Yes. That is what we have.
Grüezi mitenand. Your linkings are present. They will make Monday morning bearable. Or, you could just splash a good bit of whisky into your coffee and go with that. Either way, your choice. I rather imagine these links will be ignored faster than usual, as people will want to discuss events I am not linking. But I shan’t take offense…(*picks up notebook, pen and waits to take names down*).
- Why is this not Florida Doctor? New Jersey is horning in on Florida’s turf!
- Wanna see a real “rape culture“? It isn’t someone looking at you in a gym, dearie.
- How is that peace thing doing in Afghanistan? About what you would expect.
- Turkman despot shows us how to return from vacation.
Music will have to be supplied by you, the commentariat.
How is that peace thing doing in Afghanistan? About what you would expect.
Jesus fucking Christ – leave! The place is a shithole and isn’t going to become a functioning democracy, just leave with the warning that we will engage in a punitive expedition of massive proportions should they ever fuck with us again.
British expedition to Abyssinia 2: Electric Boogaloo?
The Brits burned down the royal palace, killed the crazy king, retrieved their hostages, and marched back to the sea in a few months. If only we could be so effective and efficient.
Well, Harry Flashman, veteran of Elphinstone’s Afghan debacle, was there to offer some pointers.
And bang exotic women along the way.
And guten morgen, Switzy.
Morning Switzy
The Swiss do not engage in such minor pleasantries
“You are late. Zis will not be tolerated.”
Let the robot speak for itself.
Robot?
*narrows gaze*
Why are there US/Taliban talks? Can FedGov not just pack up and leave?
Not until all the grifting has been done. Someone has to finance those terrorists to keep the wars coming.
So the US can pretend it came to an advantageous agreement withe enemy before it leaves and the enemy completely ignores said agreement. Pure theater.
Maybe Kissinger could pretend to negotiate with them in Paris?
Peace with honor – OK, done. When’s our flight?
I don’t want to be on your list.
Good morning!
That had better be Hall and Oates!
I can’t go for that.
You’re just out of touch.
Private eyes – are watching you ?
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1157894303848337409
I’m sure this has been posted but it’s just so sad. these people are just unwell. As self masturbatory as libertarians and anarchists can be at least they get bogged down in actual meaningless policy debates, these people can’t even agree on a common syntax before they get there.
Let’s hope they keep it that way.
That’d be funny if these weren’t the same type of people who are rising in power and popularity in a major political party.
That can’t be shared too often.
How do those people make it out of the house in the morning?
And just think, the current Turkmen despot is only about 10% as crazy as the old one, who went around naming months after his family members, writing a new religious book to correct mistakes in the Bible and the Koran, and creating new holidays.
Also his name pleasantly rolls off the tongue
Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov
Off course this is an obvious clone
You’re right, Kurbanguly is easy to say. Not sure how to pronounce the other name.
I think the name of my next dog might have to be “Kurbanguly”.
Wasn’t that the sequel to Ferngully?
It is now.
Meh, when Tim Curry’s sentient pollution didn’t return, I saw no point in watching.
*searches*
Holy… They did make a sequel, and it is missing Hexxus.
Of course his henchmen wear identical tracksuits. Also, bishlameck gorp-gorp.
“How is it the same word for ‘bread’ and ‘Friday’ and that damn dog?!”
Pictured, underling:
A friend of mine worked in the US Embassy there during the previous ruler’s reign. He said it was an illuminating experience into how much the West takes for granted.
118) (103 revised) Two more shootings, and obviously we need to ban guns. I mean, obviously guns are the problem here, not the people. These aren’t people who could use any tool at hand for mass murder—fertilizer bombs, a truck to run people down, poison gas. Nope, guns are the problem, mostly guns. No need to look at the people and consider their motivations.
And what is their motivation? Hate, right? Trump is encouraging them to hate with his hating hateful rhetoric. They just hate things, okay? Black people. Or immigrants. Or their fellow students. Or women. Or churchgoers. Hate! That’s it. That’s their sole motivation. Nothing else but hate, certainly not attention. No siree! Attention and publicity are not the motivators here! Just hate, stirred up by President Trump. Because if it were attention and publicity, that would mean the media would have some role to play in stopping the shootings. I mean, other than by showing how guns and hate are the problems.
Because if attention and publicity were really the problems, that would mean the media would have to take some commonsense steps to change the way they cover these things and stop glorifying the shooters. They would have to stop mentioning the shooters by name, and allowing the shooters to go down in history. They would have to quit with the endless repetition of body counts and types of weapons and ammunition, taking away the competition among shooters for highest body count. They would definitely have to stop showing imagery of the crime scene carnage, so the shooters could see their handiwork broadcast to millions across the nation.
See, if attention and publicity were really the problem, then a sample news report would be something like this: “Another shooting today, this time at a Certain Place in Anytown. The shooter is reported to be a twenty three-year old male, and several bystanders have been killed. We’ll follow-up with scenes from the funerals in coming days.”
Nope, definitely guns and hate. Because if the media replaced the sensationalistic coverage with straight-forward reporting, there is no way it would dry up the shootings within a few months. Not that they wouldn’t do it, though—after all, the only cost would be some loss of viewers and readers—and that wouldn’t be a problem for media companies, would it? No, because any number of restrictions on our freedom to bear arms would be worthwhile if it were to save even one life. So surely, if media attention and publicity had some tiny bit to do with the shootings, if headlines and endless footage and talking head-speculation and throwing the name of shooters and discussing their possible motivations in blanket coverage 24 hours a day had even an iota to do with the fact that they keep happening, the media would change their ways. Right?
I never bought the “shooters do it for the infamy” any more than “guns make people kill”, since most of them either don’t surrender, or shoot themselves, and never experience the infany.
The Walmart guy was stopped by a soldier with his own gun, wasn’t he?
I’m not sure about the details, I’m still in the “Wait for the wild guesses and chaff to clear” stage.
posthumous infamy is still infamy
I never said they were not infamous, but it just does not strike me as a prime, or even significant motivation.
It’s probably futile to try to reason out the motivations of the mentally disturbed.
^This. These people are, with few exceptions, fucking nuts.
I think you’re absolutely wrong here, UCS. PieintheSky has it. I think it’s worth it to them to die, knowing their names will live on after them.
I’m too lazy to DuckDuckGo, but pretty sure a few of them have written ahead of time that their plan was to die in the act but have their dumb manifesto live on and be taken seriously because of it.
Pretty much, yes. They want to be remembered in a way they wouldn’t have been without the infamy.
But if gunz are not the problem why is the US the only country where this happens regularly huh?
Akshully, the US is not the only country where this happens.
But I’m sure you already knew that.
that is why I said regularly . In the US it is an usual even. In other places it is quite rare
The US also has a population in excess of 330 million, so obviously more lunatics as well.
But what is the number of mass shootings per capita?
keeping in mind per capita numbers are racist, off course
Define “Mass shooting” so that we’re working off a singular definition and comparing equivalent events.
A guy randomly shooting a 3 or more people in a public place, not related to gang fights or murder suicide or such.
And in other regions, there are more outlets for engaging in actual violence, so I’d wager their deranged shooters get lost in the noise of guerillas, militias, cartels, and jihadis.
TRUMP-PUTIN-HITLER!!!!1!!eleventy!!!
Of course they were curiously silent when Bernie Bro James Hodgkinson tried to assassinate a bunch of Republicans.
Oh, they already tried to hang this on Trump, but the facts are coming out this guy that attacked the Walmart, supposedly to kill messicans, was a Bernie loving satanist. I have also heard that the Walmart he chose was not the one really frequented by the illegals.
Define usual. The Dayton one is the closest one to where I live (if I recall correctly), and that’s still about 3 hours away by car.
Usually is more that 10 per year
Ten per year per how many people? I thought we’d agreed on per capita comparison. And is that ten events, or ten victims?
So mass shootings are not common in Ohio (~44,800 square miles/~116,000 square kilometers), with a population of ~11.5 million people.
Ok lets put it this way ten events per 100 million people
But if gunz are not the problem why is the US the only country where this happens regularly huh?
Well in France they drive trucks through crowds and in England they hack people in the street with knives.
And then there’s this:
But it’s a good question. I would like to see an apples-to-apples comparison about the frequency of mass killings.
Oh, and please do note the furious responses to that from the IFLS lefties who normally worship NdGT.
That was a pretty shocking post from him. He’s down with the orthodoxy.
But innumeracy is also a big talking point for the skeptical community – and the focus on crazy school shooters is one form of innumeracy.
I think other people are touching on this, but there’s more to it than that. For one thing, the US keeps much more stringent records about crime than some other countries, and the methodology differs in ways that significantly affect the statistics. For instance, in the UK a murder isn’t recorded as such unless and until a conviction is secured, at which point it’s recorded in the year of the conviction. IOW, they track murder convictions. In the US, on the other hand, the FBI considers a dead person who didn’t kill themselves or die of natural causes to be murdered and records it as such, even if they never find a suspect.
As a relevant side-note, for years Baltimore city artificially jiggered their murder stats using somewhat related tomfuckery. If a suspect was arrested in, say, Baltimore County for a murder in Baltimore city and convicted, they’d record the incident as happening in the county, not the city.
I’m starting to suspect the shooters and their manifestos are controlled opposition. Especially the manifestos, it seems those are ready to go instantly. I have no proof, just suspicions
meh who doesn’t have their manifesto on the cloud waiting to publish? Mines more autobiographical with a particular slant toward sexual conquests. But there maybe some politics strewn in there haven’ updated it in a while
Mine says I learned it from watching you, dad. I learned it from watching YOU
Apparently the Walmart shooter’s manifesto had a bunch of left wing bullshit about corporations taking over and destroying the environment, but somehow he must be an alt right nut.
Admittedly, there’s not much daylight between Richard Spencer’s economic proposals and the DSA/
These lunatics tend to be all over the place, but the media reliably seizes on whatever info they can to try to pin it on the right, while ignoring anything that might contradict their narrative.
“alt right nut” — not just that, according to this really deep cartoon, they’re directly sent by Trump.
Wow, talk about mentally ill.
Manifestos are just shitposting
Manifesto
That was mean.
When everything is about race, guess what? The lunatics make it about race too.
Meh, the name of who did it is important information to the overall story and helps provide context in understanding the why.
I’d be more inclined to bitch about the media doing instant updates to these kinds of stories that always prove to be false later on, because no one actually researched anything before reporting.
You mean like how that alt-right, racist, white guy shot up that gay night club in Orlando because he’s homophobic?
https://wmbriggs.com/post/17703/
It hasn’t been updated, I’m looking for some more recent data
“The neurosurgeon, who works at Mountainside Medical Center, “was evasive in responses to requests for identification and vehicle documents and claimed that he was in a hurry to get to work,” ”
I mean, if he has to wake up in the middle of the night for an emergency operation, wouldn’t you want him to be alert rather than sleepy?
In many high pressure professions, those with alcohol or fatigue problems resort to cocaine for their boost.
his hands shake otherwise
Was he high? Or high at work? Or just bringing it to share with a smoking hot nurse later that day or night. Just because he had it doesn’t mean he was using at work. Not that anyone cares
I think the American Physician’s League should definitely consider putting him up for a PED suspension.
A neurosurgeon using cocaine?? What’s next? A software engineer using Adderall? A concert pianist using beta blockers? A power lifter using caffeine? Where does it end?
Where is my fainting couch?
“Wanna see a real “rape culture“? It isn’t someone looking at you in a gym, dearie.”
At least he paid off his debts….
Man bets his WIFE
I read that as Man beats…
I thought “this is news” ? Re read it and wondered why would your play poker with your wife? Even strip poker? You don’t know all the mysteries yet?
Reading comp, how does it work?
The attached story about the 3 yo. Jesus. WTF is wrong with people.
The whole thing is nauseating. Thanks for the morning nut punch Swiss.
Yeah, I think I’ve read my last story about the subcontinent.
Do you still bet your wife?
It’s possible this is how a cuckold fetish expresses itself in a shitty culture.
Not a bad observation there…
If you have a good hand, why do you need a wife? Food preparation?
*golf clap*
+10 “go make me a sammich, bitch!”
See, civilized people run wife tastings. “Delicate bouquet on this one. Strong on the mid-palate with a long finish.”
I thought it went “smells like fish, but tastes like chicken”….
“Violence rocks Afghanistan amid latest round of US-Taliban talks”
Speech is violence
Ban the assault rifles !!
If only there had been signs
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dayton-ohio-shooting-suspect-hit-list
jesus, that guy was a ticking time bomb. Shocking it took him this long.
It should have been obvious that without intervention he was going to do something evil. The sexual homicide fantasies are consistent with the mental histories of serial rapists/killers. Add the kill and rape list to that. He might as well have confessed in advance.
Raises an interestingly morbid question: Are mass shooters the serial killers of the 21st century?
In Bill James’s crime book, he talks about fads in crime. He specifically talked about serial killers in the 70s and 80s, and it was his opinion that the main reason there were so many is because it was the hip thing to do. If you were a sicko who wanted to kill a lot of people, serial killing is just what you did–it was in the movies, it was on the news, of course that’s what would occur to you/
I think it’s the same thing with the shootings now.
I tend to agree. Makes you wish for the days of the Night Stalker. At least that wasn’t political.
Oddball fact – one of the Night Stalker killings was next door to my uncle’s house on Acre Street in Northridge.
I have repeatedly told people that these asshats do this shit for the attention. if their intention was really to rack up a body count, even a military assault rifle would be a poor choice to really make that the case. They do it with these weapons because of the media attention.
‘Popular Crime’ is a excellent book as only he can do it. He explores so much more. Absolutely media sensationalism plays its part.
The original profiling book. Kind of dry, but some interesting stats and stories.
Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0028740637/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_xfesDbZ996YQQ
I don’t think so. Serial killers are sociopaths, but they generally do not disregard their own safety the way these mass shooters do. Most serial killers are trying to keep feeding their sick compulsions while remaining free to continue to do so.
So you’re saying they went into politics?
Most politicians do exhibit sociopathic traits…
But why are there so many fewer serial killers now? Again according to Bill James, Los Angeles alone had at least half a dozen serial killers operating in the city at one point in the 70s. Sure, there are still a few out there for whom serial killing satisfies some particular sick needs. But I think there’s generally just a free-floating population of people who want to fuck shit up, and they’ll roll with the zeitgeist.
Are there fewer? Is there some other confounding variable in play? (ie higher first kill detection due to reduced overall crime rates, etc)
Are there really fewer serial killers, or are they just less publicized?
If there are fewer documented serial killers now, I’d wager improved forensics have taken out good chunk. They are caught earlier so don’t have the opportunity to grow the body count and be recognized as serial killers.
It’s harder to stay anonymous when you’re posting images of your new skinsuit on your Facebook page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States
I count 26 from 2000 to the present (almost two decades).
I count 78 in the 1970s.
I count 95 in the 1980s.
But if you’re caught before you kill too many, you just get counted as “a guy that killed one person in an odd way”.
“I’d wager improved forensics have taken out good chunk.”
“It’s harder to stay anonymous when you’re posting images of your new skinsuit on your Facebook page.”
Those are good points. Maybe it’s tougher to be a serial killer now with improved detection methods and reduced societal privacy overall, so if you want to kill a lot of people you have to do it all at once.
According to James, the FBI estimates there are about 30 (I think it’s 30 I forget) serial killers in the USA operating at any point in time.
Yes, absolutely. I know its a mildly unpopular opinion around these parts, but I think that most behavior is socially constructed. The saying is “nature loads the bullet, environment pulls the trigger.”
What that means is that each human gets spun out with a collection of instincts and cognitive functions. Depending on the environment, those turn into different behaviors.
In a world where mass shootings aren’t a thing, say 50 years ago, the types of people who commit mass shootings today are much less likely to do it 50 years ago.
My personal, unsupported belief, is that most human culture is mediated by technology. In the case of serial killers vs mass shooters, you can explain the difference based on the speed of mass communication. 50 years ago media was slower – it was the overnight news paper or the weekly magazine that was a natural technological fit to ominous ‘quiet guy next door’ that silently slits a neck on Saturday night and shows up as a decon at church the next day. The time scale fit the medium, amplifying the emotional intensity of the fear, leading more would-be serial killers engage in that behavior.
Now, post Columbine, we have 24 hour news. Hyper fast reporting. Sensationalism. People arguing about motives over and over and over again. It amplifies the emotional intensity of the fear, leading more would-be serial killers to engage in that behavior.
That doesn’t mean its the *only* driver of that behavior, or that the same people who would have been serial killers in 1980 would just be mass shooters instead. After all, the USSR was undergoing a spate of serial killers at the same time as the US, and their media did just about 0 reporting on any of them. And like other have said, we still have a bunch operating in the US. But its a strong factor I think.
“Betts had no apparent criminal record as an adult, though if he had been charged as a juvenile those offenses would typically be sealed under state law.
“There’s nothing in this individual’s record that would have precluded him from getting these weapons,” Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said Sunday.”
We don’t have pre-cogs. Not yet. Also, that would have been at minimum a six-year span between the high school issues and the shooting. You can ban all guns, but there are still millions out there.
Somebody should have got the kid some mental help when he started telling people his fucked up fantasies. Not a law enforcement issue. Cops just come pick up the dead bodies afterward.
The old kill, fuck, marry game, played out in live action.
French inventor Franky Zapata has made the first-ever successful Channel crossing on a jet-powered flyboard.
Mr Zapata, 40, took off from Sangatte, near Calais, at 06:17 GMT on Sunday and landed in St Margaret’s Bay in Dover.
The invention, powered by a kerosene-filled backpack, made the 22-mile (35.4-km) journey in 22 minutes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49225001
¡Zapatismo!
That would have been a much better way to invade Normandy in WWII. Why didn’t Eisenhower think of that?
Higgins Boats were more fuel efficient and cheaper to make.
For a fistful of pesetas? The political economy of the army in a nonconsolidated democracy: the Second Spanish Republic and Civil War (1931–9)†
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ehr.12881
Q better be linking some titties and guns
Find here a great and must read about the FBI’s entrapment ops against the Trump campaign before the 2016 election. That weaponized bureaucracy Obama created for Clinton to start doing the Soviet style purges of the left’s political enemies must be dismantled. Even the fucking team red asshats that want to protect their power first should see this machine can’t be left intact and unpunished.
Thanks.
Anything less than hanging these traitors would be a disappointment
Prepare to be sorely disappointed.
Yeah, precisely nothing is going to happen. Hell, they already let Comey off the hook.
+1 pension at 50
Team red is realizing that their previous view they should just let team blue off the hook was a bad call considering all of them would now be in team blue gunsights eventually, which is why I hold some hope they will not let this go unpunished. Will Obama and Clinton be making licence plates? i doubt that, but if they don’t put people like Clapper, Brennan, and Comey in the clink, then they have basically signed off on team blue forever being able to destroy any and all political enemies using the weaponized US bureaucracy. Team red is stupid. But not stupid enough to not realize this.
As long as Obama and his legacy recede into obscurity I’ll take that. There’s no way a prosecutor is going to touch that file.
As for Hilary, it would be disappointing she doesn’t face some kind of justice but same as above.
Sometimes diminished or destroyed reputation and respect in the eye of the public can be just as harsh a sentence.
seriously nothing is going to happen from any of this. I can’t believe that conservatives expect any further closure from the fucking corrupt pigs over at justice. The same cast of characters that initiated the probe are still running things.
Well, not with idle hands will anything happen.
Booooooooooo
It makes logical sense to me that the FBI, almost wholly incompetent at catching actual perpetrators, reverted to their standard practice of creating criminals instead. This is how they have pursued the WOT, why not for Russian collusion as well?
that is a badly designed website. Is that a reliable source?
They’re an extremely pro Trump website with an extremely pro Trump spin. They don’t seem to outright lie about things though.
If you read the secret police coup coverage on that website, you’re 6-12 months ahead of those who are following any mainstream sources.
Barely one minute in Gowdy says he’d give up any rights in exchange for not being killed.
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
*shoots Leon*
Okay Joe, I don’t think people will notice the little details…
Soldering stock images just got glamorous
https://twitter.com/eevblog/status/1157973532988411904
I will give them credit, at least this model is holding the insulated part of the iron.
She’s properly grounded too.
She flux my joint anytime.
Thanks for the rape culture nut punch. Jesus.
That article sort of reminds my of an old joke my father told me
You’re not going to share?
I think sharing was the problem in the first place.
Do jokes really translate?
Sometimes. But not often.
Basically the joke was hundreds of years ago men would gamble enormous fortunes and women. The way it was phrased in Romanian it was interpreted as as enormous fortunes and enormous women. Does not really translate
I never said the joke was that funny in the original language.
Thank you. For some reason, I feel better.
If you say it the right way, and if you grew up with a bunch of fat Italian Americans in your family tree, that’s fucking hilarious.
Sort of brings a whole new slant on the term “Indian Giver” doesn’t it?
Yes this exchange does remind me of a quite racist movie
“See something, say something” redux
After three mass shootings left at least 32 people dead in the span of a week, FBI Director Chris Wray has ordered the agency’s offices across the country to conduct a new threat assessment in an effort to thwart future mass attacks, law enforcement sources told CNN.
Field offices will be actively working to identify threats similar to the attacks last week at local food festival in California, a Walmart in Texas, and an entertainment district in Ohio, the sources said.
A command group at the bureau’s Washington headquarters will oversee the effort, the sources said.
The agency said it was concerned that US-based domestic violent extremists could become inspired by the attacks to “engage in similar acts of violence.”
“The FBI asks the American public to report to law enforcement any suspicious activity that is observed either in person or online,” the FBI said in a Sunday statement.
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The FBI’s Domestic Terrorism-Hate Crimes Fusion Cell, which was established in the spring, will be investigating the shooting.
“Composed of subject matter experts from both the Criminal Investigative and Counterterrorism Divisions, the fusion cell offers program coordination from FBI Headquarters, helps ensure seamless information sharing across divisions, and augments investigative resources,” the FBI said.
Can they really afford to take time out of their busy schedule of trying to railroad Public Enemy Number One out of the Oval Office?
What could possibly go wrong? Nobody would ever sic the FBI on people they don’t like, just to be vindictive.
“extremists are whatever we say they are”
Is it just me, or does it seem that these things tend to happen when there is an indication that the shit may be about to hit the fan regarding the deep state’s attempted coup? I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, but I can see how conspiracy theories get started.
“The FBI’s Domestic Terrorism-Hate Crimes Fusion Cell”
This got a hearty laugh out of me.
Ethics Boards Won’t Save Tech. That is?right. What they need are philosophers+artists+poets IN THE LABS, where research is done & products dreamed up: so that the human stakes are visible & AVAILABLE.
https://twitter.com/tobias_rees/status/1158057880534179840
Sounds totes legit. They also should be paid more than the scientists
Making employment for themselves at the expense of others.
They can fuck right off.
Philosophers, Artists, and Poets are not known for being particularly pro-human. Nihilism is a time-honored tradition among those communities.
Shit like this is why we are where we are today. Those that built things now are but a minuscule part of the horribly expensive bureaucratic make-work machine created by the marxist nanny state.
It’s interesting how many people in politics spend vast time and effort ensuring that people similar to them mentally, but not themselves specifically, get advantages.
We will of course need to have a Party Member in your lab, comrade! We would not want your to risk your research being anti-revolutionary, would we?
Somehow I don’t think that mixing “philosophers+artists+poets” into meetings with developers who are on the spectrum is going to be the next surprise hit (like mixing peanut butter and chocolate).
It’s got to be better than being co-located with a corporate BSing “manager”.
We used to have actual philosophers on the faculty of Universities, and actual artists and poets creating art. This led to scientists meeting such folks and communicating with them in a natural cross pollination of both sets of disciplines. Then the Left skinsuited the arts and philosophy and declared actual ethics and culture racist.
I agree. When an experiment requires human subjects to be experimented on, its only humane to run trials on philosophers, artists, and poets before it is performed on any actual humans.
Not every movie made in the past twenty years sucks. I watched The Whole Nine Yards again, last night.
What an excellent movie. If you haven’t seen it, you should.
Is that the movie with Adam Sandler?
/Cartman
Matthew Perry and Bruce Willis made a good duo. Only better pairing with Willis was him and Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element.
there’s been some really good movies made the last 10 years they just are done on a low budget. Saw a movie called Dragged across Concrete the other day with Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson and it was incredibly well done.
It was a total throwback.
Also if anyone is into weird sprawling movies they should check out Under the Silver Lake, was like a la noir David Lynch movie that was actually entertaining and watchable.
I’m so fucking burned out on Disney, star wars and superhero movies are so tired.
^this.
We hardly ever go to the movies.
*ding ding ding*
This x 100
I watched Dr. Pimple Popper.
They should have Christopher Walken come in and guest to pop one.
That would be 100 times more interesting than the next star wars movie.
Watching fucking golf, tennis, or paint dry on a wall is more interesting than the dreck Disney has been putting out riding the coat tails of that whole Star Wars shit.
Beneath Hill 60.
I had no idea there was a movie about Hill 60. I was there a month ago.
This looks like it has promise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPKtM3fGJEU
Why is WWI randomly getting so much play lately? I’m not complaining it just seems to be a popular backtrop the last couple of years. I want a decent Korean War movie.
I imagine because of the centennial.
Well, it was the 100 year anniversary recently. Although Beneath Hill 60 was from 2010.
The plot seems like a mashup of Gallipoli and Saving Private Ryan. I’ll be checking it out.
So, today is the first day for my kiddo at a proper day care. Its glorious eating breakfast quietly without stress. Will be doing some studying after for the PE.
“Will be doing some studying after for the PE.”
Terminator X in full effect!
“Bring the Noise!”
Yeah boyyyyyeeee
What are you gonna coach?
/jk
I never got one. It’s not much use in electronics. I know civil engineers really benefit from the certification.
I will be gaining a few extra responsibilities at work which require the PE in the next year. The gentleman retiring then actually doesn’t have his, but was grandfathered in.
Of course, the PE doesn’t actually have any questions related to the topic I will be taking over…
I do a lot more work in areas unrelated to the discipline my PE is in.
Daycare is fucking awesome. We know parents who refused to send their kids to daycare and the difference is absolutely stark. It’s good for the kids because they get to spend time in a controlled environment with peers. It’s good for the parents because they can do stuff like, you know, go to work, or at least have a chance to get anything at all done. And if you’re in a half-decent daycare they’re doing potty training and stuff like that. We have friends where the wife stays home and watches the kids and they decided there was, therefore, no reason to send their son to daycare. He’s a year younger than our daughter. When she was his age, she was fully potty-trained and totally comfortable interacting with other kids. He is still in diapers and although he’s a very sweet kid he has a hard time socializing. His cousin, in a similar situation, is even worse, because he’s a horrid little shit who’s already gearing up to be a bully. In both cases, the mothers are stressed out of their minds. The one deals with it through being a lunatic, while the other just wishes she had a margarita to combat the PTSD.
The value of alone time cannot be underestimated. I love the time I spend with my son, but I also need time by myself.He’d previously been going to a woman’s house 2x/week, but she didn’t have any kids of a similar age or older in her care. That’s actually one thing I think day cares have wrong, the ages should be a bit more mixed, as the younger ones will learn skills from their elders and the elders can learn compassion and caring… maybe. This is the first time in 18 months I will have half a day to myself on a regular basis.
Oh man, you’re not kidding. Young children take 100% of your attention, and you can only do that for so long before you start getting exhausted. I love my daughter, but I actually kept track of how often she said, “Dad?” and then asked me a question or asked me to get her something or whatever in an hour, and as I recall it was around 45, counting repeats. Between her and my wife I get shellshocked. Seriously. I start hearing my name called out of nowhere. If I couldn’t ship at least one of them off somewhere else during the day I’d go crazy.
As with so many things in life it needs to be figured out with each family making their own decisions. We have never sent out kids to be cared for by anyone buy close friends and family for time to ourselves. It has been fantastic. The wife takes care of the kids and I work to earn money. I don’t get calls at the office to come pick up a sick kid or whatever.
Kids staying at home… I think their should be lots of kids. We have three, other friends have four and stuff like that. Forces the parents to be unable to dote on individual kids and create a selfish brat. My SIL has two kids and they are still able to keep up catering to each whim of the child. If they had one or two more they would be overloaded trying to keep up and have to let the kids cope with some minor irritation on their own (looking at you naptime in the carrier). I think she’s getting close to taking the red pill and waking up to realizing the kid won’t die or suffer permanent trauma if left to cry it out a little.
Parents literally lie in the bed they made as their kids are concerned.
We homeschool our kids and to say they are not socialized is the biggest load ever. If we so chose we could have our kids doing a group activity almost every day of the week. We, however, do a bi weekly group at a local library with other kids and they are great together. A bunch of kids that respect their parents and each other. There is sometimes some new kids that come in trying to be crabby or bossy and there is none of that tolerated by the other kids. the moms rarely get involved in the play / structure of what is going on. They mostly do a puzzle and chat.
Potty training, girls will potty train significantly quicker than boys.
Total ramble of thoughts there.
In the cases I’m talking about there’s no homeschooling or anything going on and they’re only-children, at least until very recently. They might get a couple hours a week where they interact with other kids, but other than that’s it’s the son and the mom 24/7. I’m sure it’s different when you’ve got a mess of kids in the family. My daughter has a bunch of cousins, too, of all ages, which has also been great for her.
A kid in an isolation unit with the parent(s) is a terrible situation.
The dad is in a high-pressure sales job, so he’s never really not working and he travels all the time, which doesn’t help at all.
Based only on personal observation, a male only child left solely in the hands of a mom is going to have major issues. Multiply that by 1 million if it’s a single mom. Multiply that by 10 million if it’s a single mom who had the kid after age 37 or so.
SP I think your on to a bead here about age. Older moms could be more cautious with their kids as they’ve seen more terrible things? They are waay less likely to have multiples as they are older and will see the kid as even more precious. Possibly building up this “motherhood” for waay longer than she should have and finally having the baby she always dreamed of.
One of the most toxic things about feminism has been the devaluation of fathers. A lot of people are afraid to admit that single motherhood is not an ideal way to raise kids (especially boys) but all the evidence points to that.
This is the result of the “sexual revolution” – women get treated like fucktoys and are left to raise the children themselves.
So far this checks out. The loony mother has recast herself as a professional mom, if you’re familiar with the type. She frequents several forums and Facebook groups as something of an authority and refers to herself as a “mommy”. She’s always got some “helpful” parenting advice handy. About as fun to be around as you’d imagine. Her son is the going to grow up to be the kind of person “red flag” laws are intended to address.
I think the problem for us is that our family either lives far away (in laws), or had all their kids between 18 and 24 (my side). Being the youngest myself, that means my son is 12 years younger thanhis relatives on my side of the family. The sad thing is there’s actually lots of families in the area, even though my next door neighbor has a kid my son’s age they never interact with us, despite a couple invites from our end.
Add on that my wife is not made out to be a stay at home, this was the best choice. I’d prefer to be in your situation Chips, it just isn’t feasible.
It’s funny how that works. There are other families with young kids in the neighborhood, but nobody socializes with each other despite living not 100′ apart.
Someone doesn’t agree with Stephan Molyneux’s views on daycare.
I get all that. but as an owner of one it’s worth considering the other side.
My daughter or my buddy’s kids didn’t go to daycare and none of that happened. So I think it’s pretty anecdotal. Maybe the parents didn’t focus on it or are just lazy? Who knows? Potty training at the daycare is not a means to an end. It only works if the parents do their part at home. Same with eating. Same with bullying. We’ve seen our fair share of that here.
We’re not the parents. At the end of the day, the parents have to parent. We see too many cases of ‘dump and deal’ here. A few parents have even asked for some coaching.
Anyway. It’s certainly a debate in this industry. The prevailing belief overall is ‘kids belong with their parents for as long as possible’. Maybe it’s changing.
BUT I didn’t go to day-care and look how I turned out!
i don’t know what his views on daycare are, but if they’re anything less than 100% positive, then yeah, I disagree with his ass. For us and the parents we’ve known who’ve sent their kids to daycare it has been an unalloyed blessing. In our case, though, we both work and the cost of daycare compared to what my wife or I earn works out such that we can’t really be a one-income family even if we wanted to be. Plus, my daughter loves it, because she gets to hang out with other kids on a regular basis and it provides some structure to the day. Our place is also a preschool type of thing and goes up to kindergarten, to there’s that, too. Most of the parents are in the same school district so the kids our daughter is friends with will likely also be her classmates in elementary school.
That’s not to say that it’s daycare or bust, of course. Just in my experience it’s been entirely beneficial for the people who’ve done it and the alternatives haven’t offered any improvements.
Well, there’s daycare and there’s daycare, just like there’s parents and there’s parents.
Good daycare and good parents = good outcomes.
Bad daycare and bad parents = not so much.
Bingo
True. And some kids are easier than others. We lucked out with our daughter, which means that our son is going to be a pain in the ass, I’m sure.
I’m hoping this is true. That means the next one will be easy!
What about good daycare and bad parents. Or bad daycare and good parents? WHAT THEN?
Oof. You should go listen. Yes, less than 100%.
Yeh. It’s all about the daycare.
Ours kicks ass. Proud to say.
Biden referred to the shootings as “the tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan the day before,”
I said no one would notice
Yep. You did. Apologies
You didn’t sell it right.
Rofl, is that real?
That’s not real life. Houston is further from El Paso than Michigan is from Columbus.
“Columbus”
Okay there Joe…
Are there any other cities on Ohio?
Oh, Dayton. Whatever. Its all flyover country to me.
ColCinCleveTolDaypolis is the only city in Ohio.
Metropolis is in Ohio? I thought it was Chicago.
So’s Newark, but you know this country loves to reuse city names.
Metropolis is generally though of as New York City.
And that leaves out all of the corn fields of Ohio.
How can Gotham and Metropolis co-exist in DC and be the same place?
Brett L: From what I remember of the DC geography, Metropolis and Gotham are close to each other, separated by a bay. There’s also been descriptions that Metropolis is New York City in the daytime, and Gotham is New York City at night. When most of these were made, there was no thought to continuity or overarching stories, they were four color printing pages for kids. Thankfully, comics have evolved since then.
There’s a variable amount of space between them that ranges from a river to farmland.
Metropolis should be Chicago what with the Midwest farmers Kent and the newspapers. But at some point it became Newark.
Metropolis was originally Cleveland, but became NYC when Siegel and Shuster stopped writing all the Superman comics.
Also, yall can’t be forgetting Sandusky, America’s Roller Coast®!
“What is El Paso?”
Better than el failo.
Good morning fellow Glibs. I’m up early to fly to Hartford, CT. Pray for me.
Are you flying there with one of those hoverpacks like the guy who crossed the Channel did?
Hoverboards don’t offer frequent flier points.
WTF brings you out to “The People’s Republic of Connecticut”?
A conference. If it didn’t look so good there is no way I would go to Hartford.
Where in Hartford? The convention center? I park there.
Yes. I’m going to Impact Live.
Plague and long-term development
https://ehsthelongrun.net/2019/08/01/plague-and-long-term-development/
Unexpected
Neil deGrasse Tyson is facing backlash online after he tweeted about gun deaths over the weekend.
In the tweet, the astrophysicist and author coolly referred to the mass shooting deaths in Ohio and Texas, suggesting they pale in comparison to deaths from other causes, namely illness and accidents.
In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings.
On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose…
500 to Medical errors
300 to the Flu
250 to Suicide
200 to Car Accidents
40 to Homicide via Handgun
Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) August 4, 2019
By comparing the loss of 34 people over the weekend to deaths caused by illness and accidents, many people felt Tyson was downplaying the role that gun violence plays in American society.
On Twitter, the response was fierce and immediate, with tens of thousands of Twitter users responding.
“Cold take, Neil. 200+ Americans died from gun violence in the past 48 hours,” author and gun control activist Shannon Watts responded.
Get back on the plantation, Neil. Don’t swim against the tide.
I don’t like Tyson one bit but good on him here, at least until he issues the inevitable apology.
Damn it.
Tyson actually said something not stupid.
*looks up at sky for incoming meteor*
This was my reaction as well…
“200+ Americans died from gun violence in the past 48 hours,” author and gun control activist Shannon Watts responded. ”
Take out the suicides and what’s the figure?
Well, annual stats are about 2/3rds, so I’m guessing about 66 homicides, mostly gang related.
He specifically mentioned mass shootings, so that’s pretty much a non sequitur.
My respect for Tyson would have just gone up a lot,but we know he will apologize with in the next 48 hours.
Party of science!
Some deaths are more equal than others.
Actually, this is exactly it. Everyone agrees on it. Just that different tribes have different values. To Team Red, every death from terrorist action is of higher moral significance that, say, a healthy adult getting tangled in their bed-sheets. To team Blue, every death from a mass shooting (where the victims are photogenic not-black minorities) is of higher moral significance. To team glib, every death due to government action is of higher moral significance.
I don’t even this this is necessarily wrong. I don’t think we are ice-cold homo economicus. But it creates societal friction when neighbors disagree on this and don’t respect their neighbor’s enough to see their point of view. Which is what we have now.
But it is good to look at the homo economicus response and think about maybe our weightings aren’t entirely right.
So Tyson did us a benefit by pointing it out.
What’s typically CNN about that is that they refer to Tyson as “downplaying the role that gun violence plays in American society” when, in fact, he’s being entirely accurate about it. Rather, CNN and others overemphasize gun violence in order to attract attention and make money, and others play along in order to pursue a political agenda.
The gun controllers have been treating “gun violence” as a “public health issue” for decades.
Tyson’s tweet just points out that if gun violence is in the bucket with our other public health issues, then its a pretty good ways from being out most pressing one.
Of course, its a public health issue when the Left wants it to be, and totally not when the Left doesn’t.
I’ve often said that more people drown in bathtubs annually than are killed by guns, according to the CDC, so if you really care about the children you should ban baths.
Fourscore, I don’t know how you do it. I made some bees mad this weekend while weeding the back garden and got stung a few times. Not fun.
I’m guessing you may have upset some yellow jackets? Usually honey bees/bumble bees are mellow as long as you don’t squeeze them. Being stung is obviously not fun, at least you learned that you are not allergic to the venom, you’re still with us this morning. I’ll be putting a Honey Harvest shout out next week or so. Things are looking brighter in the honey patch these days.
Yeah, usually you have to try to get stung to get stung.
The only time I have been stung by bees is when they crawl on me and wander under my clothing. When I move the fabric presses them and they panic and sting. Still, bee stings are pretty mild. They don’t even make me jump.
No, I think it was bumble bees. Big furry bastards. I was weeding a big clump of overgrown grass/weeds that my wife and kids have neglected all summer and I think I must have gotten too close to their nest.
I think my problem was that since I normally am not bothered by bees, I didn’t pay any attention to them as they swarmed out. Instead of retreating like a smart guy would have, I acted like a typical Norwegian and kept weeding closer to their nest.
In my experience, bumblebees are more aggressive than the other kinds.
We used to play a game as kids where we’d catch a bee and try to let it out without it stinging us. While bumble bees might be more aggressive than honey bees, all manner of wasps are worse than that.
Yellow jackets (ground hornets some places) are the worst. The sting is not quite as bad as a wasp or a true hornet, but they swarm and are angry aggressive little bastards, so you tend to get multiples.
Roundup is your friend if its only weeds. Roundup is an equal opportunity herbicide.
I need to spritz the cracks in my sidewalk again soon. Thanks for reminding me.
Happy Birthday to Neil Armstrong. The first man to set foot on another heavenly body and a native Buckeye.
Sorry about the mailboxes.
Happy Birthday to you!
Gracias, amigo!
Happy birthday, Sloop! Nice to see you around again!
Too local!
It’s finally happened. The WSJ editorial board have reversed course to condemn the 2nd A and join the New York Times, Washington Post, and the rest of the msm in the gun grabber camp.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-killers-in-our-midst-11564958792
And of course the now routine plea for red flag laws while simultaneously acknowledging the stripping of due rights wouldn’t have stopped this.
Well, that was to be expected. The WSJ has always been squishy on individual rights.
monthly recitation: there is nothing necessarily freedom-loving about conservatives
fuck these fucking assholes. Conservatives are just progressives driving the speed limit.
I’ll be interested to find a year when police encounters kill fewer people than mass shootings.
Paging Heather MacDonald
“So-called red-flag laws that let police or family members petition a court to remove firearms from someone who may be a threat might not have stopped the El Paso killer. But the evidence in the states is that the laws have prevented suicides and may prevent other mass shootings.”
So your proposal is to do something that wouldn’t have stopped this and have no evidence that it will stop others in the future?
Remember when a guy shot up the offices of The Capitol newspaper with a shotgun and local shitbird Sen. Ben Cardin called for the banning of AR-15s? Never waste a good tragedy.
The pretend constitutionalists at the Wall Street Journal are more dangerous than the leftists. It’s a good thing they’ve managed to piss away most of the influence they once had.
Cunts.
I question how red flag laws are to be enforced. “Hey Officer O’Malley, you know that crazy guy with all the guns who keeps to himself? His mom says he’s having an episode and we should go get all his guns. Good luck.”
I usually don’t pay attention to the news after shootings because it’s garbage. But I’ll say this from the clips I’ve seen. It’s disgusting that the thing now seems to be to try to hang the shooter around the neck of your political enemy. I don’t see how that does any good but increase the likelihood of political violence.
It’s thoroughly despicable. I can usually deal with watching local news, but this new spin is a bridge too far for me.
They are building a narrative that anyone to the right of Elizabeth Warren on immigration is a white nationalist. I don’t think it’s going to work the way they think.
That’s what it is. They’re conditioning and prepping people. Once dulled, there will be a point in the future where they’ll find a way around the 2A.
I reckon the biggest fear is they managed to get an amendment. If the 2A falls (even if watered downed at the periphery) the 1A is logically the next one in line.
Tyranny is one stubborn son of a bitch. The absolute worse form of it comes under the guise of ‘compassion’. There’s no cure against it. People will always side with ’emotion’ over reason. Always. And tyrants know it. They get human nature very well.
If the 2A falls, there won’t be a country for the 1A to also fall in. Unless we still have a government during the ensuing civil war.
I usually don’t pay attention to the news
after shootings because it’s garbage. But I’ll say this from the clips I’ve seen. It’s disgusting that the thing now seems to be to try to hang the shooter around the neck of your political enemy. I don’t see how that does any good but increase the likelihood of political violence.FTFY
That’s one of the things that bothers me most, too. It’s bad enough that innocent people were killed, or that someone was so sick that they thought murdering a lot of people would be a good idea. But now we have opportunists who use this type of thing to drive an even bigger wedge between tribes.
Yup. Which is why the Dayton guy is going to become practically anonymous while the El Paso guy will be yammered about endlessly – one is of political benefit to the left and the other one isn’t.
Am I the only one disappointed that the doc’s cocaine didn’t fall out of his butt?
He was a neurosurgeon, not a proctologist. And no one shot him.
Didn’t that happen in that 1984 book about the talking pigs?
Charlotte’s Web?
This whole thing isn’t about gun control it’s about trying to get Donald Trump to apologize/condemn White Nationalists killing people so they can tie this directly to his rhetoric on immigration that’s all this is about.
Smearing Trump is part of it but I think they’d really like to take our guns too.
*Lights the Suthen signal*
Brother, I have been steaming all night. I am gonna grind my teeth to stumps so I am trying to avoid looking skyward.
If they can talk Trump into supporting a giant gun control bill, the Dems win everything next year.
Another county heard from
Former FBI Director and vocal Trump critic James Comey on Sunday called on President Trump to take a public stand against racism in a new op-ed, accusing him of stirring up racism for “political benefit.”
“America has long had a radioactive racist soup in the center of our national life. Donald Trump thinks he is stirring it for political benefit,” Comey wrote in The New York Times. “He’s actually doing something more dangerous.”
Comey alleged that the gunman who killed 20 people in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday was inspired by Trump’s comments on Hispanic immigrants. The shooter wrote a manifesto that was reportedly posted online filled with racist comments about Hispanic immigrants.
“According to a ‘manifesto’ widely attributed to him, the Texas terrorist who killed at least 20 people in El Paso on Saturday wasn’t directly motivated by Donald Trump. But he is a horrific example of what can happen when the control rods are lifted,” Comey said.
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“With each racist assault — on a judge, an athlete, a country, a member of Congress, or a city — and with each kind word for ‘very fine people on both sides,’ our president allows the stew to boil and radiate more dangerously,” Comey said.
Trump didn’t actually cause this, but I hates him, so I’ll blame him for it, anyway. Yeah. Shouldn’t you be writing your memoirs, or something?
Shorter Comey: Look at that bad man over there!
I there is any justice in this universe Comey will soon be sharing a small space with a dude named Bubba that will ask him when he gets there if he wants to be the mama or the papa, and then promptly tells Comey when he says he wants to be the papa to come over and suck mama’s dick.
“But he is a horrific example of what can happen when the control rods are lifted,”
What a sad life you must live when you believe the president has/should have this much control over people.
Look in the mirror, asshole.
Why is Comey writing shitty op-eds?
Why is anybody publishing Comey?
“…and with each kind word for ‘very fine people on both sides,’…”
The lie that won’t go away.
NPR was hyperventilating about 8chan this morning. They literally said “but the commitment to free speech allowed it to be a haven for extremism.”
Free speech is bad, m’kay?
Can’t get the guns, go for the speech. That’ll learn ’em.
Because if we take away free speech that will make these people less violent?
That’s what concentrated them in that echo chamber in the first place.
I don’t think I could be more pissed off. The nonsense on both sides about these two shootings is incredible.
No one wants to talk about the motives of the shooters or the motives of the gun grabbers. The gun grabbers motives are just as evil as the motives of the shooters.
Let’s make more helpless victims. yeah, that makes sense…if you are an evil fuck who wants more martyrs for the cause of creating a population of people unable to defend themselves.
JFC.
Just get rid of all your guns, you’ll feel better
We need to disarm law abiding citizens because crazy evil fucks do crazy evil shit!
According to headlines, the sister of the guy in Dayton was one of the people killed. Quite a coincidence, I’d say.
Oh, there was no coincidence. I suspect this story will die as soon as the media realizes the usual narrative they have been peddling falls apart. Especially when it comes out the guy was some douchebag likely to be far more closer aligned with lefty beliefs.
Its a real Kentucky “if I can’t have her, no one can” play.
Gun rights need to be protected, but the Second Amendment is not a suicide pact.
As long as policemen are allowed to have guns, we deem the Second Amendment to be secure.
Now, just kneel and bow your head, as you await your turn to be shoved into the mass grave.
So apparently Trump wants to trade gun control for his immigration reform, just in case you had the vaguest idea that the Republican Party gives a shit about the second amendment.
The Dems will make that trade because it will cost Trump the election.
They would if they were smart.
So they won’t.
Hopefully he’s just blowing smoke because that would be the ultimate betrayal of his base.
I hope somebody is around to tell him that. I firmly believe Hillary lost the election in ’16 by campaigning hard for gun control in the Midwest.
He wants stronger background checks whatever that means. Feel good legislation.
Don’t even know what that means. Last time, after all the state background checks, I went next door to get a cup of coffee while waiting for them to run me through the FBI database.
HR8 (not Trump) I believe basically banned guns for 18 to 20 year olds. I think it also mandates checks on all sales and transfers. FWIW.
Comports with Don Escaped Texas’ monthly mantra from above.
Trump is exempt: he’s not a conservative in the fiscal, social, or colonial ways that most self-described conservatives claim to cherish.
One of the weird personality quirks that recommends Trump is his confident detachment. Maybe he grew up rich in a way that led him to understand that things would generally work out for him and there would never be a shortage of scams and deals to play that underwrite the steady stream of cash, toys, friends, and bimbos. So anyone could be an ally in a pinch, and he never needed to murder his opposition . . . in the way that Coke and Pepsi traded end-cap deals with groceries for decades, just relaxed and taking turns, enough to go around. He’s not a libertarian, but, to his credit, he’s not an autocrat, either.
Meh. He talks a lot of shit. He’s trying to paint himself as “reasonable” and willing to deal with Dems. They aren’t going to have any of that.
Agreed. It’s a poison pill so the Dems won’t move on it.
I only ever thought that Trump would be less bad on 2A issues than a Dem, not that he’d actually be good.
In ‘not pissed off’ news: I have two wild black muscadines I planted on my fence and the grapes are starting to come in. Yesterday I picked nearly enough to make a batch of wine and tomorrow I should be able to finish that off and start squashing grapes. My hybrid bronze muscadine is coming in as well and I should have enough to make two batches by the end of the week. The total will be around twelve to fifteen gallons bottled which should be ready by Christmas/New Year.
The only trouble is that with my leg still not healed I can’t cut the grass and there are chiggers like crazy out there.
*scribbles ‘DEET’ on shopping list*
How dare you use that racist language here!
DEET, DEET, JB.
Hy**** br**** mus******
Sitting in the Toyota dealership service department because the fucking valet when I went out to dinner with my wife for our anniversary this past weekend (20 years on Thursday!) decided, I guess, to drive my car half up on the parking block, and the undercarriage of the car collapsed (this part: https://parts.olathetoyota.com/auto-parts/2014/toyota/camry/hybrid-xle-trim/2-5l-l4-electric-gas-engine/body-cat/splash-shields-scat), this after I had to replace the battery in my wife’s car and replace the oil pan and drain plug in my car both last weekend. Oh yeah, and maxing out my out-of-pocket for insurance after my kid’s surgery (she’s doing great, by the way).
(bonus: You know what kind of car I have now!)
I’ve had those things fall apart on me too. Had to jack up the car and unscrew the damn thing so it wasn’t dragging all the way to the shop. If I had a lift, I could replace it myself in 5 minutes.
No amount of other people’s money is too good for your daughter! (I kid. Glad to hear she’s doing well.)
I have never been comfortable with valet parking. Thankfully I don’t often have to turn over my keys.
It helps not having any money too.
It only takes one experience of a valet losing your keys to never use valet parking again.
/lived experience
That’s why valet keys exist.
I had my other key, but that doesn’t stop me from being pissed. And it was months before I got them to mail me the key back when it turned up (it had fallen behind the counter)
For the record, the ‘s’ on ‘keys’ in my original comment was an error. I handed the valet one key, and that they lost behind the counter. My other car key and my house keys stayed safely with me.
I just run the valets over.
You can always tell the character of a man by the way he treats his valet.
Just tip the dude upfront. They’ll keep your car close and safe.
Or, I can park it myself, save the money, and get more exercise that I really could use.
Me neither, and I was a valet.
So you know how the sausage is made.
I know the only thing worse than parking a Suburban in a tiny hotel parking garage on a busy night is being the supervisor on duty when the new guy finds a concrete pylon with the quarter panel of a brand-new Porsche Cayenne.
Nobody would have been shot in Chicago this weekend if the NRA hadn’t prevented us from closing the gun show loophole.
Everybody knows that.
Plates are due on Big Ugly. I’ve often thought of getting the Gadsden Flag version, but I can imagine a day when a salondotcom article turns that into a vehicular kick-me sign with scores of bad-ass SJW types keying the paint on vehicles displaying it. I wonder if others would get the same “you’re not alone” spike I get when I see one, but I’m probably not going to draw attention to myself. It’s like EDC, I suppose: be prepared, but keep what you think under wraps in the general public.
It’s a nice plate but it’ll make you a target.
I agree, never intentionally draw attention to your self. I would love to buy an old plate for the shop wall however.
In Tennessee? Really? Maybe it would happen in downtown Portland. And even then I doubt Antifa would make the connection before you drive off.
No state is a monolith: in major cities and some fluffy suburbs, I’ve got to step around flakes same as anyone else.
They’re rather ubiquitous here in the far reaches of the DC metropolitan area. Lots of people out here signaling their dislike of the politics of the folks inside and around the beltway.
Is it me, or is this a plain example of cowardice? They’re openly saying they want to infringe on innocent people’s rights out of fear.
Cowardice, fearmongering, and a moral panic aren’t fertile ground for good policy decisions. Hopefully Trump has the good sense to not fold on this one.
Lookout!!! It’s got a thing that goes up!
It’s disgraceful. This must be the work of the new generation. The old Post would never have come up with something so cringeworthy.
It may be the Post, but it’s still New York.
“Weapons of war”
Funny, the only actual, bona fide “weapon of war” I own is an M1 Garand that I bought from the CMP; y’know an entity that was created by Congressional order to educate the citizenry in marksmanship.
*irony meter pegged*
Disarming innocent people and making them helpless will fix the problem.
One of Splinter’s Worst is leaving:
I don’t believe GMG’s wonderful staff—I’ll die before I call it G/O—could manage to overthrow capitalism in media or establish a nonprofit journalistic collective, though that would rule. But I do believe that these new owners could show one shred of common sense and not fuck with what’s made it good all along. I believe in the power of our union to resist the madness and protect each other. I believe that there’s a future for this company, which produces incredible journalism and uncompromising commentary to this day despite years of uncertainty and turmoil. I believe in Splinter, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku, The Root, and even Deadspin, though I don’t fully understand what they’re doing over there or why they let Barry have access to Kinja at all.
Yeah, seems like it is circling the drain for real this time.
She wants to overthrow capitalism so badly, why didn’t she forego her salary? Y’know, lead by example.
It’s terrible that capitalism requires such sacrifice to overthrow it!! It’s oppressive.
I don’t think these idiots get it. They think the company exists for the purpose of circulating their college sophomore bullshit. It’s an internet media company. It’s purpose is to make money. GMG was doing a piss poor job of that. That’s why they got taken over. The people they’re whinging about are the ones trying to pull them out of the fire. The alternative is unemployment.
Let’s face it. A lot of the media industry is facing financial difficulties.
Exceptional journalism takes resources.
And many industry players just don’t want to provide the sort of support that good reporting needs.
Readers may feel shortchanged by this development.
Nevertheless, it’s a fact of life in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace.
Though leaders need to adjust to this reality.
Or they risk becoming tomorrow’s buggywhip makers.
Capitalism is a heartless taskmaster.
Of the advanced democracies, America is a rarity in how little publicly funded journalism it produces.
Developments may change that, at some point.
Evolution in journalism, like any other industry, is an inevitability.
Mammary Monday will offer a brief ray of hope into your bleak and pointless existence.
https://tinyurl.com/y453xt4c
Walked in to breakroom at work to hear Trump limp in violent videogames as one of the conteibuting factors…but no word on Hollywood or the music industry.
Ugh. I need a coffee maker in my office.
Given the number of people worldwide who play violent video games, there is as much correlation between players and mass shooters as there is between mass shooters and phone usage.
His prepared speeches are so boilerplate and makes sure to touch every group that goes nuts when these happen.
For the moms: violent video games
For the gun-grabbers: background checks
For the race-mongers: white-nationalism, whatever the fuck that is
For the People? Bend over cause its coming hard like STEVE SMITH on a Florida Man bender.
If Amash or Massie aren’t on the LP ticket next year I may just smear my ballot with feces. I realize I live in Florida and that’s probably common, but it’s the principle of the matter.
Why do you think so many chads hanged themselves?
I blame water. Every mass shooter and genocidal maniac in human history has drank water.
+1 Gen Jack D Ripper.
Did you know the Nazi’s rationed water to each and every member of the military before most big offensives? makes you think.
Relevant: https://youtu.be/N4W4OQJKHtE
If we can only get the selfish people out there who cling to their personal desires to recognize the importance of proper regulation we could fix everything. If every act were either forbidden or compulsory then true freedom could reign.
So I’m about halfway through “The New Right” by Michael Malice and I must say that I highly recommend it. I’d be hard-pressed to find a better succinct summation of the “Trump phenomenon” (or whatever you want to call it). There are some interesting developments in US politics right now and he does a good job of capturing it.
Christ, what an asshole
The first thing to know about Clarence Thomas is that everybody at the Supreme Court loves him. Surprisingly, given his uncompromising public persona and his near-total silence during oral arguments, Thomas cultivates a jovial presence in the building’s austere marble hallways. Unlike most of his colleagues, he learns everyone’s name, from the janitors to each justice’s law clerks. He makes fast friends at work, at ball games, and at car races, and invites people to his chambers, where the conversations last for hours. Thomas’s booming laugh fills the corridors. He passes silly notes on the bench. As the legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote in 2007, with his “effusive good nature,” Thomas is “universally adored.”
This buoyancy marks a man whose career as a judge is a study in brutalism. Thomas is by far the most conservative justice on a very conservative Court. He advances a reactionary legal philosophy that would take America back to the 1930s.
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Revanchist politics and a list of enemies to rival Arya Stark’s: These things do not pair naturally with bonhomie at the office. Yet such are the contradictions of Clarence Thomas. He is a baffling figure. The nation’s second African-American Supreme Court justice and the successor to Thurgood Marshall, Thomas opposes most policies that seek to combat discrimination or help minorities. He disfavors integration and even seems to resist desegregation. A former black activist and onetime follower of Malcolm X, he champions a criminal-justice system suffused with racism, and has rejected claims of cruel and unusual punishment made by prisoners. Thomas’s most uncomfortable contradiction, though, rests on an abstraction. He is the Supreme Court’s foremost originalist—that is, he purports to interpret the Constitution as the Founders understood it in 1789. Yet how can a black man make such a commitment when the Founders wrote slavery into the Constitution’s very text?
In his provocative new book, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, Corey Robin, a political scientist at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, seeks to answer this vexing question. Robin’s thesis is that Thomas’s immersion in black nationalism in the 1960s and ’70s profoundly shaped his conservatism. Demands for a black state and a unified black culture don’t figure on his agenda, but he is staunchly dedicated to a separatist position rooted in individual attainment, achievement without assistance from whites, and self-determination in the tradition of Booker T. Washington. He rejects laws and programs designed to help black people, because he views white paternalism and its attendant stigma as the greatest impediment to black advancement. At the heart of Robin’s book is this extraordinary argument: Thomas “sees something of value in the social worlds of slavery and Jim Crow,” not because he endorses bondage “but because he believes that under those regimes African Americans developed virtues of independence and habits of responsibility, practices of self-control and institutions of patriarchal self-help, that enabled them to survive and sometimes flourish.”
A “review” of two books about Clarence Thomas, by a guy who despises him with every fiber of his being.
Totally evenhanded and fair.
I was unaware that the purpose of the Supreme Court was to promote laws that “help minorities”. Silly me, I thought it was to determine if laws were constitutional.
There’s a special circle in Progressive Left Hell for minorities, women, and gays who don’t fall in line and vote like they’re ordered to by their superiors – I mean, benefactors – in the Democrat Party.
I’ll start reading Toobin when he starts believing words have meaning.
Demands for a black state and a unified black culture don’t figure on his agenda, but he is staunchly dedicated to a separatist position
Not sure how you can have the latter without the former, but I’m not trying to smear somebody I disagree with, either.
reread you twice and still don’t follow: help a brother out
A separatist position would seem to require something separate from the dominant culture/polity. If he’s not calling for a black state or black culture, in what we is he separatist? Being for individual achievement and self-determination is kinda the opposite of separatism, isn’t it?
He seems to be mendaciously redefining individuality as “separatism”. Collectivism good, separatism bad. QED.
I expect nothing less from the Atlantic.
Interesting. I guess when you are a collectivist, individualism is separation from the collective and thus “separatism”.
I miss the days when words had meanings.
The white man is here to help, why won’t he accept it??
Uppity?
Write this down: These are weak links, the weakest.
We need Banjos or STEVE SMITH for the good links around here.
*notes “bacon-magic” in copybook*
Since you last saw me:
1. Sold house (side note: more details to come much later, but fuck pods.com)
2. Spent a week at the beach
3. Moved into rental from airbnb for next 2 months.
Now just need to figure out new job and new house in location to be determined by said new job before the end of September.
I can’t remember, were you laid off, or did you flee?
The former, but not until 9/30. I have a nice severance package coming if I can hold off the new job until Oct.
I was in the process of preparing to flee when the news came. It escalated my plans by 6 months to a year.
Ah well, good luck in your search. Most places should be reasonable about start dates.
The job I thought I was going to get I would be starting today, probably.
The ones I am talking to now, nothing is going to get finalized before late August, so pushing them off until Oct isn’t a problem.
I have an article planned for the day after my severance package ends to be entitle The Last Days of [****] IT. Only at that point I will name my current employer. It is an amusing story more than anything. The company was mostly good for me, they hired me at a time when I needed work bad. But there is some down sides too. The amusing thing is watching the death process due to a staggered layoff with everyone having an end date.
any good wineries in the new place?
Temporary place – probably not.
Looking at probably permanent sites, probably not.
The irony here: Trump has accomplished more gun control in 3 years than Obama did in 8.*
*Trump was and is the less awful choice on 2A. That doesn’t make him good.
Well he is a traditional Democrat. You before they went from crazy to bat shit crazy.
Today is turning out to be a real joy.
I come back from being sick to find out that they’re moving our cubes again, and plan to downgrade my desktop to windows 10.
Currently on Win 7?
Or is it a huge downgrade from linux?
Currently on Win 7.
I just went through that. What a disappointment.
I am on Win7. I was forced to order a new laptop with Win10 back in early May. Then in late May the layoffs came and that request was memory holed.
Did some fucker steal your stapler?
beat me to it
Not yet. I looked before posting. Luckily, I keep it out of sight from casual observation.
who has a stapler? who would steal one?
Here.
meh that reference is no longer relevant. it old
Doesn’t matter how old it is Pie. It is a classic. A must have. A staple in anyone’s library of references.
Marlon Brando has a sad
I’m on 10 work and home. No issues with it.
I’m on 10 at home and I haaaaate it.
I don’t mind 10, but I understand some of the grievances. I despise Excel, Skype and Teams.
I hate Skype. Absolutely hate it.
Like anything, you get used to it. I think the new UI is a big step in the wrong direction from 7, though. I also had a recurring issue where it would misinterpret mouse clicks in the taskbar such that left-clicking wouldn’t work. Seems fixed now after a few patches.
At home, I have the advantage of being in full control of the group policy and registry, thus allowing me to change a lot of things I can’t stand.
At work, not so much.
What I hated even more is moving from Outlook to Gmail. Now that sucks.
For some reason people get appalled that I like Outlook better than crappy Gmail
I liked it before the “Upgrade” that took away the colors from the icons and buttons. Now it takes longer for my eye to find the control.
Also, on the meeting invite, it now takes three clicks instead of one or two to accept.
I hated 10 at first. I did some sort of setting change on the UI which made huge difference to me. Don’t recall what it was though.
There are a few tweaks that make it a much more positive experience. I still can’t stand how it almost has like two separate versions of menus for system settings. There’s the Windows 10-ish full-screen control panel stuff, then there’s the older version that has been in Windows forever. And it wouldn’t matter except that some settings aren’t accessible in the horrible tablet-version big crayon UI that they’re trying to shoehorn users into.
Windows 97 and the Office package that went with it suited me. Since then, changing the baselines and moving the icons has done nothing but waste a couple of hours of my time every year. I’m talking interface, of course; bigger spreadsheets are nice.
When Ford first shipped trucks with the dimmer switch in the modern location, on a column stalk, Alabama wrecks per mile skyrocketed as drivers in the heart of Dixie kept getting their boots tangled up in the steering wheel.
*snort*
But seriously, what sort of Memphian are you? An Alabama joke? If you really were living in Memphis, that would be a Mississippi joke.
I’m MS native and only a mediocre Memphian. If I ever get the urges to pay state income tax and to be told who to pray to, I might even move back.
What exactly is an “Alabama wreck”?
Its like a Cleveland Steamer, only with your cousin.
I don’t get it.
Also, my Ford’s dimmer is on the console.
Once upon a time the common dimmer switch location (and the starter button, for that matter) was on the floorboard high on the left, often under the parking brake.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m318/GTCHRIS3/rebel/DSC09976_zps764b68c4.jpg
my Ford’s dimmer is on the console
any chance you are referring to the rheostat for your instrument cluster and not the high-beam/low-beam switch for head lamps?
I remember having to drive the squadron CO to some other camp during Team Spirit ’88. It was night time and I was wearing Mickey Mouse boots. As I went to dim the lights, I managed to hit the brake pretty hard because of those clod hoppers.
The CO wasn’t impressed with my driving skills.
The high beam switch is not a dimmer, being a toggle between two states. A dimmer has either an analog spectrum of states, or a digital facimile close enough to not be easily differentiated.
Be happy you still have a cube.
Just because it could be worse doesn’t mean I can’t gripe about repeated moves.
Sorry I’m just jealous they took away my cube 4 months ago.
I know, and I feel for you.
Oh, no. Open floor plan?
Yup
Open floor plans are the debbil.
Cubes are bad enough, but what clueless manager thinks that having to sit out in the open makes people work better?
Ouch, sorry.
I’m currently in the quietest IT cube farm I’ve ever worked in. Hearing someone talk is a rare occurrence. It doesn’t help that there was a retirement buy out a couple months back which reduced the head count up here, and that I’m a contractor who doesn’t directly interact with anyone on the same floor as me (outside one guy who’s responsible for physical phone swap outs and moves in the call center). Considering my last job had me near the call centers I supported, the complete lack of background chatter is still strange.
I prefer the quiet cubes. If there is a corner without windows, I’d be happiest there.
One move, I was placed at the front cube of a row in the middle of the set, so the foot traffic was incessant. And every one of them just had to stop for this or that reason, constantly interrupting me. It drove my productivity down and my stress level up to the point I was going to snap. Just shifting a half dozen cubes down to a lower traffic spot did wonders in bringing that stress down.
I prefer at least some background noise. It doesn’t matter that much, as I’m now working from home 3 days a week (and may bump that up to 4 in the next couple of months).
I can still hear six cubes over, but there are fewer people passing/stopping at my cube and interrupting my thoughts.
We’re constantly playing musical chairs and it is a pita. Solved my problem of printing things though. I don’t print anything anymore because it’s more paper to move.
I still have 13 boxes of work stuff packed from the last time I had to move. This includes reference materials for the obscure and ancient systems we still run. Reference materials that don’t exist in an electronic format.
That bites
I had one box of personal effects.
I just took that one home.
It’s Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time
moving our cubes again – you get wood cubes to play with?
True story — the breakrooms at IBM had beanbag chairs and comically oversized Connect Four sets.
I never saw anybody in one.
The conversion to Win 10 has caused massive issues with freezing and unstable programs. It’s getting better, but it took days of group productivity away.
It doesn’t help here that the security side is pushing for the Windows 10 updates on people who are still using software that isn’t supported by Windows 10 (the software update is planned for one group this fiscal year, unknown for the other group).
as someone who never worked in a cubicle i don’t get them seem weird
They are weird.
But you get used to the suffering.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/no-the-united-states-doesnt-lead-the-world-in-mass-shootings/
Regardless: I’m going to be working on an article soon on dispossessed young males and the extreme social pathology that tends to follow having large numbers of them. It can range from things that are relatively benign (but still damaging) like social withdrawal and obsessive use of porn and video games to violence. This is not something limited to the US; in fact one of the most destructive forces in human history has been a surplus of young men with little to no prospects.
Given that the current cultural moment demands more demonization and marginalization of men following events like these, it’s going to make the problem worse.
Apple CEO Tim Cook calls US inaction on gun control ‘insanity’ after mass shootings
The only thing that is insane is thinking law’s will prevent shootings from happening.
needz moar Ted’S
as do we all
Damn it my phone auto corrected laws to law’s. Gonna run and hide now.
Was it one of Tim Cook’s shitty phones?
(Full disclosure: I have an iPhone Xr)
As much of an opinionated vegan asshole Steve Jobs was, he rarely made his politics known in public.
And then he went home to his gated community with the armed guards at the gatehouse.
Trying to reason with these people is worse than pointless, it’s counterproductive. There can be no reasoned argument with zealots. Attacking them personally and turning their own tactics against them is the only path forward.
I say this after getting into a protracted argument with a prog friend in which I explained that Columbine happened right in the middle of the last AWB, that the stats on gun deaths in the US are gravely misleading and the principle of self-defense in service of self ownership and liberty. I may as well have been speaking a foreign language. It’s all magical thinking and religious fanaticism. No point in trying to convince the Heaven’s Gate cult of their insanity, just try to limit their impact on your own life.
To “progressives”, rights are just government-granted privileges contingent on public safety statistics. That’s why it’s so maddening that they flip the fuck out over any law that touches Muslims since by their own logic, public safety trumps any and all considerations about rights.
I won’t get into details but I got into it very briefly this weekend about Trump and the Baltimore rats tweet, as a case in point, and someone who was otherwise a rational person went absolutely apeshit when I said, “But there are rats in Baltimore. It’s not a ‘racist dogwhistle’; YOU’VE talked about how Baltimore is a rat-infested shithole.” It’s like the Voight-Kampff test from Bladerunner with these people. Half the time if you challenge their positions they short out and go nuts. There’s no point in trying to have a reasonable discussion with zealots.
And Columbine was done with a TEC-9, a carbine, and a shotgun, if I’m not mistaken. Not a scary black “assault rifle” in sight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings
A guy in Britain killed 12 people with a bolt-action .22 and a double-barrel shotgun, and he had jumped through every single hoop that Britain imposes on aspiring gun owners. Funny how we rarely hear about this one.
Most of the deaths were caused by a Hi-Point carbine. A fucking Hi-Point.
My very first gun was a Hi-Point 9mm Carbine…
I may not be winning any gun beauty pageants or 100-yard marksmanship contests, but it has gone bang every single time I’ve pulled that trigger. That’s more than can be said for some expensive whizbang guns that my friends have bought.
I’ve since moved on to nicer guns, but it’s still there in the safe. I’d sell it, but who the fuck would buy a used Hi-Point, and what would I even get for it?? Pointless.
I love the way that it was made out of very flexy plastic, and managed to blacken the outside of the shell casings when fired.
I completely agree. I think the bias against Hi-Point is based purely on taste and elitism. No one said they’re pretty; even the manufacturer says they’re ugly. They function and they’re cheap. I admire them for making self-defense affordable to even very poor people. I’ve seen 9mm Hi-Point pistols on special at my LGS for less than $100.
Can we get a scandal to dilute the attention somewhere. Maybe the first lady could slap a servant.
A porn star could come out of the woodwork and claim that Trump and Jared Kushner took turns anally gang banging her in the Oval Office and she’s disgusted by Trump’s 3 inch penis.
Stunning and brave.
DO-SOMETHING-ism strikes again.
SIUYA, Tim Cook, and all the rest of you corporate bigwigs.
I’ll bet the usual suspects who whine about CEOs who think they’re better and smarter than the rest of us are retwatting Tim Cook like crazy, right now.
All the hot interns’ last day was Friday. I haz sadz that the eye candy is gone.
What field do you work in? IT interns tend to be IT folks, and eye candy doesn’t apply to us server trolls.
I do data science/machine learning, but it’s a large, diverse contract. There was a little bit of eye candy among the software developers, but most of it was the designers.
I don’t approve of kid’s actions but I love his precocious dealings with the local cops.
The high beam switch is not a dimmer, being a toggle between two states. A dimmer has either an analog spectrum of states, or a digital facimile close enough to not be easily differentiated.
Never change, man.
What if he just toggles between states instead of changing along an analog spectrum?
This is just precious:
Salon
✔
@Salon
Defeating Donald Trump may be the only way to stop America’s carnage https://ift.tt/2ZztWGP
Defeating Donald Trump may be the only way to stop America’s carnage
If we want the killings to stop, Republicans must be defeated
salon.com
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8:33 AM – Aug 5, 2019
Because nothing bad ever happened before ORANGEMANBAD
TRUMP IS GOING TO KILL YOU
Is that a threat?
I can’t believe Obama pulled the trigger at Sandy Hook!
They have agency and they simply refuse to use it.
that is some weapons-grade projection.
if these fuckers feel in their heart and soul that someone is going to massacre them and their family, then wouldn’t the smart effective response be to get a gun and learn how to use it?
but HONK HONK
welcome to Clown World
Defeating Donald Trump may be the only way to stop America’s carnage
If we want the killings to stop, Republicans must be defeated
salon.com
Kamala “EVERYTHING NOT PROHIBITED IS MANDATORY” Harris is truly our last best hope.
My company just donated $25k to Moms Demand Action.
Sigh.
Eyyyyyewwwwww
It’s a private company, so they are free to do that. The founder/owner is a nice guy with his heart in the right place, and I have a feeling that he thinks this looks/feels good without understanding what a waste of money it is.
None of the gun-restriction proposals tackle the root problems of why these atrocities are committed. None of them.
Irrelevant philosophically and feature-not-bug strategically.
It’s a private company, so they are free to do that.
Back in the day, corporations were not allowed to make donations, charitable or otherwise, that weren’t approved by a vote of the shareholders. The theory being, the corporation’s money is the shareholder’s money, and management is only authorized to use it to increase the return to shareholders, not to fund their hobbyhorses.
Now they justify it as marketing, which is sometimes all it is.
That’d be enough for a year’s supply of blow jobs from MILFs Demand Action.
At what rate? The Marital Rate?
*pulls out . . . calculator*
That comes to, err, averages $68.50 per day. Not being current on the going rate, not sure if that’s gonna get you one a day, or more (or less).
$25K will buy a lot of pizza delivery/cable installer/landlord costumes for those moms to get their role play freak on.
did he make sure everyone knew about it by sending out a company-wide email? b/c that would be fucking hilarious.
Nothing like letting everyone know that the company is being run as an extension of the owner’s personal life.
An experiment: Keep saying white men are the worst humanity has to offer and see if more white men commit mass murder.
My company just donated $25k to Moms Demand Action.
Virtue was signaled.
Is it just me, or does anyone else hear bad 80s/90s BOW-CHICKA-WOW-WOW porn music in their heads when they read “Moms Demand Action”?
Its not just you.
Not just you.
Q is working on a business plan.
Currently launching a talent search. Need to know who’s interested; both behind and in front of the camera.
seeing as how MDA peddles in unstable emotional wreckage, i’d say the comparison to pron stars is fitting.
does anyone else hear bad 80s/90s BOW-CHICKA-WOW-WOW porn music in their heads when they read “Moms Demand Action”?
I have said it before:
Come on over here, Momma, and get you some action.
Careful what you ask for Brooksie.
Ow, my
eyeballs.