He crossed the Giants’ path.
Well the Cowboys seem to have righted the ship. Then again, it was the Giants. Your NHL winners were Boston, Ottawa, Nashville, and Phoenix (who are actually looking dangerous this year). The Nats visited the White House after their World Series win over my beloved Astros. And “journalists” on the left are finally embracing the “shut up and play” philosophy they derided as racist in the past. But its cool. They’re only telling that to white and “white-adjacent” players. Christ, what a bunch of hypocrites.
You know I’m right. Don’t @ me.
Cowboy (and roast beef maker) Roy Rogers was born on this day. As were possibly the most beautiful actress ever (and a sexual freak on top of that!) Vivien Leigh, wife-beater Ike Turner, musician Art Garfunkel, rocker Gram Parsons, cager Bill Walton, Canadian person Bryan Adams, creepy-looking actress Tilda Swinton, actor Sam Rockwell, baseball player Johnny Damon, least favorite golfer on tour Bubba Watson, and Spanish beauty Eva Gonzalez.
Well, enough of that. Now on to…the links!
Shut up and pay what you owe, asshole.
At some point Oberlin’s legal counsel needs to step in and tell school admins to shut the fuck up. Because this is how you end up with a second suit.
Trump appears to be doing well in key battleground polls. Expect the Dems to course-correct after this and veer back to the middle. LOL, obviously that’s a joke. They’ll just find a bigger audience to promise free shit to. And Nancy will shake her head knowingly.
I’m willing to bet this idea will go over well with office workers everywhere. It makes perfect sense, tbh. I’ve never understood an 8-hour workday anyway. Lots of productivity left on the table and the rewards of an additional day off has to be a good incentive for people to push themselves.
Uber keeps doing what Uber does best: burn through a mountain of cash. But never fear, investors. They’ll make up for it on volume.
These sammiches are to die for.
I’m just not sure they’re this good. Don’t get me wrong, they’re pretty damn good. But they’re not that good.
An Oklahoma jury does their job. These verdicts are pleasantly becoming more common. Thank God for body cams and common sense.
Not sure how gun-control advocates are gonna spin this one. But I’m sure they’ll try.
More love for the 80’s ladies this week. Bask in it.
That’s it, friends. Liverpool play this afternoon and there are some other big UCL matches. I’ll be tuning in on the radio as I figure out how to move two cattle trailers that are stuck in a field.
At some point Oberlin’s legal counsel needs to step in and tell school admins to shut the fuck up. Because this is how you end up with a second suit. – in their defence tha lawsuit kind of proved the racism. Also university admins need something to keep busy
Trump appears to be doing well in key battleground polls. Expect the Dems to course-correct after this and veer back to the middle. LOL, obviously that’s a joke. They’ll just find a bigger audience to promise free shit to. And Nancy will shake her head knowingly. – actually they need to move all the way left it will mobilise the undecided and bring victory. Also will show who the wreckers are
I’m willing to bet this idea will go over well with office workers everywhere. It makes perfect sense, tbh. I’ve never understood an 8-hour workday anyway. Lots of productivity left on the table and the rewards of an additional day off has to be a good incentive for people to push themselves. – honestly this may work or seem to work in certain fields for certain companies, not work in other cases. I have no issue if it is company choice
Notice where they tried it – Japan. Ok, now do Italy.
It doesn’t say if the remaining days were left at the same length or extended two hours each.
They went to 4 10s and gave people three days off a week.
I’d rather have fewer hours per day over more days per week. After six hours I’m spending a lot of effort to not shout at people in the office because they’ve been annoying me all day.
You’d rather work 6 days of 6hours and change than 4 10s or 5 8s? I think that’s incredible. Most people work to enjoy their free time. Extending the number of completely free days sounds like a hell of an incentive to most people stuck in an office environment to me.*
*I’ve not worked in a traditional office/retail environment in more than two decades. So I’m speaking as an outsider. But still…an additional entire day off sounds like a hell of a tradeoff for pushing a bit harder a couple hours a day.
The last hour of an eight hour day is effectively wasted space anyway, Drawing that wasted space out for another two hours where I’m trying not to lose my plegmatic aplomb does not strike me as an improvement.
I used to work compressed shifts (12 hours, alternating 3 as 4 day weeks). You get used to it. Four tens would be vastly preferable to Five eights.
I’d settle for five 10 hour days.
Fourscore remembers.
What RC Dean said…
I don’t work 5×10 on a regular basis, but there are months at a time where it feels like it.
Anyway, 10 hour work days are hell on parents if both parent are working. 4×8 at least lets you spend a little time raising your kid every day.
I work 9/80s. It’s gets complicated sometimes. I work 8 hours a day, the first monday, 9 hours a day until friday, then have the next monday off and work 9 hours all four remaining days. Holidays only pay 8 hours, so we have to make up the difference with VC time.
I would jump at the chance to go 4/10.
Diff’rent strokes and all that. My parents and professors can tell you I’d rather do 2 20s and fuck off for 5 days. Thank Christ I work for myself.
Pat the Firefighter!
Or he’s really asking for 7 days of 6 hours. Now that is a UCS take.
I think a lot of jobs really boil down to being available and onsite when problems arise. Certainly most higher level jobs involve more solving issues that pop up than doing set tasks for 8 hours. I have commented before that you can kind of track my amount of business by my posting habits. Some days/weeks I am buried under work with more piling on as fast as I can get projects done, other weeks I’m sitting at my desk posting here and deciding what the earliest hour I can decently leave is.
Yep. IT support pretty much fits that model. As long as I’m up to date on the open tickets I’ve got in my queue, it’s a matter of waiting for new ones to come in.
I bet any productivity gains dissipate over time (the experiment wasn’t long enough) as people get used to how to waste more time in a 10 hour day.
What always happens in the places that have summer hours in Minnesoda (4 10-hour days, Friday off) is that deadlines start slipping and that cascades. Then when you are blocked because someone didn’t get their shit done, well you start rationalizing that it is silly to stick around for all 10 hours that day. You tell yourself that you will cut out early and be in extra early tomorrow to get right on that work now that the other team is finally done. But you show up at the normal time.
When you do that, others notice and it makes it easier for them to rationalize them leaving early too.
By the end of the summer, things are getting pretty sloppy. End of summer hours is always a good thing because everyone needs to catch up on shit.
Maybe if you went into it knowing it was going to be permanent and enforcing the rules strictly you could keep those productivity gains going.
But I think Coop is right. I bet they go away after a bit.
I worked in a factory (Tennant Company) back in the late 70’s that would run four 10-hour shifts in the summer months year after year.. Everyone loved it. The company discontinued the practice when studies showed that after eight hours, productivity dropped significantly.
It’s a mixed bag. Honestly, now that I’m off active duty – I’m finally getting used to the idea that I can do fun stuff on weeknights and I don’t have to front load or reserve my fun exclusively for weekends (granted my last active duty base was about 45 minutes from the nearest real urban center, and being a schoolhouse, we didn’t even get the regular 96 hour weekends for federal holidays that most units get).
That said – I live so close to work and my contract is such that I’m happy to come in by myself for 4 hours on Saturday just for the helluvit- at least as productive as a weekday – if not more because I don’t have to deal with some of the most inane/repetitive conversations you’ve ever heard. My contract manager (rollover from previous company with me) is fine letting me calculate hours like that for productivity even though I can’t mark it on my time card.
The 4 tens can work, the problem is coverage for support staff. I already have enough issue with people calling me directly for support outside of my work hours. I know it’s usually very popular in the call centers that I’ve seen it offered in.
Ummm, I’m gonna need you to go ahead come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmk… oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I’m also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, kay. We ahh lost some people this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up.
I’m pretty tired by 8 hours. every day i pull a 10 or more i’m exhausted by the end of the day. Having a “3 day weekend” every week might be nice, but for me it isn’t a tangible boon as just being able to enjoy my evenings rather than be beat.
I think the standard eight-hour workday exists for a reason — it’s probably the natural productive daily work limit for most people. YMMV depending on the person and the job.
The amount of posting we all do here seems to indicate that no one is really working 8 hours, they are just at their desk for 8 hours. I think going to 4 10s probably adds 2 hours of screwing around to the worked days, and means the 2 hours of work that would have been done on Friday get’s halfassed on Monday.
its because you can run high-capitol-investment machinery like an assembly line for 24 hours if you split up the day into 3 shifts of 8 hours. 8*3=24. The USSR for a while instituted nepreryvka, which involved different workers taking their weekends on a staggered scheduled so that the machinery didn’t have 2/7 downtime from the weekend.
I actually saved the schedule sheet from a cement plant that I was offered a job at. It was set up to run 24×7, with no more than 40 hours a week for any given worker. It was utterly asinine.
If you have 3 full shifts, why would it be asinine? I’m looking forward to shipyard work and I figure 2nd or 3rd shift would be pretty nice for avoiding traffic in some places.
Still better than the 12 hour shifts I’ve had on watch floors- albeit more physical.
Never mind – forgot about weekend/overtime issues – but yeah….hoping to have the opportunity to fit those in too. Gotta get the ships our of the yard on schedule.
It was like 3 12s and a 4, followed by five 6s and a 10, days, nights, swings all hodge-podged together. It was a eight week cycle. (but each cycle, you get 12 days off in a row! says the recruiter)
They went to 4 10s and gave people three days off a week.
That sounds amazing, even if it would have to be 4 11s in my line of work. Unfortunately, my job is tied closely enough to the government’s schedule that I could never do it. Instead, I work 5 9s.
My workplace introduced an option where you’d work nine-hour days and get one day off every other week; you’d also have one eight-hour day which was the day opposite your off day, ie if you choose Friday as your off day then your working Fridays would be eight-hour workdays.
I currently have a 9/80 schedule (work 9 hours Monday-Thursday, take every other Friday off), and it’s great. I don’t take a lunch break, so the 9 hour days aren’t bad, and the off Fridays are incredibly convenient. We’re moving to 10 hour days Monday- Thursday and every Friday off next year. I’m not thrilled about this, but I’ll probably adjust.
So you would have to take Friday off? Part of me thinks Wednesday would be a better 3rd day off then Monday or Friday. Sure, it eliminates the ability to go anywhere for 3 days, but you would be able to do things locally when everyone is still at work.
Nein! You must taken ze same days off as everyone else and ze same vacations as everyone else, or ve vont be able to measure ze productivity!
I like the idea of Wednesday off, but yeah, Friday is the official off day.
They use Fridays and Mondays for seniority perks at the last yard I worked. When you start, you get Tues, Weds, or Thurs. after a while, you get the three day weekends.
In other words, we want to believe they’re racist because it conforms to our worldview. It’s our “truth” (credits to Cory Booker).
Christ I hate postmodernists.
I was going to highlight that exact same phrase! According to her, the “specific incidents” are some peoples’s feelings.
That is the level of critical thinking we’re getting from the PRESIDENT of a University that, all-in, charges $70K/year.
Those kind of woke postmodernists are the biggest racial profilers I’ve ever seen.
Also, at what point does having a degree from a school like that hurt your job opportunities?
Depends on whether or not you’re looking for a job as a social worker or a campaign assistant.
I’m already disinclined to hire people with a degree from a woke institution. If the forms would let me, I’m almost inclined to give higher weight to people who lack a degree becasue they learned the other skills in a practical setting.
IT has pretty much gone to industry certification, which is a good thing as it can bypass academia.
It has pros and cons. A definite pro is that, at least in some settings, it can substitute for a much more expensive and time-consuming (not to mention less relevant) bachelor’s degree. One of the cons, though, is that it’s not that much better than a college degree at assessing practical ability. The minimum grade is a bit too low and I’m not convinced they’ve stamped out cheating as well as they claim. I’ve talked to people who have certifications about basic concepts that they should definitely understand who were completely clueless. Then there’s also the recent trend to force you to pony up more $$$ every couple years to stay “up to date” (the sort of things that IT certifications are for don’t change that often). It’s turning into a racket (kind of like college…).
I’d never hire someone from there. Hell, they wouldn’t get past the application stage if it were up to me.
But then you’d miss the fun of triggering the shit out of them during the interview.
You gotta think about the pleasure you’d get out of it, SF. And knowing you, I’m sure you could make it…interesting.
True… This is a real dilemma…
I don’t think they sell insurance plans with coverage limits high enough to protect you from the ensuing lawsuit.
As a sidenote, good job on Ted Koppel for asking the right question about specific incidents. Some decent journalism is still out there I guess.
I’d give him a gold medal if he had followed up with, “Yes, those perceptions were there- that’s why you’re $44MM in the hole after the lawsuit. But my question was whether there were any actual specific incidents. Can we infer from your answer that there weren’t?”
Say what you want about the tenets of national socialism…
Nods…
Uber keeps doing what Uber does best: burn through a mountain of cash. But never fear, investors. They’ll make up for it on volume – as a uber user i got nothing but i dont want to go back to cabs. Then again i got along with cabs women in bucharest tend to be more pro uber
I don’t want to see them fail, but at some point they need to stop burning through their cash reserves. And cabs suck. Protectionist rackets always do.
Didn’t Uber report that the rides were turning a profit (finally)? Personally I’ve been happy with both Lyft and Uber in the area, I’ll go with whichever one is cheaper at the moment (and most drivers seem to be working for both).
The momentum seems to be in the direction of bought-and-paid-for government hacks putting the screws on Uber et al. in order to prop up the taxi/limo racket. In my city there is no longer any effective difference between the existing limo system and Uber.
I think the goal is to stay afloat until they can eliminate drivers.
The Nats visited the White House after their World Series win over my beloved Astros.
Kurt Suzuki is now off the fuck list
Somehow I doubt these women would approve of a MRA website having “fuck its” of female celebrities and athletes.
Looks like Kurt is killing it on his own terms. And dare I say, he’s a handsome man.
*googles*
You’re not wrong.
I’m sure he’s all broken up inside.
She’s about as seductive as a toad.
She looks like the mama san in a movie about sex trafficking. I could see her branding the new girls with a heated coat hanger.
I’m pretty sure her lower neck is building itself up in order to finally have the strength to eject her head.
Dude, you owe me a monitor and keyboard now…
Bonnie Tyler has a great rock voice–powerful, just a bit hoarse to give it some interest. I’ve been noticing how weak so many singers are on the radio nowadays. Like the new Selena Gomez song–she can certainly hit the notes. But there’s just nothing to her voice. There’s no hint to any of these singers now that they’ve ever tasted whiskey or smoked a cigarette. I’m not saying you have to sound like Rod Stewart, but none of them sound like they’ve lived at all.
Bonnie Tyler and Kim Carnes. Love those voices
#metoo
My favorite remake of a Bonnie Tyler song:
Hurrah Torpedo
Total Eclipse of the Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUjYAi0WcQ
On the anecdotal side, there seems to have been an upswing in the number of female led punk/psychobilly bands. It’s a trend I can get behind.
Kelly Clarkson can boom it, but as far as distinctive female voices, yes, they are fewer and farther between. Pop seems to be about homogenization anyways.
There are some good diva types coming up, but they don’t always get the attention they deserve for obvious reasons. I’m a big fan of Ivy Levan at one extreme – and then in terms of the smoker voices, I’d definitely recommend Gin Wigmore.
Plus, the file off all the interesting bits with autotune if they happen to break through.
Radio is a wasteland, we live in the golden age of music availability. Here’s some shit you could never get without the disintermediation of the record labels: Zeal and Ardor doing black metal / black spiritualism hybrid music. Here’s some guy making music on 30 year old video game hardware. Here’s some nobody in Australia knocking out an original track that reminds me of when I was 6 and going to smokey western bars with my dad and mom.
These might not be your cup of tea in particular, but there is so much interesting stuff out there now that there is no reason to constrain yourself to what you are spoon-fed on the radio.
“… but none of them sound like they’ve lived at all.”
Beth Hart is not from the eighties, but she might have the sort of voice you like, Jatnas. When the man you are honoring, in this case Buddy Guy, is impressed by your rendition of an Etta James song, you know you’ve done very well indeed.
Sadly, Beth Hart and Etta James were addicts at one time or another in their lives. Fortunately for myself and others who enjoy their voices, they outlived their addictions.
Democrats promise/threaten to change Virginia
So in my visit to the polling place today (Virginia legislative election are in off-years), the State Delegate and State Senator from my district (both Democrats) are running unopposed. WTF? What kind of communist state am I living in where only one party is on the ballot?
Jeez even NYC usually manages to scrape up some nobody to run against [insert beloved Democrat] in those positions.
“Do not rest! Do not sleep!” McAuliffe exhorted. “Stop everybody you see — if they don’t stop, tackle ’em! Explain to them why this is so important. . . . We are going to make Virginia a new state.”
When Democrats win, elections have consequences. When Republicans win, they aren’t allowed (or are unwilling…) to govern.
Incidentally, I voted on the way to work. Place was basically empty, which was way different from the last presidential election. Straight red ticket as the state/local Dems have adopted the same insane authoritarian positions that the Dem presidential candidates have.
State-level Republicans in red states tend to have more balls. The problem is that Virginia is not a red state anymore. But yes, the Democrats are acting like Virginia is a blue state when that’s not quite true (yet?).
I’m gonna head over soon. The number of asshole leftists who rang my doorbell on Sunday afternoons, looked me in the eye, and gave me a sneering “Is [Mrs trshmnstr] here? We’d like to talk to her about voting” gave me enough motivation to go vote against them. I’m gonna even let my wife vote against them, too!
You let your wife vote?
Continuing the conversation from last thread, Jarflax mentioned the “sexual orientation spectrum”. I’ve always been skeptical of the spectrum view. I guess it’s still technically a spectrum of almost everybody is clustered at the extremes, but the spectrum model seems to overrepresent the nearly uninhabited middle.
The spectrum, based on my limited understanding, is an enormous spike at the straight end, a flat line near zero to the middle, a small spike in the middle representing the combination of bi, “I’ll fuck anything that moves”, and “I kiss girls on camera to get the attention of boys”, and then a flat line until a somewhat larger, but still small relative to straights spike on the gay end.
I agree that the spectrum is not that much of a spectrum but my overall view would be who cares as long as they leave me be
Off course no reason not to have discussions on the topic
“who cares as long as they leave me be”
Well I care, so BAKE ME A FUCKING GAY WEDDING CAKE OR I WILL DESTROY YOUR LIFE, YOU FUCKING INTOLERANT, HOMOPHOBIC, NAZI BIGOT!
I have never heard anyone say “I prefer boys to girls in a ratio of 3:1”.
I would try a 3 to 1 girl to boy ratio myself but am not sure i would handle it
I tried to word it to avoid that joke but couldnt.
General Turgidson agrees
Rodney Dangerfield: I’m at the age where I like to have two women in bed at once.
Johnny Carson: (Raising eyebrows) Oh, really?
Rodney: Sure. That way they have someone to talk to if I fall asleep in the middle of it.
IIRC, Jonathan Swift proposed a 2:1 ratio so as to achieve more tenderness.
Pretty much every idea about sexuality propagated by Kinsey was built on a mountain of really shitty statistics.
You misspelled lies.
There are probably a lot of people somewhere in the middle who don’t tell anyone due to social stigma.
Tell us your kinks Atanarjuat…
WHAT ARE YOU WEARING ON YOUR FEET???
/asking for a friend.
Spectrum is probably the wrong word for what I was talking about. I am more arguing against the genetic determinist model where your sexuality is immutable from birth. I think there may be some number of people who are incapable of hetero desire, and some number that are incapable of homo desire, but I think most humans have the capacity to develop in either direction, or both. I think the clustering you refer to is driven by non-genetic factors.
The evidence I base this on includes observed behavior in sex segregated situations such as prisons. The fairly obvious sexual fluidity of many women over the past 50 years as the stigma of casual lesbianism was largely turned on its head is another example. The classical model wherein it was culturally expected that men would marry and father children but then were free to take same sex lovers and often did yet another.
I had a huge argument with my wife and her therapist friend about this. I just can’t accept that babies have a sexual preference. Perhaps some people are born with a tendency or something, but to assert it’s immutable, no. I’ve seen troubled teens turn gay for few years and then revert. I think sexual preferences are developed over time, not deeply ingrained at a genetic level. People don’t genetically prefer blondes or Asians, why just with gay or not? How can a completely asexual being (small child) already have a preference baked in?
Anyway, I was accused of bigotry, even though, I don’t really care what your preference is. Of course the main argument against me was ” Did you decide to be straight?” and “why would anyone choose to be discriminated against?” I don’t really get that believing gay people are forced by nature to be that way is helpful to combat bigotry. Make your choice and I’ll respect it, but don’t claim you’re a victim to try and force me to accept it. I’m sure it’s complex and many feel it’s beyond they’re control. I can’t say exactly why some women appeal to me while other’s don’t. I just know that NO women appealed to me in that way until I was at least maybe nine or ten and then the type of woman changed a bit since then.
I don’t think sexual preference is genetically determined, but I also don’t think its a choice like what color shoes to wear today. The inside of our heads isn’t that simplistically binary.
Nature loads the chamber, the environment pulls the trigger.
You are correct that it is not genetically determined. Well at least not purely, genes do have an influence in determining the range of sexual attractions you are capable of but they do nothing for the specific expression of sexual desire and interest within that domain.
That said it is also mostly not socially determined, had it been then homosexuality would have been all but non existent for most of history. Equally important it is also not a choice, it is no more possible to consciously alter ones sexuality than it is to alter your political beliefs, You can certainly attempt to do so given the necessary motivation but success is far from guaranteed.
Spectrum always seemed stupid to me, for two reasons:
1. It claimed that sexual attraction was zero sum: that as you became “more” heterosexual you were “less” heterosexual.
1a It presumed that heterosexual; and homosexual were fundamental categories (as opposed to androphile or gynophile, or attraction towards particular primary or secondary sexual characteristics (the classic question: are traps gay?)))
2. Related to 1, it didn’t include strength of desire at all. How different is a “true” asexual from a person who has low libido, or a person who is willing to have sex for compensation versus someone who is actively repelled by the idea of sex.
2a, desire for/repulsion towards certain sexual acts — are two men equally straight if one is repelled by cunnilingus? Is a bottom guy more gay than a top, and what about gay men who don’t boof at all?
It seems to me that sexual attraction is much more an n-dimensional vector space than a spectrum.
Any time social scientist start talking about spectrum, I want to grab their shoulders, shake them, and yell “ITS A POINT CLOUD IN N-DIMENSIONAL SPACE YOU BURNING IDIOT!!!!!!!” Complex phenomena rarely well modeled with a single linear parameter.
I disagree. I think the spectrum view is the correct one, as it is the one that best fits the vastly different societal norms across history. I don’t think that people have fundamentally changed in the last few thousand years, so something must explain how some societies can be all-in on bisexuality (see ancient Greece) while others avoid it. Also a spectrum helps explain the classical behavior of sailors, prisoners, and boarding-school students.
You’re going to have to explain this one.
And the classical behavior of sailors, prisoners, and boarding-school students is that most of them took matters into their own hands or went orgasm-free. While there is obviously a social component to the expression of desire I don’t know of any reliable evidence that desire itself changes situationally. And that’s not even talking about the dominance aspect of prison sex.
Brooks’d a reply because I wasn’t paying attention.
Prison sex is, I believe, solely about power.
Sailors and boarding schools–any port in a storm.
But is it posdible to acquire a taste for it such that it’s a kink rather than an orientation?
I don’t believe it for a second, at least not for men. And while I’m sure there are men who have said this in the past, it seems to always be said by women.
I don’t believe rape is really ever “solely about power” and not all prison sex is rape. I knew I was kicking a hornet’s nest with that comment last night, but let me clarify: I do believe their is an element of choice in sexuality. I also believe that much like every other area in which strong underlying drives are involved that choice is made amidst intense pressures and compulsions. Can you deliberately change an orientation? Probably sometimes, but as someone said upthread your chance of success is going to be low (just like quitting an addiction, permanently losing weight etc.) Possible does not equal easy.
there, not their. Changed my mind about how I was writing the sentence midstream
You’re going to have to explain this one.
OK, I’ll give it a go. First, to address the sailors/prisoners/boarding-school thing, while the majority probably did as you said, it was quite common (and commonly known) for people in these settings to engage in intimate behavior that they would not engage in outside of these settings, indicating that their preferences shifted at least somewhat situationally. Second, the historical component of different societal attitudes leading to vastly different behaviors indicates, to me at least, that the desires motivating the behaviors can be molded to a certain extent, and therefor shifted in one direction or another. Many Greek states practiced the institution of pederasty, with the result that it is far more common to see same-sex adult relationships mentioned in Greek histories than in those of other contemporary cultures – strongly indicating that the desires were shifted based on cultural practice. I’m not saying that I think everyone is equally fluid, or even fluid at all, but that I think a very large portion of the population exists in a middling state wherein their situations can and do shift their behavior and desires.
Backside rules the Navy
Backside rules the Sea
You want some bum
Go see your chum
You’ll get no bum
from me.
/Recovered British Sea Shanty
The company said it also reduced the time spent in meetings by implementing a 30-minute limit and encouraging remote communication.
There’s your productivity gain.
The office I work out of has, as a standing policy, no meeting Fridays. Unfortunately, that doesn’t hold to the rest of the offices that I support.
^THIS
30 minutes? C’mon you know this shit can happen in 10.
I used to have daily “stand-up meetings” that routinely went 60 or 90 minutes. Of course, the participants were all over the world and nobody was standing up….
My go to move in a standup is to start pushing the 3 key on the meeting room phone if someone is starting to drone on during a standup.
The first time I do it, someone will ask what is up with it, and i tell them I’m trying to see if it will fast forward them through their point, like I can with voice mail.
At my engr job they were hard capped at 15 minutes. I really liked our project manager because he enforced rules like that with a ruthlessness that didn’t exactly endear him to the other managers… Until they saw the light.
https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/i-survived-another-meeting-that-should-have-been-an-email.jpg
We have a new scrum master who thinks it is OK to schedule 1.5h meetings.
I told him that I would accept meeting invites to these abominations, but I would leave at an hour. He laughed and thought I was joking. Then I left his first meeting.
I followed up by telling him that after that meeting I would no longer be attending any that didn’t have an agenda.
What is it with some people? They seem to thrive on going to meetings and think real shit gets done.
Scrum master? You’re doing Agile? Shit, sorry, dude.
Bite your tongue! Agile is the new revealed Truth! It can do anything.
Fuck those methodologies that want you to plan ahead. Or maybe write things down. Those are for losers.
My thoughts on meetings.
I was a Scrum Master….not in an Agile sense. Not as good in line-outs, however.
/Second Row 4Lyfe
I did not know you were a lock, Swissy! I started in college as a wing, but – given how I’m built – as age crept on I took my place in the front row – #1.
Now with the piggies where I belong when I do play.
Scrum half here but a big, angry and aggressive one. Watching Joost (RIP) really shaped my playing style as a young man. I haven’t played in forever, seems like more risk than I’m willing to take on now. But I’ve really been getting the itch lately.
Tight 5 are the truest of the true. It is known.
At 6’3″ 225lbs, It was that or eight man – and I am not speedy or sneaky enough to play #8.
I ate a lot of 8-man knees making tackles. Part of why I’m hesitant to get back into it.
I just kept disrupting meetings until they stop inviting me.
You know how you can lock up a robot by asking it to define “love?” The equivalent weapon in the academic library world is “Why are were doing this, exactly?”
Theoretically meetings could be extremely productive. But most supervisors ignore the advice of their subordinates, even if those subordinates know more about the particulars of the issue than they do. So having a long meeting followed by the supervisors just doing whatever it was they we’re going to do in the first place is pointless.
mornin’
‘sup
“possibly the most beautiful actress ever (and a sexual freak on top of that!) Vivien Leigh”
You should see what she did with that carrot after the “I’ll never go hungry” again scene in GWTW.
She ate it?
[golf clap]
Viv was a smoke show.
I thought it was a turnip, NTTAWWT.
But I didn’t know she was a section freak, any photos/links?
Section = sex, stupid phone.
If you prefer to use a turnip over a carrot, you’re probably a sex freak.
Joe Biden leads in two new polls of likely Nevada caucus goers even as he’s fallen behind in surveys of Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire.
All I know is that the debates will be fun no matter what Team Blue clown gets the nom.
With his deft handling of tricky situations, it’s no wonder Joe is the leader.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/biden-refutes-child-molester-internet-meme-before-smelling-young-girls-hair/
Glacier National Park Quietly Removes Its ‘Gone by 2020’ Signs
Too bad Vegas wasn’t offering odds.
The author was, but no one took him up on it.
About ten years ago we took my son to the Baltimore Aquarium and were amused to see placards in their rain forest exhibit declaring that at current rates of deforestation, the Amazon rain forest would be gone by 2003.
Switch it to 2040
A geology professor told us (~2002) to go see the glaciers there because they would be gone soon. As Michael Malice says, “A fundamentalist faith views contradictory data as reasons to reconfirm its assumptions, not question them.” This politicization of natural resources is a great argument for privatizing conservation land.
“GNP’s most famous glaciers such as the Grinnell Glacier and the Jackson Glacier appear to have been growing—not shrinking—since about 2010. (The Jackson Glacier—easily seen from the Going-To-The-Sun Highway—may have grown as much as 25% or more over the past decade.)”
The glaciers are growing! Obvious proof of Climate Crisis!
a perception issue, that students and faculty had a perception — their own truth and lived experience — of racial profiling.
Imaginary oppression. It’s everywhere.
Perfect work day:
Nose down work for 4 hours with no interruptions, no email, no phone.
Lunch.
Meetings and correspondence.
Out the door by 2 most days. Sometimes before lunch if no meetings.
New Hampshire red flag bill moving forward
Likelihood I’ll move there steadily decreasing…
At some point Oberlin’s legal counsel needs to step in and tell school admins to shut the fuck up. Because this is how you end up with a second suit.
Best advise from a Lawyer: “Take your coffee, and shut the full cup”
Microsoft experimented with a 4-day workweek, and productivity jumped by 40%
Working the same hours? I’d do four 10s to have 3 days off.
Hawthorne Experiment II: Electric Boogaloo
Tard Tuesday: LOL WUT
Shut up and do what Brussels tells you.
For people who constantly refer to others as “fascist” they sure do love themselves some centralized, directorial control.
Yeah. Boris is the one trying to overthrow democracy…
Woman, 8 months pregnant, used AR-15 to shoot and kill home intruder
She clearly had an unfair advantage.
The fetus was reloading magazines?
It would have been better for her to be raped and murdered / Leftists
Maybe the robbers would have just beat her into a miscarriage.
She’d have to practically thank them for saving her the trouble of getting an abortion!
Pretty much this. “She could have used a whistle or pepper spray. Or pissed and shit herself if they were going to rape her. She’s taken a life forever.”
Not a very valuable one.
Tolerant leftists assemble!
Putting on a “MAGA” hat is a form of racist hate speech and an implicit threat of violence. Kurt Suzuki should be banned from baseball. If you don’t like this tweet, fuck you.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) November 4, 2019
If he wore a swastika hat, he’d get banned from baseball – and a MAGA hat is no different.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) November 4, 2019
I brached this argument with a Left leaning friend of mine. I said i think it’s dumb to end a relationship over someone wearing a MAGA hat. “well… that has certain connoatations for some people”. ?!? Ok so you are willing to throw out everything you know about someone and just go with connotations over a Hat? They Left really has bought and sold to itself the idea that MAGAOTS are a bunch of nazi/kkk folk.
If someone’s that shallow, they were never really your friend to begin with.
Ask him about Che shirts.
That Japanese-American oughta be put in a camp!
Wait, that’s already been done
Asians are minorities until they’re not.
Exactly what I was talking about last night. Trump Is Derailing The Elite’s Gravy Train. It’s why they hate him and trying desperately to get rid of him.
The parasites running the federal government aren’t going to give up their power and ill-gotten gains without a hell of a fight.
“like Ned Beatty after a particularly tough canoe trip”
Normally I’m not a big fan of Schlichter (decent ideas, often badly argued), but that’s a sweet, sweet simile.
Poor Ned Beatty. That’s what his entire career basically boils down to.
Why no love for Stroker Ace
His legacy for me will always be the #7 Ford Thunderbird Clyde Torkle Chicken Pit Special.
Not for nothing, but Stroker Ace was my nickname in highschool…
Lonely childhood?
Or Otisburg?
One of the funniest bits from the old Jon Lovitz cartoon The Critic was when Duke uses a clip of Jay saying “And that’s why the best actor of this, or any other, generation is….Ned Beatty!” to illustrate why his show was doing so poorly.
Everything else in that article is window dressing, but this is perfect.
In order to change things, people have to elect more than just a President. As long as the Congress doesn’t change much, the government won’t change much.
I’m highly skeptical that we’ll be voting our way out of this.
Same here. Barring something truly extraordinary from Barr, Durham, and the Senate impeachment trial, the Deep State will walk away from their attempted coup pretty much unscathed, and will likely succeed next time someone Not of the Body gets close to the levers of power.
Titty Tuesday offers twin peaks of pleasure.
http://archive.li/kGHAM
Uber Technologies Inc. reported another mega-loss on Monday, but its chief executive said there is a light at the end of the profitability tunnel.
The ride-hailing service reported a third-quarter loss of $1.16 billion, or 68 cents a share, compared to a $986 million loss in the same quarter a year ago. The Q3 loss included $401 million in stock-based compensation. (The company’s official lockup period begins Nov. 6, when more than $20 billion of its stock hits the market.)
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“The concept is great, but the problem is I’m not sure ride-sharing is a profitable business with such large overhead costs,” Beth Kindig, an independent technology analyst in San Francisco, told MarketWatch in a phone interview. “Uber and Lyft are subsidizing rides to be cost competitive with taxis and draw customers.”
Holy shit. Somebody who actually gets it.
Uber is essentially a high tech version of that bulletin board in your college dorm where people would put up notes saying, “Need a ride home for spring break.” They put a frilly dress on it, but the level of overhead they took on is inexcusable. How did so many “sophisticated” venture capitalists decide it would be a good idea to fund all that?
“How did so many “sophisticated” venture capitalists decide it would be a good idea to fund all that?”
Same way so many high profile SV darlings have never made a profit yet continue to get reacharounds.
They heard “AI” at some point, that’s good enough for a billion dollar valuation.
They are hoping/looking for the next disruptive concept. If you invested in the personal computer arena in the early to mid 1980s (and picked the right player) you reaped unprecedented returns, ditto internet thereafter. Those two things (which aren’t really separate things) happening back to back has convinced a lot of people that every decade has to have its signature new thing that will grow into a double digit sector of the economy. I think a longer view indicates that disruptive concepts are less common and most growth/profits come from incremental improvements. But if you do pick the next big thing early enough …
On top of which dividends and yield are practically non-existent due to federal reserve fuckery so speculative bullshit gets a lot more traction than it otherwise would.
The other day, I estimated that Warren’s tax plan on unrealized capital gains would shave about 2 percentage points off the average annual rate of return. While it was pointed out that I probably underestimated the effect (assuming the rate is 20% or more), the end result would still be that stocks won’t beat inflation: at 5-6% annually, the best you can say is you’re not losing any value.
Don’t worry Comrade, that is why she will strengthen Social Security.
I think the main result of her tax plan would be that people would borrow enough money to stay under the net worth trigger for the wealth tax.
Which distorts capital markets, introduces more leverage, and thus more volatility, into the economy.
Possibly the stupidest thing I have heard a politican say in recent memory, though, is her plan to force privately held companies to give stock to the IRS for it to resell to cover the tax liabilities. Yes, SuperGenius Warren wants the IRS to go into the private placement business.
Wait til Warren II gets started and then there will be calls for the IRS to hold onto that same stock indefinitely.
I don’t know about every decade as it might take until the 2030’s to really take off but space based industry is likely to be the next big disruptive technology
If I had to guess, by 2040 at the latest we’ll have a nickle iron asteroid parked at L4 or L5 and be mining the shit out of it
More sports & politics: good BBC story on two footballers from East Berlin who managed to defect to the west via Belgrade & Zagreb in 1983: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/50289343
Thanks!
Cool story.
Jeff Lynne is still cranking out new tunes
I’ve always liked ELO. They were omnipresent on the airways when I was a kid.
It’s a pretty good record. His last one in 2015 was also worthwhile.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Viv was smokin’ hot, but here is the most beautiful ever.
Phoenix (who are actually looking dangerous this year).
Of course they are. When Kuemper was here, he couldn’t stop a fucking beach ball. Wild are cursed. Go ‘yotes!
Good luck with the trailers! I hope there was a good story behind it…
https://24femmespersecond.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/jayne-mansfield-lamp.jpg
Wrong.
But here’s a consolation prize
I’d still go with Loren.
You’re both obviously wrong since Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn existed.
Both worthy.
But there can be only one.
Yes, and it’s this one.
https://i.redd.it/5229b5bk07e31.jpg
Correct. Once in a generation looks + moral compass to nope the fuck out of the Nazi regime + smart is sexy, and she was usually the smartest person in the room.
Marvelous choice.
I am a big fan of Liz Taylor pictures but the live woman comes with way too much crazy.
I think Q has disproven that statement over and over again
Well, maybe there’s two
https://i.imgur.com/aHY7hqZ.jpg
Lynda Carter gets my vote.
Natalie Wood for the win!
RIP, My Love
I’d bet OMWC agrees that she was a miracle
I have a theory that Q is actually Russ Meyer. Discuss.
Unfortunately no, but he is one of my heroes.
Russ Meyer, Hugh Hefner and Bob Guccione?
Mondo Topless Trailer – San Francisco seems infinitly better in the 60’s.
NSFW!
I’ll say!
Ava Gardner is still the hottest
Y’all are all wrong. But it’s ok, all I have to do is fight off Bogey to take home Lauren Bacall.
Watched the Big Sleep yet again day before. Good lord.
Yeah, I’m sure it was “over the sandwich” and not just some murderous asshole. ?
Maybe he asked his wife to make him the sandwich?
LOL!
So Sloopy has had one, anyone else?
I am a Popeyes fan, but don’t want to stand in line with anyone.
Also, they are notoriously slow even when you are getting just fried chicken.
They’re excellent. I take the pickles off, tho.
Just go early, like 11 AM
I’ve only been to Popeye’s once & I wasn’t impressed with the chicken strips.
And apparently they heard me because this *just* arrived in my inbox:
WTF? My first LinkedIn spam!
Meh, click it from work. Surely they have sufficient malware protections in place.
I got a sandwich yesterday. Had to see what all the fuss is about. If you order on the app, you dramatically cut the wait time down.
Verdict – it’s good, but it’s still just a chicken sandwich. I still like CFA’s a bit more because of the lighter breading.
I haven’t had the new one because the closest Popeye isn’t close, but I’m still upset they got rid of their po’boys for these new sandwiches. Those were good. Chicken or shrimp.
Best Popeyes I’ve been to was on St Charles in New Orleans. Every other one I’ve been to across the country has been a pale shadow of that location.
And TNT has the nerve to go with fucking Chelsea instead. *spit*
Yeah, Chelsea/Ajax is a better matchup.
Pulisic.
Excellent. I will watch me some Pulisic.
Ugh. I can’t get him weeping on the bench after getting subbed a few week ago out of my head.
So I didn’t see the details on the 4-day work week, but did they want workers to make up the time by doing 4 10 hour days? Or did you just get a free day off?
In Minnesoda, “summer hours” are pretty common at most businesses. Work 4 10-hour days and get a 3 day weekend. And I won’t get too pissy about only working 32 hours a week. Because that is pretty much what happens in Minnesoda by the end of the summer. Those 10-hour days keep shrinking a bit each week.
I’ve noticed that Fridays are pretty slow all year, now. And not just in Minne.
This Friday will be a zoo on the roads leaving out of town as every deer hunter heads to camp for the opener.
I bought a bonus tag yesterday, I’m ready. Its gonna be cold
St. Venison’s Day, one of the high holidays.
May all your kills be clean.
I took Friday off, even though going west, we won’t have much traffic.
We’re curious as to what shows up on the trail cams.
Slutty does trying to make a quick buck?
A 10 point behind the house, a fork or 6 in the front yard, lots of does/fawns and a neighbor’s dog. Good luck to all those MN folks.
a neighbor’s dog
Are you trying to get my wife interested in hunting?
Normally I’m not a big fan of Schlichter (decent ideas, often badly argued), but that’s a sweet, sweet simile.
I find him to be overwrought in much the same way as Lucian Truscott. I laugh at Truscott. Schlicter makes me cringe.
(Ron Paul It’s Happening Gif)
https://freebeacon.com/politics/ready-for-hillary-2020/
I seriously wonder how many democratic votes Trump would get just to spite the DNC if they nominated HRC again.
“an opportunity to enter the race and unite the party”
LOL
Oh, she brings people together. Mostly out of fear.
Third times a charm. And what better time to invest in
cattlepopcorn futures.Where she goes to give her concession speech, again, and screams into the mic “WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!?! I’M SUPPOSED TO BE PRESIDENT!!!”
Yeah, that will be a charm.
She can be the William Jennings Bryan of our time. Except, without the oratory skill. Or opposition to imperialism.
Uffda. This is a refreshing story from the bureaucracy. DNR workers deny petition to ban lead in all ammunition and fishing tackle that was submitted by eco-groups.
They said – get ready for it – that a rule like this should be left to the state legislature.
Before you get too carried away and start printing up all those Libertarian Moment t-shirts, it should be noted that the DNR said that Minnesoda law prevents it from putting any new regulation into effect that would exceed $25K in compliance costs.
The document outlining the department’s reasoning said Minnesota has approximately 1.5 million licensed anglers and 557,000
licensed huntersPotential Terrorists. / LeftThe range was absolutely packed this weekend with shooters of all shapes, colors and sizes. I don’t think they want this fight.
Where could we buy some land nearby to open a rifle range with a 500 yd target? Talk about a market that is underserved.
Hmmm…….
You want to get rid of lead? Come up with a material that is just as dense, has a comparable melting point or is otherwise just as easy to form, is less toxic, and is soft enough to not abrade rifled barrels. As soon as such a material becomes cheaper than lead you will see lead go away.
Almost time for the Project Veritas #EpsteinCoverup video drop
saw a series of Reddit threads (r/ProRevenge) which usually consisted of people getting pissed over pettiness and then bringing in some government agency to screw the sleight-er. It disgusted me. I like to think that most people are decent and don’t want to use force in their daily life, but the cold truth is that most people have no qualms about calling in the gestapo to squash you for not shaking their hand. People are disgusting.
Liars think everyone else is a liar, violent assholes think everyone else is a violent asshole, petty thugs think everyone else is a petty thug.
I like to think that most people are decent and don’t want to use force in their daily life
In this, you’d be right. They want other people to do the dirty work for them.
To the surprise of no one with a functioning brain:
New Zealand’s Gun Confiscation Shaping Up To Be Massive Failure
I’ll bet it’s way lower than that. Watch Hong Kong, idiots.
Fortunately the ones predisposed to turn the weapons in at the Government Behest are also the ones who think China is in the right with regards to Hong Kong.
I wonder how many boats have been discovered to be surprisingly unstable and spilled all their contents during recent outings?
So much for gun owners being law abiding. /new talking points.
Non compliance is a feature, not a bug. Look at all those insta criminals.
At least nine Americans killed in Mexican highway ambush
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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A wonderful family and friends from Utah got caught between two vicious drug cartels, who were shooting at each other, with the result being many great American people killed, including young children, and some missing. If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these………monsters, the United States stands ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively. The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!
This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth. We merely await a call from your great new president!
It’s Tragic. But traveling to Mexico Border is a supremely irresponsible thing to do. This hearkens to me like when W.Wilson tried to argue that American Citizens should be safe to travel on British Ships during WW1.
Yeah, this is awful, but as much as my gut reaction would be to find and torture to death everyone responsible the fact is that Mexico is essentially a failed state and sending troops in will just wind up with another Afghanistan, only closer.
I wouldn’t necessarily condemn a private individual hiring a team to hunt down and kill the perpetrators.
Given the somewhat…let’s say complicated relationship between Mexico’s civilian government, military, and the cartels, I would think the government, or at least maybe regional and local governments, might fare better hiring some outside contractors to handle the situation.
NPR said it was a caravan between Mormon settlements.
Like i said, I wouldn’t fault anyone for going out and putting every Thugs head on a pike. I just don’t think Americans should expect to walk in a war-zone safely.
I have a lot of sympathy for the people who live there, as they only have the options to fight or flee. I know that a lot of settlements in the region have tried to defend themselves, but that means caravans get to be dangerous.
This is not the first time the cartels have hit the Mormons.
And I believe that many of the Mormons in these settlements are dual citizens. But I am not sure.
I would be willing to give up to 100 pesos to solve this problem.
The wild and remote islands that help ease climate anxiety
Once an endtimer, always an endtimer.
Cities are caused by global warming?
WOW. What an asshole Aaron Ruper is. Shut up you fucken asshole.
Even for a Voxxer, he’s particularly repugnant.
And his picture defines the term “punchable face”.
Democracy Lives!
Evil GOP Chairwoman relents and says that write in votes will be allowed in Minnesoda’s GOP primary. There has been a lot of fake concern from the local progressives when the GOP didn’t bother putting Sanford, Weld or Walsh on the primary ballot.
In California wildfire news:
Gavin Newsom, Your Carbon Offsets are Burning
Donny Two-scoops weighs in:
Trump Threatens to Cut California Wildfire Funds
Seems petty and vengeful. I like it.
BTW, does anyone else remember a couple of years ago when the South had a lot of fires and every coastal leftist was all: “Welp. They kinda deserve it for not believing in climate change enough”.
Tackling the real issues.
Brian Stelter✔
@brianstelter
Trump’s avalanche of absurd Twitter typos – thanks to @factbasefeed, we have these stats that compare Trump to other politicians – here’s the segment from @ReliableSources
“Everybody makes spelling mistakes. Everybody does. I do, everybody does. But on Twitter, Donald Trump makes a lot more of them than most people. Just this week, he misspelled “Republican” and “unfair.” But those are hardly the worst examples. We have seen countless absurd spellings from the Commander-in-Chief. He has called showbiz “shoebiz,” there’s “hamberders,” there’s the “smocking gun.” There’s a lot of these. Even misspelling his wife Melania’s name… I know English teachers are horrified by the president’s poor form… On average, Trump makes a spelling error at least one out of every five days. And since taking office, he’s made at least 188 of them.”
I saw that on the gym TV on Sunday.
This is CNN.
CNN is the most blatant, unabashed example of a media corporation abandoning this credo of unbiased reporting of facts and switching to explicit political activism. Yet, there are still people who will act like you’re an insane, InfoWars-listening, tinfoil hat-wearing wackjob if you question anything that is reported on CNN.
Having a president that makes such blatant typos is a dishonor to the brave corpse-men in all 57 states.
I’ve seen it theorized that he does it on purpose because that becomes the talking point rather than whatever dumb things he’s actually doing. Seems about right to me.
The saddest thing is that, however dumb Trump may be, everybody in the media is dumber.
“Look! Over here! A shiny!”
*media rolls on back, swats at cat toy viciously*
Donald Trump makes a lot more of them than most people.
On average, Trump makes a spelling error at least one out of every five days.
From my limited exposure to Twitter, that would make him a better speller than most people.
You mean he’s the best typist in all of space and time?
I’d bet it’s intentional. It’s 4D chess, but it’s sophisticated enough to endear him to his supporters and fuck with the Stelter’s of the world at the same time.
*not 4D.
You can’t yell nigger n a crowded Waffle House
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a man was shot to death at a Waffle House after calling other patrons racist slurs and starting a fight.
The GBI says Butts County deputies responded Halloween night to three 911 calls that were minutes apart. The first reported an angry customer, the second reported a fight and a third reported shots had been fired.
Responding deputies found 27-year-old Nicholas Phinazee Bryan mortally wounded. An investigation determined that Bryan “was using racial slurs” toward 36-year-old Robert Lewis Henderson Jr. and 39-year-old Antonio DeMarty Evans. Waffle House staff told Bryan to leave. Then their argument became physical. Police say Henderson fired a single shot at Bryan, who later died at a hospital.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
I also think there might be more to this story.
Nigga please
If you watch the Active Self Protection daily videos, you will see all kinds of messed up stuff.
Social violence is the most stupid kind of violence. There are literally cases where a simple bump escalates into a deadly force encounter.
Sometimes the asshole continuously escalates things until the non-asshole has to put them down. Other times its assholes going at it until suddenly you have a murder on your hands.
Don’t do stupid things, with stupid people, at stupid places. at stupid times.
Case in point… today’s video.
Road Rage out of Moscow
Two guys are raging on each other. One guy jumps out of his car and charges the other guy. The other guy is waiting with a flare gun and shoots guy number 1 in the sternum, then drives off. Guy 2 is facing charges of hooliganism and is likely to end up in a Russian prison.. Guy number 1 is fighting for his life in a Russian ICU.
My personal favorite
The way the media portrayed this case like the fucking retard with the bat was minding his business when he was ruthlessly shot in his own yard was nearly as stupid as the incident itself.
What was the deal with the mattress, ultimately? Why did the one group keep pulling it out of the dumpster? Just because you’re not supposed to put a mattress in a dumpster type of thing? I mean, nobody in that video looks good, but the guy becoming increasingly belligerent and threatening two armed men who clearly have the drop on him is definitely winning the competition for most stupid.
From what I read about it at the time, it was basically just what you describe. The old dude with the gun had removed the other guy’s mattress from the dumpster and put it back in his yard because it was supposed to be against the rules I guess. Guy put it back in the dumpster, he took it back out, back and forth a couple times until the confrontation in the video. The ranting retard that got shot had a lengthy history of assault and other petty charges. Meth head, supposedly. He had been in trouble not too long before the video for assaulting his mailman. The way the whole thing escalated is one of the dumbest fucking things I’ve ever seen. First of all, you’re going to get into an armed confrontation over a mattress in a dumpster… that being the case, you’re going to brandish a baseball bat and threaten to kill 2 dudes that are drawn own on you with guns… then you have the dumb bitch taping the whole thing while her nutcase boyfriend keeps getting closer and closer to getting himself shot instead of calling the damn cops or doing anything to deescalate the situation. The collective IQ of everyone in the video couldn’t possibly exceed 80.
Butts County?!?
Ha ha.
If you think that is funny, get a load of the hight school mascot of Butte County, Idaho
I’m way too immature to be trusted with that information.
Oberlin’s ‘Professor’ Ambar is a textbook bully.
That tweet showing the school tried to get thrown out as evidence showing that 80% of people arrested were actually white and only 15% black is all you need to know this is a school that hustles in race grievance.
If I’m a parent helping my kid choose a school? Stay away from this morally and intellectually bankrupted shit hole. Like Evergreen.
That’s Oberlin’s President Ambar, I believe.
I have to think their lawyers begged her not to do an interview, and she blew them off.
Or, she’s made a side deal with the plaintiffs for a cut of the punitives, and is making damn sure that the damage award is upheld on appeal.
I’m inclined to think she’s positioning herself for a run for office. Or maybe she thinks she’s still in New Jersey, where a connected Democrat can get away with just about anything.
Speaking of Minnesoda GOP Shitlords….
Metro Area Dem pols plenty upset at GOP plan to tie state payments to crime reduction performance.
How dare those fuckers expect Minneapolis and St. Paul to spend state aid money on shit that might actually reduce crime? Fuck those guys and their lame rules.
Republicans do not hold any of the legislative seats in either Minneapolis or St. Paul and haven’t for a long time, but that hasn’t stopped them from weighing in on crime in the cities.
So what your saying is that the crime in the cities are a product of democratic policies? This is an own goal statement.
Somebody should let Illinois know that apparently Chicago voters don’t get to have a say in the rest of the state.
Minnesota would essentially be Iowa.
*votes straight Republican ticket*
that hasn’t stopped them from weighing in on crime in the cities.
Looks to me like they are weighing in on how state money is spent in the cities.
…they have no business trying to micromanage city government to score political points.
“He who pays the piper, calls the tune.”
RE Cop going to jail for killing unarmed man. The incredible part is it happened TWICE!
Also.
“Sweeney’s attorney Gary James says Sweeney didn’t know whether Pigeon had a weapon.”
Is that even a legit excuse? And it’s especially dubious considering wouldn’t’ the officers present be communicating that the victim wasn’t armed?
Well you start out with:
He had a weapon so killing is justified.
Then a good lawyer sees that and thinks:
If I argue that my client reasonably believed “he had a weapon” that should be justified.
Then you move on to dropping the reasonably. Finally you end up with “Could conceivably have had a weapon, I didn’t know for sure”
Fortunately that last leap was too much for the jury.
For this jury.
But not for a lot of prosecutors and/or grand juries. Because the rule now is that a cop’s purely subjective feelings of anxiety are sufficient justification for putting someone in the ground.
Is it reporting bias that the cops being successfully prosecuted only in red states? Or is it a “only Nixon could go to China” thing?
I would love to know the answer to that question.
Gun control advocates would have preferred the reverse wit the eight month pregnant woman killed by an ‘assault gun of some sort’.
Total eclipse of the balls.
Now your day can go on with those updated lyrics.
Thanks to the Battlefield 4 single player campaign I already associate that song with a sacrificial combat suicide.
GOP leaders are using fear tactics to divide Minnesotans, [DFL House Majority Leader] Winkler said, and they have no business trying to micromanage city government to score political points.
“That’s our job!”
Just give us that $90M of state aid and SHUT UP! We’ll spend it however we want.
All the discussion about how many hours per workday and whether 4 10-hr days would be preferable to 5 8-hr days just makes me look forward to retirement even more. Only 90 workdays left!
Congratulations!
But you’ll be so busy you’ll think about going back to work again
/sorta sarc
Good on you, AN. Think of it as creating an opportunity for someone to get a promotion to your old job. You’re doing someone a favor
What are the chances that some state legislature, California’s for instance, in their attempts to punish the new intermediators like Uber, words a law clumsily enough to ban realtors?
That would be pretty entertaining.
If people can’t sell their houses, they can’t flee the state – win, win.
Oooooh!
We’ll call it “Lifetime ownership!”
Once a piece of property is purchased, it is yours FOREVER! You can’t sell it or be made prey to predatory practices!
Then when you die, the property will revert to the State, where is can be sold to a new Lifetime Owner, with the price being set based on the State’s fundamental interest in increasing diversity!
Hotel California indeed.
Minnesoda Popcorn Time
Minneapolis published a huge plan to micromanage every aspect of the city from now until 2040 (called the Minneapolis 2040 plan). It is a progressive’s wet dream.
Of course it isn’t perfect enough and fights are breaking out about what progressive hobby horse should take precedent. Minimum wage, Environment, ???
The linked article is a spat between a housing density guy and the head of the Audobon Society. They are fighting about if the plan is environmentally correct enough.
I love watching this sort of fight. Both sides are equally loony.
Density for the win. I’m sure this guy lives in a triplex too.
Socialism is for the people, not the socialist.
>Audobon Society
>loony
Not sure if we need a squint here or not…
Sparrow me your condescension Leap
Always sticking your beak in, huh Holiness?
Ducks out of the way !
Hope all the suburbs are ready for a population explosion, except Edina, voted worst city in MN
Maybe she is just completely repugnant
Interviews with more than 50 people inside and around her campaign—including current and former aides, personal confidants and strategists, and Democratic officials who have watched Harris up close for nearly a decade—reveal how a candidate with so much promise, range and charisma has slid so far. Many of her dilemmas are self-creations. Harris undermined her national introduction with costly flubs on health care, feeding a critique that she lacks a strong ideological core and plays to opinion polls and the desires of rich donors. She was vague or noncommittal on question after question from voters at campaign stops. She leaned on verbal crutches instead of hammering her main points in high-profile TV moments. The deliberate, evidence-intensive way she arrives at decisions—one of her potential strengths in a matchup with Trump—often made her look wobbly and unprepared.
Harris today has another explanation for her inability to get voters to see her as the next president: what she’s calling the “donkey in the room.” Before a few hundred people on a chilly October night in the Des Moines suburb of Ankeny, surrounded by hay bales and framed by the Iowa flag, she wondered aloud: “Is America ready for that? Are they ready for a woman of color to be president?
Good one, Kamala. Tell them they’re a bunch of racists. Maybe you should threaten to toss them in the slammer, while you’re at it.
The more you see, the less you like.
Kamala hindu nuffin
*nods appreciatively*
a candidate with so much promise, range and charisma
[citation required]
I have to admit, I’m a little stunned at her unlikeableness. This is the same party that nominated Hillary Clinton. I thought Harris was a shoe-in.
I think the fake-ass homegirl accent turns a lot of people off.
Range or rage?
“donkey in the room”
More like “honkey in the room” amirite? Crackers won’t vote for her because Trump has turned them into zombie nazis.
I love how the author’s like, “Well we’ve all been staring at our navels here at the main office for days now and we just can’t figure out why an uncharismatic, abrasive prosecutor who banged a mayor to get her job and rejoices in putting innocent people and nonviolent offenders in prison isn’t more popular. It’s just a real puzzler, I’ll yell ya.”
Team blue’s black chicks are not as hawt as they should be.
Team Red has the hot black chick market locked up.
Well you see, the Democrats are the friend of labor; they get all the field negroes. Republicans are the party of the rich; they get all the house negroes.
+1 Mia Love
It might help if they actually had a black chick running for President.
Ah…..aaaaanndd there it is. The race card. TA-DAH!
The ole ‘it’s not me, it’s you’ routine.
Kamala Harris is a cop.
I know y’all know that, but it deserves to be said.
Tell them they’re a bunch of racists.
Indeed, that’s sure to win over the Obama-Trump voters who decided the last election.
I bet you Oprah with a moderate agenda could win.
The deliberate, evidence-intensive way she arrives at decisions…
*choke*
So my buddy coaxed me into see Joker at the theater last night. I liked it. I don’t know about it being Oscar worthy or anything, but I liked it. To give it a very overbroad review: think Taxi Driver, but crazier and with no redemption.
P.S. Ever get an external hemorrhoidal flare up so bad you could barely walk and had to use a sick day? I just did. Hooray for early middle-age.
Maybe you better save butt stuff for Glibs: After Dark.
Says the guy who’s H&H stories post just before lunch.
Hemorrhoids! There butt for the grace of doG, go I.
You better make some preparations. As we age, we will become susceptible to hemorrhoids.
I suppository you are right about that.
A long-time friend of mine who also works as a dev once said something to me along the lines of, “Could you have imagined twenty years ago we’d be sitting in a bar talking about low-flow toilets and hemorrhoids?”
Rubber bands are your friend.
“Could you have imagined forty years ago we’d be sitting in a coffee shop wondering where our friends are?”
Baseless allegations
Republican Sen. Rand Paul, before a raucous crowd on Monday, demanded members of the media print the identity of the anonymous whistleblower at the heart of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
“I say to tonight to the media: do your job and print his name,” Paul, a Kentucky Republican, yelled during a rally Trump held in support of Republican Gov. Matt Bevin ahead of Tuesday’s gubernatorial election. The crowd of Trump supporters, many donning “READ THE TRANSCRIPT” shirts, erupted into applause and cheers, and some chanted “Do your job!” and pointed toward the area where members of the press gathered to cover the event.
Paul told the crowd “we also now know the name of the whistleblower,” but did not provide any personal knowledge of the person’s identity, before going on to echo baseless claims of wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. “The whistleblower needs to come before Congress as a material witness because he worked for Joe Biden at the same time Hunter Biden was getting money from corrupt oligarchs,” Paul said. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden.
The Vandals are at the gate, and CNN is doing their best to hold them back.
Which level of lies are more mendacious? “Baseless claims” or “without evidence”?
Good ol’ CNN. Nothing but the facts.
baseless claims of wrongdoing
Man, the double standard is incredible.
We know Trump is up to all kinds of bad things. Why? Because where there’s smoke, there must be fire.
However, Biden is as pure as the driven snow. Why? Because that’s not smoke, it’s just some displaced water vapor.
Yeah. Baseless would indicate that there is no basis for those claims.
The “wrongdoing” part is what’s crazy. CNN must have an interesting definition they’re using.
That’s an astounding interpretation of the events as described, even if you’re just using Joe’s own description of it when he was bragging.
It’s shit like this that makes me want the whole thing to come crumbling down.
The Trump pee pee tape is stone cold reality though.
[Rand Paul’s] comments drew swift condemnation from Democrats, who argue the person’s identity has no bearing on the allegations lodged against the President.
Wait, what?
Whoever they are, we know beyond a doubt that they’re a selfless public servant motivated by nothing but the highest degree of loyalty to the country and love of the Constitution.
Don’t go to ENB’s AM links. She really has a bad case of the TDS.
Even when I quit visiting Reason the staff had already gone full neocon vis-a-vis the federal intelligence and law enforcement apparatus.
I realize that libertarian != anarchist but when you find yourself siding with the hackiest of government hacks, maybe you should take a step back and reevaluate.
The rapidity with which they switched from excoriating that very same apparatus to paying undying fealty to it is really the comical part. Sort of a cross between the Gell-Mann amnesia effect and Stockholm syndrome.
ENB is a fucking joke and an embarrassment to that publication.
Hey, if you can’t trust the second-hand say-so of some old Biden hack, who can you trust?!
the person’s identity has no bearing on the allegations lodged against the President
So does this mean we’re done with #BelieveHer?
Still plenty of derp on the GMG sites:
Last McDonald’s cheeseburger in Iceland won’t rot, is metaphor for capitalism
The Washington Post decided to revisit this story on the burger’s tenth anniversary, but the piece expanded to encompass the entire Icelandic economy over the past decade, including the rise and fall of WOW, Iceland’s budget airline; the history of McDonald’s presence in Iceland; and the marketing of Iceland as a tourist destination. In short, the burger is a metaphor for capitalism: It can never be destroyed.
If you mean capitalism as a system in which private ownership of means of production is guided by Profits and Losses, then i agree that it can never be fully destroyed, as people will always be making economic judgments about themselves. But it certainly can be hamstrung to the point it doesn’t function.
People will always want more than they have, people will never be uniformly good at every task, and so they will exchange goods and services, which is the essential function of a marketplace. Higher-order concepts like bookkeeping, currency, banking, finance, etc. emerge over time just as naturally. The only time anybody came close to stopping this process was by killing everybody (hello, Pol Pot).
Bizarre
Trump used Obama’s name 106 times in June, the most of any month of his presidency; 80 times in October, his third-highest monthly total; 68 times in July, his fourth-highest monthly total; 61 times in August, his fifth-highest monthly total; and 51 times in September, his ninth-highest monthly total.
Over the five-month period, Trump mentioned Obama an average of 2.4 times per day. If you add in his 69 mentions of the “previous administration” or “last administration,” it was 2.8 times per day.
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All of the data in this article is courtesy of Bill Frischling of Factba.se, the excellent website that tracks all of Trump’s public utterances.
It’s unhealthy obsessions, all the way down.
Though shalt not use the anointed ones name in vain
Now do Obama and “I” and “me”.
^
And it isn’t like whoever is the sitting president won’t be critical of any particular previous president in explaining whatever issues are of interest.
Decades of free-market orthodoxy have taken a toll on democracy
Joseph Stiglitz
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/05/decades-of-free-market-orthodoxy-have-taken-a-toll-on-democracy
The credibility of neoliberalism’s faith in unfettered markets as the surest road to shared prosperity is on life-support these days. – WHERE THE EVERLOVING FUCK ARE THESE UNFETTERED MARKETS GAH
The form of globalisation prescribed by neoliberalism left individuals and entire societies unable to control an important part of their own destiny -MAGA
In rich and poor countries alike, elites promised that neoliberal policies would lead to faster economic growth and that the benefits would trickle down so that everyone, including the poorest, would be better off. To get there, though, workers would have to accept lower wages, and all citizens would have to accept cutbacks in important government programmes. – straaaw maaaaannn. Also define important
Economists with heterodox views were treated as heretics to be shunned, or at best shunted off to a few isolated institutions. – yes totes shunned. the so called Nobel prize for economic is a form of shunning. Also no one reported anything about Piketty nosiree
There’s a fair case to be made that the neoliberal consensus didn’t live up to its promises, particularly for the lower classes, and it’s certainly the case that economists not within the neoclassical mold enjoyed substantially less success and access to publication (more so for the Austrians and classicists than the neo-Keynsians and socialists, of course). There’s also a good case to be made that the alternatives Stiglitz proposes would have been immeasurably worse.
whatever the case is, unfettered markets are not a thing. I cannot take anyone seriously who makes this clam. between US EU and individual EU countries there are millions of pages of regulation and millions of bureaucrats. I am dumbfounded really. How can anyone – say whatever else – call this unfettered?
Well yeah, Stiglitz is a retard.
And give many of the lower classes have smartphones with internet on them and occasionally fly in airplanes for holidays, meh… Could have been a lot better with actual free markets? sure. still. living standards improved. .
It’s difficult to construct alternate histories. For every administrative assistant with an undergrad degree, $100k in debt, and a smart phone with free porn there’s probably a former machinist smoking meth in a trailer that wishes it was still 1985 and he still worked in a closed shop. Costs of living would be higher. Wages would also be higher. It’s probably a wash overall. Some benefit, others don’t.
There’s probably more bullets to be added to what I said below, but three of them I can think of are:
5. Universal education. The shift away from developing talents to throwing everybody into school and giving them all participation trophies removed self-correcting mechanisms that kept people employable.
6. The death of paper. While some offices (and indeed some countries, like Japan) still use paper heavily, in general the need for mail clerks, typists, and various and sundry other paper pushers is gone. That, in turn, eliminated some paths to upper mobility.
7. The growth of management. Every task of any real scale needs at least some degree of management, but the growing costs of compliance combined with the perception that management is on every white-collar career track has lead to a glut of managers (few of them worth a damn).
It is often pointed out that the federal employment numbers haven’t changed much since 1960. But, the nature of that employment has changed drastically. There are far fewer low-level employees and far more supervisory/managerial employees. That, and a lot of what the government used to do itself is now contracted out.
That last paragraph was meant to be illustrative of the ideas preceding it. Similar changes have been seen in the private sector. Not to mention the growth of HR departments (which are now separate from payroll) as both a defensive and competitive measure.
Yeah, opening trade exacerbates some of those trends that were already ongoing, particularly with the other confounding factors in our local (read: national) labor market. There’s some truth to the whole “race to the bottom” construction that the left leans on, although the disruptions would likely be less severe and more easily resolved in the absence of the new interventions they’ve supposedly justified.
Everybody wants to get paid more. Sometimes, they get it peaceably, other times they get forcibly, but regardless it’s not always sustainable. Yet, people want their wages to be on a ratchet, even when conditions change. Ceteris paribus, the more experience you have the more valuable you are to an employer. But that also requires you to maintain a consistent work ethic and for consumers to continuously demand what you make. As they say, nothing is constant but death and taxes. The “race to the bottom” is one of those corrective mechanisms that reminds people that things change.
What I said above is not to discount other reasons for change that are less organic and less productive, like managers wanting to higher younger people simply because they’re cheaper, or offshoring work so that they get rewarded by a perverse incentive system, etc. There is a push and pull to all of this. Getting the government involved tends to reinforce an unsustainable status quo rather than allowing change to happen and people to adapt.
you guys are a bunch of socialists
while trade and outsourcing obviously matters, the thing is with less bullshit government and taxation and a more flexible outlook, adaptation would be faster and less disruptive. Disruptive it would be without that there is stagnation. But losing jobs to a race to the bottom is exacerbated when artificial costs of taxes and regulations are imposed on some jobs. In general, most companies would rather not outsource, I think, if the difference is not massive.
Also there is a massive failure of mostly government education policy.
Well, that is one thing I’ve never been called before.
I’m certainly not socialist, although it would be fair to say that I’m not the market zealot that I once was. Mostly because a free market is an entirely theoretical construction, and real life policy choices are not as binary and simplistic as that. A 2,000 page trade agreement between a half dozen countries empowering a new supranational bureaucracy to manage issues like intellectual property and international courts to adjudicate banalities like the tariff equalization on soybeans is a basket of compromises and real-world policy choices, not a textbook problem where we merely shift some numbers on either side of an equation and like magic a free market comes out after the equal sign. I’ll put it like this: if we had the same labor environment as we had in 1960 then everything would certainly cost more because of higher labor costs. If we had the same regulatory environment as we had in 1960, the economic dynamism would probably make up for the increase on the labor side of the ledger, and I suspect that the development of technology and the overall amount of goods in circulation would probably be only marginally lower. Shifting from a heavily organized labor economy to a service sector economy was not without consequence, and it was largely orchestrated by decree rather than an organic market process. This was a series of tradeoffs, not the will of the invisible hand. All of our policy choices going forward will be likewise.
If neoliberalism can be interpreted as:
1) Decouple fiat money from reality
2) Set interest rates to historical lows (we’re talking about all of history here)
3) Massively grow the regulatory state and its apparatus
4) Massively increase the role of government in everyone’s lives
5) Put all of government, foreign policy and domestic policy, up for sale.
Then yes, it is an absolute failure.
However, they’re usually talking about not regulating harder and more free money.
There’s a fair case to be made that the neoliberal consensus didn’t live up to its promises, particularly for the lower classes
The thing is, it did work well for the lower classes, the problem was that the “poor” in the western nations weren’t actually the lower classes in a globalized economy, so most of the expected gains trickled right past them to those who were actually on the bottom, in other nations.
The poor in Western countries gained too. Just not as much.
To the extent one can use the term neoliberal outside of its original usage (where art thou, Gilmore?), it means a combination of the welfare state with capitalism. Where government programs were rolled back, it was because their expense had grown too great and/or they had set up perverse incentives. This whole system started to fall apart as a combination of a few different factors:
1. The rapid growth of the regulatory state. This added a third leg to the welfare+capitalism formulation which upset both ends.
2. The expansion of free trade without equivalent regulatory burdens. This led to the division of labor being driven by differences in law rather than talent or resources.
3. Unforeseen prosperity. While certainly not a bad thing on net, the technology boom led to a great increase in liquid wealth which allowed the welfare state to expand beyond reasonable limits.
4. The war on terror. Despite the end of the Cold War, we’re now in perpetual “peacekeeping” mode. The peace dividend has long ago been spent but we keep spending like it’s still there.
Did Q already link this incredibly moving customer service announcement?
Naturally, they’ve got my girl in the picture at the very end.
Was she the one from the linked Popeye stabbing story above Bill? 🙂
Depends, was that a stunning, buxom redhead who co-starred in Mad Men?
My wife has the dress the black girl is wearing.
With regard to the 4-day workweek experiment, let’s keep in mind, it’s Microsoft. My guess is that 95% of the people this applied to are salaried workers and that the average of that 95% is highly motivated employees. Their work hours might change from five eight-hour days to four ten-hour days. But, what does that exactly mean when you’re talking about people who work six ten hour days, anyway? So, the change in the workweek is probably something, at least operationally, a little closer to just letting them work from home. It’s not something that necessarily scales to the broader population.
I think it’s a good thing that companies are starting to become more flexible about work where it makes sense and not sticking to the “standard” 9-5 M-F office hours, but like you say it fits some industries and some companies better than others. Case in point: I defy anyone here to do four straight days of ten hours of customer service.
Mr Mojeaux: “Challenge accepted.”
He did that for 10 years, 3 of it work from home.
He got a different job within the company. He vouldn’t take working alone, as he likes to socialize.
Woof. I couldn’t handle that, but I’m not really cut out for it. It’s funny, I can give presentations and speak in public with no problem, but I can’t do sales and I can’t do customer service stuff. In the former case I can’t make myself care about making someone else care, and in the latter, I have a horrible combination of tending to replicate the emotion and tone of the person I’m talking to and have a really, really short fuse. I’m better than I was, but in middle school I’d actually get into fights with people because of the classic “funny look”.
Eight hours of customer service is enough.
I worked helpdesk for a year. Despite hating the job and the company, I do take pride in the fact that I managed to maintain the calm, nonconfrontational tone with all the callers.
The closest I ever came was actually waiting tables, and the hard part there was that whenever the kitchen would screw something up it seemed to always happen to nice people, and I’d personally feel absolutely terrible about it. That played into my issues with becoming irate when people do things wrong and being kind of a control freak, too, which didn’t help.
I’ve worked other jobs where customer service stuff came up, but it was always tangential to my main responsibilities, so I could just grit my teeth until I could hand it off to someone better equipped to deal with it.
https://airmail.news/issues/2019-11-2/how-to-serve-man
One of the first cases of that bad luck that always seems to befall socialist nations.
– Pulitzer Prize winner
Yeah and in that article I posted, there’s a picture of human skulls split open so the brains could be eaten. So it’s not even that the Soviets covered it up so well the NYT couldn’t find the truth. The truth was out there, they chose to cover it up.
commie twitter account of thee day?
https://twitter.com/luxemburgquotes/status/1191662110339670016
#UnintentionalIrony
#DeleteSelfAwareness
I never know if anything on Twitter is real or a performance piece.
Decades of free-market orthodoxy have taken a toll on democracy
Joseph Stiglitz
WHEEEEEEEE!
In case there was the slightest doubt that the Bidens are corrupt.
Note that State Department bureaucrats were only too eager to facilitate the obvious influence peddling. The really sad thing is, they probably didn’t even get paid to do so.
bAsELeSs AlLEgaTIoNs!!!!!!
I’d like a list of people in national politics who aren’t massively corrupt. It’s amazing how much their net worth goes up on a ~$150k congressional salary (while having to maintain homes in DC and their district).
They’re all corrupt, except my congressman. He’s great.
OT – I’m back after parents’ weekend at my son’s college and about a week internet free. Football team got crushed – as expected.
I’ve finally caught up on “Rifle is Beautiful”. It’s been a pleasant surprise. Hidden gem may be the voice over at the end where the characters say “Rifle is Beautiful” with the most ridiculous Engrish pronunciation.
Other fun “slice of life” anime this season I can recommend is “Houkago Saikoro Club” or “After School Dice Club”. Bonus for Japanese language interested Glibs is a surprising amount of Kyoto dialect with many of the voice actresses who grew up in the region so it sounds correct.
I loved the Saki series, so I’ll have to check that one out for sure. Thanks.
Again, asking the Ukrainians to look into this stuff is what we’re being told is an impeachable offense on Trump’s part. This isn’t even subtle corruption. It’s in its most blatant, undisguised, form. And it’s not just Hunter Biden. His partners in this little venture were John Kerry’s kid, oh, and the nephew of Whitey Bulger. They aren’t even trying to hide it. And before someone tries to say I’m just picking on the poor Democrats, the Bushes and the Romneys have the same sorts of setups.
Honestly, in a sane world, the consequences of this wouldn’t be an impeachment of the guy asking for an investigation, but the people involved being thrown into the Patomac tied up in a burlap sack with a rabid pit bull.
This would all be a lot more concerning if Trump was actually violating some kind of norm here. But the Obama administration spied on Trump’s campaign, and several politically motivated investigations of Trump, his family, and his associates were already in place when he asked the Ukrainians to look into the Bidens. Why are the Bidens off limits?
the Bushes and the Romneys have the same sorts of setups
What
MoiRomney?IHe would never!The pit bull doesn’t deserve that. A rabid dog should get a clean quick death, not be drowned in a river with scummy politicians and bureaucrats.
That’s why I selected a rabid pit bull. It’s a quicker death than by rabies.
Nearly A Million Cannibalistic Ants Trapped In Polish Weapon Bunker Make Long-Anticipated Escape
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/nearly-a-million-cannibalistic-ants-trapped-in-polish-weapon-bunker-make-longanticipated-escape/
Polish Weapon Bunker
Them are sure some shiny ants!
Oh, that Babylon Bee is so funny!
This is a twitter thread using Nazi puns to call Richard Spencer fat.
https://twitter.com/LOLNeverTweet/status/1191451686453305344
If it weren’t for relentless press coverage, no one would know who the hell Richard Spencer is.
The Man in The White Castle amused me
Now, this is how you take on Nazis.
The Brooks Doctrine?
I am TRUMP! destroyer of worlds
A coalition including environmental groups has asked a federal court to consider invalidating the Trump administration’s rollback of regulations on light bulb efficiency.
The administration’s changes would overturn Obama-era requirements for more energy-efficient versions of several common light bulbs, including three-way incandescent, candle-shaped chandelier and recessed reflector bulbs. When the Trump administration overturned the Obama rules in September, they had not yet taken effect.
The groups filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal appeals court to find that the administration violated a provision of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act that prevents the government from weakening efficiency standards.
When it unveiled the rule change, the Trump administration argued it was not weakening the standards because they had not yet taken effect.
It also said the Obama-era rules would cause light bulb prices to increase “by almost 300%.” Environmental groups said the math worked the other way: that less-efficient bulbs would cost consumers more to operate.
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The groups suing the government include Earthjustice, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Consumer Federation of America, Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants, Environment America and U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
More than a dozen attorneys general, led by New York state’s Letitia James and California’s Xavier Becerra, filed a parallel lawsuit on Monday.
Where is your legacy now, Obama?
You can take your shitty off-color light bulbs and put ’em where the sun don’t shine.
‘The groups filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal appeals court to find that the administration violated a provision of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act that prevents the government from weakening efficiency standards.’
How the hell does that work, exactly? Provisions mandated under one branch of government during one administration is not only immune from change within the same branch by a new administration, but also immune from challenge within the legislature? Have alphabet agency mandates become canonized now?
Yes, when the mandates are leftist ones. If a Republican POTUS makes a mandate, the permanent bureaucracy obfuscates, denies, delays, and diverts it. Then the second a Dem takes the White House, the mandate is reversed.
Make no mistake: the permanent bureaucracy wields the actual power in this country.
I don’t think anybody has said the law is immune from change by the legislature. It’s just that the legislature is not going to change the law, and if they do, it will be to make it worse.
Not to be redundant, but how DOES that work exactly? I was under the impression that the original provision was just penciled in by the agency itself with the approval of the Obama administration. If the provision was created and expected to be enforced entirely outside of the legislature, can they do anything about it, or does it have to be kicked to the SC?
Because fighting actual crime is so passé.
“Environmental groups said the math worked the other way: that less-efficient bulbs would cost consumers more to operate.”
Um, then there isn’t really a need for the regulation. The market will sort it out.
The market has already solved the problem for the most part. I buy LED bulbs — the others aren’t worth crowing about (chandelier bulbs, really, how much energy are those things wasting?)
I’m switching to LED as my incandescent and fluorescent bulbs burn out.
My only gripe is that sometimes the LED bulbs are a sickly blue color instead of the pale yellow color of traditional bulbs. That blue color looks fucking horrible and depressing. It makes my whole house look like a goddamn junior high computer lab.
Dude, color temp is your friend. I go with 3000K (halogen white) whenever possible.
Funny, that sickly brown light of incandescents always bothered me.
I guess what I’m describing is the off-white of the fluorescent bulbs (the coiled ones). That’s my ideal – not brown or blue, but a soft white with a touch of yellow to make it more like natural light.
The Athletic is now publishing articles about gender diversity in the NHL. Sad.
The hell? I don’t pay for the Athletic, so what’s this all about??
Measuring gender diversity in hockey operations departments throughout the NHL.
Written by their top NHL analytics guy, who says in the comments that this is more important than anything else he’s written.
well it is hockey so nothing is really important
Everybody wants to be a civil rights crusader nowadays. The problem is, the real injustice is not found where they’re looking.
JFC….what a joke
I thought they were one of few sane outlets?
That was the promise, yeah. It was supposed to be hardcore sports reporting, old fashioned stuff like Jim Murray or Jimmy Cannon.
That’s tremendously disappointing. I hope he’s getting roasted in the comments, and I hope people are rating the article poorly.
Plenty of white-knighting in there.
*barf*
Yeah, I just swung by, and damned if it’s not an even split between MAH SOCIAL JUSTICE and “remember when you wrote about sports?” And of course some other tool of a reporter jumped in to save him. The Athletic is a subscription site with no ad revenue. They’d better tread carefully, here. If they cater too much to the SJW crowd they will alienate more subscribers than they gain.
I don’t mind having the Outside The Lines type stuff, as long as its firewalled and clearly marked. I skipped that article in its entirety because it’s clearly marked as such.
The reason I never go on ESPN anymore is that the SJW stuff is in every thing. You can’t escape it.
There’s a market for it, but to me the concerning parts were the guy referring to it as the most important reporting he’s ever done–seriously?–and the other guy coming in to white knight for him. I do like that The Athletic does “human interest” stuff, but they’ve already got a long form section where that sort of thing can live more comfortably, IMO.
Yeah but pajama boys are gonna pajama boy.
I’ll cancel my subscription when my straight up sports reporting gets infested with little SJW asides and bon mots.
This follows their article about gender diversity in the Athletic’s staff, right?
Yeah, it’s still overwhelmingly good, but that shit is annoying. They had a few articles on the professional chick league awhile back that were nauseating, but it’s pretty easy to ignore them.x
The good news is that if things get too out of balance, the customers can easily voice their objections.
The Rangers SB Nation site used to tie itself in knots trying to shame people into giving a flying fuck about the womens’ league
Hard to believe they aren’t revered more. Drawing 800 people for every game, after all.
This One Distant, Red, Gas-Free Galaxy Defies Astronomers’ Expectations
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/04/this-one-bizarre-galaxy-challenges-everything-we-expect-in-astronomy/#4085b2dea486
The Atlantic uses its formidable reputation to convince readers that stealing isn’t a big deal so you bourgeois jerks need to get over it.
Yet around that time, Fairley relapsed on drugs, and the deliveries that were dropped daily on her neighbors’ porches caught her attention. At that point, she didn’t know about the cameras or Nextdoor. In the months that followed, the police would find a cache of the neighbors’ belongings and mail in her possession. Her sister told me that Fairley generally sold the packages “for a little bit of nothing, just to get high,” or ate any deliveries that contained food. (Police say thieves generally sell their pickings on eBay, Craigslist, or to middlemen, who may hawk them at flea markets.) Fairley insisted to me that she stole only a small number of items—“I did it maybe once or twice, three times at the most; it wasn’t like a new job I went into”—and that she sold just one of them, a set of storage bins, for about $20. (She also told me she stole mostly in order to buy necessities, not drugs.) She thought the packages would be replaced by Amazon and other senders, so her gain wouldn’t be her neighbors’ loss. “That’s what eased my conscience taking someone’s property, because I’m not a bad person, it was just a bad choice,” she told me. “I was in a desperate state.”
This woman is a horrible liar.
The entire article is just surreal, with its obvious shading of people angry that people like this woman who keep stealing their deliveries as horrible, judgmental people, and the thief as just a poor victim of circumstances who apparently is not remotely responsible for all of her really bad decisions.
The poor dear.
It’s infuriating. I mean:
In January 2018, Arnold took time off from work to attend one of Fairley’s hearings, at the suggestion of the prosecutor then handling the case. (An organized group of San Franciscans also has taken to sitting in on burglary cases to show elected judges that voters are watching.) While Arnold sat in the courtroom, his wife texted that Fairley wouldn’t be showing up: She was on their stoop that very moment, apparently in the middle of another stealing expedition. (Fairley was not charged in this alleged incident, and her lawyer declined to comment.)
But it wasn’t her! It was someone else this time, honest! Why are they persecuting this poor woman who was repeatedly caught redhanded in the act of stealing packages?
Fairley regularly skipped her hearings
And nothing else happened? Is she a cop?
Same bullshit lie AOC uses to support the transit thieves.
It’s amazing the reach Facebook has.
After disabling my FB account, I started up a new one – using a fake name, a new e-mail address with the same fake name, and only used it for corporate pages. Now I’m getting e-mails recommending me people I should friend — and it’s all the old friends from my old FB account. And that’s using Facebook Container on Firefox, which is supposed to stop FB from following me around. So I’ve got to disable the fake account too.
if you are innocent you have nothing to hide.
EXACTLY!
So when they claim to delete your data, they’re lying? Good to know.
Twitter does the same thing. I deleted, not deactivated, my Twitter account months ago. It said after a few weeks or a month all my data would be deleted permanently but everytime I click on a Twitter link here it asks me to sign in under my personal email address.
Could that be your browser saving your username for you?
I don’t see that at Twitter. Or Facebook for that matter.
Possibly,…probably. I’m not exactly the most tech savvy person on the planet. I thought I cleaned/cleared all that shit off my devices months ago but I could have easily missed something.
And no, I don’t sign in.
What does one have to do in the C-Suite to actually loose compensation?
Fired McDonald’s CEO Gets to Keep $37 Million in Stock Awards
Say something transphobic?
Own a gun?
Be Gemcrop CEO Charles Pembroke?
Its about promising the next guy that even if he gets the boot, everything he’s banked up to that point will be safe.
If you were a top flight CEO with a bunch of options, would you go to the only company that didn’t give their last CEO a golden parachute?
I don’t disagree.
But this was an outright violation and not a failed turn around strategy or even some business that went rogue like Wells Fargo. This was an I know the rules, but I’m going to break them.
But as I’ve said, Enron demonstrated the lack of real personal liability for board members in the current business climate. The downside in the C Suite and the board is simply getting kicked out. So mostly a blow to the ego. Sure, some do lose compensation, but almost all of them have more money than they can spend.
Completely OT, but IIRC you were at one point a watchmaker. If I’m not losing my mind, I was wondering if I could possibly contact you with a few questions on the topic.
Amateur watchmaker – but yes! Happy to help.
I’ve always had an interest and was considering maybe exploring it some more. I was actually at one point considering watchmaking school, but was disheartened by the meager pay. My latest acquisition sparked up the old interest again. I just wanted to bother you with some getting started type of questions. If you’ve got an email address at which I could contact you, you can send me a message at rTtsVtYpKxR5PwT3zf@protonmail.com
Sent
Stanford professor who changed America with just one study was also a liar
https://nypost.com/2019/11/02/stanford-professor-who-changed-america-with-just-one-study-was-also-a-liar/
This is news? I think everyone that was not a raging proggie douche knew this was all bullshit.
Where does an appreciation or at least acknowledgment of the sexual attractiveness of an individual of the same sex constitute “gay”?
“I’m not gay, but I’d do him/her.”
To me, a willingness to acknowledge it implies a spectrum.
On topic…
Those are mostly jokes though
Also all chicks swing that way. Men don’t
Not all women, but otherwise I would agree there is far more of a spectrum with women.
I think when evaluating a person’s attractiveness turns into an interest in physical contact. I think people evaluate their own attractiveness relative to the competition, so to speak, all the time, without feeling sexual attraction. So “that’s a really handsome dude” is not gay, but “that’s a really handsome dude, and I kinda want to touch his balls” is gay, or gay-ish. The latter is a technical term, btw.
A friend of mine used to have a theory–that’s being charitable, but roll with it–that every straight person has at least one exception they’d make. He used to say, “Look, I’m not attracted to men, but I would have sex with Prince just because I have so much respect for him as a musician. And maybe David Bowie.”
People should be more humble with their sexual proclivities.
“I’d do anyone who would have me” is the stoic position
+1 utilitarian
No offense intended to any of our friends who swing from the other side of the plate, but I quote Jerry from The Jimmy episode, when Elaine is annoyed when Jerry pleads ignorance at not knowing who she means by “the good looking guy”:
ELAINE – You can’t find beauty in a man?
JERRY – No. I find them repugnant, and unappealing.
I’m sure there’s a spectrum for some people, but I’m not one of them. I can speculate as to whether women would find a man attractive or not (it’s not that tough to decipher), but that’s about it.
Interest comment from the wife recently – she’s always said that she’s the same way with women, but she surprised me one day that, for the first time, she came across a woman she felt attracted to. Unfortunately, it would do nothing for me because it was a woman who was very masculine and not at all feminine.
Son of a bitch…
I can appreciate (male) beauty on an aesthetic level but never find myself sexually aroused or attracted.
Elaine: You can’t find beauty in a man?
Jerry: No, I find them repugnant and unappealing
https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-amy-robach-jeffrey-epstein-hot-mic
Nothing to see here about that Epstein guy!!! And the story getting buried was totally because it “we could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence to meet ABC’s editorial standards about her allegations.” BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA… Oh my god. Okay, now do Brett Kavanaugh.
I wonder if the story getting spiked might have had something to do with a certain… ahem… Herself, who was running for the Presidency at that exact moment in time. And how politically inexpedient it would have been for pics to come out of Herself’s serial-rapist husband being on the Lolita Express. Ohhh, please, Media, never change. Just tell us all about how you’re unbiased purveyors of Truth..y-ness.
The “Epstein didn’t commit suicide” thing had settled dowm to forgotten status till the guy on Fox with the dog. Now it’s everywhere, particularly when it’s juxtaposed with something completely not related. That’s the meme.
This is why the corporate press are the enemy of the people and why the notion of diversity of thought among the corporate press is farcical.
Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, etc. all serve the same masters
I’ll slightly disagree and I found the perfect quote in the article below that quotes from Yglesias’ piece on housing. From the author of the article:
I believe this is the best expression of the central difference between Fox and the rest of the MSM. The MSM is almost uniformly Left; Fox is the Right equivalent, which means they’re principally anti-MSM and anti-Left. And just like the Yglesias book points out, the Right/Fox give lip service to small govt, but their real hobby horse is simply being anti-Left. It’s why people here say the Right/Repubs are simply going toward the cliff at the speed limit; the Right/Repubs/Fox don’t drive any agenda, they simply react to the Left’s and that’s why we’re always going in the same direction.
We were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will that we, that also quashed the story.
That’s your “Moral Backbone”, we should definitely trust that they have the countries best intentions.
The End of Democracy: The Brexit Omnishambles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYfv6tLsTWo&feature=em-uploademail
It’s the anniversary of the only man to entire Parliament with honest intentions.
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England’s overthrow.
But, by God’s providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James’s sake!
If you won’t give me one,
I’ll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn’orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!
The Jacobites were wronged
Prince William is a Bastard heir of Charles so the Jacobites May yet return
Will’s not a bastard. The receding hairline is too Mountbatten.
Harry, tho…
We fought a war a long time ago so I don’t have to give a damn about this. That was a good war.
Diana was a desendent of Charles I via an illegitimate child
Wrong Charles. My bad.
I was clearly thinking of Prince Tampon.
Natalie Portman or not, still a shitty movie.
Put that money where it will do some good. Give it to the government!
Apple today announced a plan to dedicate $2.5 billion to combat the housing crisis in California. Following that announcement, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is slamming Apple, saying that the company helped create the housing crisis by not paying its fair share of taxes.
In a statement issued this evening, Sanders says that Apple’s $2.5 billion commitment to the California housing crisis is an act of “hypocrisy.” He accuses Apple of “throwing pennies at a housing crisis” that it “helped create.”
The Vermont senator explains that Apple’s announcement is an effort to “distract from the fact” that it played a role in the creation of the problem:
“Apple’s announcement that it is entering the real estate lending business is an effort to distract from the fact that it has helped create California’s housing crisis. We cannot rely on corporate tax evaders to solve California’s housing crisis.”
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Sanders details that Apple’s announcement today comes at it is “raking in $800 million of tax payer subsidies, and keeping a quarter trillion dollars of profit offshore, in order to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes.”
“When we defeat Donald Trump, we are going to make companies like Apple start paying their fair share, so that we can finally start making massive long-term investments that guarantee Americans affordable housing.”
As The Hill explains, for his part, Senator Sanders recently detailed his Housing for All plan. This $2.5 trillion plan would provide housing for all U.S. residents, funded by a wealth tax on the top one-tenth of 1 percent of income earners.
I’m really starting to actively despise Sanders. I used to think he was just a pathetic old crank.
Even Matt Yglesias can figure out the role of government in creating housing issues.
https://www.econlib.org/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-highlights/
I have never understood people’s treatment of Bernie: he is a fucking hard-core commie. Period. Always has been. Yet people act like he’s some lovable, old curmudgeonly uncle; he’s not. He wouldn’t bat an eye about throwing people in cages. He is a True Fucking Believer and, just like every other commie, he used his position in Vermont to get his wife loans for the college that completely failed and to cover it up. He is a complete statist piece of shit. The only redeeming thing about Bernie is… he’s never lied about it! He told people he thought bread lines were good. His heart is filled with nothing but envy for those who have achieved wealth in the marketplace. It exudes from his every pore the moment he starts opening his mouth. It’s nothing less than hatred of those who have more than him. That’s his entire schtick.
He eagerly propagandized for the Soviet Union. He’s a piece of shit.
You’re just noticing now that he’s a commie? 😛
Dude’s evil.
I guess I used to think Bernie was harmless because he would never attain a truly dangerous position of power. Even in the Senate, he’s mostly just a harmless old geezer yelling at the clouds. The thought of any of the Democrats (including Herself) getting anywhere near the Presidency is terrifying. They are pushing nothing but destruction and desolation.
In light of Warren’s stupid fucking “wealth tax”, it’s no longer hyperbolic to call them literal communists. And they only seem to be getting more extreme.
If you had asked me in 2016 who I would vote for, I would have told you that I’m voting Libertarian (which I did) because both major parties are too horrible for me to actually support. But since Trump’s election, the Democrats’ insanity has changed all that. I’m actually going to vote for Trump in 2020; he would have to do something pretty fucking bad (e.g. an Iraq-scale war or mass gun confiscation) for me to change my mind on that.
I don’t necessarily like Trump, but I like the effects that he is having. He has made the whole political establishment – both R and D – so angry that they’ve completely given away their hand. This constant push by the Deep State to “get him” has laid bare the fact that the American people only get democracy if they make the correct choice. Ditto with the media. In their TDS-induced rage, they have distorted and/or fabricated stories like never before and been exposed. The result is that if anyone ever tries to say that the media is unbiased and reliable, we can bury them under a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
#metoo ^^^^
“In light of Warren’s stupid fucking “wealth tax”, it’s no longer hyperbolic to call them literal communists. And they only seem to be getting more extreme.”
That’s sort of the issue I have with the whole “pox on both their houses” thing.
At this point, the Rick Santorum wing of the GOP is not holding the whip hand. Donald Trump is not going to ban abortion, or round up teh gayz. Donald Trump’s second term would look like his first: Twitter trolling, the odd cruise missile strike or special forces raid, and the same American domestic policy with regards to spending and welfare that both parties have followed since at least the 60s, and arguably since the 40s.
The actual Democratic front runners, one of whom is actually going to be running against Trump, are actual socialists. That’s not a pejorative or a propaganda term, it’s the literal truth. Warren or Bernie as a President, with a compliant Congress, would actually ban private medical care, would actually institute some kind of massive tax hike not just on income but on assets, would actually try to take your guns. They’re not even pretending any more. The mask is off.
There’s nothing, absolutely nothing, that the Democratic Party in 2020 is promising that will be friendly to liberty. Zero. They have jettisoned free speech, jettisoned due process, jettisoned the goal of a peaceful foreign policy. They have jettisoned the idea of representative government entirely, they want the country ruled by leftist professional bureaucrats they call “the experts”.
Warren’s vision of America is some kind of nightmare smiley faced dystopia. It’s every single one of us as perpetual college students, living in state approved housing, riding around on buses because cars are bad for the environment, with an endless army of stukačí reporting on us to the thought police when we make a joke in line at the public health clinic. Every job becomes a de facto government job, as regulation and taxation makes it impossible for any company smaller than 10,000 employees to survive, and with every corporate board staffed with the children of the governing class. The green zealots continue to regulate brown and grey jobs out of existence. No resource extraction, no factories, damn soon no farms, sacrificed on the altar of Gaia.