Dude, quit humping me so I can go score a goal!
Thanks, Limeys. You make this day a lot of fun with the marathon of soccer matches. I’ll be tuned in all day and will be able to switch over to football immediately after its done. Nothing happened yesterday sports-wise. That NBA thing on Christmas is stupid.
Long live piracy!
Which brings us to birthdays. Famous pirate Calico Jack Rackham was born on this day. As were calculating machine inventor Charles Babbage, famous admiral George Dewey, outstanding author Henry Miller, sociopathic ChiCom murderer Mao Tse-Tung, the hilarious Steve Allen, substance abuser Kitty Dukakis, music mogul Phil Spector, “The Wizard Of Oz” Ozzie Smith, genius drummer Lars Ulrich, underrated actor Jared Leto, and another actor Kit Harrington.
That’s a pretty good list of heavyweights in their field. Nice! Let’s see if we can equal it with…the links!
Get a load of this bullshit. I guess all of human development, from the age of dinosaurs to the middle warming period never happened.
Ooh! Clistmas rorripop!
Rocket Man Reneges on Christmas Gift. Damn him. I was so looking forward to California being gone this morning.
Thanks a lot, Chicago. And thanks a lot, fuzzy new math used to come up with this statistic. Either way, the numbers are still astronomically low once you take bodily autonomy out of the equation.
This is a story as old as the concept of the “sugar daddy” himself. If this surprises you, you’ve been living under a rock.
How dare they leave the plantation! Get used to it, big taxers. Once marginalized people gain acceptance, expect them to abandon alliances that steal more and more of their money.
You know this will somehow be blamed on Uber. When anybody with a brain knows its the fault of the evil money-grab scheme by the municipalities.
Look at all that green!
-the taxman
I hope this doesn’t give anybody bright ideas about liquor. Seriously, these fucks need to look at ways to lower taxes, not raise them.
I love this song. And the overall greatness of the video can’t be disputed. Shit, I realized they cut off part of that. Here’s the “official” video with the whole song, but not as 80s as the other one.
Now go have a great (Boxing) day, friends!
First. Merry belated Christmas you filthy animals!
What about the rest of us?
Who are you calling filthy?
It’s the “animal” part I object to.
Well, the rabbit says…
Mooo…rry Christmas!
a day late!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
I guess it’s dumb to keep breathing. That professor dude sure is smart.
Is there a number large enough the CO2 in the capital building?
‘Specially when there’s 40k plus mass shooting every minute.
That link scared me.
*runs to panic room*
I hope there are no guns in that room
Well, we know there’s no pillows:
https://freebeacon.com/politics/glaad-complains-after-politico-uses-sexist-and-homophobic-term-pillow-fight/
WTF
That is just a cry for attention. Seek help, GLAAD.
Haha, they can’t even keep the terms straight anymore, “pillow biter” is the derogatory one.
These are Boxing Day links, I assume because yesterday was Unboxing day?
I blame the brits. I think they had a tradition of drunk pugilism on the day after, but I may be wrong.
(Yes, that was mean sarcastically, I don’t actually believe that to be the source of the name)
There is controversy over where the name comes from. The best candidate is gifts given to certain workers on the day after Christmas. The annual tip for deliverymen and the like.
I imagined everyone putting stuff back into boxes to return to stores.
I imagine hungover Canadians politely beating the shit out of each other.
Sorey aboot getting my blood on your gloves, eh?
Candid snapshot of early human and dinosaur development.
70s?
Are you unfamiliar with Land of the Lost?
yes.
Family goes white-water rafting, gets sucked down a giant whirlpool and ends up in a prehistoric type world.
Better description than mine. I didn’t remember all the details exactly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Land_of_the_Lost_characters_and_species#Humans
That’s Elvis, isn’t it?
Or the Creation Museum in Kentucky.
My in-laws got my kids the magazine from that museum for a Christmas gift years ago. It was hilarious. Thankfully the kids didn’t read it.
Also (not cheesecake, despite the URL)
I see you’re trolling with the birthdays this morning. Well I for one refuse to jump on the Metallica hate!
I mean, ‘De Re Metallica’ was a good book.
Go Agricola!
Go Agricola!
The boardgame?
Midwestern soft drink?
*narrows gaze*
Oh! An eyedrop.
THAT’S what I really wanted for Christmas! : D
Terrible game. Euro multi-player solitare.
I enjoyed it, but it was nowhere as good as the ratings indicate. There is some competition, but yeah, pretty much solitaire.
All downhill after Mustain left.
Mettalica is very hateable. They screwed up the Napster thing, berated everyone on the environment and then wrecked a hillside in Malibu, and wrecked both a good Thin Lizzy song AND a Bob Seger song. All of their songs remain the same. Fuck them.
Wrecking a Seger song is hard to do… So, that did take some doing.
^^^Truth
I probably have more time logged listening to Metallica by age 16 than all other bands put together. First concert I ever went to was them. Now, I maybe listen to one album or two a year. The NFL could take pointers from them about how to alienate your fans.
We listened to Ride the Lightning on the way to Xmas Eve service. I told my 7 year old that their last album was the Black Album.
Are you me? I still have a deep and abiding love for MoP and “Justice”, but I think that’s because I literally wore out those tapes between 10 and 14. I also only listen very occasionally.
Me? Trolling?!?? Never!
Yeah….I mean, where would they ever get that idea?
Don’t hate or love Metallica. Of all the birthdays mentioned, Henry Miller is the most metal. Quiet Days in Clichy is better than anything Buckowski or Kerouac ever wrote.
Just noticed the avatar pic. Love it.
Kid got a hoverboard, a heavy bag, an electric guitar, a drone, a high end scooter, a remote control car and a bunch of other stuff yesterday. Not sure how to top that next year. He already broke the car and the drone. That’s why I gotta get up at 4 and go to work today.
If he gives the heavy bag and the guitar sufficient use, you’ll need to get him a reinforced bed frame for next Christmas.
He’s already a ladykiller and he’s only 7. Kid’s got a whole bunch of charisma.
Jesus. I want to go back in time and be your son.
#metoo
I know I’ve been a better parent to my kids than mine were to me, but I still feel like I’m doing it wrong.
By not spoiling the hell out of them? Nah.
Yeah. There’s a wife involved. When I saw what she was spending, I stopped her, but it was already too much.
I just realized I’d lost a lot of my Christmas spirit in good part to overabundance of everything all the time, and I indulge.
Scarcity is a fine thing.
The number of mass shootings across the U.S. thus far in 2019 has outpaced the number of days this year, according to a gun violence research group. Before this year has even ended, 2019 has already had more mass shootings than any year since the research group started keeping track.
As of December 25, the 359th day of the year, there have been 406 mass shootings in the U.S., according to data from the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive (GVA), which tracks every mass shooting in the country. Twenty-nine of those shootings were mass murders.
If you define your problem carefully enough, you’ll never have to worry about it getting solved out from under you.
So many mass shootings, I feel bad for the Catholics.
*ecumenically narrows gaze*
“according to a gun violence research group. ”
You mean a gun control advocacy group
40-some-odd years ago I was still brainwashed to believe I was wrong for liking guns – that guns were just bad. Back then I took all these kinds of statistics at face value.
Later, I got the idea that free men who are responsible with firearms should be free to possess them. I still figured that some of these statistics might have some validity and did what research I could in a pre-internet era.
After some time I came to understand that they did not argue in good faith. The truth is that they made up a lot of their “facts” to push a narrative.
Now I have zero fux to give about their opinion and their cause. There is nothing they can say to change my mind because when it comes down to it I value my safety and the safety of those I love over anything they rant about.
Q for any actual military types and/or people competent with the A2 type sights:
Is there some trick to them that I’m missing? I got the new toy out and was consistently shooting way low, even with them adjusted up all the way. It is entirely possible that I’m just terrible, except that my grouping isn’t exceptionally poor (for me I mean). I do notice that there is a vast amount of space without a landmark in the sight picture, though that undoubtedly helps with acquisition and I’m not off-center horizontally.
(Look up 25/300m zero for more info)
0. Make sure your rear sight and your front sight are “correct”. If you are running a regular front-sight-is-the-gas-block rifle, you *should* be good with the standard A2 rear sight. If you have rails all the way out, with detachable sights it pays to use a front and rear sight from the same manufacturer. It is not unheard-of to have some brands of AR use out-of-spec front-sight assemblies.
1. Make sure your rear elevation dial is on the lowest 8/3 setting. Have your front sight post tool handy. Use an online PDF generator or something to print out heavy-line 1″ square graph paper. Or, have a decent sighting target to do the same thing.
2. Put the target at 25 yards or meters. If you have a 20″ barrel, meters is dead-on.
3. Fire on the target, adjusting the horizontal until it lines up correctly. It sounds like you are here already.
4. Adjust the front sight post 1/4 turn at a time to handle the vertical alignment. At 25 yards or meters, you should be dead on with just about any weight of bullet.
There, that’s the “okay” way to do it. Your round will be low until it reaches 25m, then high, then cross the sight plane again going down at 300m. Your elevation adjustment should work correctly.
There are those that argue (correctly, I believe) that a 50m zero is better. Same thing as this, but at 50m. You can also plot trajectories to see where you should be hitting in regards to your point-of-aim if you don’t have the benefit of 25/50/100/etc common known distances.
The 25/300m zero is something that should get you on target even if all you have is a 25 meter (or yard) range.
And use the SMALL aperture.
^THIS^
Scary that was the first thing I thought of, along with mechanically zeroing the sights.
Ah!
I thought the small one was for longer ranges. I will try this (though that kind of fucks the rapid target acquisition)
The sights are a set, and they are both rail mounted.
In theory a 50 yard zero should look like this on the left.
What I’m seeing is a maximum sight adjustment leading to the 200yd placement on the middle target at 50′. (115gr @1100fps, 16″ barrel)
https://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/self-defense-ammo-for-pistol-caliber-carbines/
What brand? Looks like brand and round makes a big difference. You might want to try getting a shit-load of different rounds and see what works best at your likely engagement range (and use – punching holes in paper vs personal defense)
I want to use the same thing in both the pistol and PCC so I don’t need to carry two different types of pistol mags. This use is strictly to go blamblamblam! hopefully faster and more accurately than the other guys who show up to the match that day.
The plan is on Saturday to take it out with a bore laser, and then figure out if the front post can be lowered (I didn’t see anything when I looked at it, but if it is threaded in, that might work). A brief internet search isn’t revealing many other options.
Where are you placing the top surface of the front sight inside the circle of the rear sight aperture? What range (distance to target) are you shooting? And which rear sight are you using (there are two)?
The top of the front sight should be dead center in the circle described by the rear sight aperture.
I think I’m holding it centered, though the amount of space vertically makes it more difficult to tell (the front post protectors helps me center it horizontally)
I should have mentioned this in the initial comment — the “new toy” is a 9mm upper, so I don’t think the 25m/200m trick is going to work. However, since This is a toy/competition tool, I’m not planning on needing it to hit at 200m.
Yeah, with a pistol-caliber upper, all bets are off, with regard to zeroing methods.
Do you know anyone with a 9mm laser bore sight? That will at least tell you if your sights have enough range of adjustment.
Actually, I do. That is a good idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAZP0QvFBy0
Boy howdy do I have a link for you.
I thought that was going to be Paul Harrel’s video on the same topic, but I will definitely watch this one.
Good morning, Sloop and the rest of you early risers!
I hope everyone had a nice Christmas.
The taxi story was really sad, but this jumped out:
“No,” Richard said. “I trust the city.”
You fucked up, Richard, you trusted them.
Great song choice. Terri remains gorgeous to this day. Absolute would.
Have a fantastic day!
Hiya, Big T!!
Have a good one yourself!!
Cheers.
Candid snapshot of early human and dinosaur development.
Where was Jesus? Sleeping one off?
Wearing the sleestak suit.
Actually, it tuns out the Bill Laimbeer was wearing the sleestak suit.
*Intentionally places foot under robc’s ankle*
That was Bill Laimbeer.
‘The proposal comes as legal businesses have been pleading with the Legislature for a tax cut, blaming hefty tax rates imposed by state and local governments for driving consumers into the thriving illegal market. In some areas, the combined tax rates on legal pot can approach nearly 50%.’
Yep. It’s now affecting the illegal trade pricing at this point. My dude used to get his from the back door of a dispensary but the increased taxes were making his connection mark up that to cover overhead. It got bad enough that my guy decided to use up some favors so he could get introduced to the people growing on the mountain and saved us all a lot of money.
Big deal. The taxes on legal cigarettes are like 400% in many areas. The only reason you don’t see that on pot is because the black market is much better developed than it is for tobacco.
It’s funny you say that. Last I checked, Missouri still has the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation and, has been the go-to state for organized crime in NYC for renting uhauls, hitting up their connections at the massive tobacco outlets we have scattered across our part of the interstates to buy cartons at whole sale costs, driving them back home, and then selling them for under local costs. I hear it’s quite lucrative.
Just don’t get caught selling loosies on the street corner. That’s a death sentence.
Missouri has, since before Prohibition, thumbed its nose at other states and the feds for trying to tell us what we can or cannot ingest. Missouri was last to ratify Prohibition and only did so at fed gunpoint.
The whole state was relatively wet, but Kansas City was wetter than the Mississippi, everyone knew it, Carrie Nation got run out of town on a rail, and William Rockhill Nelson tried, bless his heart, but the Machine was too powerful. The effects of our noncompliance helped get us through the depression and still has a little bit of economic impact today.
/proudresident
Don’t you also think that tobacco doesn’t grow as well as pot? And doesn’t tobacco also need to be aged and cured (more processing) than pot?
Honestly, I don’t know a thing about either of those crops really, so I could be talking out my ass. But I do know that you can easily grow pot in Minnesoda, but couldn’t grow tobacco.
That is what is so infuriating about IL’s new pot laws. You can smoke it yourself, but you can’t grow it legally. I think the pot heads fucked up by agreeing to this quasi-legality instead of pushing for complete repeal of all pot laws.
Yeah, I’ve heard growing tobacco is more involved. Seems like the black market consists only of operations such as Trigger described above. OTOH I would not be surprised if something more sophisticated develops as the laws get more and more draconian.
I’m pretty sure growing high quality weed is more costly than growing tobacco. Now low grade stuff, aka “shwag” weed I’m almost positive is cheaper to grow. But most of that is hrown in Mexico by the cartels and honestly, it’s so low grade in comparison to what a lot of people have grown accustomed to that it really only sells in the poorest areas. I do know you can grow tobacco in Missouri because for several years I lived just a few miles from a farmer who grew tobacco as a side crop.
How much it costs to grow kind bud around here in comparison, no clue. All my shit comes from California.
Good MJ is pretty easy to grow; it is, after all, a weed.
Superb MJ is more difficult, but the Santa Cruz mountains provide ample cover to grow and make it difficult enough that the (lazy) cops didn’t care to expend the effort to stop it. Now that it’s legal, Santa Cruz is growing (and exporting) amazing dope.
I don’t know about the comparison to tobacco because I know nothing about growing tobacco, but unless I’m wildly off, because of the curing and processing, tobacco is significantly more difficult.
Case in point: you can hire some local kid in Santa Cruz to do the trimming and all the sticky gruntwork of making those buds look nice for a little stash each week. I don’t think you could get someone to process tobacco for a couple of packs of cigs a week.
Politicians are far more addicted to taxes than any of us are to any drugs.
CORRECT!
If you hate liquor taxes, blame Washington. The guy, not the city.
Why not both?
I bet they don’t have any mass shootings in North Korea. If only we could be more like them.
Mass shootings don’t count if they’re performed by uniformed officials.
They don’t have fat shaming either. Truly, a utopia
And unlike the US, you never hear about them genociding their racial, religious and/or sexual minorities.
Yeah, it’s not a good idea to fat-shame the one fat guy there.
Why? Is that just because he’s a minority? Sounds kinda woke to me.
If you hate liquor taxes, blame Washington. The guy, not the city.
Better than the tax on income.
Of course they are blaming Uber and Lyft. And now that the city has effectively eliminated their price advantage, you know damn well the taxi cartel is going to get a bail out. And nobody will dare object except hateful shitlords who are immune to the constant stream of sob-stories the media has been pushing for the last couple years.
They’re not getting a bailout. They were mostly poor to middle-class immigrants. They don’t carry any political weight.
I should point out I’m referring to NYC. The taxi cartel has considerable political power here.
It is the “fault” of Uber and Lyft. That is the point of disruptive change.
Oh, and I suppose we should have just let the buggy whip manufacturers and farriers take it on the chin when people started buying automobiles, eh?
As long as we leave the candles alone and don’t adopt the lightbulb.
Trufax: I used to drive by the Oklahoma Farrier College back in the late 1980’s.
You can always tell a farrier from other types of smiths by the hammer swing. It is higher and faster than the norm.
Is that because horseshoes are iron rather than steel?
I don’t know.
OFFS!
I knew gay men had been chased off the victim stack but this is getting ridiculous.
It really has. The Team Blue calculators who expected to keep “marginalized” groups on the plantation forever are fucking retards.
If they can just get media bubbles perfected, then you can customize grievance-mongering to keep everyone hating everyone else, but with a common solution: VOTE!
In the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, 82% of LGBTQ voters voted for Democrats, America’s more pro-LGBTQ political party.
I don’t see how they could get any “more pro-LGBTQ”.
Well, they could try regarding them as human beings with individual interests and the ability to handle adversity without getting the vapors at that thought that someone might not celebrate their lifestyle.
Have you seen what they do with vapor rub?
You’re kidding right? There are continents of sexual inequity that need to be corrected. Neither deadnaming nor misgendering are yet criminal, and the cotton ceiling is allowed to exist without a ban even being proposed.
Yeah, it seems to be Europe that’s going shitlord. Not enough “heroes”, I guess.
America’s more pro-LGBTQ political party
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Shhhh. I’m trying get Bloomberg to bend over for Buttigieg on the next debate stage.
OK. THAT I would click on just to know he went that far.
Look the Republican party is the pro-white man party and the Dems are pro good people party. Life is simple, don’t try to make it complicated with results oriented thinking.
The trans activists that have taken over the political wing are marginalizing gay people and driving them out. On the chick side, you have the TERFs. No name for it yet on the dude side, but when you are saying gay men are defective trannies, don’t be surprised if they ditch you.
TERFs suffer from false premises, but their logic is correct. In fact, it’s not logically coherent to be a Radical Feminist and accept that trans women are women. It is fascinating that “Radical Feminism” doesn’t even exist as a wikipedia page anymore. My former office mates (back when my organization shared a suite with the Womyn’s Student Assosciation) would be livid.
False premises? How so?
Well… They are still radical femenists, so I’m part they see trans stuff as part of the patriarchy
Like all Marxist philosophies, they see the core identity not as the individual, but the “class.” There are no such things as individual men and women, only members of the “male class” and “female class.” Without that, most of the other nonsense is more obviously nonsense.
The great thing about subsuming individuality is that you can completely disregard the actions of any individual as being irrelevant. Since men oppress women, it is completely irrelevant how any man acts, his simple existence perpetuates his class and therefore oppression. This was the premise of Andrea Dworkin’s philosophy that free speech cannot exist as long as men can speak.
Ah, so the usual false premises. Got it. Thought it might be something specific to the TERF variant.
No, it’s often forgotten that the “Radical” in “Radical Feminism” has a specific meaning, not just an intensifier.
My brother said just recently, “TERFs are the female version of incels.”
“TERFs now include JK Rowling, so TERF is actually now whoever states that there are only two sexes.”
So TERF is now a synonym for ‘bad person’. Gotcha.
Its always been an epitaph.
It’s always been an insult. not an epitaph. Brain fart.
An epithet then.
No, not always. It was originally an autonym.
But, just like with SJW, the people who named themselves were such utter filth that their names became terms of scorn.
In Europe, I would assume this has a lot to do with the left’s determination to import a decidedly homophobic culture, the same reason some Jews are voting for Le Pen, who would otherwise be an anathema to them.
An economic crisis has swept over New York City’s taxi industry, spreading financial ruin and personal despair, especially for owners of medallions, the permits that let people operate cabs. More than 4,000 drivers have used their life savings to buy medallions. Richard and Kenny were among them.
For more than a decade, as The New York Times has reported this year, taxi industry leaders artificially inflated medallion prices and channeled purchasers into exploitative loans that they could not afford. The medallion bubble began to collapse in late 2014. Prices plummeted. But the drivers remained stuck with massive loans.
Thousands of owners, almost all born outside the United States, have lost all of their savings. More than 950 have filed for bankruptcy. And several have died by suicide.
Travis Kalanick killed them, as sure as if he had put a gun to their heads and pulled the trigger.
For more than a decade, as The New York Times has reported this year, taxi industry leaders artificially inflated medallion prices
They’ve been artificially inflated the whole time. That’s the point of a medallion.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catered_Affair
Nine. Teen. Fifty. Six. Dipshits.
And Debbie Reynolds showed she could really act.
“We wanted to go to United States because we heard it was the best place,” another brother, Jojo, said in an interview. “We heard about it in movies, in books. We dreamed of going there.”
Haha, suckers. It’s a shithole.
Morning all, survived the family gathering yesterday. The girlfriend managed to piss off my brother in law, the nephews eventually got excited for the new computer, and me and my sister sorted through some old shit (courtesy of our parents who are in the process of getting ready to move).
“girlfriend managed to piss off my brother in law”
So no one important then. Lol.
I like the brother in law, and it put a bit of a damper on things as it happened as we were getting ready to leave.
CCTV installed at Karl Marx’s grave in Highgate cemetery
Uh huh.
Not all people should be able to Rest In Peace. Marx’s grave should be pissed on daily by any passerby who suffered under communism or their children.
They can rebury his body next to bin laden.
Did they mention if there’s a CCTV camera monitoring the one monitoring Marx’s grave?
Maybe they’re prepping to fake a resurrection.
Now do moving Francisco Franco’s body for political reasons.
A spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio noted he did not take office until 2014. “One of our first actions was halting medallion sales, and we were one of the first and most ardent voices for curbing the rapid growth of corporations like Uber,” she said.
No way. Bob and weave, Bill. Bob and weave.
Yes, they actually brag about causing the bubble. And nobody will call them out for it.
This is insane.
I keep re-reading that sentence.
It’s up there with “We have to pass the bill to see what’s in it” and “You didn’t build that.”
Both of those were way worse than Howard Dean saying “YEEEEAAHHH!” at that rally.
It is another sign of how powerful the taxi lobby is here. The owners get sweet kickbacks and the customers can go fuck themselves.
Parallels to the teachers lobby.
Almost as common as the zero sum fallacy is the “no cost” fallacy in which propping up a market incurs no cost.
Or worse, as in banking, propping up the market is necessary.
“We wanted to go to United States because we heard it was the best place,” another brother, Jojo, said in an interview. “We heard about it in movies, in books. We dreamed of going there.”
First mistake: you chose NYC
Second mistake: you sought a career in a field manipulated by local government for its own gain.
Third mistake: you use waaaaaay too much pine tree air freshener in your car.
In the beginning, the Chow brothers loved being medallion owners. They set their own hours, and they made a stable salary for the first time in their lives.
But it was great when we benefited from market capture at the detriment of everybody else!
Exactly. It’s like when the big carriers went batshit over deregulation of the airlines. Their real complaint was losing market capture and actually having to ::gasp:: compete with people who might do things in a more consumer-friendly manner at a lower price.
“you use waaaaaay too much pine tree air freshener in your car”
Be careful what you wish for.
If officials do not bail out medallion owners, as they are considering, he plans to declare bankruptcy.
Wait, what? Burn the whole Taxi and Limousine Commission to the ground and execute everybody on it.
Make ride services a completely unregulated market. Bring back the jitneys.
Nope, never. Taxi fares are a huge source of tax dollars – THAT is what all of this is really about.
CBC edits Trump out of Home Alone 2:
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/cbc-deletes-trump-from-home-alone-2-broadcast/
Yeah, that’s not Soviet at all.
The little retarded shits in media really yearn for a return to totalitarianism.
Didn’t they do a whole new airing of a season of the apprentice, without him in it?
I’m outraged that they didn’t just superimpose Zoolander’s head on Trump’s body.
But in other Western countries lacking the same two-party system of villains and heroes, the gay vote doesn’t always lean liberal.
Here’s a thought: if those heroic “liberal” politicians are actively pursuing policies (cough, North African refugees, cough cough) which have adverse consequences for gay voters, why would they vote against their own best interests?
That is crazy talk! Next you will tell me that blue collar workers may begin voting more and more for the GOP because the Dems don’t actually give a shit about them.
You misspelled “loath”
The funny thing about indoor CO2 concentrations is that they tend to be worst in public schools, particularly the modern ones with super tight insulation and low air exchanges (ie green buildings). It’s not unusual at all for the levels to pop over 2000 where there it a noticeable effect on drowsiness and cognition.
So, in their efforts to make super earth friendly buildings, they’ve made them human unfriendly and the kids are passing out in class.
Same happens to me in offices and hotels. I can’t stand being trapped in a room where I can’t open a window.
My wife got me an Arduino board for Christmas, and now I’m stoked. I just need to think of a project for it.
Teledildonics
This is why I come here for advice.
Light cycle timer for your grow room.
I read that as a light saber and thought it a splendid idea.
He’d have to fight off Darth Mouse.
More seriously, which board?
The uno r3 starter kit.
The most common starter projects out there involve light displays, but I’m more of a fan of the numerous metrology products that are available. (https://www.adafruit.com/category/35)
You can build your own air quality sensors or add a flow meter/alarm for when you’re away from the house and a toilet starts to leak.
Anti-handling device?
The indoor concentration of carbon dioxide concerns him—and not only for the usual reason. Karnauskas is worried that indoor CO₂ levels are getting so high that they are starting to impair human cognition. In other words: Carbon dioxide, the same odorless and invisible gas that causes global warming, may be making us dumber.
“This is a hidden impact of climate change … that could actually impact our ability to solve the problem itself,” he said.
Far be it from to dispute the proposition that people are getting discernibly dumber (by the day).
I might not agree on the root causes.
“Imagine a conference room,” he said. “You have middle-aged people—20 of them—sitting in a small room, breathing. That CO₂ easily exceeds 1,000 parts per million.”
Ban meetings!
Might explain college lectures.
I bought a CO2 concentration meter and had my son take it to school. In a medium room with just a few people, the CO2 concentrations will bust 1000 almost immediately. The adverse effects start to show up around 2000.
Yeah I’m interested in some of the metrological stuff.
Damnit. I don’t even know what we call that…
I’ll just keep posting this because I had to explain it yesterday to my wonderful MIL who was an educator and therefore believes the AGW horseshit. God bless here, however, she has an open mind.
Logical Syllogism
1. PREMISE/FACT: ALL LIFE – as in, every fucking thing on planet Earth – is either directly or indirectly dependent on plants and their magical tricknology of photosynthesis. i.e. Of taking CO2, H2O, and sunlight and turning it into carbohydrates.
2. PREMISE/FACT: Plants thrive at approximately 1000-1500 ppm of CO2.
3. PREMISE/FACT: Plants cannot live below ~125-150 ppm
4. PREMISE/FACT: We are currently sitting at ~405 ppm of CO2.
Conclusion – if these assholes have their way, they will kill all life on Earth by driving CO2 down because of their erroneous claim that CO2 drives global temperature.
Observation: Mankind burning fossil fuels may, MAY have caused CO2 to rise from where it was. It may NOT, but even if it has, that is unquestionably a GOOD thing! We can scrub pollutants out of burning of fossil fuels, which otherwise produces CO2 and H2O, the most life-giving molecules on Earth. Of course the death cultists would want to get rid of them. It’s the greatest irony of the whole fucking debacle.
I agree that CO2 has some effect on temperature. Quantifying that effect is a whole other matter and one that is open to an incredible amount of error.
Yet, the death cultists and the opportunists seek to drive all policy based on the most dire forecasts of sea level rise and temperature rises. Disagreement or skepticism is met with the same response as Luther got from the Church. IN their book, any effect mankind has on climate is by definition bad and must be resisted.
Scruffy – I don’t think I said that. *doublechecks* Nope, I didn’t say that.
I do not believe that CO2 is the control knob for global temperature. It may have *some* effect, but I doubt it. The sun’s energy and cloud albedo are the most important drivers of temperature.
Neither of those are properly accounted for in the Climate Liars’ models. Go figure. But they totally fucking love science.
If I can’t argue with positions you didn’t take, then I don’t know what this world is coming to.
The fact that plants are evolved to be optimal at a higher CO2 level than current should give a clue as to historic CO2 levels and what we might consider “optimal”.
From what I can tell, fossil fuels are basically historic CO2 sinks, sequestering vital CO2 from our ecosystem. We shouldn’t be carbon-free, we should be freeing the carbon!
Additional support can be adduced from the proposition that the greenies get everything ass-backwards.
Ban middle aged people!
I find the government’s definition of mass shooting to be rigid and illogical. Typical. Why four? Why not three? Or two even? Two is plural. That’s more than one so that’s a mass, right?
Mass shooting should be defined by intent. If some crazy fuck intends to kill multiple people indiscriminately then I would call it a mass shooting, regardless of the death toll. If some angry dude that just got divorce raped takes out the ex-wife, her lawyer, the judge, and the ex-wife’s new partner, I wouldn’t call it a mass shooting.
I shot a target recently that had mass and took up space.
Does that make it a mass shooting?
Just one that matters.
People are made of mass. Suicide is a mass shooting.
BALLS
At least it’s not as bad as school shooting statistics.
So shooting 8 would = 2 mass shootings? That guy in Norway a few years ago would be the champ
19.25 Mass Shootings FTW!
I guess it would really be about 44.75. (69 Killed + 110 Injured)/4
Math is hard!
Blame CO2 levels in the classroom.
The definition has definitely changed. Nobody would have claimed “hundreds of mass shootings a year” with a straight face 30 years ago – you know, when the crime rate was much, much higher than it is now.
Good morning, fellow glib miscreants!!
Happy Boxing Day.
I’ve got saffron rice on the stove for breakfast/lunch later today.
Just happened to wake up early and decided to get it done. 🙂
Such flowery food.
No kidding!! I throw in some star anise, cloves, cinnamon stick, and cardamom too.
Fragrant and lovely. All ready to mate with the Indian curry I put out to thaw overnight.
I was punning off the source of saffron being flowers.
Saffron is flower penises.
The star anise, cardamom, and cloves are flower lady-parts.
Maybe that’s why it’s such an intoxicating mix…
Are you sure? I thought cloves were whole buds. Cardamom is a seed, and star anise are fruits, which are stretching a bit to call lady parts. Strikes me as more the after-products of a union.
Does the womb stop being female once it contains a zygote? Does it matter the genetics and/or self-definition of said zygote? Where can I submit my analyses of these questions from my PhD in Gender Studies?
We can debate whether the fruit continues to count as a womb analog, but in your scenario, the seed would be the equivlent of the embryo.
Well, from my long and studied observations a Japanese female is no longer female after containing a zygote. In fact they exhibit no interest in sex at all once advanced to that state.
Wonderful. I learned something new.
Of course the next I am making a brine for smoking meat, I will be thinking of vaginas and such.
Not sure why you’re waiting. Next time I find myself breathing I’ll be thinking of vaginas – not sure about such.
such = labia, mons, clitoris, etc.
I grew saffron crocuses one year in Minnesota.
Damned rabbits kept snarfing them.
But I harvested a few lovely saffron threads, and that was satisfying.
Don’t think they’d grow in San Diego. Although the Calla lilies are already breaking through the ground so..maybe?
“I’m not growing weed, I’m protecting my crocuses from rabbits by growing them indoors.”
Speaking of growing, I am kind of irritated at Amazon. They lied about one of my wife’s Christmas gift being delivered by the 24th. I ordered her one of those Aerogardens to play with. It still hasn’t shipped.
I placed an order back on the 19th that was supposed to arrive on the 21st, but is only now reaching the area. I’m annoyed because they’re my replacement winter gloves. (I lost the right hand glove while sick, and getting the car started is cold)
Yeah, they did that to me also. I placed an order for some stuff, Amazon Prime, they said would be delivered 12/23. Then 12/23 I get a notice: “Sorry, your order has been delayed”. Fuckers, if you didn’t say it would arrive before Christmas, I wouldn’t have fucking ordered it, you cuntes.
I had the cake and ice cream that I was too full to eat yesterday, for breakfast:)
Happy Avatar day. Loving it.
“Rocket Man Reneges on Christmas Gift”
Maybe that was the gift. Nothing. Rocket Man out Trumps Trump! “Its gonna be the biggest, bestest gift The Donald is ever gonna get. Haha, fooled you, Mr Hotshot President of the Untied States. HaHa”
Meanwhile, not to be outdone by all the pre-Christmas camaraderie Don sends a miniature pony to Un’s kids (not)
If warren was president, he’d have given it and then took it back.
Happy first day of Kwanzaa!
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/24/ronald-everett-karenga-creator-kwanzaa-torture-symbionese-liberation-army/
Does anyone celebrate that fake holiday?
White liberals.
And school children everywhere. Not to mention the State Department.
https://mobile.twitter.com/statedept
OFFS!
Nothing left to cut at State.
It takes a fake people to celebrate a fake holiday.
LOL I wasn’t aware of that tidbit.
The sanitized version. All but one of those precepts have either “collective” or “community” in them.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/26/us/kwanzaa-principles-trnd/index.html
I’m surprised the Kwanza thing doesn’t get any guff over the blatant candle and menorah appropriation.
sksksksksksk
(((They))) stole candles and candle-holders from Nubians.
Sigh. I used to know a guy like that in Memphis. He would also have said fire was invented by Africans only to have it stolen from them. EVERYTHING was invented by blacks in Africa only to have it stolen by evil white men and (((them))).
The guy wasn’t a complete idiot. The problem was he bought into some of the crazy tinfoil hat theories being peddled by the Black Nationalists and went from there.
To be fair, it is likely we did master the use of fire before humans wandered out of Africa.
There was a guy like that who wrote a weekly column in my college paper. He would always include a shout to his, *ahem*
That’s some grass-fed hormone free Grade A cringe.
Stop appropriating black folks’ fake culture.
I know right?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/12/jersey-city-shooting-who-black-hebrew-israelites/4408073002/
Meh. Kwanzaa is no more or less a fake holiday than say, Valentine’s Day. Both were fairly recently pulled completely out of thin air for fun and profit.
For worst fake holiday, I push for Sweetest Day.
Huh. Somehow I’ve gone my whole life haven never heard of that holiday.
I’d forgotten about it. Last heard of it decades ago.
Wikipedia paints a different picture of Valentine’s Day – it has a long history.
Yeah, fair enough. I suppose when I say that, I mean the Hallmark Company’s version that didn’t really gain steam until the twentieth century.
PRESIDENTS DAY IS JUST A MADE UP DAY TO SELL YOU MORE PRESIDENTS!!!!11!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE
Insert sheeple cartoon here.
Too lazy to search for “XKCD Sheeple“?
The book Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence is really, really worth reading.
Good morning, Glibs.
So I have some recipes for sausages on my Windows desktop….
*Goes back a couple a sheets.*
Oh.
Thanks, Nick! And Spud for the link.
Perhaps a bit too much liquid cheer methinks.
I just need to think of a project for it.
Facial recognition for your dog door.
*blink*
*blink*
…have you patented this idea yet?
*dashes off email to Legal and New Products Development*
Minnesoda has a fantastic, wonderful, woman working for Hennepin county who is breaking all the glass ceilings. Not only was she the first woman to be the Chief Public Defender of Hennepin county, but she is also now the first woman to be suspended (with pay) from that prestigious position.
This is one of those stories that I’d love to know more about, but doubt I ever will. Reading between the lines, it definitely looks like she ruffled some feathers in other entrenched bureaucracies and is now being broken on the wheel. It also looks like she made it very easy for them to come up with cause.
She pissed somebody off. You don’t get suspended from a government job because of performance.
Showing women can be just as corrupt and evil as men.
Fuck you barack
This is why I want to know more. As a public defender, her crime might be that she refuses to roll over on her indigent clients. That would piss a lot of people off if they actually had to work to convict the poors.
The article is leading me to believe she was trying to get similar pay for the public defenders as the prosecutors, that would be a fire-able offense I think.
I still think they should be the same people. Just a random draw if you are the prosecutor or the defender on Case X.
That’s not a bad idea, but I prefer a voucher system. The prosecution, when deciding to file charges, decides how much $$ they wish to allocate to the case. They then get to hire a private prosecutor and pay their billable rate + expenses until the budget runs out.
The defense gets a voucher good for attorney time + expenses too.
Make the prosecutor’s office an accountant.
And ps – private prosecutors aren’t a crazy new thing. They’ve got a long precedent in British and US history.
Can we go back to having thief-takers also?
Witchsmeller Pursuivant concurs.
If you really want to know, file a request for Disciplinary History in one, two, and three years http://lprb.mncourts.gov/LawyerResources/Pages/DisciplinaryHistoryRequest.aspx
If they come back clean, it’s likely gaslighting. If not, its a lot harder to say.
Too bad it’s all teams I hate until 3PM.
So your hate has a time limit? I don’t really follow soccer so I’m not sure if that’s what you mean.
Hell no.
No, it’s not until 3PM that a team I support is playing. Until then it’s easy wins for teams I hate.
But you were claiming to hate the opponents too. Some reason you can’t cheer for Southamption?
Its the lack of the 2nd h, isnt it? That annoys me too.
ignore the extra i I put in there.
I’m neutral regarding the opponents. But my hatred of Chelsea and Man-Ure is such that I don’t normally watch them at all. And now Tottenham is up there with that asshole Mourinho.
Holiday Tip #1: Don’t go cruising with pooG DaBleed DevilDrugChristLord.
He’s a real asshole. And he has a sissy gun.
With a name like that, he apparently wants the judges to treat him unfairly.
And anyone who has to look at a job application he has turned in.
I’m doubting that he ever intended to submit a job application to anyone.
He probably has to at least submit some to keep the welfare payments coming. Probably got mad that Trump’s Economy is so good that he kept getting actual offers and had to change his name to prevent that.
Poo for short.
They seem like nice, clean-cut kids.
‘But they later learned that Jones had legally changed his name back in April. His current name was – and we shit you not — “pooG DaBleed DevilDrugChristLord.” The first name was reportedly pronounced “Poo-jee,” emphasis on the second syllable. They were both arrested within an hour of the shooting.’
Ha! A buddy of mine was a restuarant manager for many years and told me about a girl he hired who’s real, on her birth certificate name was spelled La-A. Pronounced La-Dash-a.
Yeah, that caused a facepalm.
My brother’s druggie friend got pregnant and decided to give the baby up for adoption, but she officially named it “CarCrashFistFight” before doing so.
Sounds like an Effed up riff on one segment of Pulp Fiction. Only the fool only has a 22 and they don’t drive to some old friend’s house to clean up the car. Nobody calls Mr. Wolf and they end up getting arrested.
Why fill some poor broad full of lead when you and your bud, both full grown guys, could just strong arm her for her purse? I might be stereotyping here but I suspect PooG and his amigo are assholes.
A .22 is quite lethal
Shot placement > all
This
“A .22 is quite lethal”
…in capable hands. But obviously not in this case.
I’m having carrot cake for breakfast. Store-bought, of course, from Albertson’s. It’s not awful, but it’s one of those “Let’s grate a couple of carrots into our spice cake batter, and call it carrot cake” cakes. Whatever. I’m not tossing it out.
Speaking of brave Minnesoda women….
This woman is in for some flack for daring to throw shade at Garrison Keillor.
This is similar to when the Eagles and Cowboys play. I can’t decide who I hate more. In fairness to Garrison, he seems to be the more talented insufferable yahoo.
The picture of Brave Woman is a classic. Could you come up with a different picture that screams “Entitled Rich White Woman Progressive” and do better?
Why’s she wearing Joker makeup?
Seriously
I liked it better when Battle of the Sexes was a cheesy network TV game show – at least that one was an even fight.
Kids these days will never get to experience “The Battle of the Network Stars.”
Which would have more accurately been called “The Battle of the Network Tits and Asses”.
“This is similar to when the Eagles and Cowboys play.”
The Eagles. They hired Micheal Vick after he was convicted of torturing and killing dogs.
Drew Pearson is worse than Michael Vick.
What did Pearson do?
Pushed off.
Yup. That fucking cheater knocked the best Vikes team out of a trip to the Super Bowl.
I thought Denny Green did that.
8 year-old Jimbo was way more invested in the ’75 Vikes than older wiser Jimbo was in ’98.
I think the ’75 Vikes had more stars. Fran, Foreman, Page, Eller, Marshall, Krause. The ’98 Vikes had Moss & Carter. Cunningham caught lightning in a bottle that year, but that was it.
Don’t forget John Randle and Randall McDaniel. Ed McDaniel had a great year. Robert Smith could have been a star if he’d stayed in the NFL longer.
And while kickers don’t usually get regarded as “stars”, Anderson became the first kicker ever to have a perfect regular season.
Is the cover photo of Keillor supposed to make him look undead? yikes.
As my football coach used to say when explaining our record: “you can’t make chicken salad out of chicken crap”.
The other day, somebody was talking about Tim Allen movies. Last night, I watched this thing called (I think) “Who is Cletis Stout?”.
Tim Allen and Christian Slater. Ordinarily, I would immediately skip merrily past any movie with Slater in it, because I fucking despise him and his cretinous Jack Nicholson act. But I didn’t. Mirabile dictu, it was actually not a bad movie. Slater kept his asshole mugging to a minimum, Allen was good. It was genuinely funny, in spots.
But- (spoiler alert) and it’s a big butt: FUCKING HOMING PIGEONS- HOW DO THEY WORK?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl0Ii29XmNk
I’m pretty sure butt-fucking homing pigeons is against the law.
Once you go cloaca…
Coo-coo for cloaca puffs!
SIV? Where have you been?
I liked Pump Up the Volume.
But I never did understand (nor do I now) why a radio station has to be “pirate” and using an unused frequency is a chargeable offense.
They did not pay the King’s fee for the use of the King’s frequency. Thus they are poaching from the crown.
That’s a long story: rife with regulatory capture, monopolistic actions, and political deal-making.
And a good study by Coase showing why it was unnecessary.
First!
Now, to read the links and comments.
I like the optimism
The disregard for order of operations does, however, irk me.
So she could have posted
(First)
and been correct in your eyes?
first link, outer comments, inner links, last comment?
Speaking of dumber every day
American employees spend, on average, 200 hours a year commuting to work, and 3/4 of these commuters drive to work alone. Commuting alone by car is not just bad for the environment (24% of global energy-related CO2 emissions come from transportation), it’s also bad for business. Car commuters report higher levels of stress and lower job satisfaction compared to train commuters — in large part because car commuting can involve driving in traffic and navigating tense road situations.
Some employers are trying to get involved and reduce car commuting. But how can organizations encourage their employees to commute differently?
To try to answer this question, we conducted a study with an airport outside a major European city. This airport employs more than 70,000 people, half of whom drove to work alone during our study in early 2015. The airport wanted to understand whether they could shift employees’ commuting behavior from driving alone to more active modes like carpooling, taking public transit, biking, or walking. This would help the organization meet its sustainability and capacity goal of reducing congestion.
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[nudge, nudge]
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Despite employees’ stated interest, however, fewer than 100 employees signed up for the carpooling service after receiving our letters. Only three employees were using it a month later. There was clearly a mismatch between what employees said they wanted and what they were able or willing to do.
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[idiotic suggestions bout how to make your employees miserable]
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Of course, employees do not like organizations restricting choices, or taking away benefits like parking. But the long-term health and happiness of employees, and the planet, could fundamentally depend on it.
Fucking proles and their radical individualism, clinging to their fantasies about free choice and self-ownership. We must put our boot on their faces even harder.
Now do a paper on brand value destruction, Harvard Business Review.
wut
In the European sense of “employs.”
One person to sweep foreign objects off the tarmac, six to be on ‘break’ and ten to be on ‘holiday’?
Here’s an idea: businesses concerned about this could let their employees work from home (those doing jobs where physical presence isn’t necessary, anyway).
Totally unrelated – they’re showing a commercial for “Trumpy Bear.”
I wonder how much of their revenue is people buying to prank someone else?
Definitely a significant percentage, I’d have to imagine.
Well nuts. RIP in a better place.
https://salkida.com/iswap-executes-christian-captives-on-christmas-day/
Animals
But I never did understand (nor do I now) why a radio station has to be “pirate” and using an unused frequency is a chargeable offense.
Silly girl.
*pats Mojeaux on the head, shoos her away*
Tell me a story, Mr. P. Brooks!
*settles in for good story*
Time to help my son install his new vidiot card into his PC.
Ariella Kristal is a doctoral candidate in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on how environments can be structured to reduce bias in the workplace, in educational settings, in the online context, and in many others.
*tears up MBA*
There goes my easy wfh day. Just cause some ahole hit a wrong button. Que sirens.
“It says ‘Do not press under any circumstances, serious, we mean it, we should not even have this button, do not press it.'”
*presses button.*
Feckin ghost town at work. I figured Monday would have been the day to take off.
I am the only developer working today on my team. Most of the other devs are out for the rest of next week as well. Just spent an hour arguing with scrum master and product owner that it is pointless to have a scrum planning meeting when almost everyone is gone today.
Agile people freaked out at the idea of trying to start a sprint without a planning meeting. I mildly suggested that we could simply click the start button for the sprint and as devs rolled back into work we would simply grab stuff out of the backlog as needed. We all know generally what the priorities are and who needs to do what.
You know we could be agile instead of Agile for once.
Suggestion was not met with enthusiasm.
If they did that, there would be no need for the Agile folks.
Not that there is any need for them anyway.
It is truly amazing how many people can support themselves by simply shuffling paperwork around. Whether it is waterfall, Agile or whatever other system you come up with there are gobs of people who simply pretend to be helping but actually add very, very little value.
I guess I shouldn’t say “pretend” either. I work with several people who sincerely think that organizing Jira tickets, holding meetings and preparing various reports on how much work was done is “real” value. I actually prefer working with a lazy bastard who knows that he has a phoney-baloney job. He will actually do the one or two things each month that do help because he doesn’t want to upset the apple cart. The True Agile Believer on the other hand will probably not get around to those two things because they are too busy tagging tickets so their burn down chart looks cool.
I’m playing developer this week, kind of. I can’t write a line of code but I can lace together nodes and press Run.
Nobody really “writes” code. Just copy pasta something of the inter webz and change some variable names and Bob’s your aunt.
Once you go cloaca…
You’ll forget all about Chewbaca?
I watched Hogfather.
Why did the Hogfather die before Teatime’s plan even made it to the teeth-gathering phase?
I was not quite clear on a couple of points myself. I had to go to Wikipedia when I felt I was lacking too much story.
Cue progressive identity police
Several United States-based Jewish groups blasted President Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani as an outright “anti-Semite” after he repeatedly claimed he’s “more of a Jew” than Holocaust survivor and philanthropist George Soros.
A wide swath of mainly progressive Jewish-American organizations and activist leaders ridiculed the Republican former New York City mayor, who was raised Catholic by Italian-American parents, for denigrating the left-wing financier Soros as less Jewish than himself. During an interview with New York Magazine last week, Giuliani said his support for the state of Israel makes him “more of a Jew” than Soros, who managed to escape Holocaust death camps by posing as a Christian in Nazi-occupied Hungary during World War II. Progressive Jewish groups began sharing the “Rudy is an anti-Semite” hashtag on Twitter in solidarity with Soros and other ethnic Jews.
Why don’t they just sue him for copyright infringement?
Again with the story that contains no one I can root for. Although I have to admit that someone who became an honest-to-god Nazi during WWII and now claims the title “holocaust survivor” is going to be hard to beat in the “lest likable character” contest.
For those of us who don’t get bent out of shape about Soros, is there a 5 minute answer to “what was the deal with his WWII nazi shit?” Was he forced into it? Or was he totes into it? Be nice to know just how much he was a kid trying to survive vs. how much he willingly participated in the shit.
…and how much his participation is, or isn’t, responsible for his current wealth.
He’s stated on record something to the effect that ‘it was one of the best times of his life.’
If I recall correctly, Soros said that he’s not a bad person for helping the Nazis steal the Jews property, because someone was going to do it anyway and he was just taking advantage of an opportunity that someone else would have taken advantage of anyway. Or something like that.
In the same interview, he admits he enjoyed it greatly, so the other remark reeks of post-hoc justification.
Meh, it was a stupid thing for him to say but really everything you need to know about this incident is revealed by the sort of folks who are going apeshit over it. I.e. “progressives”.
I guess working with the Nazis is one way to have survived the Holocaust.
I watched Hogfather.
I should watch that again. I’m pretty sure I watched it couple years ago.
Ditto- picked up the UK dvd a number of years ago.
Wasn’t UKDVD one of those formats that lost to Blu Ray?
That was HDDVD. I meant I imported a region 2 UK DVD.
Welp, another bad joke wasted.
Just spent an hour arguing with scrum master and product owner that it is pointless to have a scrum planning meeting when almost everyone is gone today.
Just tell them the decisions were made in their absence. If they didn’t want to do it *your way* they should have been at the meeting.
That basically is what I said. We talked last week about what needs to be done and will self generate tickets as we go along.
I didn’t say we had a meeting, though, because they would know that was a bald faced lie. I already am a black sheep for demanding that we justify any meeting we do have and require and agenda before I show up.
I have to admit that someone who became an honest-to-god Nazi during WWII and now claims the title “holocaust survivor” is going to be hard to beat in the “lest likable character” contest.
“Survival” takes many forms.
Collaboration is a survival mechanism.
Calling Soros a Holocaust survivor is like calling Benedict Arnold a founding father. Sure he was there and sure he was an American…
It is truly amazing how many people can support themselves by simply shuffling paperwork around. Whether it is waterfall, Agile or whatever other system you come up with there are gobs of people who simply pretend to be helping but actually add very, very little value.
I guess I shouldn’t say “pretend” either. I work with several people who sincerely think that organizing Jira tickets, holding meetings and preparing various reports on how much work was done is “real” value. I actually prefer working with a lazy bastard who knows that he has a phoney-baloney job. He will actually do the one or two things each month that do help because he doesn’t want to upset the apple cart. The True Agile Believer on the other hand will probably not get around to those two things because they are too busy tagging tickets so their burn down chart looks cool.
Something something mystery of lost productivity.
I work in a place where we started with a grant to hire a guy to figure out why the Fed contractors were fucking up the fancy new cloud-based web servers. That guy quit after three months of dealing with them and was never replaced, while those idiots kept adding stuff they didn’t know how to use, e.g. Puppet and Jenkins. To address the fact that our web stuff and our deployment process was held hostage by an idiot, the university got another grant to fund an assistant and modified an existing grant to send a CIO over to figure out why things didn’t work. So far, after a year and wasting $10k a month on servers we don’t need that don’t even work right, the answer appears to be hiring a separate consulting company to tell us we don’t need any of the cloud shit, which is what we’ve been saying for the past five years. This after meetings upon meetings, spreadsheets, emails, phone calls, etc. All of the people involved will swear on a stack of Bibles that they’re adding value.
An old acquaintance hit me up a few years ago to start a company to help businesses plan how to leverage cloud services for their businesses. The idea would be that we’d come in as neutral arbitrators who would help C-suite execs decide what is a generic service that they could easily get from a cloud service and what was secret sauce, that they should keep in house.
The problem with a lot of businesses is the the CIO is never going to voluntarily downsize their department. They are going to host their own email servers no matter what because that is like 5 people. The other business types have no idea how much of what he is saying is BS and how much is just empire building.
I liked the idea, but the acquaintance was shady enough that there was no way I was going to join a startup with him.
“Something something mystery of lost productivity.”
Here’s an idea. Just take all those files you need access to, shove them into boxes and stack them up in a room. Oh wait, they’re on computers! Well, that’s even worse. Print them out, shove them into boxes, and stack them up in a room. Then you get rid of all those unnecessary paper shufflers and everyone in IT. /genius
Harvard Business Review should do a paper on ostentatious paper-shufflers and “business systems” consultants.
“Don’t shit where you eat.”
“There is substantial but inconsistent evidence that as carbon-dioxide levels rise, they could affect human cognition.”
Self evident? They’re just making shit up now. I think it is obviously happening, but it’s self inflicted and has nothing to do with the climate.
Calling Soros a Holocaust survivor is like calling Benedict Arnold a founding father. Sure he was there and sure he was an American…
I’d say Arnold (early on) did a lot more good for the American cause than Soros ever did for his.
This is a quote from a recent article from a writer at TOS. I’ll let you guess, but:
There’s a whole lot of millennials who need beaten about the head with this, although it couldn’t get through their thick skulls. I’m so sick of listening to those overly entitled adult toddlers whine about how bad they have it.
I did not marry a woman.
I married a remorseless turkey-eating machine.