Hopefully we’re not too far from seeing this again.
We made it, people. The end of the week is here. And all I can say is “Thank God”. Not that its been a terribly difficult week, but just because the college football conference championship games are here and we’re just two days away from the CFP committee naming the playoff teams and locations of the semifinal games so I can line up my tickets and get my Christmas vacation plans in place. Fortunately, I have family in Phoenix and close enough to Atlanta that I can leave the little ones somewhere and buy much better tickets than I’d otherwise buy if I had to buy six of them (my son has decided not to take leave so his NCO can spend time with his family before being deployed to Kuwait in January, so its just me, Banjos and the older daughter that’ll be going to the semifinal). Fingers crossed for Atlanta.
Trubisky Time!
Speaking of sports, the Cowboys are imploding. And the Bears are still alive. Everton fired their manager, as expected. Arsenal continue to suck. West Point needs to do a little better research for slogans. And a bunch of hockey games got played yesterday with the following teams winning: Chicago, Colorado, the MINNESOOOOOOODA WIIIIILD, NYI, Phoenix, Carolina, NYR, Dallas and Calgary.
No point in doing birthdays today Take a look for yourself and see how weak the roster is. Man, that’s the weakest day I’ve ever come across.
OK, on to…the links!
This seems both logical and safe.
Four people killed in Miami area after cops decide to reenact a scene from Heat. That was nuts. Twitter is filled with videos of it. Here’s one. And here’s a second one that’s just insane. Seriously, what the fuck were they thinking? They had a chopper following the truck. In rush hour. It wasn’t going anywhere they couldn’t follow it to a lot more safely than, you know, having fifty cops unload on it in rush hour traffic.
Phoenix Man considering giving Florida Man a run for his money. I could understand this in the summertime, but not once the temps drop. Have some class, dude.
Jeez, no wonder Chicago and Cook County are going broke. But I’m sure residents are fine knowing their property tax hikes are going to a good cause like…paying a cop $110k a year for his third year on the job.
“Brett Kavanaugh? He’s a piker.”
-Judge Dawn Gentry
“Just because you’re a judge doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to have fun.” At least that would be my defense if I were her.
That’s some quality police work there, Lou. I mean…Jesus. I wouldn’t want to be a taxpayer in that county, because they’re about to be on the hook for this colossal fuckup.
Uber might want to do a better job screening potential drivers. Otherwise, this is just the kind of fodder municipalities beholden to the taxi cartels will use to block them from operating.
Since we went with songs that rocked from the first note to the last this week, I’m coming with this today. And yes, I realize it ends by fading out, but I don’t care.
That’s it. Enjoy the day and have a great weekend, friends.
“An expert on far-right hate groups from the Anti-Defamation League said the GFBD phrase — an omerta used to discourage snitching — likely started among outlaw biker gangs and was at some point adopted by members of the Aryan Brotherhood. Mark Pitcavage, who earned a doctoral degree in American military history before studying far-right extremism as part of his role with the Anti-Defamation League, said he was not aware of the phrase being used by any military groups in the past or having roots elsewhere.”
So not actually white supremacist.
Nope. But facts don’t matter.
WTF?!?
Since when has Army EVER worked at all (never mind “hard”) to keep church and state separate? Mandatory worship services and the only jewelry allowed being wedding bands and rosary beads were the standard in the ’80s – ’90s.
Ix nay on the Ormon may Attalion bay.
In Boot Camp, church wasn’t mandatory. You could elect to hang out in the barracks with the Drill Instructors instead.
Regarding the Christmas Eve service when I was in boot camp…
“Listen up, you all can go to church tonight and sing kumbaya, or you can stay here, bend and thrust, and worship the devil with me.”
–Sgt. Stoddard, 1988
Funny how I still remember most of their names too – i went in April ’89.
I still know mine and OCS wasn’t nearly as long or as miserable as boot camp. And that was 30 years ago.
DS Conrad, Phillips, Senior DS Wilson (who was retiring after our class). I remember most of the faces of the rest of the company’s DS but not their names.
Pater Dean was in OCS over 50 years ago. He stills knows the names of his DS’s, also.
OCS was the most challenging thing I did while in the Army. I was older than most of the others, a senior NCO with 10 years service. Suddenly I was the same as all the other lowest of the low.
A lot of other things going on in my life at the same time that were distractions.
That is awesome, by the way. How many Marines have some variation of that story? ALL of them, Kids. All of them.
How do get the title “Far-right Hate Expert”?
Guy sounds like a Nazi
As ever, I wonder: pro-, or anti-?
Tangentially related to the anti-fact racket: it seems like P-Bogs might be onto something here but I don’t want to subscribe to the WSJ to find out.
I subscribe and read that the day it came out. It’s really quite good.
You’ve almost certainly heard some of the following terms: cisgender, fat shaming, heteronormativity, intersectionality, patriarchy, rape culture and whiteness.
The reason you’ve heard them is that politically engaged academicians have been developing concepts like these for more than 30 years, and all that time they’ve been percolating. Only recently have they begun to emerge in mainstream culture. These academicians accomplish this by passing off their ideas as knowledge; that is, as if these terms describe facts about the world and social reality. And while some of these ideas may contain bits of truth, they aren’t scientific. By and large, they’re the musings of ideologues.
How did this happen? How have those working in what’s come to be called “grievance studies” managed to extend their ideas far beyond the academy, while convincing people that their jargon adds something meaningful to public discourse? Biologist Bret Weinstein, who was run out of Evergreen State College by a leftist mob in 2017, calls the process “idea laundering.”
It’s analogous to money laundering. Here’s how it works: First, various academics have strong moral impulses about something. For example, they perceive negative attitudes about obesity in society, and they want to stop people from making the obese feel bad about their condition. In other words, they convince themselves that the clinical concept of obesity (a medical term) is merely a story we tell ourselves about fat (a descriptive term); it’s not true or false—in this particular case, it’s a story that exists within a social power dynamic that unjustly ascribes authority to medical knowledge.
Second, academics who share these sentiments start a peer-reviewed periodical such as Fat Studies—an actual academic journal. They organize Fat Studies like every other academic journal, with a board of directors, a codified submission process, special editions with guest editors, a pool of credentialed “experts” to vet submissions, and so on. The journal’s founders, allies and collaborators then publish articles in Fat Studies and “grow” their journal. Soon, other academics with similar beliefs submit papers, which are accepted or rejected. Ideas and moral impulses go in, knowledge comes out. Voilà!
Eventually, after activist scholars petition university libraries to carry the journal, making it financially viable for a large publisher like Taylor & Francis, Fat Studies becomes established. Before long, there’s an extensive canon of academic work—ideas, prejudice, opinion and moral impulses—that has been laundered into “knowledge.”
They then have an answer when one asks the obvious question: “How could fat be just a narrative? There’s overwhelming medical evidence—A1Cs, the surge of type-2 diabetes, demonstrable risk factors—reliably indicating that excess fat is a health hazard. This has nothing to do with ‘stories we tell ourselves’ or ‘societal power structures,’ and instead directly corresponds to facts about the human body.”
In response, grievance scholars point to articles in the peer-reviewed journal Fat Studies: “Toward a Fat Pedagogy: A Study of Pedagogical Approaches Aimed at Challenging Obesity Discourse in Post-Secondary Education.” Not knowing any better, and seeing a veneer of scholarly rigor and scientific peer review, people reasonably assume that such articles are trustworthy sources of knowledge. (They assume this because it’s how the peer-reviewed process has traditionally worked: Academics try to disconfirm or falsify claims, as opposed to seeking support for them.) These articles tell us that obesity is but a narrative and there are other narratives, such as being healthy at every size, and there’s no reason to “privilege” one narrative over another.
It doesn’t stop there. Grievance scholars then use articles like those published in Fat Studies to credential themselves and receive promotion and tenure. They proceed—from the safety of professorships they’ll hold for life—to design courses around this literature. They test students on the material, marking answers right or wrong according to how closely they replicate the laundered ideas.
Within their academic ecosystems, grievance scholars hire new faculty members with similar moral commitments who’ve written for the same journals. Eventually, they institutionalize their ideas in the larger academic system. This process, which has been propagating laundered ideas for at least three decades, now has enough “scholarship” behind it to have a significant cultural impact.
Students leave the academy believing they know things they do not know. They bring this “knowledge” to their places of employment where, over time, laundered ideas and the terminology that accompanies them become normative—giving them even more unearned legitimacy. And this is why you’ve heard some of the terms we began with: cisgender, fat shaming, heteronormativity, intersectionality, patriarchy, rape culture, and whiteness. They’ve been laundered through the peer-reviewed literature by activist scholars, then widely taught for years, before being brought into the world.
Now, at least, you won’t mistake them for knowledge.
I apologize (sort of; it’s a great article) for the wall of text, but it’s what lead me to post a link to the Fat Studies Journal a couple of weeks ago.
You’re a better man than most. EAP. Sometime about 30 years ago, a friend’s wife got a MA in Grief Counseling, thereby doing the job that grandmas had been doing for 1000s of years. When the hospital had a cutback she was one of the first to go. AFAIK she never got another job and grandmas continued doing what they have always done, quite well.
Thank you! Peter Boghossian’s book promo interview with The Jacket on TOS’s podcast is worth a listen, too.
Well said, man. Thanks
??
If I’m ever kidnapped, I want to make it clear that it’s far too dangerous for anyone to have the police help me.
That was some “we had to burn the village down to save it” shit.
With regards to that stupid football game I watched last night, there is now not a single team in the NFCE that has a winning record…yet one of them, by default, is going to have a playoff game. Soccer might have a good idea with that whole relegation thing.
And somebody that’s 10-6 or 11-5 will be left out of the playoffs.
That’s the part that frosts me. Might as well give whoever plays the “winner” a bye.
Relegation is good, and baseball even has the structure in place. Would just have to free the minor league teams. It would be easy in basketball too. Not sure it would work for football.
I need to right an article on my relegation/promotion plan for baseball, inspired by a 1988 Bill James article (that didnt mention relegation at all).
Yes. Yes you do. I’d read it. Hell, I’d even comment on topic.
Slow day at work and I got inspired. Done. Submitting shortly.
I’d read that for sure
Did you wrong it first?
It won’t work for any sport with weighted divisional schedules and teams not playing everybody in the league, unfortunately. That could be fixed easily enough with baseball or basketball. With football, it would be impossible.
Relegation is corrupt and retarded. Like FBS college football.
It would be fun to watch the Browns and Lions lose to college teams.
“The suspects fled in a truck, then carjacked the UPS delivery truck and its driver not long afterward to start the chase into the southern portion of Broward County, running red lights and narrowly avoiding some crashes along the way. The UPS truck finally stopped in one of the middle lanes of a busy roadway, caught behind a wall of other vehicles waiting for a red light to turn green. Television footage showed several officers on foot, some with guns drawn, approaching the truck once it stopped from the rear and the driver’s side.”
Broward County? The robbers should have just identified as school shooters.
“Four killed in shootout after two jewelry thieves hijacked a UPS truck and its driver on his first day and led cops on a high speed chase that ended when 19 police fired 200 rounds on the vehicle”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7762053/Thieves-shot-dead-South-Florida-led-high-speed-chase-hijacked-UPS-truck.html
Also, his last day.
200 rounds? Did they think it was Bonnie and Clyde? And I notice that they don’t say who killed the driver and the innocent bystander. But thank goodness that they had the whole department there to shot to get paid leave
Pretty obvious who killed the driver. San Fran and Broward County taxpayers are going to be paying those families 7 figures.
Even NPR said “it was unclear” who killed the two non-belligerents. Which is more than they’ve been willing to admit about the Waco biker slaughter.
Tony Lazzeri was born today, but other than that, the baseball list sucks. Kevin Appier is the WAR leader.
Larry Bowa, Steve Bedrosian, Tim Foli…its not a good list.
Steven Wright, Randy Rhoads
Just for the record, the Heat shootout scene is unequivocally the best shootout ever put to film, and it’s not even close.
Better than Tony Montana going out in a blaze of glory?
Yeah, you’re probably right. That was a good scene but not nearly on par with Heat.
The thing that really makes the Heat shootout is the sound. The music cuts for a solid 4 or 5 minutes and it’s just fucking colossal. They shot it on location in downtown LA, and they had planned on dubbing in all the gunshots as is typical, but Michael Mann insisted on using the raw audio they grabbed because they couldn’t find any other way to replicate the way full auto pounding off all the glass skyscrapers sounded.
On top of that it was mercifully shot before fucking shaky cam became the go-to action movie gimmick, so it’s immersive without being distracting and too chaotic to keep track of what’s going on.
Most people don’t have any idea how incredibly loud gunfire is. The “Heat” shootout does a really good job trying to convey that aspect of a gunfight.
Twombly losing his hearing from his buddy firing right next to him in Blackhawk Down was perhaps the most realistic part of the film. It really made the movie work for me.
I took my BIL shooting and it he hated it because of the noise. He felt betrayed because he loves movies and they lied to him.
That’s why Id recommend using a suppressor at the range. If Hollywood has taught me anything, it’s that they render guns almost completely silent.
The suppressor I have for my MAC-10 is original – which is to say first generation technology. For the first two magazines, which the wipes are still fresh, about all you hear is the bolt slapping back and forth, and the empty shells hitting the ground. It really is quiet. But once the wipes get a bit chewed up that volume really starts to get loud.
John Wick’s superpower is that he can still hear.
And that he wasn’t hemorrhaging from his eardrums during his Benelli-and-AR-in-the-catacombs scene.
Among my many adventures, I attended a course back when it was still called “Blackwater” and as part of it we did shooting from inside of cars through the windows at static targets. They told us – repeatedly – that the sound would be… more than we expected. Even with ear protection on. You just have no idea what that will be like until you do it.
The thing that I recall vividly is how the dust on the dashboard – and I mean every single bleeping dust particle – jumps in response to each shot.
Worst shootout scene ever: the scene at the end of Reservoir Dogs you don’t get to see.
That’s because RD isn’t an action movie( you don’t see the heist) it’s drama. That movie is great because of the dialogue. That’s what I love about QT movies, the depth he gives to characters.
Crapfest Kill Bill disagrees.
What?!? Everybody got a back story. More than I can say for every other action movie. Still great dialogue scenes with the sheriff and uncle Esteban, and Bill.
Butch Cassidy and Sundance say hi
How about Shoot ‘Em Up?
Never seen it.
Another great shootout scene was Way of the Gun. The movie was atrociously bad but the finale shootout was great.
I also forgot about The Wild Bunch. Even though the Heat shootout is more immersive, that one might take the cake for sheer badassery.
there was a shooting scene in Miami Vice the movie
That’s the one where he murders a guy with a carrot while banging a chick, right?
different scenes but yes.
also takes bullets between fingers, puts hand in fire, bullets shoot
Not quite to Desperado level.
“Act of Valor” had a shoot out scene where the Navy showed up with miniguns and
.50 cals – the scene was shot with live ammo. I was watching the Blu-Ray with a good surround sound. The whole neighborhood had to have heard it.
Fun fact: You can hear the A-10’s 30mm gun cut loose from several kilometers away… even if you are in a helicopter. A twin jet-engine helicopter. Wearing a helmet and talking on the radios. While it is flying.
I have always liked this shootout scene.
If you haven’t seen it, Larry vickers reviewing Heat is awesome
https://youtu.be/Y5nkm-L4A1Y
So Genesis were saying “all bastards are cops are bastards”?
Bicentennial Joe
I think it’s safe to say that Biden’s big donors are probably starting to get worried about the so-called frontrunner—if they haven’t been worried already.
At the same campaign event in New Hampton, Iowa, where Biden thought it was okay to call a voter “fat” and a “damn liar,” he also temporarily forgot when he was vice president.“We did that in 1976… Um, I mean, excuse me, backing up here, 2014 is when we did that.”
This stuff is happening daily but he is still the front-runner. I don’t get it.
What’s to get? The Dems have an empty bench when it comes to moderates and most Dem voters know an ultra-prog can’t win the general. Biden is their only real hope. Other than Bloomberg, who shit the bed yesterday with his anti-2A platform position speech.
Sort of like the NFC East – some sorry ass team is going to get into the playoffs but who gives a crap they will win anything.
Bloomberg made his pitch to not get a single vote from a flyover state.
All it’ll take is for someone to take him up on his push ups challenge. He’ll be bleeding out of his whatever.
Please let it be Trump. On December 23.
He was going to call that guy Fat Ass and caught himself.
Please let it be Biden, Trump will push that guy’s buttons so hard Joe will throw a punch
“I’ll sniff you’re daughter then give you knuckle sandwich”
-Biden 2020
ALOL
Reminds me of when SNL was still funny.
It’s Phoenix, even this time of year it’s still in the 80s.
Phoenix Man considering giving Florida Man a run for his money.
I have an alibi. Not so sure about mexican sharpshooter and Ozymandius.
Nobody ever thought it was you. It happened at an airport, not an elementary school.
OK, then Ozymandius.
Is that spelled right?
I made bail!!
With money you had in your prison wallet?
Semper paratus.
Good morning Sloop!
That footage of the cops unloading on the truck is horrific. Every gun safety rule violated at once. Impressive, even for those fuckwits. It is unclear if they did indeed clip an innocent bystander, but even if it was the criminal, this one is on the cops.
…the MINNESOOOOOOODA WIIIIILD… played a helluva game last night. I thought maybe the two teams switched jerseys – the Wild looked Lighting-like. Sucks, though, as they went from 31st to a fucking playoff spot over the last month. We need some new blood and this year’s draft looks really good.
I’m glad this week is over, too. I have a Christmas party to attend this evening and absolutely nothing else this weekend. Which is nice.
Have a great day, y’all!
But at least all our brave heroes made it home that evening. Sometimes, this is what it takes.
I’ll bite. Was it wrong of me to hide behind some random guy’s car while he’s still in it as I shoot at UPS truck?
He didn’t have time to think. You can’t talk about what he did in the heat of the moment until you gun down two hostages in the street and know what its like. I’m beginning to think you don’t support our boys in blue.
+1 defaced American flag
You mean like this one?
Or like this one?
Or this one? Probably a darker shade of brown than the UPS truck.
That is FAKE NEWS!
You can’t fool me Straff. I know that is really a Brief Safe where you store all your valuables.
TSA Secret Santa present?
That is some obnoxious and ignorant shit
I cannot begin to tell you how much that grates on my nerves. Almost as much as the “sheepdog” meme.
1. Thanks for admitting you think your fellow citizens are sheep. At least you’re being honest.
2. SHEEPDOGS DO NOT PROTECT SHEEP. They protect their master’s PROPERTY. As soon as the master decides it’s time to fleece you or slaughter you, that sheep dog will happily drive you right into the chute.
Then snack on the bones.
I don’t know the sheep analogy works really well. Especially if you think of our masters as Montanans. Everyone knows what those deviants do to their sheep.
Yeah but those sheep are horny.
Sheep with horns are called rams dude. And only perverts are into ram fucking.
Mountain Men get horny ewes! It’s only you lake country folk whose ewes aren’t horny.
“You can’t talk about what he did in the heat of the moment until you gun down two hostages in the street and know what its like. ”
-2 Randos
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/pet-duck-mate-penis-removed
Alright. Which of you on here is secretly a duck?
It’s no coincidence that duck rhymes with fuck.
What did you expect? He spends all day with three nephews running and NONE of them wear pants.
Also, Chinese pussy is way tougher than duck dick.
Agnes Moorehead, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ira Gershwin, Dave Brubeck, Wally Cox, David Ossman, Richard Speck, Steven Wright, Robbie Gould, Johnny Manziel…
who would drink the most before collapse?
Still no mention of the maker of some of the most beautiful vehicles ever: Fred Duesenberg.
Still, it’s a weak list if you’re putting Johnny
ManzielFuckface on it.Doesn’t Randy Rhoads cancel him out, though?
I like Dave Brubeck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMR5zf1J1Hs
Dave Brubeck is a piano legend. And unless I’m mistaken Take 5 is one of the few songs ever written in 5/4 time.
You aren’t. And Joe Morello’s drum solo in Take 5 is incredible.
Faber! His stick has been in more gradeschool finger’s than OMWC’s! and Mosby!
This ‘fix’ for economic theory changes everything from gambles to inequality to Ponzi schemes
https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/fix-economic-theory-changes-everything-gambles-inequality-ponzi-schemes
The ergodicity problem in economics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0732-0
Economics is hereby solved
Finally! Now we can repurpose the Nobel prize money to give a prize in intersectionality.
According to author Ole Peters (London Mathematical Laboratory, Santa Fe Institute), people’s real-world behavior often “deviates starkly” from what standard economic theory would recommend. Take the example of a simple coin toss: Most people would not gamble on a repeated coin toss where a heads would increase their net worth by 50%, but a tails would decrease it by 40%.
Oh geeze. This is so old. You get this “unexpected” result because you haven’t modeled payoffs correctly. yes people are risk averse. This is the problem with Mainstream “Free Market, but not for Market failure types”. They have their models, and then anytime something deviates from their perfect model, then the Market is broken and something needs to be changed because our predictions are right, people are just not doing it right.
. yes people are risk averse. – a lot of people would not agree to this description. More likely evolved to survive…
It says something about the circles I’m part of that this is the second time this week I’ve been made aware of that Nature article.
Doesn’t make it any less interesting, however.
Most people would not gamble on a repeated coin toss where a heads would increase their net worth by 50%, but a tails would decrease it by 40%.
I wouldn’t take that bet, because I am, in fact, risk averse. Lose nearly half my net worth on a coin toss? No fucking way. I don’t know what the upside would need to be for me to put 40% of what I’ve worked for my whole life on the line, but it would probably have to be a pay off of 10x or more.
I value keeping what I have more than a chance at a windfall. Is this “irrational”?
I would not call not taking stupid risks as risk averse. There is huge variance in coin toss it aproaches theoretical probability for large numbers and you could go bust long before. Real world risk is not theoretical risk
repeated coin toss
If it is a one off I get the risk aversion, but if it is an ongoing process with evenly distributed lower losses and higher gains…
Very interesting. I modeled this out in a spreadsheet and it lost value over 100 iterations.
Makes sense. On a short series, starting with a net worth of 100 and a winning toss of heads:
(1) Heads: + 50 = 150
(2) Tails: – 60 = 90
(3) Heads: +45 = 135
(4) Tails: -54 = 81
I think your heads need to outnumber your tails to come ahead on a series. With even distributions of heads and tails, you lose, essentially because if you dig a hole 40% deep, 50% gains won’t get you out of it because its 50% of a smaller number.
IOW, turning down this bet isn’t even risk averse.
and it does so consistently, an even number of 40% losses and 50% gains results in a net reduction. I am apparently stupid today because that seems counter intuitive. 1 and 1 100, 150, 90 2 and 2 100, 150, 225, 135, 81.
Someone whose brain is working help me out here.
if you dig a hole 40% deep, 50% gains won’t get you out of it because its 50% of a smaller number
It loses 10% per pair of flips (assuming equal heads tails) yeah, refusing the bet was not risk averse lol. It was mathematically the way to go.
Step A You start with $x.
Step B You then multiply it by 1.5 and then multiply by .6 (either order)
You can rewrite Step B as
Step B’ You then multiply by 1.5*.6
Step B” You then multiply by 0.9 (because one point five times point six is point nine)
So for every pair of heads and tails, you multiply your stake by .9
The break even point is 2/3.
Heads: Increase stake by 1/3.
Tails: Decrease stake by 1/3 (aka keep 2/3).
Pair: Stake is X * 1/3 * 2/3 = X * 3/3 = X
Thanks, that was what I was looking for the long way round. Although your break even case needs to be increase by half, decrease by 1/3. increasing by 1/3 and decreasing by 1/3 is a net loss also.
Yeah, math is hard.
So this is the same thing as the “paradox” that if you have two envelopes, 1 with twice as much money as the other then it is always better to switch:
Expected Value of switching is: (2x + 1/2X) => 5/4 X. Since the value of your initial guess is X It is better to switch.
(Hint, this is a fallacious paradox, because the math is not correct)
Also, 40% of a bigger number (after a 50% gain) is more than the gain.
Its a sucker bet, the kind of thing I would expect a street hustler to do. The only way to win is to literally beat the odds by having more winning tosses than losing tosses.
(1) Heads: + 50 = 150
(2) Heads: + 75 = 225
(3) Tails: – 112 = 113
(4) Heads: + 57 = 170
(5) Tails: – 85 = 85
And even frontloading wins and having one more winning toss doesn’t help.
Math error:
(1) Heads: + 50 = 150
(2) Heads: + 75 = 225
(3) Tails: – 90 = 135
(4) Heads: + 67 = 202
(5) Tails: – 81 = 121
So with one more winning toss than losing toss, you do come out ahead on a short series. Even them up with another losing toss, and you are at 73.
As far as birthdays, an ORANGE MAN was born on this day. BAD BAD BAD!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_II_of_the_Netherlands
having fifty cops unload on it in rush hour traffic
Procedures were, uh, something. All I know is that we can only trust law enforcement with firearms and firearms have no business being in private hands.
That Uber article is weird. You’d think if you’re doing stats on sexual assaults, you’d include traditional taxi companys’ stats for comparative purposes.
We don’t do that here.
Signed, every reporter.
Wouldn’t any fair-minded person want to know, “In comparison to…”? Maybe there are more assaults with Uber, but that they don’t even mention it raises questions.
Yeah, of course every fair minded person would want to know. That’s not who the news caters to. They cater to tribal instincts (LOOK AT WHAT THIS RETHUGICAN/LIBTARD IS DOING NOW) and fear (THIS HOUSHOLD ITEM WILL KILL YOUR BABY / MN DRIVERS WHERE SHOCKED WHEN THEY FOUND OUT).
Is that why circulation, web hits, and viewership is down?
Partly yes. But also people have better options too.
Masturbating to internet porn.
You think even-handedness is taught in journalism school?
To really be fair it would have to be Rapes Per Mile. Because I’d assume User/Lyft do about 25x the mileage of “traditional” cab companies.
That wouldn’t take into account traffic jams. (Yeah, I did that).
Rapes Per Mile, so spinner?
I think rapes per passenger is the right metric, myself. We’re not measuring the efficiency of transportation options, but the risk of getting assaulted, which is unaffected by mileage.
A Kentucky judge has been accused of turning her chambers into a glorified frat house, having a threesome with staffers and allowing employees to get drunk on the job — all while abusing her power to win re-election, according to reports.
Where does one apply to be a staffer?
In the judge’s private chamber. If she likes what she sees, she’ll help you pass the bar.
I’m holding this comment in contempt.
I’m sure there will be an appeal.
+1 “If it pleases the court”
“Excuse me while I bang my gavel.”
I’ll need some prima facial evidence.
Shall we call in the hung jury?
According to the article, her chamber is fairly public.
Is it bad that at first glance I saw that as “pubic”?
I just got here but I’m gonna bail
Cultural variation in voting patterns reflects the landscape of US genetic diversity: A test of the cultural niche hypothesis.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/856450v1
So genetically distinct groups also tend to be culturally distinct, and this effects their social and political preferences? Somebody get this man a grant.
Should that not be affects?
Oh look at me, I’m Romanian and can actually use the English language properly!
Nationalist pie chart:
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1202663934119034880
The replies
Nice. A ton of people who aren’t Japanese, know next to nothing about Japan, and live in countries far less successful and much poorer telling the Japanese what they are doing wrong. *thumbs up*
Class warrior
“My family relied on food stamps (EBT) when my dad died at 48. I was a student. If this happened then, we might’ve just starved,” she tweeted Thursday. “Now many people will.”
She continued, criticizing Republican lawmakers who she views as stewards of the wealthy.
“It’s shameful how the GOP works overtime to create freebies for the rich while dissolving lifelines of those who need it most.”
Shameful. The high and mighty must be brought low.
“Another viral-but-misleading tweet from AOC. The work requirement rule doesn’t affect parents, which she would have known had she read the story: “The USDA rule change affects people between the ages of 18 and 49 who are childless and not disabled.””
https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1202778872099606528
we might’ve just starved,
Geeze can you drop the drama a bit. You were a student? at like Boston college? I think you were well off enough to not starve.
This graph should tell you everything you need to know about food stamps
http://www.trivisonno.com/wp-content/uploads/Food-Stamps-Annual-Benefits.jpg
People are gonna starve….in wheelchairs….while being pushed over a cliff….with cat food smeared on their lips…
The horror.
On pay-per-view?
New Netflix series
Uber said it recorded 235 rapes last year
STEVE SMITH works for Uber? I though he hated the city.
Does that count legislators raping Uber?
Uber didn’t kill itself.
Is that drivers? Occurrences between two passengers? Rapes after a passenger was dropped off?
I guess the character limit of a free form article kept the writer from explaining.
STEVE SMITH NO WORK FOR UBER, HIM OWNER OPERATOR OF COMPANY CALLED RAYPT
A winning combo.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stated that if she gets the Democratic nomination former 2020 presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) would be on her shortlist as a running mate, and added that Harris “would be on any Democrats’ shortlist.”
Host Lawrence O’Donnell asked, “Would she be on your shortlist already?”
Warren responded, “Oh, yeah. I mean, look, Kamala Harris would be on any Democrats’ shortlist. She’s smart. She’s confident. She’s got this terrific voice.”
I find both of your voices to be rather grating.
Is this Warren’s “clean and articulate” moment?
Nah man, have you heard Harris sing? it’s like Rhianna meets Cardi B.
Oh my God. That would be the most annoying duo in world history.
Also. Warren is a liar so my money is on she wouldn’t ask. She’s an alpha-female. The cat fighting would be epic.
Vice Presidents are insurance policies. No way Harris gets it.
“South Korean Papa John’s debuts ‘American’ pizza with hot dogs on every slice”
https://nypost.com/2019/12/05/south-korean-papa-johns-debuts-american-pizza-with-hot-dogs-on-every-slice/
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1202807987640971265
Drunk Leap would eat the shit out of that.
Are the hot dogs made with real dog?
Wanna hear my American impression?
I’m sure this is the equivalent of what american’s do to Korean dishes.
Twitter morons regarding the Miami thing…
Turn Texas Blue ? ? ?
@pinkladyf0xx
11h11 hours ago
More
Replying to @rklueber28
This is what happens when property becomes more important than lives. Actually, isn’t that the entire directive of the police? To protect property?
11 replies58 retweets741 likes
Reply 11 Retweet 58 Like 741
Dave Rubins Blocked List
@RubinsBlockList
11h11 hours ago
More
Yea because when policing began in America, property included black folk. Systematically police are just modern slave patrols locking people up and protecting the owner class.
-_____-
Sigh…. Are they mad that the jewel thieve Hostage takers got shot and killed?
In socialism there is no police…
Off course some libertarians would probably echo these thoughts.
Those aren’t libertarians.
Here’s why the cops went full retard
I’m offended that you thought we’d need the bold letters.
We all need a little help sometimes.
Government is just the stuff we choose to do together.
Somewhat off topic. I noticed one guy’s name is “Rubin’s Block List”. Why so much hatred for Dave Rubin? I’ve never understood that.
For the love of God. I’m starting to see one too many disconcerting attacks on private property.
Which makes sense if you’re a degenerate parasitical Marxist/Socialist but a misguided person holding such thoughts is problematic.
Let me expand. The people you need to help steer away from these thoughts aren’t the ones who have accepted socialist/marxist ideals – or ‘true believers’.
It’s the ones who are being influenced by it. For example, let’s say you’re a normal person (starting out in life) and superficially conclude ‘well, yeh duh. Guns and private property are the problem!’ having read only one side of that equation being, for argument’s sake, someone who always voted Democrat or Liberal but not particularly a nut about it.
THAT person has the potential to become a property owner and their tune changes the second they become one. So what’s key is to keep people from a) accepting the notion private property is bad and this is key b) not let it set into the mindset.
Drawing on the works of Plato, Cicero and Confucious, Castiglione synthesized the concept of the ‘Renaissance man’ though. Set the rules of etiquette that became the foundation of classical England (who used it for their ruling classes) and France (among other things, to develop haute cuisine). It added to Alberti’s ‘Seven Liberal arts’ concept of education and essentially helped establish concepts of education (James Joyce claims to have become more polite after reading it) particularly in England. Hugely influential. Jacob Burckhardt considered him a key figure in European history and claimed his ‘Book of the Courtier’ remained important until WWI destroyed European civilization.
How important was he? The Louvre keeps his portrait up….next to Raphael.
Me? I got nothing out of it. Where the frick am I going to find someone to joust with in order to qualify as a Renaissance man? /moons everyone.
here read this
The Archimedes palimpsest
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2019/11/archimedes-palimpsest.html
Looks interesting. Tabbed it and will read it later. Thanks!
You can read Greek?
Isn’t it all Greek anyway?
Pie, okay. Read it. But not sure about the connection?
I did find this interesting: “Hobby Lobby is a prominent supporter of Christian evangelicalism, and has a reputation for rapaciously acquiring ancient Christian manuscripts without the slightest concern for where they came from. It has since turned out that Obbink ‘sold’ eleven other EES-owned papyri to them in 2010 — and possibly to other buyers too.”
there is no connection. Renaissance man learns random stuff
You made me almost choke on my Honeycrisp laughing.
So true.
Tensest is held every year, medieval times is taking applications, and your local LARP group is always looking for new players.
Of course. Naturally. Sigh.
/Signs up. Puts hockey goalie mask on.
Athletic director Mike Buddie said head football coach Jeff Monken addressed the team in September after learning about the phrase’s roots and told them it would immediately be removed from the program. According to Buddie, Monken was “mortified” and planned to use the instance as a “teaching moment” for his players.
“It’s embarrassing, quite frankly,” said Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy. “… We take stuff like this very, very seriously. Once I found out about this goofiness, I asked one of our most senior colonels to investigate.”
OMFG we can’t allow these people we’re training to kill on an industrial scale to say things which might hurt somebody’s feeling!
Silly question, but was any sort of definitive definition used in reporting those Uber sexual improprieties?
Is telling somebody you think she looks hot in her slutty red shoes lumped in with “beaten and raped”?
Schiff can’t stop lying.
Adam Schiff✔
@RepAdamSchiff
Trump is seeking to kick millions of families and children off food assistance.
Meanwhile, he’s preparing to send another $14 billion to big agribusinesses to offset the damage from his trade war.
His values are clear: Welfare for corporations. Hunger for American families. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1202321346572763138 …
The juxtaposition of this with the whole anger over not sending weapons (i.e welfare for defense contractors/ weapons manufacturers) is why Trump must be impeached.
OMG he condemned the Trade War! I expect the CATO/Reason slobbering right now.
In the Trump era, I’m just surprised at how many people have remained principaled (TW: TOS)
https://reason.com/2019/12/05/devin-nunes-secret-surveillance/
Devin Nunes Supports Secret Surveillance of Americans, Finds Himself Under Surveillance
FTA:
“But there’s no reason to assume that Schiff was specifically targeting Nunes, and it’s unlikely that any laws were broken here. Nunes’ name and calls came up in the metadata of the impeachment’s investigation targets. What is happening to the California congressman right now is an easily foreseeable consequences of the surveillance system Nunes supports.
Scalise should know full well how Schiff is getting this information. He, like Nunes, has supported expanding the NSA’s authority to snoop on Americans. Whenever attempts to expand this power has been brought up for a vote, Scalise has been happy to vote yes. In 2018, as House whip, Scalise circulated an email to GOP members with text from Nunes encouraging them to vote against an Amash attempt to provide stronger privacy protections for Americans.
Maybe next time Amash or somebody else in Congress brings forward a bill protecting Americans from secret unwarranted data collection, Nunes and Scalise might consider supporting it.”
Whatabouting abuse of power to own the cons. Remember, when Shack whatabout’d immigration when Democrats complained about detention at the borders? I think he wrote something like “well Democrats were OK with this under Obama, so deal with it”. Oh yeah, that definitely happened.
It’s interesting how progressives keep leaving out the fact that a reporter, John Solomon, was caught up in this surveillance.
Those cocktail party invites don’t write themselves.
Don’t they hate Solomon?
Probably. He was right on Russia Fever Dreams and they were….well…not right, to be diplomatic
Yeah cause he helped gather info for articles that showed that the Ukranians helped HRC/DNC in the election. Articles and facts no on had issue with until it needed to go away because it challenges the narrative that Trump is embroiled in conspiracy theory.
Solomon is not a reporter reporter.
I mean, they jumped that shark years ago when they started defending secret courts and fellating our heroes in the intelligence community.
https://mises.org/wire/how-avoid-civil-war-decentralization-nullification-secession
This is what most disturbs me about the current state of America. Trump is no libertarian and not really an opponent of the current welfare-warfare Deep State but nevertheless he must be destroyed and preferably the Republican party with him. Obviously the Deep State will be convinced to turn libertarian with wokeness and cocktail parties.
I wonder how much is plain personal? The Deep Staters personally hate Trump and Trump in turn hates them for hating him.
Also sometimes it seems that the cozy status quo is the cause of the most vicious internal feuding. Since most everyone in the political class agrees on the same thing there few differences they do have are magnified extremely along with the danger of being the loser in such factional quarreling.
See Communist purges. Or the Jim Crow South where Southern Democratic factionalism could get extremely vicious (see Long and Talmadge for example)
Competition is fiercest among businesses that cannot differentiate their product.
They care less about what Trump actually does and more about what he represents. He represents the viewpoints of people that the mainstream thought had already been conquered. They jumped the gun on their victory party by about 10-15 years, and they are unbelievably pissed off that they got bested electorally by a bunch of deprecated old hangers-on.
Jackpot
Now imagine the thrill of buying another inexpensive consumer product — in this case, a baby bouncer from Goodwill — and finding a Mossberg 715T semi-automatic .22LR rifle inside. And you didn’t even have to eat any of those weird peanuts to get to it. That’s exactly what happened to a Florida couple shopping for a baby shower present on Sunday.
FOX 35 Orlando reports:
Veronica Alvarez-Rodriguez said she was attending a baby shower on Sunday, so she stopped by the Goodwill in Valparaiso to pick up a gift. That’s where she found a Baby Einstein baby bouncer in an unopened box that appeared to be new. For only $9.99, it was quite a bargain.
Alvarez-Rodriguez took the gift to the baby shower where the father-to-be opened the box and said “You guys got me a gun.”
Best baby shower ever, you say? Indeed.
I almost had a heart attack just now, thinking that was the Goodwill I go to. But it was in Valparaiso, Florida.
https://youtu.be/9Pa8bRdDyW4
Commie gungrabber on Home Alone.
John Hughes is one of my heroes.
” Seattle Seahawks player to wear ‘My Cause My Cleats’ design with image of Che Guevara
It’s for the NFL’s “My Cause My Cleats” initiative”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/seahawks-player-to-use-che-guevara-image-on-cleats
Christ, what an asshole
A 6’4″ 291 lb asshole who physically mauls large athletic people for a living…
Lucky bastard
Yeh but Che wouldn’t think twice about putting a bullet in his sorry ass.
Che’ loved the blacks. . .
It’s bold to take such a Homophobic stance.
How is it homophobic? Did Che once volunteer for the Salvation Army?
I’d put Che on my cleats
Che
That’s my favorite. A good commie.
Anyone that would believe Che Guevara and Malcolm X to be on exactly the same team has intellect below that of a protozoan.
Mornin’, Glibs. Jobs numbers are out, and the economy appears to be trucking along just swell. From what I understand by reading very smart people on Twitter, it is the effect of the highly sophisticated covert economic mechanisms Obama set in place prior to leaving office. They are apparently so robust and resilient that they continue to withstand the economically destructive deregulation that has been so recklessly applied by Trump.
Lol.
Which means he did exactly sweet fuck all for it.
The only credit I will give Obama for the current economy was that if he hadn’t been so hell bent on suppressing the economy, the growth would not look as impressive.
Uffda. Local lefty news site knows their customers.
They have published a helpful article on how “enhanced water” is hokum. Why do I think that the rubes out on the Minnesoda prairie don’t need this information.
If you add a teaspoon of organic non-GMO salt to your enhanced water it has great cleansing affects
salt is inorganic.
If organic salt sells better i would print organic on it
Stupid rubes. *squirts more fat/gluten free chocolate syrup in mouth*
TW Huffpo: I Got Inseminated In A Burger King Bathroom Just Off Route 57
True story. Kankanee, IL was once voted “Worst Town in America” so David Letterman gave them a gazebo or something.
Late night Burger King is the best location for making excellent life choices, this is known.
Hate to break it to you hunny, but there are thousands of teen moms who’ve been knocked up in fast food establishments. You ain’t special.
She probably wasn’t even the first one to get knocked up in that bathroom on that night.
Pat knows this because he’s the one who knocked them up.
and no one linked this
Have it your way
Love the avatar, btw.
It really works for him.
I call shenanigans.
If she really would do anything for a child of her own, she’d fuck a dude. Get the read cod instead of the fake cod.
The Fillet o Fish is at McDonalds anyway.
You can get anything with the right bait.
+ 1 milkshake.
My thought too. But that wouldn’t be stunning and brave.
She was born to save us from the sin of electing Bad Orange Man.
JFC, Pelosi comes from a whole family of insanely corrupt politicians.
Never mind that her professed Catholicism and her stance on abortion are irreconcilable.
“As a Catholic, I resent you using the word ‘hate’ in a sentence that addresses me. I don’t hate anyone. I was raised in a way that is heart full of love, and I always pray for the President. I pray for the President all the time.”
Hmmm. And As a Catholic, what is your opinion on Abortion Nancy?
You can always tell who is serious about their faith by those who employ it selectively to deflect criticism. I believe there is some canon law supporting this strategy or something.
That little rant of hers was a major tell. The lady doth protest too much.
I had no idea Jesus had a son who stole his partner’s kids after beating her and threatening to call CPS because he’s the son of a powerful person.
You know, because Pelosi does.
The left are cynical psychos. One one side they loathe and hate Jesus and Christianity but whenever they have some corrupted buffoon to protect in politics they love to pull out the Jesus analogy.
Truly a despicable, illiberal bunch.
I’d say “public mediocres” at best
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg jabbed at his more liberal opponents in a new ad airing in Iowa. It doesn’t name other candidates, but it’s clear he’s taking aim at Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who have pitched plans making free public college available to all.
Buttigieg’s ad amplified a point he has made before. And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., who recently endorsed Sanders, responded in a Twitter thread assailing Buttigieg for, as she put it, repeating a “GOP talking point used to dismantle public systems.”
“Universal public systems are designed to benefit EVERYBODY!” she wrote. “Everyone contributes & everyone enjoys. We don’t ban the rich from public schools, firefighters, or libraries bc they are public goods.”
Why aren’t any of these blathering cretins asking why our nation’s yutes are so ill served by the free education currently provided to them?
“Why aren’t any of these blathering cretins asking why our nation’s yutes are so ill served by the free education currently provided to them?”
Because their own yutes don’t have to suffer in the system
Bernie Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break up internet and cable titans
Hooray! Bernie is going to free us from the internet monopolies that the government helped create! Also he’ll create efficiency by eliminating the middleman in spying on Americans internet usage.
Man you aren’t doing it right. Your supposed to only mention the “good” things and assure everyone that the possible negative useses would never be done, because bernie is just a stand up guy.
Bernie’s a fuckstick who would have the NSA spy on you to make certain you don’t use more than one brand of deodorant.
But I already only use one brand of deodorant. speedstick unscented.
/Deliberately misses point
Maybe someone should point out to Bernie that the Feds (and States) have dumped billions into rural broadband and seen no real improvements.
I’m also sure that his proposal to put municipalities in charge of deciding how to deliver internet access will be awesome. Those cities will probably pull that super successful cable monopoly plan out their playbook and create a new Comcast business.
Telecom always has been and probably always will be a massive clusterfuck of government subsidies and regulations. Doing away with 90% of the regs would probably help, but making it illegal for governments to be in the provider business would be mandatory for a functioning market.
muh human rights
When it comes to campaign finance, money =/= speech.
When it comes to subsidies and graft, mysteriously free speech rights are inseparable from money.
Bullshit. I’m willing to bet they fully complied with the terms of the CAFII money, which is 10M service.
OMWC and his (((buddies))) have some ‘splaining to do. How dare you spread dirt on Minnesoda’s Dear Omar?
The BDS movement has never asked for money or targeted any individuals, this is known.
Right. Because it’s not possible it may have nothing to do with the stupid things they say. There’s live footage of Tlaib acting out like an idiot and that’s the fault of the Jews apparently.
Love the subtle anti-semitism of it all.
I skimmed that article but couldn’t find mention of any specific misinformation that is being disseminated. Perhaps it is so vile and egregious that it is forbidden knowledge?
Senior editors (aka Elders) have established a clear set of rules(aka protocols) when publishing stories involving dirty lies spread by (((them))) (aka Zion).
If you go into any newsroom, you will find these rules in a book that the editors use all the time. It is called
OH MY GOD THEY GOT TO JIMBO
*sobs uncontrollably*
Don’t cry for me. Nothing bad happened. I just forgot to end that thought because I was meeting with some (((nice guys))) who just dropped in to talk about things.
*gets naked and rolls in pile of benjamins*
That is against protocol!
So now the left has:
– Russians under every bed
– A leading presidential candidate, whose economics have been described (admiringly) as economic nationalism
– And now a consipiracy of Jews is seeking to harm them.
You know who else…
Oh my god we are the Ottoman Empire!
But remember kids, George Soros and his Open Society Foundation supporting literally hundreds of left wing activism websites and organizations is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
Functionally, I don’t care whether Soros is Jewish. I just think he’s an evil asshole.
He’s living proof that “Jewish Nazi” is not an impossibility.
Except he’s an ardent globalist – making him living proof of lots of stuff to every actual Nazi.
I was referencing his youth, when he was literally working for the Nazis.
Finally, Buttigieg has stressed that college isn’t necessary for everyone.
“Yes, it needs to be more affordable in this country to go to college, but it needs to be affordable in this country not to go to college,” he said in a June debate.
And what the fuck is that even supposed to mean?
College needs to be free and worthless.
It’s already worthless. It’s the “free” part they’re working on now
Hopefully, it means getting rid of credentialism.
But that’s damn near impossible given the multitude of things as an employer you can’t ask about.
Resurrect freedom of association on a constitutional basis. All those questions become fair game again.
LIVING WAGE!
it needs to be affordable in this country not to go to college
I believe this is a reference to a UBI of some kind. No college means you can’t get a job, so you need some phat welfare.
https://www.aier.org/article/is-there-a-science-of-progress/
You know this does sum up a lot of issues I have been with liberarian technophilia: when you get down to it is very collectivist, conformist and deterministic. They are assuming that new tech will cause everyone to agree with them on everything cuz Progress.
Yeah. I think lines get crossed sometimes. They see advancement by individuals (sometimes to outsmart a regulatory burden, or just flaut it), the innovation gains consumer support, and then think “Hey Everyone likes this product, therefore they will be forced (logically) to like the free market that produced it.
In that sense Technological advance on the free market is guaranteed to make people fans of the free market. It’s a logical contradiction not to. Of course logical contradictions are not problems for people in general.
especially since government invents most things
Of course, the main thrust of the article was that it would be an interesting exercise to try to come up with a single formula to maximize prosperity, it’s not necessarily guaranteed.
Lots of caveats like:
And of course the chaser:
A lot of the people whom you criticize as thinking that technology will lead inevitably towards human liberation don’t strike me as truly believing that. Rather I see them arguing that while technological advancement is necessary for human liberation it alone is not sufficient since we also must evangelize the cultural and social changes to the rest of society if that potential is to be realized.
And yes, persuasion is hard work. And it might fail.
Unfortunately it didn’t totally work in 1914 and doesn’t seem to be working right now.
Well, there are two things we can do:
1) We can try to persuade people or help those trying to persuade people to do a better job or contribute to their success in some way, or
2) We can whine and bitch about their failure to hand us a free society on a platter without devoting any effort to contribute to their success.
Out of curiosity, do you feel you spend more time doing 1 than 2?
One more criticism of means-testing college by income is that income alone often doesn’t paint a full picture of a family’s financial situation.
“Income is actually a somewhat imperfect way to judge whether or not a family is financially secure,” said Mark Huelsman, associate director of policy and research at the left-leaning think tank Demos. “The typical black family making $100,000 has a lot less wealth than the typical white family making $100,000.”
????????
One family has a house, the other bigger rims on the Escalade?
You really skirted right up to the line with that one. I tip my hat.
was thinking of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOCu45gI9-k
Yeah, but you’re not suppose to repeat that joke.
Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utrvNbTpHSA
why? I aint no American I feel no guilt for your discrimination
Do people look over their shoulders in Romania when they tell a Gypsy joke?
nope it is pretty in the open mostly
but not like in the office or something
but overall gipsy jokes are not nearly as bad as some racial jokes I saw from US racists… Most are fairly mild. And not that many, really.
No people talking shit about gypsies without the medium of humor, that is more frequent.
Eh…you guys should cut gypsies a break. Some of them are hot. Haven’t you guys ever watched “From Russia With Love”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpNtSuZQPac
I don’t see that happening anytime soon. There are many people who try due to the modern tolerance thing to banish all racial though from their heads, and an encounter with a group of gypsies sets that process back months. There are few enough “treat people as individuals” round here, and most of the anti-racists are starting to embrace western progressive intersectionality and such.
But there are serious issues with that minority, both from the majority and the minority and mutual change is needed but not coming too soon.
I’ve run into few racists in the US, but I regularly saw a lot of open racism in Europe. But, that may all be a matter of where you’re choosing to stay. My favorite part was when a Frenchman explained to me how awful Gypsies were and then compared them to Mexicans in the US.
But, seriously, if movies have taught me anything it’s that gypsies women are hot.
But, seriously, if movies have taught me anything it’s that gypsies women are hot – until 30 or so. not after.
open racism – look just because people throw bananas at black people there is no need to brand them as racist.
It’s why we need reparations. Lots of Inherited wealth. I mean I know my mothers side of the family is from the deep south and i’m just rolling in that inter generational wealth.
I thought N-rich was a really racist term?
Maybe you didn’t hear that Fabrique National’s handgun, the FNX, was originally introduced and marketed as the FNP until people in the US military informed them that the acronym “FNP” was already taken. (Full-“N”-Package – example; a totally pimped out vehicle with all the custom features)
Black $$ are only worth 3/5 of white $$. It is known. (and it gets worse when you consider homes where there is only a black woman as the breadwinner).
Do you take the $0.78 before or after the 3/5?
How dare anyone accuse college students of being overly sensitive.
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/vegetarian-vegan-university-students-painting
*snort*
Like Saibamen?
They use photosynthesis?
I skimmed that article but couldn’t find mention of any specific misinformation that is being disseminated. Perhaps it is so vile and egregious that it is forbidden knowledge?
It will turn you into a newt.
Surely one Gingrich is all the planet can stand?
Naptown Bill is not going to be able to flash his white supremacist OK sign around local taprooms anymore.
The Man no longer can keep black bodies out of craft brewing!
Isn’t MN somewhere around 95% white?
And their niceness is just a cover for
being racistimitating racisim85% white (if you count Swedes as white)
What’s the % after you leave the Twin Cities?
You’d want to leave out Rochester (Mayo Clinic) to then you’d be approaching 99.9% (Duluth is still out there)
Around 115%. There is a one in seven chance that the child of a black person and white rural Minnesotan will be blonde, blue-eyed, and not repulsed by lutefisk.
Hah! I know that guy. Super nice dude.
“Finally, a brewer who looks like me!!”
owners of color
I thought saying “colored owners” was no longer socially acceptable.
I thought people who owned colored were the bad guys.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2019/11/15/how-libertarians-could-be-the-kingmakers-of-the-2020-presidential-election/
Joe Biden would likely garner a strong share of libertarian votes as ‘the lesser of two evils,’ – somehow I doubt that
While a centrist like Joe Biden would likely garner a strong share of libertarian votes
Look i generally try to avoid Libertarian Purity games, but i have more respect for “Libertarians” who vote for bernie sanders, than those alleged libertarians, who would vote for Joe “Lets Start a war in Iraq”, “No Weed needs to be illegal”, “Suck a Cops Dick”, “Look, Fat” Biden.
^
THIS
I can understand why a dejected and desperate libertarian would vote for Tulsi, Yang, or even Bernie. I do not understand how someone who ostensibly believes in “liberty” and less government could ever get themselves to vote for Biden.
This article should more accurately be titled “How Neocons could be the kingmakers of the 2020 presidential election”, because if we’re being honest more libertarians are more accurately described as neocons
“like privacy, gay rights, free trade, a more welcoming immigration policy, and the legalisation of recreational drugs”
Privacy: Not once, since the end of the Bush administration, have Democrats ever opposed the Patriot Act or FISA surveillance. And now that they control the House they actually just attached FISA surveillance to the budget and overwhelmingly voted in favor of reauthorization
Gay rights: What is that? Harassing bakers? What more is needed?
Free trade: Are you serious?
Immigration policy: A LOT of people were asleep during Obama’s administration. I think that’s all that needs to be said on this topic
Legalization of recreational drugs: Sure, buddy. Considering all the work that the Democratic majority in the House has put into that, I’m convinced
Interesting how environmentalism will put up trade barriers and interfere with freedom of movement what with banning airplanes and everything but we’ll just ignore that since the rich elites will be free to travel and buy foreign goods.
Kochatarianism is all about only believing in ideas that your white progressive neighbors won’t get upset about.
This must be the “pluralism” that David Brooks and Will Wilkinson blabber on about.
The author wants to say “lots of libertarians feel more kinship to the blue tribe than the right tribe” but his high opinion of himself won’t let him entertain the idea that he’s tribalism.
privacy…free trade
Since when do the Dems care about privacy and free trade?
back when they used to argue that buttsecks and blowjobs were protected by privacy instead of cake.
Louder, who calls brewing “food for my soul,” helped start the Brewing Change Collaborative, a group of mostly people of color interested in cultivating diversity and inclusion in the state’s brewing and distilling industries.
Does the beer taste like watermelon and fried chicken?
No, but now we have a way to get craft malt liquor. No more being enslaved to Colt 45 or Olde English.
Did I click on Zerohedges comment section by accident again?
Accident? You did it on purpose.
It’s an “accident” as far as everyone else is concerned
Someone else agrees with one of my pet peeves.
The thing i find annoying about infinite scrolling is pages/apps that have menu options at the top, and don’t make them available without having to scroll ALL THE WAY to the top again (:Glares at YouTube Mobile App:)
I want to be able to reach the bottom of the page, and to go directly to page X when the needs require. Having the end of the page keep running away and gobbling up more system resources pisses me off, and eventually crashes the browser.
You need some scrolling gloves.
Infinite scrolling is a curse upon the internet. I despise it almost as much as I despise Flash-based websites
+1 Thankfully Flash is dying, slowly but surely.
I too hate infinite scroll. Totally jams up rendering.
Many scholars have surveyed the elements that contribute to a successful innovation culture and their lists typically include:
trust in the individual / openness to individual achievements;
positive attitudes towards competition and wealth-creation (especially religious openness toward commercial activity and profit-making);
support for hard work, timeliness, and efficiency;
Sounds like Hell on stilts.
I didn’t know you wrote for the Guardian Wapo and the NYT.
You misspelled “RRrrrrrraayycist!”
Individualism is white supremacy after all. /Carranza
Off to the gulag!
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that unless he hears “some very good explanations,” he intends to vote to convict President Trump in the Senate.
Sanders said, “I’m going to listen to all the evidence. But this is what I will tell you, based on what I have seen right now, if I were a member of the House, I would certainly vote for impeachment. And unless I can hear some very good explanations, I intend to be voting for his impeachment in the Senate.”
*falls off chair*
Bernie obviously isn’t thinking ahead to when he is President, and his party has two or three seats in the House (I’m counting the overt (D) socialists like She Guevara) and none in the Senate. If we’re impeaching and removing on a partisan basis because its “purely political”, he’ll last about a week.
Drama Queen.
During a town hall on CNN on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that “Civilization as we know it” is “at stake” in the 2020 election, and that she doesn’t know if America can “sustain” a second term of President Trump.
Pelosi said, “[T]he damage that this administration has done to America, America’s a great country. We can sustain. Two terms, I don’t know.”
She later added, “Civilization as we know it today is at stake in the next election, and certainly, our planet.”
Trump made Democrats love America, or at least say that they do.
So MAGA
Most. Important. Election. Ever.
What damage? Seriously. They never enumerate the damage. There are no specifics. And know-fuck-all journalists never press them on these things.
Puns are awesome. Math proves it.
That’s a narrow interpretation of that. I’d like to see the Swiss model.
I, too, would like to have a gaze at that.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/pamela-karlan-2003-hawk-ukraine-iraq/
“We have become the shining city on a hill. We have become the nation that leads the world in understanding what democracy is. And one of the things we understand most profoundly is it’s not a real democracy, it’s not a mature democracy, if the party in power uses the criminal process to go after its enemies. And I think you heard testimony — the Intelligence Committee heard testimony about how it isn’t just our national interest in protecting our own elections. It’s not just our national interest in making sure that the Ukraine remains strong and on the front line so they fight the Russians there and we don’t have to fight them here, but it’s also our national interest in promoting democracy worldwide.”
If you guessed that Bill Kristol said this then you’re half right. This was that progressive professor who is definitely not insane, but just bears a striking resemblance to someone who is utterly insane.
I would pay to watch her and Kmele sit down for a conversation. Let Kmele start off by telling her about how bad democracy is. How letting a majority dictate how the minority should live is bad.
I don’t think she’d do well listening to him.
Now Welch on the other hand would get along fine. Their only point of disagreement would be on whether or not NATO should immediately let Ukraine in, or if they should wait a few months.
https://twitter.com/MaxLewisTV/status/1202364112237453313
Live footage of the Fifth Column podcast.
Seriously, who doesn’t love Kmele? He needs to do his own podcast or at least get better co-hosts
The bitch is a leftist that is in love with democracy.
Constitutional. Scholar.
it’s not a mature democracy, if the party in power uses the criminal process to go after its enemies
Tell me, “professor” Karlan, does this mean that when a (D) holds the White House, investigations of (R)s are right out?
Initially I thought she was talking about Obama and the IRS until I realized who it was and where the quote came from.
making sure that the Ukraine remains strong and on the front line so they fight the Russians there and we don’t have to fight them here
Do warmongers ever get tired of this crap?
Where the hell is the evidence that we actually have to fight the Russians. Honestly, I wish for just a moment, that someone would strap on a set of testicles and ask her what the hell moves the Russians have actually made against us. The more I think about it, the more I’m starting to conclude that, at least right now, the United States is the aggressor in terms of Russo-American relations.
A good chunk of our foreign opponents are dependent on oil revenues. We have done more damage to Iran and Russia, and weakened our crypto-opponents elsewhere in the Mideast, with fracking that we could have done with anything short of a full-on boots-on-the-ground Army Corps invasion.
You know who gets this? Trump, because he understands business.
You know who doesn’t? The “interagency” of experts, because they don’t.
All this is true. But, again, as far as I can tell, all Russia has tried to do is maintain its existing arrangements. We seem to be the ones trying to impose a change in circumstances on them. This whole “fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here” ignores the question of who’s trying to impose whose will on whom.
all Russia has tried to do is maintain its existing arrangements
Not sure if Russia is done claiming territory now governed by Ukraine. I say we sell them arms, cash on the barrel-head. There’s no telling how many Warthogs are mothballed in Tucson – fix some of those up and sell them, too. But . . .
Not. One. Single. US. Soldier.
For some reason I can never quite accurately identify a real example of “begging the question”, but is *this* an example? She’s operating on this assumption that we’re in a conflict with Russia that’s just this side of an actual shooting war and therefore must support Ukraine (by not asking them to investigate government corruption that might involve American politicians, which is another strange leap…) but I’ve missed the bit where Russia is in the same category as Islamic terrorism and thus mandates the “fight them there so we don’t fight them here” formula.
So reading the argument formally it would be like this:
Ukraine fighting the Russians keeps them there not here.
(Unspoken but implicit premise: It is in our national interest that the russians stay over there not here)
Therefore we have a national interest in Ukraine Fighting the Russians.
So yes, because it assumes the part about Russians staying out over here. The conclusion only makes sense if you assume that our national interests are hurt by Ukraine not fighting the Russians.
An example i’ve seen of begging the question that helps me think about it is:
“Paranormal events are real, because i have experienced them”
The Premise “I have experienced paranormal events” assumes that they are real, which ends up being the conclusion.
A man called a telecom company 24,000 times to complain. Now he’s been arrested
So assuming this went right up the day he was arrested that is 575 days. That means on average assuming no sleep he called something like 1.7 times an hour. I call BS. Not saying the guy isn’t crazy, just that CNN is again proving that it does questionable journalism.
There are people who do this in the states. They call companies over and over complaining about their service until they find the right customer service rep who will cave and give them a credit.
glances around nervously, pulls at shirt collar.
Did you know that (at least as of a few years ago) all Comcast phone-based tech support can also help you with billing and other issues? So if you call up, describe your modem being broken, reboot it to “fix” it, and spend the time making nice chitchat, you can slip in “hey, you all started charging me for a service I didn’t want” or whatever.
Did you know that (at least as of a few years ago) no Comcast phone-based tech support was measured on how much they lose the company on billing and other issues? So they DGAF if they give you a huge refund (that you should have by right).
Does anyone else hate doing tile work? My upstairs bathroom shower has been out of commission for a month. All that’s left is a few hours of tiling. I’ve been avoiding it, but I’m getting tired of going down two floors to the basement to shower.
I’ll take tile work over trim work any day. Took me forever to get the quarter round right because the walls aren’t level.
I’ll take either over drywall. I have about 115 feet of shoe to install this weekend, as a matter of fact.
Plumb. Wall are plumb floors are level.
Don’t assume what that wall identifies as!
There is also true and square.
Don’t ever make me install a door frame from scratch and hang a door ever again. Preassembled door frames and doors #FTW!
Dude, that’s what paintable caulk is for.
Sorry. Maybe I’m a deviant but tilework was almost fun for me. The only part that almost defeated me was cutting a round hole in ceramic tile for the plumbing fixture. That took about five takes and a lot of patience (working with 12″ square tiles).
I don’t mind the tile setting, the grouting annoys me.
Same here, and I’ve got to redo the grout in our downstairs bathroom. Which means it isn’t getting done until there’s absolutely nothing else I have or want to do.
Ugh. Grinding out old grout is the fucking worst. I’d rather reshingle a house.
I don’t mind tile work. I tiled 750 square feet of basement floor a couple of years ago. It’s not perfect (because the concrete pads were not … and it’s a rec-room basement with an office) but I can handle some tile.
Germany: All EU Members Must Take in Migrants
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia: NO
So cute when they think they have national sovereignty.
Maybe I’m just being a dick, but I almost think that Boris Johnson might do well to take a tour of Eastern Europe before resuming talks with the EU regarding Brexit.
Germany is gonna start a war….again.
If any of the people shot in the Broward slaughter had any “Back the Blue” propaganda on their vehicles, I say fuck ’em. Otherwise, those cops should be held liable. But who am I kidding, they won’t be.
I can see the attorneys for the police arguing the responsibility should fall to the robbers and then car jackers for creating the environment for this to take place.
Yup.
By law, police aren’t required to be reasonable. They can shoot somebody based on their purely subjective fear, rather than being held to a “reasonable person” standard.
Since they aren’t require to be reasonable, they can’t be negligent or reckless, either one, as those are both measured against a reasonableness standard.
We hold dogs to a higher standard than police – dogs only get one free bite.
I can’t believe this story hasn’t made the links. Colder than a witches tit, indeed!
Ewww…that’s shit is creepy
Cupping cold tittay is just low brow
He was trying to protect and serve them.
It has, I saw it earlier this week or late last week.
But they were real, and they were spectacular.
Speaking of bad cops, remember that story awhile back where the house in Colorado was destroyed by a fucking SWAT team trying to catch a shoplifter?
Well, IJ is on the case.
This is why i love IJ.
No way to just cordon off the house and wait him out, I suppose.
They should just use flamethrowers next time. It would be a lot faster and cheaper.
What kind of fun would that be? On the one hand, they would get some sweet, sweet OT surrounding the house. On the griping hand however they would not get to pull out the second hand purchases from the military.
high-caliber ammunition
I have to wonder if they actually deployed anything bigger than a .223 “patrol rifle”. Which ain’t high-caliber.
Those Tactial Timmies were just waiting to bring out all their cool new GWOT surplus toys. I’m sure a .308 rifles of some type was used by a police sniper.
The other day I saw a cop using binoculars as they tried to pinch people for speeding and/or something else like people using their phones. Who knows?
I wanted to stop and ask, do you want infrared goggles too?
Jesus, just do it the old fashion way. Instead, they act like they’re engaging in guerrilla warfare.
“Judge, their driving was so reckless, you can’t even observe it directly.”
I would love to see how police would react if their homes were destroyed that way.
But they get to go home right?
Over an armed shoplifter? A tad…excessive no?
Rufus, it was a shirt AND two belts. From Walmart!!!
Good shoot.
Since they aren’t require to be reasonable, they can’t be negligent or reckless, either one, as those are both measured against a reasonableness standard.
Depraved indifference? Applicable to cops?
Hahahahahahahahaha
Gov. Bill Weld
“Thank you, @KamalaHarris and @GovernorBullock for fighting the good fight, and best wishes for whatever the future holds for each of you. Agree or disagree on politics and policy, anyone who enters the arena with an eye to serve deserves our gratitude and respect.”
Bill Weld continues to be the unending embarrassment of the LP. Luckily for them, their chairman is so much more of an embarrassment that people forget what an embarrassment Weld continues to be.
Loves corrupt prosecutors? Check
Loves gun control? Check
Has never seen a war that he didn’t support? Check
Can objectively be viewed as providing no alternative to the two party system? Check
You might be a Kochatarian if you meet these qualifications
Hey, Rhywun — as a T Dream fan, you should look at getting a copy of the In Search of Hades boxed set. Lots of live material and quite good re-masters of everything from Phaedra through Cyclone. Some live and previously unreleased stuff that’s pre-Cyclone, too. Oedipus Tyrranus would have been a great follow-up to Zeitgeist.
It’s all my favorite T Dream in shiny new mixes plus lots of rarities. Worth the price, although it risks becoming unobtainium.
I have a couple box sets already 🙂
Will check this one out, thanks.
…
16 discs – OMG
Oooo there’s a 3rd Bootleg out too!
The Detroit Ford Auditorium show is from my audience tape, as near as I and other members of the group who attended can tell.
Pity it’s such crap audio quality, it was a great show.
Nice. I’ve never seen them. I copied a friend’s Logos CD (or cassette?) in 9th grade (1983?) but I didn’t become a bigger fan until college.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Music?
Tangerine Dream
Caution- genius at work
WeWork’s dramatic fall has led to SoftBank CEO Masa Son’s questioning his own judgement, but one analyst still believes the bank will come out on top eventually with the massive investment in the reeling space-sharing company.
“Despite the huge embarrassment WeWork has been for SoftBank this year, we suspect SoftBank will have the last laugh when they bring the company back to market in a few years – bigger and profitable,” Chris Lane, senior research analyst at AB Bernstein, said in a note on Friday.
——-
Still, Lane of Bernstein believes WeWork could still be disruptive to the existing real-estate market so long as SoftBank restructures WeWork’s business plan. The analyst compared WeWork’s model to Starbuck’s where the profitability comes from big scale.
“We think investor should think of the basic business similar as being similar to Starbucks,” Lane said. “While profitable, the scale of profits that can be generated from single site is small. Starbucks as a corporation only makes sense if you plan to open thousands of outlets.”
Of course. We’ll make it up on volume.
work sharing spaces are not a bad idea per se
Bold statement
I mean I had friends who had a startup ad they had a piece of an office
I’m no fancy business man but is this the horseshit it sounds like?
Not really. What he’s saying is that profit margins are relatively low. The amount of profit generated by each site is relatively low. So you need lots of outlets operating profitably.
Well, yes, if we’re talking billions.
That sentence taken at face value implies that small businesses don’t make money. Which is demonstrably false.
Speaking of geniuses, SoftBank is the company name. It’s not an actual bank.
This is why I only work with HardBank.
Bill Weld continues to be the unending embarrassment of the LP. Luckily for them, their chairman is so much more of an embarrassment that people forget what an embarrassment Weld continues to be.
*tries to care, fails*