay does not equal Kyrie and Kevin, though.
And when Cleveland won, Steph was injured and I think a couple others as well. Green was suspended a game too.
HAHAHA, like a team from Milwaukee, HAHAAHAHA, WIN, HAHAHA….I’m out of breath….
I was rooting for the bucks to win the title this year tbh
Don’t ever root for Milwaukee. That means you’re rooting for Wisconsin to be blue. Better dead than
Red BluePurple.Purple and green is a pretty awesome color combination, though, I’ll give the Bucks that.
You have some nice skills with these dioramas Yusef. Keep it up, buddy. And I hope work and living arrangements improve soon.
Alt right, tonight’s sleepy time doc, I’m guessing it has points I will disagree with, but sleep is a thing my body needs for stupid inefficient reasons.
Oh, you’re no fun anymore!
Listening to To Be Sure on Dave Smith.
https://gasdigitalnetwork.com/gdn-show-channels/part-of-the-problem/
Holy shit. I’m drunk. I’ve started typing some replies to some of yo then deleted them because…well…yeah.
Anyway. I love al of you. You are all my favorite.
Love for every Al here!
Well, I, for one, could use the love.
Thank you, Mike–love you, too š
Iād love to see the outtake blooper reel of deleted glib comments.
……….TOS?
/ducks, runs away
Who doesnāt love Al? Heās the man!
Wait, that good for nothing Al is here?
*loads shotgun*
Can I call you Betty?
When you only know one character a person does-one that becomes their ‘identity’ to the world-seeing them play another character can be quite shocking.
/That man is obviously more talented than I realized
I had the most horrifying dream of being covered in ticks and not being able to get them all off of me before they latched on.
*shudder+
Careful, Dream Lyme Disease is no joke.
I already got the real one. What’s the dream strain in comparison?
The other night, I had a dream I was replacing the muffler on my truck. Before that, I dreamt I needed a new tailpipe. When I told my therapist about it, she says “sound to me like you’re exhausted!”
/tip your waitress
“So I was telling my shrink, ‘Doc the other night I dreamed I was a tepee. The night before that I dreamed I was a wigwam.’ The doc told me, ‘You’re two tents!'”
Nice