Today was awesome for me. All my direct reports and managers were busy doing other things, so I wrote a little program to help me get around the absolutely wretched MS Flows Power Automate interface. Best described as: Everything is drag-and-drop (as long as you are doing simple things)! If you want to do grown-up things (like only start a flow if a record changes to a certain status or use the fields in that changed record without doing another lookup), here’s a whole new syntax that isn’t quite the same as other syntaxes used in Azure. After I spent 4 hours figuring it out yesterday, I just decided to write a translator from something I already understand pretty well and can easily produce. I can still code! I have skillz!
I suspect this story is wildly overblown, but I am kind of hoping that permanent Federal supervisory class finds itself engaged in a bloody war of attrition with the political class that leaves both sides substantially weakened for a couple of decades.
Bill Gates demonstrates actual “fuck you” money, tells Warren and Dem establishment to pound sand over wealth tax.
Unfortunately for this Iowan, he was only mostly dead.
Who in the fuck is giving money to Sears? “from lenders that include billionaire owner Eddie Lampert” — oh, money laundering.
Not First?
In the spirit of skillz, I am proud to announce that I beat this EPUB file I was making into submission and it is gorgeous. Granted, I had to have my error pointed out to me, but other than being slightly embarrassed, I am happy to be wrong about my assumptions.
Hooray!
Frabjous Day!
Accomplishments are nice, and you should feel good about it.
Congrats!
“The Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed the district court’s decision, agreeing that Schreiber’s sentence isn’t up until a medical examiner declares he is deceased.
“Schreiber is either still alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is actually dead, in which case this appeal is moot,” Judge Amanda Potterfield wrote in the court of appeals opinion.
The district court did not address Schreiber’s additional claim that his due process rights were violated when the doctors failed to follow his “do not resuscitate” request, court records show. Because of this, the court of appeals in its ruling said they could not address it either as a lower court had not made any judgement on it.”
Why didn’t they just him die?
Death isn’t the punishment, prison is. You gonna let him take the easy way out?
Why do you hate Iowa taxpayers?
Because of corn subsidies.
DNRs get ignored all the time.
In my experience, mostly because the family isn’t willing to follow through and override it at the last minute. Once the order is in, staff follow it until told not to.
He could sue the doctors for assault, though. Because that’s what laying hands on someone (to provide medical care) without their consent actually is.
Prisoners don’t have rights or so the prison guard union tells me.
It’s been a while so I’m light on details, but when my dad worked in a prison as a nurse, he had many arguments with the guards, the state prison board, and outside treatment facilities over inmate care. He lost most of those fights. One case involved an elderly inmate the repeatedly got bounced between thr prison and a nursing home and hospital without regards to his DNR. It was a giant circle jerk of everyone trying to cover their ass and nobody sharing information; if I remember correctly he finally passed on an ambulance on route back to a hospital.
Nope. Implied consent protects them. It assumes that if the patient were able to make a decision, they would consent to care.
I was watching some medical show my husband had on. A dude came into the ER after a car accident and he was pretty much a gonner. He had a little girl. She was also badly injured but had a good chance at living. He had DO NOT RESCUCITATE tattooed across his chest. Well, there was his little girl over there and what was she going to do if daddy died? They had a huge argument about it while someone was still trying to rescucitate him in spite of this tattoo. If you get a tattoo, you’re serious about it! I don’t remember the end of the show. I probably left or something because that is not my usual viewing fare.
Don’t ignore the DNR.
Tattoos aren’t legally binding because you could change your mind after the tattoo.
+1 Girls gone wild.
You could also change your mind after signing paperwork. Your wishes are clearly stated. That should be enough.
Amending paperwork is much easier than changing a tattoo.
Not when you’re about to die and unconscious.
Or, the tattoo is just a tattoo. An “ooh, look at badass me” tattoo. And not intended to be legally binding at all.
Why I hate hospital shows: Because they get it wrong.
An order, including a DNR, can only be written by a physician on the medical staff.
It can only be issued with the informed consent of the patient. A tattoo is not informed consent.
Mr. Tat did not have a DNR, and nobody who works in a hospital would ever think he did.
Further, DNRs are only for hospital inpatients. The guy in the ED has not been admitted (at least, not while he’s in the ED). There are DNRs that some states allow for ambulances, etc. (written by a physician, usually a primary care doc) but those don’t cross into the hospital because they weren’t written on a hospital patient, even if the physician has privileges at the hospital where Mr. Tat shows up. Which he almost certainly doesn’t.
Then why did my mother and I bother to get her a DNR before surgery and have it notarized and why did the hospital accept it?
Doctors don’t originate DNRs, you were instructing the Doctor that the patient wished to have a DNR in place. But the Doctor has to put the order in place, because you aren’t in the hospital hierarchy and can’t order staff.
DNR is not in effect during surgery either.
That was not a DNR, which is a do not resuscitate order. An actual DNR order can only be placed by a physician on someone who is currently a hospital patient. All orders expire when a patient is discharged, so if you have a DNR order, are discharged, and are later readmitted, a new DNR order has to be written.
What you had was likely a living will or advance directive. DNR orders have to be consented to by the patient, and that constitutes advance consent to a DNR order. Its not unusual for patients to be unconscious or incapacitated when the decision has to be made. Good on you, BTW, for getting that done. Your mother can revoke it any time – best way is to write “revoked” over her signature on your copy. Remember – the hospital has that on file, so if she decides to revoke, she needs to do so in writing.
And, yes, DNRs are suspended during surgery, because patients sometimes “die” during surgery. When general anesthesia is used, the anesthesiologist is basically keeping you barely alive during the surgery, and its not that unusual for patients to “slip under” and be brought back. More common than you think.
I assume Durham’s report will be timed to be at a high boil before the election next year.
That reports sounds like a bunch of Bull.
Durham’s the prosecutor. He doesn’t file reports, he files indictments.
The Report/Indictment by DURHAM is BULL… Its a Bull Durham Rep… oh eff it.
I got it, meat.
He had some splainin’ to do.
I got it.
Only after slowing down to breathe through my eyelids like the lava lizards of the Galapagos Islands.
Folks expected something big to be in play right before the midterms in 2018. That was an explanation for the IG Horowitz report’s numerous delays. Then the report was released in June 2018 and nothing happened.
AFAIK, they still have a shitload of valuable real estate, and you’ll always be able to find someone to lend you money if you’ve got that.
Yeah, it just seems to be some sort of money laundering scheme where the owner of the real-estate (different company) keeps lending the business money. But usually you take paper losses. This seems like just burning money.
Bill Gates doesn’t deserve that money he earned. The people deserve it. We should take it by force and use it for the common good to rid ourselves of this fascist/capitalist hellscape.
Think of all the ways Bill Gates has improved the lives of everyone. You now know the best way to press Ctrl, Alt, and Del at the same time! You got to spend more time with you mother explaining to her that she needs to update internet explorer. He got rich by making us all better!
I am never going to worship at the altar of Bill Gates, but yes, their products mostly have made my life better.
Except for that while Win8 and Win10 business. I’ll hold onto Win7 as long as I possibly can.
End of Support has been announced for Windows 7, which makes me a sad panda.
Yeah, my husband says that and I’m like, “What’s that got to do with me? It still works.”
“Well, honey, you know, security latches and updates and stuff.”
“When have I ever voluntarily upgraded or done security patches? My shit breaks every time I upgrade or install a security patch.”
Since he has, in fact, caused my shit to break installing security patches (which I can do very good and well for myself, tyvm) (after I asked him not to), he doesn’t argue with me about it.
I’ll get Win10 when I can no longer run my usual programs on 7.
I’m probably going to need to break down and pick up a Win10 license for the machine I’m building for my nephews in a month. I’m not going to subject Windows 7 to the whims of two young boys. Of course, this also means that my sister and brother-in-law will need to not give up the admin password I give them to the kids.
I’m going to create a backup disc of the machine before giving it to them as a last resort restore (since I know by giving it to them, I’m signing up as some form of tech support).
I currently have 110 faculty whose office desktops are running windows 7. Half of them will have to have new machines (so I am told) because the ones they have now are too old to run Win 10 properly as well as the other stuff our IT folks put on there. The other half are going to have to deal with a software upgrade at right around the same time they are finishing final grades for Fall. Still negotiating with academic affairs over who is paying for it.
This is totally what I went to grad school for.
I still have a Dell laptop that was old in 2013 when I got a new laptop (I am still working on that one). The old Dell is a workhorse, albeit a slow one. I could do most anything I need to on it if I needed to.
My current laptop is an Asus. My husband loves Asus products. I just got a new battery for it. I keep my stuff forever as I hate change.
Unfortunately, my phone battery is starting to drain quickly now and I don’t want a new phone even if I could afford a new phone.
I have an inclination to keep hardware until it fails… but I’m also a PC gamer, and that means from time to time I end up having to do a hardware upgrade to keep current. So the question of how old my computer is turns into a Ship of Thesius debate.
My husband does that. If I start complaining about something hardwar related, he’ll get the part and replace whatever it is. I can handle my own software issues, but he handles all the hardware issues for everyone in the house.
The kids could handle their own software issues if they were allowed to.
It’s popular to mock. I do it. But when you remember what it was like using paper ledgers and an adding machine vs. excel, or a typewriter vs. word, or even using a matte knife and cardboard to mock up a layout vs. publisher, yeah Microsoft improved our lives a lot.
Excel was not the first spreadsheet. Nor word the first word processor. In fact, there are better version of both.
No clue what publisher is even used for, so I can’t speak to that.
Both are the most used in their space, by an order of magnitude.
So?
To argue that credit for imrpovement over the non-computerized version goes to microsoft, they’d need to have been the ones to move it into the computer space. Otherwise, their absense in that part of the software market wouldn’t have put us back to the meatspace solution.
Your position is stuck quibbling between Lotus 123 and Excel. Market might have made the mistake of buying Excel recently, but we weren’t stuck on paper without it.
To argue that credit for imrpovement over the non-computerized version goes to microsoft, they’d need to have been the ones to move it into the computer space. Otherwise, their absense in that part of the software market wouldn’t have put us back to the meatspace solution.
I do not think this argument has merit. The existence of the Stanley Steamer does not invalidate Ford’s contribution. Microsoft makes the tools most of us use to do these tasks, the tasks are easier by virtue of those tools. The fact that someone else made similar tools (that software hipsters consider better) does not invalidate the contribution.
And yes, I called you lotus and word perfect fans hipsters. I only used lotus a couple times, so I can’t speak to its quality, but word perfect fandom is nostalgia based on what people used first. I had to deal with word perfect fans for years, word is better.
If you paid attention, I’m a LibreOffice user, because Micrisoft fucked up the interface beyond all usability.
And there was no comparison of MSOffice to Ford’s improvements because the market share back in the 80s of the competition was much larger than that of the proto automobiles. The fact that Microsoft’s monopoly position in the operating system market gave them the financial security that let them take losses on other products to wait out the other companies did not make them the better product, or an improvement.
I do all my documents in LaTex
*neener neener*
(I wish… Word sucks at some things, but excels *wink* at others)
I posted this last night.
Apologies if you’ve already seen it.
Which word processor is/was superior is completely irrelevant to me.
Lotus 123 wasnt the first either, but it had the nest interface.
Best, although nest isnt entirely wrong.
I was honestly a bit young when 123 came out to even be using spreadsheets.
Visicalc
Lotus 123 and Word Perfect were worlds better than Excel and Word until version 4.2 or .3.
Powerpoint was always way better than Harvard Graphics for presenting.
Visicalc was better than both in version 1.
Quattro Pro rocked pretty good for a year or two.
It’s not about Excel or Word.
It’s about DOS.
DOS was written by someone else and bought by MicroSoft.
It doesn’t matter who wrote it. It matters who improved it, got it distributed, and implemented as the standard.
MS and IBM did that. Seattle Computer Products couldn’t get it done.
*cough cough*
Which DOS?
I was thinking of Q-DOS.
Yeah IBM made DOS a great product, MS just made it an accessible product.
Yes, but love them or hate them, Microsoft and Mike Dell brought computing to the masses. IBM would have fucked around with it for decades longer, achieving nothing with the IP they had.
I have no opinion on Dell. Maybe because I never got into buying premade computers.
As Easy As 123
I ‘member
I remember using Lotus 123 and Quattro Pro. About equal to early Excel.
Yup. Lotus 1-2-3 release 3 was my 1st experience with it.
And AmiPro was our word processor.
Nothing more fun than exiting out of DOS in 123 to load up the printing and charting programs.
And who can forget 123’s first GUI in OS/2.
I try to forget OS/2 altogether.
I don’t really miss WordPerfect.
I learned how to turn on hidden characters (“reveal codes” back then) so I could see why the document wasn’t doing what I was trying to get it to do. I can’t work without seeing everything now.
4.x was solid. 5.x was a bug ridden mess.
“mock up a layout vs. publisher”
So sad.
(Sorry, I am a mac guy due to my occupation as a Creative Director)
Yeah, Mac and Linux here. Mostly Mac. My hardware is seriously old and I need to replace either the laptop or iMac soon.
Windows Me.
I don’t want to take any money from him, but can I just drag him around the parking lot 3 or 4. .. dozen times?
I frequently half-jokingly curse Bill Gates, but as someone who makes a living developing software, he has definitely made my life better.
I have to keep a crapton of marginal Oracle-owned products running. I don’t curse Larry Ellison for the software he likely hasn’t touched.
I do curse the people who thought it was a good idea to put all of our eggs into that basket then underfund maintenance.
Fair enough, which is why the curses are half-joking.
I was thinking that in a way, billionaire’s property is already community property. Most of their property is in the form of providing some services that everyone uses. Confiscate that property and it’s value is destroyed.
*lights Ted signal*
That milk drinker? Like I care. Also I type with only one thumb on an iPhone so I can’t be bothered to edit.
Liawatha’s wealth tax will destroy the economy faster than a nuclear war.
What about all the stimulus from the broken cities!
/Krug-something
We’ll have to wait for the Aliens to invade.
When PCs first showed up on our desks, we had Lotus 1-2-3, Word Perfect, and some forgotten tool to make drawings.
Each tool worked pretty good. But putting shit together for engineering documents or presentations sucked.
When Office came out, the components were no better and perhaps inferior to Lotus, WP, etc. But they fucking worked together!
Windows has always been borderline shit. But I have always liked Office.
I was ambivalent towards Office until they foist that ribbon on the users.
I got complaints to my manage from other people in the office because of my hour long argument with the piece of crap trying to get it to do what I want it to (change what controls appear along the home ribbon so I can work most efficiently).
I still use it for official work product because that my employer’s standard, but everywhere else, I won’t touch it.
I suspect this story is wildly overblown,
Yeah, fool me once . . .
The IG has badly disappointed before (on what defensible grounds could he recommend against prosecuting Comey, who plainly violated multiple laws). He’s a federal bureaucrat, who has acted like one so far (Agency Uber Alles). I don’t expect that to change between one report and the next.
The best argument why it’s different this time is that the deep state is fully engaged with the impeachment based on the most preposterous “crimes.” They had to create a distraction right now.
“Chinese police offers are now freely patrolling the streets of Italy to “protect Chinese tourists”. A foreign force is being allowed to operate in another country for the sole purpose of protectings its nationals. This is a blatent form of colonialism.”
https://twitter.com/alessabocchi/status/1192393176272842753
What?
Added bonus. You can watch your subjects even when they leave the country.
Some that, yes.
Maybe also to keep Chinese tourists from acting like complete assholes until the whole world hates them.
Supposedly they are there to act as translators.
So why wear what looks like Chinese police uniforms?
To keep their tourists in line.
That seems pretty crazy. The comments have a little of something for everyone.
Unfortunately, China’s carefully crafted plans will fail when they introduce opium to the Italian market, expecting the pent-up, repressed Moma’s boy Catholics to fall into degradation when mind-altering chemicals introduced to their ports…
That doesn’t sound like protection OR colonialism. It sounds like complete control of its citizenry.
Now here’s a legal argument:
Man serving life sentence dies, is brought back to life. Goes back to court and claims that since he died, his life sentence was fulfilled and he should be freed.
Court didn’t agree, but hey. A for effort.
I am dumb, did not read the actual links, and should be ashamed of myself.
Yes. Yes you should.
Go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done.
“this is not a parody account or troll these are real thoughts someone typed out on the internet and posted publicly”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1192241224503222277
Oh, come on!
Still would
Three California Firefighters Go Into Blaze But Fourth Figure Miraculously Appears Alongside Them
But fire authorities watching the blaze were suddenly shocked to see a fourth figure alongside the three firefighters: actor Keanu Reeves.
“Did we not see three firefighters go into the blaze?” said one stunned witness, Nezzie Smith. “But I see four men, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”
Reeves raised his hands and the fires subsided, saving the lives of the firefighters and millions of dollars in property. “I know kung fu—the kind of kung fu you can use against fire,” he said. “Calm yourselves. Do you not know that even the fire obeys me?”
This is what’s so great about the Bee – they’ll make a joke at anyone’s expense, even Christians.
My favorite along those lines, which they recently republished with the elections.
Christians face clear choice between party that’s a hypocritical mockery of their faith versus one that’s openly hostile to it
*sadly nods*
Corinthians 2 Biblical Boogaloo would have convinced me we have a Bee spy onboard.
“Nezzie Smith” nicely done.
Satire? Hmmmm…
Assault Rifles
That is a work of art.
Triangle of Death!
i lost a little public composure reading that part.
I think I’m going to get that on a t-shirt.
Might be the funniest thing they’ve ever done. But they keep raising the bar so who knows what’s next?
Approaching cold front will make it feel like fall in south Florida
Highs in the low 80s, lows in the upper 60s. Time for the puffy coats!
*fires up truck, revs engine*
I was promised global warming, Damn it!
Did anyone notice that the hurricane season was really a tame one this year?
Don’t say that out loud in Freeport.
Is there anyone around to hear it?
Adam Schiff makes up new rules for impeachment inquiry. These would only apply to the committee which he chairs, but that’s where all the action is. So even though the ranking member of the committee is indeed allowed to question witnesses, those questions have to be from the approved script. Can you say “show trial,” boys and girls?
Wow. Just wow. Who does Schiff think he is going to persuade with these tactics. Team Blue is all for impeachment. Team Red is opposed. Anyone unaffiliated needs to be persuaded. This really is a show trial.
Who is he going to persuade? Dunno, but the election trend the other night seems to demonstrate Schiff is on the right track.
Pathetically easy to get around. Let’s take as our first witness, Rep. Schiff:
Nunes: “Did the President and his Administration seek to obstruct, suppress, or cover up information to conceal from the Congress and the American people evidence about the President’s actions and conduct?”
Schiff: Beats me. Can I go now?
Nunes: After hours of committee hearings into this very topic, not to mention secret depositions and documents, you cannot speak to whether the President, etc.”?
Schiff: Nope.
Nunes: If you have opinion, no facts, nothing that is relevant to the question, why did you convene this “impeachment” inquiry?
Schiff: To find out if there is a basis for impeachment.
Nunes: After over a year of investigation, you don’t know if there is any basis for impeachment? Then why convene this inquiry?
The problem that Schiff has with these conclusory questions is that they do no preclude testimony from people with any information relevant to the conclusions. IOW, if he is trying to keep witnesses out of the hearing who will testify about the weakness of the case in any way, this ain’t gonna do it.
Nunes: “Did the President and his Administration seek to obstruct, suppress, or cover up information to conceal from the Congress and the American people evidence about the President’s actions and conduct?”
Witness: Not to my knowledge.
There. Witness qualified, and may now go on to testify about backroom shenanigans, prepping and bias of other witnesses, etc. It all goes to whether the President, etc.
It seems like Sears has been closing hundreds of stores per year for the last 12 years or so. As an investor I wouldn’t give them a penny.
If you had recourse to their real estate and a high profit margin if they repaid the loans you would.
Impeachment trifecta.
According to ABC News, Democrats are evaluating articles charging President Trump with abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and contempt of Congress.
Impeachment investigators believe the president could be charged with abuse of power for floating to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into allegations of corruption against former Vice President and 2020 White House contender Joe Biden, along with his beleaguered son, Hunter Biden. Further, lawmakers believe the president may have obstructed justice and be in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas for documents and witness testimony.
“They have also weighed an obstruction of justice charge centered on the president’s efforts to obstruct former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation,” ABC News reports.
The development comes as former national security adviser John Bolton opted against interviewing with congressional investigators on Thursday.
An attorney for Bolton, Charles Cooper, said his client had not received a subpoena. Cooper had previously said Bolton would not appear without one.
A House Intelligence committee official said the panel has no interest in engaging in a drawn-out court fight over a subpoena for Bolton and will simply add the White House’s instructions against testifying as evidence of the president’s obstruction of Congress.
I would have gone with bad hair/spray-tan, eats burnt steak, and brands mediocre, overpriced wine.
I have a lot of contempt for Congress too. Impeach me, motherfuckers.
“According to ABC News”
That’s as far as I made it.
“beleaguered son, Hunter Biden.”
Oh FUCK OFF.
Austere Ukraine scholar
Seriously. How many months after coking out of the Navy before he landed that cushy $50K/month deal.
And was that before or after he started banging his sister-in-law?
Who had to suck Stephanopoulos’ balls to calm him down after he found out they almost ran a story bad for the Clintons? That’s what I want to know from ABC News.
OT:
We got a good response from the Glibs re: Diplomacy.
For players we have:
robc
Neph
RBS
Swiss
Leap
Hyperbole
trash
Alternates:
Ozy
DrFronkestein
OneOut
The game is set up at webDiplomacy. Accounts are free and no questions asked so feel free to join. Right now i’m in holding a place but will jump out once we get some people in. https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=255637. Password is Glibs4Life. There are only 2 days to join, so please join soon. Each phase players will have 2 days to put in their orders. My plan is to have one article a week wrapping up play, with it being slightly behind so as to not call attention to any immediate plans that players might have.
review the rules here: https://www.wizards.com/avalonhill/rules/diplomacy.pdf
If you cannot play please let us know and we can sub in one of the Alternates.
Doh. Forgot to post the Name of the Game: Mr SMITH Goes to Europe
Required Reliability: 41%
(You are not reliable enough to join this game.)
If more people are interested, can we get a second game going?
/was too slammed with work to sign up expeditiously
We might be able to, but i would probably only be able to write about one.
I’d sign up and play. I didn’t speak up before because I have only played diplomacy a couple times 20+ years ago (none of my friends ever wanted to play) and only vaguely remember how, but if we are trying to stretch to 2 games I’ll take my beating 🙂
I signed up, not fully sure how the site works so if me signing up for the game creates a problem with numbers let me know and I will drop out.
So yeah, you did join the Game. I don’t want to be an ass but i do want to be fair to the other folks who have volunteered. I have you name down as an alternate for this one though. Also with you and Tarran, that makes 5 folks, if two more are interested Another game can be set up.
NO, you’re not being an ass, as I said I wasn’t sure if I was joining an actual game or a room in which games would occur. I left. Just let me know if a second game forms and I’ll join that one.
I tried to sign up, but must be doing something wrong. I filled in my email to verify, but nothing happened. Shrugs
Same happened to me FM.
It doesn’t recognize the script code. Maybe because I’m on iphone.
it says I am not reliable to join this game, which may be accurate but do you have any idea what I need to do to fix that?
Confirmed and signed up.
More then the base rules:
http://www.diplomacy-archive.com/resources/strategy.htm
Apparently I’m not reliable enough to join the game…
Damnit. @Neph i’m sorry i didn’t change the Reliability setting. I Made a new Game with no reliability required.
https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=255643
Mr SMITH Goes To Europe 2: Electric Boogaloo
Password: Glibs4Life
..|..
Signed up in this one too.
Sorry about that.
For those getting the reliability error, what’s your reliability rating at? It looks like they’ve revamped the ratings a while back. For high levels the answer is:
/this would be the WebDip mods, not the mods here.
Well, my reliability was 0.
41% which honestly seems optimistically high.
I’m on standby, waiting for someone to drop.
/taps foot, looks at watch, taps foot some more
/fuck it, goes outside and lights a spliff
Hey Leon, does it make sense to split into 2 groups of 5? We did that for the RPGs.
Negative. The game is best at a full player count. There are workarounds and the like for less than a full player count, but they have other impacts on the game. But there are some *spits* variant boards that support alternate player counts.
I’m okay with sitting this one out and spending some time getting spooled up on it. But I like the sound of it and I’ll use some of my downtime in Shanghai to get caught up on the rules and strategy while I’m on the hotel wifi.
Should an alternate go ahead an join or should they wait for you to notify them they are in ?
MS Flows
*spits on the Microsoft emblem on my computer*
A coworker is all in on powerapps, though. I’m not sure whether it’s worth learning.
It has another year before it is fully baked, and another year after that before it will be required. If they don’t innovate themselves right past it. I would say they are going to have something that does a shit-ton of automation that is mostly drag-and-drop. What that will look like in real-life remains to be seen.
That sounds so…menstrual.
Al Jolsen in red face?
Among other problems with the wealth tax, it’s likely grossly unconstitutional.
I mean, even the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opinion/wealth-tax-constitution.html
They just need to elect Warren and pack the SC with a bunch of sweet sweet leftist judges and, walla, the unconstitutional becomes constitutional.
That’s silly. Just a bit of (Supreme) Court packing and it will be constitutional.
That is pretty damning.
Elizabeth Palpatine
Gates is just confused:
What a cunte.
Apparently this fucking calculator already has an option for you to select Bill Gates:
BILL GATES WOULD PAY $6.379 BILLION NEXT YEAR UNDER ELIZABETH’S WEALTH TAX.
Bill Gates has a net worth of $107,000,000,000.
Don’t worry too much about Bill Gates – if history is any guide, if billionaires do nothing other than invest their wealth in the stock market, it’s likely that their wealth will continue to grow.
Elizabeth’s wealth tax, which only impacts America’s 75,000 wealthiest families, would generate enough revenue to cover universal child care, quality public education, forgive student loan debt, provide free public college, and help finance Medicare for All.
And what about the year after that? And the year after that? What about the ten-year prospectus? This isn’t a one and done penalty, it’s a constant erosion of the ability to build wealth and a punishment of success.
You didn’t read the whole thing. He is going to do nothing, and then gain it all back and pay more tax. The woman has it all figured out.
Or – it’s going to move offshore before the law takes effect.
She’s dangerous in a way no viable presidential candidate I’ve seen in my lifetime has been.
This.
Scrooge McGates is just going to take a shovel into his swimming vault and scoop up some of that cash just laying there, where the government will make proper use of it.
It’s not like he’s gonna have to go out and liquidate 2% of his real assets and destroy some companies to make this happen every year.
Complete bullshit.
“Just the tip,” she added.
Unfortunately for this Iowan, he was only mostly dead.
He should bring that to the SCOTUS. I think he could win the case.
Rant: I always expected basic PC skills to gradually increase with 20-somethings entering the workplace. NOPE. Some of these dudes don’t know where to find the power button on a desktop computer or understand how to plug in a monitor to their work laptop. Yes, both actually happened recently.
They’re. So. Dumb.
Oh and I’m referring to college grads by the way, Assistant Managers and Managers that I actually work with.
College degrees aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
Those bazillion tiny NY colleges print diplomas on paper?
I think they have them run off at Kinkos.
The same Kinkos.
The manager of that Kinko’s is a big donor to Cuomo no doubt.
Wait till they need to save and find a file that isn’t exactly where the program normally auto saves to. Oi!
I support phone systems now, have supported truck computers, and done desktop support. Very little surprises me when it comes to end users at this point (the one exception being the person who actually reads all directions, and answers all questions in one e-mail).
I sympathize. I work with lawyers, many of whom have CS and EE degrees. Many of them don’t know how to change between signatures on their emails.
There’s a lot of Gen X and older that built computers from parts, so they understand the workings of the system. Everybody now just gets an iPad.
And how come nobody knows how to milk a cow and make their own butter anymore?!? Kids today.
Whippersnappers can’t even properly tar and feather an official anymore.
Scruffy? What’s a “rail”?
It’s a type of electromagnetically driven kinetic energy weapon.
I tuned mine so that the seconaries come in around 3500RPM
I know nothing about Dave Burge other than he is consistently funny.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/11/07/media-or-the-mafia-iowahawk-nails-the-current-state-of-journalism-with-thread-on-cbs-reported-firing-the-abc-epstein-whistleblower/
Anyone know his original claim to fame?
He’s a national treasure.
THE national treasure.
Where is he on the McAfee scale then?
He is, apparently, an international treasure.
Being funny on the internet
I don’t think he is famous outside of Twitter.
He ran the IowaHawk blog for a long time before moving to Twitter. He’s also a classic car enthusiast.
True, but neither of those things made him famous.
The other day, I drove by a movie theater, and this was on the sign:
Maleficent 2
Terminator 6
Final score? Maleficent has a strong defense, I guess.
Regardles of those scores it seems to have left off the important line
Joker won.
John Connor with the hattrick.
“I suspect this story is wildly overblown”
The same people who seem to believe that we will ever see that IG report also seem to believe that we will ever hear anything more about Epstein and the elites involved in his pedophilia racket. I wish I was so optimistic.
Thinking about Ozy’s post, I was somehow reminded of the scene in My Fair Lady where Higgins goes off on a dissertation about how giving Eliza’s father too much money would ruin him.
*shrugs*
No, no. Higgins offered him more than £5 and he refused it, saying that if he had any more, he’d do bad things with it. He goes off on a monologue about “middle-class morality” (made a huge impression on me). that it was caging.
Then Higgins writes to an American who had requested ideas for a lecturing philosopher/moralist, sends him Doolittle’s name, then Doolittle makes quite a bit of money and then he’s bound by middle-class morality, so his woman pressures him into making her an honest one (“Get Me to the Church”).
My Dad took me to Boston when I was a little kid. There was a guy begging outside a McDonald’s. Dad offered to buy him a Big Mac which seemed a great idea to me. The bum declined with obscenities, Dad laughed and walked off while explaining alcoholism to me.
I’ve worked in neighborhoods where I would say keep an eye on my car and I’ll give you a couple bucks on the way out.
I could think of a few US polititions that I wouldn’t lose sleep over if this happened to.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/bolivia-mayor-disputed-election-violence-protester-hair-cut
In case you were still under the impression that the UK isn’t swirling down the drain, let’s dispel that silly notion right now.
Europe, Canada, Australia are all definitely Canaries in the Coal Mine. I wish more people here were paying attention.
But killing a home invader gets you life in prison
I’m sure Timmy Robinson would get the same break.
“Hamilton ” has washed ashore in Philly. The tv babe just gushed “It’s worth every penny!” Has anyone seen it in NY or elsewhere and what did you think? Frankly, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a memorable, popular song coming out of this musical. Is there one? “Cats,’ Phantom, Oklahoma, Music Man, South Pacific all had songs you’d hear everywhere. What’s the top song from Hamilton?
“Virtue signalling.”
Yeah I don’t know either.
The first 15-20 minutes of watching the Founding Fathers rap was…jarring. After that, I adjusted and I thought it was fantastic. Really.
Some of my hardcore history friends hated it because of __________ historical inaccuracy. If you can watch it for just the performance itself, I think it’s quite good.
I get people who love it and hate it, but I really did enjoy it. Saw it in San Francisco.
I have never had the slightest interest in watching, largely because I think we’d have been better off if that bastard Hamilton had never been involved. New York, screwing up our Republic since 1787.
My disinterest is apolitical – I don’t watch musical theater.
Eh, I’m pretty hardcore about history AND I hate musicals. It was not meant for me.
^This.
“Dolla Dolla Bill Yo”
I’m on the 10
FIFY
Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M.
This show really warmed my cold black heart. Mostly because I got to explain so some historically ignorant All-Are-Welcomers that Mr Immigrants Get The Job Done was more anti-immigrationist than Trump is.
Whigas be trippin’?
American Democrat billionaires: Stockholm Syndrome at work.
No, no. Higgins offered him more than £5 and he refused it, saying that if he had any more, he’d do bad things with it. He goes off on a monologue about “middle-class morality” (made a huge impression on me). that it was caging.
Oh, shoot. You’re right. It’s been a long time since I saw it.
@OZZY Great article.
I can relate. I picked my kids up from school and headed home. On the way a car rear-ended a lifted Jeep Wrangler and somehow or another flipped up and rolled over. I stopped about 100 feet short of the car, and checked my rear-view mirror to see if there was anyone behind me to turn around and find another way home. Then my kids popped into view because they wanted to see what was going on. I muttered “damnit”, put my hazards on, popped a couple road flares, and pulled out my IFAC…
Lol. Yeah, MS, you’ve got the flavor I was trying to convey.
And thank you.
Covington kid’s lawsuit against Elizabeth Warren and some other government twat is dismissed by the court because of the doctrine of sovereign immunity while suits against nonofficials who did similar things are allowed to go forward:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/covington-catholic-students-defamation-suit-against-warren-is-dismissed
They really are an anointed class aren’t they?
If they want he perks of the Priest King, I want them eating the bannock and when they bite the bean, we weave the wicker!
Sovereign immunity? What the fuck? Is defaming children part of her job as an elected official?
At least she’s thinking of the children.
Sigh…
I didn’t realize Senators et all in as much as they are acting as semi-private individuals are afforded sovereign immunity. As in if Elizabath Warren is not acting in her capacity as a Senator, then she really shouldn’t be protected by sovereign immunity. (yeah yeah, sovereign immunity shouldn’t exist, but even granting it existing…)
No no…don’t talk about this now. Wait until Saturday.
Screw it. You’ll all bitch then too.
Ineffectually bitching about shit most people don’t seem to be too concerned about is what we do best.
I picked an obscure, localish beer. I found that if I search the title of the article, the hit may be on the first couple of pages on DDG. If I search the beer, it depends on how popular the beer is. It might be on the first page of results if it is a short run and few people review it on sites like Beer Advocate–like the Tranny Beer. Normally it is on the second or third page of results. To illustrate this, do a search for the phrase Heshi Socks Review on DDG.
If nothing else, I am trying to reach the “WTF is this? I’ll look it up before I buy a $16 bomber” crowd.
I don’t bitch, I seethe.
Time to really get moving on getting your wealth out of the country Mr. Gates:
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1192478435693780992?s=20
Sanders has a zero chance of winning but still.
Say Bill Gates was actually taxed $100 billion.
We could end homelessness and provide safe drinking water to everyone in this country.
Bill would still be a multibillionaire.
Our message: the billionaire class cannot have it all when so many have so little.
Talk about aiming low. I could think of a lot more things that could be done if i had $100 billion of Gates Money.
I would create a country with no unemployment, a beautiful, youthful and talented populace, and no taxation! I’d call it Flaxland. I’d say it would have no pollution, but that is a lie. The air would smell faintly of cordite, barbecue and gasoline.
Bernie is right that no one needs three houses when there are so many homeless.
Something something that’s different.
$100B would disappear in three months and we would have nothing for it.
Senator, $100 billion is a very small percentage of current Federal spending, let alone Federal and State. What the fuck have you been doing this entire time?
NYC by itself spends over $3B on “homelessness” every year. Bill’s gonna run out of money long before we “end homelessness”.
No idea what he’s going on about with “safe drinking water”. Flint, I suppose? He and his ilk have some nerve to keep dragging up that government-caused clusterfuck.
You get more of what you reward. Spending money on “homelessness” is the best way to encourage it.
Of course, we can just liquidate every US billionaire and assuming no loss in value, still not have enough to pay for current Federal spending for a year. And be royally fucked the following year.
Meh, it’s only a matter of time.
The next time the Dems get full control they will absolutely ram through as much of this stuff as they can get away with.
But then we can vote in republicans and they will roll it all back. Right? RIGHT?!?
Hey they got rid of Obamacare and passed a responsible budget in 17 when they had all 3 ,,, oh hell
But they didn’t have all 3 though. Because John McCain’s feelings were hurt. The Democrats always have two or three “Republican” Senators in office who can be counted on to strike a bipartisan compromise, rejecting the “extremism” of reverting to a legal regime that worked only 10 or 15 years ago.
Seriously, I talked to a 22 year old the other day who seems to think that literally no one had health insurance before Obama passed His Magical Law. Like, somehow he believes that we all just suffered with illness and injury when W was President.
Useful information if used. I think you could also prevent most of these with some pretty basic security measures. Provided you had even a slight amount of competency involved.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/11/07/secret-service-study-school-violence-mostly-preventable/
“The key is knowing what to look for, recognizing the patterns and intervening early to try to stop someone from pursuing violence.”
I’m afraid I find these claims dubious, and police overreaching will dwarf any actual good.
Let me know if I’m missing something.
That’s why I prefer basic security measures. Cameras are cheap as are door locks.
I don’t know. I think if maybe they had done something about Cruz after the thirteenth call to the police, there might be a few kids still alive today.
Big deal. Every party was incentivized to ignore every obvious warning. I don’t see that being addressed at all.
Michael Bloomberg is throwing his hat into the ring for the 2020 Democratic primary
Just in case you thought it couldn’t get any derpier.
I thought he was pretending to be a Republican?
Him and Steyer will be locked in a failing billionaire candidate deathmatch and I look forward to both of them pissing away Scrooge McDuckian amounts of money.
That’s one of the benefits hopefully is that while they’re both personally paying their way in (no, seriously, check how much money Steyer’s already spent of his own, he has basically zero donations), they’re not also astroturfing the other candidates. That of course comes later, after they finally withdraw having burnt half a billion dollars on a futile attempt to win a nomination, then they start throwing all their PAC dark money at the nominee.
I mean, Bloomberg vs Fake Indian Fascist vs Actual Stalinist, the Gun Grabbing Soda Regulator starts looking pretty good.
https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/the-college-named-after-samuel-de-champlain-debates-whether-to-keep-his-statue/Content?oid=28860398
Can someone please get that Covert kid drunk and draw a dick on xer face in indelible marker?
Renaming Amherst is next. Has anyone looked into Harvard or Yale yet? Penn certainly gypped a few Indians in Pennsylvania. Brown, Cornell? Columbia (Columbus)?
Harvard had to remove some stained glass windows that were so unwoke, people broke down crying.
Can’t we just proclaim it’s Year 1 already and drop all the silly arguments over “history” already…? Some stuff happened. Who cares.
The one thing I learned from history is nobody learns from history.
Jayy with 2 y’s?
HARD NO.
I may have gone overboard with some world building.
I have to reference a spreadsheet to keep track of the relative values of twenty-six different coins from seven currency systems…
This is what I get for having the narrator sail around the world.
I tried having different monetary systems when running a D&D campaign.
That shit ended in a hurry.
I have an Arbitrage column for how much someone can earn off the bullion weight.
It only works because at the moment there’s no trade between the two contenents.
Plus I don’t have players in the mix. Players mess up the most neatly constructed worlds.
Oh did you see my mention of the multi-gun format my club is developing? No pistol required!
I did not see that. Got a link?
It’s not up on the club website yet, but I have copies of the stages:
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019-Fall-SSRG-Multi-Gun-Stage-3.pdf
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019-Fall-SSRG-Multi-Gun-Stage-2.pdf
You need two of PCC (px19 or larger), Shotgun (20 ga or larger), rifle (5.45 x 39 or larger) or pistol (9×19 or larger).
I haven’t confirmed whether this match is open to the public or if it’s a test run, but I should know by Tuesday, at the latest. The actual match date is Nov 24.
Personally, the idea of taking a shotgun to a plate rack makes me giggle.
Now I’m wondering how I’d manage to practice for something like that.
Time frame is probably on the short side for me this go round. I’ve never done a course, just a regular lane.
That reminds me, I haven’t been to the range in a while.
You can’t really. Since the registration fee is only $20, it’s mainly just for fun.
I personally have never attempted to quickly acquire and shoot targets with a rifle. Ofc, I’m not planning on bringing one either. It seems like PCC is the way to go, but I’m thinking my pistol/shotgun combo will work just fine. I am resisting buying a PCC.
Meanwhile, I’m adjusting all my references to distances in northern England and Scotland to “days” instead of “miles” because I can’t quite comprehend small distances traversed by various sizes of companies, armored, unarmored, family heading to a faire with 100 armored men, 8 dudes with mail on a stealth mission through the forest, over foothills, in the dark, etc etc etc.
Makes my brain hurt.
Roman legions averaged 24 miles a day on roman roads. I use this as the upper ground for a group with people on foot. It only goes down with unfit people or poor roads.
An exclusively mounted party is only marginally faster unless you have relay horses.
I use seven knots at the upper bound for the sailing ships. If the winds are against them, they won’t make that.
I have another advantage – my world’s made up, so no one can measure the distances.
I’ve been told 12 miles a day is pretty constant across armies and time periods (that used horses). A medieval historian Glib is helping me (I don’t know if they want to be outed) and my own research had already given me that number as a reference point.
I have a very hard time believing a mailed man can walk 24 miles in a day.
Twenty minute mile for eight hours? I believe it. This isn’t their wilderness rate, this is on flat, straight roads.
I work about a mile from my house and it’s about a twenty minute walk. That’s unburdened and in street clothes, but that’s also an easy, conversational pace. When pressed I’ve done it in fifteen at a fast walk. I can run it in about ten minutes without too much trouble.
Boy scouts carrying 30% of their body weight can do 20 miles through the mountains in a day.
Yup. 2MPH net. I’d add an hour for every 1000foot gained.
11 year olds can do this.
But can they do it every day for a week? A month?
How big an army?
Does this account for support wagons?
Does it account for siege engines?
Setting up camp at night? Breaking camp in the morning?
You CAN push a human that hard, I understand that. But how hard can you push them for how long before they break and are useless, in battle or otherwise?
If they’re Southerners, they can only do this every day for three years after their boots wear out. Tops. That’s it. Not one day more.
From the records, a full legion, with support wagons. It wasn’t beyond their limits, so they performed quite well in battle, given the number of victories the legions racked up.
If they’re Southerners, they can only do this every day for three years after their boots wear out. Tops. That’s it. Not one day more.
Easily, and that pace can be, and has been sustained virtually indefinitely. The US Army timed loaded march standard is 12 miles in 3 hours with a 70 lb. load. The Romans averaged 24 miles a day, and built and dismantled temporary fortifications each day. Forced marches can exceed 50 miles in a day, but that will exhaust the troops quickly. The things that slow it are largely logistical, not human capacity. If you train to do a thing you become good at that thing.
I feel kinda like I both failed and achieved something.
I’ve got 2,600 words written today.
But I also sanded and finished three faces of a butcher block. (Will sand and finish the other three faces tomorrow when the last coat on these three finishes drying enough to turn it over.)
Note – I did not make the butcher block. I bought it at a salvage place in Virginia that reclaimed usable wood and fittings from old buildings before they were demolished.
Billionaires should stop referring to themselves as billionaires and only quote how much cash they have on hand, so people will stop trying to steal money they actually don’t have.
Yeah. I’ve always wondered if a Gates or a Bezps could give someone two tens for a twnety if asked.
Hi glibs! I keep missing the boomers vs millennials discussions because of work, so I’ll restart it here. SLD that collectivisation is not useful aside.
Life is full of hardships, although typically far fewer today than at any other point in history, so millennials complaining about their hardships as if they were unique are just showing their breathtaking lack of awareness.
Some hardships are caused by bad decisions you made, and some are caused by factors out of your control. From what I’ve observed of my fellow millennials, most of their problems are self-inflicted. For example, if you take out lots of debt to attend a college that you aren’t academically qualified for, choose a major that isn’t in demand by employers, and spend your summers travelling instead of working, don’t be surprised when you have trouble finding a job.
Most of the problems millennials have that aren’t self-inflicted are inflicted by the government. Maybe you could have blamed that on the Boomers, but the generation that produced the Squad no longer gets to cast stones. Millennials don’t want to fix the problem of intrusive, bloated goverment, they just want to re-align how the winners and losers are picked so that they come out on top.
Eventually, the Gods of the Copybook Headings will with terror and slaughter return.
Eventually, the Gods of the Copybook Headings will with terror and slaughter return.
What are we, British?*
*I keed, I keed.
Hey Cannoli, is your avatar picture Queen Susan the Gentle?
Yes, I’ve been told I look like her, and Narnia is wonderful, so I’m rolling with it.
I will say, it becomes very difficult to resist the siren call of the student loans, when all your teachers, your guidance counselors, your parents, and the media/pop culture as a whole are all telling you that college is the key to a great life. Not even “a good degree” but just college. I graduated HS in 2007, and the messaging was very strong that just going to college, even if you changed majors several times, even if you got a degree in something like philosophy or something, was worth it because just getting a degree would set you up. There was no cost/benefit calculation at all.
Like, when a high school kid is talking to recruiters, there’s plenty of people willing to talk to him about the downsides of military life. Plus there are obvious ones. College is sold as “you go to class, get decent grades, party and have sex, go to football games, meet your best friends and your future spouse, and then you graduate and will be earning a great wage because of your degree!!” and thats the line from the vast majority of the adults in your life. Maybe some kids have Crusty Uncle Bill talking up the trades, or have a parent whos actually looking at the cost of the school. But for a hell of a lot of high school kids, it was “sign the loan paperwork, even if its a trash tier school. Go to the school you like best, even if it means out of state tuition. Pick your favorite subject as a major, follow your passion it will all work out. “
Huh… VLC decided that this moment was the proper time to start playing “Blue Collar Man”
Also fitting. Styx were such drama queens.
https://youtu.be/nO62scTZ7Qk
I graduated high school in 1996 and I had been told from middle school on that a.) getting a college degree was mandatory for making any kind of a living, and b.) acceptable majors were premed, prelaw, and computer science, all of which would result in fabulous wealth.
Yeah, the high school counselors do quite the sales pitch on college.
Oh I agree that the advice given to people our age has been terrible. But at some point we have to take responsibility for ourselves as adults. It’s still an option to go to in-state schools, earn scholarships, or work part-time during the semester and graduate debt-free.
That should probably be and instead of or. Part-time work won’t pay tuition.
Yeah, I did all of that and still owed $15K at the end. Which seemed like a lot 25 years ago when I had no job prospects.
Thing is, it used to.
Michigan State Universities tutition in 1975 was under 1000 dollars. Which, even adjusting for inflation, is under 4000 bucks in todays dollars. Now, you and I and everyone on this site knows government created high tuitition costs, not the private sector, but it did in fact used to be true that a kid could work a summer job, eat his moms cooking, sleep in his old bedroom, and make enough money to write a check out of his own account for his tuition. If a kid could string together on summer and winter breaks and nights and weekends 100 total 8 hour days at the minimum wage of 2.10 in 1975, that covered his tuition.
My wife worked full time making damn good money for a college student, got a ton of scholarships and aid, and still left school with over 40,000 in debt. She graduated in 3.5 years too. Higher education is absolutely a racket, and I don’t blame my peers at all for being royally pissed off at it. Their solutions of MUH FREE COLLEGE are asinine, but the problem is very real.
TBF, when Cannoli said “tuition” I assumed she meant room and board too. LOL @ the idea of living at home – that was never an option, I know with hindsight. I wanted to leave, and later on I learned mom wanted me out too.
Well I also used minimum wage as a base salary. My dad worked in a tire factory in his hometown during college in the mid 70s. I think he made 4 or 5 bucks an hour. But he got time and a half OT, and during the summer the full time guys would get the fuck out of the sweltering tire factory and take their vacations. So he would go in at 11 PM, work until 11 AM, eat four or five Whoppers from Burger King, go to the pool, take a shower, swim a bit, have a few beers in the sun and sleep until the pool closed, go home and sleep some more or go meet friends and do it all over again.
A year of in state tuition at Michigan State in 1975 was just under 500 hours of 1975 minimum wage labor. This year its just under 2000 hours of minimum wage labor.
Hell, even the living at home thing, my parents told me stories of landlords taking cash on the barrel for summer apartments, about boarding houses and rooming houses. Good luck finding that nowadays. If you cant sign a year lease and pass a credit check, they’ll rent to someone else.
Obviously thats all caused by government regulation and market distortions, but the whole “OK, Boomer” thing is based in the fact that things really have changed a lot in terms of college and starting out life as an independent adult.
The government created this problem. Looking to the government to fix it is just begging for more and bigger problems.
My son is at Long Beach State. Annual tuition is about $6K, which is a bargain in my book. What runs up the bill is room and board, which is about twice the amount of tuition. If a kid wants to live at home and go to a state school, he can do it pretty inexpensively.
I’ve told my kids that if they absolutely, positively know what they want to major in and there is an out of state school or a private school that is really outstanding in that major, we will support it. Otherwise, it’s UC or Cal State. No need to pay massive tuition for the experience.
I graduated with my bachelors debt free. I financed my grad degree, but made enough in the first year to recoup my investment. But I don’t exist, much like libertarian women.
Absolutely. I’m just saying, the amount of damage an 18 year old can do to his life by “following his dreams” with student loans is right up there with “hey why don’t I start snorting lots of cocaine” but there’s not an entire multi billion dollar complex of government agencies and media companies telling kids from the time they’re ten how great cocaine is and how all the successful people are snorting it.
Mainly, I think college was sold to me and my peers in a cargo cult way. It wasn’t “there’s a lot of valuable skills, knowledge, habits, and networking you can only get on a college campus.” it was “GET DEGREE DEGREE GOOD GET GOOD JOB WITH DEGREE”
Do you know how little most people without degrees make?
Yes. Yes I do.
/has no degree.
it’s a hard balance to make. 18 year old adults should be prepared and capable of making adult decisions. 18 year old adults are being released into the real world with the decision making skills of 8 year olds because their family, their educators, and their community failed them. Personal responsibility wins out, but i have some sympathy for those who did the “right” thing and had no idea how much they were fucking up their own life.
For whatever reason, each new generation is determined to repeat the same mistakes of prior generations despite the warnings. They always think they know better.
Millennials have learned the lesson about 3 wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner, and they intend to be the wolves.
They’re not thinking it through. The vanguard of the revolution will be first against the wall when the purges start.
Yeap. It’s the most vicious that rise to the top, not the intellectuals. They then go about killing all possible competition.
So many of the latest generations faced little hardship growing up so they don’t know how to handle not having it all. They don’t know how to budget or save or be frugal. I appreciate little things like not drinking powdered milk which is the only milk I knew as a kid.
For example, if you take out lots of debt to attend a college that you aren’t academically qualified for, choose a major that isn’t in demand by employers, and spend your summers travelling instead of working, don’t be surprised when you have trouble finding a job.
I see you’ve met my classmates.
As soon as boomers refuse Medicare and social security checks and start paying down the National debt, I listen to what they have to say about the “entitlement generation”.
Well, the boomers were too young to vote for Goldwater. It was our parents and grandparents who laughed at his modest reform suggestions. And boomers were under 50 when AARP was created, thank parents and grandparents for that too.
Decaf chai with bourbon cream. Me likey.
Bourbon cream?
Like Irish cream, but with a different whiskey.
Oh, that sounds wonderful! Is bourbon cream like Irish cream only completely different?
this stuff:
https://www.blackbuttondistilling.com/bespoke-liqueur
I need that in my life.
Nom! Would a shot of the bourbon cream per cup of coffee or tea be about the right dosage?
I add it until it looks like chai.
My wife turned me own to Starbucks iced chai tea latte. Quite yummy. That bourbon cream I bet puts it over the top. I usually do rumchata over Irish cream.
How sweet is it? Is it really sugary?
Interesting question.
Yes, it’s sweet like Irish cream. However, it might not be as sugary. The reason I say that is that the sweetness drops off much more quickly with dilution than Irish cream does. Or it might be the bourbon asserting itself over the sugar more than Irish whiskey does.
https://twitter.com/som3thingwicked/status/1192562887879004166
LOLOL
That was clever
I can’t remember who it was that got into the tussles with Gilmore over “meme magic,” but Kek is real, yo.
Same old story. Same old song and dance.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/11/07/venezuelan-death-squads-killed-estimated-831-people-many-dared-protest-regime/
Jesus.
Don’t judge me over my emotional support cockroaches and maggots.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-in-texas-filing-federal-charges-to-keep-pet-chickens-who-help-her-cope-with-mental-illness
If they stay inside and shut up, fine by me. It’s people who inflict their mental illnesses on the rest of us who grind my gears.
Yeah, if you’re not creating a nuisance, I don’t care. Especially if you share a few eggs.
How the hell are we a week into November already?
Seems like it was just summertime.
There’s a secret military base where you were taken to have your mind probed. You were there for months. They can implant some memories, but not enough to overcome your uneasy sensation of missing time. This military base is in Russia. Since you have been returned, you are now a Russian plant. Need confirmation? Just ask yourself if you’ll ever vote for Hilary.
OMG..I AM a Russian plant. Lol.
*Looks at bottles of vodka on liquor table*
*Contemplates recent purchase of 7.62×39 rifle*
Huh…Seems legit.
Lol. I just bought 12 ga snap caps so I can learn how to quad load.
Also, if you don’t already have one… https://www.armsunlimited.com/Beretta-92FS-Type-M9A1-9mm-Pistol-p/js92m9a1mle.htm
I’ve got an Inox 96.
I did fondle a 92 compact a couple times, but haven’t bought one yet.
I’m trying not to buy anything, though I’ll undoubtedly break down and buy a PCC for reasons mentioned above.
? my scorpion evo.
Nice legs
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/olivia-culpo-bali-bikini-pics
The last thread, somebody was unfamiliar with Ozymandius, and looked it up. I remember that poem about the ruined statue in the desert. My favorite part was at the end, when the hero cried out “You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
*applause*