Good Monday afternoon, Glibertariat. My wife starts another round of PTA clinicals tomorrow, which means I will finally be alone in my house during the day. Which is superawesomefantastic. Kids will be at school, wife will be at work (although not yet PAID for that work, but baby-steps) and I will be once again able to enjoy one of the best perks about working from home. So my week is looking up. How’s about y’all?
Brazil implements a crazy strategy to reduce gun violence: let the citizens arm up. If it works in Brazil, they should try it somewhere really dangerous. Like Chicago.
We pick on Florida Cop a lot, but here’s an officer doing some unalloyed good. Well done, Officer DePierre.
I’d also like to thank Florida Stripper for putting her crazy up on the internet rather than executing, er, going forward with her mass murder plans. Glib Fans can probably write to her care of the Lakeland County Jail.
I’m okay with this act of clemency.
My kids call this “The Planes Song”. You’re definitely getting old when the music your parents hated shows up in your kids’ movies.
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Isn’t 15 years pretty standard for homicide, anyhow ?
Now hit Cytonia’s motherfkin THEME MUSIC !
Simply being a victim herself is no justification to shoot a sleeping man in the head. We need to go back to the old ways: death to common law felons. Abolition of all statutory offense.
I like this idea. Not sure if serious, but I like it anyway.
Dead serious. Law should be simple enough for the simple to understand.
Unless you hit a SWJ with your car in Charlottesville…
ZardoZ is pleased
“SÃO PAULO—Like millions of victims of rampant gun crime in Brazil, Claudio Sotero Júnior is clear about what he wants: his own gun.”
Then he got paywalled.
“Brazil to combat crime by loosening gun control
Like millions of victims of rampant gun crime in Brazil, Claudio Sotero Júnior is clear about what he wants: his own gun.
His store near São Paulo selling bodybuilding supplements has been robbed at gunpoint six times since he opened it in 2006. Three years ago, the 41-year-old had to give up teaching kickboxing classes to pick up his wife from work every day after gunmen robbed and sexually assaulted her at a bus stop.
If it weren’t for Brazil’s strict firearms legislation, he said, he’d buy a Glock pistol to keep at work, and guns for his wife, sister and parents to defend themselves in what has become the world’s most murderous country.
Brazil racked up nearly 64,000 homicides in 2017, the highest overall number in the world. Over 70% of those were committed with firearms, widely available to criminals on the black market. Here in São Paulo, a megalopolis of 12 million people, over a quarter of residents say they have been held up at gunpoint at some moment in their lives, according to a study this year by the city’s business school Insper.
“It’s not fair, we’ve become hostages in our own country,” said Mr. Sotero Júnior. “We can’t take it anymore.”
Now, Brazil is set to embark on an experiment that will determine what happens when you loosen gun restrictions in a country battling an overpowering wave of gun crime.
To read more from The Wall Street Journal, click here.”
https://www.foxnews.com/world/brazil-to-combat-crime-by-loosening-gun-control.amp
OFFS
“we’ve become hostages in our own country”
*Lefties all over America orgasm in unison*
Ewww.
That’s how we got that hole in the ozone.
If they really do this, it will work. Looking forward to all the studies “proving” that other factors were actually responsible.
Nah what they’ll do is start counting the dead thugs as “homicide victims”. Because in the eyes of the Left, a thug shooting a citizen and a citizen shooting a thug are the same: someone shot someone, and that’s bad.
an experiment that will determine what happens when you loosen gun restrictions in a country battling an overpowering wave of gun crime
Not to be confused with the loosening of restrictions here in the US around CCW permits and the prohibition, in some states, of localities adopting stricter gun control laws.
What if that woman was Hitler’s mother, sent to the future to avoid being killed in the past?
Everybody blames Hitler but nobody ever asks who was to blame for Hitler.
Easy: Trump.
I think lost in all the mental masturbation about “would you kill baby Hitler?” are all the social and political forces of the day that created his persona. You’d have to think if baby Hitler was killed that there would just be another person in Germany during that time who would end up filling his role — perhaps in a substantially different way, but most likely very much the same.
Killing baby Hitler is for amateurs.
The pros kill baby Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Pffffft….amateurs. Pros kill baby Leopold von Berchtold.
The guy to go after was Bismarck. The Kaisers ended up his handmaidens rather than vice versa.
You are correct. A wheelbarrow full of dynamite in the hall of mirrors in the palace of versailles on june 28, 1919 would have prevented wwII. Killing Hitler would not.
Anyway, you can’t just kill Hitler. Doing so would take all the fame away from Godwin and leave us with insufficient comparisons for Trump.
Didn’t Godwin recently try to take back his law? What a shitweasel.
Yes, because Trump is worse.
“A wheelbarrow full of dynamite in the hall of mirrors in the palace of versailles on june 28, 1919 would have prevented wwII. Killing Hitler would not.”
I’d have to beg to differ. Wars are started by one or a few people who drag bystanders into their killing. If Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Lincoln, or Hitler were not born or met an unexpected early death, the wars those sociopaths started would not have happened. Also, if MLK or Gandhi or JFK had not been around, some really bad shit could have happened.
Someone else might have started a similar war to WW2 in roughly the same time period, but it’s not deterministic. A single Russian general singlehandly prevented what would have been WW3 if he had just followed orders and launched the nukes.
Somebody with a bit more patience, understanding of military strategy, or the brains to delegate that stuff to Prussian Field Marshals.
The best case for preventing the rise of Hitler is a Communist revolution in Germany and by sometime in the mid 1940’s at the latest a Combined German/Russian invasion of Europe and IF Europe and the US had been able to win that war Fascism would likely be considered a viable political ideology today as the German Hatred of the Jews made Fascism very different from what it was in Italy and Spain
Obilgatory: “Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.”
The seasoned traveler will tell you to kill Wilson instead.
Or kill T.Roosevelt and Wilson never wins in 1912.
The author, Desmond Warzel, is one of the most underrated SF writers I’ve ever had the pleasure to read.
https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/
Missed it by this much.
Bitch, please, with your tardy links.
And as Drake points out, possibly in a far more effective way.
In this alternative history debate, I’m firmly on the side that the best way for a time traveler to stop Hitler is to kill Lenin before he leaves Switzerland. Lenin was instrumental in the rise of Communism after the February Revolution and in its victory in the Russian Civil War, so without him I think there’s a decent chance it doesn’t triumph. Without that triumph, I don’t think you get the Communist revolutions in Germany at the end of WWI, and without those you don’t have an unpatriotic internal enemy against which the Nazis can fight while maintaining the goodwill of the people. The Nazis still exist in this timeline, but without a left-wing enemy at home they are less likely to pull right-wing support from the nationalist factions that were working to restore the Kaiser and so less likely to usurp power. Even if they do, a Republican Russia might also be less likely to conspire with the Nazis at a pivotal point in their rise to power, making it harder to invade Poland and defeat France.
But in the end, who knows. It may still have played out essentially like it did.
Kill Wilson – no US involvement in WWI. No breakup of the empire, arguably Germany victorious or peace uti possidetis. Also, no income tax, no progressive movement. Kill Marx for good measure.
I smell a sitcom: Everybody Blames Hitler!
There was already a Hitler sitcom, believe it or not.
Thanks all for the comments on the previous thread.
Thank you for the excellent article. I got there late so I didn’t comment but I like the article a lot. I didn’t know that much about the man before so i learned a good bit.
Apparently I did not learn how to capitalize.
“Basarich was charged with written threats to kill or injure. Polk County jail records show she was released from jail on $5,000 bond.”
Is that a good idea?
“Hey, I’m planning on killing a bunch of people.”
“Well, do you have $500?”
“Yes?”
“OK, then, here is a number for a bail bondsman.”
If she had a bondsman, she only had to come up with $500.
Oh shit. She’s out? And it was Polk County? Fuck it, I’m not changing a thing.
“On January 4, a different Tumblr user, Terminated TC, created a post saying that she had reported Basarich’s activities to the police. That user wrote, “Even if you aren’t in their area, you can still report and you can possibly save lives.” Terminated TC said that he had seen various other comments from Basarich in which she spoke about wanting to date and marry Dylann Roof. In July 2015, Roof shot-and-killed nine African-American people inside of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof has been sentenced to life without parole for his actions. In one post, Basarich wrote that she was “well aware” of Roof’s actions but added, “I adore him and support him and I have since day one.””
https://heavy.com/news/2019/01/brein-basarich/
https://terminatedtc.tumblr.com/post/181725403155/tcc-idiot-brien-basarich
No matter how many times I see it, I am still stunned every time I see some woman lusting after a mass murderer/death row inmate/etc. There’s crazy and then there’s “I want to be Manson/Bund/Roof’s bride” CRAZY.
“He’s just misunderstood! I can fix him!”
All she wants is a guy who will kill any man who looks at her wrong while PMSing. What woman wouldn’t want that?
I know, I know. But it still boggles my mind every time.
I’m still trying to wrap my head around anyone wanting to date a politician, rather than a mere serial killer.
Hell, Ted Bundy fathered a child while on Death Row. FWIW, Florida does not allow conjugal visits for Death Row (or any other) inmates.
Be surprised if this doesn’t draw a constitutional challenge. Presuming you can find a lawyer willing to do pro bono for a stripper.
Probably a bunch reading this thread willing to do it “tit for tat” if you know what I mean.
My dream client, really…
Instead of billing an hourly rate in dollars, and hourly rate in lap dances?
I’d discount the one by the other although I’m sure that runs afoul of some rule of professional responsibility.
Pro bone what?
Florida stripper. She’s got that cute-whole lotta crazy going on there.
google the old saw “dont stick it in crazy” and you will see that very same photo of her.
We’re kicking around the idea of going to New Orleans. That’s in Louisiana right?
No, we dont claim New Orleans. Every August I start praying for another Katrina. Those damned warmistas lied to me.
We won’t go in August. Just in case. Lol.
The summers there are unbearable. November is the best weather, that or early spring..Marchish. Whatever you do don’t go during Mardi Gras.
I suggest going during The Bayou Classic. It worked well for me a few times.
I’ve been to French Quarter Fest a couple of times, and Jazz Fest once. I’ll recommend the former, for sure. It’s not so out of hand.
I would literally have to be paid to go to Mardi Gras. Not just free food & lodging, but an actual salary to be there (plus free food and lodging). The salary goes way up for Carnival in Rio.
No, go in August. The weather is just lovely. Trust me.
/strokes chin suspiciously. Changes demeanour.
OK! We’ll go in August!
The Finns are a tough as nails team. Imagine that. A fluke goal against Canada and they end up winning it all.
They aren’t tough enough for NO in August.
I didn’t get to see any of the tournament, but I still maintain that it is the best in all sports.
August is when New Orleans achieves maximum olfactory offensiveness. The entire Quarter smells like piss then.
@Rufus – I’ve already erased the entire thing from my memory. I seem to recall it was one of those games where I flipped the channel in disgust when the clock ran out.
Would… twice every day.
Would. Not closing my eyes around her though.
I don’t see her charges sticking with decent legal representation. Not enough specifics in those posts to stand as a legitimate threat.
The scariest thing about her? 31 year old stripper. Means she’s likely got more than a decade on the pole. She’s probably at penis-chopping level of the cray-cray.
Nah, she’s probably got a heart of gold and and adorable toddler at home, and she will end up playing a key role in our battle against the invaders from space.
If gun violence goes down in Brazil (and it will) the gun grabbers here will lose their shit. They know it will so I am surprised they aren’t already losing it.
Meh, it’s not like Brazil is going to completely deregulate gun ownership. There’ll just be a big new pile of (overall looser) regulations for the grabbers here to cherry-pick.
Yes, but when it works there is a good possibility they will begin loosening the regulations more. Of course there is some point where the returns diminish to the point where it wont work but I have a strong suspicion those regs will look a lot like the states here that have violated the 2nd amendment the least.
I doubt it. Facts are irrelevant to gun grabbers by necessity. They already ignore that around half the people in Switzerland own an actual assault rifle, and they have one of the lowest murder rates in the world. Just like the drug warriors completely ignore Portugal.
Switzerland is wypipo; wypipo is racist, so shut-up.
God, wypipo are just the worst.
Is Taurus publicly traded? Some of their guns are crap, but they could make a whole lot of money.
Like the grabbers here (and their mouth-pieces) would ever report honestly on what happens in Brazil.
Someone will shoot 3 people, and that will be the ONLY thing ever reported out of Brazil, even if an armed bystander shot him and kept him from murdering a bus-full of nuns and orphans.
Now you’re getting it.
Here’s what happens. It will work, of course, to reduce crime. The left are already furiously at work creating studies that prove it is not working. This will be picked up by, aided by, and added to by American media, especially the NYT and CNN, along with various lefty orgs. They will be cranking out this indisputable data even before the data exists let alone going through any verification process.
So, it will work. The media will spin it as not working. Another way they will spin it, is like this. A large percentage of this crime in Brazil is committed by gangs who use 8-12 year old kids on mopeds to terrorize and rob commuters, pedestrians, and shops in broad daylight. They all carry weapons and they have zero fear because they know the victims are all unarmed and the dwarf thugs are a protected group, have been for a long time, since Lula was first elected. To even knock one of them off their scooters and give them a spanking would carry a stiff prison sentence. Let me tell you, this is exactly what Democrats have planned for you right here in the USA, once they have all your guns. They’ll tell you to defend yourself with sticks, and then they’ll make doing so a major crime.
So the media will be running things like ‘Children being murdered in streets because Bolsonaro at the behest of Trump handing out guns to racists to murder innocent brown children’.
This will not dissuade Bolsonaro, but it’s what will happen.
This would probably be better-suited to MS’s Links en español.
Scientists despair as US government shutdown drags on
You know who else thought barcoding blind crustaceans was “non-essential”?
Is there some reason the Turks and Caicos government can’t explore their own caves?
You know who else thought barcoding blind crustaceans was “non-essential”?
Ariel?
I was thinking Spongebob Squarepants.
H.R. Pufnstuf?
he can’t do a little, ’cause he can’t do enough
Privatize the Smithsonian. Problem solved.
I was always under the impression the Smithsonian operated with an endowment. From some guy…what’s his name…? Smith something?
Learned that wasn’t true when I moved to DC.
I was always under the impression the Smithsonian operated with an endowment.
According to the Zoo (to which I have a membership), they pay 50-70% of their expenses from private funding. The rest comes from suckling Uncle Sam’s saggy teat.
STEVESMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF RAPE COMING SOON!
FREE TOURS
AND BY TOURS, MEAN…
STEVE SMITH PUT THE DO IN DOCENT.
“Useless leech upset she cant take her carribean vacation on the taxpayer’s dime.”
Is this supposed to make us feel bad. Boo-fuckin’-Hoo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdofmoYcJNE
But her friends at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Texas A&M got to go!! It’s not fair!!!!
Exactly. We’re going to Turks and Caicos for Spring Break this year, and it costs a friggin fortune.
No way am I upset that some mooch can’t go there for some extended time and do ‘research’ for free.
“stuck at home in Fairfax, Virginia” . . . in her $600k home. Which, admittedly, is probably pretty modest in FFX. But still.
But wait, there’s more:
And you heartless monsters don’t care.
SEA SMITH AM HEART BROKEN
Having just priced out a trip to Turks and Caicos, I am not filled with sympathy that she can’t take such a trip on the taxpayer’s dime.
There was a story on my local news channel about all of the conferences that are being missed because of the shutdown.
Is there some urgency to this mission? Are the blind crustaceans all going to vanish in the next few weeks?
I’ve heard that the blind crustaceans are on the cusp of a breakthrough in sight restoration technology, and there’s a big ethical debate among crustaceans as to whether this technology will destroy the fabric of their community.
Yes, because of climate change. Trump is using the shutdown to prevent these noble scientists from cataloging his environmental crimes.
Maybe it’s because I don’t have cable, but are the usual talking heads frothing at the mouth about the shutdown? I mean I don’t even hear people at work talking about it, and there is usually some watercooler political discussion.
I’m similarly unplugged, but the local NBC station ran a promo during football for some sob story about a fed worker eating dog food or something because she isn’t getting paid.
What a coincidence! I knew a guy in college who ate dog food one week because he ran out of money! And in his case, the 15% of his earnings they were taxing to ‘provide’ him with poor-quality old-age/disability insurance would have covered a six-pack of Ramen noodles!
Too bad the media didn’t run his sob story!
You obviously haven’t bought dog food lately.
/Looks at the cost of the Blue Harvest wet dog food on the credit card statement & nods.
Aldi dog food is $8 and lasts about a month and a half for our dog. Add some water and a bit of salt, and it’s a filling meal.
Mmmmm, trotters
It is exceptionally cheap to feed oneself. If you can’t afford to feed yourself you have substantially bigger problems than not getting paid for three weeks.
I bet Minnesota farmers, North Dakota oilfield workers and Bering Sea fishermen are weeping with sympathy for a girl deprived of using their tax money for a winter boondoggle in a tropical vacation land.
I know I am.
“Woman, 30, serving life for murdering a real estate agent who hired her for sex when she was 16 is granted clemency by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam after Kim Kardashian, Le Bron James and Rihanna campaigned for her release”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6566103/Tennessee-Governor-grants-clemency-convicted-murderer-Cyntoia-Brown.html
Truly, no one reads the links.
I read a couple of articles about that. I am not convinced that she deserves the clemency.
It’s the hot button topic of the day: sexual exploitation.
I haven’t read too much about this case, but in my superficial understanding , it strikes me as similar to those old cases where a wife shoots her husband in the back during dinner because he beats her after dinner most nights.
Apparently there was no sex. She shot him in the back of the head while he lay in bed. The back of the head. She stole all of his stuff instead of just fleeing. She had run away from home and had been hooking for her boyfriend. I am seeing some dark crazy there and indications that it was not about self-defense.
Yeah, the more I read, the less it seems that she’s sort of battered whore and the more it seems that she did it for the money.
I have come to the conclusion that in a lot of petty robbery/murders the robbery is just an concocted excuse to commit the murder. The murder is the real goal. I have seen too many cases where that explanation is better than the other way around.
I remember reading about this gal a few years ago. Fucked up story if you ask me. Now, maybe she had rehabilitated herself, but no way a man in a similar position gets this pardon.
shaaaaaaaame
Shame
Alison Brie has lost some hotness over the last few years. She’s too tough and sinewy-looking now. (Thanks, GLOW)
I feel like I’ve seen that somewhere before.
I’m starting to get worried about the influence celebrities are having on the justice system.
Curious. Did they have to face the victim’s family?
I see it’s black woman against a white guy. Oooo the optics. Sorry if this sounds cynical.
“‘These breasts have conquered the world!’ Eve Babitz, the 70’s Hollywood It Girl with 36DDs, reflects on posing naked with artist Marcel Duchamp and bedding Jim Morrison, Harrison Ford, Warren Beatty and Steve Martin”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6558429/Eve-Babitz-Hollywood-Girl-reflects-wild-lifestyle-trysts-Harrison-Ford.html
I like the clipping I saw in the Tweeters about someone going to see Star Wars in 1977, and, upon seeing Han Solo, said “I didn’t know my pot dealer was an actor!” It was some famous actress or something. Anyway, I LOLed.
So… Daily Fail puts a black box over boobs that also appeared to be pixilated, but leaves the fur-pie exposed in the first pic?
Ugh…. would not.
That is one of the saddest things I have read in a long time.
“Warren Beatty”
Big deal.
I envisioned an “It Girl” being more attractive.
“Uber driver, 48, pleads guilty to shooting dead six strangers between fares in one night after he claimed the devil was controlling him via the ride-sharing app and ordered him to kill”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6566277/Uber-driver-pleads-guilty-shooting-dead-six-people-Michigan.html
So does the devil use iOS or Android?
-1 Collateral
Windows Phone.
iOS, he’s been an Apple fan since the Garden of Eden.
Please, let’s leaf the puns alone. For a change.
Yes, let’s focus on the core issues.
I’d like to but the diversions are too Tempting.
These puns are making my rib hurt.
blackberry
Android is Google, so Don’t be evil is perfect for Saadams lover
Sounds like a spoiler for the next episode of Sherlock.
Son of Son of Son of Sam.
Have you guys discussed Tucker Carlson’s monologue savaging the ruling class as “functionally libertarian”? I just heard it on Dave Smith’s POTP podcast and my jaw dropped. Further evidence that I’m the mad, delusional one—surely it’s not most of everyone else.
Ahhh….the age-old “evil libertarians have all the power!!!”.
I haven’t heard the screed, but I did hear that he basically doesn’t have a clue what a libertarian is.
^This^
And it isnt his fault. I blame the likes of the writers at TOS for advocating for leftyish positions and calling themselves Libertarians. There are a lot of people who think they know what a libertarian is because they have heard so many fake-ass libertarians claiming this that and the other. Either you are a firm believer in self-ownership, inalienable rights and the logical conclusions that leads to or you are not a Libertarian.
I think if Tucker hung out here a bit he would change his mind in a flash.
I blame the likes of the writers at TOS for advocating for leftyish positions and calling themselves Libertarians.
Yep. Libertarianism =/= SJWism + drug legalization + open borders
Tucker’s monologue seems to portray libertarians more as predatory capitalists and usurers. “Fiscally conservative” and “socially moderate” are his terms—but his main beef is with the former (and like Dave Smith and Rob Bernstein said, the latter doesn’t even make much sense at all).
Even someone like Adam Carolla has pointed out the silliness of blaming the payday lenders for the problem and I heard him do that ten years or so ago. You could go all the way back to Milton Freidman and learn about how silly that argument is. Tucker has no excuse for being this ignorant.
I suppose there’s a glass-half-full take on libertarianism being the go-to scapegoat from all corners of politics, but it’s pretty weird and disorienting.
What the hell happened to Tucker Carlson? He was sane once.
I think he reads what is put in front of him.
When was that? He went from a Bill Kristol protege writing at The Weekly Standard to Johnny Trumpfan. I must have missed the sane stage.
His first show of the year he really hit it out of the park. He is still sane, but I dont expect that to last long.
Oh, and it is pretty obvious that Fox News has gone all in the tank for Trump. Tucker takes his marching orders from them.
Tucker has despised libertarians for years. His problem is that he thinks Cato=every libertarian.
Also, that first half of Dave’s podcast was a treat. That Arkin resignation letter made my entire week.
Me too
That new President of Brazil does seem very cool.
And
Brazil’s new president uses Twitter to announce privatization plan for air and seaports
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/01/03/brazils-bolsonaro-announces-airport-privatization-plan-on-twitter.html
I wish more aviation stuff was privatized. NavCanada (private ATC company) is the world class off air traffic control and they’re constantly innovating and improving. Unlike U.S. ATCs that have ancient equipment and methodology.
When I was in the Marines working on radar, I spent a little time with the station radar guys when I first reported in to Yuma and my detachment was in Iraq. The station gear was an ASR-8 which was used by both the air station and the civilian airport, and it was a derivative of a radar that was first rolled out around the time of the Berlin Airlift.
That’s insane, considering radar itself was only invented during WWII!
NavCanada owns a majority share in Aireon, which launched its product on Iridium’s satellites over the last year. It provides satellite ADS-B data, so oceans and remote areas are now covered with real-time ADS-B. That’s some great innovation and is supposed to save on fuel costs and time, because they’ll be able to space the planes closer on trans-oceanic routes.
It’s not as ancient as our media reports. I have maybe one system that is antiquated but gets the job done. All automation is up-to-date and ready for 2020 when ADS-B compliance is mandated. Terminal Radar doesnt really need an upgrade as it does the job intended. Long range radars have all been updated. All radios are modernized.
Areas that can be improved such as going to a stripless environment have fallen to poor coding practices by in-house projects.
Not saying we shouldn’t privatize but the latest proposals were big grabs to let airlines and unions dictate and I just dont think that would be the best way to go.
I wish it were privatized in a fashion in which I could run a local shop maintaining the systems but I’m sure whatever our congress-critters come up with will be massive payouts to companies like L4, Raytheon, Harris, etc.
Thanks for the info! Would you consider doing a Glib article on ATC? No pressure…I’m just a gigantic avgeek who listens to ATC like other people listen to Light FM Radio.
I second the nomination Ownbestenemy as ATC article writer.
Third-id? I’m a little surprised that I haven’t seen any aviation articles come up. I keep toying with the idea, but I keep running into the problem of both sucking at and hating writing.
From the controllers that I have talked to the ASDB data is not currently available on their scopes, only mode-s level data. I’ve really wondered why we are still punching in the mode C codes for VFR and IFR when I’ve had a mode s transponder for 10 years.
I would have thought that a 1200 for VFR, 1201 for requesting VFR flight following, 1000 for IFR and have the flightID/ ICAO code auto-pickup on the scope. If there is a problem you can issue an individual squawk, but general ops should have been using the mode s data.
I also don’t know why the mode S /ADSB channel wasn’t used for simple ACARS. new frequencies, route changes, Altitude etc. send the change via ADSB if equipped.. and then read back the confirmation over the radio.
N12345, we have a routing change, Advise ready to copy. Cleared direct PXT V157 ENO V29 MXE SBJ direct…. We have interesting arguments with the center routing computer when coming from the south in to the PA/NJ area, that computer loves Modena.
All automation systems in the NAS have the capability to display ADS-B, airlines on the other hand are waiting for the deadline.
The automation systems used in the FAA utilize Fusion, which pairs traditional radar (MODES replies) with an ADSB signal to provide 1-second updates.
All this ATC talk…I’m feeling flushed all of a sudden!
If this shutdown ever ends, my brother is arranging a tower tour for his kid. And me.
Dooooooood. Which tower? And can I come?
PDX I think. I dunno any of the details so far.
Try https://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/events/EventList.aspx
I see public tower/other facility tours in there. Or just try calling local towers to see how you can tour them. Quick googling says it’s not as difficult as I thought, especially for smaller fields.
So much for my dreams…
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/boy-directs-air-traffic-jfk-airport-caught-tape/story?id=9995927
My next door neighbor was an ATC. She tried to get me into IAD Tower for the inaugural A380 service. No dice – they were booked with visitors as soon as the flight was scheduled.
My dream is to be able to get tix for AAviationDay. American Airlines gives a tiny number of tickets for airside tours at a variety of airports where they have a large presence. DCA is one of them. Tix are gone within seconds off being released.
Didn’t they just have a commie? Wow, the pendulum swings fast there.
BBC has an excellent feature on him with a shitty (I guess clickbaity at least) headline:
A Trump of the Tropics?
He’s been ‘in politics’ for 30 years, so maybe not a surprise he was able to pounce on mistakes of the ruling party (such as “former leader jailed for corruption” and “his successor impeached for corruption”).
I keep hoping he’ll do what he talked about years ago: Stage a coup and reinstall the Imperial family.
I take it the Democratic talking point about funding the wall is now “immoral.” I’ve heard it probably six times from different congressfolk. I’m more than willing to entertain arguments that building a wall, or sections thereof, on the southern border is a waste of money, won’t be effective, etc., but not the immorality of it. I’m pretty sure they’re not speaking out against the use of eminent domain to build it as the immoral part.
Likewise, it’s immoral to have a fence around my yard, or walls around my interior living spaces.
Yes, that’s why Pelosi and the other Dems live in open sided tents with 24/7 access to them and their possessions.
Not quite.
The proper analogy is me building a wall around your property because I want to exercise a veto over who you invite over.
At some point the Dems are going to cave – Trump seems very comfortable proving that 25% of the federal government is completely useless.
If Trump refused to accept whatever deal they offered, and kept finding excuses to let the slowdown continue indefinitely, I would finally have to give him grudging recognition for not being nearly as bad as he initially appeared.
/nevergonnahappen
Politicians talking about morality is truly ghoulish.
Yes, it is a talking point. It isnt just this issue. They really are drones and part of a hive mind. It is completely obvious that the party of central planning is centrally planned.
These same people were voting for and advocating for a wall just a few years ago. Principles shminciples.
I am not sure the wall would be completely ineffective. It worked fantastically well for Israel. It might not work as well for us but it will have some effectiveness.
The nicest thing about a wall? It does just as good a job keeping us in as keeping people out.
My attitude towards the immigration-restrictionists is the same one I have to their close buddies the welfare-statists: I don’t mind them fucking themselves over with their idiotic ideas; I do mind that the same things that fuck them over fuck me over too.
I’d add this: If you’re gonna have a massive pain in the ass exit tax/process, that huge, beautiful wall is redundant at best.
Are they still blathering about an exit tax? I haven’t heard about it lately. It is wildly unconstitutional, but hey, we have Justice Shithead Penaltax.
For the average American (those of us not wildly rich), you have it much easier changing your sex than your nationality.
Japan just instituted an exit tax.
From the article:
It’s Hotel California everywhere, Ted.
Departure tax every time you leave, not a permanent exit tax. And only about USD$9.
Yes, there is that. However, if the day comes when the wall would be used to keep us in I am not sure it would matter. There is nowhere to go. If the problem is here we have to solve it here.
Notwithstanding those commenters on ZH who plopped themselves in a shithole village in SE Asia, this is absolute truth.
Bogart in Casablanca. This is the last free(ish) place. There is nowhere to run to.
The nicest thing about a wall? It does just as good a job keeping us in as keeping people out.
When they start building one on the northern border, I’ll begin to worry.
“I take it the Democratic talking point about funding the wall is now “immoral.”
The Democrats do not argue in good faith. Trump should just call them on it. You want no border security because you want to flood the US with illicit voters. That’s the only truth there is. Is they will not admit that, there is no use arguing with them. And they’ll never admit that because it looks really bad to say the least.
They absolutely do not argue in good faith. It looks bad because it is just another way of saying Americans are despicable people that they have contempt for.
We’re a bunch of grumpy old curmudgeons. I guess that means that same as deplorable. Our betters tell us ‘give me those weapons, you don’t need em. You’ll shoot your eye out. We’ll protect you and give you some free stuff. And give us 70% of your income, we can spend it better for you’. And what do we do? Tell them to go get fucked. How ungrateful. What if they could just import them a new voter base, a more agreeable one? Wouldn’t that be nice?
We’re a bunch of grumpy old curmudgeons.
Who’s this “we”? I’m a grumpy, young curmudgeon.
If the wall is immoral, the border itself is immoral. All the wall is, is a marker for the border that is hard to cross.
If you want to say that the wall is more like somebody building a wall around your property, then I think you really need to decide whether any immigration controls at all are like a wall around your property. The wall is not different in kind than the checkpoints you go through in customs or at the border.
I would note that every customs station in an airport is surrounded by walls and locked doors. Are those walls and doors immoral?
“If the wall is immoral, the border itself is immoral.”
Depends on whether said border keeps democrats from getting new voters on this side of it. If so, immoral. If not, no problem.
It’s really that simple. If 66% of immigrants voted Republican, Obama would have murder droned them in the desert.
Since 1969, people. Nineteen sixty nine. WTF is wrong with you Chicagoans?
https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/07/chicago-alderman-and-notorious-nanny-ed
Half a century of freeloading and corruption.
He was 26 years old if my math is right (Wikipedia says he was born in 1943). He’s just like Bernie – never held an honest job.
Or Schumer, who ran for the state legislature immediately after graduating from law school in 1974.
Too corrupt even for Chicago. That’s impressive.
Well, he did work for Trump.
It’s Chicago. What *isn’t* wrong with them?
I have used the example of Brazil more than a few times in arguments with gun grabbers and I always get the tired billshit that “the US is not comparable to there”. This from people who will compare us to certain Euro countries inthe next breath. I think that we are far closer to the reality of Brazil in many important ways than, say, Denmark and I have lived for a few years In Brazil and in Europe.
The third day after I arrived in Rio a guy was shot to death across the street from my apartment. Went over and saw him die in front of me. I was close to two people there that were kidnapped and held for a few hours being driven to ATMs at gunpoint. I knew countless others that were robbed at gun point. The only gun I had pointed at my head there was by the cops (lucky enough I didn’t get shot although it easily could have happened). I was robbed at knifepoint. The criminals there have zero fear of their victims being armed and behave accordingly.
“The criminals there have zero fear of their victims being armed and behave accordingly.”
It’s not only that they don’t have any fear of the victims not being armed. They are a protected class. You literally cannot legally lay a hand on them. Oh, poor, poor children, poor brown disadvantaged children. Poor brown disadvantaged children running around with automatic weapons robbing people in broad daylight. We have to protect them. Thanks, Lula, you and your corrupt party, go to hell.
Hopefully they really will take a few large steps away from the socialistic crap that has been hindering them. I count gun control as socialism as well. It is all anti individualist and pro state power.
Had a long series of debates with my family in Brazil, going back at least a year before the election. I told them ‘you have to vote for Bolsonaro’. And they were mostly like ‘Yeah, but he might be too extreme. He’s not like Trump, not a business guy. He might go too far with the tough on crime stuff’. And I said ‘Yeah, that could happen. But look at it this way. You have to get rid of this party of Lula and Dilma. That’s the first step, then just hope it goes well’.
So now, they’re a little more optimistic, but still reserved. They’re understandably worried about the economy. But with Bolsonaro there’s hope. With that Haddad guy? He’s the one who said ‘I’m Lula’, his own words. Up for some more car wash, guys?
I was there for the last bit of Cardoso into the Lula years. I think FHC set the stage for the prosperity that Brazil saw those first few years of Lula. But of course the PT was going to eventually fuck that up. Let’s see what happens under Bolsonaro. I hope he doesn’t fuck it up worse, but the PT set a high bar for incompetence and corruption, even for Brazil.
I think that we are far closer to the reality of Brazil in many important ways than, say, Denmark and I have lived for a few years In Brazil and in Europe.
No contest, IMO. Both the US and Brazil are post-colonial countries filled with a melting pot of peoples and cultures. Both have a bit of frontier spirit in them, and neither has been conquered by a foreign power since independence, with their greatest trials coming from internal forces. They are very different, of course, but much more similar to each other than to the countries of Europe.
“but much more similar to each other than to the countries of Europe.”
Yep.
Yes, except your relations with former colonial power a century ago did not involve lesbian kissing.
Say what you will about Kaissereich Mod for HoI4, it teaches you about non-Nazi forms of fascism world-wide!
Yes, except your relations with former colonial power a century ago did not involve lesbian kissing.
Sadly, the personifications of both the US and UK are old men, so any hot avatar on avatar action is right out.*
*Well, there are some people who might like it, but that demographic is a lot smaller than the one that appreciates young women kissing.
Nonsene, Columbia and Brittania both predate formulations of Uncle Sam and John Bull!
Then it appears I have more research to do…
but much more similar to each other than to the countries of Europe.
*1933 Germany not included
Yes, those ways that you mentioned as well as sheer geographic and population size, violence levels, median age and income and social variation. I lived for a few years in the NL and felt it was far more “foreign” in many respects.
I think race is bullshit, but demographically the U.S. is closer to Brazil than Europe. Also, European crime varies widely by country. If I remember, the last time I bothered to look, England’s rate was a dozen times Austria.
Well, Brazil is one of those, you know… “shithole” countries…
Did I update y’all on the search for my brother’s bio family? MikeS did a phonebook lookup for me in Grand Forks, but nothing interesting came up, sadly.
I started looking more closely at my brother’s DNA matches and figured out the divide between mother’s family and father’s family (although I don’t know which is which). I then got in touch with these Canadian dudes, Gary and Patrick, who were distant cousin matches with my brother. Well, that turned out to be the best decision in this whole project. Gary & Patrick are expert genetic genealogists and have a lot of experience analyzing relationships and DNA matches. I’m an expert “paper” genealogist, so we put our heads together.
We ended up figuring out who my brother’s great-grandparents were, strictly based on DNA and family trees. I then went back through my brother’s DNA matches and found the people who matched that side of the family, but who were NOT related to the great-grandparents. By doing that, I was able to come up with a list of names that could belong to the other set of great-grandparents on that side.
I took that list and went through the children of the known great-grandparents to see if they ever came together via marriage. And yep. I found one of the daughters of the great-grandparents had married a guy with one of the names from the other potential great-grandparents. One of my brother’s parents is one of this couple’s children. They had, I think, 5 or 6 kids, but I can eliminate a couple of them based on birth dates.
The other set of grandparents had ELEVEN fucking kids. I have been in touch with one of their granddaughters to suss her out and see if she knows anything. She doesn’t seem to know much about her family, so I’m not getting very far with her. I am a tiny bit suspicious that her mother may also be my brother’s mother, but I don’t know how to even go about asking her about it (“hey, did your mom ever mention getting knocked up in North Dakota in the early 70’s?”). I’ve also been in touch with one of their grandsons (a first cousin match on the DNA), and he doesn’t know anything about that side of his family, either. I get a feeling there was some fuck-upedness happening there.
At any rate, my best bet at this point is for more close DNA matches to come online. I expect all the Christmas DNA kits will be processed by February.
TL;DR – I now have first, last, and maiden names for all four of my brother’s grandparents!! No clue who the parents are yet, as there seems to be about 16 or 17 kids between the two sets of grandparents.
My grandfather was one of 11 (I think), and as far as I know the only one to emigrate. That’s why I’m related to something like half of Bavaria.
I can only imagine what digging up my Pennsylvania roots would uncover.
Good luck!
I would love for my brother to get a 1st cousin match on the other side, just to see if my educated guess is correct about the other grandparents’ names. Of course, a sibling, uncle/aunt, or parent would be even better. I think both of his parents are deceased, though, just based on the paper trails I have been able to follow from the grandparents.
Serious question from someone who doesn’t care one bit about who his ancestors were, why do people care? Not trying to be a smartass, but I really don’t understand why all these DNA/ancestor searches have become such a boom.
I think its just simple curiosity, that becomes a kind of hobby for some people.
I’m sure there are a few who take it waaay too far, and think it gives them an identity.
I’d bet a very large portion of people view their ancestry as part of their legacy, which is in a way part of one’s identity. How big a part varies widely, of course, but there are still very many people who are proud of their pedigree.
Another reason you’ve omitted, which is probably the most important of all: learning what is the proper proportion of racial jokes one can make. If you learn you are half-Irish, Mick jokes must become the dominant portion of your repertoire.
Even though my last name is German af, I’m apparently not allowed to use the word “Kraut” when referring to Krauts according to some Krauts I know.
Those Krauts sound like they have a very German sense of humor.
(According to the rules I must now cycle through 15 other racial jokes before I can get back to the Germans again. Who’s up for some Mick jokes?)
Keith Richards?
RC has the answer from me. I just think it’s cool to know where your roots are. I’ve traced my surname back to the first century and it turns out I’m a direct line descendant of Irish kings. Does it make a drop of difference in my life? Nope. But it’s a cool little factoid.
When I got together with relatives I’ve never met from my mother’s side of the family, I discovered that Mormons are rabid about this stuff. Holy cow.
Yeah, the Mormons like to posthumously baptize family members. But damn, they have all the records of everything European in their library. I found birth records for family dating back to mid-1700’s Hannover.
The activity of the research is fun for me, personally, whether I’m looking at my own family or others’. I helped reunite siblings, one of whom was adopted. I looked into who might be the father of a 1/2 Vietnamese woman who was a 3rd cousin DNA match with a friend’s son (that one was super challenging and I didn’ get the ultimate answer, because a 3rd cousin match goes all the way back to great-great-grandparents. That’s usually too many individuals to research).
I was also very curious about verbal family lore in my own family about certain events. I found them to be “mostly true”, which is fascinating. Some of the family lore was passed down from the Napoleonic Wars.
For my brother, he’s mostly curious about his rare genetic condition – he doesn’t really care about meeting any of these people. I’m engrossed in it like a good detective novel.
That’s cool and I fully understand researching recent relatives/ancestors, especially for medical reasons.
And property (my motive).
Yeah, this is my question too. My mother and sister love this genealogy stuff, and I can’t for the life of my understand why. Also not trying to to poo-poo someone’s hobby. I’m just curious what the fascination is.
It’s not really any different than any history buff, it just happens to relate to one’s own family.
For example, one legend in my family was someone in our ancestry “saved the Duke of Wellington’s life”. Well, I mean, how could you not look into that?
It’s from the “mostly true” files (my 4x great-grandfather)
My grandmother was full-on illegitimate and my great-grandmother never said a word about who her father was. My family history stops rather abruptly on that side.
That said, there’s a strong suspicion who the father was – my great-grandmother was a housekeeper for a family and, later in life, that family was always very nice to my grandmother. Perhaps they’re just nice people who liked their housekeeper’s daughter. On the other hand…
At this point I’d be a little disappointed to see a DNA test.
Was your brother adopted?
I am fortunate. My family comes from a very rural area with few people. Everyone owned land. By asking around and looking at sales and successions my father and I were able to put together a complete family tree going back six generations and out to cousins X removed. I also have several items that belonged to my grandfather, great grandfather and gg grandfather. 1. My great great grandfather’s anvil. 2. my great great grandmother and then great grandmother’s fiddle. 3. portraits of g and gg grandparents 4. Most important – a box with hundreds of photos of most of those people going back to before the civil war. There are glass plates and tin types and then paper photos. Some that stick in my mind are of my great grandfather plowing, another with him helping grandmother using a step ladder to climb on the back of the most unbelievably large ox I have ever seen. Of my gg grandfather posing and showing off his pistol. It really is a historical treasure trove. 5. I also have my great grandmother’s single Stevens .410 shotgun. It shoots like the day it was bought. 6. All of my grandfather’s guns. 7. Two pistols that belonged to two different great uncles.
I realize how lucky I am. How many people have photographs of their gg grandparents?
All of that, including the land, will be passed on to my grandson.
Yep – he was adopted. What I know about his family is they were all from Bumfuck, North Dakota (population: like, 30. Literally). It really shouldn’t be that hard to track these people down except a) they all had jillions of kids and b) they left very little paper trail.
Someone there knows everything you are trying to find out, or likely all of them do.
Virtually all of my ancestry is the standard English/Scots/Irish mix that made up most Southrons, folks moving from VA and NC down into GA just before and after the revolution (my girls are the DAR’s dream). There are 2 exceptions, a German who came to GA as a teenager just before the war and is my paternal-line gg-grandfather, hence namesake, and then my one and only Yankee connection – a great-grandmother.
She’s particularly interesting as her father evidently left MA to sell swampland in FL back about the turn of the century, and all of his ancestry was VERY old-line Massachusetts, mostly on Nantucket island, coming over in the Puritan migration in like the 1630s, or else with the Dorchester Company in 1624. Since it’s a small and (especially then) self-contained community, it’s both very well-documented and quite bizarre from a family-tree standpoint. As in, it starts with just a few people and then they all marry their cousins forever (including lots of 1st cousins). Very typically, when a couple was married, the husband was “established”, and about 24-25, and the wife was 16-17 and about 2 months along.
So, yeah, not really special, but kinda interesting. And everybody thinks it’d be cool to find something special.
I’d made the point here several months back that Fauxcahontas’s story sounds just like every Southerner (or Oklahoman) who has family lore about a Cherokee ancestress – it’s more interesting than being just a bunch of farmers. But we aren’t silly enough to REALLY believe it.
My college roommate from north central TX was 100% certain her grandmother was 1/2 Choctaw. She did Ancestry DNA and found out she was just a plain ol’ white lady. She was howling on Facebook. I reminded her that native ancestry is kind of a myth for most white folks, but she was just. so. sure.
I actually have sympathy for people like her, since there were lots of old folks in my family who believed it (at least a little) because they heard something like that as a child from somebody they love. And saying that your Grandmother was wrong is pretty hard.
But don’t put it on yer Harvard application.
But don’t put it on yer Harvard application
She didn’t.
Maybe I just DGAF but really, really wanting it to be true seems a tad unseemly to me.
It’s weird to me too. I perceive it to be like a “noble savage” kind of racism. They have some kind of Remingtonesque ideal picture of native Americans and want to be that.
Yeah, I think they want to score points. Gross.
Laugh all you want about French, I’d not have balls to say this in public:
French author Yann Moix says women over 50 ‘too old’ to love
Also, I would be satisfied to have his looks at age 50.
Journalist Colombe Schneck posted (then later deleted) a photograph of her bottom with the caption: “Voila, the buttocks of a woman aged 52…what an imbecile you are, you don’t know what you’re missing…”
Then later deleted (without a sense of irony).
Hahahahaha
The rules are a little different if you’re already successful and work for yourself.
Finally, somebody said it.
Eh. I like burly dudes with lots of facial and chest hair. I would never fuck a skinny, hairless 20-whatever-year old. No biggie.
(P.S. Wouldn’t)
He’d catch my eye.
Who?
I always liked this one:
Older women don’t tell, don’t swell, and they’re grateful as hell.
That sounds like a Ben Franklin. He was a notorious woman’s man. He also said that once the lights are out you cant tell the difference.
I learned early on that using T&A as the measure of a woman is a huge mistake. After I figured that out I met my wife and I am nearly 25? 23? years into a very happy marriage.
Wait. Her son just turned 30 and he was 8 when we married. So 22 years.
You better not forget the anniversary! 😉
Neither one of us can remember so we just celebrate on the weekend closest to Valentines day by going out for crawfish.
I intentionally chose the 1st for our wedding day for that reason. Unfortunately I didn’t pick an easy to remember year.
My wife chose to have our wedding on indy 500 day (I’m from Indianapolis, so there were a significant number of people who gave their 500 tix away to attend my wedding), so I just have to remember which year it happened.
I find this to be very French. Even if I don’t like a type I’m not gonna be a douche about it.
It is such a puzzle as to why the French are throwing a tantrum and burning their country down. I just cant figure it out.
I remember once when this was what was considered an ‘opinion’. Everyone seemed to have one. Other people didn’t seem to care much because they also had once and when some celebrity told of their own in public, it created some interest that lasted about 5 minutes and then…
#metoo
Well, she’s 53 so I guess this guy is technically correct.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/elizabeth-hurley-53-spent-2018-breaking-internet-bikinis-172235832.html
They’re real and they’re spectacular
The body of a woman of 50 is not extraordinary at all
Depends.
Also.
And.
Genetic privilege SMDH
Most 20-year-olds would actually kill to have my spousal unit’s 56-year-old bottom. Combo of good genes, good diet and moderate amounts of exercise.
Mmmmmmmm, bottom. 8-p
Yeah, I just spent a week on the beach ogling my 51yo wife in a bikini. Never gets old, even when we do.
Genes are important, but diet and exercise trump all.
It is one of the great tragedies of my miserable existence that my wife has never agreed to wear a bikini to a beach (although she has several awesome one-piecers). I am officially envious of you. :-/
It does depend. On the woman. When I was in my 20s, I knew more than one chick who had a 50 year old mom who put here to shame. I assume the mom was also hotter than the daughter in her 20s. I always liked older women though. But they are not all created equally by a long ways.
I can attest that if you’re lucky, at some point in your life, at least some 50 y.o. women are gonna look very hot.
So how does this impact the great pizza debates? I’ll need to see the selection first, I know Giant Eagle has started offering beer delivery as well recently.
First you must come to agreement that Pizza Hut qualifies as pizza.
Since Q seems to be late to the party, here’s some big breasted babes:
https://thesexier.com/big-beautiful-breasts-being-pressed-46-pics/
20 has huge tracts of land
1, 5 18, 43 are also quite nice
20: Holy shit, they’re the size of her head.
11: Excellent cameltoe.
28: A future ex-Mrs. Q.
There are no wrong answers.
Glenn Reynolds:
Article here.
Unpossible. Without government involvement nothing would ever get done until the end of time.
Too bad none of the media is hammering on the meme ‘now you see why none of this should exist’, ‘why are we paying for something that makes no difference in our lives?’ and so on.
I have said many times national parks should be nationalized and federal land given back to the states for them to sell to private parties. In nearly every case I was told I am crazy.
The NPs are a tough one for me to reconcile. They are amazing and I think they do bring some real value. I am in favor of privatizing the management operations, though.
The part I find particular egregious is that everyone pays and only a few go. I doubt that many inner city folks visit the Boundary Waters but every taxpayer pays. If the parks are worth having than the visitors ought to be paying full freight.
Yeah, I’d be willing to pay way more.
I finally got a chance to read your beekeeping article, by the way. It was fantastic!
Kudos on the bee article Fourscore.
I own my own national park. I pay full freight and use it to produce an amazing amount of wealth…for everyone else. In the end adding up 30-40 years of property tax, planting fees and my own labor I am growing timber practically for free. I do it because I love it.
A lot of people are envious of that. They think they have a right to the use (poaching, stealing firewood, trespass) our land. Oddly, on the day I go to pay the freight those people always seem to have somewhere else they need to be.
Life finds a way. Shocking.
This one’s dedicated to Don.
http://archive.vn/Sgxul
2L looks like a somewhat less smoking hot version of one of my future nieces-in-law
RE: Florida Woman stripper.
“[Basarich] said she is a ‘fan of serial killers and mass murderers.’”
Usually these kinds of women just send nude photos and marriage proposals to the serial killers. Emulating them is definitely a novel take.
CES is bonkers. That is all.
Trade shows are all bonkers.
Lots of free booze, though.
I remember when my colleagues used to go to Dreamforce. Fuckin-a.
I’ve been to SEMICON and IBS several times.
It’s really hard to describe the massiveness of the events. When I was young it was fun. Now I dread them.
Yeah, dreading IBS often corresponds to age.
Holy fuck, I bet that’s a target-rich environment!
Always wanted to go to that one. Have fun.
No, no we don’t.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcthree/status/1081264000917168128
What about the Tippy Tops. What can we do about those?
What are tippy tops?
It’s been commiesplained by our new woke hero, Gulag Barbie. Or maybe she didn’t explain it. At least we know what Tippy Tops need taxed at 70% or more.
Oh, I get it.
Don’t you understand marginal tax rates, FFS?
She actually used the term ‘Tippy Tops’, lol.
Obviously we take everything they have and then guillotine them. Utopian prosperity will follow.
Christ.
We need to stop click-bait that begins with “we need to”. Using this one weird trick.
Yeah, I’m gonna need you to talking about thin privilege. That’d be great, thanks.
Bariatric surgeons HATE this!
The replies are good.
We need to start talking about ‘thin privilege’
No immutable characteristic is safe from these people.
It’s more effort to tear down objective reality.
Bonus one for you. “Cringy” doesn’t capture it. We need a new word. Maybe “cringicidal”.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcideas/status/1082253241914740738
W. T. F.
Important issues indeed.
This is what happens when you demoralize a population. They just vomit gibberish.
They’re co me dee ins. This shit is exactly why I fucking love what Louis CK did last month.
I have used the example of Brazil more than a few times in arguments with gun grabbers
Same here. I have used it to point out how comparing countries to other countries is apples to oranges and that one should instead compare countries to themselves when new policies are adopted. There are innumerable country to country differences contributing to violence that will never be as simple as any particular set of firearm restrictions. (The Constitutional question in the US notwithstanding.)
It can apply in a broad sense illustrating incentives and disincentives because that is the principle at work in all cases. Outside of that, no.
Did you know that there have been several mass shootings, some in churches, schools, and you know, the regular places, in Brazil for each of the past several years? I bet you didn’t know that? I bet that no one else knows it either if they were waiting on CNN or any of the other mainstream media here to report it. And it won’t be in the future either because it harshes the ‘this only happens in the USA’ narrative.
That’s the thing that Snopes, WaPo and other fact checking places count on: The consumers inability to recognize “fake news” as also including selective coverage.
were any of them exceptional, as in 20 or more dead? I see CNN et al covering that kind of thing when it happens in furriner countries, but yeah the three shot in a bowling alley thing seems a bit below their radar, understandably.
But one gangbanger shooting another within a block of a school after school is out here counts as a school shooting.
Apparently we have had hundreds of school shootings last year alone.
An accidental discharge by the school resource officer in the parking lot is considered a “school shooting”. The last time I pointed that out to someone it was dismissed because “well that shouldn’t be happening” (Duh! but it was an accident with no casualties…) “so we shouldn’t allow guns in schools.” Which, of course, already the general rule. But the thing about gun-free zones is that they are not and never will be.
Another fun one is when they think they’ve got you on the soft vs hard targets aspect. ” More guns more safety?!? Mass-shootings happen on MILITARY BASES!!!” And then you explain that a military base is like a small town where only the police have guns and if you walk in to any given building people will be unarmed. The last time I had a convo go there it was completely ignored. That seems to happen a lot when gun-grabbers arguments are thoroughly destroyed.
Some of them were more than 5 for sure. I don’t remember any 20, but they were effectively the same type situation, schools, churches, businesses, hospitals. I’m not talking typical violence at a bowling alley or pub. I think I remember one being 12 dead. Not covered here, at all. It still happens even if none have been 20+ people dead. Yet the media continue the lie that this only ever happens in the USA, because American gun nuts, you know.
Also because Chocolate Jesus made the claim. They all know he is a lying sack of shit but they aren’t allowed to acknowledge that plain fact.
Didn’t he make that claim right before or after some dude in Europe mowed down like 85 kids? In Norway of all places. Perfect Norway where nothing bad ever happens because free health care?
You are correct. And then the vehicle attacks all over europe (only guns allow mass murder) on and on ad nauseum.
They are lying motherfuckers who want you unable to defend yourself against the state. They are scared of an armed population as the shitheads should be.
I see reports of mass shootings in other countries often, sure the US media aren’t going to give them the same treatment as crime here but that’s completely understandable, they are US media after all, My local news reports more on OD’s in the surrounding counties, not so much the ones in Florida. They aren’t in some nefarious cabal trying to convince me that our area is the only on that has ODs.
yeah, but the media and left in general are in a nefarious cabal trying to convince us that we are the only ones who have mass shootings. They came right out and said so.
Some media sure, others called them out on it, that’s one way you know they were lying, Hyperion’s bitch at CNN et al, is specious none the less, one shouldn’t expect a US news agency to cover Brazilian crime to the same or even a partial extent of how they would cover US crime. It’s them selling to their audience, not pushing a narrative.
Is it easier in Brazil to get a gun than a book?
It’ll cost you more and will be harder to get, but you’ll still get it if you want, no problem.
Books are more expensive than guns? Damn, Obumbles was right after all!!
Gun was mentioned first, so I addressed it first. IOW, a gun is harder to get. But you will get it if you want.
Well, even back in the day, I do remember some of my University textbooks being more expensive than the very first handgun I owned (a Ruger .22). That always kinda shocked me – especially considering the lack of utility I got out of some of those books.
I was just pulling Hyperions chain. It was a joke mostly to take a jab at Obama but now that you mention it…I guess the joke is on me.
*looks at bookshelf and starts counting textbooks*
I wish more professors would assign open-source textbooks.
My Anatomy & Physiology 1 class required a textbook that was $200; the only way I got out of paying that was that a friend of mine had the same book just sitting around from taking that class years before.
Fast forward to next semester in A&P 2: In the professor’s introduction message in the online learning module, she said, “If you’d like to review some A&P concepts, here’s a link to an open-source textbook.” It contained pretty much the same information as the expensive textbook that I had to obtain for the first class.
Most of my engineering school books were 1 or 2 editions old, and would cost around $10 each. Most of my law school books had to be new and cost $150+ each.
The same care for students or lack thereof was displayed in every facet of the experience. Purdue treated me right. SMU will never get another penny from me.
Kind of surprised how solitary has stood up to 8A challenges.
https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/nation/how-solitary-confinement-drove-a-young-inmate-to-the-brink/article_62707aa1-d5ec-51cc-b41d-911f58c313cb.html
I think it’s pretty widely known at this point that prisons have replaced mental institutions. And nobody really cares*, so nothing changes.
*I am not blaming “people” – it’s natural not to “care” about remote things. But there are people who are supposed to care about this stuff – and they don’t give a shit. I.e. politicians *spit*
Mentally ill people present a serious problem. Their families burn out. The families want them gone. The ill cant function so they have no money and the private hospitals dont want them. What do you do with them? We pack them in jails. It is monstrous.
This is one area where state run care is the only sensible, humane solution.
I worked in a state mental hospital for ten years. Most of the staff really did care and the care was good…as good as it gets anyway. I had dealings with private hospitals when we had them (state subsidized, all owned by state legislators), they were awful. We always rated much higher in quality than the private facilities.
Are you sure that was work? 😉
I worked in a psychogeriatric ward for a single summer as a janitorial aide. Trust me, it’s work.
He was yanking my chain. But yeah, it was work. You can look at their records to see. Look in the B’s for ‘Bonaparte, Napoleon’.
I have been waiting for ten years for someone to make that joke. Heh.
Props. I couldn’t do that. Interesting that the state ones would be sort-of better.
The root of the problem is that the mentally ill are almost always destitute. All private hospitals are state subsidized and are there to get subsidies, not give care. If they are ill enough to be hospitalized they are dysfunctional to the point that they cant hold a job or function in society at all.
A state hospital fully dedicated to care where the only money to be had is a paycheck and a career turns out to be the best model.
Bring back County (Parish if you prefer) Homes and I’m with you, most States are too big for that, the more local the better.
Agreed. You may run into a little NIMBY problem there but yeah, the more local the better.
*one of the rules here is that they cant be put in a hospital near where they live or their victims live. The fact that someone has been committed is 100% confidential. We would have to work out some system of parishes trading beds etc.
In La we have/had five mental hospitals/districts and they work it out. 64 would work just as well I suppose.
Those “private” hospitals don’t sound very private. It sounds like the state crowded out all actual private (charitable and otherwise) efforts and then propped up what was left until it turned into a crony-run nightmare.
There was no one to crowd out. They just set up a crony-run nightmare from the get go.
So, what’s been said around here about RBG not showing up for SCOTUS stuff? I haven’t heard any leftist excuses yet. She recovered so fast, she’s too busy having fun running marathons?
Haven’t you heard? She’s working from home.
The Guardian is going to lower its Union Jacks to half-staff for a decade when she finally kicks it.
I work from home. Been doing it for 12 years. Now if I had never worked from home before and started doing it right after surgery at 85, someone might get concerned. Just sayin.
Just admit it, you fucks, Trump is getting another SCOTUS PICK!
I bet the dems think they can change the rules so that a president they’d like to impeach cannot have another SCOTUS pick.
Just imagine what the Dems will do when Trump picks the next conservative justice. Civil War 2.0, anyone? Naaaahhhh. That’d require the Left to own significant numbers of weapons.
Nevertheless, it’ll definitely be megatons-of-popcorn-worthy to watch.
It’s gonna be really fun when his pick is a chick!
That Catholic (Barnette?) would make for an interesting confirmation hearing. I can’t wait to find out who she molested in high-school.
Catholic *chick …
She molested a wise Latina Muslim girl.
She molested a wise Latina Muslim girl.
Jesus, Hype! — with comments and insight like that, you should just pimp yourself out as a Dem strategist.
(I’m sure there’s money to be made. Shitlord. 😉 )
Catholics are already being deemed unacceptable by the Dems. It’s disgusting. What is this, 1950 all over again? I keep expecting to see Harris to point her finger and shout “Papist!”
We’ll have Gulag Barbie and Sistah Shariah dancing on the floor and shouting obscenities.
I bet the dems think they can change the rules so that a president they’d like to impeach cannot have another SCOTUS pick.
Nobody neeeeeeeds 3 types of SCOTUS picks.
/Bernie
The picture in that article?
It belongs in a He-Man Cartoon.
She is going to keep her claws in that bench until her last breath.
I saw an ad for the movie yesterday. When they announced the title ‘On the Basis of Sex’ I went into a tirade. They fully admit she was an activist judge and they see nothing wrong with that. How about ‘On the Basis of the Law’?
Bitch needs to be gone. Hurry up and go away Ruth so Trump can nominate another originalist in your place. Think about that as you draw your last breath.
Maybe the dems pass a new rule that allows them to keep her in a coma forever and the rule is that you actually have to be clinically dead to be replaced?
Even easier, the media simply doesn’t announce her death.
“Where’s RBG?”
“Oh, she’s around”
*scene change to crypt with taxidermied RBG tearing the Constitution in half*
The movie was released right after the new year, which is not when Oscar-buzzy films are released. That means it’s a turkey. Which makes me chuckle.
Who is going to watch it? The other propaganda film out is the Dick Cheney one. I am sure they have him dressed up and sounding like the Penguin in Batman. Who is going to pay to watch that shit? Both lose shit-pots full of money is my bet.
Vice was released in late 2018, so they’re expecting award nominations. The RBG movie must be so bad, they knew they couldn’t even get any awards from the SJW Hollywood crowd. It must be just, baaaaad.
Me too. It was all “I am woman, hear me roar”. Yeah, whatever.
She stood alone and brave, battling against the patriarchy. She overcame all and then … *barf*
I’ve been waiting for someone to bring this up. It’s nauseating.
‘On the Basis of the Law’
This. And it looks like another creepy, idol-worship film like that love story about Barry and the Beast. Wait until these people die to make that shit. (or just don’t make it because it is creepy.)
Please let her hold on till one day earlier than Scalia did in regards to the upcoming election. Watching the two teams snap their spines twisting themselves around the positions they held the last time will be epic.
It won’t be opposite. Barry’s party did not hold the Senate when he nominated Merrick Garland whereas Trump’s party currently holds the Senate and will through the next presidential campaign. The Senate was within their authority to dismiss an Obama court nomination in the latter half of his term, likewise they would be within their authority to hear and vote on a Trump nomination in the latter half of his term.
They hold the Senate but there are still Democrats on the committee, including Feinstein and now Harris, who could turn the fever up to 11 this time.
Why just the latter half of his term? that’s the part that got me, half of them were saying it’s your job to advise and consent, the other saying it’s too close to the election, they’ll still be switching arguments. No R is going to say it’s to close to the election if Ruth kicks it right around when Andy did. And no D will be saying it’s our duty to advise and consent. The argument I remember wasn’t about whether they ‘could’ do it but whether they ‘should’. By rules, as I understand them, an opposition senate could never approve a sitting president’s appointments if they didn’t fear the political backlash, later half or not.
My position is on the authority relative to the politics, not the politics itself. Of course the Teams will be Teams and support their narratives. But the principle is that of the advice and consent authority of the Senate and the nomination authority of the president and how it relates to party politics.
^This^
If the opposition party holds the Senate what difference does it make what time of day it is on Mars? They hold the power today just like they will tomorrow.
Maybe predictions of her early demise are exaggerated? Remember when Hillary was at death’s door two years ago. Bill’s still waiting (probably counting the hours and days) until he becomes a widower.
OMFG I love Thomas “Sassy” Massie so much!
I think I’m experiencing a bit of a bromance right now.
I mean, jeezus chrysler https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1082460599257321478
Geek privilege SMDH
The fact that he’s interacting with other geeks cracks me up.
A good man.
Well, C isn’t a subset of C++, but with the other bits, I guess
I can forgive a bit of sloppiness in the description. Twitter
gets you what, 140 characters?
I keep wanting to get to building an automatic water filler
for the Keurig, but we put in a dishwasher, so I don’t
have any way to draw a waterline to the wall near
the coffee maker anymore.
Still, nice to see a politician with some sort of actual technical
ability.