A so-so lift in the gym, a few aches, but nothing dramatic. The coffee station is a wreck and nobody in the office bothers to reload the supplies. Feh. I’d get worked up or angry, but I cannot be bothered this morning. Lucky for the commentariat, I can still go through the motions and bring you Links…
- Why can’t we be more like Europe? I guess Seattle, Portland and San Francisco are on the way. Not that it matters.
- Free healthcare providing Cubans kidnapped by libertarians! See if you can spot the weirdly specific detail in the story. Or not, I don’t care one way or the other.
- Illinois politician spews lies…er, gives interview. I guess I should care that my taxes are going to go up, but I have resigned myself to it a while back, because, Illinois.
- Anyone remember that old 1980s song “I Love LA“? I wonder if this would change some minds? Ah, who cares.
Bah.
Comments
616 responses to “Friday Morning Ennui/Meh Links”
Mornin’.
Humbug!
Isn’t somebody gonna snivel about him not mentioning a link? (not that I am, mind you)
The forms must be obeyed.
Are we doing this ironically? Because I thought “Frist Post” was played out in 1998.
I love L.A., I must because I’m still here.
Pardon my manners, Mornin’
I lived in LA for 2 years. Kinda loved it, also thought it was a giant insane asylum.
It seems like a place completely dedicated to getting progressively worse. I always wished I could visit old Los Angeles when there was literally orange groves and hollywood everywhere. I left there almost 25 years ago – when there was a Republican Mayor and Governor. Went back for a business a few times – they are trying really hard to make the place suck.
That link is cool, love that stuff…thanks
I’ve only visited, but it’s one of the ugliest cities I’ve ever been to. The drive up the coast was stellar, though, except for the two hours of stop and go traffic on the way back. Ugh. No wonder they think trains are so awesome, they’re at least moving most of the time.
I’ve had similar experiences. First visit we were in town the whole time (except for a very eye-opening visit to Venice Beach) and I thought it was an ugly, dirty town.
Second visit we took the PCH from LAX to Oxnard. That drive really drove home the reason why so many people live there. Beautiful.
There’s everything here. We have multitudes of canyons, deserts, a huge variety of beaches, big city stuff, you name it. One can literally surf, ski, rock climb and off road through the desert before lunch.
Yes – also the worst traffic, highest taxes, and most oppressive nanny-state liberals in country. It’s like for every pleasure the place provides, they have to inflect a pain.
yup
So like the paradise planet on Star Trek where everything was beautiful but poisonous?
Lived there (mostly Long Beach) for not quite two years. Loved it at first, grew to hate it more and more until I decided one day that I wasn’t going to live there anymore. Quit my job, packed up the car, and moved back to Virginia. Whole process took three days.
Needs moar Frank Drebin.
I loved it,too, but that was pre-family in the 90s. Lived in Culver City, which was a great location then moved to Valley Village, which was not.
Sad. I guess Venice is sinking these days.
Still.
https://youtu.be/3tepxOAEBIE
Gone-dola but not forgotten-a
*narrows-a gaze-a*
80s song ? L.A. ? Shooting ? Relevant.
Guten Morgen
Maybe I’m overly cynical, but this sounds like possible regret after the fact rather than actual gang rape.
Sorry hon, fuck right off.
Yeah, not wanting to file a police report immediately tells me they are hiding something they don’t want an official investigation to uncover. Especially if it will put them in trouble with the law (like say, for making the shit up).
Unless you’re friends with Obama
Jessie (no “U” for him, cause he doesn’t deserve any respect) is a special case. Like in a short bus kind of special case.
Underage drinking, for a start
SLD.
But……
https://youtu.be/CwEmzppSCg0
I’ve become so jaded that I don’t really believe any reported facts much, anymore. You people have rubbed off on me (euphemism alert!)
You are not my type sir. Being a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, I would say there are no representatives of my type here, since libertarian women are mythological and the ones here obviously are sock puppet accounts…. 🙂
You tug at my heart strings
using fake IDs at the bar
I think I might see part of the problem here..
Alleged perps not identified, not reported to the police.
Ok then.
You must believe her truth!
And pay her big money, over something for which she has no evidence.
More than 15 mins of fame and the elan that comes with being a member of a victim group seems to be what she is after…
In addition to the settlement she hopes to get from the suit against the university.
New American dream: get into a situation (or make one up) where you can cash in by suing some entity with money.
She didn’t want to have to swim with big fish. It’d be hard to get the smell off her after that.
I have it on good authority that Adam & Eve were kicked out of Eden cause Ever went swimming and God ended mad that she made them smell….
Yeah, drugs sure can fuck you up after a half dozen gin and tonics.
MSU is home of the pedo gymnastics doctor. She probably figures they will want to pay up quickly to make it go away.
Weirdly specific, or excellent product placement?
I was thinking the tourism angle but your take is much more solid.
If there are no roads, how can there be gov’t?
MikeS was correct. But, whatever…
The Toyota Probox is named as such because it’s the Professional’s go-to for boxing in other cars.
Should have used Subarus so the cops go on a wild goose chase looking for Somali lesbians.
You’d think lesbians would be fully pro-box.
Now that’s a trib-ulation.
Seriously? Not even a passing LOL.
/throws up hands and goes to lunch.
Now, now. You saw how cranky Swiss is today, donut work yourself into a tizzy over puns, like a child running around with scissors.
“Not that it matters”
“Ah, who cares”
“I resigned myself”
“not that it matters one way or the other”
All out of narrow gazes? I understand. The narrow gaze job can be emotionally exhausting.
He’s just gonna rest his eyes for a few minutes.
He’s not sleeping!
He’s the George Sanders of the Glibertarians.
Got bored with life and killed himself.
Is that Bernie’s less commie and smarter brother?
I remember a college classmate of mine who was into a “people like me have been erased throughout history!” kick claiming that Chopin was “really” gay because he had an affair with Georges Sand.
Heh, I dated a chick that assured me she was a descendant of both Cleopatra and Joan of Arc, and told me it had to be true cause her psychic told her so. Sounds like more of that shit.
Ha ha.
I always thought he was German Swiss, but maybe he is French Swiss.
I am NOT a Genfer.
Adrenal fatigue?
Freaky Friday: You Thought Your Older Sister Was Mean
Sigh. Not clicking.
Yeah, that last part goes beyond mean to fucking crazy.
This is one of those “Slenderman” things that are all the rage with the yutes, right?
She seems nice.
The classiest bill. We’ll all be smoking weed bigly.
Chicago “covered in a haze of smelly smoke” reports to follow?
Once they work out how they can all get a cut, I’m sure it will be passed very quickly.
Yeah, I’m assuming that is the one and only reason these types are suddenly interested in legalization.
Yeah, marijuana legalization is stalled/dead here because of fighting between the “milk the tax cattle” and the “ban wrongfun” factions.
The option of “delete the word ‘marijuana’ from the criminal code” was never even considered.
I guess Seattle, Portland and San Francisco are on the way.
So you’re saying we should eject the left coast from the Union.
Take the lower mainland and the Island from us and you have a deal, Sir!
The better way to go about it is to convince the commie rats that they are expelling all of the deplorables. Then they can steer their own boat over the falls.
Freaky Friday: Florida Fun
The elderly man later succumbed to his “High-Five” injuries and will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetary with full military honors.
I saw her picture… Just YIKES!
This IS abuse.
Not the best looking but I bet she sure can cook.
I wouldn’t be surprised she can’t, cause she is too busy eating everything in sight to actually finish cooking any kind of food…
When 900 years old you reach, be as picky you shall not.
Goes on full alert!
Did he succumb to cunt force trauma?
So what did this Nipsey Hussle do to have so many fans? All I’ve seen is him being called a “community activist”. I haven’t seen any specifics.
When I see “community activist” my brain automatically translates to “grifter”.
See #44?
Speaking of; that grifter gave a speech at the memorial about the importance of being a community activist.
How many times did he mention himself?
No idea. Didn’t care enough to look for a single quote and sure as hell wasn’t going to click on the video. I assume about 2 per minute, though.
So he was holding back and not going all out as usual then?
Gangbanger turned rapper turned community activist.
Standard Compton redemption story, expect a movie within 6 months.
Never heard of him before he got daided. Old, not a fan of the hippity-hop. Even so, seems pretty obscure.
Nothing. People latched onto this after he got shot. I know people who live in that hood and have never heard of him.
Basically, he got rich and still hung out in the hood and spent his money there. Obviously, that was a bad plan. The rappers who moved to my area aren’t getting gunned down out in parking lot, are they?
Not a good plan for your health, but I can see why that would make him very popular in the community. It sounds like he was a bit more engaged than your average vapid nouveau-riche entertainer.
However in today’s climate, I suspect there’s some toxic politicization going on with the coverage.
I heard Farrakhan gave a stirring speech at his
funeralcelebration of life. Widely praised by the accredited media, at any rate. Trump didn’t even bother to show up. Probably for the best. They didn’t need any hate mongering racists there.He did. He also called him Nipsey Russell twice during the speech.
Louis Farrakhan refers to Nipsey Hussle as ‘Nipsey Russell’ in speech at memorial service
The products on the TV, aren’t always what they claim.
I took a bath in Clorox bleach, and came out looking the same!
“You’re soaking in it!”
That was the tagline for the Olestra ads.
Olestra got a bad rap. It was a very effective weight loss supplement, just most people were too cowardly to ride that wave to leanness.
“just most people were too cowardly to ride that wave to leanness”
EUPHEMISM!
For all their community activism, their communities never seem to get fixed. I’ve seen a thousand “pro athlete who grew up in a wretched environment with a single mom who worked 3 jobs to feed her 4 kids and now that he made it he’s giving back to the community by working with youths” stories. No one who produces that dreck ever seems to ask any of the athletes or community activists, “Hey, how come we tell this story over and over and over? If you ran a play in the NFL that failed 10 times out of 10 and you lost the game, wouldn’t you change the play calling?”
I think their community activism (the legit stuff, not the Marxist agitating) is about getting the good apples out of the community, not fixing the community as a whole.
Yeah, you can’t fix what doesn’t want to be fixed…
Reality is not subjective, and you can’t just change it because you feel it should be different when other people are involved.
*Sends Alex off to Critical Theory re-education camp*
You trying to show off your woke leftist creds here Suthen? Hoping they like your solution enough to invite you to cocktail parties?
Yeah, I know you were being damned sarcastic man.
That is my probably racist and realistic view too. The “community” is pretty much a holding-pen for misfits. Jump a few hurdles to demonstrate a reasonable amount of intelligence, self-restraint, and motivation – and you will be released into normal society and given a lot of help getting an education and eventually a career. The rest stay separated from polite society.
RACIALISM!
I think they just assume things are the way they are because some reasons.
In reality, I’m pretty sure most of it is cultural and thus fixable. That’s the part i’m waiting for them to get.
Sigh. But they’re now on this ‘blame whitey and white privielge and gimme my repra’shuns’ track.
Until the cultural aspects don’t get addressed, no amount of money is gonna fix much and they’ll keep going in circles. I think some may even be dizzy by now.
“I think they just assume things are the way they are because some reasons.”
Usually when asked, I am told it is because “The Man” keeps them down…
If by “The Man” they mean the politicians that created and continue to expand a welfare system to make them slaves of one party and forever dependent, then they are right.
If you ran a play in the NFL that failed 10 times out of 10 and you lost the game, wouldn’t you change the play calling?”
And here we have proof that you are not a Bengals fan.
Todd Hailey really doesn’t understand this thread at all, goes back to calling bubble screens.
“No.”
— Phil Simms
My first reaction to the news story was “Nipsy Russell was still alive? And somebody shot him?”
I suspect Paul Lynde.
I finally caved and set my home setup / lifting cage up outside. It’s been raining more or less constantly ever since, and has made it impossible to get into a rhythm. When it’s not raining the NC pollen cloud of death does its best to choke the life out of me.
I need structure to keep myself motivated, so it’s pretty much just been a complete non-effort to get back into shape on my part 🙁
I drink a lot so my life requires structure and discipline. If my routine gets fucked with, things can go rapidly pear-shaped and not in the good egould way.
I’m not sure what qualifies as a lot around here, but I’m a 3-4 beers most evenings kind of guy, so if I let myself settle in when I get home, physical activity is probably right out the window. Basically I need a script where I find myself changed in front of the bar where I don’t think about it. Which means it needs to stop goddamn raining.
My work is my work out so I’ve got that going for me…
Sitting down at a bar isn’t going to fix your issue.
I often feel like I am fighting a losing fight just trying not to let it all go. This getting old shit sucks.
You’re further along than I am, but I turn 38 this summer. If I don’t get it together now, I might as well pack it in.
Yeah, at 38 there should not be any sort of excuse. Call me back when you break 55… 🙂
Nearly there. All those old injuries that you used to shake off and rub some dirt on? They’s a comin’ back.
I knew I was getting old when I hurt myself in my sleep; went to bed feeling fine, woke up with a pulled muscle.
No euphemism.
Sure MikeS… Sure……
Yeah, that is my greatest problem there. Having led an, erm, lets call it “very active life”, I have a ton of broken bones, old injuries, and worn-out artificial parts, that now scream at me every time I try to push too hard, because of the craziness of my younger years. All that stuff I powered through back when, now is making sure I am reminded that I can no longer claim it is just a question of “Mind over matter” (meaning that if I don’t mind it, it won’t matter). It hurts.
I’ll be 55 come December but I’m still pretty fit. If it’s not one thing it’s another when it comes to aches and pains. I abused my body like a five buck whore when I was young and now I am dealing with the consequences.
This. I would wish someone warned me , but I wouldn’t have listened.
Jumping out of planes, going to exotic places, and killing the commie locals sounded like to much fun for me to not do that, and I have the injuries, scars, and pain to remind me that sometimes what seems fun and cool when you are young, will not be so much fun later in life.
Kind of like sticking it in crazy…
It is a crime that when you should be able to benefit the most from wisdom – when you are young – you lack it. And then when you are lucky enough to develop it, you are too old for it to allow you to do the things you could have when younger…
I would wish someone warned me , but I wouldn’t have listened.
I’d wager someone did, and you didn’t (like me).
Thanks for rubbing that in there slumbrew…. Cause many people told me so, but I was young and stupid, and figured I knew best…
Thanks for rubbing that in there slumbrew
What!? What was that? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you, because I kept my music up too loud when I was younger. If only somone had told me…
I don’t feel like old but like a young man who has something wrong with him.
/Dick Cavett
I had managed to keep myself in pretty decent shape for almost 60 years – consistent running and weights since high school. Then last year a foot injury and work schedule turned up to eleventy-thousand. Didn’t run for most of a year and hadn’t touched my ghetto gym on my rooftop for most of that time as well.
So now that I quit that job and have more time to devote to working out I am finding it really difficult getting back in the saddle. I’ve been looking at a lot of new techniques and exercises on U-toob, trying to motivate myself into a new routine.
Admitting to myself that I no longer can do what I used to do – even just 5 years ago – has gone a long way into preventing debilitating injury, a leading cause to losing this fight. That having been said, it is galling to realize you need to turn it down a notch cause otherwise things that used to make you stronger now make you a hurt bitch.
Foot injuries are the worst. That is all.
It’s a deceptively complicated part critical to posture and locomotion, and yet they don’t grow back continuously with wear. And while we’re on the subject, Mother Nature, whycome only beavers, crocodiles and sharks get endless teeth, wtf.
And while we’re on the subject, Mother Nature, whycome only beavers, crocodiles and sharks get endless teeth, wtf.
Mother nature only cares about creatures holding up long enough to propagate the species. It’s thus no surprise that people start falling apart at about the age that they’ve lived long enough to raise a replacement generation.
I had been alternating 30 minute run days with high-rep, body weight and kettlebell days.
Getting back into it I am trying to get back into running and thinking on changing up some of the body weight stuff and more kettlebell with one heavy lifting day a week.
I meant to add – one up side to not exercising for so long is that the half dozen little nagging quasi-injuries I had been putting up with have all healed up.
set my home setup / lifting cage up outside.
…
I need structure
Well on the plus side, if you build a shelter for it without power tools, you’ll get exercise.
You have no idea. The previous tenant here was apparently going to build a shed. Which meant sort of kinda putting in some structure, burying some cinderblocks and just generally fucking up what was pretty much the only flat spot on the property. The amount of work I’d have to do to get all that out of there, then put down a foundation that’s level enough to lift on…yikes! All to the benefit of my landlord. No thanks. If I owned the place maybe.
I once built a fence in my backyard without a wheelbarrow. Doesn’t sound that bad until you realize I carried over 60 50-lb bags of concrete from the garage to where the post holes were.
Man, I was stupid, but young.
The Chicago Democrat hopes to get a recreational marijuana bill passed before the end of the spring legislative session as part of an ambitious first year plan.
I take it that this plan is to be implemented over a 5 year time-span.
On-topic: If Bernie wins in 2020, I’m moving to Somalia.
Ilhan Omar can probably help you with the paperwork.
She says it’s much better than the U.S. Not sure why she left,
Oh come on! She did not say that!
Did she?
I would not be surprised someone that fucking stupid/evil would say something like that…
You may have to marry her brother though.
As long as there’s no arguments about who’s wearing the dress.
I’m thinking many here would love to be paying only $1000+ rent on a property suitable for a family of 4. Sounds like maybe the job market, or lack of one, is the bigger problem in Venice?
I thought there were no houses left in Tuscany?
I spent a lot of time in Italy and had an office just outside Venice. Venice was by far my least favorite place in that wonderful country. Smelly, dirty, horrible traffic, dangerous, and not all that pretty.
And all the murderous dwarves.
You spelled “Shylock” incorrectly.
Did a trip to Bellagio (Lake Como), Venice, Florence & Rome a couple years ago. I’d love to re-visit all of those places – except Venice. It felt like Disneyworld – not a real place, with actual residents.
I think I could happily live in Florence. And Lake Como is just ridiculously scenic.
Oh, but points for Venice – cicchetti are a great tradition. A little snack and a glass of wine after work is a very civilized way to end the working day.
A vignette:
“What’s a cicchetti bar?”
“Cicchetti is the Italian word for tapas”
*eyes bug out* “We’ve got to try that place.”
later…
“Dude wtf? I thought you said this was a topless bar.”
That’s fantastic.
There’s always a relevant story.
If I could live anywhere, it would be in Piemonte. Preferably near Alba.
Venice is awesome in the off-season or during Carnivale. During the summer it’s still beautiful but too crowded.
That was my thought reading that. Central Venice rents are in line with mid level suburban Cincinnati? And the ‘issue’ is that a guy making $12,000 – $18,000 a year can’t afford them? No shit you can’t afford it, get a job.
“Gondola Hats, get-a-you gondola hats a-here. My babies need a-spicy a-meat-a-balls.”
They don’t even have a mardi gras to draw people in, it’s just “Hey, our streets are flooded, a-you love it, spend-a you monies here!”
Tourism is nothing but parting fools from their money.
The ability to build new housing is jacked up in Italy. Massive amount of regulations.
Hes, of course, blaming the wrong person. Plus they’re being entitled as you might guess. It’s only the main island that really has an issue. The city (I forget the name) on the shore of the lagoon is cheaper.
And Venice in particular is known to have very restrictive renovation and building laws. Its the San Fransico real estate model with the economic engine of Wheeling West Virginia attached to it.
File under, what does that have to do with anything?
Homeless people aren’t immortal?
“roadkill?”
“New York murder rate less than half the number of people who die of exposure in France”
*people who willingly die of exposure
That’s why I don’t expose myself to France.
OFFS
Not so fast. Let’s just sign a 99 year land lease in Mongolia, spend about 4 billion to construct a shit ton of yurts, and airdrop the homeless from the back of C-130’s with a parachute and a backpack of food. I just saw on Grand Tour that the country is the size of Western Europe and has a population of 3 million people. Plenty of room.
I kept that YouTube window open just long enough to see the words “Randy Newman” before I closed the window with extreme prejudice.
There. Now I have clicked on every link; read every link; I even commented on every link. Gettin’ shit done! What a great way to start my 3 day weekend!
Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot….
Drinkin Time!
So apparently the workers renovating my apartment do not work Saturdays… Construction workers often do so I was surprised at this. I blame lack of work ethic… Also 8 to 5 should be more if there are like 15 cigarette breaks…
Have you tried waving cash in their faces?
Cash is not that easy to get hold of these days
I suspect that is by design, Pie. The EU government wants its cheese, and cash would create an opportunity for a black market that would avoid that.
When I had my basement finished, I paid the contractor in cash (in increments). That kept him and his guys happy and the work speeding along nicely.
Yeah, I always tell them I will pay 1/3 up front (not the usual 50-75% they ask for regardless of their reasoning), 1/3 as I see they are coming to an end. And the last third once the job has been concluded to my satisfaction. If they won’t agree I look elsewhere for my work to be done. This approach keeps them engaged and interested in finishing quick and without doing a piss poor job, so they can collect.
I do roofs and don’t take any money until the roof is finished customer satisfied.
Unless it is a large commercial job.
Why are you hating on people that want to earn the maximum amount of money for doing the least amount of work, huh? Are you not woke, brah?
I am not paying them by the day… I am paying them project based
There’s yer problem. If they don’t three other projects with people throwing money at them, they work five-ish days a week. Except painters, they can only make 3 days a week sober enough to work.
More substance abuse issues: painters or roofers?
Painters are more likely to be completely blaze drunk at work. “Oh, he’s just a little funny from the fumes”
I worked on a big industrial project, and I guess payday for the craft guys was Thursday. I heard the guy in charge of the paint crews one Thursday: “I don’t know why we don’t just pay those sumbitches on Friday if we want them to work the full week. Half’ll call out tomorrow. I’d run them off, but the guys I brought in might be the type who don’t show up on Monday, either.”
I’m in the roofing business.
Drinking on the job would be suicide at some of the heights and steep angles those guys have to deal with.
There may be some that do it but I’ve never seen any and they would be fired from any crew I’ve known.
So they obviously are getting paid too much or are being subsidized, because otherwise they would have been incentivised to finish up as quick as possible to move to the next
victim,/suckercustomer.Are they Jews?
Freaking anti-Semites….
Doing manual labor?
What kind of renovations?
general… paint tiling new windows new bathtub new kitchen furniture
Friday Fun Bags provide a pillow on which to rest your weary soul.
http://archive.li/zGEMr
16 oh hellz yeah.
31>17>11>19
#2 clearly. Nice that archive worked this time!
Who knows why it sometimes works. I think they’re using some new kind of encoding for the image files and archive doesn’t pick it up; they must occasionally use the old method. I cracked open the source code on the new ones and it’s recognizing the existence of the images, but it just doesn’t display them.
Well keep shooting, Q. Any ripped off Chive is a good Chive!
I guess instead of sinking Venice is now….squatting.
I didn’t think anyone would stoop that low to make the joke…
I have a hunch Swiss isn’t going to like this.
Seeing as they live on a lagoon with no perceptible tides I’m amazed that thousands of years of sewage haven’t overwhelmed them already.
Natural leach field.
Who says that hasn’t happened? have you ever smelled that place?
I thought it was the tourists.
That’s what my paisans want you to believe….
“Venice is now….squatting.”
Warty strikes again!
*narrows gaze*
Swiss, I think they had the gravity turned up in the gyms today. It was definitely harder than usual today.
**Ignores that one kid crawled into my bed and started grabbing my neck in his sleep at 3:15 this morning, or the other decided he was ready to play at 4:20**
You are not “Orphaning” right, Brett…
he other decided he was ready to play at 4:20
Florida or not your kids are too young for 420.
If I had edibles, I might have tried. I got him back upstairs to his bed, thinking that he’d probably not grab me in his sleep like his brother. Instead he kept rolling on top of me, then rolling off, then sitting up, then rolling on top of me. At 5am I handed him my iPad and tried to crash on the couch. That one, who is 3, is not a great sleeper, so I get that every other week or so. But the older one never comes downstairs. He told me he had a really bad dream and he didn’t want to be in his own bed. From the way he was trying to choke me out once he got in our bed, I think it must have been a rough night.
Nip- That- Shit- In -The -Bud.
Shackle them to the bed, soundproof the room.
A friend has recently started using melanin gummies, “nighttime candy.” Says they work wonders.
Good evening from the dark side of the Pacific. Nice to be here before most of the discussions are wrapped up.
おはようございます！
Ohio!
On topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
I posted this a couple of days ago; it’s really worth a watch. The only thing missing is pulling together the pieces and understanding that Lefty policies are to blame. They just can’t bring themselves to draw that conclusion.
I have come to realize that being a lefty is almost akin to being a religious fanatic. Leftists are so invested in their beliefs and the superiority they get from said beliefs – especially the feeling that they are smarter than the average rube because they believe the crap they do – that admitting what they believe is wrong, even in one single case, would cause their self-esteem driven house of cards (practically always based on participation trophies) to come crashing down. Being wrong, even once, would unravel their reality. And they want none of that.
I’ll get beat up for saying it but – emptying out the mental hospitals wasn’t the brightest idea. Congress could have fixed it by changing the Americans with Disabilities Act after the Olmstead case – but that would require thought, debate, the kind of stuff that they don’t do.
tl;dw
I’m 20 minutes in. Quite good. Will definitely finish it later.
I don’t understand the lack of taser use there. I mean, seriously — it takes 8 cops 3 hours to get a mental patient out of garbage can? Is the can not portable because if I’ve got 8 guys there, the whole shitshow is going in the paddy wagon.
Ideas Illinois, the dark money group fighting the tax, calls his plan a “jobs tax” that will cripple the economy and prompt even more of an exodus of Illinois residents.
Gee I wonder which side the journoliar is on?
I didn’t know that fat fuck is a billionaire but I guess I’m not surprised. “Fair tax” – LOL.
Yeah, that was pretty obvious.
Surprise! Six inches of fresh snow.
*blows horn, throws confetti*
We got just enough to turn all the recently uncovered grass back to white again. The winter from hell is making a very smooth transition into the spring from hell.
“back to white again”
Nazi confirmed.
??
Its OK, MikeS, I have enough to share with you AND Brooks. I’m guessing a good foot or so. Wind howled yesterday, today only snow. We’re gonna stay white for another few cool days.
It’s been a hell of a winter. Do you need to worry about flooding where you are at?
No flooding here, the snow left slowly and gradually plus we’re on high ground. I saw the Mississippi locally and it was running bigtime, may flood a little in the low lying areas but we’re higher and a few miles away.
If it makes you feel better, I’m meeting Pope Jimbo for lunch at a beachfront place later. If we have time, I’ll drag him to the diviest bar in the area for a beer.
*Plays Pink Floyd’s Wish you were here and hiccup-sobs*
So you and the Pope are going uptown (by his standards). He’ll really have to behave himself. Good luck and have a back up plan.
I will be flying to Fiji early next week for a 10 day project with an Aussie crew who likes to knock of early and head to the bar – where the company picks up the tab.
It’s a tough life.
I am starting to envy/hate you sir….
#metoo
飲み放題!
If he has a bicycle with him, be sure to steal it. It’s a little game he likes to play.
Or he may just exchange his for an upgrade. Bikes all look the same any way.
You two do me a favor and go die in a fire.
Pretty harsh.
You didn’t enjoy the metric fuck-ton of slush at the end of the driveway this morning?
I just tromped on through with my pair of best brand work boots (Carolina, as is well known and agreed upon.)
I assume it will just melt off soon enough that I can ignore it.
You spelled Wolverine wrong.
At least we’ll be warm. 🙂
Today’s low: 37
Tomorrow’s high: 72
Ah, spring in New England.
Ellen Pao on how to make tech more diverse
Step 1: get hired for a job for which you are utterly unqualified
Step 2: institute an ideological purge and fire a few popular employees to piss off and lose a large percentage of your userbase
Step 3: ????
Step 4:
profitresignOK Ms. Pao, why don’t you start a Venture Capital firm that funds start-ups based on skin color and genitalia instead of the potential for profit. I just can’t wait to see how long it lasts.
I wish this would happen so I can get with some people to feed the fire until they IPO – feed the fire a little more then short them when their “Woke” bubble peaks.
Careful what you ask for Q. She will probably get enough support from our new fascist system of government to make sure she wins while others are simply put out of business for not being woke enough.
What most people seeing the neo-fascist team blue war to gain social justice don’t get is that in the end this unholy alliance between government & industry, where government gets to pick the winners & losers, not only will result in the chosen elite being protected from any failure or poor performance, but that the plebes/serfs will end up with a costly system that can never deliver anything but misery.
She *joined* a VC firm then sued them for sexual harrassment or some shit. It was a totally bogus lawsuit and she walked away with millions to then become reddit’s CEO. This chick is a top tier grifter.
Ellen Pao;dr
Pao is an idiot. But then again, so is most of Reddit’s username.
Userbase
Including everyone on /r/politics
I joined reddit’s libertarian sub for like….an hour? When the majority opinion of the board is that we should have welfare and socialized medicine, I’m not sure ‘libertarian’ is the title you should have used. Not that I’m one for purity tests, but what the fuck?
That sub, like most of reddit, is at least 75% progressive’s there to tell everyone how wrong they are for not being vegan tankies. They can’t let other people have nice things, it’s against their religion.
accountability
So yo are ready to accept responsibility when your business fails.
Accountability in Progjargon is not responsibility but liability.
What they want is precisely the need NOT to have any responsibility or consequences to running a shitty business which will stay around as their friends in government flush more tax payer money down the drain. Kind of like what was done for GE during the Obama years.
Bull. Shit.
So much bullshit.
Like the CRA discussion last night, that’s predicated on the idea that men dislike women more than they like money.
Incidentally, that’s how we got Theranos – if Elizabeth Holmes was a man, she never would have been able to take that scam so far. Instead, she was held up as some paragon, an empowered female tech leader.
Well, she (and her family) also had some crazy good contacts. I think she was sleeping with one of the big names in Silicon Valley at the time to boot. You’re not necessarily wrong, but I think her story is just as much cronyism as anything else, combined with a media that loved her vagina.
If anything, that re-enforces my point; no dude is going to sleep his way into a multi-billion dollar scam.
Bill Gates’ family had good contacts, but he actually had to deliver a viable product.
homogeneous group – comprised, mostly
Words, wtf do they mean?
*pseudogeneous
I hate to break it to Ellen but nature is a meritocracy.
Oh, I beg to differ.
/Bill Deblasio
The background missing from that article is that he is scrapping achievement tests for the city’s top schools because too many Asians are passing them.
Good morning, SS!
Sorry you aren’t feeling it today, but at least you weren’t out shoveling again. It feels like fucking groundhog day…
Anyway, your governor, even though he looks like he is seconds away from a massive coronary, is at least doing the right thing. I’m sure next he’ll tackle all the unfunded liabilities, particularly pensions. Right?
Good morning, SS!
Schutzstaffel?
Hope they have his size in a jump suit. I thought he was the Bill Richards (D-NM) of 20 years ago. Doesn’t look like he’s missed a meal in a long time. Big boned.
Let’s play ‘Semantic Bingo’
“With respect to Barr’s comments, I really don’t know what he’s talking about when he’s talking about spying on the campaign, so I can’t really react substantively,” Comey said at the Hewlett Foundation’s Verify cybersecurity conference.
“When I hear that kind of language used, it’s concerning because the FBI and Department of Justice conduct court ordered electronic surveillance, I have never thought of that as spying,” he added. “If the attorney general has come to the belief that that should be called spying, wow, that’s going to require a whole lot of conversations inside the Department of Justice.”
Comey said he believed that Barr’s career had “earned him a presumption that he will be one of the rare Trump Cabinet members who will stand up for truth and facts,” but cautioned that Barr’s comments on Wednesday makes that “harder.”
Reacting to the arrest in London of Julian Assange and Trump’s past praise of WikiLeaks, Comey said, “I would hope that the President would let the Department of Justice pursue a case as it ordinarily would. Obviously, given the track record the last two years, I can’t have high confidence that that will happen, but I don’t know how that will turn out.”
Trump literally allowed a literal witch hunt to proceed unabated. But concern-troll is concerned anyway.
Still hoping he trades immunity to Assange for a Spygate testimony. Trump shouldn’t have anything against Assange after all. If it wasn’t for Assange, Trump may not have ever been elected.
The Mueller probe – I feel compelled to remind everyone – was never about investigating the false claim of Russian collusion after the Obama admin failed to use a rogue intel operation to entrap Trump campaign members or Trump himself, but about providing these people with cover from the Trump admin being able to expose the criminal activity of the Obama admin, because anything he would have done to actually make said criminal activity public, would have allowed Mueller to then execute the real reason for his commission: slap Trump with obstruction charges.
Sessions recusing himself was a key play in them remaining able to keep that charade going. That ability died with the appointment of Barr and Mueller deciding he was not willing to fabricate shit to keep them in play, and finally after two wasted years and some 30 million dollars, closing the shit show down and accepting they would not be able to get Trump with obstruction charges.
the FBI and Department of Justice conduct court ordered electronic surveillance, I have never thought of that as spying,
Well, it obviously is, you disingenuous dipshit.
“The FBI and law enforcement conduct court authorized predawn raids at the wrong address, I have never thought of that as breaking and entering”
“The FBI and law enforcement conduct civil asset forfeiture from people never convicted of or even charged with a crime, I have never thought of that as stealing”
then we cooked and ate a guy, I never thought of that as cannibalism
If you are using people already part of the inner circle to provide you info then you have an informant. When you send people out to infiltrate or even set up an entrapment scheme, you are engaging in an active intelligence operation. For those not familiar with that lingo: you are using a spy.
Just like when Trump said the phones were wire tapped, “That’s crazy talk! Completely untrue! Modern surveillance doesn’t use wires.”
It was even more retarded than that, people argued it wasn’t “Obama” because he didn’t do it himself.
By that logic, Charlie Manson shouldn’t have spent a day in jail.
Yeah, well Charlie was not a woke community organizer like Chocolate Jesus, and the people that elected and protected Chocolate Jesus while he shit all over the constitution, the country, and the people, will be damned if they will allow you to make all that effort they put into protecting Chocolate Jesus be for naught…
Charlie had less people killed than Obama has.
Well, Charlie didn’t have any drones.
Wait, could a cultist be a drone? I am now confounded man…
could a cultist be a drone
I mean, those Heaven’s Gate guys cut off their junk before hopping on the Hale-Bopp Express. Some of them months before.
Especially when it then turned out that, in this case, they actually did physically tap the phone lines as well.
“Here is a rock solid case that no reasonable prosecutor would pursue.”
That fucker needs to be in jail.
Having a big nasty redhead at my side might improve my mood. Or not. Depends how you define “nasty”.
https://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/008/165/1325523568679.jpg
Hawt!
This is not the nasty you are looking for.
If I’m the QB and he’s the Center, sure!
Euphemism?
Sure, why not? It’s good to add a little mystery to one’s online persona!
How do we change tech for the better?
I think your ploy of writing whiny magazine articles is really having an effect. Keep doing that.
How bout by focusing on the tech instead of on the shape of the junk in the developers’ pants or their skin hue or what kinds of clothes they wear, or who they get off with.
Pao herself said tech was founded by white males. Women and POCs in tech is cultural appropriation; they should stay in their lane.
*slaps down 1st Edition, multicolor-mana You Didn’t Build That card*
Snap out of it Swissy! I know what will help you – Chicago deep dish with pineapple.
*tosses grenade and goes back to work
With a side of avocado garlic cheese bread!
And an artisanal mayo dipping sauce
Foreskin puree!
Hands off the barstool upholstery, bub!
a broiled slice of ham topped with pineacado chutney and cheese served in an oversized cast iron pan lightly greased with a Mexican foreskin slathered in artisanal mayo then retrointerogested.
This sure seems like a winning campaign issue.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/11/new-medicare-for-all-bill-would-kick-181-million-off-private-insurance/
This will pass sometime in my lifetime. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, but nothing else will happen until the economy collapses from the sheer weight.
bUt We iZ tHa rIchIsT kUnTrEe In tHa WoRlD!
Translation = our wealthy have the most loot to plunder.
Not understood by these folks is that wealth, once plundered, takes a long time to regenerate. Wealth redistribution is like clear cutting a forest to harvest the wood, not like throwing up solar panels to harvest the sunlight.
Maybe not. First will come the rationing.
After that when you no longer produce for state, i.e. the elderly and disabled, you can simply be left to die of neglect.
You’re assuming the economy limps along long enough for that to happen
Headlines from 2022: “Medical tourism in Central America Rises Sharply, Unexpectedly!”
Why am I certain that when they implement this plan of theirs, it will not apply to the political elite and the connected, but only to the serfs?
Ellen Pao;dr
Oh, come on, shitlord. Ellen Pao has been placed on Earth for the specific purpose of revealing to you your inadequacies and crimes against humanity. How will you be healed, if you won’t listen to the catalogue of your sins and beg forgiveness?
More horrible gun legislation
This trend of holding crime victims liable for the actions of perpetrators is bothersome. How long until we see someone charged with attempted murder after being shot with their own gun by someone who broke into their home and stole it from them? Or would that be ‘attempted suicide’?
Are they going to start billing vehicle owners for property damage caused with their cars after they’re stolen out of their driveway by someone on a meth bender?
Probably shouldn’t be giving them ideas.
The time to say enough is enough…is now
Yeah, I’ve been hearing this rhetoric for my entire life. Wanna do something about it? Do it! Stop talking about how mad you are and actually do something!
Seriously. I’ve been hearing folks say Molon Labe and talking about watering the tree of liberty all my life. So far, all that’s happened is more steady erosion of rights. These people are all talk.
Agreed. Are they ready to start a hot war? ‘Cause that’s what it would take. Most people’s lives, even with the slow and steady destruction of liberty, are far too comfortable to throw it all away in order to likely die in a civil war.
And once that happens, the idea of America might live on in people’s actions, but America itself would be dead. Hell, in most ways it’s already dead.
They aren’t going to do shit other than write impassioned comments on an obscure website while they hunker down and hope the court decisions go their way. You know, kind of like we do.
. . . hope the court decisions go their way.
And buy guns and lots of ammunition.
.. so you can hand it all over to the government for nothing.
A bunch of places already ban unattended running cars and charge people that get them stolen while they run into 7 Eleven or from their driveway.
Also, this state used to be decent for gun rights and reasonable ccw laws. Actually it was better than many red states. No moronic no carry signs and limited number of restricted locations, all government property. Gone. Enjoy the schadenfreude. This shit will be coming elsewhere before gun rights can be meaningfully expanded. And national reciprocity would be CA and N.Y. dictating CCW rules for the rest of the country.
This is not the nasty you are looking for.
Indeed, it is not.
*retches again*
His Mom says he’s handsome!
I heard her whispering that to her seeing-eye dog.
There seemed to be a lot of gloating about Assange’s arrest, yesterday. . Maybe I just imagined the part where most of those same people were calling him a Hero of Freedom for dumping Boooosh’s data into the pubic domain.
What was really revealing was how they absolutely reveled in his disheveled appearance. Kick a man when he’s down. Nice one, MSM!
We have always been at war with eastasia
Hero to goat in one quick election.
Just more proof that they’re unprincipled scumbags whose viewpoints shift with the wind.
The moment one of their heroes shows principle and does more than go after the other team, said hero becomes a pariah and deserves nothing but scorn, derision, and visits by Antifa thugs to make it beg for forgiveness and return to the plantation properly cowed. Assange fucked over crooked Hillary, by of course showing everyone she was a criminal and petty individual, and they want his blood for that. There are countless examples of others that were champions of team blue and team blue causes, that had team blue drones go virulently mad on when they broke the rule that what happens to or because of team blue should always be presented in a positive light or not at all.
One arrested after ‘disruptive’ protest at UMKC event, school says
Tolerant left at it again.
Ha! Sick burn.
Video of it
https://mobile.twitter.com/collin_tuso/status/1116559626814705665
What a shit show.
The blonde in the front row that got up and dashed out; solid would
I saw her first!
And she’s smart. Shit’s going down, she GTFO.
Stupid fucker could have gotten shot.
There are people saying “It was only a super soaker!”
Yeah, a super soaker with bleach that could have been acid. Fuck that guy.
Solid video of the guy next to him using LANDSCAPE MODE like he should have.
A student tried to squirt bleach on me during my speech tonight.
Interesting considering Michael Knowles’ complexion. Who are the racists again?
* shakes fist at LJW, slinks away*
When they do it it is resisting. When team red does it , it is a hate crime and criminal…
The ones in the audience knew exactly what was going on – they were calling his name when he was wrestled to the ground. “Adam, Adam!” So, if they weren’t in on it, how did they know who the masked man was? Fucking Antifa scum.
My car still has an old-fashioned key ignition… and this morning the whole tumbler/cylinder came out with the key. On a 5yo vehicle with 30k miles on the clock. ::sigh::
Ugh. What make!
?
2014 Mustang – surprised the heck out of me. Additional anti-theft measure?
Ford – Quality is Job 1
– 2014 Explorer owner
I mean, I know its cold up there, but you wouldn’t think the metal would shrink away from the plastic collar that much.
Is it a Chevy… I need more reasons to hate Chevy after the sold my wife a lemon.
Some fun near the homefront:
https://info.umkc.edu/unews/one-arrested-after-protest-at-on-campus-event/
The protesters look exactly like you thought they would.
Nice timing, look up 2 rows.
Good on my alma mater just for not canceling the talk.
this morning the whole tumbler/cylinder came out with the key
Sweet, now you can start it with a foil gum wrapper, like in Repo Man.
“I’m not work material! I will never be work material! So stop f***ing reporting me on motherf***ing Instagram!” she warned. “The last thing I want to do be is a homeless prostitute in the f***ing street doing meth. That is the last thing I f***ing want to do so stop f***ing trying to ruin my life!”
Without Instagram providing a steady stream of income from posting selfies, young attractive 21 year olds will be forced into the world of meth and prostitution. It is known.
And those of us without youth or good looks can’t even aspire to that…
Social media aiding our push to mirror the movie Idiocracy.
It got here some 480 years earlier than the movie made it…
LOL
The youtube video starts with “Hey guys, so like I’m…”
This seems to be the standard intro for worthless “influencer” bullshit.
Is it wrong of me to wish that she does end up a drug-addled hooker?
I am with you if it is wrong. Karma hitting shallow and stupid people is needed for society to finally blink and take a step back from the precipice we are heading over.
She’s not attractive. She’s a 5 with big tits and a bad attitude. *little Festus starts looking for trouble*
’bout to say, I see more attractive women at just about any bar – at that’s here in ugly Michigan.
I don’t see how she is that attractive.
“guys want u to be their cum dumpster and therapist and support system and ATM machine but not their gf and still wont even follow u on instagram”
https://twitter.com/jessytayy/status/1116631831191834624
Huh, I just assumed she was attractive due to her 100k IG following. My various script blockers prevented me from seeing any imagery of her visage.
You should donate to whoever wrote that script blocker.
Uh. I’m trying to process the picture in one of the replies.
and by process mean tug a few sons and daughters out?
My god. I went down this bitches rabbit hole for some stupid reason and found this article:
The Instagram influencer whose 100,000-strong following got wiped says she called the police because it felt like ‘a murder’
Choice quotes:
Money quote:
There’s no internet advertising bubble. Nope, nosirree….
She’s not wrong. There’s no other way in the world she can make $500k in 3 years. Good on her for striking gold. Too bad she didn’t understand the limited nature of her gold strike.
Plus, she’s financially incentived to say thing that will make you click on her name. So she says a bunch of stupid shit that make the reader’s ape-brain click on the link.
How exactly does one make $166k/yr posting on Instagram? What entity is paying her that?
My guess is that she has a patreon or some private cam site where she gets nude for subscribers. Instagram is just a way to drive people to the pay site.
The short answer is to build a community that values your community creation and content creation at greater than $0. Then you leverage them for direct payments and, separately, for deals to supply access and goodwill within your community.
1) I don’t know about Instagram, but some platforms have direct revenue sharing agreements. For example, you watch an ad, and the platform gets a cut while the content creator gets a cut. You need to be really big for this to work. Lots of people making dimes, a few making dollars.
2) Tips/patronage. On some platforms, you can request and receive tip, which are one-time payments from people in your community tip you. This is often on live-streams, and the creator usually responds to tips in some way. Camwhores do this, so do Twitch players.
Patronage takes the form of recurring payments in exchange to access to an exclusive community (with more personalized interaction with the creator) and/or exclusive/early/ad-free content.
This can take the form of access to a chat server where the creator is active, to early/ad-free/bonus podcast content, input into what kind of content gets created that the creators are actually responsive to. It also incentives the creator to enforce good moderation practices. I know for example that one person pay $10 just to get access to forums and Discord servers run by a particular game streamer who does a good job of keeping the Drama Llama from wandering in.
3) Drive users to paid services. An Instagram coach will online coach you for only $XXX a month or do a one-time consult for $X. An Instagram makeup artist will sell their consulting services. Makers will drive people to their auctions.
4) Product placement. This is a big one on Lifestyle Instagram. A product maker will pay, sometimes really big bucks, to have a creator make an above board plug. Sometimes, they pay even more for incidental product placement. Lots of beauty, makeup, and Professionally Pretty Girl Instagram is funded this way. Lots of Pretty Girls straight up lying about their food, makup, workout, clothing, and supplement choices in what their viewers expect are honest statements. If you are already giving out 30 honest statements about product usage a week, you can drop 6 in and they look truthful. Those 6 spots get bid up really high, depending on the reach and demographics.
Damn, this should be a standalone article on social media monetization. Thanks for the rundown!
Agreed! It all seems so alien to me. Monetizing sluttishness. Who knew it was that arcane?
You know, she could just skip the meth and save the money her johns pay her until she has enough to live off the proceeds
If we have time, I’ll drag him to the diviest bar in the area for a beer.
*thinks back to the Big Bamboo Lounge in Kissimmee*
As they walk into the bar all the heads will turn and someone will say “Who’s the guy with the Pope?”
“Workers find 27 possible human GRAVES at notorious Florida reform school for boys where children were ‘locked in chains, beaten and sexually abused’ – taking potential number of burials at the site to more than EIGHTY”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6914481/Workers-27-possible-human-graves-Florida-reform-school-children-abused.html
WTF? Nobody realized kids went missing? Let me guess.. They got lost in the government paper shuffle? Is this where the people that put together the first season of that HBO “True Detective” series got their idea for it?
This has been reported locally for about two years. The reform school for boys was mostly for boys who were considered too bad to be fostered. Most of them had no family.
I’m surprised it’s taken this long for it to make national/international news.
It happened up here with Residential Schools with the Natives. Most of the kids that died were suffering from tuberculosis but many of them were just ignored to death. Most of their graves are unmarked.
Yeah, this has been going for awhile. I think the headline is actually a non sequitur. Yes, there’s a defunct institution with some allegations of abuse. Yes, there’s also a mostly-forgotten pauper’s cemetery. And for some number, a Venn diagram might show an overlap between people who died from abuse and some of the graves. But most of the graves are almost certainly from “normal” deaths.
But breathless headlines are a thing.
“Living the suit life! Michelle Obama continues to celebrate local designers on her book tour as she takes Oslo by storm in a dazzling green tuxedo by Norwegian designer Peter Dundas
Michelle Obama wowed in a showstopping emerald green tuxedo suit with crystal embellishments and a satin sash while promoting her memoir, Becoming, in Oslo, Norway.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6913845/Michelle-Obama-takes-Oslo-storm-dazzling-green-tuxedo-Norwegian-designer-Peter-Dundas.html
XOMG, she wore a jacket with pants!!!!
Thicc?
No Wookie.
It’s curious that the media hate on the current flotus even though she is actually attractive and has a career history in the fashion industry (among other things).
The highest, tightest ass of any flotus.
Michelle is a case study in making something out of nothing. It was purely a political decision on the part of the fashion industry to promote her as some kind of fashion icon.
She’s not even average pretty.
That’s a man, baby!
Exactly. They try to sell Michelle when Melania is vastly superior.
I don’t get the love and fascination about Michelle. Very average on so many levels.
It’s a feminist power play. Melania is very feminine. Michelle could come out as a butch lesbian tomorrow and nobody would bat an eye.
And it’s not even like you have to simultaneous respect/like Trump if you respect/like Melania. Even Michelle would have been fine as a flotus if she would have shut the hell up and stopped trying to starve grade-school children.
They’re trashing his 13-year-old son. These people have no class, or shame. It’s all fucking politics.
And that shitstain is getting taxpayer funded security and subsidization of her vacation. Fuck that cunt.
“‘He has to answer for what he’s done’: Hillary Clinton signals her approval of Julian Assange arrest after Wikileaks founder is removed from Ecuadorian embassy by police
The former Democratic Presidential candidate said that the founder of WikiLeaks, who she blames for her losing the 2016 election, deserves whatever punishment is coming his way.
Hillary also launched a barb at Donald Trump and said it is ‘a little ironic that he will be the only foreigner this administration welcomes into the United States’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6914441/Hillary-Clinton-says-Julian-Assange-answer-hes-done.html
Seth Rich was unavailable for comment.
Some things never change: Day follows night, the sky is still blue, and Hillary Clinton remains a loathsome authoritarian and just generally a horrible person.
Not to mention, she’s still blaming her loss on anyone but herself.
Hey man, the election was rigged in her favor, and somehow the cronies that did that didn’t do a good enough job for evil orange man to end up winning it despite all that effort. She is right to blame others for not going far enough with the banana republic shit.
Barring catastrophic injury or a sudden stroke, I take comfort in the fact that I will outlive Hillary Fucking Cunt Clinton.
With a little luck and “a catastrophic injury or a sudden stroke, I take comfort in the fact that I will outlive Hillary Fucking Cunt Clinton”.
Haha!
Careful Fourscore… People that piss off the Clintons have a habit of committing suicide.
I would hate to have to read your obituary and find out you committed suicide by double tapping the back of your head…..
Still, the media coverage of her death will be unbearable.
You think someone is going to drive a stake into that bloated beast?
She must be getting tips for how to generate mendacious “snark” from AOC.
‘He has to answer for what he’s done’
Self-awareness. You have none.
Hillary also launched a barb at Donald Trump
Unwise in the grand scheme of things.
I’d love to see them all in chains but my biggest fear going forward is a manufactured recession just in time for the next election. My tin-foil is of the highest qualitity, I assure you!
This week I watched the new season of The Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix, I was upset that Nathan Fillian didn’t come back but was very happily assuaged by the fact they replaced him with Alan Tudyk.
Wifey’s been watching that. I was perturbed that Drew Barrymore is looking kinda old.
Now you know what its been like for OMWC for all these long decades.
The inverse Wooderson, as it were.
It’s like a Good Intentions tax
Students at Georgetown University voted on Thursday in favor of a referendum approving a tuition fee, which would pay reparations to descendants of the enslaved people from the university’s past.
Maya Moretta, one of the students at Georgetown who advocated for the resolution’s passing, told Newsweek that after working as a research assistant at the Georgetown slavery archives, she realized the student body had a unique opportunity.
“We have so many records and the ability to really trace back descendants,” Moretta said. “I think it’s an amazing opportunity for Georgetown students to act on a form of reparative justice, which is a trend that’s being talked about across the country.”
The referendum is titled GU272 after the 272 enslaved people who were sold in 1838 from Jesuit plantations. It helped pay Georgetown’s debt. The referendum advocated adding a fee of $27.20 to each student’s tuition per semester, beginning in 2020. Hunter Estes, a senior at Georgetown, opposed the referendum, in part, because it didn’t specify where the money would go.
“You had students with an idealistic vision and what I’m sure is good intentions,” Estes told Newsweek. “But, good intentions can’t right policy. So, the problem that we have here is that right now, good intentions are writing policy. We have, ‘here’s the idea,’ but what do we do once the money is brought forward? I don’t think people have thought though that as much.”
I’m betting he didn’t learn to think in that manner at Georgetown.
I’m betting he’s a pariah on campus now.
“Hunter”. That is all.
I agree, those 272 people should get reparations. It’s too bad they’re all dead.
What’s stopping you fucks from giving $27.72 a month yourselves? Oh that’s right. It’s not real atonement unless you can thieve it from people that wouldn’t otherwise give it to you. Congratulations, you’re on the same ethical level as those slavers you purport to despise.
How do you determine who is and is not the descendant of a slave? The metric would be arbitrary at best, considering the long and colorful history of slavery (which involved everyone enslaving everyone everywhere throughout the better part of recorded human history.)
Never mind that you are attempting to require people who were never slave owners to pay people who were never slaves.
One drop rule, obviously.
I wonder how many descendants of 272 people there would be a few generations later. Thousands, I would imagine. “Here’s your check for a buck twelve. Don’t spend it all at once.”
reparative justice
Something something sins of the father. And again, you have a lot of work to do as slavery existed everywhere, in every culture all over the world. (and it still exists in some places…)
reparative justice
That would be like changing my school grades on my permanent records. Say, not a bad idea.
“Hello, fellow Freshmen!”
Is it wrong of me to wish that she does end up a drug-addled hooker?
Yes. It’s completely wrong.
She should end up swabbing toilets and changing sheets for drug-addled hookers at a Motel Eightball somewhere in southern Alabama.
Physical care aid for the profoundly disabled.
Question for people who know about cars:
Was making a left turn this morning. Two left turn lanes, two lanes to turn into. I turned into my lane just fine, but the person in the car next to me decided he wanted to turn into my lane too. Swerved to avoid him, and I did, but I hit the curb. Hard. Didn’t damage the car, but my front passenger tire hit hard and now there’s, for lack of a better word, a small “hole” on the side (can see the metal tread). It’s on the side of the tire, right next to the “Goodyear” lettering.
Went to an auto shop and was told to buy rubber cement there to try and fix the tire, which I did (though it’ll take a couple of applications to fill). Currently drying. Tire’s only 3k miles old, so I’d rather not have to replace it if I don’t have to. Is that gonna be enough?
Replace that tire, Son. Belt showing is a blow-out waiting to happen.
I’d replace it as well.
And find a different shop.
^this!^
Just rubber cement it?!
LOL. True though.
Replace!
Manufacturer replacement against road hazards?
Running into a curb may not be covered even if he has it.
Just tell the truth, warranty may cover everything, doesn’t hurt to ask
Some of the shit-boxes I used to drive were held together with baling wire and binder twine. Four mismatched tires and no spare. Make it right.
That tire is done.
To be clear, I run a fleet of trailerized equipment. Exposed sidewall is an accident waiting to happen, particularly when the heat sets in. There is no effective repair for that particular type of damage.
Not good to mess around with sidewall damage. Replace it and hope you didn’t also bend the rim.
In a way, you’re better off it happened with only 3K. If it was 15K from now, you’d have mismatched tread depth which can mess with newer cars’ AWD and/or traction control systems.
That tire dissed Suge Knight and has incriminating evidence against the Clintons.
Also, find a different auto shop.
“Professionals”
Tire’s only 3k miles old
Replace. No need to risk a blowout, especially since you can get away with only buying one given that it is barely worn.
This shit will be coming elsewhere before gun rights can be meaningfully expanded. And national reciprocity would be CA and N.Y. dictating CCW rules for the rest of the country.
This, right here.
Which should already be a thing considering the exact wording of 2A and the supremacy of the federal constitution in it’s ostensibly limited and defined areas.
New York and California already decided that they should control you plebes so what’s the ruckus? THREE MILLION VOTES!
national reciprocity would be CA and N.Y. dictating CCW rules for the rest of the country.
I’m not sure how. I guess I’d need to see the law. Seems like one version would be like your driver’s license – if you have a CCW license, you can carry anywhere. Doesn’t matter if other states have different tests or requirements for issuing.
New York already violates the law regarding airports. So I seriously doubt they are going to let people carry guns in NYC no matter what the federal law is.
“She led him to the dance floor. They made out. They walked back to his apartment. Five minutes later they left. No DNA evidence showing sex. 12 years in prison.”
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1114584388841299968
That was a quick in-and-out or she is full of shit. Scales of Justice say…
Looks like the actual evidence supports his side of the story. Doesn’t matter now, the poor guy’s a convicted rapist…what a crock of shit.
What’s the bitch’s name, anyway?
Remember, Mike Pence is the weirdo.
I have to say. Everything is better with an egg on top. Adding bacon helps too.
Had decent homemade chicken enchiladas last night for supper, but fried eggs and bacon made them awesome!
So you’re saying I should make a breakfast burger tomorrow morning.
I always grill extra for that very thing. Breakfast of champions!
I can’t eat eggs no more *runs to the corner*
I need to get one of these.
Oooh. It just so happens my Spirit II 310 just arrived last week…
“Finley: America’s hate crime surge is a hoax
It’s been repeated so often it’s taken as fact: Hate crimes have soared over the past two years, and the blame rests with President Donald Trump and supporters inspired by his hateful rhetoric.
It’s a compelling story, supported by statistics that show an increase of 17% in the number of hate crimes reported to the FBI during the Trump presidency.
But it isn’t true. The surge has little to do with Trump and his red hat brigade. This according to Will Reilly, a Kentucky State University associate professor, who extensively researched hate-fueled violence in America for his book Hate Crime Hoax.
“Almost all of that surge is due to the simple fact that in 2017 the number of police departments reporting hate crimes to the FBI increased by 1,000,” says Reilly. “The surge narrative is pretty dishonest.”
Reilly studied 409 reported hate crimes over the past five years that received media attention. They include incidents such as the racist graffiti at Eastern Michigan University and the minority woman in Grand Rapids who claimed a group of white men urinated on her.
“In major cases, almost all of them have been hoaxes,” Reilly says. “The number of hate crime hoaxes actually exceeds the number of convictions. The majority of these high-profile incidents never happened.”
It’s also a false narrative that white cops are targeting African American men, Reilly says.
In 2015, he says, of the 1,200 Americans killed by police, just 258 were black, and only 17 of those were unarmed and shot by white officers. And yet, his research indicates just 10 percent of the media coverage of police violence focused on the non-black victims.”
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2019/04/07/finley-americas-hate-crime-surge-hoax/3374192002/
I, for one, look forward to this well-researched book calming the overheated rhetoric around “surging hate crimes” and a return to well-mannered political discourse.
Wouldn’t you be concerned about being hit by falling pig shit?
Kentucky State University is a HBCU. So, a hotbed of white nationalism, obviously.
Also, fried chicken?
>>the minority woman in Grand Rapids who claimed a group of white men urinated on her.
I’m innocent, I swear!
That was one of the hoaxes, if I recall correctly.
Reilly just fucked himself out of tenure.
If he’s an associate professor, he probably already has tenure. On the other hand, he can kiss that promotion to Full goodbye.
In other news, fuck this guy:
“Now that Julian Assange has been arrested, I hope he will soon be held to account for his meddling in our elections on behalf of Putin and the Russian government.”
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1116403439657943041
LOL, he’s getting it in the comments.
That owly-eyed fucker needs some comeuppance, post-haste!
You could just link to a picture of Schumer and “fuck this guy” would still be apropos.
Y’know when I made that quip many moons ago about the Commies and their clip-boards looking askance at the proles, Chuck Schumer’s mug came immediately to mind.
They’re going to keep beating that dead horse aren’t they? Pelosi said she only trusts Mueller, who said no collusion, and all the Twitter leftists said they’d believe there was no collusion only when Mueller said there wasn’t, and he said there wasn’t, but they still insist on claiming “Putin and the Russian government” hacked the election.
It’s pure delusion, and it seems like there is absolutely nothing that can bring them back to reality. We need a national divorce.
I just can’t criticize a person that has such a nice rack.
“Disgusting that the Conservative Party is scrubbing comments on photos w imams who have instructional videos on how to beat your wife posted online!
Luckily, my Liberals have declared “an all of government approach to eliminating Islamophobia” so Caliphatada can exist hate free!”
https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1116479914633388032
She’s kind of a loon but her bum rivals Melania’s and is younger.
We’d be better off just ignoring the UK. They’re not coming back from their long descent into shittiness.
That’s Canada, isn’t it?
Yes. It’s Canada.
How’s that Brexit coming? Who’da thought it takes over 3 years to execute the will of the people and quit a voluntary association.
Postponed until Oct 31st because they’ll get it right after an extra six months of abject failure.
Whoever said the other day that they’re treating Brexit like high schoolers who spend the entire time they’re supposed to be working on a big project hoping the school burns down to save them was spot on.
Maybe they’ll delay so long that the Caliphate kicks into gear and establishes the Islamic Republic of Great Britian, leaves the EU with no-deal, then gets preferential treatment from Brussels out of their fear of being painted as Islamophobic.
Where “get it right” means repeated votes and/or referenda until the outcome is “no Brexit”.
“After Facebook banned Faith Goldy and white nationalist groups, accounts and ads in their name remained
BuzzFeed News and the Toronto Star are investigating the ways in which political parties, third-party pressure groups, foreign powers, and individuals are influencing Canada’s political debate in the run-up to this fall’s federal election. This report is part of that collaboration.
A day after Facebook banned six Canadian individuals and groups for spreading hate, two made their way back onto the platform with new pages, while 11 pages with similar names and content remained online despite the ban.
Faith Goldy, the Canadian Nationalist Front, Wolves of Odin, and Canadian Infidels were all banned Monday but more than 24 hours later BuzzFeed News and the Toronto Star found pages, groups, and Instagram accounts using similar names and posting similar content that had been on the banned accounts. After asking Facebook for comment, they were all taken down.
Meanwhile, a new account was opened under Goldy’s name, and the account purchased an ad on Facebook promoting her personal website.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/04/09/after-facebook-banned-faith-goldy-and-hate-groups-accounts-and-ads-in-their-name-remained.html
You know who else banned their opponents from public life?
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix?
Wheeeeeee!
Vampires was a documentary.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1116400499341684737
Tlaib is really unattractive. Sheesh.
You know who else was the subject of a lot of documentaries…
A bunch of lemmings that never instinctively run off cliffs to their death unless someone off-camera drives them off the cliff.
*golf clap*
The Penguin?
BigfootSTEVE SMITH! duhSpeaking of Canada…
Ouch. Sorry Edmonton.
They have enough Cups (disgruntled Canucks fan).
Edmonton was so bad this year.
I think they were the first team in NHL history to have two 100 point scorers and miss the playoffs.
It’s a compelling story, supported by statistics that show an increase of 17% in the number of hate crimes reported to the FBI during the Trump presidency.
From 5 to 6 is a 20% increase.
Key word “reported”, not convictions.
“My neighbor’s dog took a dump on my lawn jus’ cause I’m Black”
“Parenting Magazine Warns ‘Blond, Cheerful’ Families Dangerous, Likely Right Wing
Parenting magazine Baby & Family has told readers to beware of families who are “inconspicuous” and “cheerful”, as these warning signs indicate they are right wing and thus “dangerous”.
Depicted with illustrations featuring solely blonde women and children, the report says ordinary parents must take action against right-wing families and make clear that their ideology has no place in the world.
Asserting that the term “right wing” “stirs up anxiety” and brings to mind “burning refugee homes”, skinheads, and the National Socialist Underground (NSU) group who carried out a string of violent attacks on foreign people, Baby & Family notes that people “rarely connect it with women, family and children”.
This, the high-circulation German magazine declares, “is precisely the great risk” as such people are just as dangerous if not more so as gangs of Nazi skinheads. The identifying features of right-wing families, it contends, are that they are “inconspicuous, blond, cute and engaged”.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/09/25/blond-cheerful-families-dangerous-right/
TW: Breitbart
Do you know who else wrote in German?
Wow, maybe those blonde families should wear something on their arms. Just to make sure everyone else knows how dangerous they are?
What in the fuck?
My Mother had an abiding hatred of blonde people, hence my tendency to date blonde girls while in high school! (not really, it just turns out that if your school is 60% German you are going to meet a lot of blondes) She was pretty racist for a semi-brown.
Is there any evidence that there is a recent surge in white supremacy? Looks to me that there isn’t an increase, just a broadening if the term white supremacist.
Progs really seem to believe in white supremacy.
Their ideology dictates that white people naturally have privilege no matter what, which must mean that there exist immutable advantages to being white, which means that it must be better to be white, from which it naturally flows that whiteness stands supreme.
As usual, its all projection with these folks, all the way down.
I will be using this line of logic the next time someone starts in with the white privilege thing.
Wait til they find out that Mormons exist.
The radio show I sometimes listen to in the car this morning, did a segment today on letters from listeners.
This is from “Caleb”. Guess where Caleb is listening from with this letter;
“I’m never listening again to your show. You have a ridiculous gay guy who was talking about SWIFFERS. how swiffers weren’t quilted anymore! Why don’t you talk about something important? We have a racist in the White House, a corrupt AG, and you’re talking about Swiffers!”
Poor Caleb. Apparently couldn’t find NPR.
(Answer is Portland. Because Portland’s a meme now)
“How dare you discuss anything other than politics I agree with!”
You can’t dream this stuff up. As I stated above, my biggest fear is a manufactured recession before the next election. That’s the only way that they can lay Trump low. Why not? They’re throwing all the turds at the wall at this point.
I’ve been expecting a manufactured recession to strike in 2020. It worked to get Obama elected in 2008, didn’t it? Whether that was deliberately manufactured for that purpose or not, it ensured whoever ran an as R would lose because BUSH CRASHED THE ECONOMY! And team ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ surely learned that lesson.
Make all the money you can this year and start cashing out early next year.
Yeah. Remember that time someone said you could figure out a judge’s jurisprudence based on their Latin ancestry. Totes racist. Start up the impeachment proceeding for anyone who does that kind of shit.
Remember that time someone said you could figure out a judge’s jurisprudence based on their Latin ancestry.
+ 1 Wise Latina
I made a comment about her on another site when they showed a picture of her being welcomed to the Court. I said something like like “Look at those hands! They look like catcher’s mitts!” Banned for life.
“San Jose city council votes unanimously to fly rainbow flags near new Chick-fil-A location”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1116462692506722305
“The city council in San Jose, Calif., this week voted unanimously to fly rainbow flags in support of LGBTQ rights near a Chick-fil-A set to open next month at the city’s airport.
Council members voted 11-0 on Tuesday to hang both a rainbow flag and a transgender-rights pink, blue and white flag at a yet to be determined location at the San Jose International Airport, according to NBC News.
“I made the suggestion to put the flags next to the restaurant, and council members liked that idea but also said that maybe put flags elsewhere, too, like outside,” Ken Yeager, the first openly gay elected official in Santa Clara County, told NBC News.
The city council voted last year to let Chick-fil-A to open a location in the airport food court.
San Jose Vice Mayor Charles Jones told BNBC news that the plan is to have a flag or flags near the restaurant and outside the airport.”
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/438538-san-jose-to-fly-rainbow-flags-outside-new-airport-chick-fil-a
It’s an airport. Couldn’t he just suck a guy off in the bathroom?
Embrace the power of ‘AND’.
That’ll show ’em! Meanwhile customers continue to line up for tasty food with courteous service.
And Chick-fil-a pays no attention whatsoever.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say the employees of that Chick-fil-A won’t even notice. The ownership of Chick-fil-A won’t notice or care.
This sort of empty gesture perfectly sums up city politics.
Some people might even start thinking Chick-Fil-A put up the flags to show they’ve come around on LGBTQIAA+ issues if they’re literally right outside the restaurant.
It might drive <em.more traffic to the location.
Tag fail
1) This is clearly targeted legislation that violates the dignity of the people who work at the Chick-fil-A based on their associations. Post-Kennedy, this is supposed to matter, but seems not to for this city council.
2) City councils seem really motivated to go on the record with their personal targeting of their political opponents.
3) This city council is totally failing the Ideological Turing Test. Even assuming the Chick-fil-A is full of Evil Christian Conservatives… its San Jose. If they were wilting flowers who couldn’t deal with the fact that someone, somewhere disagreed with them, they couldn’t walk out the front door.
4) By these actions, the city council has demonstrated that they are are such wilting flowers, and are thus putting out a big sign about their moral and intelectual inferiority to the 17 year old behind the counter of a fast food restaurant. No one will notice.
Someone noticed. We noticed, too.
Y’know, it’s funny. I don’t remember seeing any articles about conservatives making it hard for Dicks sporting goods or Target or Buffalo Wild Wings or any other company that has pissed conservatives off to open a location or do business in a conservative area. The only remotely analogous situation I can think of is Planned Parenthood.
Either I’m missing all of the idiotic statist stuff local conservatives are doing to these companies, or this is yet another way that conservatives suck slightly less that progs.
Who would have thought that the Nanny-Staters would be the lefties? When I was growing up it was quite the opposite (pace, Tipper Gore).
I can’t think of any off hand, but I’d want to hit up my well-informed-progressive friend – we have an ongoing thread of asking “why come this never happens the other way” and the answer is usually that it has been.
That’s why the left wins culture wars. The right lets lefty companies live and let live without going out of their way to actively punish those who disagree. The left cannot abide anything other than absolute lockstep agreement and does everything it can to destroy those who don’t comply.
Progs will almost always go immediately to scorched earth and destroy opposition at any cost, while Cons tend to self-impose complex rules of engagement based on their (admittedly often contradictory) principles.
Why not just put up a sign next to the restaurant saying only nazis would eat here? While pocketing that sweet sweet concession lucre.
So confusing…
a bunch of NYC liberals storm the Guggenheim Museum to protest the owners of OxyContin being donors.
So Woke?
You know, I always assumed it was a good thing we didn’t have to spend every waking hour on the basics of survival. Proggies have convinced me otherwise.
We live in the best time in history, in the richest country in history and this is what they choose to do with their bounty. Sad, really.
Look…. someone, somewhere might be trying to get high! And someone, somewhere might be making a buck off of that!
This must not stand!
They desperately need a dragon to slay. There not being any more dragons does not matter. It’s in our blood.
“Protests erupted at the Guggenheim in New York City over the museum’s ties to OxyContin. The anti-opioid demonstrations came just as the Massachusetts attorney general implicated the Sackler family — who own Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin — for their alleged role in America’s opioid crisis.”
The so-called “opioid crisis” only exists due to fentanyl and drug prohibition.
so-called “opioid crisis” only exists due to
fentanyl and drug prohibitionkeep[ing] the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all imaginaryThat too.
You know what, there’s a little part of me, a part of me that I try to suppress, that wishes these bastards would get their way and then within a week every last one of them sees their fucking children suffer some sort of injury that entails crippling pain that the drug they banned would provide relief for. Let them live through that kind of hell.
Yeah, I know. That makes me a bad person.
Let them suffer directly. I strongly suspect they’d give as much of a shit about their own kids as they do about the rest of us, unless they can be used as props for their next morality outrage campaign.
Disney’s $6.99-per-month streaming immediately makes it a value winner over Netflix for families
The division of streaming platforms is collectively pushing towards cable pricing. It’s starting to become a pain to track all the accounts you’ll have to sign up for. It would be nice to see a centralizing billing and distribution platform so you don’t have to track each app. Roku does pretty well with the distribution part, but you still have to manage each individual account.
How about no. We rationally moved from pirating to paid streaming because paid streaming was better than free. Iger seems to have (willingly) forgotten this. Everything I watch on Netflix I could pirate to stream or donwnload. Its worth $12 to have access to basically everything without having to deal with the interface problems of pirated streaming interfaces or management of data downloads.
The further from “basically everything” a service gets, he less a rational customer has shown interest in it.
And maybe two or three others to get the same content they currently get with cable.
The further from “basically everything” a service gets,
I dunno. The usual bitching is about how cable/satellite makes you pay for a bunch shit you don’t want, and how a la carte would be better. Streaming seems to be a move in the a la carte direction.
Sounds more like “market segmentation” than “a la carte”.
It’s really the rights owners taking control of distribution and cutting out the aggregators. I’m not sure that’s the best business model going forward, but time and the market will tell (if government doesn’t fuck it up).
I’ve been drifting back toward ad-supported content as my main watching. If I think a series or movie is good enough that I will watch it again years later, I will consider buying it if the price is right, but that winds up being one series every two or three years and maybe one or two movies. As I get older, that will probably end too and a one-time rental (true a la carte) will make more sense for me.
I’m thinking of dropping Netflix and just subscribing for the winter months, for example. Sample/binge in January and February and if anything strikes me as must see/must watch again TV then I’ll just buy the series – $50 for a series is three months of Netflix which I don’t watch much during the summer anyway. There’s enough “decent enough to pass the time” TV and movies in the ad-supported realm that spending money to take out the ads isn’t worth it because the quality of the shows/films isn’t worth spending the money to take the ads out. And in the on-demand-with-ads streaming world there’s no time slot pressures so the shows and films don’t get cut and edited, which for me has always been the main draw rather than the ad-free experience. Some things are so good I don’t ads messing it up, but 98% of the stuff really isn’t that good.
We may switch off of Netflix to Disney. Netflix is getting more expensive and the content is getting spottier by the month. I’m not sure we’re getting our $13 out of it. Disney, OTOH, would definitely be worth $7 considering our almost-2 year old.
The wildcard for us is Prime. We don’t use the video part a lot, but it pays for itself in other perks.
So far, the best investment has been our Tablo DVR that is hooked up to our antenna.
Some good stuff on Prime:
– The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – first couple seasons have been great-to-good
– Bosch – pretty solid seasons
– Jack Ryan – decent first season; they had a chance to humanize the bad guy but they veered off; the best villains are, in some measure, sympathetic. Still enjoyable.
My biggest issue with Jack Ryan is that the Ryan books are about cutting edge technology, a “wow, they can really do that?” kind of thing. You didn’t get that from this show, it was just your typical overblown terrorist plot. Well made, but kind of boring overall.
I never read the books, but my biggest beef was Jack Ryan is such a dull Mary Sue type character who is good at everything. He’s badly written and uninteresting.
The Patriot season 1 was phenomenal. Haven’t watched season 2.
We have a comprehensive package and swear to God, I haven’t watched broadcast television for months. Wifey changed the contract so I lost all of my go-to falling asleep in the Lazyboy stuff. She watches whatever and I check into youtube for less then an hour a day. Time to cut that cord.
We’re getting there. We were on the verge, with a DirecTV streaming subscription (+ our current Prime and Netflix), and then DirecTV jacked the rates so its not really much of a savings. Before they raised their rates, we would have saved $80/month.
Plus, sports. Until we can get streaming NFL and NASCAR, every game and race, Mrs. Dean ain’t going anywhere. Although she’s getting kinda squishy on the NFL. And if somebody in NASCAR doesn’t figure out how to beat Kyle Fucking Busch, she may lose interest there as well.
We’ve got the Apple TV gizmo hooked up the spare TV in the kitchen. Its pretty slick, once you get used to the different ergonomics/interface, and the way streaming works (you don’t look at a schedule, you look at shows), which takes some mental gearshifting.
Too complex! I’m old school. Nudge the kid in the back to change the channel old school.
It changes the way you think about what to watch. Not really “scroll and see what’s on or whats stacked up in the DVR”. More “I’m partway through X and could do another couple episodes” or “What’s recommended, anything look good” or “What’s this app got that I might like”.
NFL is a real sticking point for streaming, unfortunately. They just make too much money from the networks and DirecTV for them to take live streaming seriously.
If they would just sell all-you-can-eat streaming direct to consumes for ~$200 a season, they’d make a killing. As it is, they are too tied up to their old distribution model while NFL game streams get easier and easier to find every year if you go looking.
I thought I would like MLB.TV for that reason, but I wound up dropping it. Yeah it’s great that I can watch any game, but I can only watch one a day, maybe two at most. So I couldn’t eat all that much for $20 a month. For $5 a month there’s one game on ESPN+ every day and a free game on MLB.TV every day, I don’t get to choose any game but I don’t feel like I’m paying for a convenience I can rarely use.
I have heard that the NFL is thinking of doing direct streaming purchase of Sunday Ticket or whatever, rather than through a provider, so be patient. Their blackout rules may be crazy, though.
Hulu Live is in bed with the networks, so you get live NFL through there. And if you’re lucky enough to be able to get DirectTV as an app, you can get Sunday Ticket. That’s what we did this past season. Blackouts are still a bitch because we’re about ten miles west of what they believe is the edge of Redskins territory, but we still got most games we wanted.
Season 2 was just as good.
Messed up, wrong, and a little cringe inducing: hilarious.
Cool. I don’t watch a lot of traditionally-programmed television any more, but if I get the itch I’ll check it out.
Prime video is a nice freebie that comes along with the free shipping.
Disney at $7 a month would be absolutely clutch for our daughter. She’s turning 4 in June, and I find increasingly that the Disney animation channel is the best in terms of something she can watch herself without there being anything objectionable pop up. Amazon has a bunch of good stuff, too, but the problem there is that their “curated” kids material is about 30% decent with 60% dross and 10% borderline creepy. Plus, strangely, they route a lot of their “kid-friendly” web stuff to effing YouTube, which is a deal-breaker.
Amazon baffles me, mainly in the way they have broken their apps (Kindle, Prime TV, and Amazon). It used to be you could order video and books directly from the apps, but now you have to go to their website (or from the Amazon video app on a smart TV). Why do they make it such a pain for me to give them my money?
I have no inside knowledge, but the word on the street is that Bezos takes a very heavy hand in the way the user experience on Amazon products work. The way the Amazon main page is, no modern UI/UX designer would make it that way.
This may or may not be true. And it may or may not be a good idea – AB testing and the like usually is oversensative to overreactions that produce measurable interactions but can’t tell if they are because a user loves a change or hates it. If these design choices “make it such a pain for [you] to give them [your] money” but never make you feel like you’ve been tricked into a purchase, maybe your lifetime satisfaction and purchases stay high. No idea, but its a possibility.
no modern UI/UX designer would make it that way
Thank god! Modern UI can go piss up a rope.
I still think this is what peak UI performance looks like, so I try not to give my opinion on UI too often.
*swoons*
*my eyes*
At least you didn’t post a link to The Gimp. Now *that’s* some serious UI design!
You should play Europa Universalis III, you’d love the interface.
We use it as an example of what not to do with a website, actually. The device apps like R C Dean says are even worse. I bought my daughter a Kindle Fire with a subscription to the kids service, which basically gives a semi-walled garden that lets you set various parental controls. It’s atrocious, and worst of all it foregrounds shitty freebie copyright-infringing shows without giving you a way to sort or filter and having a search bar that seldom actually works.
It’s tied with the Fire TV interface, which offers you exactly one way to look at shows: in a carousel, ordered by God-knows-what followed by the ordered in which they were last viewed or when they were purchased, depending. You can’t just get a list of movies you own in alphabetical order. It’s unbelievable.
I just checked the video and kindle apps on my phone and they had the option to buy directly in the app. Maybe you turned it off somehow?
On my phone, there’s no option to buy, just “Add to List”. I have Apple devices, so maybe its an Apple thing. *checks* Yup, its an Apple thing – they are strict on in-app purchases.
On my actual Kindle though, I’m pretty sure its the same way – I’ll have to check when I get home.
If you have kids, it’s going to be a good deal at $6.99. Just don’t expect that price to last very long.
Bait and switch for sure… In a year, two tops, they will want $29.99 for it…
Just a taste . . . .
Game of Thrones starting next week. I am meh.
I’m going to watch, and when it’s over I’ll forget about the entire thing. At this point I just need to finish it.
It’s visually stunning but when the two Mary-Sues started fucking it kind of lost its heart.
I enjoy it because I’m a nerd and because I think it actually does a pretty good job as an allegory for the politics of the tail-end of feudalism, but I’m right at the edge of my attention span. My neighbors have a flag for one of the Houses, and I’m already at the point where all the names just sound the same to me.
If I tried to explain the show to anyone it’d just be like “Well, there’s a bunch of people and they fight, and it’s basically England and the Golden Horde, but there’s also dragons and zombies, but nobody believes there are zombies, and there’s a bad family who runs England but everyone else wants to run England instead, except the chick with the dragons. Except I think now she kinda does because she’s banging this one guy’s cousin who was one of the good guys who mostly got killed by the bad guys who run the one main country. Or something, I don’t know.”
I haven’t started. I think Mrs. Dean and I are going to start at the beginning and see if she likes it. If not, it may be my “After Mrs. Dean Goes to Bed” watching. I’m kind of in a show hole right now for that slot, since finishing the Punisher/
Soft-core fapping abounds!
Black Sails may be up your alley.
I really enjoyed that series. When I saw that the Madam was on “The Flash” I tuned in. Turns out, it wasn’t her acting talent. Musta been the director. Or must be the director on “The Flash”. Either way, “Sad”.
Thumbs up on Black Sails.
It’s the kind of softcore T&A that makes you forget how bad the people involved would’ve smelled.
ITT, we find out Naptown Bill is a suburban housewife in his late 30’s.
“Just lie back and think of Baltimore”.
*cue horse head Godfather scene*
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/mid-engine-chevrolet-corvette-confirmed-for-2020-will-debut-july-18
Mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette confirmed for 2020, will debut July 18
Then it won’t be a fucking Corvette will it.
15 minutes has long since expired but Piglet won’t go away….
Who?
That obnoxious kid that keeps showing up at the most inopportune times, ya know, like herpes .
Go fuck yourself. Thanks ?
Think I’ll open a Chase account today. Thanks!
Happy birthday David. Now go fuck yourself.
That’s all he’ll get…